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19008941<p>London: Various 1900. 50 books and pamphlets from the personal library of the furniture designer and high-end London shop-keeper Sir Ambrose Heal which reflect his love for the Arts and Crafts movement and his passion as a pioneer and champion of design. The collection reveals Heal's connections with many of the leading figures of the time with inscribed copies from his fellow furniture designer Hamilton Smith review copies of works by William Lethaby and his own copies of early publications by the Designs and Industries Committee which he had helped found. There are polemics by Clough Williams Ellis as well as obscure exhibition catalogues and reports several unrecorded from organisations that he supported and helped to run. Altogether a fascinating insight into the life of an influential taste-maker and businessman in England in the first half of the century who ran Heal and Son on Tottenham Court Road for 40 years and played an active role in cultural life in London and further afield. The collection includes: BOOKS 1 'The Caliph's Design Architects ! Where is Your Vortex' by Wyndham Lewis. First edition. First Impression. Scarce one of only 1000 copies produced. A printed label to the front cover. Original blue marbled wrappers over card worn away to spine panel. Internally in very good condition. Published by The Egoist Ltd. 2019. Laid in is a printed invitation from the Royal Society of British Artists requesting the company of Mr A Heal dated March 29th 1930. 2 GIFT TO HEAL FROM A FURNITURE DESIGNER 'The People's Album of London Statues'. Described by Osbert Sitwell. Drawn by Nina Hammett. Published by Duckworth London 1928. Ambrose Heal book plate to front paste down. Hand written pencil note to front free end paper reads 'Given to me by Hamilton Smith Christmas 1928' - Hamilton Temple Smith was a fellow furniture designer with whom Heal shared a patent. Brown cloth boards with decorative embossing to front in good condition. Contains black and white illustrations throughout. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing. 3 'England and the Octopus' by Clough Williams Ellis. 1928. Boards and internally in good condition. All that remains of dust jacket is front cover which has been excised neatly and laid in. An influential polemic against urban sprawl. 'Heal' inscribed in pencil to front paste down. 4 'Britain Must Rebuild A Policy for Regional Planning' by Frank Pick. Published by Kegan Paul. In good condition. 'Ambrose Heal' written in pencil across front board. Front free end paper inscribed 'Ambrose Heal Nov '41'. 5 GIFT TO HEAL 'Henry Irving'. The Vellum Parchment Shilling Series. No III. Published by Field & Tuer. By William Archer. In good condition. Annotated 'HH from C.C.B. '92'. 6 'Guinevere' by Alfred Lord Tennyson. Illustrated by Byam Shaw. Published by TC & EC Jack. Pocket book. Inlaid decorative gift card reads 'From Philip Carr To Mr Ambrose Heal'. 7 'Cosmic Vision' by TJ Cobden Sanderson. First Edition 1922. Blue cloth covered boards a little worn to edges end papers and text clean. b/w frontispiece protected by dust sheet in very good condition overall throughout. 8 'Lettering in Ornament' by Lewis F Day. First Edition 1902. Good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. 218 pp. 9 'William Richard Lethaby 1857-1931'. Published by Central School of Arts and Crafts 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Boards a little discoloured. Text block sound overall in good condition. 86 pp. Laid in is a compliments slip from the Principal of London County Council. 10 REVIEW COPY 'Art and Handicraft' by John D Sedding. First Edition 1893. Green cloth covered boards with gold titles. Edges and spine sunned /darkened but in very sound condition. End papers clean some foxing text clean throughout. Inlaid is a printed note from Kegan Paul Trench Trubner & Co. To the reverse is a faint pencil drawn sketch of a building with tree in foreground. 11 'Handicrafts and Reconstruction. Notes by Members of the Arts & Crafts Exhibition Society'. Published for John Hogg. 1919. 139 pp. Original green cloth boards frayed to edges. Internally in good condition leaves age toned throughout. 12 'The Attribute Proper to Art: Pure Art Value' by Thomas Henry Lyon M.A. Brown card wrappers in good condition. Front free end paper inscribed 'Ambrose Heal from J H Lyons. April 20th 1932' presumably a family member related to the Cambridge architect and designer Thomas henry Lyon. PAMPHLETS AND BOOKLETS DESIGN & INDUSTRIES JOURNAL: Heal co-founded the Design and Industries Association which aimed to encourage greater design values within industrial production. 15x DIA journals news sheets and lecture booklets dated variously between 1919 1927. Includes Booklet Number One 'The Future Of Industrial Design' by Herbert Read with other contributions by Anthony Bertram and John Grey and William Lethaby's Art and Workmanship - all very scarce. Laid in is an overdue subscription reminder payable to The Design & Industries Association dated July 1925 made out in hand to Mr Ambrose Heal who in 1915 had helped to found the Association DIA 2 'A Note Regarding Script Types' by Douglas C McMurtie. Published by Press of Ars Typographica New York 1925.32 pp. In very good condition throughout. Ambrose Heal book plate to inner front wrapper. 3 Annual Reports of the Committee of the Art-Workers' Guild dated 1926 1929 & 1935. In very good condition. 4 3x pamphlets published by The Civic Arts Association dated 1927. Titled 'On Medals On Inscriptions Lest We Forget'. In good condition. 5 'The Future of the Past by John Leighton'. Programme for a production dated AWG Revels 1924. Card wrappers darkened and bumped to edges Text clean and unmarked. Catalogue for a production of 'The Statue of Artemis' signed 'with compliments from John Leighton'. Card wrappers. In fair condition. 6 2x pamphlets titled 'The History of Writing' from The Ideal Home Exhibition Olympia 1934. In good condition. 7 Oxford Copy Books x2 unused. 8 Mermaid Society 1903 programme for a production of 'Comus'. Card wrappers bound by orange string to spine. Age worn leaves foxed overall in good condition. Unrecorded programme for a performance in Regent's Park which included Mrs Beerbohm Tree in the cast. 9 Der Zwiebelfisch x2 dated 1909. In good conditiom. 1 x Kultur des handwerks Dec 1926. 10 'Undescribed Copy Books in the Ekstrom Collection Svenska Skolmuseet Stockholm' by Carl Bjorkbom. Inscribed to front ' With compliments from the author'. Inlaid is a signed letter to Mr Heal from Carl Bjorkbom. 11 The Statue of Artemis Shrovetide Revels Art Workers' Guild 1919 inscribed 'With Compliments John Leighton' - Master of the Art Workers' Guild. 12 Catalogue of a Book Exhibition at the Central School LCC 1912 elaborately annotated by Heal to the rear. A further collection of pamphlets which include exhibitions members lists Imperial Arts League 1915 listing Heal's membership annual reports and catalogue lists for various societies and arts organisations. Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item 1900</p> Various hardcover
200033849Lanham Maryland U.S.A.: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc. New. 2000. Hardcover. 0847697940 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY PRISTINE -- 147 pages -- -- Choose us for the information you need -- TABLE OF CONTENTS: -- Foreword Acknowledgments Key to the Abbreviations 1 The Development of Will to Power 1 2 Will to Power in the Published Works 19 3 Will to Power in the Unpublished Works 51 4 Will to Power and Truth 79 5 Nietzsche's Magic: It's All Done with Mirrors 107 Afterword 129 Notes 135 Relevant Bibliography 139 Index 145 About the Author 149. -- DESCRIPTION: -- Nietzsche's Mirror introduces the reader to one of the most central and pervasive themes in Friedrich Nietzsche's works-will to power. The book traces Nietzsche's use of the terms "power " "will " and "will to power" as they are presented in both the works he authorized for publication and his literary remains called the "Nachlass". The author demonstrates that will to power as it is presented in the "Nachlass" differs from the way it is presented in the works Nietzsche authorized for publication before his collapse in 1889. Then it is argued that the problems that the "Nachlass" poses for scholars suggests that the "Nachlass" material should not be held in the same regard as the works Nietzsche authorized for publication. Because of the discrepancy between the published and unpublished writings will to power should not be interpreted as a metaphysical principle operating behind the world since the metaphysical-sounding passages are located in the "Nachlass" but rather as a tool for interpreting relations especially human relations within the world. The final chapter examines Nietzsche's unique style of writing which the author calls "mirror writing. " Mirror writing is a technique Nietzsche deliberately employs in order to have such visionary themes as will to power master morality and eternal recurrence reflect the reader's values back to himself. Since this book is meant to be an introduction to will to power at the end of each chapter is a list of additional books so that the reader can delve further into the themes presented in the chapter such as Nietzsche's biography ethics writings on truth and eternal recurrence. -- AUTHOR: Linda L. Williams isAssociate Professor of Philosophy at Kent State University -- with a bonus offer-- . Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc hardcover
1962C94020Gallery. As 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 -- 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 . Gallery hardcover
1962C94021Gallery. As 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 -- 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 . Gallery paperback
1853202739Philadelphia: Lippincott Grambo & Co 1853. unbound. very good. Case map. Engraving with original hand coloring. Image measures 24" x 29.25".<br/><br/> Wellington Williams was a 19th century engraver publisher geographer and draughtsman from Philadelphia. Map includes the Gold Region of California Utah covers Nevada and part of Colorado the remainder of which is consumed by Nebraska. Washington and Oregon both extend eastward to the Rockies beyond which is North-West Territory. New Mexico includes present day Arizona. Booklet missing. Map is expertly repaired.<br/><br/> Lippincott, Grambo & Co unknown books
20212-0323694764W B Saunders Co 2021. Paperback. New. 6th pap/psc edition. 946 pages. 11.00x8.75x1.25 inches. W B Saunders Co paperback
978-01451190131Lippincott Williams and Wilkins. New. New New Condition: New Ship out in 3 business day And Fast shipping Free Tracking number will be provided after the shipment Lippincott Williams and Wilkins unknown
19410009131AIR CORPS BASIC FLYING SCHOOL GUNTER FIELD. Very Good. 1941. On offer are two detailed and fascinating diaries of the early years of World War II told from the perspective of flight cadet and later Lieutenant and instructor Hugh Otto Williams. The books arent diaries exactly but books in which Williams wrote down the letters he sent to his brother Toby Williams of Kings Mountain North Carolina. The first diary depicts the daily life of Williams as a U.S. Air Corps flying cadet in training at the Mississippi Institute of Aeronautics in Jackson Mississippi. This diary goes from January to August 1941. The second diary follows Williams as a flight instructor at the Air Corps Basic Flying School at Gunter Field later Shaw Field in Montgomery Alabama. It goes from September 1941 to July 1942. In the beginning of the first diary Williams is a brand new cadet having just arrived in Jackson Mississippi. He describes in excellent detail what it was like to learn how to fly the difficulties the instructors written and physical exams the routines and drills that would make him a pilot. Along with the flying comes the rules regulations exercises inspections and all the other realities of learning to be a soldier and pilot. Only 25 days after he first arrives at the base after passing tests and exams and drills he solos supervised for the first time. I soloed - yes all by myself - it did make me feel good. It is an almost indescribable feeling to be up there by yourself. Funny it didnt scare me one bit. In fact I kinda had a feeling of peace as soon as I got off the ground. Williams talks about almost every single time he flies up in the hour what it was like what he did what he learned etc. In February he is flying all by himself in the plane and continuing to learn more and more. He comments that a large number of cadets have failed tests and washed out meaning they were not good enough to continue. By February there are only 40 or so cadets left out of an initial 92. He graduates in March and moves to Gunter Field in Montgomery Alabama as part of class 41-F. His instructor here is a Lt. McIntyre A southerner and seemed to be awfully nice and later a Lt. Salisbury. The planes at Gunter Field are different as well: There ships sure are lots different from what we have been flying. More instruments that you can shake a stick at. Sure will be lots of things to remember to do. They have two-way radio sets - wireless and all that. We take off and land only with permission of the Field Tower. The ships are lots larger than the others. I am really interested in getting started. The ships he is flying at Gunter are called BT-13s. At Gunter Field Williams is still a cadet and more training is done both flying and learning on the ground. In one instance he takes off on a routine training flight that turns into a difficult and almost harrowing experience as there are problems as gale force winds make flying tremendously difficult for Williams and Williams has to be given detailed instructions on how to land the plane. A small newspaper clipping is pasted in on the next page: Gunter Drama: Radio Saves 105 Cadets. In April a newspaper clipping about Williams in pasted in: Local Boy Soon To Graduate In Air Corps. He does just that and moves to Maxwell Field in Montgomery. Still part of Class 41-F Squadron H. At Maxwell Field Williams is at the Advanced Flying school. The diary ends in August as Williams finishes his Advanced Flying course with a day-night long distance trip of hundreds of miles. The second diary in begins with Williams now a Lieutenant and instructing at Gunter Field at the Air Corps Basic Flying School where he had started flying only 9 months beforehand. The letters focus on the students that Williams is in charge of 4 in total and the progress that they make or dont. In January 1942 Williams moves to Shaw Field in Gunter South Carolina and is in charge of six students from six different states. Again he speaks often and candidly of his students progress and difficulties. In July he is made Assistant Commanding Officer for a new flying class coming into the Basic Flying School. Finally in July the last entry is written. Maxwell Field. Central Instructors School. Montgomery Alabama. Williams is at the school to learn more about Flight instruction. The diary ends with 21 black-and-white photographs of Williams a woman who seems to be his girlfriend or wife and a few of the faces of friends or family. Most of the photographs are labelled with the date they were taken and the location. The diaries also contain bits of ephemera as well. These include: Grade school report cards for Williams in 1932 and 1933 Army cards signifying the completion of various courses in Flight School a membership card to The Officers Club and Mess at Maxwell Field Alabama a pamphlet for the Air Corps Training Detachment Mississippi Institute of Aeronautics Graduation Dinner Dance of the Class of 41-E and various photographs of Williams from the time period. The two diaries are in good condition. Both covers are free of any major wear. The pages within are almost all still in good condition without much discoloration or rips/tears. The handwriting throughout is easily legible and readable in black ink. All photographs loose or pasted in are still in very good condition. The first diary is approximately 200 pages and the second diary is approximately 150. The books measure about: 4 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches. OVERALL: VG. Text: January 1 1941. This place is completely out in the country not even a country store! NOthing but the post. Every building is brand new and it is really nice. The first day we were issued flying equipment which is really the stuff - they issue to each man about $200.00 worth of equipment namely: A fur-lined jacket fur lined pants and shoes all leather on the outside. Helmet and goggles. Three pairs of coveralls jeans gloves and a mechanic's cap. So much in fact that a person dont need except underwear and toilet articles. They vaccinated us for smallpox and typhoid in the same arm.We have a nameplate that we have to wear on our coveralls. It starts off one color and you have to polish it until it turns to another color. It took me all morning.; January 11 1941. The flying would be swell if it wasnt for the Instructor. He told me yesterday that it would be a miracle if I ever learned to fly. But just between you and me I think I am pretty good. He has three of us. He takes us up one at a time. After all of us have been up we have a sort of conference going over our mistakes for the day. I dont catch near as much on the ground as the other two do. I like to fly! I have four hours to my credit now. Am supposed to be able to solo in four more - that is if I ever solo!.We started off learning to do 90° turns. Climbing turns. 180° turns. 360° turns etc. Then we had to learn to follow a rectangle on the ground. That is you pick out a rectangular figure on the ground such as roads fences or something. Use a tree or something for a corner. Sounds easy. Would be if it wasnt for the wind. You have to figure that on it will blow you off course.All kind of stuff like that.; July 24 1941. I have completed my last flight in Advanced flying. Now I am supposed to be ready for bigger better and faster ships. It sure is a great relief to know I have actually finished - and I can brag a little with the few that all during my Cadet-training of over 200 hours I have even put a scratch on a plane. Our Squadron took our day-night cross-country yesterday. We flew from Maxwell to Nashville to Chattanooga. A distance of 390 miles where we landed ate supper and waited for it to get dark. Then after dark we flew from Chattanooga to Atlanta to Maxwell. It was a real nice trip. Beautiful weather. The mountains sure did look good from the air.I was Officer of the Day yesterday and today until 11:30 AM got out of a lot of the work due to the Cross-Country.; September 23 1941. I started instructing today. Two British and two Americans. It is a funny thing. Both the Americans primaryed at M.I.A. One even had Mr. Firpprecht as an instructor. So far I havent ridden with my students because today they had a cross-country trip and since they fly these in loose formation My students went with another flight. I was assigned to squadron 4 which at the present is the under class or class 42-A. They have about 35 hours. Sure am glad they let me start with an experienced class. They at least know what it is all about and maybe wont scare me too bad right at first.; Manuscript; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF FLIGHT CADET HUGH OTTO WILLIAMS HUGH O. WILLIAMS TOBY WILLIAMS KINGS MOUNTAIN NORTH CAROLINA MISSISSIPPI INSTITUTE OF AERONAUTICS JACKSON MISSISSIPPI AIR CORPS BASIC FLYING SCHOOL GUNTER FIELD SHAW FIELD MAXWELL FIELD MONTGOMERY ALABAMA WORLD WAR TWO FLIGHT SCHOOL WW2 ERA AVIATION LIEUTENANT MCINTYRE LIEUTENANT SALISBURY CLASS 41-F FLIGHT INSTRUCTORS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR SOLDIER TRAINING ADVANCED FLIGHT U.S. AIR CORPS UNITED STATES ARMY SOLO FLIGHT AMERICANA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH KEEPSAKE WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL ARCHIVE DIARY DIARIES JOURNAL LOG ANTIQUITÉ CONTRAT VÉLIN DOCUMENT MANUSCRIT PAPIER ANTIKE BRIEF PERGAMENT DOKUMENT MANUSKRIPT PAPIER OGGETTO DANTIQUARIATO ATTO VELINA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITTO CARTA ANTIGÜEDAD HECHO VITELA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITO PAPEL . hardcover
1900C3180<p>lii232 pages with diagrams index and tables. Quarto 10 1/2" x 6 3/4" bound in dark brown cloth with gilt lettered spine label and original vignette affixed to front cover. Annotations by Leopold Hoffer. From the library of Lothar Schmid. Betts: 7-36 Limited to 500 copies. First edition.</p><p>The London 1899 chess tournament was without a doubt one of the very strongest tournaments ever held on British soil. Almost every great master of the day was present including the past and reigning world champions. It proved to be the swan song of the old champion Wilhelm Steinitz but for Emanuel Lasker it was a glittering success which propelled him way beyond the other grandmasters of the time. All important players were invited. Many of these players were the champions of the country that they represented. Refusals came from Siegbert Tarrasch and Rudolf Charousek illness. The businessman Amos Burn had to withdraw at the opening's day. Fifteen participants played double rounds from 30 May to 10 July 1899 except for Richard Teichmann. He withdrew after round 4 due to an eye disease. His remaining games in the first cycle were declared as lost.</p><p>Rounds were played in St. Stephen s Hall. The time limit was fifteen moves in one hour. Participants were entertained by the City of London chess club at Crystal Palace and the Star and Garter Hotel in Richmond. A banquet took place in the International Hall of the Café Monico on 29 June. Lasker finished a whopping 4.5 points ahead of the group finished tied for second Janowski Maroczy Pillsbury. This is easily one of the more dominating personal performances in a tournament ever played. London 1899 goes down in history as one of the great Lasker victories along with St. Petersburg 1896 Paris 1900 St. Petersburg 1914 and New York 1924. There was a second section in the tournament won by Frank James Marshall with 8.5 out of 11. Georg Marco and Jacques Mieses were the most experienced opponents and the tournament was not all that strong.</p><p>Lothar Maximilian Lorenz Schmid 10 May 1928 - 18 May 2013 was a German chess grandmaster. He was born in Radebeul near Dresden into a family who were the co-owners of the Karl May Press which published the German Karl May adventure novels. He was best known as the chief arbiter at several World Chess Championship matches in particular the 1972 encounter between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky at Reykjavic. He was also an avid collector of chess books and paraphernalia. It was reputed that he owned the largest known private chess library in the world as well as a renowned collection of chess art chess boards and chess pieces from around the globe.</p><p><strong>Condition: </strong>Lothar Schmid's book plate to front end paper. Book plate of another former owner to front paste down corners bumped spine lightly sunned else very good.</p> Longmans, Green and Company hardcover
50336Unpaginated 54 typed leaves printed recto only original typed research report by Williams a veterinarian and Stone a chemist documenting their attempts to effectively perform saliva and urine tests on thoroughbred racing horses to detect the existence of performance-enhancing drugs and stimulants including information on the collection of fluids a chemical analysis of synthetic drugs and the effect of the drugs when administered to horses in varying amounts illustrated with ten original photographs of various substances at a microscopic level and one page with several small original chemical illustrations. Overall very fine condition. 4to. Original cloth-covered boards title impressed in green ink. Some very slight rubbing especially to corners and edges of spine. N.p. Olympia Washington Washington Horse Racing Commission n.d. 1941. The beginning of the report lays out the method used by Williams and Stone to photograph alkaloid-double-salt crystals which they appear to have developed themselves via a series of experiments. They settled upon a method using "triple S panchromatic film and exposing for a period of from five to ten seconds depending on the crystals photographed and the amount of light available" which produced "satisfactory photomicrographs". They follow this with the exact solutions they used to develop the film as well as to fix the photomicrographs. Their pioneering work appears similar to the methods used beginning in the 1970's during Reagan's "War on Drugs" and later to test for performance-enhancing drugs in humans. As of November 2019 WorldCat does not locate any listings for this report; a possibly unique and highly technical work. hardcover books
1972180119001New York: The Viking Press 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition first printing. Signed by John Williams inscribed by him to a previous owner. Very Good with light shelf lean light fading to covers at edges. Pages show several small sporadic stains light check marks to margins toward front of text with several instances of underlining. In a Very Good dust jacket edge worn and with a short closed tear at the top edge of the front panel a bit of creasing and moderate general wear. The author's fourth and final novel which shared the 1973 National Book Award with John Barth's Chimera. The Viking Press hardcover books
1972122759New York: The Viking Press 1972. First edition of the author's National Book Award-winning novel. Octavo original half cloth cartographic endpapers. Association copy inscribed by the author on the half-title page "For Bob and Margaret good friends- with the gratitude of Augustus and John Williams." The recipients were close friends of the author. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. In Augustus his third great novel John Williams took on an entirely new challenge a historical narrative set in classical Rome exploring the life of the founder of the Roman Empire. To tell the story Williams turned to the epistolary novel a genre that was new to him transforming and transcending it just as he did the western in Butcher's Crossing and the campus novel in Stoner. Augustus is the final triumph of a writer who has come to be recognized around the world as an American master. The Viking Press hardcover books
197232041New York: The Viking Press 1972. First edition of the author's National Book Award-winning novel. Octavo original half cloth cartographic endpapers. Signed by John Williams on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing. A superior example. In Augustus his third great novel John Williams took on an entirely new challenge a historical narrative set in classical Rome exploring the life of the founder of the Roman Empire. To tell the story Williams turned to the epistolary novel a genre that was new to him transforming and transcending it just as he did the western in Butcher's Crossing and the campus novel in Stoner. Augustus is the final triumph of a writer who has come to be recognized around the world as an American master. The Viking Press hardcover books
186961320Mercer PA 1869. Pen-and-ink drawing on paper 16 1/2 x 20 inches probably for a newspaper or periodical advertisement depicting a slain 12-point buck lying on the ground in a mountainous terrain trees in the background vegetation in the foreground a sad- looking hound curled up beside the deer; in the left foreground is a cluster of overlapping 3 x 1 3/4 inch business cards one for the artist "Mercer Gun Shop / J.R. Williams. / Manufacturer and / Dealer / in / Rifles / Shot Guns / . / Repairing / of all kind / Done on / The / Shortest / Notice" and four others for local Mercer businesses a bank a restaurant a hotel and an inn. The illustration and ads are enclosed within a thin black rule. Jesse R. Williams 1830-1914 a Civil War veteran lived in Mercer county most of his life and worked as a farmer river boat pilot gunsmith hotel owner and ferry operator. Some browning but very good and a wonderful evocation of mid-19th century deer hunting. One abrasion causing a short crack in the image. #8475. <br/><br/> unknown books
18554504Hertford: Stephen Austin 1855. First printing. First printing. Bound handsomely by John Leighton signed Leighton Brewer Si i.e. "Brewer Street on verso of front fly in full crimson morocco with rich gold tooling consisting of floral ornaments navy morocco circular inlays on all four corners on both covers spine with similar design tooling and inlays gilt dentelles marbled endsheets. The rare first edition of this classic with pictorial title text illustrations ornaments and page borders in oriental style in colors and gold. Corners somewhat bumped slight scratch on rear cover near fine. A nice example of Leighton's work. <br/><br/> Stephen Austin unknown books
192121999Boston: Four Seas Company 1921. First edition. One of 1000 copies printed. Wallace A5. Sour Grapes includes "To Waken An Old Lady" "The Widow's Lament in Springtime" and "Queen-Ann's-Lace" among Williams' best poems. Boards lightly rubbed at extremities an inch-long and 3/8 inch at its widest marginal chip in the fore-edge of one leaf not affecting text otherwise a fine copy in the rare dust jacket which is nicked and slightly chipped in a few places with a 1 1/2 inch closed tear in the top-edge of the back panel. Small 8vo original green boards with printed label on spine dust jacket. Boards lightly rubbed at extremities an inch-long and 3/8 inch at its widest marginal chip in the fore-edge of one leaf not affecting text otherwise a fine copy in the rare dust jacket which is nicked and slightly chipped in a few places with a 1 1/2 inch closed tear in the top-edge of the back panel. Four Seas Company unknown
187819850San Francisco: Edgar Williams & Co. Very Good. 1878. First Edition. Hardcover. Bound in three-quarter black leather. The spine has been professionally repaired with black leather. The cloth is rubbed and soiled. Some finger marks and slight foxing to the contents. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 104 pages . Edgar Williams & Co. hardcover
1894460354New York: D. Appleton & Company 1894. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First Appleton edition "revised to date" from the 1893 first edition published in Hartford. 12mo. 274pp. illustrated with diagrams. Blue cloth gilt illustrated on the front board with the image of a football player. Fine in a very good original unprinted paper dustwrapper with a piece cut away on the spine in order to reveal the title as issued and with some small chips and tears especially near the crown. One of the scarcest earliest and most important books on the game of American Football. Grobani Guide to Football Literature I-6 second edition. Only the third clothbound book solely devoted to American football. Very scarce especially in jacket we've had one other copy thus. D. Appleton & Company hardcover
1840093662J.H. Colton 1840. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Authors. 1st Edition. In stamped brown cloth with fold-out color map. Four-inch tear and small chip to front end paper. Some foxing to end papers and first few pages. Fading to cloth on spine. Two previous owner names to rear end papers. Map has three-inch tear with some loss to paper and one-inch tear. Inscribed by Williams in pencil in 1845. J.H. Colton Hardcover
19430001044AUGUSTA MAINE NEW YORK CITY ME NY. Very Good. 1943. On offer is one of the finest World War II homefront diaries we have ever encountered. Mrs. Leon Williams of Augusta Maine and living at Concord Haven and the Augusta House using a largish thick 1945 journal style page a day diary writes retrospectively of 1943 and 1944 and then 1945. Whether she is copying from older books and transferring the entries or writing from memory is not known but her writings are very detailed and specific. It is also uncertain if she was born in America or England though we do believe she is British by birth what is known is that she is a staunch lover of both countries relishing in the determination of the British against Germany and America's own battle against the Nazis. She sews for British children knits socks for soldiers attends bond drives and quarrels with those that treat the war effort too lightly especially those who do not have their sons or daughters fighting the Germans as her own son Peter was doing. Widowed in the mid 1930s her husband was an important inventor and scientist in dental practice and the Williams family traced its roots back to Revolutionary times. See the biographical notes. Mrs. Williams has had a sensational life: In 1890 she took a trip to New Zealand. She has lived in Australia and adores the country. In 1910 she left New York for England. In 1943 she was living in New York and then to Maine. She has recurring bouts with Malaria - 'the old bug'. We figure she is in her sixties as she mentions being required to retire from business. This is a singularly unique and formidable woman in the mould of a Margaret Thatcher. She has a tremendous moral compass and does not hold punches: 'They do not speak my language in Augusta. They know so little beyond trivial affairs yet they are big bugs in their tiny world.' She has a number of problems with some Maine residents given how insulated from the War Maine is and the attitudes of some rile her to no end. She is on top of all the world news and the burden of the world's woes weigh on her. She records the numbers of dead in London Blitz she records details on many areas of the war effort. She makes an oath that as long as the boys are in the trenches and waging war she will not sing or dance or attend parties. She detests the complainers and her entries regarding the death of Roosevelt are eye watering. She pays homage to FDR declaring him the greatest man that ever lived. Another emotional passage is her description of being in Egypt in 1901 when her beloved Queen Victoria dies and the toll it takes on her. BIO NOTES: James Leon Williams April 18 1852 - February 23 1932 was an American prosthodontist and a pioneer dental histologist. He discovered dental plaque. In 1785 Leon's great-grandfather Jacob Williams a U.S. Army captain during the American Revolution settled in Maine. A native of Massachusetts he had a son Richard around the year 1794. On May 25 1829 Richard had a son Calvin who would be Leon's father. Sometime around 1879 J. Leon Williams began a two-year apprenticeship by a Dr. Roberts in North Vassalboro Maine and later began practicing in the same town. Williams later passed examinations for the DDS degree at the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery and the equivalent LDS degree in Ireland. He joined the Maine Dental Society and used the opportunity to borrow their microscope to study the histology and pathology of tooth enamel. In the early 1880s common crown and bridge techniques were not well-known or widespread. Williams sought to make information on these techniques available to all dentists through the pages of The Dental Cosmos. In 1885 he embarked on a journey to improve the state of dental prostheses by designing more aesthetic artificial teeth that better matched the overall facial dimensions of the patient. He convinced an American artificial tooth manufacturer to take up his cause and produce his designs on the condition that other dentists would embrace the new forms. Williams also practiced dentistry in London and was one of the founders of the International Association for Dental Research. Mrs. Williams writes almost daily until the summer and then she becomes sporadic. VG.; Manuscript; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall; MAINE HOME FRONT WAR EFFORT HOMEFRONT DENTISTRY DENTAL ORTHODONTICS WORLD WAR II WWII WOMEN'S STUDIES GENDER STUDIES HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH KEEPSAKE WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL PERSONAL HISTORY AMERICANA ALS ARCHIVE DIARY DIARIES CIVIL WAR ERA WAR BETWEEN THE STATES ANTIQUITÉ CONTRAT VÉLIN MANUSCRIT PAPIER ANTIKE BRIEF PERGAMENT DOKUMENT GENEALOGY 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 . unknown
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022591Cheloniidae Press Easthampton MA 1988. Limited Edition. Folio. Limited to only 107 copies printed on Arch Text Wove. The present volume is out of series not numbered No pagination. Alan James Robinson designed the beautiful portfolio. He etched and hand-colored 8 engravings 4 wood engravings and 6 linecuts along with an extra suite of the illustrations each is signed and numbered 20/50 by Robinson and laid into white folders and placed within the clamshell case in a compartment specially made with a folding chemise to house these illustrations below the book. The essays were by Stephen Bodio of Magdalena New Mexico and Ted Williams of Grafton MA. The calligraphy was by Suzanne Moore of Ashfield. Several other artists from Massachusetts contributed to this volume. Bound in 1/4 pale green leather over specially made paper covered boards for edges trimmed in leather a multi-colored leather onlay of a fishing fly on the upper board. Housed within a clamshell of 1/4 leather over beige cloth spine lettered and ruled in gilt light finger soiling to cloth on clamshell. A magnificent work. Fine. (Cheloniidae Press, Easthampton, MA, 1988) books
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1950173243Bielefeld Germany: Prepared by Headquarters British Air Forces of Occupation Air Ministry Assistant Chief of Air Staff Operations April 1950. An effort of Biblical proportions Sole edition classified RESTRICTED. This definitive report on the British contribution during the first major crisis of the Cold War was compiled under Air Marshal Williams as C-i-C British Air Forces he received the DSM US for his services. Rare WorldCat notes five locations: Smithsonian National defence University Library Calgary University the Dutch Defensiebibliotheken and the British Library; Library Hub adds the National Aerospace Library. Until relatively recently this remarkable logistical achievement "given its acknowledged importance has been poorly served by its historiography" and particularly so the British contribution Keen p. ii. Current research based in the close examination of sources such as the present report seems to confirm "that the RAF and Civil Lift aircraft were necessary for the logistical success of the total Anglo-American operation and would have continued to be so in the long-term commitment being planned" ibid. p. 263. The ambitions of the report were intentionally widely inclusive being compiled so as "to give as complete a picture as possible of this highly complicated and integrated operation. While the Headquarters B.A.F.O. was the primary operating agency on the British side many other formations took a very active and important part in making the success of the operation possible. so slight incursions have been made into realms that were properly the responsibility of other services and other commands. reports by other formations have been included as appendices so that as much as possible of the valuable experience gained on this operation will be collected under one cover and can be available for reference if it should ever be necessary to carry out a similar operation" Introduction. The account is presented thematically covering The Task The Implements of the Airlift Air Operations Communications Equipment Personnel Freight - Organisation and Handling Accomplishments of the Airlift and a Summary of Lessons Learnt; the appendices include substantial reports from the Officer Commanding Transport Force during the first three weeks of operations from the Operational Research Branch and the Combined Airlift Task Force together with highly informative reviews of meteorology signals technical and equipment organisation. "The achievements of the airlift in statistical terms are impressive enough. The total tonnage lifted into Berlin by British and American aircraft was 2325808.7 tons. Of this the British lift carried 542236 tons split of which the RAF carried 394509 tons. The British carried 241000 tons of food 165000 tons of coal and 92000 tons of wet fuel all the latter in civil aircraft. They also carried 35000 tons of freight including 12800 tons of economic goods and 131436 passengers out of the city. British aircraft flew more than 32 million miles consumed over 35 million gallons of Avgas and spent over 200000 hours in the air. They helped sustain a city of more than two and a half million inhabitants for many months including through the winter. Just as importantly however was that in the first real test of the Cold War they demonstrated immense western resolve in the face of Soviet provocation and intransigence and dealt a significant blow to Soviet prestige and influence with incalculable effects on Western European communist parties particularly those in France and Italy. The western presence in Berlin was maintained and it remained as a beacon of freedom inside the Communist bloc not to mention acting as a very useful centre for intelligence gathering. The airlift also demonstrated to a Service dominated by airmen from an offensive bomber and tactical air background that the RAF's air transport capability could be deployed as a strategic asset to considerable effect" Cox pp. 30-31 Folio. Eight half-tone plates folding plan of an "ideal airfield" and 8 full-page plans of actual air fields at the rear numerous plans maps diagrams and tables to the text many full-page many printed in colours. Original moderate olive brown sand-grain half cloth strong yellow printed paper-covered boards spine unlettered. Externally somewhat rubbed bumped and soiled front cover lightly damp-stained at the bottom edge softened and consequently bruised contents toned but overall very good. Sebastian Cox "An Effort of Biblical Proportions The Berlin Airlift 19481949" Air Power Review 21 2 Summer 2018; Richard David Keen Half a million tons and a goat: a study of British participation in the Berlin Airlift University of Buckingham PhD 2013 hardcover
