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Signed on half title page by John Farleigh (illustrator) and dated 1933. Hard cover. Octavo. 75 pages. Illustrated boards and decorative end papers designed and engraved by John Farleigh. Engraved title page and nineteen further illustrations by Farleigh throughout the text. Edge wear and some chipping to outer hinges. Binding and text block tight.
The "Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God" caused controversy when released due to the religious, sexual and racial themes within the writing and John Farleigh's complementary (and risqué) wood engravings commissioned by Shaw for the book.

Hard cover. Octavo. [viii] 329pp. Extensive scholarly pencil marginalia and notes. Dust jacket worn and torn with loss to the spine and a closed tear to the front. Now protected in an archival quality mylar sleeve.Giuseppe "Pino" Orioli (1884–1942) was a Florentine bookseller best known for privately publishing the unexpurgated first edition of Lady Chatterley's Lover and for his long association with Norman Douglas.

Folio in sixes. [iii], Title, Dedication and License; 207pp. Tabla 11pp. (Pages misnumbered, going from 86 to 89 but with continuous text). Text in Spanish. Contemporary vellum bound stiff wraps. Professionally rebound in original cover with some restoration to the first two sheets. Housed in custom cover and slipcase. A few small closed tears to page edges. Vellum cover a little age wrinkled with one tear to top of spine.
Manuel de Faria y Sousa was a Portuguese historian and poet who frequently wrote in Spanish. The tone of some of his work which excited the suspicion of the inquisitors, caused his temporary incarceration, and led to the permanent loss of his official salary. In spite of the enthusiasm which is said to have prescribed to him the daily task of twelve folio pages, death overtook him before he had completed his greatest enterprise, a history of the Portuguese in all parts of the world. Several portions of the work appeared at Lisbon after his death, under the editorship of Captain… Read More

One of 1000 copies. Octavo in printed wraps. 86 pages. Review copy stamped on front free end paper. Very good.
John William Corrington was an American film and television writer, novelist, poet and lawyer.

Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1839. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 12mo. Marbled boards with leather spine, gilt title and small design. 139pp. Frontispiece is a map of the middle east and eastern Egypt. Contains eight b/w plates showing sketches of the ruins of Petra which are carved directly into the sandstone cliff faces and gained particular fame after being featured in climactic scenes in the 1989 film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, in which its facade is represented as the entrance to the final resting place of the Holy Grail.Covers show light wear with rubbing at corners. Foxing throughout.

First U.S. Edition. Hard cover. Octavo. [xvi] 326 pages plus folding map and numerous b/w illustrations from photographs. Book and map in fine condition. Price intact dust jacket shows some chipping to edges, now in a new Brodart sleeve.

Twelve volumes bound in faux leather with raised design. Pictorial end papers. "Christmas 1968" handwritten on front paste down else clean and unmarked. Tight binding Light shelf wear to cover.

Third edition. 8vo. Full contemporary leather. [viii] 416pp with one folding and three full page plates. Owner's name handwritten on front free end paper. Front and back hinges starting. Leather rubbed in places.The sub title continues; ...the Various Disorders of these useful Animals. As Also Many Rules relating to the Choice and Management of Horses of all Kinds, and useful Directions how to avoid being imposed upon by Jockies. Wherein some egregious Errors of Former Writers are occasionally pointed out / By JOHN REEVES, Farrier st Ringwood, Hants. The the whole Revised, Corrected and Enlarged by a Physician, to which is added, A New Method of curing a STRAIN in the Back Sinews, and the ANATOMY of a Horse's Leg, with some observations on SHOEING, Also an Appendix, containing some necessary Observations on the late epidemical Distemper among Horses, and a Method of Cure by an EMINENT SURGEON.Handwritten notes and recipes/remedies to front and rear endpapers and eight small hand written sheets of… Read More

Folio. Hard cover. Bound in quarter leather dark brown cloth covered boards, blind stamped and with a decoratively embossed title reading "Atlas Of Schuyler Co. New York. A. Pomeroy & Co." in gilt. 57 pages. Some rubbing to cover otherwise very good.
Color maps, including four fold out, of Schuyler County showing prominent towns and cities, the county, a double page Plan of New York State and a double page Map of the United States and Territories. Preceded by an Index, Table of Distances, Population Chart and List of Post Offices.