Dupin, Jacques

Miro Engraver. Volume I, 1928-1960

Paris, Daniel Lelong Editeur, 1984. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Miro. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dupin, Jacques. MIRO ENGRAVER. Volume I, 1928-1960. Daniel Lelong Editeur, France, 1984. First Edition of this Catalog raisonné with 3 original Miro woodcuts especially executed by Miro in the atelier of Joan Barbara in Barcelona including the beautiful dustwrapper, frontis. & at page 9. Limited to 2700 numbered copies. A fine, flawless example in dustwrapper & original publisher's plain cardboard slipcase. Very uncommon. Ill.: Miro. /Dust Jacket Included.

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Durrell, Lawrence

The Black Book

Paris, Obelisk Press, 1938. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Soft cover. First True Edition - Uncut pages. Volume 1 in the Villa Seurat Series, edited by Henry Miller. First edition. First Issue. Original printed wraps. Octavo. 260pp. A cornerstone of prose fiction and long denied publication in the US until Lawrence gained recognition for his masterwork " .Quartet ." This is a near fine copy showing very light use of what has become a Durrell rarity. According to Alan Thomas's Illustrated Checklist/Bibliography, 1983, the first issue did not contain the erratum slip which was added later owing to a mistake in the pagination and only after "a number of copies had been dispatched".Front and end pages uncut. Stiff clear Mylar protective outer wrapper. Neat collector's bookplate of editor, [collector], Morley Kennerley. "The books I own are impeccable. The fine binding lie along the wall in the firelight, snoozing softly in richness." - Lawrence Durrell, The Black Book. Collectible copies of this title are few and far between. .

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Durrell, Lawrence

Proems. [Durrell, Lawrence, Ruthven Todd, Patrick Evans, Rayner Heppenstall, Edgar Foxall, & Oswell Blakeston]

London, The Fortune Press, 1938. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Durrell, Lawrence. PROEMS. [Durrell, Lawrence, Ruthven Todd, Patrick Evans, Rayner Heppenstall, Edgar Foxall, & Oswell Blakeston]. London: The Fortune Press, 1938. 8vo. black cloth. First Edition. A fine fresh example in the uncommon original unprinted watermarked white laid paper dustwrapper. A splendid copy in the very uncommon dustwrapper. [From a comprehensive TBCL Durrell collection of first editions in superb condition]. .

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Book number: 33063

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Durrell, Lawrence. [Hugo Manning]

Short Als Card and Envelope Signed by Lawrence Durrell

Paris, Lawrence Durrell, 1977. From a comprehensive TBCL Durrell collection of first editions in superb condition a Short ALS from Lawrence Durrell handwritten in black ink with blue on his printed personal stationery 5" x 3 1/4" "Did I write or did I not to thank you for the handsome new binding of your fine poem? Sorry if I did not and thus anyways gives me the opportunity to send you my thanks but also a good wish signal for 1977- may it be a fruitful year! yours Larry Durrell". Plus envelope 5 3/4" x 4 1/2" addressed to Hugo Manning with postage stamps 1952 in Durrell's handwriting. Manning was a poet and journalist and was a close friend of Durrell as well as Henry Miller and Jorge Luis Borges in the literary field. .

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Einstein, Albert

Albert Einstein: Philosopher-Scientist. Signed by Albert Einstein

Evanston, Ill, Library of Living Philosophers, 1949. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Albert Einstein. ALBERT EINSTEIN: PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST. Edited by Paul Arthur Schilpp. Evanston, Ill.: Library of Living Philosophers, 1949. First Trade Edition. Edited by Paul Arthur Schilpp. SIGNED. Large 8vo. xvi, 781pp. Signed in black fountain pen as: "Albert Einstein / Princeton / 1950" on the title page. [neat previous owner's gift inscription on the front fly leaf] A very nice copy in the original dustwrapper showing light use. Includes essays by 25 leading scientists; Einstein's reply to their essays, a bibliography of Einstein's works, & an interesting 47-page autobiography by Einstein printed in both German & English on facing pages. Nicely illustrated throughout with photographs, a facsimile of a page of Einstein manuscript, & diagrams. Bibliography of the writings of Albert Einstein, to October 1949, compiled by M. C. Shields, pp. 689-758. Contributors include: Arnold Sommerfeld, Wolfgang Pauli, Max Born, Niels Bohr, Hans Reichenbach, P. W. Bridgman, Karl Menger, Max Von Laue, Kurt Gödel, Gaston Bachelard, & others. Signed trade editions are decidedly uncommon. Custom slipcase. Weil page 41 Appendix. .

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(Einstein, Albert). Back, Dr. Frank Gerald

Has the Earth a Ring Around It

New York, The Ram Press, (1955), 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Hardcover. For the Einstein enthusiast. First Edition. Limited to 3,000 Copies in the original glassine outer wrapper. 8vo. 40 pp. With black and white photographs of Albert Einstein and Frank Back. A fine copy in handmade decorative paper covered boards, printed glossy paper label to the upper cover. The volume dedicated to Albert Einstein, is the only book written by Dr. Frank Back, "The Father of the Zoom Lens" and creator of the first widely used zoom lenses for film and television. Dr. Back a close friend of Albert Einstein was persuaded by Einstein to take the trip commemorated in this beautifully produced volume in order to capture the total eclipse of the sun, which occurred on June 20, 1955. Dr. Back intended to provide conclusive evidence for Einstein's theory of relativity by calculating the optical distortion, if any, of starlight caused by the sun's gravity. In 1919, Einstein's general relativity principles were supported by observations of a solar eclipse. The two scientists conferred on the project for over a year. Armed with a special Zoomar designed and built, wide-angle, solar-eclipse, spectrograph, Dr. Back was off to the Philippine Islands to board a military jet and chase the eclipse. Einstein however died while Back was on his way to Manila. Unable to report the excursion to his friend, Dr. Back dedicated this book to his memory. In a TBCL dark green cloth slipcase. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine/Dust Jacket Included.

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Eliot, T. S.

Selected Essays 1917-1932. Inscribed

New York, Harcort Brace and Company [1946], 1946. First Edition, Eigth Printing. Hardcover. First Edition, Eigth Printing. Hardcover. Signed by Author. Eliot, T. S. SELECTED ESSAYS 1917-1932. New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1932 [1946.] 8vo. 415pp. full navy cloth gilt title on spine. First edition, eighth printing of May, 1946: printing code [h.5.46] on copyright page. Presentation Copy, inscribed by Eliot in dark blue fountain pen. who has crossed out his name at the top of the title page & written: "Inscribed for / Victor Morrison / by T. S. Eliot / 14.v.47." Counter-signed by the recipient on the front flyleaf dated "Princeton, March 1947." Eliot would win the Nobel Prize in 1948. Gilt dulled somewhat as usual (but still very readable), else a tight, sound, very good copy with a couple of spots to the cloth, showing light use, in a very good or better supplied dustwrapper. Contains: The Tradition of Individual Talent / The Function of Criticism / A Dialogue on Dramatic Poetry / Seneca in Elizabethan Translation / Christopher Marlowe / Hamlet / Ben Johnson / Thomas Middleton / William Blake / Baudelaire & much more. A very nice example. Bookseller Inventory [22-32243]. /Dust Jacket Included.

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Elson, William H., & William S. Gray

Elson-Gray Basic Reader. Pre-Primer [Dick and Jane]

The Philippine Islands, Scott, Foresman, and Company, 1930. First Edition. Soft cover. Eleanor Campbell & Keith Ward. First Edition. Soft cover. From TBCL's Children's Bookcase. Elson, William H. & William S. Gray. ELSON-GRAY BASIC READER. PRE-PRIMER [Dick and Jane]. The Philippine Islands: Scott, Foresman, and Company, 1930. "Dick. See Dick. See Dick Run" Sm. 8vo, 40pp. 39 in-text colour illustrations. True First Edition with "Property of the state of Texas" imprint on both the front & back inside covers. Publisher's black cloth-backed printed wrappers printed in black, green & orange. A very good example showing moderate use. In this first printing, SALLY was stilled called BABY [unnamed to this point] & SPOT the dog was still a TERRIER. In later editions he became a COCKER SPANIEL. PUFF the cat was still called, LITTLE MEW, as of this first printing [she was PUFF in later editions]. The very first of the famous Elson-Gray Basic Readers, introducing Dick, Jane, & Baby followed by nine short stories, using a 68-word vocabulary - the birth of the original Dick & Jane series. Rarely encountered. Ill.: Eleanor Campbell & Keith Ward.

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Eluard, Paul

Choix de Poemes. Inscribed in French by Eluard on the Half-Title to Fellow Author Luc Dietrich

Paris, Gallimard, 1942. First Edition REVIEW COPY. Soft cover. First Edition REVIEW COPY. Soft cover. Signed by Author. A selection of Eluard's poetry from 1914 through 1941. 8vo. 281pp. Gilt lettered half vellum and green paper covered covers. Top edge gilt. Original wrappers bound in. A 'service presse' review issue in near fine condition. A wonderful Presentation Copy, Inscribed in French by Eluard on the half-title to fellow author Luc Dietrich, complimenting him on the writing of ".un livre d'une beauté sans limites". [Likely, "Dialogue de l'amitié", - written with his great friend, the poet, Lanza del Vasto, published by Robert Laffont, in 1942 and considered by many as his philosophical masterpiece]. .

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Book number: 33610

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Erben, Walter

Joan Miro

Monte Carlo, Andre Sauret, 1960. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Miro. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Erben, Walter. JOAN MIRO. Monte Carlo: Andre Sauret, 1960. 8vo. 159pp. French text. Publisher's illustrated beige linen cloth. Three color lithographs, eight tipped-in color plates, numerous illustrations in black & white. A fine fresh copy in the lovely fine dustwrapper which is an original numbered lithograph Copy #1876 of 2000 numbered copies, with the beautiful lithographed dust jacket numbered identically. A stunning example of this very handsome book production. Cramer 97, FREITAG 6566. Ill.: Miro. /Dust Jacket Included.

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Ernst, Max

Max Ernst Oeuvre-Katalog Das Graphische Werk. Edited by Werner Spies

Houston, Menil Foundation, 1975. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition of the first volume of Ernst's complete oeuvre catalogue - an ambitious undertaking sponsored by the Menil Foundation. 4to. A fine copy in 2 fine copies of the white dustwrapper. 1 of 1579 copies WITH A FINE IMPRESSION OF THE ORIGINAL ERNST LITHO. /Dust Jacket Included.

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Book number: 27813

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Evanovich, Janet

One for the Money. Signed

New York, Charles Scribner's & Sons, [1994], 1994. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Signed by Author. Evanovich, Janet. ONE FOR THE MONEY. Signed. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1994). First Edition, Special Advance Reader's Uncorrected Proof Copy briefly Inscribed by Janet.Evanovich on the half-title page. "Christina/Enjoy/Janet Evanovich". A fine copy of the first Stephanie Plum mystery and the author's first book, winner of the 1995 Dilys Award [awarded by independent booksellers for the mystery that is the most fun to sell], named a New York Times Notable Book and a Publishers Weekly "Best Book of 1994" in the publisher's pictorial stiff wrappers, as issued. Royal 8vo. 290 pp. "Comes roaring in like a blast of very fresh air .Goes down like a tall, cool, drink." The Washington Post. A very nice fine copy of this premier novel in the much acclaimed series for which the author has won a Silver Dagger, John Creasy awards & others. .

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Book number: 31069

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Faulkner, William

The Hamlet. Signed

New York, Random House, 1940. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Signed by Author. First trade edition, first issue. Very near fine copy in an about very good, first issue dustwrapper, tanned on the spine & with a measure of reinforcing restoration at the extremities. SIGNED by Faulkner on the Half Title. 8vo. black cloth, with gilt lettering to the spine & front board. Top edge stained a deep & even maroon. The dustwrapper retains the publisher's price of $2.50 in the upper right of the front flap & features a list of ten Random House fiction titles, this one among them on the rear panel as required. The first volume of the Snopes trilogy with all the correct points. Rare thus. A great copy of this classic first volume of the Snopes trilogy; a novel about the "fantastic and fascinating family named Snopes". Basis for the movie "The Long Hot Summer" with Paul Newman, Orson Wells, & Lee Remick. An attractive copy. While signed limited editions abound, signed trade editions are very uncommon as Faulkner generally refused to sign them. .

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Book number: 32978

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Field, Saul & Levitt, Morton P.

Bloomsday an Interpretation of James Joyce's Ulysses

Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Hardcover. Field, Saul & Levitt, Morton P. BLOOMSDAY An Interpretation of James Joyce's Ulysses. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1972. A unique visual illumination of the themes and characters in Joyce's epic novel. Saul Field's prints creatively the complexities & imaginative levels of this monumental literary work. The pictures are accompanied by Prof. Morton Levitt's essay which relates the form & content of the engravings to the novel, its episodes & its mythological parallels. A fine example in a bright price-clipped dustwrapper. First Canadian Edition. Folio, 11" x 14" 1/2. 120pp. A very nice copy. Oversize and heavy book shipping extra charges. /Dust Jacket Included.

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Findley, Timothy

The Butterfly Plague. Inscribed

Toronto, Viking [1969], 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. Findley, Timothy. THE BUTTERFLY PLAGUE. Significant Presentation Copy. New York: Viking, (1969). First Edition of Timothy Findley's highly-regarded second novel, wonderfully Inscribed by him to Canadian author Marie-Claire Blais. Quoting, in part from a W. H. Auden passage" 'Human beings are actors, who cannot become something until they have pretended to be it. and they can be divided into the sane who know they are acting and the mad who do not'/ Here is laughter /Tif". 8vo. 376 pp. A fine copy in 1/4 red cloth over mustard paper covered boards, black titles to the spine in a bright, fresh S. A. Summit designed pictorial dustwrapper showing minimal use. A powerful story of Hollywood in the '30's by a master storyteller. Superb Association Copy. /Dust Jacket Included.

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Book number: 32175

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