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1910182769New York: B. W. Huebsch 1910. Hardcover. 54p. letterpress on Normandy Vellum first edition hardbound cased into 8.5x5.7 inch paper over boards with printed paper label deckled edges. A little edgeworn with card peeking through at extremities and light pressure marks and dust-soil. Doggerel by a scholar of the classics. B. W. Huebsch hardcover books
193146589San Francisco: Printed by John Henry Nash 1931. 1st Edition O'Day p. 75. #92 / 350 cc. Green cloth spine over blue-gray paper wrapped boards. Printed paper title label to spine & front cover. Some wear & soiling to boards. Bookplate. Eps tanned. A Very Good copy. v 1 blank 19 3 pp. Small folio. 12-3/4" x 9-3/4" <br/><br/>Per O'Day "This imagined conversation between Williard Fiske and the shade of Walter Savage Landor was written in response to a request from Dr. Aurelia Henry Reinhardt President of Mills College for a contribution to the observance of the two-thousandth anniversary of the birth of Virgil. The author and printed united in dedicating the volume to Dr. Reinhardt." Printed by John Henry Nash hardcover books
04811San Francisco: The Arion Press 1979. A Feat of Craftsmanship Unexcelled in Modern Printing"<br/>A 'Special Presentation Copy' with an Original Pencil Drawing of 'Moby-Dick' on the Title-Page<br/>Additionally Every Illustration Signed in Pencil by Barry Moser<br/><br/>ARION PRESS. MOSER Barry illustrator. MELVILLE Herman. Moby-Dick; or The Whale. San Francisco: The Arion Press 1979.<br/><br/>Limited to 265 copies on Barcham Green handmade paper. This a presentation copy signed by Barry Moser on Colophon "For Ray". Additionally there is a fine pencil drawing of 'Moby-Dick' on the title-page signed by Moser.<br/><br/>Folio 15 x 10 inches; 381 x 254 mm. xv xvi blank 576 577 Epilogue 1 blank 579 Colophon 1 blank pp. <br/><br/>Typeset by Andrew Hoyem in 18 pt. Goudy Modern with Leviathan titling designed especially for this book by Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes. Printed in black and blue on handmade Barcham Green paper bearing a whale watermark. With 100 wood-engravings by Barry Moser. Edited from the edition published by Northwestern University and the Newberry Library by Harrison Hayford Hershel Parker and G. Thomas Tanselle. Special copy with every illustration signed in pencil by Barry Moser.<br/><br/>Publisher's full blue morocco spine lettered in silver. Top edge trimmed others uncut as issued. A very fine copy in the original faded publisher's blue cloth cloth slipcase with printed spine label.<br/><br/>"Barry Moser's intricate boxwood engravings were intended as informative depictions of the whaling industry in general rather than Melville's story in particular thus leaving "the Pequod Ahab and Moby-Dick described only by Melville's words." In order to render his subject matter with authentic detail Moser spent many hours doing research at whaling and maritime museums in New England and San Francisco. This project marks his only collaboration with Andrew Hoyem proprietor of the Press. The sixth book issued by Arion Press Moby-Dick went into production more than ten years after Robert Grabhorn and Andrew Hoyem began planning it." Prospectus.<br/><br/>One of the most important and majestic private press books produced in America. Moser has said "Moby-Dick was the project which broke more new ground for me than any other." <br/><br/>"The printing commenced in March of 1978 and was completed in May of 1979" Colophon.<br/><br/>"Historically the two great typographical edifices of West Coast printing are the Grabhorn Leaves of Grass and the Nash Divine Comedy. Now the Arion Press Moby-Dick takes its place beside them. This constitutes a feat of craftsmanship unexcelled in modern printing." William Everson Fine Print.<br/><br/>In the 1990's The Grolier Club named this edition as one of the most beautiful books of the twentieth century.<br/><br/>Pennyroyal A Miscellany 8.<br/><br/>Arion Press 6. San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1979 unknown books
1927140993London & Edinburgh Scotland: The Homeland Association Ltd 1927. First edition. Hardcover. 52 pages. A collection of poems. A very good copy and with the front panel and flap of the dust jacket laid in. Signed and warmly inscribed by Balfour on the front free endpaper to his aunt. Uncommon thus. The Homeland Association Ltd unknown books
1955175399New York: The Playgoer 1955. Magazine. 48p. including covers 6x9 inches illustrated with ads cast bios very good program/playbil in digest magazine-format in stapled pictorial wraps with cover photo of Tallulah on cover. The 1955 Biltmore Theatre playbill. The Playgoer unknown books
187747442Philadelphia PA: Claxton Ramsen & Haffelfinger 1877. 8vo.; 192pp. Original gilt-stamped cloth spine faded; lacking the slip tipped in at the title page front endpaper adhering to the coated fly leaf. A very good copy. First edition. <br/><br/> Claxton, Ramsen & Haffelfinger hardcover books
189553862Washington DC: The Volta Bureau 1895. First edition 8vo pp. 25 3; printed paper selfwrappers; light soiling to covers with tipped in slip reading "compliments of The Volta Bureau." A speech covering errors in elocution education and a brief aside on Bell's universal system of visible speech. Alexander Melville Bell father of the more famous Alexander Graham Bell was a scientist and inventor in his own right and is aside from being a prominent teacher of elocution invented the precursor to the international phonetic alphabet called the Universal System of Visible Speech. A scarce piece of neographic history. One of two variants the other lacking the slip and with the cover title reset to include "With the Author's Compliments." <br/><br/> The Volta Bureau unknown books
189553863Washington DC: The Volta Bureau 1895. First edition 8vo pp. 25 3; printed paper self-wrappers including "with the Author's Compliments" printed at the head of title; light soiling to covers. A speech covering errors in elocution education and a brief aside on Bell's universal system of visible speech. Alexander Melville Bell father of the more famous Alexander Graham Bell was a scientist and inventor in his own right and is aside from being a prominent teacher of elocution invented the precursor to the international phonetic alphabet called the Universal System of Visible Speech. A scarce piece of neographic history. One of two variants the other lacking the compliments of the author and with a tipped in slip reading "compliments of the Volta Bureau." <br/><br/> The Volta Bureau unknown books
186753566London and NY: Simpkin Marshall & Co. etc. 1867. Inaugural i.e. first edition royal 8vo pp. 126 4 ads; 16 stereotype plates representing the invented alphabet in handwriting and longhand; the text with ample instances of Bell's invention in type; navy pebbled cloth gilt title on cover and spine spine gilt faded extremities rubbed textblock shaken and tender on account of paper quality but holding owner's signature on title page. Bell 1819-1905 the father of Alexander Graham Bell the inventor of the telephone "was the leading teacher of the science of correct speech at the three capitals of England Ireland and Scotland for twenty-two years . His books on elocution remain the standard authority more than 250 editions of The Principles of Elocution and The Standard Elocutionist having been printed" DAB. His visible speech system predates the International Phonetic Alphabet by about 20 years and was his attempt at creating a system of writing that could both represent every sound produced in any language and would also be derived from the physical act of producing sound so that it could be taught to deaf students by way of the physiology of language alone. The system only saw serious use for about a dozen years before it was deemed less efficient than other methods and was abandoned by educators. <br/><br/> Simpkin, Marshall & Co. etc. hardcover books
1880719211880. Bigelow on Bills Notes And Checks Bigelow Melville M. 1846-1921. The Law of Bills Notes And Checks Illustrated by Leading Cases. Boston: Little Brown and Company 1880. xliii 692 pp. Octavo 9-1/4" x 5-3/4". Contemporary sheep blind rules to boards raised bands red and black lettering pieces and blind fillets to spine blind tooling to board edges. A few minor nicks to boards moderate rubbing to extremities hinges cracked. Light toning to text offsetting to margins of endleaves. $250. Second edition. Bigelow was prominent author legal historian and a founder of Boston University Law School. The first edition of his treatise on bills and notes was published in 1871 as Leading and Select American Cases in the Law of Bills of Exchange Promissory Notes and Checks. The second edition is a substantially rewritten work. Catalogue of the Library of the Harvard Law School 1909 I:169. unknown books
1872702011872. Bigelow Melville M. A Treatise on the Law of Estoppel and its Application in Practice. Boston: Little Brown and Company 1872. lxiv 656 pp. 9-1/2" x 6-1/4". Ex-library early 20th century brown buckram with upper red and lower black gilt lettered spine lettering pieces gilt property stamps at foot of spines and embossed property stamps on front covers along with small bar code labels. Spine title: Herman on Estoppel. $50. unknown books
101464hardcover. very good/very good. b/w photo illus. 190pp. 8vo cloth-backed bds. d.w. New York: Simon & Schuster 1978. Very good in a very good dust wrapper.<br/><br/> unknown books
200426802Baltimore Menasha et al.: December 2004. All 8vo 80 issues in all and the property of Frederick Cassidy editor of The Dictionary of American Regional English many with his ownership signature and some with notes mostly check-marks. Includes early nos. 2-4 of volume I nos. 1 3 and 4 of vol. III and vol. 46 no. 1 through vol. 60 no. 3 complete and sporadic issues through vol. 81 no. 3. Includes the 50-year Index. Contributors include Hans Aarsleff David Ingram Dwight Bollinger. Sold on behalf of the offices of The Dictionary of American Regional English. <br/><br/> December unknown books
19112305598New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company 1911. Fourth Edition. Fourth Edition. Very Good/No Jacket. Fourth edition. Front hinge just beginning to weaken. 1911 Hard Cover. xv 2 317 pp. 8vo. Original blue cloth gilt titles and decorations. Black-and-white photographic frontispiece 29 photographic plates comprising 46 total illustrations in text fold-out map follows text. The first account by a crew member of Peary's 1908 voyage to the North Pole by way of Greenland aboard the Roosevelt written by the youngest member of the expedition. Arctic Bibliography 2022: "Popular account of the Peary Expedition 1908-1909 by its youngest American member. Includes account of the author's participation with one of the supporting parties in the first part of the polar march and in a sledge trip along the North Greeland coast with D.B. MacMillan. Frederick A. Stokes Company unknown books
194063440London: Stanley Paul & Co. Good. 1940. Hardcover. 260 pages plus 32 pages of ads. 8 3/4" x 5 1/2" blue cloth with white printing to spine. Spine ends and corners are slightly scuffed contents are justy lightly toned with some foxing at endpages. Overall a Good copy in a clipped chipped and torn dj. . Stanley Paul & Co. hardcover books
1997172992New York: Princeton University Press 1997. First edition. Oblong hardcover. 102 pages. Includes maps of 40 cities from throughout the world. A clean and tight near fine copy in a very good dust jacket that is lightly soiled and with a tear to the top of the rear panel near the spine. Princeton University Press unknown books
19691BRANCH Melville C. COMPREHENSIVE URBAN PLANNING. Beverly Hills: Sage 1970. Small 4to. Cloth. 480 pages. First edition. Being a selective annotated bibliography with related materials. With author subject and title index. Very good. unknown books
1994040027Westport and London: Praeger 1994. xi 203p. original red cloth with two-page autographed letter SIGNED by the author. Praeger unknown books
18833285New York: F.H. Melville Commission Merchant 1883. Broadside 29.8 x 21.5 cm. Illustrated advertisement for the "Perfection" paper bag wrapping paper and twine holder. Includes description dimensions and directions. Stamped with the name and location of "F.H. Melville Commission Merchant" the purveyor of the holder. Fold creases and small spot of discoloration otherwise fine condition. OCLC locates no copies. F.H. Melville, Commission Merchant unknown books
1974301209n.p. McClure Press 1974. 1974. First edition so stated. 4to. Color frontispiece and over 100 color plates by the author. Pictorial dust jacket unclipped. Fine. Unpaginated. Signed by the author on the half title page. Actress Rosalind Russell's copy with his blindstamp on the front free endpaper. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. [n.p., McClure Press, 1974]. hardcover books
195662223New York: Harcourt Brace and Company 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 244 p. A collection of verso by the American poet and lawyer who is perhaps best known for his influential book Making a Poem: An Inquiry Into the Creative Process 1953. Signed and dated by Cane on the half-title. Octavo. Original blue cloth binding with silver titles. Small bookplate to the front pastedown. The dust jacket is price-clipped and lightly worn with a few tape reinforcements to the verso; else very good. Signed by Author. <br/><br/> Harcourt, Brace and Company hardcover books
1956141865New York: Harcourt Brace & Co 1956. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. 244 pages. Advance copy with publisher slip affixed to the front front free endpaper. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with some slight wear. Harcourt, Brace & Co unknown books
195668138New York: Harcourt Brace 1956. First. hardcover. fine/fine. d.w. N.Y.: Harcourt Brace 1956. First Edition. Presentation copy to Mark Van Doren.<br/><br/> Harcourt Brace unknown books
1960WRCLIT46856New York: Harcourt Brace and Company 1960. Gilt cloth. First edition. Review slip laid in. Fine in very good spine-sunned dust jacket. Harcourt, Brace and Company hardcover books
1926516321926. CANE Melville. JANUARY GARDEN. NY: Harcourt Brace and Co. 1926. 8vo. black cloth. Later Printing. Signed presentation from Cane on the title page: "For Helen Fox from Melville Cane Mid-Atlantic 10/7/27."Good some chipping to the paper title label on the spine. $50.00. <br/><br/> hardcover books
