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Stipple etching depicting a scene from Shakespeare's Cymbeline. Hinge matted to cream mat board. Caption reads: "No answer? Then I'll enter. Best draw my sword, and if mine enemy but fear the sword like me, he'll scarcely look on't. Such a foe, good heavens!" Light spotting to base of print (see image). Mat: 25.5 x 32.5 inches; Window: 19 x 25.75 inches.

Brown paper wraps. Includes the first American publication of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land. Complete with Robert Delaunay's water-color frontispiece "St. Severin", which leaves a much less than usual offsetting to first page. Loss to bottom of front wrap (see image), but otherwise a nice clean complete issue with no previous owners' names or other markings.
6.5 x 9.5 in

Kobe: Kobe & Osaka Press. Very Good. 1942. One of only 500 copies. String-bound Japanese hand-made paper. Title in German and Japanese printed in black to labels affixed to front cover. Bookplate of previous owner to front pastedown. A very nice, clean copy of this scarce title, of which OCLC lists only five copies. ; 8vo ; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. .

Exhibition catalogue for the Umm el-Fahm Art Gallery exhibition Abed Abdi - 50 Years of Creativity - A Retrospective. Pictorial wraps. English and Hebrew text throughout. Copiously illustrated with both color and black and white art reproductions throughout. General wear to wraps (see image). No previous owners' names or other markings. 225 pp. 8 1/2 x 10 3/4 inches.

Green cloth boards with black stamped decoration and gilt text to front board and spine. Black and white illustrations throughout. Includes locations such as, but not limited to: Porto Rico [Puerto Rico], Santa Cruz, Guadaloupe, Martinique, Barbadoes [Barbados], Trinidad, Caracas, Cuba, and others. Wear to boards (see image). One signature, otherwise it is a tight and sturdy copy. 4 1/2 x 6 inches.

Hand-colored borders. Drawn and engraved by J. Rapkin. Includes decorative vignettes around border. Creases at previous fold lines. 10 1/2 x 14 inches.

Black and brown buckram boards with debossed Japanese characters to front board; gilt particulars to spine. Pictorial dust jacket protected in mylar. Photogravure plates throughout. Also published in Japanese under the title Taido (Way of the Body). Essay by Hitoshi Tamari; edited by Keizo Aizawa. Translated by M. Weatherby and Paul T. Konya. Dust jacket states: "140 photographic studies in gravure of over 50 of Japan's most perfectly developed young men--young men who in their single-minded devotion to a rigorous training regimen might even be called Japan's new breed of samurai." No previous owners' names or other markings. Pages bright and clean. Small closed tears and minor losses to dust jacket (see image). 7 3/4 x 10 1/2 inches. Shipped through boxed USPS Priority insured mail.

#195 of only 300 copies. Photographers: Jo Caird and Georgie. As new in slipcase. 124 pp.

London: E. Howlatt. Very Good. 1733. Full worn calf boards, which are detached, as is front fly. Bookplates of previous owners to front pastedown, recto and verso of front fly, and rear pastedown, including that of noted proverb collector Colonel de Guinzbourg (verso front fly). Large foldout plate of conjugations. Includes section of proverbs, French versions of names of men and women, and French songs. Very light intermittent foxing throughout, otherwise a clean copy without further markings. ; Small 8vo; viii, 117, [iii] pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. .

84 of only 120 copies. Original wraps bound in blue morocco with particulars to spine. Marbled slipcase. Marbled endpapers. Inscribed by editor: "A Guillermo Tamayo con los mejores deseos para el y para su Museo, con todo cordial afecto Julio Guillen Md. 4 ag 1953" ; Oblong 4to 11" - 13" tall; [239] pages; Signed by Editor; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. .

Heavy stock grey sewn wraps. Hand-written in ink and script of the time throughout. Appears to be the day book of Eli Taylor concerning his business dealings, debts and/or credits, as well as an alphabetical Ledger. Also includes a strange poem on the last page regarding the author listening to a friend who talks about his art skills incessantly and so the author commissions a flat bottomed kettle. The friend goes to work but it ends up being both too small and too large, so the author fears it will never get done and so ends the poem with a prayer for the friend to figure out the diameter and length otherwise they doubt it will ever be finished. Liquid staining to back wrap and last few pages, although text is still legible. Losses and wear to wraps (see image). Unpaginated. 7 x 8 1/2 inches.

Washington: United States Government Printing Office. Very Good. 1850. Cloth. Executive document number 56. 31st Congress, 1st session (Senate). Gathering recently bound in red linen. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 15 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. .

Pictorial paper wraps. Copiously illustrated with full color photographs throughout. No previous owners' names or other markings. Moisture mark to bottom fore edge of pages throughout, not effecting text or images. 8 1/2 x 11 inches. Shipped through boxed insured USPS Priority mail.

Limited to 1,000 copies. Quarter brown worn calf over marbled board. Gilt particulars spine label. Signed personal copy of Columbia and U. Penn Sanskrit professor Royal W. Weiler. Bombay Sanskrit Series No. XXVII; Foxing to the first and last few pages; liv, 283, 63 pages.
5.75 x 8.75 in

London: W.H. Allen & Co.. Very Good. 1887. Green cloth boards with black decoration to front covers. Gilt particulars to spines. Losses to gutters of both volumes. Bookplate of Daniel Baugh to front pastedowns. Yellow endpapers. Uncut pages. Vol. I with foldout maps of "The Dominions of the Nizam of Haidarabad including Berar", "The Territories of the Maharaja of Jumanoo and Kashmir" and "City and Environs of Srinigar in Kashmir". Vol. 2 with foldout "Map to Illustrate Route Followed in 1859 & 1871 and Panorama from the Takht-I-Sulaiman" (detached) and two foldout sketches of the panorama from Takht-I-Sulaiman. Nice copies.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xxvii,314;303 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. .

Stiff pictorial wraps. Four original lithographs by Chagall, Miro, Rattner, and Klee present in good condition. Multiple heliogravures in color with gold as well as in black and white. Texts by Rabindranath Tagore, Henri Michaux, Elisabeth de Gramont, Mardrus, Bataille and additional others. Includes Hindu and Indian paintings, Persian, Hindu, and Chinese photography, photographs by Rogi Andre of Pierre Bonnard, and lithographs of the Indian Pantheon, and many others. A nice clean copy with no previous owners' names or other defacements.
10.5 x 14 in

Contains four original lithographs by Leger, Miro, Rattner, and Bores. Photographs printed as heliogravures. Artists included : Brassai, Man Ray, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Erwin Blumenfeld, Picasso, Louis Guichard, Henri Matisse, and more. Writers include: Andre Gide, Henri Matisse, Paul Cezanne, Rene Huyghe, Andre Malraux, & Vollard. Stiff paper wraps with Esquire-Coronet gold seal on title page. Minor wear to head and tail with slight staining to cover edge (see image). No previous owners' names or other defacements.
10.5 x 14 in

Quarter calf and marbled paper covered boards. Red dyed text block, five raised bands, ruled red morocco label. Compartments decorated with oak leaves and acorns. Bound-in green silk bookmark. General wear all around. Small chip to head of spine otherwise a handsome copy. ; 8vo; 2 preliminary leaves, xvi, 544, [3] pp. pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail.

Limp worn black morocco with loss to spine & edges (see image). Gilt title to spine. Previous owner's name to front fly. Overall a clean copy with no other markings. 5 x 7.5 in

Ohio: Author. Very Good. 1928. Wraps. From the Foreword: "This report presents the results of highway traffic and engineering studies of the Federal-aid, State and county highway systems of the Cleveland regional area made under a cooperative agreement between the Bureau of Public Roads, United States Department of Agriculture, and the County Commissioners of Cuyahoga County, Ohio. The investigation was undertaken in order to obtain essential facts concerning traffic and its distribution on the highways of the regional area, and the condition of present highway surfaces, structures and railroad crossings at grade, as a basis for planning the development of new arterial highways, the reconstruction and widening of present surfaces and structures, and the separation of railroad grade crossings, to serve present and expected future traffic during a period of 10 years." ; 8vo ; 187 pages .