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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Book and dust jacket are in excellent condition showing minimal wear and look virtually as new. "Information from Ming to Meissen, Wedgwood to Lladro, Vienna to Wade. Every significant pottery and porcelain factory and works in 600 years of ceramic history.".…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First of this edition. First printed at the Florence Press in 1918 (limited edition), this edition is printed from those plates by the Florence Press for Chatto & Windus. Paper over boards, linen spine (missing). SIGNED LILLIAN HELLMAN KOBER (neatly printed in ink on a diagonal on the front paste down). She studied for two years at New York University and then took several courses at Columbia University. And at 21 years of age, on December 31, 1925, Hellman married Arthur Kober, a playwright and press agent, although they often lived apart. In 1930 she went to Hollywood to be a reader for Goldwyn Mayer. While there she met and fell in love with mystery writer Dashiell Hammett. While there she met and fell in love with mystery writer Dashiell Hammett. She divorced Kober and returned to New York City in 1932. When she met Hammett in a Hollywood restaurant, she was 24 and he was 36. They maintained their relationship off and on until his death in January 1961. No doubt some of these poems carried her through.This copy with tender backstrip missing, and boards loose to webbing, front board nearly detached. The text is in excellent condition, unmarked with some pages unopened. Now in archival acetate jacket which holds all in place.…

Hard Covers. Condition: NF/NF/NF/NF. Reprint. Four Volume Set, Complete. Reprint of 1904 Set. All four volumes in gray cloth covered boards and spines with shiny gilt lettering on the spines. Light bumping at the tail of the spines of each volume. White endpapers. All four bindings are straight and tight. Small rectangular black spot on the outside edge of page 392 of Volume II (about 1/4" tall, and enters the book about 1/32") looks much more like something that happened in production than any type of spill. Pages are otherwise clean, white, and crisp. The four volumes are paginated, respectively, at 497, 495, 495, and 550 pages. No dust jackets, possibly as issued - unable to find any with jackets. Not a terribly common set. Orders requesting International or Priority services will ship at actual cost. Very nice set.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Cartier, Alfred. Bibliographie des éditions des de Tournes, Imprimeurs Lyonnais, Mise en ordre avec une introduction et des appendices par Marius Audin et une notice biographique par E.Vial. Paris, Editions des Bibliotheques Nationales de France (printed : Lyon, Audin & C 1938. 2 vols in 4to. I : viii + 379 + [1 blank]p; [2]f + pp381-732 + [2]f including chapter index & imprint. Illustrated with facsimiles of title pages, woodcuts and typographical illustrations. Bound in mottled sheep, spines gilt with gilt-blocked morocco title labels. £ 150 First edition, limited to 333 copies, of the standard bibliography of one of the prolific 16th century Lyon presses listing a total of 795 editions with full collations in chronological order with an index. Jean II de Tournes (1539-1615), celebrated for his typographical expertise both as a printer and as an editor of humanist texts, was appointed royal printer. A very good, clean, unmarked and well-bound set. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Taunton, Thomas Henry. Portraits of celebrated racehorses of the past and present centuries in strictly chronological order, commencing in 1702 and ending in 1870[,] together with their respective pedigrees and performances recorded in full. London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1887-1888. 4 vols in 4to. viii + 259 +[1 blank]pp; viii+298pp; viii + 361 + [1 blank]pp; vi + [6] + ii + 384pp. Illustrated with a total of 470 plates (collotypes, line & photo-engravings) including frontispieces, portraits of famous racehorses, their jockeys and owners, special racing events & documents, . Contemporary red half publisher's morocco, cloth sides, gilt, panelled spine decorated with gilt stamped horse- heads; complete with tissue guards; joints worn but firm; some rubbing & light scuffing. £ 1950 First edition of this precise illustrated record of British horse-racing events from the early 18th to the late 19th century describing celebrated racehorses, their respective pedigrees, owners, riders and performances 'as winners of the three great classical races of the Ascot, Goodwood, Doncaster Cups, and of the other cups, stakes and matches at different race meetings throughout the kingdom. ' (preface). A complete set in good condition apart from minor traces of usage. Podeschi 235 & 238; not in Dejager; Huth; Mennessier de la Lance. …