New York: Baha'i Publishing Committee, 1938. 1st thus, octavo, original green cloth boards with gilt-stamped title upper board and spine, publisher's green tint upper edge, pp 347 including index. Previous owner's inscription first free endpaper, some rubbing to edges and corners. Very good condition. An early translation of religious meditations.....
London: Dent, 1955. Two volumes (complete), original red cloth boards with gilt title to spine, dec endpapers, b&w frontisplate illustration both volumes, pp xxiii, 293; xiv, 350. Near-fine condition. 14th century Italian stories, structured as 100 tales told by young men and women as they seclude themselves in a villa.....
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1959. Octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, pp 127. A rectangular area has been cut out from the top edge of the front free (blank) endpaper. Very good condition in like d.j. An absurdist and existentialist classic, first published in French as L'Etranger in 1942. This is the fourth.....
London: Humphrey Milford/OUP, 1942. Repr., translated from Czech, original black wraps with red lettering front wrap, pp 102, i, Previous owner's blind stamap front wrap, bookseller ticket inside. Small mark last (blank) page, otherwise clean. Small chip foot of backstrip. Very good condition. Science fiction play by the Czech writer.....
Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1983. 1st UK edition, octavo, illustrated wraps, b&w illus, pp 206. Some creasing to covers, marking/darkening to upper rear cover. Pages toned, otherwise clean. Good condition. Géza Csáth (1887 - 1919) was a Hungarian writer, physician, psychiatyist, and opium addict. In her introduction,. Angela Carter descibes the circumstances.....
Melbourne & Sydney: Macmillan, 1976. Salvador Dali. 1st Australian edition, quarto, pp.(viii), 9 - 175, includes Index, b&w plates, profusely illustrated with tipped-in colour plates, of which some are fold out, original cloth boards with gilt signature 'Salvador Dali' to front board in original dust-jacket whith Dali's painting "Illumined Pleasures".....
Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1992. Royal octavo, wraps, b&w illus, maps, colour plates, pp xxxvi, 304. Previous owner's bookplate. Very good condition. Dumont d'Urville made two great scientific and exploratory voyages to the Pacific and the Antarctic. The first solved the mystery of the disappearance of Laperouse, and the second.....
Canberra: National Library of Australia, 1996. 1st ed., quarto, pictorial boards, spine slightly faded as usual with some light markings to rear board, colour and b&w illus, maps, illus endpapers, pp xxv, 189. Very good condition. In 1817 Rose de Freycinet stowed aboard the 'Uranie' to be with her husband.....
New York: Gryphon Editions / Legal Classics Library, 1977. 1st ed thus., quarto, pp.17a, x, 208, (i), Index, a.e.g., marbled eps., raised bands, full gilt leather. Near fine condn. Special edition, privately printed. First published in 1594 and reprinted in 1924 by the Oxford University Press. "The First True Scholar.....
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1883. 1st thus, octavo, half-leather with marbled sides, title and decorations in gilt to spine, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, pp 287. Near-fine condition. A beautiful binding of one of the first translations into English of Goethe's Tragical History of Doctor Faustus. Published here as.....
London: Secker & Warburg, 1955. Octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w frontis portrait, b&w plates, pp 389. Previous owner's bookplate. Preface by W. Somerset Maugham.
Melbourne University Press/Miegunyah Press, 1994. Translated and Edited by Dymphna Clark. Botanical Index by Roger Hnatiuk. 1st ed., royal 8vo, original cloth boards, dustjacket, colour plates, b&w plates, maps, text illus, bibliography, botanical index, general index, pp xxi, 539, d.j. lightly faded otherwise near fine condn. Baron Charles von Hugel.....
Melbourne University Press/Miegunyah Press, 1994. Translated and Edited by Dymphna Clark. Botanical Index by Roger Hnatiuk. 1st ed., royal 8vo, original cloth boards, dustjacket, colour plates, b&w plates, maps, text illus, bibliography, botanical index, general index, pp xxi, 539, prev.owner's initials to half-title, spine of d.j. lightly faded otherwise near.....
Philadelphia: George Barrie, c. 1893. 1st ed., thus, four volumes, printed on heavy paper, octavo (approx. 20cm x 13cm overall) original cloth boards with original paper title labels, complete with all b&w frontis plates and b&w plates (engraved etchings) each volume (I: fronts plus 4 plates; II: fronts plus 4.....
Fremantle: Duyfken 1606 Replica Foundation, 2002. 1st edition in English, Translated from the original logs in Dutch, pp.iv, 216, profusely illustrated with b/w plates, maps,e.p.maps, or. bds. Near fine in d.j. The Gelderland, which left the Netherlands in 1601, was the leader of one of the Dutch fleets seeking profits.....
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. Robert P. Golman (ed.). 1st ed., octavo, cloth boards, light fading along edge of dustjacket, colour frontis plate, pp xvi, 397. A clean copy in near-fine condition, in very good dustjacket, protected. Scarce. The epic story of Rama, in a scholarly critical edition with extensive.....
Sydney: Axiom, 2001. Octavo, wraps, pp 81. Name crossed out black ink inside cover. Very good condition, protected. Translation of Lao Tzu's founding work on Taoism.
New York: Tor Books, 2014. 1st ed., octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, pp 399. Ex, library, with no markings and very minimal signs: vertical strips of tape to the boards, new endpapers, security sticker rear paste-down, light fading to the outside edge of the boards, some edgewear to the dustjacket, slightly.....
New York: Tor Books/Tom Doherty Associates. First edition, first impression. Large octavo, original cloth boards with title and author stamped in blue foil spine, dustjacket, pp 604. Top corners lightly bumped, light creasing to same corners d.j. Clear reinforcing tape underneath a very small closed tear outer edge of d.j......
Paris: Apud Antonium Cellier, 1680. Quarto, text in Latin, contemporary leather binding restored with later leather spine and title label. Engraved illustrated frontis by L. Moreau, engraved vignette title page, engraved illus vignette and initial dedication page, engraved initials and headpieces, marbled endpapers, marbled edges, pp [26], 793, [1], 59.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. 1st US edition. Octavo, illustrated cloth boards (railway design, with colours), original cloth boards, original dustjacket with cut-out design throgh to boards, colour endpapers, second set of endpapers with railway design, pp 386. Near fine condition in like dustjacket, protected. The first edition of.....
London: Harvill Secker, 2021. First UK edition, octavo, original black cloth boards with blindstamped monkey design upper board, dustjacket, pp 245. Near fine condition in like dustjacket. Eight short stories, all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator. Uncommon thus. Author of 'Norwegian Wood'.
Harvill Secker, 2014. 1st UK edition, octavo, illustrated boards, many colour and b&w illus, 'marbled' endpapers, pp 80. Near fine condition. A novella for children, which has appeared in various versions in Japan: this is the first edition in English. Fantastical encounters in a mysterious, nightmarish library. Author of 'Norwegian.....
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015. 1st edition in English, octavo, original red cloth boards, dustjacket, pp 234. Near fine condition in like dustjacket. The first two novels by Murakami, translated here into English outside Japan for the first time. They are the first two books in the "Trilogy of.....
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. First printing. Large octavo, c;oth boards, dustjacket, pp l, 518. Fine condition in fine dustjacket. Novalis was one of the most original and polymathic figures of the early Romantic movement in Germany. This volume assembles, for the first time in English, translations of Novalis's published.....