Irving, John

Jenny and the Ball-Turret Gunner," in Playboy. Vol. 23, No. 6. (June 1976)

Chicago, Playboy, 1976. First printing. Paper wrappers. 11 x 8.5 in. A very good copy.

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Book number: 21805

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Jacobi, F.H. [Friedrich Heinrich]

[Als] Friedrich Jacobi Arranges for a Visit with Heinrich Wilhelm Von Gerstenberg

Windsbach, Germany, 1797. [1 pp.] bifolium. with integral address. 7.5 x 9 inches. Rare signed letter by German philosopher & influential literary figure Friedrich Jacobi (1743-1819) who was known for his critical views of the more liberal philosophies of the day, including Enlightenment and Transcendental Idealism, as well as of the Sturm and Drang literary movement He "was an outspoken critic, first of the rationalism of German late Enlightenment philosophy, then of Kant's Transcendental Idealism, especially in the form that the early Fichte gave to it, and finally of the Romantic Idealism of the late Schelling. In all cases, his opposition to the philosophers was based on his belief that their passion for explanation unwittingly led them to confuse conditions of conceptualization with conditions of existence, thereby denying all room for individual freedom or for a personal God..But perhaps the most influential of Jacobi's formulas was the claim that there is no ‘I' without a ‘Thou', and that the two can recognize and respect one another only in the presence of a transcendent and personal God. (di Giovanni, George and Paolo Livieri, "Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2020 Edition). In this letter dated July 12th, 1797, Jacobi was attempting to set up a visit to German poet and critic, Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg in Altona, and wrote in part "I will orally tell you, dear excellency, how I have lived here in the castle for three weeks in a kind of captivity; also how I wanted last Friday to announce to you and your wife that my sister and I would call the following afternoon and was prevented from doing so. Now, we would like to call tomorrow afternoon. Should this not be convenient for you, please write me a line addressed at Kerthos the bookseller's.. " Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg (1737-1823) was a German poet and critic who did much to support the Sturm und Drang movement but who at the time of this letter was much more involved in Kantian philosophy. Very good, folded, faint soiling, seal intact with opening repaired.

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Book number: 45965

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Keywords: , Literature, Germany, Manuscript

James, G. P. R. [George Payne Rainsford]

Richelieu, a Tale of France. In Three Volumes

London, Henry Colburn, 1829. First edition. Three quarter red pigskin over marbled boards, raised bands, gilt titles, marbled endpapers. xix, errata, 290 pp.; 315 pp.; 348 pp. 12mo. George Payne Rainsford James (1799-1860) influenced by Sir W. Scott, wrote numerous romantic novels, biographies, and popular historical works. This, his first novel, is quite scarce in a first edition. Wolff 3543, CBEL III, 402. Wear at extremities, spines scuffed, especially at the heads, part of spine on one volume split with a few tears, some spidering of leather on spine, scattered foxing, otherwise tightly bound and clean and still a very good set.

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Book number: 24984

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Keywords: , Literature, English Literature, English Literature, 19th c., Fiction,

Tharaud, Jérome and Tharaud, Jean

L'Ombre de la Croix

Paris, Librairie Plon, 1928. 57 mille. Three quarter mottled calf over marbled boards, four raised bands, one compartment with black morocco label with author's name in gilt, one red morocco titled in gilt, three compartments decorated in gilt and black, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, original wrappers bound in, silk bookmark sewn in. 306 pp. 12mo. A very good+ copy, small chip to calf label on backstrip, light wear at spine head, leaves browning.

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Book number: 35069

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: European Literature, , Literature, European Literature, Fiction, French Literature, 20th c., Fine Bindings,

Johnston, George, ed

The Poets and Poetry of Cecil County. Maryland

Elkton, MD, Published by the editor, 1887. First edition. Cloth. 302 pp. 8vo. 27 poets. Scarce volume. A good copy, some fraying at head and heel of spine, soiling to boards and spotting to spine.

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Book number: 21576

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Keywords: , Literature, Poetry, Poetry, Cecil County Maryland,

Joyce, James

Stephen Hero: A Part of the First Draft of 'a Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man'

New York, New Directions Books, 1944. First American edition. Cloth. 234 pp. Illus. with b/w photos and drawings. 4to. Edited by Theodore Spencer. A very good+ copy, top edge lightly toned, owner's bookplate to front pastedown, boards bright and tight in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with a few small chips at the folds.

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Book number: 24207

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: , Literature, English Literature, James Joyce, English Literature, 20th c. , Irish Literature,

Narayan, R. K. and Melvin van Pebbles

Playboy. Vol. 23, No. 2. (February 1976)

Chicago, Playboy, 1976. First printing. Paper wrappers. 11 x 8.5 in. Includes India's great short story writer, R. K. Narayan, with "God and the Cobbler," Pebbles' "The True American," and an interview with James Caan. A very good copy.

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Book number: 21801

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Keywords: , Literature, R. K. Narayan, Melvin van Pebbles, James Caan, Indian Literature,

Kajima, Shozo

Evening Clearing: Poems and Drawings from the Mountain

San Francisco, Cadence Books, 1994. First edition. Paper wrappers with illustrated dust jacket. Illus. with color drawings. Trade format. Trans. by Glenn Glasow and Yoshiko Kakudo. A fine copy.

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Book number: 14049

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Arts of Japan, , Literature, Asia, Poetry, Japan, Arts of Japan, Poetry, Art, Japanese Literature, 20th c. , Book Asia

Kamenetz, Rodger

Nympholepsy

Washington, D. C. Dryad Press, 1985. First edition. Paper wrappers. 74 pp. Trade format. Signed by the author. Very good+.

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Book number: 13354

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: , Literature, Poetry, American Literature, Poetry, Literature, American Literature, 20th c. ,

Kent, Kenneth [ Pseud. Charles H. Miegs]

The Prisoner of Alcatraz

Groton, Homestead Studios, 1922. First edition. Quarter muslin over red paper-covered boards. 59 pp. Illus. with tipped-in frontis photo of Alcatraz. 12mo. #110 of 199 copies, this inscribed by the author complete with frontis. A few minor scuffs to the edges else a near fine copy with most leaves still unopened.

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Book number: 21950

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Keywords: , Literature, Poetry, Poetry, Alcatraz, Small Press, Homestead Press,

Kherdian, David

Homage to Adana

Mount Horeb, WI, Perishable Press, 1970. First edition. Cloth with gilt title. Unpaged [41 pp.]. Illus. with 1 b/w drawing. 8vo. Robert Totten, illus. No. 99 of 120 copies, printed on Shadwell hand made paper. Title page illustrated with drawing by Robert Totten. A fine copy. No dust jacket as issued.

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Book number: 41396

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Keywords: , Literature, Poetry, Fine Press Armenian-American poets, Book

Kincaid, Jamaica

At the Bottom of the River

London, Picador, 1984. First British edition. Cloth. 82 pp. 8vo. Ten stories comprise this first book by the author. Fine (and except for slight aging of leaves, about as new) in a very rubbed and scuffed but untorn very good- dust jacket.

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Book number: 12200

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Keywords: , Literature, Fiction,

Kipling, Rudyard

The Absent-Minded Beggar

New York, Brentano's, 1900. Unauthorized edition. Paper wrappers. 7 pp. Sm. 8vo. Printed in brown with ornamental border in gray on one side of leaf only. Livingston 224. Stewart p.604B. No outer wrappers, lightly soiled, small chip to one corner, some small creasing at a second, sewn-in silk pulled from one signature, some leaves still unopened (uncut); overall about very good. A nice copy of this fragile item.

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Book number: 26614

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Keywords: , Literature, English Literature, English Literature, 20th c., 19th c., Rudyard Kipling, Military, Boer War,

Kipling, Rudyard

The Army of a Dream. [Reprinted from "Traffics and Discoveries"]

London, Macmillan Company, 1905. First English edition. Paper wrappers lettered in red (paperback). 62 pp. + adv. [2]. 12mo. Livingston 284. Stewart 301. Thin crease to front wrapper else a near fine crisp copy.

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Book number: 26615

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Keywords: , Literature, English Literature, English Literature, 20th c., 19th c., Rudyard Kipling,

Kipling, Rudyard

The Art of Fiction

London, J. A. Allen & Co. 1926. First edition. Stapled terra cotta paper wrappers. 8 pp. 8vo. "Issued by permission of The Times, in whose columns the report appeared on July 8, 1926." Later printed in the Transactions of the Royal Literary Society for 1926. The frontispiece portrait of Kipling is by Spy. Stewart 561; Livingston (Suppl) 508. Nick to lower edge else a near fine copy.

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Book number: 26628

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Keywords: , Literature, English Literature, English Literature, 20th c., 19th c., Rudyard Kipling,