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Image for Les Privileges Du Cocuage, Ouvrage Utile et Necessaire tant aux Cornards Actuels, qu'aux Cocus eu Herbe A Vicon, chez Jean Cornichon, l'enseigne du Coucou, 1682

Les Privileges Du Cocuage, Ouvrage Utile et Necessaire tant aux Cornards Actuels, qu'aux Cocus eu Herbe A Vicon, chez Jean Cornichon, l'enseigne du Coucou, 1682

By: Anonymous; [attributed variously to Eustache Le Noble ; Samuel Chappuzeau ; P. L. Jacob]

Price: $174.99

Publisher: (Bruxelles), (J. Gay): 1860

Seller ID: 42462

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

139 pages; Rimpression faite Bruxelles, par J. Gay, 1860, avec une notice bibliographique de P. Lacroix. [Catalogue de la bibliothque de M. Emile Desmazires] Reimpression faite a 200 exemplaires sur papier de Hollande. No. 63 [of 200] Original plain blue-green wrappers in glassine jacket. Very Good+ This nicely produced reissue of this satirical exposition of the 'privileges' of cuckoldry takes the form of lengthy dialogue between Le Cocu and Le Jaloux. OCLC 1063428053 "THE BENEFITS AND PRIVILEGES OF CUCKOLDS, Shewing the little Disgrace there is in being one, and the Obligations M...
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THE GYPSIES - Romans from Little Egypt

By: Biddle, Moncure

Price: $9.94

Publisher: Philadelphia, Moncure Biddle & Company: 1940

Seller ID: 38661

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

37 pages; Clean and tight in original tan printed wrappers. Colour frontispiece and fourteen additional b&w full page illustrations (one folding). Printed at the press of George Buchanan under the direction of Joseph A. Gutekunst. Moncure Biddle, from the famous Philadelphia Biddle family, was an investment banker. a famous bibliophile, a connoisseur of editions of the classics and, by reputation, an eccentric. During the 1940s Biddle published an annual "Christmas Letter" on a topic of literary or bibliographic interest. This book, issued for Christmas 1940, addresses The Gypsies and is ...
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RHYMES WITH LITTLE REASON

By: Blair, Anne

Price: $10.94

Publisher: Mount Vernon Publishing Company: 1962

Seller ID: 37109

Binding: Booklet

Condition: Very Good+

Autograph; Inscribed to Armita Colt and SIGNED by the author on title page. Clean and tight in original cream wrappers printed in red. ; Signed by Author; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings.
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PARSIFAL MARCHEN

By: Chamberlain, Houston Stewart

Price: $74.94

Publisher: Munchen, Verlag von F. Bruckmann: 1900

Seller ID: 41528

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

68 pages; Nr. 77 of an edition limited to only 330 copies printed on Japon paper. OCLC: 8271067 Titlepage with large Initial printed in gold, lettering in red and black. Large initial letters and first chapter lines in beautiful stylized type printed in red. Original card covers with pattern of intertwining vines and flowers printed in gold, lightly dust soiled. Contents clean a bright. Though British-born, Chamberlain wrote in German, authoring several books on political philosophy, natural science, and Richard Wagner. In early adulthood, he migrated to Dresden where he immersed himself i...
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GAZETTE FRANCOISE, A Facsimile Reprint of a Newspaper Printed at Newport on the Printing Press of the French Fleet in American Waters During the Revolutionary War

By: Chapin, Howard M.

Price: $39.94

Publisher: New York, The Grolier Club: 1926

Seller ID: 41445

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Clean and tight in original binding of navy blue cloth spine over cream coloured boards. Contents quite Fine, faint linear shadow at front cover. Four page printed prospectus laid-in. Limited Edition of only 300 copies printed on Arches hand-made paper by Douglas C. McMurtrie, completed in November, 1926. This copy bears the handsome bookplate of Harris D. Colt. The Gazette Francoise newspaper translated various news items printed in American newspapers to keep the officers and men of the French Fleet in American Waters During the Revolutionary War abreast of political events in this emergi...
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The Battle of the Fifty Books - Address by Lester Douglas at the Opening of The Fifty Books of the Year, Febr. 9th 1932 [One of a Limited Edition of only 95 copies]

By: Douglas, Lester

Price: $14.94

Publisher: New York, American Institute of Graphic Arts: 1932

Seller ID: 38748

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good+

Autograph; One of 95 copies printed for private distribution by Conde Nast Press; typography by Lester Douglas. Inscribed and signed on colophon page "To John Vance / with the regard / of Lester Douglas" John T. Vance was at one time Law Librarian of the Congress. Clean and tight in blue-green wrappers with a printed paper label on the front cover. A nicely printed editon of the address given by Lester Douglas at the opening of the Fifty Books of the Year Exhibition at the New York Public Library. A very, very tiny closed tear at foredge of front wrapper and one at lower edge of rear wra...
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George Psychoundakis : A Letter To C. A. Trypanis [with a manuscript letter from Dr. John Leatham to Richard Hubbard Howland]

By: Fermor, Patrick Leigh ; [Inscribed and Signed by Dr. John Leatham]

Price: $174.94

Publisher: Athens, American College of Greece: 1999

Seller ID: 42189

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good+

Limited Edition printed in October 1999.One of 940 copies in sewn printed cream wrappers (of 1250 total). ix, (2), 12-45, (2) A letter from Fermor to Oxford professor Trypanis in English and Greek about the contemporary Cretan poet who translated both the Illiad and The Odyssey into his native language. Provenance: Inscribed and Signed on the halftitle by Dr. John Leatham to Richard Hubbard Howland with a three-page manuscript letter from Leatham to Howland dated December 31, 1999. The letter includes interesting information referring to the scholarly activities of both writer and recipient...
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A LITTLE BOOK OF NONSENSE

By: Field, Eugene

Price: $7.94

Publisher: Boston, Alfred Bartlett: 1901

Seller ID: 36991

Binding: Pamphlet

Condition: Good

28 pages; The Cornhill Booklet, January MCMI. Wrappers split at spine, otherwise Very Good. OCLC: 6148335; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings.
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EUGENE FIELD - An Auto Analysis and How One Friar met the Devil and Two Pursued Him

By: Field, Eugene

Price: $14.93

Publisher: New York, H. M. Caldwell Co: 1901

Seller ID: 41201

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

112 pages; Clean and tight in original binding of gray cloth spine with gray paper covered boards decorative stamped in gilt, red and green depicting an inkwell with a large plume pen. Very nicely printed only on the recto sides of the paper, in black with large decorative red initials. The pages are largely unopened. The two works are separately paginated -- 75, 37, (3) and printed in different type styles. Eugene Field's autobiographical sketch, with an introduction by his friend Francis Wilson. OCLC: 5181779 "It was an open secret that Friar Gonsol and Friar Francis stood respectively fo...
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INTERVALS OF SUN

By: Fletcher, Forrest ; Elizabeth J. Hodges (printer

Price: $19.94

Publisher: Cambridge, MA, Lowell Street Press: 1974

Seller ID: 42029

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Autograph; 28 pages; Clean and secure in original bright yellow stiff wrappers. Set and printed by hand. Signed by the Printer/Publisher Elizabeth J. Hodges. ; Signed by Editor
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Les Bonnes & Comment Jouer Les Bonnes

By: Genet, Jean

Price: $14.94

Publisher: Paris, L'Arbalete: 1963

Seller ID: 42075

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good+

95 pages; Clean and tight in original printed wrappers, pages unopened. Les Bonnes (The Maids), this play by the French dramatist Jean Genet, was made into a 1974 film directed by Christopher Miles. The film starred Glenda Jackson as Solange, Susannah York as Claire, Vivien Merchant as Madame, and Mark Burns as Monsieur. Genet portrays two housemaids who engage in sadomasochistic role-playing when the lady of the house is away.
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THEY FELL IN THE BATTLE - A Roll of Honour of the Battle of Britain, 10 July - 31 October 1940

By: Gleave, Tom ; F. E. Dymond. Foreword [AUTOGRAPHED] by His Royal Highness Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh

Price: $1,749.99

Publisher: Hendon, Royal Air Force Museum Printed by Rampant Lions Press: 1980

Seller ID: 39943

Binding: Full Leather

Condition: Near Fine

Autograph; [5], 50, [2] leaves pages; Clean and tight in original binding of full blue morocco with gilt lettering at spine and gilt cross on front board; sunned at spine, otherwise Near Fine in very good blue buckram-covered slipcase with a lining of watered silk (slipcase now sunned at edges). Foreword written and SIGNED by His Royal Highness PRINCE PHILIP Duke of Marlborough. This is No. 44 of an edition limited to only 80 copies, signed by Prince Philip (as Marshal of the Royal Air Force). [5], 50, [2] leaves; 39cm. Text printed in Air Force blue on rectos of leaves only, title in blue an...
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The Deserted Village Wood-engravings by Stephanie Maberly Smith

By: Goldsmith, Oliver ; Stephanie Maberly Smith (illustrator)

Price: $49.94

Publisher: London, The Caravel Press: 1953

Seller ID: 38592

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

34 pages; Publisher's binding: vellum spine over blue-grey paper-covered boards, with pictorial device in gilt on the front cover and lettering in gilt on the spine. Endpapers with a wood-engraved device printed in green, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Four full page wood engravings and three smaller engravings, one as title page device, the other two as tail-pieces to the colophon and list of illustrations. The artist, Stephanie Maberly Smith (1911-1996) was a student and protege of Robert Gibbings at the School of Art, Reading University. Gibbings, master of the modern British revivia...
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The Kraus Reprint Series of BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS - THE GROLIER CLUB

By: Kraus

Price: $10.94

Publisher: New York, Kraus Reprint Corp.: 1968

Seller ID: 37110

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

A sixteen page prospectus, including several illustrations, for this important series of reprints of some of the important bibliographies and reference works on books and book collecting originally published by The Grolier Club. Printed on quality stock in black and red. Some of the books in the series include Geoffrey Keynes Bibliography of William Blake and his William Blake's Illuminated Books, Fra Luca de Pacioli of Borgo S. Sepolcro, Albrecht Durer's Of the Just Shaping of Letters, Geofrey Tory's Champ Fleury, etc. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed...
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BODY AND STONE - A Song Cycle

By: Kreymborg, Alfred

Price: $9.94

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1929

Seller ID: 36956

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fine

One of the very attractive chapbooks of the Poetry Quartos series. One of 475 copies printed in Silvermine, USA OCLC: 2516401; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings.
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The Poetical Works of John Milton with a Life of the Author and Illustrations (Complete in Four beautifully leather bound volumes)

By: Milton, John ; D. B. Updike ; W.A. Dwiggins ; John Mitford

Price: $349.94

Publisher: Boston, R. H. Hinkley Company: 1908

Seller ID: 41546

Binding: Leather

Condition: Very Good

Former owner's one line inscription on second blank of first volume, otherwise all four Royal octavo volumes are clean and tight in publisher's beautifully blindstamped full antique pigskin binding with five raised bands on the spines, paneled floral patterns to boards and compartments at spines; top edges gilt. Light rubbing to extremities, leather chipped at the head of Volume 3; fore-edges of the endpapers toned from binding leather. "Of this hand-made paper edition of the Poetical Works of John Milton Five Hundred and Fifty-Five copies were printed by D. B. Updike at the Merrymount Press ...
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INSCRIPTIONS Eugene O'Neill to Carlotta Monterey O'Neill

By: O'Neill, Eugene

Price: $49.94

Publisher: New Haven, Privately Printed: 1960

Seller ID: 41536

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

#251 of a Limited edition of only 500 copies. Book is large and will require extra postage for international or priority. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings.
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ON POLITICS When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become president. I'm beginning to believe it. - Clarence Darrow (1857-1938)

By: Oresman, Patricia and Donald

Price: $14.94

Publisher: South Freeport, Maine, Ascensius Press: 2010

Seller ID: 39689

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

12 pages; Clean and tight in original stiff printed self wrappers with flaps; illustration on front wrapper. A keepsake book of quotations related to politics, conceived and published by Patricia and Donald Oresman. One of a limited edition only 500 copies; typeset and printed at the Ascensius Press in South Freeport, Maine. A sampling: "Politics, as a general practice, whatever its professions, has always been a systematic organization of hatreds." (Henry Adams); "Politics is an honest effort to misunderstand one another." (Robert Frost); etc.
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The Puppet

By: Ross, Clinton

Price: $9.94

Publisher: New York, Stone & Kimball: 1896

Seller ID: 40714

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

183 pages; 1896 Stone and Kimball edition. Publisher's red cloth, lettering in gilt on spine and front cover - where the text in separated by rules and enclosed in a decorative double gilt-ruled frame. Top edges gilt, others untrimmed. A sound copy, with unfaded spine, but the covers are not quite fresh, with a small area of bubbling to the cloth and a brief portion of the front giltwork marked. A few tiny spots and very light fingermarking to the endpapers. First edition. The binding has the subtitle: "A Tale of Adventure." Arguably, a mystery. Certainly an attractive nineties book from ...
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The Bride Reprinted for the First Time from a Copy of the Original Edition of 1617 in the Library of Harvard College. With an Introductory Note by Alfred Claghorn Potter

By: Rowlands, Samuel ; [ D. B. Updike ]

Price: $34.94

Publisher: Boston, For C. E. Goodspeed by the Merrymount Press: 1905

Seller ID: 39134

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Autograph; Unpaginated pages; Original blue paper-covered boards, decorated and lettered in black on the front board, printed paper spine label, uncut. Minor rubbing to the spine and the printed paper label, toning and rubbing along the edges of the boards, contents fresh and clean. Copy number 53 of 210 copies printed on Old Italian handmade paper by D. B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, Boston. OCLC: 2076127 This copy has a warm inscription to Edgar Wells from the editor thanking him for "constant help in the up-building of our collection of English Literature. [signed] Alfred Claghorn P...
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