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197912223New York: Andy Warhol Books/Grosset & Dunlap 1979. First edition. Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Hardcover with dustjacket Warhol's first photography book with 360 b/w photos of friends and celebrities most of them both. 4to 10 x 11 inches. 255 pages. Signed on the half-title page "To Kevin and Steven / his pushy manager / Love/ pushy Andy Warhol" adding below the title a large sketch of a heart signed "AW" and an additional similarly signed heart drawing on the opposite-facing blank. Nicely bound in black tyvek with a cover design referencing the original dust jacket of the edition and including actual elements of that dust jacket incorporated into the design including Warhol's face in profile. And sold together with the original dj flap also signed "Andy Warhol" with the signature quite faded corners worn but suitable as a nice bookmark for the volume!<br>A more unusual than generally encountered copy of this volume sometimes found signed twice but rarely with several added sketches and such an amusing inscription. Andy Warhol Books/Grosset & Dunlap hardcover books
188638609New York: F. M. Lupton 1886. Early printing with the rear wrapper advert listing through No. 123 in the series. OCLC records two holding institutions: Yale & the Huntington. Printed self wrappers sewn. Age toning to paper. Two stab holes in margin along spine. A VG copy of this rare title. 16 pp text double column. Ornamental masthead. Folio. 11-5/8" x 8-3/8" <br/><br/> F. M. Lupton 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
17781322861Hartford: Printed by Watson and Goodwin for the author 1778. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 6 cxx 160 pages; VG; bound in contemporary calf boards newly rebacked in matching paneled spine green label with gilt titling; pastedowns preserved; The New Hampshire Historical Society bookplate to front pastedown embossed stamp to title page; lacking half-title page; scarce; shelved case 9. Evans: "The first work of over one hundred pages printed in Hartford.The second volume printed at Hartford in 1782 is of excessive rarity"; <br /> <br><br /> <br><br /> Evans: 16059. Sabin: 72991. 1322861. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Printed by Watson and Goodwin, for the author hardcover books
1778WRCAM10515Hartford: Printed by Watson and Goodwin for the Author 1778. 4cxx160pp. Volume I only. Half title. Contemporary paper over birch boards. Front board lacking rear board detached. Lightly dampstained and evenly tanned. Good. "The first work of over one hundred pages printed in Hartford.The second volume printed at Hartford in 1782 is of excessive rarity" - Evans. The lengthy introduction treats the Netherlands from the earliest period to the accession of Charles II or Charles V Emperor of Germany; the first part treats the accession of Charles V to the "dismission" of Leicester and the defeat of the Spanish Armada. EVANS 16059. SABIN 72991. Printed by Watson and Goodwin, for the Author hardcover 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
1957174857Rochester NY: Aperture 1957. First edition. Softcover. An early issue of this long running photographic periodical that is now in it's eighth decade. Features 14 black and white images by Shirley Burden of Ellis Island along with text contributions by Roman Frietag Henry Holmes Smith Beaumont Newhall and others. A very good copy in stapled wrappers thart are lightly soiled and with some minor wear and features images by Walter Synder and Ansel Adams. An uncommon issue. Aperture unknown books
1957174858Rochester NY: Aperture 1957. First edition. Softcover. An early issue of this long running photographic periodical that is now in it's eighth decade. This issue focuses on the critical examination of photographs known as "reading." Includes images by Dr. Otto Steinert Frederick Sommer Shirley Burden 2 images from her Ellis Island project Imogen Cunningham Alfred Stieglitz and Clarence Laughlin. A near fine copy in stapled wrappers with some very minor wear and feature images by John Deakin and Ansel Adams. Uncommon. Aperture unknown books
197643983Provo: Brigham Young University 1976. Paperback. Very Good. 52pp. Edges tanned else very good in publsher's wraps. <br/><br/> Brigham Young University paperback books
46769V.p.: 1946-47. Archive of six TNS typed notes signed five TLS typed letters signed and one Western Union telegram from Upton Sinclair to the Paris literary agent and translator Jean-Robert Lamour better known by his pseudonym Yves Malartic. Together with ten of Lamour's retained carbons of communications to Sinclair and others. Correspondence spans the period January 1946 to December 1947 and deals with Lamour's efforts to secure publishing contracts for French-language translations of Sinclair's works including The Jungle They Call Me Carpenter Our Lady and others as well as Sinclair's ongoing work on the Lanny Budd series. Sinclair's letters range from notes of as few as four lines to letters of two pages the entirety comprising approximately 2500 words with numerous hand-corrections and signatures in blue or black ink. Lamour's letters to Sinclair comprise nine pieces of correspondence of which three are partial and one draft contract with a total of approximately 3000 words. Three of Lamour's letters are in French addressed to French correspondents all on matters concerning the translation and publication of Sinclair's works. Occasional toning; old folds; onion-skin carbons creased at margins; Very Good. Excellent archive of original correspondence dating from Sinclair's productive wartime and post-War period during which he produced the monumental eleven-volume Lanny Budd series of novels including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Dragon's Teeth. <br/><br/>The correspondence appears to have been struck up by Lamour in late 1945 those letters not present here seeking rights to translate and publish a number of Sinclair's early proletarian novels including The Jungle They Call Me Carpenter Samuel the Seeker as well as such shorter works as No Pasaran! The Flivver King Depression Island and others. Lamour born ca. 1911 at this date in the early stages of his literary career would go on to translate numerous works by American authors in particular Chester Himes and Alex Haley under the pseudonym "Yves Malartic." In his letters to Sinclair Lamour/Malartic shows careful reading and textual analysis of the novels under consideration expresses admiration for Sinclair's body of work and is clearly excited about exercising a newly-available liberty to publish leftist works after the long occupation of Paris stating in one undated letter: "France is groping for a notion of human socialism and french sic people are very interested in everything that refers to U.S.A." At another point Lamour dismisses the publisher Bernard Grasset who had turned down several of Sinclair's works for translation during war-time: "In 1944 Grasset has been deprived of his ownership for collaboration and a manager has been appointed by the government." indeed following the dismissal of its principal the firm of Grasset would become the primary publisher for many of Sinclair's works in France. <br/><br/>Sinclair's replies range from long admiring letters to brief acknowledgments and notes of transmittal. Throughout he shows concern not only for his own legacy among French readers but for the wellbeing of his putative translator - Lamour who does in fact appear to have been driven by a somewhat altruistic impulse at one point appears to suggest that he is willing to translate and edit Sinclair's works without compensation to which Sinclair replies: "." Sinclair's ongoing consuming work on Presidential Mission and One Clear Call the eighth and ninth installments in his Lanny Budd series forms a backdrop to the entire correspondence; at one point he attempts to engage Lamour's assistance with background research on One Clear Call; at several others he begs off new writing assignments because of the all-consuming nature of his work even declining to read a recently-published short story by Lamour claiming that all his energies are consumed by the Lanny Budd project. Indeed Sinclair's output during this period was phenomenal: in the two-year span in which these letters were written Sinclair well into his sixties produced three massive novels - A World to Win Presidential Mission and One Clear Call - and was well along on a fourth O Shepherd Speak! published in 1949. <br/><br/>While Sinclair letters are hardly an oddity in commerce the current archive of correspondence is noteworthy for providing real insight not only into Sinclair's working methods but also into the post-war literary climate in France where it is clear that writers on the left who had been radically disenfranchized during the long Occupation were eager to take on any project that might re-establish their careers while also hopefully putting food on the table. unknown books
2165As published in a later edition of Antiquae Urbis Splendor orig. 1612-1628. Pl. 74. Engraving. Image: 7 X 9 ¼. Margins: 9 ¼ x 13 ½. Includes the legend below. In fine condition. Giacomo Lauro was a printmaker active in the map and view industry of mid-sixteenth to mid-seventeenth century Rome. unknown books
0000406Guadalajara Jalisco Mexico:: No publisher. Number 21 lacking supplement if issued age tanned lightly soiled & foxed soft vertical crease occasional edge wear including small losses text unaffected Very Good. 12 issues: second series numbers 3 4 & 6 September October & December 1951; numbers 7 8 9 10 11 & 12 & January through July 1952; & third series numbers 21 22 & 23 January/ February March/ April & May/ June 1953. Oblong 8vo 8 or 12 pp. each illustrated with supplements for each issue but one. Publisher's printed wraps partially unopened. <br /><br />Ariel an obscure Mexican journal of fine arts & literature was published erratically in a total of just 26 issues between January 1949 & October 1953. Each issue features poetry criticism reviews & more from contributors including Concha Monica Agustin Basave Gloria Riestra Carlos Valdes & others.Editor Carballo author journalist & one of the most recognized literary critics of Mexico co-founded with Carlos Fuentes the Mexican Magazine of Literature. Good friends with Gabriel Garcia Marquez he none-the-less was scathing in his critique of One Hundred Years of Solitude describing Garcia Marquez as having "left humility behind" & going "through the twisted ways of pride self-complacency." Perhaps his own greatest critic Carballo described himself & critics in general as "an annoying but necessary figure … the critic is the spoiler the movie villain of the West the resentful the bitter the ogre and the witch of children's tales … he demands that others take risks while he looks at the bulls from the barrier." Quite uncommon OCLC finds incomplete holdings at the University of Texas & the University of Colorado. No publisher paperback books
1985157795Williamstown Mass: Williams College. Museum of Art 1985. Softcover. VG- tiny stain to lower right corner of all pages. Red and white printed wraps. 47 pp. 29 works reproduced some in color. Published to accompany an exhibition held in Williams College Museum of Art 27 January-17 March 1985; Davison Art Center Wesleyan University 28 August-18 October 1985. Catalogue lists 77 works two essays. checklist of the exhibition. Williams College. Museum of Art paperback books
48638Atlantic City: Atlantic Foto Service n. d. Ca 1920. Color printed paper covers now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Modest wear Very Good. Unpaginated though 16 pp. Page 1 a textual description of the city. 31 captioned full color images of divers City & Boardwalk scenes 30 postcard size 2 / page. 8-5/8" x 6-5/8" <br/><br/> Atlantic Foto Service unknown books
197216565New York: Overlook Press 1972. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 416pp. Mild wear and aging still Very Good or better free of markings in lightly rubbed dustwrapper. Overlook Press unknown books
45377London: Frederick Warne and Co n. d. Ca 1870s. Original publisher's green cloth binding with elaborate gilt & black stamping professionally refurbished. Modest wear with faint poi to ffep. Gilt bright a pleasing VG copy. Unpaginated. Illustrated with 24 stunning chromolithographed plates by Petherick Henley &c. 4to. 10-5/8" x 9" <br/><br/> Frederick Warne and Co hardcover books
1980161421Galerie Roman Norbert Ketterer 1980. Softcover. VG Only light wear or slight cover soiling seen. Cream and illus. paper wraps 168 pp. color and BW illus. Text is in German. On cover: Das Werk: Ernst Ludwig Kirchners Malerei Grafik Plastik Zeichnung. This illustrated catalogue presents a whopping 296 pieces of artwork rendered by German expressionist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner 1880-1938 in honor of his 100th birthday. A terrific resource for this artist. Galerie Roman Norbert Ketterer paperback books
19031236Austin: S.B. Hill 1903. Very good. 20pp. Oblong 12mo. Original printed wrappers string tied. Light soiling and wear to wraps; small patch of worming to lower edge of wear wrapper. Contemporary ink annotation at top edge of initial leaf. Minor toning and dust soiling. Scarce promotional for the city of Austin as a health oasis and winter getaway at the beginning of the 20th century produced for distribution by the capital city's famed Driskill Hotel. The introductory text hails Austin as a city without disease and boasts that any introduced illness "would die out for the lack of congenial material to sustain it" owing to its ideal location and perfect climate. Among the other benefits of the city touted within are its educational opportunities with a dedicated description of St. Edward's College its cultural offerings and of course the Driskill "one of the most palatial and imposing buildings of the South" with its own artesian well and "the only hotel in Austin having elevators its own electric light cold storage and steam laundry plants and private wire connecting with the different telegraph and telephone companies." The work is illustrated with five photographic images of the hotel and its interior and well as several others depicting scenes around Austin and its architectural points of interest. We locate only two copies at Baylor and the Austin Public Library. S.B. Hill unknown books
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
193346256North Montpelier VT: Driftwood Press / Walter John Coates 1933. First Edition. Small slim 12mo 16cm.; publisher's tan pictorial card wrappers yapp edges; 238pp.; printed on stiff tan handmade stock. Light edge wear faint dampstaining along spine edge of upper and rear cover not bleeding into textblock; Very Good overall internally fine and unopened. "Driftwood Chapbook No. 2." Anthology edited by the founder of the "Rebel Poets" the present title including poems by Witter Bynner Stanton A. Coblentz Carl Sandburg and many others. From the introduction by the series editors: "They the editors share with Ralph Cheyney a preference for the spirit of Gandhi rather than the spirit of Lenin though admiring both men. They favor non-violent noncooperation over mass violence as a method of social change" p. 4. Driftwood Press / Walter John Coates unknown books
194548794Wichita Kansas: Published by The National Baseball Congress of America 1945. 1st printing thus. Red & white paper covers stapled. General wear & soiling. Some age-toning to paper. Overall Very Good. 152 pp. Suite of Order Blanks printed on yellow paper at rear. Numerous b/w half-tone photographic images throughout. 8" x 5-1/2" <br/><br/> Published by The National Baseball Congress of America unknown books
2162As published in a later edition of Antiquae Urbis Splendor orig. 1612-1628. Pl. 61. Engraving. Image: 7 X 9 ¼. Margins: 9 ¼ x 13 ½. Includes the legend below. In fine condition. Giacomo Lauro was a printmaker active in the map and view industry of mid-sixteenth to mid-seventeenth century Rome. unknown books
2163As published in a later edition of Antiquae Urbis Splendor orig. 1612-1628. Pl. 61. Engraving. Image: 7 X 9 ¼. Margins: 9 ¼ x 13 ½. Includes the legend below. In fine condition. Giacomo Lauro was a printmaker active in the map and view industry of mid-sixteenth to mid-seventeenth century Rome. unknown books
194835854.1n. p.: Litho in U.S.A. 1948. 1st printing. Printed red paper wrappers stapled. Some wear & soiling. A VG copy. 47 1 pp. Illustrated with drawings & b/w photographic images. 7-1/2" x 5" <br/><br/> Litho in U.S.A. unknown books
196022795San Francisco: City Lights Books 1960. First Edition. Wraps. Very good . 4to. Side-stapled photographic cover wraps. Offset duplicated rectos only. Very good plus. Minor wear. Else sound and clean. 22pp. plus cover. <br/><br/>The brainchild of Allen Ginsberg Bob Kaufman and John Kelly BEATITUDE was originally conceived as a weekly newsletter for the North Beach literary scene publishing the first issue in April 1959. Though it quickly abandoned that schedule the little mag soon became an important outlet for beat literature and is now one of the defining publications of the early mimeo revolution. As Bob Kaufman put it: "Designed to extoll beauty and promote the beatific life among the various mendicants neo-existentialists christs poets painters musicians and other inhabitants and observers of North Beach." Originally printed out of the Bread and Wine Mission run by Congregationalist minister Pierre Delattre who also published in Beatitude the magazine included the work of its founders as well as Jack Kerouac Michael McClure and numerous other notable San Francisco poets and writers. This issue marks the first under the auspices of City Lights and features Allen Ginsberg Jack Spicer Bob Kaufman Philip Whalen Lawrence Ferlinghetti and others. All issues of BEATITUDE's original run it ceased publication in the early 1960s but resumed in the late are now rare. Clay and Phillips 80-81. City Lights Books paperback books
