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89208192. PROLETARIAN LITERATURE Yanase Masamu Murayama Tomoyoshi et al. SENKI 6 issues. Tôkyô Shôwa 5-6 1930-1. Vol.3 #1; Vol.3 #4; Vol.3 #6; Vol.3 #8; Vol.3; #10; vol.4 #12. This interesting magazine THE BATTLE FLAG was published at the end of the leftward drift of the avant-garde when such artists writers and critics as Yanase Masamu & Murayama Tomoyoshi earlier both members of the MAVO movement were leading the charge. Soon enough as the troubles with China over Manchuria North China and Shanghai came to dominate political discourse they were silenced jailed or pushed aside but for a brief moment captured here anything even revolution seemed possible. All the covers of these six magazines are by Yanase and the contents are full of interesting articles manga and drawings. Some corners are bent and/or missing but overall the condition is good. 6 issues. unknown books
193347057Garden City: Garden City Publishing Co 1933. First Thus. Octavo 22.5cm. Original pictorial publisher's boards in matching dustwrapper; 50pp; illus; four inserted leaves of mechanical plates on card-stock. A bright Very Good or better copy with all mechanical plates present and in working condition retaining the scarce pictorial dustwrapper which is lightly soiled with small losses to extremities scuffed at folds and with a 1" closed tear at crown of spine; just Very Good. Bannerman's original version of this racist children's classic was set in India and even the earliest versions of the book contained illustrations that clearly drew upon negative colonial stereotypes. Langston Hughes noted that Little Black Sambo was a work of the "pickaninny variety.amusing undoubtedly to the white child but like an unkind word to one who has known too many hurts to enjoy the additional pain of being laughed at" quoted at www.historyonthenet.com. <br/><br/>Though public opposition to the Sambo books had begun in earnest by the early 1930s Kurt Wiese's illustrations for this edition brought clearly African features to the character of Sambo reinforcing the pickaninny stereotype. This mechanical version is not listed in Baumgarten and is apparently the only edition of Sambo to include Wiese's illustrations. Rare in dustwrapper. Garden City Publishing Co unknown books
191443988Riverside CT: Hillacre 1914. First Edition. One of 165 copies printed on Omadaka Japan paper from a total edition of 200. Small quarto 25cm; brown paper-covered boards with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; publisher's original glassine overlay and paper-covered slipcase; 22pp. Fine in Very Good example of the glassine gently sunned and with a few nicks at spine and a shallow loss to lower left corner of rear panel; slipcase lightly edgeworn with a few thin splits along one of the rear joints; Very Good. Giovannitti an Italian emigre Socialist and IWW organizer devoted his life in more or less equal measure to the writing of poetry and to sowing the seeds of discontent. Occasionally as in the current work - a profound indictment of "rotting traditions and living men" written while imprisoned in the Salem Massachusetts jail for his role in the Lawrence Textile Strike - he managed to do both at once. Uncommon in this condition particularly with the glassine present. Hillacre unknown books
193334991New York: The Viking Press 1933. First Edition. Octavo 19.5cm; publisher's unbound signatures all edges untrimmed laid into the casing for the trade binding casing is only black cloth over boards without pastedowns; iv3035pp. Scattered foxing to text edges preliminary and terminal leaves; casing with splits along joints and light external wear; Very Good. "The story of a Georgia dirt farmer who digs holes in his ground for fifteen years hoping to find gold. The primary occupation indulged by he and his two sons is sex and outrageous details are given here in a humorous maner" Coan p.56. A social and economic study of poor whites and basis for the 1958 Anthony Mann film starring Robert Ryan Tina Louise and Aldo Ray. Scarce state of this major Southern novel likely issued as an advance copy for distribution to reviewers. HANNA 564. The Viking Press unknown books
193735182London: Constable and Company Ltd 1937. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo 21.5cm; red cloth with titles stamped in navy blue on spine and front cover; dustjacket; x4391pp. Inscribed by the author to his American publisher Evelyn Shrifte on the front endpaper: "To Evelyn / With love / Jim." Upper and lower rear boar corners gently tapped though still sharp touch of dustiness to text edges else Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped priced 8/6 net showing light wear to extremities corresponding bumps to rear corners and some mild rubbing to spine and rear panel; still a bright Very Good to Near Fine example. Substantial volume collecting Farrell's short fiction nearly all of which first appeared in the U.S. published in Calico Shoes 1934 Guillotine Party 1935 and Can All This Grandeur Perish 1937. For Fellow Countryman Farrell revised nearly all of his stories adding three stories which had never before been published in book form. A distinguished copy inscribed to long-time Vanguard Press president Evelyn Shrifte 1901-1999 who published Farrell's Stud's Lonigan trilogy and many of his other works during her 36 year tenure. Constable and Company, Ltd unknown books
191920877New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1919. First Edition. Octavo 19.5cm.; original cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 6376pp.; frontispiece & 3 leaves of plates. Extremities shelf-worn with a few tiny losses and closed tears jacket spine rather sunned else Very Good in About Very Good jacket. Anti-IWW and "anti-labor account of the ruin of a loyal German-American farmer in Washington state by striking I.W.W. farm workers" - HANNA 1504; see also BLAKE pp. 239-40 and MILES 4995. Harper & Brothers Publishers unknown books
189932998San Francisco: Sunday Examiner 1899. First Edition. Folio 35.5cm.; pictorial bifolium printed in green yellow and black author photograph printed on the upper panel. Closed tears and shallow losses along wrapper extremities the whole rather toned due to poor paper stock. About Very Good and sound overall. Published as a supplement to the San Francisco Sunday Examiner 1899. Poem famously inspired by the contemporaneous painting "L'homme a la houe" by the French artist Jean-François Millet. The piece was first read at a New Year's Eve party in 1898 launching Markham's career as a poet and lecturer to the working class. The painting recreated on the upper panel of the present edition shows a laborer bent over by the weight of his toil his face anguished and somehow simultaneously expressionless. Of him Markham wrote: "Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans / Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground / The emptiness of ages in his face / And on his back the burden of the world." Presumed first published appearance of the poem according to Markham's biographical history in the Online Archive of California. The poem would also appear in a volume of Markham's poetry the same year The Man with the Hoe and Other Poems. Sunday Examiner unknown books
187947623Parisiis: Apud Isidorum Liseux 1879. First Thus. 12mo 15cm.; publisher's cream pictorial wrappers printed in red and black; xii89pp. Some light shelf wear and a few small soil spots tiny chips at spine ends else Very Good or better. Scarce extract from Sinistrari's larger work "De Delictis et Poenis" 1654 text entirely in Latin save for the publisher's tongue-in-cheek introduction in French. Liseux gained some notoriety a few years earlier when he published "De Daemonialitate et Incubus et Succubis" claiming to have discovered this heretofore unknown manuscript written in 1680 by the Franciscan priest Ludovico Maria Sinistrari 1622-1701. The work described the qualities of such beasts as vampires succubi and incubi though it has since been proposed that Liseux himself wrote the piece see J. Gordon Melton "The Vampire Book" 2010 p. 380. "De Daemonialitate" was eventually translated into English in 1879 and found its way into the hands of W.B. Yeats who borrowed Ezra Pound's copy and from it was inspired to compose the poem "The Black Centaur" first published in "The Tower" in 1928 Catherine E. Paul and Warwick Gould "W.B. Yeats and the Problem of Belief" "Yeats Annual" no. 21 p. 313. <br/><br/>The present work is indeed authored by Sinistrari and remains here in its unalter ed Latin form presumably to avoid censure Liseux noting in his introduction that there's a reason he decided to publish this work sans illustration. Though the publisher's advertisement on the final leaf of text and rear cover only mention "De Daemonialitate" Liseux's catalog would go on to include the Kama Sutra and Ernest Dowson's "White Stains: Containing Also the Contemporary and Most Exhaustive Love's Cyclopaedia with Five Illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley in His Most Erotic Vein. Apud Isidorum Liseux unknown books
1780SAV109Paris: Imprimerie de Didot l'aîné collection d'auteurs français pour Monseigneur le Comte d'Artois 1780. Hardcover. Good. 1780-1781. Sixteen volumes pocket 18mo 133 x 74mm. Printed on fine laid paper. Uniformly bound in contemporary mottled French calf ruled in gilt with olive morocco lettering labels marbled endpapers gilt edges. This beautiful miniature set was executed at the solitary expense of the Count d'Artois 1757-1830 later Charles X of France and numbered in full 64 volumes; the aim of which collected various sets of French works in verse and prose. Influential Enlightenment writers were thus compiled here many of them French female authors and limited to an overall printing of 100 copies by the famed printer Didot of Paris. Consisting: 1 DE LA FAYETTE Madame 1634-1693. "Zayde." 1780. 3 vols. 156 135 and 166pp. A classic novel with stories on the political social and cultural communities of early modern Spain. 2 DAUCORT Claude Godard d'Aucour 1768-1826. "Le Berceau de la France." 1780. 2 vols. 175 and 152pp. Rare first published in 1744 as a history of French civilization. 3 RICCOBONI Marie-Jeanne 1714-1792. "l'Histoire d'Aloïse de Livarot." 1780. 77pp. 4RICCOBONI Marie-Jeanne 1714-1792. "Les Amours de Roger et de Gertrude." 1780. 79pp. 5 DUCLOS Charles Pinot 1704-1772. “Ismene and Ismenias. Roman Grec." 1780. 115pp. 6 TRESSAN Comte de 1705-1783. "Le Prince Gerard Comte de Nevers et la Belle Euriant sa mie." 1780. 171pp. 7 TRESSAN Comte de 1705-1783. "Histoire du petit Jehan de Saint." 1780. 182pp. 8TRESSAN Comte de 1705-1783. "Histoire de Tristan de Léonois." 1781. 212pp.9 DUCLOS Charles Pinot 1704-1772. "Confessions du comte de ." 1781. 2 vols. 129 and 128pp. First published in 1742 a popular "portrait gallery" of the illustrious French. 10 TENCIN Claudine Guérin de 1682-1749. "Le Siege de Calais.” 1781. 2 vols. 122 and 126pp. First published anonymously in 1739. 11ARNAUD François-Thomas-Marie de Baculard d' 1718-1805. “Sargines.” 1781. 130pp. Good. Only light edgewear and some bumped corners slightest spots otherwise crisp and clean interior. The Count d'Artois friend to Marie Antoinette and lover of the arts sought to stimulate a renewal in fiction with the printing of this collection of novels in 35 titles. The overall collection of 64 volumes was printed from 1781 to 1784 and edited by the order of Louis XVI. Just two years later the French monarchy would be in crisis; bankrupt and facing various political upheavals in the years leading up to the Revolution. This surviving set dates from the time of relative peace before upheaval and before the Count later reigned as Charles X in the post-Revolution era in 1824. These survive as early relics of the French monarch's cultural interests and endeavors. François-Ambroise Didot printed no more than 100 copies as a whole impression; 60 with the arms of the prince and at least 40 were on common paper without the Count’s heraldry as in these while others were produced on vellum See Ebert 4938. These works are extremely neatly printed on laid paper and stand as a precursor to Didot’s prolific typographic and printing career. Complete copies of the Count d’Artois’s collection are of utmost rarity; these portative sixteen make up an excellent union. Brunet 19413. <br/><br/>The Count d'Artois friend to Marie Antoinette and lover of the arts sought to stimulate a renewal in fiction with the printing of this collection of novels in 35 titles. The overall collection of 64 volumes was printed from 1781 to 1784 and edited by the order of Louis XVI. Just two years later the French monarchy would be in crisis; bankrupt and facing various political upheavals in the years leading up to the Revolution. This surviving set dates from the time of relative peace before upheaval and before the Count later reigned as Charles X in the post-Revolution era in 1824. These survive as early relics of the French monarch's cultural interests and endeavors. François-Ambroise Didot printed no more than 100 copies as a whole impression; 60 with the arms of the prince and at least 40 were on common paper without the Count’s heraldry as in these while others were produced on vellum See Ebert 4938. These works are extremely neatly printed on laid paper and stand as a precursor to Didot’s prolific typographic and printing career. Complete copies of the Count d’Artois’s collection are of utmost rarity; these portative sixteen make up an excellent union. Brunet 19413. Imprimerie de Didot l'aîné (collection d'auteurs français pour Monseigneur le Comte d'Artois) hardcover books
1983WRCLIT57638Barcelona: Albert Ferrer 1983. 191pp. Folio 45 x 33.5 cm. Folded and gathered bifolia laid into cloth-backed printed board folder with ribbon tie. About fine. First edition. Illustrated with five original full-page aquatints by Garzon Florez and a quarter panel woodcut in sepia by him on the upper board of the folder. The title-leaf has two additional decorative figures stamped in blind. One of forty-five numbered copies of fifty with the aquatints and the colophon numbered and signed by the artist who has also signed the upper board of the folder. Ferrer's work as a fine printer was singled out for mention in the March 1984 issue of CONNOISSEUR and in the May/June issue of AMERICAN BOOK COLLECTOR. Apart from his lavish 1987 limited edition of the Barcelona Columbus letter of 1493 with additional material featuring lithographs and etchings by Juan Antonio Roda and co-published with the New York Public Library Ferrer's work is poorly represented in American institutional collections. Albert Ferrer hardcover books
16368Freedomways. New York: Freedomways Associates Inc. 1964-1969. Important journal for African-American politics and culture. Summer 1964 Vol. 4 No. 3 Winter 1968 Vol. 8 No. 1 Summer 1969 Vol. 9 No. 3. Octavo. Original color wrappers with photo-illustrations. The magazine was founded in 1961 by W.E.B. DuBois and attracted prominent figures such as Alice Walker James Baldwin and Charles White as contributors. In print for almost 20 years this magazine was especially notable for not only covering a wide range of progressive issues centered around the civil rights struggle in the United States but also covering issues affecting Black people all over the world. <br/><br/>One notable trait of this magazine was the coverage of international issues in addition to movements in the US. The Summer 1964 issue focuses on "The People of the Caribbean Area" with 19 essays on Afro-Caribbean identity and the lingering effects of colonialism and slavery in the islands as well as entries from Caribbean poets Ernest Carr George W. Lamming and Derek Walcott. This issue is not unique though as other issues also deal with issues happening in Nigeria and a contribution from the publication's founded W.E.B. DuBois on "The African Roots of War."<br/><br/>The magazines also featured and promoted contemporary African-American art and literature giving an important platform for academics and intellectuals to critically engage with this creative output. The Summer 1969 issue features an oft-cited article one of the co-founders of the Black Arts Movement Amiri Baraka a.k.a. LeRoi Jones "LeRoi Jones and the New Black Writers of the Sixties"; this article analyses the shift in tone and theme for the writer over the course of the decade as his own political identity radicalized as he became involved with the Nation of Islam. This level of analysis and engagement set Freedomways apart from other publications at the time as a place to celebrate and critique black culture and history. Very good condition. Tight binding. Crisp pages. unknown books
1572D4701Venice: F. Rampazeto 1572. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo 175 x 120mm. 48 366pp. Signatures: a-f 8; A-YY 8; ZZ 8 -ZZ7-8 blank. Woodcut printers device on title of basilisk fighting a bird with motto Terrena coelestibus obsunt; in an architectural frame and woodcut historiated headpiece woodcut vignette beginning book of the Institutiones; on leaf 212r a full-page representation of the arbor civilis. Text is all-around gloss; printed in black and red. Dedicatory letter of H. Messaggius to Senator Federicus Baduarius prelim. leafs 2 is dated 1558. Period vellum three raised bands; leaves slightly offset slightly browned; hinge cracked at rear some quires loose rear pastedown glue-stained. The Corpus Iuris Civilis or the Justinian Code was the result of Emperor Justinians desire that existing Roman law be collected into a simple and clear system of laws or code. Tribonian a legal minister under Justinian lead a group of scholars in an effort to codify existing Roman law. The result was the first Justinian Code completed in 529. This code was later expanded to include Justinians own laws as well as two additional books on areas of the law. In 534 the Justinian Code made up of the Code the Digest and the Institutes was completed. Justinians collections were in ancient times always copied separately and afterwards they were printed in the same way. This part of the Institutiones falls under the whole Corpus Iuris Civilis is an early example before the unification under this heading. The present name of Justinians codification was only adopted in the 16th century when it was printed in 1583 by Dionysius Gothofredus. The legal thought behind the Corpus Juris Civilis served as the backbone of the single largest law reform of the modern age the Napoleonic Code which marked the abolition of feudalism. <br/><br/> [F. Rampazeto] hardcover books
47865San Francisco: Lith H. S. Crocker Co n. d. 1st printing presumed ca mid-to-late 1880s. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. General wear & soiling. Pin-hole in lower left margin. Withal Very Good. Broadside printed in full color. 57 cut-out images many featuring Sperry Flour including adults & children 20 cats 2 bakery goods 9 a stove a table etc. etc. 11-3/4" x 19-1/8" <br/><br/>Sperry Flour Co. founded in mid-1850s became the second largest flour milling company in California. We find no record of any institutional holdings of this item so here offered an extremely rare promotional piece published by this prominent California firm. Lith H. S. Crocker Co unknown books
198418794ENew York: Morrow 1984. First Edition. Signed presentation copy from Roman Polanski inscribed by the author: “To Tom Just a few biographical notes in case you need them.Love Roman ‘Pirates’ - 85.†Laid in is a circular travel sticker from the Djerba / Menzel Hotel in Tunisia where Polanski’s picture ‘Pirates’ was being filmed. Illustrated. Fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with some minor signs of use. The autobiography of the acclaimed film director of Rosemary’s Baby Chinatown Tess etc. ‘Pirates’ in the inscription is a reference to his film starring Walter Matthau Cris Campion Damien Thomas Olu Jacobs Ferdy Mayne and David Kelly. Morrow unknown books
194232920New York: Harcourt Brace and Company 1942. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 20.75cm; beige buckram with printed title label applied to spine; reddish-brown topstain; dustjacket; 10210pp. Hint of sunning to spine else Fine and clean throughout. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $2.50 with light wear to extremities some faint creasing along front panel edges and a sharp vertical fold slightly left of the front joint; still an attractive Near Fine example. Attractive copy of the National Book Award-winning author's first book a novel based on a roadtrip Morris took with his father from the midwest to the west coast. Harcourt, Brace and Company unknown books
200616088JNorthridge: Lord John Press 2006. First Edition First Printing. Signed by 25 figures in film including Billy Wilder Roman Polanski John Frankenheimer Fred Zinnemann Jeanne Moreau Norman Jewison Richard Rush Delbert Mann Horton Foote Ronald Neame Charles Champlin Ray Bradbury Robert Bloch Jean Simmons Eva Marie Saint Karl Malden Rod Steiger Karl Malden Gena Rowlands Richard Crenna Janet Leigh Ramsay Campbell Norman Corwin Dennis Etchison. A remarkable collage of original essays published here for the first time and terrific illustrations in color and black & white of classic movie posters and stills. In John Updike’s essay he confesses to a lifelong interest in animation and cartoon films Ray Bradbury reflects on how his life has been tied up with Hollywood. Robert Bloch writes about 100 memorable films from the 1920s and 1930s etc. Additional contributors are President Gerald R. Ford on actor James Stewart Norman Corwin Delbert Mann Kenneth Turan Harry Crews Charles Champlin Steve Rasnic Tem Richard C. Matheson Bertrand Tavernier Robert B. Parker. 225 pages. Large format 9 inches wide by 11 1/2 inches tall. Hardbound in full gilt-stamped black cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Lord John Press hardcover books
1833WRCAM55040Various places and publishers see below 1833. Broken run of twelve volumes described below. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards spines ruled in gilt gilt leather labels. Front board of volume XII detached bindings of most volumes rubbed and with wear to spine ends. Minimal foxing generally more prevalent in the final volume. About very good. A run of twelve volumes of a leading American periodical. THE MUSEUM OF FOREIGN LITERATURE AND SCIENCE grew out of a weekly newspaper founded in 1818 by Eliakim Littell and R. Norris Henry called the PHILADELPHIA REGISTER. In 1822 it became a monthly under the present name and "for twenty years it was the leading American eclectic" Mott. Like many such periodicals it gained most of its news and information from British magazines. The majority of its contents were reviews poetry literary and scientific news biographical sketches of authors lists of new publications and articles on literature almost exclusively British. "The plates which came to be a prized feature of the magazine began in 1827 but were not published regularly until 1830; they added much to the attractiveness of the periodical" - Mott. In 1833 the name was changed yet again to THE MUSEUM OF FOREIGN LITERATURE SCIENCE AND ART see Vol. XXII below. <br> <br> The volumes included in this grouping are: <br> <br> 1 Vol. X. January to June 1827. Philadelphia & New York: E. Littell; G. & C. Carvill 1827. 572pp. with engraved portraits and illustrations. Front board nearly detached. <br> <br> 2 Vol. XII. January to April 1828. Philadelphia & New York: E. Littell; G. & C. Carvill 1828. 706pp. with engraved portraits and illustrations. Front board detached rear hinge loosening. <br> <br> 3 Vol. XIII. July to December 1828. Philadelphia & New York: E. Littell & Brother; G. & C. Carvill 1828. 766pp. with engraved portraits and illustrations. Front board nearly detached. <br> <br> 4 Vol. XIV. January to June 1829. Philadelphia & New York: E. Littell; G. & C. & H. Carvill 1829. 574pp. with engraved illustrations and portraits. Front board loosening. <br> <br> 5 Vol. XV. July to December 1829. Philadelphia & New York: E. Littell & Brother; G. &. C. & H. Carvill 1829. 574pp. with engraved illustrations and portraits. <br> <br> 6 Vol. XVI. January to June 1830. Philadelphia & New York: E. Littell & Brother; G. & C. & H. Carvill 1830. 574pp. with engraved illustrations and portraits. Front board nearly detached. <br> <br> 7 Vol. XVII. July to December 1830. Philadelphia & New York: E. Littell; G. & C. & H. Carvill 1830. 573pp. with engraved plates and illustrations. <br> <br> 8Vol. XVIII. January to June 1831. Philadelphia & New York: E. Littell; G. & C. & H. Carvill 1831. 576pp. with engraved plates and illustrations. <br> <br> 9 Vol. XIX. July to December 1831. Philadelphia & New York: E. Littell; G. & C. & H. Carvill 1831. 718pp. including engraved plates and portraits. <br> <br> 10 Vol. XX. January to June 1832. Philadelphia & New York: E. Little; G. & C. & H. Carvill 1832. 669pp. including several engraved portraits and plates. <br> <br> 10 Vol. XXI. July to December 1832. Philadelphia Baltimore & New York: E. Littell; E. J. Coale; and G. & C. & H. Carvill 1832. 584pp. with portraits and sketches. <br> <br> 12 THE MUSEUM OF FOREIGN LITERATURE SCIENCE AND ART. Vol. XXII. January to June 1833. Philadelphia Boston & New York: E. Little and T. Holden; Kane & Co.; G. & C. & H. Carvill 1833. 837pp. including several engraved portraits and plates. Prevalent foxing else fine. MOTT AMERICAN MAGAZINES I pp.130 and 306-09. hardcover books
1805250665Wien 1805. 3 ff. 1 vols. 4to. Removed. paper excision in gutter margin leaves slightly toned. Very good. 3 ff. 1 vols. 4to. Napoleon Made Me Do It. The emperor of France forced me to go to war! <br/>Imperial Call-Up to "fight for Europe's freedom the security of thrones and of peoples".<br/><br/>In response to the breach of treaty military provocations and invasion of Germany by Napoleon Franz II Holy Roman emperor and hereditary emperor of Austria calls for inner strength unity and decisive action to save the throne independence national honor and national happiness. Franz II and the members of his coalition the emperor of Russia and others took up the "fight for Europe's freedom the security of thrones and of peoples". Dated 28 October 1805 in the name of the Emperor by Franz Graf von Sauran Landesfürstlicher Hof-Commissar.<br/><br/>With a Nachricht of the same date instructing youths of noble and bourgeois birth to present themselves for military service; and ordering foreigners Fremden in non-essential professions positions or industries to leave Vienna within six days and from all of lower Austria within ten days. All horses and freight wagons are subject to guidelines for use on official or public business<br/><br/>The joint efforts of the coalition were in vain and after their defeat by Napoleon at Austerlitz in August 1806 the Holy Roman Empire was dissolved. OCLC 249470850 and 254364523 each imprint held in Staatsbibliothek Berlin only unknown books
1933274691London: Victor Gollancz 1933. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Quite an attractive copy of the first impression of the Brittain's moving and angry memoir of loss; one of the great books to come out of the horrible experience of the first World War. The front and rear panels of the dustjacket are laid in; they are badly chipped and the spine has perished. A clean and tight copy with no marks of any kind and just a trace of shelfwear. Very Good binding. Victor Gollancz unknown books
180349599London: Printed for Tegg & Castleman at the Eccentric Book Warehouse 122 St. John-Street Smithfield; . Hartnell Printer 3 New-Street Borough 1803. 1st Edition. Period full brown tree calf binding with later respining to style. Later eps. Binding - modest wear VG. Text-block - age-toning the occasional smudge old paper repair to frontis. Overall Very Good. iv 28 pp. Folding copperplate frontispiece. Tailpiece. 12mo. 6-7/8" x 4-1/8" <br/><br/>Scarce publication OCLC records only 5 holding institutions world-wide with just 2 of those in the U.S. <br /> <br />This title is one of 3 titles bound together into one volume: volume also includes Tavistocks Books inventory IDs 49598 & 49600. The price is for the one volume containing the 3 titles. Printed for Tegg & Castleman, at the Eccentric Book Warehouse, 122, St. John-Street, Smithfield; ... Hartnell, Printer, 3, New- unknown books
180349598London: Printed for Tegg & Castleman at the Eccentric Book Warehouse 122 St. John-Street West-Smithfield; . Hartnell Printer 3 New-Street Borough 1803. 1st Edition. Period full brown tree calf binding with later respining to style. Later eps. Binding - modest wear VG. Text-block - age-toning the occasional smudge short tear to end of frontispiece fold. Overall Very Good. 36 pp. Folding copperplate frontispiece partially hand-colored dated 1803 of Jones shooting Lt Grub "for attempting to strike the Colours in an Engagement." 12mo. 6-7/8" x 4-1/8" <br/><br/>This title is one of 3 titles bound together into one volume: volume also includes Tavistocks Books inventory IDs 49599 & 49600. The price is for the one volume containing the 3 titles. Printed for Tegg & Castleman, at the Eccentric Book Warehouse, 122, St. John-Street, West-Smithfield; ... Hartnell, Printer, 3, unknown books
197716186JNew York: Sotheby Parke Bernet 1977. First Editions. Three volumes. THE VERY RARE DELUXE HARDBOUND EDITION LIMITED TO ONLY 35 COPIES SPECIALLY PRINTED ON SWARTHMORE MIST & CORTLEA FRENCH PAPER. Issued to the public paperbound on different paper only a handful of very special people were presented with the attractively bound edition in full maroon cloth with labels. The catalogues 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 Ernest Hemingway collection alone contained manuscripts literally hundreds of Hemingway letters salesman’s dummies photographs Hemingway’s first two books presented to Sylvia Beach plus others with amazing presentation inscriptions. No collector of Ernest Hemingway can have a real view of Hemingway collecting without these sale catalogues. The collections included are a virtual who’s who of important 20th Century writers represented with historic and highly desirable material including F. Scott Fitzgerald William Faulkner John Steinbeck James Joyce Ezra Pound Gertrude Stein Sinclair Lewis Robert Frost Allen Ginsberg Jack Kerouac etc. 256 pages paperbound. These catalogues are profusely illustrated reproducing letters and inscriptions and rare dust jackets. Near fine set with the prices-realized sheets laid in listing the price for which every item sold. Sotheby Parke Bernet hardcover books
193839048New York: Doubleday Doran & Co 1938. Reprint. Octavo 20.5cm.; publisher's red cloth decorative spine stamped in black and gilt red topstain; 6365pp. Cloth rather discolored from damp and soil most heavily so to rear cover spine cocked brief and shallow loss of cloth and board at top edge of rear cover. Good to Very Good only. Inscribed and signed by the author on front free endpaper along with the ownership pressure stamp of the United Cannery Agricultural Packing and Allied Workers of America CIO. From the manuscript note on front free endpaper verso: "This book was won at a Party given by Dave Thompson and Barney Dreyfus at 311 1/2 Filbert St. San Francisco California on March 11 1939. Won by John Coon expelled S.U.P. member who fought for Democracy in Spain. Guests attending. followed by sixty-two signatures covering the remaining leaf and the half title page recto and verso." Included among the signatures are H.F. Dean member of the aforementioned Socialist Union Party a shortlived De Leonist organization founded by Abraham Ziegler after his own expulsion from the Socialist Labor Party; Thomas Norton another Abraham Lincoln Brigade veteran; the Australian-born American union leader Harry Bridges co-founder of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union; and the hosts Thompson and Dreyfus. Doubleday, Doran & Co unknown books
192838527London: Alfred A. Knopf 1928. First U.K. Edition. Octavo 19.5cm; purple cloth with titling and decorative elements stamed in pale metallic green on spine and front cover; 248pp. Forward lean small stain to lower left corner of front board with a hint of sunning to spine; clean throughout; Very Good or better. Dustjacket is price-clipped lightly edgeworn and a bit spine-sunned with some rubbing to joints and a few small nicks and short tears; Very Good. "Despite its cheery-sounding title Circus Parade is light years away from Toby Tylerland presenting a dark violent and thoroughly unromanticized portrait of life on the road with a traveling show -- described by Tully as "generally a canvas nest of petty thieves and criminals among the lower gentry." The book's depictions of casual brutality -- including a shocking account of the troupe's exploitation of a young black girl's sexual favors -- got it banned in Boston and caused an uproar with circus fans and unsurprisingly circus owners which helped to put the kibosh on a proposed film adaptation by James Cruze" PROUTY 4. Uncommon particularly in dustjacket - among the titles by American author's published during Knopf's short-lived London years. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
165535016Heidelbergae: Johannis Ammonii Bibliopolae 1655. 2nd edition. Sammelband volume in period full vellum with title hand-inked to spine. Faint red edgestain. General wear & soiling to binding. 2 bookplates to front eps. A VG copy. 24 441 3 pp. Engraved t.p. which reads: "Bonus Princeps cum Illustribus Praetensionibus et Semestralibus Palatinis." Head- tailpieces. Decorative initial captial letters. 12mo: a12 A - S12 T6. 5-3/8" x 3" <br/><br/>Volume contains 4 of Sprenger's works including TavBooks ID Nos 34017 - 35019. Price is the entire volume of 4 works. Johannis Ammonii, Bibliopolae hardcover books
