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The Sun Also Rises

The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway, Ernest

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Seller: Bookbid Rare Books
Title
The Sun Also Rises
Author
Hemingway, Ernest
Seller
Bookbid Rare Books (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Scribners, 1929. 5th or later Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A very good early printing (1929, ninth printing) inscribed by Ernest Hemingway on the front free endpaper. In a very good original dust jacket. Housed in a custom-made collector's clamshell case.
The History of Magic: To which is added an appendix of the most remarkable and best authenticated stories of Apparitions, Dreams, Second Sight, Somnambulism, Predictions, Divination, Witchcraft, Vampires, Fairies, Table-Turning, and Spirit-Rapping [2 Volumes]

The History of Magic: To which is added an appendix of the most remarkable and best authenticated stories of Apparitions, Dreams, Second Sight, Somnambulism, Predictions, Divination, Witchcraft, Vampires, Fairies, Table-Turning, and Spirit-Rapping [2 Volumes] by Ennemoser, Joseph; William Howitt [trans], Mary Howitt, Martha Kearsley [binder]

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Title
The History of Magic: To which is added an appendix of the most remarkable and best authenticated stories of Apparitions, Dreams, Second Sight, Somnambulism, Predictions, Divination, Witchcraft, Vampires, Fairies, Table-Turning, and Spirit-Rapping [2 Volumes]
Author
Ennemoser, Joseph; William Howitt [trans], Mary Howitt, Martha Kearsley [binder]
Seller
Lux Mentis, Booksellers (United States)
Condition
Very Good+
Description
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. First Edition. Hardcover. From Bohn's Scientific Library series. Joseph Ennemoser (15 November 1787-19 September 1854) was a South Tyrolean physician and stubborn late proponent of Franz Mesmer 's theories of animal magnetism. He became known to English readers through Mary Howitt 's translation of his History of Magic (1819, 1844, tr. 1854). Wounter J. Hanegraaf emphasizes Ennemoser's three innovative features: (1) his use of mesmerism/somnambulism as the heuristic "key" for tracing the history of magic, (2) his evolutionist/providentialist vision, and (3) the religionist nature of his approach in general. The book also explores the role of magic in religion, literature, and art. Ennemoser provides an in-depth analysis of the different types of magic, including natural magic, demonic magic, and ceremonial magic. He also discusses the famous practitioners of magic, such as Paracelsus and Agrippa. Professionally rebacked by Martha Kearsley, Strongarm Bindery, in Portland, ME. Light/moderate shelf/edgwear, chipping, toning, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Rebacked with red toned Kojo tissue, paper mends, gilt stamped labels on textured/pressed cloth boards with paper labels. Provenence labels. 8vo. 471pp, 518pp. Two volume set.
La gallerie des femmes fortes. Troisiesme edition, revue & corrigée

La gallerie des femmes fortes. Troisiesme edition, revue & corrigée by Le Moyne, Pierre

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La gallerie des femmes fortes. Troisiesme edition, revue & corrigée
Author
Le Moyne, Pierre
Seller
Rulon-Miller Books (United States)
Description
Paris: Claude Barbin, 1661. 12mo, pp. [110], 309, [3]; 251, [16], [4]; with genuine blank [N12] at the end of volume I and the 2 leaves of preliminaries for volume II bound in at the back; extra engraved title page, and 20 full-page engraved portraits of women by Claude Vignon; woodcut ornaments and initials; leaf e3 with marginal tear; all else about fine in an attractive full crimson morocco binding of the 19th century, a.e.g., gilt lettered direct on spine. "In 1647, La Gallerie des Femmes fortes by the Jesuit Pierre Le Moyne, the admired court poet, was published by Antoine de Sommaville. Dedicated to Anne of Austria, the work is composed of twenty chapters, written in both verse and prose, celebrating notable women of Jewish, Christian, and Pagan origin...In these beautiful engravings of women, we find in our artist the profound sense of taste for the heroines, filled with grace, passion, and melodrama" (Pacht-Bassani). The portraits include Salome, Artemise, Lucrece, Jeanne d'Arc, and a dramatic portrait of Marie Stuart.
[Real photo postcard, ink caption title]: "Aunt Kizzie - Our Cook

[Real photo postcard, ink caption title]: "Aunt Kizzie - Our Cook

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Title
[Real photo postcard, ink caption title]: "Aunt Kizzie - Our Cook
Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
[Galveston: Blessing & Co, 1875. Unbound. Fine. Gelatin silver real photo post card measuring 3½" x 5½". Not mailed. A tiny bit of wear at bottom corners where it was little tipped-into a scrapbook or photo album, abut fine. Forward facing image taken from the upper chest upward, a deep and bright vintage print of a formidable older African-American woman with head wrap, a neck scarf, and a gingham dress, peering skeptically at the camera. Inked caption "Aunt Kizzie - Our Cook". Otherwise unidentified, we found closely related images of the same subject amidst a group of photographs of the White Lockhart family of Galveston, Texas. A terrific image.
The Newlyweds and their Baby's Comic Pictures for Painting and Crayoning

The Newlyweds and their Baby's Comic Pictures for Painting and Crayoning by McManus, Geo.

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The Newlyweds and their Baby's Comic Pictures for Painting and Crayoning
Author
McManus, Geo.
Seller
ReadInk (United States)
Condition
Very Good+
Description
Akron/New York/Chicago: The Saalfield Publishing Co.. Very Good+. (c.1917, 1907). Stiff wrappers. [moderate edgewear to covers, internally Fine except for the expected and inevitable age-toning to the pages]. (cartoon strips and panels) A remarkably well-preserved example of this rare vintage coloring book (OCLC reports only four library holdings), containing mostly undated reprints of George McManus's newspaper comic strip, "The Newlyweds," generally considered the first American "family" strip. Created by the then 20-year-old McManus for Joseph Pulitzer's New York World in 1904, the strip ran for twelve years, at various times as both a daily and Sunday feature; when McManus left the World for the New York American (a Hearst paper), he began a new strip called "Their Only Child" ("a perfect clone," in the words of one historian), while "The Newlyweds" continued in the World, drawn by Albert George Carmichael. Dating the strips in the book would be a major research task, not helped by the mishmash of dates provided: the 1917 date is on the front cover; the title page reads: "Copyrighted 1907 by the Press Publishing Co."; and several of the individual color strips bear a 1916 copyright date, also credited to the "Press Publishing Co. (N.Y. World)." All appear to all be Sunday strips, although some are in B&W (for "coloring-in" purposes, I suppose) and others in color, and despite McManus's sole by-line on the title page, Carmichael's work is also well-represented. (On quite a few, either McManus's or Carmichael's signature is visible; generally speaking, the color versions appear to be by Carmichael and the B&W ones by McManus.) To my eyes, the 1917 publication date signals the publishers' attempt to wring a few more drops of revenue out of a feature that had ended the previous year; the seemingly anomalous 1907 copyright date would seem related to the "birth date" of baby Snookums (yes, that was his name), who was introduced into the strip in that year. [Either that or it's just a "holdover" from an earlier book incarnation, "The Newlyweds and Their Baby," published the same year by the New York World, but not to be confused with the present volume.] But relax: it's not so much a collection (let alone a chronicle) as it is a sampler of "The Newlyweds," and as such is utterly charming. McManus's most successful and best-remembered strip, "Bringing Up Father" (aka "Jiggs & Maggie"), debuted in 1913 and had an amazing 87-year run -- outliving its creator by 46 years! .
The Girls of Radcliff Hall

The Girls of Radcliff Hall by Lord Berners [Gerald Hugh Tyrwitt-Wilson writing as Adela Quebec] edited by John Byrne, frontis by Emilio Coia

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Title
The Girls of Radcliff Hall
Author
Lord Berners [Gerald Hugh Tyrwitt-Wilson writing as Adela Quebec] edited by John Byrne, frontis by Emilio Coia
Seller
Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
ISBN
9780907435136
Description
London: Montcalm & The Cygnet Press, 2000. Hardcover. vii, 99p., frontis-portrait, frontis-photo of original publication cover, introduction, key to real personages at rear, fine first edition thus limited to 750 copies green cloth backstrip over decorative boards, gilt titles on spine, in fine, unclipped dj. Originally privately printed in 1934 by Lord Berners under the pseudonym of Adela Quebec. Most copies were destroyed. The "girls" of the humorous tale are actually real male personages such as Cecil Beaton, Oliver Messel, Pavel Tchelitchew, Peter Watson and the author himself (Miss Carfax!) Key to the characters at rear. Gay parody of "The Well of Loneliness
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WASTE LAND: A FACSIMILE AND TRANSCRIPT OF THE ORIGINAL DRAFTS INCLUDING THE ANNOTATIONS OF EZRA POUND.|THE by Eliot, T.S.

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WASTE LAND: A FACSIMILE AND TRANSCRIPT OF THE ORIGINAL DRAFTS INCLUDING THE ANNOTATIONS OF EZRA POUND.|THE
Author
Eliot, T.S.
Seller
Oak Knoll Books/Oak Knoll Press (United States)
Description
New York: Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, 1971. cloth, slipcase. 4to. cloth, slipcase. 149 pages. First limited edition of 250 numbered copies intended for sale in the United States. Spine with a hint of fading, else a fine copy. Interior is pristine. No writing or markings of any kind.
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HOW TO TEST READABILITY by Flesch, Rudolf

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Title
HOW TO TEST READABILITY
Author
Flesch, Rudolf
Seller
Oak Knoll Books/Oak Knoll Press (United States)
Description
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1951. cloth, dust jacket. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 56 pages. First edition. Lacking the dust jacket. Exlibrary copy with markings. Wear to covers and spine ends. A good copy of this rare book.
Circa 1900 - Three postcards showing quarantine and immigration facilities at Angel Island near San Francisco, the arrival point for most immigrants from Asia, especially China

Circa 1900 - Three postcards showing quarantine and immigration facilities at Angel Island near San Francisco, the arrival point for most immigrants from Asia, especially China

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Circa 1900 - Three postcards showing quarantine and immigration facilities at Angel Island near San Francisco, the arrival point for most immigrants from Asia, especially China
Seller
Kurt A. Sanftleben (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
San Francisco, Californi, 1900. Unbound. Very good. These three unused postcards show quarantine and immigration facilities at Angel Island near San Francisco. In nice shape. All are unused. "Quarantine Station, Angel Island, Calif." San Francisco: Stanley A Piltz Company, undated "Quarantine Station - Angel Island, Cal." San Francisco: Souvenir Publishing Company, undated "U.S. Quarantine Station. Angel Island. Cal." San Francisco: Pacific Novelty Co. undated .
Omega SIGNED FIRST EASTON PRESS EDITION

Omega SIGNED FIRST EASTON PRESS EDITION by McDevitt, Jack

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Title
Omega SIGNED FIRST EASTON PRESS EDITION
Author
McDevitt, Jack
Seller
Underground Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
Norwalk: The Easton Press, 2003. First Edition. Leather_bound. Very good. First Edition. Leather_bound. Signed by Jack McDevitt in ink at special publisher's page at front. This copy is numbered 854 of 900. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". 438pp. Bound in red leather over boards with spine and covers stamped in decorative gilt. Four raised bands at spine with 5 gilt compartments. All-edges gilt. Orange silk moire enpapers with sewn in gold silk placeholder. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. With The Easton Press certificate of authenticity and notecard about the book laid in. ABOUT THIS BOOK: A civilization-destroying omega cloud has switched direction, heading straight for a previously unexplored planetary system--and its alien society. And suddenly, a handful of brave humans must try to save an entire world--without revealing their existence.(Publisher).
Valery Gergiev and the Kirov; a Story of Survival
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Valery Gergiev and the Kirov; a Story of Survival by Ardoin, John

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Title
Valery Gergiev and the Kirov; a Story of Survival
Author
Ardoin, John
Seller
Hackenberg Booksellers ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9781574670646
Description
Portland: Amadeus Press, 2001. 296p., colored and b/w illus., dj, quarto format.
Mad Cowboy; plain truth from the cattle Rancher Who won't Eat Meat
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Mad Cowboy; plain truth from the cattle Rancher Who won't Eat Meat by Lyman, Howard F.

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Mad Cowboy; plain truth from the cattle Rancher Who won't Eat Meat
Author
Lyman, Howard F.
Seller
Hackenberg Booksellers ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780684845166
Description
New York: Scribner, 1998. With Glen Merzer. 223p., dj.
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DESCRIPTION OF A WOOD ENGRAVING ILLUSTRATING THE SOUTH AMERICAN INDIAN by EAMES, Wilberforce

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DESCRIPTION OF A WOOD ENGRAVING ILLUSTRATING THE SOUTH AMERICAN INDIAN
Author
EAMES, Wilberforce
Seller
The Bookpress, Ltd. (United States)
Description
EAMES, Wilberforce. DESCRIPTION OF A WOOD ENGRAVING ILLUSTRATING THE SOUTH AMERICAN INDIANS. New York: New York Public Library, 1922. 8vo. Wrappers. 7, (1) pages, 1 double-page plate. First edition. Fine in library pamphlet binder.

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