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[Cinema] F. W. Murnau [Inscribed to Jean Kress]

EISNER, Lotte H. (1896-1983) · 1964

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

Paris Editions Le Terrain Vague First Edition of this seminal study of the German film director, whose adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, "Nosfératu," is considered a masterpiece of Expressionist cinema. In French, with additional texts by Robert Plumpe and Robert Herlth. De...

[Ottoman Empire] A Modern Pilgrim in Mecca and a Siege in Sanaa

WAVELL, A. J. B. (Arthur John Byng, 1881-1916) · 1912

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

London John Constable First Edition Scarce First Printing of this clandestine tour of the Near East. Demy 8vo (213 x 138mm): viii,[2],349,[1]pp, with seven plates from photographs (one a map) and large folding map of Arabia in black and blue inserted at rear. Publisher's Pruss...

The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication [Survival of the Fittest]

DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882) · 1882

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

London John Murray Second Edition (Revised), Fifth Thousand, two volumes complete in fine original bindings, featuring first occurrence of the phrase "survival of the fittest." Crown 8vo (188 x 118): xiv,473,[1]; x,495,[1]pp, with 43 woodcut illustrations. Publisher's green cl...

[Photobook] The Door in the Wall, and Other Stories

WELLS, H. G. (Herbert George, 1866-1946); COBURN, Alvin Langdon (Illustrates) · 1911

$1,474.00 (€1,337.35 | £1,115.70 | ¥235,379)

New York Mitchell Kennerley Limited Edition, one of 600 copies, of "one of the finest pieces of bookmaking ever done in the United States." (Chicago Evening Post, 20 October 1911) Crown folio (370 x 260mm): [4],153,[1], with nine Aquatones and one photogravure. Publisher's q...

[El otoño del patriarca] The Autumn of the Patriarch [with Advance Reading Copy]

MARQUEZ, Gabriel Garcia (1927-2014) · 1970

$214.00 (€194.16 | £161.98 | ¥34,173)

London Jonathan Cape First British Edition First Impression, plus an uncommon uncorrected proof, of García Márquez's first novel following the worldwide success of One Hundred Years of Solitude. 8vo (215 x 130; 209 x 135mm): [6],229,[1]; [6],269,[1]pp. Publisher's Prussian blu...

[Exhibition Catalog] Conversations with the Dead: An Exhibition of Photographs of Prison Life

LYON, Danny; Billy McCune (introduces) · 1970

$49.00 (€44.46 | £37.09 | ¥7,825)

Houston Institute for the Arts: Rice University Introduced by inmate Billy McCune, whose drawings were exhibited alongside Lyon's gritty black-and-white images of daily life within the Texas Prison system. Slim demy 8vo (225 x 154mm) [8]pp, including four full-page plates (two...

[Gothic Horror] Borrhomeo the Astrologer. A Monkish Tale

LE FANU, J. Sheridan (1814-1873) · 1985

$101.00 (€91.64 | £76.45 | ¥16,128)

Edinburgh The Tragara Press Limited Edition First Edition in book form, No. 18 of 30 copies printed on Amalfi paper (total limitation: 150 copies, of which 130 for sale). With an introduction by W. J. Mc Cormack. Royal 8vo (256 x 167mm): pp. 35,[1]pp, with three engraved vigne...

[Speculative Fiction] Scarabaeus. The Story of an African Beetle [Henry N. Shore's copy)

LANZA, Clara Hammond (1858-1939); James Clarence Harvey (1859-1917) · 1892

$124.00 (€112.50 | £93.86 | ¥19,801)

London, Paris, and Melbourne Cassell & Company, Limited First Edition First Impression of this weird murder mystery novel, coauthored with James Clarence Harvey. Scarce British issue (FirstSearch lists only five copies worldwide), from sheets of New York publisher Lovell, Cory...

[Photobook] 122 Farvefotografier / 122 Colour Photographs

HELMER-PETERSEN, K[eld]. (1920-2013) · 1948

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

København [Copenhagen] Schoenberg First Edition First Printing of this foundational photobook, establishing color photography as an artistic medium ("The following reproductions have been selected from my attempts, through the medium of colour photography, to create pictures o...

Argon, A New Constituent of the Atmosphere

[Nobel Laureates] RAYLEIGH, Lord John William Strutt (1842-1919) and Professor William Ramsay (1852-1916) · 1896

$349.00 (€316.64 | £264.17 | ¥55,731)

City of Washington Published by the Smithsonian Institution First Printing First separate appearance of this scientific paper reporting discovery of the first inert gas, for which Rayleigh and Ramsay were awarded the Nobel prize. Royal 8vo (322 x 242mm): [4],43,[1]pp, with tab...

Dickens: Positively the First Appearance. A Centenary Review with A Bibliography of Sketches by Boz First Edition

DARTON, F. J. Harvey (1878-1936) ; [Charles Dickens] · 1933

$64.00 (€58.07 | £48.44 | ¥10,220)

London The Argonaut Press First Edition First Printing of this consideration of Charles Dickens's first published work. Demy 8vo (214 x 136): x,145,[5]pp, with portrait frontispiece and four further plates on inserted leaves. Addendum slip tipped in preceding p. 143. Publisher...

[Photobook] Transformation: or, The Romance of Monte Beni [The Marble Faun]

HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel (1804-1864) · 1860

$349.00 (€316.64 | £264.17 | ¥55,731)

Leipzig Bernhard Tauchnitz First Edition thus First Tauchnitz Edition (Todd & Bowden's fourth setting, impression Db), "copyright edition" on title page, of Hawthorne's Italian romance cum travel guide. Two volumes in one, thick foolscap 8vo (155 x 107mm): xii,292; vi,280,[2]p...

[Food & Beverage] Tea in Porcelain. A study of English Tea Drinking and English Porcelain Tea Ware, 1750-1800.

HUXLEY, Gervas (1894-1971) · 1952

$64.00 (€58.07 | £48.44 | ¥10,220)

[London] The Tea Centre First Printing Scarce booklet, with decorations (vignettes) by Elizabeth Corsellis, on the history of the British relationship with tea. Crown 8vo (183 x 122mm): [2],29,[1], with two leaves of plates (color photographs of the author's tea-related collec...

[Cartographic Game] Betts's Tour Through Europe

BETTS, John (fl. 1827-1855) · 0

$476.00 (€431.87 | £360.29 | ¥76,011)

London / Liverpool George Philip & Son / Philip, Son & Nephew Rare colored lithographed map of Europe (620 x 691mm), with route to be followed when played as a game. Backed with linen and dissected into 24 sections for folding (as issued) into original case binding of machine-...

General Guide to the Exhibition Halls of the American Museum of Natural History

LUCAS, Frederic A. (1852-1929) · 0

$124.00 (€112.50 | £93.86 | ¥19,801)

New York Published by the Museum Early Edition ("Edition of 1920") of this guide to the exhibits in the American Museum of Natural History in New York, published 43 years after the museum opened its doors on Central Park West. Royal 8vo (243 x 155mm): 136pp, illustrated throug...

[Advertising] [Cover Title] Views of London

FRITH, Francis (British, 1822-1898) · 1895

$274.00 (€248.60 | £207.40 | ¥43,754)

n.p. [but Australia] Bonnington's Carrageen or Irish Moss Suite of Frith's views of London landmarks, including St. Paul's Cathedral, London Bridge, Houses of Parliament, and Piccadilly Circus. Sixteen tissue-guarded original carbon prints after Frith mounted onto heavy card (...

[African Americana] The Conjure Woman

CHESNUTT, Charles W. (Waddell, 1858-1932) · 1899

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

Boston and New York / Cambridge Houghton Mifflin / The Riverside Press First Trade Edition First Printing of the author's first book, seven interrelated folk tales set in antebellum North Carolina and told "in Negro dialect" by an old gardener. Crown 8vo (175 x 110mm): [4],22...

[Outlaws] A compleat history of James Maclean, the gentleman highwayman, who was executed at Tyburn, on Wednesday, October 3, 1750, for a robbery on the highway. Containing the particulars of his life, from his Birth to his Death. In which is included, An Account of the Robberies he committed with his Companion Plunket, and A Series of Letters, that pass'd between him and Plunket; as well during the Time he was in Holland, as in England; in which are open'd some extraordinary Scenes. Also, The Particulars of their Fortune-Hunting Schemes; in which Maclean generally pass'd for a Gentleman of Worth, and Plunket personated his Footman. Likewise A Number of Original Letters sent to Maclean by different Ladies, some of which contain Narratives of Facts so exceeding tender, as must raise Pity and Compassion in the Breast of every Reader. The Whole adorn'd with a very neat Picture of Maclean, taken from the Life, while under Sentence. Drawn and engrav'd by Mr. Boitard

[MACLANE, James] · 1750

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

London Charles Corbett Early Printing Third Edition of this rare piece of British outlaw history (ESTC and OCLC identify only one copy, at Northwestern University, and neither ABPC nor RBH record copies at auction). Crown 8vo (183 x 115mm) [2],54pp. (Even though the extended t...

In Search of England [Penguin No. 1431]

MORTON, H. V. [Henry Canova Vollam, 1892.1979] · 1960

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,757)

Harmondsworth, Middlesex Penguin Books in Association with Methuen First Printing First Paperbound Edition of the title that launched Morton's In Search of . . . series. Foolscap 8vo (179 x 107mm): 252pp. Publisher's card covers printed in blue and black. Tightly bound and cle...

The Wanderer on a Thousand Hills [Penguin No. 272]

WHERRY, Edith (1876-1961) · 1940

$26.00 (€23.59 | £19.68 | ¥4,152)

Harmondsworth, Middlesex Penguin Books Limited First Printing First Paperbound Edition. Foolscap 8vo (179 x 107mm): 224pp. Publisher's card covers printed in orange and black, rear cover with advertisement for Army Club cigarettes. Penguin paper bookmark printed with brief bio...