VARIOUS - FOREWORD BY COLONEL PAUL DE BENOIST - PREFACE BY LEPAGE, PAUL AND PARROT, PIERRE

HISTORIQUE du 19e REGIMENT de CHASSEURS. 1792 - 1892. Légion de Rossenthal de 1792 à 1793. 19e Régiment de Chasseurs de 1793 à 1814. Chasseurs de la Somme 19e de 1815 à 1826. 19e Régiment de Chasseurs de 1873 à 1892

Lille, L. Danel. 1893, 1st. Hard, Folio. Numbered, Limited Edition, First edition, limited to 1,250 numbered copies, number 111. Published Lille: L. Danel, 1893. Text in French. Folio, 12" x 15 1/2", 434pp. Illustrated by Maison Ch. Gillot in Paris, based on the watercolors GRAMMONT, MARIE DE l'ISLE with full color, full page plates under tissue guard, and the drawings of NEYMARCK, along with b/w facsimilies, tables and reproductions. Burgundy publisher's cloth with gilt spine and cover titles, blind embossed spine design, green endpapers. Fading to the spine cloth, three inch hairline split to the outer cloth at rear hinge, wear and some tenderness to the tips, else very good. Binding strong and tight, pages clean and bright with slight, occasional foxing, color plates fine, some creasing/darkening to tissue guards. Very good. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued.

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Book number: 010256

Catalogue: England & Europe

Keywords: Military History

BENSON, E. F.

The House Of Defence

NY, Authors and Newspapers Association. 1906, 1st. Hard, 8vo. Ill.: H. Richard Boehm. Illus, First Edition. Hard cover. Published NY: Authors and Newspapers Association, 1906. First American Edition. Brown cloth with elaborate cover design. Illus with a facsimile from the manuscript. Color plates by H. Richard Boehm. Very good plus. Very Good Plus/No Jacket.

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Book number: 000453

Catalogue: Literary & Modern First Editions

Keywords: Benson E.F. House Defence First Edition Novel Fiction H. Richard Boehm

BENSON, E.F.

Mother

London, Hodder and Stoughton. 1925, 1st. Hard, 8vo. First edition. Hard cover. Published London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1925. Illus frontis, b/w plates. Gilt stamped blue cloth. Printed on heavy laid paper. An intimate memoir of Benson’s mother’s last years following the death of her husband Edward White Benson (Archbishop of Canterbury 1882-96), using her Diaries as the primary source. Very good. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 000482

Catalogue: Literary & Modern First Editions

Keywords: Benson E.F. Mother First Edition Memoir Canterbury Remembrance Profile Sketch Portrait

BENSON, CHRISTOPHER W.; WEISS, FRANCINE (FOREWORD)

Pictures & Windows: The Paintings of Christopher W. Benson from 1977 to 2017

Newport, RI, The Fisher Press. 2017, 1st. (ISBN: 9780692873892). Hard, Folio. First edition, limited to 600 copies. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Newport, RI: Newport Art Museum and The Fisher Press, 2017. Square folio, 12 1/8" x 12 1/8", 215pp. illustrated with numerous full color reproductions. Introduction and biographical notes by the artist. With a foreword by Francine Weiss. Fine in very near fine dust jacket - jacket has minor bump nicking at the crown. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 009847

Catalogue: Art

Keywords: 9780692873892

BENSON, A. C. (ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER)

The Thread of Gold

London, John Murray. 1925. Hard, 8vo. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published London, 1925. 8vo. 6" x 8 1/2", xv+215pp. Green cloth with black and gilt titles and black designs. Sheets unopened or uncut with deckle edge, else near fine, clean, crisp, bright in very good dust jacket with sun fading and an internal repair. Near Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 007949

Catalogue: Literary & Modern First Editions

BERGER, CARL

The Writing of Canadian History; Aspects of English-Canadian Historical Writing Since 1900

Toronto, University of Toronto Press. 1993. (ISBN: 0802065686). Soft Cover, 8vo. Second Edition. Trade softcover. Published Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993. 8vo. wrappers, 6" x 9", xi+364pp. Very good plus, clean, unmarked. Very Good Plus/No Jacket, As Issued.

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Book number: 009028

Catalogue: American History & Americana

Keywords: 0802065686

BERNADOTTE, COUNT FOLKE

The Curtain Falls: Last Days of the Third Reich

NY, Knopf. 1945, 1st. Hard, 12mo. First American edition. Hard cover. Published NY: Knopf, 1945, first printing. 12mo. 155pp. illustrated with b/w plates. Band of sun fade to the cloth at heel and lower edge of front cover, spine lettering dull, else very good. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 010186

Catalogue: England & Europe

Keywords: Military History

BERNARD, BRUCE (EDITOR)

Century. One Hundred Years of Human Progress, Regression, Suffering and Hope

London, Phaidon. 1999. (ISBN: 0714838489). Hard, 4to. Hard cover in laminated boards. Published London: Phaidon, 1999, reprinted 2000. Thick, square 4to. 10 1/4" x 10 1/4", 1120pp. illustrated with nearly 1,000 b/w and color photographs to present a comprehensive visual document of the twentieth century. Very good plus, clean, strong copy. Very Good Plus/No Jacket, As Issued.

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Book number: 009994

Catalogue: England & Europe

Keywords: History 0714838489

BETTENS, EDWARD D

Painter and Patron

NY, Privately Printed. 1918, 1st. Hard, 8vo. Limited Edition, First edition. Hard cover. Limited to 650 copies printed on heavy laid paper. Published NY: Privately Printed, 1918. Gilt stamped green cloth. 64 pp. illus 14 b/w plates - Whistler, Copley, La Farge, Homer..Large 8vo. Bettens was collector of American art and patron of Fogg Museum. A near very fine copy, with his calling card laid in. Near Very Fine/No Jacket, As Issued.

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Book number: 000206

Catalogue: Art

Keywords: Bettens Edward Painter Patron First Edition Limited Art Collectors Profile Portrait Sketch

BEYENBURG, EDMUND (EDITOR)

Internationaler Geologen und Mineralogen Kalender 1937

Stuttgart, Ferdinand Enke. 1937. Soft Cover, 12mo. Multi lingual edition. Text in German, English, French, Spanish and Dutch. Published Stuttgart: Ferdinand Enke, 1937. 12mo. printed wrappers, 587pp. plus ads. Paper uniformly age toned. Very good. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued.

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Book number: 009334

Catalogue: Science

Keywords: Geology

BIBLE (ARTHUR SZYK, ILLUS)

The Book of Ruth with Pictures by Arthur Szyk

NY, Heritage Press. 1947, 1st. Hard, 4to. First edition. Hard cover in glassine dust jacket and publisher's slipcase. Published NY: Heritage Press, 1947. 4to. 8 1/2" x 11 1/4", 44pp. illustrated with full color tipped in plates by Arthur Szyk. Cream cloth with gilt reverse spine title, brown cover pictorial. Two color title page and chapter heads, recto printed on smooth cream parchment. Some darkening to the cloth along edges, else very good in scarce, very good glassine dust jacket creased on the panels. In very good slipcase. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 009925

Catalogue: Literary & Modern First Editions

Keywords: Religion

BIDARI, BASANTA

Kapilavastu the World of Siddhartha

Lumbini, Author. 2007. (ISBN: 9994632205). Soft Cover, 8vo. Softcover. Published Lumbini: Author, 2007, second impression, 1,000 copies. 8vo. wrappers, 285pp. illustrated with b/w plates and reproductions. Very good. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued.

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Book number: 009905

Catalogue: Far East

Keywords: Ancient World 9994632205

BIERCE, AMBROSE

The Monk And The Hangman's Daughter

NY, Heritage Press. 1967. Hard, 4to. Hard cover in slipcase. Published NY: Heritage Press, 1967. 4to. 7 1/2" x 10 1/2", xiv+80pp. full color illustrations by Michel Ciry. Translated from the German of Richard Voss by Gustav Adolf Danziger and Adapted by Ambrose Bierce, with an Introd. by Maurice Valency. Gold cloth with brown titles. Name on half title, else fine in near fine slipcase. Sandglass Number VIII: 33 laid in. Near Fine.

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Book number: 009444

Catalogue: Heritage Press

BIERCE, AMBROSE

Tales of Soldiers & Civilians

NY, Heritage Press. Hard, 4to. Hard cover in slipcase. Published NY: Heritage Press, 1943. small 4to. xxx+222pp. illustrated with wood-engravings by Paul Landacre. Printed on laid paper. Minor soil stain top of spine, previous owner bookplate on pastedown. Very good plus, clean, attractive. Very Good Plus/Very Good.

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Book number: 009941

Catalogue: Heritage Press

BILSKI, EMILY

Objects of the Spirit: Ritual and the Art of Tobi Kahn

Manchester, Vermont, Hudson Hills Press. 2004, 1st. (ISBN: 155595247x). Hard, Folio. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Manchester, Vermont: Hudson Hills, 2004. Folio, 9 1/2" x 12 1/4", 160pp. 133 illustrations, 113 in full color. Burgundy cloth with blind embossed and gilt titles. Inscription on flyleaf. Fine in fine dust jacket. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 009849

Catalogue: Art

Keywords: 155595247x