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1924126077<p>The First UK Printing published by Hutchinson & Co. London : 1924. 8vo. original patterned boards with cubist design printed in black blue yellow and green; red printed label to upper board; Vorticist parody frontis portrait of Miss Whittlebot after G. E. Calthrop; a Good to Very Good copy of a scarce work. The BOOK is rubbed with boards and webbing showing through beneath at the spine edges but the binding remains firm ; small splash stain to label; endpapers tonedand offset with a couple of spots throughout; lacking the scarce wrapper. The book is protected in a removable Mylar cover. A presentation copy inscribed from Coward to Mollie on the front free endpaper. The recipient was Mary Mollie Montagu Douglas Scott née Lascelles Duchess of Buccleuch and Queensbury. This copy originally purchased from the estate of Ian Gilmour son in law of Scott but without any other ownership markings. Coward provides the Foreword and the book also includes an introduction entirely in French by Gaspard Pustontin. Coward s second collection of poems Chelsea Buns is comprised of 22 poems each of which parodies Edith Sitwell and modernist poetry. Coward had the previous year satirised the Sitwell siblings in The Swiss Family Whittlebot which presents a poetess called Hernia Whittlebot. Played by Maisie Gay with lesbian overtones Hernia "breakfasts on onions and Vichy water" while preparing the publication of her new books "Gilded Sluts" and "Garbage". The resulting feud between the Coward and Sitwell perhaps unsurprisingly lasted for several decades. They confronted each other across a class divide Faye Hammill writes in Noel Coward and the Sitwells: enmity celebrity popularity and also across the perceived barrier between difficult modernism and accessible popular entertainment. When Noel reportedly wrote to Edith to apologise she responded "I accept your apology" and didn't speak to him again until the eve of her 70th birthday in 1957. Scarce with such attributes. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.</p> Hutchinson & Co., London hardcover
alb0c5be6e17e162d80Byron George Gordon. A collection of essays in three volumes. Volume one. In Russian /Bayron Dzhordzh Gordon. Sobranie sochineniy v trekh tomakh. Tom pervyy. Library of the great writers F. A. Brockhaus and I. A. Ephron. St. Petersburg Brockhaus and Ephron AO 1904. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. The delivery of this book might be delayed beyond the usual timeframe due to extended processing and preparation before shipment, and faster shipping opSKUalb0c5be6e17e162d80
alb9ae903f244e4cf7eByron J. A collection of poems in the translations of Georgy Shengeli in two volumes. In Russian /Bayron Dzh. Sobranie poem v perevodakh Georgiya Shengeli v 2kh tomakh. Set. Introductory article by M. Zabludovsky. M. GIZ, Khudlit. 1940. 304s. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalb9ae903f244e4cf7e.
2019x-0199238650Oxford Univ Pr 2019. Hardcover. New. 644 pages. 8.75x5.75x1.75 inches. Oxford Univ Pr hardcover
181019621810 13 volumes, reliure plein veau (binding full calfskin) brun in-octavo, dos long (spine without raised band) décoré or (gilt) - pièce de titre (piece of title) avec filet or sur fond bordeaux et pièce de tomaison sur fond bleu marine (piece of volume numbering), roulettes (fillets) sur les coupes (manque de dorure - lack of gilt), tranches jaspées (marbled edges), sans illustration (no illustration), entre 443 et 568 pages par volume (between 443 pages and 568 pages by book), 1810 à Paris Chez Michaud Frères Imprimeurs-Libraires,
Features: Title page illustration of British despatch-rider delivering Christmas pudding by bicycle in deep snow; G.K. Chesterton makes the case that the English are ignorant; One-page aerial photo of French tanks attacking a German trench-line; Excellent photo of hundreds of "China's Army of Labourers for the Western Front - A Big Muster on Parade"; Two pages of illustrations show the difficulties faced by British patrols in nocturnal search of German North Sea raiders; Three pages provide ten photos of the aftermath of the terrible Halifax explosion on December 7th, 1917; One-page portrait of Admiral Sir Rosslyn E. Wemyss; Two photos show the difficulty of transportation after recent French snow; One-page aerial photo of French bombs raining down upon a German munition factory in Lorraine; Two-page illustration of the breaking of the Hindenburg Line near Cambrai with Ulster and Yorkshire troops advancing on Bourlon Wood and crossing the Bapaume-Cambrai Road; Two-page illustration of British troops moving forward to the River-front Line; Two-page illustration of brilliant infantry work by the Italian Army on the Northern Front; Eight photos on two pages illustrate the British victorious advance in Palestine - hoisting the flag at Jaffa, and other scenes;Two half-page photos show the restoration of a water well in Palestine which was blown up by the Turks; Article on the impending shortage of food; and more. 36 pages, including seven pages of charming vintage ads, most of which are illustrated. In particular, the back cover ad for "Harlene Hair-Drill" will fascinate anyone interested in early women's hair treatments. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent WWI-era issue. Magazine
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Secret Death - A weird story from Georgia in Russia, a wild land where might is right and feuds never end; Capturing Wild Animals Alive - how John Alfred Jordan captured a collection of African animals to be shipped to Zoos in Europe; A Tragedy in the Clouds - Frenchmen Sergeant Legendre and Adjutant Casale of the French Aviation Service bring down their eighth German plane piloted by a German named Haspel; Six Weeks Among the Buddhas - Part I - Juliet Bredon and her husband toured temples in China; The Man Who Found Himself - munitions worker William Francis claims to have entirely lost his memory for two years after an injury; Across Germany to Freedom - Part I - French soldiers Georges Prieur and Tristan du Tartre escape from Hammelburg camp in Bavaria; When the Dam Burst - a 'Santa Rosa' (South American monsoon) causes a night of terror at the harbour works of the 'Obras del Nuevo Puerto de la Capital' in Argentina; Almost a Tragedy - forgetful nearly results in multiple deaths; Between the Devil and the Deep - a French fishing-smack sinks a German submarine - article with photos; When the Fuses Spluttered - Roy Norton, F.R.G.S. escapes death in a mine by seconds; Buried Alive - injury while filming 'The Jarvis Case'; A Fight With An Ostrich - the awful plight of engineer Geo. Daws who tried to cross an ostrich 'camp' during their breeding season; Historic Crimes and Mysteries - The Sign at the Gallows, The Law & The Lackey; The Pirates of the 'Flowery Land' - mutiny and murder on the high seas between London and Singapore; The Hidden City - Tulum is located in the thick jungle of the Yucatan; Bethlehem's Distressing Christmas Scenes - festive occasion marred by petty quarrels of rival sects;The Last of the Bandits - The Poe-Hart Gang terrorizes Oklahoma by robbing banks and fighting sheriff's posses; and more. pp. 8 [ads], [2], 92-176, 9-24 [ads]. Covers partially loose. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy of this wonderful issue. Book
80 pages. Profusely illustrated with archival black and white photos of breweries, bottles, labels, etc. Provides an impressive alphabetical list of breweries and whatever additional details the authors were able to glean about them. Also included are bottle details and contemporary pricing information. Pages mildly age-toned at periphery. Large hand-written gift greetings upon front free endpaper, otherwise unmarked. Moderate wear to book. Binding sound. Average wear and two short closed openings to handsomely illustrated dust jacket which is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy of this excellent reference. Book
1857899Z23London: Sampson Low Son & Co. 1857. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 7.5" by 5.5". Not Stated . The first edition of this scarce work on river gardens by H. Noel Humphreys with beautiful colour plates. The first edition of this scarce work. In the publisher's original gilt cloth re-backed. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece a monochrome vignette to the title page illuminated letters vignettes and seven colour plates. Collated complete. This work was written by the British illustrator naturalist and entomologist Henry Noel Humphreys and provides a descriptive study on river gardens with guidance on cultivating fresh water plants for creating habitats and aquariums for aquatic life. In the publisher's original cloth re-backed. Externally smart with fading to the spine minor marks to the boards and slight bumping and rubbing to the extremities of the boards. Minor marks to the endpapers. Internally firmly bound with lightly age toned pages with spotting and tape repairs to the verso's of the odd plate. Very Good Sampson Low, Son, & Co. hardcover
SONG0395291291Brand: Houghton Mifflin 0000-00-00. hardcover. Used: Good. 0.00x0.00x0.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Brand: Houghton Mifflin hardcover
2013Atlantic-9781848215696Wiley-ISTE 2013. Hardcover. New. Wiley-ISTE hardcover
2013Atlantic-9781848215696Wiley-ISTE 2013. Hardcover. New. Wiley-ISTE hardcover
ria9781138233812_inpHardcover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The editors have organized the chapters helpfully across eight parts: I: Artforms II: History III: Questions of Form Style and Address IV: Art and Science V: Comparisons among the Arts VI: Questions of Value VII: Philosophers of hardcover
2011x-0415668220CRC Pr I Llc 2011. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 376 pages. 10.00x7.20x1.02 inches. CRC Pr I Llc hardcover
18401011F7Charles Tilt: London 1840 . First edition. Cloth. Good Only. 11.5" by 9". W. B. Cooke. Illustrated throughout with engraved plates this is the first edition of W. B. Cooke and H. Noel Humphrey's wonderful celebration of the beauties of mid-19th century Rome. The first edition of this work. A celebration of Rome and its surroundings with discussion from Henry Noel Humphreys and engraved W. B. Cooke after drawings from 'eminent artists'. With an illustrated frontispiece and title page alongside a double page panorama and twenty-eight further plates from Cooke. Collated complete. Scarce in the publisher's original cloth binding this work offers a beautiful view of British impressions of mid-19th century Rome and its most striking sites. In the publisher's original decorative cloth binding. Back strip age toned with handling marks to boards. Small losses of cloth and bumping to back strip head and tail. Front joint head starting with board somewhat tenderly held. Internally majority of leaves and plates detached due to gutta percha binding. Pages clean and bright. Good Only London hardcover
2013Atlantic-9781848214910Wiley-ISTE 2013. Hardcover. New. Wiley-ISTE hardcover
2013Atlantic-9781848214910Wiley-ISTE 2013. Hardcover. New. Wiley-ISTE hardcover
19409331New York 1940. Manila folder 9" x 12" filled with archival materials. Playbills magazines and small papers are very good. Handwritten ledgers and some typed letters are creased or torn on edges due to storage. <br /> <br /> John Chapman Wilson was an American stockbroker turned theater director and producer. Wilson met Noël Coward around 1925 and by 1930 was both his lover and his business manager. In 1934 with Coward and others Wilson established Transatlantic Productions with exclusive production rights to Coward's plays in the United States. He began producing shows on Broadway in 1935 and is probably best known for directing the original productions of Kiss Me Kate 1948 and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 1949 Carol Channing's Broadway debut.<br /> <br /> In 1944 Wilson produced Bloomer Girl at the Shubert Theater a comedy starring a female lead character who rejects hoop skirts despite her father's ownership of a hoop skirt company and opts for more comfortable bloomers instead. The show explored feminist abolitionist and anti-slavery themes. It was choreographed by Agnes de Mille and featured a civil war ballet scene. Bloomer Girl had a successful Broadway run a national tour including a Los Angeles residency and a later TV adaptation though it is seldom revived.<br /> <br /> This archive includes:<br /> - 1938 cable from Coward to Wilson referencing Hugh French an actor that worked on their production of Operette that year and the SS Samaria<br /> - Bloomer Girl Playbills from October 1944 and March 1946 at the Shubert Theater<br /> - Three issue of The Magazine of New York City Center of Music and Drama from 1947 during the show's six week run there<br /> - Two typed copies of a review by Sidney Phillips during their preview shows at the Forrest Theatre in Philadelphia<br /> - Five copies of typed letters and one telegram sent from Wilson to the cast dated between November 1944 to June 1947 some congratulatory and some disciplinarian in nature<br /> - Several newspaper clippings some are duplicates of show reviews and a few referencing film or television adaptation possibilities<br /> - One clipping about Gentlemen Prefer Blondes<br /> - Five pages of ledgers and budgetary information both typed and handwritten referencing both the stage production and potential film. unknown
192561870London: Office of the New Leader 1925. First Edition. First printing. Quarto 31.5cm. Orange paper wrappers printed in black; 28pp; 15 loose plates black and white relief blocks in text. With a subscription slip laid in. Rubbed at edges spine half split edges of portfolio split mild foxing to text occasional foxing to plate edges: around Very Good.<br /> <br /> A collection of art prints and stories from the 1925 New Leader the weekly periodical of the Independent Labour Party it was originally and is currently known as the Labour Leader. From 1922-1926 under the editorship of prolific leftwing journalist Henry Noel Brailsford the paper "acquired an international reputation" by "balancing ideological exhortation with cultural enrichment. Without neglecting practical politics or industrial affairs it attracted leading artists and intellectuals to its roster" ODNB. This issue includes a contribution from George Bernard Shaw Gwen Raverat Winifred Holtby and Muirhead Bone as well as several copies from Russian paintings in Moscow. Uncommon with only 10 copies recorded in OCLC. #61870. Office of the New Leader unknown
1956539147London: The Hogarth Press 1956. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Some sunning at the crown else near fine in very good dust jacket with some soiling and light spotting Very scarce roman a clef based on the middle-aged woman author's relationship with the young poet Denton Welch. The Hogarth Press hardcover
1934156055London: Herbert Jenkins Limited 1934. Octavo pp. 1-8 9-312 313-320: ads original orange cloth front and spine panels stamped in black publisher's monogram stamped in black on rear panel. First edition. "Weird thriller of a haunted missal bound in the skin of Philip II's unfaithful mistress whose spirit still seeks new paramours. Marginal vampirism when her mummified corpse is briefly revived by blood-rite thought this may be a hallucination induced by an unscrupulous occultist. Novel is an awkward hybrid of detective and horror genres the latter elements more effective. Author also wrote the bizarre horror thriller THE NEW RACE OF DEVILS 1921 under the pseudonym of John Bernard." - Robert Knowlton. Not in Bleiler 1948; 1978. Day p. 7. Reginald 00979. Small lending library stamp on bottom edge of text block faint traces of removal of bookplate or slip from front free endpaper but a fine bright copy. A scarce book and especially difficult in such nice condition. #156055 Herbert Jenkins Limited unknown books
193025263Garden City NY: Published for The Crime Club Inc. by Doubleday Doran & Company Inc. 1930. First U. S. edition. Small Lawrence Solomon library label affixed to the front paste down hidden by flap a nearly fine copy in a very good dust jacket with light wear and rubs to the corner tips and spine ends a tiny closed tear to the upper front panel and lower front panel mild fade to the spine panel. Uncommon in jacket. 25263. Octavo pp. i-x xi-xii xiii-xiv 1 2-312 313: Crime Club blurb 314: blank original black cloth front and spine stamped in orange. Published in the U. K. as MURDER AT FENWOLD. The author's third mystery novel and second to be published in the U. S. Bush had a long career and with many novels from the "Golden Age" of detective fiction. A Ludovic Travers novel. "The novels are remarkable in their ingenuity their complexity and their concentrated focus on the matter at hand. The tend to be unsensational unfolding with scrupulous logic and eschewing the extremes of melodrama and fast or violent action. They are absorbing rather than thrilling their appeal is more to the intellect than to the headier emotions." - St. James Guide to Crime & Mystery Writers Fourth Edition p. 137. Reference: Hubin p. 122. Published for The Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. unknown
193025262Garden City NY: Published for The Crime Club Inc. by Doubleday Doran & Company Inc. 1930. First U. S. edition. Inked name and date to front free end paper a nearly fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with slight wear to the corner tips with a tiny bit of loss and some rubs slight wear to spine ends with mild age darkening to spine panel and a tiny closed tear at the lower left front corner at spine edge. An attractive copy of an uncommon book in dust jacket in any edition. 25262. Octavo pp. 1-12 1-314 315-316: ads original black cloth front and spine stamped in orange top edge stained orange red end papers with white logo. The author's second mystery novel and first to be published in the U. S. Bush had a long career and started writing during the "Golden Age" of detective fiction. In this novel a series of letters are sent to Scotland Yard saying the writer will commit the perfect murder. After the crime Ludovic Travers an independent investigator the second book to feature the author's long time character gets involved. "The novels are remarkable in their ingenuity their complexity and their concentrated focus on the matter at hand. The tend to be unsensational unfolding with scrupulous logic and eschewing the extremes of melodrama and fast or violent action. They are absorbing rather than thrilling their appeal is more to the intellect than to the headier emotions." - St. James Guide to Crime & Mystery Writers Fourth Edition p. 137. Reference: Hubin p. 122. Published for The Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. unknown
1978162390N.p.: N.p. 1978. Six vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1978 film. <br /> <br /> A Belgian filmmaker travels across western Europe to promote her latest film encountering a wide range of figures both strangers and important people from her past along the way.<br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in Belgium France and West Germany. <br /> <br /> 9.5 x 7 inches. About Fine. <br /> <br /> Criterion Collection Eclipse 19. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown
1978149287Brussels: Centre du Cinema et de l'Audiovisuel de la Federation Wallonie-Bruxelles 1978. Vintage oversize borderless photograph of director Chantal Akerman and actress Aurore Clement on the set of the 1978 film with various cast and crew members in the background. With a provenance stamp and holograph ink annotations identifying the photograph subjects on the verso. <br/><br/>A Belgian filmmaker travels across western Europe to promote her latest film encountering a wide range of figures both strangers and important people from her past along the way.<br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Belgium France and West Germany. <br/><br/>11.75 x 8.25 inches. Very Good plus with light wear and creasing to the edges. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection Eclipse 19. Rosenbaum 1000. Centre du Cinema et de l'Audiovisuel de la Federation Wallonie-Bruxelles unknown books
