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1930140941176London: Victor Gollancz 1930. First Edition. Good. First edition. Signed by Charles Williams warmly inscribed to Norman Collins in the year of publication. Collins was the creator of the first BBC radio serial Dick Barton: Special Agent which ran from 1946 to 1951 as well as the co-creator of the ITV network which broke the BBC's stranglehold on television in 1955. Collins got Williams a job his old job at the Daily News reviewing crime fiction and worked at Gollancz publisher of this book. 288 pp. Publisher's black cloth lettered in green. A Good copy spine a bit sunned rubbed and a bit chipped at extremities lean to spine offsetting to endpapers lacking the original jacket. An excellent association between the famous British writer and member of the Inklings with a good friend at this juncture in his life. Victor Gollancz unknown books
20179558Philadelphia PA: Luminice Press 2017. Limited Edition. Loose cards in Box. Fine in Fine Box. Bright and clean. Red leather box printed cards laid in marbled paper accents. 9x9x9x2". Illus. Numbered limited edition this being 5 of 12. <br/><br/>Reason Belief Truth was designed illustrated printed and bound by Thomas Parker Williams. <br />The text was letterpress printed and hand set by Mary Agnes Williams. <br />"Reason Belief Truth is a book of philosophical investigations begun with three statements: <br />The truth can be found byÂ… <br />The truth can not be found byÂ…. <br />The truth can only be found byÂ… <br />These statements are illustrated on three flaps inside the cover which opens to reveal 21 double-sided cards with terms that may be used to complete the investigations or initiate further debate. <br />On the rear of each statement is another statement: <br />Reason is the search for evidence to support a proposition <br />Belief is the reliance on a personal conviction <br />Truth is found only if what is found is true." Publisher's statement. <br /> Luminice Press unknown books
1946109863New York: New Directions 1946-1958. Scarce complete first edition set of William Carlos Williams' masterpiece including Book III winner of the first National Book Award for Poetry. Octavo five volumes Books I-IV limited to 1000 copies. In the Author's Note to Book I Williams describes the work as "a long poem in four parts" yet a fifth volume was published seven years after the publication of Book IV and only five years before Williams' death without a limitation statement. Each volume is near fine to fine in a near fine to fine dust jacket. Jacket drawing of William Carlos Williams to Book V by his brother Edgar J. Williams. Paterson is Whitman's America grown pathetic and tragic brutalized by inequality disorganized by industrial chaos and faced with annihilation. No poet has written of it with such a combination of brilliance sympathy and experience with such alertness and energy" Lowell 78 "One of the great forces in 20th-century American verse. Williams' work is more expressive of American sensibility and more saturated with American speech and its rhythms than any poet's since Whitman. He has entered the bloodstream of American poetry" Hamilton 584. New Directions unknown books
194817079Denver: Allen Swallow 1948. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/fair. Signed by author on front free endpaper. Scarce first novel by author who won the National Book Award for his historical novel Augustus. Williams 1922-1994 taught and was director of the creative writing program at the University of Denver. Book is very good with some rubbing of the blue buckram board edges. Dust jacket has two-inch water stains at top corners a 1" and a 2" tear and some narrow chipping at edges. <br/><br/> Allen Swallow hardcover
196612126New York: New Directions 1966. First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. Pp. 111. Blue cloth spine lettered in gilt mild toning to head of spine. Illustrated dust jacket $5.50 price present light toning to edges and spine panel light rubbing to rear panel. Inscribed by Williams to his friend and biographer Virginia Carr "To Virginia / love / Tennessee" Carr was considered one of the serious trustworthy scholars of his work during his lifetime. Williams' respect for Carr was engendered while she was researching her noted biography of Williams' friend Carson McCullers. Indeed his trust in Carr was enough for Williams to grant access to his personal papers. Although Carr died before concluding her biography of Williams in 2000 she published a seminal study of his life and work Understanding Tennessee Williams . A paramount association.<p>Dust jacket is now housed in a removable clear archival protector<p>. New Directions hardcover
6851<p>New York New York U. S. A. : New Directions. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1971-1992. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. All volumes are first editions. Volumes 1-7 are signed by Tennessee Williams- volume 8 was published after Williams' death. Due to weight and oher restrictions we cannot ship this item internationally; priority shipping will require additional shipping costs. .</p> New York, New York, U. S. A. : New Directions hardcover
1930140941176London: Victor Gollancz 1930. First Edition. Good. First edition. Signed by Charles Williams warmly inscribed to Norman Collins in the year of publication. Collins was the creator of the first BBC radio serial Dick Barton: Special Agent which ran from 1946 to 1951 as well as the co-creator of the ITV network which broke the BBC's stranglehold on television in 1955. Collins got Williams a job his old job at the Daily News reviewing crime fiction and worked at Gollancz publisher of this book. <p>288 pp. Publisher's black cloth lettered in green. A Good copy spine a bit sunned rubbed and a bit chipped at extremities lean to spine offsetting to endpapers lacking the original jacket. An excellent association between the famous British writer and member of the Inklings with a good friend at this juncture in his life. Victor Gollancz unknown
16895Paris, éditions du Solstice, 2013. In-folio, non paginé, en feuille, chemise de l'éditeur de toile grise, étui de l'éditeur de toile bleue (couverture manquante, petites taches à l'étui).
1856ABC_49429Canton 1856. 8vo. Printed at the Office of the Chinese Repository Contemporary half brown calf with a red morocco title and a red morocco author label on the spine lettered in gold brown cloth sides pink endpapers. With a lithographic Chinese title page and a letterpress English title page. The text is printed in two columns. XXXVI 832 pp. First edition of a Chinese-English dictionary by the first American professor of sinology and one of the first American missionaries in China. The work contains 7850 of the most frequently used characters in the Canton dialect. It starts with an introduction which explains where Cantonese is spoken how it differs from other Chinese dialects and how it is pronounced. This is followed by the dictionary itself a list of Chinese surnames and an index to the characters. The present work served as the basis for the author's famous Syllabic dictionary of the Chinese language 1874.Samuel Wells Williams 1812-1884 was an American linguist missionary and sinologist. In 1833 he travelled to China with the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions to work with the Canton mission press in Guangdong. From 1848 to 1851 he was the editor of The Chinese Repository a major Western newspaper in China. He wrote a number of books during his time in China such as An English and Chinese vocabulary in Court dialect 1844. When he returned to the United States after a 40-year stay in China he became the first professor of Chinese language and literature in the United States at Yale University in 1877. His work as both author and teacher helped Americans to understand the real China.With the bookplate of Lucien de Rosny 1810-1871 mounted on the front pastedown a bookbinder's stamp on the verso of the front flyleaf a red Chinese stamp on the title page and a contemporary annotation in Chinese and French in the back. The edges and corners of the boards are somewhat scuffed the front board is nearly detached the spine and boards are somewhat rubbed affecting the gold lettering on the title labels. Some of the leaves are slightly shorter without affecting any text annotations in the margins of some of the leaves in a contemporary hand the lower margin of page 437 has been strengthened with paper slight soiling in the margins of the last few leaves. Otherwise in good condition.l Cordier Sinica col. 1599; WorldCat 5711012 504501217 459046274. hardcover
1614Grand TourNouveau Riche Vast Ephemera Collection of Prominent New York & Rhode Island Family in the Gilded Age<br /> <br /> Archive includes over 1100 "Calling Cards" and black-bordered sympathy cards invitations to various social activities and several dance cards. Included are 23 three by five-inch cards with pasted down die-cut figures with prose written with attached pencil. Financial records include many cancelled checks bills from the "Grand Tour" nine check registers and two expense registers nearly 600 check stubs and deposit slips plus estate settlement details family papers and more. Includes over 400 pieces of correspondence including some from the "Grand Tour". Includes a 29-page manuscript report titled "An American Princess" the Grand Niece of George Washington. Overall in very good condition. <br /> <br /> Collection from Abby Louise and Mildred Williams of Bristol Rhode Island and New York City 15 W. 22 Street. Abby Louisa Williams was the wife of Fielding L. Williams and mother to Mildred Lewis Williams Louise Miller Williams and Fielding L. Williams Jr. The family was descended from the Townes Maclin and Boyd families and married into the Williams Calhoun Lyne Lewis Bullock Johnson and Swepson families. This branch of the Williams family was likely relatively affluent and nouveau riche yet not at the top end of the social register. <br /> <br /> The collection documents activities of an affluent northeastern United States family during the "Gilded Age"; a period of rapid economic growth and prosperity. Part and parcel to this period were opportunities for young adults to make the "Grand Tour" of Europe attend numerous balls concerts and social activities plus participate in social organizations such as the Daughters of the Revolution. Like many rich New York families the Williams' summered in Rhode Island--in this case Bristol Rhode Island.<br /> <br /> The calling card collection is alphabetized and is chock-full of noted families of wealth including de Peystser Coit Coles Flanagan Herreshoff De Wolf Haskell Jay Van Cortlandt Chisolm Barclay and hundreds more. Includes a card from Mrs. J. Pierpont Morgan and The Misses Morgan at 219 Madison Avenue in New York City. This description would have been finished a long time ago except I dove deep down the rabbit hole of exploring these calling cards. <br /> <br /> A very fun and enlightening archive from an over-the-top period in United States social history. . unknown
1955143560New York: New Directions 1955. First edition first issue of one of Williams's best-known works and his personal favorite. Octavo bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands gilt ruling to the front and rear panels gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery marbled endpapers all edges gilt. Boldly signed by Tennessee Williams on a page bound in. In fine condition. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof first heated up Broadway in 1955 with its gothic American story of brothers vying for their dying father's inheritance amid a whirlwind of sexuality untethered in the person of Maggie the Cat. The play also daringly showcased the burden of sexuality repressed in the agony of her husband Brick Pollitt. In spite of the public controversy Cat stirred up it was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the Drama Critics Circle Award for that year. "Tennessee Williams never wrote a more explosive play than Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" Howard Kissel. It was the basis for the 1958 film directed by Richard Brooks starring Elizabeth Taylor Paul Newman and Burl Ives. New Directions unknown
196294020Gallery. New. 1962. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 65 pages; illustrated mostly in black and white. Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works Life and Work Raisonnee Gallery hardcover
196294021Gallery. New. 1962. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 65 pages; illustrated mostly in black and white. Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works Life and Work Raisonnee Gallery paperback
1955140946166New York: Exposition Press 1955. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition first printing. Bound in publisher's red cloth lettered in black. Near Fine with slight lean to binding and trivial rubbing to tips in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with toning to spine and rear panel light wear to the extremities. A lovely copy of this later work by the Harlem Renaissance poet. Exposition Press unknown
1842148871New York 1842. Rare hand-colored example of Mather's monumental pre-Civil War wall map of Long Island the finest and largest map of Long Island of the period. One page two sheets joined from the topographical surveys of J. Calvin Smith and lithographed by Endicott. Issued with Mather's 1843 Geology of New York the map offers fine detail of the island before the intense late 19th century population growth and the completion of the Long Island Railroad terminates here at Half Hollow Hills. The areas from Westhampton through Montauk are particularly well delineated. In very good condition with toning and closed tears. The piece measures 53 inches by 25 inches. William Williams Mather 1804–1859 was an American geologist educator and mapmaker whose cartographic and scientific contributions played a notable role in the early development of geological surveying in the United States. Trained at the United States Military Academy at West Point Mather combined rigorous scientific methodology with practical fieldwork producing some of the most detailed geological maps of his time. As the first State Geologist of Ohio he directed the Ohio Geological Survey 1837–1844 creating comprehensive maps and reports that advanced understanding of the region’s mineral resources stratigraphy and topography. Mather’s cartographic work reflected the growing 19th-century emphasis on systematic mapping for economic development infrastructure planning and scientific knowledge. unknown
19351472101935-36. Autograph collection with signatures from eighteen of the world's famous aviation pioneers and fighter pilots. Octodecimo eighteen pages mounted on carbon paper the collection includes: postcard signed by Igor Sikorsky "I. Sikorsky" illustrated with a photograph of the Sikorsky S-42 flying boat; card signed by Edward Rickenbacker "Capt Eddie Rickenbacker 1936" mounted with a photograph of Rickenbacker in uniform; card signed by Major James Harold Doolittle "J.H. Doolittle" mounted with a photograph of Doolittle; card signed by Major Alford J. Williams "Major Al Williams / U S Marine Corps R"; card signed by Anthony Fokker in green ink "Fokker" mounted with a newspaper clipping adhered to the verso of the carbon paper 'Edsel Ford Dead of Old Malady - Head of Auto Company 49 Expanded Vast Industrial Empire'; card signed by Lieutenant Commander Charles E. Rosendahl "C.E. Rosendahl Commander U.S. Navy" mounted with a photograph of Rosendahl in uniform; collector's typed letter signed by Sherman Fairchild on the verso "Sherm / Sherman M Fairchild"; card signed by Roscoe Turner in green ink "Roscoe Turner 1935" mounted with a photograph of a signed photo of the NR257Y; card signed by Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith "T.O.M. Sopwith" mounted with a news clipping portrait of Sopwith adhered to the carbon paper; card signed by Flight Lieutenant George Stainforth "G.H. Stainforth" and Richard Atcherley "R.R. Atcherley" mounted with a diagram of Stainforth's supermarine seaplane S6B; autograph letter signed by Stainforth to the collector on 'Experimental Section Royal Aircraft Establishment' stationary "13 Aug. 35. Eric Brett. I have just found . your letter in sorting papers . or send an autograph in case it was not sent before. G.H. Stainforth"; typed letter signed by Wing Commander Clyde Pangborn to the collector on 'Bill Barnes Air Trails' stationary 'July 8 1935 . Requests for autographs since my London-to-Melbourne flight threatened me with writer's cramp . I'd have to find some way to fly without gasoline and use only airmail covers for petrol . "Clyde Pangborn"' news clipping portrait of Pangborn adhered to the lower left corner; card signed by Ruth Nichols "Ruth R. Nichols"; card signed by Glenn L. Martin "Glenn L. Martin" mounted to a typed letter signed by his secretary to the collector on 'Glenn L. Martin Company' stationary; card signed by Hugh Herndon Jr "Hugh Herndon Jr" mounted with a clipped photograph of Herndon Jr. beside his Stinson; card inscribed by Frank Hawks "Sincerely Frank Hawks Feb 22 1935" mounted with news clipped images of Captain Hawks his Texaco No. 13 and his Texaco Sky Chief; card signed by Billy Bishop "W.A. Bishop" ink stamped with a flying cross accompanied by a clipped magazine photograph of Bishop; and a clipped signature of Giuseppe Mario Bellanca "GMBallanca" adhered to a card featuring photographs of Bellanca and his aircraft. In very good to fine condition. A unique collection. Just coming into military use at the outset of World War I airplanes were employed mostly for reconnaissance before gathering use in more specialized ways as fighters bombers and trench strafers. unknown
1947396729New York: New Directions 1947. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Touch of wear at the spine ends else fine in near dust jacket with some splitting at the front spine fold and by the crown along with some some toning. A nice copy of this Pulitzer Prize-winning drama highspot. Basis for innumerable revivals and an explosive Elia Kazan film featuring Marlon Brando Vivien Leigh Karl Malden and Kim Hunter. Ironically Brando in his signature performance was the only one of the quartet who didn't win an Oscar. New Directions hardcover
48759FISCHER. . softcover. Osten Ard Simon Schneelocke Ungekürzte Ausgabe! FISCHER paperback
1996C76079Ashgate Publishing; Et Al. As New. 1996. Hardcover. 1859283039 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- Text in English. 96 pages; well-illustrated. See Paynton Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works Life and Work Raisonnee -- with a bonus offer-- - May be EITHER: out of print OOP and extremely rare in this pristine condition; signed by author or contributor; or a first or special edition; inquire for details . Ashgate Publishing; Et Al hardcover
1855H-157<p><strong>First Edition </strong>of the most notable Indian epic. A masterpiece of Victorian book design Quarto publisher's<strong> original</strong> <strong>bright green Moroccan</strong> calf leather heavily decorated in gilt with a central pictorial roundel within a floral design title also gilt decorated title in gilt on spine all edges gilt gilt inner dentelles elaborate endpapers; title enclosed within red-ruled border; color printed head and tail-pieces borders and an added color-printed title plus 16 color-printed plates. Slight tear of cloth at back cover see photo provided. This wonderful book won gold medals at the 1856 Paris Exposition Universelle. The story describes a very romantic encounter between Sakoontala the daughter of a sage and the King Dushyanta forgotten vows a lost ring and a beautiful reunion. Sakoontala's son Bharata is who India is named after-the Sanskrit name of India is Bharatavarsha. An excellent example of beautifully illustrated book in original covers.</p> Stephen Austin, Hertford, 1855 hardcover
17291508081Freebairn's 1729. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. A good first edition front cover detached. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase. Freebairn's hardcover books
17291508081Freebairn's 1729. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. A good first edition front cover detached. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase. Freebairn's hardcover
1944201318<p>Los Alamos National Laboratory 1944. Very Good. <br /><br /><strong>Los Alamos Report 24. Lecture Series on Nuclear Physics.</strong> <br /><em>First series</em>: Terminology by Edwin M. McMillan.<br /><em>Second series</em>: Radioactivity by Emilio Segre Edward Teller Felix Bloch.<br /><em>Third series</em>: Neutron Physics by John Harry Williams.<br /><em>Fourth series</em>: Two Body Problem by Charles L. Critchfield.<br /><em>Fifth series</em>: The Statistical Theory of Nuclear Reactions by Victor F. Weisskopf.<br /><em>Sixth series</em>: Diffusion Theory by Robert F. Christy.</p><p>An impressive roster of contributors all of whom were instrumental to the Manhattan Project and three of whom McMillan Segre Bloch would win the Nobel Prize. A scarce mimeograph from Los Alamos sharing cutting-edge scientific theory & results.</p><p>Provenance: From the collection of David Powell Shoemaker 1920-1995 who obtained his PhD at Caltech in 1947 was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship at the young age of 27. He worked with Linus Pauling during WWII and went on to become a respected crystallographer.</p><p>Bound in two-hole clasp binder with handwritten label on front cover first leaf is errata followed by table of contents 329 numbered pages although the errata notes that p. 254 “Missing only because of an error in numbering and not because of censorship.†Text block near fine moderate wear to binder.</p> Los Alamos National Laboratory
1947004325New York: New Directions 1947. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. A Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams. First edition first printing. Signed by the author on the front endpaper on a professionally affixed page from a signed limited edition issued by the publisher - therefore the authenticity is guaranteed. Published by New Directions New York in 1947. Measures approximately 9.25" x 6.25" 171 numbered pages. First state with error on page 161 line 17 Stella for Blanche. Iconic jacket and book design by Alvin Lustig. The original first issue dust jacket is in fair condition. Original $2.75 price intact. Spine sun-faded. Significant edgewear and chipping. Split at the flap folds. Appears to be reinforced from the verso. The book is in very good minus condition. Spine is sun-faded. Cloth worn through at the spine ends and flap folds. Previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown. Some waviness to the endpaper where the signature was affixed which will likely correct itself as time passes. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. New Directions hardcover
1945147118New York: Harper & Brothers 1945. First edition first printing with code "I-U" on copyright page of the author's classic work. Octavo bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands gilt ruling to the front and rear panels gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery marbled endpapers all edges gilt. Boldly signed by E.B. White on a page bound in. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation. "The story had been brewing with White for years as a disconnected series of bedtime tales for his nieces and nephews by the time it came to Harper. There shepherded by the distinguished editor Ursula Nordstrom and felicitously illustrated with 87 drawings by Garth Williams the book was eventually published-generally to high acclaim The book sounds a resonant note as Stuart undertakes his quest for the beautiful bird Margalo. And that quest as White himself noted symbolizes the continuing journey that everybody takesin search of what is perfect and unattainable. This is perhaps too elusive an idea to put into a childrens book but I put it in anyway" Silvey 677. Harper & Brothers unknown
