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Amersfoort (Netherlands): S.W. Melchior / P. Dz. Veen, 1917. [First Edition]. Hardcover. Very Good+. [First Edition]. Hardcover. Beginner's astrology. The book is a comprehensive guide to the world of astrology written by Dutch astrology and author, C. Aq. Libra, born Roelf Jan Takens. Takens' primary vocation was a veterinarian doctor for horses, and he was also a painter. He was a member of St. Lucas in Amsterdam. He lived and worked in Haren, Den Haag, Cairo, Egypt (1908-9), North America (1909) and Lugano, Italy (-1918). Formerly owned by Alfred Pearce, noted 19th century astrologer. With ex libris, "Sakti" Bumped corners, scuffing, mild toning, splitting to super (front and rear), otherwise tight, bright, and unmarred. xii, 259pp. + illus, b/w+color plate. 25 cm. Tall 8vo. Blue boards with gilt decorative elements, heavily illustrated. Translated from Dutch. Ex Libris to front boards.

New York: Robert Mcbride, 1928. First Illustrated Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Very Good+ DJ. First Illustrated Edition. Hardcover. Contains eleven full-page illustrations and additional head and tail pieces by Frank C. Pape. Minor shelf/edge wear, hint of even toning to the leaves, else tight, bright, and unmarred; DJ shows minor shelf/edge wear, else bright and clean. Black cloth boards, gilt lettering and decorative elements, map endpages, frontispiece, tissueguards. 8vo. 359pp. Illus. (b/w plates). Unopened leaves.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1905. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good+/Near Fine. No DJ.. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Beautifully illustrated by Pyle and printed in the Victorian style with a floral border in soft orange on each page. A very handsome copy of Cabell's second book. Light shelf wear, touch of rubbing and tiny nick in onlay, barest hint of foxing at preliminaries, else tight, bright and unmarred. Green cloth boards, gilt lettering, cream ink decorative elements, color pictorial onlay, decorative endpages, frontispiece, tissueguards, teg. 8vo. 290pp. Illus. (color plates).

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. No DJ. First Edition. Hardcover. A very handsome copy of this Pyle illustrated classic. Uncommon in such nice condition, quite scarce with original DJ. Minimal shelf/edge wear, owner plate at rear pastedown, else tight, bright and unmarred. Original printed glassine DJ, toned and carefully repaired, several small chips and tears. Grey/green cloth boards, gilt lettering, silver gilt decorative elements, beige ink decorative elements, pictorial endpages, tipped in plates, tissue guard, teg. 8vo. 334pp. Illus. (color plates).

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1907. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Near Fine. No DJ.. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Verso of frontispiece shows stamp that reads "This book belongs to REFERENCE LIBRARY HARPER & BROTHERS." A very handsome copy of this Pyle illustrated classic, this being the publisher's copy. Very minimal shelf/edge wear, owner stamp on verso of frontispiece, crease in frontispiece tissue guard, else tight, bright and unmarred. Grey/green cloth boards, gilt lettering, silver gilt decorative elements, beige ink decorative elements, pictorial endpages, tipped in plates, tissue guard, teg. 8vo. 334pp. Illus. (color plates).

Boston, MA: W.A. Butterfield, 1917. Sixth Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+ in Very Good DJ. Sixth Printing. Hardcover. The letters span from September 20, 1915 to April 1,1916. Reprinted 6 times in the first 12 months, this work was "[p]ublished for the benefit of the American Fund for Frech Wounded." Overall, a handsome copy in its original, and quite scarce, DJ. Very minor toning at text block edges, small stamp under front pastedown (under flap), small spot of tape residue on front pastedown, else tight, bright and unmarred. DJ shows light/moderate edge wear, several small chips at edges, several small, closed tears, even toning/soiling, chip at head and heel, else bright. Halfbound, pale blue cloth spine, textured grey boards, black ink lettering, frontispiece. 12mo. 102pp. Illus. (b/w plates).

San Francisco, CA: Gallimaufry, 1976. Limited Edition. Original Wraps. Fine in Wraps.. Limited Edition. Original Wraps. Letter from the author to Lowry Thompson (founder of Rubberstampmadness) thanking her for an article on a mutual friend (and illustrator of Cabral's books). Tight, bright and unmarred. Illustrated paper wraps. 8vo. 48pp. Laid in letter, signed by author. Limited edtion of 1000.

Berlini (Berlin), Germany: Aux depens d'Ambroise Haude, 1748. [First edition]. Full Calf. Very Good+. [First edition]. Full Calf. Translation to English: Commentary on the Gallic, Civil, Alexandrian, African, and Spanish wars of C. Julius Caesar and others. Bumped, small loss, tearing to front boards, else tight, bright, and unmarred. In mottled calf over boards, gilt decorative spine, marbled boards. 8vo, 530pp. + index. In Latin.

Paris: Ancienne Librairie Furne/Boivin & Cie, Editeurs, 1910. First Edition Thus (presumed). Hardcover. Very Good. No DJ as Issued.. First Edition Thus (presumed). Hardcover. Part of the series "Collection d'Albums Historiques". Text in French. 40 full page images (including double page). Overall, a handsome copy. Light shelf/edge wear, rebacked, new endpages, gilt toned at spine, light toning at page edges, else tight and unmarred. Green cloth boards, full color pictorial elements, in blind decorative elements, full page chromolitho images with overprinting, textblock on tabs, aeg. Small fo. Illus. (color plates).

Salt Lake City, UT: S. Caldiero-Oertli, 2010. Limited Edition. Stiff Wraps. Fine. Limited Edition. Stiff Wraps. Close-up images of vaginas with related peoms...each "scented" according to the subject (e.g. camper, vintner, dominetrix, mother, etc). What more can be said. Minor impressions at rear board (manufacturing mark), else tight, bright, and unmarred. Pink stiff paper wraps, black ink lettering, pictorial endpages, scratch-n-sniff areas at each plate. 8vo. np. Illus. (b/w plates). Numbered limited edition, this being 61 of 79.

New York: Abrams, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+ in Fine DJ.. First Edition. Hardcover. Introduction by Irving Wallace. Holmes purchased his first camera in 1883 and continued to snap until his death at 88. A remarkable collection of images. Noted flaws notwithstanding, a very handsome copy. Touch of dust staining at top of text block, hint of foxing at top edge of preliminaries, ghost of a bookplate lift at ffep, else tight, bright and unmarred. DJ bright and clean. Red cloth boards, gilt lettering, grey endpages, frontispiece. Oblong 4to. 319pp. Illus. (color and b/w plates). ).

[California]: Grand Lodge of California, 1979. Reprint Edition. Staplebound. Very Good+ in Wraps. Reprint Edition. Staplebound. Modified reprint edition from the Grand Lodge of South Carolina, adapted for California "Lodge System of Education." Light toning to edges of wrappers, creased corner, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Printed in blue wrappers, digest size, 55 pp.

Washington DC: Library of Congress/Wolfe Editions, 2001. First Edition/Limited Edition. Staplebound Wraps. Fine in Wraps; Fine DJ.. First Edition/Limited Edition. Staplebound Wraps. Letterpress printed by David Wolfe. Inscribed by author (5/3/2002). An exceptional copy of this rather scarce volume. Tight, bright and unmarred. DJ bright and unmarred. White paper wraps, black DJ printed with silver ink lettering and decorative elements. 8vo. 43pp. Notes. Limited edition of 1000.

London: John Bale, Sons & Danielsson, Ltd, 1928. Third Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good+ in Wraps. Third Edition. Original Wraps. Cover illustration by Frank Brangwyn. Eric Calvert was a conscious objector to the death penalty and was the secretary of the National Council for the Abolition of the Death Penalty. Light shelfwear, chipping, untrimmed edging, else tight, bright, and unmarred. 8vo. 210pp. Color pictorial wrappers.

New York: Harcourt Brace, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. No DJ.. First Edition. Hardcover. First significant critical examination of Finnegans Wake. Joseph Cambell's first book. Cambell went on to become a major figure in mythology and 20th cent. comparative religion and a Jungian advocate. A cornerstone work for a Joyce collection. Light shelf/egde wear, upper tips gently bumped, bump to the head, light dust-staining to top of textblock, else tight, bright and unmarred. Green cloth boards, yellow ink lettering. Small 8vo. 365pp.

Malibu: John Paul Getty Museum, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited edition of 4000 copies. A lovely copy of a rather scarce volume. Tight, bright and unmarred. DJ shows very light sun bleaching at spine and minimal edge wear. Brown cloth boards, embossed (decorative). 103pp. 0.50 x 11.50 x 9.50. Illus. (b/w plates). Bibliography. Index.

London: Ken Campbell, 1988. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine in Fine Slipcase. Limited Edition. Hardcover. "Letterpress composed of Albertus type, found lino blocks and handmade zinc blocks. Many passes including metallic dusting and handwork. Black cloth binding with decorative paper boards in trapezoid shape. Printed slipcase. 'Tilt' was the widest-cast net so far, bringing the most disparate things together. I wrote a poem called 'Storm Song' in Canada in 1981, after listening to a sung account of a maritime disaster on one of the Great Lakes (The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, I think it was). I also had in mind the vertiginous steps of flagstones up to the old cathedral at Whitby and the black flag of anarchy and disturbance. I had found some old mounted lino blocks which were random-sized squares, black flags of different sizes, and some Albertus type, rather beaten up. While in Zürich I walked into the Museum Rietberg and up to a statue of Shiva, with limbs hanging out in funny angles,… Read More

Wales, UK: Women of Life on Earth, 1986. First Edition. Staplebound. Near Fine in Wraps. First Edition. Staplebound. "Thalia Campbell (Thalia Delphine Campbell (née Childs) was born in Torquay in 1937. Her father had a tailor's shop on the seafront. Influenced by her grandmother who had witnessed the Suffragettes clashing with the police in early 20th century London, Thalia became politically aware from a young age. She completed a two year teacher-training course at Matlock College, Derbyshire, and became a primary school teacher. In 1959, she met her husband, Ian Campbell. They had four children in the 1960s. The family moved to Wales in the late 1960s. Between 1973-6, Thalia studied for an art degree at Aberystwyth, and eventually became an extra-mural lecturer for the college. In 1981, she was one of the founders of the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp, and became well-known for making banners to display on the military base's perimeter fence."--Museum Wales. Thalia Campbell also was a… Read More

New York: Russell Maret, 2022. First Edition. First Edition. Russell Maret [printer, designer, and afterword]; Nina Schneider [bibliographic descriptions]; Carolee Campbell [commentary]; Harry Reese [foreword]; Annie Schlechter [photography]. One of the 77 numbered copies that includes tip-ins of original material. A lovely catalogue raisonné of the work of Carolee Campbell and the Ninja Press. Russell Maret writes of her: "It takes a special kind of person to know that what one is working on is not ready to be discussed. It takes someone.who unhurriedly allows her books to germinate in her lizard brain until they are ready to be dispatched into the world. With each new book Carolee teaches the rest of us how it should be done - not how to make books like hers , but like her, to make books the way the books want to be made." The heavily annotated bibliography includes books, broadsides, commissions and collaborations, ephemera, reviews, criticism, and writing. The annotations include comments… Read More

Strasbourg: Imprimerie Régionale, 1993. First Edition/Limited Edition. Original Wraps. Near Fine in Wraps. First Edition/Limited Edition. Original Wraps. This very scarce volume was produced for Cannes, where the film won the Palme d'Or. The film went on to win Academy Awards for the director, Jane Campion (Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen) and for Holly Hunter and Anna Paquin (Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress, respectively). This is a very handsome copy of one of the hardest to secure items of ephemera for this film. Light shelf wear and rubbing, focused at head, heel and tips, else tight, bright and unmarred. 12mo. 60pp. Illus. (b/w plates). "Special Editions" of 400 copies produced for Cannes.