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1884213075London & Clifton: George Bell & Sons/J. Baker & Son 1884. Leather Bound. 204p. errata sheet bound-in preface dramatis personae bookplate of Masonic Library in DC withdrawn some unopened pages covers bowed-out soiling to covers and endpapers hinges sound first edition of both titles both later republished separately in white vellum boards with red titles and device top-edge-gilt. Katherine Harris Bradley 1846-1914 and her niece and ward Edith Emma Cooper 1862-1913 assumed the pen name Michael Field after writing under another set of names Arran and Isla Leigh. They lived openly as lovers. Bradley was associated with John Ruskin's utopian project Guild of St. George during her years at Cambridge. The couple died of cancer within eight months of each other. First publication under this pen name. George Bell & Sons/J. Baker & Son unknown books
18670539San Francisco: Towne & Bacon 1867. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. 12mo. Author's first book of poetry. This copy is from the library of H. Bradley Martin a life long collector whose 10000-volume library was sold at Sotheby's in 1989 - 1990. 1081pp. Bound in green pictorial gilt cloth depicting a sail and mast. A fine bright copy housed within a custom clamshell with famed collector Bradley-Martin's bookplate mounted within the clamshell. A superb copy. <br/><br/> Towne & Bacon hardcover books
1950D12002c. 1950s. Ephemera. Near Fine. Collection of 23 silver gelatin prints average size 14x9 inches with photographer's notes and studio stamping on the verso. High quality photographs including portraits street scenes candid images of children families and workers. A little light wear along the edges else fine. <br/><br/>Bradley Smith was born in New Orleans in 1910. In his early career he worked for several Southern newspapers and did some farm labor organizing; later he became nationally known for his photographs of sharecroppers. In the 1940's he became a photographer for Life magazine and also worked as a freelancer for Time The Saturday Evening Post Vogue American Heritage and Paris Match. He photographed Helen Keller Mahatma Gandhi and Harry S. Truman. But Mr. Smith a lifelong jazz lover took his best-known portraits of Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong. During the depths of the Depression he came north and worked for several magazines in New York City. There he became one of the central figures in the founding of ASMP. Smith wrote and illustrated 23 books including the popular A History in Art series that related a nations story through its art works. The series included volumes on Japan China Mexico Spain and the United States. He also wrote about photography and eroticism and he illustrated the autobiography of novelist Henry Miller. unknown books
1964137467N.p.: N.p. 1964. Draft script for an unproduced 1964 British remake of Robert Siodmak's 1933 German-Austrian film the remake directed by Siodmak as well based on the 1913 novella "Brennendes Geheimmnis" by Stephan Zweig and with Siodmak once again attached to direct. Copy belonging to screenwriter Arbeid with his name in holograph ink on the title page. <br/><br/>The story of a boy who is befriended by a mysterious baron only to become heartbroken and jealous when it turns out the baron has designs on his mother. Eventually remade in 1988 starring Faye Dunaway. <br/><br/>Red wrappers with title window die cut in the British style. Title page present with credit for novelist Zweig and screenwriters Arbeid and Bradley. 142 leaves with the last leaf of text numbered 140. Mimeograph duplication. Very Good. Dampstain to bottom of wrappers and corresponding lower page edges bound internally with two silver brads. <br/><br/>Greco Joseph. The File on Robert Siodmak in Hollywood: 1941-1951. Dissertation.com 1999. p. 212. N.p. unknown books
1932146023Hollywood: Fox Film Corporation 1932. Final Shooting script for the 1932 film here under the working title "Six Hours to Live." With holograph pencil annotations to the front wrapper. <br/><br/>By way of a scientific experiment a murder victim is revived from death but has only six hours to find his killer. An early directorial effort by the great William Dieterle foreshadowing the dark elements that would eventually define his work in film noir. <br/><br/>Green titled wrappers noted as FINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped production No. 607 dated 8/5/32 with credits for screenwriters Gordon Morris Morton Barteaux and Bradley King. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Gordon Morris Morton Barteaux and Bradley King director William Dieterle and various crew members. 116 leaves with last page of text numbered 109. Mimeographed rectos only with carbon typescript revision pages on onionskin stock throughout dated variously between 8-8-32 and 8/9/32. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with yapping and edgewear to the front and rear wrappers bound with two gold brads. Fox Film Corporation unknown books
021534London Ndca.1760: For S. Crowder and H. Woodgate. Octavo. title continued the Year. Containing a general account of fresh provisions of all Kinds. Of the several foreign Articles for the Table . and the different Kinds of Spices . and other Ingredients used in Pickling and Preserving at Home: . Together with the Nature of all Kinds of Foods .; a bill of fare for each month the Art of Marketing .; and the making as well as chusing of Hams . and other Store Dishes. Also Directions for plain Roasting and Boiling; and for the Dressing of all Sorts of Made Dishes .; and the preparing the Desert in all its Articles. Containing a greater Variety than was ever before publish'd of the most Elegant yet least Expensive receipts in Cookery . Soups . Cakes . Sweetmeats . Cordials And Distillery. To which are annexed the art of carving; and the Terms used for cutting up various Things; . The whole Practice of Pickling and Preserving: And of preparing made Wines Beer and Cyder. As also of distilling all the useful Kinds of Cordial and Simple Waters. With the Conduct of a Family in Respect of Health; . And a variety of other valuable particulars necessary to be known in All Families; . Also the Ordering of all Kinds of profitable Beasts and Fowls . Together with the Management of the pleasant profitable and useful Garden. The Whole embellished with a great Number of curious copper plates shewing the Manner of Trussing all Kinds of Game . as also the Order of setting out Tables for Dinners Suppers and Grand Entertainments . By Mrs. Martha Bradley late of Bath: Being the result of upwards of Thirty Years Experience. In two volumes Vol. I: Engraved frontispiece 752pp. 2 engraved plates Vol. II: 469pp.9pp contents to volume one 12pp. index to volume one. 3 engravings 5pp. Contents to volume two 7pp index. Bound in original 1/4 calf over marbled paper covered boards raised bands paper spine labels volume numbers in gilt boards rubbed volume two is lacking the marbled paper to upper board front free endpaper to volume 2 nearly detached chipping to lower margins of first 3 leaves of volume one lacks one plate at p.69. A good set and scarce having both volumes. McLean p.11. For S. Crowder and H. Woodgate unknown books
35New York. Charles Scribner's Sons. 1895. Cover and frontispiece by Will Bradley. One of 750 copies printed on enameled book paper. 117 pp. 69 illustrations. 8vo. Bound in cloth. Fine. unknown books
189522158Cleveland: Burrows Brothers 1895. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. cloth spine and decorated gray boards front cover lettered in red. Teg. Very good. 125 pages. 22 1/2 x 15 cm. A spectacular example of Arts and Crafts details and "more ambitious and successful than `When Hearts Are Trumps." Limited edition copy 107 of 600 printed by John Wilson on handmade laid paper. The type is Jenson in red and black with the former used for accents throughout. There are Kelmscott-style borders with the influence of Whistler Beardsley and Morris turned to Bradley's own use. BOMBACE A9. Interior contents clean and bright slight flaking to backstrip decorated end papers. Burrows Brothers hardcover books
187037262Newark 1870. 2pp. 5" x 7-3/4." Entirely in ink manuscript on lined paper and signed "Joseph P. Bradley." Munsell's name above the salutation covers The previously written name of Bradley. Very Good. <br/><br/> Bradley a Rutgers graduate was a highly respected New Jersey lawyer specializing in railroad and patent litigation. President Grant nominated him to the United States Supreme Court in early 1870 and he took his seat in March. He served until 1891. His Letter transcribed in full words in capital letters are underlined in the original suggests that Munsell certainly earned his fee for publishing the book discussed here. The book was 'The Centennial Celebration of Rutgers College June 21 1870: With an Historical Discourse. Delivered by Hon. Joseph Bradley.' It was printed in Albany by Munsell in 1870. Bradley had a scholar's attention to detail and wanted Munsell's work to reflect precisely Bradley's thinking. <br/> "You did not quite understand one correction made by me on the title page. That thing which I originally called an APPENDIX we propose to call a NOTE and say nothing about it in the title page - occupying the same place as it now does - at the end; - but under the name of a note instead of that of an appendix. Hence. Then we propose to call the account of the Centennial Exercises - AN APPENDIX. Now you will see the meaning of my correction on the title page. Calling the account of the Centennial Exercise by the name of an appendix my name as author of the Address could properly come AFTER the word 'Appendix' as you suggest. It would be better if it could. Perhaps even now my name had better come after the word "1870" immediately before the words " with an Appendix." I agree with you that it is more usual to have the name of the author down there.<br/> "Yours truly Joseph P. Bradley. unknown books
198217662NY: Alfred A. Knopf 1982. First edition first printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. xii876ivpp. Black cloth spine dark gray paper over boards both blocked in copper foil. A trace of sunning along the top and a touch of foxing on the top edge else a fine copy. The dust wrapper is not price-clipped and is also fine. Inscribed by the author in the title page: "For George". The author was involved with the Society for Creative Anachronism "SCA". In 1968 The East Kingdom was founded in the SCA; it was started by Elfrida and Walter of Greenwalls Marion Zimmer Bradley and her then husband Walter Breen. The Annotated History notes the following about the first Kingdom event June 2 1968 - AS III: "Held at the Cloisters New York City New York. A tourney was planned but it was rained out. Elfrida and Walter of Greenwalls were the seneschals and the autocrats." This copy is signed on the title page not on a plate or slip of paper pasted in. "Historical writing on a grand scale with all the magic conviction and resonance of ballad and ancient lore." - Barron ed Fantasy Literature 4A-48. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
190634946New York: Dodd Mead & Company 1906. First Edition. Illustrated throughout by Bradley. 166 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Original cloth backed pictorial paper boards designed by Bradley. Board edges show wear as usual some spotting to final leaveselse a Very Good Copy. First Edition. Illustrated throughout by Bradley. 166 pp. 1 vols. 4to. A CLASSIC. Bambace A68 Dodd, Mead & Company unknown books
189951352New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company 1899. First Edition. Octavo 21.5cm; black and gray illustrated paper-covered boards with title label at upper spine; 962pp; illus. Gentle sunning to spine and upper rear cover light wear to spine ends and board corners with minute board exposure to lower corners a few tiny stains to lower front cover and a tiny vintage booksellers ticket to lower rear pastedown; hinges sound and clean throughout; Very Good. <br/><br/>Attractive copy of this masterpiece of Art Nouveau book design and a key Will Bradley work. The title poem remains Crane's most searing indictment of war condensing the spirit of The Red Badge of Courage into a work of 32 lines. BAL 4083. Frederick A. Stokes Company unknown books
198220052NY: Alfred A. Knopf 1982. First edition first printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. xii876ivpp. Black cloth spine dark gray paper over boards both blocked in copper foil. A trace of sunning along the top board edge and a touch of soil to the top and bottom text edges else this is a fine copy. The dust wrapper is not price-clipped and is also fine. <br/> <br/>Inscribed by the author in the title page: "For Patrick". <br/> <br/>The author was involved with the Society for Creative Anachronism "SCA". In 1968 The East Kingdom was founded in the SCA; it was started by Elfrida and Walter of Greenwalls Marion Zimmer Bradley and her then husband Walter Breen. The Annotated History notes the following about the first Kingdom event June 2 1968 - AS III: "Held at the Cloisters New York City New York. A tourney was planned but it was rained out. Elfrida and Walter of Greenwalls were the seneschals and the autocrats."<br/> <br/> This copy is signed on the title page not on a plate or slip of paper pasted in. "Historical writing on a grand scale with all the magic conviction and resonance of ballad and ancient lore." - Barron ed Fantasy Literature 4A-48. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
17625037London & York: W. Bristow and C. Etherington 1762. Hardcover. Good. 6 of 8 352 pages; possibly lacking a half-title otherwise complete. 12mo contemporary sheep rebacked top of spine damaged endpapers renewed. Very scarce. First published in 1727. ESTC locates only the Bodleian Library copy of this edition. <br/><br/> London & York: W. Bristow and C. Etherington hardcover books
18991226088vo. New York: Frederick A. Stokes 1899. 8vo 96 pp. Gray paper. Original pictorial gray boards. Slight darkening to backstrip fine. § First edition of this classic of 1890s book design and illustration printed by Will Bradley hard to find in such good condition. The Turn of the Century #137: “this beautifully designed book unlike most of Bradley’s work has more than a tinge of the exotic as if admitting to a certain pictorial decadence parallel to the sophisticated disillusion of Crane’s verses.â€. BAL 4083. Frederick A. Stokes hardcover books
198217863NY: Alfred A. Knopf 1982. First edition first printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. xii876ivpp. Black cloth spine dark gray paper over boards both blocked in copper foil. A fine copy without the usual sunning. The dust wrapper is not price-clipped and is also fine. Inscribed by the author in the title page: to Ross Voyles. "Historical writing on a grand scale with all the magic conviction and resonance of ballad and ancient lore." - Barron ed Fantasy Literature 4A-48. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1861WRCAM53599Hampton Roads Va 1861. Pencil and wash sketch approximately 6 3/4 x 9 inches. Encapsulated. Upper left corner torn away obscuring manuscript ink annotation. Contemporary pencil annotation on verso. Light dust soiling and an occasional fox mark. About very good. A pencil sketch with watercolor shading depicting part of Fort Monroe Virginia drawn for potential publication in HARPER'S WEEKLY in October 1861 by Bradley S. Osbon freelance reporter and self-described "sailor of fortune" with his name signed on the lower left and on the verso. Osbon made several written and illustrated contributions to HARPER's WEEKLY including reporting on the construction of the ironclad Monitor also from Fort Monroe. The fort at the southern tip of the Virginia peninsula remained under Union control throughout the war and was used as prison for captured Confederate soldiers and as a refuge for fugitive slaves. unknown books
19061308086NY: Dodd Mead 1906. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. A first edition of one of the most imaginative children's books illustrated by Bradley with 26 full page color illustrations plus many in text color illustrations. This is a fantasy tale set in Toyville. Scarce. 4 to. cloth backed pictorial boards some edge corner and cover wear. Very good. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase. NY: Dodd Mead hardcover books
3749Large 5 x 11" proof illustration for one of Bradley's best images woman with baby in front of stylized Art Nouveau style trees. This scarce insert appeared in one of Bradley's famous "Bradley His Book" series but ours appears to be an oversized example with larger margins and thus a possible proof printing sent for review to Bradley or simply an off-strike during printing process. Nevertheless it is extremely rare and none found on the internet at the time of writing. Near fine. Most scarce. <br/><br/> unknown books
1895WRCLIT64105Cleveland: The Burrows Brothers Company 1895. Large octavo. Linen and printed pictorial boards t.e.g. others untrimmed. Endsheets and margins foxed spine extremities darkened otherwise a very good copy. First edition thus. One of 600 numbered copies printed on handmade paper. Copiously illustrated and decorated with plates initials and decorative borders by Bradley. An ambitious and important Bradley production described by his bibliographer as "a masterly synthesis of Beardsley Ricketts and William Morris ideals" BAMBACE A9 The Burrows Brothers Company hardcover books
185321764n.p. 1853. 1 vols. Image 9-1/2 x 12 inches; attractively gilt-framed with lettered French mat 17-1/2 x 19-1/2 inches overall. 1 vols. Image 9-1/2 x 12 inches; attractively gilt-framed with lettered French mat 17-1/2 x 19-1/2 inches overall. Original Drawing of Mr. Verdant Green at Cricket. A popular Victorian literary character was Mr. Verdant Green an Oxford Freshman hero of several books written and illustrated by a Midland vicar Rev. Edward Bradley 1827-1889 under the pen-name of Cuthbert Bede. Bradley had learned wood-engraving from no less than George Cruikshank but as Houfe notes "remained very much the amateur illustrating his own books.and others in a jolly and careless style." He also drew for Punch and "was one of the first illustrators to satirise photography."<br/><br/>This drawing jolly and careless shows two sketches of the hapless freshman unsuccessfully defending a wicket--the drawings appear in more finished wood-engraved form on pages 100-101 of The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green-- and a more formal portrait done in the year in which The Adventures first appeared thus making it an Oxford literary and cricket item all in one. Houfe British Book Illustrators p. 230 unknown books
17202131London: Printed for W. Mears at the Lamb without Temple Bar 1720. Three volumes bound as one. Thick octavos 71 136 290 2 pages. Third editions corrected. & 2 xv 124 pages. 2 leaves of plates. Illustrated in all with 11 engraved plates. Third edition corrected. New Improvements and the Kalendar were often found bound together as such. Bradley ca. 1688-1732 was an English botanist and gardener appointed to be the first Professor of Botany at Cambridge University a Fellow of the Royal Society and the first to publish a pineapple recipe in English. Fussell Old English Farming Books provides Bradley an entire chapter but only on the grounds that Bradley was the most prolific author of the period 1700-1730. Very good with all plates present rebound in modern half-calf with raised bands and ornamented compartments. Fussell page 108. Printed for W. Mears at the Lamb without Temple Bar hardcover books
18964955Springfield: The Wayside Press 1896. First edition. First edition. Original printed prospectus 10 1/4 x 5 inches one uncut folded folio sheet making four pages. Lavishly illustrated/decorated front cover by Bradley with lettering in red printed in red and black with decorations and examples of the upcoming Volume One Number One. April 1896. Very fine with no signs of wear. An extremely scarce important record of the greatest short-running decorative American printings by one of the top American book illustrator and designers at the Turn of the Century. P. 202 Bambace. The Wayside Press unknown books
17240000801London: W. Mears 1724. Contemporary calf. Very good. 4th Edition. 8vo 18.2 x 11.6 cm. Contemporary paneled calf with some wear; raised bands on later spine; gilt label; small patches to lower cover repaired; two ink spots on fore edge of text block; edges speckled red. Collation: xvi 63 64 viii 65-435 1-Bl ii 1-104 ii 36 7-Index 1-Corrigenda 2-Addenda 1-Errata 5-Cat. pp. 11 copper engraved plates. 8 folding. Text has light browning at head. <br />The organization of this series of tracts has continuous pagination with separate title pages printed in red and black. There is a fourth part The Gentleman and Gardener’s Kalendar where it is noted on the title page that this tract includes several “Acts of Parliament to encourage the Planting of Timber-trees Fruit-Trees and other Trees for Ornament Shelter or profit…” The last tract of this publication contains for the first time a copy of John Beale’s Herefordshire-Orchards A Pattern for all England. Written in and Epistolary Address to Samuel Hatlib Esq. “John Beale was a clergyman and writer on agriculture and natural philosophy. Beale began a weekly correspondence with Samuel Hartlib in 1656 two of his early letters being published as Herefordshire Orchards a Pattern for All England 1657. Nichols Lit. anecdotes 1.447.”ODNB. <br /> <br/><br/>Provenance: Engraved bookplate of Patrick Hume Earl of Marchmont on front paste down. He was a politician born at Redbares Berwichshire who served several English monarchs and Queen Anne. His coat of arms occupies the bookplate with motto “True to the King” along with description of his position as Viscount Blasonberrie and Lord Polwarth of Polwarth and Lord High Chancelor of Scotland. There is also a loose bookplate from Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt library tipped in. <br />This work contains the three different tracts that Bradley wrote on botany gardening and vegetable physiology from 1717 to 1718. In this 1724 fourth edition of the New improvements of planting and gardening there is addition of John Beale’s treatise on Herefordshire-Orchards. Henrey p. 437. Bradley was a Fellow of the Royal Society and in 1724 was elected Professor of Botany at Cambridge. ODNB <br /> W. Mears unknown books
185937179London: Printed for Private Circulation by Taylor and Greening 1859. 1st edition NCBEL III 830 & 1083. PRESENTATION copy from the author INSCRIBED at the top of the t.p. 'Edward Bradley / from the author". Late 19th C. 3/4 blue morocco binding with marbled paper boards & eps. Elaborate gilt decorated spine. TEG. Modest binding wear at extremities. Bookplate. A handsome VG copy. 15 1 blank pp. Binder's blanks at rear of volume. 8vo. 8-1/2" x 5-1/2" <br/><br/>The notorious quarrel between two of England's most popular authors began with Yates' critical review in Town Talk of Thackeray's English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century. Thackeray as might be expected was a bit affronted at what he viewed as a slanderous insult by this fellow member of the Garrick Club; believing much of Yates' information came from club meetings he took his grievance to the club committee. The committee sided with Thackeray and instructed Yates to apologize; Yates refused & was forcibly barred from club premises subsequently bringing charges against the club Secretary. Dickens absent from London as this brouhaha was brewing returned to find all in full force. He offered to mediate though primarily siding with Yates which Thackeray viewed as treachery. The ill feelings between the two did not abate for years until shortly before Thackeray's death in 1863. Herein Yates recounts the history & evidence of the disagreement with not unexpectedly a bias to his own case. This copy presented to Edward Bradley presumed to be the Victorian novelist who wrote under the pen name Cuthbert M. Bede. Known in Wise facsimiles cf Todd 425c the first edition as here just twice at auction in the last 30 years the last being 1977. A rare piece of Dickensiana; the first time we've ever been able to offer the item. Printed for Private Circulation [by Taylor and Greening] hardcover books
