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1994007209NY: Random House. Signed first edition. Inscribed presentation copy to Stepp and Cook Neilson. Motorcycle legend Cook Neilson was a preeminent motorcycle journalist and editor of Cycle Magazine. He won the Daytona Superbike race in 1977 on a Ducati. He was inducted into the AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame and the Ducati North America Hall of Fame in 2006. Published NY: Random House 1994. 8vo. Slight creasing to spine else near fine in near fine dust jacket. . Very Good. Hard. 1st. 1994. Random House unknown
1901038198Richmond: Dispatch Printing House 1901. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. 320 pages. SIGNED First edition hardcover in green cloth with gilt design on front cover and the title in gilt on the spine. Binding has considerable spotting. There is bumping at headcap/spine. Headcap has some fraying.There is a pencilled notation on the front flyleaf by previous owner. An inscription has been written on the front flyleaf by the author "'The Times' with compliments of the writer". Some pencilled marks in text which is lightly toned with occasional small toned spots. Josiah Staunton Moore 1843-1913 was a Private in Company B of the 15th Virginia Regiment in the Civil War. He was captured at Five Forks on April 1 1865. He made his life in Richmond Virginia and he was the author of "History of Henrico Parish adn St. John's Church." The travel in the book is European. <br/> <br/> Dispatch Printing House hardcover
1998007208Amsterdam: Anthos. Signed first edition of rare English language Dutch edition of Irving's novel. The true first edition of Irving's novel preceding the release of the US and UK editions. Author's SIGNED presentation to motorcycle legend Cook Neilson who took the photo of Irving that was used for the dust jacket of the book: "For Stepp and Cook - with my appreciation and affection - John Irving April 1 1998." Together with AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED by Irving on his stationery to Neilson laid in in which Irving says that Neilson's photos will also be used on the UK edition and jokes that another photo to be used for the American and Canadian editions is more flattering because it doesn't show Irving's face. Closes with mention of a nearby school in Vermont. Neilson was a preeminent motorcycle journalist and editor of Cycle Magazine. As a motrocyclist Neilson won the Daytona Superbike race in 1977 on a Ducati. He was inducted into the AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame and the Ducati North America Hall of Fame in 2006. Published Amsterdam: Anthos 1998. 8vo. Some foxing spots along front edge of page block and verso of dust jacket else near fine in near fine dust jacket. One page typewritten letter on laid paper signed by Irving near fine. . Near Fine. Hard. 1st. 1998. Anthos unknown
19235365bx110<p>Front free endpaper signed "Mary Jayne Gold '24" her copy. Mary Jayne Gold was an American heiress who played an important role helping European Jews and intellectuals escape from Nazi-occupied France in 1940–41 during World War II. VG in pebbled blue cloth gilt. hinges starting but holding. Contents clean 2 edges deckle. 324p index. 8 1/4" tall</p> Covici-McGee hardcover
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
1940021765Chicago 1940 to 1950: American Federation of Radio Artists / AFRA 1940. First Editions . Illustrated Wrappers. Fine. 10 7/8" x 8 1/4" x 3. Photographs Throughout. Blue Cloth Gilt. Specially Bound Thick Volume Of Programs For The Annual Charity Benefits Of Afra In Chicago 1940 - 1950 Lacking #8 1945/1946. Bound By Arthur Peterson Jr. Of The Radio Serial The Guiding Light Later A Performer On Tv Including An Important Role In Soap And In Performances And Signed By Many Performers Near Their Ad Pictures; The Program Consist Mainly Of Photo-Illustrated Ads For The Performers And Productions. <br/> <br/> American Federation of Radio Artists / AFRA unknown
196732323Flagstaff: Northland Press 1967. Hardcover. 4to. Cream cloth pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. Ca. 50pp. Color plates line drawings. Near fine/near fine. An absolutely superb first edition of this slim but stunning collection of this renowned Arizona painter illustrator and graphic artist 1909-82 whose vibrant colors and near abstract style here reminds one of LeRoy Neiman. The front flyleaf bears a huge inscription and signature from the author/artist in brown fineline: "To Louella & Joe / ole / De Grazia / Arizona / USA / 1968." An exceptional copy of this uncommon title. Northland Press hardcover
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
62179Hamburg ca. 1875. . Eine "Weihnachtsspende" der Schriftstellerin Christiane Friederika Auguste Werlich 1822-1892 mit deren zweistrophigem Sechszeiler dat. am 24. Dezember 1877. - Eintragungen überwiegend in deutscher Schrift u. Sprache tls. spanisch tls. lateinisch meist von Freunden u. Schulkameraden darunter prominent gewordene Hamburger Namen wie J. Ballin ! Rodrigo de Castro Mackeprang Bertha u. Otto. - Die feine kunstfertige Kohlestiftzeichnung "nach Liezen Mayr" recte Alexander L.-Mayer - "Zum Andenken an Ihren Sie achtenden & liebenden Freund L. Dorner" - zeigt Faust u. Margarete in Marthens Garten auf einer Bank sitzend die gegenüberlieg. mit kalligraphischem Ziertitel ausgestaltete Szene Faust I Verse 3414-3468 illustrierend in der Gretchen ihre berühmte Frage stellt . Weitere Einträge stammen von Albert Epstein L. Philippson ! J. Fraenckel Heinrich Meyer Leopold Salomon ! Oscar Manowsky Emilie Saski Gustavo Heyer Hamburg den 30. Apr. 1881; nachträgl. Bemerk. von fremder Hand: "gest. in Amalpa am 13 Dec.1881 am Klimafieber" . Pastor Dr. Hüpeden u. a. - Bindung lose stellenw. fingerfleckig; im Ganzen gut. [Hamburg], [ca. 1875]. unknown
200012973Cos Cob CT: Alexander Autographs. New. 2000. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless. Features an image of an original signed painting by U. S. Grant on the back cover. Includes autographed items of historical interest including from a number of public figures in politics and the arts. -- with a bonus offer-- . Alexander Autographs paperback
1976040324New York: Viking Press 1976. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Xii 323 Pp. Red Cloth Gilt. First Printing Indicated. Inscribed By The Author Tony Palmer At Length To The Manager Of One Of The Subjects Of The Book With An Additional Letter On "Theatre Projects Film Productions/ All You Need Is Love" Letterhead Transmitting The Book At The Request Of Tony Palmer. Fine In Near Fine Dj With A Few Short Tears Along Top Edge Not Price Clipped. <br/> <br/> Viking Press hardcover
2009028416Baltimore: Midnight Marquee Press 2009. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Fine. Photographs. 220 Pp. Softcover First Printing. As New. Inscribed By Carla Laemmle To "Roy" On Half-Title And Dated 10/10/09. <br/> <br/> Midnight Marquee Press paperback
1931009443Stockholm: Limited Editions Club. Signed limited edition. Limited to 1500 copies signed by the artist. Copy number 900. Published Stockholm: Limited Editions Club 1931. 4to. 7 1/2" x 10 3/4" 207pp. illustations by Yngve Berg. Printed on handmade linen rag paper from Van Gelder Zonen by the Royal Printing Office Norstedt & Soner of Sweden. Cream cloth with gilt titles in green block and pictorial paper over boards top edge gilting. Fine in very good plus slipcase that has age toning. . Fine. Hard. 1st. 1931. Limited Editions Club unknown
195283726Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat 1952. Fine. Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat août 1952 20.80 x 34 cm 52 pages Autograph manuscript by Jean Cocteau early version of the poetry collection Appogiatures - published in 1953 by Éditions du Rocher in Monaco - comprising 47 leaves of thick paper taken from a large drawing pad and 5 smaller leaves of thin paper written in blue ink and blue ballpoint pen. Numerous deletions and corrections. The leaves are numbered up to 25 including one number 8 bis and most bear a small cross or the mythical Cocteau star. The last leaf containing the poem titled ""Lettre"" is dated in the poet's hand August 15 1952. Also in Cocteau's hand the first leaf bears the final title above which is crossed out the initially envisaged title - Soucoupes volantes - the date 1952 and the place - St Jean Cap Ferrat; it also features a crossed-out dedication: ""À la mémoire de Baudelaire et de Max Jacob qui nous apprirent ces exercices de style."" While the collection clearly shows the influence of Baudelaire's Petits Poèmes en prose and Max Jacob's Le Cornet à dés this tribute was not retained in the published version and was replaced by a dedication to the publisher Henri Parisot. An exceptional ensemble containing 33 of the 51 published poems 11 texts rejected on the advice of publisher Henri Parisot and published in ""En marge d'Appogiatures"" uvres poétiques complètes de la Pléiade pp. 818-831 and 6 unpublished texts. David Gullentops in the edition of Jean Cocteau's uvres poétiques complètes in the Pléiade notes the existence of a second set of manuscripts and typescripts preserved at the Bibliothèque Historique de la Ville de Paris BHVP. He further indicates that he had access to no manuscript of the poem ""Lanterne sourde."" Yet this poem is indeed part of our ensemble which would thus be the first version of the collection envisioned by Cocteau. Jean Cocteau began writing this collection of poems in verse and prose commissioned by his friend the publisher Henri Parisot at the end of July 1952 while staying at Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat in Francine Weisweiller's Villa Santo-Sospir. The first version of the collection was completed in mid-August as attested by the two dates on our manuscript ""août 1952"" and ""15 août 1952"" and this entry in Cocteau's diary: ""J'ai terminé la mise au point des courts poèmes en prose pour Parisot. Il y en aura vingt-six à moins que le mécanisme continue ce que je ne souhaite pas car à la longue ces exercices d'écriture illustrés par Baudelaire et Max Jacob fatiguent."" Le Passé défini Tome 1 1951-1952 August 14 1952. Our ensemble would thus be a mixture of the first poems sent to Henri Parisot written with a pen and several added texts written with a ballpoint pen. This hypothesis is supported by the writing of the final title Appogiatures on the title page of our manuscript; Cocteau relates this change again in his diary dated August 29 1952: ""Ai . classé les poèmes pour Parisot sous le titre : Appogiatures."" Our early manuscript version contains significant variants concerning the titles of the poems; thus the poem ""Livre de bord"" was initially titled ""Le Spectacle"" likewise for ""Au poil"" for which Cocteau had previously chosen ""La langue française"" or ""Le tableau noir"" originally titled ""Le lièvre et la tortue."" The order of the poems was also considerably modified for printing: our ensemble shows that Cocteau wished to begin the collection with ""Le voyageur"" which would finally be replaced by ""Seul"" and moved to second position. Also noteworthy in our dossier is the presence of eight poems entirely in verse: these would be removed Appogiatures becoming a collection exclusively in prose. The ensemble heavily deleted and corrected also presents long passages suppressed in the published version for example this very beautiful extract from the poem ""Scène de ménage"" evoking the ""countess"" Francine Weisweiller: ""Et les larmes de la comtesse se disaient : nous sommes la mer. Et la mer se unknown
17890TP107Paris 1789. Four very warm letters from patients obviously post-operative all declaring the utmost respect and thanks to Professor Chopart. One letter is clearly signed Lalouette and the first of March 1789. Biographical Notes: SIR THOMAS PHILLIPPS 1792-1872. Born in 1792 Sir Thomas Phillipps from childhood was obsessed with the idea of obtaining virtually anything written or printed on paper including cartloads of documents from wastepaper merchants and the entire inventories of booksellers. "I wish to have one copy of every book in the world" he declared to a friend. He very nearly succeeded. His collection ultimately grew to more than 100000 books and at least 60000 manuscripts. As a result of his extravagant purchases Sir Thomas was permanently on the verge of bankruptcy and was constantly pursued by creditors. So many books arrived at his house that it was impossible to unpack his acquisitions much less keep pace with them. Visiting scholars driven to distraction would spend days hunting for an elusive text in the dusty heaps that filled every room. Because Sir Thomas has a morbid dread of fire most of his collection was housed in coffinlike boxes that could be carted away quickly. Visitors to Middle Hill were struck too by the presence of numerous logs a ploy he used to lure beetles away from his books. As Sir Thomas relentlessly pursued his passion the house itself began to crumble and its floors started to sag under the cast weight of hundreds of tons of paper. His neglect of Middle Hill was partly deliberate however. Sir Thomas's chief enemy in life James Halliwell had married his daughter against his wishes. It appears that Halliwell was in Sir Thomas' eyes the worst kind of criminal a book thief who had stolen valuable works from university libraries and even from his father-in-law. Having no sons Sir Thomas was unable to prevent Halliwell from inheriting his estate. To ensure that his detested heir would never receive anything of value Sir Thomas's solution was to allow Middle Hill to fall unto complete disrepair. He even went so far as to chop down and sell for lumber the centuries-old oak trees that lined the majestic mile-long drive to his home. In 1863 Sir Thomas decided to move - in order to accommodate his books. With the aid of 160 men 103 wagonloads of books and papers drawn by 230 horses the books were lumbered from Middle Hill top their new estate in nearby Cheltenham. It is said that for years afterwards the countryside was littered with the remains of carts that had collapsed under the sheer weight of the Phillipps collection. Sir Thomas continues to add to his library until his death in 1872. After Sir Thomas's death his immediate family had no room for his collection. So vast was the library that although individual items and large sections were sold privately or through numerous auction sales the Phillipps collection is still being sold more than a century after the death of its owner. In the course of its sales many treasures have come to light. As late as 1964 part of the long-lost and unique medieval manuscript of the Roman poet Ovid's Metamorphoses appeared and was subsequently reunited with its other half at Magdalen College Oxford. Once destined for destruction as worthless wastepaper this and many other priceless works were saved by the single-minded obsession of the greatest bibliomaniac of all time. Autograph. Manuscript. Very Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Paperback
197000JT65Paris: None 1970. Rare archive lot of 18 typed letters signed dated Paris 17th of March 1970 all identical save for the signatures and in most cases handwritten names that grace these petitions to save the Olympia Music Hall in Paris. Artists names include; Sabrina Guegan Pierre Bacmialoni Michele Sennet Nicole Villano Maurice C'eutat Trebier Jean Pierre Delhomme Berr Marcel Hrasko Icardi Sylvie Vartan Raymond Gimenes Joullie Brigitte Armand Cavallaro Amador Heliose Charles Verstraete and Emile Vilain. Autograph. Manuscript. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. None Paperback
27899Popular and prolific American playwright. Nice archive of five TLsS each 1p three 8½" X 11" and two 8½" X 7" Shoreham NY 1942 June 3 to December 11. Addressed to poet Joseph Auslander 1897-1965 at the Library of Congress. Very good to fine. All concern the donation of Pollock's manuscripts to the Library of Congress although he protests "I don't want to crowd you with Pollockiana.". ".nothing would give me greater pleasure" writes Pollock "and particularly because. the inspiration for my most successful play 'THE FOOL' came of an afternoon's reading in that Library." Regarding the manuscript of his just-completed autobiography "Harvest of My Years" Pollock sheds some light on his work methods: ".all but the first two chapters of this are written in pencil. The first two were dictated and typed and if you desire with the combination I will include a note of explanation. The pencilled manuscript is voluminous of course and should you prefer I could substitute a typed script with pen and ink corrections in my handwriting but I think you will agree that if it can be preserved the original pencilled script is more interesting." A fine little archive with much biographical and bibliographical interest. unknown
1989006653Brookville New York: Hillwood Art Gallery. SIGNED first edition. Softcover exhibition catalog. Published C.W. Post Campus Long Island University Brookville: Hillwood Art Gallery 1989. 8vo. oblong wrappers 10" x 9" 36pp. illustrated with b/w photos. Inscribed by Leipzig on title page: "To charlotte with gratitude Arthur Leipzig". Near fine. . Near Fine. Soft cover. 1st. 1989. Hillwood Art Gallery paperback
38449New York: Bell & Gould n.y. Folio 13½" X 8". 2pp 4pp lettersheet. Very good. Single light horizontal fold else bright and nice. Handsome condition blank legal form published by this noted early 19th century publisher of legal blanks; at the death of one of the sons of company founder Alexander Gould in 1884 "The American Stationer" noted "Legal forms bearing its imprint are known from one end of the country to another." This particular form printed on pale blue stock typical of the 1850s is an "Article of Co-partnership" and consists of boilerplate text with blank areas meant to be filled in by hand. Interesting example from one of the leading lights in the legal form field of the day. Bell & Gould unknown
1968009521Perth: Landfall Press. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Perth: Landfall Press 1968 first printing. 4to. 8 3/4" x 11 1/4" 112pp. illustrated with color and b/w plates. Signature of Charles Court who was then Minister for Industrial Development - and later Premier of Western Australia from 1974 to 1982 laid in. "Best wishes Chas Court - 28 March 69". Signed across the text of a 3 1/2" x 5" printed card attached to flyleaf. Printed text reads: "With the compliments of The Hon. C.W.M. Court O.B.E. M.L.A. Minister for Industrial Development and the North-west Perth Western Australia." Some foxing to preliminaries and along edge of page block. Very good in very good dust jacket with a few short closed tears. . Very Good. Hard. 1st. 1968. Landfall Press unknown
31612Early resident of this important Illinois lead-mining town which for a time produced a high percentage of the world's lead "Galena" is Latin for lead and was supposed to become the great hub of the Midwest before Chicago's natural geographic advantage supplanted it; today's Galena is remembered as the adopted hometown of Ulysses S. Grant. ALS 2pp single leaf 5" X 8" Galena IL 1857 January 1. Addressed to Miss Marcia Floyd of Courville Maine. Writing on pale pink lined stationery McDaniel pens her friend this chatty missive. She describes Illinois: "Well it is a large and fertile state abounding in vast prairies the principle production is wheat maize etc. There are numerous salt springs." Of Galena she notes: "The inhabitants in the vicinity are chiefly farmers and are intelligent and enterprising. Most of them live in log houses. I am attending school at present and like it here very much." Oddly she signs off "Peter Fling / Mary McDaniel." The significance of this pseudonym we have not been able to ascertain -- perhaps "Peter Fling" was a character in popular young women's literature of the day. Even more odd is the original envelope which is present. A typical small 4 3/4" X 2½" in addition to addressing it McDaniel draws a three-cent stamp in the upper right corner and draws a circular "Galena Ill Jan. 1" postal cancellation in the upper left corner! The 1850s was the early days of actual government-issue postage stamps of course but this humorous version surely was contained within another larger second envelope. No "McDaniels" appear in the Galena city directories of this period though with a large and somewhat transient population in a rural area this isn't terribly meaningful. This superb and evocative letter has been handsomely framed the letter in one mat opening and the envelope in another above it double matted in tan and dark brown and framed in a 1¼" burlwood frame overall dimensions 10¼" X 18". It's double sided as well so may be flipped over to read the letter's second page where an attractive typescript of the entire letter is also displayed in a mat opening. Very early and very unusual. unknown
39139This pioneering American physician considered the father of neurology was also a psychiatrist and bestselling writer and poet. Secretarial ALS 2pp lettersheet 5" X 8" Philadelphia PA 1898 August 11. Addressed to Edward Peterson. Near fine. On his "S. Weir Mitchell M.D." letterhead Mitchell's secretary pens a letter on his behalf. In part: "Dr Mitchell has forwarded me some letters for reply as he is always out of the City at this time of the year. He strongly advises you to choose the University of Pennsylvania from which to get your degree. He is one of the Trustees of that institution. During the Civil War he was on duty at the Christian St Hospital." Appears to be signed "MBC. / sec'y." With original envelope. An interesting curiosity. unknown
35258Montana resident possibly an attorney. ALS 2pp separate leaves 8½" X 11" Harlem MT 1904 July 21. Addressed to "My dear James & Albert" Smith's brothers. Near fine. Handsomely penned in black ink in a large readable hand this letter largely concerns the claims on "poor Writ's property" for "some of his old time prospect loving friend got around me and did not want Writs mining claims sold that he had held onto for 20 years as they would go for little or nothing. So I paid out on them $500.00 & told the administrator not to sell them. They have to be represented again within a few months it will take between $300 & $400.00 dollars Will you help me represent them If you cannot or do not want to will you let me have your interests On account of your being in Canada & so far away If you will let me have your interests I will send you $25.00 apiece. Should I ever be luckly sic to get any thing out of them I will send you something more." Goes on to explain "the claims are so high up in the mountains and the snow comes there so early the claims must be represented early or else they will be lost. The claims that Writ had in Thunder Mountain have gone by default they were so far away I could do nothing about them." Of some town named Bellevue in Montana he notes "Bellevue is a gone down place very dull there." Invites his brothers to visit: "I'd like to have you both come out and see this country some time do not put it off too long it would be a fine trip for you." Interesting mine settlement content. unknown
