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The Forgetting Room: A Fiction

BANTOCK, NIGEL · 1997 · Kalamos Books

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

Toronto, Byzantium Books / HarperCollins Canada. 1997, 1st Can Ed. Hardcover. Book, Readers are invited to delve into the journal of Armon Hurt, a sad, discontented man who discovers his inner fire. When his artist grandfather dies, leaving him the family home in Spain, Armon tr…

Patience & Fortitude: A Roving Chronicle of Book People, Book Places, and Book Culture

BASBANES, NICHOLAS A · 2003 · Kalamos Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York, Perennial HarperCollins. 2003, 1st Pbk Edition. (ISBN: 0060514469) Trade Paperback. Book, The obsessive passion people have had over the past twenty-five hundred years to possess books is commonly known as bibliomania. Basbanes expands the meaning , focusing on the mor…

Goat Song : A Novel of Ancient Greece.

YERBY,FRANK · 1967 · Kalamos Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

New York, Dial Press. 1967, Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hardcover. Book, When the Athenians took the island of Sphacteria, there was one among the Spartans, a youth name Ariston, who would not surrender, who thrust out his sword and made a desperate, suicidal charge. But Ariston was f…

Goat Song : A Novel of Ancient Greece.

YERBY,FRANK · 1967 · Kalamos Books

$12.50 (€11.34 | £9.46 | ¥1,996)

New York, Dial Press. 1967, Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Book, When the Athenians took the island of Sphacteria, there was one among the Spartans, a youth name Ariston, who would not surrender, who thrust out his sword and made a desperate, suicidal charge. But Ariston was fate…

A Bowlful of Happiness

Impey, Harriet; and Pickwoad, Katie · 2011 · Jorge Welsh Works of Art Lda

€18.00 ($19.84 | £15.02 | ¥3,168)

Book New No Jacket 1st Edition Geldermalsen Publications, Haren, The Netherlands English text.; Hardcover (with dust jacket).; 28.5 x 28.5 cm.; 0.495 Kg; 30 pages; New book. May show signs of shelf wear.; How can one find true happiness? The little Chinese boy Kang, imprisoned i…

A DISSERTATION UPON ROAST PIG. From an Essay by ... Illustrated & Printed at the ... of Ben Sands

Lamb, Charles. · 1975 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

Shoestring Press, Whitstable 1975. Thin royal 8vo. 10pp. + [2]. Title page printed in brown and black and with device, 5 lino-cuts in various single colours, purple f.e.ps., black pastedowns, thread laced Japanese style binding in patterned paste-grained paper covered boards wit…

THE GOVERNMENT OF THE TONGUE By the author of The Whole Duty of Man, &c.

[Allestree, Richard]. · 1664 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)

At the Theater in Oxford, M.DC.LXXIV 1664. 2nd Impression. [16], 224p. Additional engraved title page, dec. initial letter and headpiece. With the signatures of ‘Eliz Angiert’ and ‘William Pugh 1866 Esgair, Llanbrynmair’ to title page, waterstained in part, light browning, annot…

QUARTO-MILLENARY. The First 250 Publications and the First 25 Years 1929-1954 of the Limited Editions Club. A Critique, a Conspectus, a Bibliography, Indexes.

Dothard, Robert L. (Introduction by). · 1959 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

Limited Editions Club, New York 1959. 4to. [xvi] + 295pp. + [i] blank + [ii] limitation leaf + [ii] blank. Profusely illus. throughout in colour and b/w,. including several tipped in colour plates. Limited Editions Club Monthly Letter loosely inserted, original gilt lettered bla…

Sophilos. Ein Beitrag zu seinem Stil.

SOPHILOS. Bakir,Güven. · 1981 · Antiquariaat A. Kok & Zn. B.V.

€22.50 ($24.80 | £18.77 | ¥3,960)

Mainz am Rhein, Philipp von Zabern, [1981]. XX,84 pp. 42 text-ills & 90 plts with 194 b./w. ills. Orig. hardcover (brown cloth with gilt lettering). Large 8vo. (Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften. Kommission für antike Keramik, Keramikforschungen IV).This important scholar…

Théodore Chassériau. Sa vie et son oeuvre. Manuscrit inédit publié par André Dezarrois. [Complete set].

CHASSÉRIEAU,THÉODORE. Bénédite,Léonce. · 1931 · Antiquariaat A. Kok & Zn. B.V.

€175.00 ($192.88 | £146.00 | ¥30,801)

Paris, Les éditions Braun, [1931]. 2 vols. [6],522,[4] pp. [60] col. / monochrome plts & num. monochrome text-ills. Orig. uniform softcovers (printed tan wrappers). 4to. - Very good set, only some very light shelfwear.Complete set of the first edition in two volumes. Published i…

Suriname door het oog van Julius Muller. Fotografie 1882-1902.

MULLER,JULIUS. Vink,Steven. · 1997 · Antiquariaat A. Kok & Zn. B.V.

€27.50 ($30.31 | £22.94 | ¥4,840)

[Amsterdam], [Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen], [1997], 1997. 95 pp. B./w. ills. Softcover. Oblong 8vo.A harder to find photo book these days. Published in conjunction with the exhibition "Julius Muller, Suriname 100 jaar geleden" in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of the …

Item a Guillaume Wyelant aussi enlumineur. Willem Vrelant. Un aspect de l'enluminure dans les Pays-Bas méridionaux sous le mécénat des ducs de Bourogne Philippe le Bon et Charles le Téméraire.

VRELANT,WILLEM [= WILLEM BACKER; also called GUILLAUME WYELANT]. Bousmanne,Bernard. · 1997 · Antiquariaat A. Kok & Zn. B.V.

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.69 | ¥3,520)

[Brussels], Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique & [Turnhout], Brepols, [1997]. 390 pp. Num. ills (some col.). Orig. hardcover (clothbound), d./j. Large 8vo.Text in French. - Willem Vrelant (died c. 1481/1482) was a Dutch book illuminator. He is first registered in 1449, when an illu…

A.W.N. Pugin and the Pugin family.

PUGIN,AUGUSTUS W.N. Wedgwood,Alexandra. · 1985 · Antiquariaat A. Kok & Zn. B.V.

€35.00 ($38.58 | £29.20 | ¥6,160)

London, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1985. 360 pp. 95 b./w. ills. Orig. hardcover (red cloth with gilt lettering on spine), d./j. 4to. - Dust jacket with light shelfwear. (Catalogues of architectural drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum).Monograph on Augustus Welby Northmor…

The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory 1874-1932

MANCHESTER, WILLIAM · 1983 · The Wild Muse

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1983. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. First edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1983. Thick 8vo, xv+973pp, illus. b/w photos, map endpapers. Black cloth with gilt spine titles in red blo…

The American wanderer through various parts of Europe in a series of letters to a Lady.

(Anonyme. - A Virginian): · 1783 · Harteveld Rare Books Ltd.

CHF 450.00 (€486.76 | $536.49 | £406.08 | ¥85,671)

London, Printed for J. Robson, 1783, lg. in-8vo, XVI + 422 p., bound in contemporary English tree calf, neatly rebacked in keeping orig. spine, with original red morocco spine label re-laid. In fine condition The author, styling himself a Virginian, writes of his European tra…

Oeuvres complètes (6 volumes)

DELILLE, JACQUES · 1835 · Sigma Antiquariaat

€88.50 ($97.54 | £73.83 | ¥15,576)

Paris : Édouard Leroi 1835 avec les notes et variantes, les imitations des poètes les plus estimés, et de nouvelles observations littéraires, par A.V. Arnault. Uit de Bibliotheek van het missiehuis SVD Deurne (kleine stempeltjes en etiketjes) (XII), 203, (XII) 402, 352, 188, 42…

The Street Lawyer

John Grisham · 1998 · Book Haven

NZ$15.50 (€7.77 | $8.56 | £6.48 | ¥1,367)

Century 1998 Hardback, 348pp. Michael was in a hurry. He was scrambling up the ladder at Drake & Sweeney, a giant D. C. firm with 800 lawyers. The money was good and getting better; a partnership was three years away. He was a rising star, with no time to waste, no time to stop,…

McMURTRIE IMPRINTS. A Bibliography of Separately Printed Writings by Douglas C. McMurtrie on Printing and its History in the United States and Elsewhere, on Typography and Printing Practice, on Type Design and Typefounding, on Bibliography and Bibliographical Practice With an Appraisal of McMurtrie's Work by Charles F. Heartman.

McMurtrie, Douglas [1888 - 1944] - Subject. Heartman, Charles F. - Contributor · 1942 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$24.75 (€22.46 | £18.73 | ¥3,952)

Hattiesburg MS: Privately Printed for The Book Farm, 1942. 1st Printing. Printed wrappers. 54, [2] pp. 8vo. McMurtrie "was an American typeface designer, graphic designer, historian, author and bibliographer of printing. He was born in Belmar, New Jersey and attended MIT. After …

Giornale di un viaggio da Constantinopoli in Polonia. Con una sua relazione delle Rovina de Troja. Bassano, a spese remondini di Venezia, 1784.

BOSKOVI'C [BOSCOVICH], RUDJER JOSIB: · 1761 · Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books (ILAB)

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

Pp. xxiv, 231. Contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments, rubbed, red edges. Bookplate (Library of Ericsberg castle, Sweden). First Italian edition of a travel account devoted to Turkey, Bulgaria and Moldavia, and includes a chapter about Troy based on Pietro Correr's report…

Shoot! : the notebooks of Serafino Gubbio, cinematograph operator

Luigi Pirandello, C K Scott-Moncrieff, Book Depository. · 2006 · De Kantlijn

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

239 p. Paperback - [S.l.] : Dodopress, [post 2006]. - Luigi Pirandello was born of rich, middle-class parents in Girgenti (Agrigento), Sicily, on 28 June 1867. As a young man he studied at the Universities of Palermo, Rome, and Bonn, where he gained his doctorate in 1891. His fi…