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2143As published in a later edition of Antiquae Urbis Splendor orig. 1612-1628. Pl. 43. Engraving. Image: 7 X 9 ¼. Margins: 9 ¼ x 13 ½. Includes the legend below. In fine condition. Giacomo Lauro was a printmaker active in the map and view industry of mid-sixteenth to mid-seventeenth century Rome. unknown books
2149As published in a later edition of Antiquae Urbis Splendor orig. 1612-1628. Pl. 35. Engraving. Image: 7 X 9 ¼. Margins: 9 ¼ x 13 ½. Includes the legend below. In fine condition. Giacomo Lauro was a printmaker active in the map and view industry of mid-sixteenth to mid-seventeenth century Rome. unknown books
2167As published in a later edition of Antiquae Urbis Splendor orig. 1612-1628. Pl. 80. Engraving. Image: 7 X 9 ¼. Margins: 9 ¼ x 13 ½. Includes the legend below. In fine condition. Giacomo Lauro was a printmaker active in the map and view industry of mid-sixteenth to mid-seventeenth century Rome. unknown books
2151As published in a later edition of Antiquae Urbis Splendor orig. 1612-1628. Pl. 37. Engraving. Image: 7 X 9 ¼. Margins: 9 ¼ x 13 ½. Includes the legend below. In fine condition. Giacomo Lauro was a printmaker active in the map and view industry of mid-sixteenth to mid-seventeenth century Rome. unknown books
2148As published in a later edition of Antiquae Urbis Splendor orig. 1612-1628. Pl. 32. Engraving. Image: 7 X 9 ¼. Margins: 9 ¼ x 13 ½. Includes the legend below. In fine condition. Giacomo Lauro was a printmaker active in the map and view industry of mid-sixteenth to mid-seventeenth century Rome. unknown books
197141548Ann Arbor: Published by Ann Arbor Revoutionary Lesbians 1971. 1st printings. Not found on OCLC. Printed self-wrappers. Age-toning to the newspaper. Biopredation to lower right corner of each issue luckily little to no text affected. About Very Good. Issue 1: 8 pp; Issue 2: 12 pp; Issue 3: 16 pp. Illustrated with half-tones. ~ 15-1/2" x 11-3/8" <br/><br/>Rare LGBT newspaper the first three issues of six total. Issue No. 2 includes the influential essay in the early controversial lesbian feminist separatist movement "How to Stop Choking to Death or: Separatism." Published by Ann Arbor Revoutionary Lesbians unknown books
196547409Detroit: Artists' Workshop Press 1965. First Edition. Quarto 28cm; mimeographed sheets side-stapled into red and black pictorial wrappers; 80pp. Trivial wear to extremities with a few scattered foxed spots to text edges else very Near Fine. An attractive early production of the Detroit Artists Workshop Press including poetry and prose by Magdalene Arndt John Sinclair Bill Cox Ron English George Tysh Jim Semark Gary Johnston Veryl Blatt and others. The last few pages contain Sinclair's lengthy review of several Miles Davis records. Artists' Workshop Press unknown books
1953140940480New York: Simon and Schuster 1953. First Edition. Very Good/Near Fine. First edition. vi 241 pp. Publisher's red cloth stamped in black. Very Good with thoroughly age-toned contents edges a little foxed and dust-soiled in an unfaded example of the rare dust jacket Near Fine with a tiny chip along the top edge of the front panel flaps a little foxed and have offsetting. The Louisiana-born author's final novel a well-regarded "locked room mystery" with a twist; it is an unlocked room from which the wealthy murdered man should have escaped but did not. An even odder mystery is the book's dedication: to Herman Kahn the famous nuclear war theorist upon whom the character of Dr. Strangelove was based. Explain that! Simon and Schuster unknown books
191632490New York: John Lane Company 1916. Reissue. One of 699 sets of first printing sheets bound in a Boni & Liveright binding ca.1925 see Ahearn APG 008c - the sheets used for this reissue are second state with p.173-174 inserted. Thick octavo 24cm; navy blue cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; pictorial endpapers; dustjacket; 513 1pp. Text edges slightly dusty else very Near Fine. Dustjacket unclipped priced $5.00 slightly dusty overall with light wear to extremities a few nicks and tears and 1.25" of erosion along upper front flap; Very Good. "By 1914 Theodore Dreiser was a successful writer living in New York. He had not been back to his home state in over 20 years. When his friend Franklin Booth approached him with teh idea of driving from New York to Indiana Dreiser's response to Booth was immediate: "All my life I've been thinking of making a return trip to Indiana and writing a book about it." Along the route Dreiser recorded his impressions f the people and land in words while his traveling companion sketched some of these scenes. In this reflective tale Dreiser and Booth cross four states to arrive at Indiana and the sites and memories of Dreiser's early life in Terre Haute Sullivan Evansville Warsaw and his one year at Indiana University" Indiana University Press. Uncommon. John Lane Company unknown books
190731253Girard KS: The Appeal to Reason 1907. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 20cm; red cloth with titles stamped in white on spine and front cover; 416 vi 2pp. Slight forward lean scattered foxing to text edges lower corners bumped with some rubbing to lettering though still quite legible; Very Good sound copy. A novel of the Colorado mine wars billed in the Publisher's introduction as "unique.from the fact that the author has introduced a new experiment in realistic story writing in that all his characters are real persons and only in a few instances are fictitious names used." HANNA 1864; BLAKE p.231; RIDEOUT p.292. The Appeal to Reason unknown books
192935095London: William Heinemann 1929. First Edition. Small octavo. Gray-brown thick paper wrappers printed in gold on spine and front cover; 92pp. Scattered foxing to text else a straight sound copy well preserved in the original wrappers. The radical poet's second book a collection of rather emulative free-verse lyrics in the Imagist style giving little indication of the combative socially engaged verse that would come to define Lowenfels' later career. A rather uncommon book not abundant in commerce especially when in attractive condition. William Heinemann unknown books
19418551New York: House of Field 1941. First Edition. Octavo 21.5cm.; tan linen boards stamped in fuchsia; red top-stain; 382pp. Hint of dusting to text block edges else a Fine tight copy. In pictorial dustjacket slightly spine-darkened with a few nicks and brief closed tears to extremities VG or better. Strike novel set in the fictional industrial center of "Rollinsburg." The author described in the jacket blurb as "a worker in those phases of the momentous labor movement that in 1933 were launched as the New Deal's noblest advenure" offers a grim view of both labor and company seeing both sides as riddled with ideology and hucksterism. Rare; not in Hanna or Blake; OCLC gives just 8 locations as of December 2018. House of Field unknown books
193528980New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1935. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 21cm; variant bound in smooth red vertically-ribbed cloth with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover and textblock bulking 1 5/16"; dustjacket; vi 450pp. Vintage bookplate to front pastedown with faint offset onto front endpaper else Fine in a Very Good price-clipped dustjacket with light sunning to spine and mild wear to extremities. "A proletarian novel of the life of an Austrian Jew in New York. Young Isaac is brought by his parents from a village in Eastern Europe at an early age his father fails successively as tailor janitor candy store owner and Isaac and his brother suffer from timidity and poverty until Isaac finds his own niche. Long detailed picture of Isaac's growth the lives of the family and friends the background of slums abortive business ventures racial antagonisms. Sordid in many spots and at times heavy going" Kirkus Review Sept.19 1935. HANNA 3146; RIDEOUT p.297; COAN p.176. G.P. Putnam's Sons unknown books
194633456Mexico City: Ediciones Estela 1946. First Mexican Edition. Octavo. Pictorial card wrappers; 289 5pp. Old damp-stain to rear wrapper; text paper age-toned with pulp endpapers somewhat fragile; just Very Good. The first Mexican and first Spanish-language edition of Traven's epic novel first published in German in 1927. This translation is significant given that Traven spent most of his career in Mexico and the action of the novel is entirely set in the high desert of Chihuahua. Uncommon. TREVERTON 269. Ediciones Estela unknown books
193134428New York: Horace Liveright 1931. First American Edition. Octavo 19.5cm.; publisher's cloth in Art Deco dust jacket designed by Calman printed in yellow hot pink and dark blue black toptain; vii8-330pp. Jacket extremities quite chipped and worn with a number of closed tears and small losses none approaching text the whole quite dust-soiled cloth boards a bit darkened at extremities else a Near Fine still vibrant copy in Near Very Good jacket. Hungarian novel of a woman who runs away with a World War I deserter and the disappointments than ensue. Horace Liveright unknown books
191521273Brooklyn: Writers' Publishing Co 1915. First Edition of 1000 Printed in September 1915" octavo 19.25cm.; original brown cloth double ruled and printed in dark brown; 102404adspp. Fine. Presentation copy inscribed and signed by the author and his wife Jessie to noted Americana collector Dr. William C. Braislin with author's own photographically illustrated bookplate on front pastedown. Popular history of the laboring class here personified in the figure of "Dennis Hathnaught." Composed within a loosely fictional framework by MacCarthy in order that the presumably working-class reader "may be taught to judge more intelligently of his own time and its problems if he has some idea of past times and their institutions." The "history" begins with "Dennis Hathnaught's Lowly Origin; His Biological Ancestry; Primitive Man; Ancient Contempt for Labour Effects of Evolution and Suggestion of Human Progress" and proceeds through the various eras of English-speaking Hathnaughts starting with the Saxons and progressing through the Middle Ages 16th and 17th century England and the Industrial Revolution. Interspersed with chapters on "Fritz Hathnaught" "Jacques Bonhomme" and the "Slavic Hathnaughts Ivan and Michael. Writers' Publishing Co unknown books
008709No Place: Roman Catholic Church Two leaves of sacred music on thick paper music and Latin verse both sides measuring 16 3/4" x 11". 1. "Proprium Missarum De Sanctis. Festa Novembris die XXIX Novembris In Vigilia S Andrae Apostoli." numbered p. 343 344 at top 2. "Sabbato Quat. Temp. Septembris. Gloria Patri. Euouae Veni-te" p. 327-328 at top. Very Good tiny pin hole light wear at edges small pencil notations top corners. No dates circa late 17th century Spain. from an Antiphonal or similar large book. . One Sheet Illustrated. Very Good. 16 3/4" x 11". Roman Catholic Church Paperback books
1847WRCAM41208Lima 1847. 371pp. Removed from a bound volume. Last page is foxing lightly. Text is bright and clean. Signatures of the two authors on the second to last page. Very good. San Roman was the President of the Council of State from 1845 until 1849. This document is a list of acts and resolutions made by the council. San Roman went on to become the President of Peru in 1862. This copy is signed in ink by both San Roman and his Secretary Flores on the second to last page. unknown books
1984148075New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1984. Second printing. Hardcover. A powerful collection of photographs of European Jews prior to World War II. Includes a foreword by Elie Wiesel. A very near fine copy in very near fine dust jacket. Signed and boldly inscribed on the second page by Vishniac in 1985. A very nice copy and with some related laid in ephemera. Farrar Straus and Giroux unknown books
1983220554New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux 1983. First edition. Illustrated. 180 pp. Designed by Janet Halverson. 1 vols. 4to. Brown boards. Fine in Fine dust jacket. Signed by Vishniac on flyleaf. First edition. Illustrated. 180 pp. Designed by Janet Halverson. 1 vols. 4to. SIGNED. A glimpse of Eastern European Jews befor the Holocaust. Farrar, Straus & Giroux unknown books
172026935Lugduni Batavorum: Samuelem Luchtmans 1720. 64 215 57 pages; title page printed in red & black; a few woodcut initial ornaments & tailpieces; Latin text throughout. Title page with the small previous ownership stamp of collector Dr. George R. Brush U.S. Navy; served as a surgeon and medical inspector from 1861-1894. Approx. 5" x 7 1/2" size; bound in green marbled cover boards dark green morocco leather spine gilt decorated and with gilt spine titles; marbled endpapers. Some edge tips wear and rubbing to the cover base of spine covering scraped; contents fresh and clean and in very good condition. First Edition. Illustration. Very Good. Samuelem Luchtmans paperback books
197716185JNew York: Sotheby Parke Bernet 1977. First Edition. Part Two only for the second session of the three part auction. The very rare deluxe hardbound edition limited to only 35 copies specially printed on Cotrlea French Grat paper. Issued to the public paperbound on different paper only a handful of very special people were presented with the attractively bound edition of the sessions in full maroon cloth with labels. The Part Two catalogue of the massive auction sale of 20th Century modern first editions of what was the greatest sale of such material ever held there is not another auction even close. The depth and quality of the books many in remarkable presentation copies with terrific associations letters and manuscripts assembled by Jonathan Goodwin was an amazing achievement. The catalogues is profusely illustrated reproducing letters and inscriptions and rare dust jackets. Near fine copy with the prices-realized sheets laid in listing the price for which every item sold. Sotheby Parke Bernet hardcover books
1969150220N.p.: N.p. 1969. Vintage borderless candid photograph of director Roman Polanski and actor Peter Sellers in a car en route to a party for Peter Lawford in London circa 1969. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. From the archive of the PIX Agency a photo house that acted as an intermediary between emigre photographers as well as those still living in Europe and the American magazine and newspaper market between 1935-1969.<br/><br/>Polanski and Sellers were friends and occasional collaborators with Sellers appearing in the 1970 film "A Day at the Beach" written and intended to be directed by Polanski before the 1969 murder of his wife Sharon Tate by members of the Charles Manson cult compelled him to abandon the project. <br/><br/>9.5 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with light edgewear and creasing. N.p. unknown books
17781322861Hartford: Printed by Watson and Goodwin for the author 1778. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 6 cxx 160 pages; VG; bound in contemporary calf boards newly rebacked in matching paneled spine green label with gilt titling; pastedowns preserved; The New Hampshire Historical Society bookplate to front pastedown embossed stamp to title page; lacking half-title page; scarce; shelved case 9. Evans: "The first work of over one hundred pages printed in Hartford.The second volume printed at Hartford in 1782 is of excessive rarity"; <br /> <br><br /> <br><br /> Evans: 16059. Sabin: 72991. 1322861. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Printed by Watson and Goodwin, for the author hardcover books
183022897Amherst: Published by J. S. & C. Adams and Co. Jonathan Leavitt New York. Pierce and Williams Boston 1830. 1st edition American Imprints 1866; Arents N. 1349; Sabin 32550n. Original pale grey-green wrappers lettered in black. Overall VG minor soiling to wrappers with some paper chipping to lower portion of spine/faint stain to rear wrapper extending into text block 4-5 leaves. 48 pp. 12mo in 6s. 17.5 cm x 11 cm. <br/><br/>Hitchcock both a clergyman as well as a Professor of Chemistry & Natural History at Amherst who eventually rose to the position of College President was primarily known for his geological work/publications. Herein early in his professorial career he admonishes college students as to the evils of addictive narcotics including opium & tobacco. Published by J. S. & C. Adams and Co. Jonathan Leavitt, New York. Pierce and Williams, Boston unknown books