Paris: L. Maison, 1854. 8vo. lii + 651 pages. Two maps [one folding]. Original printed wrappers, untrimmed and partly unopened. FIRST EDITION, in original condition. "At the time, the most extensive and important work on this subject issued in the French language" (Cowan 1933, page 549). Hill 1513; Howes S20 ("aa"); Palau 285061; Sabin 74989.
London: B. Crosby & Co., 1811. 12mo (178 x 110 mm). vi, 56 pages. Engraved frontispiece and 47 engraved plates. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards. Provenance: Robert Frederick Green (bookplate); Donald Wandrei, author and co-founder of Arkham House Publishers (bookplate). A finely-printed English-language edition of Holbein's Dance of Death engravings...
Munich: Masken Verlag, 1922. Oblong (254 x 325 mm; 10 x 12.75 inches). 378 pages. The musical score decorated with lithographs by Hermann Ebers. Original vellum over pasteboard, richly gilt panelled covers, spines gilt to match, top edges gilt. DELUXE LIMITED EDITION, number XXI of 50 copies on handmade paper...
Basel: Felix Schneider, 1875. Small 4to (131 x 110 mm). Text in French, English, and German. 43 wood-engravings in text. Original pictorial boards. Provenance: Carl Albert Loosli (1877-1959), Swiss writer and journalist (bookplates). One in a long tradition of tri-lingual Dances of Death, based on the famous Basel Church wall...
Basel: C. F. Beck, ca 1852. 8vo (245 x 177 mm). Text in German, English and French. 88 pages. 41 cuts after Merian in text. 19th-century black half morocco, marbled boards. Reproducing Mattiaus Merian's Dance of Death series, created and first printed 1649, after the wall paintings in the famous church in Basel.
Oxford University Press, 1945. fourth printing. originally published in 1940.
Raintree, Steck-Vaughn, Remarkable Women: Past and Present, 2000. 80 pp. sm4to.
Gnome Press, 1950. First. 224 pp.
Arbor House, 1987. First. 230 pp. fine with d.j. a review copy with the slip and flyer laid in.
Rutland, VT and Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1962. Large folio (592 x 422 mm). With Ten Original Prints by Hiratsuka Un'Ichi, Maekawa Sempan, Mori Yoshitoshi, Watanabe Sadao, Kinoshita Tomio, Shima Tamami, Azechi Umetaro, Iwami Reika, Yoshida Masaji, Maki Haku, each signed by the artist. [1]-55, [1, colophon] pages. Original...
London: Edward Moxon, 1855. 12mo. Half-title, leaf of advertisements at end. 154 pages. Original green, blind-blocked cloth; quarter morocco slipcase with chemise. Provenance: Charles Kingsley (1819-1875), priest, professor, social reformer, historian, novelist, and close friend of Charles Darwin (his signature on half-title, with note on pastedown stating that the book...
New York: Macmillan, 1934. 8vo. 148 pages. Original blue cloth; printed dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, scarce with the jacket.
New York: W. W. Norton, 1985. 4to. 176 pages. Color photographs. Red cloth; original red cloth slipcase. FIRST EDITION, first printing, with bookplate"Bought at the Ocean Bookshop aboard the Queen Elizabeth 2." PRESENTATION copy, inscribed in 1992 on the QE2 on the verso of the front free endpaper by William Flayhart.
N.P. International Business Machines Corporation, 1954. 4to. 183 pages. Black-and-white frontispiece. Flexible cloth simulating leather. FIRST EDITION of this series of writings from IBM's chairman and chief executive.
Dobbs Ferry, NY: The Masters School, 1930. 8vo. 127, [2] pages. Frontispiece and numerous illustrations in text; 38 black-and-white portraits of the senior class at end. Original printed boards. One of 425 copies, finely printed by the Mosher Press of Portland, Maine in May, 1930. The texts include poems and...
Norfolk, VA: Manned Spacecraft Recovery Force, Atlantic, [1970]. 4to (8.5 x 11 inches). [56] pages. Map of lunar mission recovery lines, chart of launch abort area and force deployment, diagram of primary landing area and force deployment. Stapled as issued in pale blue printed wrappers. A scarce survival: the recovery...
Boston: John P. Jewett & Company, 1852. Two volumes, 8vo. Title-page vignettes, 6 plates. Brown morocco by Riviere, gilt ruled on sides, spines ruled and lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, original cloth covers and spines bound in at end of each volume; chemises and quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance: bearing...
Harper and Row, I Can Read, 1981. First. [64] pp.
Harper and Row, 1959. First. fine with slightly worn d.j. that has one closed tear.
Tokyo. in Japanese.
Crowell, 1983. First as such. [originally published with illustations by Stevie Selig]. an uncorrected proof laid in a copy of the final book.
Rand McNally, 1914. 168 pp.
Harper and Row, 1972. First. [63] pp. fine with d.j.
Harper and Row, 1985. First. fine with slightly worn and browned d.j.
Hammersmith, London: Kelmscott Press, [1897]. A single proof sheet printed on watermarked onion skin paper with the repeating labels: "The / Sundering / Flood/ By / William / Morris." Together with a single sheet cover page for "The Sundering Flood," printed in black type on original gray laid paper used...
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