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MAINDRON Maurice :
Saint-Cendre *
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Kra, Paris 1929. Relié plein parchemin 27 x 21, dos titré et décoré main à la gouache, tête dorée, étui bordé, couverture et dos conservés. 1/15 exemplaires de tête numérotés sur Japon Impérial, avec suite et dessin original signé. Nom sur feuillet liminaire. 21 eaux-fortes originales couleur de J.-P.Carré, répétées dans la suite en noir, tirées par Coupart à Paris. Un illustré un brin coquin, avec en aquarelle originale une variante de l’eau-forte peut-être la plus audacieuse, celle figurant en regard de la page 236 et représentant un homme au lit entre deux femmes. Spécimen (de l’ouvrage) joint.
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Horace T Barnaby, Illustrated by Fern Bisel Peat
THE TALE OF THE LONG EARED BAT
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Saalfield Publishing Company, Akron 1929 - Some edgewear, corners rubbed, previous owner inscription dating 1939 on front endpaper, 2 small christmas stickers on front endpaper, some finger smudges on front endpaper, else very good. Binding is strong, pages are clean and complete. Illustrations are bright. The dust jacket is quite chipped and edgeworn, taped tears, tape mostly visible from the reverse side. It is mostly complete though. In a new mylar cover. Very scarce! ; 8.75X11. Illustrated by Fern Bisel Peat. [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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Remarque, Erich Maria
All Quiet On The Western Front
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Boston: Little, Brown & Co.. 1929. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. Stated First Printing. c.1929. Published June, 1929. Hardcover. Gray cloth. 12mo. 291pp. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket. Light shelfwear, light soil to edges. Moderate wear to dustjacket, chipping with some loss to spine-ends and corners, moderate soiling. Former owner's signature on flyleaf otherwise contents clean and unmarked. FREE DOMESTIC MEDIA SHIPPING FOR ITEMS OVER $30.
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Rackham.- - Goldsmith, Oliver:
The Vicar of Wakefield.
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- London and Bombay and Sydney, George G. Harrap, 1929. 4°. 231 (1) pp. With 12 mounted illustrations in colour and 22 text illustrations by Arthur Rackham. White vellum with gold lettering on the cover and spine and gilt top (spotted and slightly dusty). Hudson p. 171. - Riall p. 170. - Briggs p. 65. - Copy no. 288 signed by Arthur Rackham. This edition is limited to 575 copies for England and 200 copies for the United States (there are also editions with binding in dark blue cloth [unsigned] and in Persian Morocco). - Here and there slightly foxed. - Englische Literatur / English literature; Illustrierte Literatur + Kunst / Illustrated literature + Artbooks; Literatur / Literature; Nummerierte o. limitierte Ausgabe - Pressendrucke / Numbered or limited edition; Signiertes Exemplar / Signed copy [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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AA. VV.
REVUE AFRICAINE. Annata completa 1929 (i nn. trim. 338-340) + 1930 (i primi 2 trim., nn. 342-343).
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Carbonel impr.-éd., Alger - 6 trim. consecutivi rilegati in 3 VOLL. in 8° (23,7x15,7). Mz. tela coeva e oro, bella carta decorata ai piatti. 1929: pp. 404 + 60 ILLUSTRAZ. in TAVV. f.t. b.n., tra cui 36 scene di battaglie della conquista franc. d'Algeria, di vari pittori; 16 ill. e facs. (alc. ripieg.) sugli esordi di giornalismo e stampa in Algeria (Estafette de Sidiu-Ferruch); antica fabbricaz. dell'olio, ecc. 1930: pp. 206 + 26 ill. in TAVV. f.t. (gusto esotico della pittura dopo la conquista di Algeri; viaggio di Domingo BADIA 1815-18, colonizz., gli Almohadi del Maghreb, il porto minerario di Bona ecc.). L'annata completa 1929, € 90. Il sem. 1930, € 40; i 3 voll.
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Marshall, Fred F
Airway Age: Including the Slipstream, Aerial Age, Aeronautics, Flying and International Aeronautics. Volumes 10 through 13
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NY: Simmons-Boardman Publishing Co., 1929-1931. volumes 10#1 thru 13#14, an uninterrupted run, bound in five parts, quartos, illustrated, ex library, good-very good. PRICE IS FOR THE LOT: ** The price of this item has been TEMPORARILY REDUCED by 20% until Sunday, November 15. Order now for BEST SAVINGS! **
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Airway Age: Including the Slipstream, Aerial Age, Aeronautics, Flying and International Aeronautics. Volumes 10 through 13
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volumes 10#1 thru 13#14, an uninterrupted run, bound in five parts, quartos, illustrated, ex library, good-very good. PRICE IS FOR THE LOT: ** The price of this item has been TEMPORARILY REDUCED by 20% until Sunday, November 15. Order now for BEST SAVINGS! **
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Marshall, Fred F.
Airway Age: Including the Slipstream, Aerial Age, Aeronautics, Flying and International Aeronautics. Volumes 10 Through 13
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1929-1931. *Helping and promoting global literacy since 1961* volumes 10#1 thru 13#14, an uninterrupted run, bound in five parts, quartos, illustrated, ex library, good-very good. PRICE IS FOR THE LOT:
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TRAVERS, J. WADSWORTH
HISTORY OF BEAUTIFUL PALM BEACH
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. Fair. No dust jacket. 146 p. Includes: illustrations, diagrams. HARDDOVER, FULL CLOTH COVER, THE COLOR OF A DARK GRAY. Book is tight front and back, but shows staples. This book was privately published by J. Wadsworth Travers in 1929 and that dates appears on the first page. There is NO title page on this book, Since the title was printed on the cloth cover, I guess they decided not to reprint it. However the author self published the book. There is also a note appearing in center of that first page of his (THEN) Address in Palm Coast and a price of $3.00 for additional copies. Note the date...this was right before the Crash of Wall Street. A frontiispiece of Mr. & Mrs. Travers on first page. then the foreword in a 2-column page. He starts the book on the left hand side of the next page, page 4, entitled History of Beautiful Palm Beach., all text is in 2-column. The rich and famous at its ver best here with full page photographs of people like Madame Louise Homer (World Famous Centralto), and Mrs. Frank Vance Storrs. The photos are of the elite and the beauiful buildings and he must have known all of them, because there are photos of everyone who was anyone (I guess) during that time. The inside pages are done in quality photographic paper and remain still clean and white even now. almost 90 years later. He highlights each person and has a bio-sketch such as Architect John L. Volk. However Col. R. R. Bradley gets a full standing photograph plus the bio. Full page photos of the beautifiul homes which I would think many might still be standing today. A wondeful city still. Condition of full cloth cover book is frayed on the corners and top/bottom finger pulls of the spine which is just over 1/2" thick, sized at 6x9", a regular sized book. In 1975 the previous owner wrote his name in front endpaper. Book will be insured for you and mailed priority with signature return at booksellers expense.
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HUSZAR VILMOS (Budapest 1884 - Hierden 1960): AA.VV.
Ruimte. Jaarboek van Nederlandsche Ambachts & Nijverheidskunst
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W. L. & J. Brusse's Uitgeverssmaatschappij N. V., Rotterdam 1929 - copertina a colori e impaginazione di Vilmos Huszar. 1 tavola colori f.t., 12 illustrazioni a colori e 127 b.n. con opere di P. Bromberg, C. Alons, J. Limburg, J.W.E. Buys, G. Rietveld (mobili per la casa e l'ufficio, arredamenti), H. A. Van Anrooy, H. Wouda, L. C. Kalff, H. Th. Wijedeveld, T. Van Doesburg, (architetture e ambienti) Jaap Gidding, A. M. Van der Plas (tappeti e tessuti), C. Ehrlich (servizi da tavola in argento), J. Jongert, J.D. Ros, A.F. Küpper, V. Huszar, Piet Zwart (tavole pubblicitarie e affiche) e molti altri. Prima edizione. Formato in centrimetri 25,5x19,5 193-(5)pagine [Attributes: Soft Cover]
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LAWRENCE, D.H.
LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER
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Florence, Privately Printed, 1929 - "Third Edition".8vo. 364pp Limited Edition of 500 numbered copies (this no. 266) Soft brick cloth. Covers blank other than small phoenix logo in upper corner of front cover. An occassional hint of foxing. Spine cocked. A very good copy. [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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Freud, Sigmund, Mediziner und Begründer der Psychoanalyse (1856-1939).
Eigenh. Brief mit U. ("Freud").
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Wien, 12. V. 1929. - 1 S. 8vo. Mit eh. adr. Kuvert An den Wiener Baurat Oscar Prinz, betreffend George Bernard Shaws Historiendrama "Caesar und Cleopatra": "Von Shaw, der die Psychoanalyse nicht kennt und nicht schätzt, ist wol [!] nichts anderes als die oberflächlichste Auffassung einer Fehlleistung vorauszusetzen. Sein Caesar vergißt an den Abschied von Cleopatra gewiß nur aus Geringschätzung. Die von Ihnen angenommene Lieblosigkeit der Cleopatra gegen Caesar widerspricht der historischen Wahrheit nicht weniger als die von Shaw erfundene Beichte Caesars [.]".
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Hodkin, F. W. / Cousen, A.
A Textbook of Glass Technology
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D. Van Nostrand Company, New York 1929 - This book has been bound in a deep blue with gilt lettering on the spine. The corner's have some bumping, mostly bottom. Some edge wear as well, no board showing. Light wear at head and foot of the spine. Date stamp on upper corners of front end papers, otherwise unmarked. Text is clean and solid in binding. Minor spotting on the edges of the text block. There is no cocking of the binding. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs, charts, diagrams. Also ten foldout tissue diagrams. A very nice, clean copy. [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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FRANKFORT H., GARIS DAVIES N. de, GLANVILLE S. R. K., WHITTEMORE T.
THE MURAL PAINTING OF EL-AMARNEH.
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London, The Egypt Exploration Society, 1929. 35,5x46 cm. In-folio orné de 21 planches dont 8 en couleurs. 74 pages de texte consacré aux exceptionnelles peintures murales égyptiennes d'El-Amarneh, à décors de plantes aquatiques et d'oiseaux du Nil. Reliure de l'éditeur en demi-toile beige à larges coins. Plats recouverts de papier de couleur assortie. Titre en lettres dorées sur le premier plat et le dos. Petites taches sans gravité sur le premier plat et volume légèrement plié dans le sens de la hauteur du fait d'un mauvais stockage, cependant intérieur propre et en excellent état.
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bragg
LITTLE ENGINE THAT COULD
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LITTLE ENGINE THAT COULD. Chic.: Bookhouse for Children 1929. 2 1/8" wide x 2 1/2", Green leatherette embossed with a scene from the poem, (also includes 2 poems and a Christmas song), Fine. Originally written by Mabel C. Bragg, this version bears no mention of her name. Illustrated with numerous partial page color illustrations by an unknown hand. The now classic tale of the little train that did the impossible, best known from the Platt and Munk Watty Piper edition of 1930 with illustrations by Lenski. The little book offered here predates the Platt and Munk edition, and has different text and different illustrations. It was issued as a Christmas book by the publisher's of the Bookhouse for Children who did not sell their books in stores but through door to door sales. However, there is some controversay attached to the origins of the story which may have begun as an oral folk tale. John Tebbel (Hist. of Pub. in the U.S. v.4 p.476) writes: "Another firm with a single title successful enough to carry it for awhile, even if no other help had been available, was Platt & Munk, with its The Little Engine that Could, a story whose origins became a matter of dispute in 1955. Although the house had copyrighted its version of the tale in 1930 and published it under the house pseudonym of Watty Piper, subsequently selling more than 1 million copies, the claim was made that the story was first written and published by Mrs. Frances M. Ford, of Drexel, Pennsylvania, who was 102 years old in 1956. First titled "The Little Switch Engine," it was said, the story first appeared in a newsletter of the After School Club of America on April 18, 1912. Platt & Munk offered a $1,000 award to anyone who could offer proof of authorship, discounting the Ford claim that was made through the efforts of her niece, Mrs. Elizabeth McKinney Chmeil, of Tucson, Arizona, but the results were indecisive, although the award was split among three people. It was determined only that the basic story had been told and retold under different titles, that it had appeared in print before 1911, and many have originated in Europe before the turn of the century. According to Mrs. Chmeil, it was probably used by Mrs. Ford in lectures given during the eighties and nineties."
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Hammett, Dashiell
The Dain Curse
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. First edition. 8vo. [viii], 272 pp. Original yellow cloth, stamped in red and black, with skull and crossbones on front board. Very good (spine a bit dull, front inner hinge cracked at half title). Provenance: Joseph Shaw (no ownership marks). Layman A2.1.a . Joseph "Cap" Shaw, editor of Black Mask, published the short stories that launched Hammett's career. Hammett's writing caught the eye of Blanche Knopf, and her husband, Alfred A. Knopf published his novels, beginning with Red Harvest (1929), which was first serialized in Black Mask and dedicated to Shaw. The Dain Curse was Hammett's second novel. A potent literary association
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"GIDE, André;"
L'Ecole des femmes.
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Paris, Gallimard, 1929 In-12 de 171 pp., (2) ff., maroquin bleu janséniste, dos à nerfs, doublures de maroquin bleu, gardes de tabis jaune, tranches dorées sur témoins, couvertures et dos conservés, étui bordé (Jacotte Souchière-Cabot). "Edition originale. Un des 547 exemplaires sur Hollande van Gelder dont 47 hors commerce. Un de ceux-ci. Envoi autographe signé sur le faux-titre : ""à Jacques-Emile Blanche, son silencieux mais bien fidèle ami André Gide"". Le peintre Jacques-Emile Blanche (1861 - 1942), fils du fameux alièniste, a laissé des portraits célèbres de Proust, Morand, Joyce, Stravinsky ou Gide. Ce dernier l'avait rencontré en 1890 chez la princesse Ouroussoff, et posa pour lui en 1892. Très bel exemplaire en reliure doublée."
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MOTTRAM, R. H., John EASTON & Eric PARTRIDGE
Three Personal Records of the War
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London: Scholartis Press, 1929. First edition of this anthology, which includes Mottram's "A Personal Record", Easton's "Broadchalk, A Chronicle, and Partridge's "Frank Honywood, Private." The book is inscribed on the front free endpaper: "Signed for Mr Harold Kamp by Ralph H. Mottram, John Easton, Eric Partridge", the first part of the inscription being in Mottram's hand, with Easton's and Partridge's signatures below it. With two holograph letters from Eric Partridge, the publisher, to the recipient, concerning other books published by the Scholartis Press. Front cover creased, a few corners bumped, a touch of wear at the extremities of the dust jacket, otherwise a fine copy, enclosed in a cloth slipcase. 8vo, original black cloth, dust jacket. .
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Birnbaum, Uriel
Die Uhr, Eine Gedichtfolge Inscribed W Handwritten Poem
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Vienna: Verlag Der Juwelen Und Uhren Zeitung, 1929, 1929. INSCRIBED W POEM & SIGNED Fair to Good. First Edition. SIGNED WITH ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN POEM BY BIRNBAUM. Abt. 8 1/2 x 10". The following poems are contained in this 1929 softcover: "Die Uhr", "Uhr am Werktag", "Uhr am Feierabend", "Uhr bei Nacht" and "Die Uhrenfabrik". oversized cream paper, black text with red initials, Booklet tied with silk cord. Soft Covers, cream with red lettering, are somewhat brittle, tanning around edges, small tears and creasing along edges. ORIGINAL 4 LINE POEM METICULOUSLY HAND WRITTEN IN BLACK INK IN GERMAN LANGUAGE, SIGNED URIEL BIRNBAUM AND DATED WIEN, 11. MAI 1934, DEDICATED TO M. BIRNHOLZ. Association Copy, Wrap has 20 pages, unpaginated, fore edge uncut, held together by cord, Interior crisp and clean. Unique item. Uriel Birnbaum, son of Nathan Birnbaum-Zionist, Jewish writer, poet, illustrator, and more, grew up in Vienna, Austria, and lived the latter part (due to WWII) in Holland. Rare.
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Connelly, Marc
The Green Pastures
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New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Incorporated, [1929]. First trade edition. 8vo. xvi, 173 pp. Original green cloth, near fine in unclipped dust jacket with sunning to spine, else near fine . INSCRIBED on the flyleaf, "To John Farrar, my friend, Marc Connelly. New York, March 21, 1930." An early Farrar imprint, based on Roark Bradford's stories OL' MAN ADAM AN' HIS CHILLUN - this amusing, touching play won the Pulitzer Prize
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CONNELLY, MARK
The Green Pastures. A Fable
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New York: Farrar & Rinehart, [1929]. First Edition. Presentation copy, inscribed on flyleaf: "To Beu Atwell, publicist de luxe, and Dean of them all with appreciation--Marc Connelly. Feb 3-30." A fine copy in a fine dust jacket (slightly tanned at spine panel). Pulitzer Prize winner.
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FANNING, PETE
Great crimes of the west
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n.p. [San Francisco, 1929. First edition, 8vo, pp. 292; inserted title-p. with portrait of the author; orig. green cloth, gilt lettering on spine (slightly dull), and orig. printed dust-jacket with one small tear to the spine, and spine slightly faded, else very good or better. The author is described on the title-p. as "for thirty-seven years a San Francisco police officer." Adams, Six-Guns, 694: "Scarce.
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Pidal, Ramon Menendez
La Espana Del Cid Pedro Muguruza (Two Volumes)
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Madrid: Editorial Plutarco, 1929. Both volumes bound in oxblood leather with raised bands and gilt lettering and tooling on spine. Top page edge dyed red. Some extremities worn especially spines with leather shedding and flaking a little. Both volumes, text block is sturdy and clean with many beautiful illustrations including fold out color maps in lovely condition. Volume one half bottom spine is detached . Each volume housed in its own dark red slipcase. Overall very nice set.. Full-Leather. Very Good.
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William Nicholson
THE PIRATE TWINS
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Faber & Faber Ltd 1929 William Nicholson. Hardcover Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Oblong format, pictorial boards. Delightful story of Mary and the little black twins she found one day on the beach. Lovely colour illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and slightly worn. Inscription in ink in belongs to box on front pastedown. Ink scribbles to lower margin of first couple of pages. Contents clean. [Publisher: Faber & Faber Ltd]
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Woolf, Virginia
A Room of One's Own
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The Hogarth Press, 1929. First Edition, third impression, printed in the same year as the first edition. A near fine copy in cinnamon cloth, (usual modest offsetting to the ffe. and rfe. ), gilt titles to the spine bright, (tiny bookseller's ticket affixed to the rear pastedown), in a lovely facsimile dustwrapper of the original, designed by Vanessa Bell. Small 8vo. 172 pp. A beautiful copy of Woolf's major polemic against patriarchy, based loosely on two lectures she delivered, one at Newnham and the other at Girton. Kirkpatrick And Clarke A12a. Woolmer 215. Woolf observed in her diary, "I shall be attacked for a feminist". An increasingly uncommon Woolf title and 20th century highlight.
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Rackham.- - Goldsmith, Oliver
The Vicar of Wakefield.
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London and Bombay and Sydney, George G. Harrap 1929. 4°. 231 (1) pp. With 12 mounted illustrations in colour and 22 text illustrations by Arthur Rackham. White vellum with gold lettering on the cover and spine and gilt top (spotted and slightly dusty). Hudson p. 171. - Riall p. 170. - Briggs p. 65. - Copy no. 288 signed by Arthur Rackham. This edition is limited to 575 copies for England and 200 copies for the United States (there are also editions with binding in dark blue cloth [unsigned] and in Persian Morocco). - Here and there slightly foxed. -
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Arthur Rackham
Arthur Rackham The Vicar of Wakefield U.K. First Edition in the Original Publisher's Dust Jacket 1929
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Illustrator: Arthur Rackham Publisher: George G. Harrap & Co Ltd 1929 This is a rare opportunity to own this very scarce UK first edition of The Vicar of Wakefield by Arthur Rackham in its original pictorial Dust Jacket The Dust Jacket features the colour illustration: ‘A Favourite Song of Dryden's' which can be seen opposite page 36 of the book The Dust Jacket is in Very Good condition with minor loss to the top and bottom of the spine; creasing to the top edge of the front; black marks to the plain back; wear to the corners and edges; and price erased by a pen to the inside front flap (which also advertises ‘The Legend of Sleepy Hollow'). Despite the minor imperfections, this is a rare Dust Jacket to own and with the colours to the illustration still very bright and vibrant an attractive example The boards of the book are in their original dark green with gilt lettering and decoration to the front board and spine. The boards are in Very Good condition with slight fading to the spine, and slight mark to the back board that has blended in very well There are 231 numbered pages, top edge gilt and remaining edges uncut, with green and white illustrated endpapers to the front and back of the book; 12 coloured plates; and 22 drawings in black and white. The pages are in overall Very Good condition with foxing confined mainly to the edges of the pages An extremely attractive and desirable Arthur Rackham first edition in the rare Dust Jacket
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Adam, R.B
The R.B. Adam library relating to Dr Samuel Johnson and his era. [ Vols 1-3 of 4 ]
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Printed for the author, Buffalo, first editions, 1929-30. Limited editions of 500 copies. 3 vols, cloth, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, 4to. Volume I is a presentation copy inscribed and signed by the author on the front free endpaper for [General] Louis L. Babcock. The inscription, and a loosely laid in autograph note to Babcock signed by Adam, are dated October 29, 1929 when Adam was presumably reeling from the previous day's Wall Street Crash. Also loosely laid in is a 1937 typed letter to Babcock signed by Adam. Volume III is largely unopened. Covers a little rubbed, with one or two small marks, contents mildly agetoned, otherwise a Very Good set. various paginations, profusely illustrated with full-page plates and facsimiles.. Approximately 3,000 entries. The first three volumes of the catalogue of the famous R.B. Adam Library : the fourth volume was not part of the original set and is rarely seen. Metzdorf, in his essay on Adam in "Grolier 75", appraises the Catalogue as follows: "The Adam catalogue is one of the most delightful books of its kind which one can read; it is also one of the most irritating to consult. It reflects the compiler's zeal and taste as do few other private catalogues. Mr. Adam could turn instantly to any item he wished, but other users are less fortunate. There is no index and no consecutive numbering of pages, nor are the items numbered. Large blocks of illustrations and facsimiles interrupt the numbered text pages, but one's pleasure is often turned to frustration in the attempt to pinpoint a particular item. Nevertheless, it remains a landmark not only in the history of book-collecting, but also in the history of Johnsonian scholarship." Earlier, Lawrence Gomme had described the Catalogue in a pamphlet about Adam's Library: "This catalogue, wholly compiled by R. B. Adam II, contains his own detailed and accurate descriptions of all the items. In Volume One, the Johnson Letters are transcribed and Manuscripts described. In Volume Two, there are 4 volumes and 135 pamphlets listed, with descriptions of all the first and variant editions of Johnson's writings, with bibliographical details. In Volume Three, 2173 Miscellaneous Letters and Autographic Material from his contemporaries are listed and many transcribed....The catalogue reproduces in facsimile most of the important letters and manuscripts, and the title pages of the rare books. A close inspection of these facsimiles is perhaps the best way to get an idea of the treasures in this wonderful library." These volumes comprise: Volume I: Letters of Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, Edmund Burke, Joshua Reynolds, and David Garrick. Volume II: Catalogue of Books. Volume III: Miscellaneous Autograph Letters.
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Messac, Regis
LE "DETECTIVE NOVEL" et L'Influence De La Pensee Scientifique
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Paris: Librairie Ancienne Honore Champion, 1929. Bibliotheque De La Revue De Litterature Comparee - Tome 59. SIGNE: "A M. --- / le plus aimable des bibliothecaires / cordial hommage / Regis Messac." Bon etat. / Ex-library with minimal markings. Very sturdily bound, green cloth boards. Inscribed by author. Back blank endpaper cut. Text clean throughout. / RARE.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+ (Book Condition). 4to.
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ARAGON (Louis)
LA GRANDE GAÎTE.
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Paris, Gallimard, 1929 - Petit in-4. Broché. Edition originale. Un des 170 exemplaires numérotés sur Vergé d'Arches illustrés de deux dessins reproduits et contrecollés d'Yves Tanguy. [Attributes: First Edition]
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(Tanguy) Aragon, Louis
La Grande Gaîté. Avec 2 Dessins D'Yves Tanguy
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Paris (Librairie Gallimard), 1929. 122, (2)pp. 2 tipped-in facsimile plates of Tanguy drawings hors texte, printed on textured brown stock. Sm. 4to. Wraps. One of 150 numbered copies on vergé d'Arches, from the limited edition of 275 in all, printed by Maurice Darantière. Though meticulously drawn, Tanguy's drawings here are astonishingly blunt and primitivistic. A fine copy.
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Hemingway, Ernest.
A Farewell to Arms.
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Cape, London 1st edition. First impression, first state. 1929 - Small octavo, original purple cloth. In original dustjacket which is not price-clipped (7s.6d.), but which has chipping to the top of the spine with the F, part of the A, and the ELL missing from farewell, and the S missing from Arms. This is the first state with serious spelt seriosu on p66. A label has been removed from the free front endpaper, rendering it thin, but this likely a private plate - this is NOT an ex lib copy. Overall Good in dj. [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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