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[Forgeries] The Spectacles [First and Second Printings]

POE, Edgar Allan (1809-1849) · 1938

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

Philadelphia Richard Gimbel First Edition Two copies, First and Second Printings, of this curious Poeana. Small 8vo (89 x 137mm): [2],14pp. Original staple-bound dappled purple card covers (first) and salmon pink wrappers (second), both printed in black. Text setting identical...

[Photobook] The English at Home

BRANDT, Bill (1904-1983) · 1936

$424.00 (€384.69 | £320.94 | ¥67,707)

New York Charles Scribner's Sons First Edition First Printing (U.S. issue, with "Scribners" to tail of spine) of the photographer's first book, introduced by Raymond Mortimer. Royal 8vo (235 x 180 mm): 8pp, with 63 full-page captioned gravure plates by Brandt. Publisher's glaz...

Bacchus Behave! The Lost Art of Polite Drinking

WHITAKER, Alma (1880-1956) · 1933

$724.00 (€656.88 | £548.01 | ¥115,613)

New York Frederick A. Stokes First Edition First Printing of this scarce cocktail manual, with chapters describing manners and behavior around drinking, as well as chapter descriptions of cocktails, whisky, gin, brandy, Champagne, beer, etc. 8vo (206 x 136mm): [8],140pp. Publi...

[Photobook] Photographic Views of Warwickshire

BEDFORD, Francis (1815/1816-1894) · 1865

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

Chester Catherall & Pritchard, Eastgate Row A fine album of views by one of the preeminent nineteenth century photographers. Oblong royal 8vo (180 × 249mm): 16 interleaved albumen photographs from collodion negatives, each mounted on card with gilt fillet border and title prin...

[Photobook] Histoire de la Photographie

LÈCUYER, Raymond · 1945

$424.00 (€384.69 | £320.94 | ¥67,707)

Paris Baschet et Cie, 13, Rue Saint-Georges First Edition of the most sought after and rarest of L'Illustration's great albums, a landmark work describing in exhaustive detail photography's early development. Text in French. Royal 8vo (375 x 280mm): [8],451,[5]pp, profusely il...

[Photobook] It was a Grey Day. Photographs of Berlin

BADGER, Gerry (b. 1948) · 2015

$86.00 (€78.03 | £65.10 | ¥13,733)

[Berlin] Peperoni Books First Printing First Edition (so stated), collecting photographs of back streets and dilapidated spaces in the Berlin neighborhoods of Mitte, Tiergarten, Wedding, and Kreuzberg. Oblong royal 8vo (243 x 300mm): 120 pp, including 49 full-color illustratio...

[Photobook] Eisen und Stahl [Iron and Steel]

RENGER-PATZSCH, Albert (1897-1966) · 1931

$874.00 (€792.97 | £661.55 | ¥139,567)

Berlin Verlag Hermann Reckendorf G. m. b. H. Second Edition Virtually pristine example of this cornerstone of "Neue Sachlichkeit" ("New Objectivity") photography, by one of its leading practitioners. Foreword by Albert Vögler. Slim royal 8vo (300 x 210mm): [14]pp, with 97 numb...

[Juvenile] The Three Astronauts [I tre cosmonauti]

ECO, Umberto and Eugenio Carmi · 1989

$64.00 (€58.07 | £48.44 | ¥10,220)

New York Harcourt Brace Jovanovich First Edition First Printing of the second installment in Eco's trilogy of children’s books, also including The Bomb and the General and The Gnomes of Gnu Bompiani, all illustrated by Eugenio Carmi. Translated by William Weaver. Tall, slim 8v...

[Photobook] The English at Home

BRANDT, Bill (1904-1983) · 1936

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

London B. T. Batsford Ltd First Edition First Printing (so stated) of the photographer's first book, introduced by Raymond Mortimer. Royal 8vo (235 x 180 mm): 8pp, with 63 full-page captioned gravure plates by Brandt. Publisher's glazed photographically illustrated boards, spi...

River Niger, a Novel. With a Prefatory Letter by T. E. Lawrence

JESTY, Simon [W. W. Vickery]; Lawrence, T. E. (Preface) · 1935

$176.00 (€159.68 | £133.22 | ¥28,105)

London Boriswood First Edition First Impression of "this deservedly forgotten novel." (O'Brien) With a prefatory letter by T. E. Lawrence. Crown 8vo: (188 x 120): [8],11-287,[1]pp, with three publisher's promotions laid in. Original saffron linen, spine decorated and lettered ...

[Travel Guide] Austria Togethep [sic] With Budapest, Prague, Karlsbad, and Marienbad [First State] Handbook for Travellers

BAEDEKER, Karl [Ludwig Johannes], 1801-1859 · 1929

$199.00 (€180.55 | £150.63 | ¥31,778)

Leipzig Karl Baedeker, Publisher Early Reprint Twelfth Revised Edition, one of the rare uncorrected copies with the typo "togethep" on title page (most copies were corrected by hand in ink). Small 8vo (157 x 103mm): lxiv,518pp, with 86 maps and plans, two panoramas, and street...

The Soft Voice of the Serpent [Signed]

GORDIMER, Nadine (1923-2014) · 1952

$274.00 (€248.60 | £207.40 | ¥43,754)

New York Simon and Schuster First Printing An exceptional signed First Printing of the Nobel laureate's first book published outside of her native South Africa. Crown 8vo (205 x 131mm): [6],244,[2]pp. Publisher's greyish-brown finely woven cloth, upper cover stamped in gold, s...

Remembrance Rock [Inscribed]

SANDBURG, Carl (1878-1967) · 1948

$274.00 (€248.60 | £207.40 | ¥43,754)

New York Harcourt, Brace First Printing First Trade Edition of the poet's first novel, published when Sandburg was seventy. Thick 8vo: [10],1067,[1]pp. Publisher's navy blue finely woven cloth, spine stamped in gold; wraparound illustrated dust jacket by Paul Sample, priced $5...

The Danger Tree [Uncorrected Proof]

MANNING, Olivia (1908-1980) · 1977

$49.00 (€44.46 | £37.09 | ¥7,825)

London Weidenfeld and Nicolson Advance Reading Copy Uncorrected proof of the first title in Manning's Levant Trilogy, with publisher's press release and compliments slip laid in. Tall 8vo (214 x 138mm): 196pp. Publisher's stiff tangerine-colored wrappers printed in black. Fine...

PARKMAN, Francis (1823-1893) · 1931

$101.00 (€91.64 | £76.45 | ¥16,128)

New York Farrar & Rinehart First Edition thus First Printing of this edition with numerous illustrations by James Daugherty of Parkman's classic account of a summer tour, in 1846, of Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, and Kansas, "with a view of studying the manners and character of...

[Antiquitates Rutupinae] [Antiquities of Richborough] Joannis Battely S.T.P. Archidiaconi Cantuariensis opera posthuma. Viz. Antiquitates Rutupinæ et Antiquitates S. Edmundi Burgi ad annum 1272 perductæ

BATTELY, John (1647-1708) · 1745

$326.00 (€295.78 | £246.76 | ¥52,058)

Oxoniæ [Oxford] e theatro Sheldoniano First Edition thus Two works bound in one, each with half-title and title page, registration, and pagination. Text in Latin (an English translation, in octavo, appeared in 1774). 4to: [12],138,[4]; [4],164pp, with 16 plates (including seve...

In Patagonia

CHATWIN, Bruce (1940-1989) · 1977

$724.00 (€656.88 | £548.01 | ¥115,613)

London Jonathan Cape First Edition An exceptional first impression ("First published 1977), first issue (map endpapers.), without even a degree of fading to the dust jacket spine panel's fugitive colors, of Chatwin's first book. 8vo: [4],204pp, with map frontispiece, and 14 fu...

One Man's Initiation : 1917 [First State]

DOS PASSOS, John (1896-1970) · 1920

$724.00 (€656.88 | £548.01 | ¥115,613)

London George Allen and Unwin First Edition First (and only) Impression, First State, of the author's first books, one of only 750 copies printed and bound. Small 8vo: 128pp. Publisher's pale blue mesh cloth, front cover and spine stamped in navy blue, text printed on heavy st...

Famous Frosts and Frost Fairs In Great Britain. Chronicled from the Earliest to the Present Time

ANDREWS, William (1848-1908) · 1887

$274.00 (€248.60 | £207.40 | ¥43,754)

London George Redway Limited Edition No. 376 of 400 copies printed. Thin, square 8vo: viii,91,[1]pp, with frontispiece ("Frost fair on the River Thames, in 1814") and two full-page engravings ("Frost Fair on the Thames in the reign of Charles II" and "Frost Fair on the Thames"...

Infinite Jest [First State]

WALLACE, David Foster (1962-2008) · 1996

$574.00 (€520.79 | £434.47 | ¥91,660)

New York Little, Brown First Edition First Printing (full number line), in First State dust jacket (incorrectly spelling William Vollmann as "Vollman" on back panel) of the author's magnum opus. Thick 8vo: [4],1079,[1]. Publisher's quarter-bound French blue cloth spine over pe...