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1918140944922New York: Henry Holt and Company 1918. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. First printing with title page dated 1918 and "Published May 1918" on copyright page. vi 363 1 6 ads pp. Bound in publisher's blue ribbed cloth lettered in gilt. A Fine copy with a few minor spots of foxing to fore edge but bright and clean both inside and outside in a Fine dust jacket with just a hint of sunning to spine panel. Rare in such a lovely jacket.<p>The second novel by bestselling author and poet Pearl L. Curran who claimed to be channelling the spirit of Patience Worth a 17th century English immigrant to America. In a Smithsonian Magazine article Gioia Diliberto writes: "Speaking through a Ouija board operated by Pearl Lenore Curran a St. Louis housewife of limited education Patience Worth was nothing short of a national phenomenon in the early years of the 20th century. Though her works are virtually forgotten today the prestigious Braithwaite anthology listed five of her poems among the nation's best published in 1917 and the New York Times hailed her first novel as a 'feat of literary composition.' Her output was stunning. In addition to seven books she produced voluminous poetry short stories plays and reams of sparkling conversation-nearly four million words between 1913 and 1937.". Henry Holt and Company hardcover
19591012W30London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd 1959. First edition. Cloth. Very Good/Near Fine. 11.5" by 9". Robert Gibbings. A first edition of this densely illustrated title in the original plastic dust wrapper. A first edition with the original protective plastic dust wrapper which is printed with title text. Featuring the work of Irish artist and author who wrote titles on travel and natural history. Slotted into the work are two prints of Peter Reddick's Untitled Landscape between protective card - both signed by Reddick and one dated 1980. Th influential wood engraver Peter Reddick is most known for his illustrations in the work of Thomas Hardy and Anthony Trollope. He was a Gregynog arts fellow between 1979 and 1980. Also slotted inside is an additional print small and unidentified and a 1958 article on the death of Robert Gibbings. Featuring a colour frontispiece and one-hundred-and-seventy-four double-sided pages of monochrome illustration. Collated complete Bound in original black cloth. In original transparent plastic dust wrapper. Externally very smart. Moderate damp stains to boards and spine. Dust wrapper smart. Mild shelf wear. The odd mark to dust wrapper covers. Internally firmly bound. Moderate strain between pp.350-351. Very mild cockling. Pages generally bright and clean with the odd spot. Very Good J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd hardcover
1988mon0000443402Grace Publishers 1988T. paperback. Good. in x in x in. Ex-library book usual marking. Clean copy in good condition. Grace Publishers paperback
195931978AB1959. First Edition. London J.M.Dent & Sons 1959. Quarto 213 cm wide x 28 cm high Pagination: Colour-frontispiece on Japanese paper XLIV 355 pages with over 1000 wood engravings by Robert Gibbings and 16 pages of "Recollections by the Artist". Original Hardcover Buckram with the original publisher's clear jacket with Red Lettering. A stunning must-have publication in very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Robert John Gibbings 23 March 1889 19 January 1958 was an Irish artist and author who was most noted for his work as a wood engraver and sculptor and for his books on travel and natural history. Along with Noel Rooke he was one of the founder members of the Society of Wood Engravers in 1920 and was a major influence in the revival of wood engraving in the twentieth century. Wikipedia hardcover
1959stela1417London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd. 1959. 1959. 4to. pp. 355. frontis & numerous illus. throughout some full-page. original cloth back cover bit rubbed. First Edition. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., [1959]. Hardcover
194448798Different Places 1944-56. 8vo and 4to. 6 offprints as issued. Offprints from different Journals. Clean and fine. <br/><br/><em>First appearance of these papers in which Deming exposed his techniques of increasing production processes based on Shewart's methods of quality control. A number of Japanese manufacturers applied his techniques widely and experienced heretofore unheard-of levels of quality and productivity. The improved quality combined with the lowered cost created new international demand for Japanese products."In 1950 W. Edwards Deming at the request of the Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers give a series of lectures in Japan on Shewhart’s statistical quality control of industrial processes. These lectures were the catalyst that gave birth to Japan’s industrial efficiency and emphasis on highest attainable quality of manufactured products." DSB. </em> unknown
1925376370New York: Brentano's 1925. 24 pp. 8vo. Printed self wrappers quite worn. Interior Fine correction to p. 9. 24 pp. 8vo. Patience Worth the spirit of a woman who supposedly lived in the late 17th century in Dorsetshire England and immigrated to America before being killed by Native Americans began communicating with Pearl Leonore Curran of Mound City Illinois in 1913. Patience gave inspiration through a ouija board and in the form of vivid pictorial visions. This collaboration between spirit and human woman produced several novels prose and poetry of which this is a collection.<br /> <br /> Inscription to the front wrapper reads "With best wishes To Dr. . from . E. L. Beach 175 E 80th St." And with seemingly more divined poetry "From Patience I in ing have poured this wine within a cup. Let those who hath thirst - drink. For the self shall be as the peace upon his soul. And the goblet shall ne'er run dry." In keeping with much of the religious undertones to Patience's poetry this passage recalls John 4:14 "whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life."<br /> <br /> An Easter Greeting is an anthology of verse poetry with interjections by Patience in something approximating what a 17th century rural woman would sound like "Haed I a pettiskirt wi' a proper frill / I'd sit on a throne fit for a princess."<br /> <br /> A rare product of the spirit realm. Brentano's unknown
19599033430Chicago: Quadrangle 1959. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First US edition. Edited by Empson introduction by Balston. Bound in black cloth with spine and cover stamped in illustrated gilt. Beautifully illustrated throughout in black and white with color frontispiece. Book is in fine condtion. Clear illustrated dust jacket has light wear. 8 1/2 x 11 inches. 353 pages. <br/><br/> Quadrangle hardcover
1959376London: J.M. Dent and Sons 1959. First edition. Fine/near fine. Fine condition in a clear protective dustjacket. Edited by Patience Empson with an introduction by Thomas Balston. J.M. Dent and Sons unknown
1998BN73901Egmont Verlagsgesellschaft 1998. 1998. Die schönsten Geschichten aus Schmunzeldorf englischer Originaltext und Bilder von John Patience. Ins Dt. übertr. von Gisela Fischer <br/><br/> Egmont Verlagsgesellschaft unknown
1984BN80547Pestalozzi-Verlag 1984. 1984. Hardcover. Geschichten aus Schmunzeldorf: Ein erlebnisreiches Jahr <br/><br/> Pestalozzi-Verlag hardcover
19969781558215436-2025Lyons Pr 1996. Hardcover. New/New. <p><strong>Author:</strong> Patience Gray</p><p><strong>Publisher:</strong> Lyons Pr</p><p><strong>Binding:</strong> Hardcover</p><p><strong>ISBN:</strong> 9781558215436</p><p><strong>Release Date:</strong> 1996</p><p><strong>Number Of Pages:</strong> 384</p><p><strong>Details:</strong> Honey from a Weed is a Mediterranean odyssey. Patience Gray who has lived and traveled widely in the region's countryside for over twenty-five years brings to life its people their culture and most of all their rustic cooking with sumptuous prose and reverence.</p> Lyons Pr hardcover
1990Q-0865474184North Point Pr 1990-05-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! North Point Pr paperback
1959039180London: J M Dent 1959. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. quarto. pp XLIV 355. 1st printing. Top edge blue. Original clear plastic DJ included slightly rubbed otherwise fine. Book as new. J M Dent hardcover
195949699London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to. pp. xliv 355 illustrated. Edited by Patience Empson with an introduction by Thomas Balston. Frontispiece on Japanese paper. Contains 1000 illustrations of Gibbings' wood engravings. The autobiographical fragment "Some Recollections" was left incomplete at the time of Gibbings' death. Bound in black buckram with gilt lettering and a decorated spine in the original plastic dust jacket silk-screened in red. Book prospectus loosely inserted. Massey College bookplate to pastedown; no internal markings clean and bright throughout. An exceptionally fine copy. Kirkus 20. J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd hardcover
1997Q-0710510020Peter Haddock Ltd 1997-08-01. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Peter Haddock Ltd hardcover
198631jzThe Whittington Press Andoversford Gloucestershire 1986. Limited. Softcover. Fine/Very Good. 183 pages complete. Hand-numbered 793 of a limited edition of 900 copies. A stunning shiveringly beautiful book for those interested in printing and books. The book has a clear cellophane protective cover. Stiff card covers with paper dustjacket. All are in wondrous condition. The contents were printed on Sommerville Laid and Zerkall Halbmatt papers. The wood engravings were printed from the wood and the line blocks were made by Keene Engraving. The contents are able to make one gasp with pleasure. They are hand-pressed the illustrations and other devices are tipped-in. The pages are gorgeous creamy thick luxuriant in their elegance very clean and very - as if brand new throughout. Oh happy book! fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. The Whittington Press, Andoversford, Gloucestershire paperback
1989Q-0862837278CLB Publishing 1989-01-01. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! CLB Publishing hardcover
193712303ENew York: Frederick A. Stokes 1937. First Edition. Very good plus copy with a trace of fading to the top and bottom edges of the spine and very minor darkening to the gutters in a very good bright slightly used dust jacket with the front jacket flap detached a hint of edge wear and a few shallow chips and tiny tears. Illustrated ‘memoirs’ from a young trio of siblings who write of their famous celebrity friends including Clark Gable Charlie Chaplin Eddie Cantor Bing Crosby Myrna Loy Hal Roach Marion Davies Robert Taylor and others with a special section about Shirley Temple when she was around eight and time spent as guests of William Randolph Hearst at Hearst Castle. Frederick A. Stokes unknown
1959239368Chicago: Quadrangle Books 1959. First edition first printing. Publisher's full black cloth stamped in gilt in publisher's acetate jacket stamped in red top edge stained green. Sunned top edge gently browned endpapers still near fine in near fine acetate jacket with pressed tips and corners. Numerous black-and-white and color wood engravings by Robert Gibbings. THE COMPREHENSIVE GIBBINGS<br /> <br /> Robert Gibbings led the wood engraving revival in Britain in the early twentieth century increasing renown for the art form through his own strongly lined work as well as serving as a founding member of the Society of Wood Engravers and owner of The Golden Cockerel Press. Published the year after Robert Gibbing's death Empson's collection offers the most definitive gathering of Gibbing's wood engravings featuring over 1000 prints with numerous engravings published for the first time. Quadrangle Books unknown
195210133London: The Architectural Press 1952. Octavo 22 x 14.5 cm. 154 pages. Illustrated. Bibliography. FIRST EDITION. A handsomely designed and illustrated guide to indoor plants with instructions for planting and care. The core of the book is a botanical listing of indoor plants from Aechmae and Aloe to Zebrina and Tradescantia. The final photographically illustrated section suggests design ideas for integrating the plants into a modern space. Edited by Patience Gray and Primrose Boyd the team that would five years later offer the bestselling cookbook Plats du Jour 1957. Decades later Gray would give us her masterpiece Honey from a Weed. Internally clean and sound; publisher's yellow cloth titled in green at the spine. Some faint darkening to top edge otherwise fine. In an unclipped dust jacket worn at the top edge chipped near the top of the spine and with some darkening to the spine; otherwise very good. Very scarce especially in the first printing. The Architectural Press hardcover
1918173876Henry Holt 1918. First edition first printing. Gray cloth stamped in gilt. Light rubbing near fine in custom mylar cover. Inscribed presumably by Mrs. Curran; "To Sparkle from Patience June 1918. Henry Holt unknown
19969781558215436-2025Lyons Pr 1996. Hardcover. New/New. <p><strong>Author:</strong> Patience Gray</p><p><strong>Publisher:</strong> Lyons Pr</p><p><strong>Binding:</strong> Hardcover</p><p><strong>ISBN:</strong> 9781558215436</p><p><strong>Release Date:</strong> 1996</p><p><strong>Number Of Pages:</strong> 384</p><p><strong>Details:</strong> Honey from a Weed is a Mediterranean odyssey. Patience Gray who has lived and traveled widely in the region's countryside for over twenty-five years brings to life its people their culture and most of all their rustic cooking with sumptuous prose and reverence.</p> Lyons Pr hardcover
1959626578J. M. Dent & Sons 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. From the library of poet William Matchett with his signature and date 1960 to the ffep. 4to. - over 9¾ in. - 12 in. xliv 355pp. illustrated throughout with hundreds of b/w reproductions. Black cloth with gilt titles and decorative device on the spine. Light spotting along the top edges else a nice clean Near Fine copy in a Near Fine plastic jacket with red printed titles on the front. Laid in loose is the prospectus for the book. J. M. Dent & Sons hardcover
1996Q-1569875308Landoll Inc 1996-01-01. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Landoll, Inc hardcover
