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166689746Wittenberg: Héritiers de D. Tobias Mevius et E. SchumacherImpr. de Matthaeus Henckel 1666. Fine. A copy ""uncut at the head"" Héritiers de D. Tobias Mevius et E. Schumacher Impr. de Matthaeus Henckel Wittenberg 1666 16.3 x 20.2 cm Relié First edition illustrated with four plates including a folding world map cf. Sinkankas 3466; Agassiz III 370.Full fawn calf spine with five slender raised bands gilt-tooled compartments with occasionally softened floral tools rubbed gilt headcaps brown morocco lettering-piece marbled endpapers and pastedowns gilt dentelle framing the pastedowns gilt fillets to board edges marbled edges contemporary binding.Repairs to the spine one joint split at head and foot browning along the board margins with surface scratches scattered foxing a waterstain at the head of all leaves.A noteworthy treatise devoted to yellow amber and above all to ambergris the fragrant substance derived from the intestinal concretions of sperm whales which once expelled float on the surface of the sea and yield a highly prized perfume.The plates depict a frog and a lizard embedded in amber a world map Africa Europe Asia and part of the Southern Lands figures collecting bird droppings and various animals.""This book commonly appears in bibliographies on amber when in fact it is about ambergris but Klobius examines both substances and notes their differences on p. 26-9. One of the plates shows a frog and a lizard imbedded in amber both of which are fakes"" Sinkankas.On the title-page a distinguished manuscript ex-libris in black ink Héritiers de D. Tobias Mevius et E. SchumacherImpr. de Matthaeus Henckel hardcover
1558ST20936Mainz: druckts Franz Behem Arnold Birckmann I heirs of 1558 1559. FIRST EDITION. 320 x 205 mm. 12 5/8 x 8". 6 p.l. CCCCCI 501 leaves; 4 p.l. CCLXII 162 leaves. <br/> Contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over bevelled wooden boards covers with concentric frames containing a palmette roll and roll featuring half-length portraits of King David signed K D St. Paul Christ the Savior and St. John the Baptist dated 1549 each of these with abbreviated Latin mottos beneath the figures central panel with botanical tooling raised bands inked shelfmark G 73 in bottom panel brass catchplates and remnants of straps corners of boards and head and tail of joints repaired with pigskin some decades ago. Title pages with printer's device 6 with woodcut of the Crucifixion verso of title page of second work with woodcut arms of the archbishop of Mainz. Front pastedown with FULL-PAGE HAND-PAINTED EX-LIBRIS OF JOHANNES SALICETUS WIDENER: his ink inscription at head of page above a shield painted yellow with curling ink leaves around the perimeter dominated by a bearded young man in red shirt and tights standing astride three brown hillocks one hand on his hip the other holding three stalks of wheat a ink-drawn homunculus at the foot of the page his head sprouting what appear to be two antennae the later blue ink stamp of F T E beside this. First work: USTC 694128; VD16 694130. Second work: 694130; VD16 For the binding: EBDB workshop w002792; EBDB roll r001326 similar to saints roll but dated 1547 and with slightly different Latin mottos. Pigskin somewhat soiled and rubbed title page of first work tipped onto 2 leaves lightly browned due to paper quality with intermittent foxing and occasional mostly trivial stains and smudges final leaf with a two-inch to half-inch triangular piece torn away from the upper half of the fore edge affecting a total of perhaps 80 or 100 words. Still a copy featuring a binding with antique appeal and considerable interest in terms of provenance see below.<br/> <br/> Offered in its original blind-stamped pigskin binding this imposing collection of Counter-Reformation sermons by an influential preacher is of special interest because of the impressively large hand-painted ex-libris at the front. The two groups of sermons bound together here were written by Johann Wild 1497-1554 a Franciscan who was educated at Cologne and who served as the Domprediger official cathedral preacher at Mainz Cathedral. Wild's sermons were very popular and it has been suggested that they played a significant role in keeping Mainz Catholic at a time when many surrounding cities were converting to Lutheranism. Despite his being a Catholic hero for a time Wild later became a controversial figure in the Church: many of his works eventually faced posthumous censure even being placed on the Vatican's Index Librorum Prohibitorum on the grounds that they might invite scriptural misinterpretation. Our copy was owned by a second German Counter-Reformation figure Johannes Salicetus i.e. Johann Wideman whose exuberantly large hand-painted ex-libris takes up nearly the entire front pastedown. Salicetus was rector at the University of Ingolstadt which had become a bastion of Catholic thought in Southern Germany under the leadership of theologian Johann Eck 1486-1543 an outspoken Luther opponent. A relative and very close friend of Eck Salicetus composed Eck's eulogy USTC 698476 as well as a marital poem for his son Oswald USTC 2213477. The enormous bookplate is apparently a coat of arms and features a particularly proud central figure posing staunchly in a very red suit with a prominent codpiece and holding three stalks of wheat. While this peculiarly emphatic expression of ownership is surely not unprecedented we have never owned a book with provenance shown in quite such a dramatic fashion. druckts Franz Behem, [Arnold Birckmann (I) (heirs of)] unknown
23950Daragon libraire éditeur Paris 1919 3é année Mai-Décembre. In/4 28 x 20 cm broché couverture imprimée illustrations : 5 gravures hors-texte quelques illustrations in-texte page 111 à 266. Exemplaire non coupé. Héraldique armoriaux blasons généalogies reliures ordres de chevalerie unknown
163867902London: Printed by T. Cotes for William Cooke 1638. First edition in English. Leather Bound. Good. 327 numbered pages. Twentyfourmo 14.5 cm Full brown leather with a red leather spine label decorative gilt tooling to the spine and double blind-ruled borders on the boards. Later endpapers circa 18th-19th century. Lacking the frontispiece portrait. Extremities rubbed. Cracks to the head of the spine along the joints the longer crack along the front joint measures 1 inch. Leather boards darkened at the edges. Ownership inscription "C Humphreys 1746" on front flyleaf. Two contemporary notations on the title page. A single manuscript notation within the text. One gathering hanging by a thread. Text block cracked at p. 317 and pp. 317-322 are partially detached. Small stains in the top margins of pp. 40-162 of "The Epistle." P. 286 is numbered as p. 287 and vice versa. <br /> <br /> Ex-libris English antiquary verse-writer and politician Hudson Gurney of Norwich 1775-1864 with his armorial bookplate on the front pastedown. Hudson a highly acclaimed intellectual and bibliophile avowed to have read all 15000 volumes in his library and was a fellow of the Royal Society and the vice president of the Society of Antiquaries. His own verse works include the free translations of "Cupid and Psyche" 1798 and "The Orlando Furiosa" 1808 and his chronicle of major events in ancient history "Heads of Ancient History" 1814. His "Observations on the Bayeux Tapestry" 1817 presented an argument for the authenticity of its subject. He made numerous contributions in Parliament where he was viewed as an independent who tended to see both sides of every question. The book opens with a note on the translation which is followed by an unpaginated section titled "To the Inhabitants of the Island of great Britaine Unitie and Felicity."<br /> <br /> Gildas was a 6th century British monk and historian who lived for many years as an ascetic hermit on Flatholm Island in the Bristol Channel and was known for his piety and good education. He founded a monastery in Brittany known as St. Gildas de Rhuys. His "De excidio et conquestu Britanniae" "The Overthrow and Conquest of Britain" is one of a handful of sources for the country's post-Roman history. This work "The Epistle of Gildas" is a longer work which is a series of sermons on the moral failures of rulers and of the clergy.<br /> <br /> A work by one of the most influential figures of the early English Church. Printed by T. Cotes, for William Cooke unknown
183869551London: Simpkin Marshall and Co 1838. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 264pp. Small octavo 19.5 cm Green decoratively embossed cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine. Yellow endpapers. Frontispiece illustration. Spine sunned. Cloth at spine ends chipped. Underlying boards barely just beginning to peek through at corners. Free endpapers and recto of frontispiece mildly discolored. Short tape repairs to long closed tear on p. 140 no text is obscured. Loss to fore-edge margin of p. 163/64 again text not affected. Stitching visible in inside margins however binding very sturdy.<br /> <br /> Ex-libris James Cowan Smith with his bookplate depicting his beloved dog Callum on the front pastedown. James Cowan Smith 1843-1919 was a British civil engineer director of a railway company British Wagon and philanthropist. In his will he bequeathed what would now amount to roughly $4284000 to the National Gallery of Scotland to be used to expand its collection. The one stipulation was that the portrait of his dog Callum by John Emms was to be on permanent display in the museum. The condition of the donation helped draw attention to Callum's rare terrier breed the Dandie Dinmont. Simpkin, Marshall, and Co hardcover
183487522Berlin & Wien: Nicolai / Carl Gerold 1834. First Edition. Tall octavo 25cm. Contemporary full oxblood morocco decoratively stamped in gilt and blind on spine and covers; xxii384pp. Bit of fading to leather on spine and board edges slight rubbing and wear to extremities; still Very Good - a quite attractive copy. From the library of the prominent German publisher Bernhard Tauchnitz 1816-1895 with his engraved bookplate to front pastedown. Nicolai / Carl Gerold unknown
191168898New York: Duffield and Company 1911. First edition. Hardcover. Good . 128pp. Duodecimo 19 cm Light brown paper over boards with printed paper title labels on the spine and front board. Ex-library with traces of library markings on the rear endpaper. Spine subtly darkened. Ex-libris Emma K. Willits with her bookplate on the front pastedown. Emma K. Willits 20 September 1869 – 9 April 1965 was a physician and surgeon who played a significant role in the development of Children's Hospital in San Francisco now the California campus Women and Children's Center of the California Pacific Medical Center serving as the head of the Department of General Surgery from 1921 to 1934. She is thought to be the third woman to specialize in surgery in the United States and the first to head a surgery department. A play set among the Paiute Indians. A nice association copy. Duffield and Company hardcover
187245648Salt Lake City UT 1872. 32pp. Duodecimo 21 cm Stapled wrappers. Near fine. Early Utah/Masonry volume from the library of Kent Walgren. unknown
189669650Paris: Mercure de France 1896. Fine. Mercure de France Paris 1896 9.50 x 15.50 cm relié The first edition with two portraits of Père Ubu drawn by Alfred Jarry. Half brown morocco over marbled paper boards by G. Gauché spine in five compartments raised bands with blind ruled fillet gilt date to foot of spine marbled endpapers and pastedowns covers and spine repaired preserved top edge gilt. A rare handsome autograph inscription signed by Alfred Jarry: Georges Rodenbach's copy. Alfred Jarry. Provenance: from the personal collection of President Georges Pompidou with his ex-libris to endpaper. He showed that he could at the same time love Racine and Soulages. Poussin and Max Ernst. Virgil and René Char and from that point of view he was outstanding. Alain Peyrefitte. From behind a desk in the école Normale and high up in the government administration in the bank and finally as a politician Georges Pompidou put together in the heart of his personal collection an anthology of French literature. This handsome copy of Ubu Roi reveals his identity as a man of letters between classicism and the avant-garde. Pompidou whose literary training would imbue both his thinking and political speeches showed a taste cultivated alongside his wife Claude for modern art cinema and the theatre: we know that he was well acquainted with Jules Romains read Beckett and was a great admirer of Louis Jouvet. The arts among other things owe him a debt for the unfailing support he showed the Théâtre National Populaire of Jean Vilar who presented a new staging of Ubu Roi in 1958 at Chaillot. This copy of Jarry's masterpiece also bears witness to its famous first owner the Belgian Symbolist Georges Rodenbach one of the most perfect writers in Flanders who received this work with a signed inscription from the author his fellow contributor to the Revue blanche. They were both disciples of Stéphane Mallarmé meeting every Tuesday with their master at his salon in the rue de Rome. Also a member of the circle of the Hydropathes in which Jarry was an active participant Rodenbach published in the same year as Ubu one of his most important collections of poems Les vies encloses inspired by the occultism of Novalis and the German Romantics. With Jarry claiming to be a follower of Pantagruel as Rodenbach did of Baudelaire one of them struggled with the incomprehension of the public while the other revelled in it: they developed at the two extremes of the Mallarmé spectrum. An admirable witness of the Parisian literary and bohemian microcosm this work with its prestigious provenance brings together two great names of the avant-garde theatre and fin-de-siecle poetry: Jarry the ultimate mystifier and Rodenbach the nostalgic poet of cloistered lives. Mercure de France hardcover
192819739NY/London: Albert & Charles Boni Inc./The Studio Limited 1928. Hardcover. VG. Vellum backed with patterned boards -- spine with light discoloration boards with abrasion to rear cover front edge to the press board o/w light abrasion to cover corners tightly bound top edge gilt bright; text unmarked pages bright and clean. Ex-libris Alice D. Laughlin with her signature on the front flyleaf and dated 1930. viii 186 pages b/w facsimiles with high 40 quality reproduction of pages and dust jackets many in color some are tipped-in plates. A very pleasing copy. No dust wrapper if issued. Includes articles on: Great Britain by B.H. Newdigate pp. 2-6; The United States by W. Ransom pp. 6-10; France and Belgium by Clement-Janin pp. 10-16; Germany by J. Zeitler pp. 16-20; Holland by S.H. De Roos; Italy by A. Calabi; Russia by P. Ettinger; Austria by R. Junk; Czechoslovakia by J. Krecar; Hungary by J. De Vegh; Poland; Switzerland by A. Altherr; Jugo-Slavia by A. Schnieder; Scandinavia by A. Billow. <br/><br/>Experienced full-time bookseller since 1994 selling online since 1998. Image may be added by request. Questions welcome. Albert & Charles Boni, Inc./The Studio Limited hardcover
192024122Published By Frank Harris New York 57 Fifth Avenue 1920. HARDBACK NODustJacket 1920 First Printing THUS. BUT Its Not the Original first edition but a Later Edition published by the author himself in 1920 8vo. 277 pages with Crease & Tiny Chips edges Last page .VG/VG- AS-IS NOJACKETGreen Cloth Boards with Gold Gilthave faded Extremities Front & Back Cvr & spine covering is worn at head and foot. Spine Has Darkened Interior Nice Tight Clean light FOX WEAR Rubbed at head and foot of spine. Some discoloration to the cloth. WITH Attached EX-Libris BookPlate Sticker of Felix Mendelsohn his Private Library # 151 This Was Authors 1st Book AUTHOR was Born 1856 in Galway Ireland & 1869 he immigrated to the United States In January of 1924 Aleister Crowley came to stay with him for a while. According to one source they both shared similar 'money troubles" and were 'equal hypochondriacs'. Signed by Author. First Thus. Hard Cover. Published By Frank Harris, New York 57 Fifth Avenue hardcover
185270233Boston: Wright & Hasty Printers 1852. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. 138pp. 19 cm. Tan and black printed wraps. 3/4" losses from the spine ends. Front wrap detached at the head and foot. Small dark partial ring stain to front wrap. Contemporary notations on verso of front wrap. Stitching visible in inside margins. Pages foxed. Fore-edge corners of front wraps and preliminary pages a bit dog-eared. Ex-libris Grace Josephine Boggs with her name and Berkeley California address on the front wrap. Grace Josephine Boggs 1879-1954 was married to Robert Roy Service in 1904. Together they joined the Student Volunteer Movement with the intention of devoting their lives to missionary work. Roy was accepted by the Y.M.C.A. for its foreign work and sent to Purdue University for training. Subsequently the International Committee of the Y.M.C.A. sent the young couple to Chengtu Szechwan in far west China to establish Y.M.C.A. work. Later they were transferred to Shanghai. While in Shanghai Grace served as a member of the China National Committee of the Y.M.C.A. and was active in American and international women's activities including the American Association of University Women and Daughters of the American Revolution. The Grace Service Papers were given to The Bancroft Library by John Stewart Service in July 1986. Information from UC Berkeley Bancroft Library. Wright-Howes C-457. Wagner-Camp 210.<br /> <br /> Asa Bement Clarke was born in Conway Massachusetts in 1817. He left New York on January 29 1849 as a member of the Hampden Mining Company. He then traveled to California by way of Mexico arriving at Los Angeles on July 9. Ferol Egan recounts his adventures as well as those of others who took the same route to California in "The El Dorado Trail" New York: McGraw-Hill 1971. Wright & Hasty, Printers paperback
198031906New York: Ex Libris 1980. First editions. Fine Cat. 4 spine faded. Catalogue 4: Omnium Gatherum 1976. 945 items no ills. Laid in: announcement of Dorothy Norman photography show. Also 5 short lists all from 1979/80: Illustrated Books of the 20th Century Secession Jugendstil Art Nouveau Art Deco George Grosz and German Expressionism Breton Duchamp Ernst and The Surrealist Realm. Each with dozens of items occasional ills. Sold as a group. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate. Ex Libris unknown
19771112445New York: Ex Libris A Division of T J Art Inc. Good paper copy ex. cat. 792 works listed illus. in B/W . Good. Paper. 1977. Ex Libris A Division of T J Art Inc unknown
19-9861New York: Rachel Adler Gallery 1992. . Folio. 12 pp. Single sheet folded. Good with marginal creasing from use and marginal dampstaining along top edge. Black and white illustrations. Includes reproductions of futurist works such as F.T. Marinetti’s ‘Declaration of Futurism†manifesto and additional works by Francesco Cangiullo Angelo Rognoni Fortunato Depero et al. . Catalogue created on occasion of “Futurismo†exhibition at Rachel Adler Gallery in New York from February 15 - April 5 1992. New York: Rachel Adler Gallery, 1992. unknown
012326New York: Ex Libris 1987 Catalog 15 from this renowned artbook seller devoted to early Soviet books on Avant-Garde art and literature architecture El Lissitzky film dance theatre periodicals posters porcelain etc. 268 titles many illustrations.Tabloid format; 24 pp.; illustrated. Horizontal mailing fold; else a very good copy in wrappers. . First Edition. Very Good. Catalog. New York: Ex Libris, 1987 unknown
9a629A.M.da Mota Miranda Celorico de Basto 1995. Zusammen ca.3.500 S. mit zahlreichen Illustrationen und aufgezogenen teils signierten Originalen in verschiedenen Techniken Kunstleder. Quart. - Die Bände sind viersprachig. Neben Deutsch ebenso Italienisch: "Enciclopedia Bio-Bibliografica da Arte do Ex-Libris contemporaneo"/französich:"Envyclopèdie Bio-Bibliographique de L`Art de L`Ex-Libris contemporain"/englisch: "Encyclopaedia Bio-Bibliographical of the Art of the Contemporary Ex-Libris" - unknown
192110942AB1921. 2 tomos. Barcelona 1921 - 1922. 27 : 19 cm. XXV; XXVI páginas Con muchos exlibris en parte en color en parte montados. Encuadernación editoral de cartone ilustrado estuche de media piel lomo dorado. Uno de 150 ejemplares numerados de la tiraje limitada. Con una lista de socios del año 1921. - ubiertes con manchas de oxido. - Muy raro. unknown
192825688New Haven CT.: Yale University Press Published for Phillips Academy Andover MA 1928. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good or better. 11 x 14 1/4 inches. Oversize hardcover tan cloth backed with blue paper over boards and paste-on title plate to front cover clean rear cover shows soiling no markings on spine. General light wear and some discoloration including the spine else clean tightly bound; internally shows light foxing to end papers balance of book printed on bright paper that is clean and free of markings. No dust jacket/slipcase if issued. SIGNED: Elizabeth Goodhue Fuess 1878-1943 on the front flyleaf. She was the wife of Claude Moore Fuess the tenth headmaster of Phillips Academy. 30 b/w photographic prints with captions each on the recto side of each leaf mostly notable buildings on campus. <br/><br/>Experienced full-time bookseller since 1994. Images may be added by request. Questions welcome. Yale University Press, Published for Phillips Academy Andover (MA) hardcover
197846361978. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Limited Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Light dusting to boards. & a couple of small light marks to rear board. Internally VERY CLEAN indeed - NO MARKS. NO INSCRIPTIONS. Numerous original bookplates. A very nice copy of a SCARCE FISAE publication. Limited to 500 copies. Hardcover
198046381980. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Limited Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Light dusting to boards & bump to head of spine. Mild darkening to spine & a couple of small marks to front board. Internally VERY CLEAN indeed - NO MARKS. NO INSCRIPTIONS. Numerous original bookplates. A very good copy of a SCARCE FISAE publication. Limited to 500 copies. Hardcover
190970290Salt Lake City Utah: Intermountain Catholic Press 1909. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 350 pp. Quarto 25 cm; full green cloth covered and beveled boards with gilt lettering to front board and spine. Centerpiece design also in gilt. Illustrated with many photographs maps and drawings. With the double-page Map Showing Route Taken by Fr. Silvestre Velez de Escalante July 29th 1776 – Jan 2nd 1777. Numerous photographs of prominent Catholic buildings including a double-page plate of Judge Memorial Home. The volume shows general light shelf wear; the boards are lightly scratched and there is some rubbing and bumping to the edges and corners. Binding is solid and square. Internally clean and bright. Ex-libris Historian J. Roderic Korns with his prior ownership label affixed to the front pastedown. Korns was a noted historian of the American West and author the work "West from Fort Bridger: The Pioneering of the Immigrant Trails Across Utah 1846–1850" which he completed with the assistance of Dale L. Morgan.<br /> <br /> This work is a review of Spanish and Missionary Explorations Tribal Divisions names and regional habitats of the pre-European tribes the Journal of the Franciscan Explorers and discovers of Utah Lake. Covers the trailing of the priests from Santa Fe N.M. with Map of the route illustrations and delimitations of the Great Basin. Also contains the first English translation of Escalante's account of his explorations in Utah. Howes H238. Flake 3869. Intermountain Catholic Press hardcover
177691216Romae Rome: Apud Benedictum Francesium 1776. Fine. A copy uniting two illustrious surgeons of the 18th and 19th centuries Apud Benedictum Francesium Romae Rome 1776 20.5 x 27.8 cm Relié Illustrated first edition lacking the frontispiece portrait of Hippocrates but complete with its five plates fine decorative initials and large tailpieces. Contemporary full tree calf smooth spine richly gilt with among other decorations a palmette roll tan morocco lettering piece gilt roll on board edges. Ink ownership inscription on the front pastedown: ""J. E. Petrequin lyon nov. 1856"" in the hand of Joseph Pierre Eléonor Pétrequin chief surgeon at the Hôtel-Dieu de Lyon who received the distinction of Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur in 1855. Scattered foxing marginal tear to p. xi. A fine copy. Upon its publication in 1776 this text commenting on the Hippocratic treatise on fractures won the admiration of scholars at the Royal Academy of Surgery in Paris on the other side of the Alps. Joseph Pierre Eléonor Pétrequin would thus own in the following century a copy of this work recognized in France the one offered here. His main book published posthumously in 1878 would also deal with the medicine of Hippocrates. Pietro Pericoli would write in 1879 that Andrea Massimini was the last at that date to have worked on the doctrines of the ""Father of Medicine"" this Italian politician had certainly not yet heard of Pétrequin's 1200 pages on the subject. A fine illustrated work associating two renowned surgeons in line with the Hippocratic legacy. Provenance: ownership inscription of Joseph Pierre Eléonor Pétrequin. Apud Benedictum Francesium unknown
176088881Paris: S. n. 1760. Fine. A contemporary full red morocco binding S. n. Paris 1760 22.5 x 29.3 cm trois volumes reliés New edition adorned with a portrait of the author by Daullé three headpieces by de Sève engraved by Juste Chevillet twelve plates engraved by Jacques Aliamet Jean-Jacques Flipart Noël Le Mire Louis-Simon Lempereur Dominique Sornique and Jacques-Nicolas Tardieu and thirteen vignettes and sixty tail-pieces all by de Sève engraved by Jean-Charles Baquoy Jean-Jacques Flipart and Louis Legrand. A superb copy of the first luxury edition of Racine among the most sought-after bound in the most sumptuous red morocco. Contemporary full red morocco spine with five raised bands and gilt compartments triple gilt fillet border corner fleurons yellow morocco lettering pieces and volume numbers double gilt fillets on the boards marbled endpapers double gilt fillet on the edges gilt dentelle turn-ins gilt edges. Occasional light foxing mostly on the early leaves of the volumes; some browned pages; skilfully restored corners and joints; a few scratches. Provenance: Library of Jean Fürstenberg his red morocco bookplate pasted to the verso of a free endpaper of vol. I others in paper in vols. II and III. From a family of Berlin bankers and a banker himself Hans Fürstenberg took refuge in France in 1938 and francised his name. It was then that he presented to the Bibliothèque nationale his collection of original editions of German works from the pre-classical and classical periods. From his youth Jean Fürstenberg also collected illustrated books rare French eighteenth-century works incunabula and bindings maintaining his interest in these fields throughout his life and publishing several works on the subjects. In 1959 together with Julien Cain he founded the International Association of Bibliophily. Comité dhistoire de la Bibliothèque nationale de France S. n. hardcover
71269New York: Random House 1973. First edition first printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Inscribed by Cormac McCarthy in black ink on the half-title page to Santa Fe bookseller Nicholas Potter: "For Nicholas Potter All the best from your friend Cormac McCarthy."<br /> <br /> 197 pp. Octavo 21.5 cm. Publisher's black cloth and red paper-covered boards stamped in red and gold. Black dust jacket with red white and olive green typography designed by Muriel Nasser. First edition clearly stated on the copyright page. Dust jacket with "$5.95" price intact at top-front flap and "1/74" code at the rear flap's bottom-left.<br /> <br /> A Near Fine unread copy with occasional light surface soil or toning. The text block is solid and square. The top edges of the boards are gently sunfaded. The front free endpaper has a previous ownership inscription written neatly in blue ink: "Dane Meyers Hugh Prather Collection." The dust jacket is in Very Good condition showing the spine-fading common to this title along with some general surface rubbing and scratching. The jacket edges are lightly toned with a few minor creases and short closed tears measuring less than 2cm. An attractive copy with an intimate association. A significant association copy warmly inscribed by the notoriously reclusive author to his long-time friend the late Santa Fe bookseller Nicholas Potter. A short note in Potter's hand is laid in: ".This copy inscribed to me in the mid 90's." Throughout a friendship spanning forty years Potter’s bookstore served as a frequent destination for McCarthy where the two shared a rapport rooted in their mutual appreciation of literature art music and history. This volume represents a vital fragment of that connection; McCarthy who famously avoided public life inscribed most of his published works to Potter.<br /> <br /> The first printing of Child of God consisted of a run of 7500 copies and was the only printing of the first edition of this work. The book was a commercial failure upon its release selling less than 2500 copies. The book sparked controversy over its subject matter with some reviewers objecting to it on moral grounds.<br /> <br /> The narrative chronicles the progressive isolation and depravity of Lester Ballard—a dispossessed outcast who pushes the boundaries of abhorrent human behavior. Set in the rugged hill country of mid-century Tennessee the story is told in a detached clinical manner. McCarthy’s third novel Child of God intensified the visceral Southern Gothic vision of his previous works and solidified his reputation for writing spare biblical prose that depicts harrowing and macabre scenes with unflinching clarity. Random House hardcover
