Search results for: 'the works'
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WILSON, John, of the Scottish Mission, Bombay. An Exposure of the Hindu Religion,Bombay : 1832
First edition of this uncommon and confrontational tract by the eminent Scottish missionary and orientalist John Wilson (1804-1875), a reply to the Hindu theologian Mora Bhatta Dandekara's Hindudharmasthapana (Vindication of Hindu Religion), published in Marathi and translated here by way of preface; part of a fascinating print war between the two men.... Learn More£550.00Stock Code: 145823
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LEE, Christopher - JACKSON, Peter, & Weta Workshop. The World of Kong.New York : 2005
First edition, first printing, inscribed to Christopher Lee and his Wife Birgit on the half-title by Weta Creative Director Richard Taylor: "To Christopher & Gita, we are immensely proud of this book that our young designers have created & we wanted to share a copy with you both, love Richard"; by Weta Workshop Manager Tania Rodger: "For Christopher... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 141184
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ARNOLD, Matthew. The Forsaken Merman.London : 1900
First Jean Archer edition, this copy beautifully hand coloured, a stunning piece of arts and crafts design. Archer's illustrated edition is uncommon, with 15 copies held institutionally worldwide. In 1901 Dent released a further 50 copies of this work printed on Japon and 10 on vellum for binding by the Guild of Women Bookbinders.
This melancholy... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 147588
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THESIGER, Wilfred. The Life of My Choice.London : 1987
First edition, first impression, signed by the author on the title page with his printed name struck through, of this autobiography by "the greatest of twentieth century explorers" (ODNB), notable for his two crossings of the Empty Quarter of the Arabian Peninsula.
Thesiger's career began when, at the age of 23, he led a fully-funded Royal Geographical... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 150511
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MATHERS, E. Powys (ed.) The Book of the Thousand and One NightsLondon : 1923
First edition thus, limited issue, number 177 of 750 copies on antique paper; there were also 1,500 copies printed on Bond paper. This privately-printed edition of the Arabian Nights was translated into English by Edward Powys Mathers (1892-1939).
Mathers's translation influenced a number of modernist writers, including W. B. Yeats, who "admired... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 146289
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HALE, Matthew. The Primitive Origination of Mankind, considered and examined According to The Light of Nature.London : 1677
First edition, presentation copy from the publisher William Shrewsbury to Hale's fellow lawyer at Lincoln's Inn, Edward Webbe, inscribed in ink on the initial blank, "Edw: Webbe de Lincolnes Inne ex dono bibliopol Gulielmus Shrewsbury maij 9 no 1677"; a well-margined copy with a fine impression of the frontispiece portrait.
Edward Webbe matriculated... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 149954
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LUDOVICI, Carl Günther. Eröffnete Akademie der Kaufleute:Leipzig : 1752-56
First edition of the first German-language dictionary of trade, over 5000 pages long. Written in the form of a lexicon, the work is modellled upon Savary's groundbreaking Dictionnaire Universel de Commerce (1723), and attempts nothing less than to lay the foundation of an entire mercantile system. It established Carl Ludovici (170778) as the chief pioneer... Learn More£4,750.00Stock Code: 146447
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THÉVENOT, Melchisedec. L'Art de Nager, demontre par figures,Paris : 1696
First edition of the first French book on swimming and one of the earliest books on the subject in an era when most Europeans, even sailors, could not swim. The book was widely read during the 18th century, including by Benjamin Franklin, an avid swimmer in his youth.
The book is illustrated with 35 engraved plates by Charles Moette of people... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 146986
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SINGER, Charles, & others. A History of Technology.Oxford : 1956-58
A very handsomely bound copy of this monumental history of technology, "the first major work in English to embrace the whole subject from the earliest times to the end of the nineteenth century" (ODNB). The set comprises mixed editions: first editions, first impressions, of volumes III, IV and V; second impression of vol. II; third impression of vol.... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 148169
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SCHULTZ, Theodore W. Investment in Human Capital.New York : 1971
First edition, first printing, Schultz here summarizing a decade of his work in the field. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1979, Schultz was a pioneer in the study of human capital, a concept long associated with the Chicago School of economics. For Schultz, investing in human capital, whether for a country, internationally, or as a business,... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 149346
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PETRIE, William Matthew Flinders. Gizeh and Rifeh.London : 1907
First edition, first impression, of the richly illustrated thirteenth volume in the Egyptian Research Account Publications series. William Matthew Flinders Petrie was especially known for the accuracy of his surveying. He was a pioneering Egyptologist, founding the journal Ancient Egypt, and teaching numerous influential archaeologists such as Margaret... Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 148208
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SOUTHEY, Robert, as Don Manuel Alvarez Espriella. Letters from England.London : 1807
First edition. The work of an imaginary Spanish traveller, Letters from England was written by Robert Southey as a satire on the peculiar customs of 19th century English culture; his targets range widely, taking in the weather, industrial capitalism, and the English language.
Writing as Don Manuel Alvarez Espriella, Southey describes how "England... Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 145819
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GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von. Faust.Hammersmith : November 1906 & June 1910
First Doves Press editions, each volume one of 25 copies on vellum.
The subject of Faust preoccupied Goethe for most of his life. He began a play on the theme as early as 1773, at first probably concentrated mainly on Faust's disgust with academic learning and on the shallowness of university life. He worked it up into the love tragedy (the so-called... Learn More£25,000.00Stock Code: 145189
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BAIRNSFATHER, Bruce. Bullets & Billets.London : 1917
First edition thus, limited edition, number 41 of 100 copies only with an original drawing by Bairnsfather. This copy has an interesting provenance with pencilled on the front free endpaper "Keep in memory of Frank Houlton Putnam ('Happy') 51st Canadian Highland Division 1914-1918".
In February 1930, Putnam's (1892-1930) obituary read "Mr. Putnam... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 148880
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BRITISH POETS - PARK, Thomas (ed.) The Poetical Works of John Scott and T. Warton.London : 1808 & 1805
First edition of volume 39 of the antiquary and bibliographer Thomas Park's (1759-1834) The Works of the British Poets series, attractively bound. John Scott of Amwell (1731-1783) was an anti-militarist Quaker poet, while the historian, critic, and Poet Laureate Thomas Warton (1728-1790) campaigned to get his lifelong friend Samuel Johnson his MA degree... Learn More£75.00Stock Code: 146233
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GLOVER, Richard. The Poetical Works.London : 1806
An exceedingly attractive set of Glover's works. His epic Leonidas (pp. 17-143 and pp. 5-134) impressed Jonathan Swift, who wrote to Alexander Pope enquiring "who is that Mr. Glover, who writ the Epic Poem called Leonidas, which hath great vogue" (ODNB). Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 146239
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AKENSIDE, Mark. The Poetical Works.London : 1825
An attractively bound copy of the poet and physician Akenside's (1721-1770) works, first published in 1772, in small but perfectly legible type. His contemporarily popular poem Pleasures of the Imagination (pp. 2-120) "deeply influenced" Wordsworth and Coleridge; the Romantics were "particularly attracted by the emphasis Akenside placed on the imagination... Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 146237
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MONTAGU, Lady Mary Wortley. The Letters and Works.London : 1837
First edition of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's works and letters as edited by her great-grandson, in a handsome contemporary binding.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) was a friend of Alexander Pope and John Gay, but is best remembered as "one of the most important women writers between Aphra Behn and Jane Austen, and one of her period's most... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 146138
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LONDON, Jack. The Works.New York : 1903-24
The Collected works of Jack London. Learn More£3,850.00Stock Code: 147020
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BYRON, George Gordon Noel, Lord. The Works:London : 1832-33
A very handsome set of Byron's collected works, including his letters and journals, and Moore's biography of the poet. Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 145545
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MOORE, Thomas. The Works.Paris : 1823
A handsome set from the collection of Charles Dickens with his bookplate and sale label to the front pastedown of each volume. The bookplates bear an illustration of a lion holding a star; the sale labels read, "From the Library of Charles Dickens, Gadshill Place, June, 1870". Dickens purchased Gadshill Place in Kent in 1856 and lived there until he... Learn More£6,000.00Stock Code: 138608
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BYRON, George Gordon Noel, Lord. The Works.London : 1828-29
An attractively bound set of Byron's works, published by his friend and publisher John Murray (1778-1843). "With the breakdown of Byron's marriage in 1816 and his (self-) exile in Italy, their friendship was sustained in a correspondence that is one of the most lively and revealing of the period" (ODNB).
The last two volumes are published by... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 145838
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GASKELL, Elizabeth. The Works.London : 1906
The Knutsford Edition of Gaskell's collected works, a very attractive edition, here elegantly bound. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 149520
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SPARE, Austin Osman; WALLACE, William. The Early Work of Austin Osman Spare, 1900-1919.Stroud : 1987
First edition, according to Harper only 300 copies printed. This study of Spare's early work, and its influences was an important step in the rediscovery of Spare by a new generation which began in the 1970s and gathered momentum in the decades that followed.
Spare's illustrations often featured pagan and occult imagery such as satyrs and witches,... Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 147245
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KELMSCOTT PRESS: CHAUCER, Geoffrey. The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer now newly imprinted.Hammersmith : 1896
Limited edition, one of 425 copies on paper from a total edition of 438. A magnificent copy of Morris's masterpiece of printing in a fine and entirely appropriate contemporary pigskin binding, recorded as "unlocated" in the census of copies of the book.
W. B. Yeats described the Kelmscott Chaucer as "the most beautiful of all printed books" and... Learn More£225,000.00Stock Code: 148314
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STERNE, Laurence. The Works.London : 1793
Early edition of Sterne's collected major works, which were first published from 1760, in an attractive Morrell binding to style. Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 146201
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WORDSWORTH, William; Thomas Hutchinson (ed.) The Poetical Works.London : 1908
A beautifully bound copy of the Oxford Edition of Wordsworth's poems with charming floral details. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 145357
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THOMSON, James. The Poetical Works.Edinburgh : 1780
An attractive printed set of James Thomson's (1700-1748) poems, in a nice contemporary binding. His highly influential epic in blank verse The Seasons (pp. 33-230) "showed how the sublimity of Paradise Lost might be reshaped and internalized to suit the intellectual and spiritual concerns of his own age, and thereby prepared the way for Wordsworth"... Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 146238
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HENNELL, Thomas. The Countryman at WorkLondon : 1947
First edition, first impression. This title collects studies of English country craftsmen and their methods of work which were first published as a series of articles in The Architectural Review between 1941 and 1943. Learn More£50.00Stock Code: 140018
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VEBLEN, Thorstein. The Instinct of Workmanship and the State of the Industrial Arts.New York : 1914
First edition, first printing. "As in other work by Veblen, an extensive anthropological-historical background provides the underpinning for his argument. The theme was not a new one for him, but he developed it more fully than in earlier works. Humans, he declared, have a basic instinct to create things of usefulness to themselves and others. That... Learn More£225.00Stock Code: 147734
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KAMEKURA, Yusaku. The Works of Yusaka Kamekura.Tokyo : 1983
First edition, first printing. Inscribed on the half title by the artist "To Mr Sam Haskins, from Y Kamekura". Kamekura's graphic designs include advertising, marketing and logos for many companies, Olympic, sport and art convention posters, typefaces, packaging, book designs etc. Text mainly in Japanese, with some English. Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 147118
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NARAHARA, Ikko. Shows Shashin Zenshigoto - Series 9 - The Complete Works.Tokyo : 1983
First edition, first printing. Inscribed by Narahara in silver pen on the front free endpaper. "To Dear Sam Haskins from Ikko Narahara". Captions in Japanese and English, text in Japanese. From the library of Sam Haskins. Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 146412
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GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Poetical WorksLondon : 1823
An attractive collection of Goldsmith's poems, in a contemporary binding, the text printed small but perfectly legible. "Goldsmith's fame spread to both the European and North American continents. Johann Wolfgang Goethe testified that at the age of twenty, in Strasbourg, he was awakened by The Vicar of Wakefield to create a new field of letters" (ODNB).... Learn More£175.00Stock Code: 146227
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AMIS, Kingsley, as Lt.-Col. William ("Bill") Tanner. The Book of Bond or Every Man His Own 007: With Reversible Bookjacket for Work in the Field.London : 1965
First edition, first impression. Written under a pseudonym, Amis's tongue-in-cheek work is a manual for prospective agents to live like James Bond, wittily illustrated with examples from the Fleming canon. The dust jacket is reversible, entitled on the verso as The Bible to be Read as Literature - a play on a scene in Goldfinger, in which Bond carries... Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 143897
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MICHAUX, Francois Andre, & Thomas Nuttall. The North American Sylva;Philadelphia : 1849 (Nuttall volumes), 1850 (Michaux vol. I and II), & 1851 (vol. III)
First Smith edition of Michaux volumes (first published in French in 1810-13 and in English in 1817-19), early editions of Nuttall's continuation (first published from 1841 to 1849, here each volume dated 1849); together the most important work on the trees of North America prior to the 20th century.
"Of the two works united, it is no exaggeration... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 148552
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WESTON, Edward - MADDOW, Ben. Fifty Years. The Definitive Volume of His Photographic Work.New York : 1973
First edition, first printing. Ben Maddow, author of the accompanying text, was a noted Hollywood screenwriter. Fifty Years was issued simultaneously in Europe by McGraw-Hill Book Company. From the library of Sam Haskins. Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 146297
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VIRGIL; DRYDEN, John (trans.) The Works.London : 1825
An attractively bound copy of Dryden's famous translations of Virgil, first published in 1697. Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 146204
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COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor. The Poetical Works.London : 1834
An attractive copy of Coleridge's poetry. Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 145442
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RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); GRAHAME, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows.London : 1951
First UK edition with Rackham's illustrations, 100th edition overall; number 212 of 500 copies, finely bound.
Grahame's timeless classic was originally published in 1908 with just a frontispiece by Graham Robertson. Rackham's illustrations for the text first appeared in the Limited Editions Club published in New York in 1940, and it was the last... Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 148419
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OMAR KHAYYÁM; PAYNE, John (trans.) The Quatrains.London : 1898
First Payne edition, deluxe issue, number 560 of an unknown limitation. The translator of this edition, John Payne (1842-1916), was a poet and friend of Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
Payne took an interest in limited edition publishing, and co-founded the Villon Society with a small circle of friends in order to publish his translations of the works... Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 147878
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BRONTË, Charlotte, Emily & Anne. The Works.London : 1893
Large paper edition, limited to one of 250 numbered copies of which this is number 97. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 145508
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FAIRMAN, William. The Stocks Examined and Compared:London : 1795
First edition of Fairman's frequently-reprinted manual for investors, bound in an eclectic sammelband of seven works. The author, who worked as life-accountant to the corporation of the Royal-Exchange Assurance, here offers information on a host of government investment schemes, listing the various public funds available, including annuities, bank stock,... Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 136213
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HAMILTON, Augustus. Maori Art: The Art Workmanship of the Maori Race in New Zealand.Wellington : 1896
First edition, issued in five parts between 1896 and 1900, bound in the publisher's cloth upon the issue of the fifth and final part. Hamilton's Maori Art was a monumental publication documenting and depicting a wealth of Maori artwork. A total of 900 copies were printed and bindings were offered as here or in brown morocco with a matching design.
Augustus... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 146555
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JAMES, William. The Naval History of Great Britain,London : 1837
First published 1822-4. Still recognised as a "monument of accuracy - it has stood the test of time and remains the best account of the naval side of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars" (Kemp, The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea, p. 425). First conceived of when he was held prisoner in America during the War of 1812 the Naval History is a remarkable... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 149462
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BRASSEY, Thomas. Foreign Work and English Wages considered with reference to The Depression of Trade.London : 1879
First edition. The civil engineer and parliamentarian Thomas Brassey (1836-1918) here considers the relatively high wages paid to English labour compared to continental competition, against fears British industry was being rendered uncompetitive.
With an autograph letter signed from the author, on his admiralty headed paper, regretting he cannot... Learn More£225.00Stock Code: 149995
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GANN, William Delbert. Truth of the Stock Tape.New York : 1923
First edition, first printing, of this guide to investing by the renegade financial trader William Delbert Gann (1878-1955), remembered for his dubious investment advice based on geometry, astronomy, astrology, and ancient mathematics; this book, his second published work, is a more conventional guide to reading the fluctuations of stock ticker tape... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 149356
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CHRISTO & Jeanne-Claude. The Gates (Project for Central Park, New York City). A Work in Progress.Fairfield : 2002
First edition, first printing. Signed by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in orange crayon on the half-title together with a sample of original cloth used to wrap the Central Park gates. Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 148712
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COLTON, Calvin. Public Economy for the United States.New York : 1848
First edition of this protectionist treatise, opposing free trade and supporting the establishment of a protected economy within the United States.
Colton (17891857), professor of political economy at Trinity College, Hartford, forcefully advocated the policy of protection to home industries, and was a devoted follower of Henry Clay, whose works... Learn More£600.00Stock Code: 150126
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DUNSANY, Edward Plunkett, Lord. The King of Elfland's Daughter.London : 1924
First edition, signed limited issue, number 5 of 250 copies only, signed by Dunsany on the preface and Sidney H. Sime on the frontispiece. The jacket, issued in a slightly bigger format to envelope the book, is thus often found in piteous state, unlike here.
Though now recognised as one of the greatest works of fantasy literature, the work received... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 145661
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THORNTON, Edward. Illustrations of the History and Practices of the Thugs.London : 1851
Remarkably scarce second edition, following the first of 1837; one of the earliest and most significant works on thuggee. This copy with a fine provenance: from the library of Edward Law, first Earl of Ellenborough (1790-1871), governor-general of India from 1842 to 1844, inscribed by him on the front pastedown ("Ellenborough") and stamped "Earl of... Learn More£950.00Stock Code: 145945
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MANDEVILLE, Bernard. The Fable of the Bees; [together with:] The Fable of the Bees Part II.London : 1732 & 1729
First edition of the second part, seventh edition (stated sixth) of the first part, of Mandeville's most impactful and best-known work, demonstrating, through a poetic parable of bees renouncing all luxury and seeing their hive collapse, that the Christian ascetic philosophy cannot lead to a prosperous economy and social system, and consequently, that... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 148675
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MASEFIELD, John - BLAKE, Quentin. The Midnight Folk and The Box of Delights.London : 1991
First edition, first impression of the first combined edition of The Midnight Folk (first published in 1927) and The Box of Delights (first published in 1935), featuring illustrations by Quentin Blake.
Masefield first asked his publishers about a combined edition of the two Kay Harker books in 1935 and was told it was "an excellent idea". He... Learn More£50.00Stock Code: 150278
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WEBER, Max. The Theory of Social and Economic Organization.New York : 1947
First US edition in English of part I of one of the most influential works of sociology, Weber's Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, originally published in 1922 as Volume III of the collaborative work Grundriss der Sozialoekonomik. Henderson and Parsons' translation was first published in the UK by William Hodge earlier that year. Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 150122
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WEBER, Max. The Theory of Social and Economic Organization.New York : 1947
First US edition in English of part I of one of the most influential works of sociology, Weber's Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, originally published in 1922 as Volume III of the collaborative work Grundriss der Sozialoekonomik. Henderson and Parsons' translation was first published in the UK by William Hodge earlier that year. Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 150123
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FISHER, Irving. Mathematical Investigations in the Theory of Value and Prices.New Haven : 1926
Second printing in book form (first 1925), presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "To Mr. Herbert Frankel with the compliments of Irving Fisher. March, 1927".
Development economist S. Herbert Frankel (1887-1975) published various works of economics in a long career spanning 1926 to 1982, best remembered in his role... Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 149040
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CHINESE PROPAGANDA; Vietnam War. ¡El Pueblo Vietnamita Triunfará! ¡Los Agresores Yanqui Fracasarán! (The Vietnamese People Will Triumph! The Yank Aggressors Will Fail!)Beijing : 1966
First edition in Spanish, first impression, with a pleasing Cold War provenance, of this uncommon work, a collection of artworks attacking the American presence in Vietnam, which encapsulates the intensity of Cold War-era geopolitical relations between China, the United States, and the Soviet Union.
After ideological disputes and the public souring... Learn More£225.00Stock Code: 149911
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ANTIFASCIST PERIODICAL - FELICANI, Aldino (ed.) The Lantern. Focusing upon Fascism and Other Dark Disorders of the Present Day.Boston : 1927-29
The complete run of the antifascist periodical The Lantern, association copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper by a member of the editorial board, "For Norman Di Giovanni. Aldino Felicani. August 9, 1963". Di Giovanni was close friends with Felicani and catalogued his Sacco-Vanzetti materials, which are now held at the Boston Public Library.
Aldino... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 148256
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GREENAWAY, Kate. Collection of works.1870-1930
A significant collection of the illustrated books of Kate Greenaway, gathered by a private collector over many years and an assemblage which in scope and quality would now be difficult to equal, covering the full breadth of her career, and richly illustrating the extent and variety of her work.
The collection comprises four presentation copies... Learn More£30,000.00Stock Code: 144492
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KELMSCOTT PRESS: CAXTON, William (trans). The History of Reynard the Foxe.Hammersmith : 1892 [1893]
Limited edition, one of 300 copies on paper, from a total edition of 310 copies. In his note requested by Quaritch as a puff, Morris commented: "this translation of Caxton's is one of the very best of his works as to style; and being translated from a kindred tongue is delightful as mere language. In its rude joviality, and simple and direct delineation... Learn More£8,500.00Stock Code: 145992
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JONES, John Thomas, Colonel. Memoranda relative to the Lines thrown up to cover Lisbon in 1810.London : 1829
The first appearance of Jones' detailed account of the Lines of Torres Vedras, the defensive works covering Lisbon created by Sir Richard Fletcher on Wellington's orders 1809-10. Jones was not allowed to publish these records in his famous Journals of Sieges carried on by the Army under the Duke of Wellington... 1811 to 1814 because of their continued... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 145225
