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Rare and spectacular French game of aerostatic navigation from the great Age of Airships.
Rare and spectacular French game of aerostatic navigation from the great Age of Airships.
First edition, review copy with publisher's slip, of this introduction to the culture and people of Paris for an American audience — including meetings with Alice B. Toklas, Albert Camus, Simone de Beauvoir, William Burroughs, Mary McCarthy, Coco Chanel, and James Baldwin.
Sammelband of five French titles in one volume, including a contemporary court argument against an abusive man who employed a chastity belt to control a woman — evidently, a true account of a device frequently thought apocryphal.
Signed second printing of this New Englander's philosophical book of manners and human nature from a cosmopolitan life, including spending much of the 1920s and '30s in Paris's Left Bank.
Signed first edition of Cunningham's guide through the coastal resort town, LGBTQ destination, and artist's haven.
First edition of this collection carefully selected from Samuels's monumental and authoritative larger six-volume set of Adams's letters.
Regency-era edition of these richly hand-colored engravings by one of the finest imitators of Holbein, in a handsome contemporary binding.
First UK edition of this famed collection of poker stories and anecdotes from the latter half of the 19th century, told from the Effete East to the Wild and Wooly West of the American continent.
Lovely Regency-era edition of this book of Psalms along with the classic Christian devotional texts, featuring touches of extra ornamentation to the text's gilt edges.
Type Punch Matrix tote bag featuring Avant Dog together with our limited edition pencil box set: save $10 when purchased as a bundle.
Type Punch Matrix tote bag featuring our logo and mascot.
Limited edition set of twelve black pencils designed by Type Punch Matrix — each stamped with a phrase on the value of book collecting.
First printing of this scarce early self-help book by the pioneering inspirational author Orison Swett Marden.
Advertising fan for showman Albert Smith's long-running "lecture" on his ascent of Europe's tallest peak — a sensational example of capitalizing upon the early days of the alpinism craze.
Pre-publication proof copy, with trial dust jacket, of the first edition of Strunk & White, as revised by E.B. White from Strunk's original "little book."
First edition, first issue of the notorious bungled literary hoax, purporting to have discovered portions of PARADISE LOST plagiarized from earlier works by Hugo Grotius et al., which Lauder had found, but only after putting them there himself.
Signed first edition of White's correspondence from 1908-1976, collected and edited by Guth, his goddaughter, and presented with the author's own biographical notes.
First US edition of Susan Sontag's reflections on the harm caused by metaphoric thinking of illnesses such as cancer and tuberculosis.
Attractively bound Victorian edition of the classic Christian devotional texts, demonstrating its importance as a devotional and genealogical tool.
First edition of Edwards's classic compendium of the strangest of strange people and their uncanny powers and attributes.
Versatile original sales sample book, front-loaded with the expected popular hit about Ulysses S. Grant's world tour — and followed by a more exciting sexual title.
First edition of this catalogue of titles available from the shop of the important Dutch bookseller Daniel Elzevir — with provenance that links it from Samuel Johnson's inner circle to the Johnsonians of the 20th century.
Beautiful velvet-bound copy of the classic Christian devotional texts, with gauffered edges and brass fittings, in contemporary leather box.
Lovely chapbook edition of a selection of Isaac Watts's hymns, bound in an attractive vernacular wallpaper wrapper.
Original photograph album of a variety of costumes and accessories able to be rented from a photography studio in Derby, England, including outfits emblematic of the Imperial mindset of the 1920s.