Biografia

Vincent d'Indy : La Maturité, La Vieillesse (1886-1931)

Vallas, Léon · 1950 · Old Bookshelf

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

Paris Albin Michel 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Signed by Author(s) 394pp. Couverture souple. Text in French. Bon état, unopened. Illustrated cover protected by glassine jacket. Inscribed and signed on half-title page "Paule et Léon Vallas". Signé et inscrits par l'auteur. ...

I Have Known Many Worlds

Burlingame, Roger · 1956 · Old Bookshelf

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

Garden City Doubleday & Company, Inc. Signed by Author(s) 283pp. Grey cloth. Boards are clean and unworn, endpapers mildly foxed otherwise contents are clean. Unclipped dust jacket is chipped at head of spine and lightly spine-sunned. INSCRIBED and SIGNED "Affectionately ...

The Life and Death of Thomas Walsh. To Which is Added an Extract from John Nelson's Journal

Morgan, James and [Fletcher, John] · 1792 · Old Bookshelf

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Philadelphia Parry Hall 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall 190, 146, 18 +2p list of books. Full calf, leather label, gilt lettering. Front board detached, rear joint splitting at top but holding, covers and spine worn and chipped, contents are age-toned and sporadically dampstained...

Portraits et Souvenirs

Saint-Saëns · 1909 · Old Bookshelf

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)

Paris Calmann-Levy 334p. No date, circa 1909, sans date, couverture souple. Yellow wraps. Soiling, spotting and light chipping to cover, text is clean. Biographies of Berlioz, LIszt, Gounod, Massé, and Rubinstein,and essays on music related subjects. Text in French. Good

Memorial of Samuel Mills Capron

Twichell, J.H. (Editor) · 1874 · Old Bookshelf

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

Hartford The Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co. First Edition 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall 120p. Brown cloth, gilt lettering, black ornamentation. Some dampstaining to cover and margins of pages (mainly first and last few pages), light foxing to endpapers, contents age-toned but ot...

The Life of Pasteur

Vallery-Radot, René · 1920 · Old Bookshelf

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

New York Doubleday, Page & Company 484p. Blue cloth. Fading mainly to spine, splitting to endpapers, contents age-toned. What's interesting about this volume, is the inscription on the front free endpaper : "Pasteur said: Study great men and worship them, little realizing t...

Further Records 1848-1883; A Series of Letters

Kemble, Frances Anne · 1891 · Old Bookshelf

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York Henry Holt and Company First American Edition 380pp. Blue cloth, white floral design, gilt decoration. Ex-library, spiine slightly sunned, light wear to edges, contents age-toned but clean, a few signatures starting, owner's name on rear endpaper. Good No Jacket

Napoleon, par Alexandre Dumas. For the Use of Colleges and Schools.

Fasquelle, Louis and Dumas, Alexandre · 1858 · Old Bookshelf

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

New York Ivison & Phinney 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall vi, 273pp. Brown blind-stamped cloth. Spine detached but present, dampstaining most heavily to first 30 pages, mild thereafter, contents tanned, binding is tight, a portrait of Napoleon has been pasted onto front free end...

Arthur Seymour Sullivan

Wyndham, Henry Saxe · 1926 · Old Bookshelf

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

New York and London Harper & Brothers 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall 276pp. Green cloth. Corners and spine ends rubbed, spine sunned, contents are evenly toned but clean, owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Very Good No Jacket

Letters of Felix Mendelssohn to Ignaz and Charlotte Moscheles Translated from the Originals in His Possession, and Edited By Felix Moscheles

Moscheles, Felix · 1888 · Old Bookshelf

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Boston Ticknor and Company First Edition 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 306pp. Blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Ex-library with all markings, shaken, spine missing several pieces, endpapers soiled, contents are age-toned but mostly quite clean. Contains illustrations and num...

The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume Two 1920-1923

Nin, Anaïs · 1982 · Old Bookshelf

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

New York and London Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Blue printed wraps. Fading to spine and to perimeters of cover, contents are clean and sound. Uncorrected proof. Very Good

The Home of Washington at Mount Vernon, Embracing a Full and Accurate Description, as Well as of the Birthplace, Genealogy,, Character, Marriage, and Last Illness of Washington

Wineberger, J.A. · 1860 · Old Bookshelf

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Washington Thomas McGill First Edition 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 70pp. Black cloth, gilt lettering and decoration. Wear to edges and spine, gilt is partially faded but mostly intact, contents age-toned and there is some print offsetting to blank leaves, some splitting to fro...

The True George Washington (Signed by Harry Ogden)

Ford, Paul Leicester · 1896 · Old Bookshelf

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Philadelphia J.B. Lippincott Company Signed by Author(s) 319pp. Covers soiled chipped (mainly spine), cracking of endpaper at hinges, contents age-toned, owners' bookplate and label on front pastedown and some offsetting opposite from bookplate. Front free endpaper is SIGNED...

The Seven Ages of Washington (Signed By Harry Ogden)

Wister, Owen · 1907 · Old Bookshelf

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

New York The Macmillan Company First Edition Signed by Author(s) 263pp + ads. Blue boards, rebacked with buckram, paper spine label, top edges gilt. Some separation at hinges, pages toned, occasional pencil notes. SIGNED "H.A. Ogden" on front free endpaper. Harry Ogden wa...

The Village Post Office

Speer, Edward James · 1964 · Old Bookshelf

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Ann Arbor, Michigan Edwards Brothers Signed by Author(s) 81pp. Red cloth, gilt lettering. Exterior and interior are clean and sound. Dustjacket is mildly toned, unclipped, light edgewear. Inscribed and SIGNED by author on front free endpaper. Folksy discussion about the l...

Die Schubertianer; Ein Beitrag Zur Jahrhundertfeier

Paumgartner, Bernhard · 1928 · Old Bookshelf

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Wien Wiener-Philharmonischer Verlag A. G. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall 72pp. Mit zahlerichen bild und notenbiegaben. Pictorial paper over boards. Wear to edges, spine chipped, some soiling. Contents sound, old price stamped on front free endpaper. Good

Recollections of Curran and Some of His Cotemporaries (Contemporaries)

Phillips, Charles · 1818 · Old Bookshelf

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

New York William Crosby & Co. First American Edition 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Eduard Manet 340pp. First American Edition. Original green paper over boards, original spine label, uncut edges. Boards chipped, overall handling soil, spine chipped and missing 2" piece at bottom...

Memoirs of Frederica Sophia Wilhelmina, Princess Royal of Prussia, Margravine of Baireuth, Sister of Frederick the Great.(Volume I only)

Wilhelmina, Frederica Sophia · 1877 · Old Bookshelf

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Boston James R. Osgood and Company First Edition 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall 268pp. Volume I only. 16mo. First Edition. Rust stamped cloth, black lettering to cover, black ornamentation and gilt lettering to spine, all edges red-stained. Wear to corners and spine, conten...

Samuel Beckett: A Biography

Bair, Deirdre · 1978 · The Glass Key

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. First impression. 8vo. Pp xiv + 736 + 24 pp b&w plates. Black cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. Name of ownership on the front free endpaper else a clean, unmarked and tightly bound copy in an unclipped dust jacke...

Burying the Bones. Pearl Buck in China.

PEARL BUCK. Hilary Spurling. · 2010 · Clearwater Books

£7.50 (€8.99 | $9.91 | ¥1,582)

Profile Books, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 340pp. Red boards lettered in silver at the spine. Decorated endpapers. With a portrait frontispiece and twenty photographs. In fine state with very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper, exhibiting a singl...