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The Black Book : An Agon

DURRELL, Lawrence (1912-1990) · 1938

$1,324.00 (€1,201.25 | £1,002.16 | ¥211,426)

Paris The Obelisk Press First Printing True First Edition (with error in pagination at pp. 114-118), second issue (with erratum slip tipped onto title page), of Durrell's first significant novel and the first volume in the Villa Seurat Series, founded by Henry Miller, Anaïs Ni...

[Angling] Red Palmer : a practical treatise on fly fishing

TAYLER, James · 1888

$199.00 (€180.55 | £150.63 | ¥31,778)

London Empire Printing & Publishing Co. Second Edition of this angling title. Crown 8vo (184 x 118mm): [6],58,[6]pp, with fascinating illustrated angling advertisements bound front and backs. Original olive green pictorial cloth, covers paneled in blind, upper cover lettered i...

[Photobook] [Castles] The History and Description Of Leeds Castle, Kent

MARTIN, Charles Wykeham (1801-1870) · 1869

$626.00 (€567.96 | £473.83 | ¥99,964)

Westminster Nichols and Sons Only Edition (according to the author's preface, only 500 copies were printed, "using original photographs to assist in the study of English castles by anti-quaries"). Royal 4to (379 x 281mm): x,210,[2],xxxvi pp, with eight mounted albumen prints b...

[Moby Dick] The White Whale

LEE, Henry (1826/7–1888) · 1878

$101.00 (€91.64 | £76.45 | ¥16,128)

London R. K. Burt & Co. First Edition Sole edition of this detailed survey of sightings of the white Beluga whale, beginning in the 1860s. Demy 8vo (215 x 139mm): 16 pp. Original pale yellow wrappers printed in black. Blind bookseller's stamp to lower cover (Willing & Co., 366...

[Pearl Harbor] [Exenophobia] The Yellow Peril in Action, A Possible Chapter in History. Dedicated to the men who train and direct the Men behind the Guns

MANSON, Marsden (1850–1931) · 1907

$86.00 (€78.03 | £65.10 | ¥13,733)

San Francisco [Britton & Rey, printers] First Edition First (and apparently only) Printing of this work of xenophobic fiction. Slim demy 8vo (230 x 154mm): 28pp on coated stock, with folding map titled "Map of the World Showing the three Great Oceans as Units and our Unfortifi...

Le Diable Amoureux, Nouvelle Espagnole [Unopened]

CAZOTTE, Jacques (1719-1792; Jean-Émile Laboureur, 1877-1943 (Illustrates) · 1921

$364.00 (€330.25 | £275.52 | ¥58,126)

Paris Chez Camille Bloch Limited Edition Copy No. 534 of 575 copies, "Réimprimée selon l'édition originale," with the final state of the engravings. Demy 8vo (226 x 140mm): ix,[1],152,[4]pp, printed on on Arches vergé, with six full-page burin engravings (including frontispiec...

[Syphilis] La Réaction de Wassermann. Sa valeur dans le diagnostic et le traitement de la Syphilis

LEREDDE, Laurent V. (1866-1926) · 1912

$274.00 (€248.60 | £207.40 | ¥43,754)

Paris A. Maloine First (and only) edition of this illustrated pamphlet on the first serologic (complement fixation) test for syphilis, published just six years after the German bacteriologist August von Wassermann developed the test, in 1906. Slim royal 8vo (241 x 155mm): 43,[...

[World War] Death of a Hero

ALDINGTON, Richard (1892-1962); Paul Nash (Illustrates) · 1929

$424.00 (€384.69 | £320.94 | ¥67,707)

London Chatto and Windus First Impression First English Edition (appearing a few weeks after the American edition) of this canonical modernist novel. Thick crown 8vo (207 x 124mm): xii,440pp. With the author's note, commenting on the publishers' censorship and explaining the u...

Paper Airplanes : 1911 and 1973 [Signed]

KOELEWYN, Arie · 1977

$64.00 (€58.07 | £48.44 | ¥10,220)

Philadelphia The Paper Airplane Press Limited Edition No. 13 of 25 copies numbered for sale (there were also 25 copied lettered for private distribution (A–Y) of this scarce pamphlet. Demy 8vo (216 x 141mm): [2],12.[2] pp, including two full-page diagrams and vignette on limit...

First Editions of American Authors : A Manual for Book-Lovers [George Herbert Palmer's copy]

STONE, Herbert Stuart (1871-1915); Eugene Field (1850-1895) · 1893

$199.00 (€180.55 | £150.63 | ¥31,778)

Cambridge, MA Stone & Kimball First Trade Edition (a numbered edition of 50 large-paper copies signed by the publishers also was issued) of the first bibliography of American authors. Introduced by the poet Eugene Field. Foolscap 8vo (162 x 100mm): xxiv,223,[3]pp. Publisher's ...

[Arctic] Letters from a Globetrotter. Written for Members of the Round-The-World Society

RAYMOND, Elmer D. · 0

$649.00 (€588.83 | £491.24 | ¥103,637)

[various places] Travelogue in the form of subscription letters written by Elmer D. Raymond, founder and president of the Round-the-World Society. Demy 8vo (232 x 160mm): frontispiece of clipper ship from sketch by Raymond and title page in red and black, folding map of the wo...

[Photobook] [Eclipse] Reports on the Observations of the Total Eclipse of the Sun, December 21-22, 1889, and of the Total Eclipse of the Moon, July 22, 1888, to which is added A Catalogue of the Library (Contributions from the Lick Observatory No. 2)

SCHAEBERLE, J. M. (John Martin, 1853-1924); S. W. Burnham; Edward Singleton Holden · 1891

$574.00 (€520.79 | £434.47 | ¥91,660)

Sacramento State Office, A. J. Johnston, Supt. State Printing First edition of this combined report, featuring original prints of some of the earliest photographs to document a solar eclipse. Demy 8vo (227 x 142mm): [4],121,[1]; 121*,[1]pp, with frontispiece ("Silver print of...

Photographs of English and Scottish Scenery. Dunkeld. 12 Views

WILSON, G. W. (George Washington, 1823-1893) · 1866

$499.00 (€452.74 | £377.70 | ¥79,684)

Aberdeen: 24 and 25, Crown Street Printed by John Duffus First Printing A superb copy in original cloth, with twelve albumen prints by Wilson, from his series on towns and villages. Demy 8vo (220 x 179mm): twelve albumen photographs of Dunkeld (97 x 80mm) mounted on card with ...

[Banned Books] The Kreutzer Sonata. Translated by Benj. R. Tucker. Thirty-Sixth Thousand; [together with:] Sequel to the Kreutzer Sonata

TOLSTOI [Tolstoy], Count Leo (1829-1910); Benjamin Ricketson Tucker [translates] · 18901899

$349.00 (€316.64 | £264.17 | ¥55,731)

Boston / New York Benj. R. Tucker / Thomas Crowell First American Edition (later printing) of this translation of Tolstoy's fictional account of imagined infidelity followed by brutal murder "that amounts to a tendentious diatribe against sexual passion of any kind." (Literary...

[Photobook] Wunder in der Natur. Bild-dokumente schöner Pflanzenformen

BLOSSFELDT, Karl (1865-1932) · 1942

$1,624.00 (€1,473.44 | £1,229.24 | ¥259,332)

Leipzig Verlag: H. Schmidt & C. Günther Pantheon-Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft First Edition First (and only) Printing of the final book in Blossfeldt's celebrated trilogy (with Urformen der Kunst and Wundergarten der Natur), showcasing "unfamiliar shapes from the vegetal world...

[Thames] [Angling] The Oarsman’s and Angler’s Map of the River Thames from its Source to London Bridge. One inch to a mile

[REYNOLDS, James] · 1885

$251.00 (€227.73 | £189.99 | ¥40,081)

London James Reynolds & Sons, 174 Strand A beautifully preserved later issue of this multi-folding strip map, showing settlements along the river, from above Cricklade down to London Bridge, with locks, bridges, and rail lines, and including details of toll charges, angling la...

[Meteorology] An Essay On Dew, And Several Appearances Connected With It [Presentation Copy]

[Charles Darwin] WELLS, William Charles (1757-1817) · 1815

$1,024.00 (€929.07 | £775.09 | ¥163,520)

London printed for Taylor and Hessey, No. 93, Fleet Street Second Edition of this classic of meteorology (first published in 1814), which revolutionized the understanding of ventilation in public places and for which Wells was awarded the Rumford Medal of the Royal Society. De...

[Photobook] The Book of Harlech

COBURN, Alvin Langdon (1882-1966) · 1920

$851.00 (€772.10 | £644.14 | ¥135,894)

Harlech [Wales] D. H. Parry First Edition Scarce first printing of Coburn's celebration of this otherworldly Welsh village to which he and his wife fled from London, growing vegetables and keeping goats. Oblong 8vo (174 x 232mm): [6],7-15,[1]pp, with 20 numbered collotype engr...

Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among The Lowly; [offered with:] A Key To Uncle Tom's Cabin : presenting the original facts and documents upon which the story is founded : together with corroborative statements verifying the truth of the work

STOWE, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896) · 1853

$1,024.00 (€929.07 | £775.09 | ¥163,520)

Boston / Cleveland, Ohio Published by John P. Jewett & Co. / Jewett, Proctor & Worthington [from 1852] First Edition A striking set of this early printing ("Two Hundred and Sixty-Third Thousand") in original bindings, published one year after the first edition, offered with a ...

[Gastronomy] [Food & Drink] Les Plaisirs de la Table. Où, sous une forme nouvelle, l'Auteur a dévoilé maints délicieux secrets et recettes de bonne Cuisine, transcrit les précieux avis de Gourmets fameux et de fins Gastronomes, conseillers aimables et sûrs de l'Art du Bien-Manger. Préface de Robert de Flers. Dessins de P. F. Grignon

NIGNON, Édouard (1865-1934); Robert de Flers (Introduces); P. F. Grignon (Illustrates) · 1930

$274.00 (€248.60 | £207.40 | ¥43,754)

Paris Chez l'auteur / chez Lapina, Editeur Limited Edition Second Revised Edition, "where, in a new form, the author has revealed many delicious secrets and recipes for good cooking, transcribes the precious opinions of famous gourmets and fine gourmets, friendly and sure advi...