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QUINCEY, T. de, (1785-1859), · 1991 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€15.50 ($17.08 | £12.93 | ¥2,728)

Gallimard, 1991. 202p. Paperback. Traduit de l’anglais. Thomas De Quincey nu fut pas seulement l’opiomane émérite que l’on connaît, mais aussi un virtuose des cultures antiques. Plus ambitieux que Suétone mais certes moins que Gibbon, De Quincey ne se propose rien de moins que …

Ancetres Kota / Kota Ancestors

Dulon, Bernard; Perrois, Louis · 2011 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$85.00 (€77.12 | £64.34 | ¥13,573)

Montreuil, Gourcuff Gradenigo, 2011. Softcover. Quarto. Softcover. Illustrated wraps with white titles. 125 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 28 cm. Text in French and English. Catalog of an exhibition held at Friedman & Vallois Gallery, New York, May 2011, and in the G…

Gourmet Rhapsody

Muriel Barbery · 2009 · Book Haven

NZ$14.50 (€7.27 | $8.01 | £6.06 | ¥1,279)

Europa Editions 2009 Softcover, 156pp. From the author of the New York Times bestseller, The Elegance of the Hedgehog. In the heart of Paris, in the posh building made famous in The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Pierre Arthens, the greatest food critic in the world, is dying. Revere…

The Amnesia Clinic

James Scudamore · 2007 · Book Haven

NZ$13.50 (€6.76 | $7.46 | £5.64 | ¥1,191)

Vintage 2007 Paperback, 275pp. Anti, a quiet English boy living in Quito, Ecuador, strikes up a friendship with flamboyant classmate Fabian, who is everything Ani isn't: handsome, athletic and popular. What's more, he lives with his rakish Uncle Suarez, while Anti is stuck in th…

Halide's Gift: A Novel

Frances Kazan · 2002 · Book Haven

NZ$14.50 (€7.27 | $8.01 | £6.06 | ¥1,279)

Random House 2002 Paperback, 376pp. Set in Constantinople in the dying days of the Ottoman empire, Halide’s Gift is the story of a family with a secret, and a society in turbulent transition. At the heart of Frances Kazan’s beguiling novel are two sisters—one flamboyant and misc…

Seasons: a Journey Through the New Zealand Garden

Jack Hobbs and Sally Tagg · 2011 · Book Haven

NZ$17.50 (€8.77 | $9.67 | £7.32 | ¥1,543)

Penguin Books 2011 Paperback. SEASONS - a journey through the garden showcases a startling array of plants and their ever-changing forms and colours. Photographer Sally Tagg spent three years capturing seasonal displays of flowers and plants at Auckland's Botanic Gardens. The re…

Rebels on Eighth Street: Juliana Force and the Whitney Museum of American Art

Berman, Avis · 1990 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, Atheneum, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine and engaging social history and intellectual biography. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket, protected. Plentiful black-and-wh…

LA SCULPTURE FLAMBOYANTE. 5. AUVERGNE BOURBONNAIS FOREZ,

BAUDOIN, Jacques; · 1998 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€79.00 ($87.07 | £65.91 | ¥13,904)

, Nonette, Editions Creer, 1998, Relie, toile noire a l'impression blanche, jaquette illustree, frontispice, pages de garde : carte de la region, frontispice, 210 x 305mm., 392pp., 650 photos noir et couleur. Cet ouvrage fait suite aux ? Grands Imagiers d'Occident ? qui intro…

Rod Stewart. Over 100 illustrations in colour and black and white

Jasper, Tony · 1977 · Boekhandel - Antiquariaat Emile Kerssemakers - Member ILAB/NVvA

€23.00 ($25.35 | £19.19 | ¥4,048)

Octopus, 1977 Hardcover, with dust jacket. 92 pages. Text in English. As new. International superstar Rod Stewart started singing in London clubs in 1963. He was known as Rod the Mod and was so shy that he hid behind the amplifiers. Since then Rod has come a long way via the Jef…

Une Histoire D&Apos;Amour Les Amants de Venise George Sand Et Musset

Paul Merieton · 1903 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

PAris, Societe d'editions Litteraires et Artistiques, 1903 . Leather. A later edition of Une Histoire D'Amour les Amants de Venise George Sand et Musset. A thirty-ninth edition. Une Histoire D'Amour les Amants de Venise George Sand et Musset or A Love Story, the …

The Life of John Mytton

Nimrod [Charles James Apperley] · 1877 · Rooke Books

£690.00 (€827.06 | $911.53 | ¥145,560)

London, George Routledge and Sons, 1877. Fine Binding. A fine, early edition of this famous biography of British eccentric and rake, John 'Mad Jack' Mytton. The fourth edition of this work.Illustrated, with a hand-coloured frontispiece and seventeen hand-coloured plate…

The Black Book

Lawrence Durrell · 1973 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Faber and Faber, 1973. First edition. Cloth. The first UK edition of Lawrence Durrell's passionate novel, in its unclipped dust wrapper. The first UK edition of this work, originally published in Paris 1938 due to its sexual content, prohibited at that time in Engla…

Shapes in the Fire

M. P. Shiel · 1896 · Rooke Books

£690.00 (€827.06 | $911.53 | ¥145,560)

London and Boston, None, 1896. Cloth. An early edition of M. P. Shiel's decadent collection of short stories. Along with Shiel's other short story collection 'Prince Zaleski', this early collection was influenced by Edgar Allan Poe. It was considered the most…

La pluie et le beau temps

Jacques PRÉVERT · 1955 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€780.00 ($859.66 | £650.74 | ¥137,277)

Gallimard | Paris 1955 | 14 x 19.50 cm | broché | Nouvelle édition postérieure de quelques mois à l'édition originale. Agréable exemplaire en dépit de claires décharges de papier adhésif en têtes et en pieds des gardes, armoiries frappées à froid en tête de la première garde. En…

Norman Parkinson Portraits in Fashion

MUIR, ROBIN · 2004 · Pegasus Books

$47.50 (€43.10 | £35.96 | ¥7,585)

North Pomfret, VT: Trafalgar Square Books, 2004. First Edition (?). First Printing; Hardcover. ISBN: 1570762775. Color and B/W photographs; 191 pages; Hard cover is black, with black lettering on the spine. DJ has white spine with grey letters, some rubbing, scuffing, bumping; i…

Miranda's Day to Dance Signed Copy

SCHAEFER, JACKIE JASINA · 1994 · Pegasus Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

New York: Four Winds Press, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0027811115. Illustrated by Jackie Jasina Schaefer. Remainder mark. Cover is glazed boards. Pages are clean and tight; printed on recycled paper. This is a NEW book. Lavishly illustrated with colorful, full paged p…

David to Delacroix

Walter F. Friedlaender · 1952 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

, Harvard University Press, 1952 Paperback, 136 pages, ENG, 225 x 155 mm, in good condition, however, someone made pencil remarks, better that than with a pen, 83 ill. in b/w. ISBN 9780674194014. This renowned study follows the evolution of French painting from the Revolution t…

Byron and Shelley

Blumberg, Jane · 1992 · Books & Bygones

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

Book As New As New First Edition Collins and Brown London 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 1816 was "the year without a summer", when a volcanic eruption blotted out the sun, and it was also the season when a momentous friendship was forged. Byron, Shelley, Mary Shelley (who wrote "Fra…

House Of Mitford

Catherine Guinness, Catherine Guinness, Jonathan Guinness · 2004 · Klondyke BV

€7.95 ($8.76 | £6.63 | ¥1,399)

Paperback; 1e druk, 2004; Weidenfeld & Nicolson; 646pp.; Gaaf ex., ongebroken rug, schoon. -- Conditie: Goed; The classic story of one of the twentieth century's most extraordinary families - an extensively updated new edition. The classic story of one of the twentieth century's…

Irrational Modernism: A Neurasthenic History of New York Dada

Jones, Amelia · 2004 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Cambridge, Mass, MIT Press, 2004. Hardcover. Pale green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine, green illustrated dust jacket, 334 pp, illustrated in bw. "In Irrational Modernism, Amelia Jones gives us a history of New York Dada reinterpreted in relation to the life and works…