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To the Lighthouse (Modern Library #217. 1)

WOOLF, VIRGINIA · 1944 · Bluebird Books

$144.00 (€130.65 | £108.98 | ¥22,998)

New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1944]. Hardcover. A rather scarce Modern Library reprint edition of Virginia Woolf's famous 1927 novel, notable for the author's reliance on her principal characters' inner thoughts (in lieu of dialogue). This is the story of the R…

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, a Definitive Text, Corrected and Edited By Edgar W. Smith Three Volumes - the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes: The Later Adventures and Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventures

DOYLE, ARTHUR CONAN AND EDGAR W. SMITH (EDITOR) · 1950 · S. Howlett-West Books

$175.00 (€158.77 | £132.44 | ¥27,949)

New York, NY: The Heritage Press, 1950. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; Three volume set - the Adventurs of Sherlock Holmes, The Later Adventures, and The Final Adventures. Apparent First Editions Thus. (The First Volume was published in 1950 , the second two published in 1952... …

Salt: The Essential Guide To Cooking With The Most Important Ingredient In Your Kitchen

Leslie Bilderback · 2016 · Book Haven

NZ$17.50 (€8.77 | $9.67 | £7.32 | ¥1,544)

St. Martin's Griffin 2016 Hardback, 224pp. Salt has been an essential dining element since the invention of the kitchen table. But today, specialty salts come in a vast variety of forms and flavors. Smokey salts, salts infused with clay or charcoal, herby and spicy salts, salt w…

Methadone Treatment for Opioid Dependence.

Strain, Eric C. · 1999 · Kloof Booksellers & Scientia Verlag

€16.50 ($18.19 | £13.76 | ¥2,904)

Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. Paperback. 352 pp.(Johns Hopkins Paperback). -Throughout the world, hundreds of thousands of people are addicted to opiates. The human, economic, and societal costs of this addiction are staggering: more than one-quarter o…

K?Rin Manga ????

Ogata K?rin ???? · 1890 · Boston Book Company

$375.00 (€340.23 | £283.80 | ¥59,890)

Ogata K?rin ????. K?rin Manga ????. c. 1890-95. Toshikawa Hanshichi, publisher. 2 vols 24 x 16cm bound fukuro toji with printed title slips. Vol 1 has 30 cho of monochrome woodblock prints plus 1 cho of introductory Japanese text preceding the prints and a 22 x 10cm title slip l…

Stories of Three Decades (Modern Library Giant #G84. 1)

MANN, THOMAS · 1964 · Bluebird Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1964]. Hardcover. A Modern Library Giant reprint edition offering 24 stories by Thomas Mann (1875-1955). Includes the author's "Felix Krull" and "Death in Venice" among others. The German author often wrote highly symbolic stories …

From Empire to Community: A New Approach to International Relations.

Etzioni, Amitai · 2004 · Kloof Booksellers & Scientia Verlag

€12.00 ($13.23 | £10.01 | ¥2,112)

New York : St. Martin's Press, 2004. Hardcover. Dustjacket. 272 pp.- Whether one favors the U.S. global projection of force or is horrified by it, the question stands - where do we go from here? What ought to be the new global architecture? Amitai Etzioni follows a third way, dr…

Kyokarakami. Karacho tezuri mokuhan monyo (Karacho designs on hand-printed woodcut pattern paper). Two volumes. Tokyo, Nijutsu Shuppansha, 1966-7.

ANSOU, HISAO (Ed.): · 1624 · Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books (ILAB)

€4,000.00 ($4,408.83 | £3,336.58 | ¥704,117)

Large folio. Complete in two volumes. Contain two leaves of preface and 102 plates of decorated Kurotani paper, printed in natural colours from the original old woodblocks. Two small pamphlets of each 16 pp with illustrations are enclosed. Preface by Jiro Osaragi. As issued, the…

Kruydtboeck oft beschrijvinghe van allerleye ghewassen, kruyderen, hesteren, ende gheboomten.Antwerp, Christoffel Plantin, 1581. 2 volumes bound as 1, the second in 3 parts. Large folio. With an engraved title-page, the author's large "candore et spe" woodcut device on leaf *6r, approximately 2185 botanical woodcuts in the text, 8 woodcut decorated (sometimes interlaced) initials plus repeats (6 series) and 1 typographic interlaced initial. Set in fraktur types with extensive roman and textura and incidental italic and civilité. Later (17th-century?) blind tooled vellum.

LOBEL [also L'OBEL or LOBELIUS], Matthias de. · 1576 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[10], 994, [2 blank], "312"[= 312, 294 + 2 blank], [2 blank], 15, [1 blank], [67], [1 blank] pp.First Dutch edition, with approximately 435 more woodcuts than Plantin's Latin edition of 1576, of one of the greatest herbals. Besides the expected herbs, medical plants, etc., it il…

The Libertarian Reader. Classic and contemporary writings from Lao-Tzu to Milton Friedman

Boaz, David · 1998 · Boekhandel - Antiquariaat Emile Kerssemakers - Member ILAB/NVvA

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

The Free Press, 1998 Paperback. 458 pages. Text in English. As new. The first collection of seminal writings on a movement that is rapidly changing the face of American politics, The Libertarian Reader links some of the most fertile minds of our time to a centuries-old commitmen…

Journal of the Thirty-First Session of the Diocesan Synod of Fredericton Journal of the Thirty-Sixth Session of the Diocesan Synod of Fredericton Journal of the Forty-First Session of the Diocesan Synod of Fredericton

1899 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

Saint John , Barnes and Co, 1899 - 1909 . Leather. Three volumes of the scarce Journals of the Diocesan Synod of Fredericton uniformly bound in half straight-grained morocco with paper-covered boards. This set contains: Journal of the Thirty-First Session of the Diocesan Synod …

The Robin&Apos;S Christmas Eve

Mrs. C.E. Bowen [Charlotte Elizabeth Bowen] · 0 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, Frederick Warne and Co. c1880. Paperback. A charming Christmas poem in toy book form, printed by German engraver and lithographer Joseph Kronheim. A charming toy book edition of The Robin's Christmas Eve, a children's poem written by children's author and …

Winter; Mamista; City of Gold; Violent Ward

Len Deighton · 1987 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

London , Century, Hutchinson and Harper Collins , 1987-1993. First edition. Hardback. Four first edition of novels by Len Dighton in original dust wrappers. The first edition. In the original unclipped dust wrappers.Four UK First Edition thrillers by Len Deighton. Len Deighton i…

The Middle Parts of Fortune; Somme and Ancre 1916

Frederic Manning · 1929 · Rooke Books

£1,400.00 (€1,678.37 | $1,849.91 | ¥295,441)

London, The Piazza Press, 1929. Cloth. The limited first edition of Frederic Manning's powerful novel, set in the trenches during the First World War. The novel was written in response to the sudden demand in the late 1920s for literary material dealing with the war. Wherea…

The Island

David Burnett · 1994 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

Berwick upon Tweed, Alex McClaren, 1994. First edition. Cloth. A beautiful limited edition of a very scarce poem inspired by Homer's Odyssey, with lovely woodcuts on Japanese handmade paper. The beautiful limited edition of The Island, a very scarce poem inspired by the Ody…

The Modern Woodcut a Study of the Evolution of the Craft by Herbert Furst (&Apos;Tis&Apos;) with a Chapter on the Practice of Xylography by W. Thomas Smith with over Two Hundred Illustrations in Black & White and Sixteen Plates in Colour

Herbert Furst · 1979 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

Vaduz, Quarto Press, 1979. Cloth. A very smart limited edition of Furst's study of the woodcut, with over 200 illustrations. In the publisher's original cloth binding. This is a 1979 reprint of Herbert Furst's survey of the art of the woodcut, limited to 500 copie…

Dianetics. The evolution of science

Hubbard, Ron L. · 2002 · Boekhandel - Antiquariaat Emile Kerssemakers - Member ILAB/NVvA

€30.00 ($33.07 | £25.02 | ¥5,281)

Hubbard Publication, 2002 Hardcover, with dust jacket. 163 pages. Text in English. As new. To answer the increasing demand for solutions to stress, anxiety, relationship problems and meny other human problems. Dianetics: An Evolution of a Science is being released. “Dianetics: T…

101 Years' Entertainment: The Great Detective Stories, 1841-1941; (Modern Library Giant #G69. 1)

QUEEN, ELLERY (EDITOR) · 1951 · Bluebird Books

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.27 | ¥6,388)

New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1951]. Hardcover. A Modern Library Giant edition presenting a collection of fifty notable detective stories by various English-language masters of the genre. The stories are organized thus: 'The Great Detectives,' 'The Great Women …

Journey to Softness: In Search of Feel and Connection with the Horse

RASHID, MARK · 2016 · Pegasus Books

$23.50 (€21.32 | £17.78 | ¥3,753)

North Pomfret, VT: Trafalgar Square, 2016. First Edition. Third Printing; Softcover. ISBN: 1570767580. 6 1/2 x 9 1/2\"; 168 pages; Soft cover has black spine with white lettering. Very slight rubbing. Pages are clean and tight. 'Internationally acclaimed horse trainer Mark Rashi…

Beyond Pursuit [Signed Copy]

PARKER, HERBER · 2001 · Pegasus Books

$21.25 (€19.28 | £16.08 | ¥3,394)

Baltimore: Publishamerica, 2001. Paperback. ISBN: 1588516598. 8.5 X 5.6 X 0.6 inches; 220 pages; Inscribed and signed by author on title page. BEST WISHES, NICK & BETTY, HERB PARKER, PSALM 37: 15. Soft cover has a purple spine with white lettering. Covers have slight rubbing and…