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Dial, New York, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. IAN CALDWELL and DUSTIN THOMASON. The Rule of Four, New York: Dial Press, 2004.Octavo, first edition, pp. [iv], 372, 1 (note), paper-covered boards quarter-bound in cream cloth with red lettering to spine. Authors' debut novel, anticipating "The Da Vinci Code."Condition of this book:Fine in fine jacket. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; Modern; Books on Books. ISBN: 0385337116. ISBN/EAN: 9780385337113. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 55246. . 9780385337113

Imprimerie Darantiere, Dijon, 1923. First Edition. Softcover. Good Condition/Fair. SAIKAKU IBARA. Quaint Stories of Samurais, Dijon: Imprimerie Darantiere, 1923.Octavo, edition of 500, pp. 111, 1 (colophon), card covers with dust jacket. Love stories among samurai and their page boys, in Ken Sato's translation of Ibara's 17th-century work "The glorious stories of Homosexuality." The characters are deeply sentimental, with a tendency to fall ill when their true love seems unattainable.Condition of this book: Tears in dust jacket spine, front hinge split, very clean, no foxing. First edition of the work in this format and binding, and/or set or series. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Erotica; Japan; 1920s;… Read More

J.A. Hill, New York, 1904. Later Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. ILES, GEORGE. Flame, Electricity and the Camera, Man's Progress From the First Kindling of Fire to the Wireless Telegraph and the Photography of Color, New York: J.A. Hill, 1904.Octavo, edition de luxe of a 1900 release, pp. xv, 398, red cloth boards with gilt lettering a decoration on spine, gravure frontis of the author, top edge gilt, some leaves unopened, halftones and line drawings. An unusual approach to the history of photography, beginning with the discovery of fire and working in seemingly tangential inventions like the telegraph. The deluxe-ness of this edition seems to be its heavier binding than the original, plus a frontis gravure.Condition of this book:Near fine with slight wear at boards' edges. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers… Read More

Doubleday, Garden City, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover (Printed Boards). Near Fine Condition/Good. INGRI and EDGAR PARIN D'AULAIRE. Columbus, Garden City: Doubleday & Co. 1955.Folio, first edition, pp. 56, printed boards, large-format lithographs, some double-page, dust jacket price of $3 with a discounted price stamped underneath. A boy grows up to discover a new world.Condition of this book:Near fine with worn edges; jacket edges worn and chipped with short tears at the top front and spine. Shipments outside the U.S. may be subject to local taxes. Size: Large Folio (bigger than A3). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Children; exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 55145. .

no publisher, no place, 1955. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. FRANCES IRVIN. Oyster Bay in History, an unpublished typescript, together with an autographed letter signed from Irvin to the Oyster Bay Historical Society, 1955.Quarto, pp. [ii], 176, orange cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, with a letter turning this text over to the historical society "to do with as they may decide." This draft was eventually revised and published as Oyster Bay: A Sketch. The present book is a photocopy of Irvin's original, with text printed on only one side of each leaf. It is unknown to me why she turned this over to the society unfinished. She covers high points of this Long Island community, of course including its most famous resident, Theodore Roosevelt.Condition of this book:Fine, no flaws. Size: Quarto. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully… Read More

Putnam, New York. Later Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. DIEDRICH KNICKERBOCKER (WASHINGTON IRVING). A History of New York in 2 volumes, New York: Putnam's, 1893.Octavos, Van Twiller edition, pp. xvii, 364; xv, 379, white cloth boards with gilt and blue stamped lettering, devices and vignettes to spine and fronts, top edges gilt, extensive illustration by E.W. Kemble in text, plates and historiated initials. Ownership signature on free front endpaper.A Washington Irving classic with one of the 19th century's more prominent illustrators.Condition of these books:Remarkably clean and bright. Bottom edges lightly worn, overall fine. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 2-volume set (complete). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos.… Read More

National Museum of Art, Tokyo, 1999. Edition Unstated. Softcover. As New/No Dust Jacket. MIYAKO ISHIUCHI. Time Textured in Monochrome, Tokyo: National Museum of Art, 1999.Quarto, catalog for an exhibition, pp. 107, wraps, halftones, text in Japanese and English, signed on the half-title page by Ishiuchi. Covers the photographer's whole career, in which she was occupied with the surface of things, particularly aging buildings and people.Condition of this book:Fine, no flaws. Size: Quarto. Text is in multiple languages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Photography; Japan; 1990s; Art & Design. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 54121. .