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47552Nottingham: Printed by C. Sutton for the Flying Stationers n. d. 1st printing thus ca 1795. Printed self-wrappers now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Well age-toned & soiled. Second leaf with closed edge tear and lacking lower corner text just affected but not the sense thereof. Imprint poorly printed. A Good copy. 8 pages. Woodcut to p. 1; tailpiece to p. 8. 8vo. 7-1/4" x 4-7/8" <br/><br/>Not found on ESTC though COPAC records two holding institutions in the UK. Printed by C. Sutton, for the Flying Stationers unknown books
19061023Whittier: Board of Trade 1906. Very good. 16pp. Oblong octavo. Original printed wrappers stapled. Light soiling and wear. Published less than twenty years after Whittier was founded by Quakers this promotional work proudly proclaims that "there is now town of its size that will rank higher in intelligence morality and progressiveness." Just fourteen miles from Los Angeles with a population of about 4000 people Whittier boasted easy access by rail a college hospital library an abundance of water and a budding oil industry. It did not have saloons and "consequently no need of a jail; and no paupers." Illustrated throughout with half tones including a panoramic bird's eye view of the town. Relatively scarce with only four copies located in OCLC at UC San Diego UC Berkeley Swarthmore College and the Merrimack Valley Library. Board of Trade unknown books
193015706JParis: En Vente a la Librairie Gumuchian & Cie 112 Rue De Richelieu 1930. First Editions. Two volumes folio 11.5" X 9" illustrated with original pictorial wrappers. Limited to 1000 copies. The famous Gumuchian's Catalogue 13 the greatest of rare bookseller's catalogue in the field of children's literature and long a standard reference. The collection spanning the 15th - 19th centuries. Volume I consists of 6251 annotated entries. Volume II contains 336 plates Size 11.5" X 9". Each volume has a preface in French by Paul Gavault; Volume I has an introduction in English and French by the editors Volume II has an “Index des Planches" with the English French or German captions for the plates size 11.5" X 9.5". Slight wear on spine very good set. Pages untrimmed This set comes in special hand made original slipcase printed and decorated on spine and is it about 13" X 11" X 4.25". En Vente a la Librairie Gumuchian & Cie, 112 Rue De Richelieu unknown books
196012503Rutland VT: Charles E. Tuttle Company 1960. Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Folio original half-linen and boards pictorial dust jacket. Third Printing.<br><br><br />Association copy with a warm 1963 inscription from Peter Paul and Mary's Peter Yarrow to actor Theodore Bikel. The inscription reads: "May '63 For Theo In remembrance of 'Theo Bikel - he comes to Cornell - come & see Theo Bikel - ' and on your birthday Warmest regards signed Peter Yarrow". Peter was a 1959 graduate of Cornell University. Bikel's bookplate on the front pastedown. Jacket price clipped some light edge wear; volume fine. Charles E. Tuttle Company hardcover books
194338551Buenos Aires: Los Antifascistas Italianos en Argentina 1943. First Edition. Octavo 20cm. Plain card wrappers in pictorial dustwrapper; 203 2pp; frontispiece portrait. Warmly inscribed and signed inside front wrapper to American communists Bertram D. Wolfe and his wife Ella in year of publication: "For my dear comrades and friends Ella and Bert W. hoping that 1944 will be less cruel to humanity than its immediate predecessor." Expected marginal tanning to text else a sound attractive copy in a lightly worn dustwrapper. Translation by Balabanoff from the Italian of Il Traditore NY:1942. Text entirely in Spanish save the final page which reprints a poem in Italian "Inno dei Lavoratori" by Filippo Turati. Major association copy of one of Balabanoff's scarcest books. Angelica Balabanoff 1878-1965 an Italian Jew was among the founders of the Italian Communist Party in 1900; she joined the Russian Bolsheviks in 1917 and served as secretary of the Comintern from 1919-20 during which time she became closely affiliated with Lenin Trotsky Zinoviev and many others. She broke with the Bolsheviks and left Russia in 1922 after which she once again became active in the Italian Socialist party. During Mussolini's regime she went into exile first in Switzerland then Paris and briefly Mexico and Buenos Aires; finally New York City where she remained until the close of the war. Balabanoff wrote fluently in at least four languages publishing original works in Italian Spanish English and French and often as here providing her own translations for multilingual editions. The current copy inscribed by Balabanoff to the influential American communists and later anti-communists Bertram and Ella Wolfe comprises a significant association; Balabanoff and Ella Wolfe met during the former's war-time exile and remained lifelong friends; their correspondence housed at the Hoover Institution provided much of the source material for Maria Lafont's biographyThe Strange Comrade Balabanoff McFarland 2016. This edition rare; one physical copy only in OCLC Houghton; the preceding Italian and English-language editions also scarce represented by fewer than 5 copies each in institutional holdings. Los Antifascistas Italianos en Argentina unknown books
193433290New York: The Vanguard Press 1934. First Edition. Octavo 21cm; red cloth with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; xiv303pp. Small faint damp mark to lower left corner of front cover else Near Fine and clean throughout. Dustjacket designed by Ernst Reichl is unclipped priced $2.50 with a hint of sunning to spine and some mild wear to extremities; Near Fine. Attractive copy of this collection of short stories set in Chicago full of the same grim realism found in Farrell's Studs Lonigan trilogy. The stories first appeared in the pages of The American Mercury The New Masses Dynamo Story A Year Magazine Pagany Midland and Best Short Stories of 1933 and are gathered here for the first time. The Vanguard Press unknown books
194714436New York: Rinehart 1947. First Edition. Octavo 21cm. Black cloth boards lettered in gilt; dustjacket; 310pp. Warmly and lengthily inscribed to a young Stephen Sondheim in year of publication: "To Stephen Sondheim: novelist and musician - With all good wishes" followed by a lengthy quotation from Proust's The Past Recaptured. Bottom board edges rubbed; abrasions along front and rear joints external; otherwise just light wear in the original unclipped dustwrapper Very Good. Satirical novel about an American radio troupe touring post-war Germany as part of a USO tour drawing heavily on Freeman's own experience as a writer for the popular radio quiz show Information Please. The lengthy inscription is to American Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim who at this time would have been just seventeen years old. The connection between Sondheim and Freeman is unclear but it is certainly plausible that they could have encountered one another - either through upper class New York circles in which both traveled; or through the progressive preparatory school Sondheim attended Fieldston School; or through mutual acquaintances on Broadway where Sondheim at this time was working his first job in show-business as a production assistant on Rodgers & Hammerstein's Allegro. Sondheim's name does not appear in the finding aid to Freeman's archives at the Hoover Institution. Rinehart unknown books
192750941New York: Albert & Charles Boni 1927. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 19.5cm; maroon cloth with titling and pictorial elements stamped in yellow on spine and front cover; yellow topstain; vi5273pp. A few faint surface scratches to boards; small stain to front free endpaper; still a tight straight copy with bright even top-stain and text clean and unmarked; Near Fine lacking the scarce dustjacket. A novel "largely concerned with the social education and disillusionment of the son of an oil tycoon set against the background of the oil scandals of the Harding Administration. There is also the background of southern California society movie stars evangelists Wobblies and social reformers of all stripes" BAIRD 2267. Basis for Paul Thomas Anderson's Academy Award-winning 2007 film "There Will Be Blood." AHOUSE A40; COAN p.98; HANNA 3241. Albert & Charles Boni unknown books
193445534Nashville: Sunday School Pub. Board of the Nat'l Baptist Convention 1934. <p>Roman Charles Victor 1864-1934. Meharry Medical College: A history. 224pp. 33 plate leaves. Nashville: Sunday School Publishing Board of the National Baptist Convention 1934. 230 x 152 mm. Original black-stamped patterned cloth printed dust-jacket some wear and chipping at spine and edges of the dust jacket but with the original cloth in virtually mint condition. Bookplate.</p> <p> First Edition. "The first history of an African-American medical school written by an African-American. Meharry Medical College founded in 1876 as the Medical Department of Central Tennessee College was the first medical college for African-Americans in the South" Garrison-Morton.com 12990. Meharry Medical College is now the largest private historically black institution in the United States devoted exclusively to educating health care professionals and scientists. Roman a graduate of Meharry was the first North American physician of African ancestry to train as both an ophthalmologist and otolaryngologist; he founded the Department of Ophthalmology and Otorhinolaryngology at Meharry and served as its first director. </p> . Sunday School Pub. Board of the Nat'l Baptist Convention unknown books
173459334Leyden: apud Conradum & Georgum Wishoff 1734. First combined edition. Engraved general title by Bleyswyck additional printed title in red and black. 26 344 14 pp.; separate title page Dd4 for second title misbound at rear along with Contents leaf. Two parts with continuous pagination. 1 vols. 4to. Contemporary full mottled Dutch calf gilt spine red leather title label. Small rectangular excision from lower margin of half-title leaf. some slight darkening at edges. First combined edition. Engraved general title by Bleyswyck additional printed title in red and black. 26 344 14 pp.; separate title page Dd4 for second title misbound at rear along with Contents leaf. Two parts with continuous pagination. 1 vols. 4to. Collects two works by the prolific Dutch scholar and Roman historian Pieter Burmann. The first deals with a Roman tax called the "vectigal" which was applied to revenue "derived from public land mines salt-works. etc. and in general to rents derived from State property." - Oxford Classical Dictionary 1949. apud Conradum & Georgum Wishoff unknown books
176022232London: Printed and Sold by A. Millar 1760 1760. First and only edition; there was a reissue in 1861 with a cancel title. ESTC T136422; NCBEL II 640. Title-page a little stained and foxed with a small piece torn from the lower corner; text a little foxed; very good copy. Uncommon. 8vo modern blue half morocco blue cloth sides gilt lettering. The first book by the Scottish poet and philosopher James Beattie. Ink signature of Jas. French dated 1764 on the title-page. <br/><br/> London: Printed and Sold by A. Millar, 1760 unknown books
184444191Bath NY: R. L. Underwood & Co 1844. Second Edition. 18mo 15.5cm.; publisher's full sheep red gilt morocco spine label; viii9-288pp.; portrait frontispiece. Boards rather worn and joints cracked but holding old dampstain to rear cover very slightly bleeding into textblock some soil to early leaves else a Good or better copy overall. Account of the life of Jemima Wilkinson 1752-1819 the Rhode Island-born Quaker and Evangelist who claimed after a long illness to have died and been risen from the dead. Through her preaching she became known as the "Universal Friend" creating a Shaker-like sect that practiced celibacy and poverty on a massive property she named "Jerusalem." Some have argued that Wilkinson was an imposter who accrued vast wealth from her followers Howes describes her as "the first religious charlatan of her sex in America". Indeed the sect would not survive after her death. This work first published in 1821 attributed to David Hudson SABIN 33485 and HOWES H-761. See also "Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography" Vol. 6 p. 512. R. L. Underwood & Co unknown books
196022795San Francisco: City Lights Books 1960. First Edition. Wraps. Very good . 4to. Side-stapled photographic cover wraps. Offset duplicated rectos only. Very good plus. Minor wear. Else sound and clean. 22pp. plus cover. <br/><br/>The brainchild of Allen Ginsberg Bob Kaufman and John Kelly BEATITUDE was originally conceived as a weekly newsletter for the North Beach literary scene publishing the first issue in April 1959. Though it quickly abandoned that schedule the little mag soon became an important outlet for beat literature and is now one of the defining publications of the early mimeo revolution. As Bob Kaufman put it: "Designed to extoll beauty and promote the beatific life among the various mendicants neo-existentialists christs poets painters musicians and other inhabitants and observers of North Beach." Originally printed out of the Bread and Wine Mission run by Congregationalist minister Pierre Delattre who also published in Beatitude the magazine included the work of its founders as well as Jack Kerouac Michael McClure and numerous other notable San Francisco poets and writers. This issue marks the first under the auspices of City Lights and features Allen Ginsberg Jack Spicer Bob Kaufman Philip Whalen Lawrence Ferlinghetti and others. All issues of BEATITUDE's original run it ceased publication in the early 1960s but resumed in the late are now rare. Clay and Phillips 80-81. City Lights Books paperback books
1825221769London: Printed for Knight and Lacey 1825. First edition. Two hand-colored engraved plates. 8 111 1 24 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Boards uncut rebacked with new black cloth spine. Early stab marks in inner margin one signature sprung. First edition. Two hand-colored engraved plates. 8 111 1 24 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The Jury of Scottish Common Sense. Fletcher was the Scottish-born minister of the United presbyterian Church who In April 1824 was prosecuted in the civil and ecclesiastical courts for breach of promise to marry Miss Eliza Dick. According to the DNB "In the king's bench no verdict was given but in the meeting of the United Associate Synod at Edinburgh he was suspended from the exercise of his office and from church fellowship. The trial and suspension provoked a spate of publications ."<br/><br/>One of those publications was this very amusing satire of the trail of the Reverend before a "Court of Common Sense" with a 'special jury" consisting of a dozen illustrious Scots including Sir Walter Scott who was elected Foreman; Sir James Mackintosh; J. W. Croker; Thomas Campbell; Thomas Moore Samuel Rogers; John Galt; and William Blackwood. Much of the fun consists of the conversations between the members of the jury wehn called upon to examin a witness. The Jury's final verdict after a deliberation of 5 minuttes is delivered by the forman Sir Walter Scott: "My Lord we unanimously find the defendant Guilty upon the whole counts of the indictment. Printed for Knight and Lacey unknown books
19031236Austin: S.B. Hill 1903. Very good. 20pp. Oblong 12mo. Original printed wrappers string tied. Light soiling and wear to wraps; small patch of worming to lower edge of wear wrapper. Contemporary ink annotation at top edge of initial leaf. Minor toning and dust soiling. Scarce promotional for the city of Austin as a health oasis and winter getaway at the beginning of the 20th century produced for distribution by the capital city's famed Driskill Hotel. The introductory text hails Austin as a city without disease and boasts that any introduced illness "would die out for the lack of congenial material to sustain it" owing to its ideal location and perfect climate. Among the other benefits of the city touted within are its educational opportunities with a dedicated description of St. Edward's College its cultural offerings and of course the Driskill "one of the most palatial and imposing buildings of the South" with its own artesian well and "the only hotel in Austin having elevators its own electric light cold storage and steam laundry plants and private wire connecting with the different telegraph and telephone companies." The work is illustrated with five photographic images of the hotel and its interior and well as several others depicting scenes around Austin and its architectural points of interest. We locate only two copies at Baylor and the Austin Public Library. S.B. Hill unknown books
18971231Salinas CIty: Wyatt & Rodgers 1897. Very good. 46pp. Oblong 12mo. Original tan printed wrappers. Light soiling and wear. Contemporary ownership inscriptions inside front cover. Minor soiling internally. Promotional souvenir of Salinas City California providing a brief history and overview of the climate but primarily an illustrated work depicting local houses and businesses. At the time Salinas City was a town of about 3000 people. In addition to residences there are several street scenes of businesses and an image of the Salinas Brewery which was founded in 1892. There are also numerous advertisements throughout. We find one copy of the 1899 edition at the California State Library; the only copy recorded of the present edition at the Salinas Public Library appears to be a photocopy. Wyatt & Rodgers unknown books
192744064New York: Boni and Liveright 1927. First Edition. Octavo 19.5cm.; publisher's cloth in tan photo-illustrated dust jacket red topstain; 316pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece. Cloth gilt a bit dulled topstain a shade darkened contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper tiny closed tear at top edge of rear jacket panel not approaching text else Near Fine in a superlative copy of the jacket. Autobiography of Aimee Semple McPherson 1890-1944 the evangelical speaker and founder of the Foursquare Church best known for pioneering the use of mass media specifically radio to broadcast her sermons. The present memoir includes McPherson's supposed kidnapping in Mexico an event heavily called into question by contemporary media who conjectured that McPherson and her lover had cooked up the story to cover up their liaison. Boni and Liveright unknown books
187043875N.p. n.d. but ca. 1870s. Autograph letter on seven leaves of blue laid sheets 25x20.5cm. rectos only "Kent" blind-stamped at top left-hand corner of each leaf; occasional faint soil spots minor shallow creases and faint fold lines else Very Good or better. Extensive and rather rambling unsigned letter or lyceum address draft "To the President" though which President and of what is not stated in which the author quite possibly a public figure based on references to his "detractors" strongly argues against women's suffrage: "would we have our females eschewing their more gentle nature hardening the finer sensibilities of her mind by rushing to the ballot box And mingling in the excitement of an election thereby throwing off the garb of female modesty and timidity I think not." Though the first leaf has the appearance of a clean copy the author's hand begins to turn sloppy with a number of manuscript corrections in the later leaves. Due to a lack of contemporary references Mary Wollstonecraft is the only person explicitly mentioned we cannot place with certainty a date or author for the item though the hand ink and paper and reference to women tending to wounded soldiers during wartime indicate this was penned within a few years of the Civil War as the women's suffrage movement was beginning to gather steam in the 1870s. unknown books
166529157Lugduni: sumptib. Philippi Borde Laurenti Arnaud Petri Borde et Guill. Barbier 1665. Folio extra 33 cm; 12.75". 8 ff. 272 pp. 21 ff. <br><br>Second edition following the first of the previous year of Valerón's work on contracts inheritance succession and compromise under Roman law. Valerón fl. 1663 held the chair of canon law in the University of Valladolid.<br>Â Â Â Â The work begins with a title-page in black and red bearing the printers' large woodcut device incorporating images of Time and Fortune. The text is printed in the expected double-column format in roman and italic. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Palau 276638. 18th-century mottled calf round spine modest gilt tooling on spine. Front joint outside open along top three inches; front pastedown loosening from the board. Scattered foxing and staining. Sporadic worming in inner margins not touching the text. All edges richly saffron unusually bright. sumptib. Philippi Borde, Laurenti Arnaud, Petri Borde, et Guill. Barbier unknown books
1983235474New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux 1983. First. hardcover. near fine/near fine. Vishniac Roman. Foreword by Elie Wiesel. Illustrated with 180 remarkable photographs by the author many full- page. 96 unnumbered leaves. Large square 4to brown boards d.w. New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux 1983. First edition. Slightly bumped at head of spine otherwise a fine copy warmly inscribed and dated by Vishniac in the year of publication: "To Howard Kissel - my good and new friend obviously better than many older ones."<br/><br/> Farrar Straus & Giroux unknown books
182040808New - York: Published by James V. Seaman et al J & J Harper Printers 1820. 1st American Edition thus From the Fourth London Edition Corrected and Improved American Imprints 2004; Austin 1160. One of 3 1820 imprints of this title all printed by Harper no established priority. OCLC records 5 holding institutions of the title. Period brown quarter calf binding with marbled paper boards. Average wear. Some modest chipping to spine leather at crown. Foxing & staining to paper. Withal a VG copy. xi 1 blank - 303 17 pp. Index last 16 pages 12mo signed in 6s. 7-1/8" x 4-1/4" <br/><br/> Published by James V. Seaman [et al], J & J Harper, Printers hardcover books
194712923France: Edite Aux Depens De Quelques Bibliophiles 1947. First edition. Paperback. Good. Oversized 8vo. Little known and early work of drawings by Mitelberg a French political cartoonist. Text in French by Ferrary and Roman. This copy INSCRIBED by Mitelberg and dated in 1946. A fragile production. This copy in good condition overall with small chips and wear to covers. One of twelve hundred hand numbered copies. Despite the ample limitation we could find only two copies in world institutional holdings. <br/><br/> Edite Aux Depens De Quelques Bibliophiles paperback books
184143848Boston: E.P. Peabody 1841. First Edition. 16mo 13cm. Original publisher's brown ribbed cloth with printed paper label to front cover; 160pp. Binding uniformly faded with spot of staining to front cover below title; thin crack to cloth at upper 1/2" of front joint. Internally clean and tight with bookplates of both A. Edward Newton and Carroll A. Wilson. Earlier bookplate of J. Harson Purdy and partial remnant of a clipped auction listing adhered to front pastedown. Good or better. Distinguished copy with provenance of two important collectors of this scarce Hawthorne work - the second volume in his juvenile trilogy The Whole History of Grandfather's Chair later issued together in one volume 1851. Depending on authority this is either the second printing see BAL 7592b or second edition see Clark A8.2a. In the descriptive catalogue of his collection Wilson writes of this copy: "A. Edward Newton's copy of the second issue with his bookplate. It is the text of the first issue and not of the second which persists in later printings which made me doubful of the accepted priority and determined to have both" see Wilson Thirteen Author Collections 1950. E.P. Peabody unknown books
197528845New York: William Morrow 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 8vo. 185 pp. First edition first printing of this now classic compendium of Puerto Rican poetry edited by Algarin and Pinero. Cloth spine over boards. This is the now very uncommon first hardbound edition in a handsome very good or better dustwrapper with original $6.95 price on the front flap. Contributors to this anthology included Jorge Lopez Pedro Pietri Luz Rodriguez Americo Casiano Pinero Algarin and much more. This copy has been INSCRIBED BY BOTH ALGARIN AND JOSE-ANGEL FIGUEROA one of the contributors to this anthology. Photographs provided by Gil Mendez. This book went a distance in forging recognition of a new langauge of poetry blending Spanish and American cultures. William Morrow hardcover books
1850LIST118New England 1850. First Edition. 6 1/2 x 9 inches. Fine. A charming broadside advertising the services of the itinerant photographer L.W.F. Mark of Boston and his photographic equipment. Itinerant photographers travelled through towns offering their services beginning with the invention of the daguerreotype in the late 1840s and continuing through the eras of varied photographic processes. This example is most likely from the late 1850s or early 1860s though it is undated as tintypes replaced ambrotypes by the early 1860s. The broadside advertises his "superior German Instruments and the best of Stock" promises "to please even the most fastidious" and implores potential customers to "Come One Come All Give the Lame Man a Call!" It is unclear what this refers to as the illustration of the photographer gives no hint as to his ailment. <br /> <br /> A fine example with minimal foxing to extremities. Three separate OCLC entries locate a total of six copies held institutionally. unknown books
