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More imagesPublished by Published by F. J. Parsons Ltd., Printers, The Bayle, Folkestone. No date but First Edition . 1921. 1921
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United KingdomLittle Stour Books PBFA Member
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Condition: Near Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original strawberry cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine and to the front cover. 8vo. 8½'' x 5½''. A fascinating survey of the 48 most famous historical women of Kent. Contains 110 printed pages of text with portrait frontispiece and 8 oth…er photo monochrome illustrations on silk art paper. Pages 12 and 13 only about the maids who are said to have been joined at both the shoulder and the hip, and to have lived for 34 years. It is claimed that on their death they bequeathed five plots of land to the village, known as the Bread and Cheese Lands. The income from these lands was used to pay for an annual dole of food and drink to the poor every Easter. Since at least 1775 the dole has included Biddenden cakes, hard biscuits imprinted with an image of two conjoined women. List of Subscribers to the rear including Miss Frances Lane with her name in black fountain ink to the front free end paper. Slight sun fading down and the and in near Fine condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. KENT [Ashford].
More imagesMemoires secrets de Mde de Tencin, ses tendres liaisons avec Ganganelli, ou L'heureuse découverte relativement à d'Alembert; pour servir de suite aux ouvrages de cette femme estimable. 2 parts in 2 volumes.
Voltaire, d'Alembert, Friedrich II et al., Franziska von Hohenheim - Barthelemy, Louis (ed. - supposedly):
Published by No place, no printer, 1792. 1792
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Antiquariat Thomas Rezek, München, , GermanyAntiquariat Thomas Rezek
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8°, circa 19 x 12,5 cm. 142 pp.; 123 pp., 1 f., with small vignettes Pretty contemporary boards with German Kiebitz-Papier and two labels to the spine "Cioranescu I, 9964; Gay V, 45. Rare first edition of this very curious work that pretends to publish letters by the marquise Claudine-Alexandrine Guerin de Tencin (1682-1749) and… her friend Ganganelli (later pope Clemens XIV.). Madame de Tencin was the mistress of several eminent men and mother of the famous mathematician and philosopher Jean Baptiste le Rond d?Alembert. The work contains (again ficticious) letters by d?Alembert and Voltaire, epistolary exchanges with Frederic II of Prussia, Catherine the Great and others, little essays supposedly written with the help of Voltaire and many other texts that appear all to be completely made up. At the end of volume two there is a longer poem "Les cerises", supposedly written by Dorat while staying with Madame Tencin. Even the editorship seems to be wrongly foisted on the abbe Bathelemy who must me innocent of such a strange pastiche. The book is so full of unjustified insinuation that it was put on the index of forbidden books. - "Mlle de Tencin, nee en 1681, avait 24 ans de plus que Ganganelli (depuis Clement XIV). Elle etait auparavant maitresse du Regent, qui s en degouta promptement, disant qu il n aimait pas les p. Qui parlaient d affaires entre deux draps. Elle se consola dans les bras de l abbe Dubois et de beaucoup d autres. Elle eut pour fils le celebre d Alembert; elle l abandonna enfant et voulut, mais en vain, le reconnaitre quand il fut devenu illustre." (Gay). - Schönes Exemplar aus der Bibliothek der Franziska von Hohenheim - hier nicht in den gefleckten Einbänden, sondern in hübschem hellem Kiebitzpapier (Band 2 zusätzlich mit Umschlag aus dem gleichen Papier, mit Öffnungen für die Rückenschilder). Die Herzogin erwarb im Jahr 1790 das Gut Bächingen an der Brenz, das dann später von den Freiherren von Süßkind übernommen wurde. Der Titel mit dem alten Stempel "G. S. Baechingen a/ Brenz" (Nr. 1481a +b). " - Nice crisp copy of this rare work with an important provenance.
More imagesPublished by Little, Brown and Company, Boston 1997
- Hardcover
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.The First Edition Rare Books, LLC
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Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, [6], 353pp, [7]. Blue and yellow boards. Faint liquid mark on lower edge of text block, remainder mark along lower edge of text block, wear to heel of the spine. The first printing, with a full number line on the copyright page.…In the publisher's first state dust jacket, $23.95 on the front flap, a fine example. This copy is signed and inscribed on the title page. The first edition, first printing of A supposedly fun thing I'll never do again by David Foster Wallace. (illustrator). Signed.
More imagesPublished by Henry Hering, London
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- First Edition
Seller: White Fox Rare Books and Antiques, ABAA/ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.White Fox Rare Books and Antiques, ABAA/ILAB
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Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First edition. An uncommon panorama with a continuous flow of changing landscapes, many of which have a bucolic element. N.d., circa 1860. Closed, oblong, 11.5 by 16 cm. 25 hand-colored panels, each 10 by 15.25 cm. Fully extended, then, the panorama is about 380 cm. Captions running across the bottom… are lines from the 104th Psalm, which is loosely the springboard for the illustrations. The effect of the panorama is akin to the fabulous wallpaper panoramiques that were manufactured by French companies such as Huber and Dufour in the early to mid-19th century. In terms of the illustration, without reference to the captioned lines from the psalm, they are as much a Pantheistic celebration as a biblical religious statement. The few religious figures such as the angels actually serve to enliven things. Light wear to the moire cloth cover. Soiling on the endpapers and the title. The panorama itself is quite clean.
