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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
WELLER9780358126607New. New book. unknown books
1952661Speigner Al 1952. Very good. Volume 1 Number 6. 6821pp. Folio. Original pictorial wrappers linen spine. Light wear and soiling contemporary presentation inscription on front cover. Internally clean. Scarce prison periodical published at Draper Prison and representing "the entire inmate body of the Alabama penal system." The magazine began publication in September 1951 and was issued monthly. This issue includes a lengthy article on parole in Alabama and whether or not it has been successful detailing the history of the laws in question. It also has several cartoons drawn by prisoners a sports quiz an article on baseball season a brief biography of one of the prison staff members a library corner and more. The final leaf is a pin up of the month featuring Marilyn Monroe. Two serial records located in OCLC at the University of Alabama and at Samford University also in Alabama. unknown books
19168373New York: Small Maynard & Co 1916. First Edition. Green cloth boards stamped in white; 363pp; frontis. Light wear to tips of corners and spine ends; brief splits to front hinge internal; bit of offsetting to title page from color frontispiece. A solidly Very Good copy. HANNA 1096: ".young bank employee falsely convicted of embezzlement spends two years in Sing Sing before being cleared." Octavo. Small, Maynard & Co unknown books
190645142Chicago: Charles H. Kerr 1906 but after 1915. First Kerr Edition. 12mo 17.5cm; photo-illustrated wrappers stapled; 302pp. Mild wear to extremities some faint scattered foxing to upper text edges else a bright Near Fine copy. WOODBRIDGE 1043 mistakenly identifying this Kerr edition as the first printing. However see BAL 11897 for the following note: ".advertised in Appeal to Reason. Girard Kansas Oct. 27 1906.there were many reprints; the earliest probably not before 1912 was issued by Charles H. Kerr & Company's Co-Operative." In fact the address given for Charles H. Kerr on the rear wrapper dates this edition to 1915 or later supporting Blanck's assertion of priority. Charles H. Kerr unknown books
19649006138New York: Golden Press 1964. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. THE ARTS OF MANKIND series edited by André Malraux and Georges Salles. Illustrated throughout in black-and-white and color. Bound in the publisher's original red cloth with the front cover and spine stamped in gilt. The dust jacket has one minor closed tear. <br/><br/> Golden Press hardcover books
19649003990New York: Golden Press 1964. Fine condition in a fine box. THE ARTS OF MANKIND series edited by André Malraux and Georges Salles. Illustrated throughout in black-and-white and color. Bound in the publisher's original red cloth with the front cover and spine stamped in gilt. In a custom made matching red cloth drop back folding box with the spine stamped in gilt. <br/><br/> Golden Press hardcover books
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
1953140940480New York: Simon and Schuster 1953. First Edition. Very Good/Near Fine. First edition. vi 241 pp. Publisher's red cloth stamped in black. Very Good with thoroughly age-toned contents edges a little foxed and dust-soiled in an unfaded example of the rare dust jacket Near Fine with a tiny chip along the top edge of the front panel flaps a little foxed and have offsetting. The Louisiana-born author's final novel a well-regarded "locked room mystery" with a twist; it is an unlocked room from which the wealthy murdered man should have escaped but did not. An even odder mystery is the book's dedication: to Herman Kahn the famous nuclear war theorist upon whom the character of Dr. Strangelove was based. Explain that! Simon and Schuster unknown books
190919030New York: Mitchell Kennerly 1909 but later. Original red cloth boards lettered in white on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 329pp. Tight Near Fine copy in slightly soiled dustwrapper stating "Third Edition" at base of front panel. Dates on title page and copyright match 1909 however jacket states "Third Edition." Harris's only foray into "proletarian" fiction--a novel set among the anarchist victims of the events surrounding Chicago's Haymarket Square bombing of 1886. Published by Kennerley in 1909 and reissued by Harris in the Twenties; it is unclear whether the current issue is in fact from a third re-setting of the text or simply a remainder with a new dustwrapper. We note that the jacket sits about 1/16" short for the book but we offer it as received. Mitchell Kennerly unknown books
1905276457Portland: Thomas Mosher 1905. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. One of 500 copies printed on Van Gelder handmade paper. With frontispiece protrait. Compiled from Leaves of Grass. In the Thomas Mosher blue paper-covered boards with paper spine-label. Myerson C-19.1.c. Near Fine binding. Thomas Mosher unknown books
194338377Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company 1943. First Tower Books Edition. Preceded by the 1936 edition published by Greenberg. Octavo 21cm; navy blue cloth with titles stamped in mauve on spine and front cover; dark pink topstain; vi248pp. Edgeworn spine ends nudged and a bit frayed with a bit of board exposure along upper and lower edges; internally clean; Very Good and sound. "Tully had been boxing professionally for several years on and off in his twenties the jacket blurb credits him with 43 bouts and had long been urged by Mencken and others to use this experience as fodder for a novel. He finally gave in influenced in no small part by his disdain for previous boxing fiction by such non-pugilists as Ernest Hemingway and George Bernard Shaw" PROUTY 11. HANNA 3566. The World Publishing Company unknown books
184325566Philadelphia and New York: Various 1843. Three novels by these women writers individually published & separately paginated bound in one volume including: The Cadet De Colobrieres. A Tale of the Old Convents of Paris. Translated from the French of Madame Charles Reybaud. Complete in One Volume. Philadelphia: Carey and Hart 1847. 91 pages; with a one-page Preface by the un-named translator. Henriette Etiennette Fanny Arnaud Reybaud 1802-1871 French writer who wrote under the name of Madame Charles Reybaud and other noms-de-plume. Title page with the signature at top margin of V.E. Baudry May 1847. Cleveland: A Tale of the Catholic Church. New York: Burgess Stringer & Co. 1847. 105 pages printed double-column. Author is not noted on title page; by British writer Mary Anne Georgia Murray-Gartshore. d. 1851. Tipped on to the title page are two thin strips of paper with a clipped signature and date of V.E. Baudry Sept. 1847. Life in Sweden. The President's Daughters. Part II Nina. By Frederika Bremer translated by Mary Howitt. New York Published by Harper & Brothers 1843. 137 pages printed double column. Fredrika Bremer 1801-1865 Swedish writer feminist reformer; Mary Howitt Mary Howitt 1799-1888 prolific English author; nee Botham; published translations from Frederika Bremer and Hans Andersen and successful children's books. DNB. Previous owner small bookplate of S.M. DuPont on the front endpaper; binder's note in pencil on back free endpaper "Dupont ½ roan" Approx. 6" x 9 1/8" size; bound in blue & black striped & marbled paper covered boards black leather spine and corners gilt spine titles and simple rule-lines gilt. Much rubbing and wear to the boards & corners; some foxing and spotting to the contents; in good condition. . First Edition. Leather. Good. Various 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
1960016844New York: Bookman Associates 1960. 118p. dj. Bookman Associates 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
1907223971Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1907. Number 753 of 1000 sets. Numerous plates and illustrations after George Cruikshank Hans Tegner F. H. Townsend Velazquez John La Farge Howard Pyle Gustave Doré Winslow Homer F. T. Merrill John Leech Randolph Caldecott F. O. C. Darley et al. Each volume includes a photogravure frontispiece including one by Chile Hassam. A facsimile of the original manuscript of "The Children's Hour" by Longfellow. 10 vols. 8vo. Brown buckram brown morocco spine labels. Very good. 10. Number 753 of 1000 sets. Numerous plates and illustrations after George Cruikshank Hans Tegner F. H. Townsend Velazquez John La Farge Howard Pyle Gustave Doré Winslow Homer F. T. Merrill John Leech Randolph Caldecott F. O. C. Darley et al. Each volume includes a photogravure frontispiece including one by Chile Hassam. A facsimile of the original manuscript of "The Children's Hour" by Longfellow. 10 vols. 8vo. There is a wide variety of stories ranging from traditional favorites like Puss in Boots and Little Red Riding Hood Grimm's tales; modern stories by John Ruskin Kate Wiggin Charles Dickens Washington Irving Bret Harte Rudyard Kipling Sir Walter Scott Edgar Allan Poe Edward Everett Hale and Louisa May Alcott; poetical works by Robert Louis Stevenson Henry Longfellow Charles Kingsley Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning Alfred Tennyson and Samuel Taylor Coleridge; and many others. A fascinating set of children's literature very nicely compiled. Houghton Mifflin unknown books
188635986Boston: D. Lothrop & Company 1886. Color pictorial glazed paper boards. A VG copy. 52 6 pp. Illustrated with pen-n-ink drawings printed in maroon. 5-7/16" x 4-1/2" <br/><br/>Story of two children: Chris & Chrissy Cherryblow. Scarce title: not found on OCLC. D. Lothrop & Company hardcover books
193714533New York: Viking Press 1937. First Edition. Octavo 21.5cm. Original tan cloth red topstain 558pp; dustjacket. Slight lean to spine trivial spotting to foredge else binding tight and pages clean. Dustjacket is unclipped but front panel is separated at spine fold chipped with several closed tears. Good or better. Presentable copy of Halper's most straightforwardly radical novel written after his decided move to the Left following negative responses by leftist critics to his first two novels. HANNA 1548. RIDEOUT p.298. Viking Press 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
197716185JNew York: Sotheby Parke Bernet 1977. First Edition. Part Two only for the second session of the three part auction. The very rare deluxe hardbound edition limited to only 35 copies specially printed on Cotrlea French Grat paper. Issued to the public paperbound on different paper only a handful of very special people were presented with the attractively bound edition of the sessions in full maroon cloth with labels. The Part Two catalogue of the massive auction sale of 20th Century modern first editions of what was the greatest sale of such material ever held there is not another auction even close. The depth and quality of the books many in remarkable presentation copies with terrific associations letters and manuscripts assembled by Jonathan Goodwin was an amazing achievement. The catalogues is profusely illustrated reproducing letters and inscriptions and rare dust jackets. Near fine copy with the prices-realized sheets laid in listing the price for which every item sold. Sotheby Parke Bernet hardcover books
1972152678London: Thames and Hudson 1972. First edition. Softcover. The simultaneous paperback edition. Includes a small portfolio of photographs from each Marc Riboud Roman Vishniac Bruce Davidson Gordon Parks Ernst Haas Hiroshi Hamaya Donald McCullen and W. Eugene Smith A near fine copy in wrappers with some very minor wear and with a former owner's small artistic stamp on the front free endpaper. A terrific anthology of images. Thames and Hudson unknown books
197226018New York: Grossman Publishers 1972. A touch of wear to the extremities else near fine in cloth boards in a near fine jacket. First Edition. Quarto. Illustrated throughout in color and black-and-white with plates by Marc Riboud Dr. Roman Vishniac Bruce Davidson Gordon Parks Ernst Haas Hiroshi Hamaya Donald McCullin and W. Eugene Smith. Edited by Cornell Capa. Publisher's advance copy ticket laid in. New York: Grossman Publishers unknown books
193446764N.p.: S.i. 1934. Holograph manuscript composed in dark blue ink on 152 numbered leaves rectos and housed in a bespoke chemise and slipcase by Barrieri. With presentation inscription from Cobb to MGM film produced and screenwriter Samuel Marx in pencil at upper right corner of title leaf: "Original manuscript copy for Sam Marx Esq / with my compliments / Irvin S. Cobb." A heavily-revised draft with extensive holograph additions and elisions in pencil and in pen throughout marking substantial textual differences between this and the final draft of the screenplay. Mild wear and handling; preliminary leaves with faint creasing to extremities with subtle toning to title leaf; Very Good or better. Slipcase with some light wear and minute board exposure to points around opening else Near Fine. Early unpublished manuscript treatment of the 1939 Paramount Studios film Our Leading Citizen directed by Alfred Santell with a screenplay by Jack Moffitt. A "Capital vs. Labor" story set in a once-small town that has evolved into an industrial city and centered around Lem Schofield an attorney and homespun philosopher and Clay Clinton son of Schofield's deceased partner. Clinton in love with Schofield's daughter and anxious for quick success joins the employ of J.T. Tapley the town's corrupt and influential industrialist. "When Tapley imposes a ten percent wage cut at his factory the workers walk out on strike precipitating a labor war. Lem immediately withdraws as Tapley's attorney but Clay ignorant of the nefarious tactics that Tapley is planning stays on. To crush the strike Tapley calls in a gang of strikebreakers led by Shep Muir. While pacifist union leader Jim Hanna struggles to end the strike peacefully communist agitator Jerry Perkins arrives in town to advocate radicalism and violence. Riots break out and amid an atmosphere of fear and suffering Lem steps in to quell the unrest. After insuring the arrest of agitators Peters and Muir Lem works to institute a labor settlement and Clay finally recognizing Lem's virtues nominates him for the position of United States Senator" TCM. While the final script faulted greedy capitalists and violent revolutionaries alike the film was blacklisted by V.J. Jerome head of the communist cultural commission who got an early look at the script and together with film critic Howard Rushmore deemed it potentially anti-communist. S.i. unknown books
2007USOCDEA00mmBiblical Archaeology Society 2007. Very Good. Society Biblical Archaeology. The Dead Sea Scrolls. Society Biblical Literature. Washington D.C.: Biblical Archaeology Society 2007. 95pp. Illustrated. Bibliography. 4to. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with light rubbing to edges. Biblical Archaeology Society paperback books
