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Signed 500 Home Runs Gateway Full-Color Silk-Cacheted Cover commemorating the 150th Anniversary of Baseball ? signers include eleven 500 HR hitters, each enshrined in the Hall of Fame ? room to add more! Atlantic City, New Jersey, January 14, 1989. 9.5" x 4". "Philatelic Cover Signed ?Hank Aaron,? ?Willie Mays,? ?Frank Robinson,? ?Harmon Killebrew,? ?Reggie Jackson,? ?Mike Schmidt,? ?Mickey Mantle,? ?Ted Williams,? ?Willie McCovey,? ?Eddie Mathews? and ?Ernie Banks.? Also signed ?Pete Rose? who holds baseball?s all-time hit record (4,256) and organized the event. Full-color cacheted envelope picturing all 11 HR hitters, 9.5? x 4?, postmarked Atlantic City, N.J., January 14, 1989. Captioned ?In Celebration of the 150th Anniversary of Baseball in America, a first-ever gathering of the eleven living 500-Home-Run Hitters occurred in Atlantic City, New Jersey, hosted by all-time hit leader Pete Rose. Assembled were Hank Aaron (755 Homers), Willie Mays (660), Frank Robinson (586), Harmon Killebrew (573), Reggie Jackson (549), Mike Schmidt (542), Mickey Mantle (536), Ted Williams (521), Willie McCovey (521), Eddie Mathews (512), and Ernie Banks (512). Deceased 500-Home-Run Hitters are Babe Ruth (714), Jimmy Foxx (534), and Mel Ott (511).? JSA Letter of Authenticity." [Bookseller: University Archives] 
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Waning Summer Providence, Rhode Island:: Ziggurat Press,, 1989.. One-of-a-Kind. 9 x 13 x 1.75"; 16 unnumbered pages. Accordion structure. Six original pen-and-ink drawings by the artist. Titles in script by the artist. Tapa cloth-covered boards with tipped on title on front board. Housed in wooden slipcase with leather title on spine. Feldman's artwork accompanies the 1592 poem by British poet Thomas Nashe(1567 - 1601). The poem appears once handwritten in brown ink on a tipped in sheet of tan paper, which is a visual as well as textual element, and printed on a 6 x 9" laid in sheet of the same paper.Gloria Barone, "Walter Feldman: A Visual Profile" in Point in Time: Walter Feldman Selected Works (Providence, 2010): "Often Feldman's books require few or no words, although the works are never silent. When words are employed, poetry is the likely medium. Feldman's books have paid tribute to the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa and American poet Emily Dickinson by incorporating their verse into his work ... The work of poets and friends such as Edwin Honig, Michael Harper, Denise Levertov, James Schevill, and Barton Levi St. Armand also have found their way into Feldman's books. A personal one-of-a-kind work, Waning Summer, is bound in tapa cloth and features exquisite pen and ink drawings of trees near Feldman's country home interspersed with pages containing actual skins shed by a snake on the property that summer. Feldman's books raise provocative questions about what a book or cover is." [Bookseller: Vamp & Tramp, Booksellers, LLC ]
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Democracy in Botswana: Proceedings of a Symposium held in Gabarone, 1 - 5 August 1988 Macmillan Botswana/ Botswana Society and the University of Botswana, 1989, Soft cover, Book Condition: Good, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, 1st EditionThis copy is in general good condition. The illustrated front cover has a small crease and closed tear to the right hand edge. Otherwise, wear is very general about the extremities and corners. The back cover has shelving/ stacking wear. There is also a sticker from a previous retailer at the bottom of the cover. Inside, the condition is very good throughout. The pages are clear, clean and complete. fk Quantity Available: 1. Category: Africana- Politics; ISBN: 9991277609. ISBN/EAN: 9789991277608. Inventory No: ahkn. [Bookseller: Chapter 1 Books]
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Screenplay]: Sir Drone - Stapled photocopied pages of the handwritten manuscript used as a shooting script, and possibly as a continuity script. No cover sheet, possibly, or even probably, as issued. Quite worn around the edges, staples pulled through in a few instances, and the first and last leaves in danger of detaching, but a sound good copy. There are a few notes in an unknown hand (possibly Pettibon's) excising or emphasizing scenes, and handwritten numbers in the margins breaking the entire film into separate scenes. One of Pettibon's first films, one of four written and directed by him in 1989. According to the IMDB summary the film is about "[t]hree teenagers from the industrial part of Los Angeles [who] try to form a punk rock band in Hollywood." The film featured legendary punk and post-punk rock bass guitarist Mike Watt, and Pettibon also appeared in the film. Pettibon is a renowned artist and filmmaker. From the late 1970s through the mid-1980s, he was closely associated with the punk rock band Black Flag and the record label SST Records, both founded by his older brother Greg Ginn. Pettibon scripts are rare and ephemeral, probably not intended to have been preserved. Pettibon additionally performed with several bands, including Sur Drone. [Attributes: Soft Cover] [Bookseller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA]
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THE NATURAL HISTORY OF PARROTS Histoire Naturelle des Perroquets Sydney: Brian Chester Imprime; Lord McAlpine, 1989. Number 212/1000. A new and improved edition of Histoire Naturelle des Perroquets by Francois de Vaillant 1753-1824. From the original two volumes in the collection of Lord McAlpine of West Green. Limited edition facsimile reprint. Green cloth covers with gilt titles to front and spine and an illustration on the front cover. With 158 glorious litho plates. This is the single volume version, limited to 1000 copies, and smaller (just 3kg) than the more expensive ($15000 to $20000 to subscribers) two volume 16kg version! A facsimile copy of a letter by the author, together with a flier from the publishers, is loose in the front in a card folder. The original French text, consisting of essays on the various parrots, is translated into English. The book consists of a modern introductory section (title pages, list of subscribers, foreword, introduction, publishers' notes, followed by the reprint and translation of the original two volume edition: dedication, preface, title page, then the glorious plates of the 139 parrots, then the 71 text pages of the first volume, then the 73 text pages of the second volume, index to each volume, then a modern ornithological commentary. Note that the plates are numbered 1 to 139 but many have an additional un-numbered plate/page showing a life-size illustration of the parrot's head, leading to the total number of 158 plates. A beautiful and fascinating book. Couple of miniscule marks to back cover, faint age yellowing to half title page, otherwise looks new. Numerous photographs available. 4kg packed weight. Overweight, extra postage may be required outside Australia.. Numbered. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. [Bookseller: Mayger & Mayger Pty Ltd]
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Tectonic Influence on the Evolution of the Early Proterozoic Transvaal Sea, Southern Africa (Dissertation) C. W. Clendenin Jr / Witwatersrand University, 1989, Hardcover, Book Condition: Good, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, Illustrated Edition, Inscribed by Author(s)367 pages (complete). A dissertation from Clendenin, already at this stage an internationally renowned geologist, to the Faculty of Science of the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Almost certainly inscribed on the frontispage by Clendenin: To: Lillo - Just one way to say Thank You :) Bill. The dissertation includes a considerable number (complete) of original photographs. A sturdy, strongly bound volume. The cover has some surface marking. The back cover has four small impression marks. The paper trims have handling marks. The front of the inside of the volume has some damp stains and marks. The binding is muscular, healthy. The contents are clear, very tight to the spine, and confident. The photographs are in excellent condition. fk Quantity Available: 1. Category: Africana - Geology; Inscribed by Author(s). Inventory No: aooc. [Bookseller: Chapter 1 Books]
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GRATEFUL DEAD FAMILY ALBUM by Jerilyn Lee Brandelius. With Cover Art by Stanley Mouse New York: Warner Books, (1989). First edition. Hardcover. A very good plus to near fine copy with a little soil and handling marks (as would be expected) in a very good plus to near fine dust jacket with a short closed tear to the bottom of the front flap. 4to. A "Grateful Dead All Area Access" sticker laid down to the jacket. This copy is signed by band members Jerry Garcia, Mickey Hart, and Bob Bralove, as well as long time road crew members Ram Rod Shurtliff, Bill "Kid" Candelario, Steve Parish, and Robbie Taylor, among others. With hundreds of intimate photographs and stories from band members as well as the Dead Family. 256pp. The book was assembled in an office located in downtown San Rafael, California, near the Grateful Dead main offices and ticket box office. [Bookseller: Ed Smith Books]
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Prayers and Things A Morning Prayer by Theodore PankratzSo Nimm Denn Meine Hande by Julie Katharine HausmannA Benediction Jude 1:24-25Five Aquatints by Teresa Pankratz Chicago, Illinois:: Theodora Press,, 1989.. Edition of 6. 22.25 x 13.25 x 1.5?" closed, extends to 152"; 12 pages. Accordion fold. Five intaglio (aquatint) prints. Letterpress texts on Sakamoto lightweight using Garamond type with Caslon initials. Mounted on a fourteen panel museum board accordion structure, each panel edged with marbled paper. Bilingual text: German and English. Teresa Pankratz, colophon: "A Morning Prayer was my father's prayer at breakfast. I've taken the liberty of varying the lines as he did when using his prayer at times other than the breakfast table. A Benediction is paraphrased from the King James Version of the New Testament. Julie Katharina Hausmann wrote the text So Nimm Denn Meine Hande in 1862. It is probably better known in our 20th-century churches as words to the hymn Take Thou My Hand O Father. The five aquatints were completed in 1988 after my father's death in March of that year. "The book is dedicated to my father Theodore W. Pankratz (May 20, 1923 to March 27, 1988) who was himself a lover and keeper of things and whose prayers protected our lives." This is the first book by Pankratz created under the imprint Theodora Press. [Bookseller: Vamp & Tramp, Booksellers, LLC]
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Disturbance London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. (1989). First. First edition. A trifle bumped at the foot of the spine else fine in fine dustwrapper with slight smudging over the ISBN label. Signed by the author, his first book. Scarce in this condition. Although not marked in any way, this copy is from the distinguished modern first edition collection of Bruce Kahn. . [Bookseller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABA]
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Garbo?s Date Book for 1989 ? her last Date Book for 1989, gilt-edged pages, 3? x 5?. Black leather cover with gilt ?1989,? ?International Herald Tribune? logo, and ?GG? on cover. Printed and Made in England for the newspaper. Four vertical rows per page, Monday through Thursday on the left page, opposite Friday through Sunday, plus a Memo row, on the right page. Most probably a gift from Walter Thayer, Garbo's friend, neighbor and the President and Publisher of the ?International Herald Tribune.? He died in New York Hospital on March 4, 1989. Fine condition. There is only one entry. Penciled by Garbo in block letters for Friday January 27: ?HERLBUT 2.? Garbo?s 1989 Date Book had four additional pages headed ?Forward Planner 1990? with 26 lines per page, for the first 104 days of 1990. The fourth page ends with the 104th day, Saturday, April 14, 1990. Greta Garbo died on the 105th day of 1990, Sunday, April 15, 1990, in New York Hospital. From the Estate of Greta Garbo. [Bookseller: University Archives]
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Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches ***Signed*** Simon & Schuster, U.S.A. 1989 - Presidential bookplate has been inscribed "To / Mark Roth / With Best Wishes" in another hand in black ink and then signed "Ronald Reagan" by President Reagan in black ink. Bookplate has been placed on first blank page. [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy; Hard Cover] [Bookseller: Legends In History]
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El General En Su Laberinto: Novela Ediciones del Equilibrista 1989 - Flat-signed on the colophon by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (with a small slip of white paper laid in, to protect the signature), and stamped 78 of 1,050 signed limited editions. Text in Spanish. Burgundy cloth binding, with black lettering embossed on the spine, deckle fore-edge and lower edge, and burgundy slipcase with a title page pasted to one side and Garcia Marquez's portrait pasted to the other side. The front board of the book is slightly bowed, the deckle edge at the tail of the text block is lightly bumped, and there is a light yellow stain affecting about 1/2" x 7/8" at the head of the text block (not affecting any pages inside the book). Otherwise the book is clean, bright, unmarked, square, with tight (unshaken) binding, lovely uncut pages, sound hinges, and no markings except as noted on the colophon. Overall, the book is in very good condition, with fine interior. The slipcase has several very slight, small spots of soiling, and two medium-sized spots of slight soiling (the largest spot being 1/2" x 1/8"), otherwise the slipcase is clean, bright, crisp, square, sound and overall in excellent, near fine condition. We are happy to take photos upon request. [Attributes: Signed Copy; Hard Cover] [Bookseller: William James Bookseller]
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Girl with Curious Hair New York: W. W. Norton Co.,, 1989. Octavo. Original blue boards, black cloth back strip, title gilt at spine. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author on the title page. [Bookseller: Peter Harrington]
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The Grotesque Poseidon Press, New York,, 1989. Octavo. Original blue cloth backed buff boards, titles to spine gilt, buff endpapers. With the dust jacket. A fine copy in the very slightly faded dust jacket. First US Edition, First Printing. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the title page, "For Jack With my admiration, my thanks, and my affection Patrick May 1989 New York". The recipient was the writer John Hawkes. [Bookseller: Peter Harrington]
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Breakfast Special 1989. TILSON, Jake. Breakfast Special. Five volumes. Small 8vo., bound in original illustrated wrappers, in a yellow cloth box. London: 1989. |~||~||~||~| A boxed set of five beautifully-designed booklets by Jake Tilson. Titles are: El Dottore di Terracotta, La Carte Propre, Miasto Alfabet, El Cabellete di Piedra, and Southwark Soil Creep. Each booklet is in a different coloured card cover, all held in a grey/black slip case. Colour illustrations inside and on each cover. [Bookseller: Ursus Rare Books]
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Pathways In Geology: Essays in Honour of Edwin Sherbon Hills Melbourne: Hills Memorial Volume Committee & Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1989 Very Near Fine in a like jacket. See scans. Melbourne: Hills Memorial Volume Committee & Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1989. First Edition. Pathways In Geology: Essays in Honour of Edwin Sherbon Hills. ISBN # 0731682416. Quarto, orange illustrated jacket, white textured cloth boards imprinted in orange, 10 + 463 pp. A very, very sharp Near Fine volume, with just several small clear spots on the copyright page, not affecting text, and a small patch of dust of page fore edges; jacket is also Near Fine, bight and unclipped, with no salient issues whatever; just sprinkling of several black specs on front cover, barely visible. Please see scans. Far more than a tribute to Edwin Sherbon Hills, this extremely rare volume is replete with scholarly text and seemingly countless graphic enhancements - maps, charts, tables, photographs, perspective sketches. Primarily straight Aussie geology, but there is an engrossing and related palaeontological section as well. See scans of both contents pages for details. Apparently peerless as example of surviving available copies - we have, in fact, seen no others at all recently. A true and valued rarity. L54n [Bookseller: Singularity Rare & Fine]
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Giacomo Joyce ? Interpreted by Susan Weil New York: Vincent FitzGerald & Company, 1989. One of fifty numbered copies, with the text and illustrations printed on handmade Dieu Donné and special Japanese papers by Daniel Keleher and Bruce Chandler at Wild Carrot Letterpress, signed and numbered by the artist below the portrait of Joyce facing the colophon. Small folio. Linen over boards, with stiff-handmade paper endleaves. A couple minor smudges to cloth, otherwise fine. As a follow-up to her collaborative edition of Joyce's EPIPHANIES of 1987, Weil here illustrates Joyce's text in a variety of media, including etchings, stencil cuttings, original watercolors, etc. The calligraphy was executed by Jerry Kelly, the etchings printed by Marjorie Van Dyke, and the collages by Zahra Partovi. [Bookseller: James Cummins Bookseller]
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Rêve de traverse [17 lithographies originales de Michel Haas] Paris: Jean-Christophe Pichon, 1989. Livre. Illus. by Michel Haas. Parfait. En Feuilles. Signé par L'auteur et L'illustrateur. Edition originale. In-folio. Paris, Jean-Christophe Pichon, 1989. 38 x 27 cm, in-folio, 1 f. bl. - 18 ff. n. ch. - 1 f. bl., 17 lithographies originales en noir dont une en couverture, un frontispice, un culispice et 4 à pleine page, en feuilles sous couverture crème rempliée et illustrée, chemise et étui illustrés de l'éditeur. Edition originale du poème d'Yves Peyré et premier tirage des lithographies de Michel Haas. Tirage à 97 exemplaires. Celui-ci l'un des 70 sur vélin d'Arches (n° 64), signé à la justification par l'auteur et l'artiste. L'emboîtage est illustré de deux empreintes originales de l'artiste. Très bel exemplaire.. [Bookseller: Des livres autour (Julien Mannoni)]
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THE SILVER PIGS Sidgwick & Jackson, London 1989 - Octavo, boards. Author's first book. The first Didius Falco mystery. A fine copy in a fine price clipped dust jacket. (155) [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover] [Bookseller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB]
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Fear of Spiders Chicago:: Theodora Press,, 1989.. Edition of 10. 12 x 10" closed, 16?' 8?" fully extended (with covers); 18 pages. Accordion structure. Text letterpress printed in 18 point Caslon on Arches Cover. Ten aquatints printed on lightweight Sakamoto. Housed in black clamshell box (13.5 x 11.25 x 1.5") with decorative spider etching used for pastedowns. Interior and edges of clamshell box printed on Sakamoto lightweight paper. The aquatints, close-ups for the most part, suggest the immediacy of arachnophobia. The sharpness of focus both pinpoints the visceral fear and neutralizes it. Childhood terror recalled from the safety of adulthood? Art diffusing experience? Teresa Pankratz: "In a series of ten aquatints and accompanying text, this 'scary bedtime story' examines the titillating qualities of obsessive nighttime fears. Through the visual device of fluidly changing points of view, the reader moves through the darkened bedroom, alternately on the spider?'s hairy legs and from behind the child?'s fear-crazed eyes. As nocturnal imagination takes over, the text relates that: 'her fear and frenzy became her pleasure.' The child finds herself ?"becoming?" that which she fears most — and is unable to return to an untroubled sleep. [Bookseller: Vamp & Tramp, Booksellers, LLC]
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Dupe of Being New York: Edition Lafayette,, 1989. Octavo. Original pale grey printed wrappers. Illustrated with numerous photographs and reproductions of Appel's art. Signed limited edition, number 64 of 100 copies with an original drawing signed and numbered by Karel Appel, the Dutch artist who help found Cobra in the 1950s and later participated in the Parisian initiative l'Art Informel. This book, edited by the Austrian-born author and photographer Roland Hagenberg, collects essays on Appel written by 20 authors, among them Allen Ginsberg, Eleanor Flomenhaft, Marshall McLuhan, Vivien Raynor, and Herbert Read. [Bookseller: Peter Harrington]
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British Dance Bands on Record, 1911-45 and Supplement Harrow, Middlesex: General Gramophone Publications, 1989. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. Total page count including Supplement is 1462pp. This work, which is likely to remain for many years as the standard work of reference on the subject, contains, as far as possible, complete data on every known recording by British dance bands, including studio units, from January 1st, 1911 to December 31st, 1945, prepared to a very high standard of accuracy.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8.5 x 6 x 3 Inches. [Bookseller: Godley Books]
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I Was a Spiral on the Floor 1970-88 Soyo Productions, Amsterdam 1989 - 36 pp., small 8vo. Saddle-stapled into printed wrappers. As new. Published in a very small edition in Holland; no copies came to the States, other than a handful that the author brought back himself. This copy inscribed at publication to the prospective reader: "sliding through the door (outwards) of your 'perception' oh most awesome peruser." Rare. [Attributes: First Edition; Soft Cover] [Bookseller: Passages Bookshop]
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Selected One-Act Plays of Horton Foote (Dallas, Texas): Southern Methodist University Press. 1989. First. First edition. Edited by Gerald C. Wood. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author to Reynolds Price: "For Reynolds Price with the love of his friend Horton Foote." Nice association between two Southern dramatists. . [Bookseller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABA]
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THE WORDS OF DESMOND TUTU. [Includes the full text of Desmond Tutu's Nobel Lecture] New York:: Newmarket Press,, 1989. First Edition. Fine. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED "GOD BLESS YOU" BY DESMOND TUTU ON TITLE PAGE. ALSO SIGNED, INSCRIBED AND DATED BY NAOMI TUTU (his daughter). A Fine hardback Stated First Edition First Printing in a Near Fine Dust Jacket with mild sun spine. 8vo. 109 pp. [Bookseller: By The Book, LC ABAA-ILAB]
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Maskinskrivet manuskript till romanen 'En varg söker sin flock'. Hålslagna blad i A4-format, numrerade [ii] + 1-317 med enstaka oregelbundenheter. I en enkel kontorspärm med en ryggtiteletikett (varg) som möjligen ritats av författaren. Med en färgutskrift av bokens omslag längst fram. Merparten av bladen är maskinskrivna men även fotokopior av maskinskrift förekommer, rimligen på grund av pågående arbete med boken och dess korrektur. Med en del egenhändiga ändringar, överstrykningar, inklistrade lappar m.m.. Den i hög grad självbiografiska boken utgavs i Stockholm 1989 av Wahlström & Widstrand. Proveniens: Stig Lundgren, mångårig förlagsrepresentant på Wahlström & Widstrand. Lundgren (f. 1930) arbetade under hela sitt yrkesliv med böcker, först i olika boklådor som Wessman och Pettersson i Visby (där han träffade sin hustru Birgit), senare på Fritzes i Stockholm och slutligen på Wahlström & Widstrand där han arbetade fram till pensionen 1995. Då "Jack" gavs ut på Wahlström & Widstrand blev det en sådan succé att förlaget kunde köpa en fjällstuga i Storhogna som personalen fick njuta av. 'Tack Ulf Lundell för fina vintersemestrar!' skriver Stig Lundgrens dotter Susanne som avslutning på sin korta berättelse om fadern ovan [Bookseller: Lorenz B. Hatt]
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Pernkopf Anatomy, Third Edition: Atlas of Topographical and Applied Human Anatomy. In Two Volumes: Vol 1: Head & Neck Vol 2: Thorax, Abdomen & Extremities Urban & Schwarzenberg, Baltimore, MD 1989 - "This magnificently illustrated work has been hailed as one of the most important anatomic atlases since the work of Vesalius." The third, and very likely final, edition thanks to its incredibly controversial origins. Both volumes are near fine in very good dust jackets, lightly edgeworn, first three leaves of vol. 1 have folded corners, but overall hardly used. ISBNs 0806715537 (vol. 1); 0806715634 (vol. 2). * [Attributes: Hard Cover] [Bookseller: Denominator Books (IOBA)]
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THE NATURAL HISTORY OF PARROTS Histoire Naturelle des Perroquets Brian Chester Imprime; Lord McAlpine, 1989, Cloth, Book Condition: Near Fine, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, NumberedSize: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall, Number 212/1000. A new and improved edition of Histoire Naturelle des Perroquets by Francois de Vaillant 1753-1824. From the original two volumes in the collection of Lord McAlpine of West Green. Limited edition facsimile reprint. Green cloth covers with gilt titles to front and spine and an illustration on the front cover. With 158 glorious litho plates. This is the single volume version, limited to 1000 copies, and smaller (just 3kg) than the more expensive ($15000 to $20000 to subscribers) two volume 16kg version! A facsimile copy of a letter by the author, together with a flier from the publishers, is loose in the front in a card folder. The original French text, consisting of essays on the various parrots, is translated into English. The book consists of a modern introductory section (title pages, list of subscribers, foreword, introduction, publishers' notes, followed by the reprint and translation of the original two volume edition: dedication, preface, title page, then the glorious plates of the 139 parrots, then the 71 text pages of the first volume, then the 73 text pages of the second volume, index to each volume, then a modern ornithological commentary. Note that the plates are numbered 1 to 139 but many have an additional un-numbered plate/page showing a life-size illustration of the parrot's head, leading to the total number of 158 plates. A beautiful and fascinating book. Couple of miniscule marks to back cover, faint age yellowing to half title page, otherwise looks new. Numerous photographs available. 4kg packed weight. Overweight, extra postage may be required outside Australia. [Bookseller: Mayger & Mayger Pty Ltd]
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Red First edition. Octavo. Original red boards with spine label and front cover label. Plain acetate jacket (original?) has tears and large chip. Fine, fresh. 9 pages (unpaginated).One of 50 numbered copies signed by Bukowski and Red Stodolsky.Laid in loose is a typed note from Red Stodolsky on his Baroque Book Store memo form dated Wed. 2-1-89, presenting this copy to a colleague. [Bookseller: George Houle Rare Books & Autographs ]
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Dekomposition.Texte von Friederike Mayröcker zu Radierungen von Irmgard Flemming. Mit 10 signierten Radierungen von Irmgard Flemming. Edition Irmgard Flemming, Frankfurt 1989 - Pp. im Schuber. im Impressum von Friederike Mayröcker und Irmgard Flemming signiert, eins von 50 nummerierten Exemplaren - Schuber minimal berieben, sehr gutes Exemplar 2100 Gramm. [Attributes: Signed Copy; Hard Cover] [Bookseller: Antiquariat am St. Vith]
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A Time to Kill New York: Wynwood Press, 1989 First edition. One of 5,000 copies. Publisher's orange boards over maroon cloth, spine lettered in gilt; in the original maroon dust jacket designed by Susanne DeMarco, with an illustration of a scale holding a doll on one pan to the front panel, lettered in white and pale orange. Fine book; unclipped dust jacket, with a short closed tear to the front panel, minor creasing to the spine tail, else fine. Overall, an attractive and fresh copy of Grisham's first novel. Set in the fictional rural town of Clanton, Mississippi, A Time to Kill is a story about the trial of Carl Lee, an African-American man who murders two white men after they rape and beat his 10 year-old daughter. Grisham began writing A Time to Kill after witnessing a similar rape case in a Mississippi court and realizing that, if he were the father in the situation, he would be moved to seek retribution - a feeling which the character Carl Lee takes action upon. In a 2009 interview with USA Today, Grisham remarked, "'When I started writing in the fall of '84, I had no idea what I was doing, but I was motivated for all of the right reasons…I had a story to tell and I wanted to see whether I could tell it.'" Grisham was able to complete the novel while maintain his job as a practicing attorney, but it was initially rejected by several publishers before finally being picked up by Wynwood. Of the 5,000 copies of the first edition, Grisham purchased 1,000 copies, which he personally sold at local bookstores and libraries on a self-made book tour around Mississippi. After Grisham's subsequent novels established his literary reputation, public interest in A Time to Kill was renewed and it was eventually reprinted, ultimately becoming a bestseller.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. [Bookseller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA]
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Gypsy & Other Poems 1989. BASKIN, Leonard. Gypsy and Other Poems. By James Baldwin. 24, [2] pp. Illustrated with six portraits of Baldwin by Baskin. 4to., bound in half black morocco, black decorated paper over boards, laid in red silk clamshell box. Leeds: The Gehenna Press, 1989.One of 325 copies of this collection of Baldwin's poetry, including "Gypsy," "Song For The Shepard Boy" and "Ballad." The copperplate etchings by Baskin are printed on different papers which are tipped-in. The colophon is signed by the artist, as are each of the six portraits. As new.The Gehenna Press. The Work of Fifty Years 51. [Bookseller: Ursus Rare Books ]
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Q.R.V. Boston Anne & David Bromer 1989 - First edition. From an edition of 400 copies signed by Gorey, this is one of 110 comprising the deluxe issue, with twenty-nine illustrations hand-colored by him in silver and gold metallic paint. An homage to Isaac Watts, the text is obscurely akin to Divine Songs for Children. Edward Gorey (1925-2000), the quirky, macabre fabulist, wrote and illustrated nearly 100 offbeat books. This is the second of two miniature books produced by Gorey in his lifetime, both of which were published by the Bromers. The book is bound in patterned boards designed by Gorey, with a gilt-stamped leather spine label. Spine very lightly toned, else fine in original slipcase bearing a hand-colored label. (1 1/2 by 1 5/8; 37x40mm). [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy; Hard Cover] [Bookseller: Bromer Booksellers, Inc., ABAA]
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Song of Songs 1989. KALDEWEY PRESS. Song of Songs. Folio, loose as issued in handmade paper wrappers and linen folding box. Postenkill: Editions Kaldewey, 1990.Printed in Hebrew with a translation printed on transparent paper laid in. One of 35 copies signed by Kaldewey. [Bookseller: Ursus Rare Books ]
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Deutschland. Portrait einer Nation. Buchobjekt unter Verwendung eines Exemplars der gleichnamigen Publikation des Bertelsmann-Verlages, sowie unter Verwendung eines Original-Stückes der Berliner Mauer. 1989/1990.. 30 x 23 x 6 cm. Buch, Berliner Mauer-Fragment, 2 Acrylplatten, 4 Flüge. Auf der Rückseite vom Künstler monogrammiert und numeriert. Eines von 999 Exemplaren der Ausgabe für den Handel. Dazu gab es eine_Auflage von 20 Künstler-Exemplaren. Das Mauer-Fragment befindet sich in einer Aushöhlung des Buchblocks, die Front und die Rückseite des Buchs sind mit den Acrylplatten abgedeckt, welche mit vier Flügelschrauben (die durch den gesamten Buchblock gehen) verschraubt ist. Siehe die Abbildung ! - Werkverzeichnis Nieblich 077/1989. [Bookseller: Versandantiquariat Bürck]
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Die Genies der Deutschen Ullstein Taschenbuch, 1989.. 352 Seiten Taschenbuch. [Bookseller: Versandantiquariat Felix Mücke]
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Vergnügungen. Mit fünf doppelblattgr. Orig.-Aquarellen von Monika Sieveking. Berlin, Quetsche. Verlag für Buchkunst 1989.. 26 x 37,5 cm. 49, (3) S., OLwd. mit einem Orig.-Ölbild über beide Buchdeckel. Tadelloses Exemplar mit OUmschl. u. Schuber.. * Eins von 10 numer. Exemplaren, im Druckvermerk signiert. Die Texte wurden von Reinhard Scheuble aus der Sabon von Hand gesetzt, gedruckt auf ein von John Gerard handgeschöpftes, schweres Bütten mit dem Wasserzeichen der Edition. Druck in Blau u. Schwarz. Handeinband von Julia Büttelmann. Jedes Exemplar ist ein Unikat. [Bookseller: Antiquariat Matthias Loidl]
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The Remains of the Day Faber and Faber, 1989. First British (and true first) Edition (first printing). The third novel by the author of NEVER LET ME GO and THE BURIED GIANT, the story of an "impeccable but aging" butler who embarks on a six-day motoring holiday. Basis for the award-wining film and winner of the Booker Prize. Fine/Fine. Signed by Ishiguro on the title page. . Signed by Author. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. [Bookseller: Bill Leone, Bookseller ABAA]
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