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2011107515Mansfield Centre CT: Martino Publishing 2011. paper covered boards. Philately. small 4to. paper covered boards. xi pages 924 columns 250 pages. Reprint of the 1911 first edition being volume seven of the series of books describing this library. This uncommon bibliography of the literature of stamp-collecting is divided into two parts: 1 authors and titles 2 periodicals. The collection was part of the famous Bibliotheca Lindesiana. Of the several thousand noble libraries founded in family houses throughout the British Isles in the last three or four hundred years only a few dozen or so may be said to have achieved a lasting public reputation. Among them the Bibliotheca Lindesiana is distinguished not only because of the remarkable collection formed but because its dispersal began ninety-five years ago and it no longer exists. In all over 8000 printed items are described. Martino Publishing unknown books
194464016New York: Limited Editions Club. Very Good. 1944. Hardcover. THE ESSAYS OF FRANCIS BACON. With a New Introduction by Christopher Morley. New York: The Limited Editions Club 1944. This is copy number 880 of 1100 Planned by Bruce Rogers and Signed by him on the colophon. 190 pages unopened the Monthly Letter is laid-in. Blue cloth with gilt patterned paper covered boards and gilt printing to the spine. This is a clean nice fresh copy in the original glassine wrapper and clamshell box with some toning/soiling to the spine. . Limited Editions Club hardcover books
180740830London: Printed for J. Johnson and 20 others 1807. Small 12mo pp. xv 216; engraved frontispiece 8 plates; contemporary tree calf gilt lettered spine ex-Hill Library will usual markings extremities rubbed hinges reinforced with modern cloth endpaper edges toned interior fine. <br/><br/> Printed for J. Johnson [and 20 others] hardcover books
185058008London: William Pickering n.d. 1850. 12mo pp. 2 323 1; architectural title page printed in red and black; full straight-grain black morocco by Henderson & Bissset gilt-paneled spine in 6 compartments gilt-lettered direct in 1 sprinkled edges; extremities and joints rubbed else very good. <br/><br/> William Pickering, n.d. unknown books
1996153125Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou 1996. First edition. Softcover. 335 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran June 27 through October 14 1996. Text in French with contributions by Robert Melville John Berger Sam Hunter Stephen Spender John Russell Lawrence Alloway Lawrence Gowing and many others. Includes numerous color and black and white illustrations with a number of gatefold plates. A near fine copy in wrappers with some very slight wear. Centre Georges Pompidou unknown books
194485618New York: Limited Editions Club 1944. Hardcover. Near Fine. ix 190p. Cloth. Green clamshell case. 33cm. Uneven browning and a little wear on the clamshell. Copy no. 621 of an edition limited to 1500 copies and signed by Bruce Rodger. <br/><br/> Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1998158472New York: Tony Shafrazi Gallery 1998. First edition. Hardcover. 92 pages. Includes essays by David Sylvester Sam Hunter and Michael Peppiatt. Includes numerous color images of works by Bacon as well as photographs by John Deakin. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. A lovely copy. Tony Shafrazi Gallery unknown books
19051273Boston: The Society Americana 1905. 8vo. Frontis. 63 1 blank pp.; 7 plts. 2 double-spread. <br><br>Massachusetts series volume one." This is a digest of Massachusetts press items to 1783 containing matters of historical interest. The plates include facsimiles of Massachusetts newspapers and portraits of important figures e.g. Increase Mather. Good. In printed wrappers. Wrappers soiled with front wrapper and frontispiece detached; partially unopened and untrimmed. The Society Americana unknown books
1967WN59091New York: Viking Press 1967. Original black cloth gilt. Jacket has small tear at top of upper fold and a little wear and small tears on top edges. Boldly signed by author. The author is known for his part in the Philadelphia city planning renaissance and was a managing director of the Philadelphia Housing Association. Of particular interest to the author is the ability of people to move within the eity both as pedestrians and as motorists. Native to Philadelphia his work for the Housing Authority of the city stressed the elements of William Penn's "Greene Countrie Towne.". Signed By the Author. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Fair. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall. Trade. Viking Press Hardcover books
197026901Torino: Galleria Galatea 1970. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Tall stiff bound wrappers. An unpaginated catalog from a 1970 exhibition of Bacon's works in Torino Italy. Text in Italian by Tommaso Chiaretti. Seven color and one black and white plate. Bookplate of Elaine Graham Weitzen afixed to the title page else a clean very good example. Galleria Galatea paperback books
18904277glNew York: Walbridge & Co. 1890. First Edition. Octavo gilt-decorated brown cloth hardcover xi 243 pp. Photos. illus. Very Good; few cover speckles endpapers a bit toned. Walbridge & Co., 1890. First Edition. hardcover books
18971322291Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company 1897. Hardcover. 12mo; pp 419; Good; green spine with gilt text; no jacket; cloth has modest wear to exterior; mild smudges to panels; sturdy boards; text block shows slight age toning to exterior edges; some minor chipping to fore edges of first and last few pages; broken hinges; pouches with maps adhered to pastedowns; illustrated;. covering thirty-six cities and towns parks and public reservations within a radius of twelve miles from the state house. 1322291. FP New Rockville Stock. Houghton, Mifflin and Company hardcover books
1904WRCLIT73548New York: Printed for Dodd Mead & Comp'y 1904. 12mo. Full chocolate brown calf raised bands gilt label t.e.g. Small bookplate. extremities rubbed but a very good copy. One of sixty copies printed on Imperial Japan paper in addition to 940 copies on regular paper. Printed for Dodd, Mead & Comp'y hardcover books
1889Embry 196850Oxford 1889 Second edition corrected and revised. Library pocket at rear small stamp to front pastedown faint numerals to spine still very good with hinges firm and internally clean in custom mylar cover. Brown cloth titled in gilt. Oxford, 1889, Second edition, corrected and revised. hardcover books
1870WRCLIT65467Lyon & Paris: H. Pélgaud Fils et Roblot 1870. Two volumes. Handsome half calf and marbled boards original wrappers bound in. New edition first published posthumously in 1836. Spines a trace darkened else very good or better. H. Pélgaud Fils et Roblot hardcover books
1928011452London: G. W. Bacon & Co 1928. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Undated but neat previous owner inscription on cover sates "purchased July 1928". Near fine no apparent signs of use. 36 panel folds out to aboout 38" x 29". Green cloth covers with 24 page text titled "Strangers' Guide to London" which includes detailed street index. A collectible copy. G. W. Bacon & Co hardcover books
1918175415Grand Forks ND: the author 1918. Pamphlet. 96p. staplebound wraps paper evenly toned otherwise very good. Cover title: "The Farmer and Townleyism: Carry the truth to the people." Polemic against A.C. Townley the founder of the National Non-Partisan League. the author unknown books
191956572Grand Forks ND: the author 1919. Pamphlet. 68p. wraps closed edge tear on front cover paper evenly toned otherwise very good. On A.C. Townley the founder of the National Non-Partisan League. the author unknown books
1909711New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1909. First edition. First edition. Olive fine grain cloth with cover stamped design in yellow orange and black by Clara Elsene Peck lettering in yellow orange and white printed paper label on spine. Frontispiece and four other full-page tinted plates by Peck. Near fine. <br/><br/> Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover books
192325120New York: D. Appleton and Company 1923. First Edition. 12mo 18.5cm.; original cloth in black and tan striped dust jacket; vii113713ads. A few short closed tears along jacket extremities none affecting text else a Very Good copy in the scarce dust jacket. D. Appleton and Company unknown books
17756BACON Leonard. Autograph Letter Signed. Two pages on personalized stationery to Leonard Kennedy no year but dated Feb. 9. "Thanks for your learned but brief epistle. The great Sir John certainly left nothing to be desired." Discusses forwarding a signed book and seeing Kennedy soon. Also urges him to read Parker's "A Thousand Years of the Tartars". "It will give you new ideas about China if you haven't." Also "What a remarkable record the city of Buffalo has achieved." $75.00. <br/><br/> unknown books
1930140754New York: Harper & Brothers Publisher 1930. First edition. Hardcover. 129 pages. Number 25 of only 50 copies printed on Vidalon Velin. A fine copy in an about very good spine darkened dust jacket with some splitting along the spine in a near fine slipcase with publisher's printed label. Signed by Bacon on the limitation page and with an additional presentation by him on the front free endpaper. A very nice copy. Harper & Brothers Publisher unknown books
194049060Poughkeepsie NY: Vassar Coop. Bookshop 1940. First Edition. 4to pp. 124. With 141 illustrations. Tan cloth printed in red. Cover edges somewhat soiled o/w a VG tight copy. Vassar Coop. Bookshop unknown books
1928WRCLIT74356New York: The Intimate Gallery 1928. Printed broadside 28 x 21.5cm text on recto only. Near fine. First edition of this promotional broadside issued in anticipation of this exhibition held at Stieglitz's Intimate Gallery 27 March to 17 April 1928. The text prints a note by Stieglitz on the guiding principles of the gallery as well as a list of the previous ten exhibits. LOWE p. 434. The Intimate Gallery unknown books
199547072Milano: Charta 1995. First Edition. Quarto 28cm.; publisher's lavender pictorial card wrappers; 198pp.; illus. throughout many in color. Wrappers a bit shelf-worn and rather dust-soiled old price sticker to upper cover else Very Good internally sound. Catalog of a joint exhibition held at the Museo d'Arte Contemporanea. Bilingual text in Italian and English. Charta unknown books
