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192923613New York N.Y.: De Pamphilis Press Inc. 1929. 28 pages; program was presided by Hon. John W. Davis president of the E.S.U. of the U.S.; the menu included Scotch mutton broth broiled spring chicken maitre d'hotel salade chiffonade gateau glacee MacDonald cigars and cigarettes; with the listing of the speaker's table; committee of arrangements membership apologies and acknowledgments followed by pages of seating lists alphabetically arranged by ticket color; a very large event with well over 3000 attendees; approx. 5 3/8" x 8" size; cream color printed stapled wraps; light wear a little faint spottiness to cover; in very good condition. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. De Pamphilis Press, Inc. Paperback books
195615496Center Moriches Long Island New York: Strebel and English 1956. Bright colorful imagery advertizing a Long Island dry cleaner operation in Center Moriches; with complete year's worth of monthly calendar stapled below; thin wooden slats held together with string stamped "Made In Japan" on back edge; approx. 10 " x 16" overall size; little chipping to edges; very good condition. Very Good. Strebel and English unknown books
19792311359New York: Grosset & Dunlap 1979. Abridged. Large Softcover. Very Good. Front wrapper creased. 1979 Large Softcover. 95 pp. Abridged. A commonsense guide to raising a happy dog while keeping its owner happy too. Includes the following essential information: choosing the right breed to suit your personality; understanding the signals your puppy gives you; techniques to handle city dogs and their country cousins; housebreaking your pet to suit your schedule; crimes and punishments--how to discipline your dog; fundamentals of obedience--heeling staying and basic turns to make your pet the Fred Astaire of dogs. Grosset & Dunlap paperback books
1978220526<p>First edition. 8vo. Original 1/2 red calf over matching buckram gilt stamped spine with raised blads. Fine fresh copy. Enclosed in dark red cloth slipcase. Contains 646 detailed entries on the famous literary sisters. #14/25 specially bound copies signed by Yablon and Turner on the limitation page. Signed by Authors. F. Hardcover.</p> Ian Hodgkins, & Co. Ltd. hardcover books
1962306831<p>First edition so stated; "First Published 1962". Octavo. Original black cloth stamped in gilt. Dust jacket designed by Barry Trengrove unclipped; four short closed tears; a few nicks. Very good an attractive copy. 196 pages. First edition first issue in black cloth with "16s" price on the front flap and large margins on the jacket flaps.</p> Heinemann hardcover books
19342221898<p>First edition thus. Octavo. Four wood engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton. Original gilt stamped black morocco over red and beige patterned boards t.e.g. uncut. No dust jacket. Fine. 66 pages. No bookplates or other signatures.</p><p>Number 72 of 250 numbered copies signed by Calder-Marshall on limitation page.</p><p>Chanticleer 99.</p> The Golden Cockerel Press hardcover books
19502546Madras 1950. Third Edition. Hardcover. Color illustrated boards. Very good. 332 pages. 21.5 x 14 cm. First published in 1933 by the Friends In Need Society assisting the aged infirm and destitute European and Anglo-Indian Christians this Anglo-Indian cookbook was written for British women in India who wanted to recreate their home environs while living in the colony. Written in two languages - English and Urdu side by side. Last 12 pages filled with local ads. Some pencil annotations covers rubbed. <br /> hardcover books
1977126184Philadelphia Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press 1977. Hardbound. VG cover and pages crisp and fresh owner's mark on free endpaper of each volume. Tan cloth on boards with embossing and burgundy cloth spine 2-volume set in tan board envelope Vol. 1: xxix 248 pp Vol. 2: 4 pp 250-531 several BW images per volume. Autobiography from age 14-22 of Isaac Mackey 1822-1855. He was from the introduction a lawyer editor historian politician musician translator inventor and diarist.Isaac Mackey not only reveals his own precocious gifts but also illuminates the years in which he wrote. University of Pennsylvania Press unknown books
19649013350New York: Grove Press 1964. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. The dust jacket is price clipped. <br/><br/> Grove Press hardcover books
196613979New York: Grove Press 1966. Paperback. 223p. worn first edition mass market paperback in rubbed pictorial wraps. Grove Press paperback books
1929224127<p>Limited edition. Octavo. Illustrated with folding genelogical plate of The Forsyte Family. Original gilt stamped vellum t.e.g. Original brown silk bookmark. Very good. No signatures or bookplates. Number 641 of 1030 numbered copies signed with a quote by Galsworthy: "John Galsworthy Spring: There's mating.in the air Passionate.The blossoms burst."</p> Wiliam Heinemann Limited hardcover books
19682222018<p>First edition. Tall octavo. 7 plates in color and 1 b/w illustrations by Rigby Graham. Original gilt stamped stiff blue/green patterned wrappers matching endpapers. No dust jacket. Fine. 20 pages.</p><p>One of 325 unnumbered copies twenty five copies were numbered and signed.</p><p>Printed by Peter Bonser.</p><p>Binding and gold stamping by Trevor Hickman.</p> Brewhouse Press paperback books
197529404Hong Kong: Joint Publishing Company 1975. First edition thick 8vo pp. 8 1688 1; the dictionary proper printed in double column; some light soiling else fine in like dust jacket. "The first medium-sized comprehensive English-Chinese dictionary to have been compiled in China since the Great Proletarian Revolution" jacket blurb. More than 50000 entries including "some words and phrases that reflect the decadent social phenomena of a dying capitalism" Foreword p. 1-2. <br/><br/> Joint Publishing Company unknown books
1928222011<p>First edition. Octavo. Over 100 b/w text illustrations; endpapers and jacket design by H.M. Brock. Dust jacket unclipped; few nicks. Very good. Scarce thus. No foxing. Signed by Drinkwater and Brock in black fountain pen ink on the title page. Brock has also drawn an ink sketch of a young woman.</p> W. Collins Sons & Co. hardcover books
19921317057Jerusalem; New York: Gefen Publishing House Ltd; Gefen Books 1992. Hardcover. Small Quarto; pp 91; VG-/no-DJ; light beige spine with blue gilt and red text; cloth has slight wear to exterior; minor rubbing to edges; sunned spine; slightly splayed boards; text block show slight shelf wear to exterior edges; pictorial endpapers; interior clean; profusely illustrated; Hebrew and English texts;. 1317057. FP New Rockville Stock. Gefen Publishing House Ltd; Gefen Books hardcover books
192631203New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1926. Hardcover. 184p. stated first edition spine gilt faded else very good condition. Short introduction by the editor John R. Commons. Harper & Brothers Publishers hardcover books
196027156London 1960. Softcover. VG- overall wear to extremities corners bumped sticker residue on front cover cover slightly loose at spine all pages intact with illustrations and text clear. Black wraps with white lettering and illustrationbw frontisipiece 88 pp. 31 bw plate pp. Features 17th-19th century pieces from key Massachusetts New York Delaware and Maryland makers. The annotated catalogue presents 225 specific pieces and many are pictured here at the end of the book. Includes makers' biographies. Uncommon. unknown books
196331893Tokyo: Japan Ukiyo-E Society 1963. First edition. Illustrated paper wrappers. Chip at the head of the spine else a very good copy. 30 52 98 pp. Illus. with 6 color plates 321 b/w reproductions. Sm. 4to. Shigeo Miyao ed. Errata slip tipped in. Catalogue of 321 prints in English and Japanese. 8 pages of ads. Glossary. Japan Ukiyo-E Society unknown books
1930253119San Francisco: Printed by Edwin & Robert Grabhorn for John Howell at the Sign of the Open Book 1930. From an edition limited to 580 copies this is one of 515 copies in the "Colonial Edition. Inserted leaf from the Bible printed by Robert Aitken Philadelphia 1782 from Deuteronomy; and 8 illustrations. 34 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original half leather and paper boards spine gilt. Bottom corners and head and foot of spine rubbed. Bookplate on front pastedown. Very good. From an edition limited to 580 copies this is one of 515 copies in the "Colonial Edition" Inserted leaf from the Bible printed by Robert Aitken Philadelphia 1782 from Deuteronomy; and 8 illustrations. 34 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. From an edition limited to 580 copies this is one of 515 copies in the "Colonial Edition" printed for John Howell Books by the Grabhorn Press and containing an essay by Edwin Grabhorn on typography in America in 1776. This volume contains an original leaf from a copy of the Aitken Bible one of the most celebrated American bibles being the first complete English Bible printed in America. During the colonial era the monopoly on printing English bibles belonged to the Royal Printer and the colonies were supplied entirely with bibles printed in England. The only Bible printed in the British colonies in America was the famous Eliot Indian Bible in Algonquian issued in Cambridge in 1661-63 and reprinted in 1680-85. With the Revolution this monopoly naturally ended and the embargo on goods from England acted to create a shortage. Aitken a Philadelphia printer undertook the task producing the New Testament in 1781 and the Old Testament in 1782. On completion he petitioned the Continental Congress for their endorsement and received it in September 1782. Because of this official endorsement and the reasons behind its production the Aitken Bible is often referred to as "The Bible of the Revolution" Grabhorn Bibliography 131 Printed by Edwin & Robert Grabhorn for John Howell at the Sign of the Open Book unknown books
1937147541N.p.: N.p. 1937. Draft script for the 1937 film. With the name of character Mary Field and actor Suzanne Kaaren uncredited in the final film added to the cast list in holograph pencil and with a few minor holograph pencil emendations throughout. Screenplay divided into eight alphabetical Sequences A through H.<br/><br/>A melancholic romantic comedy by Ernst Lubitsch about a love triangle between Lady Maria Barker Marlene Dietrich her husband the British diplomat Sir Frederich Barker Herbert Marshall and the charming traveler Anthony Halton Melvyn Douglas set throughout Europe with an oncoming war looming.<br/><br/>Set in London Paris and Vienna. <br/><br/>In a custom quarter leather clamshell box. <br/><br/>Untitled self wrappers. 175 leaves with last page of text numbered H-19. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with white revision pages throughout dated variously between 1/28/37 and 2-1-37. Pages Very Good plus some front leaves with light soiling wrapper Very Good lightly soiled dampstaining separating at the spine side stapled with three staples. N.p. unknown books
1902304678<p>First edition. Octavo. Original red cloth stamped in gilt spine slightly darkened; light rubbing. Very good. 318 pages. No dust jacket. Enclosed in a 1/2 red morocco slipcase. No signatures or bookplates.</p> Chapman & Hall, Ltd. hardcover books
198016020555Rio de Janeiro: Nova Fronteira Memoria Brasileira 1980. Hardcover. Near Fine. Folio size 124 pp. inscribed by Claudio Arrau. A little-known work on the great coffee plantations of the nineteenth century in the area around Rio de Janeiro. Coffee first started to appear in the area around 1760 and by 1822 there were plantations in the area with more than fifty thousand coffee plants with massive tracts of rainforest being cleared first from the vicinity of Rio and later Sao Paulo for coffee growing. The families owning the plantations built huge homes some of them almost small castles - one of which the Parque Sao Clemente had ceilings so beautiful that special reclining chairs were installed so that they could be better admired. This book explores those fazendas both inside and out to provide a glimpse into this glittering past. The text of the book is in Portuguese and an accompanying softcover book has the English translation.<br/><br/>This volume was previously owned by Claudio Arrau 1903-1991 a Chilean pianist widely considered one of the greatest pianists of the twentieth century. <br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Quarter tan cloth with black paper boards pictorial paste-down of one of the plantation houses inset into the front board with titlte in silver brown lettering on the spine decorative endpapers of stylised palm trees title page in red and black with a small tipped-in photograph tipped-in colour photographs throughout drawn map towards the rear of the book showing the location of the fazendas along the Rio Paraiba do Sul; folio size 13.75" by 10.5" pagination: i-iii 1-2 3-111 112-121 inscribed by Claudio Arrau "Rio de Janeiro 1981" on the first flyleaf. Please note the text is in Portuguese. Accompanying English translation in English a softcover booklet in black paper wraps stapled at the spine with gold lettering and publisher's device on the front cover 19 pp. In a slipcase covered in green paper with stylised palm tree pattern and a pictorial paper label on the front board.<br/><br/>___CONDITION: Volume is near fine with clean boards a strong square text block with solid hinges straight corners with no rubbing the interior is clean and bright with the only prior owner markings in both volumes being the name written of Claudio Arrau as noted above and each of the tipped-in photographs is in fine condition; some light stray soil marks on the spine and a small old dampstain on the bottom edge of the spine a few of the final pages have some minor rippling from the old damp else fine. The accompanying English translation is also near fine clean overall with a few shallow creases on the wraps. The slipcase is very good strong and sturdy clean overall some minor overall edge wear and it appears to have gotten wet at some point as the back is warped and the paper coverings are rippled. <br/><br/>___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please contact us 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. Nova Fronteira Memoria Brasileira hardcover books
200033375Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2000. Hardcover. 0802044514 . First edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . University of Toronto Press hardcover books
1978UGRAARC00DCThe Israel Museum 1978. Very Good. Grafman R. English Translator and Editor. Architecture in the Hanukkah Lamp. Landau Exhibition Curator Suzanne. Jerusalem: The Israel Museum 1978. 4to. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with gentle bumping. Cover is slightly yellowed along edges from light exposure. The Israel Museum paperback books
19302221649<p>"J.M. Barrie" in black ink on his Adelphi Terrace House Strand W. C. 2 London letterhead December 1 1930. Overall size 9" x 5 1/4". 1 page recto only inlaid to a slightly large sheet. Very good.</p><p>"In answer to your letter I enclose.purpose giving tomorrow night at the Guils Hall about the Children's Hospital. Yours sincerely. A. C. Grey by Press Associations."</p><p>Letter answering an inquiry about a children's hospital probably The Great Ormond Street Hospital to which he gave copyright of "Peter Pan" in 1929.</p><p>Barrie 1860-1937 born May 9 1860 Kirriemuir Angus Scotland; died June 19 1937 London England; Scottish author creator of Peter Pan."</p> unknown books
