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1874 EXQUISITE Saint Louis IX Medieval France Joinville Crusades French Wailly

Jean de Joinville was a 13th-century French historian who is best known for his biographical work on the life of Saint Louis, or King Louis IX of France. This work is perhaps the most authentic and best account of the King Louis leadership during the Seventh Crusade. This 1874 French edition was collected and edited by J Natalis de Wailly. Wailly includes impressive facsimile views of original portions of Joinville's text.

Item number: #10653
Price: $550
JOINVILLE, Jean
Jean, sire Joinville : Histoire de Saint Louis ; Credo ; et, Lettre à Louis X
Paris : F. Didot frères, fils et cie, 1874.

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Collation: complete with all pages
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[4], [xxviii], 690p
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Illustrated throughout
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Language: French
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Binding: Leather; tight and secure
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Size: ~11in X 7in (28cm x 17.5cm)
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1927 1ed Hemingway Men without Women Ernest World War I Europe Bull Fighting

"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
― Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway was one of the most prolific American novelists of the 20th-century publishing prize novels such as 'A Farewell to Arms', 'For Whom the Bell Tolls', and 'The Old Man and the Sea'. One of his lesser known, but still highly desirable works was 'Men without Women.' 'Men Without Women' is Hemingway's collection of short stories of 10 previously published and 4 unpublished pieces. Specifically, it includes:
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The Undefeated
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In Another Country
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Hills like White Elephants
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The Killers
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Che ti dice la Patria?
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Fifty Grand
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A Simple Enquiry
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Ten Indians
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A Canary for One
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An Alpine Idyll
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A Pursuit Race
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To-Day is Friday
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Banal Story
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Now I Lay Me

Hemingway's travel throughout Europe in the 1920s, influenced his book 'Men… Read More

1911 1ed Spalding Baseball Guide Ty Cobb Christy Mathewson Honus Wagner A's

Spalding 'Official Baseball Guides' are some of the most popular early 20th-century baseball memorabilia on the market. Spalding published a yearly baseball guide that included team photos, portraits and action shots of individual ball players, player statistics, a history of the game, and extensive sections on rules and gameplay.
The 1911 edition of 'Baseball Guide' is from the era of some of the most iconic players of the dead-ball era including Ty Cobb, Christy Mathewson, and Honus Wagner.

Item number: #20596
Price: $599
American Sports Pub
Spalding's official baseball guide.
New York: American Sports Publishing Co., 1911. First edition.

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· Collation: Complete with all pages
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[20], 405, [35]
· Provenance: Handwritten – A. E. Welch
· Language: English
· Binding: Softcover; tight and secure
· Size: ~6.5in X 4.25in (16.5cm x 10.5cm)
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1958 1st/1st MARTIN LUTHER KING JR Stride Toward Freedom Civil Rights Montgomery

"Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story" is an influential work penned by beloved civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. In this book, King recounts the pivotal Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955-1956, a critical event in the American Civil Rights Movement. This nonviolent protest against racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama, marked King's emergence as a prominent figure. The book not only chronicles the events but also discusses King's potent philosophy of nonviolent resistance and his vision for a more equitable and just society.

Item number: #41091
Price: $599

KING JR., Martin Luther

Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story

New York: Harper and Brothers, ©1958. First Edition. First Printing.

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· Language: English
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William Blackwood & Sons Ltd., Edinburgh and London, 1926. FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. viii, 108. Original dark blue cloth, spine and front board lettered in gilt. A touch of spotting, a few leaves very lightly age-browned. Spine-ends rubbed, corners just a little worn, spine gilt dulled. The first edition of MacDiarmid's most celebrated work, in the first-issue binding of dark blue cloth with sharp bright gilt title and author name (in the original form of M'Diarmid) on front cover with the decorative gilt motif in between. A very good copy with some foxing but with tight boards and pages.

New York:: Farrar Straus,, 1948.. First Printing of the First Edition. A Near Fine copy with a previous owner name and sticker on the front pastedown in a Very Good Plus unclipped dust jacket with light edgewear to the spine. This is Jackson's First Book. Jackson and her family lived in the community of Burlingame, California, an affluent middle-class suburb that would feature in this her first novel which like her later novels was characterised by her use of a realistic setting for a tale with elements of horror and the occult.

Boston: Little, Brown, 1961. Stated First edition. hardcover. Fine/very good. 8vo. Quarter red cloth and black boards, with gilt lettering. 337 pages. An Advance Review Copy in promotional dust-jacket. No names, remainder marks, or marks to text. Spine [blank] and flap folds of dust-jacket are slightly toned, with a tiny chip at spine tail. A Fine copy in special dust-jacket of Yates' first novel.

Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1951. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The first UK edition (first printing) of the author's first book. 8vo. 499pp. Beige cloth lettered in red at the spine. Backstrip and upper edges of the boards lightly spotted. Endpapers partially browned and with some additional light spotting which also impacts several preliminary and (blank) concluding leaves. A very good copy in very good non-price-clipped pictorial dust wrapper designed by Stein, with just a touch of spotting and tanning, several tiny closed tears and several slivers of loss from the spine panel ends. First published by Harcourt Brace in the US in March 1950, this distinctly more uncommon UK edition followed a year later. The novel was not a success: it was trashed by a number of reviewers, Kerouac's royalties did not exceed his advance of $1,000 and it was six years before the publication of his next novel, 'On the Road'..

A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. Inscribed "To Chuck, Alan Shepard" on titlepage. On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I, and the space race was born. Desperate to beat the Russians into space, NASA put together a crew of the nation's most daring test pilots: the seven men who were to lead America to the moon. The first into space was Alan Shepard; the last was Deke Slayton, whose irregular heartbeat kept him grounded until 1975. They spent the 1960s at the forefront of NASA's effort to conquer space, and Moon Shot is their inside account of what many call the twentieth century's greatest feat—landing humans on another world. Collaborating with NBC's veteran space reporter Jay Barbree, Shepard and Slayton narrate in gripping detail the story of America's space exploration from the time of Shepard's first flight until he and eleven others had walked on the moon.

Moscow: Molodaya Gvardia, 1964. First Russian Book Edition. 351,[1] pp., with several in-text illustrations. Cloth-backed pictorial paper over boards. Early Russian ink inscription and inkstamp on rear pastedown. A few small scribbles in blue ink on covers and ink stains on cloth. Edges of boards lightly worn, front hinge cracked. Contents lightly toned, but surprisingly fresh for the quality of the paper. A good copy. The pirated first Russian book edition, after a 1963 appearance in the periodical INOSTRANAYA LITERATURA ("Foreign Literature") and a 1964 special separate issue of ROMAN-GAZETA ("Novel as Newspaper"). Like other books by foreign authors published in the USSR at the time, this edition is a piracy, with no royalties paid to the author. Nevertheless, it was a major undertaking, engaging major Russian literary talents of the day, with the still-authoritative translation by Nora Gal (1912-1991) and Raisa Oblonskaya (1924-2010), an introduction by celebrated literary critic Raisa Orlova… Read More