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Goldsmith, Oliver; Edited By Cunningham, Peter.
The Works Of Oliver Goldsmith, Volume III of IV, 3/4 Leather
London, John Murray,
1854, Three-Quarter Leather,
Condition: Very Good Plus, Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774), Irish novelist, playwright, and poet; arriving in England in 1756. Volume III only, containing: The Bee; being Essays on the most Interesting Subjects (the Bee was a weekly paper wholly conducted and written by Goldsmith, appeared on Saturday 6th October, 1759; Essays; Unacknowledged Essays; Prefaces, Introductions, Etc. Beautifully bound in 3/5 calf, maroon and blue marbled boards, gilt decorations to spine, two leather title panels to spine, upper missing, lower chipped. Marbled enp papers. Clean white text, solidly bound. marbled page ends. 447 pages, 8 vo.
(Of, Oliver, Goldsmith, English, Literature, 18th, Century, English, Literature, The Bee, Oliver, Goldsmith, Leather, Binding, Books, Irish, Novelists, Irish, Literature, 18th, Century, Irish, Authors, Essays, On, England, Englanish, Society, 18th, Century) Cat No. 1811.
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37.50
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Kipling Rudyard.
The Works of Rudyard Kipling: Vol. I, Under the Deodars; The Phantom Rickshaw; Wee Willie Winkie, Vol. II, Soldiers Three; The Story of the Gadsbys; In Black and White
New York, Doubleday & McClure Company,
1899, Hard Cover,
Condition: Very Good Plus, Two very clean bright books, 1899 containg the stories of Kipling. Green cloth boards and spine, Kiplings initials blind stamped to front, gitl titles to spines, stated "Authorized Edition". Mild rubbing of edges, no writing, clean white text. Small 8 vo, 344, 325 pages
(Of, Kipling, Antique, Books, Rudyard, Kipling, Under, The Deodars, The Phantom, Rickshaw, Wee, Willie, Winkie, Soldiers, Three, The Story, Of, The Gadsbys, In Black, And White) Cat No. 1771.
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38.50
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White, Stewart Edward.
The Works of Stewart Edward White; The Rules of the Games
New York, Doubleday, Page & Company,
1913, Hard Cover,
Condition: Very Good, Green cloth illustrated boards, gilt lettering. Black and white frontispiece. Spine lettering darkened, spine ends rubbed. All else very clean, tightly bound. sm 8 vo, 644 pages
(Stewart, White, Logging, Camps, Vintage, Novels, Travel, Novels, Sawmills, Vintage, Novels) Cat No. 2125.
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18.50
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Holme, Bryan and Tweed, Katharine, Editiors.
The World in Vogue; Seven Momentous Decades of the Names, Faces, and the Writing That Have Held the Public Eye in Art, Society, Literature, Theatre, Fashion, Sports, World Affairs
New York, Viking Press,
1963, Second Print ed, Hard Cover,
Condition: Near Fine, Jacket: Very Good, A marvelous volume of short stories, art, photography, fashion (1893 to 1960); biography, theatre and history, profusely illustrated in black and white and color. A sampling of the contents: Drawings of fashion representing eras from the late 1800's through the early 1960's; pictorial, narrative of people and events: 1893-1963; Ware Holes by A. Conan Doyal; critic of Oscar Wilde's "Lady Winderemer's Fan;" Edward Steichen, "Steeplechase Day," Paris, 1905 and Matinee Idols; "Self Portrait" Alfred Stielitz; Breakfast at Delmonico's Restaurant, New York, 1983; photos of a young Marlon Brando and Peter Ustinov; photgraphy by Irvining Penn; Gertrude Stein on Pierre Balmain (as a young designer who made clothes for her and Alice B. Toklas), illustrated; Alice B. Toklas, Food, Artyists, and The Baroness; the Sitwell Trio; full color by Degas, The Four Jockey's; Picasso, 4 early sketches of a trip to Paris (1902), full page color "Women Seated;" Braque's House photos by Alexander Lieberman, story by Dorothy Parker, Hemingway, New York, by Truman Capote; "The Charmed Life" by Katherine Anne Porter; the Kennedy's, Rockerfellers; What Makes of Breaks a Party by Elsa Maxwell; Ana Pavlova; Gershwin; Fashion and the Fine Arts, by Andre Maurois; Edith Sitwell at breakfast, photo by Cecil Beaton; People I Wish I Had Known, by Jacqueline Lee Bouvier; William Faulkners Nobel Price Acceptance Speach, 1950; Duke Ellington, Big Bands, Ella Fitzgerald, Gene Krupa, etc; beautiful full page portraits of Elizabeth Taylar as Cleopatra, Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly; Charles Laughton, in The Private Life of Henry the Eighth; Maughams Epigrams, A Selection from Major works; Isak Dinesen. Every personality, and event during these periods, with photographs from the finest photographers, representing every aspect of theatre and dance. Articles, stories and poetry as first seen in Vogue. Bright orange cloth boards and spine.DJ not price clipped, white, multi color lettering, few closed lower edge tears, upper spine end edge tear. Mild soil, in brodart mylar. All else very good, no markings or writing. Folio, 416 pp. Very heavy.
(World, In Vogue, Hemingway, Fashion, 1920's, Gertrude, Stein, Dorothy, Parker, Sitwell, Trio, Bertrand, Russell, Henry, James, Delmonico's, Restaurant, New, York, Society, 1800's, Social, History, 19th, Century, Social, History, 20Th, Century, Alfred, Stielitz, Hollywood, Protraits, 1940's, F., Scott, Fitzgerald, Irving, Penn, Photography, Frank, Lloyd, Wright, Alexander, Woollcott, Saul, Steinberg, Man's, Burden, Rumer, Godden, Meditation, On, Simplicity, Alice, B., Tolklas) Cat No. 2319.
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68.50
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Brodkey, Harold.
The World is the Home of Love and Death
New York, Metropolitan Books,
1997, First Edition ed, Hard Cover,
Condition: Fine, Jacket: Fine, Through these stories of power, coercion and love are a forceful collection of modern themes. Eleven stories: The Bullies; Spring Fugue; What I do for Money; Religion; Waking; Car Buying; Lila and S.L; Jibber-Jabber in Little Rock; The World is the Home; Dumbness is Everything; A Guest in the Universe. First Edition. Black and yellow DJ not price clipped, fine condition. sm 4 to, 312 pages
(Edition, Harold, Brokey, First, Edition, Modern, Fiction, Stories, Family, Life, Sexual, Power) Cat No. 1509.
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11.50
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