Search Results: Titles starting with M from Jay Dillon Rare Books + Manuscripts

New York: Harper & Row, 1974 ¶ Collation: 234 x 155 mm: Pp. xvi, [1], 839. Binding: Red cloth. Reference: ISBN 0060110929. . Red cloth. 234 x 155 mm. Pp. xvi, [1], 839.

Providence (Rhode Island): American Mathematical Society, 1990     ¶ COMPLETE SET of four large posters reproducing three finished drawings 1967-86 and an oil painting 1971, by Anatolii Fomenko, professor of mathematics in the Moscow State University and a leading exponent of mathematics in art.   ||| Together four posters 812 x 601 mm (32 x 24 inches) upright (nos. 1, 3-4) or oblong (no. 2), printed in colors (nos. 1-2) or black and white (3-4) on thick coated stock.  Condition: Very good.  References: Cf Fomenko Mathematical impressions (1990), nos. 51, 233, 242, 253.  Provenance: Serge Gorodetzky (1907-1999), physicist..

Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, for the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1968 -- ONLY EDITION. Portrait, facsimile, views.. Red cloth, blank dust-jacket. Near fine.. In 6s (233 x 153 mm). Pp. xlv, 429.

New York: Soho Press, 1988 ¶ FIRST EDITION (with statement "FIRST EDITION" on the title verso). ||| Collation: 234 x 155 mm: Pp. [v], 282. Binding: Quarter blue cloth, dust-jacket. Condition: A fine copy. Reference: ISBN 0939149141. .

Minneapolis: Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1970 *** ONLY EDITION; representing De Lisio's first exhibition in the United States and reproducing his remarkable portraits in terra-cotta or bronze of Proust, Marianne Moore, Poe (2), Stevenson, Janet Flanner, Gertrude Stein (2), Nabokov, Auden, Beardsley (2), Pound, Wilde, Henry James, Verlaine and Rimbaud, Baudelaire, and Joyce (2). Foreword by Anthony M. Clark. Rare. -- The present copy is INSCRIBED BY THE ARTIST "To Tommy, with affection. Mike", on the titlepage. -- In 16 (196 x 114 mm): Pp [1-32]. Pictorial wrappers. -- References: OCLC 14044892, 24681527, 48439199. Not in Getty, Frick, or MMA. -- Wrappers somewhat soiled. .

In: East Bay express (Emeryville, California, 2001-  ), vol. 26, no. 3 (29 October 2003, offered complete), pages 14-21     ¶ Perhaps the longest and most detailed press account--amounting to some 4700 words in all--of the discovery (1990) and implications of the long-lost manuscript (1876-80) of the first half (chapters 1-21) of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.   ||| Collation: 34½ x 29 cm: 52 leaves, paginated [1] 2-92, [B1] B2-12.  Illustration: Numerous halftone illustrations (including eight relating to Clemens, after E. W. Kemble [7] or Justin Page [1]).  Binding: Pictorial self-wrappers.  Condition: Very good. .

Paris: C. Marpon & E. Flammarion (26, rue Racine) [et] Bibliothèque Physiologique (38, boulevard St-Germain), 1884 (colophon 1883)    ¶ Twelve essays on marriage -- (1) La recherche de l'amour sentimental, (2) Le choix de l'époux, (3) La coquetterie morale, (4) La coquetterie physique. (5) Le verbe d'amour conjugal, (6) La maison sans enfants, (7) Les garçons, (8) Les filles, (9) Les amis du mari, (10) Les amies de la femme, (11) Le mari et la religion, (12) Le paradis de l'amour dans la mariage --; together with a Discours préliminaire (pages [7]-13) and a Lexique des "mots spéciaux employés dans le Missel" ([177]-215). The colophon (page [223]) is dated 7 November 1883. Very scarce.   ||| At head of title: Le livre de l'épouse.  Collation: In 8s (123 x 80 mm): 112 leaves, paginated [1-7] 8-221… Read More

London &c, 2002   ¶ Only edition. 212 lots, including the autograph manuscripts of Wagner's Wesendonck Lieder 1858 £534,650 ($841,470) and the autograph libretto for Tristan und Isolde 1857 £204,650 ($322,092). (Sotheby's sale no. L02306, 6 December 2002.)   ||| Collation: 270 x 210 mm: Pp [1-8] 9-182 [183-184].  Illustration: Numerous color and monochrome illustrations and facsimiles.  Binding: Color-pictorial wrappers.  Condition: Fine. Price-list laid in. .

Berkeley (California), 1989     ¶ Only edition of this useful compendium, comprising some 430 facsimiles of the signatures of 334 composers etc, often dated. Scarce.   ||| Collation: In 16 (279 x 214 mm): Sixteen leaves, paginated [1-32] (ie, not paginated). Photo-offset from typescript original.  Illustration: Facsimiles.  Binding: Pictorial wrappers.  Condition: As new.  Reference: OCLC 21853340. .

New York, 2001 ¶ Only edition of this landmark catalogue: "[In] a charged salesroom, the Medical Library of Dr. Meyer Friedman brought an outstanding $5.8 million, double its high estimate of $2.9 million. The combination of provenance, quality and rarity resulted in frenzied bidding on numerous occasions, driving many prices to multiples of their high estimates. The sale was 100% sold, with all of the top ten lots soaring above their high estimates, and all but one shattering their previous record[s] at auction. Highlighting the sale was . . . Harvey's 1628 Exercitatio anatomica de motu cordis, which announced the discovery of the circulation of blood and sold for $748,250, far surpassing a high estimate of $400,000, and establishing a record for this work at auction." (Sotheby's.) Dr Friedman was responsible for the theory of 'type A' behavior and its links to heart disease. 176 lots. (Sale no. 7732.) ||| Collation: 270 x 211 mm: Pp [1-7] 8-154. Illustration: Numerous color and… Read More