JOHN LE CARRE

The Le Carre Omnibus - Call for the Dead and Murder of Quality

London, Victor Gollancz. 1964, 1st Edition. Red boards with gilt spine lettering. Binding is firm and square. Inside clean, no foxing, marks or inscriptions. In the original, first issue, unclipped dust jacket priced 18/-, and X25 on rear panel. Dust jacket with light toning, neatly repaired tear to back panel, 2 small closed tears to rear side and slightest wear to extremities. 288 pp. 19 x 12,5 cm. Dust jacket now in removable protective sleeve. Fine book in very good/near fine dust jacket. Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 002553

Catalogue: Mystery and Detective

Keywords: Literature, Spy Thriller, le Carre. Literature

JOHN LE CARRE

Smiley

London, Hodder and Stoughon. 1980, 1st Edition. Signed by John le Carre on the title page. Publisher's original blue boards with gilt spine lettering. Contents are clean; no marks, inscriptions or foxing. In near fine, unclipped wrapper with lightest shelf wear, a small abrasion near the letter 'Y' at the frontcover, a small closed tear to the foot of the rear panel and a crease to the rear flap. 327 pp. 22 x 14,5 cm. A collectible copy of the third book in the Karla trilogy. Near Fine/Near Fine. Signed by Author(s).

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Book number: 002729

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Literature, Espionage, Spy, Thriller, John le Carre

CARRION, ULISES

Quant aux Livres - On Books

Geneve, Heros-Limite. 1997, 1st Edition. Original printed wrappers in transparent dust jacket. Texts collected by Juan J. Agius. Text in English and French. Introductions Anne Moeglin-Delcroix and Clive Phillpot. Overview of Carrion's critical writing and treatises on artists' books, With a bibliography of books by Carrion. Limited first edition of 500 copies. 207 pp. 21 x 15 cm. Transparent dust jacket with tear and light wear, else fine. Rare first edition. Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 002836

Catalogue: Art

Keywords: Art, Conceptual Art, Ulysses Carrion, Artist Books

CELA, CAMILO JOSE

The Family of Pascal Duarte

Boston, Little, Brown and Company. 1964, 1st Edition. small 8vo. Boards in illustrated dustjacket. Appears unread. Dust jacket is bright and unclipped. Jacket design by Milton Glaser. Near Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 001515

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Literature, Spain, Cela

CHAGALL, MARC / JACQUES LASSAIGNE

Drawings and Water Colors (Watercolors) for The Ballet

New York, Tudor Publishing Co. 1969, 1st Edition. Bound in gray/beige cloth with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. In dust jacket with light wear to corners and spine. Illustrated with 68 color plates and an original color lithograph by Chagall portraying a dancer, a flute player and a faun. Color plates and lithograph printed by Mourlot. Small name on second endpaper. Contents including the lithograph in very fine condition. In the original card slipcase that is discolored. 155 pp. 36 x 27 cm. Near Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 002957

Catalogue: Art

Keywords: Art, France, Marc Chagall, the Ballet

STEPHEN CHALMERS

The Affair of the Gallows Tree

Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Doran & Company / The Crime Club. 1930, 1st Edition. Publisher's black cloth, front board and spine stamped in red. Top edge stained red. In the original price-clipped dust jacket. Binding is firm and bright, spine with light crease and spine ends slightly pushed. Dust jacket has vibrant colors with slightest wear to front corner tip. 289 pp. Dust jacket now in protective mylar cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 002321

Catalogue: Mystery and Detective

Keywords: Detectives, Mystery, Crime Stephen Chalmers

RAYMOND CHANDLER

The Little Sister

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company. 1949, 1st Edition. First US edition. Publisher's first-state orange cloth, spine and front stamped in blue. Spine ends slightly pushed, trace of shelf wear, some pages roughly cut. 249 pp. A near fine copy in facsimile dust jacket with slight wear that's now protected in mylar cover. Near Fine.

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Book number: 002322

Catalogue: Mystery and Detective

Keywords: Detectives, Mystery, Crime, Raymond Chandler,

RAYMOND CHANDLER

Spanish Blood. A collection of short stories.

Cleveland / New York, The World Publishing Company. 1946, 1st Edition. Black cloth covered boards stamped red. In original illustrated dust jacket. Binding is bright and firm, top edge stained red. Pages uniformly tanned. No marks or inscriptions. Jacket nicked at spine and flap fold ends, foxing along rear flap fold and top edge of rear flap. 221 pp. Dustjacket now in protective mylar cover. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 002318

Catalogue: Mystery and Detective

Keywords: Mystery and Detective, Crime, Hard Boiled, Raymond Chandler

MASAHIRO CHATANI

Key to Origamic Architecture

Shokokusha. 1985. Original wrappers. Black and white and color illustrations. Partly loose examples of origamic architecture printed on thin cardboard of which some were renumbered in pen. 115 pp. 25,5 x 18 cm. Very Good.

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Book number: 002695

Catalogue: Art

Keywords: Origami, Architecture, Masahiro Chatani Architecture

CHATEAUBRIAND

La Campagne Romaine. Lettre a Monsieur de Fontanes

Utrecht, Stichting De Roos. 1959. Ill.: Jean Paul Vroom. Sewn wrappers in slipcase. Limited edition of 175 numb. copies printed on Pannekoek van Gelder. This is copy no. 145. With 8 engravings by Jean Paul Vroom protected by tissue guards. Light discoloring of spine, slipcase with light wear te corners. 38 pp. 24,5 x 16 cm. Near Fine.

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Book number: 002036

Catalogue: Typography

Keywords: Jean Paul Vroomliterature, France, Art, Engravings, Fine Printing. Literature Fine & Private Presses

LIN-LIN CHEN, TOM DJAJADININGRAT, LOE FEIJS A.O.

Design and semantics of form and movement. DeSForM 2013

DeSForM. 2015. Paperback. Proceedings of the DeSForM 2013 conference held in Wuxi, China. Black & white illustrations. 214 pp. 29 x 21 cm. Near Fine.

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Book number: 002221

Catalogue: Architecture & Design

Keywords: Design, Semantics, Form, Product Design

JOHN COPLANS / JEAN-FRANCOIS CHEVRIER

John Coplans Self Portrait: Hand/Foot

Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen. 1990, 1st Edition. Photo-illustrated stiff wrappers. Exhibition catalog with black & white photographic reproductions. Slightest wear to lower right corner, tiny crease rear cover, else fine. Texts in Dutch and English. 48 pp. 27 x 22 cm. Near Fine.

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Book number: 002581

Catalogue: Photography

Keywords: Photography, Uk, John Coplans

HUANG YUNG-CHUANG

Chinese Ancient Flower Arrangement

Taiwan, The National Museum of History. 0. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations and color plates. Text in Chinese only. 21,5 x 20 cm. Very Good.

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Book number: 001893

Catalogue: Art

Keywords: Flower Arrangement, China

CLAERBOUT, DAVID / DAVID GREEN, SUSANNE GAENSHEIMER

David Claerbout. With two Essays by David Green (Signed)

Munchen, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig. 2004, 1st Edition. 4to. Original boards, no dust jacket as issued. Illustrated throughout. SIGNED and dated on the title page by David Claerbout. Fine.

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Book number: 001218

Catalogue: Art

Keywords: Art, Video Belgium, David Claerbout

CLAUS, HUGO

Almanak - 366 Knittelverzen

Amsterdam, Cornamona Pers. 1982, 1st Edition. Een van de10 extra luxe exemplaren, gemummerd met 'HC" bestemd voor de auteur en de uitgever. De totale oplage bedraagt 60 genummerde exemplaren. Door Geert van Daal gebonden in een Franse band van blauw oasis-leder, met handvergulde, geciseleerd kopsnede. Met gemarmerde schutbladen in bijpassende cassette. Genummerd "HC" en gesigneerd door de auteur. One of 10 HC numbered copies (on a total of 60) intended for author and publisher. Bound in a French binding of blue oasis-leather. Marbled endpapers. Top edge hand gilt. Fine copy of this extremely rare limited and signed edition. Additional photographs on request. Mint. Signed by Author(s).

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Book number: 001055

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Literature Literatuur, "Hugo Claus" First Editions" Fine & Private Presses