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London Printed at Chiswick Press, 1892. HB NODJ ISSUED, 1892, 1st edition, with colophon on Last page,Soft Light Brown Tweed with White Vellum Leather Spine with Gold Gilt Decorations & Titles, NF/VG+, AS-IS, NODJ, Minor Cover Rub & Scuff, Minor Soil Spine, Some Fox, 194 pgs, Interior Nice, Tight, Clean, . First Edition. Hard Cover.
The Artist in his World, with 8 Descriptive Poems by Alasdair Gray - AN UNCOMMON DOUBLE-SIGNED COPY by McCulloch, Ian, with Gray, Alasdair - 1998
by McCulloch, Ian, with Gray, Alasdair
The Artist in his World, with 8 Descriptive Poems by Alasdair Gray - AN UNCOMMON DOUBLE-SIGNED COPY
by McCulloch, Ian, with Gray, Alasdair
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Argyll Publishing, 1998. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. First Printing. The Artist in his world presents a decade's work by Ian McCulloch in the medium of print. And in an unusual collaboration across artisitic boundaries Alasdair Gray has produced 8 poems written from August 2-5, 1998 on eight series of prints by the artist. A wonderful book and this copy is one of an unspecified but limited number signed in pencil by both the artist and the poet, at the front endpaper. Book and dustjacket both in superb condition, presents as a like-new copy.
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- Keywords PRINTS, ART, MONOGRAPH, COLLECTED WORKS, SCOTTISH LITERATURE, ALASDAIR GRAY, AUTHOR SIGNATURES, LIMITED EIDITIONS, COLLABORATIVE WORKS
Vita Nuova of Dante, The ( with Index of Poems Contained ) Vita Nuova is Divided into Poems Preceded by a narration of Their Occasion, Which are Explanations of the Text
by DANTE Alighieri , Frontispiece with tissue Guard, with introduction & Notes In English & Text in Italian & Appendix, blank endpapers minor rub,
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Gavarni in London: Sketches of Life and Character, with Illustrated Essays by Popular Writers
by Gavarni, Paul ( Pseudonym of (Hippolyte-Guillaume-Sulpice Chevalier); Edited by Albert Smith
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London: David Bogue, 1849. "The illustrations designed and drawn on wood by Gavarni, and engraved by Henry Vizetelly". Contains extra pictorial illuminated portrait title page plus 23 other tissue-protected illustrations, each at the head of a chapte except for the frontispiece. With armorial bookplate of William L. Scott to front pastedown along with smaller bookplate from the Virginia Warren Collection of Old London Street Cries. Very Good, bound in contemporay half calf over marbled boards, back with five raised bands, black leather label with gilt lettering, marbled end pages, boards a bit rubbed at edges, small chip to board rear cover. Subjects illustrated include Acrobats, Thieves, The Barmaid, The Opera, The Casino, and The Orange-Girl. The illustrations and interior quite clean and lovely, a handsome copy. . First Edition. Half Calf Over Marbled Boards. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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SAINT JUDAS
by Wright, James
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Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan Univ. Press, 1959. 56 pages. First printing of Wright's relatively scarce second book. The title poem is a sonnet that makes clear this comment by poet and critic Ben Friedlander: "One does not turn to James Wright for laughter." The poem begins: "When I went out to kill myself, I caught a pack of hoodlums beating up a man." After this book Wright eschewed the use of rhyme, but the dark themes stayed with him. The book is in better than very good condition: clean and tight, with Just a hint of toning to spine; toning to endpapers, with previous owner's name/city/state written on ffep. A smattering of foxing to top and fore edges of textblock. DJ is toned, especially at spine; hint of soiling to front and rear; in new mylar. Three sections: Lunar Changes, A Sequence of Love Poems, The Part Nearest Home.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.
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The Essence of Security Reflections in Office
by McNamara, Robert S.
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Inscribed on first blank page: To Dan with best wishes Robert S. McNamaraClean text. Price unclipped ($4.95). Protected by Brodart dust jacket cover. Book in very good plus condition and dust jacket in very good condition, some fading along spine. Robert Strange McNamara (June 9, 1916 – July 6, 2009) was an American business executive and the eighth Secretary of Defense, serving from 1961 to 1968 under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, during which time he played a large role in escalating the United States involvement in the Vietnam War. Following that, he served as President of the World Bank from 1968 to 1981. McNamara was responsible for the institution of systems analysis in public policy, which developed into the discipline known today as policy analysis. McNamara consolidated intelligence and logistics functions of the Pentagon into two centralized agencies: the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Defense Supply Agency.Prior to public service, McNamara was one of the…
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Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon
by Aldrin, Buzz, with Abraham, Ken
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New York: Harmony Books, 2009. viii, 326 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour); 25 cm. SIGNED. Boldly signed by Buzz Aldrin on the half-title page, no dedication. A fine copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts BUZZ ALDRIN and Neil Armstrong landed their lunar module on the Sea of Tranquillity and became the first humans to walk on the moon. Aldrin has since been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and more than fifty other awards and medals from the United States and other countries. He holds a doctorate in astronautics from MIT. Since retiring from the U.S. Air Force and NASA, Dr. Aldrin has remained at the forefront of efforts to ensure a continued leading role for America in manned space exploration. He founded a rocket design company, Starcraft Boosters, Inc., and the ShareSpace Foundation, a nonprofit organization devoted to opening the doors to space tourism for all people. Buzz and his wife, Lois, live in Los Angeles.…
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The Ajax of Sophocles, with Notes Critical and Explanatory, Adapted to the Use of Schools and Universities
by Mitchell, T.
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Oxford: John Henry Parker, 1844. Octavo. Text in Greek, with English notes, 151pp., with a blank leaf interspersed after every page with students to take notes, bound in3/4 burgundy morocco over cloth, raised bands, title gilt within one compartment, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled, a few pencil notations within the text but all blank leaves unmarked. A handsome copy.
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L'Orlando Furioso e le Satire di Lodovico Ariosto con Note di Diversi per Diligenza e Studio di Antonio Buttura [4 volumes]
by Ariosto, Lodovico
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Paris: Presso Baudry, Libreria Europea, 1836. Hardcover. Very Good -. 4 volumes: frontispiece portrait of the author in vol. 1; 21 cm. Half black morocco with marbled paper over boards. Five spine compartments between raised bands with "Ariosto" in the second compartment and the volume number in the fourth. All page edges speckled red. Marbled endpapers matching that on the boards. Frontispiece engraving is signed: "Geoffroy sc." The fourth volume includes additional short poems by the author. Text is entirely in Italian. In Very Good- Condition: bindings archivally repaired; covers are lightly rubbed, with some loss of leather at spine ends; the frontispiece engraving has left a shadow on the title page of vol. 1; frontispiece and facing title page, as well as parts of vol. 3 also lightly foxed; otherwise pages are clean and tight.
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Collected Poems.
by Moore, Marianne
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New York Macmillan, 1951, hardcover. Published 1951, this is seventh printing 1955. -- SIGNED, inscribed to [name] with a personal note by the author on July 6, 1960. Laid in is the program "The Many Faces of Art" at The Brooklyn Unitarian on the same date at which Marianne Moore gave a reading. -- Hardcover. Condition: very good minus (spine tips rubbed; endsheets discoiored; no jacket).
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Eikoh Hosoe: Masters of Photography.
by HOSOE, Eikoh. With an essay by Mark Holborn
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Koln: Konemann Verlag / Aperture, 1999. Signed by the legendary photographer Eikoh Hosoe and dated 9.26.05 on the half title page. First Konemann edition / First printing. Black cloth. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.
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Ships and Other Figures.
by Meredith, William
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Princeton Princeton University Press, 1948, First Edition. hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. -- Folded Merry Christmas 1959 postcard addressed to Mr & Mrs Louis B. Cox, Dublin, Ireland, is laid in: written and SIGNED by the author, "Love to all the Coxes" followed by a 17-line poem, An Old Field Mowed etc. in the author's hand. This poem was published in The New Yorker September 30 1961. -- Also laid in is a photocopy, 4 pages of a diary in Meredith's hand, containing: a poem-in-progress, mention of poetry by and conversations with fellow naval officer and poet Louis Coxe (whose ownership is in this book), Pacific war patrol on ship and shore, one date is 10-xi-44. -- Hardcover, pretty printed boards. Condition: near fine (endsheets bit discolored; no jacket).
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Under Fire: An American Story
by North, Oliver L
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Harpercollins, 1991. First edition, as stated, first printing . Hardcover. Fine/near fine. r. 446 pp. This is a rare first edition copy signed by both Oliver North and William Novak. North's inscription, "Margo and Sam, all the best," appears in blue ink on the half title page with North's signature and the date "3 Nov 91" and Novak's signature in black ink. Dust jacket slightly wrinkled at top of spine. Free USPS tracking with every US order. Ships from MA.
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A New History of Japanese Cinema: A Century of Narrative Film
by Standish, Isolde
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New York: Continuum, 2006. 8vo size trade paperback with black and white photo illustrated cover; 414 pages From back: "Cinema, which first arrived in Japan in 1896 with the Kinetoscope prototype, came at the very time that Japan was transforming its economic base and society into that of a major international power. The first cinema, the Asakusa Denikikan, was opened in Tokyo in 1903 and within 13 years 300 cinemas had sprung up throughout the country... (The author) focuses on the historical development of Japanese film, illustrated by a series of typical Japanese film posters. She details an industry and an art form shaped by the competing and merging forces of traditional culture and of economic and technological innovation." Edgewear, creases to bottom and bottom and top corners of front cover, soil on bottom and light soil to outside pages. We note pencilled underlining on at least 29 pages and pencilled marginalia on at least three pages and four creased page corners. Quotes…
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Old Bones
by Elkins, Aaron J
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New York, NY, U. S. A.: Mysterious Press, 1987. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. New York, NY, U. S. A.: Mysterious Press, 1987. Fine in Near Fine jacket Signed by Author A Gideon Oliver Mystery, SIGNED on title pg. Edgar Award winner best mystery npc 197pp. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. First Edition
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Starting With Flags : Forty-Three Drawings
by Parker, Kingsley
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New York: Private Printing. Fine with no dust jacket. 1976. Limited Signed Edition. Softcover. The artist's abstract and quite varied series of 43 drawings of flags, all printed monochrome on the recto of pages. Kingsley Parker has been exhibiting and represented by galleries since the mid-1970s and has a work in the collection of the Museum Of Modern Art in New York, NY. The artist is quite active with new works. Signed in ink "K. Parker/1976 ©" in the front matter where Parker explains his motivation for drawing the series of abstract flags. Copy 158 of a limited edition of 600, numbered in the colophon. Approximately 44 pages, unpaginated. Printed on fine, machine-made paper in brown wraps. The title and a flag drawing are framed on the front cover. In absolutely clean, Fine condition. ; Drawings; Square 24mo 5" - 6" tall; 44 pages; Signed by Artist .
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Civil War England.
by Young, Peter.:
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London, Longman, 1981.. 1st edition. Concentrates on the military aspects of the war, including the soldiers, arms and armour, the battles, and siege warfare. Longman Travellers Series. There is a small stamp on the front endpaper, otherwise in very good condition in a very good unclipped dustwrapper.
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Artemis.
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London, Hodder & Stoughton, 2002.. 1st edition. The second book in the Thomas Paine Kydd series, in which Kydd is an able seaman aboard the frigate Artemis. Fine condition in a fine unclipped dustwrapper. unclipped dustwrapper.
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Scientific wonders of the atomic age.
by Taylor, John W.R., editor.:
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London, Ariel Productions, c 1955.. Foreword by Sir John D. Cockcroft. Includes "High-speed flight" by Neville Duke, and "Rockets and Space flight" by Wernher von Braun. Large hardback in very good condition in a very good unclipped dustwrapper.
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Dead in Dixie
by Charlaine Harris
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New York: Science Fiction Book Club, 2003. Z2 - A Science Fiction Book Club Omnibus Edition hardcover book SIGNED by the Charlaine Harris in as new condition in as new dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dead Until Dark, Living Dead in Dallas, Club Dead. 8.5"x5.75", 612 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed.. Signed by Author. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book Club (BCE/BOMC).
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Songs From Appledore
by Oscar Laighton
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RARE. Collectible: 1916. Signed by the author. Cambridge MA: University Press. Very Good. Hardcover. Light soil to green cloth covered boards with gilt stamped title, author's name, and design. A bright solid, book - 27 pages; Inside covers are sunned. Pages clean and bright. Frontspiece. "View from Mrs. Thaxter's Garden Gate. 29 illustrations. Small book: 7" x 5"
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Grant Wood and Marvin Cone : Artists of an Era
by Hazel E. Brown
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Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1972. Hardcover. First Edition (stated). Flat signed and dated by author on FFEP and Inscribed by author to a friend on half-title page. Near Fine book in a Very Good jacket. Interior pristine except for author's inscription and signature. Spine straight and tight. Jacket shows light rubbing, light chipping at spine head, and light reading wear to edges. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xi + 150 pages. illus. A reflection of the relationships of two artists -- Grant Wood (1891-1942) and Marvin Cone (1891-1965) -- with the community of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. A loving biography by a woman who knew them both. Laid-in are two letters to the editor of the Cedar Rapids Gazette; one from Woods' sister, and another from a friend of Woods and the author.
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