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The Jester Has Lost His Jingle.

Saltzman, David, afterword by Maurice Sendak, · 1995 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Palos Verdes, CA, Jester Company, (1995). VG in VG DJ. The Jester awakes one morning to find laughter missing in his kingdom and he sets out to find it. The author died 11 days before his 23rd birthday from Hodgkins Disease. He was disagnosed during his senior year at Yale and b…

Munby: man of two worlds: the life and diaries of Arthur J. Munby 1828-1920.

Hudson, Derek, · 1972 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Cambridge, England, Gambit, (1972). 1st ptg. VG in G DJ. One of strangest stories of the Victorian age as recorded in one of the most remarkable private diaries of the 19th century. Munby had a lifelong obsession with the whole subworld of female manual workers, colliery women, …

The Fly Swatter: how my grandfather made his way in the world.

Dawidoff, Nicholas, · 2002 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Pantheon, (2002). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. The most interesting lives are not always the best-known lives. Gerschenkron's great escapes, vivid wit, feuds, flirtations,. & supremely cultured mind are the stuff of legend. He fled the Russian Revolution at 16, settled in Vi…

The Cerne Giant

CASTLEDEN, RODNEY · 1996 · Lady Lisa's Bookshop

£11.00 (€13.19 | $14.53 | ¥2,321)

a5 green garage, Dorset Publishing Co. 1996. (ISBN: 9780948699559). Paperback, 14.7 x 1.5 x 20.9 cm. Paperback in good condition. The famous club-waving figure of the Cerne Giant stands on a chalk hillside in the heart of Dorset. The Giant is a paradox; a secretive exposer, famo…

Footprints on Malekula: a memoir of Bernard Deacon

GARDINER, MARGARET · 1987 · Art4Brains

€30.00 ($33.07 | £25.03 | ¥5,280)

London, Free Association Books, 1987. Hardcover (cloth), met stofomslag. xviii+75 pp. No images. Conditie: Very good, With dedication by the author on blank page. With pencil the remark "Press Copy" Small indentation on a page where a paperclip was attatched. Bernard Deacon spen…

Wittgenstein's Metaphysics.

COOK, JOHN W. · 1994 · Chilton Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. 0521460190. 1st edition. "A radical new interpretation of the fundamental ideas of Ludwig Wittgenstein. Wittgenstein was essentially an empiricist, and the difference between his early views (as set forth in the Tractatus) and the lat…

From Karl Marx to Jesus Christ.

LEPP, IGNACE. · 1959 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: Sheed & Ward, 1959. 1st edition. Translated from the French edition 'Itineraire de Karl Marx a Jesus Christ', published by Editions Montaigne, Paris. "Ignace Lepp sincerely worked for the success of Communism, because he believed in the Communist ideal. When he realised …

Ha-Yehudi Ha-Aharon (the Last Jew)

KANIUK, YORAM · 1981 · Bookshop Baltimore

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

Sifriyat Poalim & Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing Houses, 1981. Softcover. 469 pages. Hebrew texts only, spine creases, cover has scuffing and creases. The story of several families, centering around the tragic story of Ebenezer Schneerson - he believes he is the last Jew alive. …

The Mouse and the Egg

MAYNE, WILLIAM · 1980 · Bookshop Baltimore

$5.00 (€4.54 | £3.78 | ¥798)

Greenwillow Books, 1980. Hardcover. ISBN: 0688803016. Illustrated by Krystyna Turska. Clean text. NOTE: DJ is in poor condition; has tears, large pieces missing. Summary: When the hen laid a golden egg, Grandfather learned to appreciate the plain brown ones. He thanks God for wh…

Saladin

OSMOND, ANDREW · 1976 · Bookshop Baltimore

$8.50 (€7.71 | £6.43 | ¥1,357)

Doubleday, 1976. First US Edition. Hard Cover. ISBN: 038511138X. Illustrated by William Maughan. Brown spots on sides, DJ has edge tears; Summary on DJ: To Israeli intelligence, he was a cunning adversary...to Palestinian terrorist, he was a traitor and marked for death. 350 pag…

Plays: 1. Operation Olive Branch / Johnny Noble / The Other Animals

MacColl, Ewan · 2008 · Barter Books Ltd

£36.00 (€43.15 | $47.56 | ¥7,595)

VG : in very good condition without dust jacket. Minor creasing to cover London Methuen & Co. Ltd First Edition 250mm x 130mm (10" x 5"). 256pp. Ewan MacColl was best known as a songwriter and performer but he also wrote many plays and together with Joan Littlewood created Theat…

James Ensor 1860 - 1949. Masks, death and the sea

Becks-Malorny, Ulrike · 1999 · Boekhandel - Antiquariaat Emile Kerssemakers - Member ILAB/NVvA

€10.00 ($11.02 | £8.34 | ¥1,760)

Taschen, 1999 Paperback. 95 pages. Text in English. As new with minimal signs of use. There is hardly another artist of the fin de siècle whose work is as various, bizarre, and open to so many interpretations as that of the Belgian artist James Ensor. As he himself recognized, h…

The Pedagogical Poem / Road to Life. The Pedagogical Poem (Pedagogiceskaâ poèma).

Makarenko, Anton · 1964 · Grimbergen Boeken Antiquariaat

€22.00 ($24.25 | £18.35 | ¥3,872)

Moscow, 1964. Hardcover. Linen binding. 670pp. Scratch on last endpaper. Spine discoloured. Road to life is based on the true stories of Makarenko's pupils from the orphanage for street children, which he started in 1925 and published in 1933-1935 l Anton Semenovich Makarenko (1…

Der innere kreis, mit einer radierung von Harro Fromme, Johannesburg 1947, 29 pp.

Engelken, Ernst. · 1937 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€49.05 ($54.06 | £40.92 | ¥8,633)

Softcover, 19,5 x 13,5 cm. Text in German.Harro Heins Theodor Fromme was from 1937-1939 sailor on the Adalbert and the Ussukuma. After a short period at the Falkland islands he was untill 1947 prisoner of ware in Baviaanspoort near Pretoria. He became a friend of the poet Ernst …

[Satirical print/spotprent] Laugh & grow Fat as I do, original mezzotint, London 1750-1800.

John Smith of Cheapside (fl. 1750-1789) · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€151.25 ($166.71 | £126.18 | ¥26,621)

Satirical print with laughing man in an interior. He holding his stomach with his right hand, while he looks up, towards the right. Titled at bottom: "Laugh & grow Fat as I do. / Printed for Jn.o Smith at Hogarth's head, N. 35 in Cheapside".

Traité Pratique sur les Maladies des Yeux,. contenant l'Anatomie, la Physologie et la Pathologie des Yeux

William Lawrence 23978 · 1832 · Boekhandel J de Slegte BV

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥44,001)

H. Dumont, 1832, Half leather, Ref. Garrison-Morton 5849 : \"This comprehensive work marks an epoch in ophthalmic surgery. It is based on lectures delivered by Lawrence at the London Ophthalmic infirmary. He was surgeon to St Bartholomew's hospital; he succeeded Abernethy as lec…

Leonaert Bramer, 1596-1674. Ingenious painter and draughtsman in Rome and Delft

Jane Ten Brink Goldsmith 324999 · 1994 · Boekhandel J de Slegte BV

€60.00 ($66.13 | £50.06 | ¥10,560)

Waanders , 1994, Linnen band met stofomslag, 330, This publication is devoted to Leonaert Bramer, one of Delft’s most prolific and interesting artistic descendants. His unique and intriguing art is grafted onto the artistic trends he was exposed to during his long a Italian sojo…

Thomas Struth - Portraits

Thomas Struth 32908, Thomas Weski 34986, Norman Bryson 74700, B. H. D. Buchloh · 1998 · Boekhandel J de Slegte BV

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,200)

Schirmer/Mosel, 1998, Linnen band met stofomslag, 189, Thomas Struth portrays only people he knows: individuals, couples and families. He photographs them in daylight, with a cumbersome, heavy plate camera on a tripod, using long exposure times - a time - consuming process deman…

Miles Aldridge. I Only Want You to Love Me

Miles Aldridge 183377 · 2013 · Boekhandel J de Slegte BV

€200.00 ($220.44 | £166.85 | ¥35,201)

Rizzoli, 2013, Hardcover, 273, Highly stylised, garish colour imagery depicting women in various states and locations. Born in North London to graphic designer Alan Aldridge, Miles grew up accustomed to celebrity John Lennon was a family friend, as well as Eric Clapton and Elton…

Le colporteur. Histoire morale et critique

François-Antoine Chevrier 255575 · 0 · Boekhandel J de Slegte BV

€60.00 ($66.13 | £50.06 | ¥10,560)

E. Flammarion, [c.1900], Half leather, Later edition of this popular libertine novel, which is Chevrier's best-known work. First published in 1762, it caused such a scandal that the author had to go into exile in Holland. He died suddenly a few months later in July 1762. It is b…