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To celebrate its 100th birthday, Daimler Benz produced a commemorative magazine called 100 Years of Motor-Cars, Daimler Benz 1886-1986, A Birthday Magazine. Copies were sent to its select customers. This is one such copy, accompanied by a letter to the customer from the then-president of Daimler Benz Canada.
With lots of photographs, it goes through the history of the company. It's 50 pages, including covers, which have insert flaps. High-quality paper and production values.
I couldn't get a good photo of the cover, so photo #1 is one I found elsewhere. Mine is photo #2, which was too big for the scanner. But, save for minor wear to the edges of the cover, and a paper clip mark on the top right, this copy is in mint condition.

This is a first edition of the best-selling Lords of the Line: The Men Who Built the CPR, written by the Canadian journalists David Cruise and Alison Griffiths. It is the story of the six tough, arrogant, influential and powerful men who created the Canadian Pacific Railway and, in so doing, shaped the nation.
This copy is plain black boards with brilliant red foil lettering on the spine. 486 pages, including lots of photographs.
The dust jacket is unclipped and has minor shelfwear at the top; there is no shelfwear to the book itself. The book has been read and there are dogears, but the pages are all clean, clear and creamy white.

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This is an unread copy of African Kingdoms, part of the Great Ages of Man series which Time-Life Books began publishing in the 60s. This book was written in 1967 by the British historian Basil Davidson (1914-2010); Time-Life's editors updated it and it was republished in 1980.

This book was well received. Reviews say it's very progressive and takes pains to point out the flaws in many traditional ideas about African culture and history, including the perspective that Africa is one large monolithic culture. It's a good place to start if you're someone who wants a basic grasp of African history.

It's 8 3/4" x 10 3/4". 191 pages, including loads of photos.
Pristine condition.

This is a first edition (1991) of Murther and Walking Spirits, the second-last novel by the brilliant Canadian novelist Robertson Davies (1913-1995). It is a ghost story; after a film critic is murdered, his ghost attends a strange film festival. While the attendees see actual films, the critic's ghost sees films detailing the lives of his ancestors—one was a Tory during the American Revolution, another who was a carpenter who married a blue-blooded woman. The films deal with more and more recent subjects until the novel is brought to a modern-day conclusion.
This is a perfect copy, with an unclipped dust jacket. The edges of the jacket are starting to darken a little, but there are no marks of any kind in or on the book.
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This is a first edition of An Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry, edited by the American academic Wes Davis. It is a comprehensive representation of Irish poetic achievement in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, from poets such as Austin Clarke and Samuel Beckett, to those who came of age in the turbulent '60s, including Seamus Heaney and Michael Longley; to a new generation of Irish writers such as David Wheatley and Sinéad Morrissey. Each poet is represented by a generous number of poems--there are 800 poems; the table of contents is 27 pages. There are Nobel Prize winners, relative unknowns, by those working in English and Gaelic (translated). There is a historical overview, lots of notes and a short essay on each poet.
976 pages. Lovely paper.
Minor wear to the (unclipped) dust jacket.
There is a crease in the table of contents pages, which appears to be a printing issue.
But there is no evidence that the book has been read. It's in perfect condition.

Life With Father is a collection of short stories by the American author and cartoonist Clarence Day (1874-1935), published just after his death in 1936.
Day wrote humorously about his family and life. The stories of his father were first printed in the New Yorker magazine. They portray a rambunctious, overburdened Wall Street broker who demands that everything from his family should be just so. The more he rails against his staff, his cook, his wife, his horse, salesmen, holidays, his children and the inability of the world to live up to his impossible standards, the more comical and lovable he becomes to his own family who love him despite it all. It is a picture of New York upper-middle-class family life in the 1890s.
In 1939, the book was turned into a play. The Broadway production ran for more than seven years to become the longest-running non-musical play on Broadway, a record that it still holds. The play was adapted into a 1947 feature film and a television series.
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The is a very nice copy of Selected Tales of Guy de Maupassant, published by Random House in 1950. It is 49 short stories written by the French master. See photo and scan of contents.It is illustrated by the American artist and lithographer Adolf Dehn.7 x 10, 334 pagesRed and black boards with gilt design on the spine.

There is almost no shelfwear but there is the odd faint mark on the cover and some fingerprints on the back. The spine is perfect, inside and out.

It appears to have not been read.
Inside, it is pristine.

This is a first edition (1968) of the International Collectors Library printing of the Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant. It is about 75 stories by the French master of the short story.
Bound in green/dark turquoise leather with a gold design on the cover and spine. Bound-in silk bookmark. Rough-edged pages.
The paper has darkened a little but there is no evidence that the book has been read. The white mark you see on the cover is from a price tag; it will come off. Otherwise perfect condition.

This is a first edition from the classics series published by International Collectors Library in 1970.It is two novels.
Pere Goriot (or Old Goriot)is an 1835 novel by Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850), included in the Scènes de la vie privée section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine. Set in Paris in 1819, it follows the intertwined lives of three characters: the elderly doting Goriot, a mysterious criminal-in-hiding named Vautrin, and a naive law student named Eugène de Rastignac. It is considered Balzac's most important novel and it has often been adapted for film and the stage. It also is the base of the French expression 'Rastignac', which is a term for a social climber willing to do anything to get ahead.
Eugenie Grandet is an 1833 novel which Balzac continued into his Human Comedy series. It is the story of a young woman whose wealthy but tight-fisted father tries to arrange a financially advantageous marriage for her when she falls in love with her penniless cousin.
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The is a nice little Modern Library copy of Pere Goriot & Eugenie Grandet, published in 1950. It is two novels in one book.
Pere Goriot (or Old Goriot)is an 1835 novel by Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850), included in the Scènes de la vie privée section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine. Set in Paris in 1819, it follows the intertwined lives of three characters: the elderly doting Goriot, a mysterious criminal-in-hiding named Vautrin, and a naive law student named Eugène de Rastignac. It is considered Balzac's most important novel and it has often been adapted for film and the stage. It also is the base of the French expression 'Rastignac', which is a term for a social climber willing to do anything to get ahead.
Eugenie Grandet is an 1833 novel which Balzac continued into his Human Comedy series. It is the story of a young woman whose wealthy but tight-fisted father tries to arrange a financially advantageous marriage for her when she falls in love with her penniless cousin.
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This is a first edition of The Peaceable Kingdom, An American Saga, the 1972 novel by the prolific Dutch-American playwright and novelist Jan de Hartog (1914-2002). De Hartog moved to the US in the early 60s and became a Quaker.
From an online synopsis:
"I am George Fox," said the fair-haired stranger. "May the Lord bless thee and awaken thee, Margaret Fell." His eyes went on searching hers. They were blue like a sailor's and of an odd shape and rather slanted.It was at this moment Margaret Fell's life took a strange and dramatic turn. For her encounter with George Fox, a virile, lust-provoking, itinerant preacher, made her feel as though a whole new life were ahead. For the first time her passion was aroused. George awakened in her a capacity for love she had never known. But was this love directed at George the man of God...or George the man?This novel is the story of the passionate, flesh-and-blood men and women who began the Quaker movement in England in the 17th century and of those who settled… Read More

This is one of the loveliest cookbooks I've seen--it could double as a coffee table book. It's big--10 1/4" x 14 1/3", 256 pages. It is 250 recipes from traditional Tuscan cuisine, all perfectly laid out and photographed. It also contains photographs of the Tuscan landscape and people. It was written by Lorenza de Medici, author of 30 cookbooks and owner of a cooking school in Badia (Chianti). She includes several recipes from her forebear, Catherine de Medici, who brought Italian cooking to France and is credited with creating French cuisine.This copy is an unread first edition. The dust jacket (unclipped) has a little shelfwear along the bottom; the book itself is near-mint; it has just been leafed through.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, Lord of Montaigne (1533 – 1592) was a French statesman and one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance. It was he who popularized the essay as a literary genre, and his volume Essais contains some of the most influential essays ever written.
This is 14 of his essays; topics include Idleness, the Education of Children, Friendship, Solitude, Repentance and Vanity.
This is a 'best of' collection, was published by Walter J Black for the Classics Club in 1943 and reprinted in 1970.
It is beige tweed boards with red and brilliant gold on the cover and spine; the top pages are dyed red.
364 pages.
Unread and pristine. There is one flaw--bits of red have started to come off the spine, as you can see in the photo.

The Clever Gentleman Sir Quixote of La Mancha, written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, was originally published in two parts, in 1605 and 1615. It is the most important work to come out of Spain, is considered the first 'modern novel', and is considered by some to be the greatest literary work ever written.
This is a near-perfect copy, designed by George Salter and published by Random House in 1941. It was originally sold in a box sleeve, which has been lost. It is plain green buckram covers with a red and gold design on the spine. The spine is perfect except for a bit of shelf wear at the bottom. The paper is beautiful.It is a large heavy book--nearly 3 lbs and 567 pages, illustrated with numerous wood engravings by the German-American artist Hans Alexander Mueller. It has two flaws. There is what looks like original glue traces on page 14; a production error perhaps. And something, likely water, was splashed on pages 266 and 267. Other than that, it is a perfect, lovely book. Because… Read More

This is a stated first edition of The Guggenheims: A Family History, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Irwin Unger, and his wife, journalist Debi Unger. It is about the very wealthy American family who made their fortune in the mining industry, and for founding the Guggenheim Museum.

It was published in 2005 and remains a best-seller.

This copy has not been read; its only flaw is some scuffing on the front of the cover, from improper storage. Other than that, it's in pristine condition.

This is the Daniel Defoe classic, written in 1719, about a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical desert island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers, before being rescued. The story is likely based on the life of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway who lived for four years on the Chilean island Más a Tierra, which was renamed Robinson Crusoe Island in 1966.
This copy was also published by Grosset & Dunlap, as part of the Companion Library, dated 1963.
It is 275 pristine pages with several illustrations. It has not been read and is in perfect condition—like new.

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This is a beautiful copy of Robinson Crusoe, published as a luxury edition by Scribner's in 1984.It is about a castaway who spends 28 years on a tropical desert island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals and mutineers before being rescued. It was first published in 1719 and is thought of as the first English-language novel. It remains one of the best-selling books in history.Green boards with brilliant gold on the cover and spine. The book is pristine, with no marks of any kind in it or on it.The paper is lovely and creamy--and thick. It has large type, and there are 14 colour illustrations by the famed American illustrator N.C. Wyeth (1882-1945).It weighs over 2 lbs--368 pages, 7 1/2" x 9 1/4" x 1 3/4"Its only flaw is that the spine has become ribbed (see photo).The dust jacket has minor shelf-wear and is starting to become discoloured on the inside. Also, it's a little too big for the book so it's not sitting precisely centered on the spine (printing error).Otherwise, it's perfect.NOTE: My quoted… Read More

This is the Folio Society's 1972 edition of The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, the brilliant Daniel Defoe novel first published in 1722. It purports to be a true story, and is based on the famous London criminal Moll King.
As is the case with all Folio Society's books, this one is of the best quality, with beautiful paper. Scarlet covers in a gray slipcase. It is lavishly illustrated with ink sketches by the British artist Nigel Lambourne (1919-1988).
The spine has been cracked at the front but there's no evidence that anyone read this book. The Folio Society subscription card is still in it. It's in mint condition.

Moll Flanders is a raucous tale detailing the life of a sexually-free and conniving woman who search for happiness involves 7 children and 4 husbands. It is possibly the actual autobiography of the London criminal Moll King.
Reader's Digest 2006, 324 pages
Navy blue covers with overlapping purple spine, brilliant gold design & lettering on front and spine.
Untouched. No shelf-wear, lovely paper.
There are no marks of any kind in or on this book.
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This is an unread first edition of The Complete Paintings of Pablo Picasso, Blue and Rose Periods. It was written/compiled by art historians Denys Sutton and Paolo Lecaldano and published in 1968.Works covered are from Picasso's Blue Period (1901-1904) and Rose Period (1904-1906), when he was in his early 20s.The book consists of a minimal amount of introductory text, then 64 pages of color prints. That is followed by 37 pages of proper information, including a list of exhibitions, a concordance table and black and white thumbnails of every piece produced by Picasso in these years. Accompanying each image is bibliographic information, location, ownership history and, in some cases, prices paid.This book has spent its life lying on its side on a shelf. Until now, it was never opened. So it's pristine, although there may be a little yellowing to the edges of the pages.