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Golf Book Collection Bantock, Miles. On Many Greens A Book of Golf and Golfers. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1901. pp. xiv, 167. 12mo. Bound in green cloth with black lettering, and black, red, and cream decoration to spine and front board. Black and white photos, and woodcut vignette headpieces. Rubbing to edges, ffep excised,Read More

Verve was a modernist art magazine published in Paris by Tériade from 1937-1960. It was a sumptuous medley of art and criticism featuring the best and of modern and pre-modern European art, including lithographs by the most prominent artists of the time and place.   Tériade, E., ed. Verve : Volume 1, No’s 1, 2,Read More

Saunders, Louise [Maxfield Parrish, ill.]. The Knave of Hearts. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1925. First edition, with matching dates on title and copyright pages, and Scribner’s seal. pp. 46. 4to. Black cloth binding with full sized colour pastedown to front board. Parrish’s illustrated endpapers, exquisite colour illustrations throughout, including 14 full-page plates and 9Read More

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Tender is the Night: A Romance. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1934. First edition. 8vo. pp. 408. Dark bluish green cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine. Top and bottom edges trimmed. Pen and ink drawings by Edward Shenton. Some rubbing to binding, slight curve to front board, spotting to bottom pageRead More

  Cato (Marcus Porcius), Marcus Terentius Varro, Junius Moderatus Columella and Rutilius Taurus Palladius. Libri de re Rustica. Venice: heirs of Aldus and Andrea Torresani, 1533. 8vo. 18th century red morocco, gilt lettering and rules, spine in compartments and with green title label, marbled endpapers. Tall copy. Three woodcut printer’s devices, 16 woodcut diagrams, initialRead More

Estienne, Henri. Dictionarium Medicum Vel, Expositiones Cocum Medicinaliu, ad verbum excerptae ex Hippocrate, Aretaeo, Galeno, Oribasio, Rufo Ephesio, Aetio, Alex. Tralliano, Paulo Aegineta, Actuario, Corn. Celso. Cum Latina interpretatione. Lexica duo in Hippocratem huic Dictionario praefixa sunt, unum, Erotiani, nunqua antea editu: alteru, Galeni, multo emendatius quàm antea excusum. [Geneva]: Henri Estienne for Ulrich Fugger,Read More

  Boulet, Roger. Walter J. Phillips The Complete Graphic Works. M. B. Loates, 1981. Limited edition. ISBN: 0920892043. Very heavy, thick folio. Bound in 1/4 brown leather over linen boards, with deckled edges and decorated endpapers; in matching linen slipcase with leather-trimmed edges. Slightest rubbing to one corner, a few pages show creases at corners,Read More

  This just in: a collection of over 50 *signed* books, including Irvine Welsh, Neil Gaiman, Richard Ford, Michael Chabon, Simon Winchester, Alice Munro, Michael Faber, Thomas King, Margaret Visser, Richard B Wright, Marilynne Robinson, William Gibson, Alistair MacLeod, Simon Winchester, Rawi Hage, Jake MacDonald, David Bergen, Maggie Siggins, and more. See the slideshow forRead More

Bunyan, John. The Pilgrim’s Progress From This World to That Which is to Come: Delivered Under the Similitude of a Dream &c. / Three parts bound together, the third part also with A Life and Death of Bunyan. London: Robert Ponder; J. Deacon, 1689; 1690; 1693. pp. 204; (11) 180; 155 + 44 + adsRead More

ANCIENT SEX AND DEATH MISCELLANY Adams, J. N. The Latin Sexual Vocabulary. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990. ISBN: 9780801841064. pp. 272. 8vo. Covers sunned, neat ink name, contents clean; very good-. Paperback. (#034478)                   $15.00 Bartsch, Shadi . The Mirror of the Self Sexuality, Self-Knowledge, and the Gaze in the Early Roman Empire. Chicago:Read More