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Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Weise, Kurt. Size: 8mo - over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4" tall. 244 pp. Pages are yellowed, but are tight and clean. Dust Jacket worn at edges, small chips and tears. Previous owner's book-plate laid in. Cover is worn and sunned along the edges. DJ is now protected in mylar cover. Illustrator: Weise, Kurt. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 pound. Category: Children; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 001267. .
Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniae sub Regibus Angliae. by Stapleton, Thomae [Thomas] - 1840 + 1844
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Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniae sub Regibus Angliae.
by Stapleton, Thomae [Thomas]
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First editions. 2 volumes. Sumptibus Soc. Antiq. Londinensis. Londoni. 1840, 1844. Royal 8vo. ccxxxvii, 288pp, engraved frontis., folding map, hand coloured in outline; ccxxx, 575pp, engraved frontis. Recent quarter full grained calf, cream cloth, spines with raised bands in six compartments, gilt lettering, blind tooling and rules, new endpapers. Pages untrimmed. Plates and titles spotted, small ink spot to margin I, 9. Light pencil date annotation to margins. Bookplates of David Douglas. A crisp and handsome set.
Stapleton, Thomas (1806 – 1849), antiquary, FRS, was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries on 15 January 1839. His most important literary work was this edition of the rolls of the Norman exchequer, printed by the Society of Antiquaries as Magni rotuli scaccarii Normanniae sub regibus Angliae (2 vols., 1840 – 4), which 150 years later remains the authoritative edition of these important twelfth-century records. (ODNB)
"The masterly Observations on the Great Rolls of the Norman Exchequer" R.L.Poole.
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- Date Published 1840 + 1844
- Keywords Twelfth Century, Bookplate, History, Angevin, Normandy, France, Genealogy
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Freddy and Mr. Camphor
by Walter R. Brooks
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To Bliss Carman, on the Anniversary of His Nativity, Born Anno Domini One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty-One, the Fifteenth Day of April: A Little Anthology by Four Admirers who Dwell in the Canadian Homeland
by Hathaway, R. H.; Logan, J. D.; Mactavish, Newton; Hathaway, E. J
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Privately Printed, Toronto, ON, 1913. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Signed by Author. Special tribute to Carman by these four individuals. Special edition, limited to 100 copies, of which this is # 56. Signed by each of the four contributors, but this copy also has a personalized gift inscription from R. H. Hathaway, dated November, 1917. This copy came from a library, but there are no library markings on the book itself. It was sewn into an outer binding (stiff boards), and there are two library markings on that outer cover. Light shelfwear to the book itself. Pages are yellowed, but are tight and clean. Size: 8mo - over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 pound. Category: Literature & Literary; Signed by Author. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 001408. .
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All My Pretty Ones
by Roger Hall
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W. W. Norton, New York, NY, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Size: 8mo - over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4" tall. 223 pp. Pages are tight and clean. Dust Jacket is in very good condition, but is lightly sunned. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1 - 2 pounds. Category: Fiction; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 111097. .
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SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH OF RUSSIAN COSMONAUT PAVEL POPOVICH
by Popovich, Pavel Romanovich
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Washington, D. C.: Unpublished, 1986. Black and white photograph of the Russian cosmonaut, who commanded 2 space missions, Vostok 4 and Soyuz 14. The photo was taken while he was visiting the NASA History Office in Washington, DC, on October 27, 1986. SIGNED on the back of the photograph, in Russian script and without inscription, "Pavel Popovich, 27.10.86". Provenance: from the collection of Lee Saegesser, Chief Archivist from 1967 until 1997 in the Washington, DC NASA Headquarters History Office; also, on the back of the cover, Saegesser has written in red ink the basic information about the autograph. Certificate of Authenticity available if desired. The photograph is clean, bright, and unwrinkled.. SIGNED. First Edition. Paper. Collectible-Fine. 10" by 8". Photo.
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By Myself and Then Some.
by Bacall, Lauren.
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Norwalk, Ct. : Easton Press. , 2005. . Limited first edition, #1518 of 1640 copies. . Full red leather, raised bands, gilt decorations, all edges gilt, silk endpapers, ribbon marker. . A fine copy, no dustjacket as issued. . 8vo.. Signed by the author on the limitation page.
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Of Struggle and Flight The History of Latvian Aviation
by Irbitis, Karlis
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Stittsville, Ontario: Canada's Wings. As New in As New dust jacket. 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. 0920002366 . 211 pp. Index. Photos, diagrams. Unread. A fascinating look at the history of aviation development and aircraft design in the Baltic state of Latvia between the First and Second World Wars. Written by one of its leading aviation engineers, who went to Canada and worked on the development of a VTOL aircraft at Canadair. Cover art by Don Connolly. Heavy book. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall .
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Climbing Mount Improbable.
by DAWKINS, Richard. Illustrations by Lalla Ward
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New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1996. Signed on the title page by Richard Dawkins. First U.S. edition / First printing. Black cloth spine, pale gray paper-covered boards. Very fine in a very fine dust jacket.
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TEENIE WEENIE NEIGHBORS
by Donahey, William
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NY: Whittlesey House, 1945. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good+ in a Very Good dustjacket. Illustrated by author. Dj has a chip missing from upper spine end and another from lower back edge. Book has a small, neat ink gift inscription on front free end paper..
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Andy Warhol: Liz.
by WARHOL, Andy. [Elizabeth Taylor]. Text by John Waters and Bob Colacello
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New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2011. First Edition / First Printing. Cloth illustrated in silver and black ink, in the manner of Warhol's silkscreen paintings. Very fine. Issued without dust jacket, clear archival jacket supplied.
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Lincoln in the Bardo.
by SAUNDERS, George. Signed and dated with a drawing.
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New York: Random House, 2017. Signed by George Saunders, dated 2017 in black, red and blue. First edition / First printing. Black paper-covered spine, slate paper-covered boards. Fine in fine dust jacket. Small previous owner name at the top of the front-free endpaper. Winner of the 2017 Booker Prize.
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PROMPTUARIUM CATHOLICUM Super Evangelia Ferialia in totam quadragessimam. Cum Indice rerum copiosissimo + 2 others (see description)
by STAPLETON, Thomas [STAPLETONI, Thomae] (1535-1598)
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Paris: Robert Fouet, 1606. Reprint - 1st-1594. . Vellum. VG for age. 12 Cms x 18.5 Cms. t.p. with central engraved cartouche+ 7 ff.+279+(6, index), 1594 given at end of Dedication; stubs between pp.272-273 look like an excision but are oddments used in binding, otherwise clean, tight & unmarked. Preceding this is the PROMPTUARII CATHOLICI SUPER EVANGELIA DE FESTIS Sanctorum Totius Anni Pars Secunda: t.p. lacking author's name but also 1606 Paris Fouet (though no earlier date in text as lacking a separate Dedication); 266+6 ff. (index). Again preceding this and first work in volume is the PROMPTUARIUM CATHOLICUM SUPER EVANGELIA DOMINICALIA totius anni (see heading p.10, but bibliographically referenced as first volume in set), but this lacks t.p., beginning with the Epistola Dedicatoria ( 4pp.) dated 1588 followed by 'Scripturae Evangelicae' text list for use on specific festivals etc. (9 pp., end-piece engraving p.8)+266. Three sequential parts of the same work by Stapleton, but his name appearing…
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