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Monday Or Tuesday Woolf, Virginia VG Hardcover Hogarth Press London 1921 1st Edition First edition, original cloth backed boards, the upper cover with design by Vanessa Bell. 7 1/4 x 4 1/2 (18 x 11.5 cm) ; with 4 woocuts by Bell, 91 pp. , ad leaf. Cloth spine pulled at tip, offset from plates as usual. Woolf''s breakthrough collection of stories, one of 1,000 copies. Eight short stories by Woolf, five of them published here for the first time. Kirkpatrick A5a. Provenance Estate of Frances "Peggy" Brooks . Many errors in typology which were gixe in the American edition. 1400.00


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Travels Through The Interior Parts Of North-america, In The Years 1766, 1767, And 1768 Carver, Jonathan VG Leather b/w S. Price, Et Al, Dublin 1779 1st Dublin First Dublin edition. Contemporary calf boards, rebacked to style in modern leather. 8 1/4 x 5 inches (21 x 12.5 cm) ; folding map and 2 plates, [xiv], 508 pp. Repaired tear into map where mounted, some light toning and spotting, wear to contemporary boards. The first Irish edition, reprinted from 1778 first edition: "Carver penetrated farther into the West than any other English explorer before the Revolution" and "stimulated curiosity concerning routes to the Pacific, later satisfied by Mackenzie and Lewis and Clark" (Howes). The book includes a fine map and plate of the St. Anthony Falls on the Mississippi. 795.00


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The Principal Navigations Voyages Traffiques & Discoveries Of The English Nation [#31 Of 100] 1903 12 Vol Ct Hakluyt, Richard VG Vellum James MacLehose and Sons, Glasgow 1903 Illustrations on Japanese vellum. Number 31 of 100 sets on hand-made paper. 12 volumes. Publishers vellum backed cloth, the covers and spines stamped and lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches (22 x 14 cm) ; plates and folding maps, prospectus the MacLehose edition of Purchas laid-in at end. Some minor thumbsoiling and discolor to spines, light spotting and usual offsetting within, the Sir Percy Zachariah Cox copy with his bookplate. An excellent facsimile edition of Hakluyt, from the library of British Major General Percy Cox. Sound copies. This comprehensive work was designed with great care. It is loaded with full page plates and foldouts, some of which are rather large. The amazing thing about the foldouts is that they have tissue protectors laid in loose with matching folds. 925.00


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Ruins of Desert Cathay Stein, Aurel VG Cloth Pagesxxxviii, 546; xxi, 492


Color and b/w MacMillan London 1912 1st Edition Ruins of Desert Cathay. London: MacMillan, 1912. First edition. Two volumes, publisher''s brown cloth. 9 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches (23.5 x 17 cm) ; xxiv, 546, [1], 2 pp. Ads; xxii, 517, [1], 2 pp. Ads; illustrated after photographs, complete with all panoramas, color plates, maps etc. Some soiling and wear, brown mark in the gutter of the title in the first volume. Library marks on spine, bookplate of the Wisconsin Consistory Library. Yakushi S331. 700.00


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When We Were Very Young; Winnie-the-pooh; Now We Are Six; The House At Pooh Corner 1st Edition, 1st Impression Milne, A. [Lan] A. [Lexander] VG cloth B&W Illustrations Methuen & Co, London 1924- 1928 1st Edition 1st Printing MILNE, A. [LAN] A. [LEXANDER]When We Were Very Young; Winnie-the-Pooh; Now We are Six; The House at Pooh Corner. London: Methuen & Co. , 1924-1926-1927-1928. All volumes first edition, first impression. Original publisher''s pictorial cloth gilt (blue, green, red and salmon respectively) , all but the first with pictorial endpapers, the first and third works in dust jacket (the Pooh books without). Housed in an attractive morocco-backed clamshell case made of blue cloth which is spotted. The morocco frontis shaped like spines and has a nice effect. 7 3/8 x 4 3/4 inches (18.5 x 12.5 cm) ; various paginations, all volumes illustrated by E. H. Shepard. The dust jacket of When We Were Very Young lacks a portion of the spine and has other wear and minor losses. That of Now We Are Six is overall sound. There is slight wear overall, and one volume has an ownership name. The text of When We Were Very Young is in the second state of the first impression, with page ix numbered. 5500.00


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Mr. Norris Changes Trains [signed By Author] Isherwood, Christopher NF Cloth Hogarth Press, Lodon [1935] 1st Edition Author First edition with a later label signed by Isherwood affixed to dedication page. Publisher''s turquoise cloth in dust jacket, preserved in fine and attractive custom morocco clamshell box. 7 1/4 x 4 5/8 inches (18.25 x 11.25 cm) ; 280 pp. ; half-title. Original green cloth boards lighlty bowed as usual, minor light foxing and offsetting to endpapers, booksellers ticket to rear pastedown. A very attractive copy. Woolmer 369. 7s 6p jacket price present. Follows expatriate William Bradshaw in pre-World War II Berlin and his strange friendship with the shady yet comical Arthur Norris. A classic example of Isherwood's decadent character studies culled from Berlin's underworld, Norris is a craven masochist and Communist who informs on his fellow radicals during the Nazis' rise to power 5500.00


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