D'Anvers, Caleb

The Craftsman, Volume VII

London, R. Francklin, 1731. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 24mo 5" - 6" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy of the writings to and from Caleb D'Anvers (Nicholas Amhurst), Grays Inn, Esquire, nothing fancy, but complete, sturdy and still attractive. Top-stained in blue, with speckled-red fore- and bottom-edges. This volume begins with Issue No. 218, Saturday, September 5, 1730. 407 pp. including Appendix and a full Index, not abbreviated, but written out. Features engraved frontispiece, author's portrait on title page, head and tail pieces, decorated initials in each volume. Bound in marbled paper over boards, with calf leather over tips, spine, five raised bands to spine, gilt tooling along edges, spine, attractive fleurs-de-lis, scuffing thereto, cracking to joints, some loss of paper here and there, waffling of text-block, but still sturdy and with signs of neither mildew nor odor. Nicholas Amhurst was born at Marden, Kent, according to an entry on Penny's Poetry Pages about him. Educated at the Merchant Taylors' School, having matriculated in 1716 to St John's College, Oxford, he was expelled there three years later for, he argued, his Whig principles as expressed in his quite popular writings. Known as a satirist of Oxford morals, he became something of a gadfly to many authorities. Moving from Oxford (post-expulsion) to London, he commenced his career in literature.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Book number: 350935

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D'Anvers, Caleb

The Craftsman, Volume XIV

London, R. Francklin, 1737. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 24mo 5" - 6" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy of the writings to and from Caleb D'Anvers (Nicholas Amhurst), Grays Inn, Esquire, nothing fancy, but complete, sturdy and still attractive. Top-stained in blue, with speckled-red fore- and bottom-edges. This volume begins with Issue No. 466, Saturday, June 7, 1735. 359 pp. including Appendix and a full Index, not abbreviated, but written out. Features author's portrait on title page, head and tail pieces, decorated initials in each volume. Bound in marbled paper over boards, with calf leather over tips, spine, five raised bands to spine, gilt tooling along edges, spine, attractive fleurs-de-lis, scuffing thereto, cracking to joints, some loss of paper here and there, Remains of a former paper repair inside front flap, rubbing to gilt-tooled titles, waffling of text-block, but still sturdy and with signs of neither mildew nor odor. Nicholas Amhurst was born at Marden, Kent, according to an entry on Penny's Poetry Pages about him. Educated at the Merchant Taylors' School, having matriculated in 1716 to St John's College, Oxford, he was expelled there three years later for, he argued, his Whig principles as expressed in his quite popular writings. Known as a satirist of Oxford morals, he became something of a gadfly to many authorities. Moving from Oxford (post-expulsion) to London, he commenced his career in literature.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Book number: 350936

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D'Anvers, Caleb

The Craftsman, Volume IX

London, R. Francklin, 1737. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 24mo 5" - 6" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy of the writings to and from Caleb D'Anvers (Nicholas Amhurst), Grays Inn, Esquire, nothing fancy, but complete, sturdy and still attractive. Top-stained in blue, with speckled-red fore- and bottom-edges. This volume begins with Issue No. 466, Saturday, January 29, 1731-32. 281 pp. including Appendix and a full Index, not abbreviated, but written out. Features author's portrait on title page, head and tail pieces, decorated initials in each volume. Bound in marbled paper over boards, with calf leather over tips, spine, five raised bands to spine, gilt tooling along edges, spine, attractive fleurs-de-lis, scuffing thereto, cracking to joints, some loss of paper here and there, Rubbing to gilt-tooled titles, waffling of text-block, but still sturdy and with signs of neither mildew nor odor. Nicholas Amhurst was born at Marden, Kent, according to an entry on Penny's Poetry Pages about him. Educated at the Merchant Taylors' School, having matriculated in 1716 to St John's College, Oxford, he was expelled there three years later for, he argued, his Whig principles as expressed in his quite popular writings. Known as a satirist of Oxford morals, he became something of a gadfly to many authorities. Moving from Oxford (post-expulsion) to London, he commenced his career in literature.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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D'Anvers, Caleb [Nicholas Amhurst]

The Craftsman, Volume VIII

London, R. Francklin, 1737. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 24mo 5" - 6" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy of the writings to and from Caleb D'Anvers (Nicholas Amhurst), Grays Inn, Esquire, nothing fancy, but complete, sturdy and still attractive. Top-stained in blue, with speckled-red fore- and bottom-edges. 297 pp. including Appendix and a full Index, not abbreviated, but written out. Features author's portrait on title page, head and tail pieces, decorated initials in each volume. Bound in marbled paper over boards, with calf leather over tips, spine, five raised bands to spine, gilt tooling along edges, spine, remains of fleurs-de-lis, scuffing thereto, cracking to joints, some loss of paper here and there, Rubbing to gilt-tooled titles, waffling of text-block, but still sturdy and with signs of neither mildew nor odor. Nicholas Amhurst was born at Marden, Kent, according to an entry on Penny's Poetry Pages about him. Educated at the Merchant Taylors' School, having matriculated in 1716 to St John's College, Oxford, he was expelled there three years later for, he argued, his Whig principles as expressed in his quite popular writings. Known as a satirist of Oxford morals, he became something of a gadfly to many authorities. Moving from Oxford (post-expulsion) to London, he commenced his career in literature.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Book number: 350938

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D'Anvers, Caleb [Nicholas Amhurst]

The Craftsman, Volume VI

London, R. Francklin, 1731. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 24mo 5" - 6" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy of the writings to and from Caleb D'Anvers (Nicholas Amhurst), Grays Inn, Esquire, nothing fancy, but complete, sturdy and still attractive. Top-stained in blue, with speckled-red fore- and bottom-edges. This volume commences Saturday, January 3rd, 1729-30. 331 pp. including Appendix and a full Index, not abbreviated, but written out. Features author's portrait on title page, head and tail pieces, decorated initials in each volume. Bound in marbled paper over boards, with calf leather over tips, spine, five raised bands to spine, gilt tooling along edges, spine, remains of fleurs-de-lis, scuffing thereto, cracking to joints, some loss of paper here and there, Rubbing to gilt-tooled titles, waffling of text-block, but still sturdy and with signs of neither mildew nor odor. Nicholas Amhurst was born at Marden, Kent, according to an entry on Penny's Poetry Pages about him. Educated at the Merchant Taylors' School, having matriculated in 1716 to St John's College, Oxford, he was expelled there three years later for, he argued, his Whig principles as expressed in his quite popular writings. Known as a satirist of Oxford morals, he became something of a gadfly to many authorities. Moving from Oxford (post-expulsion) to London, he commenced his career in literature.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Book number: 350939

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D'Anvers, Caleb [Nicholas Amhurst]

The Craftsman, Volume V

London, R. Francklin, 1731. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 24mo 5" - 6" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy of the writings to and from Caleb D'Anvers (Nicholas Amhurst), Grays Inn, Esquire, nothing fancy, but complete, sturdy and still attractive. Top-stained in blue, with speckled-red fore- and bottom-edges. This volume commences Saturday, May 24th, 1729. 331 pp. including Appendix and a full Index, not abbreviated, but written out. Features engraved frontispiece, quite fine, author's portrait on title page, head and tail pieces, decorated initials in each volume. Bound in marbled paper over boards, with calf leather over tips, spine, five raised bands to spine, gilt tooling along edges, spine, remains of fleurs-de-lis, scuffing thereto, cracking to joints, some loss of paper here and there, Rubbing to gilt-tooled titles, waffling of text-block, but still sturdy and with signs of neither mildew nor odor. Nicholas Amhurst was born at Marden, Kent, according to an entry on Penny's Poetry Pages about him. Educated at the Merchant Taylors' School, having matriculated in 1716 to St John's College, Oxford, he was expelled there three years later for, he argued, his Whig principles as expressed in his quite popular writings. Known as a satirist of Oxford morals, he became something of a gadfly to many authorities. Moving from Oxford (post-expulsion) to London, he commenced his career in literature.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Book number: 350940

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D'Anvers, Caleb [Nicholas Amhurst]

The Craftsman, Volume XI

London, R. Francklin, 1737. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 24mo 5" - 6" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy of the writings to and from Caleb D'Anvers (Nicholas Amhurst), Grays Inn, Esquire, nothing fancy, but complete, sturdy and still attractive. Top-stained in blue, with speckled-red fore- and bottom-edges. This volume commences Saturday, April 28, 1733. 285 pp. including Appendix and a full Index, not abbreviated, but written out. Features engraved frontispiece, quite fine, author's portrait on title page, head and tail pieces, decorated initials in each volume. Bound in marbled paper over boards, with calf leather over tips, spine, five raised bands to spine, gilt tooling along edges, spine, remains of fleurs-de-lis, scuffing thereto, cracking to joints, some loss of paper here and there, Rubbing to gilt-tooled titles, waffling of text-block, but still sturdy and with signs of neither mildew nor odor. Nicholas Amhurst was born at Marden, Kent, according to an entry on Penny's Poetry Pages about him. Educated at the Merchant Taylors' School, having matriculated in 1716 to St John's College, Oxford, he was expelled there three years later for, he argued, his Whig principles as expressed in his quite popular writings. Known as a satirist of Oxford morals, he became something of a gadfly to many authorities. Moving from Oxford (post-expulsion) to London, he commenced his career in literature.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Book number: 350942

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Apollinaire, Guillaume; Breunig, LeRoy C., ed.

Apollinaire on Art, Essays and Reviews 1902-1918

New York, The Viking Press, 1972. First English Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine contribution to the series The Documents of 20th-Century Art, edited by Robert Motherwell. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Red cloth covers, with silver lettering to spine and top-stained in red. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear but heavily sunned to spine from red to pink, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Light sunning along inside edges. A fine and comprehensive collection of writings by Guillaume Apollinaire, artist, poet, art critic, an early fan of Picasso, Matisse, Braque, and Rousseau, writer of one of the Futurist Manifestos, and inventor of the term term "Surrealist." Translated by Susan Suleiman from the original French, and edited by Leroy C. Breunig. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xxx [2], 3-546 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine/Very Good,

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Book number: 347763

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Guillaume Apollinaire|LeROy C. Breunig|modern art|20th century art history

Aponte, Paul, ed.

Escritores Del Nuevo Sol (Writers of the New Sun): Anthology

Sacramento, California, Aztlan Cultural, 2017. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. A fine introduction in the form of an anthology to the work of many Hispanic poets, including the work of Francisco X. Alarcon, JoAnn Anglin, Paul Aponte, Fausto Avendano, Pastor Bejinez, Juan Manuel Carrillo, Gil Chavez, Minerva Daniel, Waldo Diaz, Odilia Galvan Rodriquez, Luz Maria Gama, Nancy Aide Gonzalez, Xico Gonzalez, Zheyla Henriksen, Ediwardo Hernadex Chavez, Laura Lilano, Arturo Manteco, Charlie Mariano, Jim Michael, Rosie Ochoa, Javier Pinzon, Graciela B. Ramirez, Betty Sanchez. Unpaginated, but complete with author notes.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Book number: 346615

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Poems|poets|poetry|Francisco X. Alarcon|JoAnn Anglin|Paul Aponte|Fausto Avendano"Pastor Bejinez|Juan Manuel Carrillo|Gil Chavez|Minerva Daniel|Waldo Diaz|Odilia Galvan Rodriquez|Luz Maria Gama|Nancy Aide Gonzalez|Xico Gonzalez|Zheyla Henriksen|Ediwardo He

Apostol, Jane

Margaret Collier Graham: First Lady of the Foothills

Los Angeles, California, Southern California Quarterly, 1981. Offprint. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A Near Fine condition offprint from the pages of Southern California Quarterly, Volume LXIII, Number IV, Winter 1981, marred only by the front page evincing a paper-clip impression. A fun, accessible biography of a beloved writer of carefully crafted short stories, Margaret Collier Graham, born in 1850. 348-373 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine

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Book number: 357176

Catalogue: Americana/Regional Interest

Keywords: Jane Apostol Margaret Collier Graham First Lady of the Foothills Californiana

APPEL, Alfred, Jr.

James Joyce: An Appreciation

Berkeley, California, The Stanford University Libraries, California (1964), 1964. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the green printed card stock wraps. Fine black-and-white penciled likeness of James Joyce at frontis from 1930. 5 pp. in length, and with a facsimile of a letter written by Joyce from 1913.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Book number: 347349

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: James Joyce|literature|Alfred Appel, Jr.|Irish authors

Appel, Karel; Galerie Charles Lienhard

Karel Appel

Paris, Galerie Charles Lienhard, 1959. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. German language art exhibit catalog, sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor wear of glossy pictorial covers, staple-bound text-block, clean of interior, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy. Unpaginated, but roughly 20 pp. and complete with list of exhibitions, list of plates, quite colorful and sumptuously printed on high-gloss paper. Double-column texts, stark and arresting black-and-white photographic portrait of the artist at first free endpaper.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Book number: 352633

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Karel Appel Galerie Charles Lienhard

NIMROD [Charles James Apperley]

The Chace

New York, William Farquhar Payson, 1931. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Presume First Edition Thus, with "1931" on both copyright and title pages, reprinted from the original, true First Edition of 1832. Introduction by Owen Culbertson, and with five black-and-white illustrations by Edward P. Buyck, including at frontis, full-page. xi, 64 pp. and with several illustrated plates. Rough-cut fore- and bottom-edges. Sans sut jacket, as issued. Several racing chapters on early fox-hunting and fox-hunters, famous and infamous. Bound in light blue illustrated paper over boards, brick-red cloth backed. Mildly soiled and sunned along top edge, else quite clean of interior, unmarked.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Book number: 351287

Catalogue: England

Keywords: Owen Culbertson Edward P. Buyck Charles James Apperley hunting fox-hunting

Apperly, Eliza

Taschen: The Complete Collector's Editions 1991-2015

Koln, Germany, Benedikt Taschen, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound copy of an indispensable reference tool for lovers of Benedikt Taschen's many fine books about art, photography, fashion and erotica, among other topics. Printed oatmeal boards, black lettering to front cover and boards. Sewn-in linen silk ribbon bookmark still present. Illustrated endpapers front and rear. Dust jacket present, showing only the lightest of wear thereto, single short closed tear at front panel bottom. Hundreds and hundreds of full-page, half-page and thumbnail reproductions i full color and black-and-white of past Taschen-published Collector's Edition books, captioned, quite fine. 374 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Fine,

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Book number: 353443

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Eliza Apperly Taschen art books photography artist monographs

Love, Glen A.; Shannon Applegate and Terence O'Donnell

The World Begins Here: An Anthology of Oregon Short Fiction; Talking on Paper: An Anthology of Oregon Letters and Diaries

Corvallis, Oregon, Oregon State University Press, . First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Two perfectly sound reference copies that made fine additions to the Oregon Literature Series; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Tall trade paperback format, both front cover borders signed by previous owner on tape-over. Interiors clean, unmarked, and comprised of both biographical entries of Oregon writers through their letters and diaries and representative examples of their best short stories. Talking on Paper is 324 pp. and with full index, and was published in 1994. The World Begins Here, published in 1993, has 293 pp. with a full index, and has the previous owner's name also penned along fore-edge.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Book number: 355250

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: short stories Oregon writers Oregon authors Oregon short fiction Oregon letters and diaries Glen A. Love Shannon Applegate Terence O'Donnell