Braginskii, I. S. [Iosif Samuilovich]

Problemy Vostokovedeniia: Aktual'Nye Voprosy Vost. Literaturovedeniia

Moskva, Nauka, 1974. First edition. Cloth. 493 pp. 8vo. At head of title: Akademiia nauk SSSR. Institut vostokovedeniia. Asian Literature. A very good copy.

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Book number: 29729

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: , Literature, Asia, Asia, Oriental Literature, Asian Literature, Central Asia, Asian Studies., Asia

Colloguium Internacional de Estudos Luso-Brasileiros

Exposição de Livros Portugueses Catálogo

Washington [D.C.], Colloguium Internacional de Estudos Luso-Brasileiros, 1950. First edition. Paper wrappers. 152 pp. Sm. 4to. 1600 items listed. A very good copy with a slightly darkened spine.

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Book number: 34178

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: European Literature, , Literature, European Literature, Books on Books, Exhibition Catalogue, Portuguese literature, Portugal, Bibliography, Text in Portuguese.,

Brautigan, Richard

Dreaming of Babylon

New York, Delacorte Press, 1977. First edition. Cloth. 8vo. A fine copy in a very good+ dust jacket with slight wear to spine.

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Book number: 21325

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Bresnick, Paul; Kutcher, Charles, eds. Sorrentino, Gilbert, et. al

Promethean. The Literary Magazine of the City College. Vol. XV. 1967-68. No. 1

New York, The City College, 1968. First edition. Blue paper wrappers with embossed title. 118 pp. Illus. with 13 photos in three sections with Japanese lace paper. 8vo. Poetry by Gilbert Sorrentino, Joel Oppenheimer, Joe Early, Sam Abrams; stories by Fielding Dawson, George Di Caprio; translations by medevalist Frederick Goldin. Spine sunned, a very good copy.

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Book number: 44987

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Keywords: , Literature, Poetry, Small Magazines, sixties Black Mountain writers, Book

Bresnick, Paul; Feld, Ross, eds

Promethean. The Literary Magazine of the City College. Vol. XV. 1967-68. No. 2

New York, The City College, 1968. First edition. Photo-illustrated paper wrappers. 76 pp. Illus. with 10 photos. 8vo. Minor wear, a very good copy.

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Book number: 44988

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Keywords: , Literature, Poetry, Small Magazines, sixties Black Mountain writers, Book

Bridges, Robert

The Testament of Beauty. A Poem in Four Books

New York, Oxford Univ. Press, 1929. First American edition. Quarter red buckram over red marbled paper-covered boards. Gilt lettering. top edge gilt. Sm. 4to. Number 212 of 250 copies. Printed by William Edwin Rudge from Linotype Estienne on Vidalon paper. Publisher's Note laid in. Loose printer's number plate present. A fine bright copy with the barest rubbing to the buckram in a somewhat worn, marbleized slipcase with minor separation at the tips.

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Book number: 21739

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Keywords: , Literature, Poetry, Poetry, English Literature, 20th c. , British Poet Laureates,

Brown, Tom

Amusements Serious and Comical and Other Works

New York, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1927. First edition thus. Full black cloth with gilt decorations. Top edge red. xvii, 476 pp. Illus. with 16 b/w plates from contemporary engravings. 4to. Edited with notes by Arthur L. Hayward. This book, by one of the masters of English wit and satire, Tom Brown of 'facetious memory" as Addison calls him, gives a graphic picture of the everyday life in London of later Stuart times, from the wiles of St. James's courtiers to the sharp practices of the merchants at the Exchange, and to the flaunting vice of harlots of Drury Lane. Red stain from top edge has bled on to a upper edge of few leaves, but not affecting text nor illustrations; otherwise a very good copy in a good dust jacket with a sunned spine.

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Book number: 23677

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Brown, Percy W. [hiting]

Land and Borderland

Cleveland, Privately Printed, 1946. First edition. Paper wrappers. Unpaged [54]. 12mo. Brown, a businessman and member of the Rowfant Club, published works on Emerson's aesthetics as well as local history. This is a book of poetry. Includes ALS mentioning the Alger Hiss trial. A near fine copy.

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Book number: 20210

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Keywords: , Literature, Poetry, Poetry, Cleveland, Ohio, Rowfant Club, Percy Brown,

Brown, Alice

Meadow-Grass. Tales of New England Life

Boston, Copeland and Day, 1896. First edition. Ninth thousand. Cloth. 315 pp. 12mo. Boards rubbed, call letter on spine, library gift bookplate on front pastedown, remainder of date stamp on rear, rear hinge just starting but still a good solid copy.

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Book number: 21917

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Keywords: , Literature, American Literature, Fiction, Short Stories, New England, Louis Rhead,

Browne, Thomas

Sir Thomas Browne's Letter to a Friend 1690

London, Printed for Frederick Etchells and Hugh MacDonald, 1924. Reprint. Blue paper-covered boards. Paper label. [4], 12 pp. Folio (35 cm). #90 of 425 copies. Haselwood Reprint Number One. Small chip to spine else a very good or better copy.

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Book number: 26251

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Keywords: , Literature, English Literature, English Literature, 17th c.,

Browning, Robert

The Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning. (Seven Volumes)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1892. Revised with author's corrections. Cloth with gilt titles. Sm. 8vo. Very good copies with minor rubbing to boards, Vol. III with chip to spine head and small tear to spine heel, else quite crisp and tight with owner's name on free front endpapers but half-title on Vol. VII.

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Book number: 41024

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Keywords: , Literature, English Literature, English Literature-19th cent., Robert Browning, English Literature, Poetry,

Browning, Robert

The Poetical Works of Robert Browning with Portraits in Two Volumes

London, Smith, Elder and Co. 1903. Later printing. Half brown calf over red cloth covered boards, gilt titles and floral designs on spines, marbled endpapers; top edge gilt. frontises, xvi, 748 pp.; vii, 786 pp. 8vo. Boards rubbed at extremities, staining to lower edge of Volume II affecting only the lower margins of first few leaves and rear board creased. A tight set in handsome bindings despite a few flaws.

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Book number: 23184

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Keywords: , Literature, English Literature, Poetry, Robert Browning, English Literature, 19th c.,

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Sonnets from the Portuguese

Mount Vernon, Peter Pauper Press, 1940. Reprint. Half-red morocco over decorated paper-covered boards, raised bans, gilt rules and decorations, pink endpapers, top edge gilt. 44 pp. Sm. 8vo. Bound by Maurin with his stamp to the free end paper. Rubbing at extremities but still a very good+ tight clean copy with short inscription to first blank in this lovely Maurin binding.

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Book number: 23358

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Keywords: , Literature, Poetry, Poetry, English Literature, 19th c., Women Writers, Fine Bindings, Maurin Binding,

(Browning, Robert)

Works of Robert Browning from the Author's Revised Text. 12 Volumes

New York, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1926. Maroon cloth with gilt decorations on spine and front board. Illus. tissue frontis each volume. 16mo. Edited with Introductions and Notes by Charlotte Porter and Helen A. Clarke. Includes Red Cotton Night-Cap Country, The Inn Album, The Two Poets of Croisic, Balustion's Adventure, Aristophanes' Apology, The Ring and the Book (2 vol), Agamemnon of Aeschylus, La Saisiaz, Dramatic Idyls, Jocoseria, Return of The Druses, A Blot in the 'Scutcheon, Colombe's Birthday, Luria, A Soul's Tragedy, Dramatic Lyrics, Dramatic Romances, Christmas-Eve and Easter Day, Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, Fifine at the Fair, Pacchiarotto, Miscellaneous Poems, Pauline, Paracelsus, Pippa Passes, King Victor and King Charles, Strafford, Sordello, Men and Women, In a Balcony, Dramatis Personae, Ferishtah's Fancies, Parleyings with Certain People, Asolando. A very good set with occasional marginalia by the antiquarian P. Stokes Gaiths.

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Book number: 16027

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Keywords: , Literature, English Literature, English Literature, 19th c., Robert Browning, Poetry,

Plutarch. Bryan, Augustine. (Plutarchus. Bryanus, Augustinus)

Plutarchi Chaeronensis. Vitae Parallelae, Cum Singulis Aliquot. Graece Et Latine. Addunter Variantes Lectiones Ex Mss. Codd. Veteres & Novae, Doctorum Virorum Notae & Emendationes, Et Indices Accuratissimi [Five Volumes]

Londini [London], Ex Officinâ Jacobi Tonson & Johannis Watts, 1729. First edition thus. Half brown morocco over marbled boards; heads, tails, and raised bands decorated in gilt, gilt volume numbers and titles to two compartments, blind tooled decorations to three compartments, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers. Illus. with an engraved frontis (in Vol. I) by G[erard] van der Gucht after Thornhill, engraved portrait head pieces (from gems) also by van der Gucht, numerous woodcut head and tail pieces. Title page volume I in red and black; volumes 2-5 titles in. 4to. A much admired and respected edition of Plutarch's Parallel Lives. Brunet called it "Belle edition qui represénte le texte de l'édition de Paris, 1624;" and Lowndes called it "An excellent edition." Augustine Bryan (d. 1726) was a classical scholar and Church of England clergyman educated at St Paul's School and Trinity College. The present work went to print just before his death only ten years after his graduation. It was completed by Moses du Soul. Both the Latin and Greek texts were printed primarily from the Paris edition of 1624, though with a few corrections and comments. Graesse V, 355. Lowndes IV, 1890. Brunet IV, 736. ESTC T106982. See ODNB, article/3787. Spines scuffed, extremities rubbed, short splits to joints near heads on two volumes, tears to head of spines with some minor loss on three volumes, top edge trimmed, occasional browning or toning, but still overall a very good set.

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Book number: 35572

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Keywords: Classical Studies, , Literature, Classical Studies, Greece, Rome, Biography, Classical Studies, Plutarch, Roman Studies, Roman Literature, Latin Literature, Classical Literature, 2010NYCBKFR, newyork2011,