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Western Action: February, Feb. 1953
NY, Columbia Publications. 1953. SingleIssueMagazine. Vol. 16, No. 5. Pulp magazine. Edited by Robert W. Lowndes. Cover art is uncredited. Includes "Gun-Wolves' Wages" (novel) by Chuck Martin; "The Trading Post" (Department of True Stories); "Winning Hand" by Ben Frank; "El Coyote"" (Special Fact Feature) by Lauran Paine; "Propter Defectum" (A "Judge Steele" Story) by Lon Williams; "Sixgun Comeback" by E. E. Clement. Illustrations are uncredited. Standard wear and tear at edges and spine heel, but a little less than usual with minor losses; small edge nicks and staple wear; mild tanning. Very Good.
Books from the crypt Professional sellerBook no.: PQ1782
USD 18,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 15.75 | £UK 13.75 | JP¥ 2776]
Catalogue: Pulps
Keywords: Western Pulps Western Pulps
Colonial Origins of Democracy and Dictatorship
Cambridge University Press, 2024. 9781009423533. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered black cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine). Pp. xiii + 299, with b&w illus (no inscriptions). .
Rothwell & Dunworth Ltd Professional sellerBook no.: 182716
GBP 20,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 23 US$ 26.3 | JP¥ 4055]
Catalogue: Modern History
The Imperial Highway; or, the Road to Fortune and Happiness with Biographies of Self-Made Men. Their Business Traits Qualities and Habits.
Chicago, The National Library Association, 1886. Hardcover. Small 4to. Quarter brown calf with gilt spine lettering and brown textured paper over beveled boards with gilt lettering. xiv, 811pp. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, full-page illustrations, marbled endpapers, marbled page edges. Very good. Quite minor binding wear only, else internally tight and near fine. Attractive and tight early printing of this hefty combination biographical dictionary/self-help/inspirational/get-rich-quick manual. Subtitle continues: "Among the Hundreds of Distinguished Minds Whose Thoughts Enrich These Pages, Are Washington, Franklin, Longfellow, Shakespeare, Milton, Bacon, Smiles, Madame Montague, Scott, Chesterfield, Holland, Irving, Mrs. Hemans, Carlyle, Goethe, Schiller, Madame De Stael, Wellington, Wordsworth, Dr. Johnson, Lamb, Beaconsfield, Mrs. Stowe, Emerson, Dickens, Lincoln, Garfield, and Many Others." Talk about hodgepodge!.
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts Professional sellerBook no.: 50032
USD 65,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 56.5 | £UK 49.5 | JP¥ 10023]
Catalogue: Books
Keywords: Biography Literary Biography
The Imperial Highway; or, the Road to Fortune and Happiness with Biographies of Self-Made Men. Their Business Traits Qualities and Habits
Chicago, The Imperial Publishing Co, 1884. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green/yellow cloth over bevel-edged boards with black and gilt lettering and pictorial stamping. xiv, 811pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, decorative endpapers, marbled page edges. Very good. Mild edgewear and slight rubbing. Tight and nice later printing of this thick (2 3/4") cross between biographical dictionary and self-help/inspirational/get-rich-quick manual. Subtitle continues: "Among the Hundreds of Distinguished Minds Whose Thoughts Enrich These Pages, Are Washington, Franklin, Longfellow, Shakespeare, Milton, Bacon, Smiles, Madame Montague, Scott, Chesterfield, Holland, Irving, Mrs. Hemans, Carlyle, Goethe, Schiller, Madame De Stael, Wellington, Wordsworth, Dr. Johnson, Lamb, Beaconsfield, Mrs. Stowe, Emerson, Dickens, Lincoln, Garfield, and Many Others." Talk about hodgepodge!.
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts Professional sellerBook no.: 35211
USD 55,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 47.75 | £UK 42 | JP¥ 8481]
Catalogue: Books
Keywords: Literary Biography Biography
My Way Sally.
Santa Barbara, Ca., Advocacy Press, 1988. 1st. Hardcover., G (See Description), Vg/G Dj Edgeworn, Tears, in Mylar Wrap. Prev Names Ffep. Pages: 48.
Vintage Books Professional sellerBook no.: MASTER117112I
USD 20,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 17.5 | £UK 15.25 | JP¥ 3084]
Catalogue: Child
Sussex in Bygone Days Reminiscenes of Nathaniel Paine Blaker
Combridges, 1919. Hardcover. xvi + 199pp, illustrated, bound in original olive green cloth, mark on rear cover; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 199 pages. Very Good .
Castle Hill Books Professional sellerBook no.: 86638
GBP 24,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 27.5 US$ 31.56 | JP¥ 4866]
Sussex in Bygone Days
Hove, Sussex, Combridges, 1919. Cloth/no dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. blue cloth, gilt and blindstamped lettering, no dust jacket, 199 pp covers are worn on the edges spine is slightly cocked Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders. Good .
San Francisco Book Company Professional sellerBook no.: 82254
€ 25,00 ≈ [Appr.: US$ 28.85 | £UK 22 | JP¥ 4449]
Catalogue: History
Keywords: Travel, England, Sussex
Art and Architecture in France 1500-1700; the Art and Architecture of India, Buddhist, Hindu, Jain; the Art and Architecture of Japan
Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, 1953-1955. First edition. Cloth. Three handsome volumes from the popular Pelican History of Art series, edited by Nikolaus Pevsner. Three volumes from the popular 'Pelican History of Art' series, edited by the German-British art and architecture historian, Nikolaus Pevsner. Uniformly bound in the publisher's original cloth, with pictorial gilt detail. This set comprises of: 'Art and Architecture in France, 1500 to 1700', the first edition. Written by Anthony Blunt. With reference to the Renaissance Motives from Northern Italy, Henry IV and the Regency of Marie de' Medici, The Louvre and more. With 192 pages of plates to the rear of the volume. Collated complete. 'The Art and Architecture of India: Buddhist, Hindu, Jain', the rearranged third impression. Written by Benjamin Rowland. With reference to the early classic periods, art under the Kushans, the period of the Hindu dynasties, Indian art in Ceylon and more. With 190 pages of plates to the rear of the volume. Collated complete. 'The Art and Architecture of Japan', the first edition. Written by Robert Treat Paine, and Alexander Soper. With reference to the decoration of castles, the Edo period, Buddhist architecture, the Kamakura period and more. With 173 pages of plates to the rear of the volume. Collated complete. The half title pages are present in each volume. Uniformly bound in the original cloth. Externally, excellent with minor shelf wear. Light fading to the spines. Very light marks to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages very bright and clean. Offsetting to the free endpapers of the 'France' volume. Scattered spots to the fore-edges. Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Fine .
Rooke Books Professional sellerBook no.: 845g5
GBP 135,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 154 US$ 177.5 | JP¥ 27372]
Catalogue: Travel & Exploration
Keywords: japan japanese art architecture indian art japanese art Nikolaus Pevsner History of art Not Stated
Painting from the San Francisco Bay Area
Oshkosh, Wisconsin: the Paine Art Center and Arboretum, 1988. 4to. 72 pp. Very Good, some creasing on outside. Color and BW plates. Provenance: From the estate of Gerald Nordland (1927-2019). Nordland was a museum director, art critic, educator and author. Dean of the Chouinard Art Institute (1960-64), Director of the San Francisco Museum of Art (now SFMoMA (1966-73), Milwaukee Art Museum (1977-85), and the UCLA Wight Art Gallery (1973-77). He is the author of over 60 publications, including books on Lachaise, Nakian, Diebenkorn and Frank Lloyd Wright. .
Wittenborn Art Books Professional sellerBook no.: 73-0402
USD 50,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 43.5 | £UK 38.25 | JP¥ 7710]
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Argosy Weekly: March, Mar. 13, 1937 ("Z Is for Zombie")
NY, Frank A. Munsey Co. 1937. SingleIssueMagazine. Vol. 271, No. 4. Pulp magazine. [Edited by Chandler H. Whipple.] Cover art by Emmett Watson for "High Heels - and Henry" (pt. 1 of 4) by W. C. Tuttle. Includes "Blue Bullets" (novelette) by Norbert Davis; "The Legion Marches on" by Robert Carse; "Skyway to Peril" (pt. 2 of 3) by Eustace L. Adams; "Men of Daring: The Man Who Tackled a Lion Barehanded" (True Story in Pictures) by Stookie Allen; "Feed Him to the Crabs" by Charles Alexander; "The American" (pt. 3 of 7) by George Challis [Frederick Faust, aka Max Brand]; "Jack of Diamonds" by William Chamberlain; "Z Is for Zombie" (pt. 6 of 6) by Theodore Roscoe. Features:"The Bounty's Haven" by John St. John; "Highballing the Jack" by Bernard Elas; "On the Bottom" by John H. Paine; "Argonotes"; "Looking Ahead!" Cover wrinkle; wraps liekly re-glued; small loss at head. Very Good.
Books from the crypt Professional sellerBook no.: PM180
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Catalogue: Pulps
Keywords: Adventure, Action Fantasy Mystery Science Fiction Pulps Adventure Pulps
![Mark Twain [Samuel Clemens]; Albert Bigelow Paine [Intro.], Mark Twain&Apos;S Autobiography](https://bw19.boekwinkeltjes.net/images/AB_images/r/rookeb_1532063964.0.x.jpg "Click to enlarge")
Mark Twain&Apos;S Autobiography
New York, Harper & Brothers, 1924 . First edition. Cloth. The two volume first printings of Mark Twain's autobiography, dictated by him during the last years of his life. The first edition, first printing of these works, with 'H-Y' and 'First Edition' to the colophon of each volume, and duplicate half titles to volume II. BAL state A.Illustrated with a frontispiece to each volume, retaining the original tissue guard. Collated, complete.The memoir contains a rambling collection of anecdotes and ruminations, rather than being a chronology detailed autobiography. This is as a result of Twain dictating the memoir, rather than writing it himself.With the inscription 'H. G. Haymaker Foreign Office' to each front free endpaper.With two pages of advertisements to the rear of volume II.Compiled and edited by Twain's personal friend and literary executor Albert Bigelow Paine, this is a smart first edition of the autobiography of this major literary figure. In the publisher's original cloth bindings. Bumping to spine head and tail. Rubbing to joints, with fading to back strip, and mark to tail of volume I back strip. Rear hinge of volume I and front hinge of each volume strained, and slightly tender. Inscription to front free endpapers. Internally, generally firmly bound. Spotting to title pages and frontispiece perimeters, with pages otherwise generally clean and bright. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .
Rooke Books Professional sellerBook no.: 846F61
GBP 180,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 205.25 US$ 236.67 | JP¥ 36496]
Catalogue: Literary Criticism
Keywords: huckleberry finn american literature tom sawyer H. G. Haymaker american literature Not Stated
The Curtain Book
London, Mitchell Beazley, 1990. Second Impression. Hardcover. 4to (264 x 260mm). Pp 180 illustrated throughout with colour photographs by Fritz von der Schulenburg. Black cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. A clean, unmarked copy in a tight binding and unclipped dust jacket. Very Good/very good.
The Glass Key Professional sellerBook no.: 97294
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Catalogue: House & Home
The Curtain Book
Mitchell Beazley, 1998, 9th impression. Boards, dj, VG/VG. 180pp, colour frontis, colour illustrations throughout, index, edges a little rubbed & dustjacket spine sunned. Hardback with dustjacket. ISBN: 0855337192 ¶ A comprehensive guide to curtains, their history, and usage with chapters on selecting a style, window & room treatments, types of curians & blinds, and the materials used to make them.
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Keywords: ISBN 0855337192, design, crafts, interiors, textiles 0855337192
The Wide World - the Magazine for Men, March (Mar. ) 1948 - Tasmanian Robinson Crusoe / Woman Who Walked to Siberia
London: George Newnes Ltd, 1948. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. Illustrated by Nicolson, W.C. (cover). 18 [ads], 313-374 pages. Features: A Diver Down a Gold Mine - an Italian worker stranded 1,000 feet down a flooded Australian mine is saved by deep-sea divers; The Forgotten Islands - The Chathams; A Tasmanian Robinson Crusoe - In 1904 the British barque Brier Holme went down and the only survivor lived three months on an uninhabited island; The Green Scarab; The Thief-Catcher - a holy man in India; Money to Burn - experiences while left in charge of a Transvaal farm; The Woman Who Walked to Siberia - Lillian Alling; Smugglers All; On the Edge of the World - final installment of Richard Brenton's adventures in Tierra del Fuego; Coin counterfeiters in Tanganyika; The Taking of Ventotene - a naval story in the Drake tradition; The Jinx - a man brings bad luck to others but escapes unscathed; and more. Bit of pencil writing on front cover. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; The Wide World - The Magazine for Men, March (Mar.) 1948 - Tasmanian Robinson Crusoe / Woman Who Walked to Siberia Oscar Larsen Diver Down a Gold Mine - an Italian worker stranded 1,000 feet down a flooded Australian mine is saved by deep-sea divers; Th. Good .
RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines Professional sellerBook no.: 346h2555
USD 199,95 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 173.5 | £UK 152.25 | JP¥ 30832]
Keywords: (. ) 1948 / 1 000 Deep Sea ; Nautical Back Issues Travel Exploration & Adventure
Sea Sequel to the Week-End Book
London: Nonesuch Press, 1934. 8vo. [542 pp.]. Very Good. Hard Cover. Illustrated paper covered boards. Some shelf wear. Spine sunned. Previous owner’s bookplate on inside front cover. Handwritten inscription. Pages fine. An anthology of sea poetry, stories, songs, games, etc. intended for the sea-going traveler. "Edited by Marion Coates and the general editors of the Week-end book. Decorated by Charles Paine." From the collection of the late Frederick Ruffner, Jr. founder of Gale Research, Detroit. .
Wittenborn Art Books Professional sellerBook no.: 18-5496
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Catalogue: Books
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