[Rarebooks] FS: A Few at major discounts

[Allington Books]

The below items are for sale at a substantially reduced price today through
this Saturday subject to the terms set forth below.

FLANDREYSY, J. de; BOUZANQUET, G.
LE TAUREAU CAMARGUE SON ELEVAGE LA COURSE PROVENÇALE [THE TAURUS CAMARGUE,
ITS BREEDING, THE PROVENCAL RACE]

Paris: Les Éditions du Cadran, 1925. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover.
A Very Good copy of the first edition, first printing, bound in red
quarter-leather with the spine buttressed (some general rubbing and marking
and some minor cracking to the joint ends, some scuffing to the leather,
light bend line to the first several leaves) with a beautiful marbled
pastedown and facing free endpaper at the front and back, prior owner's
elegant bookplate to the front pastedown. This is one of only 1,000 copies
issued and is thoroughly illustrated. Due the volume's size (approximately
13 inches X approximately 10 inches) and and weight, Buyer's shipping cost
will exceed that quoted by this site. A Very Good or better copy of this
rather uncommon work. Very good. Item #2825

Price: $250.00* NOW AVAILABLE FOR $50.*

Steinbeck, John
The Red Pony [First Illustrated Edition]

New York: The Viking Press, 1945. Dennis, Wesley. First Edition, First
Printing. Hardcover. A Near Fine copy of the first illustrated edition,
first printing, in a Very Good or better slipcase (no dust jacket -- as
issued), with some pushing to the volume's spine ends and, a minor indent
to the rear of the box where it joins the spine and a minor bump to the
box's bottom; a collection of four short stories with illustrations by
Wesley Dennis. A Near Fine copy. Near fine. Item #2837

Price: $325.00  NOW AVAILABLE FOR $135.

Swinburne, Algernon Charles
The Tale of Balen

London: Chatto & Windus, 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. A Very Good copy
of the first edition, first printing, in the Publisher's original blue
cloth and complete with the Chatto & Windus 32-page catalogue dated March,
1895 to the rear (some rubbing to the board corners and light sunning to
the spine panel, scattered foxing within, prior owners' names and one date
to the front free endpaper), top edge of closed page block gilded. A Very
Good copy. Very Good. Item #2836

Price: $30.00  NOW AVAILABLE FOR $10.


Ellis, Trey
Platitudes

New York: Vintage [Random House], 1988. First Edition, First Printing.
Wrappers.
A Fine copy of the UNCORRECTED PROOF for the first edition, first printing,
of the author's DEBUT BOOK (which was itself trade paperback) with some
light sunning to the spine panel and showing a couple of mild bend lines,
complete with the Publisher's announcement sheet taped to the front
wrapper's recto,. Ellis is a highly-regarded novelist, screenwriter,
essayist, and professor at Columbia University. From the Ethnic Studies
Review, Vol. 32 No. 1, 2009: "Trey Ellis has emerged as a prominent African
American writer of the late-twentieth century, despite the small number of
his published works. “The New Black Aesthetic,” an essay that he first
published in CaUaloo in 1989, one year after the publication of his first
novel, Platitudes, stands as a manifesto that defines and articulates his
perspective on the emerging black literary voices and culture of the time,
and on “the future of African American artistic expression” in the
postmodern era. According to Eric Lott, Ellis's novel parodies the literary
and cultural conflict between such male experimental writers as lshmael
Reed and such female realist writers as Alice Walker. Thus, Ellis's primary
purpose in writing Platitudes is to redefine how African Americans should
be represented in fiction, implying that neither of the dominant approaches
can completely articulate late-twentieth-century black experience when
practiced in isolation." Copies of this Uncorrected Proof are quite scarce
and we have ever only seen one other copy listed on ABE. A Fine copy and
EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE. Fine. Item #2835

Price: $60.00  NOW AVAILABLE FOR $ 20.


Pineda, Cecile
Face [Uncorrected Proof]

New York: Viking, 1985. First Edition, First Printing. Wrappers. A Fine
copy of the UNCORRECTED PROOF for the first edition, first printing of
Cecile Pineda's DEBUT BOOK in the Publisher's original yellow wrappers
(light sunning to the spine). The novel won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First
Fiction and a Gold Medal from the Commonwealth Club of California in 1986
for Face, and Pineda also won a National Endowment for the Arts Creative
Writing Fellowship. Copies of this Uncorrected Proof for this author's
DEBUT BOOK are EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE. A Fine copy. Finw. Item #2834

Price: $45.00   NOW AVAILABLE FOR $20.


Grube, A. W. [ Grube, August Wilhelm]
Geographische Charakterbilder in abgerundeten Gemälden aus der Länder- und
Völkerkunde. Nach Musterdarstellungen der deutschen und ausländischen
Litteratur [Geographical character pictures in rounded paintings from the
national and ethnological. Based on sample representations of German and
foreign literature for the upper level of the geographic instruction in
schools]

Leipzig: Friedrich Brandstetter, 1871. Later Edition. Hardcover. A Very
Good copy of this 1871 edition, in three volumes, of this informative work
on Geography, first issued in 1850, and followed by numerous republications
thereafter. The set was authored by August Wilhelm Grube, the prominent
educator, writer, and student of Geography, History, and Natural Science to
which he paid great attention in latter part of his life. Each Volume
contains a frontispiece. The volumes are bound in their original deep
purple cloth with the boards beautifully embossed and the spines lettered
and decorated in gilt, with each volume showing some rubbing and spotting
to the cloth, as well as some slight bubbling. Volume 3 shows a few
hairline splits to the cloth at the the lower portion. The hinges
(internal) are cracked or mildly open, and each volume wears its RARE
ORIGINAL DUST JACKET (intentionally oversized) in Very Good condition with
some chips and tears as well as some loss of the excess material at the
jacket spine overfolds and has a small pencil note near the front panel
bottom. This is the only set we ever have seen in the original dust
jackets. The set is MENTIONED ON PAGE 87, on which page an image of this
set also is provided, of Mark Godburn's excellent work titled
"Nineteenth-Century Dust-Jackets" published by Oak Knoll Press in the US
and by Private Libraries Association in the UK. EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE TO RARE.
Very good / very good. Item #2784

Price: $625.00  NOW AVAILABLE FOR $150.



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Best Wishes,
Stephen
Allington Antiquarian Books



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