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1945140947802New York: Random House 1945. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition first printing. xii 124 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering blocked in black on the spine black topstain. Near Fine in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light rubbing soiling and edgewear 1/8 inch chip to front flap fold and minimal staining to foldlines and along upper edge. An uncommonly nice copy of one of Tennessee Williams' most famous plays. Random House unknown
19451508095Random House 1945. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A fine first edition in a fine dust jacket. First Printing stated on the copyright page. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase. Random House hardcover
1967321109New York: Dramatists Play Service Inc 1967. Softcover. Fine. First edition first issue. Stapled printed wrappers. A small tear on the title page probably torn when the book was inscribed else fine in wrappers. One of 1000 copies printed. Inscribed by Williams to actress Ruth Ford: "To my dearest girl in the USA. Love Tennessee." In Williams' Memoirs he refers to Ford as "the wise and lovely actress Ruth Ford who seems to have been born with more worldly wisdom than I have accumulated even at this point in life." Ford the Mississippi-born sister of surrealist author Charles Henri Ford was a beautiful model and actress first in Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre and later in films and theater. Notably she starred on Broadway in Jean Paul Sartre's No Exit in 1946 under the direction of John Huston the last of five Broadway plays he directed. Her apartment in the Dakota became a salon for authors such as Williams Edward Albee Terrence McNally and Truman Capote. A chance encounter between Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents in her Manhattan living room led to their collaboration with her Dakota-neighbor Leonard Bernstein on West Side Story. Similarly she brought together Kay Thompson and Hilary Knight to create the celebrated stories of Eloise the little girl who lived at the Plaza.<br /> <br /> Ford is well-known also for her long friendship with William Faulkner which began with her dating his brother Dean in the early 1930s. Faulkner was openly smitten with Ford for many years. He wrote his 1951 experimental novel Requiem for a Nun a sequel to his early and controversial novel Sanctuary with her in mind. He further declared to the consternation of his agent and publisher that it was her dramatic property Requiem for a Nun was a mixture of stage play and novel. Stage production of the title stalled for years partly because Faulkner's experimental drama did not lend itself to live theatre and partly because the producers were unsure of Ford's suitability. Faulkner was adamant that it was her dramatic property and in 1959 she adapted the play herself and starred in its London production opposite her second husband Zachary Scott. Her stage version received enthusiastic reviews in both London and New York but did not fare so well with audiences and closed after a short run on Broadway. Ford continued to act on both stage and screen well into the 1980s. She passed away in 2009 at the age of 98. A wonderful inscription and nice association. Dramatists Play Service, Inc unknown
1964337455New York: New Directions 1964. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Unbound long galleys of the first edition first issue with the original page layout. Folded else fine. Only about 50 copies of the finished book were issued with this particular layout before they were suppressed. These galleys are rare and we suspect only a handful survive. New Directions hardcover
1950291584New York: New Directions 1950. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Tiny stains on the boards else near fine in very good dust jacket with some tape shadows on the rear panel from an old repair. Signed by the author. A hit play and basis for the 1955 Daniel Mann film featuring Anna Magnani in an Oscar-winning role as a widow wooed by truck driver Burt Lancaster. New Directions hardcover
250002Harvard. Fair with no dust jacket. 1938. Hardcover. 067808050X . Exlibrary with usual library markings. Cover Wear. Repaired hinges. Cover stains. Half dozen or so pages have very short tears. Very faint water small stains about 3 inches from bottom and 1/4" in from edge on several pages see the included text image. Includes the 5 folding tables. Includes the blurb from the dust jacket on preliminary page see image. Basically this is a very important work in an unattractive binding and is probably worth rebinding. . Harvard hardcover
1799374441Philadelphia: Printed and sold by R. Aitken no. 22 Market Street 1799. xii 98 4pp. Lacking the folding map. 8vo. Disbound top of title clipped and repaired. xii 98 4pp. Lacking the folding map. 8vo. Williams was the great-nephew of Benjamin Franklin. He served as Franklin's secretary during the latter's residence in France as U.S. ambassador and for part of that time was a U.S. commercial agent. While in France he also studied military science especially fortification. He returned to the U.S. in 1785 and served for several years as a judge. In 1801 he was appointed major of the 22nd regiment of artillerists and engineers in the regular army and later that year he was appointed inspector of fortifications and took command of the post at West Point. The following year he became the first superintendent of West Point as a school. Later he returned to Philadelphia and acted for several years as vice president and corresponding secretary of the American Philosophical Society. Most of his publications unlike the present one treat military topics.<br /> <br /> Williams probably acquired his interest in the Gulf Stream from Franklin who was the first to understand its nature. Like his great-uncle Williams observed its action during his trips across the Atlantic as a diplomat. In the present work he investigates how ships approaching the American coast can take advantage of the temperature differential of the Stream to establish their position in any weather without celestial sightings. This was an important navigational aid in the stormy north Atlantic and one of great use to mariners. These papers were partially published in the proceedings of the Philosophical Society. This is the first complete publication in English.<br /> <br /> For the rare untitled map of the Atlantic showing the Gulf Stream not present here see Wheat and Brun 725. ESTC W7573; Evans 36722; Rink 3893; Sabin 104300 Printed and sold by R. Aitken, no. 22, Market Street unknown
1799842701799. WILLIAMS Jonathan. Thermometrical Navigation. Being a Series of Experiments and Observations tending to prove that by ascertaining the relative heat of the sea-water from time to time the passage of a ship through the Gulph Stream and from deep water into soundings may be discovered in time to avoid danger although owing to tempestuous weather it may be impossible to heave the lead or observe the heavenly bodies Philadelphia: Printed and sold by R. Aitken no. 22 Market Street 1799. First Edition in book form. 8vo. xii 98 4pp. Lacking the folding map. Disbound top of title clipped and repaired. Very good. ESTC W7573; Evans 36722; Rink 3893; Sabin 104300. Extracted From the American Philosophical Transactions. Vol. 2 & 3. With Additions and Improvements. The author was Benjamin Franklin's grand-nephew. Williams was sent to London in 1770 to complete his training and make contacts under Franklin's tutelage. Franklin was impressed by his diligence and the two remained close. He served as Franklin's secretary during the latter's residence in France as U.S. ambassador and for part of that time was a U.S. commercial agent. While in France he also studied military science especially fortification. He returned to the U.S. in 1785 and served for several years as a judge. In 1801 he was appointed major of the 22nd regiment of artillerists and engineers in the regular army and later that year he was appointed inspector of fortifications and took command of the post at West Point. The following year he became the first superintendent of West Point as a school. Later he returned to Philadelphia and acted for several years as vice president and corresponding secretary of the American Philosophical Society. Most of his publications unlike the present one treat military topics. Williams probably acquired his interest in the Gulf Stream from Franklin who was the first to understand its nature. Like his great-uncle Williams observed its action during his trips across the Atlantic as a diplomat. In the present work he investigates how ships approaching the American coast can take advantage of the temperature differential of the Stream to establish their position in any weather without celestial sightings. This was an important navigational aid in the stormy north Atlantic and one of great use to mariners. The. unknown
1959018897New York 31 July 1959. Letter. Small staple holes in the upper right corner faint folds from mailing otherwise Fine with wonderful signatures. A one-page letter from the Theatre Issue Committee of the PARTISAN REVIEW to a potential advertiser for an issue mostly devoted to the theater SIGNED by Williams Lerner and Stevens. Williams won the Pulitzer Prize twice first for A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE and in 1955 for CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF. Lerner won 3 Tony Awards and 3 Academy Awards. He wrote the lyrics to the songs in MY FAIR LADY PAINT YOUR WAGON CAMELOT and many others. Stevens produced more than 100 plays and musicals including WEST SIDE STORY and CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF. <br/><br/> unknown
1882005151London: B. S. Williams 1882. First Edition . Leather. Very Good. Folio. John Nugent Fitch. Volume one. Original full green morocco leather raised bands gilt titles and decorative compartments and boards inner dentelles marbled endpapers all edges gilt 12.5 x 10 inches. First Edition. Unpaginated; illustrated with 47 chromolithographed plates including 1 folding by John Nugent Fitch 1836-1895. One of the great orchid books of the nineteenth century published at the height of the 'Orchidelirium' mania. Exterior showing some light wear and rubbing heaviest at extremities light typical foxing to text pages all plates clean and bright. Provenance: Bookplate from the Royal Horticultural Society Lindley Library deaccessioned with "Cancelled" stamp on bookplate no other library markings in book. The Lindley Library in London is the largest horticultural library in the world. <br/> <br/> B. S. Williams hardcover
1855984Boston: John P. Jewett 1855. First American Edition. Cloth. Good. Brown cloth with blind stamp illustrations on cover and spine and gold lettering on spine. Front flyleaf has two library stickers. One is a bookplate that says "Library of the Boys' High School Portsmouth NH presented by Frank P. Newton." "Frank P. Newton" is written in cursive but it is in someone else's writing. Something is pasted partially on top of the bookplate obscuring the word "Boys." There are four different library numerals on that page. On front free flyleaf is pasted in a letter stating "This book was bequeathed to the Boys' High School by Frank P. Newton of the class of 1865 who died February 20 1866. " The handwriting is the same as the writing on the bookplate. Rear endpaper has brown paper glued presumably a library pocket. Stain from residue on rear free endpaper. Front flyleaf has written in pencil "Presented to Frank P. Newton by Anna _ Hall March 1858." <br /> <br /> Wells was the author of "Clotel" the first novel published in the U. S. by an African American author. He escaped slavery and was a lecturer of the abolitionist movement and a historian. He lived for six years in England. 320 pp. First American Edition. John P. Jewett unknown
198851557Washington D. C.: American Psychiatric Association. As New. 1988. Hardcover. 0890420181 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - -- -- with a bonus offer-- . American Psychiatric Association hardcover
199730407Arlington Virginia U.S.A.: Amer Psychiatric Pub Inc. New. 1997. Spiral Bound. 0880489324 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - --BRAND NEW FLAWLESS COPY NEVER OPENED -- -- with a bonus offer-- . Amer Psychiatric Pub Inc unknown
199630406Arlington Virginia U.S.A.: Amer Psychiatric Pub Inc. New. 1996. Paperback. 0880489316 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - --BRAND NEW FLAWLESS COPY NEVER OPENED -- -- with a bonus offer-- . Amer Psychiatric Pub Inc paperback
199170219Arlington Virginia U.S.A.: Amer Psychiatric Pub Inc. Very Good. 1991. Paperback. 0880482834 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - TEXT PRISTINE - 515 pages. -- with a bonus offer-- . Amer Psychiatric Pub Inc paperback
199730405Arlington Virginia U.S.A.: Amer Psychiatric Pub Inc. New. 1997. Paperback. 0880488107 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - --BRAND NEW FLAWLESS COPY NEVER OPENED -- -- with a bonus offer-- . Amer Psychiatric Pub Inc paperback
200323143Malden MA: Blackwell Publishing. New. 2003. Hardcover. 1405114495 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY BRAND NEW PRISTINE NEVER OPENED- 655 pages. Interior text is clean tight and unmarked. Pages are intact and tight to the spine. Small bump with slight abrasion to edge of cover; else like new. From the publisher: "Blackwell Publishing is delighted to announce that this book has won First Prize in Gastroenterology in the 2004 BMA Medical Book Competition. Here is the judges summary of this book: 'This is an excellent book. It is very comprehensive and deals not just with all aspects of the procedure of colonoscopy but also covers in some detail its place in the broader management of a range of colorectal conditions. It deals with complex areas concisely and I have found it a good reference point for a number of questions since I have been reviewing it. It is a very attractive book and is well-laid out with very high quality and well chosen illustrations in colour throughout. I have not seen a textbook on colonoscopy that comes anywhere near the quality of this book. I think that anyone who is involved in colonoscopy and obviously colonoscopists in particular should have access to this book. It is the sort of text that I would make compulsory reading if I were running a colonoscopy training course.' " -- with a bonus offer-- . Blackwell Publishing hardcover
17589Putnam. As New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Very Good. c 1963 Putnam hardcover
192169616New York: Boni & Liveright. Good. 1921. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - TEXT UNMARKED - Corresponds to / earlier edition of ASIN: B0006DDZB2 - Book Description: "The American journalist Albert Rhys Williams arrived in Russia in the middle of 1917 and witnessed the collapse of the old regime and the victory of the Great October Socialist Revolution. In those stormy months he saw the demonstrations of revolutionary masses the storming of the Winter Palace and the triumphant march of Soviet power across the length of the country. His book 'Through the Russian Revolution' tells about those events. Williams met Lenin on a number of occasions he spoke with him at a meeting and he had a chance to observe the great revolutionary leader in everyday work and life. He wrote about Lenin with great warmth in his book 'Lenin the Man and His Work'." -- with a bonus offer-- . Boni & Liveright hardcover
199146890FISCHER 03/1991. 55.-70. Tsd. softcover. FISCHER paperback
42477Andover. Flagg and Gould. 1820. 8vo 20.5cm The First Edition xxiii125-432p. complete with engraved frontis portrait engraved folding map with the half-title and errata slip on the rear endpaper in the original full calf with the dark crimson leather title label on the spine un-decipherable faint signature dated 13th 1867 on the front free fly some sporadic foxing throughout as usual short splits at the top of both hinges considering the fragile American book production of this era this is a much better than average copy very good to fine thus. cgc. Lande 1216. T.P.L. 1171. Peel 3-117. Sabin 30404. Wagner-Camp 17. Gagnon I-1609. Field 656. Graff 1786. Howes H-205. Gagnon notes that Harmon's account with that of Gabriel Franchere and Alexander Henry are the three most important and valuable sources we have on the Canadian West. Harmon a partner in the North West Company travelled throughout the Great Lakes and Western Canada 1800-1819. He journeyed upwards of 5000 miles through Lake Superior from Fort William to Lake Winnipeg and through the Assiniboine and Athabaska districts. The map shows tribal locations of the Plains and Mountain Indians. This copy is complete with the four key elements half-title portrait map errata-slip one or more of which is usually missing. "Editor Daniel Haskel took some liberties with the narrative and the moral and religious tones woven into that are hardly consistent with life on the Indian frontier. An important book in spite of Mr. Haskel"; Wagner Camp 17; Streeter VI- 3692; Strathern 245; Gagnon I: 1609: "Cet ouvrage de Harmon. avec ceux de FranchŠre et de Henry sont les documents le plus pr‚cieux que nous avons pour l'histoire de l'Ouest Canadien."; Peel 71; Amer. Imprints 1518. The work is a classic in the history of the fur-trade and of the Canadian northwest; the map includes the area between Quebec and the Northwest Coast locating the native tribes. Contains specimens of the vocabularies of the Cree Indians and the Tacullies. Andover. Flagg and Gould. 1820 unknown
181043721Edinburgh: Printed for Bell & Bradfute and W. Laing 1810. 8vo. 21cm Second Edition in 2 volumes xii562 & vi598pp. with 2 engraved plates containing 8 text illustrations errata index complete with both half titles in contemporary brown calf expertly rebacked gilt panel borders crushed green morocco labels new endpapers with “The Society of Writers to the Signet Library gilt stamped crest in the covers a fine set. Provenance: From the private library of a collection on earth sciences formed over forty plus years. His catalogue card reads “Highly important work. For this second edn. published 20 years after the 1st edition James Millar who is only credited on the title as illustrating the engravings virtually wrote a completely new book this being the 2nd vol. of this editionâ€. ~ contains a chapter v2 pp200-219 “Of the Coal of Cape Breton and Newfoundlandâ€. <br /> Second edition first published in 1789. "William's observations though chiefly on the geology of Scotland range widely and there is so much that is sound in the generalization and principles that he derives from them that the work might perhaps be said to constitute the first textbook of geology" Challinor p. 70. Printed for Bell & Bradfute, and W. Laing unknown
1946140904148New York: New Directions 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Complete in five volumes all in dust jackets. Very Good condition overall. Flap prices intact except for the last volume. Book 1 Very Good in Good dust jacket: a few small chips missing to edges of jacket archival mending tissue on verso of jacket back panel toned "shelf copy" stamped on back paste down publisher's stamp. Book 2 Very Good in Good: spine panel of jacket bottom edge of front panel and spine dampstained. Book 3 Very Good in Good: a bit of foxing to cloth of front a lot of chipping top edge of front panel piece missing from back panel top with creasing. Book 4 Near Fine in Very Good: toning to edges of jacket and light shelf wear. Book 5 Very Good in Good: well-bumped top corners rubbing and light foxing to jacket faint stain to front panel toning to back panel edge wear to jacket. All jackets are mylar-protected. A nice set. William Carlos Williams' epic poem in five books each issued in small runs-- 1000 copies each for the first four; 3000 for the last. New Directions hardcover books
339New York: New Directions. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. FIRST EDITIONS of all five books of William Carlos Williams's epic masterpiece one of the great triumphs of twentieth-century American poetry. Each first edition had a very limited print run: Books I-IV one of only 1000 copies Book V one of 3000 copies. "This is the first part of a long poem in four parts--that man in himself is a city beginning seeking achieving and concluding his life in ways which the various aspects of a city may embody--if imaginatively conceived--any city all the details of which may be made to voice his most intimate convictions. Part One introduces the elemental character of the place. The Second Part will comprise the modern replicas. Three will seek a language to make them vocal and Four the river below the falls will be reminiscent of episodes--all that any one man may achieve in a lifetime" Williams introducing Paterson which will ultimately become five rather than four books. New York: New Directions 1946-1958. Tall octavo original cloth original dust jackets. A FINE SET with only the slightest wear. Rare in this condition. New Directions hardcover books
19080001472USS HARTFORD US NAVAL ACADEMY. Good. 1908. On offer is a super manuscript relic of early 20th Century marine and naval education being a study notes and tests with corrections navigation course book handwritten by United States Naval Midshipman Williams Carter Wickham of the noted Virginia Wickham family while he trained aboard the USS Hartford at the time. From a long line of noted military men WCW would go on the be LCDR of the USS DENT in World War I. Dated 1908 to 1909 the book has 200 pages of handwritten notes. The book features his cut and paste questions and tests with his instructor's notations. The final entry is stated as 'Excellent'. Overall G.; Manuscript; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; KEYWORDS: PORCHAM CARTER WICKHAM VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE USN UNITED STATES NAVY USS DENT NAVIGATION NAVIGATORS OFFICERS SCHOOL ACADEMY NAVAL MARINE BATTLESHIPS WWI WW I PRE WORLD WAR I HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH KEEPSAKE WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL PERSONAL HISTORY ARCHIVE DIARY DIARIES antiquité contrat vélin document manuscrit papier Antike Brief Pergament Dokument Manuskript Papier oggetto d'antiquariato atto velina documento manoscritto carta antigüedad hecho vitela documento manuscrito Papel . unknown
