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1893044040New York: Harper And Brothers 1893. Reprint . Hardcover. Very Good. Ix 337 Pp 2 Pp Ads At Rear. Blue-Green Cloth Gilt. 1893 Printing With That Date On The Title Page. The Author Was Professor Of Rhetoric At Harvard Before All Disciplines Became Focused On Rhetoric. Ownership Signature Of Actor Hans Conried And Directly From His Library. Book With Gilt Bright But Fraying At Corners Hinges Cracked Through. <br/> <br/> Harper And Brothers hardcover
1900019304Boston: Little Brown 1900. First American Edition . Green Cloth. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. 378 Pp 2 Pages Ads At Rear. Gilt Brilliant Hinges Tight Tiny Areas Of Faint Wear Small Area With Very Light Red Stain On Front Cover. Signed In Pencil By Harrison Gray Otis As "H G Otis" On Front Endpaper; An Interesting Association With The Most Imperial Of Angelenos. <br/> <br/> Little, Brown hardcover
1893039619San Francisco 1893. Original Signed Photograph . No Binding. Fine. 7" x 5. Original Photograph Image 4 1/2" X 3 7/8" Mounted On Plain Card With Rounded Corners. Inscribed By Irving To "Sweet Charlotte" And Dated 1893. Note On Verso Explaining That It Was Obtained Backstage When She Was Taken To San Francisco By Rosa Bradbury And Her Sister. <br/> <br/> unknown
1882032537Boston: James R. Osgood And Company 1882. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Frontispiece Portrait. Xvii 261 Pp. Brown Cloth Gilt. First Edition. Light Wear Gilt Fairly Bright A Little Bubbling Of Cloth A Few Pinpoint Frays At Edges Rear Hinge Cracked Due To Bancroft's Personal Envelope With Thick Enclosures Tipped To Rear Endpaper Pages Clean But A Little Aged. Ownership Signature Of Textile Manufacturer Samuel Bancroft Jr. Of Rockford Mills Delaware Dated 11/22/81 And With His Large And Elaborate Heraldic Bookplate On Front Pastedown. Also With A Seven Page Holograph Letter From Alfred Darbyshire To His Cousin Bancroft Dated September 11 1881 Apparently In Response To Inquiries From Bancroft Providing A Summary Of Everything Darbyshire Knew Of Mrs. Ward Her Family And Background And Her Current Activities. Also Included Is Bancroft's Copy Of An August 26 1879 Cable From Ward To Derbyshire Accepting The Invitation To Speak At A Calvert Benefit; Also A Note From L. Wingfield To Darbyshire "Good Lord! Genevieve's Biography- All Of It It Would Take From Here To New York" Etc. And Offering To Send Darbyshire A Copy Of This Book; Both Typed Out With An Attestation That The Originals Had Been Returned To Darbyshire. In 1880 Bancroft Was Introduced To Pre-Raphaelite English Artwork By His Cousin Architect Alfred Darbyshire. He Fell In Love With The Art And Once Bancroft Stepped Back From Directly Managing The Family Firm In 1889 He Began To Purchase Numerous Pieces Of Artwork. In 1880 He Was Introduced To Pre-Raphaelite English Artwork By His Cousin Architect Alfred Darbyshire. He Fell In Love With The Art And Once Bancroft Stepped Back From Directly Managing The Family Firm In 1889 He Began To Purchase Numerous Pieces Of Artwork. His Collection Began In 1890 With A Work By Dante Gabriel Rossetti Whose Art And Poetry Featured Prominently In Bancroft's Further Collections Over The Next 25 Years. He Maintained Correspondence With Other Artists In The Movement And Offered Financial Support To The Families Of Some Of Them. Bancroft Continued Adding To The Collection For The Remainder Of His Life And Built It Into The Largest Such Collection Of Pre-Raphaelite Works Outside England. Alfred Darbyshire 20 June 1839 - 5 July 1908 Was An English Architect. He Was A Nephew Of George Bradshaw The Compiler Of Railway Guides. Darbyshire Admired The Gothic Revival Style Of Alfred Waterhouse But Also Designed In The Neoclassical Style. Darbyshire Was A Man Of Many Talents Which Centered On The Theatre. As Well As Building Them He Acted In Them And Became Famous For His Extravagant Stage Productions. In 1869 Charles Calvert Actor-Manager Of The Prince's Theatre Manchester Employed Alfred To Redecorate The Theatre. They Became Good Friends And Alfred Assisted Calvert With The Staging Of Some Of His Great 'Revivals' Of Shakespeare's Plays. Page 139/140 Where Ward's Productions With Calvert Is Turned Down At A Corner By Bancroft. In 1872 He Built A Spectacular Set For The Triumphal Entry Of The King Into London In Henry V. The Production Was Carried Through The United States And Into Australia. In New York More Than 100000 People Visited Booth's Theatre To See The Play. As A Landscape Painter He Sketched And Painted In Italy France Belgium And Germany. Alfred Was An Art Critic For The Manchester Guardian And From 1874 To 1905 He Was An Art Critic For The Courier. He Wrote A Number Of Books On Architecture Heraldry And Art And Innumerable Pamphlets And Brochures. <br/> <br/> James R. Osgood And Company hardcover
1833039403St. Clairsville Ohio: Printed by Horton J. Howard 1833. First Edition. Full Calf. Good. 342pp with "Errors" at end. Bound in blind-tooled calf gilt spine rules and lettering sprinkled edges; corners scuffed front joint separated threads holding. 5.75" x 3.75" Presentation copy inscribed on the blank flyleaf: "Presented to Mrs. J.E. Breyer with Compliments of the Author / St. Clairsville O--- Feb 18th 1861." American Imprints 18967. Printed by Horton J. Howard unknown
189980782s. l. Paris: Edouard Couturier 1899. Fine. Edouard Couturier s. l. Paris s. d. 1899 13.90 x 9 cm une carte postale First edition of this postcard from the series entitled ""Histoire d'un crime"" n°15; it was created by Edouard Couturier and heightened in colors. Handsome copy. Edouard Couturier unknown
189980783s. l. Paris: Edouard Couturier 1899. Fine. Edouard Couturier s. l. Paris s. d. 1899 13.90 x 9 cm une carte postale First edition of this postcard belonging to the series entitled ""Histoire d'un crime"" n°16; it was created by Edouard Couturier and heightened in colors. Handsome copy of this postcard denouncing the anti-Semitic massacres in Algiers in January 1899. Edouard Couturier unknown
189980784s. l. Paris: Edouard Couturier 1899. Fine. Edouard Couturier s. l. Paris s. d. 1899 13.90 x 9 cm une carte postale First edition of this postcard belonging to the series entitled ""Histoire d'un crime"" n°18; it was created by Edouard Couturier and heightened in colors. Handsome copy. Edouard Couturier unknown
190062648Paris 1900. Fine. Paris n.d. circa 1900 12 x 19 cm une page sur une feuille Autograph letter signed by Elémir Bourges written in black ink. Date and place at the top of the letter signature at the bottom of the letter. Central fold caused by mailing. Elémir Bourges writes this letter to apologize to his friend because he will not be able to attend the lunch they had planned due to illness. unknown
1863WA6793New York: Leavitt & Allen 1863. Hardcover. Fine. 12mo multi-color papers quarter morocco wood-patterned paper extra-gilt stamping aeg <br/><br/>Presentation inscription from Sylvester M. King to E. B. King at Charlestown Jany 1st 1864. Illustrated with 4 black-and-white engravings 1 floral chromolithograph and 1 pasted in scenic view. The autographs range in date from 1864 to circa 1880. Leavitt & Allen hardcover
190062649Paris 1900. Fine. Paris n.d. circa 1900 12.40 x 16.70 cm une page sur une feuille Autograph letter signed by Elémir Bourges written in black ink. Paris date and address of Elémir Bourges at the top of the letter signature at the bottom of the letter. Central fold caused by mailing. Elémir Bourges wrote this letter in response to a request for photographs of the author. He replies that he does not have one and that his correspondent can nevertheless find old clichés in the press coming from Manuel or Waléry two Parisian portrait photographers. unknown
1895048006London: Wells Gardner Warton 1895. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Gordon Browne; W. H. Groome. Quarto. 310 pages. Scarce Limited Edition #127 / 150 Copies SIGNED by the author and by both artists. Hardcover in bluish-green cloth with cover designs in dark blue and lettering in gilt. The binding is rubbed and bumped. The spine is toned and has some scuff marks; the spine ends are a bit chipped. An attractive bookplate on front pastedown reads "Leonard James Shrubsall." Endpapers are foxed. There is a pencilled notation on the rear flyleaf. Text is toned has foxing throughout. <br/> <br/> Wells, Gardner, Warton hardcover
1857409672New York: Barker & Godwin 1857. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Slight split at ends of spine a few small stains on front cover. 8vo. 16 pages. Original buff printed wrappers. An early and rare autograph catalogue. Includes items from the collection of Aaron Burr relating to the Revolutionary War principally by officer and others encamped on the Hudson. Barker & Godwin unknown
1880041949Richmond: William Ellis Jones Steam Book and Job Printer 1880. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo. vi 356 pages. Hardcover bound in original brown publisher's cloth. The binding is worn and shaken and the inner hinges are cracked and holding by the cords. The book would benefit from being recased. The text is generally clean. INSCRIBED by the author on the front pastedown: "Hon. B. Johnson Barbour / With Compliments of / Rob. T. Craighill / May 23rd 1882." Contains essays on George Washington Patrick Henry Thomas Jefferson John Marshall and John Randolph of Roanoke. Rare. <br/> <br/> William Ellis Jones, Steam Book and Job Printer hardcover
190085262Paris 1900. Fine. Paris s. d. ca 1900 13 x 9 cm une carte de visite Jules Renard's printed visiting card on which he added these few words for his friend Camille de Sainte-Croix: ""Comme c'est loin déjà l'écornifleur ! et il me semble mon cher Camille de Sainte-Croix que votre amitié n'a pas changé ni la mienne. Cela tient sans doute à ce que nous sommes des maris modèles."" How far away already the sponger! and it seems to me my dear Camille de Sainte-Croix that your friendship has not changed nor mine. This is doubtless because we are model husbands. unknown
189773703s. l. Paris 1897. Fine. s. l. Paris 1897 13.50 x 18.30 cm une feuille Autograph letter signed by Octave Mirbeau. 2 lines in black ink on a folded sheet letterhead paper ""68 avenue du bois de Boulogne"". ""Alors Monsieur entendu pour les Mauvais Bergers"". The Mauvais bergers corresponds to Octave Mirbeau's tragedy a social drama performed at the Renaissance Theatre on December 15 1897 with Sarah Bernhardt and Lucien Guitry in the leading roles. unknown
188486671s. l. 1884. Fine. s. l. Mai 1884 12.50 x 9 cm une page une enveloppe Autograph signed visiting card by Alphonse Karr on which he has added recto verso a few words for the attention of journalist and librettist Philippe Gille 36 lines in purple ink. Envelope included. Alphonse Karr solicits his friend the journalist Philippe Gille to allow him to deliver a few articles in order to remedy his pecuniary problems and to come to the aid of his family. unknown
1840866121840. Fine. s. d. circa 1840 9.80 x 13.80 cm une page sur un feuillet Autograph letter signed by Amable Tastu monogram stamped in blind in upper left corner 11 lines written in black ink. Fold mark inherent to mailing. The author sends various works to his correspondent and also informs him that he has at his disposal: ""le morceau que je vous ai promis pour un fac-simile."" ""the piece I promised you for a facsimile."" unknown
1840734331840. Fine. s. d. circa 1840 9.80 x 13.80 cm une page sur un feuillet Autograph letter signed by Amable Tastu addressed to her mother-in-law Élise Voïart and written in black ink. A small tear in left margin not touching text. unknown
1850850801850. Fine. circa 1850 15.50 x 20 cm une page Autograph letter signed by Henry Murger 5 lines in black ink to a publisher apologizing for a delay beyond his control. Some foxing. Traces of postal stamp in upper portion of the sheet. ""Comme on est venu chercher ma copie un peu tard . insistez je vous prie pour qu'il me les fasse adresser"" As they came to collect my copy rather late . please insist that he have them sent to me unknown
190084926s. l. 1900. Fine. s. l. s. d. ca 1900 8.50 x 11.50 cm une page sur un feuillet double Autograph letter signed by Remy de Gourmont addressed to a writer with whom he collaborates 1 page on a double sheet 14 lines in black ink regarding a sum owed to a publisher: ""On lui doit 3 fr versables quand Ducoté aura donné les fonds du mois de juillet."" ""We owe him 3 francs payable when Ducoté has provided the funds for the month of July."" Two small stains on the verso of the autograph letter. unknown
18970200301897. Original Photographs . No Binding. Very Good. One Box Of Family Photographs Ephemera Family Letters Etc. Free To Anyone Who Can Establish A Close Family Relationship To Rudolph Forster Or A Public Archive That Will Maintain Them. <br/> <br/> unknown
189085069s. l.: S. n. 1890. Fine. S. n. s. l. s. d. ca 1890 11.50 x 17.50 cm un feuillet Autograph letter signed by Maurice Barrès on Chamber of Deputies letterhead 11 lines in black ink. Fold marks from original mailing. ""Madame et amie à la suite de la réunion j'ai compris qu'on vous y avait pas fait place. C'est strictemetn régulier. Mais c'est absolument peu courtois et par là bien injuste. Je vous exprime mes regrets et vais chercher un arrangement. Respect de votre ami Barrès. Vendredi soir"" Madam and friend / Following the meeting I understood that no place was made for you there. This is strictly regular. But it is absolutely discourteous and thereby quite unjust. I express my regrets and will seek an arrangement. Respectfully your friend Barrès. Friday evening S. n. unknown
188378143Paris 1883. Fine. Paris 23 avril 1883 11.70 x 8.90 cm une carte autographe Autograph card signed by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes addressed to an unknown recipient written in black ink with the painter's monogram and address at the head. Some minor soiling and traces of glue on the verso. One perforation on the monogram. ""Madame j'accepte avec infiniment de reconnaissance et de plaisir votre si aimable invitation pour mercredi et vous prie d'agréer l'hommage de mes sentiments respectueux et dévoués."" ""Madam I accept with infinite gratitude and pleasure your kind invitation for Wednesday and beg you to accept the tribute of my respectful and devoted sentiments."" unknown
190086497Paris 1900. Fine. Paris s. d. circa 1900 14 x 9 cm un bristol recto verso une enveloppe Autograph signed postcard from Pierre Louÿs addressed to Henri Davray 14 lines in purple ink envelope included. ""Il n'a jamais été question entre nous de ""fonds à déposer"" pour cette traduction. Vous savez comment se font mes éditions au Mercure. Si votre traducteur est bon et s'il veut se hâter je prends tout à ma charge. Mais il faudrait que je fusse fixé assez vite sur ce point car on me presse d'autre part. Je vous dirai qui.Votre Pierre Louÿs."" There has never been any question between us of ""funds to deposit"" for this translation. You know how my editions at Mercure are done. If your translator is good and wants to hurry I'll take everything on myself. But I would need to be settled quite quickly on this point because I am being pressed from elsewhere. I will tell you who. Yours Pierre Louÿs. unknown
