Secure Checkout

Website Secured with 256-bit TLS Encryption

Cart Totals

Promo Code:	– $0.00
Subtotal:	$1,320.00
Shipping:	$47.00
	$0.00
Donation Amount:	$0.00
Total:	$1,367.00
Change Currency:

Contact

Email Address

Re-type Email Address

Shipping

Expedited shipping $90.00 2 - 6 days

Standard Shipping $47.00 2 - 14 days

All fields are required unless marked optional.

Add Shipping Note

Payment

Verified and Secured. Guaranteed.

Website Secured with 256-bit TLS Encryption

Please select your payment method from the following list:

PayPal
Credit or Debit Card
Express Wallet

Click the button to checkout with PayPal.

You will be charged $1,367.00 when completing this purchase.

Cart Totals

Subtotal:	$1,320.00
Shipping:	$47.00
:	$0.00
Donation Amount:	$0.00
Total:	$1,367.00
Change Currency:

You are about to purchase:

Lessons of Thrift, Published for General Benefit By a Member of the Save-all Club by [Crawford, John William Roy]; [Cruikshank, Isaac Robert (Illustrator)]

5 to 14 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: $6.00

Details

$715.00

( US$)

Seller: Swan's Fine Books

Title: Lessons of Thrift, Published for General Benefit By a Member of the Save-all Club
Author: [Crawford, John William Roy]; [Cruikshank, Isaac Robert (Illustrator)]
Seller: Swan's Fine Books (United States)
Condition: Near fine
Description: London: Printed for Thomas Boys of Ludgate Hill [printed by Thomas Davison, Whitefriars], 1820. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Cruikshank, Isaac Robert. Quarto size, 212 pp. (not matching pagination, see below), with 12 aquatints by Isaac Robert Cruikshank. A humorous collection of sketches exalting through parody the merits of the thrifty. The writing, although very much a parody, contains many nuggets of truths which illuminate how little the world has changed in the about 200 years since the book's publication: "Money, money alone, though it has been unaccountably neglected by authors, strangers perhaps to its very name, and still more to its practical use and management. . .is the mainspring of all human action, want, wish, and desire." The author goes on to state that it is the desire of "the Save-all Club" to keep "the Kind and Benevolent Reader" out of the grip of poverty through thrift. The "Rules of the Club" provide amusing proof of such virtue: Rule VI, "The smallest superfluous expense is not only a reproach to a member, but he may be fined by the Committee, for the use of the poor"; and Rule IV, "As a new coat never fails to attract animadversion in the Club, the members are requested to avoid that singularity as much as possible. If it prove that the coat is only turned, the owner shall dine that day GRATIS". Isaac Robert Cruikshank (1759-1856) was a popular English caricature artist and cartoonist, and like his brother George, is known for his pioneer work in the history of comics and comic strip cartoons. He collaborated often with George, who is better known for his work with Charles Dickens. This edition was originally issued in boards, and had pp. 39-42, 87-110 and 163-178 omitted, as is the case in this edition (and all known editions) and which is explained in a footnote appearing on p. xvi: "The reader will perceive an hiatus after p. 38, another after p. 86, and a third after p. 162. Some digressions occurred in those places on subjects too abstruse to be generally interesting; they have therefore been withdrawn; but in consequence of a temporary absence of the author, the suppression took place after the work was printed. As the connexion of its parts is not disturbed, it is hoped that the liberty thus taken will be tolerated with indulgence." Additionally, this copy has plate no. 11 bound as the frontis instead of being bound at p. 186. Each plate is marked, "Designed and Etched by I. [which appears as a "J" at this date, in keeping with the Latin tradition] R. Cruikshank," and bears the imprint, "Published by Thomas Boys Ludgate Hill, London Dec. 1 1819." ___DESCRIPTION: Custom bound by Bennett Book Studio, NY (with their binder's stamp on the verso of the front free endpaper), in quarter blue morocco and marbled paper covered boards, backstrip stamped in gilt, top-edge gilt, fore- and tail-edges uncut, engraved title page with the coloured vignette of a three-pronged candlestick (which is thrifty as one can burn a candle down to the base), twelve aquatint plates including frontis; quarto size (10 1/8" by 6 5/8"), pagination: [i] ii-xvi [1] 2-38, 43-86, 111-162, 179-240 pp., first edition. ___CONDITION: A near fine copy, the marbled paper boards clean and unrubbed with only a few, light stray marks, the leather shelfback smooth with a few light spots of rubbing and the gilt bright, straight corners, a strong, square text block with solid hinges, the interior is clean, and the volume is entirely free of prior owner markings; some sunning to the spine, light rubbing to the corners, some of the plates have toned with corresponding offsetting to the opposite text pages, one leaf (pp. 221-222) with the fore-edge bottom corner torn (loss of about an inch, only in the ample margins, with no loss of text); still overall a near fine copy. ___CITATION: Tooley, no 165, this copy without the final advertisement leaf, which "is however usually wanting". ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.

Corporeal Orgasm* and Personality Development in the Human Male (a spoof in the manner of Freud) by [WOMEN] WALSTEDT, Joyce Jennings

4 to 14 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: $6.50

Details

$125.00

( US$)

Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books

Title: Corporeal Orgasm* and Personality Development in the Human Male (a spoof in the manner of Freud)
Author: [WOMEN] WALSTEDT, Joyce Jennings
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: [Pittsburgh: Know, Inc, 1970]. First Edition. Quarto (27.25cm.); two typescript leaves staplebound at top left-hand corner; printed on pale blue stock. About Fine. The asterix from the title refers to "Total body orgasms of trunk, limb and head." Feminist psychotherapist's first separately published piece. OCLC notes a single holding at U.Virginia (Nov.2018).

The Men's Club [Inscribed] by MICHAELS, Leonard

4 to 14 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: $1.50

Details

$95.00

( US$)

Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books

Title: The Men's Club [Inscribed]
Author: MICHAELS, Leonard
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1981. First American Edition. Octavo (21.5cm); navy blue cloth spine over orange paper-covered boards, with titling stamped in gilt on spine and in navy blue on front cover; dustjacket; [viii],[2],3-181,[3]pp. Inscribed by author on front endpaper: "For Angela, with best wishes Leonard Michaels / Mississippi '84". Designed by Cynthia Krupat. Remainder mark to lower edge of textblock. Modest foxing to upper edge of textblock, with occasional marginal soil; Very Good. Dustwrapper, designed by Fred Marcellino, unclipped (priced $10.95), lightly tanned, with trivial surface wear, two 0.5" tears to upper rear panel, and creases to rear flap; Very Good. The author's first novel creates comedy around male rituals. Its later film adaptation (1986) was directed by Peter Medak, and starred Roy Scheider, Harvey Keitel, and Frank Langella. [86121].

Homes or Hovels: the Housing Problem and Its Solution by WOODCOCK, George

4 to 14 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: $1.50

Details

$25.00

( US$)

Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books

Title: Homes or Hovels: the Housing Problem and Its Solution
Author: WOODCOCK, George
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: London: Freedom Press, 1944. First Edition. 12mo (18.5cm). Staple-bound pamphlet; bright pink card wrappers printed in blue; 32pp; illus. Fine, apparently unread copy. Analysis of WW2-era housing conditions by the Canadian anarchist.

Abridgement of the Nautical Almanac, and Tide Tables, 1875, with a List of United States Lighthouses, Coast Survey Sailing Directions, &c by [BLISS, John.]

2 to 8 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: $10.00

Details

$150.00

( EU VAT US$0)

Seller: Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA

Title: Abridgement of the Nautical Almanac, and Tide Tables, 1875, with a List of United States Lighthouses, Coast Survey Sailing Directions, &c
Author: [BLISS, John.]
Seller: Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Condition: Good +
Description: New York: John Bliss & Co., 110 Wall St., near South, 1874. Sewn binding. Good +. 8vo; 7pp + [48pp + 13pp almanac + 32pp Sailing Directions for Harbors on the U.S. Coast + 15pp ads]; yellow printed wrappers; sewn binding; lacking 14pp of almanac with ads on verso for January through July, August through December chronometer readings recorded in neat ink; light soiling to wrapper, creases to corners, lacking 14pp; good plus. None held in WorldCat libraries for this year. Contents include interesting advertisements for nautical books and instruments, almanac to be filled in with chronometer measurements as well as Latitude and Longitude, Phases of the Moon, List of Light Houses of the United States (for the East and Gulf coasts), Notices of New Foreign Lights, Rules of the Road or Laws of Passing Vessels, Sailing Directions, and more.

The Yankee enterprise, or the two millionaires; and other thrilling tales

3 to 6 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: $12.00

Details

$115.00

( EU VAT US$0)

Seller: Rulon-Miller Books

Title: The Yankee enterprise, or the two millionaires; and other thrilling tales
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (United States)
Description: Boston: Wentworth & Co, 1855. 8vo, pp. iv, [3], 26-334; steel-engraved frontispiece, wood-engraved illustrations in the text; original brown blindstamped cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gray; frontispiece foxed in the margins, spine ends chipped level with text block, corners worn; good and sound. A series of "articles treating on the beauties of nature, as seen on the tempest-tossed ocean, or sublimely viewed from the cloud-capped mountain." Included are: The Two Millionaires, by Sarah Fry; "I owe you nothing, Sir"; Notes of a Journey Across the Isthmus of Panama; The Two Passports; Australia and Van Diemen's Land; The Fairy Cup, by Alfred Crowquill; The White Swallow: an Indian Tale; Fowling in Faroe and Shetland; A Fuqueer's Curse; The deserts of Africa; Life in an Indiaman; The Dealer in Wisdom; and, The Key of the Street. The book was also published as The Mirror of the World, by Moulton Hampton [pseud.?]; and, Rovings on Land and Sea, by Henry E. Davenport.

Femme de Mouche by Araki, Nobuyoshi

3 to 14 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: $4.50

Details

$75.00

( EU VAT US$0)

Seller: Underground Books, ABAA

Title: Femme de Mouche
Author: Araki, Nobuyoshi
Seller: Underground Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9784943810933
Condition: Very good
Description: Tokyo: Mizuki, 1994. Hardcover. Very good/good. Hardcover. 11 7/8" X 9 1/4". Two pages of text in Japanese, else all pages photographic. Pictorial dust jacket with obi, enclosed in protective sleeve and taped, over paper boards. Tears to protective sleeve at extremities, with small tears to dust jacket at head of spine and top corners. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. An appealing example, in full color and in black-and-white, of the erotic photogaphy of Nobuyoshi Araki (b. 1940).

Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different

Chinese Whispers: Poems by Ashbery, John

7 to 14 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: $5.00

Details

$20.00

( EU VAT US$0)

Seller: Ed's Editions Bookstore

Title: Chinese Whispers: Poems
Author: Ashbery, John
Seller: Ed's Editions Bookstore (United States)
ISBN: 9780374122577
Condition: Very Good
Description: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002-10-22. First Edition. hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x0x9. First Edition, First Printing. Dust jacket and book are clean, dust jacket price not clipped. Has a good binding, no marks or notations. 100 pages.

Secure Checkout