Current Rarities
Rarities For Sale
The following is a regularly updated list of rare and valuable books that the Friends of Rochambeau have received as donations. These have been appraised and are available for purchase. All proceeds benefit The Rochambeau Library.
To purchase any of the books, please send an email to booksale@friendsofrochambeau.org More details at the end of the list.
Current List – updated March 2010:
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American Art
Brown, Milton W. et al. New York: Harry Abrams, 1987. Hardcover
Price: US$20 + shipping and handling
1979 edition, 6th printing. Oversize, mint. Dj river scene, boards maroon with gold letters. 752 illustrations, 104 in color.
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American Book Prices, Current 1991-1995
Lear, Katherine & Daniel Lear. Washington, CT: Bancroft-Parkman, 1995. Hardcover
Price: US$20 + shipping and handling
2 volumes, oversize, no djs. Red boards with gold letters, endpapers gray sketch of Sotheby’s auction. Excellent condition.
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The American Claimant
Twain, Mark. New York: Charles L. Webster, 1892. Hardcover
Price: US$75 + shipping and handling
Original green cloth with black & gold lettering. No dj. Slight rubbing on corners & spine. Condition very good
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The American Diary of a Japanese Girl
Miss Morning Glory. New York: Stokes, 1902. Hardcover.
Price: US$150 + shipping and handling.
First edition. Illustrated by Genjiro Yeto in color and b/w. Spine and edges of dj torn, dj fair. Book very fine.
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Anna and the King of Siam
Landon, Margaret. Garden City: Garden City Publishing Co., 1944. Hardcover.
Price: US$30 + shipping and handling.
First edition. Red cloth, gilt lettering. Clean and tight, very good.
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Argentia, Sentinel of the North Atlantic (Navy 103)
anon. Argentia, Newfoundland: Naval Operating Base, 1946. Hardcover.
Price: US$35 + shipping and handling.
Spine loose, navy embossed cover with gold slightly worn, else very good. Chiefly b/w photos. Two owners’ names on endpaper.
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At the Temple of Art: Grosvenor Gallery, 1877-1890
Denney, Colleen. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2000. Hardcover.
Price: US$20 + shipping and handling
First edition, book and dj mint. Black boards, gold on spine, white endpapers; wine dj. Illustrated, oversized.
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The Ballad of Reading Gaol
C. 3. 3. (Oscar Wilde). London: Leonard Smithers, 1898. Hardcover
Price: US$75 + shipping and handling
6th ed, limited edition. Yellow and white boards (dirty), rough cut paper edges. May be Oscar Wilde Patron’s Edition Deluxe. Owner’s name and very short quote in front in pencil, letter from H L Nelson to Bolton Hall pasted in back. Text clean except for a couple of marginal pencil marks.
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Bambi
Salten, Felix. New York: Grosset & Dunlop, 1929. Hardcover
Price: US$35 + shipping and handling.
K. Weise illus., Whittaker Chambers trans. Tan cloth cover worn, mainly on edges; endpaper torn, has owner’s name. Text yellow but clean and tight.
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Ben-Hur
Wallace, Lew. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1889. Hardcover.
Price: US$85 + shipping and handling.
First edition, second state. Navy cloth, gilt lettering and starburst, no dj. Gift inscription. Edgewear at corners and spine ends. Endpapers yellowed, text less so. Clean and tight.
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Between Friends / Entre Amis
————–. Ottawa: National Film Board of Canada, 1976. Hardcover
Price: US$20 + shipping and handling
Presentation edition, apparent first edition, mint, oversized. Bilingual. Produced by Canada in honor of the US Bicentennial of the American Revolution. Foreword by then prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Red boards, gold letters, endpapers photos of border establishments, no dj. Dark blue slipcase with small photo of US and Canadian flags.
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Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night
Burton, Richard F., ed. N.p.:The Burton Club, n.d. Hardcover
Price: US$20 + shipping and handling.
Translated and annotated by Richard F. Burton. Limited edition privately printed byt the Burton Club. Six volumes of 17. Vols 2, 5, 8, 9 and Supplemental Nights vols. 1,5. No Djs. Black boards with gold.abian” in black on gold on front, “Nights” on back. Supplemental Nights same except black and silver.
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Bösendorfer: A Living Legend
Kunz, Johannes. Vienna: Molden Verlag, 2002. Hardcover
Price: US$20 + shipping and handling
Apparent first edition. History of the famous Vienna piano company on its 175th anniversary. Oversized. Mint except slight corner and edge wear on slipcase.. Black boards with gold letters; spectacular elaborate gold endpapers with small semi-nude female insets, woven gold ribbon marker.. Djchiefly charcoal with gold letters and photo of open grand piano; slipcase same. Autographed on title page by NYC representatives. Many b/w and color photos.
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Brite and Fair
Shute, Henry A. Peterborough, NH: Noone House, 1968. Hardcover.
Price: US$55 plus shipping and handling.
First edition, illustrated by Tasha Tudor. Blue and green boards, book mint. Yellow dj edgeworn.
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The British Drama
Philadelphia: J J Woodward/Isaac Bird, 1833. Hardcover.
Price: US$100 + shipping and handling
2 vols, bound in worn tan leather. Spine has red and green bands, gold letters; marbled endpapers, frontispiece illustrations. A small piece is torn out of a blank endpaper of vol 1, index vol 1 is loose. Else clean and tight. Heavy.
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Broadway, the American Musical
Kantor, Michael & Laurence Maslon. New York: Bulfinch Press, 2004. Hardcover.
Price: US$15 + shipping and handling.
First edition, oversized, mint. Companion to PBS series. 300 b/w illustrations, 200 in color. Black dj with photo and red letters, red boards with white letters, endpapers blue-green photo.
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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
New York: Century Co., 1900. Hardcover
Price: US$50 + shipping and handling
10 vols complete, including atlas. Maroon boards, gold letters, gilt edged pages. Slight spine wear, pages slightly faded, otherwise fine. Oversized.
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Chafetz Graphics–Satire and Homage
Chafetz, Sidney. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1988. Softcover.
Price: US$15 + shipping and handling
Inscribed first edition. Catalogue of retrospective show. Off white cover with black graphic of two men. Lavishly illustrated in color and b/w. Excellent condition.
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Chafetz Graphics–Satire and Homage
Chafetz, Sidney. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1988. Softcover
Price: $15 + shipping ane handling
Brand new, shrink-wrapped first edition. Catalogue of retrospective show. Off white cover with black graphic of two men. Lavishly illustrated in color and b/
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Charles W. Eliot, President of Harvard University, 1869-1909
James, Henry. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1930, 2 vols. Hardcover
Price: US$20 + shipping and handling.
First edition, illustrated, complete. Djs very worn and fragile. Front board of vol I coming loose. Text completely clean. Red boards with gold title.
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The Chronicles of America Series
Johnson, Allen, ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1920-21. Hardcover.
Price: US$50 + shipping and handling.
48 of 50 vols, lacking vols. 5 & 6. Extra-illustrated edition. Blue boards with author, title, and rectangle (including American eagle and Yale seal) in gold. Gilt top edges. Spines faded, else in excellent condition. Contains numerous classic works by famous scholars.
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Complete Cartoons of the New Yorker
Mankoff, Robert, ed. New York: Black Dog & Leventhal, 2004. Hardcover
Price: US$20 + shipping and handling.
First edition. Oversized, no CDs. Red endpapers damaged, else mint. Pale yellow dj with red letters, white boards with black and red letters, both with Eustace Tilley.
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Complete Work of Michelangelo
—————. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, n.d. Hardcover
Price: US$20 + shipping and handling
Oversized, Dj edgeworn, depicts the Creation. Beige boards with gold, edge faded, Many illustrations, 32 in color.
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Comrade Kropotkin
Robinson, Victor. New York: The Arthurians, 1908. Hardcover
Price: US$20 + shipping and handling
Signed first edition. Red boards with gold. Spine faded.
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The Confessions of a Child of the Century; The Two Mistresses, Emmeline, The Son of Titian, Frederic and Bernerette, Pierre and Camille
Musset, Alfred de. 2 vols. Philadelphia: Rittenhouse Press [George Barrie's Sons], 1899, 1900. Hardcover
Price: US$60 + shipping and handling.
Romanticists series, illustrated. Green boards, gold design. Spnes faded, somewhat loose.Endpapers show age. Confessions has faint water stain, a few loose pages.
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Conrad Works
Conrad, Joseph. Garden City: Doubleday Page, 1926. Hardcover.
Price: US$100 + shipping and handling
26 volumes complete, all with djs,. Kent edition. Gray djs with dirty spines, gray covers with ship design. Spine labels with black letters paated on.
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The Creation
Haas, Ernst. New York: Viking, 1971. Hardcover
Price: US$20 + shipping and handling
First edition, oblong folio. Dj has tears, all but one taped. Greige boards with half black, black endpapers, dark brown title page. Oversize. Fabulous color photos, many full page.
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A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors
Allibone, S. Austin. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1870. Hardcover
Price: US$15 + shipping and handling.
3 vols., ex-lib, oversized. Worn dark brown boards with geometric design and some damage. Front board and spine vol 2 loose. Dark brown endpapers, Inscription in vol 1. Interiors yellow but clean
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Cucina Simpatica
Killeen, Johanne & George Germon. New York: Harper Collins, 1991. Hardcover
Price: US$20 + shipping and handling
First edition signed by both authors. Book mint, dj near mint. Recipes and color photos.
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Dictionnaire universel des contemporains
Vapereau, G. Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1870. Hardcover
Price: US$25 + shipping and handling
4th edition, oversized. Worn black boards with gold, marbled endpapers. Clean and tight.
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A Drama of Exile
Browning, E. B. New York: Thomas Crowell, n.d. Hardcover.
Price: US$50 + shipping and handling.
Scarce US edition. Dark green boards with gold design, cream spine; red and green on title page. Tiny corner wear, endpapers yellowed slightly. Very fine+.
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Early Spring in Massachusetts
Thoreau, Henry D. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1882. Hardcover
Price: US$20 + shipping and handling
1st ed, 2nd printing. Green boards with gold, black endpapers. Edgewear, owner’s name; else clean and tight.
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Encyclopaedia Britannica,11th edition
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1910-1911. Hardcover.
Price: US$200 + shipping and handling.
The famous “scholars” edition, complete in 28 vols (original green boards, very worn leather spines, text good), plus index volume (worn brown boards, text good), plus the 12th edition, complete in 3 vols (green boards, good+), issued in 1922 to cover World War I. Important and scarce.
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 15th edition
Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1977. Hardcover.
Price: US$100 + shipping and handling.
30 volumes complete, including Micropedia and Macropedia, plus also 1978 and 1979 yearbooks. 200th anniversary edition. Near mint.
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Encyclopedia Hispanica
———. Barcelona, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1994-5 ed. Hardcover
Price: US$20 + shipping and handling
18 volumes complete, 14 vols encyclopedia in Spanish, 1 vol Datapedia (black band), 1 vol Temapedia (blue band), 2 vols Micropedia and indices (green band). Black leather boards, encyclopedia has red band with gold letters on spine..Oversized, near mint.
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The Essays of Montaigne
Montaigne, Michel. New York: Heritage Press, 1946. Hardcover
Price: US$20 + shipping and handling
Two volumes of essays plus a handbook volume, each slipcased. Slipcases show some edge and spine fading. Books are mint. Brown boards with gold, plus marbled brown and yellow.
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The Ethics of the Dust
Ruskin, John. New York: D. D. Merrill, n.d. [@1890], 3rd ed. Hardcover
Price: US$40 + shipping and handling.
Ten Lectures to Little Housewives. Burgundy cover with gilt lettering and design, top edges gilt. Clean and tight, edges of spine and corners a bit worn.
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Famous Small Bronzes
———. New York: Gorham Company, Bronze Division, 1928. Hardcover
Price: US$50 + shipping and handling
“A Representative Exhibit Selected from the Works of Noted Contemporary Sculptors.” Condition good. Fragile binding, spine binding gone, corners badly chipped. Tight copy inside. Plates covered by sheets with descriptive letter press.
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The Five Books of Moses
Tel Aviv: Sinai Publishing Co., 1973, 4 vols. Hardcover
Price: US$35 + shipping and handling.
The Pentateuch, lacking Numbers, in Hebrew and English. Boards worn at edges; owner’s name and tape repair to Genesis. Internally very fine.
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Fleurs de nos montagnes
Meierhofer, Hans. Zurich: Editions Silva, n.d. Hardcover.
Price: US$25 + shipping and handling
Apparent first edition, oversized, tanned. Aquarelles of Swiss flowers by H & O Baumberger pasted in. DJ worn and tattered. Tan boards with gold letters.
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Gideon’s Army
MacDougall, Curtis D. New York: Marzani & Munsell, 1965. Hardcover
Price: US$15 + shipping and handling
3 vols, 1st ed. Worn russet and black slipcase. Vol 1 no dj; vos 2 & 3, djs with faded spines and one tear each. Occasional small ink markings in margins. Else very fine.
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Glorious Color
Fassett, Kaffe. New York: Clarkson Potter, 1988. Hardcover
Price: US$20 + shipping nd handling.
First edition. Book fine, dj fine. Knitting and needlepoint designs, gorgeous.
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Gran Libro de les Parques Nacionales de Colombia
Garces Guerrero, Diego Miguel and Susana De La Zerda Lerner. Santafe: Bogota Intermedio Editores, 1994. Hardcover
Price: US$50 + shipping and handling.
First edition. Oversized. Lavishly illustrated in color. Book pristine, dj slightly worn on corners,
else excellent.
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Harvard Classics
Eliot, Charles W., ed. New York: P. F. Collier, 1909-10. Hardcover
Price: US$80 + shipping and handling
Original 1909 edition, 40 volumes of 51. The Five Foot Shelf of Books. Faded green boards with gold, endpapers Veritas design. Excellent condition.
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Heads of Families, First Census of the United States: 1790, State of Vermont
Bureau of the Census. Washington” government Printing Office, 1907. Softcover
Price: US$20 + shipping and handling
First edition, tan dj. Pp51-2 has torn corner, else mint. Fold-out map.
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The Herb
Olson, Christopher. Bloomington, IN: 1st Books Library, 2002. Softcover
Price: US$15 + shipping and handling
Inscribed first edition, green cover. A novel. Near mint condition.
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Heritage Recovered: The Lydian Treasure
Oezgen, Ilknur & Jean Oeztuerk. Istanbul: Uur Okman, 1996. Hardcover
Price: US$20 + shipping and handling
Oversized first printing inscribed by Oezgen. Published for Turkish Ministry of Culture. Dj (black with gold relic) slight wear; book (black boards, yellow endpapers) mint. In English, lavishly illustrated in color.
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Hermann and Dorothea
Goethe, J. W., trans. Ellen Frothingham. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1879. Hardcover
Price: US$40 + shipping and handling
Green moire silk, gold decoration and lettering, top edge gilt. Illustrated. Loose but very clean. Some wear to corners and ends of spine.
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History of the Surrealist Movement
Durozoi, Gerard. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Hardcover
Price: US$30 + shipping and handling
First printing, oversize, mint. Translated by Alison Anderson. Black boards, red letters on spine, tan endpapers. Dj colorful collage of paintings. B/w and color illustrations.
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Jess: A Novel
Haggard, H. Rider. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1887. Hardcover.
Price: US$20 + shipping and handling.
First edition. Marbled boards with red cloth spine and corners. Boards edgeworn and faded in spots. Front endpaper written on and discolored. Text lightly stained. Ex-lib.
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Journeys through Bookland
Sylvester, Charles H. Chicago: Bellows Reeve, 1922. Hardcover
Price: US$20 + shipping and handling
10 volumes, complete; first edition. Blue boards with ship label. Spine end and corners a but rubbed. Vol 1 well used, remainder very fine.
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Journeys through Bookland
Sylvester, Charles H., ed., 10 vols. Chicago: Bellows-reeve, 1932. Hardcover
Price: US$25 + shipping and handling
Complete set, new edition. Blue boards. Spines faded, some edgewear. Clean and tight except vol 1 (loose board, bookplate, worn, scribbles).
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Lacquer, an International History and Illustrated Survey
Scott, Rosemary et al. New York: Harry Abrams, 1984. Hardcover.
Price: US$20 + shipping and handling
Phoebe Phillips Editions, oversized. Probably first edition. 330 illustrations, including 150 in full color. Colorful dj, black boards with gold on spine, black endpapers with phoenix. Near mint.
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The Language of Flowers
Peroni, Laura. New York: Crown, 1984. Hardcover
Price: US$15 + shipping and handling
First printing of US edition, oversized. Illustrated by Marilena Pistoia. Cream dj with pink border, green letters, flowers, small tear on spine., else very good. Book mint; green boards with white letters on spine. Each flower one page of text and full page color illustration.
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Leonardo da Vinci; Michelangelo
Boussel, Patrice; Lamarche-Vadel, Bernard. Secaucus, NJ: Chartwell, n.d., 1986 Hardcover
Price: US$20 + shipping and handling
First English edition, oversized (9 lbs). Mint. Slipcase for two volumes black with paintings front and back; volumes have black djs with paintings, brown boards with gold on spine. Michelangelo is Dorset Press edition.
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letters to a friend
reps, paul. South Acworth, NH: Stillgate Press, 1981. Hardcover
Price: US$75 + shipping and handling.
1st ed, limited to 2500 copies; oversized. Dj slight corner wear, else mint; red with black letters and design. Boards red, dark russet, and black, endpapers red. 2 trifold sheets of soft Japanese paper. Illustrated.
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Life of Leonardo da Vinci
video portrait in 5 parts. Miami: Questar Home Video with Coral Pictures, 1972.
Price: US$25 + shipping and handling.
4 hours. 3 handsome maroon and gold containers, slipcase maroon and gold with Leonardo illustrations on 3 sides (2 slightly damaged). Explanatory folder slightly spotted. Filmed in Italy 1972, shown on Italian TV, also on CBS 1972.
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The Life of Richard Wagner
Newman, Ernest. New York: Knopf, 1960. Hardcover
Price: US$30 + shipping and handling
Four volumes, third printing, near mint. Very slight spine endwear. Frontispiece photos in each volume. Black boards, gold of spine, no djs.
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Life of Samuel Johnson
Boswell, James. New York: Heritage Press, 1963. Hardcover
Price: US$15 + shipping and handling
First edition thus, mint. 3 volumes, each in brown-beige marbled slipcase. Boards greige with red and gold. Handsome
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Lives of the Painters
Canaday, John. New York: Norton, 1969. Hardcover
Price: US$20 + shipping and handling
Four volumes, complete, slipcased, 2nd printing. Oversize. Mint. Green boards, gold on spine. Slipcase is tan pictorial with brown top, near mint. Vol. 4 is plates, b/w and color.
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Lone Cowboy, My Life Story
James, Will. New York: Scribners, 1930. Hardcover
Price: US$25 + shipping and handling
First edition, illustrated by author. Good condition, no dj. Green cloth boards are faded. Gilt lettering on spine faded. Spine bumped. Ink signature on front en dpaper.
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Man and Superman
Shaw, George Bernard. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1948, Hardcover
Price: US$30 + shipping and handling
With photos from Maurice Evans’ production. Good/no dj. Clean and tight pages, slightly yellowed. Slight bumping on corners and spine.
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Man Ray: les Annees Bazaar
Esten, John. Paris: Adam Biro, 1989. Hardcover
Price: US$20 + shipping and handling
First French edition, oversized, dj slight edgewear. Else mint. Dj charcoal with white letters and face, boards black with red letters, light grey endpapers. 68 b/w photos, 6 in color.
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The Marriage of Cupid and Psyche
Retold by Walter Pater from “The Golden Ass” of Lucius Apuleius. Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1951. Hardcover
Price: US$45 + shipping and handling.
Famous editions. Red leather cover with gold, moire end papers. Very nice condition.
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The Marriage of Nicholas Cotter
Scanlan, Nelle E. New York: Hillman-Curl, 1937. Hardcover.
Price: US$50 + shipping and handling.
First edition. Dj edgeworn with small tears. Book in good condition.
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Memoirs of Jacques Casanova in Two Volumes
Wallis, Kenne, ed. New York: Lieber & Lewis, 1923. Hardcover.
Price: US$15 + shipping and handling.
Limited edition. Good/no dj. Black cloth boards, shaining and edge wear. Generally clean and tight, a few stains throughout.
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Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
Machen, Arthur, tr. New York: G. P. Putnam’s, n.d. Hardcover
Price: US$30 + shipping and hndling
6 hefty volumes, complete. Oversize. First complete and unabridged English translation. Green boards, gold on spine, red endpapers. Light green pictorial djs with black letters. A couple of djs slightly edgeworn, else mint.
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The Mother’s Assistant and Young Lady’s Friend
Brown, William C., ed. Boston: William C. Brown, 1849. Hardcover
Price: US$20 + shipping and handling
First edition, January 1849 to July 1849. Brown boards with gold. Illustrated. Foxing on opening pages, else clean.
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Mountain Voices
Moore, Warren. Chester, CT: Globe Pequot Press, 1988. Hardcover
Price: US$20 + shipping and handling
First edition, oversized. Lengthy inscription by author, February 1989; endpaper says “presentation copy.” Pictorial history of the southern Appalachian mountains, Foreword by Sam Ervin. Blue boards, many illustrations in color and b/w. Mint book and dj.
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My Book House
Miller, Olive Beaupré, ed. Chicago: Book House for Children, 1937 ed. Hardcover
Price: US$40 + shipping and handling
12 volumes, complete, in excellent condition plus worn Parent’s Guide. Blue and gold boards with pictorial insets. Color illustrations.
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My Mother is a Violent Woman: My Father is a Quiet Man
Wadelton, Tommy. New York: Somerset Books, 1940. Hardcover
Price: US$25 + shipping and handling.First combined edition, rare. Signature, bookplate, and clipping pasted to endpapers. One page of text marked, else very clean. No dj, corners worn, spine loose.
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Mysteries of the Unknown
anon. Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books, n.d. Hardcover
Price: US$20 + shipping and handling
25 volumes of 32. Black boards with silver and color illustrations, black end papers, no djs. Mint. Illustrated in b/w and color.
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Nobody’s Boy; Nobody’s Girl
Malot, Hector. New York: Cupples and Leon, 1929-30, 2 vols. Hardcover.
Price: US$20 + shipping and handling.
Deluxe edition, illustrated. Djs tattered, books faint yellowing, else very fine.
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A Note on Literary Criticism
Farrell, James T. New York: Vanguard Press, 1936. Hardcover
Price: US$125 + shipping and handling.
First edition, very rare, no dj. Inscribed by author to Dr. Ginzburg. Spine discolored, else fine.
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Official Military Atlas of the Civil War
various. New York: Fairfax Press, 1983. Hardcover.
Price: US$20 + shipping and handling
2nd printing, reprint of 1891-5 edition. Oversized elephant folio. Red boards with gold letters; red dj with white letters and 2 beige rectangular illustrations. Both in excellent condition.
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The Old Country
London: J. M. Dent, 1917. Hardcover
Price: US$20 + shipping and handling
First edition. Subtitle: “A Book of Love and Praise of England.” Olive green boards with gold. Edgeworn.
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A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art
Cairns, Huntington & John Walker, eds. New York: Macmillan, 1966. Hardcover
Price: US$20 + shipping and handling
First printing, 2 volumes, oversized. Blue djs with gold letters and white letters; edgeworn. Black boards with gold eagle, gray endpapers; mint. 255 color plates.
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A Personal History of Ulysses S. Grant
Richardson, Albert D. Hartford, CT: American Publishing Company, 1868. Hardcover
Price: US$15 + shipping and handling.
First edition, oversized.Full brown calf leather boards,, spine black band with gold letters, dark brown endpapers. Spine in poor condition, boards edgeworn, endpapers rubbed, frontispiece has water stain, front board a bit loose. Interior clean, tight, unmarked. Small paper edge-pasted to front endpaper. 26 engravings, 8 facsimiles of letters, 6 maps.
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Poems of Ossian
Ossian. London: Cadell & Davies, 1807, 2 vols. Hardcover.
Price: US$20 + shipping and handling
Translated by James MacPherson. Half leather, marbled, one board detached. Poor condition.
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Princess Helene von Racowitza: An Autobiography
Racowitza, Helene von. New York: Macmillan, 1910. Hardcover
Price: US$20 + shipping and handling.
First edition, tr. Cecil Mar. Photo. Greyish blue boards with gold and black. Spine faded, edgewear, owner’s name on endpaper; else excellent.
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Proceedings of the Newport Natural History Society
1884-5. Document 3. Printed by Davis & Pitman, 9 May 1885. Softcover.
Price: US$20 + shipping and handling.
In plastic sleeve with large loose piece of front cover. Yellowed but clean. Maps, uncut pages, 100 pp., ex-lib.
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Proclamations of His Excellency Wilbur L. Cross, Governor of the State of Connecticut
Cross, Wilbur L. Hartford: Prospect Press, 1937. Hardcover.
Price: US$20 + shipping and handling.
Signed first edition. Red boards with gold, illustrated. Mint condition.
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Professional Painted Finishes
Marx, Ina Brousseau, Allen Marx, Robert Marx. New York: Watson-Guptill, 1991. Hardcover
Price: US$20 + shipping and handling
1st ed, 3rd printing. “A Guide to the Art and Business of Decorative Painting” issued by the Whitney Library of Design. Book and dj mint, appear unused. B/w and over 500 color illustrations. Maroon boards, brown dj. Oversized.
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The Psychology of Art
Malraux, Andre. New York, Pantheon, 1950, 3 vols. Hardcover
Price: UIS$30 + shipping and handling.
Museum without Walls, The Creative Act, Twilight of the Absolute. Bollingen Series XXIV, first edition. Slipcase worn at corners, vol 1 has small faded spot on spine, else near mint. Grey boards with gold letters and small design. Many b/w and color photos.
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The Purgatorio of Dante Alighieri
Alighieri, Dante. London: J. M Dent, 1946. Hardcover
Price: US$15 + shipping and handling
Illustrated volume in very fine condition. No dj. Appears unused.
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The Puppet Crown
MacGrath, Harold. Bowen Merrill Co., 1901. Hardcover
Price: US$50 + shipping and handling
Book in good condition, no dj. Slight bumping on corners, some yellowing on pages.
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Raphael
Lamartine, Alphone de. Philadelphia: Rittenhouse Press, 1900. Hardcover
Price: US$45 + shipping and handling.
Green boards with gold lettering, spine slightly faded. Pages have faint water stains, else very good.
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Rembrandt Paintings
Gerson, Horst. Trans. Heinz Norden. New York: Reynal & Co., 1968. Hardcover
Price: US$15 + shipping and handling.
First English edition. Oversized. Lavishly illustrated in color and b/w. Dj edges frayed, book very fine, appears unopened.
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Respect: A Century of Women in Music
Red suede boxed set of 4 of 5 CDs (lacking #5) with explanatory book.
Price: US$50 +shipping and handling.
Good. Box spine unglued. Softcover book water-damaged. Various artists, with information about the project.
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Rendezvous with Nature: A Collection of Photographs
Ikeda, Daisaku. Tokyo: Soka Gakkai, 1991. Hardcover
Price: US$50 + shipping and handling.
First edition, special edition, originally not for sale. Oversized. Gray slipcase with gold lettering. Beige boards, gold lettering on spine, gray endpapers. Inscribed in Japanese by author with his seal. Gorgeous color photos (global) with captions in Japanese and English. Mint.
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La Revolution dans l’arboretum
Sterne, Hedda. New York: Phillip Briet Editions, 1995. Hardcover.
Price: US$125 + shipping and handling
Drawings by Hedda Sterne in b/w and color plus 4 poems in French by Michel Butor. Two white slipcases. Drawings are mint
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Ruth Harriet Louise and Hollywood Glamour Photography
Dance, Robert & Bruce Robertson. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. Hardcover
Price: US$20 + shipping and handling
First printing, oversized, mint. Black boards, silver letters on spine, charcoal endpapers. Dj b/w photo and yellow letters. Photographs in b/w, sepia, and color. Scarce
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Sacred Families
Donoso, Jose. Andree Conrad, tr. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. Hardcover
Price: US$35 + shipping and handling.
First US ed. Three novellas: Chattanooga Choo Choo/Green Atom Number Five/Gaspard de la Nuit. Book and dj mint.
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The Second Reader of the School and Family
Willson, Marcius. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1864. Hardcover
Price: US$30 + shipping and handling.
First edition, numerous en gravings. Splotch on cover, worn edges. Age signs throughout but tight and readable.
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The Second World War
Churchill, Winston S. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1948-53. Hardcover
Price: US$15 + shipping and handling
Six heavy volumes, complete. Djs (various colors) mint. Books as new. Red boards with black block around gold signature.
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Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct)
Wells, H. G. London: Jon La ne/New York: The Merrimam Co.m 1895. Hardcover
Price: US$100 + shipping and handling
Pale green cloth, gold stamped on spine. “The Mayfair Set” on front cover, red, gold and darker green on front cover. First US edition of his first book
including fiction. Ex-lib, endpapers poor, else good aside from a few loose pages.
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Shakespeare: Julius Caesar & The Merchant of Venice
Shakespeare, William. New York: Finch Pruyn, 1908, 2 vols. Hardcover
Price: US$15 + shipping and handling.
Illustrated, each slipcased. Cases and books very fine+.
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Sonnets of this Century
Sharp, William, ed. London: Walter Scott, 1886. Hardcover
Price: US$20 + shipping and handling
First edition, over-sized. Some spine and corner wear, paper spine label is missing bits. Slight edge browning, else very good.
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Spectacular Alaska
Levy, Dana and Letitia Burns O’Connor, eds. Los Angeles: Beaux Arts Edition, Perpetua Press, 1998. Hardcover.
Price: US$30 + shipping and handling.
First edition, elephant folio, near mint. 1″ tear on dj, crease on endpaper, else gorgeous. Front board and dj have blue and white mountain photo, white and blue letters; endpaper map of Alaska. Essays by Charles Wohlforth. Mostly color and b/w photos. Many fold-out pages.
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The Stones of Venice: vol I-The Foundations; vol II-The Sea Stories
Ruskin, John. New York: John Wiley, 1885. Hardcover.
Price: US$100 for complete set of 3 books in 2 vols + shipping and handling
Popular ed., complete 2 vol set. Good/no dj. Vol I: clean and tight pages, slightly yellowed. Vol IIL wear on spine and hinges. Clean and tight pages, slightly yellowed. Both ex-lib.
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The Story of Civilization
Durant, Will. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1957. Hardcover
Price: US$30 +shipping and handling
First edition, 9 vols of 10, vol 2 lacking. Has djs. Excellent condition.
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Strange True Stories of Louisiana
Cable, George W. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1903. Hardcover
Price: US$35 + shipping and handling.
Green cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. Illustrated. Slightly worn corners and spine en ds, slight yellowing. Else very good, clean and tight.
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Sweet Voices of Lahaina: Life Story of Maui’s Fabulous Gardens
Richards, Mary C. Alea, Hawaii: Island Heritage Publishing, 1990. Hardcover
Price: US$45 + shipping and handling.
Excellent condition. Slight tear on right corner of very fine dj. Inscribed in Hawaiian.
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Tannhaeuser: A Dramatic Poem
Wagner, Richard. Tr. E. W. Rolleston. New York: William Godwin, n.d. Hadcover
Price: US$35 + shipping and handling.
8 color plates, approximately 100 b/w illustrations. First edition. No dj. Some wear to spine and boards, endpapers slightly yellowed. Else fine+.
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Testaments of Israel: Words of Yesterday, Images of Today
Wagner, John. London: Photo Publishing, 2001. Hardcover.
Price: US$30 + shipping and handling
Oversized, mint. Includes CD. Black slipcase with silver title and small photo; charcoal boards with black half leather, silver letters; black endpapers. Biblical texts in English and Hebrew, lovely full page photos.
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Translations from the Chinese
Waley, Arthur. New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1941 ed. Hardcover
Price: US$30 + shipping and handling.
Color and b/w illustrations by Cyrus LeRoy Baldridge. Oversized. Slipcase worn at edges, boards slightly soiled, interior very fine.
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The Valjean Edition of Victor Hugo’s Novels
Hugo, Victor. New York: P. F. Collier & Sons, 1862, 9 vols. Hardcover
Price: US$80 + shipping and handling.
Complete set. 3/4 brown leather over marbled boards, spines coffee colored brown leather, gilt spine lettering and page edges. Illustrated frontispieces. Some wear but insides clean.
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Virginia Beautiful
Nutting, Wallace. Framingham, MA: OLD America Co, 1930. Hardcover.
Price: US$30 + shipping and handling
First edition. Tattered dj (very scarce) with photo of University of Virginia. Green boards with gold letters, near mint. Gift inscription on endpaper. States Beautiful series. 330 illustrations by author (photos and drawings)
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Waddesdon Manor
Hall, Michael. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2002. Hardover
Price: US$20 + shipping and handling
First printing, oversized. Green boards with gold on spine, bright yellow endpapers, dj photo. Dj has small corner tear, book mint. 300 illustrations, 168 in color by John Bigelow Taylor. Foreword by Lord Rothschild.
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The Wolf Cub
Soulie, Maurice. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1927. Hardcover
Price: US$20 + shipping and handling
1st ed. Subtitle: “The Great Adventure of Count Gaston de Raousset Boulbon in California and Sonora, 1850-1854.” Tr, Farrell Symons. Worn boards with apricot-black-gold desig n, initials on endpaper. Interior excellent.
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Woodland Portraits
Klute, Jeannette. Boston: Little, Brown, 1954. Hardcover
Price: US$20 + shipping and handling.
First edition, oversized (elephant folio), no dj. Mint condition. Brown tweed cloth boards with faint gold letters. 50 gorgeous nature photos.
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Works of Charles Dickens
Dickens, Charles. New York: Heritage Press, 1937. Hardcover
Price: US$60 + shipping and handling
13 volumes, 12 in red slipcases. Beige boards with red, gold oval on spine. Books are mint. Includes Pickwick Papers (no case), David Copperfield, Edwin Drood, Little Dorrit, Barnaby Rudge, Great Expectations, Bleak House (worn case), Dombey & Son, A Tale of two Cities, Five Christmas Novels, Hard Times, Oliver Twist, Our Mutual Friend.
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The Works of Francois Rabelais
Rabelais, Francois. New York and London: Boni & Liveright/John Lane, 1927. Hardcover
Price: US$20 + shipping and handling
Trans. Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Motteux, illustrated by Frank C, Pape. #2137 of a limited edition of 4300. Complete works in 2 vols. Black boards with gold edge design and letters, gold on spines. Spine of vol 2 faded, else mint.
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The Works of Sir Walter Scott
Scott, Sir Walter. London: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1901-4. Hardcover.
Price: US$30 + shipping and handling.
16 vols of 25. New Century Library, 1st ed thus. Dark blue leather with gilt lettering and design on spines, gilt edges. Spines faded, edges of boards worn. Backs of illustrations browned. Else very good. Includes: Quentin Durward, The Fortunes of Nigel, Waverley, The Antiquary, Redgauntlet, Woodstock, The Pirate, The Talisman (etc), The Abbot, Peveril of the Peak, Castle Dangerous (& The Surgeon’s Daughter), Ivanhoe, The Heart of Midlothian, St Ronan’s Well, The Betrothed (etc).
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Yale Shakespeare: The Complete Works
Cross, Wilbur J. & Tucker Brooks, eds. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1993. Hardcover
Price: US$20 + shipping and handling
First printing, oversize. Excellent condition. Ivory boards with gold letters, slight bumping; ivory dj with blue letters. 38 volumes in one, 1517 pp.
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Youth: A Narrative and Two Other Stories
Conrad, Joseph. Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1902. Hardcover
Price: US$350 + shipping and handling
First edition. Includes “Heart of Darkness” and “The End of the Tether.” Book condition good, no dj. Chipping on spine & corners. Some foxing. Tight copy.
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