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London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1953 Hard Cover. 8vo. 280pp. Condition: Very Good with some sunning to covers, in a Fair dust jacket which has chips missing, including a large section of the spine (now protected in mylar). Ghost of a paper-clip to title page, causing small tears to the half-title. ** Signed collection of essays by the great English character, Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974). An Etonian classmate of George Orwell, under whose shadow he strove, Connolly found his niche as the editor of the literary magazine Horizon, and as the author of the angst-ridden classic about writing classics, The Unquiet Grave (1944). This book contains writings by Connolly, as well as the response to a question as to the "Cost of Letters [i.e. writing]" by a host of writers including Robert Graves, John Betjeman, C.Day Lewis, Laurie Lee, George Orwell, V.S.Pritchett, Stephen Spender and Dylan Thomas. Also is a poem dedicated to Connolly by W.H.Auden, "The Fall of Rome". Signed on front flyleaf: "To dearest… Read More

New York: The Facsimile Text Society, 1941 Hard cover, 32mo., pp [2] xxiii [9] 143 [7]. In publisher's brown cloth binding with gold lettering to spine. Facsimile of the 1611 first edition. Condition: Near Fine. Very light marks to covers. Light age-toning to interior, with tiny stain to corner of 3 or 4 pages. ** John Donne (1572 - 1631) was a popular preacher at St Paul's Cathedral in 17th century London, and influential "metaphysical" poet. He penned these famous words which have resonated every since: "No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. ...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee." ** In "Ignatius His Conclave" Donne satirizes the Jesuits, which society was co-founded in 1540 by Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556) and six others. His criticism was perhaps understandable, given the Jesuits alleged involvement in the 1605 "Gunpowder plot" in… Read More

New York: Crescent Books, 1995 Hard cover, quarto, 199pp. Profusely illustrated with color plates; a guide to the books created before the printing press. Condition: Near Fine.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

57 Paternoster Row, London: G. and T. Wilkie, 1801 Tenth Edition with Considerable Additions. Hard cover, 8vo in black, straight-grain morocco with five gilt tooled symbols of masonic decoration to both boards (the blazing star, square-and-compass, flames, crescent moon-and-stars, and a square-and-blazing sun); this lies within a frame of a gilt ruled intersecting diamond and rectangle, the banding of which is rolled in blind with vine leaves. A gothic-style band of gilt tracery with quatrefoils decorates the outer edge of both boards, with double gilt banding and narcissus-like flowers stamped at the corner intersections. Four double-bands to the spine contain five compartments with the title, and square-compass-banner-on-pole symbols. A.e.g. Inside, dove grey moire silk doublures feature gilt lightning bolts at the four inner corners; the outer corners have four additional symbols (crescent-moon-and-stars, compass-rule-and-metronome, a geometrically detailed circle, and skull-and crossbones.) The… Read More

New York: self published, 1893 Hard cover, oblong quarto, in publisher's brown pebbled cloth, titles to topboard blocked in blind and gold. Unpaginated, prelims + 53pp of color lithographed plates. Condition: Good. Covers worn at corners and head/tail of spine, Gold faded. with the front hinge cracked. Internally the pages are about Very Good. ** A commercial catalogue from the company that still specializes in piano action parts. With full-page color plates showing the internal mechanics of a piano. OCLC 12405253.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. Illus. by Lithographers Lidner, Eddy & Claus, NY.

London: William Judd Ltd.; William Cloues & Son, 1926 The totality is Finely Bound within a hard cover case of three quarter red morocco, ruled in gilt, with marbled paper boards, matching end papers, t.e.g., the spine with raised bands ruled in black and gilt, with both titles and gilt floral sprigs to the six compartments. Collation: [4], 120, [2], 96 [4]. The first title: 8vo, 120 pp., including original printed gilt on blue card wraps, with many full-page black and white reproductions of Sargent's portraiture, some watercolors as well as designs for murals at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. The second title: Soft cover, 16mo, 96 pp. with original gray paper wraps included. Condition: Very Good Plus. There is some moderate rubbing to the exterior joints and edges. Gilt decoration on the spine and boards remains bright and attractive. Interior is clean, tight and bright. Also included are the interesting association items. First, a "With Compliments" card laid in is signed in ink by Perry T.… Read More

New York: The Chinese Porcelain Company, 2001 Hard cover, quarto, 66pp. Full color plates. Condition: Near Fine in Very Good Minus dust jacket. Dust jacket scuffed with some small tears at edges. ** Auction catalog.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good Minus.

New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1921 Hard cover in tan publisher's cloth with pictorial cover design in black and orange, title in black to spine, First Edition, 252 pp. No d/j. Condition: Very Good. Exterior is clean and has a few bumped corners, otherwise would be NF. The interior is mildly age toned. A" boys adventure" story of the "return of Stanley Livingston and Ted Boyle to the Andes Mountains of Peru to complete their search for the hidden treasure of the Incas." A sequel to the author/illustrator duo's earlier title, "The Hidden People." (1920). The author, Leo Miller, (1887-1952) was, in fact, an accomplished field naturalist for the American Museum of Natural History. Miller's academic publications concern the discovery of new species of birds and monkeys in various South American countries. Bleiler 140.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Branson, Paul.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2005 Signed by Author on front flyleaf. Hardcover, with dust jacket, 378 pp. The Edgar-awarded author and trial lawyer gives us a very different fourth novel. Publisher's Weekly says, " ...he branches out from his previous legal thrillers into a minefield of world terrorism and misplaced family loyalties, writing not only in the present tense but working backward from the death of his lead character, author Allison Pagone, who ostensibly kills herself after getting tangled up in a terrorist plot through her lover, a lawyer whom she's suspected of murdering...There's enough high-level corruption to keep several investigative agencies busy, and some wonderfully mordant scenes of the underbellies of law and government in action. This is another impressive performance..." Condition: Fine, with a Fine dustjacket. Like New.. Signed by Author on front flyleaf.. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine.

Pasadena, Ca.: Published by the Author, 1902 Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Hard cover, 8vo, in green cloth with titles and basket illustration blocked in gold to the top board, and titles to spine, 274pp. plus several pages of advertising, including for the "Four Track Series" of travel books issued by the NY Central & Hudson River Railroad, and two galleries of southwestern Indian goods. ** Condition: Very Good. Slight wear to cloth at tips, light rubbing at top joint, head and tail of spine. Minor crack started at bottom front hinge, otherwise all in good order.** First issued in April 1901, James's work takes note of both anthropology and ethnography, describing the cultural symbolism of the wares in their various shapes, patterns and various ceremonial uses. This second edition has, according to the Appendix, "new and interesting material, both in illustrations and descriptions." (p. 234) It is both a guide to the collector and informative of the works of various tribes, including "the… Read More

Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1883 Hard cover, 8vo., 318pp. + 4pp. ads. In publisher's mustard cloth binding with blocked decorations in gold.** CONDITION: Near Fine. Some pages unopened. One or two pages opened roughly. Light , with tiny tears to head of spine. **A translation of selected parts of the ancient Indian epic poem, "The Mahabharata," one of the two great foundational Sanskrit poems of India. It concerns the Kurukshetra War, a struggle for power between two dynastic branches of a family. The war itself takes place over eighteen days, and "The Mahabharata" follows the course of the war and its aftermath. The selections in this book are titled: "Savitri; or, Love and Death", "Nala and Damayanti", "The Enchanted Lake", "The Saint's Temptation", "The Birth of Death", "The Night of Slaughter", "The Great Journey" and "The Entry into Heaven". ** **English translator Edwin Arnold (1832 - 1904) was an English journalist and poet, notable for his 1879 work "The Light of Asia", an epic poem… Read More

New Delhi: People's Publishing House, 1959 Hard cover, 8vo., 211pp. In publisher's gray cloth boards with black lettering to spine. Condition: Very Good. Ink mark to bottom of contents page. ** S.B. Mukherji was a professor at Khalsa College, Amritsar. A history of Natal, a Crown Colony before South Africa came into being, and the importation of Indian labor to work in its mines and plantations. Chapters on "Beginnings of Bitterness (1860-1900)", "Birth of Satyagraha (1900-1914)", "Smuts-Ghandi Agreement (1914-1927)", "Cape Town - Lake Success (1927-1946)", and "Lake Success and After (1946-)". OCLC 261653.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

Newington, Connecticut: Case Lockwood & Brainard Co., Hartford Press, 1905 Hard cover, octavo, with cream-colored cloth pictorial boards printed with leafy vine in lovely autumnal shades, titles in gilt to front board and spine, unpaginated (but about 360 pp.) Cover art signed ITD ? or HD? goes across spine to rear board. Ownership inscription from 1905 in old in to front fly reads :" H.M. Moodey from her loving sister H.C. Seelye, Christmas 1905." Additionally, two ownership stamps of Cornelia C. Moodey of Northampton Mass. to same. **Cornelia Chapin Moodey was the sister of Florence Porter Lyman (1868-1951), whose correspondence and Lyman family papers are held in the special collections at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Condition: Very Good. Covers a bit soiled; Two old staple holes in rear endpapers making tiny hole on last page of text, where a piece of correspondence (poem) is laid in, signed Charlotte Chittenden. Some minor chipping or tiny tears to the fore-edge of a few pages.… Read More

Coral Gables, Florida: University of Miami Press, 1968 Hard cover, 8vo. (measuring 6 ¼ x 8 ¾ inches,) in brown publisher's cloth with title in gold print to spine. The cream colored dust jacket has titles in black and white. 346pp. Condition: Near Fine, with a Very Good dust jacket. Ownership stamp to ffep. Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, was requested to prepare this work to be included in Hermann Nothnagel's 1897 "Handbuch," a medical encylopedia published in Vienna. This monograph was heralded by successors such as Bernard Sachs and R. Brun years after it was first published. This is the first translation of the entire material into English.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

London: William Heinemann, 1912 **With owner signature of travel guide writer, Findlay Muirhead (1860-1935) ** Hard cover, in olive green buckram with titles in gilt, on laid paper, edges untrimmed, 278 pp. A collection of Galsworthy's essays reprinted from various publications, including Scribner's Magazine, the Atlantic Monthly, Century Magazine, and others. A 1915 review of the author's work by Louise Collier Wilcox calls Galsworthy " the great prose impressionist of our generation, " and calls a handful of the essays herein exquisite. (NAR, Dec. '15, Vol. 202, No. 721, p. 891.) He would, in 1932, earn the Nobel prize in Literature. A small excerpt of description from the title essay, which takes place in Italy: "If the air was void of sound, it was full of scent that delicious and enlivening perfume of mingled gum, and herb, and sweet wood being burned somewhere a long way off; and a silky, golden warmth slanted on to us through the olives and umbrella pines. Large wine-red violets were growing… Read More

Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1963 pp [VII] [ ] 1269 - 2171 [ ]. Review of cooperation on drug policies among the Food and Drug Administration, National Institutes of Health, Veterans' Administration and other agencies. Condition: About Very good but with creases to spine and cut to title page affecting first few pages.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good-.

Chicago: The Reilly and Lee Co., Publishers, 1934 Hard cover, 8vo., in blue publisher's cloth with titles in silver. The Reilly and Lee Co.,Publishers, Chicago,1934, First Edition. Condition: Very Good Minus, with slight edge wear and corners lightly bumped. Lacking d/j. Interior is moderately age-toned. There is a small price stamp on rear fly, otherwise clean and not written on. "A Story of Crime, Love and Revolt in A.D. 2050." This dystopian, futuristic novel set in 2050's Chicago was the only such work imagined by the author Thomas Temple Hoyne (1875-1946). His several prior works all concerned topics on economics. The fictional world of Hoyne is filled with much conflict between the have and have-nots, who are literally divided between the lakeshore Lower Level of the poor and the castellated Upper Level, hovering, seemingly unassailable, above. A thoughtful, and occasionally erudite, post-Great Depression cautionary tale. Bleiler p. 104.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good Minus.

Tokyo: The Japan Foundation, 2004 Soft cover, quarto, 272pp. Detailed bibliography. Condition: Near Fine. Corners lightly bumped.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

New York: G.P.Putnam's Sons, 1910 Hard cover, 8vo. in red publisher's cloth, 196pp. , First Edition. ** Condition: Very Good. Front hinge cracked for an inch or two. **Scarce first poetry collection by John Curtis Underwood (1874 - 1949), an American poet and critic. Includes poems about technology in a section called "The God in the Machine", and other sections on "The Sea", "Woman", "Science", "The City", "The Inner Life" etc. Of interest to H.P.Lovecraft fans is the poem, "The City of Dreams", about an elusive city. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

Philadelphia: Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, (Vol. 54, Part 2), 1964 Soft cover magazine format in tan wraps with title to cover, 75 pp. The monograph is the work of Sharpe, Assist. Professor of Pathology, Seton Hall College of Medicine. He translates the medical and anatomical portions of the 7th century AD scholar and cleric's famous Etymologiae from the original Greek and Latin, and provides an introduction and commentary. Isidore of Seville ( c.560-636) was considered the most learned man of his age, sainted by the Catholic Church for his work as Archbishop of Seville in turning the tide against Iberian Visogoth barbarism and heresy. He is also, however, credited with the rescue of classical texts of antiquity, Aristotle, for instance, bringing his version of the scarce classical texts to a new audience within the newly founded cathedral schools he was instrumental in creating under the aegis of the Fourth Council of Toledo (633AD). There, Greek, Hebrew, liberal arts, law… Read More