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194923622Mexico: Vargas Rea 1949. 12mo. 50 pp. <br><br>Limited to 100 copies. In series: Biblioteca Aportación Histórica 2a Serie. Publisher's wrappers. Vargas Rea unknown books
1961WRCLIT52784Port-au-Prince: Imprimerie de l'Etat 1961. Printed wrappers. Lower fore-corner bumped otherwise a very good copy. First edition. Preface by Jean Price-Mars. With the author's 1962 full-page presentation inscription to a UNESCO colleague and with the recipient's small stamp. Imprimerie de l'Etat unknown books
193346256North Montpelier VT: Driftwood Press / Walter John Coates 1933. First Edition. Small slim 12mo 16cm.; publisher's tan pictorial card wrappers yapp edges; 238pp.; printed on stiff tan handmade stock. Light edge wear faint dampstaining along spine edge of upper and rear cover not bleeding into textblock; Very Good overall internally fine and unopened. "Driftwood Chapbook No. 2." Anthology edited by the founder of the "Rebel Poets" the present title including poems by Witter Bynner Stanton A. Coblentz Carl Sandburg and many others. From the introduction by the series editors: "They the editors share with Ralph Cheyney a preference for the spirit of Gandhi rather than the spirit of Lenin though admiring both men. They favor non-violent noncooperation over mass violence as a method of social change" p. 4. Driftwood Press / Walter John Coates unknown books
19276934Philadelphia: Penn Publishing 1927. First Edition Remainder Issue. Green cloth boards; dustjacket. One of an unspecified number of publisher's presentation copies with tipped-on label bearing author's signature to front pastedown. Remainder issue in Grosset & Dunlap dustjacket but with correct publisher's slug to spine title page and copyright page jacket not supplied; as issued. Endpapers a little grubby mild tanning to text margins still VG or better in a very nice example of the scarce dustwrapper. A later work by this Rideout author whose early books infused with a zeal for socialist reform were well-received by critics and radical activists alike in the years prior to WW1. The present title an investigation of religious hypocrisy in the Episcopal Church clearly met with a limited audience given the fact that even the publisher's presentation copies had to be remaindered! Quite scarce and seldom seen in any sort of jacket. HANNA 1972. Penn Publishing unknown books
196515189Moosonee Ont.: Theresa Press 1965. 8vo. 14 pp. <br><br>Title-page and text in syllabic characters. Headings in red some in Latin or English text in black ink Contents are the prayers for the mass:. Kyrie Gloria Credo Preface Sanctus The Lord's Prayer Libera Nos Agnus Dei Communion of the Faithful and End of Mass. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Not in Banks. Not in Evans. No references located. Fine in original self-cover. Theresa Press unknown books
1970WRCLIT84047New York: Macmillan 1970. Large quarto. Loose sheets punched at top and string tied in printed wrappers. Shadow of label removal at top edge else about fine. Uncorrected original trimmed galley proofs of the first edition of this novel by the expatriate South African. It was among several of his works banned by the apartheid government of his homeland. Macmillan unknown books
1972156332New York: Schocken Books 1972. Third printing. Softcover. Vishniac's survey of the Jewish communities of Eastern Europe. Introductory essay by Abraham Joshua Heschel. Includes numerous black and white images. A near fine copy in wrappers with some very minute wear. Signed by Vishniac on the title page. Schocken Books unknown books
1929WRCLIT84740London: Peter Davies 1929. Gilt red cloth. Frontis. Endsheet maps. Cloth somewhat hand-dulled edges dusty but good and sound without dust jacket. Second edition in English newly translated by the publisher of MA PIECE first published in France in 1916 and in a slightly expurgated translation in 1917. This edition included in Davies' series of "Soldier's Tales" includes a foreword by Marshal Joffre. The author was killed on the Lorraine Front four days after correcting the proofs for the 1916 edition. From the library of Siegfried Sassoon with the monogram label from the posthumous library dispersal on the verso of the front free endsheet. Falls denotes this "among the finest documents of its kind ever published. He is one of the few writers whose powers of description and of self-analysis are equally great." FALLS pp.212-3. BLUNDEN et al p.7. Peter Davies hardcover books
193922385México D.F.: Editorial Pedro Robredo 1939. Small 4to. 373 pp. plts. <br><br>Studies on the beginnings of printing in America by J. García Icazbalceta M. Jiménez de la Espada and Henry Harrisse are reprinted in the appendix as is also the contract between Cromberger and Pablos. 20th-century green buckram paper spine label. Editorial Pedro Robredo hardcover books
20201339927Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 313 pages; VG; spine black paper with white lettering; mild shelf wear and scuffing; pages clean; shelved Case 10. 1339927. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Cambridge University Press hardcover books
194948830Twin Falls Idaho: Published by Ernie Hoff 1949. 1st printing. Red white & blue paper covers. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. General wear & soiling. Some age-toning to paper. Overall Very Good. 60 pp. Numerous b/w half-tone photographic images throughout. 6-3/4" x 4-7/8" <br/><br/>According to preliminary matter the Pioneer League founded a decade earlier though this the first annual produced for the league. Quite uncommon no copies recorded on OCLC. Published by Ernie Hoff unknown books
190848289New York: American Sports Publishing Company 21 Warren Street 1908. Ca 1908. Blue wrappers with white lettering/design. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Wrappers show wear & a bit of edge chipping. Old clear tape repair to spine paper. Withal Very Good. 12 3 - 44 42 pp Photographic frontispiece of Spalding. Text illustrated with b/w photographic images many from the World Championship Series. 12mo. 6-3/4" x 5-1/8" <br/><br/>Booklet dated from Spalding equipment adverts at rear. American Sports Publishing Company, 21 Warren Street unknown books
171148783London: Printed and Sold by J. Baker at the Black Boy in Pater - Noster - Row 1711. 1st Edition. Disbound now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Age-toning. Stain to title leaf and gradually diminishing through the new few. Stains in upper portion of the E gathering. A Good copy. 48 pp. 8vo. 7-11/16" x 4-7/8" <br/><br/> Printed and Sold by J. Baker, at the Black Boy, in Pater - Noster - Row unknown books
1963136311New York: Kanrom 1963. First Edition. First Edition. Two volumes oblong 16mo illustrated paper boards. Published by controversial comedian and singer Jackie Kannon and his friend Alex Roman about whom not much is known. The two entrepreneurs also published the "JFK Coloring Book" and a book of poetry called "Poems from the John" largely written by television writer Sol Weinstein. <br/><br/>Jackie Kannon was a night club entertainer singer and comedian who made daring statements about race women's rights birth control and politics much in the vein of Lenny Bruce. Kannon also had ties to mobsters and worked out of a mob-owned establishment known as "The Rat Fink Room" the name likely inspired the title of the first volume. With the popularity of Charles M. Schulz' "Happiness Is a Warm Puppy" 1962published a year earlier Kannon and Roman decided to take their own stance on happiness with these parodies of Schulz' "Peanuts" classics. <br/><br/>Both volumes with spine lean rubbing at the extremities light spine fade and two tiny bruises on the front endpapers "Unhappiness". Uncommon. Kanrom unknown books
18119905Paris: Demonville 1811. Contemporary full calf with maroon spine label. Marbled eps. VG front joint tender & starting in lower 2"/abrasion to corners w/ board showing. 196 pp 80 pp including Table of Contents. Illustrated with copperplate engravings. Bound in 6s 8.5 cm x 14 cm. <br/><br/> Demonville unknown books
44114South Lyon Mich: Excelsior Print n. d. Ca 1880. Faint horizontal fold-line. Light age-toning to paper. VG. Broadside playbill including Cast of Characters and plot Synopsis for the three acts. 9-3/8" x 6-1/2" <br/><br/>While the playbill does not name the author of this work OCLC shows it to be W. Henri Wilkins a known author of other temperance dramas. Rare piece of job printing documenting a local town production of this work decrying the effects of alcohol "Admission 10 and 15 Cents. Doors open at 7:30 o'clock." Excelsior Print unknown books
186614672Baltimore: Kelly & Piet 1866. 8vo. Frontis. 2 liv 244 pp.; 2 fold. illus. <br><br>Sole edition. Archbishop Spalding of Baltimore presided over the Second Plenary Council as Delegate Apostolic of the Holy See and he appears in this volume's frontispiece group photograph an albumen print along with Archbishops Odin Blanchett McCloskey and Purcell. The two folding engravings show the procession of prelates and clergy to the cathedral and the opening scene inside the cathedral of the Second Plenary Council. Title-page printed in black and red ink. Publisher's cloth gilt-stamped on the spine and front blind-stamped on the back. Spine and edges sunned and rubbed rear joint with areas of loss to cloth. Internally clean. => Photograph in excellent condition. Kelly & Piet hardcover books
197017803New York/Cleveland: The World Publishing Company. Very Good in Very Good- dj. 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. solid copy a bit of wear to covers at top and bottom edges light offsetting to endpapers light soiling to top page edges; jacket lightly soiled and spotted both internally and externally and a previous owner saw fit to "reinforce" it with scotch tape along the top and bottom edges. B&W photographs INSCRIBED "To John" and SIGNED by the author on the ffep. Gabriel the All-Pro quarterback for the Los Angeles Rams -- an interlude while you try to remember when the Rams played in L.A. or when any pro football team played in L.A. for that matter -- "opens his diary and invites you to see the inner workings for a top man on a top team hot on a winning streak that looks as though it will go on forever." Yeah well it didn't: the book chronicles the Rams' 1969 season which was humming along just fine until they lost the last three games of the regular season and their first playoff game before administering a 31-0 stomping to the Dallas Cowboys back in the days when the two playoff losers got to square off for third place. Signed by Author . The World Publishing Company hardcover books
189547460New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1895. First American Edition. First illustrated edition. 12mo. Publisher's gilt-decorated pale maroon cloth boards; xiv1-137;4pp; frontispiece pictorial title-page and numerous text illustrations by Charles Robinson. Hint of sun-fading to spine cloth and board edges; crease to first and second fly-leaves; text tight fresh and unmarked with gilt still bright on spine and covers; Very Good. Ownership signature "Jessie Guernsey" dated 1896; later annotation below signature in pencil describing the book's family provenance. Quite presentable copy of the First American edition of this classic of children's literature in the attractive Art Nouveau binding after Robinson's designs. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
190415715Chicago: Charles H. Kerr 1904. First English Language Edition. Octavo 22cm. Publisher's gray cloth boards decorated and lettered in black on front cover with pictorial paste-on; 57pp; frontispiece and two inserted leaves of plates with tissue guards. Light bumps to corners light wear; Near Fine with stamped ownership signature of John G. Hughes to front endpaper. Lafargue's classic anti-Capitalist parable first published in French in 1900. This edition ranslated by Charles Kerr himself and illustrated with halftone plates by Dorothy Deene. Paul Lafargue 1842-1911 though best remembered as Karl Marx's son-in-law was an important socialist critic and journalist in his own right author of the famous and much-reprinted tract Le droit à la paresse "The Right To Be Lazy" in 1887. Charles H. Kerr unknown books
198417051New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux 1984. Boards. Near Fine/Near Fine. SIGNED BY ROMAN VISHNIAC on the first pictorial endpaper. A tight very sharp copy to boot of the 1984 stated 2nd printing. Tight and Near Fine in a crisp Near Fine dustjacket. Square quarto Vishniac's deeply moving heartfelt portraits of Eastern European Jewry taken between 1934 and 1939. Foreword by the formidable Elie Wiesel. <br/><br/> Farrar, Straus & Giroux hardcover books
198339168New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux 1983. Wiesel Elie. First edition. Copious b/w photographs. Photography by Vishniac Roman. 180 pp. Hardcover. Oblong Large 8vo size. Dark brown paper covered boards. Gilt lettering. Book and d.j. in excellent condition beautifully depicts the artistÕs work Very good/Very good. Oversized - extra shipping charges apply Farrar, Straus & Giroux hardcover books
1957174858Rochester NY: Aperture 1957. First edition. Softcover. An early issue of this long running photographic periodical that is now in it's eighth decade. This issue focuses on the critical examination of photographs known as "reading." Includes images by Dr. Otto Steinert Frederick Sommer Shirley Burden 2 images from her Ellis Island project Imogen Cunningham Alfred Stieglitz and Clarence Laughlin. A near fine copy in stapled wrappers with some very minor wear and feature images by John Deakin and Ansel Adams. Uncommon. Aperture unknown books
19649006138New York: Golden Press 1964. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. THE ARTS OF MANKIND series edited by André Malraux and Georges Salles. Illustrated throughout in black-and-white and color. Bound in the publisher's original red cloth with the front cover and spine stamped in gilt. The dust jacket has one minor closed tear. <br/><br/> Golden Press hardcover books
19649003990New York: Golden Press 1964. Fine condition in a fine box. THE ARTS OF MANKIND series edited by André Malraux and Georges Salles. Illustrated throughout in black-and-white and color. Bound in the publisher's original red cloth with the front cover and spine stamped in gilt. In a custom made matching red cloth drop back folding box with the spine stamped in gilt. <br/><br/> Golden Press hardcover books
