Allahabad: Printed at the Allahabad Mission Press, 1871. vi,172pp. Large octavo. Blue cloth, stamped in gilt. Title printed in red, green and black. Text in double columns. Illustrations. Crown of spine has shallow loss, uniform toning to textblock, a few hand smudges, but a good copy. First edition. A translation.....
[London: The Author/Artist, ca. 1997]. [1],10,[1]pp. Octavo (21 x 14.5 cm). Loose sheets, printed on rectos only. Enclosed in plastic zip-top bag. Fine. First edition. Here the prominent designer and educator undertakes an unconventional analysis of objects, features and events in a London neighborhood, ranging from "Phone Box Calling Cards,".....
Boston: Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1851. vi,260pp. Small octavo. Brown cloth, decorated in blind, spine elaborately decorated in gilt. Ink name, lower fore-tip of upper board skinned, still a good, bright, tight copy. The 28th thousand, revised and enlarged, with a "Preface to the Twenty-Sixth Edition." The first edition appeared.....
York: Printed by A. Ward, for C. Etherington ... Newcastle upon Tyne: reprinted by Order of the Proprietor, 1759. [2],42pp. Octavo. 19th century three quarter morocco and marbled boards, partially untrimmed. Bookplate, extremities rubbed, scattered foxing and old vertical crease (prior to binding); a good copy. Denoted the "Third Edition,".....
Cambridge: Types Ac Sumptibus Academicis, 1816. 112pp. Disbound. Very good. First edition. A relatively early consideration of the attempt at interpretation of Egyptian hieroglyphics via the Rosetta stone by the Cambridge linguist.
New York: Wiley & Putnam, 1842. [4],xi,[1],323,[1];[4],[5]- 135,[1],*55,[1],[4]pp. Two volumes bound in one. Octavo. Publisher's plum cloth, decorated in blind. Foxing throughout, binding sunned at extremities, small spot and narrow 4 cm drip mark from crown of spine, crown and toe of spine a bit frayed; otherwise, a good, sound.....
Albany: Joel Munsell, 1869. 139,[1]pp. Small octavo. Three-quarter crimson crushed morocco and marbled boards, t.e.g. Trace of wear at crown and toe of spine, front free endsheet bears several tipped-on clippings and is neatly detached at the gutter, otherwise a fine copy. The uncommon first edition of this well-known monograph.....
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, [ 1969]. Cloth. First edition, clothbound issue. With an initialed author's compliments card taped to the free endsheet. A bit bowed, else near fine in a dust jacket with flaring to top edge.
London: A. C. Fifield, [1908]. xv,[1],275,[1]pp. Large octavo. Plum cloth, stamped in gilt. Portrait, maps and plates. Bookplate on pastedown, trace of foxing to endleaves, spillmark on top edge at spine, affecting the top inner edges of the plates and adjacent leaves, extremities a bit sunned; still, a good, sound.....
Garches, France: Editions Arnaud Seydoux, [1985]. Two volumes. [6],70,[6]pp. plus fifty plates; 73,[1] pp. plus folding plate. Small quarto. Stiff printed wrappers. A few stray marks to wrappers, otherwise about fine. First edition. The tinted plates reproduce the cards with great fidelity.
Princeton: Bollingen Series LVI / Princeton University Press, [1970]. Stiff pictorial wrapper. A very good copy. First wrapperbound printing of the corrected second edition. With the February 1971 ownership inscription of poet / translator Cid Corman.
London: Printed for R. Basset ... 1702. [24],458,[6]pp. Octavo. Old paneled calf, rebacked at an early date to style. Extremities worn and joints a trifle weak, occasional scattered foxing, and mild discolorations, lower blank corner of C3 torn away, and shallow marginal losses to b2, still a good, sound copy.....
New York: A.S. Barnes & Co., [1898]. Red cloth, elaborately decorated in black, t.e.g. Frontis and decorations by George Wharton Edwards. Light rubbing to edges, inner hinges cracking, otherwise very good. First edition of this exploration of the bird deity motif in a number of cultures. Signed by the author.....
[Berkeley & London: Weiss & deHartington, Booksellers, 2006]. 56pp. Octavo Printed wrappers. Fine, printed slip laid in. First edition. One of 100 copies printed. A descriptive and substantially annotated catalogue of 77 titles from the 18th through the 20th century condemning the solitary vice. Bibliography. Preface by deHartington. The collection.....
Paris: Chez Ant. Aug. Renouard, 1809. viii,143,[1],128,104;107,[1],116,148pp. Six parts bound in two volumes. Octavo. Full crimson crushed levant, spines gilt extra, a.e.g., by Cuzin. Joints rubbed, with faint old ink drip marks on lower board of one volume, light occasional foxing, otherwise a very good set. First illustrated Renouard edition.....
Shanghai: T'Usewei Printing Press, 1914 - 1926. Two parts in eight volumes (of thirteen published through 1938 ?). Open-sewn cloth backed printed boards. Heavily illustrated with hundreds of plates and facsimiles printed via chromolithography. Extremities of boards worn, a few corners bruised, spine labels largely chipped away, volume 5 shaken.....
Paris: Les Éditions G. Crès & Cie. [nd. but ca. 1924]. Printed wrappers. Wrappers lightly foxed, with old price increase stamped on spine, text block uniformly tanned at edges, otherwise very good, unopened. First edition in French, trade issue, after 25 copies on fine paper. Adapted from the German text.....
Staten Island: Pober Publishing, 1998. Two volumes in one. Large, thick octavo. Cloth. Fine, without dust jacket, as issued. A new edition (though in large part printed offset from the earlier editions). Limited to 250 copies. Preface by William Eamon, index revision & bibliographical additions by Stephen E. Prober...
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[La Crescent, CA?]. [ca 1945]. [8] leaves, printed on rectos only. Small octavo (18 x 13cm). Stiff printed wrapper. Lower wrapper tanned at edges, very good or better. First edition of this account of the Ananda Ashrama, founded in Southern California in 1923 by Swami Paramananda as an extension of.....
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Amsterdam, et se trouve à Paris, Rue et Hotel Serpente, 1787- 89 [and:] Paris: Chez Cuchet, 1789. Thirty-nine volumes. Octavo. Uniformly bound in contemporary black calf, spines heavily gilt, contrasting red and orange gilt lettering pieces, with gilt crests and bookplates of Cumming Gordon of Alytr. Seventy-six engraved plates plus.....
[Ilfracombe, Devonshire: Privately Published by Arthur Stockwell, 1964]. 315pp., printed in double columns. Large octavo. Gilt lettered cloth. Fine in very good, slightly nicked dust jacket with significant fading at the edges of the front panel. First (and presumably only) edition of this staggering effort, composed by and published for.....
Paris: La Tour d'Ivoire, 1927. Small quarto. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Plates. Light shelf war at edges, with short snag at the toe of the spine, slight dustiness along the lower edge of the rear wrapper, otherwise very good or better. First edition. Illustrated with 16 wood- engravings by Alexandre Alexeieff.....
New York: Macmillan, 1931. Large octavo. Cloth. First U.S. edition of this translation from the Italian, with notes, by Edward Noble Stone. Bookplate and light foxing to endleaves, slight tanning to spine through jacket, but a very good copy in good highly pictorial dust jacket with mended tear at toe.....
London: Methuen & Co., 1947. Pale green cloth. Pictorial title page. Spine sunned and binding a bit handsoiled; a good copy without dust jacket. First edition of this contribution to the author's cycle of novels drawing on her claims of reincarnation. Inscribed and signed by her to US bookseller Ben.....
Hamburg: Johannes Asmus Verlag, 1924. Sq. octavo. Open-sewn color lithographed pictorial wrapper over limp boards. Color lithographed title-page vignette, and thirty- two (mostly) color lithographed illustrations by Georg Alexander Mathéy. Boards tanned at extremities and a bit chipped at fore-tips, else very nice. First edition of this popular collection of.....
