Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky, Fyodor and Constance Garnett(Translator) - 1915

New York : Harcourt Brace and Company, 1994 First printing, stated first edition. Signed by Paul Monette directly on the title page; also signed by 12 other LGBT activists for a Los Angeles charity for Lesbian and Gay Rights:, Thom Gunn (poet, writer); Joe Keenan (writer); Jackie Goldberg (politician, teacher, former member of California State Assembly, Pink Lady--Hero of Hollywood, author of AB-205 a domestic partner benefits law); Armistead Maupin (writer, Tales of the City); Sharon Stricker (poet and activist); Patricia Nell Warren (writer and LGBT journalist); Tim Hine (teacher, actor); Winston Wilde (book's dedicatee, sexologist, psychotherapist, author); et el. Light shelf wear, else book and dust jacket in fine condition.

New York: Doubleday, 1987 First printing of the stated first edition. Signed and dated by Isaac Asimov, directly on the title page, along with an inscription turned into an original rhimed poem by Asimov: "There's a certain young doctor named Art / whom people have thought of as smart, / And handsome and sporty. / He's now turning forty--- / As an oldster he'll make a new start / Isaac Asimov / 1988." Book in fine condition; dust jacket with light creasing/rubbing and wear to corners/spine ends, else fine.

1845 SPANISH ed Don Quixote Cervantes Chivalry Spain Barcelona Quijote 3v SET

"He who's down one day can be up the next, unless he really wants to stay in bed, that is".
– Cervantes, Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes's 'Don Quixote' is one of the most famous works of literature and is one of the most popular adventure tales to be written. This 18th-century, six-volume Spanish edition was published in Barcelona and printed in three distinct tomes.
Item number: #14255
Price: $750
CERVANTES Saavedra, Miguel de
El ingenioso hidalgo, Don Quijote de la Mancha
Barcelona : Libreria de los SS. A. Pons & C.a, 1845.

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Collation: Complete with all pages; 6 volumes in 3 tomes
o Tome 1
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Vol. I – 253, [3]
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Vol. II – 270, [2]
o Tome 2
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Vol. III – 278, [2]
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Vol. IV – 245, [3]
o Tome 3
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Vol. V – 249, [3]
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Vol. VI – 296, [4]
o 6 engravings throughout
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Language: Spanish
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Binding: Leather; tight and secure
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London, Melbourne, Toronto: Macmillan, 1968. Association Copy, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR at title page -"John Johnson with best wishes Margaret Laurence". Review Copy, with publisher's review slip laid in. Near Fine, small corner bumps, in a Very Good dust jacket, light edge wear, mainly at corners and spine ends. With Johnson's blind stamp front end page. John William Johnson (1942) is a noted folklorist with a distinguished teaching and publishing career and who spent a year and a half translating and editing for the renowned Somali folklorist and poet Haaji Muuse Galaal. A great folkloric Association Copy. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Association Copy.

1661 OVID Tristia & Fastor + 1665 Quintilian + RARE Provenance Earl of Strafford

A rare pairing of two 17th-century printings of ancient literature from Ovid and Quintilian. The Ovid tome, from 1661, features his famed works of 'Fastor' and 'Tristia', and the Quintilian includes his declamations. Two fine, leather-bound tomes.

Item number: #23339
Price: $750

OVID, P Naso

P. Ovidii Nasonis operum, tom. 3. Fastor. lib. Tristium. De Ponto &c.

Lvgdvni Batavorvm, : apud Petrum Leffen, 1661.

**WITH**

QUINTILIANO, Marco Fabio

M. Fab. Quintiliani Declamationes undeviginti…tomus ii

Lugd. Batav. et Roterodami: Ex officina Hackiana, 1665.

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· Collation: Complete with all pages; 2 works
o Ovid – [16], 492, [6], 400, [30]
o Quintilian – [4], 784, [8]
· Provenance: Armorial bookplate – Thomas Earl of Strafford, 1712
o Lieutenant-General Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (of the 2nd creation), KG (1672–1739), was an English peer, diplomat and statesman who… Read More

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1901. Little, Brown, and Company, 1901. This beautiful, ornate set of Charles Lever's novels includes 31 volumes (out of 32). The titles are as follows: the MILITARY NOVELS: The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer; Charles O'Malley (2 vols.); Arthur O'Leary; Jack Hinton, the Guardsman; the NOVELS OF ADVENTURE: Maurice Tiernay; Sir Jasper Carew; The Confessions of Con Cregan; Roland Cashel (2 vols.); the NOVELS OF IRISH LIFE: The Knight of Gwynne (2 vols.); Luttrell of Arran; The Martins of Cro' Martin, and Paul Gosslett's Confessions (2 vols.); Barrington, and Tales of the Trains; Sir Brook Fossbrooke; Lord Kilgobbins; and the NOVELS OF FOREIGN LIFE: The Dodd Family Abroad, and Horace Templeton (2 vols.); The Daltons, or, Three Roads in Life (2 vols.); Davenport Dunn (2 vols.); Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly; One of Them; Tony Butler; The Fortunes of Glencore, and a Rent in a Cloud; A Day's Ride, and That Boy of Norcott's. (The only… Read More

London: John Lane, 1901. Very Good. This Edition de Luxe is limited to 375 copies for England and America, 350 of which are for sale". Prior owners inscritpion on inside back cover. White/cream colored cover with gilt lettering and green design and gilt lettering to spine, gilt top edge. Cover is soiled, fading to spine, front hinge starting to crack internally. Very Good condition with notes as described

London: Bradbury & Evans, 1857. First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated by Browne, H. K.. xiv, 625pp. Contemporary brown half calf, spine with five raised bands, gilt decorations and titles, marbled endpapers and marbled edges. Tissued frontispiece, engraved title, and thirty-eight plates by H. K. Browne (Phiz). First edition with the errata on page xiv; with "William" for "Frederick" on page 317 line 27; with "Rigaud" instead of "Blandois" from pages 469 to 473; and with signature BB2 misprinted as "B2" on page 371. With the bookplate of the Marchese di Calvatone Sommi Picenardi. Old bookstore label affixed on the front free endpaper. Leather shows some wear to spine ends and corners, light offsetting to some of the pages. Missing the errata slip. A very good copy. ; Octavo.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1866. First Edition. Pictorial wrappers. Twain's first appearance in a national magazine. Light chipping to the edges, mild soiling and foxing to pages, spine is completely gone. A good+ copy. ; Octavo.

1887 Samurai Daimyo Toyotomi Hideyoshi Handwritten Manuscript Japanese Taikouki

A rare, 19th century Japanese woodblock print of "Shinsho Taikouki". Taikouki is a biography describing the life of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, a Japanese samurai and daimyo (lord) considered the second "Great Unifier" of Japan following Nobunaga and preceding the Tokugawa Shogunate. Hideyoshi left a lasting legacy including Osaka Castle, the Tokugawa class systems, the restriction of weapons, and the construction and restoration of many temples some of which are still visible in Kyoto. 'Shinsho Taikouki' depicts Toyotomi Hideyoshi's youth in particular.

This rare, handwritten biography is written in a column handwritten format with furigana for easier reading!

Item number: #15943
Price: $950
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Biography of Toyotomi Hideyoshi (Shinsho Taikouki) 真書太閤記（しんしょたいこうき）
[Japan: Nobumitsu Kurihara [1887]]

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