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Pawlet (Vermont): Claude Fredericks, 1957. First edition. Wrappers. Wrappers rather faded and rubbed. Two leaves laid into wrappers with a printed label on the front. 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches. Text of poem in Italian on one leaf; translation into English on second. The initial letter on the Italian leaf has been hand applied. An exceptional item, and despite its less than ideal condition--it is very fragile--this is a most unusual keepsake from an interesting private press
Smitty's Cocks; Eight Woodengravings. by Baskin, Leonard - 1998
by Baskin, Leonard
Smitty's Cocks; Eight Woodengravings.
by Baskin, Leonard
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Easthampton MA Warwick Press, 1998, First Edition. hardcover. First, Limited Edition, one of 200 copies numbered and signed by the artist Leonard Baskin, Perry Smith and introducer Carol J. Blinn. -- Each engraving is tipped in, each was drawn and carved for the use of Smith Glass 1955-1974. -- EPHEMERA LAID IN: prospectus / announcement for this at $325; Carol Blinn business card; dealer card. -- Hardcover, with tipped-in note "contrary to the colophon, all books are bound in luscious red silk." Condition: fine.
- Bookseller Bucks County Bookshop IOBA (US)
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- Edition First Edition
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher Warwick Press
- Place of Publication Easthampton MA
- Date Published 1998
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Cantico delle creature
by Francis (St. of Assissi)
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- first
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- Used - Wrappers rather faded and rubbed
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- First edition
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- Unknown
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Francestown, New Hampshire, United States
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Private Press Books
by Private Libraries Association
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- Paperback
- first
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- Used - Fine copy
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- First edition
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- Paperback
- ISBN 13
- 9780900006265
- ISBN 10
- 0900006263
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- 1
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Francestown, New Hampshire, United States
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NZ$300.06
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Pinner: Private Libraries Association. First edition. Paperback. Fine copy. A collection of 19 issues, including the years 1967, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981-1984, 1985-1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991. 8vo. Wrappers. 22.2 x 14 cm. Edited by Roderick Cave, David Chambers, Peter Hoy et. al.
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But Move Not.
by [Down Home Girl Studio] Suzanne Sawyer.
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- Edition of 31
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- Hardcover
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Hoover, Alabama, United States
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NZ$385.78
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Tuscaloosa, Alabama:: Down Home Girl Studio,, 2012.. Edition of 31. 6 x 4"; 14 pages including pastedowns. Letterpress printed using photopolymer plates on Rives BFK papers. Bound in quarter cloth with letterpress printed handmade paper boards. Drum leaf binding. Signed and numbered on the colophon by Sawyer. Colophon: "But Move Not is a collaboration among friends - a poet and an artist. It was inspired by the red mangroves off the coast of Florida, which serve as the nursery for countless forms of flora and fauna. "The poem was written by Eder J. Williams in 2011. The book was designed, letterpress printed, and handbound by Suzanne Sawyer of Down Home Girl Studio in 2012." Suzanne Sawyer: "'But Move Not' is the first of two collaborations with Eder J. Williams McKnight. ... It was inspired by a canoe trip ... to the mangroves of 10,000 Islands off the coast of Florida. The images are created from drawings based on photographs taken during the trip.…
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Of Queens Gardens
by John Ruskin
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- first
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- Used
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- First thus
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southampton, Hampshire, United Kingdom
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NZ$266.99
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Printed at the Ballantyne Press, Edinburgh on hand-made water-marked paper in red and black. 70 pages with each text page of the lecture decorated with floral initial letters and borders in the Arts & Crafts style by Christopher Dean. Overall size c.8.1/4 x 6.inches. c.21 x 15 cm. A very good copy.
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An Ephemeral Diary of the Year Eighteen Forty-One
by Eric Anderson (ed.)
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Enfield, New Hampshire, United States
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NZ$342.92
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About fine, limited to 150 copies printed by John Coons.The portrait is an etching of Samuel Williston by Barry Moser. Castalia Press was established by Moser at Williston Academy.
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Cantico delle creature
by Francis (St. of Assissi)
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- first
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- Used - Wrappers rather faded and rubbed
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- First edition
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- Unknown
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Francestown, New Hampshire, United States
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NZ$385.78
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Pawlet (Vermont): Claude Fredericks, 1957. First edition. Wrappers. Wrappers rather faded and rubbed. Two leaves laid into wrappers with a printed label on the front. 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches. Text of poem in Italian on one leaf; translation into English on second. The initial letter on the Italian leaf has been hand applied. An exceptional item, and despite its less than ideal condition--it is very fragile--this is a most unusual keepsake from an interesting private press
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Private Press Books
by Private Libraries Association
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- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Used - Fine copy
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 13
- 9780900006265
- ISBN 10
- 0900006263
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Francestown, New Hampshire, United States
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NZ$300.06
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Pinner: Private Libraries Association. First edition. Paperback. Fine copy. A collection of 19 issues, including the years 1967, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981-1984, 1985-1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991. 8vo. Wrappers. 22.2 x 14 cm. Edited by Roderick Cave, David Chambers, Peter Hoy et. al.
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But Move Not.
by [Down Home Girl Studio] Suzanne Sawyer.
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Edition of 31
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Hoover, Alabama, United States
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NZ$385.78
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Tuscaloosa, Alabama:: Down Home Girl Studio,, 2012.. Edition of 31. 6 x 4"; 14 pages including pastedowns. Letterpress printed using photopolymer plates on Rives BFK papers. Bound in quarter cloth with letterpress printed handmade paper boards. Drum leaf binding. Signed and numbered on the colophon by Sawyer. Colophon: "But Move Not is a collaboration among friends - a poet and an artist. It was inspired by the red mangroves off the coast of Florida, which serve as the nursery for countless forms of flora and fauna. "The poem was written by Eder J. Williams in 2011. The book was designed, letterpress printed, and handbound by Suzanne Sawyer of Down Home Girl Studio in 2012." Suzanne Sawyer: "'But Move Not' is the first of two collaborations with Eder J. Williams McKnight. ... It was inspired by a canoe trip ... to the mangroves of 10,000 Islands off the coast of Florida. The images are created from drawings based on photographs taken during the trip.…
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Of Queens Gardens
by John Ruskin
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- Hardcover
- first
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- Used
- Edition
- First thus
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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southampton, Hampshire, United Kingdom
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NZ$266.99
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Printed at the Ballantyne Press, Edinburgh on hand-made water-marked paper in red and black. 70 pages with each text page of the lecture decorated with floral initial letters and borders in the Arts & Crafts style by Christopher Dean. Overall size c.8.1/4 x 6.inches. c.21 x 15 cm. A very good copy.
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An Ephemeral Diary of the Year Eighteen Forty-One
by Eric Anderson (ed.)
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- Used
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Enfield, New Hampshire, United States
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NZ$342.92
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About fine, limited to 150 copies printed by John Coons.The portrait is an etching of Samuel Williston by Barry Moser. Castalia Press was established by Moser at Williston Academy.
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Printing Digital Type on the Hand-Operated Flatbed Cylinder Press
by Lange, Gerald
- New
- Paperback
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 13
- 9781633980709
- ISBN 10
- 1633980707
- Quantity Available
- 2
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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NZ$41.15
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Chatwin Books, 2018. Trade Paperback. New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" New!
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PRIVATE PRESS.|THE
by Cave, Roderick
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- Used
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New Castle, Delaware, United States
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NZ$39.44
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New York: Watson - Guptill, 1971. cloth, dust jacket. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 376 pages. First U.S. edition. Jacket lightly soiled, else a fine copy. Traces the development of the private press over the last 500 years. 83 figures in the text and 72 plates. Better printed than the second edition and containing some material not present in the first edition and thus still desirable.
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The Eye of Heaven: a Narrative Poem
by Efird, Susan
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- very good
- Paperback
- first
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- Used - Very Good
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- First Edition
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- Paperback
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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NZ$60.01
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Abattoir Editions, 1982. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. One of 150 numbered copies printed by Harry Duncan; this being #84. 9.25 X 12 inches. 40pp., bound in tan wraps with mounted cream printed paper label wrapping around the spine and front cover. Letterpress printed on Japanese Etching paper, from Poliphilus, Blado, and Fournier Ornate types; with 2 woodblock prints by Michael McCurdy. Faint dampstaining to the text margins of the fore-edge, else Very Good.
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Nomi no Kai
by Minegishi, Shinsuke
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- Fine
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- Used - Fine
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- Limited Edition
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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NZ$68.58
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Wessel & Lieberman Booksellers, 2006. Limited Edition. Wraps. Fine. [4]pp. Black & white frontispiece by Shinuske Minegishi, reproduced from the original engraving. One of 75 copies (from an edition of 100, signed and numbered by Minegishi). Designed by Rollin Milroy and printed by David Clifford at his Black Stone Press. Sewn into a Canson paper wraps. A Fine copy. // A previously unpublished essay by the artist, paying homage to a group of six Japanese wood engravers 'who were responsible for reviving the art form in that country'. Published to accompany the artist's first solo exhibition in the United States, at Wessel & Lieberman Booksellers, November 2006.
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The First Ten: A Penmaen Press Bibliography
by Peich, Michael; Michael McCurdy
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Sebastopol, California, United States
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Lincoln: Penmaen Press, 1978. First Edition, one of 500 copies printed. This copy SIGNED by McCurdy twice, at Title and Afterword. Woodcuts by McCurdy. Bibliographically describes all Penmaen Press books, broadsides and ephemera 1968-1978, with additional items. Includes 16 pp. of photographs of contributors: Peich, McCurdy, Lynd Ward, Allen Ginsberg and others. A demonstrable work of love. 9½ x 6½.. Near Fine original blue cloth-covered boards blind stamped with gilt lettering to spine in like dust jacket.
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Germinal
by Emile Zola
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- Fine / As New
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- Hardcover
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Longmont, Colorado, United States
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NZ$82.22
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The Easton Press, The Collector's Library of Famous Editions, 1992 (1942). First Thus; Collector's Edition. Translated by Havelock Ellis. Illustrated by Berthold Mahn. Hardcover. Issued without dust jacket. Used - Fine, "Like New" condition. Appears unopened / unread. Binding and text block are tight, bright, and clean with no ownership markings or bookplates. Bound in full (genuine) leather with hubbed spine. All edges gilt. Embossed in 22kt gold on the spine and front and back covers. Heavy duty binding boards. Printed on acid-neutral, archival paper. Smyth sewn with concealed muslin joints, silk moire fabric end leaves, and permanent satin ribbon marker. Notes From The Archives sheet laid in. Photo is of the copy we have at Barbed Wire Books. A gorgeous copy.
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The Orchard Book of Nursery Rhymes (Signed, Limited Edition in Slipcase)
by Faith Jaques; Zena Sutherland
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- Hardcover
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- first
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- Used - Fine
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- Near Fine
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- Signed Limited Edition
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- Hardcover
- ISBN 13
- 9781852132736
- ISBN 10
- 1852132736
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- 1
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Arlington, Virginia, United States
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London: Orchard Books, September 1990. Hardcover. Signed Limited Edition. Quarter-bound in dark grey cloth with dove grey sides. Silver titles and top edge. Silver silk ribbon marker. Illustrated endpapers. Dove grey slipcase. Presentation copy of a Limited Edition of 250 copies. Flat-signed by illustrator Faith Jaques, the noted children's book author, illustrator, artist, and advocate. Fine book in a Near Fine slipcase. Not from a library. 88 pages. Profusely illustrated.
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Baudin in Australian Waters: The Artwork of the French Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Lands, 1800-1804: With a complete descriptive catalogue of drawings and paintings of Australian subjects by C.-A. Lesueur and N.-M. Petit from the Lesueur Collection at the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Le Havre, France
by Charles-Alexandre Lesueur; Nicolas-Martin Petit; Jacqueline Bonnemains (ed); Elliott Forsyth (ed); Bernard Smith (ed)
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- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Very Good
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- First Edition
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- Hardcover
- ISBN 13
- 9780195547870
- ISBN 10
- 019554787X
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Arlington, Virginia, United States
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NZ$222.04NZ$133.22Save NZ$51.80!
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Melbourne: Oxford University Press Australia, October 1988. Hardcover. First Edition. Near Fine book in a Very Good jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Upper corners lightly bumped. Jacket lightly rubbed with a single one inch tear to front bottom edge. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xiii + 347 pages. Over 300 illustrations. Heavy book: extra charges for expedited or international shipping. Captain Nicolas Baudin's early 19th-century voyage of scientific discovery to Australia is a little-known event in French and Australian history. Yet that voyage played an important part in the history of Australian and Pacific colonization, and in the long story of worldwide scientific exploration. Departing Le Havre in 1800, Baudin's expedition comprised two ships--the Naturaliste and the Géographe--and 238 men, including 22 scientists. For most of the next three-and-a half years they travelled along the western and southern coasts of Australia, charting the coastline and…
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Catalogue of the Private Collection of Paintings Belonging to Peter A. Schemm Philadelphia, PA
by [SCHEMM, Peter A.]
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- first
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- Used - Near fine
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- First Edition
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- Hardcover
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Rocky River, Ohio, United States
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NZ$128.60
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Philadelphia: [privately printed] Beck Engraving Company, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Small quarto, unpaginated. Hundreds of black and white halftone plates, depicting the various paintings. On the opposite leaves, printed in red ink, are the painting titles and artists. A front blank contains a tipped-in photograph of Schemm, surrounded by his bounty of paintings. A crisp, clean copy in the publisher's red cloth, stamped in gilt. Very minor dust-soiling to the cloth, and an owner's name on the front free endpaper, else a rather crisp, sharp example; near fine. A very nice production.
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A Song About Major Eatherly
by Wain, John
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, United States
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NZ$132.02
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Iowa City, Iowa: Qara Press, 1961. Hardcover. Near Fine -. Baasch, Norman. [16] p.: 2 linoleum cuts; 27 cm. Original light blue paper over boards with white paper label on front board, printed in black. "Printed by Gerald M. Stevenson, Jr. on Curtis Rag paper with linoleum cuts by Norman Baasch. Of an edition limited to 190 cpies, this is copy 25." -- colophon. This poem first appeared in The Listener on Aug. 6, 1959. Major Claude R. Eatherly was one of the pilots involved in the atomic bombing of Japan in World War II. In Near Fine- Condition: cover lightly soiled; pages are clean and crisp.
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