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200920041702San Francisco: The Arion Press 2009. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. No. 29 of 300 copies quarto size 164 pp. with prospectus and original invoice. Leonard Michaels' 1933-2003 stories focused on the character of Raphael Nachman "loyal to friends bashful with women reverent before the transcendent order of mathematics and music" per the prospectus. Written at the end of the author's life between 1997 and 2003 the Nachman series is a capstone to the career of a master of the American short story; the final story "Cryptology" appeared in "The New Yorker" a few weeks before the author's death. With essays by Robert Hass and Morton Paley Robert Pinsky and Diana Ketcham. Collected and published together for the first time and illustrated with nine photographs taken throughout the author's life the frontis and one before each story pulled from the collection of the Michaels family.<br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Full blue "Iris Wisteria" cloth with a titling band of Japanese Yatsuo handmade mustard-colored paper running diagonally across both boards gray mouldmade Italian Tiziano endpapers nine black and white photographs printed by offset-lithography on white dull-coat stock tipped-in; Janson type gray Basingwerk paper quarto size 9.75" by 6.5" pagination: 1-7 8-163 1 colophon one of 300 copies this number 29 plus 26 copies NFS. With publisher's prospectus two sheets folded to eight pages one of the photographs tipped onto page 2 printed on the same gray Basingwerk paper; also with original owner's invoice from The Arion Press dated 27 March 2009.<br/><br/>___CONDITION: A fine copy the covers clean and unrubbed the binding tight with solid hinges the corners straight and unrubbed the interior clean and bright and free of prior owner markings; clean crisp as new. The prospectus also fine clean with only a few barely perceptable light creases; original invoice is fine clean without wear with the original owner's pen markings circling the total price and a "paid" notation at the bottom margin with the date "4-1-09" and presumably their check number used.<br/><br/>___CITATION: The Arion Press Catalogue no. 84.<br/><br/>___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details.<br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. The Arion Press hardcover books
2007110769Tampa: The Norman Mailer Society 2007. First edition. Limited issue of 56 bound copies in green full cloth-covered boards 40 of which were numbered and 16 were presentation copies all signed by Mailer and Sipiora on the limitation page. Copy #32. Issued without dustjacket. Contributors include Morris Dickstein Donald L.Kaufmann J. Michael Lennon Barbara Mailer Wasserman et al. Also two contributions by Mailer one of which is an excerpt from the previously unpublished 1942 play "The Naked and the Dead." Supplemental Bibliography. Color photographs. The Inaugural Issue. ISSN: 1936-4679. Unread copy in Fine condition. Signed by Author and Editor. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Not Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition. The Norman Mailer Society Hardcover books
186614703London: Longmans Green Reader & Dyer 1866. Hardcover. Very good. Third edition re-drawn first published 1864. 10.25 x 14 inches oblong. Original green cloth decorated in gilt. Elizabeth Fox Tuckett 1837-1872 was the sister of the well-known English alpinist Francis Fox Tuckett 1834-1913 who regularly gathered a party of friends and family to accompany him on climbing expeditions. Elizabeth had a talent for drawing as well as a love of travel and produced four popular light-hearted books of which this was the first chronicling her adventures in the form of humorous sketches. Neate T66. Some creasing to cloth corners rubbed occasional foxing lacking rear free endpaper; overall about very good. Inscribed in light pencil on the front free endpaper "With heartfelt good wishes for the/New Year E.F. Tuckett iIllegible place name Dec. 30 1869." In addition Tuckett has written out the full names of the members of the expedition on the "Dramatis Personae" page where they are identified in print only by their initials. Rarely found signed. Longmans, Green, Reader & Dyer hardcover books
16813Girls' Education Handwritten original essays on literary figures from a female high school student. 25 illustrations of literary historical figures and their homes including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow John Greenleaf Whittier Charles Dickens Paul Revere Sir Walter Scott and James Russell Lowell. c. 1912. Original black boards and red cloth spine. 84 pages. 9 3/4 x 8 inches. Illustration all 8 x 5 1/2 in. "Freshman English and Sophomore English Note-book. Mildred Benjamin" written on first page in blue pen. Handwritten biographical reports of all those with aforementioned portraits. Also includes incomplete entries for Tennyson and George Eliot. "John Greenleaf Whittier was born in Haverhill Mass.the house still stands in which Whittier was reared.Whittier was taken with illness while visiting at the home of his friend.he had a slight paralytic stroke which produced a difficulty in taking food o medicine and it was plain that he could not be removed to Annesbury where he had always hoped to die. He was conscious to the last and was grateful to everyone. He had little acute pain. He lay all night in peace and died in the morning."Charles Dickens: "The boy Charles was not strong but nevertheless before he was ten years old he was obliged to earn his own living. He was placed in a blacking warehouse an old ramshackle house near the Thames. The scenes in which he was brought up were the most degrading ones possible.During this time he spent much of his time in the reading room of the British Museum.In 1842 he made his first trip to America. Just before going he wrote Oliver Twist in which he exposed the abuses of the poor law system." Press clippings on final pages for articles on Charles Dickens and John Greenleaf Whittier. Images of Longfellow's birthplace in Maine Whittier's birthplace and homes in Massachusetts "Gadshill" Dickens's home Sir Walter Scott's estate and "Elmswood" Lowell's home in Cambridge MA. Final press clipping contains a chapter of Ralph D. Paine's novel The Cross and the Dragon published 1912. Cover and spine detached from pages. First and last page toned foxing on first portrait of Longfellow else clean. Very good condition. unknown books
190017161New York: Cassell and Company 1900. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. xvi 204 pp with three colored folding maps and 67 illustrations from photographs. Original green cloth with illustration of the authors on the front board. Minor insect damage to front board spine slightly toned some foxing to endpapers else quite sound and clean. The American husband and wife team were wealthy zealous and energetic explorers who together made many expeditions to the Himalayas. Fanny a suffragist as well as a bit of a publicity hound made sure the world knew of her achievements as a pioneering female climber. Among other achievements she held the women's altitude record for 28 years after her conquest of 23000-ft Pinnacle Peak in 1906. Robinson Wayward Women amusingly describes her as having "practically battered the Karakorams into submission first treading them over with her squat hob-nailed figure and then pinning them down on virgin maps and charts to take home for the various Geographical Societies of England and America to fight over." This is the account of their first Himalayan expedition 1898-99 during which they reached the Karakoram Pass and explored the Biafo Glacier Neate W124. Cassell and Company hardcover books
19882296New York: Alfred A. Knopf/Harper Collins 1988/1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue boards. Very good in Very good dust wrappers. 193 & 224 pages. From the collection of the late bookseller Barbara Farnsworth 1934-2018. Laurie Colwin a novelist and short stories writer was well known for her wit and especially for her food columns in Gourmet Magazine. Colwin died suddenly at the age of 48 in October 1992. Colwin was a part-time resident of West Cornwall CT where she struck up a friendship with Barbara Farnsworth. These two first editions are accompanied by two personal correspondence between the two and clipped articles invitations and Colwin's obituaries - all annotated with dates by Farnsworth. <br /> <br />List of laid in items: Beatrix Potter post card from Laurie to Barbara 3/11/92 Letter from Laurie to Barbara 9/23/88 NYT Magazine article 11/02 NYT Book Review 10/93 Gourmet Article 8/01 Gourmet "You Asked For It" 9/87 New Yorker Fiction 10/93 Kirkus Review - Home Cooking Supplement Card 1988 With Compliments of the Author Card - Alfred A. Knopf Index Card with Laurie's NY address Postcard to Barbara for Laurie's Memorial Service at Symphony Space 2/9/93. Four clipped obituaries. <br /> <br />ln 1992 Andrew Malcolm describing Farnsworth's Books and bookstore in the New York Times quoted Barbara as saying "Nobody runs an old bookstore to get rich. It just legalizes my compulsion to own lots of books on lots of subjects and to put my own mark on the store." <br /> <br />Home Cooking is clean and crisp More Home Cooking is lightly foxed with an annotation in pencil Katharine Hepburn's Brownies. <br /> <br/><br/> Alfred A. Knopf/Harper Collins hardcover books
200731945Tampa: The Norman Mailer Society 2007. First edition. Limited issue of 56 bound copies in green full cloth-covered boards 40 of which were numbered and 16 were presentation copies all signed by Mailer and Sipiora on the limitation page. Copy #31. Issued without dustjacket. Contributors include Morris Dickstein Donald L.Kaufmann J. Michael Lennon Barbara Mailer Wasserman et al. Also two contributions by Mailer one of which is an excerpt from the previously unpublished 1942 play "The Naked and the Dead." Supplemental Bibliography. Color photographs. The Inaugural Issue. ISSN: 1936-4679. Unread copy in Fine condition. Signed by Author and Editor. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Not Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The Norman Mailer Society Hardcover books
197617022803San Francisco: The Book Club of California printed by Andrew Hoyem 1976. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Angelo Valenti. One of 400 copies folio size 99 pp. signed by Valenti Angelo with prospectus and related ephemera in custom box. Valenti Angelo 1897-1982 was a highly-regarded designer illuminator and decorator of books over a career that spanned decades doing much of his early work for the Grabhorn Press and the Book Club of California; he also printed his own books in extremely limited editions under the imprints of "The Golden Cross Press" and "The Press of Valenti Angelo". This publication of The Book Club of California celebrates Angelo's fiftieth anniversary as a printer and is a detailed collection of his work up to 1975. Many of the facsimiles in the book are printed in colour and some are even hand-coloured by Angelo himself; he contributed greatly to the design of this book.<br/><br/>The volume has essays about Angelo's work and his skill as a printer and designer written by celebrated novelist Sherwood Anderson 1876-1941 writer Annis Duff and Robert Grabhorn of the Grabhorn Press. This particular copy has several pieces of related ephemera laid in including two different cards regarding Angelo's work and the publication of this book one with hand-colouring and two Christmas cards addressed to a prior owner one from Andrew Hoyem Printer and one from Valenti Angelo. The book is housed in a custom clamshell box.<br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Quarter red cloth with orange boards blue decorations by Valenti Angelo running vertically on the front and rear boards orange paper spine label with blue lettering fore-edge uncut bottom edge rough cut title page with illustrations and ornaments in blue and orange with hand-colouring in gilt by Angelo decorations and initial capitals by Angelo throughout forty-three specimens of Angelo's printing thirty-five of which are in colour and some hand-coloured throughout; monotype Centaur machine-made paper folio size 14.5" by 10.25" pagination: 1-6 7-97 98 1 colophon one of 400 copies unnumbered signed by Valenti Angelo on the colophon. With prospectus loosely laid in one sheet folded once and related ephemera two cards regarding the Open House celebrating the book's publication and an exhibition of Angelo's work and two Christmas cards inside envelopes with prior owner address one from Andrew Hoyem at the Arion Press featuring an illustration of madrone berries by Valenti Angelo and one from Valenti Angelo himself. Housed in a custom clamshell box covered in brown paper with a brown paper spine label with black lettering.<br/><br/>___CONDITION: A fine copy; the covers clean the corners straight and unrubbed the binding tight with solid hinges the interior clean and bright and free of prior owner markings; clean crisp as new. The prospectus is near fine clean overall without wear except for a small crease to the bottom right corners. The custom clamshell box is near fine strong and sturdy clean overall with the hint of a stray mark or two spine is lightly sunned and bottom front corner bumped and with some rubbing. The ephemera are near fine clean overall with some minor soiling without wear.<br/><br/>___CITATION: BCC no. 154.<br/><br/>___POSTAGE: Â Please note that this is an unusually large and heavy item and additional postage may apply; please inquire for details.<br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. The Book Club of California [printed by Andrew Hoyem] hardcover books
1881Embry 180114Little Brown & Co. 1881. Occasional cosmetic touch-up fine thus internally clean and with all hinges firm. One-brown morocco over marbled boards spine panels gilt with thistle and leaf central device with two gilt surrounds and floral corner devices. Little, Brown & Co., 1881. hardcover books
194742833New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1947. First edition of this collection of essay regarding the influence of John Maynard Keynes. Octavo original blue cloth. Signed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Samuelson on the title page. In very good condition. Other contributors include John Maynard Keynes Wassily Leontief Lloyd Metzler Gottfried Haberler Wassily Leontief Abba Lerner Joan Robinson Joseph A. Schumpeter and Jan Tinbergen among others. Paul Samuelson is one of the developers of both neo-Keynesian and neoclassical economics the latter of which still dominates mainstream economics. He was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1970. One of Samuelson's many novel contributions was that he generalized and applied mathematical methods developed for the study of thermodynamics to the field of economics. His inspiration for doing so came in part from his mentor polymath Edwin Bisdwell Wilson who was a former Yale student of the founder of chemical thermodynamics Willard Gibbs. Samuelson therefore is a successful example of interdisciplinarity and he combined these ideas in his magnum opus Foundations of Economic Analysis. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
200216583Berkeley CA: Gingko Press Gallimard/Centre Pompidou 2002. Original wraps. Near Fine. SIGNED BY ELLSWORTH KELLY on the half-title. A crisp very sharp copy to boot of the March 2002 1st American edition. Tight and Near Fine in its thick laminate wrappers with just a touch of very light soiling along the rear panel. Octavo lovely reproductions thruout. Essays by Remi Labrusse and Eric de Chassey published by arrangement with Editions Gallimard and Centre Pompidou who had issued the original French edition several months earlier. <br/><br/> Gingko Press (Gallimard/Centre Pompidou) paperback books
1992867Ithaca: Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art Cornell University 1992. <b>First edition one of 1000 hardbound copies this one of 200 issued with an original lithograph signed dated & numbered by the artist. </b>Small folio xiii & 192 pp. illustrated throughout in color & black & white. Laid in and enclosed in a folding sleeve is the untitled lithograph number 7 of 200 measuring 11.75 inches by 8.75 inches. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in silver on the spine & upper cover in pictorial dust jacket.<br /><br /> A fine copy in near fine dust jacket with slight edge wear and soiling.<br /><br /> Issued in conjunction with an exhibition at Cornell University's Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art this catalog of conceptual artist Agnes Denes' work is visually stunning. Includes essays by Peter Selz Lowery Stokes Sims Robert Hobbs and Donald Kuspit. The lithograph printed in blue ink on thick deckle-edged paper is not titled but represented on page 51 as <b><i>"Model for Probability Pyramid - Study for Crystal Pyramid." </i></b><br /> Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University hardcover books
194715058New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1947. First edition of this collection of essay regarding the influence of John Maynard Keynes. Octavo original blue cloth. Signed by Nobel Prize winning-economist Paul Samuelson who contributed an essay to this volume. Fine in a very good dust jacket with some rubbing to the extremities. Other contributors include John Maynard Keynes Wassily Leontief Lloyd Metzler Gottfried Haberler Wassily Leontief Abba Lerner Joan Robinson Joseph A. Schumpeter and Jan Tinbergen among others. Paul Samuelson is one of the developers of both neo-Keynesian and neoclassical economics the latter of which still dominates mainstream economics. He was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1970. One of Samuelson's many novel contributions was that he generalized and applied mathematical methods developed for the study of thermodynamics to the field of economics. His inspiration for doing so came in part from his mentor polymath Edwin Bisdwell Wilson who was a former Yale student of the founder of chemical thermodynamics Willard Gibbs. Samuelson therefore is a successful example of interdisciplinarity and he combined these ideas in his magnum opus Foundations of Economic Analysis. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
19671458751967. Archive of eight vintage borderless photographs three typescript essays and a carbon typescript of the first essay and first page of the second by photographer Jerry Bauer circa 1967 with the photographs corresponding to the topics of the essays. <br/><br/>Bauer was an American photographer best known for his photographic portraits of writers with his portraits of Samuel Beckett being held in particularly high regard. Much of his work resides in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in London.<br/><br/>The first essay "The American Underground: Mind Expansion A Messiah 'Love'" is an examination of Timothy Leary and the "League for Spiritual Discovery" LSD a communal organization carrying out studies in the religious use of psychedelic drugs as well as the effects of LSD. Two photographs are of the New York Millbrook estate mentioned in the essay one of the centers for the group one photograph of the estate itself and the other of two participants on the porch. Another photograph shows three young people lounging on a bed a young man with beads in his hand matching the description in the essay of a subject's focus on "a set of beads" and a description of the living quarters being ". . . simple: mattresses on the floor." <br/><br/>The second essay "American Underground : Mind Expansion The Poets 'Love' 2" is broken into three sections. The first is about the musical group The Fugs who Bauer describes as "the Beatles of the American underground." Two of the photographs in and around Washington Square Park feature members of The Fugs one of a gleaming Ed Sanders and Geoff Outlaw with two unidentified young women. In a second photograph the same group is on the grass along with Ken Weaver and a third unidentified young woman.<br/><br/>The second section of the essay is about "the two stars" of the underground film movement Andy Warhol stars Baby Jane Holzer and Edie Sedgewick with a corresponding photograph taken in Warhol's Factory showing Ingrid Superstar sitting on a mattress Baby Jane Holzer on the floor with her back to the camera along with several unidentified subjects. Holzer is identified from a published photograph by Bauer titled "Baby Jane Holzer" taken at the same time as the one in the archive.<br/><br/>The final section of the essay is a about American youth and drug culture in Greenwich Village as well as the neighborhood itself. Here the related photographs are of several young people seated on the grass one playing the guitar in Washington Square Park and one of several people standing around a Greenwich Village intersection.<br/><br/>The third essay "Andy Warhol: Film Director of America's Underground" is a study of Warhol's early experimental films. Beginning with a brief summation of Warhol's early career Bauer goes on to postulate about Warhol's films discussing the director's various regulars including Elekro Baby Jane Holzer Sally Kirkland Nico here spelled "Nicot" and others.<br/><br/>Photographs: Six photographs 10.75 x 8.25 inches two photographs 10.75 x 8 inches. Near Fine overall.<br/><br/>Ribbon typescript essays: 8.25 x 10.75 inches. Typescript on onionskin stock six leaves bound with a silver corner clip. Near Fine.<br/><br/>Carbon typescript essays: 8.25 x 10.75 inches. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock three leaves bound with a silver corner clip. Near Fine. unknown books
1987810Durham NC: Duke University Press 1987. First edition of the photographer's second major photobook. Quarto original cloth. Signed by Helen Levitt on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Not to be confused with the more common paperback edition. Helen Levitt and the author James Agee first collaborated in 1945 on a documentary film set in Harlem called "In the Street." Psychologist Robert Coles contributed the essays to this volume. Owen Edwards from The New York Times has noted that "in common situations Miss Levitt finds the glint of an often bizarre beauty that most of us-including photographers-do not notice. . . . She brings to her pictures an intensity that can be almost hypnotic." "There is no fundamental difference in the great landscapes and quiet portraits of Edward Weston and the profoundly revealing pictures of children by Helen Levitt. Both are photographic perceptions of the highest order" Ansel Adams. Duke University Press hardcover books
1966124803New York: New American Library 1966. Signed limited first edition of this collection of essays--which Rand in her introduction characterizes as "a nonfiction footnote to Atlas Shrugged." Octavo original half cloth. Boldly signed by Ayn Rand. Near fine in a near fine slipcase. With additional articles by Nathaniel Branden Alan Greenspan and Robert Hessen. This collection of 26 essays includes twenty by Ayn Rand as well as three essays by Alan Greenspan two by Nathaniel Branden and one by Robert Hessen. "One of the best defenses and explanations of capitalism one is likely to read" Walter E. Williams. New American Library hardcover books
186920752London: Tinsley Brothers 1869. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Two volumes. 8vo pp xii 443; viii 478 2 ads each with engraved frontispiece and title page vignette folding map in Volume II. Publisher's green cloth ruled in blind with gilt figure on each front board. Account of Burton's journey from Rio to the rich mining area of Minas Gerais via Tres Barras River Velhas Penedond Paulo Afonso Falls. He canoed down the entire 3000 kilometer length of the previously uncharted Sao Francisco River to the Atlantic. Borba de Moraes I p. 110; Penzer pp. 78-79. Corners bumped some scuffing to upper spines foxing to first and last few leaves of each volume. With the bookplates of British Civil Engineer Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt we believe prominent early Los Angeles physician Walter Lindley and his son Francis Haynes Lindley. Tinsley Brothers hardcover books
21433Hardcover. Very good. Black leather album containing 54 tissue-guarded leaves of watercolor paper of which 43 have been used. 10 x 12 inches stamped in gilt on the front "Sketches on the Nile / Alan Hinch / 1938." Leather scuffed cloth tape reinforcement to inner hinges all else very good. Alan Hinch was born in England c. 1881 but was living in the United States by 1920 when the federal census documents him working in Miami as pilot of a private yacht owned by socialite James Deering an executive in International Harvester Company. He apparently embarked on this Nile cruise as companion to his next employer Richard Flint Howe 1863-1943 another International Harvester executive who had married James Deering's sister Abby. Passenger manifests show Hinch as traveling in the company of a "Mr. R. Howe" and the census of 1940 lists him as butler on Howe's estate. He was clearly more than a simple servant however as this charming and humorous album reveals. The album documents the journey from departure on the Italian Line passenger ship Conte de Savoia on January 15 1938 to arrival home at Banksia Howe's custom-built mansion in Aiken South Carolina on March 26 1938. Each page includes an original watercolor most measuring about 4.5 x 8 inches but some larger with a related original doggerel poem. Hinch's paintings are skillful. His poetry is markedly less so but it is clever observant and skillfully captures the traveler's experiences. On a visit to Asyut Hinch writes: Assuit the place they said would be warm/ Was 42 degrees at early morn/ If the like keeps on we will have to don /Earlaps coonskins as at a football game./ Rode through the quarters where the natives were/ Couldn't say lived for it looked so bare/ They called out for bakscheesh/ Both old and young/ They thought we came only to give to them./ Oh what a place to be born and live./ Then through the bazaar narrow and crowded/ Maybe bargains galore/ But we passed through as quick as we could./ Oddments and rubbish in hovels so poor./ Then to the tombs too high to climb/ And round the modern town we drove/ Back on board the "Memnon" to dine. A visit to the ancient cemetery at Beni Hasan is described from the perspective of the donkeys who labor under the weight of well-fed tourists. Other subjects include the ocean liners and streamers they traveled in local people they encountered a dragoman a water carrier a little girl in a red scarf boats on the Nile camels and water buffalo the Pyramids Sphinx Panopolis El-Balyyana Abydos Karnak Kom Ombo Wadi Haifa Abu Simbel and Luxor. There are also several views of the Mediterranean coast and one of Banksia in South Carolina. In all a charming and lovely representation of the places and time. hardcover books
1988259158Easthampton: Cheloniidae Press 1988. Limited State Proof Edition; numbered "III" of 5 copies. Quarter Leather. Fine binding. Alan James Robinson; Calligraphy by Suzanne Moore. Signed by Robinson below the colophon. Quarter bound in celadon morocco by Claudia Cohen with multi-color morocco onlay of a fly by Gray Parrot; this edition includes an additional sixteen state proofs of the etchings along with state proofs and working proofs of the wood engravings two watercolors and an original study of one of the etchings laid in portfolio; a fine copy in publishers' morocco backed tray case with two prospectuses laid in. Fine binding. Cheloniidae Press unknown books
