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Mathematisches Worterbuch, oder Erklarung der Begriffe, Lehrsatze, Aufgaben und Methoden der Mathematik ... [Complete, 7 volumes in 8]
First Edition
First edition (first printing). Very good or better in contemporary cloth and decorated paper bindings; old gymnasium library stamp on each title page; some paper adhesions to the covers of a few volumes, but a remarkably well-preserved set.
Book ID: 206707More details Price: $500.00 -
A Supplementary Catalogue of Sanskrit, Pali and Prakit Books in the Library of the British Museum Acquired During the Years 1892-1906; 1906-1928. (2 Volume Set)
First Edition
London: British Museum, 1908; 1928. 2 Volumes: 1095, 1694 pages. ISBN: 281AIB1048836.
First editions (first printings). Near fine copies in original green cloth with bright gilt lining and lettering on spine. Spine edges are rolled. Black endpapers. Pages edges to 1906 volume have mild foxing. A handsome set.
Book ID: 264156More details Price: $500.00 -
A Generous Man [Uncorrected Proof]
New York: Atheneum, 1966. About 300 leaves, printed on one side (rectos) only. A very uncommon proof, presumably issued in very small numbers. This is not the frequently seen advance reading copy. ISBN: 281AIB1034944.
Uncorrected proof, plastic-comb bound in blue cardstock covers with an applied label. A trifle soiled, but still very good to near fine. Laid in is a single sheet titled "An Autobiographical Sketch of Reynolds Price Whose New Novel 'A Generous Man,' Will Be Published on March 25." Arguably, this short essay is Price's scarcest separate publication.
Book ID: 162831More details Price: $437.50 -
Collection of Book-Arts Inspired Christmas Cards
Most cards fine; a few with bent corners. Most are signed by the artist, but some are unidentified. This collection came from the estate of one of the founding members of the organization.
Book ID: 179216More details Price: $437.50 -
Hawai'i One Summer: 1978 [Deluxe Edition]
First Edition
San Francisco: Meadow Press, 1987. 52 pages. 9-1/2 by 12-1/2inches. An autobiographical story of a summer spent in Hawai'i. Illustrated with color woodcuts by Deng Ming-Dao. Printed by Leigh McLellan on Korean Kozo papers. One of 75 deluxe copies specially bound by the printer and signed by the author, the artist, and the printer. There were also 75 case bound copies. ISBN: 281AIB1044024.
First edition (first printing). A fine hardcover copy; no dust jacket, as issued. In a fine original slipcase. Signed by the author, artist, and printer on the limitation pages.
Book ID: 223304More details Price: $400.00 -
M. Fabii Quinctiliani, ut Ferunt Declamationes XIX majores, et Quae ex CCCLXXXVIII SupersuntCXLV Minores. et Calpurnii lacci Declamationes. cum Notis Doctorum Virorum; Curant Petro Burmanno.
First Edition
Lugduni Batavorum: Apud Joannem de Vivie, 1720. {4} 838 {132} pages. Edited by the great classical scholar Pieter Berman, the 19 major Declamations and selected minor ones are heavily annotated (approximately half of each page is notes), and occupy the first 790 pages. Calpurnius Flaccus takes up the next 46 pages, followed by the extensive index. Some have questioned the authorship of the Declamations, but apparently Berman felt they were Quintilian's. ISBN: 281AIB1047610.
First edition (first printing). A very good copy in green-stained vellum. Title page in red and black, with printer's device.. The first few pages have some mends and an unsuccerssful attempt to erase some later writing in ink.
Book ID: 262203More details Price: $400.00 -
Noticia de la California y de su conquista temporal y espiritual hasta el tiempo presente. Sacada de la historia manuscrita, formada en Mexico ano de 1739 [3 volumes]
Mexico: L. Alvarez y Alvarez de la Cadena [Editorial Layac], 1943-1944. Three volumes. 169, 348, 255 pages, plus six folding maps (2 in vol. 2 and 4 in volume 3). A reprint of the 1757 original, newly typeset with decorative chapter headings. Volume 3 includes texts by Andres Marcos Burriel, Sebastian Vizcaino, and Ferdinand Konsag, as did the original. An attractive and scarce reprint of a hard-to-obtain Zamorano 80 title (no. 78), published during the Second World War, with maps not included in the original. The book mostly relates to Baja California. ISBN: 281AIB1030883.
Spotting to spine of volume two; one map with a tear in the margin, repaired on the verso (back) with tape. A nice set, seldom encountered. [JSP01]
Book ID: 139981More details Price: $400.00 -
A Severed Head: A Play in Three Acts [Original Playscript]
Bradbound into paper covers, die cut to reveal the title. Very good; wrappers a bit worn at the corners.
Book ID: 207352More details Price: $400.00 -
August Snow: A Play
First Edition
(N.-pl.): (n.p.), 1985. 65 pages. 8-1/2 by 11 inches. A typed script printed recto (front side) only. The script was published six years later in Dramatist Play Service series. ISBN: 281AIB1040941.
First edition (first printing). Very good in red wrappers (paperback) with velo binding. Some fading and creasing to covers. Inscribed by Price to his typist Dorothy Roberts ("Dot"): "Still working! With long good years of love & thanks & hope." An ALS to Dot from a co-worker laid in reports news of Price's health. Also laid in is a program from a performance of the play at Berkeley Plantation.
Book ID: 206701More details Price: $400.00 -
The Villa Farnesina in Rome (Marabilia Italiae)
First Edition
Modena: Franco Cosimo Panini, 2003. 230 pages in text volume; 291 pages in plate volume. Housed in beautiful cloth covered box with silk ribbon. Text volume is in Italian. Plate volume has text and plate descriptions in Italian and English. ISBN: 9788882900083.
First edition (first printing). Near fine copies in black coth covers with bright gold lettering and illustrations. Blindstamp of prior owner on last page in text volume. Housed in near fine cloth covered slipcase with very slight surface wear.
Book ID: 262756More details Price: $400.00 -
The Future is Ours, Comrade: Conversations with the Russians
First Edition
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1960. 286 pages. The author's first book. A look at everyday life in the Soviet Union. Introduction by Irving R. Levine. ISBN: B000N7FXVG.
First edition (first printing). A bit of edge wear, and top of page block toned, thus near fine. In a dust jacket with light wear to spine ends, else near fine. Review copy with publisher's review slip laid in. Inscribed on the front free endpaper by the author in 1974 to the previous owner and signed both as "Jerzy" and "Joseph Novak." [JSP01]
Book ID: 177061More details Price: $400.00 -
The Texas Arts Journal, Number One: The Manuscript Edition
First Edition
Dallas: Texas Arts Journal, 1977. 109 pages. 8-3/8 by 10-7/8 inches. Contains Updike's libretto for a Grimm-inspired children's opera, The Fisherman and His Wife. Limited to 22 copies, with a page of the original typescript signed by Updike laid-in to a folder labeled with limitation details. The opera premiered at the Opera Company of Boston in 1970, with score by Gunther Schuller. ISBN: B002WAITHM.
First edition (first printing). Small snag to cover edge, thus a near fine copy; labeled folder and signed typescript page fine (page 28). A photocopied letter from Updike laid-in explains: "I talked Knopf into letting me make it a children's book in format like other opera plots...But when I settled to the task it appeared to me I should spare bookbuyer[s] and booksellers one more volume to deal with." Enclosed in publisher's slipcase with paper label stating edition details. [JSP01]
Book ID: 191182More details Price: $400.00 -
The Man Who Murdered Goliath
First Edition
New York: William Morrow & Co, 1938. 274 pages. Daniel Mainwaring (1902-1977) writing as Homes wrote a series of mystery novels before going on to a career as Hollywood screenwriter for films including The Big Steal, This Woman is Dangerous (starring Joan Crawford) and the original version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. ISBN: 281AIB1050609.
First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in black cloth with yellow lettering. Edge wear along lower spine. Some tanning in gutters. In a dust jacket with light fading to the spine and some loss at the head not affecting text, tear to the flap fold and a 2-inch tear at top of front edge.
Book ID: 267225More details Price: $400.00 -
Bibliography of the Grabhorn Press 1957-1966 & Grabhorn-Hoyem 1966-1973. [With a check-list 1916-1956 and a Complete Specimen of Types].
San Francisco: John Howell Books, 1977. ISBN: B000SVQIB6.
Very Good
Book ID: 49506More details Price: $400.00 -
Why I Live Where I Live
First Edition
University City, MO: Contre Coup Press, 1983. 8 leaves (2 blank). An essay that first appeared in Esquire, published in an edition of just 30 copies. Undoubtedly Elkins toughest book, especially considering that 9 copies are recorded in libraries (WorldCat). ISBN: 281AIB1037164.
First edition (first printing). A fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Signed by the printer on the colophon and while not called for, by Elkin on the title page. [JSP01]
Book ID: 182819More details Price: $400.00 -
I've Found the Job Where I Fit Best. Find Your War Job in Industry - Agriculture - Business
Washington, DC: Office of War Information, 1943. 22-1/4 by 16 inches. OWI Poster no. 55. Poster depicting a woman in a headscarf and uniform operates a machine, perhaps a lathe. Despite the vast number of posters issued by government agencies during the Second World War, this is one of the few depicting women doing traditionally male jobs, like manufacturing. Not much has been written about the artist, but he produced many magazine and advertising illustrations. ISBN: 281AIB1017649.
Small bit of loss to one corner, else a fine, bright example. Folded twice, for mailing, as issued. Laid down on a stiff, archival paper backing. [JSP02; JSP04]
Book ID: 78833More details Price: $400.00 -
Americana
First Edition
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1971. 388 pages. A novel; the author's first book. ISBN: 9780395120941.
First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Some uneven fading and spotting to top of page block. Jacket lightly toned on the spine and spotted on the verso, else near fine. A very nice copy of an acclaimed author's first book.
Book ID: 197840More details Price: $400.00 -
The Real Thing [Lettered Edition]
First Edition
New York: Ultramarine Publishing, 1992. 214 pages. Sketches of London, published in the UK as London Observed. This is one of 12 lettered copies, signed by the author and bound in full brown leather. Bound by Denis Gouey. This edition uses the sheets from the first US edition, published by HarperCollins. There were also 38 numbered copies in this edition. ISBN: 281AIB1033292.
First edition (first printing). A fine copy but for slight wear at the corners. Signed by the author. [JSP01]
Book ID: 150834More details Price: $400.00 -
Din literatura poporana a aromanilor: Volumul 1
First Edition
(N-pl. but perhaps Bucharest?): (the author?), 1900. xxiii, 1055 pages. Papahagi, according to Wikipedia (I know, I know) was "an acknowledged authority on the life and languages of the Romance-speaking peoples from south of the Danube, the Aromanians and Megleno-Romanians; he wrote several foundational texts on the subject that are classic models of sociological and folkloristic monographs" including Din literatura poporana a aromanilor. OCLC locates one copy, in Romania. ISBN: 281AIB1039626.
First edition (first printing). Very good in a twentieth-century cloth binding. Rare hinge repair with Japanese tissue. Rare.
Book ID: 200930More details Price: $400.00 -
California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State
First Edition
Clovis, California: Word Dancer Press, (1998). 1676 pages. ISBN: 9781884995149.
First edition (first printing). Near fine copy in illustrated covers. No dust jacket.
Book ID: 260886More details Price: $400.00