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Grove, Lee Edmonds · 1945

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Minneapolis, Minnesota, University of Minnesota Press, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Numbered copy (365 of 1500 printed) of a fine and due homage to one of Minnesota's best bookmen, Edmund Brooks. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, i...

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

Browning, Robert · 0

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

London, Frederick Warne & Col., . . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A nice-looking exemplar of a beloved children's classic, and illustrated beautifully by Kate Greenaway. Bound handsomely in illustrated cloth over boards, bumping to, scuffing of spine head and foot, rubbe...

The Life of Alice Freeman Palmer

Palmer, George Herbert · 1908

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1908. Ninth Impression. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated Ninth Impression of this fabulous and inspiring biography of Alice Freeman Palmer (born Alice Elvira Freeman; February 21, 1855 – December 6, 1902), an American educator and eventual...

Kate Greenaway's Language of Flowers

Gramercy Publishing Company · 1978

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

New York, Gramercy Publishing Company, 1978. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. A fine and due homage to the lovely illustrations of Kate Greenaway, a beloved illustrator of children's and other books. Fine reprint of the 1884 original. Sturdy, attractive, t...

The Babylonian Story of the Deluge and the Epic of Gilgamish, with an Account of the Royal Libraries of Nineveh

Budge, E.A. · 1845

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

London, Printed By Order of the Trustees, by Harrison & Sons, Ltd., . First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Offprint by the leading Egyptologist of the day, E.A. Budge. Blue printed wrappers, stapled text, crimped corners, sunned and lightly soiled extremities, bo...

Sermons, by the Late Right Reverend John Hinchliffe, D.D. , Lord Bishop of Peterborough

Hinchliffe, Henry John · 1796

$48.00 (€43.55 | £36.33 | ¥7,665)

London, England, R. Faulder, 1796. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Not currently available otherwise on-line. Straight-grain leather over boards, but mostly chipped away. Leather over three of four tips, leather-backed, with gilt lettering to spine, five fle...

Junius: Stat Nominis Umbra, Complete in Two Volumes

Junius · 1801

$32.00 (€29.03 | £24.22 | ¥5,110)

London, T. Bensley, 1801. . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. This edition contains all the letters of "Junius," Philo Junius, and of sir William Draper and Mr. Horne to Junius, with their respective dates, and, according to the order in which they appeared in the Public Adv...

La Vie Des Peintres Flamands, Allemands Et Hollandois, Avec Des Portraits Graves En Taille-Douce, Une Indication de Leurs Principaux Ouvrages, & Des Refelexions Sur Leurs Differentes Manieres, Tome I, II, III, IV

Descamps, J. B. · 1753

$320.00 (€290.33 | £242.22 | ¥51,100)

Paris, Various, Various. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Still good looking, structurally sound set, complete in four volumes, of Descamps' influential work of European art history. Special focus on the painters of Germany, Holland and Flanders. Published be...

The Business of Marriage: Transformations in Oceanic Matrimony

Marksbury, Richard A. · 1993

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, University of Pittsburgh Press for the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine contribution to the long-esteemed A.S.A.O. Monograph series, based on a session at the annual ...

Problems of Women's Liberation: A Marxist Approach

Reed, Evelyn · 1969

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.06 | ¥1,277)

New York, Merit Publishers, 1969. Second Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. An early, flawed, but important take on the origins of male domination, rooted in kinship and family structure, relations of production, the myth of women's inferiority, Betty Friedan's "femi...

The Ruins of Rome: A Poem

Anonymous [Dyer, John] · 1740

$76.00 (€68.95 | £57.53 | ¥12,136)

Homer's Head in Fleetstreet, Lawton Gilliver, 1740. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Lightly soiled, in simple blue paper wraps, else clean, unmarked, complete. Penned by Anonymous (John Dyer, 1700-1758?) with a gorgeous title page vignette of perhaps the Col...

Over the Brazier

Graves, Robert · 1975

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

New York, The St. James Press, 1975. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine condition facsimile reprint of the 1916 First Edition. Blue cloth over boards, gilt lettering to spine. A list of other works by the original publisher. [6], 32, [2] pp.Member, I.O.B...

The Old Dovecote, and Other Stories

Garnett, David · 1928

$22.40 (€20.32 | £16.96 | ¥3,577)

London, Elkin Mathews & Marrot, 1928. Special Limited Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Five hundred and thirty numbered copies (this being #32) were set by hand in Imprint Shadow and printed by Robert MacLehose & Co., Ltd., at the University Press, Glasgow. Dust jacket ...

Notes from a Sickbed

Brunton, Tessa · 2019

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Oakland, California, Tessa Brunton, 2019. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Virtually brand-new condition copy, staple-bound and in black-and-white with original graphic comix format. From the publisher's blurb, "In 2009, Tessa Brunton experienced the first s...

A Bibliography of Samuel Johnson; Johnsonian Bibliography, a Supplement to Courtney

Courtney, William Prideaux and David Nichol Smith; R.W. Chapman, with the collaboration of Allen T. Hazen · 1984

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

New Castle, Delaware, Oak Knoll Books, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, lightly soiled top edge, minimal rubbing to extremities, bound handsomely in an oatmeal-colored buckram cloth, still sharp and di...

A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased from the Earliest Accounts to the Latter Half of the Nineteeth Century. Three Volumespublished by , Detroit, 1965

Allibone, S. Austin · 1965

$48.00 (€43.55 | £36.33 | ¥7,665)

Detroit, Michigan, The Gale Research Company, 1965. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound set of three blue buckram cloth-bound hardcover copies, with clean, unmarked interiors, minimal rubbing to extremities, and still sharp a...

Toil, Travel, and Discovery in British New Guinea

Bevan, Theodore F. · 1890

$56.00 (€50.81 | £42.39 | ¥8,942)

London, Kegan Paul, Trernch, Trubner & Co., 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Extremely scarce memoir about the British New Guinea Protectorate and exploration thereof in the 1880s. Half-title page detached but present. Moderately rubbed and scuffed publ...

Freedom in Entangled Worlds: West Papua and the Architecture of Global Power

Kirksey, Eben · 2012

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 2012. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine and engrossing ethnography of a West Papuan people, of their resistance to the Indonesian state and to the forces of globalization, minding, occupation, and brutalizi...

Beyond the Horizon: Essays on Myth, History, Travel and Society

Sather, Clifford and Timo Kaartinen · 0

$22.40 (€20.32 | £16.96 | ¥3,577)

Helsinki, Finland, Finnish Literature Society, . First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine contribution to the series Studia Fennica Anthropologica. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only ve...

Excess and Restraint: Social Control Among a New Guinea Mountain People

Berndt, Ronald · 1962

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean interior but for removal of previous bookplate at first free endpaper, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny d...