Gabriel Garcia Marquez

One Hundred Years of Solitude

New York, Harper and Row, 1970. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition in like dustjacket. This is the first printing of the American edition of Marquez's classic in the second-state dustjacket with a period on the front flap instead of an exclamation point. The state of the jacket does not correlate to the book; books and jackets are printed separately and matched up after they are printed; it is pure chance which jacket goes on which book meaning one of the earliest printed copies of the book could have one of the last jackets printed. In any case, this is the first printing of the American edition of one of the great literary works of the 20th century. The book itself is in fine condition. The jacket bears the $7.95 price and is complete with no chips or tears, but showing very slight shelfwear along its edges. Both the book and the jacket are highly attractive and in overall fine condition. Published in 1967, One Years of Solitude is widely regarded as one of the most important works of 20th century literature and one of the great classics of Spanish literature. It is Marquez's most famous and important novel and set the path which led to his Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. .

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Book number: 1235479

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Jean Baptiste Massillon

Petit Careme de Massillon, Eveque de Clermont

Paris, P. Didot L'Aine, 1812. Full Leather. 318p. A small, light brown full-leatherbound hardcover book in very good condition. The panels are rubbed, and the pages are foxed. Sticker and pen inscription on front endpaper. However, the text is clean and the binding is tight. Written entirely in French. A collection of Catholic sermons for Lent by Jean Baptiste Massillon, the 18th-century Bishop of Clermont and Advent preacher Versailles (in 1699). His sermons were popular for their moral, rather than dogmatic, themes. The spine and panel edges feature gilt decorations. From the page preceding the title page: "Collection des Meilleurs Ouvrages de la Langue Francoise, Dediee aux Amateurs de l'Art Typographique." Measures approx. 7" x 4.

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Book number: 142617

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Franklin X. McCormick, ed

A Portfolio of Ecclesiastical Designs

1954. Leather bound. A SUPERB COLLECTION OF CATHOLIC CHURCH ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNS FROM THE 1940s AND 1950s. A leather folder contains a selection of xx loose plates. Each plate contains information on a single building, including such details as seating capacity and total cost ti build and furnish. There are both photographs of the building and architectural sketches. All information on each structure is on a single one-sided plate which measures 12 x 15 inches. A TOTAL OF 152 BLACK-AND-WHITE PLATES. The portfolio itself is a mix of plates from the 1945 and 1954 editions. There is an index included from the 1954 edition although not all 1954 plates are present (nor are all 1945 plates present). Almost all the plates are churches with about a dozen being other Catholic buildings (rectories, etc). The index for the 1954 edition calls for 140 plates of which 73 were churches and the rest primarily Catholic schools. While we do not have a 1945 index, we suspect someone preserved most of the Church designs from the two portfolios and discarded most of the drawings of schools etc. .

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Book number: 1240714

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Herman Melville

Moby-Dick or the Whale: Volumes 1-2

Franklin Center, Franklin Library, 1980. Leather bound. Complete two volume set. New and unread. Fine flawless condition. Bound in full leather, gilt edges, moire endpapers, silk ribbon bookmarkers. .

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Book number: 1249210

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Thomas Merton

Cistercian Contemplatives: Monks of the Strict Observance at Our Lady of Gethsemani, Kentucky; Our Lady of the Holy Ghost, Georgia; Our Lady of the Holy Trinity, Utah

Trappist KY, Our Lady of Gethsemani, 1948. 1st Edition. Paperback. Softcover issue. Bound in blue-gray wraps lettered in maroon. 64p, illustrated with b/w photographs. Former owner's private library name stamped on endpapers and title page else a clean booklet in very good condition. Written anonymously by Thomas Merton. This is Merton's fourth book, issued shortly before THE SEVEN STOREY MOUNTAIN, The book is noted as "A Guide to Trappist Life" and is effectively a recruiting piece for the Trappist Order. Ten thousand copies were printed in both hardcover and softcover. Dell'Isola A4. .

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Book number: 1232712

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Thomas Merton

Cistercian Contemplatives: Monks of the Strict Observance at Our Lady of Gethsemani, Kentucky; Our Lady of the Holy Ghost, Georgia; Our Lady of the Holy Trinity, Utah

Trappist KY, Our Lady of Gethsemani, 1948. 1st Edition. Paperback. Softcover issue. Bound in blue-gray wraps lettered in maroon. 64p, illustrated with b/w photographs. Former owner's lengthy gift inscription on half-title page else a clean booklet in very good condition. Written anonymously by Thomas Merton. This is Merton's fourth book, issued shortly before THE SEVEN STOREY MOUNTAIN, The book is noted as "A Guide to Trappist Life" and is effectively a recruiting piece for the Trappist Order. Ten thousand copies were printed in both hardcover and softcover. Dell'Isola A4. Very good .

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Book number: 1265002

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Rev. T.A. Morris

Miscellany: Consisting of Essays, Biographical Sketches, and Notes of Travel

Cincinnati, L. Swormstedt & A. Poe, 1852. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 390p, frontis. Original brown cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Cloth worn along front gutter and crown of spine. Foxing throughout. Former owner's signature on title page else text is unmarked. A hardcover book in good condition. Howes M832. An account of the life and work of a prominent Methodist bishop. Of note are his letters detailing his journeys in Missouri, Arkansas, and Texas in 1841-1842 and to Oklahoma in 1844. .

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Book number: 1240784

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John Muir

A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1916. 1st Edition. Leather bound. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED LARGE-PAPER ISSUE. One of 550 copies of the first edition printed on large paper, making the book about an inch taller than the trade first edition. BOUND IN A STRIKING DELUXE FULL LEATHER BINDING. Full green leather elaborately decorated in gilt. This is a doublure binding where the inside covers are also full leather with the same decoration. Free endpapers are silk, top edge gilt. The fine binding is not signed but is reminiscent of the work of American binderies in the early 20th century. The spine is slightly faded to a light brown. Five raised bands on spine. Interior fine. A handsome book in very good condition. A beautiful example of the large-paper issue of one of the naturalist's classic works. .

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Book number: 1244354

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W.H.H. Murray]

Phantom Falls: A Tale of the Adirondacks

Cliffdale NJ, Privately Printed, 1927. 1st Edition. Leather bound. 22p.IN A DELUXE FINE BINDING BY GEORGE A. ZABRISKIE. Contains Zabriskie's personal bookplate on which he has inscribed the book to Getrude Healy. This exquisite book measures 4.5 x 6.5 inches. Full black leather with floral designs in gilt, red, and green on covers, two raised hubs on spine, marbled endpapers. Binding is in fine condition. Interior pages show an old waterstain across the top edge, fanning out from the gutter. Zabriskie was a prominent book collector, binder, author, and antiquarian when he wasn't busy with high positions in both the private/public sectors of the baking industry. He was a member of both the Grolier Club and the American Antiquarian Society. Both Herbert Hoover and Thomas Streeter served as pall bearers at his funeral. .

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Book number: 1247824

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St. John Henry Cardinal Newman

Callista: A Sketch of the Third Century

New York, D. & J. Sadlier, 1856. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. First printing of the American edition with errata on p. IV. Original brown cloth, stamped in blind and gilt. Spine faded and someone darkened the gilt in the final A in the title with black ink. Ex-convent library with endpaper pocket and slip else unmarked. A hardcover book in good condition. The very scarce American issue of the first edition of this novel by John Henry Newman. .

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Book number: 1240713

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John Henry Newman

A Letter to the Rev. E.B. Pusey, D.D. , on His Recent Eirenicon

New York, Lawrence Kehoe, 1866. 1st American Edition. Paperback. First printing of the American issue of Newman's open letter to Pusey. 86p. Original buff-colored wraps. Very good condition; Slight edgewear to covers else clean, tight, and unmarked. Very scarce. St. John Henry Cardinal Newman and E.B. Pusey's were the two main leaders of the Oxford Movement, After Newman's conversion to the Catholic Faith, Pusey was one of the most prominet Anglican theologians. He opposed Catholicism on several grounds including issues of devotion to mthe Blessed Virgin Mary. In this work, Newman defends Church teaching on Mary and the Immaculate Conception and counters Pusey's arguments against it. Very good .

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Book number: 1261008

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Hezekiah Niles

Niles' Weekly Register: Set of 5 Issues from 1813-1814

Baltimore, Weekly Register, 1814. 1st Edition. Wraps. A group of five original issues of the famed 19th century news magazine. Includes the complete issues for Nov 6, 1813; Nov. 27, 1813; Dec. 11, 1813; Jan. 29, 1814; and Feb. 5 1814. Issues in good condition with scattered old stains and foxing. Removed from a bound volume. Each issue measures 6x`10 inches and is 14 pages long. Good condition. Niles' Weekly Register was one of the leading national news sources of the 19th century. Hezekiah Niles founded it in 1811 and the early issues featured here have extensive coverage of the War of 1812. .

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Book number: 1247343

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Francesco Sfortia Pallavicino

Vindicationes Societatis Iesu

Rome, Dominici Manelphi, 1649. 1st Edition. Leather bound. 407p + index. Quarto. Bound in full limp vellum. Title lettered on spine in old ink manuscript hand. Scattered toning to text else interior in good condition. Front pastedown has large circular hole where something (a bookplate?) was cut out exposing the verso of the front board. Ink name on title page, additional name blotted nout. Overall in good condition. Text in Latin. A defense of the Jesuit Order (the Society of Jesus) by one of their members. Pallavicino was a highly esteemed academic who was appointed a Cardinal in 1657. His best-known work is his History of the Council of Trent. .

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Book number: 1228193

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George Herbert Palmer; N.C. Wyeth

The Odyssey of Homer

Cambridge MA, Houghton Mifflin, 1929. Limited Edition. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, BEING #469 OF 500 COPIES SIGNED BY GEORGE HERBERT PALMER AND N.C. WYETH. Original half leather and green decorated cloth boards with acetate dustwrapper. Fine condition, with the only blemish being the slightest touch of rubbing to the top of the spine. A nice example of this classic signed limited edition from the Golden Age of Illustration. One of the best editions of Homer's Odyssey,with Wyeth's art enhancing the Palmer translation. .

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Book number: 1233392

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John Dos Passos

Manhattan Transfer

NY, Harper and Brothers, 1925. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st ed, 1st printing with K-Z code on copyright page. A FINE HARDCOVER BOOK IN THE SCARCE REMNANTS OF THE ORIGINAL DUSTJACKET. This work is found in two different bindings, one being black cloth with a yellow title label and the other being a pictorial design. This book is bound in black cloth with Harper imprint blindstamped on bottom right corner of front cover and a yellow title label lettered in black. Light scratch on back cover else the book is in fine condition. The dust jacket is in poor condition and is LACKING BOTH THE FRONT AND REAR FLAP. The front panel, spine, and rear panel are present. The rear panel has sveral small closed tear and chips along its top edge. The spine has some shallow chipping at the top left and LACKS THE BOTTOM TWO INCHES. The title/author lettering on the spine is all present. The front panel has a dime-size chip at the top left corner, a similar chip at the lower right corner, and some wear along the right edge where it would have connected with the now missing front flap. All told this is only an acceptable example of the jacket but it is original and unrestored. .

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Book number: 1226452

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