Entretiens Sur La Pluralite Des Mondes, Augmentes Des Dialogues Des Morts. Nouvelle Edition by Fontenelle, M. De (Bernard Le Bovier) - 1800

Nairobi, Kenya: African Centre for Technology Studies Press, 1994. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 8vo, 5.5 x 8, xxiv + 372 pages. Released under auspices of the Global Biodiversity Forum in conjunction with the Pew Scholars Program in Conservation and Environment. Foreword by Wolfgang E. Burhenne. Publisher's "donated by" ink-stamp on half title pages and very minor shelf wear, else as issued

Librairie Ancienne Edouard Champion, 1919. Book. Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 2 vols In-8, reliés, Bon Etat, cachets de la bibliothèque -séminaire salésien, tome 1: Nohant 1808-1876 782 pages, tome 2: Le Berry dans l'oeuvre de George Sand 368 pages, édition originale, signé par l'auteur.

Paris, Ed. de La Revue Blanche, 1902, 12mo, pp. 302; contemporary red half leather binding (signed: P. Dayre), with marbled boards, top edge gilt; both orig. wrappers, in good condition, are bound in. - Pierre Bonnard designed the front-cover with a watercolour drawing. - Text-pages browned (as always), and otherwise a very attractive copy. - First edition of the novel, d'un libertinage élégant, set in the 18th century, in Touraine, where Boylesve grew up. The book became, in the first half of the 20th century, one of the most illustrated French literary texts. - This copy has the mention cinquième mille at the base of the front-cover, but note that in the same year of its publication, 1902, the Editions de La Revue Blanche closed down, and its stock was taken over by the publisher Eugène Fasquelle. Future editions were not similar.

SIGNED IN PERSON BY RICHARD DAWKINS and includes 2 photos from the event! A nice-looking likely 5th printing (hard to tell) in VG condition: clean bright text, looks and feels unread; mild blemishes on boards and along the edges of the DJ. Looks very appealing in new mylar. Expedited shipping is welcome; overseas will incur an additional charge over the initial shipping quote. Signed by author.

Very good. Book is very good/near fine condition. Clean inside and tight binding. With intact dust jacket. See pictures of actual book.

London: The Richards Press, 1928. 260pp. Quarto. Six coloured plates (from paintings by the author) and 276 b/w illusts. Appendix and index. Top edge gilt. Original blue cloth with gilt titling on the spine and gilt titling and gilt steamship decoration on upper board. Spine very slightly sunned. Rare. *"In 1831 the Sophia Jane, 256 gross tonnage and 50h.p., created great excitement as the first steamship to enter Sydney Harbour. From this it is a far cry to the present epoch of great floating palaces, with wondrous engines, measuring their tonnage and horse-power by scores of thousands, and able, through the marvel of Wireless, to keep in touch with the world on the most distant courses" (from the foreword by Sir Granville Ryrie, High Commissioner for Australia.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine.

Paris: Louis Janet. Very Good. 1825. Hardcover. Clean tooled red leather. Geometric designs on covers & spine. Single ruled gilt border. Gilt dentelle. All edges gilt. Decorated endpaper. Illustrated with five hand colored plates. Text tight, clean & Intact. A few flecks of foxing on pages 222-223. Front hinge just starting by head (1/4 inch). Children; Hand color Plates; 24mo 5" - 6" tall; 224 pages .

THE ROSE B EDITION. Du Bose, Heyward. Porgy (1925 George H. Doran Mauve "B" Hardcover 1st Edition/ 2nd printing thus, known as the Mauve or Rose "B" Edition. Decorated By Theodore Nadejen. USED. Good Condition/ No Dust Jacket. Mauve/Purple boards with gold gilt titling and owl cartouche. ORIGINAL SOURCE MATERIAL FOR "PORGY AND BESS", THE DRAMATIC BROADWAY MUSICAL AND MOTION PICTURE, SCORED BY AMERICAN COMPOSER GEORGE GERSHWIN.

Weidenfeld and Nicolson. London. 1968. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (8.6 x 5.7 inches). Illustrated with 19 half-tone photographic plates, including six pages reproducing Watson's letter to Max Delbruck, telling of the Double Helix, and 11 diagrams within the text. A very bright, clean copy. Original dustwrapper with one small chip and a couple of small closed tears, otherwise a better than very good example. Overall a very good copy.

Doyle, A. Conan. The Land of Mist. 1926, Hodder & Stoughon/ George H. Doran 1st US Edition. A PROFESSOR CHALLENGER ADVENTURE. RARE. Used. Very Good Condition/ No DJ Included. Apple green cloth boards with large black titling on front board and spine. Bright pages. 285 pages with appendix. 5 ¼ X 7 ¾.