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184457242Boston: J. N. Bradley & Co 1844. 8vo pp. 55 1; self-wrappers; spine with cloth reinforcement first leaf with 2" tear at the top gutter some loss of paper but no loss of letterpress ex-Garrett Bible Institute Evanston Illinois with several old library rubberstamps released; good copy. Mann had taken the Unitarian - and liberal - view that while the Bible should be taught in school it should be done without comment. Some religious groups charged him and the Board of Education with creating a godless system of schools. American Imprints 1612-13. Sabin 44318. <br/><br/> J. N. Bradley & Co hardcover books
193812465London: Secker & Warburg 1938. First English Edition. Page edges lightly foxed. Near fine in a very slightly soiled dust jacket. <br/><br/> Secker & Warburg unknown books
180329623Dedham Massachusetts: Printed by H. Mann sold by him; by J. Wilder in Lancaster; and by the Principal Book Sellers in New-England 1803. 12mo. 3-63 1 pp lacking the half title or front wrapper but including the title leaf. Stitched. Light tanning scattered foxing. A few archival tape repairs to text pages corner tear of one text leaf loss of several words. Occasional early ink notation. Final leaf pasted to rear plain wrapper.Good. <br/><br/> Advertised in the Columbian Minerva Dedham for Nov. 1 1803. AAS describes its copy as also having the last leaf pasted to the rear wrap. <br/>Drake 3653. AI 3992. Printed by H. Mann, sold by him; by J. Wilder in Lancaster; and by the Principal Book Sellers in New-England unknown books
1965144527Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1965. Vintage borderless photograph of director William Wyler and actor Terence Stamp on the set of the 1965 film. With holograph annotations on the verso. <br/><br/>Based on the 1963 novel by John Fowles. Hal Erickson at AllMovie notes: "Fowles' original story was written in the form of a dual diary one kept by a kidnapper the other by his victim. The film is told almost exclusively from the point of view of the former a reclusive British bank clerk named Freddy Clegg Terence Stamp. A neurotic recluse whose only pleasure is butterfly collecting Clegg wins $200000 in the British Football Pool. He purchases a huge country estate fixes up its cellar with all the comforts of home then kidnaps Miranda Samantha Eggar an art student whom he has worshipped from afar. The demented Clegg doesn't want ransom nor does he want to rape the girl-he simply wants to 'collect' her." Nominated for three Academy Awards and winner of Best Actor and Best Actress awards at The Cannes Film Festival.<br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Grant US. Columbia Pictures unknown books
198919503NC: North Carolina Wesleyan college 1989. 1/1000 copies. 8vo pp. 150. Paper.VG. Diverse pieces by businessmen college presidents folk art enthusiasts and poets. North Carolina Wesleyan college unknown books
1897255600New York. : Putnam’s. 1897. . 1st Edition. Blue cloth gilt titles. . Owner’s ink name and notes to front free end paper otherwise a near very good copy with no dustjacket. . 12mo. Putnam’s. hardcover books
194718661New York: The Chimera 1947. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Winter 1947 issue of this literary journal edited by Howes Frederick Morgan and others. A very good copy in stapled wrappers. This issue features Eternal Contemporaries by Lawrence Durrell. <br/><br/> The Chimera paperback books
19661327712New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1966. Definitive edition revised reset and reprinted. Hardcover. Octavo; Definitive edition revised reset and reprinted; Eighth printing; VG-/G; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine white tanned with white print on blue banner; DJ has light edgewear toning to spine smudging on rear; Boards in green cloth with green print on brown banners slight wear to spine caps and top fore corners else clean and strong; Text block has pink-tinted top edge clean and tight; xvi 481 pages. 1327712. FP New Rockville Stock. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1901007195No Place: American Medicine 1901. RARE Worldcat locates 0 copies. Reprint of an article that first appeared in American Medicine journal October 19 1901 detailing the medical care given to President William F. McKinley during the eight days following the shooting that resulted in his death. . 27 pp 5 blank subscription page. Very Good top corner front wrapper small chip wrappers soiled. Contents include "Surgical history" by P.M. Rixey Matthew D. Mann Herman Mynter and others.--"Remarks on the operation" by Matthew D. Mann.--"Report on the autopsy" by Harvey R. Gaylord.--"Report on the Bacteriologic examination" by Herman G. Matzinger. Reprint. Pamphlet. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. American Medicine Paperback books
1931WRCLIT76759Paris: Edward Titus at the Sign of the Black Manikin 1931. Original printed wrappers. Near fine unopened. Second Paris edition the first to include Mann's Preface and an author/publisher's note about their intent to combat a US piracy with this new edition. Upon the publication of a new edition in 1947 a Kirkus reviewer described this novel as "a characterization in full detail and at long length of a slattern and a succubus pursuing and possessive and of her power for evil which was not weakened by the distaste she provoked." Edward Titus at the Sign of the Black Manikin unknown books
1988023667Cambridge Etc.: Cambridge University Press 1988. x 262p. stiff library boards ex libris. Cambridge University Press unknown books
1986043912Cambridge Etc.: Cambridge Univeirsity Press 1986. x 262p. original stiff printed wrappers. Cambridge Univeirsity Press unknown books
1997289894Birmingham.: Palladium Press. 1997 . Full brown pigskin raised bands gilt decorations all edges gilt silk endpapers ribbon marker. . Fine no dust jacket as issued. . 24x17 cm. . Reprint of the 1942 edition. Palladium Press. hardcover books
19091517New York: Munn and Co 1909. Decorative Cloth. Very Good. 1909 1st edition of this early study of ballistics and bullett flight. Well-preserved and VG in its original green cloth with bright gilt-lettering and wonderful gilt-designed front panel. Quarto 384 pgs. Former owner name on front free endpaper and subsequent former owner inscription below it. Also unobtrusive former owner blind stamp on title page. Still a very presentable and attractive copy. <br/><br/> Munn and Co hardcover books
1942W081BHuntington W.Va.: Standard Printing & Publishing Co. 1942. Original blue buckram with gilt lettering and rules. Some light wear at spine ends. Owner bookplate on front pastedown and name on ffep. Mylar protected. An encyclopedic study of ballistics history from the 19th century forward. Fifth Printing. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Trade. Standard Printing & Publishing Co. Hardcover books
1930117697London: Jarrolds 1930. First UK Edition and first printing in English. Issued under the publisher's Jay Library series at a price of 7/6. <br/><br/>Basis for the classic 1930 film by Josef von Sternberg starring Emil Jannings and a very young Marlene Dietrich filmed simultaneously in both German and English. <br/><br/>Very Good in a extremely bright and colorful Very Good plus dust jacket. Boards slightly bowed with evidence of exposure to moisture at the fore-edges. Jacket has no loss only a bit of shallow creasing at the spine ends. Jarrolds unknown books
19544645New York: Alfred A . Knopf 1954. First American Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Very Good. Octavo. 141pp. 5pp. publisher's catalog 1 colophon. Translated from the German by Wiilard R. Trask. Bound in black cloth stamped in blind spine gilt top edge red minor light toning to endpapers otherwise near fine in very good unclipped dust jacket with price crossed out and $2.00 penned in spine and edges age toned. <br/><br/> Alfred A . Knopf hardcover books
199018112301New York: The Limited Editions Club printed by Heritage Printers Inc. 1990. Limited Edition. Leather bound. Fine. Hejduk John. No. 122 of 375 copies quarto size 193 pp. signed by John Hejduk with LEC Monthly Letter. German writer Thomas Mann 1875-1955 a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929 is best known for his novels and short stories employing symbolism and examining the psyche of those in intellectual circles most famously in his works "Buddenbooks" and "Death in Venice"; he wrote "The Black Swan" in 1954 and the novella revolves around an aging woman who must deal with her changing body and the expectations of an uncaring society that values youth over old age. Noted for being one of the first works to utilise hard medicine in the narrative "The Black Swan" is here published by the Limited Editions Club with lithographs by celebrated architect and artist John Hejduk 1929-2000 who brings an architect's eye for symmetry and simplicity in his geometric imagery. <br/><br/>This edition includes an afterword by David Shapiro b. 1947 a prolific poet and literary critic whose first book was published when he was eighteen; offering insight and a sympathetic view of the brutality and bluntness often found in Mann's prose he writes "A master of X-ray Mann leads us to the master montage of disease itself. And to the possible health of love."<br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Full brown leather title in black on the front board black endpapers lithographs printed in two colours by John Hejduk throughout; Monotype Gill Sans mouldmade Rives Buff Text paper quarto size 12" by 9.25" pagination: i-vi 1-183 184-186 1 colophon one of 375 copies this number 122 signed by John Hejduk on the colophon. With LEC Monthly Letter a thirteen-page softcover booklet with two staples at the spine. In a slipcase covered in black cloth.<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; spine is very slightly sunned else fine. The LEC Monthly Letter is near fine clean overall with a few stray marks the text block is sturdy without wear except at the corners and a small nick on the top edge of the rear cover. The slipcase is near fine strong and sturdy clean with some minor fraying to the cloth otherwise free of wear.<br/><br/>___POSTAGE: Â Please note that this is a large and heavy book 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 Limited Editions Club (printed by Heritage Printers, Inc.) unknown books
1954M8062London:: Methuen; New York: John Wiley & Sons 1954. 1954. Series: Methuen's Monographs on Biochemical Subjects. 191 x 128 mm. Small 8vo. xiv 240 pp. 16 figs. 7 plates 25 tables bibliog. index. Navy cloth gilt spine. Very good. Methuen; New York: John Wiley & Sons, (1954). hardcover books
1941131401Doylestown Pennsylvania: The Bucks County Historical Society 1941. Second edition. Hardcover. Good Spine ends and corners worn upper front corner bumped notes on plates fill the front free endpaper and extend to verso. Pages clean pages have faint toning halo. Navy cloth gilt pattern. xvi 216 pp. 313 bw illustrations. Title continues notes on Colonial firebacks in the US the Ten-plate stove Franklin's fireplace and the tile stoves of the Moravians in Pennsylvania and North Carolina together with a list of colonial furnaces in the US and Canada. Revised corrected and enlarged by Horace M. Mann. Scarce. The Bucks County Historical Society hardcover books
196132752000001Doylestown Pennsylvania: The Bucks County Historical Society 1961. Third edition. Hardcover. VG Shows only minor wear text block top shows light foxing or aging; otherwise clear. Brown cloth gilt letters on spine and front cover gilt decoration on front cover xvi 256 pp. 409 bw illus. The title continues notes on Colonial firebacks in the US the Ten-plate stove Franklin's fireplace and the tile stoves of the Moravians in Pennsylvania and North Carolina together with a list of colonial furnaces in the US and Canada. Revised corrected and enlarged by Horace M. Mann. With further amendments and additions by Joseph E. Sandford editor. A lovely copy. Scarce. The Bucks County Historical Society hardcover books
196132752Doylestown Pennsylvania: The Bucks County Historical Society 1961. Third edition. Hardcover. VG. Brown cloth gilt letters on spine and front cover gilt decoration on front cover xvi 256 pp. 409 bw illus. The title continues notes on Colonial firebacks in the US the Ten-plate stove Franklin's fireplace and the tile stoves of the Moravians in Pennsylvania and North Carolina together with a list of colonial furnaces in the US and Canada. Revised corrected and enlarged by Horace M. Mann. With further amendments and additions by Joseph E. Sandford editor. A lovely copy. Scarce. The Bucks County Historical Society hardcover books
1941WN33950Doylestown PA: Bucks Co. Historical Society 1941. Prior owner signature and date of 1948 on ffep. Laid-in is historical map of Chester Co. PA. A revision of the first edition of 1914. Some paste action in gutters. Dark blue cloth gilt with lettering and cover ornament somewhat faded. A definitive work on pictured stoves and stove plates of the Pennsylvania Germans. Second Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Trade. Bucks Co. Historical Society Hardcover books
1940288655New York: Knopf 1940. Limited. hardcover. fine. Translated from the German by H.T.Lowe-Porter. Tall 8vo cloth backed boards N.Y.: Knopf 1940. Limited First Edition.<br/><br/> Number 122 of 395 signed copies. Fine in publisher's slipcase.<br/><br/> Knopf unknown books
1940288657New York: Knopf 1940. Limited. hardcover. Translated from the German by H.T.Lowe-Porter. Tall 8vo cloth backed boards N.Y.: Knopf 1940. Limited First Edition.<br/><br/> Number 124 of 395 signed copies.<br/><br/> Knopf unknown books
