Provenience (13 results)

ix, 179 pages. - Publisher's dark blue cloth with dustjacket; 8vo.(ca. 21 x 15 cm). ~~~ FIRST EDITION, original clothbound with dustjacket; front flyleaf with bold incription to ''Fritz Güttinger in admiration and friendship'', fully signed and dated ''June 26, 1946'' by Millett. Güttinger translated many major british and american works for the famous 'Manesse Bücherei - Bibliothek der Weltliteratur' - Dustjacket slightly used, top-foreedge-corner minimally bumbed; else in best condition.…

Engraved frontispice-plate 'La Piété, Titlepage with the Pope's engraving; 255 pages, (1) p. 'Table'. - Richly gilt olive-brown full morocco binding with marker-ribbon; 12mo.(ca. 10,5 x 7 x 2 cm). ~~~ [HERBSTVERKAUF bis 05.11.2026 / AUTUMN-SALE until November 05, 2026: um 25% REDUZIERTER PREIS / PRICE-REDUCTION of 25%; ursprünglicher Preis / previously EUR 48,-] --- RARE FRENCH LIVRE D'HEURES IN A CONTEMPORARY FULL-LEATHER BINDING WITH GILT-ENGRAVED NAME 'SOPHIE DE BRÉMOND' AT FRONTPANEL, front flyleaf with her holograph ownership inscription of the period. - *) The printed title-part 'Impériale' is 'changed' to 'Royale'(as printed in later editions) in a hand of the period. --- Binding slightly-, sharp-corners stronger rubbed; top of frontjoint split on ca. 3 cm; else a very good copy. …

IX, 418 pages on stronger paper, illustrated throughout. - Mid 20th-century cardboard-binding with tipped-on publisher's illustrated front-wrapper; 4to.(ca. 28 x 19,5 x 5 cm; ca. 1,7 kg.). ~~~ [HERBSTVERKAUF bis 05.11.2026 / AUTUMN-SALE until November 05, 2026: um 25% REDUZIERTER PREIS / PRICE-REDUCTION of 25%; ursprünglicher Preis / previously EUR 48,-] --- FIRST EDITION, PROFESSIONALLY REBOUND COPY; INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR at foretitle-page ''À une fervente de la danse / à Madame Harinkouck, / Bien sympathiquement / . . .''. - The original frontcover slightly rubbed; A WELL PRESERVED COPY. . . …

°°° FIRST EDITION, SOFTCOVER ORIGINAL; INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ''À Monsieur Gustave Aron . . .'' at titlepage top-right. - Cover slighlty used and somehow loose; A VERY GOOD COPY OF THE FRAGILE PUBLICATION.

°°° FIRST EDITION, LARGESIZE CLOTHBOUND ORIGINAL; Titlepage with old owner's-stamp 'Dr. G. A. J. Hazeu / Weltevreden'. - Slightly used, slight foxing to endpapers, minimal foxing in the wide margins of the textpages; A VERY GOOD COPY.

°°° ORIGINAL TYPESCRIPT CIRCULAR INTRODUCING THE CHINESE CULTURAL REVOLUTION ERA. - A VERY GOOD COPY OF THE FRAGILE PUBLICATION. --- Many more issues of the series between end of 1962 and beginning of 1966 from the estate of British communist Alastair Montague 'Monty' Johnstone (some with his autograph annotations and commentaries) in stock. . .…

°°° ORIGINAL TYPESCRIPT CIRCULAR INTRODUCING THE CHINESE CULTURAL REVOLUTION ERA. - Lower right corner slightly frayed not touching the script; A VERY GOOD COPY OF THE FRAGILE PUBLICATION. --- Many more issues of the series between end of 1962 and beginning of 1966 from the estate of British communist Alastair Montague 'Monty' Johnstone (some with his autograph annotations and commentaries) in stock. . .…

°°° ORIGINAL TYPESCRIPT CIRCULAR INTRODUCING THE CHINESE CULTURAL REVOLUTION ERA with Monty Johnstone's ownership monogramme at titlepage top-right (ballpen) and his halfpage manuscript comments at rear of last sheet (pencil). - Lower sharp-corners minimallly bent; A VERY GOOD COPY OF THE FRAGILE PUBLICATION. --- Many more issues of the series between end of 1962 and beginning of 1966 from the estate of British communist Alastair Montague 'Monty' Johnstone (some with his autograph annotations and commentaries) in stock. . .…

°°° ORIGINAL TYPESCRIPT CIRCULAR INTRODUCING THE CHINESE CULTURAL REVOLUTION ERA, with Monty Johnstone's ballpen-monogramme at titlesheet top-right. - A VERY GOOD COPY OF THE FRAGILE PUBLICATION. --- Many more issues of the series between end of 1962 and beginning of 1966 from the estate of British communist Alastair Montague 'Monty' Johnstone (some with his autograph annotations and commentaries) in stock. . .…

°°° [CURRENT PRICE-REDUCTION of over 35%; previously: EUR 280,-] --- FIRST EDITION, WELL PRESERVED IN A SLIGHTLY LATER NEUTRAL LIBRARY-BINDING: Early 19th century black-and-grey marbled stiff cardboard-binding with manuscript paper-spinelabel; 8vo.(ca. 17 x 11,5 cm). - Titlepage bottom-right with round armorial stamp 'Koenigliche Museen'. titlep. verso with square stamp 'Aus der Graf v. Lepellschen Bibliothek'* and larger round stamp 'Bibliothek der Königl. Acad. d. Künste zu Berlin'(Library of 'Königliche Akademie der Künste'); all stamps of late 18th or earlier nineteenth century. - Corners of the binding partly rubbed, thr ms-spinelabel - which lacks the upper right corner on ca. 0,5-3 cm seems to have been pasted over a previous one; foretitlepage with a stripe of dust at the bottom, its verso and the titlepage slightly foxy; else in best condition. --- *) WILHELM HEINRICH FERDINAND KARL COUNT VON LEPEL: 1755-1826; Royal Prussian Envoy to the Swedish Court in Stockholm, Writer, Member of the 'Akademie der Künste' in Berlin und of the Roman Academy, Art Collector and Art-Historian, Knight of the Orders of St. John and of the Red Eagle.…

°°° FIRST EDITION IN BIBLIOPHILE BINDINGS, 2 VOLUMES COMPLETE (513 / 501 pages); BOTH FORETITLES BOLDY INSCRIBED BY HEDIN TO HIS FRIEND the danish journalist Johannes Lehmann, signed and dated in the year of publication. - BEST CONDITION; inner frontpanels with Lehmann's Exlibris (naked boy [or girl?] reading a book, framed with oak-leaves and -fruits), signed 'Joakim Skovgaard'. --- Other Hedin-Originals - some inscribed - in stock. . .…

°°° FIRST EDITION, CLOTHBOUND ORIGINAL; FRONT-ENDPAPER INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR TO CLIF[TON] DANIEL, then New York Times London- and later Moscow-bureau-chief before he became Managing Editor in 1964: ''To Clif Daniel, friend and / associate, whose good works / will show up in Volume Two. / With sincere Good Wishes / . . .'', dated 'Jan. 4 1954'; front flyleaf with later holograph ownership-name 'Tanner'. - Clifton Daniel was married to former U.S. President Harry S Truman's only child, Margaret, a celebrated opera-singer and mystery-novel writer. The first of the couple's four sons is Clifton Truman Daniel (* 1957), now honorary chairman of the board of trustees of the Harry S. Truman Library Institute. . . --- A BEAUTIFUL COPY WITH A NICE ASSOCIATION. …

*** FIRST EDITION, SILKBOUND ORIGINAL; Front Flyleaf top left SHORTLY INSCRIBED AND MONOGRAMMED BY THE AUTHOR to German Collector Heinrich Eduard Stiebel (inner frontpanel with his own illustrated large Bookplate); INITIAL PUBLICATION OF BRITISH MODERN BOOKPLATE COLLECTING. . . - Frontpanel minimally-, rearpanel bottom-right somewhat rubbed, else in best condition; A BEAUTIFUL COPY OF THIS AS FRAGILE AS RARE PUBLICATION.…