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A Pacifist's War
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A Pacifist's War

by PARTRIDGE, Frances (1900-2004)

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London: Hogarth Press, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Impression (no further printings noted) of this war diary, presenting an intimate portrait of life at Ham Spray House. Tall 8vo: 215,[9]pp, with eight pages of plates. Publisher's cinnamon cloth, spine lettered in gilt, wraparound dust jacket illustrated by Angelica Garnett (nèe Bell—Virginia Woolf's niece and Vanessa Bell's daughter) and priced ÂŁ5.95. A very attractive copy, dust-spotted top edge, else Fine in Fine jacket. At the outset of the Second World War, Ralph and Frances Partridge were confirmed pacifists. These extracts from Frances's war diary present a vivid picture of their life in Wiltshire ("where life revolved around conversation, long walks, and complicated love affairs," according the ODNB), a refuge for friends (here depicted in some 20 photographs), including many of their fellow "Bloomsberries," as well as a stream of refugees and the dispossessed. Frances's accounts candidly portray their domestic… Read More
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The Palingenesis of Craps
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The Palingenesis of Craps

by TINKER, Edward Larocque (1881-1968)

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New York: Press of the Woolly Whale, 1933. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. One of 400 copies, only 150 of which were for sale. Crown 8vo (188 x 130mm): [6],8,[2]pp, with line-drawn portrait frontispiece of Bernard Kavier Phillippe de Marigny de Mandeville (1785-1868). Publisher's black cloth-backed gray decorative paper-covered boards, cream paper title label printed in grey to front cover, map end papers (of 1815 New Orleans), text printed in black and lime green on handmade paper. An exemplary example, tightly bound and clean and bright throughout. This brief treatise is dedicated to Bernard Kavier Phillippe de Marigny de Mandeville (1785-1868), a French-Creole American nobleman, playboy, and planter, who was also president of the Louisiana State Senate between 1822 and 1823. When Bernard de Marigny was 15 years old, his father died, and Bernard inherited his father's plantation just east of New Orleans's Vieux CarrĂ©. According to historians, his every whim was indulged while his father was… Read More
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Panic Spring
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Panic Spring

by [DURRELL, Lawrence, writing as:] Charles Norden

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New York: Covici-Friede, 1937. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine-/Fine-. First American Edition of Lawrence Durrell's uncommon second novel, set on an imaginary Greek island reminiscent of Corfu, to which Durrell and his young wife had relocated from England in 1935. Crown 8vo (203 x 129mm): 372pp. Publisher's beige cloth, spine and upper cover lettered in red and stamped with green leaf device, top edge stained green; illustrated dust jacket priced $2.50. About Fine (top edge mildly faded, spine very lightly toned), tightly bound and virtually pristine (lightly read, if at all). About Fine jacket (archivally mended short closed tears to back spine and flap folds), crisp and bright. Potter & Whiting 14. Originally published the same year, by Faber & Faber in London; the publisher suggested the pseudonym, because Durrell's conventionally autobiographical first novel, Pied Piper of Lovers, had been a failure. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition,… Read More
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Panoramic San Francisco, from California Street Hill, 1877; [Photobook] [offered with:] One City...
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Panoramic San Francisco, from California Street Hill, 1877; [Photobook] [offered with:] One City / Two Visions : San Francisco panoramas, 1878 and 1990 [Signed]

by MUYBRIDGE, Eadweard (1830-1904); KLETT, Mark

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San Francisco: Thomas C. Russell [and] Bedford Arts, 1990. Fine. Folding halftone (11 panels) of Eadweard Muybridge's famed 360-degree panoramic view of San Francisco made from the original seventeen-foot-long photograph. With margins, the folding halftone measures 1511 x 171mm and folds into the original red cloth binding lettered in gilt. Offered with the First Printing (so stated), trade issue, of Klett's accordion-fold book revisiting and reinterpreting Muybridge's panoramic view, with essays by Klett and Peter Bacon Hales. Royal 4to (305 x 241mm): 13ff accordion-fold black-and-white plates on card stock, 12pp of text. Bound concertina-style in publisher's pictorial covers (without dust jacket, as issued), saffron-yellow end papers. Signed by Klett on title page. Recto of accordion-fold reproduces the 360-degree mammoth panoramic view taken of San Francisco in 1878 from atop Nob Hill by Muybridge; on verso, same panoramic view taken in 1990 by Klett. In July, 1878, Eadweard Muybridge completed a… Read More
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Paper Airplanes : 1911 and 1973 [Signed]
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Paper Airplanes : 1911 and 1973 [Signed]

by KOELEWYN, Arie

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Philadelphia: The Paper Airplane Press, 1977. Limited Edition. Stiff Wrappers. Fine. No. 13 of 25 copies numbered for sale (there were also 25 copied lettered for private distribution (A-Y) of this scarce pamphlet. Demy 8vo (216 x 141mm): [2],12.[2] pp, including two full-page diagrams and vignette on limitation page. Signed by Koelewyn, who was then a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania. Created on a manual typewriter and reproduced by a quick print shop on ecru handmade, watermarked paper; sewn in original slate blue stiff wrappers with French flaps, title label printed in black to front cover. Slight stains to label, else virtually pristine. First publication of the Paper Airplane Press, founded in Philadelphia, in 1977, when the author was a tour guide at the Rosenbach Museum and Library. The library sparked an interest in book collecting and particularly in small press publications. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition,… Read More
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Papyro-Plastics, or the Art of Modelling in Paper; Being an Instructive Amusement for Young...
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Papyro-Plastics, or the Art of Modelling in Paper; Being an Instructive Amusement for Young Persons of Both Sexes; [offered with:] The Art of Working in Pasteboard, upon Scientific Principles : To which is added, an appendix, containing directions for constructing architectural models: intended as a sequel to Papyro-Plastics, or the Art of Modelling in Paper

by [BLASCHE, Bernhard Heinrich, 1766-1832]; BOILEAU, D. (translates)

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London: Boosey and Sons, 1827. Paper-Covered Boards. Near Fine+. Uncommon English translations of these two works by German educator Bernhard Heinrich Blasche, providing "Instructive Amusement for young persons," calculated to "introduce children to the most common and practical applications of geometry." (Preface) Papyro-Plastics: Second Edition, "greatly enlarged and improved." 16mo (141 x 116mm): xiii,[3],102,[2]pp, with hand-colored engraved frontispiece of castle, 21 further plates (seven folding) and final leaf of publisher's advertisements. Publisher's bluish gray paper-covered boards, original printed pictorial circular label with compass, ruler, and other draftsman's tools and title to front cover. Binding rubbed, lacking front blank (opens to half-title, top corner of which skillfully repaired), frontispiece and several plates lightly spotted, else an excellent survival,e securely bound and clean throughout. Osborne I, p. 224. Pasteboard: First Edition. 16mo (144 x 111mm): 114,[2]pp, with… Read More
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The Passionate North
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The Passionate North

by SANSOM, William (1912-1976)

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London: Hogarth Press, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Impression of one of the author's early collections, of 10 short stories. Small 8vo: viii,250pp. Publisher's tangerine cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge stained deep pink, bottom edge untrimmed; dust jacked, priced 8s/6d. Very Fine and unread. "William Sansom was once described as London's closest equivalent to Franz Kafka. He wrote in hallucinatory detail, bringing every image into pin-sharp focus. . . . He fell from favour, but now there is a movement to rediscover his finest works." (The Independent) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed.
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The Path to the Nest of Spiders
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The Path to the Nest of Spiders

by CALVINO, Italo (1923-1985)

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Boston: Beacon Press, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine-. First Printing (no additional printings noted) of the author's first novel, translated into English by Archibald Colquhoun. 8vo: [6],145,[1]pp. Publisher's coarsely woven sea-green cloth, spine lettered in black, fore-edge untrimmed; illustrated dust jacket priced $3.50. Fine (hint of rubbing to spine ends); about Fine jacket (spine panel very lightly faded and rubbed). First published, in 1947, in Italian (Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno), narrating an episode of the Italian Resistance from a child's point of view. Calvino witnessed the Second World War up close. Mussolini's first military operation was to invade the French Riviera adjacent to San Remo, where the college-bound Italo lived with his parents on the Ligurian coast, home to Calvinos for generations. His university career was interrupted by the collapse of Fascism, in 1943, and the ensuing civil war—the "Resistance"—between the partisans and the Fascist Salò Republic,… Read More
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[Pearl Harbor] [Exenophobia] The Yellow Peril in Action, A Possible Chapter in History. Dedicated...
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[Pearl Harbor] [Exenophobia] The Yellow Peril in Action, A Possible Chapter in History. Dedicated to the men who train and direct the Men behind the Guns

by MANSON, Marsden (1850-1931)

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San Francisco: [Britton & Rey, printers], 1907. First Edition. Wrappers. Fine-. First (and apparently only) Printing of this work of xenophobic fiction. Slim demy 8vo (230 x 154mm): 28pp on coated stock, with folding map titled "Map of the World Showing the three Great Oceans as Units and our Unfortified Military Stations." Original stapled light grey-green paper wrappers printed in black. Cover edges very lightly toned, staples rusted, but an excellent example. "Antiquated military hardware, bureaucratic bungling, labor problems, and foreign-born U.S. resident saboteurs spell defeat for America in a war with China and Japan in 1912. Manson was San Francisco's City Engineer in charge of the water supply. His brief excursion into the world of fiction tells of a crisis precipitated by Asian-American racial animosity, resulting in a declaration of war by China and Japan. Within a few months, Asian forces invade and seize Pearl Harbor and other American bases in the Pacific and blockade the West Coast.… Read More
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The Pedlar's Revenge and Other Stories [DĂ­oltas]
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The Pedlar's Revenge and Other Stories [DĂ­oltas]

by O'FLAHERTY, Liam (1897-1984)

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Dublin: Wolfhound Press, 1976. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Impression of the first English language edition, originally published under the titled DĂ­oltas. 8vo: 222pp. Publisher's mid-brown coarsely woven cloth, spine lettered in gilt, mustard-yellow end papers; dust jacket, illustrated by Jarlath Hayes, priced ÂŁ3.60. Fine (apparently unread), in Fine, crisp jacket. O'Flaherty, a leading figure of the Irish Renaissance. abandoned his training for the priesthood and embarked on a varied career as soldier in World War I, lumberjack, hotel porter, miner, factory worker, dishwasher, bank clerk, and deck hand. In 1925, he scored literary success with one of his first novels, The Informer, about a confused rebel during the Irish War of Independence, which John Ford (O'Flaherty's cousin) adapted into a movie that was nominated for an Academy Award. Some of O'Flaherty's best short stories, including those in The Pedlar's Revenge, appeared first in Irish-language versions. N. B. With few exceptions (always… Read More
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Peter Bell, A Tale in Verse [Wm. Rossetti's Copy, Signed]
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Peter Bell, A Tale in Verse [Wm. Rossetti's Copy, Signed]

by WORDSWORTH, William (1770-1850)

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London: Printed by Strahan and Spottiswoode, Printers-Street | For Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orne, and Brown, Paternoster-Row, 1819. So-called "Second Edition," but largely a reprinting from standing type of the first edition, with first gathering reset and advertisement added to half title verso. Demy 8vo (222 x 135mm): viii,88,[4]pp, complete with half-title, engraved frontispiece by J. C. Bromley (after a painting by Sir George Beaumont), and four pages of terminal advertisements, for Chalmers's County Biography and Watts's Bibliotheca Britannica (many copies lack both half-title and ads; Read notes these ads, says others also may be present). Original drab (light greyish brown) wrappers lined with white paper, printed paper spine label (partly perished); on front wrapper, possibly in Rossetti's hand, "Peter Bell / by / Wm Wordsworth / 1819." William Michael Rossetti's copy inscribed on half-title: "To / WM Rossetti / from / J. Deffett Francis," with "1876" added in another hand. And in Rossetti's… Read More
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Phantom Flowers. A Treatise on the Art of Producing Skeleton Leaves
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Phantom Flowers. A Treatise on the Art of Producing Skeleton Leaves

by [ANONYMOUS]; [TILTON, J. E., publisher]

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Boston: J. E. Tilton and Company, 1864. Decorative Cloth. Fine-. First Edition under this title (see below) of this early work on a fashionable Victorian pastime. 8vo (191 x 119mm): 96pp, with six tissue-guarded plates, head pieces, and historiated initials. Original dark green ribbed and beveled cloth, covers paneled in blind, gilt vignettes to spine and front cover, chocolate brown end papers, illustrated title page. Gift inscription to Mary D. Ballou (perhaps the Rhode Island suffrage pioneer), dated 1865 and her manuscript ex-libris in elegant script, with "Providence," to front fly leaf. Slight scuff to cover vignette,else tightly bound and virtually pristine (tissue guards lightly foxed but plates generally bright), with interesting provenance. First published in Philadelphia, in 1863, by Edward Parrish, under the title Phantom Bouquet : Skeletonizing Leaves and Seed Vessels. Producing skeleton leaves involved removing chlorophyll from leaves to create intricate designs in imitation of those… Read More
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A Philosophical Treatise of Husbandry and Gardening : being a new method of cultivating and...
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London: printed for P. Vaillant in the Strand, and W. Mears and F. Clay without Temple-Bar, 1721. Half-Calf. Fine. First Edition in English of the "first treatise on cuttings and graftings." (Hunt) Demy 4to (276 x 214mm): [24],300,[4]pp, with 31 (i.e. 33: in the numbering of plates, XXIII and XXVIII are repeated) engraved plates inserted on 22 sheets (some folding); head- and tail-pieces and historiated initials. Recent half calf over marbled boards, spine in sic compartments divided by gilt-ruled raised bands, small gilt ornaments, red morocco lettering piece gilt, title page printed in red and black, end papers renewed. An excellent example, beautifully bound to period style, generally fresh and bright (occasional light spotting and dust-soiling), with excellent impressions of the plates. Henrey II, 443-46 and III, 411. Hunt II, 452. First published in two volumes in German ("High-Dutch"), in 1716, as Neu-und nie erhörter doch in der Natur und Vernunfft wohlgegrĂĽndeter Versuch der Universal-… Read More
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[Photobook] Photographic Views of Warwickshire
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[Photobook] Photographic Views of Warwickshire

by BEDFORD, Francis (1815/1816-1894)

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Chester: Catherall & Pritchard, Eastgate Row, 1865. Morocco. Near Fine+. A fine album of views by one of the preeminent nineteenth century photographers. Oblong royal 8vo (180 Ă— 249mm): 16 interleaved albumen photographs from collodion negatives, each mounted on card with gilt fillet border and title printed in brown. Original green cloth, upper cover blocked and lettered in gilt, cream moirĂ© end papers, title page printed in red and black. Including views of Warwick Castle, Guy's Cliff, Kenilworth Castle, Stoneleigh Abbey, and Stratford-upon-Avon (including Shakespeare's house). Scattered light foxing to some plate mounts, but plates completely unaffected. A tightly bound, exemplary example. Between 1865 and 1875, Catherall & Pritchard brought out thirteen oblong albums of Bedford's prints, including Photographic Views of Warwickshire, which came in both morocco and cloth, permitting the buyer to specify the number of prints to be bound, the usual numbers being 16, 20, 24 or 30. The Getty copy… Read More
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[Photobook] [Field Guide] The Birds of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire: a Contribution to the...
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[Photobook] [Field Guide] The Birds of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire: a Contribution to the Natural History of the Two Counties

by KENNEDY, Alexander W. M. Clark (1851-1894)

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Eton / London: Ingalton and Drake / Simpkin, Marshall, 1868. Decorative Cloth. Fine. First Edition of apparently the first field guide to birds to use photographs as illustrations. 8vo: xiv,[2],232pp, with four hand-colored and varnished albumen photographs of stuffed birds mounted on heavy card stock. ("It was impossible at the time to photograph live birds due to the absence of the telephoto lens and extremely sensitive plates that would permit short exposures." Goldschmidt & Naef) Publisher's forest-green pebble-grained cloth, spine and upper cover with bird vignettes in gilt, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, chocolate coated end papers. A Fine, tight, square copy, clean, crisp text, the photographs vibrant, with deep, rich colors. Provenance: Book plate of Henry Neville Gladstone (third son of Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone). Binder's ticket of James Burn & Co., Kirby St., to rear paste-down. Gernsheim 436. Truthful Lens 96. Margolis & Moss 24. The author was only age 16 when he… Read More
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[Photobook] The English at Home
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[Photobook] The English at Home

by BRANDT, Bill (1904-1983)

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London: B. T. Batsford Ltd, 1936. First Edition. Pictorial Boards. Fine-. First Printing (so stated) of the photographer's first book, introduced by Raymond Mortimer. Royal 8vo (235 x 180 mm): 8pp, with 63 full-page captioned gravure plates by Brandt. Publisher's glazed photographically illustrated boards, spine and upper cover lettered in red, photographic end papers. Wanting the rare unprinted acetate dust jacket. Spine and covers lightly toned, else a clean, bright, firmly bound copy. Roth (101), p. 90. Roth (Open Book), pp. 122-23. Parr & Badger I, p. 138. Auer, p. 230. Brandt's first foray into print, contrasting the English social classes and panning between urban and rural milieus, with the photographer showing himself "not only to be an artist but an anthropologist. He seems to have wandered about England with the detached curiosity of a man investigating the customs of some remote and unfamiliar tribe." (from the Introduction) Most of the photographs appeared here for the first time. The… Read More
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[Photobook] BerĂĽhmte Zeitgenossen in unbewachten Augenblicken [Celebrated Contemporaries in...
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[Photobook] BerĂĽhmte Zeitgenossen in unbewachten Augenblicken [Celebrated Contemporaries in Unguarded Moments]

by SALOMON, Erich (1886-1944)

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Stuttgart: J. Engelhorns Nachf, 1931. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Fine. First Printing of this pioneering photobook by one of the originators of photojournalism. Tall 8vo (250 x 185 mm): 46,[1]pp, with 116 full- and half-page plates with picture legends in German, English, French, and Italian on versos. Original French blue cloth, upper cover and spine stamped in gilt, without the photo-illustrated dust jacket. Edges very lightly spotted, else a Fine firmly bound copy, clean and bright throughout. Roth (101), pp. 74-75. Roth (Open Book), pp. 104-105. Parr & Badger I, p. 131. Auer, p. 166. Fotografia Publica 519. Candid black-and-white photographs of statesmen, scientists, painters, writers, and conductors (William Randolph Hearst playing solitaire at San Simeon, Albert Einstein listening to a Reichstag speech, Benito Mussolini conferring with German statesmen in Rome), caught in unguarded moments, yawning, dozing, slouching. In 1928, Salomon "began to use the miraculous new Ermanox camera with… Read More
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[Photobook] 24 Choice Photogravure Views of Bombay [Mumbai]
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[Photobook] 24 Choice Photogravure Views of Bombay [Mumbai]

by [THACKER & Co Ltd]

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Bombay: Thacker & Co Ltd, 1914. Stiff Wrappers. Fine-. Scarce album of original photographs of Bombay locales from the dawn of the twentieth century. Oblong crown 8vo (148 x 195mm): [48]pp, with 24 postcard-sized photographs, each titled to lower margin and mounted on heavy brown stock to obverse of each leaf. Publisher's stiff deep beige card covers decorated and lettered in dark brown, string-tied with original cord. Printed in England, with "British Manufacture throughout. E. W. Savory Ltd., Bristol" stamped to back cover. Trivial wear to covers, else a superior copy, the photogravures completely unfaded and virtually pristine. The images include: Richard Temple's Statue and High Court, The Victoria Terminus, General Post Office, B B & C I Railway Offices, Taj Mahal Hotel, Hotel Majestic and Waterloo Mansions, The Cuffe Parade, Malabar Hill from Chowpatty Sands, Queen's Statue and Esplanade Road, Princes and Victoria Docks, Victoria Gardens, The Royal Bombay Yacht Club, Back Bay from Malabar… Read More
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[Photobook] Schonheit im Olympischen Kampf [Beauty in the Olympic Games]
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[Photobook] Schonheit im Olympischen Kampf [Beauty in the Olympic Games]

by RIEFENSTAHL, Leni (1902-2003)

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Berlin: Im Deutschen Verlag, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine+. First Printing of Riefenstahl's "lavish," controversial photobook, a "masterpiece of the propagandist's art." (Parr & Badger) Royal 8vo (309 x 234mm): 282,[2]pp, complete with 273 full-page gravure plates captioned in German, French, English, Spanish, and Italian. Publisher's burnt orange coarsely woven cloth, spine and upper cover stamped in gold, photographically illustrated white dust jacket printed in black and orange and unpriced (as issued). About Fine (bruise to upper right corner with resultant creases to tips of page corners, trivial flaking to spine gold); very minor professional restoration to jacket edge wear and gentle soiling to back panel. An excellent example, tightly bound and clean throughout with bright renditions of the plates. Without the extremely rare original glassine (almost always wanting). Auer, p. 255. Parr & Badger I, p.151. Roth (101 Books), p. 96-97. Most of the images are stills taken during… Read More
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[Photobook] Transformation: or, The Romance of Monte Beni [The Marble Faun]
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[Photobook] Transformation: or, The Romance of Monte Beni [The Marble Faun]

by HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel (1804-1864)

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Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1860. First Edition thus. Vellum. Fine. First Tauchnitz Edition (Todd & Bowden's fourth setting, impression Db), "copyright edition" on title page, of Hawthorne's Italian romance cum travel guide. Two volumes in one, thick foolscap 8vo (155 x 107mm): xii,292; vi,280,[2]pp, with 24 mounted period photographs of Roman monuments, statuary, buildings, and street scenes. Contemporary Florentine vellum, spine decorated and titled ("The Marble Faun") in gilt, upper cover paneled and titled ("Roma") in gilt, marbled end papers, edges stained red. Tightly bound and clean throughout, a virtually pristine example, aside from slight waviness to margins of inserted leaves with photographs, which are printed on heavy coated stock. (The photographs were sold to the tourist trade and inserted by Italian binders into copies, most, as here, with half-titles removed.) Todd & Bowden 515Db & 516Db ("the Tauchnitz book most often found extensively extra-illustrated with photographs and found… Read More
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