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Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1999. Signed by Kurt Vonnegut on limitation page. Certificate signed by Kurt Vonnegut, Daniela Di Stefano and Publisher Roy S. Pfeil. First Limited edition / First printing. Number 405 of 1700 copies. Teal leather. Very fine. Certificate of Authenticity and A Note About Bagombo Snuff Box laid in.
The Holiday Gift Book by CHROMOLITHOGRAPHS - TRADES / CATS / ROBINS) W.J.W. (? illus.) - No date. Ca. 1880.
by CHROMOLITHOGRAPHS - TRADES / CATS / ROBINS) W.J.W. (? illus.)
The Holiday Gift Book
by CHROMOLITHOGRAPHS - TRADES / CATS / ROBINS) W.J.W. (? illus.)
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London.: Frederick Warne and Co.. No date. Ca. 1880.. Hardcover children’s book, 9 3/4 x 7 1/4 inches, 30 cloth-backed pages with 23 color lithographic plates, including a double-page centerfold, plus six text-only pages. Color pastedown to front cover with embossed silver frame depicts children playing with toys. Three stories for children are featured in the volume: "The Book of Trades" (blacksmith, carpenter, tailor, etc.- all male); "Miss Mouser’s Tea Party"; "The Robins. A Family History." Top and bottom of spine lightly bumped, light rubbing to extremities; front free endpaper missing, pencil marks to cloth backing of one page, light marks to lower margins of a few pages (from page-turning), otherwise very good clean condition. Interestingly, the page illustrating "The Shoemaker" features an almanac hanging from a wall displaying the date "1878," hence a circa 1880 dating for the volume. An uncommon children’s book in very good clean condition with Miss Mouser and her tea party guests decked out in fine Victorian dress. .
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- Publisher Frederick Warne and Co.
- Place of Publication London.
- Date Published No date. Ca. 1880.
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Bagombo Snuff Box.
by VONNEGUT, Kurt
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- First Limited edition / First printing. Number 405 of 1700 copie
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Edmonds, Washington, United States
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$450.00
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Grand (Signed/Limited)
by Williams, Tennessee
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- Used - Fine
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- Near Fine
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- First Edition/First Printing
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Haddonfield, New Jersey, United States
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$360.00
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One of only 300 numbered copies SIGNED by Williams. Fine (clean and unread) in near fine original tissue dust wrapper (one tiny hole, some toning). A SUPERB, COLLECTIBLE copy!
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THE YOSEMITE GUIDE-BOOK: A Description of the Yosemite Valley and the Adjacent Region of the Sierra Nevada, and of the Big Trees of California,
by Whitney, J. D.
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- good
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- Used - Good
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- First Trade Edition, Second Printing
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- Hardcover
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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$300.00
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Octavo (9 1/4 x 7 inches) Cambridge: Welch, Bigelow, & Co.: Published by Authority of the Legislature, 1870. First Trade Edition, Second Printing. 155 pages, illustrated with engraved cuts of scenery throughout the text, and eight full page engraved plates with protective tissue guards; maps in pockets missing.Original green cloth trade binding, decorated with a map of the Sierra and surrounding country stamped in gilt on the front cover; and similarly, a logo of the Geological Survey team with their equipment stamped in gilt on the back cover; title in gilt on spine.
Good condition, showing the results of being carried in a pocket or ruck sack (the covers and corners of the fragile binding show some wear; lower right corner of front cover appears to have been bent). Inscription of previous owner dated "July 4, 1889, (In camp under the Royal Arches, Yosemite)" on front fly leaf, light pencil notation on a few pages not affecting text or illustrations, contents clean and intact; ticket of the… Read More
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Catalogue des Livres Illustres par Daragnes (Signed by Daragnes) 1924 Woodcuts
by Pierre Mac Orlan (Preface)
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- Used - Very Good
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- Paperback
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Frederick, Maryland, United States
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$299.99
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Privately Printed, 1924. Softcover. Very Good. Original exhibition catalog issued on the occasion of an exhibition of books containing illustrations by celebrated painter, engraver, publisher and illustrator Jean-Gabriel Daragnes - specifically, woodcuts. Illustrated with an original portrait etching of Daragnes by Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac, 11 black-and-white Daragnes plates, three depicting lesbian scenes, and an original Daragnes hand-colored engraving laid in showing a husband walking in on his wife in bed with her lover - a scene from Fielding's Tom Jones. Signed and inscribed on front free endpaper thus: "Pour Madame Legat | Ce registre d'etat und des infants | qu'un pere demature confie a | l'assistance publingier | le pere indigne | Daragnes." Translation: "For Mrs. Legat: This register of state and children that a father has entrusted with the assistant publisher. The unworthy father, Daragnes." Also signed and inscribed on front free endpaper by an…
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The Tin Drum.
by GRASS, Gunter.
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- First U.S. edition / First printing.
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Edmonds, Washington, United States
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$400.00
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New York: Pantheon, (1962). First U.S. edition / First printing. Red cloth. Fine in price-clipped jacket about fine. The author's first novel, and most famous work. This is a bright sparkling copy. The jacket is on a heavy stock with a thick varnish. Though price clipped, it is not to be confused with the lighter uncoated book club issue. Gunter Grass was the Winner of the 1999 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Oeuvres choisies de Madame Deshoulieres, ornees des figures gravees par les soins des citoyens Ponce et Regnault
by Deshoulieres, Madame [Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde]
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- Used - See item description
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- Limited edition
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Hay on Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
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$378.45
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De l'imprimerie de P. Didot L'Aine. L'An 111 de la Republique. 1795. Edition limited to 100 copies. Se vend chez Ponce et Regnault, graveurs, rue du Fauberg Jacques.In 18: 11x 17cm. Half title, x (in smaller state), 173pp. Eng. frontis by Rouchard, 3 double engraved plates after Marillier (in two states, & large paper). Occasional light spotting. Fine copy in the original full crushed red levant morocco, raised bands to spine, inner gilt dentelles, silk bookmarker, top edge gilt.Provenance:
A fine copy from the libraries of two notable bibliophiles.
Bookplate of Lord Stanley of Alderley. John Thomas Stanley (1766-1850), 7th Baronet and First Baron Stanley of Alderley of Alderley Park, Cheshire. He undertook learned expeditions to the cultural centres of Europe, becoming one of the first explorers of Iceland.
Amédée Rigaud (1819-1874), circular bookplate, black and gilt with elaborate initial R, motto "bona fide sine fraude". This volume is listed in the Catalogue de Beaux Livres Rare et Curieux… Read More
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An Introduction to the History of England
by Temple, Sir William
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Hay on Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
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$315.38
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Printed by W.S. for Richard and Ralph Simpson near the North Door of St Paul's. London. Third edition. 1708. Octavo. (8), 310pp. Contemporary calf, relaid to spine. Decorative and elaborate original blind tooling and speckle to upper and lower boards. Spine in six compartments with raised bands, blind rules, leather label, gilt lettering. Vestiges of floral gilt tooling to edges. Corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Edges sprinkled red. Endpapers toned. Light marginal water stain to lower gutter of title page. Wright Bookplate to fep. A pleasure to hold and to read.Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet (1628-1699) Restoration diplomat, statesman and essayist. Jonathan Swift was his secretary from 1689; the original manuscript of this work was in Swift's hand. Swift began a sequel, but later abandoned it. Samuel Johnson stated Temple was "the first writer who gave cadence to English prose" and modelled his own style upon it. One of the earliest scholarly studies of Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman culture.
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Ghosts. The New York Trilogy Volume 2.
by AUSTER, Paul
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- Hardcover
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- first
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- As New
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- Fine
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- First edition / First printing.
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- Hardcover
- ISBN 13
- 9780940650701
- ISBN 10
- 0940650703
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Edmonds, Washington, United States
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Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1986. Signed by the author on the title page. First edition / First printing. Navy cloth. As New. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. The second book in the New York Trilogy.
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Eve's Daughters or Common Sense for Maid, Wife and Mother
by Marion Harland Pen Name Mary Virginia Terhune
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- Used - VERY Good ++Near Mint, tight,.clean, spine is intact, no pulling. Text clean, very little yellowing, if any, corners not pumped.
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- DJ
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- New York J. R. Anderson & H. S. Allen. Boston, Lee & Shepard (18
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- Unknown
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Nashua, New Hampshire, United States
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$350.00
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New York J. R. Anderson & H. S. Allen. Boston, Lee & Shepard, 1882. New York J. R. Anderson & H. S. Allen. Boston, Lee & Shepard (1882). Olive Green boards , Black lettering with embossed Gold design to front cover and spine, clean, bright and vibrant. No. VERY Good ++Near Mint, tight,.clean, spine is intact, no pulling. Text clean, very little yellowing, if any, corners not pumped. minute shelf wear at top and bottom of spine./DJ. Mary Virginia Terhune (née Hawes, December 21, 1830 - June 3, 1922), also known by her penname Marion Harland, was an American author. She began her career writing articles at the age of 14, using various pennames until 1853, when she settled on Marion Harland. Her first novel was published in 1854 and would go on to sell over 100,000 copies. For fifteen years she was a prolific writer of best-selling women's fiction novels, as well as writing numerous serial works, short stories, and essays for magazines. After marrying Presbyterian minister Edward Payson Terhune in…
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The Passing Show; A Garden Diary by an Amateur Gardener Signed 1st Edition 1st Impression
by Captain W.E Johns
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- very good
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- Used - Very Good
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- Very Good
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- 1st Edition / 1st Printing
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Husbands Bosworth, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
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1st Edition / 1st Impression, September 1937. Very good in very good dust jacket which is not price-clipped (Published price 5'-net). Handsigned by WE Johns to the front endpaper, with neat Christmas 1937 presentation in another hand beneath. Particularly clean and tight, in Very Good dustwrapper which has a tear to the lower rear panel and small abrasion to the upper spine. The dust-jacket is protected by a transparent, non-adhesive, archival quality acid-free protector, which can be easily removed if required.A collection of Johns's articles for the My Garden periodical, with a number of unpublished pieces and original illustrations by Howard Leigh. Johns is best remembered as the author of the Biggles books. This is his only book on gardening.
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