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[Guide Book] [Louis XIV] A Day in Versailles. Illustrated Guidebook of The Museum, The Park, The Chateau, The Trianons.

[MAURICHEAU-BEAUPRÉ, Charles; CUNARD, Nancy (translates?)] · 1950

$124.00 (€112.50 | £93.86 | ¥19,801)

Paris Braun & Co. First Impression First English language edition of this Cunard curiosity, as she purportedly translated this guide book. Foolscap 8vo: 64pp, with 32 full-page illustrations from photographs and 8 plans. Original greyish-beige perfect-bound wrappers printed in...

[Graphic Novel] Gods' Man. A novel in woodcuts

WARD, Lynd (1905–1985) · 1929

$499.00 (€452.74 | £377.70 | ¥79,684)

New York Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith First Printing First Trade Edition of the first of Ward’s stories without words, relying solely on visually striking woodcuts to tell a Faustian tale of an artist who signs away his soul for a magical paintbrush. Demy 8vo (205 x 140mm)...

[Photobook] Atget Photographe de Paris [Ben Shahn's copy]

ATGET, E. [Eugène, 1857-1927]; Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) · 1930

$1,399.00 (€1,269.30 | £1,058.93 | ¥223,402)

New York E. Weyhe First Edition of this high point of twentieth-century documentary photography, from the library of one of the foremost documentary photographers. Preface (in French) by Pierre Mac-Orlan. Royal 8vo (267 x 207mm): [4],23,[1]pp, with frontispiece portrait of Atg...

[Art Journal] Noise 5; [with] Noise 6; [and with] Noise 15/16

[various artists and authors] · 1986

$326.00 (€295.78 | £246.76 | ¥52,058)

Paris Maeght Editeur [through 1992] Three issues of Maeght Editeur's beautifully produced, outsized contemporary art and literary journal, Noise, all Fine and profusely illustrated in color. Crown Folio (368 x 268mm): 56; 56; 80pp, with numerous reproductions of original litho...

The history of the life and adventures of Mr. Duncan Campbell, a gentleman, who tho’ deaf and dumb, writes down any stranger’s name at first sight: with their future contingencies of fortune. Now Living In Exeter-Court over-against the Savoy in the Strand

[DEFOE, Daniel (1660-1731); BOND, William (c. 1675–1735)] · 1720

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

London printed for E. Curll: and sold by W. Mears and T. Jauncy without Temple Bar, W. Meadows in Cornhill, A. Bettesworth in Pater-Noster-Row, W. Lewis in Covent Garden, and W. Graves in St. James’s Street First Edition of this purported autobiography of the notorous London f...

Plain Pleasures

BOWLES, Jane (1917-1973) · 1966

$124.00 (€112.50 | £93.86 | ¥19,801)

London Peter Owen First Edition Correct first printing (with misprint of extra "one" on p. 126, line 15) of Bowles's only short stories, collecting "Plain pleasures," "Everything is nice," "A Guatemalan idyll," "Camp cataract," "A day in the open," "A quarrelling pair," and "A...

[American Revolution] Plans and Sections of the Obelisk on Bunker's Hill, with the Details of Experiments Made in Quarrying the Granite Stone; [offered with:] A Panoramic View from Bunker Hill Monument

WILLARD, S. (Solomon, 1783-1861); SMILLIE, James (1807-1885)

$1,399.00 (€1,269.30 | £1,058.93 | ¥223,402)

Boston [printed by Samuel N. Dickinson, Washington Street] / Published by Luther Stevens, 186 Washington Street Two works documenting the first public obelisk in the United States and the technology developed to create it. First (and only) Edition of the Willard, quite scarce....

The House of Breath

GOYEN, William (1915-1983); Balint Stephen ("Val") Biro (Illustrates) · 1951

$139.00 (€126.11 | £105.21 | ¥22,197)

London Chatto & Windus First Printing First British Edition of Goyen's acclaimed debut novel, touching on themes of family, sexuality, time, place, and memory. Crown 8vo (183 x 120mm): 223,[1]pp. Publisher's burgundy cloth, beautifully illustrated dust jacket by Biro, priced 1...

[True Crime] [Fingerprint Archive] The Finger Print Instructor . . . Based upon the Sir E. R. Henry System of Classifying and Filing. A text book for the guidance of Finger Print Experts and an instructor for persons interested in the study of Finger Prints

KUHNE, Frederick · 1917

$251.00 (€227.73 | £189.99 | ¥40,081)

New York Munn & Company Second Printing of the first authoritative American book on fingerprinting, profusely annotated and with an archive of related emphemera. Demy 8vo (227 x 143mm): vii,[1],155,[1]pp, with frontispiece, all eleven double-page plates of fingerprint examples...

The Mosquito Coast [Signed]

THEROUX , Paul · 1981

$326.00 (€295.78 | £246.76 | ¥52,058)

London Hamish Hamilton First Printing True First Edition, preceding the American edition, of the author's best novel, "clever, superbly composed, also terrifying." (Burgess) Filmed by Peter Weir, with Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, and River Phoenix, and awarded both the Yorkshi...

[Sketchbook] [École de Boulle] Cours de l'histoire de l'art

[REYNOUD, Marcel] · 1915

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

Paris [Original Manuscript] Beautifully executed sketchbook, in pencil, pen-and-ink, and watercolor, by a student at the prestigious École de Boulle in Paris. Demy 8vo (217 x 165mm): 27 leaves of graph paper with lesson notes (emphasizing architecture) in an elegant script on ...

[Gambling] Rouge et Noir. The Academicians of 1823, or the Greeks of the Palais Royal and the Clubs of St. James's

[DUNNE, Charles, writing as:] PERSIUS, Charles` · 1823

$424.00 (€384.69 | £320.94 | ¥67,707)

London Lawlor and Quick, 9, Old Broad Street, and Stephen Couchman, 10, Throgmorton Street First Edition Expurgated edition of this controversial contemporary indictment of gambling clubs in Regency London, which named some of the more profligate nobility. Not including pages ...

Tenant Farmer [Signed]

CALDWELL, Erskine (1903-1987) · 1935

$251.00 (€227.73 | £189.99 | ¥40,081)

New York Phalanx Press First Edition Caldwell's scalding indictment of tenant farming and sharecropping in the Depression-era South, reserving especial contempt for Eugene Talmadge, then governor of Georgia. Signed by Caldwell on the title page. Slim 8vo (195 x 135mm): 30,[2]p...

[Sodome et Gomorrhe] Cities of the Plain [Remembrance of Things Past]

PROUST, Marcel (1871-1822) · 1929

$401.00 (€363.82 | £303.53 | ¥64,035)

London Alfred A. Knopf Limited Edition Part Five (complete in two volumes) of this masterpiece of modernity, "a milestone in the study of human consciousness and a revolution in the history of prose writing." (Literary Encyclopedia) Copy No. 515 from an edition of 2230. Transl...

[Photobook] Moor Park Rickmansworth: A Series of Photographs. With an introduction by Lady Ebury.

COBURN, Alvin Langdon (1882-1966) · 1915

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

London Elkin Matthews, Cork Street First Edition One of Coburn's "most exquisite interpretations" (Newhall), with twenty photogravures in the pictorialist style of the "grandest 18th-century mansion in Hertfordshire taken" (Pevsner), made while Coburn was teaching photography ...

Los Gangsters De Stalin [The Gangsters of Stalin]

TROTZKY [Trotsky], León (1874-1940) · 1940

$476.00 (€431.87 | £360.29 | ¥76,011)

Mexico Editorial América First Edition First Printing of Leon Trotsky's fragile, final book, published one month after his assassination, apparently at the behest of Joseph Stalin. In Spanish, with a prologue by Adolfo Zamora. 8vo (194 x 125mm): 191,[1]pp. Original Illustrated...

Omoo : A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas

MELVILLE, Herman (1918-1891) · 1922

$199.00 (€180.55 | £150.63 | ¥31,778)

London Constable [through 1924] First Edition thus Limited Edition (one of only 750 copies printed) of Melville's second novel, first published by John Murray, in London, on March 30, 1847. Royal 8vo (226 x 142mm): xiv,375,[1]pp. Publisher's slate-blue cloth, spine and covers ...

[The Cairo Trilogy (al-Thulathiyya), comprising] Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, [and] Sugar Street [Inscribed by the translator]

MAHFOUZ, Naguib (1911-2006) · 1989

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

Cairo The American University in Cairo Press [through 1992] First Impression True First English-language Editions of Mahfouz's masterpiece, one of the greatest works in Arab literature, complete in three volumes, each inscribed by the lead translator (Hutchins). Translated by ...

[Homelessness] The Milk and Honey Route : A Handbook for Hobos by Hobos

[Nels Anderson (1889-1986), writing as:] STIFF, Dean · 1931

$574.00 (€520.79 | £434.47 | ¥91,660)

New York Vanguard Press First Edition First Printing of this pioneering study by the noted Chicago-School sociologist. Crown 8vo (190 x 130mm): xiii,[3],13-219,[1]pp, with 16 full-page drawings (including frontispiece) by Ernie Bushmiller. Publisher's black cloth spine with pa...

[Scandinavian Photography] [Street Photography] Poste Restante

STRöMHOLM, Christer (1918-2002) · 1967

$1,399.00 (€1,269.30 | £1,058.93 | ¥223,402)

Stockholm P. A. Norstedt and Söners Verlag First Edition Strohmholm's important second book, "his photographic autobiography or manifesto," and a "one of the most significant European photobooks of the 1960s." (Parr & Badger) Text in Swedish, by Tor-Ivan Odulf. Small quarto, u...