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New York: Coward-McCann. Hardcover. Poor+/Poor. Inscribed by Author. Shaky red cloth boards, faded on spine where DJ is chipped. Spine heel and bottom edge of front cover darkened by water stain. End papers darkened along side edges. DJ tattered and soiled; split at back hinge. Inscribed on half title page in Spanish and English. Small 8vo. BOOK INFO: Very little information available about this book, other than a Saturday Review of Literature review, July 4, 1931, via unz.org, which describes this novel of an American ex-pat fortune teller in Spain thus: 'It all reads a little mad. It is chaotic as to purpose, unorientated, its characters for a long time confused. Yet it is peculiarly fascinating--like a topsy-turvy city, rising up and surrounding one.'

Amsterdam: North-Holland Pub. Co. ; New York : American Elsevier Pub. Co., 1975. Ex-Library. Hardcover. Very Good-/None. Studies in logic and the foundations of mathematics ; v. 81 Yellow cloth boards with gilt titling on a back band on spine. Page edges are soiled and toned along top, stamped on side. Owner's bookplate partially removed. Adhesive residue on rear pastedown and end paper. Text is unmarked. Bottom pages a bit rippled, but only to page 40 or so. Binding is sound. 8vo. BOOK INFO: Based on a series of lectures given at the Symposium on Intuitionism and Proof Theory held at Buffalo in the summer of 1968. In three parts: First order systems; Second order and finite order systems; Consistency problems. Includes subject index.

New York: Herausgegeben von Ezra Strong, 1838. Hardcover. Fair-/None. Apparent first edition of A General History of the United States of America, translated into German. Tan leather covers with gilt titling and bands on spine, 12mo. Decorated boards are edgeworn, spine is cracked and worn with a 1-in. tear at heel. Heavy foxing throughout. Boards are not bowed but open out due to expansion of pages over time. BOOK INFO: 'Enthaltend den ganzen Zeitraum seit den ersten Entdeckungen bis zu der jetzigen Zeit; Mit einer Beschreibung der westlichen Staaten, ihres Bodens, ihrer Unsiedelungen, Zunahme an Bevolkerung.' Illus. with B&W engravings.

London: New Age Press, 1908. Paperback. Fair+/None. Rare softcover of this text. Not a reprint or print-on-demand, nor ex-library. Interior is unmarked. Front cover is detached. Covers chipped with crease on front and loss at spine ends, 2 ins. on the bottom. BOOK INFO: With an introductory chapter On Leaders and Leadership, and a chapter on each of the following: Robert Owen, Saint-Simon, Fourier, Louis Blanc, Ferdinand Lassalle, Karl Marx, H. M. Hyndman, Sidney Webb, J. Keir Hardie, G. Bernard Shaw, Jean Jaures, William Morris and Robert Blatchford. 'We are waiting in [England] for a great leader who will overthrow this popular delusion that Socialism is social reform, that Englishmen are gentle evolutionaries... The day for physical rebellion is perhaps past; the day of political revolt has at last come. And the symbol and practice of revolt must take the shape of a Socialist Party that will challenge all other species of reform.'

Koln: Werner, Michael. Paperback. Very Good/None. Pictorial (front and back) softcover featuring reproduction of the sculpture Mutter und Kind / Mother and Child on the front; spine is uncreased and edges are a little worn, especially at the corners. (No DJ). Interior is clean and unmarked. Tall quarto 9.5 x 12.5 ins. Our photos depict actual book offered for sale. Books are carefully packaged by hand and ship from our family-owned bookshop in the US. BOOK INFO: Published on the occasion of the exhibition Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Sculptures and Etchings, 19 January through 3 March 2012. Gallery slip, 'with the compliments of Gordon VeneKlasen' is tipped in. See photos for Table of Contents. Illustrated in 35 color reproductions. 'Lehmbruck's search for meaningful form extends beyond the big sculptures. It is a long-term affair, constantly returning to the same subjects and earlier works.... For an understanding of Lehmbruck's migration of forms, his creations need to be looked at globally, without… Read More

Philadelphia: Gebbie & Co., 1881. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Olive cloth boards blindstamped on front covers with gilt titling on spine. Very light edgewear. Interiors unmarked. Bindings tight. Thistle patterned pastedowns. Illus. by B&W engravings, protective tissues intact. 12mo. BOOK INFO: Vol. I, Early Poems: English Idylls, Etc., Locksley Hall, Lucretius, Etc.; Vol. II, Idylls of the King, The Princess, Maud, Enoch Arden; Vol. III, In Memoriam, Queen Mary, Harold, Ballads and Other Poems. 660, 713, 694 pp. Multiple vols. within each book.

Leipzig: Verlag des Bibliographischen Instituts. Hardcover. Good-/None. Scarce. Brown cloth boards, embossed with black decoration and border, worn at extremities and with a 5-in. diagonal scrape on the front cover to bottom corner. Interior is unmarked; pages are toned with age. Dampstain to bottom corner of page edges does not affect text. Undated. ca. late 1800s. Not a reprint or print-on-demand. 12mo. BOOK INFO: Tennyson's Selected Poems translated by Adolf Strodtmann. Adolf Strodtmann.

Easton, PA: Special Collections & Archives and Williams Center Gallery, Lafayette College, 2016. Paperback. Very Good/None. Pictorial softcover with light edgewear at extremities. Spine is uncreased. Binding is sound. Interior is clean and unmarked. Quarto. BOOK INFO: At the turn of the last century, two superb art glass windows were commissioned for Lafayette College from Louis Comfort Tiffany's Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company in New York City, Alcuin and Charlemagne (1898) and The Death of Sir Philip Sidney (1899). These two windows are now installed in Skillman Library. Tiffany at Lafayette, a lavishly illustrated catalog, celebrates this magnificent Tiffany legacy at the College with essays by three Tiffany scholars and a description of the restoration of the two windows. The four essays discuss different aspects of Lafayette's windows: 1. Lafayette's Legacy in Tiffany Glass, Elizabeth De Rosa; Independent curator Elizabeth De Rosa, who writes about Louis C. Tiffany's… Read More

US: PublishAmerica. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good/None. Signed. SIGNED/INSCRIBED to poet Moira Bailis; Front cover had a crease in it, which seems to have healed. Interior is clean and binding tight; light smudge to page edges.

New York: Regina Press, 1965. Hardcover. Very Good-/None. Off-white paper boards with full-color pictorial cover, a glossy, cellophane-like coating is cracked along spine midway to heel, and a 1/4 in. at head. Binding sound. Interior unmarked. All edges gilt. White satin ribbon marker intact. 32mo. BOOK INFO: The right size to fit a child's hands, this little communion book has full-color illustrations throughout with red titling and illumination.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1955. Sixth Printing. Hardcover. Fair/None. Red cloth boards, 12mo, sunned at front side and bottom edges and heel of spine cracked with webbing showing. Lightly soiled covers and with some kind of vertical impression along the back edge. Back endpapers stained, with 1/2 in. drop mark on side page edges. Owner's name blacked out on ffep. Interior otherwise unmarked and clean. Binding is sound. Not ex-libris, print-on-demand or reprint. English and Australian novelist Thirkell set most of her novels in Anthony Trollope's Barsetshire, his fictional English county; This novel features the affections of a lieutenant from Barsetshire toward a rector's wife during WWII. Ships from US. World War II; Barsetshire

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1963. Hardcover. Good/None. Rare masterpieces of philosophy and science Dark blue-black cloth boards with grey titling on the spine, call numbers on heel; boards are worn at extremities. Pastedowns scarred where bookplates removed. Binding is sound. Library numbers penciled on copyright page and stamped on contents page. Interior is otherwise unmarked. Page edges toned. Lacking dustjacket. Thick 8vo. Our photos depict actual book offered for sale. Books are carefully packaged by hand and shipped from our family-owned bookshop in the US. BOOK INFO: See photos for Table of Contents. Includes index. Bibliography: p. xxix-xxxii. Bibliographical references included in footnotes. xxxii, 599 p. 23 cm.

Boston, NY, Chicago: Leach, Shewell, & Sanborn, 1894. Hardcover. Very Good-/None. Students' Series of English Classics Light brown cloth boards with dark brown titling on front and spine. Vertical crease on front cover near spine, and darkened along edges. Owner's name and date penned neatly on ffep. Upper page edges darkened. Not ex-library. Text is unmarked. Binding is tight. (4.5 x 7.5 ins.) BOOK INFO: Selected and arranged, and with prefaces by Isaac Thomas. Table of contents includes: Capture of New Amsterdam by the English; Rip Van Winkle; Christmas Sketches; Stratford-on-Avon; The Stout Gentleman; Dolph Heyliger; Columbus's Discovery of Land, 1492; Surrender of Granada; Palace of the Alhambra; Legend of the Two Discreet Statues; Oliver Goldsmith; Washington at Princeton.

London: A. R. Mowbray & Co., Ltd., 1959. 2nd printing. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Pink pictorial boards. Publisher's cellophane coating lifting along front spine hinge, as in a low, long bubble, but not torn. Sewn binding is sound. Interior is unmarked except for inscription page with dedication and note, 'From the Westminster Abby Bookshop London.' Kinda cool. All pages are clean, with square corners. 8vo. BOOK INFO: First published 1953. B&W cartoon illustrations throughout, decorated in pink. Calendar books; juvenilia;

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1932. Hardcover. Good/None. Signed. Apparent first edition, inscribed on ffep 'Yours for a life of high adventure! Lowell Thomas' Navy blue cloth boards with orange titling on spine, blindstamped medal insignia on front. Spine ends worn and covers rubbed. Binding sound and pages clean. Rough-cut page edges. Otherwise unmarked. 8vo. INSIDE: 'Edwards is the perfect old-time rip-snorting U.S. Army sergeant...His bullet-slashed face, his stump of an arm and crippled leg give him an incomparable ensemble of hard-boiled swagger... The story of how he lost his arm is one of the most amazing acts of steel-cold nerve that has ever been put on paper.' Edwards received the Distinguished Service Cross and as a result of a court-martial was not punished but instead recommended for the Congressional Medal of Honor, which he received for his service in the U.S. Army 1st Infantry Division in France during World War I. Illus. in B&W by McClelland… Read More

Worcester, Mass.: Priv. print., 1932. Paperback. Very Good/None. An unusual collection of four books: 1. In full red moroccan with gilt titling on the front, The Rose Garden of Omar Khayyam (5 x 6 ins.) containing a foreword with details about the miniature hand printed and bound book (which is missing from this collection); 2. The Proof Sheet, a light tan card cover booklet, sewn with brown yarn contains a single proof sheet of a page from the miniature book (4pp. of text on one sheet); 3. A Thimbleful of Books, 'being some account of small books in all ages and more particularly of the smallest printed book in the world,' which tells how this book was made, 1/5 smaller than the smallest book up until then, and how its translation was completed,

Los Angeles: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies UCLA, 2001. Paperback. Very Good-/None. Tan softcover has 2 small spots of wrinkling to bottom edge and a small coffee drip. Spine uncreased. Interior clean and unmarked. Small 8vo. ARTICLES INCLUDE: From Address to Debate: Generic Considerations in the Debate between Soul and Body / J. Justin Brent; 'I am the Creater': Birgitta of Sweden's Feminine Divine / Yvonne Bruce; Clothworkers and Social Protest: The Case of Thomas Deloney / Roze Hentschell; Truth, Translation, and the Troy Book Women / Lynn Shutters; 'Here I am...yet you cannot hold this visible shape': The Music of Gender in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night / Marcus Cheng Chye Tan; Representing the Perfect Prince: Pontormo's Alessandro de' Medici / Vanessa Walker-Oakes. AND REVIEW ARTICLE: 'Englishness, Alive and Well in the Middle Ages?' / Kristen Lee Over. Birgitta of Sweden; Thomas Deloney; Troy Book; Shakespeare's Twelfth Night;… Read More

Leipzig, Germany: Fachbuchverlag, 1956. Hardcover. Fair+/None. Slim blue cloth boards with silver titling on spine and front, heavily edgeworn and lightly rubbed. Binding is sound. Pencil underlining noted on one page. Owner's mileage and service notes in tidy hand on rear pastedown, which are rather interesting, actually. 12mo. BOOK INFO: Translated by Ludwig Lampert. Full of B&W illustrations, some highlighted in red to accent details, as published. Two fold out diagrams at the end. See photos for complete table of contents.

Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.: Oceana Publications, 1962. Hardcover. Fair+/None. America's politics series, no. 2 Blue-gray cloth boards, lightly yellowed and worn at edges, with dark blue titling on front and spine. 8vo. Not ex-library. BOOK INFO: In five parts: Introduction to the conventions; Nomination Campaign Organizations; Kennedy and Nixon Leadership on Party Platform; State Delegations: Leaders and Followers; State Delegations: Organization and Candidate Communications. Republican National Convention (27th : 1960 : Chicago, Ill, Democratic National Convention (1960 : Los Angeles, Calif, Presidents--United States--Election--1960

The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1969. Ex-Library. Hardcover. Very Good-/None. Red cloth boards toned along spine and front upper edge, with white Dewey numbers at spine heel. Pastedowns are scarred where bookplate/pocket removed. Page edges have two fingerprints. Erased pencil Dewey numbers on copyright page. Periodic, sparse underlining to text. Binding is quite sound. Despite these minor shortcomings, it is overall, a tidy, nice copy. 8vo. BOOK INFO: 'Philosophers usually have been anxious to avoid solipsism. A large number of good and great philosophers have tried to refute it. Of course, these philosophers have not always had the same target in mind and, like everything else, solipsism over the centuries has become increasingly elusive and subtle. In this book I undertake to state the position in its most modern and what I take to be its most plausible form.' -from the Introduction. Bibliography: p. [319] Includes index. Solipsism