Item 314901Amherst College. Class of 1874.
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[Amherest , Mass: 1874]. Melvil Dewey was the Class of 1874. Read More Item Details for Amherst College. Class of 1874 Add to Wish List
Item #314901
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[Amherest , Mass: 1874]. Melvil Dewey was the Class of 1874. Read More Item Details for Amherst College. Class of 1874 Add to Wish List
Item #314901
Price: $500
Buenos Aires: Rueda, [1968]. The classic Argentine epic poem, El Gaucho Martin Fierro, with an introduction by Borges. Borges wrote prologues for three editions of Martin Fierro in the 1960s (each is distinct; this is the third). Read More Item Details for Martin Fierro. [Prologo de Jorge Luis Borges] Add to Wish List
Item #315954
Price: $1,750
Buenos Aires: Francisco A. Colombo, 1933. First edition. Read More Item Details for Las Kenningar Add to Wish List
Item #315953
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Buenos Aires: Torres Agüero, [1977]. Second edition. Read More Item Details for Prólogos. Con un prólogo de prólogos Add to Wish List
Item #315962
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London: Privately Printed by Strangeways and Sons, January, 1924. First edition, No. 21 of 30 copies. SIGNED by CONRAD. Knowles and Moore note that Conrad agreed to provide a general preface for J.A. Hammerton's serial publication "Countries of the World" and the piece was written in November of 1923. Read More Item Details for Geography and Some Explorers Add to Wish List
Item #303392
Price: $5,000
[Corvinus Press, 1936]. One of 12 copies printed for Liddell Hart, signed by both authors. Presentation from Storrs, who sent Lawrence to Arabia. With presentation inscription from Storrs to Sir Edward Marsh. A beautiful memorial production of the Corvinus Press, here inscribed from Ronald Storrs, at whose behest Lawrence was..... Read More Item Details for Lawrence of Arabia Add to Wish List
Item #308244
Price: $300
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. First edition, limited edition of 50 SIGNED copies (38 in half leather and 12 in full), this being one of two (?) author's copies, lettered ("AC2") on the limitation page. Author's Copy. The longest of Disch’s Supernatural Minnesota novels. Billy Michaels grows up to..... Read More Item Details for The M.D. A Horror Story Add to Wish List
Item #229183
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26 February 1980. Manfred Eigen (1927-2019) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1967 for “studies of extremely fast chemical reactions, effected by disturbing the equilibrium by means of very short pulses of energy” (shared with Ronald Norrish and George Porter). The present draft manuscript discusses biochemical, physical, and..... Read More Item Details for Leben. Autograph Manuscript, signed (“Manfred Eigen”) at head of first page Add to Wish List
Item #316265
Price: $6,500
Birmingham: [n.d., ca. 1820-1830]. Rare engraved early nineteenth century brassfounder's trade catalogue with the manufacturer's name given (usually not noted in such a work). While the actual catalogue appears to be ca. 1820-1830, some of the actual copper plates would appear to have been engraved somewhat earlier, ca. 1800-1810 Plates..... Read More Item Details for Engraved pattern book of cast brass furniture fittings and other hardware Add to Wish List
Item #315876
Price: $900
Paris: Hamelin-Bergeron, 1816. Second, expanded edition. Second edition of the definitive contemporary work on the lathe, originally published in 1792-96. The illustrations show wood turning machinery and tools, finished products, and hand-colored depictions of 72 varieties of wood grain. Read More Item Details for Manuel du Tourneur. Ouvrage dans lequel on enseigne aux amateurs la manière d'exécuter sur le tour à pointes, à lunettes, en l'air, à guillocher, à carré, à portraits [.] tout ce que l'art peut produire d'utile et d'agréable … Add to Wish List
Item #315888
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Mayfield Sussex: 23rd Sept. 1979. Typescript published in: Into Battle. A Soldier's Diary of the Great War (Cassell, 1978). Nice late letter in a bold hand from Glubb Pasha, Sir John Bagot Glubb (1897-1986), who served with distinction in France in the first world war, and was thrice wounded. Glubb’s..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Letter, signed (“Glubb”), discussing his writing, and conveying a carbon typescript, “The Diary Chapter I. Zillebeke” and photograph, to Mr. [Lazlo] Magyar Add to Wish List
Item #316248
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London: Printed for W. Griffin, 1770. First edition. The quarto edition is now believed to be the true first, preceding the several unauthorized duodecimo printings, demonstrated to have been later piracies by William B. Todd (v. Rothschild 1032 'Notes' and Studies in Bibliography, vi, 1953). Read More Item Details for The Deserted Village, A Poem Add to Wish List
Item #37005
Price: $8,500
[Havana, Cuba]: Bohemia, April 16, 1964. Signed beneath the image with the revolutionary's signature slogan, "Hasta la victoria siempre, Che." A rare image of Che, taken in Havana in 1964 for Bohemia, a Cuban weekly magazine. Read More Item Details for Photograph, inscribed Add to Wish List
Item #314788
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Paris: Claude Prudhomme, 1713. Second edition. Revised second edition, corrected with additional observations on the serin, a small European finch related to the canary. Hervieux de Chanteloup (1683-1747) composed this treatise in his capacity as "gouverneur des serins de madame la princess …." With wood engraved plates of bird cages..... Read More Item Details for Nouveau Traité des Serins de Canarie, contenant la manière de les élever, les apparier pour en avoir de belles races; avec beaucoup de remarques aussi curieuses que nécessaires sur les signes & causes de leurs maladies … Add to Wish List
Item #316300
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Chicago: Footprints, Ltd, [1993]. First edition. Inscribed to Lena Horne. With lengthy INSCRIPTIONS to Lena Horne by Jim Swenson, Susan Pollard, Patsy Perkins, and George Hood, who all worked with Horne on the documentary “Charles Honi Coles — A Class Act of Tap” about tap dancer Charles Honi Coles. This..... Read More Item Details for Footprints. A Tap Dancer’s World. [A Portfolio of Sixty-five Photographs] Add to Wish List
Item #251434
Price: $2,750
Cumberland, MD: Printed for the Author, by J.M. Buchanan, 1826. First edition. First edition of this defense of colonial frontiersman Captain Cresap (1742-1775), whom Jefferson, echoing others, blamed for the murder of the family of the Mingo war chief James Logan during Lord Dunmore's War. Cresap has since been exonerated..... Read More Item Details for A Biographical Sketch of the Life of the Late Capt. Michael Cresap Add to Wish List
Item #316088
Price: $950
Jamaica: 1908. Locatons include Port Antonio and Hotel Tichfield, Kingston (including evidence of destruction from the 1907 earthquake), Saint Ann's Bay, Cuba (as seen from a boat), and Castleton Gardens. Read More Item Details for Twenty panoramic silver-print photographs of Jamaican vistas and street scenes Add to Wish List
Item #316262
Price: $500
Dundrun: The Dun Emer Press, 1904. First edition, one of two hundred twenty copies. ‘The Dark Angel’ and other poems. Lionel Johnson (1867-1902), educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford, affiliated with the Rhymers’ Club, is also remembered as having introduced Oscar Wilde to Lord Alfred Douglas. “Yeats, who remembered..... Read More Item Details for Twenty One Poems ... Selected by William Butler Yeats Add to Wish List
Item #244759
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Cairo: Produced by the Government Press and Survey of Egypt, 1919. First edition. Official history of the British campaign in Palestine and Syria, leading to the capture of Jerusalem and Damascus. T.E. Lawrence’s contributions to this volume, reporting on the “Sherifian Co-operation” and the progress of the Arab Revolt, appear..... Read More Item Details for A Brief Record of the Advance of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force Under the Command of General Sir Edmund H.H. Allenby, G.C.B., G.C.M.G. July 1917 to October 1918. Compiled from Official Sources and Published by The Palestine News Add to Wish List
Item #308292
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London: Ellis and White, 1873. First edition. Presentation Copy from William Morris to John Ruskin. Presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper, "John Ruskin/ from his friend/ William Morris." An extraordinary presentation copy, inscribed by William Morris (1834-1896) to his spiritual mentor, John Ruskin (1819-1900), of whom he said..... Read More Item Details for Love is Enough; or The Freeing of Pharamond. A Morality Add to Wish List
Item #304294
Price: $900
Paris: Ocatve Doin, 1891. First edition. Read More Item Details for Leçons cliniques sur l'hystérie et l'hypnotisme faites à l'Hôpital Saint-André de Bordeaux... d'une Lettre-Préface de M. Le Professeur J.-M. Charlot Add to Wish List
Item #316286
Price: $1,750
Paris: chez la veuve Olivier de Varennes, au Palais, dans la salle royale, au Vase d'or, 1678. Pp. 358-408 are Additions. Read More Item Details for Histoire de la Laponie, sa description, l'origine, les moeurs, la manière de vivre de ses habitans, leur magie, & les choses rares du païs. Avec plusieurs additions & augmentations fort curieuses, qui jusques-icy n'ont pas esté imprimées. traduites du latin de M. Scheffer par L.P.A.L Add to Wish List
Item #315885
Price: $4,750
Greenfield, Mass: Ansel Phelps, 1825. First American edition, reprinted from a London edition. The first furniture finisher's manual published in America, with recipes and lists of requisite tools and implements. Robert D. Mussey, in his introduction to the 1987 reprint of the 1827 American edition, points out that this work..... Read More Item Details for The Cabinet-Maker's Guide: or Rules and Instructions in the art of varnishing, dying, staining, japanning, polishing, lackering and beautifying wood, ivory, tortoise-shell, and metal. With observations on their management and application Add to Wish List
Item #315872
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London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, [1877-88]. First edition. The first edition of this pioneering use of photography for sociological study. The Scotsman Thomson (1837-1921) spent the decade 1862-1872 traveling in and producing some of the finest early photographic images of the Far East. After resettling in Britain, he..... Read More Item Details for Street Life in London. With Permanent Photographic Illustrations Taken from Life Expressly for this Publication Add to Wish List
Item #314998
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Lyon, France: J. Bouvard & Cie 20, Rue Lafont, c. 1900. This very unusual French sample book contains a large range of epaulets and sequin samples with a few lettering and star samples. Read More Item Details for J. Bouvard & Cie catalogue of mounted samples of epaulets and military regalia Add to Wish List
Item #263502