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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
2013170525Wiesbaden: Museum Wiesbaden 2013. Hardcover. VG/VG. Red cloth boards with stamped lettering. Color-illustrated dust jacket with white lettering. 207 pp. Mainly color illustrations. Catalog of an exhibition held at Museum Wiesbaden June 14-October 6 2013 and at Zentrum Paul Klee Bern November 23 2013-February 23 2014. Text in German. Museum Wiesbaden hardcover books
2017166925Petersberg: Michael Imhof Verlag 2017. Hardcover. VG/VG. Gray boards with olive green lettering. Color-illustrated dust jacket with green and white lettering. 431 pp. Mainly color illustrations. Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at Museum Wiesbaden October 27 2017-February 25 2018. Text in German. Michael Imhof Verlag hardcover books
1970002949Toronto / New York: Obednannia Pratsivnykiv Literatury dlia Ditei i Molodi 1970. First Edition. Near fine. First edition; 10 x 7; pp. 2 5-29 2; stapled glossy pictorial wraps in off-white red and black designed by Mykhailo Mykhalevych; illustrated with numerous monochrome drawings by Petro Andrusiv; minor wear and creasing to margins of wraps and corners; in very good to near fine condition. Roman Zavadovych 1903 - 1985 writing under the pseudonyms Roman zi Slavnoi Fortissimo R. Rolianyk and M. Mamorsky was a writer poet and arguably one of the best known Ukrainian emigre children's authors. His literary career began in the 1920s with contributions of fairy tales poems and youth plays to various magazines. After spending time in a DP camp in Germany Zavadovych emigrated to the US and settled in Chicago. He co-founded the Association for Ukrainian Writers for Children and Youth OPDL together with Iurii Tyshchenko worked as a co-editor of "Veselka" magazine and wrote altogether during his life over 30 children's books many of which would be reprinted and issued in several editions including the current one set during the Middle Ages in Ukraine. The creator of the cover art Mykhailo Mykhalevich 1906 - 1984 was a Ukrainian graphic artist illustrator icon painter and stage designer. After spending time in DP camps in Germany he emigrated to the US where he worked on propaganda materials and caricatures and decorated various children's books. The illustrator Petro Andrusiv 1906 - 1981 was a painter and graphic artist who emigrated to Philadelphia in 1947 co-founded the Ukrainian Artists' Association in the US created numerous murals for churches and illustrated many children's books. Obednannia Pratsivnykiv Literatury dlia Ditei i Molodi paperback books
1970002950Toronto / New York: Obednannia Pratsivnykiv Literatury dlia Ditei i Molodi 1970. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 10 x 7; pp. 3-16; stapled pictorial wraps in beige red and brown; illustrated with drawings in orange and green by Iurii Kozak; small rubbed spots to corners and tips of spine; a tiny bookshop price label to upper corner of back wrap; in very good or better condition. Roman Zavadovych 1903 - 1985 writing under the pseudonyms Roman zi Slavnoi Fortissimo R. Rolianyk and M. Mamorsky was a writer poet and arguably one of the best known Ukrainian emigre children's authors. His literary career began in the 1920s with contributions of fairy tales poems and youth plays to various magazines. After spending time in a DP camp in Germany Zavadovych emigrated to the US and settled in Chicago. He co-founded the Association for Ukrainian Writers for Children and Youth OPDL together with Iurii Tyshchenko worked as a co-editor of "Veselka" magazine and wrote altogether during his life over 30 children's books many of which would be reprinted and issued in several editions. The illustrator Iurii Kozak 1933 - 2000 was a Ukrainian artist graphic designer sculptor and an undisputed master in church mosaics stained glass and frescoes. After emigrating to the US after WWII he contributed to various emigre journals and worked as a sculptor for General Motors. Obednannia Pratsivnykiv Literatury dlia Ditei i Molodi paperback books
2000129182Hartford CT and New York: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International Publications 2000. First edition. Hardcover. 168 pages. Foreword by Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser. Introduction by Eric M. Zafran. Essays by Alexander S.C. Rower Zafran with Kornhauser and Cynthia Roman. Afterword essay by Arthur Miller. Includes numerous color and black and white illustrations. A very near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. A fascinating look at Calder's years in Connecticut. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International Publications unknown books
2000171736New York: Rizzoli 2000. Hardcover. VG/VG-. edge-wear to covers. dustjacket scuffed & worn. Red cloth boards with stamped and white lettering. Black and white dust jacket with color illustration and lettering in red and white. 168 pp. BW and color illustrations. Portraits. "Perhaps the most influential and best loved of all twentieth-century sculptors Alexander Calder worked primarily in Connecticut after settling in a Roxbury farmhouse in 1933. Connecticut provided a richly stimulating creative environment for him in the critical years when he developed his unique mobiles and stabiles and established his artistic reputation. This intimate and engaging portrait of Calder at work and at play offers new insight into how his art was shaped by the state's landscape his home and studio his family and the fascinating circle of artists writers curators and collectors who befriended him. Engaging and authoritative this visual biography includes many previously unpublished photographs documents and reproductions of little-known art works. An account of the home and studio by Alexander S.C. Rower Calder's grandson and an affectionate tribute by Calder's neighbor playwright Arthur Miller complete the volume produced in conjunction with a major exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art Hartford."--Publisher's description. Rizzoli hardcover books
2000171735New York: Rizzoli 2000. Paperback. VG- light wear to extremities minor scuffing to wraps. Black and white wraps with color illustration and lettering in red and white. 168 pp. BW and color illustrations. Portraits. "Perhaps the most influential and best loved of all twentieth-century sculptors Alexander Calder worked primarily in Connecticut after settling in a Roxbury farmhouse in 1933. Connecticut provided a richly stimulating creative environment for him in the critical years when he developed his unique mobiles and stabiles and established his artistic reputation. This intimate and engaging portrait of Calder at work and at play offers new insight into how his art was shaped by the state's landscape his home and studio his family and the fascinating circle of artists writers curators and collectors who befriended him. Engaging and authoritative this visual biography includes many previously unpublished photographs documents and reproductions of little-known art works. An account of the home and studio by Alexander S.C. Rower Calder's grandson and an affectionate tribute by Calder's neighbor playwright Arthur Miller complete the volume produced in conjunction with a major exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art Hartford."--Publisher's description. Rizzoli paperback books
1993UYANWES00EMR E Publishers 1993. Good. Yanda Roman L. Western Body Wisdom For a Lifetime of Prevention. Saratoga Calif.: R E Publishers 1993. xxxiv 320pp. 8vo. Paperback. Inscribed by author. Book condition: Good. Inscribed by author on title page corner of text block bumped and creased. R E Publishers paperback books
192626140.1Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1926. 1st US edition. Blue cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering. Printed red paper dust jacket. VG slight cock/VG some modest extremity wear & chipping. xviii 153 1 blank pp. Crown 8vo. <br/><br/>"The strange story of a war hero who read his own obituaries and sat down in protest to write the naked truth about himself." - dj blurb. A work of fiction by this Oxford historian. Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover books
1945WRCLIT67071Paris: Aux Editions de Minuit 1945. Printed wrappers. First public edition of the mathematician's contribution to resistance literature reprinting the text of the clandestine wartime printing. Limited numbered issue on vélin. Near fine. Aux Editions de Minuit unknown books
1929WRCLIT78578New York & London: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1929. Small quarto. Gilt black cloth. Pictorial endsheets. Frontis illustrations and plates. Folding map. Non-authorial gift inscription on dedication page trace of foxing to endleaves otherwise near fine in lightly edgeworn and nicked highly pictorial dust jacket with a couple of small surface abrasions. First edition. Beautifully illustrated with photogravures of etchings by Lucien Jonas an "Official French War Artist." A series of semi-fictional sketches based on the author's experiences as a Captain with the 4th Machine Gun Battalion in France somewhat in the tradition of Thomason's FIX BAYONETS! The inscription noted is to a Captain serving at Fort Kamehameha June 12 1929 "with love from 'Your Mary'." FALLS p. 301. G.P. Putnam's Sons hardcover books
1930WRCLIT58217London: William Heinemann 1930. Large octavo. Gilt black cloth. Near fine in good somewhat smudged and lightly chipped dust jacket. First edition trade issue. It "is a very fine book.Certain of its scenes as that when the principal character drives from G.H.Q. to revisit his old comrades in the trenches are perfection itself" - Falls. FALLS p.299. William Heinemann hardcover books
1931WRCLIT75924London: Heinemann 1931. Large octavo. Gilt polished buckram t.e.g. Illustrations. Fine in glassine wrapper with paper flaps and somewhat rubbed and dust- soiled slipcase. First edition limited issue. Illustrated by H. Charles Tomlinson. One of only two hundred and seventy-five numbered copies specially printed and bound and signed by the author and artist the latter beneath the frontispiece. Includes "A Footnote to the War Books." Heinemann hardcover books
1931WRCLIT73526London: Heinemann 1931. Gilt cloth. Near fine in near very good lightly foxed dust jacket with old shallow internal mends at crown of spine. First edition trade issue. Includes "A Footnote to the War Books." Heinemann hardcover 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
1916WRCLIT80815New York: Putnam 1916. Pictorial gray boards Frontispiece. Boards faintly soiled with rubbing at foretips and spine extremities. Very good without dust jacket. First US edition translated from the Russian with an introductory note By Stephen Graham. Putnam hardcover books
1918WRCLIT78829Boston New York & Chicago: Silver Burdett and Co. 1918. viii 347pp. Pictorial brick red cloth. Illustrations. A bit of rubbing but an uncommonly fresh tight copy. First edition printing unspecified. A textbook for young readers with text by the primaries along with Kipling Morley Scollard Service et al. Due to its intended readership seen most often heavily worn. Silver, Burdett and Co. hardcover 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
189444281New York: D. Appleton and Company 1894. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 17.5cm; flexible dark brown cloth boards with titles stamped in gilt on spine; ii45-666pp ads. Light wear to extremities hint of softening to corners with a faint diagonal tear to rear pastedown; contemporary owners ink signature to front endpaper Gertrude H. Souther / March 1895 with holograph pencil notes relative to the weight of two babies on rear endpaper; Very Good. Influential manual for mothers and nurses by Holt 1855-1924 an American author physician and pioneer in the field of pediatrics who helped shape the New York Babies Hospital into the leading pediatric facility of its time. The book was expanded from Holt's Catechism for Nurses 1893 a pamphlet prepared for nursery-maids during their four months training at the Babies Hospital. "The nurses studied the catechism and when they graduated took it with them. There followed requests for copies from their employers and the supply was soon exhausted. It was apparent there was a popular demand for something of the kind. The catechism was expanded and in 1894 The Care and Feeding of Children made its appearance.Probably no one would have been more surprised than Dr. Holt or his publishers had they been told that they were launching a volume that was to go through seventy-five printings and which was to be translated into Spanish Russian and Chinese.The book became the mainstay of many a worried mother and exerted no inconsiderable influence on the profession as well for the practitioners had to keep abreast of the pediatric knowledge which the mothers possessed" DUFFUS R.L. L. Emmett Holt. NY 1940 pp.116-117. <br/><br/>Prior to the publication of The Care and Feeding of Children there was no standard text for pediatric care in print for laymen or medical professionals. A revolutionary volume written in clear simple language providing an orderly presentation of pediatric knowledge which empowered women to care for their children. A cornerstone work responsible for "lifting child sickness and care out of the neglect of the past" Dunn Peter M. "Dr. Emmett Holt 1855-1924 and the foundation of North American paediatrics." Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition 2000. Rare in the first edition; we find no copies for sale in trade May 2019 with the last copy at auction sold at the Streeter Sale. ATWATER 1743 citing the 1895 edition; STREETER 4159; Grolier American 100 97. D. Appleton and Company unknown books
189544165New York December 8th 1895. Autograph letter signed on recto and verso of single cream laid sheet 22x14.5cm.; approx. 85 words; dated 26 West 61st N.Y. Dec 8th and simply addressed to "Parker" presumably Stanton's friend and fellow-suffragist Parker Pillsbury 1809-1898 who with Stanton had co-edited the women's rights newsletter "The Revolution" twenty years earlier. Faint mail folds small unobtrusive archival paper remnants to two corners from having been previously mounted else Near Fine and still quite fresh. Brief contemporary 1897 pencil note at bottom edge "Mrs. Stanton - born Nov. 12 1815 Now past 82 - C.E.R." though based on contents we would place this letter as having been written around 1895. Brief but significant missive addressed to Parker Pillsbury the American minister and women's suffrage advocate regarding a copy of Stanton's "Woman's Bible" she had just sent him. "I wonder if I could interest them a "Mrs. White" and one other sufficiently in the Woman's Bible to sell ten or twenty copies in there sic respective woman's clubs It is published at my expense hence I am trying to push its circulation." The controversial "Woman's Bible" a series of commentaries pertaining to the portions of the Bible relating to women was published in two parts in 1895 and 1898 and composed almost entirely by Stanton alone her committee of Bible revisors finding the project too controversial and harmful to the cause of women's suffrage. Clearly at the time of writing this letter the book was still meeting with resistance thus our placing the date at around 1895 Stanton turning to Pillsbury as a potential source of influential and wealthy patrons she inquires "Is Mrs. White still living & working Is that rich woman that Mr. illegible used to visit in Maine living". But by 1897 the book had become a best seller though many of the members of the women's suffrage movement would continue to distance themselves from it. This letter quite significant as a testimony to the aging Stanton organizer of the historical 1848 Seneca Falls Convention and her continuing indefatigable efforts and initial lack of support in getting this work circulated. See Tracy A. Thomas "Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Feminist Foundation of Family Law" 2016 pp. 15 & 223. 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
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
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
1923List327New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1923. First Edition. With an autograph letter signed with the envelope affixed to the front pastedown. With the bookplate of John and Rebecca Lowrie on front free endpaper. Lowrie reviewed the work for the New York Post and her review of the book affixed to the half-title. Very Good. Neith Boyce was an author and theater artist who worked across genres publishing a range of works and co-founding the Provincetown Players. Boyce and her husband Hutchins Hapgood were at the social center of a large circle of writers and artists including Gertrude Stein Georgia O'Keefe and Djuna Barnes. Their papers held at Yale provide rich insight into their artistic and literary era. <br /> <br /> Proud Lady was the second-to-last novel Boyce wrote and it was apparently her favorite. The novel is the story of Mary Carlin a woman who seeks spiritual perfection in others and who because of her pride cannot make herself leave her unfaithful husband. Rebecca Lowrie in her review written for the New York Post and included here states "all the vividness of the setting the touches which make the people so sure a part of their surroundings are secondary to the tragic figure of the proud lady and the victims of her pride."<br /> <br /> Boyce's letter to Lowrie effusively thanks her for her review of the book which from her tone appears to have been misunderstood by other critics. She writes "I have just seen your review of my novel Proud Lady. It is the most intelligent and best-written review that I have seen so far and I would like to convey to you my appreciation and the pleasure your attitude toward the book has given me." <br /> <br /> Overall a very nice association and a very good copy of an uncommon book. Some light wear and rubbing a few faint scuffs to cloth on the front board slightest bowing to spine but very good. Letter near fine with minimal wear. <br /> <br /> $450. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
