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Field Guide to the Bird Songs of Britain and Europe (Set of 14 records, RFLP 5001-5014 + supplement, RFLP 5015)

Palmer, Sture; Boswall, Jeffery · 1969 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

Swedish Broadcasting Corporation / Swedish Radio Company Stockholm , . . LP Record. 15 long-play (33rpm) vinyl records each in its original printed sleeve, with inner sleeve, liner notes (listing tracks) and an explanatory insert. Neat withdrawn stamps from an institutional libr…

Home on the Bering: The Jesse Lee Home At Unalaska: 1911-1915 (Cuttlefish, 3); based on the scrapbooks of Clara Cook Lawrence ; with stories and articles by Abuk (James Alexander) [and others] ; supplemented with recent accounts by John Carpenter [and others] ; arranged, edited, annotated, and illustrated as Cuttlefish Three by students of the Unalaska City School 1978-1979.

Carpenter, John; Jennie Alexander; Clara Cook Lawrence; Unalaska City School (Alaska) · 1979 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$95.00 (€86.19 | £71.90 | ¥15,172)

Unalaska, Alaska Unalaska City School First printing pp. 148. 4to., measuring 28 cm. Black and white illustrations, maps, photographs. Illustrated red stiff card covers. A unique school yearbook arranged by the students of Unalaska City School and rich with stories and photograp…

Canadian Geographical Journal, Volume 8, Nos. 1-6, January-June 1934

Lawrence, J. Burpee (ed.); George A. Mackie (publisher) et al · 1934 · Books on the Web

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

Montreal: Canadian Geographical Society, 1934. Hard bound in half leather, original black and red leather-covered boards, 296pp. Contains January, February, March, April, May & June issues of 1934 bound in one volume. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs, with…

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Smith Zadie, Zadie Smith · 2012 · Klondyke BV

€4.95 ($5.46 | £4.13 | ¥871)

Paperback; 1e druk, 2012; PEN, Penguin UK; 304pp.; Conditie: Goed; NW is Zadie Smith's masterful novel about London life. Zadie Smith's brilliant tragi-comic NW follows four Londoners - Leah, Natalie, Felix and Nathan - after they've left their childhood council estate, grown up…

Tableaux des costumes, moeurs, coutumes et vues, de la Nord-Hollande, de Zaandam, Broek, Alkmaar, Assendelft et de l'Île de Marken.Amsterdam, Evert Maaskamp, [ca. 1826]. Oblong 4to (22.5 x 29 cm). With an engraved map of North Holland by C.H. Koning on title-page and 11 engraved plates, mostly engraved by Willem van Senus after Hendrik Greeven, all protected by tissue guards. Contemporary boards; preserved in a modern cloth clamshell box.

GREEVEN, Hendrik. · 1770 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€1,750.00 ($1,928.86 | £1,459.75 | ¥308,051)

[2] ll. + 10 plates.Very rare work with 12 engraved plates displaying architecture and inhabitants of the Dutch province North Holland, engraved by Willem van Senus (ca. 1770-1851), all but one after designs by Hendrik Greeven (1787-1854). The work was published by Evert Maaskam…

Carawane nach Mecca. Vienna, Matthias Trentsensky (printed by E. Sieger), ca. 1855. Oblong folio (25 x 40 cm). With 19 (of 24) numbered leaves containing about 135 lithographic pen-drawings, each drawing including a base so that one can cut them out, paste them on card stock, stand them up and arrange them in three-dimensional scenes. Loose leaves in a later paper folder.

[MECCA - PAPER CARAVAN CUT-OUTS]. · 1977 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€8,500.00 ($9,368.76 | £7,090.23 | ¥1,496,249)

ll. 6-24 (of 24).All but the first five leaves of a very rare lithographic print series issued in parts. Most copies were probably cut up (and perhaps coloured) by children and destroyed in play. The human figures to be cut out include Turkish, Arabic, African and Near Eastern m…

SIGNED ENGRAVING of "The Miracle Worker"

[KELLER, Helen] SULLIVAN, Anne Mansfield · 0 · Charles Agvent

$937.50 (€850.57 | £709.50 | ¥149,725)

Early 3-3/4" x 5-3/4" engraving from a photograph on a 7" x 10" sheet tipped to a slightly larger sheet of Helen Keller's famous teacher, subject of the play and movie THE MIRACLE WORKER, SIGNED in ink below the image: "Anne Mansfield Sullivan." At the age of 7, nearly blind fro…

TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS)

KELLER, Helen · 719041917 · Charles Agvent

$1,875.00 (€1,701.13 | £1,418.99 | ¥299,449)

Wrentham [MA]. A lovely one-page letter on a sheet of 8-1/2" x 11" paper addressed to a friend named Villa and SIGNED in pencil by Keller. In full: "Teacher [Anne Sullivan] is right in the midst of pies, and she wants me to thank you for her for your gift. Dear me, at the rate t…

EVERYBODY'S POLITICAL WHAT'S WHAT? Manuscript Page, Page Proofs and 3 AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED (ALSs) by SHAW

SHAW, George Bernard · 19431944 · Charles Agvent

$6,250.00 (€5,670.44 | £4,729.97 | ¥998,164)

London. Constable and Company Ltd.. First Edition. Laurence A246 for the printed book. This collection, all housed in a green cloth chemise within a half green morocco slipcase gilt-lettered on the spine and front cover, consists of seven items related to the book: a single page…

AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT POEM (Juvenilia - 4 pages): "Bank Holiday"

AUDEN, W. H · 0 · Charles Agvent

$9,375.00 (€8,505.66 | £7,094.96 | ¥1,497,245)

Exceptionally scarce 4-page AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT of a poem written by Auden as a teenager. Published in THE OXFORD OUTLOOK in November 1926 and not published in book form until 1994 in W. H. AUDEN JUVENILIA edited by Katherine Bucknell, from which much of the information below w…

In Other Words: How I Fell in Love with Canada One Book at a Time

PORTER, ANNA · 2018 · Kalamos Books

$27.50 (€24.95 | £20.81 | ¥4,392)

Toronto, Simon & Schuster. 2018, 1st Canadian Edition. (ISBN: 9781476795133) Hardcover. Book, "When Anna Porter arrived in Canada in 1968 with one battered suitcase, little money and a head full of dreams, she had no idea that this country would become her home for the rest of h…

The Art of Emptiness

Kakiemon XIV, Sakaida; translated by Frew, Gavin · 2019 · Jorge Welsh Works of Art Lda

€30.00 ($33.07 | £25.02 | ¥5,281)

Book Very Good Dust Jacket Included 1st Edition Japan Publising Industry Foundation for Culture (JPIC), Japan English text; Hardcover (with dust jacket); 16 x 22 cm; 0.5 kg; 208 pages with a few colour illustrations; Used with minor signs of wear on the dust jacket, that show: e…

[Graphic Novel] Gods' Man. A novel in woodcuts

WARD, Lynd (1905–1985) · 1929 · Fine Editions Ltd

$499.00 (€452.73 | £377.64 | ¥79,693)

New York Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith First Printing First Trade Edition of the first of Ward’s stories without words, relying solely on visually striking woodcuts to tell a Faustian tale of an artist who signs away his soul for a magical paintbrush. Demy 8vo (205 x 140mm): …

Friedrich DŸrrenmatt.- Konvolut von 27 BŸchern.

D†RRENMATT, Friedrich: · 1964 · Harteveld Rare Books Ltd.

CHF 250.00 (€270.45 | $298.09 | £225.59 | ¥47,607)

in-8vo, Orig. BroschŸren. 1) BROCK-SULZER, Elisabeth: Friedrich DŸrrenmatt. Stationen seines Werkes. Mit Photos, Zeichnungen, Faksimiles. 1964./ 2) KNAPP, Gerhard P.: Friedrich DŸrrenmatt. 1980./ 3) KEEL, Daniel: †ber Friedrich DŸrrenmatt. 1980./ 4) BROCK-SULZER, Elisabeth: DŸrr…

The Emptiness of Asia. Aeschylus' Persians and the history of the fifth century.

HARRISON, Th., · 2000 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€75.00 ($82.67 | £62.56 | ¥13,202)

Duckworth, London, 2000. 191p. Original red hard bound with pictorial dust wrappers. Pencil annotations in Dutch on laste paste-down end paper. 'Thomas Harrison's 'The Emptiness of Asia' is 'a study of the historical value of Aeschylus' play, the 'Persians': its value both for …

The Symptom and the Subject. The Emergence of the Physical Body in Ancient Greece.

HOLMES, Br., · 2010 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€28.00 ($30.86 | £23.36 | ¥4,929)

Princeton University Press, Princeton / Oxford, 2010. XXIII,355p. Paperback. Like new. Appears unread. ‘Brooke Holmes’s present book is particularly innovative because (…) it focuses on the body and not on the soul. Her thesis is twofold. First, she argues that the concept of t…

Agamemnon. Edited with a commentary by R.J. Tarrant.

SENECA, · 1976 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€88.00 ($96.99 | £73.40 | ¥15,491)

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (...), 1976. VIII,409p. Original terracotta cloth with gilt titled vignette to spine. Lacking dust wrps. 'This is the most extensive and elaborate edition of a Senecan tragedy known to me in any language, and it shout be said at once that i…

Prostitutes and Matrons in the Roman World.

STRONG, Anise K., · 2018 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€25.00 ($27.56 | £20.85 | ¥4,401)

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (...), 2018. 1st paperback ed. IX,304p. Paperback. 'With this monograph Anise Strong brings together matronae and meretrices (literally). Rather than simply focusing on the polarized stereotypes of wife and whore, Strong seeks ways in which…

Le commedie. Volume primo. Edizione critica e traduzione a cura di D. Del Corno.

MENANDRO, (MENANDER), · 1958 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€45.00 ($49.60 | £37.54 | ¥7,921)

Istituto Editoriale Italiano, Milano, n.d. 1st ed. 585p. Sewn. Cover and spine a bit worn. Personal notes and two reviews loosely inserted. Series: Classici greci & latini, 16.(Rare). Contents: Herois. Epitrepontum (cum papyri Didotianaemulieris oratione). Periciromenes. Fabual…

Maclean's - Canada's National Magazine, 1 July, 1949 - Maggie Muggins / George A. Wright

WRIGHT, GEORGE A.; GARDNER, RAY; KAHN, FRITZ; WUORIO, EVA-LIS; BORDRERO, ROSALIE; WEBER, LENORA; ET AL · 1949 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$295.00 (€267.64 | £223.25 | ¥47,113)

Toronto: Maclean Hunter / Key Publishers, 1949. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. Illustrated by Woods, Rex; Bush, Jack; Winter, W.. 56 pages. Features: Cover illustration of Lady in rain trying to find her summer camp; Nice colour ad for International trucks inside front co…