Languages from Tannery Books

Paris: Ernest Flammarion. Hardcover. Good. [Giacomo Casanova] Memoires de Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, ecrits par lui-meme, Tome Troisieme (volume 3), Paris, Ernest Flammarion [ca. 1912-1930]. Quarter leather over marbled boards, 8vo (18 cm), 508 pp with TOC at end, French language. Good/no DJ: covers scuffed and worn with boards showing at edges, po name in ink on title… Read more

New York: Philosophical Library, Inc. , 1967. Hardcover. Good/good. Walter Cozens, Robert Harold Goodsall, Short Dictionary of Archaeology, New York, Philosophical Library, Inc., 1967. Gray paper boards with blue titling on spine, 12mo (18 cm), 124 pp [4 blank]; black and yellow dustjacket with ads on the back. Good/Good-: light bumping and wear, old price marked in… Read more

New York: The Columbia University Press, 1906. First Printing. Hardcover. Ex-library. Robert Julius Lau, Old Babylonian Temple Records, New York, The Columbia University Press (The Macmillan Company), December, 1906, First Printing. Brick-red cloth hc with gold publisher logo on front, 8vo (24 cm), xii, 90 pp text, 42 pp glossary, 35 single-sided plates. Records of temple donations, supplies… Read more

Paris: Adrien le Clere et Cie., 1850. Hardcover. Ex-library. M. [Évariste-Régis] Huc, Souvenirs D'un Voyage Dans La Tartarie, Le Thibet et la Chine pendant les annees 1844, 1845 et 1846 (2-vol), Paris, Adrien le Clere et Cie., 1850. First-hand account of missionaries traveling to find dispersed Christian communities in central Asia. Plain tan cloth hardcovers, 8vo (22 cm),… Read more

D. C. Heath & Co., 1905. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library. H. B. Hodges, A Course in Scientific German, D. C. Heath & Co., 1905, Revised & Enlarged Edition. Slate grey cloth hc, black-stamped titling on front, 12mo (18 cm), plain endpapers, x, 124 pp exercises and essays, [2] 70 pp vocabulary. Scientific German for English speakers (but not… Read more

London: T. Booker, 1785. First Printing. Hardcover. Fair. Francois Soules, Histoire des Troubles de l'Amerique Anglaise, two-volume set, London, T. Booker, 1785, First Printing (Howes S-770). Quarter pink paper over gray paper boards, 8vo, plain endpapers, viii, 336 pp with TOC and errata; ii, 1-4 pp, 5-8 leaves (double-numbered), 9-224, 223-234, 58 pp papers and TOC, [2] TOC… Read more

Greensboro: Greensboro Jewish Federation, 2002. First printing. Hardcover. Good. ed. Irene H. Cohen, Linda E. Fleishman, One People, One Heart: The Greensboro Beltsy Connection, Greensboro, Greensboro Jewish Federation, 2002, First Printing. Bilingual English-Russian eclectic memoirs, poems and essays from the Greensboro, N.C. community, including a man – whose father was the [German] emperor's chauffeur – who escaped 1938… Read more

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000. Later printing. Hardcover. Very Good/good. Seamus Heaney, translator and former Nobel prize winner in literature, Beowulf, A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney, Bilingual Edition, New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000, eleventh printing. Black boards with quarter black cloth and silver lettering on spine, xxxii, 214 pp, [viii including family… Read more

American Book Company, 1930. Later printing. Hardcover. Fair. Edward H. Eldridge, Business Speller and Vocabulary, American Book Company, 1930 and 1913 copyright dates. Brown cloth with black lettering and design, sextodecimo (6 3/4 inches), plain endpapers, xiv, 206 pp including index/vocabulary. Interesting vocabulary includes machine parts and other occupations including medical and electricity, cities and other common terms… Read more

Germany: AAR-Cartoon, 1972. Paperback. Good. Charles M. Schulz, Linus Oder: Wo ist meine Schmuse-decke? (roughly translated: Linus - or: "Where is my blanket?"), Germany, AAR-Cartoon, fifth edition, August 1972. Orange paper covers with Peanuts illustrations, square 12mo, 144 pp with bibliography/ad, bw cartoons with German text. G: corners lightly bumped with wear on spine, pages tanning, po inscription… Read more

Japan, 1969. Very Good/very good. English Conversation (English for Japanese speakers), 1969. Trade paperback with glossy dustjacket, 8vo, Japanese text with English exercises, 230 pp, ISBN 475586531X. VG/VG: light bumping, light foxing on edges and ffep, tiny ink mark on edges, ink marking/correction p. 219, clean, crisp; DJ light bumping and indentations (writing pad), light foxing/spots near bottom… Read more

Spain: Silex, 1975. Paperback. Good. J. Rogelio Buendia, photographs by Eleonor Dominguez, El Prado Basico, Spain, Silex, 1975. Heavy 8vo paperback (6.75 by 8.75 inches), spanish text. Paintings of the Prado museum, including 100 color plates. G: spine is creased, cover is lightly scuffed with more significant scratches and creasing in upper front corner, first few pages small… Read more

Copenhagen: Berlingske Forlag, 1945. Later printing. Hardcover. Good +. Ayn Rand, Vi, Der Lever (We, the Living), Copenhagen, Berlingske Forlag, 1945. Danish translation of Rand's novel. Marbled paper boards and black spine with gold lettering, 8vo, marbled endpapers, 456 pp, speckled edges, illustrated paper cover bound in. Good+/no DJ: covers scuffed and corners worn, light tanning, small barcode… Read more

Copenhagen: Danske Missionsselskab, 1917. Hardcover. Good. Missions-Bibliotheket (roughly translated: The Library Mission), Copenhagen, Danske Missionsselskab (Danish Mission Agency), 1917. Half black leather over textured black boards with gold lettering on spine, 12mo (19 cm), dark blue endpapers, marbled edges [iv] [1]-52,[1]-68, [1]-28, [1]-60 pp, Danish text, 1 bw portrait plate. Rare binding of 1917 publications: Fra Arunâchalam By… Read more