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New York: Worthington Company, 1889. Scarce compendium of parlor games; not explained, but evocatively described by a simple verse and illustrated with delightful two-color lithographs in black & old rose (dark pink); versos blank. Hardcover, full color litho covers, gold-hued cloth spine. Worn, corners & edges rubbed & frayed; torn along spine both in and out, hinges weak; small damaged patch on front cover, rear cover scratched & scuffed; a few pages lightly smudged; pencil drawings,mostly erased, inside rear cover. Text & illustrations clean; 14 printed pages, including the title page and tailpiece (a fairy ring).. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair. Illus. by W.P.B.. 8¼" by 10½".
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A Merry-Go-Round of In-Door Games
by P.S.C
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Who Am I? [with] Kuka Olen Minä [signed]
by Saarinen, Lily Swann
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New York / Helsinki: Reynal & Hitchcock / Otava, 1946. Appealing children's book describing various animals, written & illustrated by Saarinen, better-known for her sculpture, which also often depicted animals. Includes both the American edition in English, and a Finnish edition, INSCRIBED by Saarinen. American Swann met Finn Eero Saarinen at Cranbook, where she was a student and he the son of teacher Eliel. The American edition bears the bookplate of art adminstrator & artist couple Allan & Marjorie [Kreilik] McNab, with Kreilick's seal on the title page; the Finnish edition is inscribed: "For Caroline with fondest wishes & Bon Voyage to Yale! Thanks for so much - [signature]". Hardcovers, as pictured; the American book with its jacket; the Finnish book dated (on the back cover) 1956, no jacket, possibly as issued - its rear cover has a Finnish version of part of the American edition's flap text. General wear & light foxing to books, tanning to pages,…
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A Pocket Full of Seeds
by Sachs, Marilyn
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Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1973. Story of a Jewish girl & her family in occupied France, based partly on the life of a friend of the author's. Third printing. SIGNED by the author on the title page, with best wishes. Hardcover, full brown cloth, gilt titling. Light wear to book, faint stains; jacket shows light rubbing, publisher's price sticker over original price, minor edgewear, faint rings to rear panel; ink name markered out on free endsheet. Text clean; [6], 137 pages + note on the author, line drawings. . Signed by Author. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Ben Stahl. Small Octavo.
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The Nuclear Chain Reaction - Forty Years Later
by Sachs, Robert G
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Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984 Large paperback. Light general wear, spine creased, with large gouge. Text clean. 283 pages, 17 articles, figures, b/w plates. Proceedings of the U of C commemorative symposium.. First Edition. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8½" by 11".
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The Widening Gate: Bristol and the Atlantic Economy, 1450-1700
by Sacks, David Harris
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Berkeley/Los Angeles/Oxford: University of California Press, 1991. Study of economic, social, and political changes during the shift "from a medieval commercial economy to an early capitalist one". Hardcover, full sand cloth, red titling. Light wear; jacket with minor edge rumpling; paperclip dent to front free endsheet. Some pencil annotation noted and erased; it is possible, though scarcely credible, that we may have missed some. Xxvii, [blank], 464 pages; index, notes, list of abbreviations; tables, a few maps & figures.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 6¼" by 9¼".
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Facets of Buddhism
by Saddhatissa, Hammalawa; edited by U Pesala
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Sri Lanka: Buddhist Publication Society, 2016. Essays on the history & practice of Buddhism, first published in various journals from the 1960s to the 1980s, collected at the author's request shortly before his death. Born and educated in Sri Lanka, Saddhitassa became a Buddhist monk as a youth, and studied and taught in India and England, where his studies of Western philosophy enabled his to better express the ideals of Buddhism to those not raised in its traditions. First published in a limited edition in England shortly after its author's death in 1990. Paperback, as pictured, showing minor wear, corners bumped. Text clean; x, 327 pages.. Reprint. Paperback. Very Good. 5½" by 8¾".
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In Love with Norma Loquendi
by Safire, William
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New York: Random House, 1994. More natterings from the language nabob; boldly inscribed to one Bob Novak, whom we like to think was the political columnist, but we can't prove it. First printing. Hardcover, black cloth spine over white boards, gilt titling. Light wear, minor bumping to edges; light fading to upper edge; jacket shows light tanning. Text clean; xv, blank, 349 pages + author bio & colophon.. Inscribed by the Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Keith Bendis. Octavo.
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The Philosophy of F. P. Ramsey
by Sahlin, Nils-Eric
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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Critical study & explication of Ramsey's work, its interpretation, history, & contemporary significance; his early death & short career left his work in obscurity, but the author of this study regards him as "of comparable importance to Russell, Carnap and Wittgenstein in the history of analytical philosophy." Hardcover in jacket as pictured. Light wear to book & jacket, ink name. Text clean; xi, blank, 256 pages; index, bibliography of Ramsey's works; notes, a few equations.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo.
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Coloquio [seven numbers in six issues]
by Saidman, Elena; editor
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Buenos Aires: Congreso Judío Latino Americano, 1979. Six issues of this journal of Jewish-Latin American studies. Includes Año I - Numero 1, Año I - Numero 2, Año II - Numero 3, Año II - Numero 4-5, Año IV - Numero 7, Año IV - Numero 8, 1979-1982. Articles in Spanish with brief summaries in English. Authors include Attilio Dabini, Eugenio Pucciarelli, Alice & Roy Eckardt, Leonardo Senkman & Mario Carranza, Martin Buber; Gregorio Klimovsky, Justino Jimenez de Arechaga, Zalman Slesinger, Moshe Davis, Mario Nascimbene, Leon Dujovne; Leon Grinberg, Seymour Lipset, Elie Kedourie, Mario Carlos Nascimbene, Natalio Botana; Eugenio Pucciarelli, Albert Memmi, Felix Gustavo Schuster, Alejandro Horowicz, Salman Suskovich, Leonardo Senkman, Isidoro Berenstein; Fritz L. Brassloff, Bernard Lewis, Yehuda Bauer, Ruth Schwarz, Moshe Nes-El; Iehoshua Faigón, Gregorio Sapoznikow, Jaim Avni, Kurt Julio Riegner, Heriberto Haber. Tall thin paperbacks in…
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Erzählungen
by Saiko, George
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Zürich/Köln: Benziger Verlag, 1972. Short stories by this important Austrian author and art critic. Text in German. Hardcover. Light wear to book; jacket lightly tanned with some peeling laminate; gift sticker from the Austrian Republic on the free endsheet. Text clean; 290 pages; 14 stories. Text in German.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Small Octavo.
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Image of the Architect, The
by Saint, Andrew
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New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983 Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Edition Not Stated. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Light stains on front fly leaf. Jacket has a few light creases along edges and a small scratch near the top front. Text is clean. Includes footnotes and index. 180 pages..
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Semiotics of Visual Language
by Saint-Martin
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Bloomington / Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1990. Scholarly monograph on nonverbal communication & visual signs, based in part on Piaget's genetic epistemology & Kurt Lewin's tolpological psychology. First published in French three years earlier. One of the publisher's Advances in Semiotics series. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured. Light wear to book & jacket; near fine. text clean; vix, [2], 255 pages + note on the author; index, references, appendixes, figures. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo.
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Shintoism and Buddhism Compared
by Sakai, Atsuharu
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[Author] Silk brocade in a green/grey cloud pattern over thin flexible boards, mica-flecked paper label. Light edgewear, spine faded, interior staples have discolored the endsheets. No place, no date, no publisher, but we assume this was published in Japan in the 1950s. INSCRIBED by the author to one Mr. Snyder, Chapel Center, Washington Heights. 21 pages; a brief explication for foreigners of the differences between the major Japanese religions, with a paragraph each on Catholicism, Protestantism, & Confucianism.. Cloth. Very Good. 4" by 7½".
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The Kitbook for Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines. (Containing Salinger's "The Hang of It".)
by Salinger, J.D., et al
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Chicago, IL: Consolidated Book Publishers, Inc., 1942 336 pgs. Decorated paper-covered boards in red & blue, with smiling soldier, sailor & marine depicted on front. Cover is rubbed/scuffed, with some soil & stains; edges worn; 1 small hole along edge of front exterior hinge. Binding is sound, with webbing only barely visible between half-title & title page. Interior pages show moderate browning of poor quality paper. Moisture stain on top corner affects most pages, at widest point extending approximately 1/2" in from the corner; more noticeable on white illustration pages than on text pages. "Copyright 1942" printed on reverse of half-title page, with no date on the title page itself. First printing of the first publication of J.D. Salinger.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.
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Kirkkojemme Vanhat Tapulit
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Porvoo / Helsinki: Werner Soderstrom Osakeyhtio (1967), 1967 144 pgs; 117 b&w, 19 color photographs; drawings. Book shows only minor wear; jacket shows edge wear, with some short tears. A study of traditional Finnish wood and stone churches, 17th to 19th century. 8 pages of text in Finnish.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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Samson and Delilah
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New York: Simon & Schuster, 1931. Salten's fourth book published in English, a retelling of the Biblical story of Samson and his women. Translated from the German by Whittaker Chambers. First printing. Hardcover, full blue cloth, gilt titling & decoration. Light wear to book; jacket edgeworn with a few short closed tears, missing a bit at the spine ends, one chip from upper rear panel; spine rubbed, front panel illustration with a little added color, minor staining. Text clean; 192 pages + brief biography of the author and page listing other S&S titles. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 5¾" by 8¼".
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Walt Disney's Thumper
by [Salten, Felix]; Walt Disney staff
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New York: Golden Press, 1967. First printing of the Little Golden Book edition of Thumper, an excerpt from the Disney film Bambi. Copyright 1942, but published circa 1967. Number D119, first printing with A inside rear cover. Hardcover, no jacket, color covers. light wear, minor rubbing. Text clean; 24 pages, mostly color & a few b/w illustrations.. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Walt Disney staff. 6½" by 8".
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Darkness
by Salzman, Anne-Sylvie; translated by William Charlton
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Leyburn: Tartarus Press, 2013. 15 tales of terror, most previously unpublished in English. First edition (first printing), hardcover in jacket as pictured. Light wear to book, faint scratch to rear jacket panel; else fine. Text clean; [8], 193 pages.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Octavo.
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Physical Thought from the Presocratics to the Quantum Physicists: An Anthology
by Sambursky, Shmuel; editor
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New York: Pica Press, 1975. Excerpts from period works "concerned mainly with concepts and theories, and...questions of method, rather than...mathematical derivations or problems of experimental technique", attempting the show the development of our understanding of nature through scientific thought. Stout hardcover. Light wear to book, ink name; jacket off-center, showing light wear, short tear, light chipping. Text clean; xv, blank, 584 pages; indexes, list of sources, a few figures. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Large Octavo.
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Iles d'Or et Cotes d'Azur
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Paris: Arthaud, 1960 Cloth. Fine/Fine. 9.25" By 7.5". 192 pages. Introduction by Smival, photos by Denis Brihat and Bernard Aury. 118 black & white photos of the region. Nice rotogravure plates. White coth with blue lettering..
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