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AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS): Charming Missive to a Young Boy Named Charlie

LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth · 1867 · Charles Agvent

$2,500.00 (€2,268.23 | £1,892.31 | ¥399,218)

Cambridge. Superb 4-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED "Henry W. Longfellow" on a 9" x 7" sheet of paper, folded once, to "My Dear Charlie," a young boy as obvious by the content. In full: "I have been so long in answering your letter, that no doubt you begin to think that I am not go…

The Tennis Court Oath. A Book of Poems [Inscribed to William Targ]

ASHBERY, John (1927-2017) · 1968 · Fine Editions Ltd

$424.00 (€384.69 | £320.94 | ¥67,707)

Middletown, CT Wesleyan University Press Early Reprint First Edition, Third Printing, of this touchstone of contemporary American avant-garde poetry. Crown 8vo (203 x 152mm): 94,[2]pp. Publisher's gray cloth, spine stamped in red and black, pictorial dust jacket (price-clipped) …

The illustrated encyclopedia of North American locomotives: a historical directory of over 150 years of North American rail power

HOLLINGSWORTH, Brian · 1997 · Cotswold Internet Books

£11.25 (€13.48 | $14.86 | ¥2,373)

Salamander Books Used - Very Good. VG hardback in Fair dust jacket 1997 edition with numerous colour and B&W illustrations. Dust jacket not price-clipped; tears and losses to edges, especially at top of spine. Slight discolouration mark on bottom page edges; otherwise, a clean, …

Songs of the Four Nations. A collection of old songs of the people of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales

BOULTON, Harold (ed) · 1893 · Cotswold Internet Books

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,532)

J. B. Cramer & Co. 1893. Used - Good. Good ex-lib hardback . 9th edition, not specifically dated but originally published 1893. Rebound ex-library with usual stamps and labels. Otherwise a tidy copy in tight binding. Plain blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine; lower front cor…

Rowland Ward&Apos;S Records of Big Game

J G Dollman; J B Burlace · 1922 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,839)

London, Rowland Ward, 1922. Cloth. An extremely smart, early twentieth century copy of Rowland Ward's essential guide to Big Game. A staple of any hunter's library. From the library Brocklehurst baronets, which includes noted explorer Sir Philip Lee Brocklehurst and no…

AROMAS AND FLAVORS OF PAST AND PRESENT Inscribed to Eleanor Roosevelt

[COOKERY] [ROOSEVELT, Eleanor] TOKLAS, Alice B · 0 · Charles Agvent

$7,500.00 (€6,804.68 | £5,676.92 | ¥1,197,653)

New York. Harper & Brothers Publishers. First Edition. Early but not first printing. Introduction and comments by Poppy Cannon. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on a piece of Toklas's 5, rue Christine stationery: "For Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt/En souvenir of a memorable meeti…

Questions on the Apostles. Two volumes bound in one. Maulmain, American Baptist Mission Press, Thomas S. Ranney printer, 1848.

JUDSON, SARAH B. & JUDSON, EMILY C.: · 1873 · Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books (ILAB)

€2,400.00 ($2,645.24 | £2,002.24 | ¥422,410)

16mo. Lvs (73) + (52). With Burmese text, title pages in English. Some staining to front endpaper. Contemporary half calf cloth boards lightly rubbed and stained. First Burmese edition, printed in 500 copies. Provenance: Nashua Historical Society, inscription by Mrs. S. Noyes d…

The Druzes. A new study of their history, faith, and society. [2nd edition].

Abu-Izeddin,Nejla M. · 1993 · Antiquariaat A. Kok & Zn. B.V.

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,600)

Leiden, Brill, 1993. [XII],259 pp.1 b./w. map. Orig. hardcover (boards). - As new.When this book was first published in 1984, it was the first extensive study of the Druzes to appear for many years. A small community native only in Lebanon, Syria and Palestine, the Druzes have …

A Pair of Very Riotous Fellows Alias Radicals of the New School

Doyle, John ("H.B.") (1797-1868) · 1830 · Wittenborn Art Books

$150.00 (€136.09 | £113.54 | ¥23,953)

London: Thomas MacLean, 1830. Original lithograph. 12.5 x 11.5 inches. Very Good. Inserted into light matting. Published March, 1830. Sitters: John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon (1751-1838), Lord Chancellor. Charles Stanhope, 4th Earl of Harrington (1780-1851), Dandy, colonel and Lor…

Travels among alpine scenery. With illustrations.

CHEEVER, Dr. (George B.) and HEADLEY, J.T.: · 0 · Harteveld Rare Books Ltd.

CHF 250.00 (€270.42 | $298.05 | £225.60 | ¥47,595)

London, James Blackwood, MDCCCLV, (1855), sm. in-8vo, 396 p., illustrated with 5 plates, (p. 299/300 with small loss of paper, margin only),  Exlibris Peter E. Obergfell, full leatherbinding, spine richly gilt with red title piece, First cover with paperstrip with number ã10Ò.…

Contemporary Socialism: An Analysis (Signed By Editor)

BOSE, PRADIP & VIVEKANANDAN, B & PANDA KK (EDITORS) · 1992 · Godley Books

£19.50 (€23.37 | $25.76 | ¥4,114)

New Dehli, Harman Pub. House. 1992, First Edition. (ISBN: 8185151679) Hard Cover, 8.75 x 5.75 inches. Inscribed by Pradip Bose to Professor Peter Townsend and Jean on front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no…

JOHN LOCKE 1632-1704 Physician and Philosopher A Medical Biography with an Edition of the Medical Notes in His Journals

DEWHURST Kenneth · 1963 · Rothwell & Dunworth Ltd

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1963. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered blue cloth (near Fine), dustwrapper (toned at edges - otherwise VG in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. xii + 331, illus with b&w plates (previous owner's neat inscription on front endpaper).

Ring of power: the abandoned child, the authoritarian father, and the disempowered feminine : a Jungian understanding of Wagner's Ring Cycle

BOLEN, Jean Shinoda · 1992 · Cotswold Internet Books

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

HarperSanFrancisco, 1992. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket 1st US edition. 1992 1st USA edition with B&W illustrations; dust jacket not price-clipped with light wear to edges; a clean, tidy copy. Photo:http://cibimages.blob.core.windows.net/img-1/stand_97562_jpg.j…

Thomas Eakins Centennial / a Loan Exhibition of the Works of Thomas Eakins 1844-1944 Commemorating the Centennial of His Birth

GOODRICH, LLOYD (INTRODUCTION) · 1944 · Ultramarine Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

New York, M. Knoedler & Company. 1944. Printed Wrapper (softcover), 4to. Exhibition Catalogue, A catalogue of 92 works, including 4 sculptures by Samuel Murray. Most, not all, are illustrated full page b&w; 1 color plate; color frontispiece, "Agnew Clinic". Very Good.

Graham&Apos;S American Monthly Magazine of Literature and Art (Volume XXXIV)

G. R. Graham; J. R. Chandler; J. B Taylor [ed.] · 1849 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.85 | $145.33 | ¥23,207)

Philadelphia , Samuel D. Patterson and Co, 1849. First edition. Leather. A very scarce volume from this 19th-century periodical edited by G. R. Graham, illustrated with engravings throughout. Volume XXXIV of this monthly magazine established by George Rex Graham. Bound in half …

The Islands of the Pacific

THOMSON, J. P. (C. B. E. LL.D) · 1921 · S. Howlett-West Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Washington D. C.: National Geographic Society, 1921. Magazine. B&W Photographs; This is a DISBOUND article from National Geographic Magazine. This is the actual article, not a photocopy. Text pages are clean, bright and without chips, tears, discoloration or wear. They do, howev…

O-LUCE di Giuseppe Ostuni. Ein Werkverzeichnis / A catalogue raisonné (Volume I + II). (Oluce)

Brauniger, Thomas: · 2021 · Scriptum Art Books v.o.f.

€295.00 ($325.14 | £246.11 | ¥51,921)

March & July 2021 (volume 2), (29,5 x 29,5 cm), 2 volumes. Volume 1, 480 pp. and 642 ills., (colour and b/w.). Volume 2, 604 pp., 735 ills., in colour & b/w. Halflinen hardcover. Founded in 1945 by Giuseppe Ostuni (1907–1994), O-luce is the oldest Italian design company still …

Marginalità e riproduzione sociale in un contesto urbano, modelli interpretativi ed esperienze di intervento politico-sociale.

SGRITTA Giovanni B. - LESCHIUTTA Pier Paolo - SAPORITI Angelo - · 1979 · Libreria Piani

€8.00 ($8.82 | £6.67 | ¥1,408)

Bologna, Il Mulino, 1979, 8vo estratto con copertina originale, pp. 389/438. - ! ATTENZIONE !: Con il termine estratto (o stralcio) intendiamo riferirci ad un fascicolo contenente un articolo, completo in se, sia che esso sia stato stampato a parte utilizzando la stessa composi…

The illuminations of the Vergilius Romanus (Cod. Vat. Lat. 3867). A stylistic and iconographical analysis.

Rosenthal,Erwin. · 1972 · Antiquariaat A. Kok & Zn. B.V.

€60.00 ($66.13 | £50.06 | ¥10,560)

Dietikon-Zürich, Urs Graf-Verlag, [1972]. 118 pp. 1490 b./w. figs & 19 plts. Hardcover. - Remains of a stamp on title-page. This is an in-depth analysis of the miniatures and paintings in the Vergilius Romanus, a famous late-antique illuminated manuscript from the 5th or early 6…

Index molluscorum maris japonici. Conscriptus et tabulis iconum xvi illustratus.

Dunker, G. [= W. (B. R. H.)] · 1882 · Antiquariaat Schierenberg

€1,500.00 ($1,653.27 | £1,251.40 | ¥264,006)

Casselis Cattorum [Kassel], Theodor Fischer, 1882. 4to (27.3 x 22.1 cm). vii, 301 pp.; 16 exquise lithographed plates of which 13 superbly hand-coloured. Near contemporary grained blue half cloth over grained burgundy cloth. Script title on the spine. = Rare, rather early, and e…