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197352003New Brighton MN: Starosciak 1973. No. 209 of 600 numbered copies. 8vo pp. not numbered. Introduction by Kenneth Starosciak. Paper wraps. A nice copy. The anecdotes appeared in "Yankee Doodle" a satirical magazine between July 24 and September 11 1847. Zachary Taylor was the butt of these nine short satires along with the journalism of the time. Starosciak unknown books
196152002Various: Melville Society 1961. All except December '61 35 copies are one sheet of heavy paper 8-1/2" by 11" folded once into a cover with two pages of text inside. This includes two copies of the Winter 1960 issue. December '61 consists of three mimeographed sheets 8-1/2'"by 11" printed one side and stapled at upper left corner. Slight spotting on the latter; one of the Winter 1960 issues has a stain on front other issues slightly darkened but nice. The newsletter was published quarterly. The December 1961 letter explains that the former publication had been discontinued and that mineographed letters would now be how news would be published. Melville Society unknown books
1904WRCLIT58674Chicago: Herbert S. Stone & Co. 1904. Small octavo. Light green cloth stamped in gilt t.e.g. others untrimmed. Spine sunned as often otherwise a near fine bright copy. First edition. Contributions most reprinted by Artemus Ward Josh Billings Mark Twain Bill Nye Josiah Allen E.W. Townsend John Kendrick Bangs Henry M. Blossom Jr. George Ade Mr. Dooley Hayden Caruth George V. Hobart and Billy Baxter. KRAMER 303. Herbert S. Stone & Co. hardcover books
199444290NY: Simon & Schuster 1994. First printing. 8vo pp. 460. Notes index. Illustrated. A nice copy in very slightly soiled dj. Melville and Hawthorne James and Wharton Porter and Welty Bishop and Lowell. Simon & Schuster unknown books
199151923New Haven CT: Yale 1991. 8vo pp. 27. Paper wraps. A nice copy. [Yale] 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
19816788Westmoreland NH: H.H. Hurley 1981. Limited Edition. Original Wraps. Fine. miniature. Tight bright and unmarred. Red leather boards gilt lettering in blind decorative elements frontispiece. 2 1/16x2 13/16. 14pp. One of 350 copies 24 copies on paper handmade by Henry Morris plus three copies on Morris paper with Cock & Bull Press name at title page this one of an unknown number of deluxe in gilt leather. <br/><br/>Printed letterpress. H.H. Hurley paperback books
1999UNASAHA00MELWilliam Morrow 1999. Fine. Naslund Sena Jeter. Ahab's Wife Or The Star-gazer : a Novel. Melville Herman. New York: William Morrow 1999. xix 668pp. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Near fine with light bumping to head of spine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with bumped head of spine. William Morrow hardcover books
1968177271London: Arts Council of Great Britain / Royal Academy Of Arts 1968. Softcover. Good . covers have scuffs scratches light soiling & foxing. pgs edge toned w/ instances of light foxing otherwise clean. tight binding. oblong white pictorial wraps. approx 65 unpaginated pgs w/ bw & color illustrations. 111 black and white illustrations with 8 color plates. Arts Council of Great Britain / Royal Academy Of Arts unknown books
192113256New York: Dodd Mead and Co 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 248 pp with 40 illustrations and a map of the Aures. Original green cloth bumped at the corners; binding tight and square contents clean. No dust jacket. Account of three winters the author and his wife spent in the remote hill country of Algeria collecting specimens of Berber handicraft for the Pitt-Rivers Museum Oxford. Dodd, Mead and 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
198316416offprint from Scholarly Journal of the Faculty of Philosophy of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 1983. Printed wraps. pp. 85-95. VG. (offprint from Scholarly Journal of the Faculty of Philosophy of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) unknown 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
1943W2706BWashingtion D.C.: National Geographic Society 1943. Original blue paper wraps gilt. Wraps dog eared at corners joints worn with some splitting and some soiling on ffep. Gilt has become a little obscure. Edition prepared at the request of the U.S.Navy during the War in the Pacific. 30 plates in full color and 257 photographs accompany this collection of articles on the Southwestern Pacific. First Edition. Paper Wraps. Fair/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Trade. National Geographic Society Paperback books
1945142732Denver: Denver Art Museum 1945. Softcover. Good. Tight and mostly clean but with some general soiling to covers and a few light pencil marks in margins. B/w illustrated wraps with red/black lettering. 64 pp. with occasional bw illus. Part of the Cooke-Daniels Lecture Series. Chapters include The Peoples and Cultures of Africa The West African Culture of Dahomey The Patterns of African Art Illustrations and Suggested Reading. Denver Art Museum unknown books
19959027280Minneapolis: Indulgence Press 1995. Fine Condition. One of one hundred hand numbered copies of the regular edition the deluxe edition of 26 lettered copies was never completed. Fontispiece photograph is a kallitype print on Kitikata paper. Bound in publisher's original half red cloth and paper sew-boards. Printed by Wilbur Schilling at Claire Van Vliet's Janus Press in West Burke Vermont. The sew-boards binding was learned by Wilbur Schilling from Daniel Kelm at the Wide Awake Garage in East Hampton Massachusetts. Printed on Arches MBM mouldmade paper with ochre colored endpapers handmade by MacGregor & Vinzani. First letterpress book of the Indulgence Press. <br/><br/> Indulgence Press hardcover books
199526344Minneapolis: Indulgence Press 1995. Edition limited to 126 copies this is one of the 100 "regular" copies the 26 "deluxe" copies have never been completed; narrow folio in sixes; pp. 6 39 7; title-p. printed in ochre and black the phrase "I would prefer not to." printed in ochre across the text pages in three successively larger sizes; printed by Wilbur Schilling at Claire Van Vliet's Janus Press from polymer plates. Fine throughout in original red cloth-backed gray paper-covered boards simulating bricks. The first letter-press book of the Indulgence Press. <br/><br/> Indulgence Press hardcover books
1989019012New York NY: Kallemeyn Press 1989. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Quarto 4to. 40 pages of text. One of 20 deluxe copies bound in leather by Christian Zwang of Hamburg Germany. The full leather binding is minimally shelfworn. Includes a custom clamshell box the leather spine of which is somewhat sunned/browned with minor shelfwear. Contains 4 color prints each of which is protected with a tissue guard. There was an additional 50 copies printed that were not bound in leather. The paper has minor spotting which is inherent in the manufacture of the paper. The text is otherwise clean and unmarked. Measures 11.75 inches height. First edition. Kallemeyn Press Hardcover books
199751973NY: Simon & Schuster 1997. First printing. 8vo pp. 77. Illustrated with several photographs. Paper over boards with applied small photograph lettering in gilt three-quarter black cloth. A nice copy in scuffed plastic dj. Simon & Schuster unknown books
1926WRCLIT85105London: The Nonesuch Press 1926. Folio. Cloth. Spine sunned ink name partially erased from front pastedown cloth a bit rubbed but a good sound copy. First edition in this format. Illustrated with stencil-colored drawings by E. McKnight Kauffer. Copy #9 of 1650 numbered copies printed on Van Gelder. The Nonesuch Press hardcover books
1926WRCLIT79331London: The Nonesuch Press 1926. Folio. Cloth. Illustrated with colored drawings by E. McKnight Kauffer. First edition in this format. One of 1650 numbered copies. Spine sunned with some fraying at crown a couple of marginal smudges but a good sound copy. The Nonesuch Press hardcover books
1926300853London: Nonesuch Press 1926. Limited edition no. 838 of 1650 copies. The Text of this edition of 'Benito Cereno' illustrated by E. McKnight Kauffer is reproduced from that of the first 1856 edition of' Piazza Tales'. It is printed in the Walbaum type with the pictures hand-coloured through stencils at the Curwen Press upon Van Gelder paper. Illustrated by E. McKnight Kauffer. 124 1 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Original crimson cloth. Near fine copy in original grey Ingres paper dust jacket stencilled in blue small chip at bottom of spine not affecting lettering. Kaufer McKnight. Limited edition no. 838 of 1650 copies. The Text of this edition of 'Benito Cereno' illustrated by E. McKnight Kauffer is reproduced from that of the first 1856 edition of' Piazza Tales'. It is printed in the Walbaum type with the pictures hand-coloured through stencils at the Curwen Press upon Van Gelder paper. Illustrated by E. McKnight Kauffer. 124 1 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Dreyfus 36 Nonesuch Press unknown books
194622237Paris: Lafarge Editeur. 1946. Softcover. No. VII of 11 copies with an extra suite of woodcuts on Japanese paper from an edition of 380; loose gatherings laid into wraps. 11 woodcuts by Patrick de Manceau. Spine of chemise taped by former owner in somewhat damaged slipcase. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall . Lafarge Editeur paperback books