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THE ROMANCE OF ALEXANDER / DER PARISER ALEXANDERROMAN FACSIMILE. TOGETHER WITH THE COMMENTARY VOLUME The Romance of Alexander / Der Pariser Alexanderroman - Royal 20 B XX The British Library, London. 2 Volumes in Cloth Solander Case by Quaternio Verlag Luzern; Joanna Fronska; Maud Perez-Simon; Siegbert Himmelsbach - 2014

by Quaternio Verlag Luzern; Joanna Fronska; Maud Perez-Simon; Siegbert Himmelsbach

THE ROMANCE OF ALEXANDER / DER PARISER ALEXANDERROMAN FACSIMILE.  TOGETHER WITH THE COMMENTARY VOLUME The Romance of Alexander / Der Pariser Alexanderroman - Royal 20 B XX The British Library, London. 2 Volumes in Cloth Solander Case by Quaternio Verlag Luzern; Joanna Fronska; Maud Perez-Simon;  Siegbert Himmelsbach - 2014

THE ROMANCE OF ALEXANDER / DER PARISER ALEXANDERROMAN FACSIMILE. TOGETHER WITH THE COMMENTARY VOLUME The Romance of Alexander / Der Pariser Alexanderroman - Royal 20 B XX The British Library, London. 2 Volumes in Cloth Solander Case

by Quaternio Verlag Luzern; Joanna Fronska; Maud Perez-Simon; Siegbert Himmelsbach

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Quaternio Verlag Luzern, in association with The British Library, 2014. As new facsimile volume together with the commentary volume, both housed in a cloth solander case. Limited edition of 740 numbered copies of which 680 were for sale. "The Paris Alexander Romance is one of the most outstanding Gothic manuscripts from France, Paris. The codex, also known as Pariser Alexanderroman or Le Livre et la Vraye Hystoire du Bon Roy Alixandre, was written and illuminated in the first quarter of the 15th century and with its 86 remarkably illuminated miniatures framed in gold and over a hundred large initials it is a superb example of Gothic book illumination.". Limited Edition. Full-Leather. Fine.
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  • Publisher Quaternio Verlag Luzern, in association with The British Library
  • Date Published 2014
Now in November
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Now in November

by Josephine W. Johnson

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Used - Near Fine
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Very Good+
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Hardcover
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Hudson, Florida, United States
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True First Edition with 1934 on Main Title Page and on the copyright page with no other printings listed. No Markings, beautiful green stained top page ends, other page ends are a touch off(light age toning) inside covers front ok but back is showing some browning, not much. NO WEAR, Sharp Corners, unread tightness and very square, light bruising to spine ends, did I mention No Visible WEAR. BUT the brown cloth covers are cloudy (only way I know to describe it), it is not all the same shade, its 2 shades of brown and no distinct pattern like a cloud...DJ: is ligthly faded because red fades with tim, it is slightly soiled keeping it from being as bright as new, light rubbing and light edgewear, a very very small chip just above the W in Now not effecting the letters. With light edgewear a long the edges and the corners, it is 99.90 complete except it does not have the fold out Reviews from inside front flap (my other one listed does). And there is a aged sticker on the front top corner "Recommended by… Read More
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TOM, JERRY, AND LOGIC; OR, LIFE IN LONDON: A Musical Extravaganza, in Three Acts, Founded on...
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TOM, JERRY, AND LOGIC; OR, LIFE IN LONDON: A Musical Extravaganza, in Three Acts, Founded on Pierce Egan's Popular Work "Life in London" [Rare Caledonian Theatre pamphlet]

by Egan, Pierce

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Unknown
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Edinburgh: W. Sutherland, 1823. First edition. Includes the "Dramatis Personae," presumably from the Caledonian Theatre perfomance, and the play itself but not any music. Illustrated with twelve unattributed hand-colored plates, including the frontis. Cruikshank bibliographer Albert M. Cohn's copy with his bookplate on front pastedown, above which he's penciled, "of the greatest rarity/ have seen no other copy/ AMC." (OCLC locates a handful of copies in libraries). Gilt-stamped brown leather-backed brown cloth boards. Hinges starting, spine ends and tips worn, scattered foxing and staining but still relatively clean and tight and, altogether, about very good. Housed in marbled paper lined silk moire chemise and gilt-stamped leather-backed red cloth slipcase which are both fine.
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The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. 13 volumes complete with the atlas.

The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. 13 volumes complete with the atlas.

by Lewis, Meriwether And William Clark.

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Used - Near fine, atlas volume has some sun fading to covers, otherwise a near fine set in near fine dust jackets except for the atlas
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Near Fine
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1st editions.
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Hardcover
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Reno, Nevada, United States
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Lincoln, Nebraska. : University of Nebraska Press. , 1983-2001 . 1st editions. . Blue cloth. . Near fine, atlas volume has some sun fading to covers, otherwise a near fine set in near fine dust jackets except for the atlas which was issued without dust jacket. . This the definitive edition of these important journals of western exploration. Heavy set, requires extra postage. Edited by Gary L. Moulton.
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PORGY
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PORGY

by Heyward, Du Bose

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Used
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Unknown
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Middletown, Maryland, United States
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New York: George H. Doran Company, (1925). First edition. Full-page illustrations preceding each chapter and dust jacket illustration by Theodore Nadejen. Adapted by Heyward with wife Dorothy, a playwright, in 1927 for the play of the same name. They later worked with composer George Gershwin on the 1935 light opera, "Porgy and Bess." Basis also for the 1959 Otto Preminger film starring Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, and Sammy Davis Jr. 8vo gilt-stamped black cloth; top edge trimmed, rest untrimmed. Ownership signature on front endpaper of Mary Saunders Virginia White "Virginia S. White/ The Borough House/ Stateburgh [sic]" who at the time of publication was owner of the historic South Carolina Borough House Plantation. Endpapers darkened due to binding offset, boards a bit shelfworn on edges, corners lightly bumped; still very good in good, generally complete but age-worn dust jacket with old internal and external tape repair. Scarce in any jacket.
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THE PROPHET BY KAHLIL GIBRAN, RARE VINTAGE Edition, 1st Ediition, 3RD  PRINTING, AUGUST 1924,...
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THE PROPHET BY KAHLIL GIBRAN, RARE VINTAGE Edition, 1st Ediition, 3RD PRINTING, AUGUST 1924, )--Published one year after the first printing of 1923. HARDBACK NODustjacket

by KAHLIL GIBRAN, B/W Frontispiece, FRONT BK COVER VERY LOOSE & Crack at Inner Hinge STARTING SOME WEAR, RUB, Illustrated by 12 B/W Glossy Beautiful Plates

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Used
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,1st Ediition, 3RD PRINTING,
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LONG BEACH, California, United States
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HARDBACK NODustjacket, VG/GOOD, Condition, AS-IS, NOJACKET ,1st Ediition, 3RD PRINTING, AUGUST 1924 of the American edition, 1924 on TITLE PG & Copyright Pg, Hardcover. Very Good-/GOOD-, NO Jacket. FRONT BK COVER VERY LOOSE & Crack at Inner Hinge. authors Magnus Opus-- WITH INNER HINGES STARTING SOME WEAR, RUB and one of the most enduring and meaningful books every printed. This copy is from the early third printing (1924)--published one year after the first printing of 1923. Moderate edgewear to the tips and head and heel of the black spine. Gold gilt lettering and design to the front board--with the gilt being faded from "The Prophet". The lettering on the spine is completely faded. There is also an original owner's name and date on the front free pastedown. A nice collectible copy. 107 pg ,Including Frontispiece reproduced from original drawings by Gibran (Lebanese-born mystic poet, 1883-1931, Moderate Classic poetic meditation on the redemptive power of love. Early Editions Near… Read More
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Group of 126 offprints. Includes: YANOFSKY, & David M. BONNER. Evidence for the Participation of...
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No place:: National Academy of Sciences, 1950., 1950. 8vo. 167-176 pp. Figs. Original printed wrappers. Ownership rubber stamp of Norman Horowitz. FINE. Yanofsky was a pioneer geneticist who "showed that suppressor mutations result in the reappearance of an enzyme that has been missing from a mutant organism." McGraw-Hill, Modern Men of Science, p. 621. He carried out numerous studies of tryptophan and Neurospora Crassa, and made significant contributions to the science of genetics. Yanofsky studied at Yale, and in 2003 was awarded the National Medal of Science. Most of the papers bear the rubber stamp or signature of Pioneer Caltech geneticist Norman Horowitz. WITH: YANOFSKY. "The Effects of Gene Change on Tryptophan Desmolase Formation." Offprint from: Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., vol. 38, no. 3, 1952. 8vo. 215-226 pp. Printed wrappers. Full list available on request.
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THE CASSIUS CLAY STORY.
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THE CASSIUS CLAY STORY.

by [Ali, Muhammad] Sullivan, George.

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Used - Fair condition only in a fair dustjacket (bumped at several corners, also bumped and dented at bottom center of front cover - h
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fair
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Hardcover
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Ione, California, United States
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New York:: Fleet Publishing Corporation, , (1964.). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fair condition only in a fair dustjacket (bumped at several corners, also bumped and dented at bottom center of front cover - hard enough to have created a short split in the board; jacket is price-clipped and has several ragged tears and associated creasing along the bottom edge of the front panel, along with internal tape repairs. . First printing. SIGNED by the book's subject with his birth name, "Cassius Clay" -- a rare signature and especially so in this rather hard-to-find book, the first published biography of the great heavyweight champion. Issued later in the same year in which Clay took the heavyweight crown away from Sonny Liston (in their February 1964 bout), the book includes an account of the turbulent months that followed -- including the new champ's relationship with Malcolm X and his conversion to Islam, the controversy over his draft status, his much-publicized trip to… Read More
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Later Chinese Painting and Calligraphy: 1800-1950 (Three Volumes, Complete)

Later Chinese Painting and Calligraphy: 1800-1950 (Three Volumes, Complete)

by Ellsworth, Robert Hatfield

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New
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1st Edition. First Printing
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Hardcover
ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
9780394554631 / 0394554639
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Palatine, Illinois, United States
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NY: Random House. As New in As New dust jacket. 1987. 1st Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. 0394554639 . First edition. Three volume set. Volume 1: Text, including catalogue entries for 875 works, including specifications, biographies and translations of the calligraphic texts; 397 pages with index, publisher's full turquoise cloth. Volume 2: Painting, 369 pages of color reproductions, publisher's full green cloth. Volume 3: The Calligraphies, 288 pages of color reproductions, publisher's full clay cloth. The volumes are each 14.25 by 10.25 inches, the clamshell box, which is in brown cloth with embossed gilt titles and color illustration, is 15.5 by 11.5 inches. This monumental work is the culmination of more than three decades of study and collecting, and is one of the most important and sumptuous publications of Asian Art. Through more than 850 superb examples from his own collection, the author shows how exposure to Western art led, in painting, to an extraordinary… Read More
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RACCOLTA DI VARIE FAVOLE delineate, ed incise in rame da Giorgio Fossati Architetto &c. ,...
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RACCOLTA DI VARIE FAVOLE delineate, ed incise in rame da Giorgio Fossati Architetto &c. , Tomo Terzo & Tomo Quarto

by Fossati, Giorgio (George Fossati)

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Used - Collectible-Very Good ++
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First Edition
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Hardcover
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Williamsburg, Virginia, United States
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Venezia (Venice): Carlo Pecora, 1744. Two volumes (3 & 4 of 6) bound as one. Large 4to. Early full vellum binding with a brown leather title patch; all edges gilt; marbled pastedown endpapers. Parallel texts in Italian and French for seventy-two fables, each illustrated with a beautiful full-page color etching by Fossati. Each etching is printed in one of various shades of red, orange, brown, green, blue and black. In addition to the 72 plates, there are engraved vignettes on the 4 title pages, a red engraved headpiece for volume 3, and an engraved tailpiece following the text for each of the fables. Fossati (1706-1778) was an Italian architect who also was a very good printmaker and book illustrator. For the fables he portrayed animals realistically and used his architectural training for accurate renderings of baroque buildings. A rare title: OCLC locates only 13 libraries with any of the volumes. Ours is a very nice (vg+) copy with text and plates on clean and supple laid paper; very… Read More
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Pomponius Mela. Iulius Solinus. Itinerarium Antonini Aug. Vibius Sequester. P. Victor De...
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Venetiis. : Aldi et Andreae Soceri: Melchiorem Sessam. , 1518 1535 . Old vellum, raised bands, red spine label with gilt title.. Very good, spine moderately soiled, contents near fine.. 8vo., 15.8x9.5 cm. . Latin text. A collection of early works on geography. weight: 0.7 lb. Printer's devices on title pages and on verso of final pages.
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