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1920021223London & New York: Samuel French Ltd. 1920 1925. Early Edition. wraps. Near Fine. Printed green-blue wraps 5-1/2" x 8-1/2"; 71 1 pages plus covers. Coward's First Book and his first play produced in the West End. At the age of 20 he also performed in the role of Bobbie. The play ran for a month at the New Theatre later renamed the Noel Coward Theatre and was also Coward's first play in America. This copy lists two other works by Coward--THE YOUNG IDEA and HAY FEVER--dating this to 1925. SIGNED by the author on the half-title page and scarce as such. <br/><br/> Samuel French, Ltd. paperback
1953021225London: Michael Joseph 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper with some chipping to the spine and rear. Cloth in dustwrapper 9" x 11-1/2". With an Introduction and Annotations by Noel Coward. Frontispiece color portrait of Coward by Clemence Dane. Illustrated in color and black & white by Gladys Calthrop. INSCRIBED in Coward's hand on the title page to Ginette Spanier director of the Paris fashion House of Balmain during the mid-20th century and SIGNED with what seems to be a nickname: "For Ginnettesic/with my love as usual/Maivie." Also inscribed below Coward's presentation in an unknown hand: "Ginette and Paul-Emile/with special &/unusual love/." <br/><br/> Michael Joseph hardcover
16031477869Rennes: Noël Glamet de Quinpercorentin January 1603. Leather. VG/No Jacket. Full red leather with marbled endpapers gilt edges with ribbon bookmark. NOT POD. 1603. Five raised bands with ornate decoration to spine title and year listed. Noël Glamet de Quinpercorentin hardcover
198120692ROGNER & BERNHARD 1981. Schweiz!. softcover. Per Anhalter durch die Galaxis ROGNER & BERNHARD paperback
2000300-02933Filter Pr Llc 2000-04-01. paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Filter Pr Llc paperback
JD37168London James Cawthorn n.d. 1809 first edition. Paper watermarked "E & P/1805" with misprint "crouds" for crowds and the word Author correctly spelled "Dispatch" incorrectly spelled as "Despatch" on page 5 line 7 first state preface leaf present later dark blue crushed morocco ruled gilt on sides and spine spine with five raised bands gilt tooled edges and dentelles marbled endpapers with extra blank pages bound at end presumably to thicken the slim volume AEG one of 1000 copies. Light extremity wear else nearly fine. London, James Cawthorn, n.d. (1809), first edition. hardcover
96965London Longman 1848. Hardback 7 x 5 inches. Unusual Beautiful floral scrollwork Black papier-mache boards with raised decoration deeply incised to resemble "Gothic" ebony book covers. Black leather to spine all page edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. With Custom made hard slipcase with window at front to show decorative covers. In very good condition. Stunning unusual 3D crafted cover some tiny cracks to surface small chip upper front corner. Contemporary leather on spine and contemporary marbled endpapers neatly reinforced inner edge. Spine a little rubbed. Inside neatly resown. Some foxing spots to title. Some darkening to edges and minor spots to plates Small private bookplate on front endpaper Lady Davy with gift inscription front Lady Davy on second blank page. else inside pages clean and tight. 31 pages of colour illuminated printed plates; iv pp of text at end. Beautifully and colourfully illustrated throughout with intricate chromolithographs and vibrant floral designs. Illustrated by Henry Noel Humphreys. The beautiful colour printing is from the decorated illuminated manuscripts by Henry Humphreys. London, Longman 1848 hardcover
19294251London: Chappell & Co. n.d. 1929 1929. Signed by Coward and bound for his lover and manager John Wilson. First edition of the complete vocal score. Quarto. 275x210. pp. 4 163 1 advert. Bound by Bumpus in red morocco with double fillet border in gilt to upper and lower cover lettered in gilt to upper cover and spine. Some rubbing and wear to the corners. Original wrappers bound in. The front pastedown has the bookplate of Herbert Schimmel who put together the greatest collection of books and material related to Noel Coward and Ivor Novello. The title page has Coward's somewhat faint signature in mauve ink. A nice copy with an excellent provenance of this popular and highly successful romantic operetta which contains the wonderfully sentimental and nostalgic song "I'll see you again". In centre of the upper cover stamped in gilt is "J.W. from N.C.". J.W. is John Wilson and N.C. is of course Coward. Wilson was a stockbroker from New Jersey whose life became considerably more glitzy than these unpromising beginnings might have suggested. He and Coward met in 1924. Coward fell in love and Wilson became his business manager in part so that they had an explanation for the amount of time they spent together. The two men lived together for a while along with Coward's parents who no doubt provided additional cover. But Wilson was a loose cannon. A heavy drinker he stole money from Coward who ignored his behaviour and demanded that others do so too. By the late 1930s even Coward had tired of Wilson who returned to America where he became a successful theatre director and producer Kiss me Kate being his biggest hit. He then married an emigrée Russian princess who found him amusing and given that she disliked sex was happy to ignore his gay philandering. Bitter Sweet indeed. London: Chappell & Co. n.d. [1929] unknown
104625Garden City Doubleday & Company Inc. 1947. . First U.S. edition inscribed by the author; 8vo; photographic illustrations publisher's red cloth titles to spine gilt on a black ground illustrated near-fine; handwritten letter by the same loosely inserted. <br /> The author's signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper 'For Maurice Chevalier With profound admiration and affection Noel. London 1918 Paris 1920 New York 1948 . 1939!'. Loosely inserted is a 1-page autograph letter from Coward to Chevalier gushingly thanking his correspondent for writing to him.<br /> Garden City, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1947. hardcover
186310945<p>Macmillan and Co. London. 1863. FIRST EDITION. 1st printing. Large 8vo. 8.1 x 6.4 inches. Second state without with the L'Envoi poem leaf at the start of the book which Kingsley had removed from all but the first few hundred copies issued. Two full page mono plates and 8 smaller engravings one at the start of each chapter by J. Noel Paton. Some occasional light foxing to a few pages mostly to the margins. Finely bound in early twentieth century half tan calf leather binding by Riviere. Spine with five raised bands each with gilt piping. Compartments ruled decorated and lettered in gilt. Tan cloth on boards. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. A little rubbing to the corners but overall a very good highly attractive copy of this Victorian classic.</p> Macmillan and Co. London. 1863 hardcover
19621121Hengelo The Netherlands: Situationist Times 1962. First Edition. <br /><br />Small Quarto 10 3/4 x 8 5/8 inches; 275 x 220 mm 52 multicolored pages in stapled illustrated wrappers. <br /><br />The scarce first issue of The Situationist Times an avant-garde periodical that focused on art and politics. Articles in German French Danish and English. Heavily illustrated on different colored pages with collages and comics in addition to the texts. <p>Many of the articles highlight the differences between various factions of the Situationists. For instance there's a spirited defense of the Spur group which had been expelled from the Situationist International. A statement on the penultimate page suggests that 1090 copies had been printed.<br /></p><p>Further reading: "The Beach Beneath the Street: The Everyday Life and Glorious Times of the Situationist International" by McKenzie Wark Verso 2011.<br /></p><p>Scarce in commerce.<br /></p><p>CONDITION: A few small nicks and creases to the wrappers but internally clean bright and unmarked. Near Fine. </p><p><br /></p> Situationist Times paperback
182017071London: Thomas Davison / John Hunt 1820-24. Six volumes bound in three. Demy-octavos 16.5cm; contemporary full diced calf; bound including original title pages; half-titles and terminal leaves where called for. An attractive set in contemporary binding sympathetically re-backed preserving the original endpapers as well as most of the original spines and spine labels. Early printed bookplate of John Colston to each front pastedown with later inked ex-libris "J. Hames" added beneath each printed portion. The full foolscap octavo edition of Don Juan preceded in each case by quarto editions in the same year. Cantos I-II are from an early but not first printing with 1820 date at base of title page but no statement of "New Edition" as seems somewhat common though this issue appears unmentioned by Wise. The remaining volumes are first printings. WISE II p.3-8. Thomas Davison / John Hunt unknown
198644327Washington DC: Mage Publishers Inc 1986. First Trade Edition. Quarto 28.75cm; full black cloth with titling and artist's facsimile signature stamped in white on spine and front cover; illustrated endpapers; dustjacket; 1431pp; illus; text is in French and English. Inscribed by the artist to Broadway star Sondra Lee on the first blank page "Pour Sondra / trés amicalement / Franta / April 87" beneath a full-page mixed media illustration of two nude figures sitting cross-legged opposite each other. Fine in a lightly shelfworn Near Fine dustjacket. Laid into this copy is an invitation for the 2001 exhibition Franta: "oeuvres choisies" signed by the artist in teal marker with two other signed invitations send to Sondra Lee laid in. <br /> <br /> The first monograph of Franta's work tracing "his development from the 1960s when he first arrived in France a refugee from Czechoslovakia up to his recent exhibitions in New York and Paris." A bilingual edition with 109 illustrations 50 of them in color. A distinguished copy with a masterful full-page work of art. Provenance: From the library of Sondra Lee. Mage Publishers, Inc unknown
51-5765Paris: Au siège de l'Association des Auteurs et Artistes Unis et chez Firmin Didot frères 1853. Large 8vo. 16.2 x 26.5cm. Contemporar half shagreen. 6. ccclxxxiv. 382 8pp. 98 hors texte engraved color plates.OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:7391889063 .L'historien des sciences de Goulven Laurent a fait valoir que Gérard a été le premier à proposer clairement une théorie scientifique de l'évolution 1844-1845 et qu'il a utilisé le terme évolution plutôt que de transformisme. Paris: Au siège de l'Association des Auteurs et Artistes Unis et chez Firmin Didot frères, 1853 unknown
1740032040London: For J. Osborne 1740. First Edition in Engllish. Octavo. In two volumes translated from the French edition by J.B. De Freval. Volume I x 2 288 pages 8 pp. index and Volume II 312 pages 8 index with 25 engraved plates mounted as issued including a frontispiece to each volume. The plates are from the original French edition of 1739 cut around the plate mark and pasted to 8vo leaves for this edition as required in the directions to the bookbinder printed in Volume I. The first volume is based on Warburton's studies of Egyptian hieroglyphs and gives a history of the gods after whom the planets are named as well as a general treatise on mythology; the second volume contains a chronological analysis of the philosophical theories of the creation of the worlds. There was a 1741 edition lacking the original plates. Abbe Pluche 1688-1761 enjoyed a brilliant scholastic career though he was persecuted for his views as a young priest. He was the tutor to Lord Stafford's son; he eventually returned to Paris and continued his career as a scholar and teacher. Bound in contemporary calf boards double ruled in gilt black morocco spine labels gilt boards reattached a bit of cosmetics to corners and spine ends early owner's book plate and embossed stamp of a later owner with his name and date as well only a couple of plates with toning or foxing. A very good set. . For J. Osborne unknown
#[30796]Colonia appresso gli Heredi di Cornelio d'Egmond 1701. Sm.8vo. Contemporary vellum autograph title to spine. 158 pp. First published in 1700. - 'The eminent Dominican theologian of the Sorbonne Noel Alexandre 1639-1724 led the attack in France on the Jesuits' attitude towards the Chinese rites. He published an attack upon the Jesuit position in which he endeavours to show the similarities between the Chinese ceremonies and the idolatrous rites of the Greeks and Romans' Lach & Van Kley III p.430. - An interesting work as it mark the author out as a pioneer in the study of comparative religion. - Age-browned otherwise fine. Cordier BS col. 880; Lust 883 French ed.; Walraven 128 French ed.; Löwendahl Sino-Western relations 237 French ed. hardcover
1787206102Rome.: Sumptibus Natalis Barbielline. Bibliopolae in fore Pafquini. 1787. Editio Secunda. Vellum over boards. Hardcover. . Fine copy. . Octavo. . Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Sutro Library book plate. Sumptibus Natalis Barbielline. Bibliopolae in fore Pafquini. hardcover
198362275s. l.: Par l'auteur 1983. Fine. Par l'auteur s. l. 1983 22 x 22 cm une feuille Large original black and white photographic portrait by Marc Trivier. Original unsigned gelatin silver print like most of Trivier's works. A precious original gelatin silver print by the celebrated Belgian photographer one of the most secretive contemporary artists who despite early international success preferred to limit his production to preserve the coherence of his work. Marc Trivier does not print new copies of his old portraits and the printing paper he used is no longer commercially available. The artist ""produces his own prints on Ilford baryta paper devoting several days of work to each one with particular concentration on rendering the whites in contrast with blacks of rare density. A print by Marc Trivier resembles no other. When he agrees to exhibit them he suspends them in stainless steel frames of his own making giving free rein to the life of the paper."" Xavier-Gilles ""Marc Trivier et la tragédie de la lumière"" ""Marc Trivier and the tragedy of light"" in Le Monde Libertaire 2011. This ""life of the paper"" ""vie du papier"" participates in the work just as much as the various alterations that photographs undergo when they are exhibited: ""Dans les boites les tirages gondolent mais qu'importe : le photographe affectionne ce genre d'accident."" ""In the boxes the prints warp but no matter: the photographer is fond of this kind of accident."" Claire Guillot ""Les face à face sans échappatoire du photographe Marc Trivier"" ""The inescapable face-to-face encounters of photographer Marc Trivier"" Le Monde 2011. Marc Trivier has a particular sensitivity for the material aspect of his productions. While photography is essentially about multiples this intervention by the artist in the entire creative process confers an autographic aura to these prints. Photographs of artists madmen trees or slaughterhouses Marc Trivier approaches all these subjects with a gaze as precise as it is intense. ""Dans sa cosmogonie chaque chose chaque être végétal animal ou humain mérite le même respect. Car tous sont confrontés à la même loi d'airain : la solitude."" ""In his cosmogony each thing each being plant animal or human deserves the same respect. For all are confronted with the same iron law: solitude."" Luc Desbenoit. The beauty that emanates from his photos comes from this nakedness. There is neither retouching nor cropping. We find in his work the same square format emphasized by the square of the negative that Trivier leaves on his prints. This frame traps our gaze in photographs where the artifice of color is rejected for an incisive black and white. With all artificiality having disappeared we do not face the staging of a subject but a presence exacerbated by radiating and singular light witness to an instant of life and not of pose. It is this light linked to the photographic medium that unites Marc Trivier's series: ""Les photographies de Marc Trivier écrivent une tragédie de la lumière celle-ci n'accueillant les êtres - hommes arbres ou bêtes - qu'en les brûlant avant disparition."" ""Marc Trivier's photographs write a tragedy of light welcoming beings - men trees or beasts - only by burning them before disappearing."" Xavier-Gilles in Le Monde Libertaire. It is also this light freed from all artifices that gives his works the aura that makes them so present. This ""burning"" ""brûlure"" of light brings us back to a real instant to Barthes' ""that-has-been"" ""ça a été"" La Chambre Claire 1980: ""De trente-cinq ans de pratique photographique d'obsessions c'est peut-être ça qui reste : un mode d'enregistrement singulier de la brûlure de la lumière décliné d'une image à l'autre en une succession de propositions qui se ressemblent et pourtant chacune est aussi singulière que la fraction de temps auquel elle renvoie."" ""From thirty-five years of photographic practice of obsessions this is perhaps what remains Par l'auteur unknown
1927122027London: Martin Secker 1927. First editions first impressions scarce in the jackets and especially so in such nice condition. First written in 1921 and then revised into its final form in 1927 Sirocco premiered on 24 November 1927 at Daly's Theatre; Home Chat on 25 October 1927 at the Duke of York's Theatre. Neither play was well-received when first produced. Two works octavo. Original grey cloth printed paper labels to spines. With dust jackets. Housed in a custom brown quarter morocco slipcase and matching linen chemise. A fine set in the bright dust jackets spines just slightly sunned short closed tear and crease to head of rear panel of Home Chat. hardcover
195314635London: Michael Joseph 1953. A first edition first printing published by Michael Joseph in 1953. Pictorial dust jacket over grey and yellow cloth. Contains black and white in text illustrations and colour plates by G. Calthrop. Illustrations and plates are bright and clear with some light tanning and foxing to edges. Unclipped jacket. Some light rubbing and loss to the corners and to the spine tips. This copy was previously part of a collection of selected volumes that were formerly kept at the London Office of Sir Noel Coward in Cadogan Square. Complete with Noel Coward Society authentification. Michael Joseph hardcover
192612482London: Benn 1926. A first edition first printing published by Benn in 1924. A very good book in like wrapper with some edgewear and rubbing and a chip to the head of the spine. Coward's third stage play. Benn unknown
1807267757Newark: S. & J. Ridge 1807. First edition Large Paper second issue with half-title. xiii i errata 187 pp. 8vo 9 x 5-7/8 inches. Almost contemporary plum cloth text uncut. Covers unevenly toned few blisters hinges strengthened. Laid into quarter blue morocco slipcase and chemise. First edition Large Paper second issue with half-title. xiii i errata 187 pp. 8vo 9 x 5-7/8 inches. Byron's first regularly published book following the privately printed Fugitive Pieces and Poems on Various Occasions. This copy has the second issue points as follows: leaf D3 i.e. pp 21-22 is not a cancel; p. 114 'Thunder' in spelled correctly; p. 171 numbered as 71; and p. 181 has 'The' correctly printed in the penultimate line. Wise I p. 8; Randolph pp. 9-10 thinks this is a forgery S. & J. Ridge unknown
186110753Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1861. First Edition Senate Issue. 13115430631pp. Quarto 29 cm Original black cloth with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip and the steamboat 'Explorer' gilt stamped on the front board. Very good. Boards gently rubbed more so at corners and hinges. Complete with all 26 tipped-in plates all eight Indian portraits have been nicely tinted Both large folding maps are present at the front both have short closed tears where they are bound in. All eight fold-out panoramas are present. Lacks the two rarely seen geologic maps. <br /> <br /> On the front pastedown the book is inscribed: "Presented to Thetford Academy by the Hon. Jacob Collamer Received Apr. 2 1862." Collamer was a longtime politician from Vermont and at the time of this publication was the senior Senator from Vermont. This report is the first to deal with the Colorado River specifically. One of the most important and best illustrated United States Government surveys of the American west. This work describes in detail Lieut. Ives and his crew taking a steamboat up the Colorado River the ship made it as far as Black Canyon the site of the Hoover Dam. The group then went on foot making it to the lower Grand Canyon. The illustrations by Mollhausen are excellent and the fold-out panoramas by Frederick W. von Egloffstein are some of the earliest maps of the Canyon. Eberstadt 120: 120. Fales & Flake 105. Farquhar 21. Flake/Draper 4287. Howes I-92. Paher 952. Reese Best of the West 163. Wagner/Camp 375. Wheat 947 948. Government Printing Office unknown
50584Washington: Government Printing Office 1861. First edition. Hardcover. 1311415430731 pp. in five parts with appendices. Quarto 29 cm Rebound in grained black buckram with gilt stamped title on the backstrip. Two maps present at front of volume one map is detached. Both maps have six inch closed tears. Very good. Faint rubbing to corners. May require extra shipping charges due to weight. This is the first book to deal with the Colorado River specifically. The Ives report is also one of the first descriptions of the Grand Canyon Big Canon of the Colorado and of the area's native inhabitants. Ives expedition predated John Wesley Powell's expedition by a decade. Lacks the oft-missing laid-in geological maps else complete with all plates maps wood cuts and panoramic views. Includes seven colored plates of the Indians of the southwest. ".the report is one of the most desirable books in the Colorado River field" - Francis P. Farquhar. Howes I94. Wagner/Camp 375. Wheat 947-948. Farquhar 21. Flake 4287. Government Printing Office hardcover
2014x-1461486777Springer Verlag 2014. Hardcover. New. 1000 pages. 10.39x7.36x1.73 inches. Springer Verlag hardcover
