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VITA SCHOLASTICA Ou La VIE Du COLLEGE; Poeme Latin en Quatre Livres

Rossignol, J[ean]. P[ierre. 1804 - 1893] · 1836 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$357.50 (€324.36 | £270.60 | ¥57,088)

Paris: Autuste Durand, Libraire, 1836. 1st Edition. Period tan quarter calf binding, with marbled paper boards. TEG. Marbled eps. [6], 194, [2] pp. Printed on pink paper. Dual title pages, one in French, one in Latin. 8vo. 9-1/2" x 6". General wear to binding. Very Good. Rare ...

APERTURE MAGAZINE. Complete Run, Issue #1 - #227 (Summer 2017)

Adams, Ansel; Ferris, Melton; Lange, Dorothea; Louie, Ernest; Morgan, Barbara; Newhall, Beaumont ; Newhall, Nancy; Warren, Dody; White, Minor - Founders · 1952 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$11,000.00 (€9,980.20 | £8,326.14 | ¥1,756,558)

San Francisco: , 1952. 1st Printing. Original paper covers. Divers paginations. Illustrated from photographs. Divers sizes. The first 14 volumes are housed in two custom grey cloth clamshell cases. The condition of the earlier issues show varying degrees of wear, from Good - V...

MISCELLANEOUS WORKS, in Verse and Prose, of the Late Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq. In Three Volumes.; Consisting of Such as were never before Printed in Twelves. With some Account of the Life and Writings of the Author, By Mr. Tickell

[Addison, Joseph. 1672 - 1719]. Tickell, Mr. [Thomas. 1685 - 1740] - Contributor/Editor · 1726 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$247.50 (€224.55 | £187.34 | ¥39,523)

London: Printed for Jacob Tonson in the Strand, 1726. 1st edition (NCBEL II, 1099). Period full calf with raised spine bands, gilt embellishments. Maroon leather title labels in second compartment. Red speckled edges. 3 volumes: [6], xxxv, [1 (blank)], 267, [11]; 321, [3 (blan...

TWENTY LESSONS From The TWENTIETH CENTURY

Snyder, Timothy · 2017 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$82.50 (€74.85 | £62.45 | ¥13,174)

Wilkinsburg, PA: Printed by Tip Type for Caliban Book Shop, 2017. 1st printing. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Broadside, printed in black & orange on gray card stock. 17" x 11". Fine. Timothy Snyder is the Housum Professor of History at Yale University. Remarks from ...

The METROPOLITAN.; A Journal of Literature, Science and the Fine Arts. Volume I, V-VIII, XI-XV

Marryat, Frederick [1792 - 1848] - Editor · 1836 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$522.50 (€474.06 | £395.49 | ¥83,436)

London: James Cochrane and Co, 1836. 1st printings. Association copy. Half calf with marbled paper boards, stamped in gilt to back strips, speckled edges and navy blue and red marbled endpapers. 10 volumes: [iv] 436, 180 (ads); [iv] 456, 128 (ads) [4 index]; [iv] 440, 136 (ads...

The TROUBLE With LAZY ETHEL

Gann, Ernest K. · 1958 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$38.50 (€34.93 | £29.14 | ¥6,148)

NY: Sloane, 1958. 1st edition. Blue & green cloth binding. Dust jacket. 320 pp. 8vo. NF (a few 'dog-earred' leaves)/NF (small abrasion on front panel fold).

CHIUSHINGURA, or The Loyal League, A Japanese Romance...; Translated By Frederick V[ictor]. Dickins [1838-1915], With Notes and an Appendix Containing a Metrical Version of The Ballad of Takasago, and Specimens of Original Text in the Japanese Character. Illustrated by numerous Engravings on Wood, drawn and executed by Japanese Artists, and printed on Japanese Paper

Izumo, Takeda [1691 - 1756]; Shoraku, Miyoshi [1693 - 1772?] & Senryu, Namiki [1693 -1749]; Owre, Alfred - Former Owner · 1875 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$3,025.00 (€2,744.56 | £2,289.69 | ¥483,053)

Yokohama: Printed at the "Japan Gazette" Office, 1875. First English Language Edition. Bound in full deep blue morocco, by Sean Richards of Byzantium Studios, with gilt decorations to spine & boards. TEG. Marbled eps. [title] [i] ii-v [vi-x] [1] 2-160 [1-3] 4-56 [appendix] [10...

GREED. Parts 8, 9, 11; Broadside / Flyer No. 6

Wakoski, Diane [b. 1937] · 0 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, (n. d.). First Edition. Single sheet of blue paper printed to recto only. Printed in black and purple with Black Sparrow Press device. Broadside 14" x 10". A NF copy.

ROMOLA

Eliot, George [pseudonym for Evans, Mary Anne. 1819 - 1880] · 1890 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$137.50 (€124.75 | £104.08 | ¥21,957)

Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1890. 1st edition thus. Faux-vellum spine over red cloth boards. TEG. Red cloth dust wrappers, with gilt stamped lettering to spine panel. 2 volumes: 475, [3]; 477, [3 (blank)] pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Minor shelfwear. Bookplate. Period poi. DJ offs...

AMERICAN LANDS And LETTERS. Leather=Stocking to Poe's "Raven"

Mitchell, Donald G[rant. 1822 - 1908] · 1899 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$33.00 (€29.94 | £24.98 | ¥5,270)

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899. 1st edition (BAL 13984). Original publisher's tan rough weav linen cloth binding with dark brown & gilt stamping. TEG. xxiv, [2], 412 pp. Partially unopened. Illustrated. 8vo. Light wear & soiling to binding. Bookplate & booklabel to fr...

In The REALMS Of GOLD. A Book of Verse 1891 - 1901

Sosso, Lorenzo [b. 1867] · 1902 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$55.00 (€49.90 | £41.63 | ¥8,783)

San Francisco: D. P. Elder and Morgan Shepard, 1902. First edition, limited to 500cc. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author underneath the frontis photographic image. Original publisher's soft grey paper-wrapped boards, printed in gold & red. [6], 171, [3 (blank)] pp. Frontispiec...

The FOREST PILGRIMS, and Other Poems

Bigney, M[ark]. F[rederick. 1817 - 1886] · 1867 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$148.50 (€134.73 | £112.40 | ¥23,714)

New Orleans / New York: James A. Gresham / M. Doolady, 1867. 1st Edition (Sabin 5351). Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine; beveled edges. [iii] - xii, [13] - 258, [4 (blank)] pp. 12mo. 7-3/8" x 4-5/8". Light shelfwear. Gresham's books...

TIME STOPPED

Milne, Ewart [1903 - 1987] · 1967 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$49.50 (€44.91 | £37.47 | ¥7,905)

London: Plow Poems, 1967. 1st edition, SIGNED by Milne on title pg. Grey-green cloth, lettering stamped in red to spine. Pale blue dust jacket printed in red and grey. 165, [3] pp. 8vo. 8-3/4" x 5-5/8". Light wear to extremities; minor soil to ffep. Else clean and tight. Dust ...

HIGH ISLAND. New and Selected Poems

Murphy, Richard [1927 - ] · 1974 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,757)

New York, Evanston, San Francisco, London: Harper & Row, 1974. 1st U.S. Edition. Grey quarter cloth over white cloth boards, silver lettering to spine. In white dj with full b/w photographic illustration to front panel. x, 118, [4] pp. 8vo. 8-1/4" x 5-1/2". Light wear, minor s...

An UNEVEN BALANCE. Collected Poems

Smith, Walter E. · 2013 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$41.25 (€37.43 | £31.22 | ¥6,587)

: ZD Publishing, 2013. 1st edition. INSCRIBED by Smith. Blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine. No jacket as issued. viii, 204, [4] pp. 8vo. 8-3/4" x 5-5/8". Very minor shelfwear, else clean and crisp. NF condition.

TWO CONCEITS; For the Eye to Sing, if Possible

Tate, Allen · 1950 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$165.00 (€149.70 | £124.89 | ¥26,348)

(n. p.): The Cummington Press, 1950. 1st printing (Fallwell, p. 23). Grey/brown paper wrappers, tied with white string. White paper title label to front wrapper. Unpaginated, but 14 pp. Small b/w illustrations within. 7-3/8" x 4-1/2". Single small ex-library marking, small boo...

EDSEL

Shapiro, Karl [1913 - 2000] · 1971 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$33.00 (€29.94 | £24.98 | ¥5,270)

New York: Bernard Geis, 1971. 1st edition (Bartlett A20). Hardback. Dust jacket. 308 pp. 8vo. VG+/VG (some chipping & edgewear). Pulitzer prize-winning poet's first novel. ".. now a rare Book", Bartlett.

The Book of TUV

[Little Golden Book]. Watson, Jane Werner · 1965 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$13.75 (€12.48 | £10.41 | ¥2,196)

NY: Golden Press, 1965. 1st thus. Pictorial boards. Illustrated in color by William Dugan. VG (some wear & rubbing/sp worn). Little Golden Book 629-39.

The Book of S.

[Little Golden Book]. Watson, Jane Werner · 1965 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$13.75 (€12.48 | £10.41 | ¥2,196)

NY: Golden Press, 1965. 1st thus. Pictorial boards. Illustrated in color by William Dugan. VG (some wear & rubbing/sp worn). Little Golden Book 627-39.

The Book of R.

[Little Golden Book]. Watson, Jane Werner · 1965 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$13.75 (€12.48 | £10.41 | ¥2,196)

NY: Golden Press, 1965. 1st thus. Pictorial boards. Illustrated in color by William Dugan. VG (some wear & rubbing/sp worn). Little Golden Book 626-39.