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Item #1178 Histoires: 30 Poèmes de Jacques Prévert, 30 Poèmes d'André Verdet, 31 Dessins...

Histoires: 30 Poèmes de Jacques Prévert, 30 Poèmes d'André Verdet, 31 Dessins de Mayo

Paris: Éditions du Pré aux Clercs, 1946. Illustrated by Mayo [Antoine Malliarakis]. 8vo measuring 9 x 5.5 inches: 163 pages. Publisher's cream paper wrappers with blue and brown design. Wrappers lightly soiled and edgeworn; hinges partially split and repaired by glue; interior clean and bright. Good. First edition (édition.....

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Item #1176 The Philosophy of Marsilio Ficino. Paul Oskar Kristeller

The Philosophy of Marsilio Ficino

New York: Columbia University Press, 1943. Translated by Virginia Conant. First edition of this landmark translation. 8vo measuring 8.5 x 5 inches: xiv, 441 pages. Publisher's red cloth boards with black lettering. Ex-library book with the usual markings, including stamp on title page and sticker on rear pastedown; annotated throughout.....

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Item #1174 Biblical Libraries: A Sketch of Library History from 3400 B.C. to A.D. 150. Ernest...

Biblical Libraries: A Sketch of Library History from 3400 B.C. to A.D. 150

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1914. and London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1914. 8vo measuring 7.25 x 4.25 inches: xvi, 252 pages. Publisher's brown quarter cloth over tan paper boards. Boards lightly soiled and frayed; hinges starting; lacking front free endpaper. Good.  The second of Richardson's two 1914 works on library.....

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Item #1173 Aphorismes, menus & variétés. Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Aphorismes, menus & variétés

Paris: Les Francs-Bibliophiles, 1961. First edition. 8vo measuring 10.5 x 6.75 inches. 25 mezzotint prints by Mario Avati, printed by Rigal from plates later cut down. Text printed in blue and black by Fequet et Baudier. Loose signatures in publisher's printed wrappers and slipcase chemise housed in a black suedine.....

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Item #1172 Biographical Sketches of King and Queen of all Midgets, Count and Countess Philippe...

Biographical Sketches of King and Queen of all Midgets, Count and Countess Philippe Nicol, and their son Philippe Jr., The only child born of Midgets. Notices biographiques du Roi et de la Reine de tous les Nains, le Comte et la Comtesse Philippe Nicol, et de leur fils Philippe Jr., l'enfant rare, le seul au monde né de parents lilliputiens

Montreal: The Midgets Palace, [1940s]. 18mo measuring 6 x 4.25 inches: 32 pages. Saddle-stitched with pictorial wrappers. Lightly age-toned throughout; small dampstain in the French section. Very Good. Bilingual souvenir booklet issued by The Midgets Palace, 961 Rachel Street East, Montreal 34. English and French printed tête-bêche. Illustrated throughout.....

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Item #1171 Gerrit Smith: A Biography. Octavius Brooks Frothingham

Gerrit Smith: A Biography

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1878. First edition. 8vo measuring 7.75 x 5.25 inches: 381, 2 pages publisher's ads. Publisher's maroon cloth boards with beveled edges and gilt lettering. Boards scratched and edgeworn; spine ends frayed; hinges starting. Good. Gerrit Smith (1797-1874) was a prominent social reformer, philanthropist, and.....

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Item #1170 What I Saw in Russia. George Lansbury

What I Saw in Russia

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1920. First American edition, published shortly after the British (London: Leonard Parsons, 1920). 8vo measuring 7.25 x 4.75 inches: xvii (introduction), xvii (preface), 172 pages. Publisher's green cloth boards and tan dust jacket. Dust jacket sunned, soiled, and torn, with loss to the spine; boards.....

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Item #1168 Value, Price, and Profit: Addressed to Workingmen. Karl Marx

Value, Price, and Profit: Addressed to Workingmen

New York: New York Labor News Company, 1901. Edited by his daughter, Eleanor Marx Aveling. Introduction and annotations by Lucien Sanial. First American edition. 16mo measuring 7.25 x 4.75 inches: xiii, 74, 8 pages of publisher's advertisements. Publisher's red cloth boards with gilt lettering. Boards lightly soiled and rubbed; spine.....

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Item #1167 On the Slain Collegians: Selections from the Poems of Herman Melville. ed Antonio...

On the Slain Collegians: Selections from the Poems of Herman Melville

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1971. Edited, and with woodcuts, by Antonio Frasconi. 8vo measuring 9 x 6.5 inches. Publisher's blind-stamped black cloth boards with silver lettering and pictorial dust jacket, not price-clipped. Dust jacket lightly age-toned; boards slightly edgeworn. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket...

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Item #1166 Leon Trotsky: The Portrait of a Youth. Max Eastman

Leon Trotsky: The Portrait of a Youth

New York: Greenberg, Publisher, 1925. First edition. 8vo measuring 7.5 x 5 inches: viii, 181 pages. Publisher's red cloth boards with gilt-embossed hammer and sickle emblem of the RSFSR and pictorial dust jacket. Dust jacket has tears throughout with loss to the spine, partially repaired by tape on the verso;.....

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Item #1165 The Missouri Review Vol. 22, No. 1 (Spring 1999). ed Speer Morgan

The Missouri Review Vol. 22, No. 1 (Spring 1999)

8vo measuring 9 x 6 inches: 183, 9 pages of advertisements. Publisher's pictorial wrappers slightly shelfworn. Very Good.  Inscribed by Jeffrey Levine, winner of the Larry Levis Prize in Poetry, dated 5/11/99. Levine would go on to establish Tupelo Press later that same year. .

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Item #1162 The John Quinn Collection of Paintings, Water Colors, Drawings & Sculpture

The John Quinn Collection of Paintings, Water Colors, Drawings & Sculpture

Huntington, NY: Pidgeon Hill Press, 1926. First edition. Errata slip tipped-in on the front free endpaper. 8vo measuring 11 x 8.5 inches: 200 pages. Publisher's terracotta paper wrappers with black lettering. Wrappers lightly shelfworn; interior clean and bright. Very Good.

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Item #1161 La Nuit de haschich et d'opium. Maurice Magre

La Nuit de haschich et d'opium

Paris: Ernest Flammarion, 1929. Woodcuts by Ahü. 4to measuring 9 x 7.25 inches. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to Pierre de Jumilhac, a French racehorse breeder. Publisher's glassine-encased cream paper wrappers with blue and black decoration. Light age-toning. Near Fine. One can speculate that in.....

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Item #1160 La Marquise de Sévigné: Chocolats et confiseries de luxe

La Marquise de Sévigné: Chocolats et confiseries de luxe

Paris: A. Rouzaud, 1936. Printed by Draeger. 8vo measuring 10.5 x 7.25 inches: 34 pages. Publisher's decorated paper covers bound with plastic rings. Mild shelfwear on the covers; interior clean and bright. Near Fine.

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Item #1158 The Use of Brandy and Salt, as a Remedy for Various Internal as Well as External...

The Use of Brandy and Salt, as a Remedy for Various Internal as Well as External Diseases, Inflammation And Local Injuries; Containing Ample Directions for Making and Applying It

Boston: C.C.P. Moody, 1851. 12mo measuring 7 x 4.5 inches: 36 pages. Brown cloth boards with decorative leaf design and gilt lettering. Spine sunned; boards a bit soiled; age-toned as usual. Very Good.  Quack medicine booklet extolling the curative power of a brandy and salt admixture, including instructions for.....

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Item #1155 Murder in Mexico: The Assassination of Leon Trotsky. Leandro Sanchez Salazar in...

Murder in Mexico: The Assassination of Leon Trotsky

London: Secker & Warburg, 1950. First edition. 8vo measuring 7.25 x 4.75 inches: xix, 235 pages. Publisher's red cloth boards with gilt lettering and black dust jacket. Dust jacket soiled and torn, partially repaired by tape on the verso; boards lightly edgeworn. Very Good in a Fair dust jacket. ...

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