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Washington: [Privately printed at the Press of J. H. Furst Co., Baltimore.], 1910. First edition. Signed by Adams at the end of the introductory letter, as it seems that most copies were. Adams, historian and a direct descendant of John Quincy Adams, published and disseminated widely this present work. It..... Read More Item Details for A Letter to American Teachers of History Add to Wish List
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London: Saunders and Otley, Conduit Street, 1843. First Edition in English, with half-titles. Read More Item Details for The Burgomaster of Berlin. Translated from the German...[by William Atkinson Gardner] Add to Wish List
Item #249059
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[Berlin & Munich: S. Fischer & Hans von Weber, 1913]. Copy CXI of 150 copies. Publication no. 4 of the Drucke fuer die Hundert-fuenfzig. Finely printed edition of Wich Ich Es Sehe, the first book by Peter Altenberg (1859-1919), a key figure in fin-de-siècle Viennese literature. With the elegrant motif..... Read More Item Details for Wie ich es sehe Add to Wish List
Item #329687
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London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1845. First Edition in English. Read More Item Details for The Improvisatore: or, Life in Italy, from the Danish...translated by Mary Howitt Add to Wish List
Item #334766
![Item #323783 The Nightingale. [Translation by H.W. Dulken]. Hans Christian Andersen](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/323783.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1631906762)
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New York: R.H. Russell, 1898. The Merrrymount Edition. Read More Item Details for The Nightingale. [Translation by H.W. Dulken] Add to Wish List
Item #323783
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Paris: Hachette, 1905. Read More Item Details for Contes d'Andersen. Traduit du Danois par D. Soldi Add to Wish List
Item #318013
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New York: Weltdemokratische Vereinigong, 1939. Read More Item Details for Adolf Hitler. Der letzte 'grosse' Antisemit Add to Wish List
Item #32824
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Duluth: March 11, 1948. Margaret Frances Culkin Banning. Best-selling author and early advocate of women's rights. Daughter of William E. Culkin who served two terms in the Minnesota State Senate (1895-99). Spent one year at Sacred Heart Academy in Rochester, New York. B.A., Vassar College, 1912; certificate, Chicago School of..... Read More Item Details for ANS to Alfred Eisenstaedt Add to Wish List
Item #41517
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New York: Viking, 1959. First Edition. Flat signed by Bellow on the title page. Read More Item Details for Henderson the Rain King Add to Wish List
Item #371297
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New York: William Sloane Associates, [1950]. First edition. First edition of Berryman's biography of Stephen Crane, signed ("John Berryman") on the title-page. Read More Item Details for Stephen Crane … The American Men of Letters Series Add to Wish List
Item #310628
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Leipzig, Berlin: Insel-Verlag, etc, 1928-1936. First editions of the first four titles, later editions of the last two titles. Ernst Bertram (1884-1957), Germanist and poet, was appointed professor of German literature and philology at the University of Cologne in 1921. His friends included Stefan George, Friedrich Gundolf and Thomas Mann;..... Read More Item Details for Collection of six books inscribed to the author's brother Hans Georg, including: Deutsche Gestalten. Fest- und Gedenkreden, 1934. The Dedication Copy. [With:] Wartburg. Spruchgedichte, 1933. "Exemplar Nr. 2', additionally inscribed, "Ohne Gefahr keine Rettung". [And] Griecheneiland, 1934. [And] Das weiße Pferd. No. 8 of 120 copies, [1936]. [And] Straßburg. Ein Gedichtkreis, 1928. [And] Nietzsche. Versuch eine Mythologie, 1929 Add to Wish List
Item #43917
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[Leipzig]: [Wolfgang Stockel], September 28, 1510. Edited by Johann Kusthuert, this printing of the Epistles of Paul was intended for the student market, with the introduction addressed to studiosis sacarum litterarum tyronibus. In addition, the colophon reads: Imp[re]ssu[m] ad altissimi Dei laude[m] ac studiosoru[m] Sacre Scripture tyronu[m] p[er]fectu[m] in officina..... Read More Item Details for Epistole Pauli Add to Wish List
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Francofurti Ad Moenum: [Paul Reffeler], 1576. Attractive dated example of a later sixteenth-century German binding. The book is the second part (only) of the four-part Examinis Concilii Tridentini of Lutheran theologian Martin Chemnitz, a consideration of the decrees of the Council of Trent from a Lutheran perspective. Read More Item Details for Secunda pars Examinis decretorum Concilii Tridentini, Complectens Explicationem Locorum, De Sacramentis in genere, De Baptismo, De Confirmatione … Add to Wish List
Item #324763
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Boston: Charles E. Goodspeed, 1902. No. 458 of 500 copies. "an unfinished binding done by me at Miss Emily Preston's bindery, N.Y. Patty P.L. Sesler" and below in another hand J.S. Brown. Emily Preston was a Cobden-Sanderson student who ran a bindery at 223 East 17th St., NYC and was..... Read More Item Details for The Service. Edited by F. B. Sanborn Add to Wish List
Item #317740
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Buenos Aires: Falbo Librero, [1966]. First edition. Maria Esther Vázquez, author of Los nombres de la muerta (1964), was also co-author with Borges of Introducción a la literatura inglesa (1965). Read More Item Details for Literatura Germanicas Medievales Add to Wish List
Item #338425
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New York: Harpers Bros, 1930. First Edition. One of 1450 copies sent out by Harpers as a Xmas gift. A scarce book, even rarer in it's original gift box. Read More Item Details for How Come Christmas Add to Wish List
Item #1704
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Berlin: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1957-1965 (Volume 9 is dated 1965). All are first editions except Vol I and IX. Read More Item Details for Stucke (Plays), complete Add to Wish List
Item #34191
![Item #324908 Leben Eduards des Zweiten von England [nach Marlowe]. Historie. Bertolt Brecht](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/324908.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1660948314)
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POTSDAM: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1924. First edition of author's third book. Read More Item Details for Leben Eduards des Zweiten von England [nach Marlowe]. Historie Add to Wish List
Item #324908
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[Munich: Bremer Presse, 1932]. First edition, no. 61 of 85 copies, signed by Martin Bodmer on the colophon. Scarce trial specimen in preparation for a proposed edition of Goethe. Read More Item Details for Die Echten Ausgaben von Goethes Faust Add to Wish List
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Berlin: Maurersche Buchhandlung, 1817. Read More Item Details for Victoria und ihre Geschwister, mit fliegenden Fahnen und brennender Lunte Add to Wish List
Item #329409
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New York: George P. Putnam, 1853. First edition, BAL printing C with cancel title page dated 1853. Read More Item Details for Journal Of An African Cruiser; Comprising Sketches Of The Canaries, The Cape De Verds, Liberia, Madeira, Sierra Leone, And Other Places Of Interest On The West Coast Of Africa. By An Officer Of The U.S. Navy. Edited By Nathaniel Hawthorne Add to Wish List
Item #319176
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New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1928. First Edition. “A subtle championship of pagan rebellion against oppressive Christian moralism” (Barron). With presentation inscription “To Harry and Lila Luce with all the best of everything from Louis and Mary Bromfield, Socoa B. P. 1928” tipped in at flyleaf. Read More Item Details for The Strange Case of Miss Annie Sprague Add to Wish List
Item #37018
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Harrisonburg, Virginia: Davidson and Bourne, 1813. First Edition, without half-title. Read More Item Details for The Mountain Muse. Comprising the Adventures of Daniel Boone; and The Power of Virtuous and Refined Beauty Add to Wish List
Item #338377
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Leipzig: Im Insel-verlag [Boeschel & Trepte], 1920. Number 455 of 520 copies of this the first separate edition of this tragedy. It was from this work that the Austrian composer Alban Berg composed his very successful opera “Wozzeck” (1925). These fragments were first published posthumously in 1850 as “Wozzeck”... Read More Item Details for Wozzeck Add to Wish List
Item #18445
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New York: Lincoln MacVeigh, The Dial Press, 1929. First edition of the author's first book. The author’s first book, the story of the rise and fall of Rico, a small time hoodlum who gets entangled in a web of criminal activity after his arrival in Chicago. It was adapted in..... Read More Item Details for Little Caesar Add to Wish List
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