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Fort Worth, TX: Texas Printing Company, 1906. First. Hardcover. Very good/None. First edition inscribed by Captain Terrell to Mrs. Jennie May Armstrong on the front endpaper, very good blue cloth hardcover (no dust jacket if issued) with gilt letter to cover shows mild bumping, rubbing and wrinkling to covers, light soil at page edges and some other mild trace wear. 101 pages with black & whites. Still a solid copy of this work by the prominent Texan that documents the city of Fort Worth's history and is inscribed to the first wife (Jennie May Armstrong) of noted Texas banker and oilman George W. Armstrong whom later relocated to Mississippi.

Wiley. Used - Good. . . Your purchase supports More Than Words, a nonprofit job training program for youth, empowering youth to take charge of their lives by taking charge of a business. All orders guaranteed and ship within 24 hours.

Independently published. Used - Very Good. A bright, square, and overall a nice copy

Philadelphia: Concordia Publishing House,Muhlenberg Press, 1957. hardcover. very good/no dustjacket. 8vo. pp.22,276. Complete set of 55 volumes in publisher's red cloth binding. Very heavy set, please contact for postal pricing. Volumes have previous owner's name penned to FFEP.

LoC# 56-5944
Quarterbound original publisher's cloth in linen and black, gilt lettering to spine. Binding tight, text clean, book square and bright. Former owner's bookplate on FFE. some paper residue from removed bookplates on back endpaper. No other condition issues present in hardecover.
DJ is unclipped, some age toning to DJ flaps. Some creases to back cover, edgewear and scratches to the tail of spine, some chipping.
A play, in four acts, by American playwright, Eugene O'Neill and first published posthumously in 1956.
Mylar protected.

Dublin: Printed by Brett Smith, for Richard Moncrieffe, No. 16 Capel-Street, 1784. The Third Irish Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 volumes in 1 (continuously paginated). xiii, [1], 310p. Contemporary (original?) leather. 18 cm. This copy lack the frontis (a portrait of Sancho). Modest scattered foxing, mostly on first few leaves. Former owner's bookplate dated 1925 inside front cover. Small brown spot with a hole at top of title-leaf and a lesser brown spot at same place on following leaf. The first edition of this book was published in two volumes in London in 1782 but is likely to have also been issued as a 2 vols. in 1. This is an appealing copy of the Third Edition of the Dublin edition. OCLC locates several copies of the 1st and 3rd Dublin editions, both dated 1784. No further Dublin editions or printings appear to have been published. We don't know if there was a Second Dublin edition. We also don't know if there were any textual or other differences between the First and Third Dublin… Read more

New York: Published for the author by Geo. R. Lockwood & Son, 1897. Second printing of the Second edition which was first published in 1886 [but not so stated]. Hardcover. Near Fine. 149p. Original blue cloth. 17 cm. Ends of backstrip and corners rubbed. Floral endpapers and adjacent leaves browned. Contents sound and clean with some age-toning. This second edition, first published in 1886, was a revision [and re-titling] of Harriet Tubman's authorized biography, which had been first published in 1869. A third and final contemporary printing of the second edition was printed by J. J. Little in New York and published in 1901.Bradford, a white woman who mostly wrote children's books, is most remembered today for this Tubman book which was based to a large extent on her conversations with Tubman.

Kierkegaard's Famous "Either-Or" Challenge to Life – [PMM 314]
KIERKEGAARD, Sören. Enten-Eller. Et Livs-Fragment. udgivet af Victor Eremita (Either-Or, A Fragment of Life), C.A. Reitzel, Kjøbenhavn, 1843. Volume 1: Half-title + TP + [V]-XX = Forord + [XXI] = Indhold + half-title + [3]-470 + 2 blank leaves; Volume 2: Half-title + TP + 1 leaf = Inhold + half-title + [1]-368 + 1 blank leaf, Octavo, First Edition (Himmelstrup 20).
Printing and the Mind of Man 314
With the often missing half-titles present. This is one of only 525 copies printed of this work. "Kierkegaard's third published book and the first of many pseudonymous 'aesthetic' works. Generally regarded as the first major statement of his own unsystematic philosophy, this 'fragment' is a literary and philosophical tour de force incorporating a stunning array of subject matter, literary effects, and moods, including melancholy aphorisms and personal meditation, elaborate musical, dramatic and literary criticism, lyrical effusions, odd… Read more

US: The Viking Press, 1981. First Edition, Fifth Printing. Hardback. Very Good +/Very Good. Signed and inscribed by the author at first free endpaper. Quarter black cloth over terracotta paper-covered boards with silver and gold titling to spine and silver "SK" to front board. Pages are clean and unmarked. Text block has light sunning to top edge, and light foxing to all edges. Boards have light sunning to top edge and lower edge, light bump to lower edge of front board, and light rubbing to corners; light bumping to headcap and moderate bumping to tail. Binding is tight and square. Dust jacket has light scattered scuffing from shelf wear, indented scuff to center of front cover, rubbing to fold of rear flap near top corner, and light to moderate rubbing and creasing to corners and ends of spine; soiling and foxing to inside of dust jacket at top edge. Dust jacket is covered in a protective mylar jacket.

London: Printed for J. Nourse, 1760. 8vo. 19.2cm, xvi,400p., in early full crushed crimson morocco, gilt ruled tall raised bands in contemporary style, gilt spine titles, decorated endpapers, call number in the bottom panel removed, panel darkened, text is slightly toned from transfer, a very good attractively bound copy of a very rare book. very good. T.P.L 275. Lande 711. Sabin 62611. Story p636. Not in Streeter, or Howes. Thomas Pichon (1700-1781) was born in France and came to Louisbourg with Comte de Raymond, Governor of Cape Breton, as his secretary in 1751 and was posted to Fort Beauséjour in Nova Scotia as a civilian official in the 1750s, but entered into negotiations with the commandant of Fort Lawrence, the rival British stronghold, and acted as a British spy in the French fort. Even after the capitulation when he was taken to Halifax, ostensibly as a prisoner, he continued to spy on French prisoners in that town, sending his information to British officials. Naturally unable to return… Read more

Washington: A.O.P. Nicholson, Printer, 1856. First. Hardcover. Very Good. Brown Jr., Eliphalet; Heine, Wilhelm; Brown, William; et al.. Uniformly rebound in the early twentieth century in red cloth with bright gilt-titled spines in compartments with gilt rules. Sharp corners; hinges sound; gilt bright. Spines lettered ‘UNITED STATES JAPAN EXPEDITION BY COM. M.C. PERRY VOL. I / II / III.’ Complete with all 132 lithographic plates across the three volumes — including the famously suppressed ‘Public Bath at Simoda’ (Vol. I), present in this copy. All folding maps and charts present and sound, with only minor closed marginal tears at fold junctions not affecting impressions. Text blocks tight; plates strong, clean impressions; light age-toning consistent with age; no significant foxing or staining. First edition, House of Representatives issue (Nicholson imprint, distinguished from the Senate / Beverley Tucker issue — both 1856 Washington official editions). Three folio volumes. Vol. I:… Read more

London: Jacob Tonson, 1697. First. Hardcover. Good. Hollar, Wenceslaus; Lombart, Pierre; Van der Gucht, Michael; Cleyn, Franz (designs). Recent rebinding (likely twentieth century). Boards sound; spine intact; corners tight. Complete with all 101 engraved plates (frontispiece + engraved title + 99 numbered plates, after Franz Cleyn's 1654 Ogilby designs, re-engraved by Wenceslaus Hollar, Pierre Lombart, and Michael Van der Gucht). Title printed in red and black; subscribers' list bound in. Title page with loss to upper right affecting the first letter of 'AENEID' (now reading 'NEID'); not affecting other text or the red-and-black imprint. Interior good with significant toning to the plates. True first edition of Dryden's celebrated verse translation of Virgil — the standard English Virgil for over a century and Alexander Pope's acknowledged direct model for his Homer ('the most noble and spirited translation I know in any language'). The first major English book published by subscription. Folio. The… Read more

Vienna: Christoph Friedrich Wappler, 1794. First. Hardcover. Near Fine. Jacquin, Nicolaus Joseph von. Recently rebound in fine full leather with double gilt-lettered morocco labels on the spine ('OXALIS MONOGRAPHIA' and 'NICOLAO JACQUIN') on raised bands; gilt decorative rules. Boards clean and unmarked; corners sharp; hinges sound. Internally near fine throughout. Complete with all 81 plates, of which 75 are exquisitely hand-colored — including many Cape of Good Hope species depicted here for the first time. Plates bright as the day published, with no fading, oxidation, or color loss. Paper crisp eighteenth-century laid stock; no foxing or staining. Text block clean and tight. First edition. Quarto. The definitive 18th-century monograph on the genus Oxalis. Plates engraved after Jacquin's own drawings produced during his tenure as director of the Imperial Botanical Garden at Schönbrunn. The foundational scholarly treatment of Oxalis, predating and outranking any subsequent monograph; cited in… Read more

Paperback. Very Good.

New York: Skira Rizzoli, 2010. Fine in cloth boards, in a fine printed acetate dust jacket. Housed in a custom clamshell box with leather lettering piece to spine.. First Edition. Quarto. KAWS monograph INSCRIBED by the artist to gallerist Mary Boone, with a finely rendered drawing to the front endpaper: "To Mary.. / Always sunny... / KAWS.. 13.

New York: Library Council of the Museum of Modern Art, 2005. Fine copy in hand-sewn wrappers, paper dust jacket, publisher's clamshell box; housed in a custom clamshell box. Magnificent publication never intended for sale.. Limited Edition. Octavo. Number 24 of 130 numbered copies, SIGNED by Celmins and Weinberger, Library Council prospectus laid in as issued. The second artist's book in Contemporary Editions, a series of books and other printed works published by the Library Council of the Museum of Modern Art. Collaboration between noted artist Vija Celmins and essayist Eliot Weinberger, who compiles historical description of the stars. With three etchings by Celmins on handmade gampi paper, including the dustwrapper, inspired by a worn cover of an early 20th century Japanese book (10.5 x 17 inches); the center double gatefold etching, a negative image of the night sky (10.5 x 27.5 inches); and the concluding image, a more traditional etching, composed of sky and stars, (3.25 x 3.5 inches). Texts… Read more

Paris: Olympia Press, 1958. Minor rubbing to green wrappers; near fine. A sharp copy housed in green cloth clamshell case with leather lettering piece to spine.. First Edition. Octavo. First issue, with original 1200 Francs to rear wrap, without over-stamped price. Rare in its first state, as this sexually explicit novel-pseudonymously written by Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg-was quickly condemned by French authorities. Publisher Maurice Girodias countered by designing new wrappers for unbound sheets, under the title Lollipop, and writing a new preliminary signature, to disguise the work from vice squad officers.

Atlanta: High Museum of Art, 2012. Fine in black cloth with paste-on cover illustration. Housed in a custom clamshell box with leather lettering piece to spine.. First Edition. Quarto. INSCRIBED by KAWS to front endpaper, with accompanying drawing, to gallerist Mary Boone: "Dear Mary.. / Please don't give me away!! / KAWS.. 16.

Book signed by John Schott on a small printed paper, which is tipped-in a debossed area on the book's rear cover under the dust-jacket. Condition: New (with previous owner's blindstamp on blank front endpaper). First edition signed & numbered 32 of 350 copies. Large hardcover (with dust-jacket, as issued) in a photographic slipcase. Unpaginated (60 pages, 47 duotone plates). Slipcase dimensions: 15.1"x 12" x 1". ISBN 9781590053881. This is a single, loose, title (volume 6) from Nazraeli's 6-volume 'NZ Library' Set One. "In the summer of 1973, John Schott drove Route 66 from the Midwest to California and back, sleeping in his pick-up truck and photographing with an 8x10-inch Deardorf view camera. Among his subjects were vintage motels situated along the highway, and it was a selection of these photographs that, two years later, were included in William Jenkins' seminal 'New Topographics' exhibition at the George Eastman House. The twenty images that were included in this exhibition have been… Read more

Book signed by Daido Moriyama on a small printed paper, which is tipped-in a debossed area on the book's rear cover under the dust-jacket. Condition: New (with previous owner's blindstamp on blank front endpaper). First edition signed & numbered 32 of 350 copies. Large hardcover (with dust-jacket, as issued) in a photographic slipcase. Unpaginated (48 pages, 21 duotone plates). Slipcase dimensions: 15.1"x 12" x 1". ISBN 9781590053874. This is a single, loose, title (volume 5) from Nazraeli's 6-volume 'NZ Library' Set One. "As one of the most celebrated and influential artists of his generation, Daido Moriyama has been the subject of dozens of books and films, and literally hundreds of exhibitions mounted around the world during the past three decades. His subjects are often sprawling, both geographically and metaphorically, with one influencing the next. In Mantis, however, the act of photographing becomes the subject of the book, decades after the fact. In this beautifully produced artist's book,… Read more