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Art and Poetry.

Maritain, Jacques, translated by E. de P. Matthews, · 1945 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

London, Editions Poetry, (1945). 1st ptg. VG in G DJ. An essay on aesthetics, an intermingling human and poetic demands in man. He is concerned with the mysterious nature of. poetry, qualities which he find predominant in all works of art. Owner name ft endpaper, slight fading t…

Tales from Rhapsody Home: or, what they don't tell you about senior living.

Gould, John, · 2000 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NC, Algonquin Books Chapel Hill, (2000). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. 92 yr old Gould tells how he arrived quite suddenly at old age and found himself living in a retirement community. He offers. advice & guidance to those not quite ready for the "comforts" of assisted living.

From New Bedford to Siberia: a Yankee whaleman in the frozen north.

Beatty, Jerome Jr., · 1977 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Doubleday, (1977). 1st ed. G ex-library. A 15 yr old finds more adventure than he expected when he signs onto a whaler for 3 years. Library markings. Beatty studied old newspaper accounts, documents & Daniel Hall's own writings to write an authentic historical adventure that…

Poland under Black Light.

Anderman, Janusz, · 1985 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

London, Readers International, (1985). VG in VG DJ. An artistic response to a national trauma. After declaration of martial law, he co-founded the Committee of Aid for Internees. and was himself arrested & detained at the infamous Bialoleka (White Meadow) Prison. Following his r…

The Little Locksmith.

Hathaway, Katharine Butler, · 1943 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Coward-McCann, (1943). VG in G DJ. DJ edge wear, owner name fep. 2nd copy no dust jacket G condition. $12. Published a year after his death, the author partial autobiography set in Castine, Maine, near Penobscot Bay, he recovers from depression and buys a house. He arises tr…

The Harveys See It Through

GEGAN, PHYLLIS · 1969 · Lady Lisa's Bookshop

£6.68 (€8.01 | $8.83 | ¥1,410)

Collins. 1969. Hardcover. Hardback no D/J in good condition. Owners inscription on first page. Pages yellowing with age. Picture boards, blue page edges on top, nice clean copy. owners name on first page. The Harveys father has to go away to New York and he leaves the children o…

Butcher -My autobiography

Butcher, Terry and Harris, Bob · 2005 · Antiquesportsbooks.com

€9.00 ($9.92 | £7.51 | ¥1,584)

Highdown, Compton, 2005. His playing days with Ipswich and England and his move to Scotland where he led the Glasgow Rangers to about every domestic prize. ISBN: 1905158006, 352 pp, 1e druk, Cond.: zeergoed. Signature is glued in. His playing days with Ipswich and England and hi…

Spellwright

Blake Charlton · 2010 · Porcupine Books

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

HarperVoyager 2010 First Edition in the UK First Printing . Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in lightly edge-rubbed Dust Jacket . ''Nicodemus... was once thought to be the Halcyon - a powerful spellwright prophesied to prevent the apocalypse... …

Heroes of the Valley

Jonathan Stroud · 2009 · Porcupine Books

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

Hyperion 2009 First Edition in the US First Printing . Covers lightly marked else Fine Uncorrected Proof. . ''Halli loves to hear stories from the days when the valley was a wild and dangerous place... He likes to imagine the night the legendary heroes joined together and fought…

Risen Today.

THOROGOOD, BERNARD. · 1986 · Chilton Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London: SCM. 1986. 1st ed. "The author gives us a well worked out and readable meditation on the meaning of the resurrection. He does not believe we can easily answer the how of the empty tomb. He moves us rather to the experience of the Living Christ in our world". Pp.113. Pbk.…

John Verney

Horace Annesley Vachell · 1911 · Rooke Books

£29.99 (€35.95 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Leipzig, Bernhard Tauchnitz , 1911 . Leather. The Tauchnitz 'Copyright' Edition of this novel. This is volume 4258 of the Tauchnitz Edition Collection of British Authors. Horace Annesley Vachell (1861–1955) was a prolific English writer of novels, plays, short stories…

Climats

Andre Maurois · 1928 · Rooke Books

£600.00 (€719.30 | $792.82 | ¥126,618)

Paris, Bernard Grasset, 1928. Leather. One of Andre Maurois' best-known works, in the original French. One of Andre Maurois' best-known works, in the original French. With an ink inscription by Andre Maurois to the title page. Ex libris William Tyrell. Tyrrell served i…

[Antique drawing] Portrait of an unknown man, ca. 1851-1852.

Richard Dighton (1795-1880) · 1851 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€423.50 ($466.78 | £353.26 | ¥74,548)

Full-length portrait of an unknown man with an umbrella under his arm. Typical profile portrait by caricaturist and watercolor portrait painter (an unfortunate art thief) Richard Dighton. His father Robert Dighton,had been a clever social satirist.Signed on the verso in pencil: …

The Alteration of the Currency (Includes John Bull)

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

$150.00 (€136.09 | £113.52 | ¥23,956)

London: Thomas MacLean, 1830. Original lithograph. 10.5 x 15 inches. Very Good. Light spots of foxing. Inserted into light matting. Published 3 August, 1830. John Doyle (Dublin 1797 - 2 January 1868 London), known by the pen name H. B. was a political cartoonist, caricaturist, p…

Sir R. Peel As a Knight

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

$150.00 (€136.09 | £113.52 | ¥23,956)

London: Thomas MacLean, 1830. Original lithograph. 10 x 14.5 inches. Very Good. Inserted into light matting. John Doyle (Dublin 1797 - 2 January 1868 London), known by the pen name H. B. was a political cartoonist, caricaturist, painter and lithographer. In his youth he learned …

Consolation, or Otium Cum Dignitate (John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon)

Doyle, John ("H.B.") (1797-1868) · 1829 · Wittenborn Art Books

$150.00 (€136.09 | £113.52 | ¥23,956)

London: Thomas MacLean, 1829. Original lithograph. 10.5 x 13 inches. Very Good. Light signs of foxing. Inserted into light matting. John Doyle (Dublin 1797 - 2 January 1868 London), known by the pen name H. B. was a political cartoonist, caricaturist, painter and lithographer. I…

Damon and Pythias. 1. Lord Eldon 2. Duke of Cumberland

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

$150.00 (€136.09 | £113.52 | ¥23,956)

London: Thomas MacLean, 1830. Original lithograph. 13 x 8.5 inches. Very Good. Inserted into light matting. Minor spots of foxing. John Doyle (Dublin 1797 - 2 January 1868 London), known by the pen name H. B. was a political cartoonist, caricaturist, painter and lithographer. In…

The Prophecy. 1. Lord Redesdale 2. Lord Eldon 3. Lord Manners 4. Duke of Cumberland

Doyle, John ("H.B.") (1797-1868) · 1829 · Wittenborn Art Books

$150.00 (€136.09 | £113.52 | ¥23,956)

London: Thomas MacLean, 1829. Original lithograph. 13 x 10.5 inches. Very Good. Inserted into light matting. John Doyle (Dublin 1797 - 2 January 1868 London), known by the pen name H. B. was a political cartoonist, caricaturist, painter and lithographer. In his youth he learned …

The Fisher Building and the General Motors Building in Detroit. First Edition of the Print

Ensrud, Wayne (1934-2024) · 1970 · Wittenborn Art Books

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.68 | ¥15,971)

Circa 1970s. Black and white print. 22 x15 inches. Not signed..Numbered verso in pencil... The artist has explored in his late seven decade career the realms of Realism, Surrealism, Constructivism and Expressionism. That well traveled road lead him to engage a wide range of subj…

Hjalmar Schacht in perspective.

Simpson, Amos Edwin. · 1969 · Kloof Booksellers & Scientia Verlag

€24.00 ($26.45 | £20.02 | ¥4,225)

The Hague : Mouton, 1969. Orig. cloth binding. Dustjacket. 202 pp. 25 cm. (Studies in European history, 18). Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. From the publisher : This biography of Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht (1877-1970) delineates his …