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2009019515Carmel CA: Photography West Graphics 2009. First Edition Limited. Square Quarto. Edited and designed by Carol Williams. There were two editions of this work one limited to 375 copies and one of 1200 copies. The present copy is bound in beige cloth lettered in gilt in cloth slipcase. The other copy is bound in a basket-weave leather/suede. Neither copy is numbered. Neither copy includes an original photograph. They were purchased from the original owner "unopened" still in publisher's shrink wrap most likely an out-of-series copy. A fine as new copy. Photography West Graphics unknown books
2009016367Carmel CA: Photography West Graphics 2009. First Edition. Fine/Fine. Square Quarto. unpaged 67 rich photographic plates of a large work issued in a small print run. Bound in a lovely soft suede like leather with a basket weave design with matching design on endpapers. OCLC shows copies at the Getty Metropolitan Museum of Art and Princeton. A pristine copy protected with dust jacket in mylar. Photography West Graphics unknown books
19852566461985. unbound. 9 x 6.5-inch black-and-white photo of Polanski standing casually and facing the camera with an apple in his right hand -- no place no date circa 1985. Signed across his shirt with excellent contrast. Quadruple-matted in white gray and black and set in a black frame measuring 16 x 13 inches. Fine condition.<br/><br/> French-born film director producer writer and actor.<br/><br/> unknown books
198916569Detroit: Wayne State University Press 1989. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 347pp; illus; includes bibliography. Fine unmarked copy in lightly rubbed and dusted jacket; Near Fine. Wayne State University Press unknown 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
191636900Essex Junction Vt: Roscoe Printing House 1916. 1st printing presumed. Printed grey stiff-stock paper covers. Text-block stapled. Staples show rust with small stains to rear covers. Square & tight. Withal a VG copy. 180 pp. Frontispiece of the author. 7-1/2" x 5-1/4" <br/><br/> Roscoe Printing House unknown books
2011219136Poughkeepsie: Vassar College Libraries 2011. Paperback. 52p. 9x11 inches frontis-portrait preface essay/appreciation checklist illustrated with facsimiles and photos contributor bios fine first edition trade paperback catalog of the exhibit in plain white wraps and green decorative dj with title plate affixed front cover. Vassar College Libraries paperback 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
1981242223New York: Slovak-American Cultural Center 1981. Paperback. 98p. 6x9 inches trade paperback illus. lightest edgewear to covers stamped "Duplicate Hoover Institution" but no other library markings else very good. Commemorative profile of the Slovak national hero who died in 1919 in a crash landing in Slovakia upon his return from Italy. This volume was published upon the 100th anniversary of his birth in 1880. Slovak-American Cultural Center paperback books
192847926New York: Boni & Liveright 1928. First Edition. Octavo ca. 20cm.; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket by Irving Politzer; 272pp. Light chipping and a few short closed tears to jacket extremities spine very slightly sunned; Near Fine in Very Good still quite brilliant jacket. Hard-boiled novel by the sometime vagrant novelist Maxwell Bodenheim following the fate of Georgie May a "vicious sullen cocotte" living in an unnamed city in Arkansas. The work was published on the heals of Bodenheim and Liveright's obscenity trial for the former's earlier novel "Replenishing Jessica" 1925 advertised on the rear jacket panel: "Bodenheim is certainly an iconoclast--but there is no question of the perfect study he has made of a lustful woman nor is there a single offensive word in the book." St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Similarly a contemporary critic wrote "'Georgie May' wallows in a sea of bilge and is bound to nauseate the super-sensitive Bay State censors though paradoxically there is nothing stench-like in Bodenheim's vivid novel" Times Union Brooklyn June 3 1928. HANNA 376. Boni & Liveright unknown books
198216649Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press 1982. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 448pp. Includes bibliography. Very Good copy in slightly rubbed and worn dustwrapper. Text clean tight and unmarked. University of North Carolina Press unknown books
193318786New York: Farrar & Rinehart 1933. Reprint. Octavo 20.5cm; light blue cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front panel; red topstain; 342pp. Subtle darkening to cloth at spine and edges light offsetting to endpapers and a few tiny nicks to rear pastedown; Very Good to Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped with shallow chipping tears and creasing to extremities and an old faint dampstain along spine panel most noticeable on verso; Very Good. Tichenor's satirical portait of a Depression-era banker touted on the jacket blurb as "the most withering portrayal of financial boobery in high places that has ever appeared in print." Scarce in or out of dustjacket. HANNA 3512. Farrar & Rinehart 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
19771342448El Salvador: Ministerio De Educacion Direccion De Publicaciones 1977. Second Editions. Softcover. Octavo; G-/paperback; yellow spines with black text; 3 volumes; originally published 1884-1886 these are second editions; covers show modest rubbing wear to exteriors; mildly sunned spines; faux flaps; slight leaning to spines; lightly worn edges and joints; text block exterior edges have some age toning; offset toning inside covers and to endpapers; foxing inside front cover and half title page to vol. 2; shaken bindings; chips to half title page at hinge to vol. 3; frontispiece to vol. 1; gift inscription to fep to vol. 1; small sticker to fep to vol. 1; text in Spanish. Salvadoran Garland: Poetry Collection Of The Bards Of The Republic Of Salvador. 1342448. FP New Rockville Stock. Ministerio De Educacion, Direccion De Publicaciones unknown books
1953269062New York: Pantheon 1953. hardcover. good. Many facsimiles several Illus. 8vo red cloth bottom of spine worn pencil marks in some margins edges of corners worn and bumped. New York: Pantheon Books 1953.<br/><br/> Pantheon unknown books
1963136311New York: Kanrom 1963. First Edition. First Edition. Two volumes oblong 16mo illustrated paper boards. Published by controversial comedian and singer Jackie Kannon and his friend Alex Roman about whom not much is known. The two entrepreneurs also published the "JFK Coloring Book" and a book of poetry called "Poems from the John" largely written by television writer Sol Weinstein. <br/><br/>Jackie Kannon was a night club entertainer singer and comedian who made daring statements about race women's rights birth control and politics much in the vein of Lenny Bruce. Kannon also had ties to mobsters and worked out of a mob-owned establishment known as "The Rat Fink Room" the name likely inspired the title of the first volume. With the popularity of Charles M. Schulz' "Happiness Is a Warm Puppy" 1962published a year earlier Kannon and Roman decided to take their own stance on happiness with these parodies of Schulz' "Peanuts" classics. <br/><br/>Both volumes with spine lean rubbing at the extremities light spine fade and two tiny bruises on the front endpapers "Unhappiness". Uncommon. Kanrom unknown books
200729871Zurich and New York: Edition Voldemeer and Springer 2007. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine. Very thick clothbound quarto. Issued without dustwrapper. 759 pp. text in English. Enormous in scope this book seeks to catalogue all of Szeemann's exhibitions. Booklet of text in Japanese held in a belly band sleeve at rear of volume. Very slight handling wear. A near fine example. Very heavy volume. Addiitional shipping charges may apply. Edition Voldemeer and Springer unknown 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
18794026Paris. Librairie Hachette. 1879. Bound in extravagantly ornate gilt pictorial red Morocco depicting gilt tooled Roman emblematic seals and large embellishment of armour eagles and statuary to front and rear covers. Gilt tooled spine compartments embellished with seals and laurel leaves. Raised bands. White silk moire endsheets. a.e.g. Thick 4to. New Edition. Illustrated with 50 brilliantly illuminated full page tissue-guarded chromolithographic plates. Further illustrated with over 3400 gravure engravings and 30 colour maps. A monumental work in a most impressive Hachette gilt binding - truly one of the most stunning bindings we've encountered. Sumptuously illustrated with eye-boggling iridescent Chromolithographs this extremely rare set is a true work of design art. Some chipping to head and tailpieces to various volumes with some small bits lacking hinges rubbed on various volumes some corners bumped through front cover of Vol. 1 starting mild scattered foxing throughout else Very Good. A bright crisp gleaming gilt gem.Featured Sets. Librairie Hachette. hardcover books
1933027574Mexico: Talleres Graficos Del Museo Nacional De Arquelogia 1933. Octavo. 64 pages ilustrado. Breve estudio sobre del desarrollo general del sistema ferroviario desda la primera concession orogada en 1837 hasta la terminacion de la linea del Sud-Pacifico en 1932 BNMA .Una copia muy buena encuadernada en papel rÃgido envuelto en letras y estampadas en negro sin abrir bordes entonados hojas doradas. Talleres Graficos Del Museo Nacional De Arquelogia unknown books
2009120669New Haven Connecticut: Yale University Press 2009. Hardcover. New in shrinkwrap. Black cloth over boards with gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated dust jacket. xv; 368 pp. 367 color figures. Accompanied the exhibition of the same name organized by The Lewis Walpole Library at Yale University the Yale Center For British Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Includes extensive information about Horace Walpole the rebuilding and decoration of his Strawberry Hill villa and his various art collections he held there. Wonderfully illustrated. Yale University Press hardcover books
48141Nashville Tennessee: Published by Sunday School Board Southern Baptist Convention n. d. 1st printing presumed ca early 1900s. Printed self-wrappers stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Average wear & soiling Very Good. 8 pp. 16mo. 5-3/4" x 3-1/4" <br/><br/>An Old Testament evangelistic sermon beginning with "SOMETHING IS RADICALLY WRONG WITH YOU. You were born with a sinful nature and disposition." Your potential salvation is then detailed in the next 5 pages. Scarce little Baptist pamphlet OCLC records 3 holding institutions. Published by Sunday School Board, Southern Baptist Convention unknown books
190848289New York: American Sports Publishing Company 21 Warren Street 1908. Ca 1908. Blue wrappers with white lettering/design. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Wrappers show wear & a bit of edge chipping. Old clear tape repair to spine paper. Withal Very Good. 12 3 - 44 42 pp Photographic frontispiece of Spalding. Text illustrated with b/w photographic images many from the World Championship Series. 12mo. 6-3/4" x 5-1/8" <br/><br/>Booklet dated from Spalding equipment adverts at rear. American Sports Publishing Company, 21 Warren Street unknown books
194740532Fort Atkinson Wis: Hoard's Dairyman 1947. 1st printing thus. Black & white printed pictorial paper wrappers stapled. Modest wear. VG. 128 pp. Illustrated from photographs. 4 inserted color plates. 9-1/8" x 6-1/8" <br/><br/>"Most diseases grow progressively worse and harder to control the longer they are allowed to exist. Prompt and proper corrective measures can often stop the trouble before any real loss occurs." This booklet addresses such concerns. round worms blackhead lice bronchitis etc etc. A popular work that research suggests began publication in 1923. Hoard's Dairyman unknown books
199650749New York: St. Martin's Press 1996. First Edition. Octavo. Paper-covered boards in dust jacket; x 342pp. Minor foxing to top edge of textblock else a tight clean near-new copy. Dust jacket showing some external wear including some creasing to front cover of jacket and superficial scratches to the back cover. Near Fine in Very Good jacket. St. Martin's Press unknown books
