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Killing Time

Carr, Caleb · 2000

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,300)

New York, Random House, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Author also of Angel of Darkness and The Alienist, perhaps the finest crime thriller of all time. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Br...

Terrorist

Updike, John · 2006

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. This was John Updike's final novel in a long and quite distinguished career. He'd been justly recognized as one of the finest and most influential writers of the 20th century, winning critical ...

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Atkinson, Kate · 2018

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, Little, Brown, 2018. Second Printing. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. One of Kate Atkinson's finest novels, adding to Life After Life and the brilliant Case Studies, centering on a protagonist recruited into MI5 in 1940 and the ghosts of her W.W.I.I. following he...

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Atkinson, Kate · 2018

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Boston, Little, Brown, 2018. Second Printing of the First Edi. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. One of Kate Atkinson's finest novels, adding to Life After Life and the brilliant Case Studies, centering on a protagonist recruited into MI5 in 1940 and the ghosts of her W.W.I....

The Short History of a Prince

Hamilton, Jane · 1998

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, Random House, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED at title page, by the author also of The Book of Ruth and A Map of the World. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket, prote...

Fury

Rushdie, Salman · 2001

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

New York, Random House, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear thereto, bright interior, clean, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. Two-tone, blue paper over boa...

Quichotte

Rushdie, Salman · 2019

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

New York, Random House, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Inspred by the Cervantes classic, Sam DuChamp, mediocre writer of spy thrillers, creates Quichotte, a courtly, addled salesman obsessed with television who falls in impossible love with a TV star"...

Quichotte

Rushdie, Salman · 2019

$52.00 (€47.18 | £39.35 | ¥8,305)

New York, Random House, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the inimitable Salman Rushdie, boldly, in Sharpie, at title page, in front of the former owner, bookseller Carlos Martinez. Rushdie is the author also of Midnight's Children, The Satanic...

A Lot of Two (2) Mike Davis Titles: Planet of Slums; City of Quartz: Excavating the Future

Davis, Mike · 2006

$36.00 (€32.66 | £27.24 | ¥5,749)

New York, Verso, . Reprint edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. As of 2006 U.N. figures, over 1,000,000,000 human beings lived in the slums of the world. Verso Publishers' blurb about the author of these two (2) books says, "Mike Davis (1946-2022) was a writer, politic...

Louwer, Catherine, ed. · 2010

$72.00 (€65.32 | £54.49 | ¥11,499)

Manchester, Vermont / Woodbridge, New York, Vaumarcus / Hudson Hills Press, 2010. . Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Massively heavy, oversized volumes, complete in three, being a bilingual edition (in French and English) catalogue raisonne, with double-column text. house...

Louwer, Catherine, ed. · 2010

$76.00 (€68.95 | £57.52 | ¥12,138)

Manchester, Vermont / Woodbridge, New York, Vaumarcus / Hudson Hills Press, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Massively heavy, oversized volumes, complete in three, being a bilingual edition (in French and English) catalogue raisonne, with double-colum...

Syllepsilogia Historico-Medica Hoc Est Conceptionis Muliebris Consideratio Physico-Medico Forensis Qua Ejusdem Locus, Organa, Materia Modus in Atretis Seu Imperoartis, Item Signa Et Impedimenta Deinde Didymotokia Seugemellatio Superfoetatio Et Embryotokia Et Denique Varia de Gravitate, Vera, Falsa, Etc.

Schurig, Martin · 1731

$300.00 (€272.18 | £227.04 | ¥47,912)

Dresden and Leipsig, Germany, Christophe Hekelii, Fil, 1731. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. A surprisingly sturdy, attractive exemplar of one of the major works of the German physician-philosopher, Martin Schurig, a continuation of his series, Gynaecologia...

Sorolla and the Paris Years

Pons-Sorolla, Blanca and Maria Lopez Fernandez, eds. · 2016

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,811)

New York, Skira / Rizzoli, 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. A just and due homage to the Valencia, Spain-based painter Joaquin Sorolla (1863-1923), published on occasion of a major exhibition devoted to his works. Fine-looking, structurally sound har...

Country Pursuits: British, American, and French Sporting Art from the Mellon Collections in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Cormack, Malcolm · 2007

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,472)

Richmond, Virginia / Charlottesville, Virginia, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts / University of Virginia Press, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and sh...

Prince Paul Troubetzkoy | the Belle ã‰Poque Captured in Bronze

Wootton, Oliver · 2008

$76.00 (€68.95 | £57.52 | ¥12,138)

London, Sladmore Gallery, 2008. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Unusually scarce in the trade, there being only one additional copy available on-line currently, and at $226. Sterling condition softcover copy exemplar of an enchanting artist exhibition cata...

The Russian Symbolists: An Anthology of Critical and Theoretical Writings

Peterson, Ronald E., ed., trans. · 1986

$92.00 (€83.47 | £69.63 | ¥14,693)

Ann Arbor, Ardis Publishers, 1986. First English Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor...

The Life of Animals in Japanese Art

Singer, Robert T. and Masatomo Kawai, eds. · 2019

$25.60 (€23.23 | £19.37 | ¥4,088)

Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn but with furling...

The Russian Museum: A Centennial Celebration

Gusyev, Vladimir and Yevgenia Petrova · 1998

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,300)

St. Petersburg, The State Russian Museum, Palace Editions, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, sunned along top edg...

Naked: The Nude in America

Dijkstra, Bram · 2010

$44.00 (€39.92 | £33.30 | ¥7,027)

New York, Rizzoli, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, bound in black cloth over boards, white lettering to front cover and spine, clean, unmarked interior, lightly worn edges, minimal rubbing to ext...

Oeuvres Franã§Oises de Bonaventure: Des Periers, Complete in Two Volumes: Tome 1: Oeuvres Diverses, L'Andrie, le Cymbalum Mundi; Tome 2: Nouvelles Rã©Crã©Ations Et Joyeux Devis

Lacour, Louis, ed. · 1856

$72.00 (€65.32 | £54.49 | ¥11,499)

Paris, France , Chez P. Jannet, Libraire, 1856. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 16mo 6" - 7" tall. Uber-scarce in the trade in the U.S., there being no additional copies here. A perfectly serviceable set of reference copies, complete in two volumes; nothing fancy, but complet...