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Skull Sessions

Daniel Hecht · 1998 · Klondyke BV

€7.95 ($8.76 | £6.63 | ¥1,399)

Hardcover, hardcover; 1998; Penguin Books Ltd; 432pp.; LET OP LET OP wordt geleverd met ANDER ISBN dan getoond, t.w. 0333714326, d.i. Macmillan UK gebonden boek met losse stofomslag, 1998. Boek en losse stofomslag verdienen beide kwalificatie 'goed', d.i. met slechts een enkel g…

A Catalogue of Books, Ancient and Modern, Including Part of the Library of a Gentleman of Distinction Lately Deceased... Which are now Selling (for ready Money) at the Prices Marked in the Catalogue, by John Hatchard...

HATCHARD (John) · 1810 · Forest Books

£134.38 (€161.08 | $177.53 | ¥28,350)

London: Printed by S. Gosnell, 1810. 8vo, [4], 154pp., from a institutional library now dispersed, several small stamps, contemporary half calf, spine and corners heavily rubbed, covers detached, 4,145 items. John Hatchard founded the business in 1797 when he was twenty-nine y…

Observations on the influence of Soil and Climate upon Wool; from which is deduced, a Certain and Easy Method of improving the quality of English Clothing Wools, and preserving the Health of Sheep; with Hints for the Management of Sheep after shearing...

BAKEWELL (Robert) · 1814 · Forest Books

£80.63 (€96.65 | $106.52 | ¥17,010)

Philadelphia: Published by Kimber and Conrad, William Fry, Printer, 1814. First American edition, 12mo, text slightly browned, 120pp., disbound. This is not Bakewell the sheep-breeder, but the geologist. Bakewell was probably one of the Quakers and wool-staplers of that name i…

Observations on the Plan and Progress of the Catalogue of the Library of the British Museum. By a Bookseller.

[BOHN (Henry George)] · 1855 · Forest Books

£134.38 (€161.08 | $177.53 | ¥28,350)

London: Printed by William Stevens, 1855. First edition, 28pp., anonymous but known to be by Bohn and the title bears an inscription from him or a member of the Bohn family to the Rev. W. H. Gunner, disbound. “Bohn, Henry George (1796–1884), bookseller and publisher. The infor…

Harpocrates, sive Explicatio imagunculae argenteae perantiquae; quae in figuram Harpocratis formata representat solem. Ejusdem monumenta antiqua inedita. Accedit S. Le Moine epistola de Melanophoris. With engraved frontispice by J. vanden Avele, 42 text figs. & 6 (partly fold.) plates.

CUPER, Gisbert. · 1687 · Antiquariaat Brinkman, sinds 1954

€450.00 ($495.98 | £375.42 | ¥79,202)

Utrecht, F. Halma, 1687. 4to. [vi],294,(14) pp. Marbled calf, richly gilt spine with 5 raised bands. (Stamp on title-page; headcap sl.damaged; upper hinge slightly splitting) ¶ Gijsbert Cuper (1644-1716) was a first-rate archaeologist & Dutch politician. Although he corresponded…

Voyages au Japon, par le Cap de Bonne-Espérence, les îles de la Sonde &c. Traduits par L. Langles & revues par J.B. Lamarck. With frontispiece portrait and 28 plates.

THUNBERG, C.P. · 1796 · Antiquariaat Brinkman, sinds 1954

€600.00 ($661.31 | £500.56 | ¥105,603)

Paris, B. Dandré, Garnery, Obré, 1796. 4 vols. lxiv,418- x,430- viii,445- xii,462 pp. Modern marbled wrappers. (stamp on titles; some pages browned; slightly trimmed) ¶ Carl Peter Thunberg [1743- 1828] was a Swedish botanist and explorer and one of the great and most well-known …

[Autograph letter concerning the guard of his woods].Riom, 9 July 1803. 4to (21 x 33.5 cm). 2 pp. text, 1 blank and the final page with the recipient's address. Formerly folded three times for posting and with traces of a seal.

CHAPSAL, Jean-Antoine. · 1753 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€350.00 ($385.76 | £291.99 | ¥61,601)

Autograph letter by the French lieutenant Jean-Antoine Chapsal (1753-1834), addressed to Urion Laguesse, "sous-inspecteur des forets nationales", concerning the appointment of a forester to oversee his woods. He tells Laguesse that, since a forest ranger is required by law, he c…

796 Days. Hiding as a child in occupied Amsterdam during WWII and then coming to America (covering the period 1939-1957)

ULLMAN, LEO S. · 2015 · Antiquariaat Spinoza

€43.60 ($48.06 | £36.37 | ¥7,674)

Margate, Comteqpublishing, 2015. 397 pp. With handwritten dedication by the author. Else as new. Hardcover. A first-person story of a young Jewish boy pushed into hiding over a period of nearly two and a half years during WWII with total strangers who did not know who he was, …

ORIGINAL CARTOON ART: Puccini, Bach, Donizetti. Mob Hits. RCA, BMG Records

NORKIN, Sam · 0 · Charles Agvent

$312.50 (€283.53 | £236.54 | ¥49,902)

n.p.. Original pen and ink on paper, 12-1/2" x 13", SIGNED by the artist and titled at the bottom and on the verso in pencil. An image of the 3 composers as mobsters. Norkin's theater caricatures, similar in style to that of Hirschfeld, primarily appeared weekly in the NEW YORK …

MEMOIRS. YEARS OF TRIAL AND HOPE. Inscribed to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr

TRUMAN, Harry · 1956 · Charles Agvent

$12,500.00 (€11,341.14 | £9,461.53 | ¥1,996,088)

Garden City. Doubleday & Company, Inc.. First Edition. An outstanding Presentation Copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author to the son and namesake of the man whom he served as Vice-President and whom he succeeded in office: "With kind regards to/my good friend/Franklin D. Roosev…

The Duel

METZGER, BARBARA · 2005 · Kalamos Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

New York, Signet. 2005, 1st Pbk Edition. (ISBN: 0451213890) Pbk. Book, If only he could go back in time. Then Ian, Earl of Marden, would not have dueled, and he would not have hit an innocent bystander -- a sickly lad, no less. And he certainly would never have brought the boy's…

Caroline Minuscule

TAYLOR, ANDREW · 1984 · Kalamos Books

$7.00 (€6.35 | £5.30 | ¥1,118)

Penguin. 1984, 1st Pbk Edition. (ISBN: 0140070990) Pbk. Book, A medieval manuscript launches a modern treasure hunt lightly dusted with black humor.. William Dougal is a postgraduate student of history with expensive tastes and low moral fibre..Thus it is that when he stumbles o…

The Irish in North America: A Regional Bibliography

METRESS, SEAMUS & HARDY-JOHNSTON, DONNA · 1999 · Kalamos Books

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

Toronto, P.D.Meany. 1999, 1st Can Ed. (ISBN: 0888350090) Hardcover. Book, 227p. Inscribed on ffep by publisher, else as new. [Patrick Meany was a book editor and director of MacMillan Company of Canada Ltd. and ran his own scholarly book publishing and distribution business for …

Snowdrops and Scandalbroth

METZGER, BARBARA · 1997 · Kalamos Books

$13.00 (€11.79 | £9.84 | ¥2,076)

Fawcett Books. 1997. (ISBN: 0449225062) Soft cover. Book, Stranded in London at the mercy of strangers, Miss Kathlyn Partland was mistrustful of Lord Chase's sympathy, surprised by his hospitality.. and positively shocked by his outrageous offer: He wished to pay her to appear w…

Fugitive Pieces

MICHAELS, ANNE · 1997 · Kalamos Books

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

London, Bloomsbury. 1997, 1st UK Edition. (ISBN: 0747529396) Hardcover. Book, "It is just months before the Nazi occupation of Poland, and, from the mud of a buried city, Jakob Beer, an orphaned Jewish boy, finds himself rescued by an unlikely saviour. He is saved by the geologi…

The Tenth Man

GREENE, GRAHAM · 1985 · Kalamos Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

New York, Simon & Schuster. 1985, 1st US Edition. (ISBN: 067150794X) Hardcover. Book, In a Gestapo prison in Occupied France one in every ten men is to be shot. The prisoners draw lots among themselves - and for rich lawyer Louis Chavel it seems that his whole life has been lead…

Love: A Novel

MORRISON, TONI · 2003 · Kalamos Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

New York, A.A. Knopf. 2003, Uncorrected Proof. (ISBN: 0375409440) Original Wraps. Book, An uncorrected proof " May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida,even L: all women obsessed with Bill Cosey. The wealthy owner of the famous Coseys Hotel and Resort, he shapes their yearnings for fa…

Re-Inventing My Self

NAPOLI, FRED · 1989 · Kalamos Books

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

Dundas, ON, Talent Seven Limited Publishing. 1989, 1st Canadian Edition. (ISBN: 0969444605) Soft cover. Book, Over more than fifty years, Fred Napoli's rich baritone voice work in radio and television made him nationally recognizable, yet outside of the areas where he did live b…

The Adventures of Niko.

RUMBOLD,JONATHAN · 1983 · Kalamos Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

London, Dragon/Granada. 1983, Reprint. (ISBN: 0583305636) Soft cover. Ill.: Edward Mortlesmans. Book, "Niko, a young Greek boy, convinced that he is cut out for better things than minding goats all day, dreams up various wild schemes for bettering his lot. He escapes to the moun…

The Way Home: A Novel

PELECANOS, GEORGE P. · 2009 · Kalamos Books

$27.50 (€24.95 | £20.82 | ¥4,391)

Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Little Brown & Co. 2009, 1st US Ed.. (ISBN: 0316156493) Hardcover. Book, Christopher Flynn is trying to get it right. After years of trouble and rebellion that enraged his father and nearly cost him his life, he has a steady job in his father's comp…