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FAULKNER, WILLIAM. · 1947 · Bluebird Books

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,590)

New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1947]. Hardcover. William Faulkner's novel, first published in 1931, deals grippingly with the difficult subject of rape. The author maintained that he wrote the novel strictly to make money, but it was a success with critics as we…

Outside the All Stars

ASSER, JONATHAN · 2003 · Lady Lisa's Bookshop

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

UK, Arc Publications. 2003. (ISBN: 9781900072717). Paperback, 21 x 13.4 x 1 cm. Condition good. "Jonathan Assers says of his first collection: "I think the book is about men who don't have dads, and how that makes them violent, mad, lonely, criminal - as well as being an emotion…

Walter Scott's Works with a General Introduction by Sir Walter Besant, Most Unusually and Elaborately Illustrated (11 Volumes, Only, of 33)

SCOTT, SIR WALTER · 1890 · Round Table Books, LLC

$200.00 (€181.45 | £151.36 | ¥31,941)

London: Merrill & Baker, N.D.. Limited Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Eleven volumes (Edition des Amateurs). Limited edition of 250 sets (of which these are part of No. 31). nd (c. 1890). Half morocco over calf boards, spines in six compartments separated by raised bands, …

Sixteen Famous European Plays (Modern Library Giant #G-71. 1)

CERF, BENNETT; CARTMELL, VAN H. (COMPILERS) · 1957 · Bluebird Books

$21.00 (€19.05 | £15.89 | ¥3,354)

New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1957]. Hardcover. Published as a companion volume to the Modern Library's "Sixteen Famous American Plays" and "Sixteen Famous British Plays", this collection includes notable plays by Ibsen, Tchekov, Rostand, Capek and 12 others. P…

Lucian&Apos;S Wonderland

Lucian of Samosata; St J. Basil Wynne Willson [trans.] · 1899 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1899 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of St J. Basil Wynne Willson's translation of Lucien's ancient Latin satire, authored in the second century AD. The first edition thus. Translated from Lucien of Samosata&…

Thomas Bewick: His Life and Times

Robert Robinson · 1887 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

Newcastle, R Robinson, 1887. First edition. Cloth. A illustrated work on the life of Thomas Bewick, an English wood-engraver and natural history author. Thomas Bewick (1753-1828) was an English wood-engraver and natural history author. Early in his career he took on all kinds of…

Somebody&Apos;S Rocking My Dreamboat the Music of the Heart

Noel Langley; Hazel Pynegar · 1949 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

London, Arthur Barker, 1949-1951. First edition. Hardback. A pair of first editions in charming colour-illustrated Edward Ardizzone dust wrappers. A pair of first editions by South African-born novelist, playwright, screenwriter and director Noel Langley, who wrote the screenpl…

The Quarto, an Artistic Literary & Musical Quarterly

Various · 1896 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

London, J.S. Virtue, 1896. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of the 1896 publication of this Victorian periodical, focused on artistic, literary, and musical entries. The first edition of the second number of The Quarto, an illustrated Victorian magazine edited by John Ber…

Tractatus de Principiis Juris Canonici Tractatus de Episcopo

D. Bouix · 1862 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

Parisiis; Lugduni, Apud Perisse Fratres, Catholicos Bibliopolas; In Nova Domo Regis Ruffet Et Soc. Succ.; In Veteri Domo Via Dicta Mercatoria, [1862]-1873. Leather. A pair of full calf Latin legal titles, collected by lawyer M. D. Bouix. A pair of Latin law volumes, bound in ful…

J.C. Edwards, Ruabon. Plaskynaston Potteries, Trefynant Fire Clay Works, Pen-y-Bont. Bricks - Tiles - Terra cotta. Catalogue of Patterns.

J.C. Edwards (Ruabon) · 1895 · SomeThingz, books etcetera

€395.00 ($435.37 | £329.49 | ¥69,532)

Ruabon, North Wales J.C. Edwards no date (ca. 1895?) Papercovers (protected with removable cellophane), 21pp. and 48 b/w. plates and 1 loosly inserted flyleaf, 27x37cm., in good condition (fragile spine damaged, covers with traces of use, interior fine). Very rare and decorativ…

Collins's Peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical. Generally augmented, and continued to the present time, by Sir Egerton Brydges, K. J.

COLLINS, BRYDGES, SIR EGERTON, · 1812 · Antiquariaat Goltzius

€345.00 ($380.26 | £287.78 | ¥60,730)

London, Printed for F.C. and J. Rivington, Otridge and Son, J. Nichols and Co. T. Payne, Wilkie and Robinson, J. Walker, Clarke and Sons, W. Lowndes, R. Lea, J. Cutshell, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Co. White, Cochrane, and Co. C. Law, Cadell and Davies, J. Booth, Crosby and…

The Rape of the Lock: An Heroi-Comical Poem in Five Cantos. Embroidered with Nine Drawings by Aubrey Beardsley. First Edition

Alexander Pope ( 1688-1744); Aubrey Vincent Beardsley ( 1872-1898 ), illustrator · 1899 · Wittenborn Art Books

$1,200.00 (€1,088.72 | £908.15 | ¥191,647)

London: Leonard Smithers, 1899. 4to. Original gilt blue cloth. Light foxing on text pages but not on the 9 plates. Book plate of René Féry d'Esclands, 1886-1969 . Medium:Illustrations: process prints from line blocks Dimensions:10 3/8 x 7 9/16 x 3/8 in. (26.4 x 19.2 x 1 cm) Dedi…

The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders [the Diary of Moll Flanders]

DEFOE, DANIEL · 1970 · Bluebird Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,514)

Avon, Connecticut: The Heritage Press, 1970. Hardcover. A handsome Heritage Press edition of Daniel Defoe's classic 1722 novel. The full original title tells it all: 'The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, &c. Who was Born in Newgate [prison], and during a Lif…

Selected Works of Stephen Vincent Benã©T [Benet] (Volume One: Poems; Volume Two: Prose); (2-Volume Set in Shared Slipcase)

BENÉT [BENET], STEPHEN VINCENT · 1942 · Bluebird Books

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.16 | ¥3,833)

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc, 1942. Hardcover. First Editions (so indicated by 'FR' symbol on copyright pages). A two-volume set in shared slipcase presenting the selected poems and prose of Stephen Vincent Benét (1898-1943). Perhaps best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning…

ANCESTRAL VOICES; PROPHESYING PEACE; CAVES OF ICE; MIDWAY ON THE WAVES; A MINGLED MEASURE; ANCIENT AS THE HILLS; THROUGH WOOD AND DALE; DEEP ROMANTIC CHASM; HOLY DREAD; BENEATH A WANING MOON; CEASELESS TURMOIL; THE MILK OF PARADISE; [Complete set of twelves volumes]

LEES-MILNE, James. · 1975 · The Minster Gate Bookshop

£350.00 (€419.59 | $462.48 | ¥73,860)

London, Chatto & Windus; John Murray, 1975; 1977; 1983; 1985; 1994; 1997; 1998; 2000; 2001; 2003; 2004; 2005 Set of twelve volumes, all first editions except for: Caves of Ice; A Mingled Measure; Ceaseless Turmoil, each of which are second impressions, 8vo., pp.x,302;vii,2…

Astrology and the Evolution of Consciousness-Volume 1 Astrology Fundamentals

Maurice Fernandez · 2009 · Boekhandel Louis Tinner

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.68 | ¥3,521)

Evolutionary Astrology. 2009, paperback, goed exemplaar / good copy. For novice astrology students as well as experienced astrologers seeking a holistic look at the foundations of astrology, this accessible and fascinating study is a must. Readers will be pleased to discover tha…

The Path to Love / Renewing the Power of Spirit in Your Life

Deepak Chopra · 1997 · Boekhandel Louis Tinner

€8.00 ($8.82 | £6.67 | ¥1,408)

Harmony Books. 1997; Hardcover; goed exemplaar; lichte gebruikssporen aan stofomslag / light wear on dustjacket. Drawing on wisdom from the Vedic texts of India, from the other great spiritual traditions, and from Dr. Chopra's own experiences, The Path to Love shows us how spiri…

Alexander: Volume II - The Sands of Ammon

MANFREDI, VALERIO MASSIMO · 2002 · Kalamos Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

New York, Washington Square Press. 2002, 1st Pbk Edition. (ISBN: 0743434374) Soft cover. Book, Part II of a trilogy. A thousand years after Agamemnon fought the Trojan War. Alexander, the king of Macedonia and descendant of Achilles, follows in the footsteps of Greek legend. He …

Imagined London: A Tour of the World's Greatest Fictional City

QUINDLEN, ANNA · 2004 · Kalamos Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Washington DC, National Geographic. 2004, 1st US Edition. (ISBN: 0792265610) Hardcover. Book, Anna Quindlen first visited London from a chair in her suburban Philadelphia home?in one of her beloved childhood mystery novels. She has been back to London countless times since, thro…

Marlborough. His Life and Times. Complete in 4 volumes.

CHURCHILL, WINSTON S. · 1933 · Sigma Antiquariaat

€1,764.10 ($1,944.40 | £1,471.52 | ¥310,533)

London : George Newnes 1933-38 First edition of each volume. pp.[4]; 612; pp.651; [1]; pp.[2]; 608; [2]; pp.671; [1],325 ills: plates, folding maps and battle plans, frontispieces. Indexes HARDCOVER: (Orig. 3/4 maroon-red cloth lettered and decorated in gilt. Text-blocks all ver…