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Anton Chekhov, Translated By Garnett, Constance, edited By Foote, Shelby.
Anton Chekhov: Early Short Stories 1883-1888
New York, The Modern Library,
1999, First Edition ed, Hard Cover,
Condition: Fine/Fine, Seventy of Checkhov's early short stories. One of the most memorable "Death of a Government Clerk," a glorious parody in which a fawning official is undone by an ill-timed sneeze; On the Road, history of an educated man's search for convictions, is one of Chekhov's most dramatic stories and source of his first full lenght play Ivanov. Also included are: The Steppe; The Huntsman; Anyuta; Easter Eve; Happiness and The Kiss. Grey cloth boards & spine. DJ not price clipped, pictorial, grey pine. sm 8vo, 642 pages 1st. ml
(First, Edition, Russian, Short, Stories, Chekhov, Short, Stories, Short, Stories, Modern, Library, First, Edition) Cat No. 893m.
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15.50
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(Lewis And Clark). Edited By Nicholas Biddle, Introduction By John Bakeless.
Samuel Johnson, a Biography
New York, Viking,
1974, Book Club (BCE/BOMC) ed, Hard Cover,
Condition: Very Good/Very Good, Johnson was England's greatest man of letters; emerging onto London's literary scene with his essays & reviews from a backround of hustling, bustling journalism & coffee houses. Illustrated section of drawings, portraits, photos. Black boards. DJ black portrait of Johnson. Few small puncture marks to spine area. All else clean & tight. BMOC. 388 p. sm 4 to
(Samuel, Johnson, Men, Of, Letters, English, Literature, Essayists, England, 18th, Century, Literature, 18th, Century, Biography, Boswe, Great, Scholars, English, Scholars) Cat No. 894m.
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(Lewis And Clark). Edited By Nicholas Biddle, Introduction By John Bakeless.
Samuel Johnson, a Biography
New York, Viking,
1974, Book Club (BCE/BOMC) ed, Hard Cover,
Condition: Very Good/Very Good, Johnson was England's greatest man of letters; emerging onto London's literary scene with his essays & reviews from a backround of hustling, bustling journalism & coffee houses. Illustrated section of drawings, portraits, photos. Black boards. DJ black portrait of Johnson. Few small puncture marks to spine area. All else clean & tight. BMOC. 388 p. sm 4 to
(Samuel, Johnson, Men, Of, Letters, English, Literature, Essayists, England, 18th, Century, Literature, 18th, Century, Biography, Boswe, Great, Scholars, English, Scholars) Cat No. 894m.
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8.50
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(Lewis And Clark). Edited By Nicholas Biddle, Introduction By John Bakeless.
Samuel Johnson, a Biography
New York, Viking,
1974, Book Club (BCE/BOMC) ed, Hard Cover,
Condition: Very Good/Very Good, Johnson was England's greatest man of letters; emerging onto London's literary scene with his essays & reviews from a backround of hustling, bustling journalism & coffee houses. Illustrated section of drawings, portraits, photos. Black boards. DJ black portrait of Johnson. Few small puncture marks to spine area. All else clean & tight. BMOC. 388 p. sm 4 to
(Samuel, Johnson, Men, Of, Letters, English, Literature, Essayists, England, 18th, Century, Literature, 18th, Century, Biography, Boswe, Great, Scholars, English, Scholars) Cat No. 894m.
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8.50
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Symonds, John Addington.
The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti. Based on Studies in the Archives of the Bounarroti Family at Florence. Two Volumes
London, Macmillan and Co., Limited,
1901, Second Edition ed, Three-Quarter Leather,
Condition: Very Good, Bound in three quarter calf, marbled boards, spine gilt decorations in ridges, with brown & green title panels. General wear, rubbing & scuffing of boards. Vol. II has chip in leather to lower corner edge. Volume I & II frontispiece, 50 reproductions each. Vol. I, beginning with his birth & youth in Florence 1475-1492; The Madonna Della Febbre & other works in marble 1492-1501; The David, 1501-1505; Julius II calls Michelangelo to Rome for the project of the Pope's tomb; 2nd visit to Bologna, Bronzee of Julius II, painting of Sistine Vault 1506-12; draughtsman, painter, sculptor; plans of the church of S. Lorenzo, his life at Carrara 1513-1521; Adrian VI. & Clement VII, the Sacristy & Library of S. Lorenzo 1521-26; Sack of Rome & siege of Florence-Michelangelo's flight to Venice, his relations to the Medici 1527-1534. Vol. II: Michaelangelo on architect; Final settlement in Rome, Paul III, the Last Judgment and the Paoline Chapel, The Tomb of Julius 1535-1542; Vittoria Colonna & Tommaso, Cavalierei, Michelangelo as Poet & man of feelings; appointed architect in chief at Vatican, history of St. Peter's 1542-57; last years of life Michelangelo's portraits-illness, old age, 1557-64; death at Rome, burial & obequies at Florence. Blue marbled e.p. vol II, rubbing near hinge.TEG. Very clean text,edges and corners rubbed, hinge tender to rear of volume II all else, solidly bound, in protective polyester wraps. Two solid & beautifully illustrated, handsomely bound volumes. sm 8 vo, 469 & 449 pages. digitals available
(Michelangelo, Biography, Michelangelo, Leather, Bindings, Antique, Books, Art, Rare, Books, Master, Art, Works, Buonarroti, Family, Michelangelo, And The Medici, Sack, Of, Rome, Religious, Art, Art, Of, The Renaissance, Period) Cat No. 895m.
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