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Leaves of Grass by Whitman, Walt

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Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA

Title: Leaves of Grass
Author: Whitman, Walt
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: [Camden, NJ], 1889. Near Fine. One of only 300 copies of Leaves of Grass printed in commemoration of Whitman's 70th birthday, boldly signed by Whitman on the title page, with six portraits of Whitman, including the famous original mounted frontispiece photograph with a butterfly resting on his finger. In publisher's flexible leather wallet-style binding with flap extending around the fore edge and with pocked on inside back cover (BAL's A binding), all edges gilt. Near Fine with rubbing to leather at joints and flaking to spine, inner hinges slightly exposed though sound, several light sporadic pencil markings throughout. A beautiful copy. BAL 21435.

Cybernetics; or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine. Actualitees scientifiques et industrielles; 1053 by Wiener, Norbert

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Title: Cybernetics; or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine. Actualitees scientifiques et industrielles; 1053
Author: Wiener, Norbert
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Cambridge, MA: The Technology Press, 1948. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition. 194, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's printed wraps. Near Fine with lean to spine, light wear and toning to covers, contemporary bookseller ticket inside front cover, and ink inscription to title page. Light toning to contents and several penciled lines to margins. A nice copy of this foundational work in the field of cybernetics, a term coined by the author.

AMPHITHEATRIDION. HOC EST, PARVUM AMPHITHEATRUM, CUI PAVCA MUNDI THETRA COMPARARE VIX ULLUM ANTEPONERE AMPHITHEATRUM POSSIS. IN QUATUOR PARTES DIVISUM by BOTERO, GIOVANNI

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Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts

Title: AMPHITHEATRIDION. HOC EST, PARVUM AMPHITHEATRUM, CUI PAVCA MUNDI THETRA COMPARARE VIX ULLUM ANTEPONERE AMPHITHEATRUM POSSIS. IN QUATUOR PARTES DIVISUM
Author: BOTERO, GIOVANNI
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description: Coloniae Agrippinae [Cologne]: Apud Lambertum Andreae, 1597. FIRST EDITION. 208 x 160 mm. (8 1/4 x 6 1/4"). 26 p.l., 147, [1] (blank) pp. Once splendid--and still appealing--18th century calf, elaborately gilt, covers framed by wide palmette roll and narrow flower-and-bead roll, central panel outlined in black paint, large central lozenge composed of myriad small floral tools, leaves, and lancets, this enclosed by a frame of garlands, ornate fleurons at corners, raised bands, spine compartments with decorative fleuron centerpiece (once silver but now mostly black), marbled pastedowns, hinges reinforced with archival tape (older repair to head of spine). With double-page world map, double-page map of the Ottoman Empire, and three folding maps of Europe, Asia, and Africa. VD16 B 6807; USTC 611221. Half-inch crack to head of both joints, binding a bit rubbed, with minor loss of gilt, first two leaves mounted on stubs, but an excellent copy, clean and fresh internally with well-preserved maps, and the binding with nothing approaching a serious defect. This is the very rare Latin epitome of Botero's "Le Relationi Universali" (1591), the most successful descriptive geography of the world at that time, translated here from the Italian vernacular of the original into the international language of contemporary scholarship. In his Address to the Reader, Botero cites his desire to make the key parts of his survey more widely available to readers "in a smaller and more comfortable form to be carried around, and omitting the Geographical plates (lest their price should frighten away the purchasers)." Happily, he chose to retain the maps for this edition. The contents here discuss the government, wealth, and demographics of territories ruled by the Holy Roman Empire, Austrian archdukes, the Pope, and the kings of France, England, Denmark, Sweden, and Poland. Extensive attention is given to the domains of the King of Spain and to the Ottoman Empire. In Asia, Botero examines Magnus Chan (Tartary), China, Siam, three regions of India, Japan, and Mongolia. In Africa, Botero discusses the kingdom of Mutapa, the Sharif of Morocco, and the realm of the mythical Prester John, an African king supposedly converted to Christianity (the land is, in fact, Ethiopia). The lavish binding here suggests that our copy was owned by a person of means and taste, rather than a poor scholar. A former Jesuit priest, Giovanni Botero (1544-1617) was a political philosopher and diplomat whose writings challenged Machiavelli's "The Prince" by arguing for adherence to Christian ethics over power for power's sake, and prefigured Malthus' population doctrine by attributing the growth and greatness of cities to the relationship between means of subsistence and the rate of human reproduction. Our first edition of this work is extremely scarce: USTC and OCLC find a total of seven copies in libraries worldwide (none in North America), and RBH records none at auction..

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men; Three Tenant Families by Agee, James and Walker Evans

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Title: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men; Three Tenant Families
Author: Agee, James and Walker Evans
Seller: Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books (United States)
Description: Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1960. Revised edition. Evans, Walker. Originally published in 1941, this revised edition includes a new foreword by Evans plus additional photographs. First printing of the reissue, inscribed by Evans, perhaps or probably to the novelist: “Tom Berger | with pleasure | Walker Evans.” Fine in a near fine jacket [Kingston 14].

Chronicle of the Cid by [Southey, Robert, translator]

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Title: Chronicle of the Cid
Author: [Southey, Robert, translator]
Seller: Biblioctopus (United States)
Description: London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1808. First Edition. First edition in English, the first prose version in any language of the great Spanish realist epic, recounting the heroic life of El Cid (Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, 1040-1099). 4to (261 x 213mm), pp. [2], [ii], [10], [iii]-xli, [1], map, 468. Rebound in old marbled wrappers matching the page edges. No half title, else complete with fly-titles, errata and advertisements, all notes, and the engraved map of Spain and Portugal. Interior clean but for a light damp stain to the margin of the map. Very good. A thorough rendering, describing the 11th-century deeds of the actual Castilian warrior known as El Cid during the period of the Reconquista that took back northern Spain from the Moors. Its source was the medieval saga Poema del Cid(Cantar del Mio Cid), written around 1140 as a metrical history by an unknown poet (the Homer of Spain), with the earliest surviving manuscript dating from 1207, preserved at Vivar, first published by Tomás Sánchez in 1779. This is the prose version, acclaimed around the world and not amalgamated or fully realized in a previous edition in any language. Southey drew partly from the 1552 Spanish Chronica del Famoso Cavallero Cid Ruydiez Compeador (based on a 13th-century manuscript), partly from the 1604 La Cronica General de España, partly from Corneille's 1637 French play Le Cid, and from other sources besides. Southey was 34 when he published this, already established as one of the Lake Poets but not yet Poet Laureate (that came in 1813). He had spent years teaching himself Spanish and Portuguese specifically to translate their medieval epics, driven by the conviction that England needed access to the heroic literature of the Iberian peninsula. He was right. The Chronicle became the standard English version and remained so for over a century, introducing El Cid to readers who knew him only vaguely as the subject of Corneille's drama or as a footnote in histories of the Reconquista. El Cid himself was a mercenary who fought for both Christian and Muslim rulers, a pragmatist in an era being retroactively simplified into a clash of civilizations. The medieval chronicles turned him into a paragon of Christian knighthood; Southey's translation preserves that mythology while letting enough historical detail through to complicate it. The result is a portrait of medieval Spain that is both more romantic and more real than anything available to English readers before 1808.

Bookbinding for Amateurs: Being Descriptions Of The Various Tools & Appliances Required & Minute Instructions For Their Effective Use by CRANE, W. J. Eden

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Title: Bookbinding for Amateurs: Being Descriptions Of The Various Tools & Appliances Required & Minute Instructions For Their Effective Use
Author: CRANE, W. J. Eden
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Condition: A very good copy
Description: London: L. Upcott Gill, 1900. A very good copy. 12mo (18.8 x 12.5 mm). vi, [2], 184 (text); 13, [3] advertisements. Publisher's green cloth, black- and gilt-stamped (rear hinge cracked, endleaves browned, light wear at extremities). A comprehensive work on bookbinding for the amateur, its twenty-two chapters covering everything from materials, to folding, sewing, and finishing. The ads at end promote the 1900 edition of a book, thus providing the circa date of publication.

Captor - Captive by Williams, Joseph H

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Title: Captor - Captive
Author: Williams, Joseph H
Seller: Ed's Editions Bookstore (United States)
ISBN: 9780961622008
Condition: Good
Description: Girtman Press, Jacksonville, Florida, 1986. hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. Signed. Softcover. Inscribed by the author on the first page. Non-authorial inscription on the title page. Minor wear with some foxing. Has a good binding, no marks or notations to the text.

The Social Evil: With Special Reference to Conditions Existing in the City of New York

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Title: The Social Evil: With Special Reference to Conditions Existing in the City of New York
Seller: Appledore Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good +
Description: New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1902. Cloth. Very Good +. A clean, sharp copy of the March 1902 2nd printing. Solid and VG+ to Near Fine in its navy-blue cloth, with bright gilt-titling along the spine. Internally very clean, with no writing or markings to speak of. Octavo, "A Report Prepared under the Direction of The Committee of Fifteen

Byzantine Enamels from the 5th to the 13th Century by Wessel, Klaus

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Title: Byzantine Enamels from the 5th to the 13th Century
Author: Wessel, Klaus
Seller: The Kelmscott Bookshop (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York Graphic Society Ltd. Greenwich, CT, 1967. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. VG in purple cloth with gilt lettering on spine and gilt design centered on front cover. Profusely illustrated; pp. 211, index; dimensions 11x 9. Art. ART105090.

Make Me Yours by Browne, Eleanore

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Title: Make Me Yours
Author: Browne, Eleanore
Seller: ReadInk (United States)
Condition: Very Good+
Description: New York: The Macaulay Company. Very Good+. (c.1934). First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [quite a decent copy, the front hinge a bit weak but holding together, with a bit of wear along the top edge of the rear cover, slight fading at the spine]. "Marriage or Death! -- that was the decision that faced Perry Bannister, notorious Don Juan, when he is trapped into a meeting with five of his former flames: a film star who has a bodyguard of Mexican desperadoes; a girl noted as a good shot; a woman who is drunk enough to do something despearte; a married woman with a fierce husband; a dancer who portrays, symbolically, the act of strangling a man. Which of these has writen the note ordering him to propose to her before three o'clock in the morning?" Despite the presence of a movie star in the goings-on (by the name of "Avon Dawn"), this isn't really a "Hollywood novel" per se: most of the action takes place at Ms. Dawn's seaside estate in Ensenada, Mexico. (And despite the mention of her "Mexican desperado" bodyguards, it's never really made clear whether Avon Dawn herself is Mexican, although perhaps the reader was meant to intuit that from an early description of her as "both imperious and tempestuous.") The author (not to be confused with the modern-day novelist Eleanor Brown) cranked out a number of novels, mostly in the "women's fiction" vein for the rental-library market, during the 1930s -- although we should allow for the fact that "Eleanore Browne" may well have been a pseudonym (heck, "she" could have been the prolific and facile Jack Preston, for all I know). This title was later published as "The Immodest Maidens" in the Novel Library paperback series in 1949. .

A Week in December by Sebastian Faulks

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Title: A Week in December
Author: Sebastian Faulks
Seller: Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA (United States)
ISBN: 9780091794453
Condition: Fine
Description: Signed Limited Edition of which this is #910 of 1000; A fine book in a fine slipcase as issued. SIGNED by the author on the limitation page. A beautiful publication of this critically acclaimed book with no visible flaws. Ships in a sturdy box.

York County Land Use Plan Adopted by the York County Board of Supervisors March 4, 1976 by [York County, VA]

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Title: York County Land Use Plan Adopted by the York County Board of Supervisors March 4, 1976
Author: [York County, VA]
Seller: Americana Books ABAA (United States)
Condition: Fair
Description: York County, Virginia: York County, Virginia, 1976. Soft cover. Fair. Oblong plastic spiral bound soft cover (14" x 8.5") 36 pages, 32 pages 'Appendix'. Illustrated with one folding plan. Light brown stains on the covers. Interior in good condition.

The Year Book of the Unitarian Congregational Churches for 1875 With Calendar Adapted For Use Throughout the Country by [American Unitarian Association]

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Title: The Year Book of the Unitarian Congregational Churches for 1875 With Calendar Adapted For Use Throughout the Country
Author: [American Unitarian Association]
Seller: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: Boston: American Unitarian Association, 1875. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 60pp. Slight loss at spine ends, wraps rubbed and darkened, else very good.

Wild Grape Brew: An Anthology from Chaparral Poets of the Santa Barbara Chapter of California Federation of Chaparral Poets. by [POETRY ANTHOLOGY].

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Title: Wild Grape Brew: An Anthology from Chaparral Poets of the Santa Barbara Chapter of California Federation of Chaparral Poets.
Author: [POETRY ANTHOLOGY].
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller-ABAA (United States)
Description: Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Chapter of California Federation of Chaparral Poets, [c. 1945].. First edition.. [132 pp]. Spine lightly tanned, else near fine in printed wrappers with some rust to the binding pegs. SIGNED by Allen Holman Suggett at his contribution.

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