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Writings of Henry David Thoreau

Writings of Henry David Thoreau by THOREAU, Henry David

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Seller: Heritage Book Shop, LLC
Title
Writings of Henry David Thoreau
Author
THOREAU, Henry David
Seller
Heritage Book Shop, LLC (United States)
Description
Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1906. GLEASON, Herbert W.. Full Description: THOREAU, Henry David. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau. Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1906. The Walden Edition. Twenty small octavo volumes (7 5/8 x 5 inches; 193 x 126 mm). With portrait frontispiece in volume I and photographic frontispieces by Herbert Gleason in other volumes. Each volume with an additional four photogravure images, with tissue guards. Bound in three-quarter green morocco over marbled paper boards. Spines richly tooled in a floral design and lettered in gilt. Top edges gilt, others uncut. Marbled endpapers. . Overall, a near fine set. "This edition is based on the Riverside Edition, with the addition of the complete Journal in fourteen volumes...[which] contain[s] many text cuts from rude sketches by Thoreau" (Allen). Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), "American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher who is best known for having lived the doctrines of Transcendentalism, recording his experience in his masterwork Walden (1854)...Early in the spring of 1845, Thoreau, then 27 years old, began to build a home on the shores of Walden Pond, a lake two miles south of Concord on land Emerson owned. From the outset the move gave him profound satisfaction. When not busy weeding his bean rows and trying to protect them from hungry woodchucks or occupied with fishing, swimming, or rowing, he spent long hours observing and recording the local flora and fauna, reading, writing A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849), and making entries in his journals, which later he would polish and include in Walden, a series of 18 essays describing his experiment in basic living. Thoreau stayed for two years at Walden Pond" (Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature). Allen pp. 52-53. HBS 69494. $4,000.
Catalogue des Estampes, Vases de Poterie étrusques, figures, Bas-reliefs & Bustes de bronze, de marbre & de terre cuite, Ouvrages en marqueterie du célebre Boule pere, Pièces de Méchanique, & autres Objets curieux du Cabinet de feu… Par P. Remy

Catalogue des Estampes, Vases de Poterie étrusques, figures, Bas-reliefs & Bustes de bronze, de marbre & de terre cuite, Ouvrages en marqueterie du célebre Boule pere, Pièces de Méchanique, & autres Objets curieux du Cabinet de feu… Par P. Remy by (AUCTION CATALOGUE: CROZAT, Louis Antoine, Baron de Thiers)

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Catalogue des Estampes, Vases de Poterie étrusques, figures, Bas-reliefs & Bustes de bronze, de marbre & de terre cuite, Ouvrages en marqueterie du célebre Boule pere, Pièces de Méchanique, & autres Objets curieux du Cabinet de feu… Par P. Remy
Author
(AUCTION CATALOGUE: CROZAT, Louis Antoine, Baron de Thiers)
Seller
Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description
viii, 185 pp. Small 8vo, attractive antique calf-backed paste paper boards, spine gilt, red morocco lettering piece on spine. Paris: Muzier, 1772. An uncommon catalogue describing the famed collection of the Crozat dynasty of collectors. Louis Antoine (1700-70), a general and sophisticated collector in his own right, was the son of Antoine Crozat (1655-1738), and the nephew of Pierre Crozat (1665-1740), both wealthy merchants — though Pierre was ironically known as “Crozat le Pauvre,” compared to his brother who was reputed to be the wealthiest man in Paris. Together, they patronized Watteau and other Rococo artists, and amassed one of the most important private art collections of the 18th century. Upon Pierre’s death, the art passed to Louis Antoine and his two brothers, who all considerably supplemented the family’s collections. Finally, with the death of Louis Antoine, who had no male heirs, the Crozat collection was put up for sale. Diderot and François Tronchin, one of the first collectioneurs-marchands, acted as the agents for the sale of about 400 paintings to Catherine the Great for the enormous sum of 460,000 livres. The rest of the collection is described herein, including a formidable collection of prints, illustrated books and books of prints (nos. 672-865), ceramics, sculpture, scientific instruments, and various curiosities, such as a telescope, microscopes, a bronze moving sphere, and a machine pneumatique devised by Abbé Nollet. 1125 lots, of which 194 are important illustrated books and bound collections of prints. Lot 672 is a thoroughly described ensemble of the works of Jacques Callot bound in red morocco. Nice copy. ❧ Lugt 2004. N.B.G., Vol. 12, cols. 552-55. The Hermitage website, “The Acquisition of Baron Pierre Crozat’s Collection,” accessed 22 January 2018.
The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book

The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book by Toklas, Alice B.

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Title
The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book
Author
Toklas, Alice B.
Seller
Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
London: Michael Joseph, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Illustrated by Sir Francis Rose. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, clipped, lightly toned and rubbed. Beige cloth, faintly bumped at the corners, with a green ink panel and gilt lettering and designs on the spine. Square and firmly bound with a green topstain, clean internally. Featuring the infamous Brion Gysin haschich fudge receipe, the first UK edition of Toklas's best-selling and controversial recipe book with anecdotes about the likes of Picasso and Hemingway interspersed.
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Metafours For Mysophobes by WILLIAMS, Jonathan

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Seller: James S. Jaffe Rare Books LLC
Title
Metafours For Mysophobes
Author
WILLIAMS, Jonathan
Seller
James S. Jaffe Rare Books LLC (United States)
Condition
As new
Description
Twickenham & Wakefield: North and South, (1989). First edition. One of 26 lettered copies signed by JW & with a holographic metafour: "if michael angelo had used / a roller he would / have gotten the ceiling / done quicker reckons Kitaj, Jonathan Williams. As new. 8vo, glossy yellow wrappers with front cover photograph by JW & back cover photograph of JW by Douglas Lewis. As new.
An Accounting of the Guardianship of Timothy Stevens

An Accounting of the Guardianship of Timothy Stevens by Jonathan D Roberts

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An Accounting of the Guardianship of Timothy Stevens
Author
Jonathan D Roberts
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Eclectibles (United States)
Description
Farmington, NH, 1856 - 1864. A copy book used to by Jonathan D. Roberts to keep an accounting of his guardianship of Timothy Stevens from 1856 - 1864. On the first page is a note that states Roberts was appointed Stevens guardian on February 5, 1856 and that this fact was advertised in the Dover Gazette on the first Tuesday in February. Next is an inventory of the Estate of Timonth Stevens valued at $1,011.37. What follows is a list of expenses incurred by Roberts, such as the cost of board, travel to the probate court, the cost of his services and a list of different bills paid out. The front cover has an engraving of a monument that states "To Washington". The back cover has a multiplication table on it as well as the note "Always for sale, a general assortment of Blank, School, and Miscellaneous Books..." There is no mention of a publisher. No OCLC, Feb 2019. Yellow covers, 16 pages. Completely filled. Measures 8" x 6 1/2"
Airplane Dreams: Compositions from Journals

Airplane Dreams: Compositions from Journals by Ginsberg, Allen

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Title
Airplane Dreams: Compositions from Journals
Author
Ginsberg, Allen
Seller
B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
[San Francisco]: House of Anansi / City Lights Books, 1969 First American edition, first printing. Signed and inscribed by Ginsberg on the title page: Allen Ginsberg / For Ron Benham." With a few annotations by Ginsberg to the title page, including "-Yeats" beneath printed quotation, and "AH" and "Naropa" and a couple of undeciphered words around printed 3-fish symbol. One of 5,000 copies. Publisher's white and blue wrappers, with photo of Ginsberg by Terry Walker to front wrapper, lettered in black. Near fine, with small crease to top right corner of front wrapper, and light spotting to rear wrapper. Overall, a clean copy. Airplane Dreams contains some of Ginsberg's journal writings from between 1948 and 1968. In a note at the beginning of the book, Ginsberg describes the collection as "... a few solid fragments typed up published out of context, not exactly poems, nor not poems: journal notations put together conveniently, a mental turn-on printed across the border by long hair youthful exiles disunited from these States by the war of sighs and spears." The fragments are titled: "History of the Jewish Socialist Party in America," "Understand that this is a dream," "New York to San Fran," and "Consulting I Ching Smoking Pot Listening to the Fugs Sing Blake." . Inscribed by Author. First American Edition. Original Wrappers. Near Fine.
THE WORLD OF THE TEN THOUSAND THINGS: Poems 1980-1990

THE WORLD OF THE TEN THOUSAND THINGS: Poems 1980-1990 by Wright, Charles

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THE WORLD OF THE TEN THOUSAND THINGS: Poems 1980-1990
Author
Wright, Charles
Seller
Type Punch Matrix (United States)
ISBN
9780374292935
Condition
Near fine in near fine jacket.
Description
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1990. First edition. Near fine in near fine jacket.. Inscribed first printing of Wright's decade-spanning collection, from the library of American poet and critic Stanley Plumly, annotated with Plumly's own commentary. 9'' x 6''. Original navy blue cloth with gilt-lettered spine. In original unclipped ($25.00) dust jacket. 231, [1] pages. Inscribed by Wright on front free endpaper: "For Stan from Charles, Warm regards, warm memories." Plumly's marginalia in pencil throughout, with longer notes on rear endpapers. Faint rubbing to boards. Minor edgewear and light toning to jacket.
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Harper's Magazine, Christmas, 1901, Vol. CIV, No. DCXIX by Twain, Mark; Harte, Bret; Jewett, Sarah Orne; Wilson, Woodrow; Pyle, Howard; Sterner, Albert

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Harper's Magazine, Christmas, 1901, Vol. CIV, No. DCXIX
Author
Twain, Mark; Harte, Bret; Jewett, Sarah Orne; Wilson, Woodrow; Pyle, Howard; Sterner, Albert
Seller
Dale Steffey Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1901. Book. Very Good. Printed Wrappers. First Edition. Very Good in brown printed wrappers, wrappers are chipped at corners of rear panel and worn at spine tips while contents remain remarkably clean and tight. Contains the 1st printing of Mark Twain's story "The Death-Disk", which was made into a silent film in 1909, directed by D.W. Griffith. Also contains "A Ward of Colonel Starbottle's", a story by Bret Harte, "The Coming of Peace" by Woodrow Wilson and illustrated by Howard Pyle, a story by Sarah Orne Jewett, and color illustrations by Albert Sterner and W.T. Smedley, among numerous other stories, essays, poems, illustrations and advertisements. A great collectable. SCARCE..
Correspondance (1951-1970); Avec un choix de lettres de Paul Celan à son fils Eric

Correspondance (1951-1970); Avec un choix de lettres de Paul Celan à son fils Eric by Celan, Paul; Celan-Lestrange, Gisèle; Badiou, Bertrand (Éditée, Commentée avec le concours d'Eric Celan)

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Correspondance (1951-1970); Avec un choix de lettres de Paul Celan à son fils Eric
Author
Celan, Paul; Celan-Lestrange, Gisèle; Badiou, Bertrand (Éditée, Commentée avec le concours d'Eric Celan)
Seller
Swan's Fine Books (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
[Paris]: Éditions du Seuil, 2001. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Two volumes (complete), octavo size, approx. 1530 pp., all text in French. Paul Celan (1920-1970) was born Paul Antschel in Romania to a German-speaking Jewish family, his surname was later spelled Ancel and he eventually adopted the anagram Celan as his nom de plume. Celan lived in France and was influenced by the French surrealists but wrote his poetry in German (he was well versed in at least six languages, and also translated the work of many notable poets). In 1952, Celan married the artist Gisèle Lestrange (1926-1991); many of the works she produced after they met had links to the poetry of Paul Celan. This work, "Correspondance", publishes letters between the two, as well as some letters from Paul to his son, Eric (b. 1955). Please note that this entire work is in French. ___DESCRIPTION: Bound in grey (Volume I) or black (Volume II) paper over boards, blind-debossed lettering on the spines, ribbon markers in corresponding colours; binding octavo size (9" by 5 3/4"), pagination: Vol. I, [1-6] 7-718 [1, colophon]; Vol. II, [1-6] 7-786 [14]. In dust jackets with a graphic design in grey on the front panels and spines, red and black lettering. Housed in a cardboard slipcase with a wrap-around black-and-white reproduction of a photograph of the couple. ___CONDITION: Volumes fine overall, the boards clean, straight corners without rubbing, strong, square text blocks with solid hinges, the interiors clean and bright, and entirely free of prior owner markings; note that the text block for Volume I was bound into the boards upside down, very minor bumping to the heads and tails, else fine. The jackets are near fine, clean, with corresponding light bumps to the heads and tails and a modicum of edgewear, including a short (approx. one-third inch) closed tear to the bottom of the front panel of Volume II. The cardboard slipcase near fine to fine, clean, without noticeable wear other than a corresponding bump to one of the top corners. ___POSTAGE: Please note that this is an unusually heavy set and additional postage may apply; 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.
Off Our Backs: a women's news journal; vol. 2, #5, January, 1972; Women Loving: 2

Off Our Backs: a women's news journal; vol. 2, #5, January, 1972; Women Loving: 2

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Off Our Backs: a women's news journal; vol. 2, #5, January, 1972; Women Loving: 2
Seller
Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description
Washington DC: Off Our Backs, 1972. Newspaper. 24p., folded tabloid newspaper, photos, illustrations, news, reviews, services, ads, evenly toned, otherwise very good on newsprint.
Riders in the Chariot

Riders in the Chariot by WHITE, Patrick

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Riders in the Chariot
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WHITE, Patrick
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Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1961. First British edition and first printing. Hardcover. 552 pages. The sixth novel from Australian authhor Patrick White. White would go on to win the 1973 Nobel Prize in Literature. An about very good copy in brown cloth boards with a former owner signature to the front free endpaper and a small shallow moisture stain to the top edge of the rear board and in a good plus price clipped dust jacket with some wear, small tears, and the same corresponding stain to the top edge of the rear panel. Despite the flaws a solid copy.
Scale Model Sailing Ships.

Scale Model Sailing Ships. by Bowen, John.

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Title
Scale Model Sailing Ships.
Author
Bowen, John.
Seller
Ten Pound Island Book Co. (United States)
Condition
Well illustrated. With bibliography and glossary. VG, dj.
Description
New York: Mayflower, (1978). Well illustrated. With bibliography and glossary. VG, dj.. 25 cm. 192 pp. b/w plates and ills.
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The National Geographic Magazine, February 1936, Volume LXIX, Number Two

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Title
The National Geographic Magazine, February 1936, Volume LXIX, Number Two
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Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition
Good
Description
National Geographic Society, 1936. Good. The National Geographic Magazine, February 1936, Volume LXIX, Number Two. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 1936. 308pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Good with losses in spine ends. Tear in top edge of front cover. Creasing in rear cover..
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American Mountain People by ANDERSON, Clay, et al.

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American Mountain People
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ANDERSON, Clay, et al.
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Argosy Book Store (United States)
Description
hardcover. many color illus. 4to, cloth, d.w. Washington, (1973).
"The stellar photometer of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory."

"The stellar photometer of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory." by ARGYLE, P. E.

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"The stellar photometer of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory."
Author
ARGYLE, P. E.
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Jeff Weber Rare Books (Switzerland)
Description
Offprint from: Publications of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, Victoria, B.C., Vol. X, No. 14. Ottawa:: Edmond Cloutier, 1957., 1957. 4to. 305-321 pp. 2 plates, 9 figs., 2 tables. Printed wrappers. Fine.

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