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New hardcover with dust jacket. The sky blue boards are clean and crisp, with blue lettering to the spine. The dust jacket is bright, clean and free of marks. Pages are clean and fresh, and unread. Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi. First U.S. edition, Hanover Square Press, 2020. Book one in the series. Translated from the Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot. Originally published in Japan in 2015 as Coffee ga Samenai Uchini, it was adapted from Kawaguchi's stage play, winner of the Grand Prize at the Suginami Drama Festival. A small Tokyo café offers a seat that lets customers travel back in time. Over one summer, four visitors each hope to reach someone from their past.

A beautiful hardcover in very good condition. The red cloth boards are clean and very well preserved, with an elaborate blind-stamped panel to the front board that remains crisp and well defined, including the motto Diev et mon droit and the initials H R. Gilt titling and ornamental devices to the spine are bright and fully legible. The binding is firm and tight. Pages are clean, free of marks, and retain their deckle edges. The frontispiece reproduces R. Caxton Woodville's painting The Charge of the British at Quebec and is protected by a tissue guard printed with a vignette of the Wolfe and Montcalm monument. A clean, tight book of an attractive binding. The Great Events by Famous Historians is an ambitious multivolume set presenting world history through the original narratives of noted historians, arranged chronologically. Edited by Rossiter Johnson, LL.D., with associate editors Charles F. Horne, Ph.D., and John Rudd, LL.D., and published by The National Alumni, New York, 1905. This volume covers 1716 to 1775, with accounts of Wolfe's victory at Quebec, the exile of the Acadian Neutrals, the usurpation of Catherine II in Russia, and the intellectual revolt of Germany, in which Goethe's Werther aroused Romanticism. Each volume in the set carries a facsimile binding of a historically significant original. The binding of this volume reproduces that of the copy of Assertio Septem Sacramentorum presented by Henry VIII to Pope Leo X. According to the binding note in the volume, it was executed by Thomas Berthelet, the Royal Binder, who was the first to employ gold tooling in England.

Hardcover with dust jacket, in as new condition. The blue boards are bright and square, with gilt lettering along the spine. The dust jacket is bright, clean and free of marks. Pages are crisp and clean, and appear unread. A tight copy throughout, from a personal library. The original 2015 edition of Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader by Herminia Ibarra, professor of organisational behaviour at London Business School and formerly of INSEAD, where she directed the Leadership Transition program. Winner of the 2013 Thinkers50 Leadership Award. Ibarra reverses the usual advice to think first and then act, arguing that experiments in your job, your network and your self-image produce outsight, which in turn changes how you think as a leader. Harvard Business Review Press, Boston.

First American hardcover edition, first printing, in fine condition. The green cloth boards are clean and unmarked, with silver lettering along the spine. The dust jacket is clean and free of marks. Pages are clean and unmarked throughout. Appears unread. First American edition, first printing, following the earlier UK Picador edition of the same year. Irish writer Sebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955. He has twice won the Costa Book of the Year, and served as Laureate for Irish Fiction from 2018 to 2021. The first of three McNulty family novels. The second, The Secret Scripture, won the 2008 Costa Book of the Year. The third is The Temporary Gentleman. Each can be read on its own.

A first edition, first printing hardcover in fine condition. Black boards are clean and unmarked, with white lettering to the spine. Pages are clean and bright throughout. Dust jacket is clean and unmarked. A tight, beautifully produced volume in like-new condition. Published by Clarkson Potter/Publishers (Crown Publishing Group), New York. Copyright and packaged by the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) through its Design Press imprint. Perfect Porches is a lavishly photographed nonfiction celebration of American porch design, with photography by Chia Chong and Adam Kuehl spanning ten states from Alabama to Vermont. Written by Paula S. Wallace, president and founder of SCAD.

A softcover first printing edition in very good condition. Covers are clean and unmarked. Pages are clean and bright throughout, free of marks or annotations. Empress was originally published in France as Impératrice by Albin Michel in 2003, winning the Prix des lecteurs du Livre de Poche in 2005. The first US hardcover edition was published by HarperCollins in 2006 and reissued in 2009. Written by Shan Sa, a Beijing-born author who writes in French, the novel brings to life the extraordinary story of Wu Zetian, who rose from imperial concubine to become the only woman in Chinese history to rule as Empress in her own right during the Tang Dynasty. Translated from the French by Adriana Hunter, an award-winning British translator, winner of the Scott Moncrieff Prize, and the French-American Foundation Translation Prize.