![3736052] The Adventures of a Chinaman in China. From the French of Jules Verne. Jules Verne](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3736052.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1771462942)
Translation of Les Tribulations d’un Chinois en Chine (1879), originally published in America as The Tribulations of a Chinaman in China and reissued here, in..... Read More about The Adventures of a Chinaman in China. From the French of Jules Verne
![3732777] Ex Libris Mikhail Verkholantsev – Ėkslibrisy Mikhaila Verkholant︠s︡eva. (Signed...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3732777.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1768689139)
First Edition, signed and limited, one of 2,000 copies of ex libris prints by Soviet graphic artist Mikhail Verkholantsev, published in Moscow in 1976. Trained..... Read More about Ex Libris Mikhail Verkholantsev – Ėkslibrisy Mikhaila Verkholant︠s︡eva. (Signed and...
![3735042] The Fitzwilliam Book of Hours – 2009 Folio Society – Limited Edition – Clamshell...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3735042.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1756399758)
A stunning copy. A Limited edition of 1180 copies, this is number 421. Printed by Beacon Press, Sussex on Furioso Paper and bound by Smith..... Read More about The Fitzwilliam Book of Hours – 2009 Folio Society – Limited Edition – Clamshell Box
![3732476] Four Great Castles. Caernarfon, Conway, Harlech, Beaumaris. [Limited Edition]. Arnold...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3732476.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1759960974)
Issued by Gwasg Gregynog in 1983, this edition pairs Sir Arnold Taylor’s authoritative text on Caernarfon, Conwy, Harlech, and Beaumaris with eight full-page etchings by..... Read More about Four Great Castles. Caernarfon, Conway, Harlech, Beaumaris. [Limited Edition
![3735483] With Walt Whitman in Camden (March 28 - July 14, 1888) [with:] (July 16, 1888 - October...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3735483.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1757366080)
First editions of the initial three volumes of Horace Traubel’s With Walt Whitman in Camden, issued between 1906 and 1914. Thick octavos in original publisher’s..... Read More about With Walt Whitman in Camden (March 28 - July 14, 1888) [with:] (July 16, 1888 - October 31, 1888)...
![3735356] Mirrors on the Maghrib. Critical Reflections on Paul and Jane Bowles and Other American...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3735356.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1753303083)
Inscribed and signed: “To Susan – With appreciation for your support – Francis Poole 9–3–96.” a critical anthology exploring the works of Paul and Jane..... Read More about Mirrors on the Maghrib. Critical Reflections on Paul and Jane Bowles and Other American Writers...
![3735347] War and Peace: Berlin 1945–1946 Poems: Young Wolfgang Böer (Unedited Original). Boer...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3735347.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1756242004)
First edition, first printing. Signed on the title page by the author, Karl W. Böer. A pioneer in solar energy, Böer created the groundbreaking “Solar..... Read More about War and Peace: Berlin 1945–1946 Poems: Young Wolfgang Böer (Unedited Original
![3735214] Family Shoes. Noel Streatfeild](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3735214.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1750192492)
Conceivably the first American edition, no additional printing stated, but also lacking the usual “First Edition” notice often used by Random House. The omission may..... Read More about Family Shoes
![3735280] Landscape and Memory: The Paintings and Drawings of Richard Upton. Kim Shkapich](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3735280.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1753205064)
Cooper Union publication exploring Richard Upton’s evocative landscape works across media, designed by Kim Shkapich with photographs by Neil McGreevy. Shkapich’s essay situates Upton’s practice..... Read More about Landscape and Memory: The Paintings and Drawings of Richard Upton
![3735157] Tell Me a Riddle. (Association Copy, inscribed to the author’s life partner). Tillie...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3735157.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1750107570)
Celebrated for its powerful depiction of working-class life, this is the first softcover edition of Tillie Olsen’s debut book—an important association copy inscribed at the..... Read More about Tell Me a Riddle. (Association Copy, inscribed to the author’s life partner
![3734910] Lectura Dominica. (Extra etching with handwritten note from Pound’s daughter). Ezra Pound](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3734910.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1747776583)
Issued in an edition of 100 copies only, a finely-printed and deluxe Italian edition of a translation of Pound’s version of the Anglo-Saxon poem The..... Read More about Lectura Dominica. (Extra etching with handwritten note from Pound’s daughter
![3735016] Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (1867-1928) was a Spanish novelist, journalist, and political...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3735016.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1747682524)
Calling card for Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (1867–1928) was a Spanish novelist, journalist, and political activist known for his Republican views and criticism of the monarchy..... Read More about Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (1867-1928) was a Spanish novelist, journalist, and political activist....
![3732783] Der Kardinal Napellus. (Cardinal Napellus). [First edition, limited]. Gustav Meyrink](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3732783.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1747672587)
First edition, Limited to 750 copies, the rare first edition of Meyrink’s short, symbolist-inflected horror tale. It later appeared in his 1916 story collection Fledermäuse..... Read More about Der Kardinal Napellus. (Cardinal Napellus). [First edition, limited
![3734985] The Polk Family. Compiled by Trusten Polk Drake, Jr. Polk Family](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3734985.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1746475379)
Signed by the author on the acknowledgements page. First and only edition of this privately printed and well-illustrated genealogical study of the Polk family in..... Read More about The Polk Family. Compiled by Trusten Polk Drake, Jr
![3734942] School Needlework: A Book Written for the Beginner of Any Age and in Any School....](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3734942.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1745356597)
Well-illustrated and scarce. A practical school manual on hand sewing instruction for girls, written by Olive C. Hapgood and later “revised and largely rewritten” by..... Read More about School Needlework: A Book Written for the Beginner of Any Age and in Any School
![3734496] The Log. 1953 African Safari. F A. Wardenburg](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3734496.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1736460597)
An unrecorded log detailing Frederic August Charles Wardenburg’s 1953 big game safari, likely in East Africa. Wardenburg (1881–1966), a Kansas native and DuPont power plant..... Read More about The Log. 1953 African Safari
![3733560] Speculations on Meeting a Girl with a Mongolian Eye-Fold. [Race and Identity, ca. 1940]....](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3733560.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1737564912)
A curious 1940 WWII-era poem from “David to Martha” reflecting on racial heritage and cultural synthesis, envisioning unity between East and West. Through historical allusions..... Read More about Speculations on Meeting a Girl with a Mongolian Eye-Fold. [Race and Identity, ca. 1940
![3732876] The Pleasure Thieves. (Inscribed and signed). pseuds. of Iris Owens, Marilyn Meeske,...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3732876.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1708543322)
First edition. Inscribed: “Regards, Harriet Daimler aka Iris Owens.” Iris Owens (1929–2008), Olympia Press writer, pornographer, satirist, Paris and Greenwich Village resident. Samuel Beckett praised..... Read More about The Pleasure Thieves. (Inscribed and signed
![3732875] Liebling. (Inscribed and signed). Harriet Daimler, pseud. of Iris Owens](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3732875.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1708545475)
Inscribed: “For my German readers—my first effort, Iris Owens aka Harriet Daimler.” First German printing of Darling, originally published by Olympia Press in 1956. Owens’s..... Read More about Liebling. (Inscribed and signed
![3733806] The Lord’s Prayer in Arabic [Al-Salah al-Rabbaniyyah]. Unk](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3733806.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1707430934)
This unrecorded nineteenth-century broadside prints, as it states, The Lord’s Prayer in Arabic, within an ornate typographic border, with the prayer itself presented within a...... Read More about The Lord’s Prayer in Arabic [Al-Salah al-Rabbaniyyah
![3733494] Peacock Pye, a Book of Rhymes by Walter De La Mare with Illustrations by W. Heath...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3733494.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1696747920)
Profusely illustrated by William Heath Robinson. Of witches and fairies, people and places; boys and girls; beasts (and so forth) —all told in rhyme and..... Read More about Peacock Pye, a Book of Rhymes by Walter De La Mare with Illustrations by W. Heath Robinson....
![3733493] Roman Private Law in the Times of Cicero and of the Antonines. (First edition; two...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3733493.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1706579647)
First edition, first printings. A handsome set. An exploration of ancient Rome’s legal framework, encompassing natural law, individual rights, contracts, and property rights that influenced..... Read More about Roman Private Law in the Times of Cicero and of the Antonines. (First edition; two volumes
![3732359] The Mischances of Morley Perus in the Universal Mind. Part the First. (Signed, Limited)....](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3732359.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1678986634)
First edition. Number 216 of 300 copies. Signed by the author and with his rubber-stamp monogram. Set by hand in Caslon old face and Priory..... Read More about The Mischances of Morley Perus in the Universal Mind. Part the First. (Signed, Limited
![3730601] Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political ... A New Edition. With the Latin Quotations...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3730601.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1639952121)
Bacon’s Essays, originally published in 1597, is his most enduringly popular work; two more editions were published in his lifetime and there were more than..... Read More about Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political ... A New Edition. With the Latin Quotations Translated...
![3729136] Anglican Humanitarianism in Colonial New York. Frank J. Klingberg](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3729136.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1595539247)
History of missionary outreach to Native Americans and African Americans by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts in colonial New..... Read More about Anglican Humanitarianism in Colonial New York
