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Manuelo's Narrative - California Three Hundred and Fifty Years Ago Translated from the Portuguese By a Pioneer

By: "A Pioneer" ; [ Cornelius Cole ]

Price: $84.94

Publisher: San Francisco, Samuel Carson & Co.: 1888

Seller ID: 42519

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

333 pages; Clean and tight in the original olive cloth binding with gilt lettering anda decorative gilt image at front board; patterned end papers. Original owner's name on first blank "Geo. T. Murison /San Franacisco / Cal / 11-6 '93" Novel about a Portuguese sailor who was cast ashore in San Francisco Bay in the 16th century. It described his life among the Indians and their way of life. In the end, Manuelo was picked by a Spanish ship and taken to Acapulco where he narrated his history. He then wanted to return to his love, Alola, an Indian woman. In the middle of the novel is a long verse...
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Democracy: An American Novel bound with: Marked for Life, by A. F. Pinkerton

By: Adams, Henry & Pinkerton, A. F.

Price: $99.95

Publisher: London [& Chicago], Ward, Lock -- (and Laird and Lee, Chicago): 1887

Seller ID: 40702

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+

186; 147 & [1] pages; TITLE I: Democracy: An American Novel. London: Ward Lock & Co., [nd. but ca. 1882]. 186 pp. Second British edition, probably an unauthorized piracy. Macmillan had published the first British edition, also anonymously, in May of 1882. This cheaply made edition has a number code at the foot of page 186 suggesting that it was printed in December, 1882. bound with....TITLE II: Pinkerton, A. F. Marked for Life. Chicago: Laird and Lee, 1887. (The Pinkerton detective series, issued monthly. No. 2, April 1887). 147 & [1, ads] pp. The second title has a tiny worm tr...
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JAMES SMITH REID 1846-1926

By: Adcock, F. E

Price: $6.94

Publisher: London, Humphrey Milford Amen House: 1929

Seller ID: 36953

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

13 pages; A memorial tribute From the Proceedings of the British Academy. Volume XIII. Printed by John Johnson at the University Press, Oxford. OCLC: 20124307 Reid was a classical scholar and historian; He served as Professor of Ancient History and a Fellow and Tutor of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Reid was also the editor of Cicero's. ; 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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Volgarizzamento delle Favole di Esopo testo Riccardiano inedito, citato dagli Accademici della Crusca

By: Aesop [edited by Luigi Rigoli]

Price: $119.98

Publisher: Firenze [Florence, Italy], Stamperia del giglio, a spese di A. Garine: 1818

Seller ID: 39611

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

118, [2] pages; Contemporary cream colored boards, two small labels with collection numbers on spine and front cover -- (the faint spine label matches the number on the booklabel of Leo S. Olschki [ Ex libris Leonis S. Olschki bibliopolae Veneti Established heading] -- longtime booksellers in Florence, etc. Two small inscriptions dated 1843 on the enpapers. A well preserved uncut copy, impressed as an octavo with generous margins, possibly on large paper -- (the copy in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, similarly sized, has an ink note suggesting that this issue can be designated thus). Thi...
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KAPPA (Gulliver in a Kimono) Translation and introductory notes by Seiichi Shiojiri

By: Akutagawa, Ryunosuke

Price: $124.98

Publisher: Abeno, Osaka, Japan, Akitaya: 1948

Seller ID: 39166

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

154 pages; Publisher's flexible grey boards printed in black, pictorial endpapers, in a fragile dust jacket printed in black and red on thin paper stock. This is the third printing of the first English language edition of "Kappa" -- the masterpiece of Ryunosuke Akutagawa, considered by some the father of the Japanese short story. His mother went insane shortly after his birth in 1912, so he was adopted and raised by his maternal uncle, Akutagawa Do-sho-, from whom he received the Akutagawa family name. Akutagawa published his first short story "Rashomon" in the literary magazine Teikoku Bun...
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TWO STORIES [ SIGNED ]

By: Aldington, Richard

Price: $74.94

Publisher: London, Elkin Matthews: 1930

Seller ID: 39040

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

Autograph; 43 pages; clean and tight in original patterned boards with blue cloth spine in matching dustjacket. One of 530 autographed copies, of which 500 were for sale. OCLC: 702351894 Scarce in this condition. ; 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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Hamlet Father and Son

By: Alexander, Peter

Price: $12.94

Publisher: Oxford, Clarendon Press: 1955

Seller ID: 41910

ISBN: 0198115016

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

198 pages; Clean and secure in original blue cloth binding with gilt lettering at spine. Addresses Hamlet and certain problems of interpretation, especially the notion that Hamlet's tragedy stems from his ambivalence; Compares interpretations of Shakespeare by Garrick, Goethe, Granville-Barker, etc. Also examines general aspects of tragedy, the Heroic Tradition, etc.
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WILLIAM ALLINGHAM - A Diary

By: Allingham, H. ; D. Radford

Price: $99.94

Publisher: London, Macmillan: 1907

Seller ID: 39758

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

x, 404 pages; Former owner's name on ffep and a few lines in pencil quoting Allingham's poem "The Fairies", otherwise clean and tight in original navy blue cloth binding with bright gilt lettering at spine. Upper corners rounded, portrait frontispiece. William Allingham, a writer and poet born in Donegal, Ireland, became sub-editor of Frazer's Magazine in 1870. In early 1874 he assumed the position of editor from Froude, and later that year married Helen Patterson, the watercolour painter. Allingham was a close friend of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who contributed to the illustration of his book...
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Gli amori di Anacreonte o sia collezione delle sue odi di amoroso argomento Tradotte dal conte Xaverio Broglio d'Ajano

By: Anacreon

Price: $174.94

Publisher: Place Not Identified, Publisher Unstated: 1790

Seller ID: 39156

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

2 p.l. & 92 pages; Very scarce first edition of Count Xaverio Broglio d'Ajano's verse translation of odes by Anacreon into Italian. It was probably printed somewhere in Italy around 1790, though there is no date printed. It probably was made in the Marche, near Macerata, where the translator was a Senator in the Repubblica romana. (The date comes from a catalogue entry in the database of the Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico delle biblioteche italiane e per le informazioni bibliografiche - ICCU). This handsome octavo version was printed to celebrate the wedding of Carlo Teodoro Antic...
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The Poet's Gift of Consolation to Sorrowing Mothers

By: Anonymous

Price: $34.94

Publisher: New York, A. S. Barnes & Co.: 1870

Seller ID: 40976

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

167 pages; Publisher's green cloth, beveled edges, decorative lettering in gilt on front cover and spine, additional decorative stamping in black and in blind, chocolate brown endpapers, all edges gilt. Date is approximate, none printed. A handsome copy, the binding shows just a bit of the lightest rubbing at the tips of the spine ends and points of the corners. Some diffuse foxing scattered throughout the text leaves, which are elegantly set within decorative framed borders of rules and type ornaments at the corners. [Cover title is: "Poems of Consolation"]. There is an engraved oval vign...
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EXCITING STORIES OF LONDON SOCIETY [A collection of stories and illustrations from "London Society - An Illustrated Magazine of Light and Amusing Literature for Hours of Relaxation"

By: Anonymous

Price: $74.94

Publisher: New York, Hurd and Houghton: 1869

Seller ID: 41151

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

570 pages; An anthology of the best works from the nineteenth century periodical London Society. Clean and tight in original brick red cloth binding with faded gilt lettering at spine. Binding worn at corners and spine ends. "London Society - An Illustrated Magazine of Light and Amusing Literature for Hours of Relaxation" was a Victorian era illustrated monthly periodical published between 1862 and 1898. No listing for this volume found in OCLC. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lac...
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Miracle de nostre dame la marquise de la Gaudine qui par laccusemen~t de loncle de son mari auq[ue]l son mari lauoit com~ise a garder fu condampnee a ardoir, Dont Anthenor p[ar] le co~mendeme~t d[e] Nostre dame sen combati a loncle et le desconfit en champ... Imprime nouuelleme~t a Paris

By: Anonymous

Price: $249.95

Publisher: Paris, Par Crapelet chez Silvestre: 1841

Seller ID: 41495

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

[33 ff.] pages; Old marbled paper-covered boards, ms. title on label mounted to the front cover. 33 leaves, unpaginated. Text printed in a gothic black letter type, with 2 woodcut illustrations. The long title transcribes the manuscript original, including its dropped letter abbreviations: "Miracle de nostre dame la marq[ui]se de la Gaudine qui par laccusemen~t de loncle de son mari auq[ue]l son mari lauoit com~ise a garder fu condampnee a ardoir, Dont Anthenor p[ar] le co~mendeme~t d[e] Nostre dame sen combati a loncle et le desconfit en champ. Et est le dict miracle a XVII person~aiges.....
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Image for The Charles Meeker Kozlay Collection Of Bret Harte First Editions Rare Ephemera ... To Which Are Added Mr. Kozlay's Collection Of First Editions Of Modern Authors ... [to Be Sold Thursday, March 18, 1926]

The Charles Meeker Kozlay Collection Of Bret Harte First Editions Rare Ephemera ... To Which Are Added Mr. Kozlay's Collection Of First Editions Of Modern Authors ... [to Be Sold Thursday, March 18, 1926]

By: Association, American Art

Price: $49.94

Publisher: American Art Association: 1926

Seller ID: 39444

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

98 pages; Annotated with prices realized, otherwise clean and secure in attractive binding of quarter brown claf and marbled boards with gilt lettering and floral image at spine and a different floral image at bottom of front board; original wrappers bound in, corners of boards rubbed. Auction catalogue including 647 titles of which 382 are Harte items. OCLC: 8567137
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ON THE HEIGHTS Complete in Three Volumes

By: Auerbach, Berthold

Price: $59.94

Publisher: Leipzig, Bernhard Tauchnitz: 1868

Seller ID: 39313

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Tauchnitz Collection of German Authors; 302; 322; 448 pages; Bound in quarter red calf with marbled boards and marbled endpapers, leather rubbed at extremities, contents clean and tight. Bound by R.W. Smith & Co. Binders, Marion St., New York Second Authorized Edition, thoroughly revised. Translated by F. E. Bunnett OCLC: 37964196 Todd and Bowden No. C1A, C2A, C3A
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NAHBION or The Bible and The Poets

By: Bailey, Samuel Wordsworth

Price: $34.93

Publisher: Cambridge, John Wilson & Son: 1874

Seller ID: 40337

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

xvi, 698 pages; Former owner's name on ffep, otherwise clean and tight in original green cloth binding with gilt lettering at spine and a decorative in gilt on the front board. Cloth rubbed at spine ends with minor loss at base. Top edges gilt. An attractive 19th century book. OCLC: 2293873 "In these chapters are arranged passages amounting to about one fourth part of all the language of the Bible, and many of the choicest gems from about three hundred and fifty of the poets of Christendom. Those things which are most read and most valued have been marshalled, chiefly in the order of tim...
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Svetlyi chas. Izdrannye stikhi [Shining Hour: Selected Poems]

By: Balmont [Bal'mont], Konstantin Dmitrievich ; [1867-1942]

Price: $349.99

Publisher: Paris, J. Povolozky & cie: 1921

Seller ID: 40637

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

Miniatiurnaia biblioteka ; no. 2; 69 & [3, index] pages; Publisher's tan wrappers, with vivid illustration in b/w, rules in black and red and bold lettering on the covers; the spine has the printed notation "No. 2" vertically -- [this small book was from Povolozky's important series of tiny Russian books -- Miniatiurnaia biblioteka ; no. 2]. An excellent copy, with the wrappers clean and unmarked, no marks or damage to the text (one tiny lower corner is turned up, but not torn or missing). Poems written early in the period of his emigration to Europe by the great Russian poet of the Silver A...
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LA MAISON NUCINGEN Les Secrets de la Princesse de Cadigan, Sarrazine, Facino Cane, Un Homme d'Affaires, Les Comediens sans Le Savoir

By: Balzac, Honor de

Price: $12.94

Publisher: Paris, Calmann Levy: 1896

Seller ID: 42556

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good-

Scnes de la Vie Parisienne; (vi), 357 pages; Text clean and unmarked, secure in original binding of quarter leather spine with marbled boards, gilt lettering at spine, marbled endpapers. Leather rubbed at spine and extremities,1.5 cm piece of leather missing at head of spine. Silk ribbon bookmark bound in. Balzac's wonderful tales of life and characters in Paris in the 19th century.
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BEER AND SKITTLES

By: Barrett, Diana

Price: $9.94

Publisher: Ann Arbor, The Craft Press: 1939

Seller ID: 37009

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

30 pages; Clean and tight in original printed wrappers. OCLC: 26605947 ; 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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TYPED LETTER [carbon] SIGNED by H. H. Baskin, Jr. regarding Belleview Biltmore Hotel Property

By: Baskin, H. H. ; Jr.

Price: $24.94

Publisher: Manuscript: 1973

Seller ID: 42201

Binding: Ephemera

Condition: Very Good

Autograph; 1 pages; Clean single sheet typed letter on printed letterhead of Cooper, Rives & Baskin, actually signed by H. H. Baskin, Jr. and labelled "Copy" Letter regarding the transfer of the property known as the Belleview Biltmore Hotel Property. The matter is the pay-off of the mortgage held by U.S. Steel (represented by Mr. John D. Fite) which is delaying the transfer of property to Mr. Bernard F. Powell. In 1946, Bernard Powell joined prominent investor Roger Stevens in purchasing the Belleview Biltmore Hotel, dubbed "the biggest white elephant on the West Coast of Florida." Dilapid...
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Image for Hand Colored Wood Engraved Portrait of George Sand from a design by Emile Bayard engraved by E. Yon"Histoire Populaire Contemporaine de la France"

Hand Colored Wood Engraved Portrait of George Sand from a design by Emile Bayard engraved by E. Yon"Histoire Populaire Contemporaine de la France"

By: Bayard, Emile-Antoine ; E. Yon

Price: $19.94

Publisher: Paris, Librairie de L'Hachette: 1864

Seller ID: 41882

Binding: Engraving

Condition: Very Good

from "Histoire Populaire Contemporaine de la France"; 1 pages; Interesting 19th Century wood engraved portrait of George Sand from a design by Emile Bayard by E. Yon. Image measures 7 1/4" X 6" (14" x 11" matted). Clean sharp nicely colored image, matted in white stock with clear mylar. Taken from "Histoire Populaire Contemporaine de la France" This portrait represents the older George Sand, wearing a velvet cloak and holding a book. Emile-Antoine Bayard (November 2, 1837 6 December 1891) was a French illustrator born in La Fert-sous-Jouarre, Seine-et-Marne. A student of Lon Cogniet, he...
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