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The Papers Of Joseph Henry [ Volumes I - VIII ]

Henry, Joseph - Reingold, Nathan & Rothenberg, Marc et al [editors] · 19721999 · Eastleach Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

Smithsonian Institute Press, Washington 1972 - 1999 1st edition Cloth, dj, F/VG+. 8 volumes, xl+496pp, xl+524pp, xxxiv+585pp, xxxiv+475pp, xxxviii+506pp, xlii+662pp, xlviii+707pp, xlviii548pp, decorated endpapers, grand total of 64pp b/w plates, text figs, index to each volume,…

ARCHIVE OF 3 TYPED LETTERS SIGNED (TLSs)

BOWLES, Paul · 1986 · Charles Agvent

$1,500.00 (€1,360.91 | £1,135.19 | ¥239,559)

Tangier, Morocco. Three TYPED LETTERS SIGNED (TLSs) to Bob Sharrard, publisher/proprietor of City Lights Books in San Francisco, on onionskin paper, SIGNED "Paul Bowles" and "Paul B" (two). Bowles writes from his home in Morocco on various literary matters. Some excerpts: "I thi…

[Original Cloth] Letters from the Canary Islands

BROWNE, D. J. [Daniel Jay, 1804-1867] · 1834 · Fine Editions Ltd

$724.00 (€656.86 | £547.92 | ¥115,627)

Boston George W. Light, Lyceum Press, 3 Cornhill Scarce First Edition (rare both in commerce and in institutional collections) of this account of the Canary Islands by the nineteenth-century Boston naturalist. Crown 8vo (186 x 111mm): 140pp, with tissue-guarded frontispiece ("Pe…

Tenant Farmer [Signed]

CALDWELL, Erskine (1903-1987) · 1935 · Fine Editions Ltd

$251.00 (€227.72 | £189.96 | ¥40,086)

New York Phalanx Press First Edition Caldwell's scalding indictment of tenant farming and sharecropping in the Depression-era South, reserving especial contempt for Eugene Talmadge, then governor of Georgia. Signed by Caldwell on the title page. Slim 8vo (195 x 135mm): 30,[2]pp.…

Julian the Apostate.

BOWERSOCK, G.W., · 1978 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€25.00 ($27.56 | £20.85 | ¥4,401)

Duckworth, London, 1978. 1st ed. XII,135,(8). ills.(B&W photographs and line drawings). Original red gilt stamped cloth with pictorial dust wrps. Cloth a little bit mottled to the edges. Signature in pencil on title page. ‘Professor Bowersock’s book is a fine contribution to th…

The Echo [and] the Hudson River Magazine

Osborn, C. E. and Thorn, R. S., eds · 1941 · Kaaterskill Books

$175.00 (€158.77 | £132.44 | ¥27,949)

[Hudson, N.Y.], [Thorn and Osborn], 1941. First edition. Paper wrappers. Illus. with b/w photos and drawings. 4to. (28-31 cm.). Imprint varies: May 1938-Aug. 1939, Thorn and Osborn; Nov. 1939- 1940, Carroll E. Osborn; Jan-May 1941, Hudson River Publishers. A nearly complete run …

c.2009 - 2011. CALIFORNIA PRISON MAIL ARCHIVE(60+) ORIGINAL LETTERS, CARDS, DRAWINGS, PHOTOGRAPHS & PRISON DOCUMENTSAFRICAN AMERICAN WOMAN'S CORRESPONDENCE FROM CALIFORNIA STATE PRISON

0 · Peter Austern & Co./ Brooklyn Books

$400.00 (€362.91 | £302.72 | ¥63,882)

Book Good California Prison Mail CollectionAn unusually revealing group of more than 60 original letters, birthday cards, children's drawings, photographs, and related prison/legal documents, dating primarily from 20092011. The material was mailed in California to Ta-Ta B---, a …

Netsuke the Life and Legend of Japan in Miniature

TOLLNER, MADELINE R. · 1960 · S. Howlett-West Books

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.27 | ¥6,388)

San Francisco, CA: Fearon Publishers, Inc, 1960. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers ha…

The Golden Journey of Mr. Paradyne

LOCKE, WILLIAM J. · 1924 · S. Howlett-West Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York, NY: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1924. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Marcia Lane Foster. Color & B&W; This book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The te…

Krüger. No Title.

KRUGER - Hout, Marie-José van den & Cornelie Holzach, Barbara Maas et al: · 2014 · Scriptum Art Books v.o.f.

€39.00 ($42.99 | £32.53 | ¥6,865)

2014, (22,5 x 29,5 cm),, 224 pp English / German text, 412 ills. in colour and b/w., flexicover. Winfried Krüger’s work is modest and non-conformist within the context of contemporary art jewellery. Now, for the first time, his diverse jewellery series are presented in an exten…

Liberty Magazine - America's Best Read Weekly, December [Dec. ] 24, 1932, Vol. 9, No. 52: Germany's Official Reply to Sergeant Halyburton of Company F, Sixteenth Infantry, Usa

WAYMAN, DOROTHY; DOHERTY, EDWARD; BLACKLEDGE, W.J.; SMITH, FREDERICK JAMES; ANNIXTER; STALLINGS, RICHARD; ET AL · 1932 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$149.95 (€136.05 | £113.48 | ¥23,948)

Toronto: Liberty Publishing Corporation of Canada, Ltd, 1932. Canadian Edition. Single Issue Magazine. Feo, Charles; Cameron, Robert A.; Kidder, B. Latham. 50 pages. Features: Nice color cover illustration by John Drew of Santa buying hot water bottlle; Ad for Beeman's Pepsin Gu…

Skybreaker

Oppel, Kenneth · 2005 · Alpha 2 Omega Books

£15.30 (€18.34 | $20.22 | ¥3,229)

Hodder Children's Books. First UK edition-first printing. Book. Mint condition.Hodder Children's Books,2005.First UK edition-first printing(2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1).Blue hardback(silver lettering to the spine,crease/dent on the edge of the back cover) with Dj(two small creases and …

Life on Air: David Attenborough Memoirs

Attenborough, Sir David · 2002 · Alpha 2 Omega Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

BBC Books. First UK edition-first printing. Book. Fine condition.BBC Books,2002.First UK edition-first printing.Dark brown hardback(gilt lettering to the spine,small nick on the edge of the cover) with Dj(a couple of nicks,crease and scratch on the edges of the Dj cover),both in…

Actes éthiopiens du diacre Étienne

Damien Labadie · 2024 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€40.00 ($44.09 | £33.37 | ¥7,041)

, Brepols, 2024 Paperback, 208 pages, Size:120 x 190 mm, Illustrations:2 b/w, Language: French. *neuf ISBN 9782503612492. Summary Ce nouveau volume de la collection Apocryphes présente au lecteur une anthologie inédite de six textes éthiopiens consacrés à saint Étienne, premie…

Carrie Mae Weems

Lewis, Sarah Elizabeth · 2020 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,590)

Cambridge, Massachusetts, The MIT Press, 2020. Hardcover. Purple and white boards with b&w-photo illustration and white and black lettering; xviii, 202 pp.; 16 unnumbered pages of plates; richly illustrated. "Since the 1980s, the artist Carrie Mae Weems has challenged the status…

Miscellanea

Sir William Temple, Baronet · 1681 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.42 | $654.07 | ¥104,460)

London, Printed by J. C. for Edw. Gellibrand; Printed by J. R. for Ri. and Ra. Simpson, 1681-1690. Leather. A very scarce second edition of Sir William Temple's reputable essays, complete in two parts bound into one. The second edition of Part I and Part II, published 1681-…

Koos Breukel. Among Photographers

Koos Breukel, Wim van Sinderen · 2007 · Amstelbooks.com - Photography Books

€65.00 ($71.64 | £54.22 | ¥11,442)

Rotterdam: Veenman Publishers / The Hague Museum of Photography. First edition, first printing. 200 pp., 32 x 24,5. Condition: As New. Very good copy, almost like new. Text: The Hague Museum of Photography. In the course of his career, Koos Breukel (b. The Hague, 1962) has produ…

Reading the Church Fathers with St. Thomas Aquinas. Historical and Systematical Perspectives

Jörgen Vijgen, Piotr Roszak (eds) · 2021 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€78.00 ($85.97 | £65.06 | ¥13,730)

, Brepols - Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, 2021 Paperback, 520 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:1 b/w, 4 tables b/w., Language(s):English, French. ISBN 9782503593203. Summary In his richly documented and still valuable study of Aquinas and the Church Fathers, publish…

King Arthur's Prowess: Visualising Arthur's Fight with the Terrible Cat Journal of the International Arthurian Society Volume 13 Issue 1 2025 King Arthur and Galgano's Sword in the Stone

Martine Meuwese, Raluca Radulescu, Francesco Marzella, Dominique Iannone · 2025 · Three Geese In Flight Celtic Books

$55.00 (€49.90 | £41.62 | ¥8,784)

Switzerland, De Gruyter, 2025. First Swiss Edition. Paperback. Fine Collectible Condition 200 pp. English and French language Color and B/W Illustrations Color Medieval Manuscript filled study of the Welsh Palug Cat also known as the Swiss Le Chat of Lausanne and French Suite Vu…

John Marin and the Sea, October 19--November 19, 1982 Exhibition Catalogue

MARIN, JOHN · 1982 · Pegasus Books

$23.00 (€20.87 | £17.41 | ¥3,673)

New York: Kennedy Galleries, 1982. Softcover. Illustrated by John Marin. Soft cover is heavy, paper. Black lettering on front and on white spine. Pages are clean and tight; appears as if unused. Pages not numbered. Extensively illustrated with a double page, b/w photograph of Ma…