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The History of the World, in five books. by Raleigh, Sir Walter

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Title: The History of the World, in five books.
Author: Raleigh, Sir Walter
Seller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: Printed [by Humphrey Lownes] for H. Lownes, G. Lathum, and R. Young,, 1628 Fourth edition. Title page with engraving of Cicero's Magistra Vitae holding up the earth by Renold Elstracke dated 1614, portrait of Raleigh engraved by Simon de Passe, "Minde of the Front" leaf, and eight folding maps as issued (pages 56, 108, 152, 218, 350, 270, 386, 388). Royal folio. Full contemporary brown calf, covers and edges stamped in blind, raised bands to spine with title stamped in gilt, red speckled edges, plain endpapers. Very good with light wear and cracking to calf, rebacked with original spine laid down, inner hinges reinforced, original endpapers and endbands, engraved title page tipped onto a stub, some repair to edges and strengthening along gutters on portrait, Mind of the Front, and first page of the Preface, some dampstaining throughout (most noticeably to gutters of text, Contents, and Tables), small spots of soiling to some text leaves, portrait with contemporary notation of numbers in ink, notations in a contemporary hand to endpapers (including brief instructions to bindery on front free endpaper), modern bookplate to front pastedown. Overall, an early edition of an important English Renaissance work, in an excellent contemporary binding, complete with all maps. ESTC S116303. PMM 117. The History of the World is an ambitious work that surveys the beginning of civilization to 146 BC, dealing primarily with biblical, Greek, and Roman history. Sir Walter Raleigh wrote the book while imprisoned in the Tower of London after being accused of treason against Queen Elizabeth's successor, King James I. He completed it with the aid of assistants and the Tower of London's library, which included more than 500 books. Raleigh wrote the book as a teaching tool for Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, and had originally intended for it to be a multivolume work; however, the project was left unfinished when the prince died in 1612. Authorities quickly suppressed the work after it was initially published because of its perceived subversiveness towards monarchy as a form of rule. Nevertheless, a number of printings continued to be produced throughout the 17th century due to a high demand for the book. The book is acknowledged as one of the great literary masterpieces of the English Renaissance and gives unique insight into how the English viewed the world in the early 17th century. Sir Walter Raleigh was an important literary figure in the Elizabethan Era, and his influence has been felt through the centuries. He wrote most of his poetry while a prominent member of Queen Elizabeth's court, including the oft anthologized poems, "The Lie" and "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd." He helped Edmund Spenser's allegorical masterpiece "The Fairie Queene" reach the Queen's attention, which resulted in Spenser gaining a lifetime pension of 50 pounds a year from her and allowed his epic poem to achieve the popularity that it did. Also, Raleigh's book The Discovery of Guiana (1596), based on his expeditions for gold in South America, played a large part in popularizing the myth of El Dorado. This is the fourth edition of Raleigh's History: the first four editions were printed in 1614 by William Stansby (with an engraved title, errata uncorrected), 1617 by Stansby (printed title with portrait of Raleigh), 1621(a reissue of the second edition) by William Jaggard, who printed Shakespeare's first folio in 1623, and this fourth edition in 1628. At least seven more editions were published in the seventeenth century, along with one each in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.. Hard Cover. Very Good.

The New York Yankees: An Illustrated History by Honig, Donald

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Title: The New York Yankees: An Illustrated History
Author: Honig, Donald
Seller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Crown Publishers, 1987 Illustrated with more than 500 black and white photos. First revised edition, first printing. Signed by 71 Yankees throughout the book, including HOFers Yogi Berra, Billy Martin, Whitey Ford, Johnny Mize, Rickey Henderson, Catfish Hunter, Phil Rizzuto, and Enos Slaughter. Publisher's red cloth spine with blue textured paper-covered boards, and spine lettered in silver; in the original yellow pictorial dust jacket designed by Robert Aulicino, with matching front and rear panels, lettered in red and blue, with photo of Babe Ruth to center of panel, surrounded by photos of other Yankees legends like Joe DiMaggio and Lou Gehrig. Very good book, with a couple of small tears to cloth at rear joint of spine, protected by some clear tape, very light rubbing to spine ends, Post-it notes to front free endpaper listing signatures, and some light pink staining to p. 344; near fine unclipped dust jacket, with light toning to spine, a bit of wrinkling to spine ends, small area of light soiling to rear panel, and lightly nicked corners. Overall, a terrific collection of Yankees signatures. The New York Yankees: An Illustrated History "tells the glorious tale of the most loved - and hated - team in all of sports history. It is the story of the men and moments, of a team that has seized the imagination and won the loyalty of an entire nation." Author Donald Honig is a longtime sportswriter who has written many classic baseball books, like The 100 Greatest Baseball Players of All Time (1981) and the oral histories Baseball When the Grass was Real (1975) and Baseball Between the Lines: Baseball in the Forties and Fifties, as Told by the Men Who Played It (1976). Yogi Berra played eighteen seasons with the New York Yankees, winning an incredible ten World Series titles. Winner of three AL MVPs and recognized as one of the greatest catchers of all-time, he was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1972. Whitey Ford played all 16 seasons of his MLB career with the Yankees (1950, 1953-1967) and won six World Series titles. Ford was selected as an All-Star ten times and holds numerous Yankees records, including career wins, shutouts, and games started. He was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974, along with his close friend and teammate, Mickey Mantle. Billy Martin won five World Series titles with the Yankees, four as a player (1951-1953, 1956), and one as a manager (1977). He achieved great success as a manager in the league, turning struggling teams into contenders in incredibly short periods of time. Some other notable signers include 10x All-Star and 5x World Series champion Johnny Mize, 8x All-Star and 5x World Series champion Catfish Hunter, and 10x All-Star and 4x World Series champion Enos Slaughter. . Signed. First Revised Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included.

The Language of Oysters [Inscribed by poet and photographer, with signed photograph laid in] by ADAMSON, Robert (poetry); Juno Gemes (photography); Rodney Hall (preface); John Kinsella (contributor)

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Title: The Language of Oysters [Inscribed by poet and photographer, with signed photograph laid in]
Author: ADAMSON, Robert (poetry); Juno Gemes (photography); Rodney Hall (preface); John Kinsella (contributor)
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: Sydney: Craftsman House / G + B Arts International, 1997. First Edition. Laid in is a photograph of the print found on p.146, with a blind embossed stamp, Geme's signature to its front margin, and her description to rear "Section VII Right Page - No. 85 1993". Quarto (27.5cm); brown cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [5],6-168pp; black-and-white photographic (halftone) illustrations throughout. Inscribed by photographer and poet on front endpaper to Nathaniel Tarn: "Dear Nathaniel - Have a message as a Fellow Showman!! Warm greetings flow the river! Love Juno Gemes" and "Dear Nathaniel, I've been reading; living in your poetry all week, hanging with you over the years, finding the 'correspondences' we have and looking forward to our continuing work into the future-- with love and admiration / Bob / Robert Anderson Mooney Creek, Spring 2006". Modest rubbing to cloth of lower corners and spine tail, and trace shelf-soil to covers; Very Good+. Dustwrapper has trivial surface wear with light crinkling; Very Good. Australian partners Adamson and Gemes co-established Paper Bark Press (1986) with Michael Wilding, and this is the couple's first collaborative publication of their works. Gemesfocuses her work on social history among Aboriginal Australians, and she was invited to photograph the National Apology in Canberra in 2008. This collection of verse is organized into five sections, each beginning with a selection of Gemes's full-page photographs, and includes Adamson's "Meshing Bends In The Light", "Green Prawn Map", "Songs for Juno", and "Rock Carving with Kevin Gilbert". While not explicitly marked as such, this copy is from the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024) and is inscribed to him by both the poet and photographer. [87764].

The Scapegoat (Original photograph of Daphne Du Maurier, Alec Guinness, and Nicole Maurey on the set of the 1959 film) by Alec Guinness, Bette Davis (starring); Robert Hamer (director, screenwriter); Daphne Du Maurier (novel); Gore Vidal (screenwriter); Nicole Maurey, Irene Worth (starring)

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Title: The Scapegoat (Original photograph of Daphne Du Maurier, Alec Guinness, and Nicole Maurey on the set of the 1959 film)
Author: Alec Guinness, Bette Davis (starring); Robert Hamer (director, screenwriter); Daphne Du Maurier (novel); Gore Vidal (screenwriter); Nicole Maurey, Irene Worth (starring)
Seller: Royal Books (United States)
Description: Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1959. Vintage reference photograph of novelist Daphne Du Maurier and her husband, Sir Frederick Browning, visiting actors Alec Guinness and Nicole Maurey on the set of the 1959 film. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Based on the 1957 novel by Du Maurier, about a lonely university professor who meets his lookalike, a wealthy but discontented count, while vacationing in France, and finds himself unwittingly forced to swap places and assume the count's life. Shot on location in France. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.

WAR AND REMEMBRANCE [Signed] by Wouk, Herman

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Title: WAR AND REMEMBRANCE [Signed]
Author: Wouk, Herman
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Description: Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 1042 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good minus condition dust jacket. Black spine with red and white lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering, price is clipped, has mild shelving wear, and mild age-toning throughout. Boards have mild wear along the head and tail edges and mild wear along the spine. Textblock has mild wear along the edges, stains on the fore and tail edges, and light foxing along the head edges. Signed flat by Herman Wouk on the limitation page. DL consignment. Shelved Room C. Stated First Trade Edition. 1394363. Special Collections.

呉昌碩, 齊白石 = [transliterated title] GO SHŌSEKI, SEI HAKUSEKI = [PAINTING COLLECTION OF WU CHANGSHUO AND QI BAISHI] (BUNJIN-GA SUIHEN ; 10) by Wu, Changshuo, 1844-1927; Qi, Baishi, 1864-1957 [art collectors]

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Title: 呉昌碩, 齊白石 = [transliterated title] GO SHŌSEKI, SEI HAKUSEKI = [PAINTING COLLECTION OF WU CHANGSHUO AND QI BAISHI] (BUNJIN-GA SUIHEN ; 10)
Author: Wu, Changshuo, 1844-1927; Qi, Baishi, 1864-1957 [art collectors]
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9784124025309
Description: Tokyo: Shōwa 61, 1986. Softcover. Quarto, 168 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket and Good slipcase. Slipcase in cream paper with color illustration and black print. Crease to rear panel, short tear to top fore corner. Spine is cream with black print. Cover beneath dust jacket is white without print. Illustrated: color ands b&w plates. Text in Japanese and Chinese. [Oversized book(s). Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers, please inquire for rates]. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area, Netdesk Column QD (ND-QD). 1386378. FP New Rockville Stock.

Little Travelers by Zillah

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Title: Little Travelers
Author: Zillah
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Condition: Collectible; Very Good
Description: Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Company, 1937. 1st. Decorative Cloth. Collectible; Very Good. The 1937 1st edition of this charming oversized children's book. VG- in its pictorial cloth, with light scuffing and soiling to the panels and light wear at the spine ends. Inner hinges tender as well but still sturdy. Folio, wonderfully illustrated thruout in rich color by Ruth E. Newton.

Leonard Baskin: Drawings--Sculpture--Woodcuts

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Title: Leonard Baskin: Drawings--Sculpture--Woodcuts
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Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Grace Borgenicht Gallery, 1960. Pictorial wrappers. Very Good. The catalogue based on the March-April 1960 exhibition at New York's Grace Borgenicht Gallery. Solid and VG in its stapled pictorial wrappers, with light spotting at the front panel.

Hard Freight by WRIGHT, Charles

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Title: Hard Freight
Author: WRIGHT, Charles
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ISBN: 9780819520692
Description: Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1973. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 67 pages. A collection of poems from the Pulitzer Prize winning author of "Black Zodiac." A tight near fine copy in cloth boards and in a near fine dust jacket with a couple of tiny tears and very minor wear. A very nice copy of the much less common hardcover issue.

Creative Nude Photography by ZEEMEIJER, Peter

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Title: Creative Nude Photography
Author: ZEEMEIJER, Peter
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780852426609
Description: Watford, Herts, England: Fountain Press, Argus Books, 1979. First edition. Small softcover. 79 pages. Translated by Mike Shields. Includes numerous black and white images. A near fine copy in wrappers and with a U.S. price sticker on the rear panel.

With Wanda: Town and Country Poems by ZIMMER, Paul

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Title: With Wanda: Town and Country Poems
Author: ZIMMER, Paul
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780931848322
Description: Washington, D.C. & San Francisco, CA: Dryad Press, 1980. First edition. Softcover. 74 pages. A collection of poems from Marion Zimmer Bradley's brother. A tight near fine copy in wrappers. Signed and inscribed by Zimmer on the title page in the year of publication.

, Autograph Letter Signed, New York, October 9, 1839, to Louis (Ludwig) Tieck, The Post, Dresden, Germany by Ward, Samuel Ward IV

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Title: , Autograph Letter Signed, New York, October 9, 1839, to Louis (Ludwig) Tieck, The Post, Dresden, Germany
Author: Ward, Samuel Ward IV
Seller: Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Description: Quarto,1 page, in very good, clean and legible condition. 1839 How the Astor-New York Public Library was Born. "In recommending my young Brother in Law, Mr. Astor to your kind notice I neglected to include his travelling friend and Counsellor Mr. Cogswell because I thought you knew him already. Mr. Cogswell brings his own recommendation - a natural philosopher and gentleman he has enjoyed the friendship of many of your contemporaries - among them Goethe and Sir Walter Scott. He is now the Editor of our principal Quarterly Review and no American private life enjoys the confidence and affection of a larger circle of Friends." When he wrote this letter, 25-year-old Samuel Cutler Ward IV was a banker in his father's respected Wall Street firm – newly wed to the grand-daughter of the first American multi-millionaire, fur trade magnate, John Jacob Astor. When Ward's father died a month after he wrote this letter, the son became executor of his own multi-million dollar estate. Like his sister, Julia Ward Howe, would have a colorful career ahead – as a bankrupt Wall Street speculator, an adventurous California Forty-Niner, and, eventually, "King of the Lobby", the premier Washington lobbyist after the Civil War. But in 1839 he was just a very rich young literary-minded banker who was not entirely happy with that profession. He had earlier spent four years in Europe, enjoying high society and earning a doctoral degree in Germany, where he met poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who became his lifelong friend. There he also met Ludwig Tieck, his correspondent, German poet, novelist, a founder of the European Romantic movement – and a collector of Spanish books, which had excited the interest of former Harvard Professor George Ticknor, another expatriate who would soon become the leading scholar of Spanish literature in America. Both Ticknor and Ward were close friends of educator and journalist George Cogswell, yet another American expatriate. Through Ward, Cogswell became the friend and counsellor of patriarch John Jacob Astor. Cogswell convinced Astor to fund a great public research library in New York City. The project took many years of planning, under Cogswell's guidance. The European trip Ward describes in this letter – Cogswell travelling with Ward's brother-in-law, John Jacob's grandson was apparently to make initial plans for assembling the collection. The Astor Library did not open to the public until 1854. Forty years after that, it become the foundation of the New York Public Library of today.

Ancestoring. Augusta Genealogical Society. Volumes II, VI, VII, VIII, IX by Adamson, Carrie M. (editor) [Georgia]

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Title: Ancestoring. Augusta Genealogical Society. Volumes II, VI, VII, VIII, IX
Author: Adamson, Carrie M. (editor) [Georgia]
Seller: Americana Books ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: Augusta: Augusta Genealogical society, 1984. Soft cover. Very good. Tall soft covers. 5 misc volumes: Vol. II 97 pages; Vol. VI 98 pages; Vol. VII 98 pages; Vol. VIII 104 pages; Vol. IX 106 pages. Illustrations. Illustrated covers.

Từ điển thuật ngữ khoa học kỹ thuật: Anh - Pháp - Việt / Dictionary of scientific and technical terms: English - French - Vietnamese / Dictionnaire des termes scientifiques et techniques: Anglais - Francais - Vietnamien

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Title: Từ điển thuật ngữ khoa học kỹ thuật: Anh - Pháp - Việt / Dictionary of scientific and technical terms: English - French - Vietnamese / Dictionnaire des termes scientifiques et techniques: Anglais - Francais - Vietnamien
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Description: Ha Noi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học và Kỹ thuật, 1989. 8 x 5.5 in., pp. 534; alphabetical in English with indexes in French and Vietnamese; text in double column; printed paper wrappers; fine.

The Tangletown Letters: Being the Reminiscences, Observations, and Opinions of Timotheus Trapp [pseud], Esq. Including a Report of the Great Mammothic Reform Convention. by [Reynolds, Elhanan Winchester].

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Title: The Tangletown Letters: Being the Reminiscences, Observations, and Opinions of Timotheus Trapp [pseud], Esq. Including a Report of the Great Mammothic Reform Convention.
Author: [Reynolds, Elhanan Winchester].
Seller: Garrett Scott, Bookseller (ABAA) (United States)
Condition: Spine sunned, with a spot of fading or staining to the rear board and some light sunning and bumping to the edges and corners; a
Description: Buffalo: Wanzer, McKim, 1856 First edition.. Spine sunned, with a spot of fading or staining to the rear board and some light sunning and bumping to the edges and corners; a couple of gatherings just a bit sprung, some light soiling and spotting; a very good copy.. 8vo, original blind-stamped blue-green cloth, gilt spine, 300, 12, 48 pages. Frontis, five plates by Frederick M. Coffin. A satirical novel poking fun at abolitionists and suffragists, with digressive attacks on progressive authors, spiritualists, and domestic upheaval of all stripes. Wright II, 2020, this copy including the 48-page promotional excerpt of the Wanzer, McKim novel The Montgomerys (including its separate title page) at the end. Front blank excised.

Ass on the Line [Limited/Signed Edition] by Wenner, Sim

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Title: Ass on the Line [Limited/Signed Edition]
Author: Wenner, Sim
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Description: Kona, HI: Published by the Author; [Produced by] The Golden Egghouse, 1977. Softcover. Revised edition, limited to 1000 copies (this # 28); 5" x 7 1/4"; pp. 55 (recto only); textured white wraps tied with decorative black thread; small bumps to lower front and upper back corner of wraps; very small faint spot to lower margin of front wrap; pages clean; near fine.Sim Wenner, currently 90-year-old, was born in New York in the early 1900s. He came to Hawaii on vacation in the pre-statehood days and decided to stay - first in Honolulu and then eventually in Kona near White Sands Beach, now Laaloa Beach Park. Throughout his life he wrote several books - some of them poetry compilations and others, including the current one, of inspirational sayings and poetical musings.

DER MONAT EINE INTERNATIONALE ZEITSCHRIFT, MAY 1952 by NO AUTHOR

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Title: DER MONAT EINE INTERNATIONALE ZEITSCHRIFT, MAY 1952
Author: NO AUTHOR
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Description: 1952. NO AUTHOR. DER MONAT EINE INTERNATIONALE ZEITSCHRIFT, MAY 1952. Magazine format, printed wraps. With an article & photos of Charlie Chaplin. Very Good (little wear & rubbing; contents clean & tight). $25.00.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Adams, Douglas

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Title: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Author: Adams, Douglas
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ISBN: 9780593359440
Condition: Fine
Description: New York: Del Rey, 2021. Reprint. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 5x1x8. Riddell, Chris. New. Reprint. An exceptional copy. 2021 Hard Cover. xvii, 288 pp. Illustrated by Chris Riddell. Douglas Adams's first novel, inspiration for the 2005 film. It's an ordinary Thursday morning for Arthur Dent . . . until his house gets demolished. The Earth follows shortly after to make way for a new hyperspace express route, and Arthur's best friend has just announced that he's an alien. After that, things get much, much worse. With just a towel, a small yellow fish, and a book, Arthur has to navigate through a very hostile universe in the company of a gang of unreliable aliens. Luckily the fish is quite good at languages. And the book is The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy . . . which helpfully has the words DON'T PANIC inscribed in large, friendly letters on its cover. Douglas Adams's mega-selling pop-culture classic sends logic into orbit, plays havoc with both time and physics, offers up pithy commentary on such things as ballpoint pens, potted plants, and digital watches . . . and, most important, reveals the ultimate answer to life, the universe, and everything. Now, if you could only figure out the question. . . .

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