Authors beginning with A from Pazzo Books (274 items)

New York: Albert Bonnier, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine Condition. Oriignal decorative blue cloth, marbled edges, spine slightly faded. Inscirbed and signed by the translator on the endpaper, with a promotional pamphlet and order form, a typed note on the publisher's letterhead, and a typed letter signed by the translator on Woman's University of Chicago letterhead. 315pp Pike , lobster, game (braised ptarmigan, squab, hare), Swedish pancakes, nyäs cookies, 636 recipes in all; from the famous cooking school in Stockholm run by Jenny Åkerström. Translated from the 1929 original. Size: 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking, Wine & Dining; Inventory No: CAT000948.

Dublin: Thomas Hume, 1725. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition. Contemporary calf rebacked, one corner repaired, leather a little dry but sound, soiling to endpapers, occasional slight foxing, quite clean otherwise. Two volumes bound in one dated 1725 and 1724 respectively. (14), 260pp (i.e. 262pp), (2), 86, (13)pp. Extensive errata in preliminaries, pages 5-6 numbered 4-4 with corresponding errors in pagination. ESTC T141098 Size: Folio. 2-volume set (complete). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: History; Inventory No: 046782.

Paris: Knapen, 1789. Later Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition. Volume one only in original plain boards, worn. Includes the insect section with a chapter on bees - attractive folding plates throughout. 560pp. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Natural History & Resources; Inventory No: 043316.

London: John Lane, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition. Alistair. Gray cloth, wear at corners and spine ends. Untrimmed page edges a bit brittle, but otherwise very good. 11 color illustrations with tissue guards, one of 1850 copies. First Illustrated Edition, or first by this illustrator and in this format. Size: Quarto (4to). Illustrator: Alistair. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Fiction; Inventory No: 042215.

Jet Age Books, 2021. Hardcover. Near Fine Condition. Magnetic box with 65 loose photos and unattributed quotes. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Photography; Inventory No: 048849.

London: Thomas Boys, 1818. Third Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition. Original plain boards, old signature to front board, modest wear at edges, paper spine label a little chipped. Some offsetting to frontis onto title; generally quite clean internally. A nice unsophisticated copy with the bookplate of British chemist and magician Edwin A. Dawes. 360pp Accum's work around chemistry was important - increasing its popularity among non scientists and working on the acceptance of gaslight. His work on dangerous food additives, A Treatise on the Adulterations of Food and Culinary Poisons, was crucial for the adoption of food safety laws. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Science & Technology; Inventory No: 048559.

London: R. Ackermann, 1821. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition. Original boards rebacked in cloth, lacking the frontispiece but otherwise complete. Colored vignette illustration to title, endpapers refreshed, slight wear and age toning to title, scattered very minor foxing and staining. With ads for his Adulterations of Food book at the rear. 356, xx pp. Cagle 531, Bitting 2, Vicaire 4. The first really scientific look at cookery, though surely not to blame for the self-indulgent excesses of molecular gastronomy. Sections on abstinence and competitive eating, pickling, vegetarianism, smoking, curing, etc. Size: 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking, Wine & Dining; Science & Technology. Inventory No: CAT000816.

London: Ferry Press, 1973. First Edition. Softcover. Fine Condition. Original decorative wraps Number 21 of 26 copies with a holograph poem signed by Ackroyd. A fine copy of his third book after Ouch and London Lickpenny. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Inventory No: 048011.

London: The Curiously Strong, 1971. First Edition. Softcover. Fine Condition. Original purple wraps, mimeographed in blue ink. Faint wear at edges, otherwise unmarked - a fine copy of Ackroyd's first solo publication. One of 200 copies. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Inventory No: 048008.

London: Sinclair Stevenson, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Good. Cloth over marbled boards,, glassine jacket with a few tears and wear at edges. signed by Ackroyd on the limitation. Number 89 of 150 copies. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Inventory No: 048024.

London: Ferry Press, 1973. First Edition. Softcover. Fine Condition. Original decorative wraps. One of 350 copies. A fine copy of his third book after Ouch and London Lickpenny. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Inventory No: 048012.

London: Ferry Press, 1973. First Edition. Softcover. Fine Condition. Original decorative wraps by Duncan Grant. A fine copy - number 5 of 26 with an additional holograph poem signed by Ackroyd. His second book. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Inventory No: 048009.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1985. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine Condition. Fine proof copy with price and date pencilled to front cover. Julian Barnes review copy with review slip laid in and signed by Barnes and Ackroyd. A nice association copy of Ackroyd's historical mystery. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; Inventory No: 048016.

London: Sinclair Stevenson, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. Fine copy signed by Ackroyd on the title. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; Signed by Author. Inventory No: 048026.

London: Ferry Press, 1973. First Edition. Softcover. Fine Condition. Original decorative wraps by Duncan Grant. A fine copy, one of 500. Ackroyd's second book. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Inventory No: 048010.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. Fine copy in a very slightly worn glassine jacket. Signed at the limitation 141 of 150 copies. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; Inventory No: 048025.

Basel: Conrad Waldkirch, 1603. Early Edition. Hardcover (Vellum). Very Good Condition. Two volumes in full contemporary vellum - the first work with no place or publisher, 1603, the second Waldkirch, Basel, 1603. Modest browning throughout, heavier in a few spots, scattered minor dampstains in the second book; clean and very good overall. [32], 416, [24] ; [14], 334, [12] pp with a folding table in Hotman.Early editions (first editions were 1585 and 1565 respectively) - the Acontius is rare in commerce and not much more common in libraries. Acontius fled to Basel as the counter reformation began to find an increasingly wide variety if ideas heretical. Stratagematum satanae became central to later ideas of religious toleration and what constitutes dogma. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Religion & Theology; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 046923.

Lyon: Laurentii Anisson, 1670. Early Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Good Condition. Contemporary calf, front hinges cracked and barely attached, rubbing to spine, mark from removed bookplate on pastedown, Light dampstain early on, modest marginal staining and general foxing, one signature (pages 3-13) loose; generally clean internally. Originally published in 1588 in Salamanca along with De natura Novi Orbis libri duo and first published alone in 1596. (22), 501, (25)pp.. Sabin 120 (1596 ed.), Palau I 10 Most famous for his Natural and Moral History of the Indies, Acosta spent the last few years of his life as rector in Salamanca where Conciones de Adventu was written. Before that he had years on multiple trips to Peru in the 1570s (famously crossing the Andes and being one of the first to record speculation on altitude effects) and then in Mexico in the 1580s. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Inventory No: 049419.

Paris: la Veuve Desaint, Libraire, 1783. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition. The first French edition of Ferguson's influential work on civil society. A friend of Hume, Adam Smith and Voltaire, and a major figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, Ferguson published Essay on the History of Civil Society in 1767. It was widely published and his views on political participation and community were influential on the thinking of the founding fathers of the American Revolution and later on the French. Size: Octavo (8vo). 2-volume set (complete). Text is clean and unmarked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Philosophy; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 039834.

Marvel Entertainment, 1985. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine Condition. Faint reading wear; just about fine copies of the this gonzo masterpiece. First appearances of Longshot, Mojo, Spiral, etc. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Comics & Graphic Novels; Inventory No: 049475.