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The Mutiny on the Bounty Trilogy by Nordhoff, Charles [and] Hall, James

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Title: The Mutiny on the Bounty Trilogy
Author: Nordhoff, Charles [and] Hall, James
Seller: Biblioctopus (United States)
Description: Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1934. First Editions. 4 vols. All are fine in fine dustjackets. The basic triple decker is ex–Jean Hersholt. His first volume (Mutiny on the Bounty) is a first edition in the second binding, with pictorial endpapers, however, supplementing his copy is a 1st edition of it in the 1st binding with plain endpapers, and this additional copy is also fine in a fine dustjacket. The reasoning was to keep the three Hersholt books together because they are a suite of such outstanding quality and provenance, but not to have them diminished by the second binding endpapers in vol. I. The trilogy’s second volume (Man Against the Sea) is the first edition and there are no eccentricities of issue, state, or binding, and it is the scarcest of the three in fine condition. The third volume (Pitcairn’s Island) is also the first edition with no bibliographical complications.

The Catechism of the Shamans [Buddhism]; or The Laws and Regulations of the Priesthood of Buddha, in China by [Translated by Charles F. Neumann]

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Title: The Catechism of the Shamans [Buddhism]; or The Laws and Regulations of the Priesthood of Buddha, in China
Author: [Translated by Charles F. Neumann]
Seller: Biblioctopus (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: London: Oriental Translation Fund, 1831. First Edition. Fine. The first book of Buddhism in English. 4to (227 x 145mm), pp. [i]-xxxii, [2], [34]-152. Modern marbled wrappers, French folded. Complete with half-title and errata sheet. Text in English accompanied by Chinese characters. This is the first book "of" Buddhism in English-that is, the first translation of instructional Buddhist text into the language. It is preceded by two years by an English text examining Buddhism from the outside, Edward Upham's The History and Doctrine of Budhism [sic] (London, 1829, illustrated from manuscripts in a British collection). Neumann's book was written in Canton and dedicated to Sir George Staunton. The laws, regulations, and their supplements are followed by an insightful note. The translator was Karl Friedrich Neumann (1793-1870), who adopted the given name Charles while in the United Kingdom but used F. or Fried. in his scholarly writings, accounting for the alternate name on the title page. The significance of this work extends well beyond its priority as the first English Buddhist text. Neumann's translation emerged during a period when European colonial expansion was creating unprecedented access to Asian religious materials, yet few scholars possessed both the linguistic competence and the cultural patience for accurate translation. His decision to include Chinese characters alongside the English anticipated modern academic standards by decades, and his focus on institutional Buddhism (the concrete laws and regulations governing monastic life) provided Western readers with an account of Buddhist practice rather than the kind of abstract philosophical speculation or orientalist fantasy that characterized most early European encounters with Asian religion. The title itself betrays how alien the material still was: "Catechism of the Shamans" borrows the vocabulary of Christian instruction and applies it to a tradition that fit no existing Western category, lending the whole enterprise a faintly esoteric quality that any encounter with an unfamiliar religion carries for an outsider. Neumann's approach proved remarkably prescient. By introducing Buddhism to the West through its lived institutional reality, he established a template for serious Buddhist scholarship that would not become standard practice for another generation.

The autocrat of the breakfast table by HOLMES, Oliver Wendell

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Title: The autocrat of the breakfast table
Author: HOLMES, Oliver Wendell
Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description: Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1858. FIRST EDITION. Half title, woodcut title, second title in red and black, and 8 woodcut plates. Original blue pebbled publisher’s cloth, the rare binding with 5 rings in gilt on the spine, decorated in blind; endpapers printed with publisher’s advertisements. First edition, first printing, with the very rare binding containing 5 rings on the spine, and with the publisher’s advertisement end-papers. Contains not only the famous essays on the intellectual and cultural life of New England at the time, but also the first printing of two of his most famous poems, The chambered nautilus and The one hoss shay.

Casino de Paris. “Paris Qui Remue” Hyper Revue / A Super Spectacle / avec / Josephine Baker by [African-Americana – Performance] Baker, Josephine

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Title: Casino de Paris. “Paris Qui Remue” Hyper Revue / A Super Spectacle / avec / Josephine Baker
Author: [African-Americana – Performance] Baker, Josephine
Seller: Auger Down Books (United States)
Condition: Fine condition.
Description: Paris, 1930. Double sided sheet measuring 5 ½ x 8 ¾ inches, folded into four panels, all illustrated. Fine condition.. An apparently unrecorded program documenting one of Baker’s defining early Paris triumphs, the lavish Paris Qui Remue revue at the Casino de Paris, a venue synonymous with large-scale spectacle during the interwar years. Following her breakout success in La Revue Nègre (1925) and rapid ascent within Parisian nightlife, Baker became a central figure in revues that blended American jazz idioms, African diasporic performance traditions, and French music-hall staging. The present illustrated souvenir captures the scale of the production through staged tableaux, chorus formations, and elaborate scenic constructions characteristic of Casino de Paris spectacles of the late 1920s and early 1930s. The revue’s visual language—geometric stage lighting, mass choreography, and exoticist imagery—reflects interwar Paris entertainment culture, where American jazz performers and Black expat artists shaped performance style. Baker’s performance of “J’ai deux amours,” introduced during this period and quickly becoming her signature song, cemented her image as both an international star and a symbolic mediator between Paris and America. The photographs reproduce large ensemble numbers featuring tiered chorus lines in feathered headdresses, synchronized kick formations, and geometric Art Deco stage designs; aerial-style shots of massed dancers arranged in radiating patterns; costumed scenes labeled “La Danse du Monde Bleu” and “Noblesse d’Ébène”; and a central portrait of Baker in elaborate costume with extended wing-like adornments, surrounded by male dancers in formal evening dress. Additional panels depict garden tableaux, mechanized stage props, and full-cast curtain scenes, offering a visual record of the revue’s scale, choreography, and scenic ambition. We find no record of this booklet in OCLC or in commerce.

Memoirs Of The Late Frank D. Baldwin, Major General, U.S.A.; With A Foreword By Hunter Liggett, Major General, U.S.A., Retired by Baldwin, Alice Blackwood

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Title: Memoirs Of The Late Frank D. Baldwin, Major General, U.S.A.; With A Foreword By Hunter Liggett, Major General, U.S.A., Retired
Author: Baldwin, Alice Blackwood
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Condition: Near fine
Description: Los Angeles: Wetzel Publishing Co, Inc, 1929. First Edition. Cloth. Near fine. Signed limited edition of the Memoirs Of Major General Frank D. Baldwin, by his wife, Alice Blackwood Baldwin.. Octavo, xv, [3], 204pp, [4]. Blue cloth, title stamped in gilt. Floral endpapers, top edge gilt. Complete with frontispiece portrait and nine illustrated plates. Top corner with a bumped edge. Internally fine. Lacking the publisher's scarce dust jacket. (Howes, B58) (Graff, 144) (Dustin 284) This copy is signed by Alice Blackwood Baldwin on the front free endpaper. Major General Frank D. Baldwin (1842-1923) was one of only 19 individuals to receive the Medal of Honor twice, earning the distinction for separate acts of valor during the Civil War and the Indian Wars. Baldwin began his military service in 1861 with the 19th Michigan Infantry, notably leading a countercharge at the Battle of Peachtree Creek in 1864, where he captured two Confederate officers and a regimental guidon. His second Medal of Honor was awarded for a daring 1874 rescue mission at McClellan's Creek, Texas, where he led an attack against a numerically superior Native American force to save two young girls from captivity. Baldwin also served in the Spanish-American War and the Philippine-American War, eventually retiring as a major general in 1906. During World War I, he served as Adjutant General of the Colorado National Guard.

Complete portraiture of William & Catherine Blake by [Trianon Press, The]; Blake, William; Geoffrey Keynes

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Title: Complete portraiture of William & Catherine Blake
Author: [Trianon Press, The]; Blake, William; Geoffrey Keynes
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: London: Trianon Press, 1977. First thus. Fine. Limited edition, number 135 of 600 numbered copies, out of a total edition of 662 copies. A Fine copy. Quarto (11 3/8 x 8 1/4 in; 290 x 210 mm). 154 p. Ten color plates. Original quarter brown morocco over cloth boards. In the original cloth slipcase. A singular collection of all portraits and related sketches of Blake, his wife, and places they lived, by a range of artists to get at the character of the artist. "This compilation of portraits was a departure for the Trianon Press, which had previously focused on facsimiles of Blake's illuminated books and designs. But with a text by Blake scholar Geoffrey Keynes, who contributed commentary to the other facsimiles, it continued Trianon's incomparable record of bringing all aspects of Blake's work and life to light" (Union College). Fine.

Les mille et une nuits, contes arabes. by Galland, Antoine, trans.

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Title: Les mille et une nuits, contes arabes.
Author: Galland, Antoine, trans.
Seller: Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: Paris: Ledentu, 1825. Nouvelle edition. Good. 8 volumes 12mo (15cm). 36 fine copperplate engraved plates. Charming, unsophisticated copy in original publisher's wraps, untrimmed. Paper labels. Edges worn, and many corners rounded; paper labels partly missing from first two volumes. Scattered moderate dampstaining and spots, yet very good condition overall. Galland not only translated the Arabic text (which derived from an earlier Persian model, now lost), but he added a few stories of his own, including Alladin and his Magic Lamp, and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, both later Disneyfied into the American mainstream.

Arts, antiquities and chronology of Ancient Egypt : from observations in 1839. by Wathen, George W.

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Title: Arts, antiquities and chronology of Ancient Egypt : from observations in 1839.
Author: Wathen, George W.
Seller: Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans,, 1843. Ex-Library. Good. 27cm; 272 pages and 12 plates (including tinted lithographs and one engraving).Wood-engraved illustrations in text. Bound in recent faux leather. Few underlines and marginal marks in pencil. Library stamp on title page and on verso of one plate.

The Lorsch Gospels

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Title: The Lorsch Gospels
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller (United States)
Condition: Original quarter vellum and red cloth. Fine in slipcase
Description: New York: George Braziller, 1967. No. 155 of 1,000 copies. With six color plates, and monochrome plates throughout. 1 vols. Folio. Original quarter vellum and red cloth. Fine in slipcase. No. 155 of 1,000 copies. With six color plates, and monochrome plates throughout. 1 vols. Folio. Full color facsimile of the Lorsch Gospels. The two parts of the Lorsch Gospels are held in the Biblioteca Documentara Batthyaneum in Alba Julia, Rumania, and the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana in Rome. Without the separate pamphlet of the introductory text by Wolfgang Braunfels. Provenance: General Theological Seminary (bookplate)

A Selection of Catalogues issued during 1957 & 1958: Arctic, Canadian Economics & Politics, New France, Canadian Literature, Western Canada, Antarctica, The Canadian Atlantic Provinces, Alaska, Ontario, Canadian Music, French Canada, The Indians of Canada by Amman, Bernard

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Title: A Selection of Catalogues issued during 1957 & 1958: Arctic, Canadian Economics & Politics, New France, Canadian Literature, Western Canada, Antarctica, The Canadian Atlantic Provinces, Alaska, Ontario, Canadian Music, French Canada, The Indians of Canada
Author: Amman, Bernard
Seller: Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition: Boards rubbed, top edge sunned else a near fine copy.
Description: Montreal: Bernard Amman, 1958. Limited edition. Cloth. Boards rubbed, top edge sunned else a near fine copy.. 349 pp. [each section paged separately]. Illus. 4to. One of 50 bound copies of twelve separate catalogues. Inscribed by the author, Bernard Amman (1907–1979), founder of the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of Canada, to Mary Bromine (1919-2005), rare book dealer and renowned scholar on colonial Spanish America. Includes: 81: Arctic; 88: Canadian Economics & Politics; 89: New France; 91: Canadian Literature; 92: Western Canada; 93: Antarctica; 94: The Canadian Atlantic Provinces; 97: Alaska; 99: Ontario; 100: Canadian Music; 102: French Canada; 104: The Indians of Canada.

Georgia O'Keefe In The West by Bry, Doris and Nicholas Gallaway (edited by)

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Title: Georgia O'Keefe In The West
Author: Bry, Doris and Nicholas Gallaway (edited by)
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Condition: As New
Description: NY: Knopf, 1989. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. As new copy still in publisher's (soiled) printed cardboard box as shipped to bookstores. As new dustjacket with clear printed acetate band.

Encyclopaedia of New Orleans Artists 1718-1918 by -

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Title: Encyclopaedia of New Orleans Artists 1718-1918
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Seller: Appledore Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Collectible; Very Good
Description: New Orleans: The Historic New Orleans Collection, 1987. Decorative Cloth. Collectible; Very Good. 1987 stated 1st edition, limited to 2,000 copies. Clean and VG+ in its decorative cloth. Thick octavo, 465 pgs. Impressive reference on the art scene in New Orleans, early 18th- early 20th century.

The End of Money and the Struggle for Financial Privacy by Richard W Rahn

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Title: The End of Money and the Struggle for Financial Privacy
Author: Richard W Rahn
Seller: Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA (United States)
ISBN: 9780963865427
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition presumed (no statement to copyright page); A Near Fine book in a Very Good dust jacket with light rubbing to the edges and a couple of short closed tears to the panels near the spine head. SIGNED and inscribed by the author to the title page. Not remaindered, not price clipped, not ex-library; in a fresh Mylar sleeve and will ship carefully wrapped in a sturdy box.

Lee Bailey's Long Weekends: Recipes For Good Food And Easy Living - 1st Edition/1st Printing by Bailey, Lee [; recipe testing and development with Lee Klein]

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Title: Lee Bailey's Long Weekends: Recipes For Good Food And Easy Living - 1st Edition/1st Printing
Author: Bailey, Lee [; recipe testing and development with Lee Klein]
Seller: Books Tell You Why, Inc. (United States)
ISBN: 9780517592441
Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Description: New York: Clarkson Potter. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1994. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0517592444 . A nice first edition/first printing in seemingly unread, about Fine condition with a few trivial dents to cover in alike lightly spine sunned dust-jacket; This book contains recipes for dishes that can be easily put together on a weekend, and will be both delicious and healthy. Lee Bailey provides helpful tips on how to make the recipes, as well as variations that can be made to fit the individual cook. This is the perfect book for anyone looking for easy, delicious, and healthy weekend meals.; Color Photographs; 4to .

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Okagami: A Japanese Historical Tale. by YAMAGIWA, Joseph K. (translator).

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Title: Okagami: A Japanese Historical Tale.
Author: YAMAGIWA, Joseph K. (translator).
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
ISBN: 9780804812474
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Rutland:: Tuttle,. Near Fine. 1977. Paperback. 0804812470 . First edition thus (mass market size paperback). Near fine in illustrated wraps. .

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Rome: Time and Eternity. by WOODWARD, Anthony.

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Title: Rome: Time and Eternity.
Author: WOODWARD, Anthony.
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
ISBN: 9781897817438
Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Description: Upton upon Severn: Images Publishing. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1995. Hardcover. 1897817436 . First British edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. .

Historians and Their Craft: A Study of the Presidential Addresses of the American Historical Association, 1884-1945[INSCRIBED] by Ausubel, Herman

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Title: Historians and Their Craft: A Study of the Presidential Addresses of the American Historical Association, 1884-1945[INSCRIBED]
Author: Ausubel, Herman
Seller: Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (United States)
Condition: g
Description: New York: Columbia University Press, 1950. Hardcover. g. 8vo. 374 pp. Green cloth binding. Previous owner Salo Baron's copy (stamped title page), inscribed to Professor Baron from the author. With light edge wear, in good/very good condition.

GEOLOGY AND WATER RESOURCES OF THE PATRICK AND GOSHEN HOLE QUADRANGLES, WYOMING -- NEBRASKA by WSP 70 -- Adams

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Title: GEOLOGY AND WATER RESOURCES OF THE PATRICK AND GOSHEN HOLE QUADRANGLES, WYOMING -- NEBRASKA
Author: WSP 70 -- Adams
Seller: Hoffman Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Washington: GPO. Very Good. 1902. Softcover. USGS 1902. Wrappers, very good condition, Complete with all maps and plates. .

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The 13th House by ZAMEENZAD, Adam

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Title: The 13th House
Author: ZAMEENZAD, Adam
Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780394575612
Condition: Fine
Description: New York: Random, 1987. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First am. Fine in fine dust jacket. Light shelf rubbing to dust jacket Otherwise nice condition.

BRYAN FERRY & ROXY MUSIC by LAZELL, Barry and Dayydd Rees

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Title: BRYAN FERRY & ROXY MUSIC
Author: LAZELL, Barry and Dayydd Rees
Seller: Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition: Very good +.
Description: London and New York: Proteus Books, 1982. First Edition. Very good +.. Illustrated with black and white photographs; a few in color. Covers Ferry's early years and the band from its formation through 1981; written before the release of Avalon but promises that "the band will be back, probably in 1982." Wraps. Small 4to. Original stiff photographic wraps. Touches of edgewear, rubbing. Else clean and sound. Very good plus. 96pp.

Firsts: The Book Collector's Magazine. January, 2004, Volume 14, #1. Collecting John Fowles

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Title: Firsts: The Book Collector's Magazine. January, 2004, Volume 14, #1. Collecting John Fowles
Seller: Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Firsts Magazine, 2004. Fine. Firsts: The Book Collector's Magazine. January, 2004, Volume 14, #1. Collecting John Fowles. Tucson, AZ: Firsts Magazine, 2004. 68pp. Illustrated. 4to. Wraps. Book condition: Near fine.

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