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Antifragile
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb has devoted his life to immersing himself in problems of luck, uncertainty, probability, and knowledge, and he has led three high-profile careers around his ideas, as a man of letters, as a businessman-trader, and as a university professor. Although he spends most of his time as a flâneur, meditating in cafés across the planet, he is currently Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at New York University’s Polytechnic Institute. His work has been published in...
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Earthly Powers
by Anthony Burgess
Earthly Powers is a panoramic saga of the 20th century by Anthony Burgess first published in 1980. On one level it is a parody of a "blockbuster" novel, with the 81-year-old hero, Kenneth Toomey (allegedly based on British author W. Somerset Maugham), telling the story of his life in 81 chapters. It "summed up the literary, social and moral history of the century with comic richness as well as encyclopedic knowingness", according to Malcolm Bradbury.
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Tortilla Curtain: Signed
by Boyle, T. C
New York: Viking, 1995. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1ST. A Very Good Copy - SIGNED by the AUTHOR on the Title page. Author's Signature only. First edition, First printing, with the corresponding number line. Book is in Very Good condition. Boards are clean, not bumped. Fore edges have a small amount of shelf wear. Interior is clean and legible. Not remaindered. Dust Jacket is in Near Fine condition. Not chipped or crinkled. Not price clipped. Dust Jacket is covered by Mylar...
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$22.95
Konigin Christine
by Strindberg, August
Munchen: George Muller, 1923. 169 pages; with a lithographic frontispiece by Ottomar Starke and other black and white illustrations illustrating the play throughout; limited edition # 77 of 180, on Didot-Antiua, the colophon page signed by the artist; part of the "Welttheater" series of the publisher; German text; with the small booksellers' ticket of Antiquariat J. Kitzinger Munchen 13 Schellingstrasse 25 on the front endpaper; approx. 11 ¼" x 9" size; bound in...
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$350.00
The Seven Lamps of Architecture
by Ruskin, John
Orpington, Kent.: George Allen., 1886. Hard. Good-. 4to. 10 1/2".. Illustrated with 14 tissue-guarded engraved plates after illustrations drawn by the author.. Good-. Ex-library; usual stamps and markings. Publishers brown waxed cloth. Covers a little rubbed Front joint split. Hinges cracked. Endpapers foxed. 222pp.
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$17.74
Glimpses of Italian Society in the Eighteenth Century from the 'Journey' of Mrs. Piozzi with an Introduction By the Countess Evelyn Martinengo Cesaresco
by (Mrs. Thrale - Piozzi)
London: Seeley and Co., 1892. 327 pages; sepia-tone illustrations; much on the lady's background and social life, travels in Italy, very frankly written and readable, Italian society, food, accomodations, more; bound in publisher's green cloth, decorative gilt cover and spine titles; some light edge, tips wear to binding, a little foxing; very good condition and in a very good cloth binding.. Hard Cover. Very Good.
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$65.00
175 Money Saving Tips for Every Car Owner.
by Carl Sifakis
Paperback in good condition for its years, a little yellowing to pages. Helpful advice for motorists. Circa 1960's.
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$1.27
The Nobel Century
by Geeslin, Campbell (Managing Editor); Preface by Stig Ramel;Introduction by Asa Briggs
London: Chapmans. 1991. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Remainder mark to base. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. 280 pages. The definitive book on the world's greatest prize - The Nobel Prize. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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$13.24
Battlebags: British Airships of the First World War - An Illustrated History
by (Ces) Mowthorpe
Stroud, United Kingdom: Alan Sutton Publishing Limited, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Fair Condition/Fair. Blue cloth with dustwrapper (in removable protective film), illustrated in black and white. A very good second-hand copy with extra photos attached by the previous owner. - Size: Small Quarto. 256 pages. Category: Aviation; World War 1 Books; Transport; General; Military & Warfare. ISBN: 0750909897. ISBN/EAN: 9780750909891. Dewey Code: 940.44941. . 9780750909891
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$10.13
Album of Architectural Photographs
by (Architectural Photography)
Album with 7 photographs; one cyanotype of gentleman seated working at a desk & table (the architect?) approx 5" x 7"; the others apparently of a particular large suburban house, 6 1/2" x 8 1/2" approx. circa 1900 or so, mostly exterior views, of arbor, entrance, overall side and front views and one interior; in an old "Leighton Album", plain grey-brown paper; not identified, no photographer or place; some edge, tips wear to mounts, cover detached; images in very good...
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$75.00
FROM FIGHTERS TO SOLDIERS How the Israeli Defence Force Began
by Goldstein, Yaacov N.; Shomron, Dan
Sussex Academic Press. Very Good+. 1998. Paperback. 1902210026 . A very good paperback without creases to the spine, slightly shelf/edge-worn covers, internally without writing or stamps, pages slightly soiled to the bottom edge. Carefully packaged and posted within 48 hours from our wee bookshop in Scotland.; 302 pages .
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$12.60
"Our Father Who Art in Heaven." A Story Illustrative of the Lord's Prayer
by (The Lord's Prayer)
London & Edinburgh: T. Nelson and Sons, 1860. 98 pages; with an engraved frontispiece by M. J. (Jackson) illustration, with the title from part of the book " Yesterday there was a popish procession. an image of the Madonna was carried about, and when it approached, heads were uncovered, and people fell on their knees."; an explication of the Lord's Prayer, using as a framework the education and moral betterment of children, with anecdotes and examples of good behavior and how the prayer...
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$65.00
Original Artwork for "Be Happy Osaka", a maquette for the Piece in Color and Applied Jewels By Charles Fazzino; (with) a Small Hand-Colored black and White Print of the Piece Having the artstis' Corrections and Directions
by Fazzino, Charles
Original work for this colorful Osaka City Japan scene by Fazzino, signed by him lower left; 32" x 26 3/4" approximate size, done on heavy white cardstock; with a blank margin to left of piece; with applied faux gemstone stars, circles, glitter; (with) a print of the trial piece in black and white, with some blue coloring, with the artist's pencil instructions and title below, done on a 13 1/2" x 10 1/4" sheet; light wear to paper edges; some soiling to blank margin on large...
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$4,500.00
C. 1866 - 1868 Album Formed By American Musical Composer John H. Cornell While Visiting Europe Including Autographs and Photographs of His Musical Associates, Related Ephemeral Material & Travel Photos
by (Music History)
European Origin: Not Published, 1866. Album of materials gathered by John Henry Cornell (1828-1894) American musical author, organist and composer, "...a solidly trained composer of church-music, part-songs and songs...an erudite and methodical student of theory, and an able author and translator..." (Grove); educated in New York, England and Germany, in 1866 he traveled once again to Europe, visiting historic sites and his musical peers, collecting photographs, autographic materials and...
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$2,500.00
Fundamentos de la clase extra : pedagogía de apoyo
by Joep Eikenboom
Editorial Rudolf Steiner S.L., 01/06/2015. Fundamentos de la clase extra : pedagogía de apoyo New.
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$18.44
Les Heures Perdues Poemes
by Thevenin, Roland
A Beaune Cote-Do'r France: Jean Dupin, Matire-Imprimeur, 1973. 77 pages; with a preface by Robert Poujade; limited edition # 546 of 550; very well-printed, wide-margined and in large type, inked in turquoise and black on good Velin d'Arches paper stock; French text; approx. 7 1/2" x 11"; original printed paper wraps, with cover ornament; with the original glassine protective over-wrap; some edge-wear and darkening to over-wrap, book in very good condition. . First Edition. Soft Cover....
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$45.00
The Vintage Motor Car Pocketbook
by Cecil Clutton - Paul Bird - Anthony Harding
1961. Book Description: B.T.Batsford Ltd., London England, 1959. Pictorial Hardcover. Book Condition: Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 256 pp.,b/w.illus., a good clean copy otherwise,covers a wide range of vintage cars,mainly English and Continental, well illustrated with specifications. Weighs 200 gm. .
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$5.07
Annals of the English Stage from Thomas Betterton to Edmund Kean
by Doran, Dr
London: John C. Nimmo, 1888. In three volumes, 436 + 414 + 428 pages + publishers' catalogue at back of Volume III; each volume separately indexed; "Edited and Revised by Robert W. Lowe with Fifty Copperplate Portraits and Eighty Wood Engravings"; handsomely rebound by Lamb & Buck Bindery in burgundy red cloth with leather spine labels, gilt titles, gilt ruled, top edges gilt; very good condition. . Hard Cover. Very Good.
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$350.00
Pininfarina Prestige and Tradition 1930-1980
by Didier Merlin
1980. The name Pininfarina has been associated with Italian coach-building and automobile elegance from 1930 to 1980, and during that time has stood for all that is prestigious in a domain that the Italians have made so much their own. It all started in 1904, in a small workshop, for a young apprentice draughtsman who twenty-five years later was to found his own company. Red cloth hardbound covers with gold embossed emblem and lettering in fine condition, D/J in very good condition..
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$49.41
The World of the Etruscans
by Massa, Aldo
New York: Tudor, 1973. Color, black and white illustrated; 143 pages; light dustjacket edge, tips wear; in very good condition.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.
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$20.00
Broadside Announcement for the Annual Exhibition of Union Hall Academy, Jamaica, L.I. Wednesday, October 6th, 1858. Sixty-Sixth Anniversay. Introductory Address, By H.C. F. Napier, Brooklyn, L.I
by (Union Hall Academy)
Jamaica, L.I.: Union Hall Academy, 1858. A single long sheet, printed one side only by "Democrat Print" Jamaica, L.I.; black on yellow stock, with ornamental surround; approx. 5 3/4" x 19" in size; listing the events of the exhibition, players, actors in skits, teachers, John N. Brinckerhoff & Henry Onderdonk, Jr.; giving the full names of students and their towns of origin; light wear & old fold lines; in very good condition and an interesting Long Island educational history...
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$250.00
Henry Clay Frick
by (Martha Frick Symington) Sanger
New York: Abbeville Press, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Black cloth with dust wrapper. Signs of shelf wear. Profusely illustrated in colour. With unprecedented access to personal letters, private family diaries, and the Frick archives at the Frick Collection in New York City and at family residences in Pittsburgh, Martha Frick Symington Sanger has written a unique and penetrating account of the life and times of Henry Clay Frick and his family. In addition, the author...
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$31.67
The Days Before
by Porter, Katherine Anne
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1952. 273 pages; inscribed and signed on the front endpaper by the author to collector Burt Britton, additionally inscribed and initialed by the author on the half-title page; "First Edition" stated on copyright page; Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980) American novelist and short-story writer, a master stylist whose long short stories have a richness of texture and complexity of character delineation usually achieved only in the novel...(Merriam...
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$250.00
![SCHOLEFIED, Radcliffe. Love to Enemies Explained and Recommended, in a Discourse, Delivered to the Two Societies of the Old and New Meetings, in Birmingham... Deritend: Printed by J. Belcher 1791. (viii), 24 pp. An Abstract of... An Appendix to the Sacred Tragedy. [n.d., 1737]. viii, 17, (1) pp. BLACOW: The Defence of the Rev. Richard Blacow, Addressed to the Jury, in the Court at Lancaster... for a Libel against the Queen, with Notes on the Whig-Radical Faction. To which is prefixed, the Sermon that was read in evidence... London: Printed and Published for the Author 1822. (ii), 120 pp. The Operatives, a Genteel Comedy, in three acts. Edinburgh: Printed for R. Miller 1827. (ii), 25, (1) pp. The Queen that Jack Found. London: John Fairburn 1820. Sixth edition, (36) pp. OSMER, William. A Dissertation on Horses; Wherein it is demonstrated... that Innate Qualities do not exist, and that the excellence of this Animal is altogether mechanical and not in the Blood. London: T. Waller 1756. First edition, 42, 45-61,](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/985/333/542333985.0.b.jpg)
SCHOLEFIED, Radcliffe. Love to Enemies Explained and Recommended, in a Discourse, Delivered to the Two Societies of the Old and New Meetings, in Birmingham... Deritend: Printed by J. Belcher 1791. (viii), 24 pp. An Abstract of... An Appendix to the Sacred Tragedy. [n.d., 1737]. viii, 17, (1) pp. BLACOW: The Defence of the Rev. Richard Blacow, Addressed to the Jury, in the Court at Lancaster... for a Libel against the Queen, with Notes on the Whig-Radical Faction. To which is prefixed, the Sermon that was read in evidence... London: Printed and Published for the Author 1822. (ii), 120 pp. The Operatives, a Genteel Comedy, in three acts. Edinburgh: Printed for R. Miller 1827. (ii), 25, (1) pp. The Queen that Jack Found. London: John Fairburn 1820. Sixth edition, (36) pp. OSMER, William. A Dissertation on Horses; Wherein it is demonstrated... that Innate Qualities do not exist, and that the excellence of this Animal is altogether mechanical and not in the Blood. London: T. Waller 1756. First edition, 42, 45-61,
by PAMPHLETS: SCHOLEFIELD, Radcliffe; OSMER, William; FREER, Adam [& others]
Seven works in one volume, 8vo. Upper wrapper of Blacow's Defence bound in, "The Queen that Jack Found" with 13 woodcuts - 12 by George Cruikshank - and bound without the advertisements, Osmer's Dissertation lacking one leaf (pp 43/4). Some light foxing and soiling, old manuscript contents list to front blank, marbled endpapers, sides and edges, bookplates to paste down and fly leaf. 19th century half calf, slightly worn, rebacked with a black label reading "Pamphlets". A...
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$361.04
Die Wasser-Ralle (Rallus Aquaticus) & Die Wiesen Knarre oder der Wachtelkonig (Orlygometra Crex) the Water-Rail & Corncrake Rail
by (Bilder-Atlas Zur Wissenschaftlich-Popularen Naturgeschichte Der Vogel)
Wien: Leopold Jos. Fitzinger, 1864. Original color lithograph from this atlas of beautiful bird plates; approx. 11 ½" x 9" size; light wear to edges; colors bright and in very good condition. . Very Good.
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$20.00
The World of Oz
by EYLES, Allen
USA: HPBooks, 1985. First US . Soft cover. Very Good. A Fantastic Expedition over the Rainbow, 85 Years of Magic. Many illustrations and photos, mostly in colour. Paperback: colour pictorial card covers, lower front corner creased, spine faded, inside covers slightly foxed, front flyleaf removed, page corners slightly bumped, else vg. large format (270x220x10mm), 92pp + 4pp appendices: on books - movies - writings about ..)
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$10.00
C. 1920 3 Snapshot Photographs of a Gentleman and His Motorcycles
by (Motorcycles)
1920. 3 black & white photos; the largest 4 " x 2 1/2" approx. size + 2 smaller snaps, 2 1/2" x 3 1/2"; no identifiers as to type of bike or place taken or person; the large shot of man holding bike at side of road; the smaller of same man(?) standing with two bikes at road edge in field and again on a roadway near what appears to be an old mill building (lettering indistinguishable); large image good and clear; 2 smaller faded; little creasing and wear; interesting...
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