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Your Vigor for Life Appalls Me; Robert Crumb Letters 1958-1977
by Robert Crumb; Edited by Ilse Thompson
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1998
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$120.00
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Black/white cloth covered boards with a crisp dustjacket. A clean copy with no previous owners' names or other defacements.
6.5 x 9.5 in Item Price
$120.00
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Hic et Ubique
by Sir William Augustus Fraser
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Published
- 1893
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$200.00
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Numbered and signed by the author to the limitation page. Limited to 150 copies on large paper, of which this is number 77. Soiled yellow cloth covered boards (see images). Wear to head and tail of spine. Minor foxing to first and last few pages. No previous owners' names or other defacements. Scarce.
6 x 9.5 in Item Price
$200.00
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Carrie, or the Child of the Parsonage
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1854
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$125.00
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Scarce. Red cloth over boards with stamped detailing to boards and gilt detailing and particulars to boards and spine. Corners rubbed. Contains penciled notes from a previous owner to endpaper and first page. No other inscriptions. Pages bright and clean.
4 x 6 inches. Item Price
$125.00
![The Fables of La Fontaine [illustrated by Gustave Dore]- 2 Volume Edition de Luxe](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/723/236/1477236723.0.m.jpg)
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The Fables of La Fontaine [illustrated by Gustave Dore]- 2 Volume Edition de Luxe
by Jean de La Fontaine; Gustave Dore [ills.]; Walter Thornbury [trans.]
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- Edition De Luxe
- Published
- 1885
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$900.00
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Two-volume set. Red pebbled cloth over boards. One hundred etchings on thick stock with tissue guards by various famous French etchers as well as three hundred half-page illustrations by Gustave Dore. Green decorated endpapers. As the paper spine labels state, this is an Edition De Luxe. Shows wear to head and tail of spine of Volume One; darkening to spines;… Read more about this item Item Price
$900.00
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To My Child A Mother's Journal
by Sandra Kuck
- Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$180.00
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A new copy in publisher's shrinkwrap. Green leather boards with gilt detailing. Item Price
$180.00
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The Fables of Aesop Paraphras'd in Verse: Adorn'd with Sculpture, and Illustrated with Annotations.
by Aesop. John Ogilby.
- Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Second
- Published
- 1668
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$7,500.00
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Engraved frontispiece portrait of Ogilby by P. Lombart after P. Lely engraved plate of Aesop among his animals, and eighty-one engraved plates illustrating the fables by Cleyn most of which were cut by Hollar. The work first appeared in folio in 1665, with 82 fables each with its own full-page illustration (save one plate representing two fables) printed on a… Read more about this item Item Price
$7,500.00
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Letters from the Mountains: Being the Real Correspondence of a Lady, between the Years 1773 and 1807
by [Anne Grant]
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- First American from the Third London Edition
- Published
- 1809
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$250.00
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Professionally rebound in elegant marbled boards over dark green calf with 4 raised bands, gilt particulars, and red calf label to spine. New endpapers, although original first and last free pages also present.
As described in book's advertisement: "[The letters] are genuine, but broken and interrupted sketches of a life spent in the most remote obscurity." Previous owner's name in… Read more about this item Item Price
$250.00
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The Facetiae, or Jocose Tales of Poggio
by Poggio Bracciolini
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Published
- 1879
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$450.00
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Two volumes bound as one in half blue morocco. Top edged gilt, others deckle. Fore edge corners bumped. Gilt particulars to spine. A handsome clean copy in a fine binding & without previous owners' names or other markings. 4 3/4 x 6 3/4 inches
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$450.00
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Every Man His Own Poet; or the Inspired Singer's Recipe Book by a Newdigate Prizeman.
by William H. Mallocks
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First American
- Published
- 1879
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$100.00
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Nice copy in scarce original wraps. Mallocks' name added in script. Chips to edges of wraps (see image). Includes receipt from Wm. Matthews, Bookseller 9 March 1990. ; 24mo 5" - 6" tall; 32 [2 ads] pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. Item Price
$100.00
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The London Stage: Tom Thumb. A Burlesque Opera. Altered by Fielding & Kane O'Hara. Signed by Cruikshank.
by George Cruikshank. Ben Jonson as altered by Francis Gentleman, Henry Fielding as altered by Kane O'Hara. The Albert M. Cohn copy.
- Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1825
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$440.00
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To the narrow spine: "London Stage. Price Three Pence. Published by Sherwood, Jones and Co. Paternoster Row." This publisher's price is not found in the bound editions of London Stage. Cruikshank's signature and (probably most importantly) Cohn's definitive label all point to this as the first issue (Cohn's 'original number') before the plays were bound. Cf. Richard J. H.… Read more about this item Item Price
$440.00
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The Ghost Book
by C. [Charles] Churchill
- Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1762
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$400.00
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Three slender half calf quarto volumes bound in two: [iv], 56; [iv], 57-113. Handsomely marbled boards and end papers. Hinge to volume I/II with losses but firm. Scarce in uniform binding with half titles. Item Price
$400.00
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La Henriade de Voltaire, en Dix Chants
by Voltaire
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Published
- 1788
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$190.00
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Full mottled calf. Gilt particulars to spine. Gilt rolled edges. Marbled edges and endpapers. Translated to Latin by Caux de Capreval in service to la Cour Palatine. "Nouvelle edition revue avec le plus grand foin d'apres celle de Deux-Ponts corrigee." Scarce copy bound nicely. Marks in front and title page. Slight bookworm damage to rear's bottom corner (see image). 408pp. Item Price
$190.00
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Eden versus Whistler, The Baronet & the Butterfly
by James McNeill Whistler
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Published
- 1899
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$600.00
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Number 23 of only 250 copies. Aesthetic cardboard covers. Gilt particular to front and spine. Large paper. Deckle end papers. Blank recto of limitation page discolored. Item Price
$600.00
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In Pandean Vale
by Geoffrey Sephton & Franz von Bayros
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- Used
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1920
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$480.00
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Nice copy in half morocco. One of but 500 copies together with three leaf illustrated Prospectus. Item Price
$480.00
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Saint Joan of Arc
by Mark Twain
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition, 1st Printing
- Published
- 1919
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$1,050.00
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Conforms nicely to Blanck 1683 re. p. 18 orientation, Harper's code & end papers. True first, not a nearly or mixed. BAL 3683. Item Price
$1,050.00
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Annals of the Artists of Spain (6 vol. set) WITH The Cloister Life of Emperor Charles V WITH Miscellaneous Essays and Addresses
by Sir William Stirling-Maxwell
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Published
- 1891
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$350.00
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Half ruled olive morocco over marbled paper boards. Raised bands and gilt particulars to faded spines. Some wear to edges and hinges. Marbled endpapers. Uniformly bound but not uniformly numbered on limitation pages. Spine of Volume one discolored, otherwise nice clean copies without previous owners' names or other markings. ; Large 8vo 9" -… Read more about this item Item Price
$350.00
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Telegraph auf der bahn des lebens, oder: Zweihundert der gangbarsten und vorzuglichsten Deutschen Sprichworter.
by Joseph Schulz
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1841
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$275.00
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Bound in brown cloth; gilt decor. Bookplate to pastedown. Minor foxing throughout. ; 356 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. Item Price
$275.00
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Bosnisch-turkische Sprachdenkmaler
by Otto Blau
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Published
- 1868
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$185.00
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Half calf; five raised bands, gilt title to spine. Wear to front board hinge. Bookplate to front pastedown. Small blue star to front pastedown. Otherwise a nice copy without previous owner's names or other markings. ; 316 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. Item Price
$185.00
