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Works of Washington Irving by IRVING Washington

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Title
Works of Washington Irving
Author
IRVING Washington
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Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description
1868. IRVING, Washington. Works of Washington Irving. WITH: Life of George Washington. London: George Bell & Sons; Bell & Daldy, 1868-1877. 14 volumes. Octavo, contemporary full tan calf, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, raised bands, red and green morocco labels, marbled endpapers and edges. $2400.Finely bound 19th-century set of Irving's works, most volumes with an engraved frontispiece.""Before Emerson and Lowell, [Irving] married American literature to the literature of the world. He has every right to retain the title enthusiastically bestowed upon him, 'Father of American Literature'"" (Kunitz & Haycraft, 407). This handsome set contains Irving's classic histories, biographies, tales and accounts of travel, including Knickerbocker's History of New York, Sketch Book, Astoria and the monumental Life of Washington—as well as ""The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."" Three volumes without an engraved frontispiece. Volume I with small chip to front board. An attractive set in extremely good condition.
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Notice des Livres provenans du Cabinet de M. ***, Dont la Vente se fera à l'amiable le Lundi 29 Novembre 1779, & jours suivans by (AUCTION CATALOGUE: M.***)

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Title
Notice des Livres provenans du Cabinet de M. ***, Dont la Vente se fera à l'amiable le Lundi 29 Novembre 1779, & jours suivans
Author
(AUCTION CATALOGUE: M.***)
Seller
Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description
1 p.l., 40 pp., one leaf. 8vo, stitched as issued, uncut. Paris: Saugrain & Lamy, 1779. Very rare sale catalogue, printed in double columns which is rather unusual. Most of the books are 17th and 18th century. 1379 lots. Fine copy. Grolier Club, Printed Catalogues of French Book Auctions...1643-1830, 280.
Beiping miao yu tong jian 北平廟宇通檢 [Comprehensive Inventory of Temples in Beiping]

Beiping miao yu tong jian 北平廟宇通檢 [Comprehensive Inventory of Temples in Beiping] by XU, Daoling 許道齡

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Title
Beiping miao yu tong jian 北平廟宇通檢 [Comprehensive Inventory of Temples in Beiping]
Author
XU, Daoling 許道齡
Seller
Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
ISBN
9781857191820
Description
Two vols. 8vo, orig. printed wrappers, orig. stitching. Beijing: Guo li Beiping yan jiu yuan 國立北平研究院, 1936. First edition of this work on Beijing’s temples. In 1930, the Historiographical Research Group of the National Research Academy of Beiping, as Beijing was then called, decided that “in preparation for producing a gazetteer for Beijing, the Buddhist temples, altars, Confucian temples, shrines, and halls will be surveyed by district and rubbings taken of stone inscriptions, for use in the [gazetteer’s] treatises on temples and epigraphy. Personnel will be dispatched to survey, compile, photograph, draw a layout of each temple, trace stone inscriptions, as well as collect historical sources.” Our book was one of the results. This work is focused on mentions of temples in earlier literature, complemented with the editors’ notes on the history of the temples. They note changes in the names of temples, as well as in their functions. The literature used include the major works on the history of Beijing, such as Zhu Yizun’s 朱彝尊 (1629-1709) Rixia jiuwen 日下舊聞 [Ancient Accounts Heard in the Precincts of the Throne] from 1688, Zhen-jun’s 震鈞 (1857-1918/20) Tian zhi ou wen 天咫偶聞 [Things Heard on Occasion in the Imperial Capital] from 1903, and Chen Zongfan’s 陳宗蕃 (1879-1954) Yan du cong kao 燕都叢考 [Examinations of the Metropolis of Yan] — which had been recently published in 1930-31. Fine and fresh set, preserved in a hantao.
COCHINCHINE FRANCAISE/DICTIONNAIRE CHINOIS-FRANCAIS

COCHINCHINE FRANCAISE/DICTIONNAIRE CHINOIS-FRANCAIS by BAILLY

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COCHINCHINE FRANCAISE/DICTIONNAIRE CHINOIS-FRANCAIS
Author
BAILLY
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Boston Book Company (United States)
Description
1889. BAILLY. COCHINCHINE FRANCAISE/DICTIONNAIRE CHINOIS-FRANCAIS, 5 BOOKS IN 4 VOLUMES. Saigon: Rey & Curiol, 1889. 4to., quarter black leather (sunned to dark red) with raised bands and gilt lettering, marbled paper covered boards. Boards shelfworn, a few scratches; letaher worn at joints, heels and crowns. Small cloth circular labels affixed to top segment of spines. Occasional light pencil notes in Chinese, French and English. Pages age-toned, with an occasional chip, not affecting text. Volumes 1-5, with 4 & 5 together in the last volume. Chinese-French dictionary.
Le Trouvère Grand Opéra en quatre actes Représenté sur le Théâtre de l'Opéra Imperial Traducion Française de Mr. Emilien Pacini... Partition in 8o Piano et Chant Prix net 20f. [Piano-vocal score]

Le Trouvère Grand Opéra en quatre actes Représenté sur le Théâtre de l'Opéra Imperial Traducion Française de Mr. Emilien Pacini... Partition in 8o Piano et Chant Prix net 20f. [Piano-vocal score] by VERDI, Giuseppe 1813-1901

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Le Trouvère Grand Opéra en quatre actes Représenté sur le Théâtre de l'Opéra Imperial Traducion Française de Mr. Emilien Pacini... Partition in 8o Piano et Chant Prix net 20f. [Piano-vocal score]
Author
VERDI, Giuseppe 1813-1901
Seller
J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
Description
Paris: Léon Escudier [PN L.E. 1648], 1857. Large octavo. Dark brown morocco-backed brown textured paper boards, upper with initials "C.G." gilt, spine with titling gilt. 1f. (recto title within decorative border incorporating the names of various Verdi operas, verso blank), 1f. (recto named cast list and contents, verso blank), 312 pp. Lithographed. Named cast includes Lautyers, Borghi-Mamo, Dameron, Gueymard, Bonnehée, Dérivis, Sapin, Fréret, and Cléophas. Publisher's facsimile signature handstamp to lower outer corner of title. Binding slightly worn, rubbed, and bumped; front endpaper with small chip to outer edge. Slightly foxed. First Edition, second issue of the revised version. Hopkinson 54B (citing two issues, the first of which is engraved and the second lithographed). Including ballet music newly-composed for the Paris production by Verdi to pp. 155-202. l trovatore, to a libretto by Salvadore Cammarano with additions by Leone Emanuele Bardare after Antonio García Gutiérrez's play El trovador, was first performed in Rome at the Teatro Apollo on January 19, 1853 and in a revised version (as La trouvère) in Paris at the Opéra on January 12, 1857. "Il trovatore, though without doubt one of the two or three most popular Verdi operas, has until recently fared rather badly with critics and commentators, mostly because of its unabashedly formalistic exterior in comparison with the works on either side of it, Rigoletto and La traviata. This attitude at last shows signs of changing, perhaps as our criteria for judging Verdi's musical dramas alter with time. Indeed, many of the most important stages in the critical rehabilitation of this opera have concentrated attention on just those aspects that were earlier castigated. The libretto, for example, with its immovable character types and 'unrealistic' stage action, has recently been seen as one of the work's great strengths, its economy of dramatic means and immediacy of language forming the perfect basis on which to build Verdian musical drama. Similarly, the extreme formalism of the musical language has been seen as serving to concentrate and define the various stages of the drama, above all channelling them into those key confrontations that mark its inexorable progress." "But if one trait can be singled out that best accounts for the opera's success, it is probably the sheer musical energy apparent in all the numbers. Time and again we find a relentless rhythmic propulsion in the accompaniment, and a tendency for the melodic lines to be forced into a restrictive compass, freeing themselves rarely but with consequent explosive power." Roger Parker in Grove Music Online.
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ARCHITECTURE AND THE UNIVERSITY by PRINCETON UNIVERSITY. SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE

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ARCHITECTURE AND THE UNIVERSITY
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PRINCETON UNIVERSITY. SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
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The Bookpress, Ltd. (United States)
Description
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY. SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE. ARCHITECTURE AND THE UNIVERSITY. Princeton: School of Architecture, 1954. 8vo. Cloth spine, boards. (vi), 72 pages. First, and only, edition. Scarce item. "Proceedings of a conference held at Princeton University Decem eleventh and twelfth nineteen hundred fifty-three." A series of reports presented on the state of architecture as a profession and study by leading architects and professors in the field. Front cover partially sunned, else v good.
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MINUTES OF THE SIXTH ANNUAL SESSION OF THE SHELBY BAPTIST ASSOCIATION, HELD AT ENON CHURCH, BIBB COUNTY, ALA. FROM THE 10TH TO THE 13TH OCT., 1857 by [Alabama Baptists]

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MINUTES OF THE SIXTH ANNUAL SESSION OF THE SHELBY BAPTIST ASSOCIATION, HELD AT ENON CHURCH, BIBB COUNTY, ALA. FROM THE 10TH TO THE 13TH OCT., 1857
Author
[Alabama Baptists]
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David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC (United States)
Description
Centreville, Alabama: Central Enquirer Job Printing Office, 1857. Original printed yellow wrappers, stitched. 10, [2] pp. Lightly foxed, old Historical Society rubberstamp and withdrawal. Very Good. Centreville, the Bibb County seat, is a little town in south central Alabama. This rare imprint records the Constitution of the Shelby Association of Baptist Churches; Minutes of proceedings and doings of the named participants; and a Statistical Table at the end. Not in Ellison. OCLC 641884320 [1- AAS] [as of March 2016].
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Powder River. Let'er Buck. by Burt, Struthers

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Powder River. Let'er Buck.
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Burt, Struthers
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Argonaut Book Shop (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1938 Book. Illus. by Santee, Ross. Near Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Pp. xi, 389, [11]. Illustrated by Ross Santee. Bibliography, index. Red cloth. Contemporary owner's neat name and address on free endpaper, dated 1938. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket printed in black, yellow and red (slight chipping to jacket extremities). One of the best on the Powder River of Northwestern Wyoming. "Quite a bit of space is devoted to the Johnson County War... He tells of the Hole-in-the-Wall gang and Tom Horn. This excellent writer has written one of the bext books of the Rivers of Americana series" (Six-Guns). [Adams, Herd: 381; Adams, Six Guns: 344]..
The Soul's Fire

The Soul's Fire by Stokes, Jeremiah

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Title
The Soul's Fire
Author
Stokes, Jeremiah
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Tschanz Rare Books (United States)
Description
Los Angeles: Suttonhouse Limited, 1936. First Edition. 291pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Blue cloth with a red and gilt label on the backstrip. Very good/Near fine. Jacket bumped at extremities with a large chip missing from the front panel's upper left corner. This jacket is uncommon. Eight tipped-in illustrations. Uncommon novel from the author of 'Thunder Cave' that offers a history of Mormonism from its founding to the arrival of Brigham Young and his followers into the Great Basin. "What the first colonists of America are to the East, the [Mormon] pioneers of 1847, and those who followed them before the railroad bridged the plains, are to the West." - from the author's preface.
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JACOBEAN PAGEANT--THE COURT OF KING JAMES I by Akrigg, G. P. V.

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JACOBEAN PAGEANT--THE COURT OF KING JAMES I
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Akrigg, G. P. V.
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Hoffman Books (United States)
Condition
Very Good
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Other: Other. Very Good. Hardcover. London (1962) . 431 pages, clothbound, very good in dust jacket. .
Casablanca Photo Book

Casablanca Photo Book by Behlmer, Rudy

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Casablanca Photo Book
Author
Behlmer, Rudy
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ReadInk (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
(n.p.): Turner Entertainment Co. & Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc.. Near Fine. [2008]. First Edition. Hardcover. (pictorial boards; no dust jacket, as issued) [essentially as-new, with just a tiny bit of surface rubbing to the covers]. (B&W photographs) A cute little 48-page hardcover booklet, largely photographic, with an abbreviated history of the classic film's production and release. Originally issued as an element of the Ultimate Collector's Edition DVD box set of the film (which explains why it's DVD-package size); there's some tiny print on the rear cover stating that it's "for promotional use only [and] not intended for individual resale." What are the odds that I'll be sued, I wonder? (xx) .
A Chapbook for Burnt-out Priests, Rabbis, and Ministers

A Chapbook for Burnt-out Priests, Rabbis, and Ministers by Bradbury, Ray

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A Chapbook for Burnt-out Priests, Rabbis, and Ministers
Author
Bradbury, Ray
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Crooked House Books & Paper (United States)
ISBN
9781587670107
Condition
Fine
Description
Cemetery Dance, 2001-02-01. First Edition. hardcover. Fine/Fine. 6x0x9. New old stock" (new copies acquired from a defunct bookstore.) Multiple copies available at time of entry. Mostly poetry, mostly spiritually-inclined, this is an unusual collection by one of the great science fiction writers.
Beyond October 21: from protest to power [handbill]

Beyond October 21: from protest to power [handbill] by Spartacist

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Beyond October 21: from protest to power [handbill]
Author
Spartacist
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Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description
New York: Spartacist, 1968. Handbill. Single 8.5x14 inch sheet, printed one side in dense text, fold-creased, "March 1968" penciled on front else very good condition. Critique of the popular front demonstrations against the Vietnam War, especially the April 15 Mobilization.

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