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Mardi: and a Voyage Hither

Mardi: and a Voyage Hither by Melville, Herman

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Seller: The Manhattan Rare Book Company
Title
Mardi: and a Voyage Hither
Author
Melville, Herman
Seller
The Manhattan Rare Book Company (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
New York: Harper & Brothers. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION of Melville's third book, containing the first glimpses of the rich symbolism and allegorical style that would later be more fully developed in Moby Dick. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1849. Octavo, original brown blind-stamped cloth. Two volumes. Provenance: with bookplates of Albert Henry Wiggin, the noted book collector and famous Boston and New York banker who was considered for Time's Man of the Year for 1930 for his work during the Depression; also with attractive bookplates of Sydney Ansell Gimson and Fowler Booksellers. Very light wear at spine ends, usual scattered occasional foxing, pastedowns toned and foxed. Cloth very clean and gilt exceptionally bright: a beautiful copy.
Albany Law School Class Album

Albany Law School Class Album by [Albany]

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Seller: Sanctuary Books
Title
Albany Law School Class Album
Author
[Albany]
Seller
Sanctuary Books (United States)
Condition
Very Good+
Description
New York, 1866. Hardcover. Very Good+. Full morocco, "Autographs" stamped in gilt on upper board; 8vo (130 x 195 mm); contains 138 small albumen photographs (oval, each about 32 mm at the longest diameter) of law students and faculty, mounted to the recto and verso. All are signed by the subject, sometimes also listing his birthplace, religion, and political affiliations, and sometimes including an inscription. The first 3 leaves are signed by the founders of the school, Ira Harris, Amasa J. Parker, and Amos Dean. Contemporary plain paper covering (home-made dust jacket), signed by A. J. Clarke, and with a laid-in letter 1867 addressed to him by John T. Pope and G. M. Thompson, who became lawyers in the city after graduation. The letter lays out what Clarke ought to expect in terms of practicing in NYC (what his expenses might be, where to find a room), and offers a little gossip on some fellow classmates. Worthy of further study -- this album includes students who went on to have distinguished legal careers, and it's interesting to to see where they came from and (occasionally, via the letter) where they wound up. Binding worn and a bit warped (perhaps due to water-damage); home-made dust jacket soiled and torn; slight wave to text block. Contents, however, remain nice and bright.
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Passage of Arms by AMBLER, Eric

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Title
Passage of Arms
Author
AMBLER, Eric
Seller
Argosy Book Store (United States)
Condition
fine
Description
New York: Knopf, 1960. First. hardcover. fine/fine. 8vo, cloth, d.w. New York: Knopf, 1960. First American Edition. A fine copy, autographed by Ambler. With 2 completely different dust jackets, one by John O'Hara Cosgrave II, the other by Jean Carlu. Both in very fine condition.
Ancient Building Technology, Volume 1: Historical Background

Ancient Building Technology, Volume 1: Historical Background by Wright, G. R. H.

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Title
Ancient Building Technology, Volume 1: Historical Background
Author
Wright, G. R. H.
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Underground Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9789004099692
Condition
Very good +
Description
Leiden, Boston, Koln: Brill, 2000. Hardcover. Very good +/very good +. Hardcover. 11 3/4" X 8 1/2". xx, 155pp. Presents nicely in protective archival sleeved dust jacket. Mild shelfwear to dust jacket. Bound in gray cloth over boards, with upper board and spine lettered in gilt. Light shelfwear to binding, with gentle bumping to extremities. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean, bright, and unmarked. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The wealth of excavation of ancient buildings in the past 50 years and the resulting flood of publications has created a demand for a survey of building practice in antiquity. This two-volume work deals with the techniques of setting together the fabric of ancient buildings: the manual and mechanical operations involved; the materials, tools and equipment used. "Ancient" here means from very first beginnings (origins) to the end of Late Antiquity (i.e. about 600 A.D.); as manifested geographically in the Old World of Europe and the Middle East (not sub-Saharan Africa, Further Asia, the Far East or New World). Building (the product and the process) is limited to architectural building and looks at the technology of civil engineering only where it introduces novelties. Technology here means the system of techniques used in the process of building construction rather than the science or theory of building. The 10 chapters of this first volume are intended to give a general perspective of animal building in the light of evolutionary biology, then of building in the Palaeolithic, Neolithic, Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Levanto-Aegean, Achaemenid, Greek, Roman, Late Antique -Early Christian / Byzantine / Sassanian contexts (with a weighting towards the lesser known prehistoric beginnings and late antique end). The second volume will focus on the technical details: materials of construction, structural systems, principles of construction and forms of construction. (Publisher).
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The Joys of Farming by Cicero

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Title
The Joys of Farming
Author
Cicero
Seller
Argonaut Book Shop (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
San Francisco: Printed by Adrian Wilson, 1980 Book. Fine. Soft cover. One of 200 copies printed by Adrian Wilson at The Press in Tuscany Alley. Oblong octavo. (14)pp. Six linoleum cuts printed in green. Stitched brown wrappers, white label printed in green on front cover. A very fine copy. The linoleum cuts are by Joyce Lancaster Wilson. This keepsake was printed for presentation to the members of the joint meeting of The Roxburghe Club of San Francisco and The Zamorano Club of Los Angeles. The text was taken from an essay, Cato the Elder on Old Age from Cicero: Selected Works, translated by Michael Grant. Adrian Wilson, designer and printer, started printing with Jack Stauffacher in 1948. Two years later he set up his own establishment in his home in San Francisco under the title of "At the Sign of the Interplayers." In 1952 he opened a shop in downtown San Francisco along with other printers in "Vegetable Row." His major work was "Printing for the Theater," 1957..
Martinet Menu Du Jour - Menu Card. Paris. c1880s

Martinet Menu Du Jour - Menu Card. Paris. c1880s

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Martinet Menu Du Jour - Menu Card. Paris. c1880s
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Eclectibles (United States)
Description
A 4 5/8" x 3 1/4" menu card for Martinet, 28 Avenue de L'Opera, Paris. A menu card for Lunch either Prix Fix or ala carte. The front depicts a caricature of a father flying out of his chair when he pulls the champagne cork with frightened children looking on. The reverse is a printed menu format with hand penned fare including prices. Printed by Acker, Paris. c1880s. Margins appear trimmed.
PETER TAYLOR, A DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY, 1934-87

PETER TAYLOR, A DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY, 1934-87 by Wright, Stuart

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PETER TAYLOR, A DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY, 1934-87
Author
Wright, Stuart
Seller
Oak Knoll Books/Oak Knoll Press (United States)
Description
Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1988. cloth, dust jacket. Taylor, Peter. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xii, 228 pages. First edition. Describes all the works of this Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and short story writer, including appearances in periodicals, interviews, and published quotes and comments.
John Coutsoheras Today; A Profile of the Greek Poet

John Coutsoheras Today; A Profile of the Greek Poet by Cochrane, P. N.

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Title
John Coutsoheras Today; A Profile of the Greek Poet
Author
Cochrane, P. N.
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Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
Sydney: [P.N. Cochrane], [n.d.]. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. About Fine. Wraps toned. Square and firmly bound with two staples, clean internally. A small twenty-three page pamphlet about the writing and biography of the award-winning Greek poet.

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