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19205360171920. Hardcover. Near Fine. Oblong octavo 8 ½" x 5". Contemporary screw-bound black pebbled cloth covers. Contains 132 gelatin silver prints 3" x 4" including some gold toned neatly mounted on the rectos and versos of black paper leaves. Without captions or dates. Slight silvering at the edges of some prints else fine. A remarkable album of female nudes photographed by H.R. Cremer as goddesses and sprites. His images feature one two or three nude women in various subtle or striking poses taken outdoors in various gardens and wooded areas including lakes on open fields and hilltops and along an ocean coast. Among the models are several images of an Asian woman. Also included are six early studio portraits of individual female nudes.<br /> <br /> A third generation photographer based in Philadelphia and New York Cremer studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and first exhibited his photographs in 1924. Inspired by the Art Deco aesthetic Cremer incorporated Native American motifs Aztec and Maya as well as Greek and Roman mythology in his photographs of women.<br /> <br /> A beautiful well-preserved album in fine condition featuring Cremer's best work from the 1920s-30s. hardcover
1964131051Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1964. Draft script for the 1965 film based on the 1948 novel by Evelyn Waugh legendarily co-written by Terry Southern and Christopher Isherwood. Deluxe working script belonging to uncredited crew member William Todd Mason with his name and phone number in manuscript ink on the title page and some brief penciled annotations on three pages. Laid in is a corner stapled three-page Staff and Crew list with two name additions in manuscript red ink on the second page. <br /> <br /> Included is a vintage studio still photograph from the film. <br /> <br /> An early draft issued nearly two years prior to the film's October 1965 release with substantial differences from the finished film. <br /> <br /> The sister film to "Dr. Strangelove" and in the eyes of many just as much a masterpiece of exquisitely wrought black humor. Made in the US but in a dense British-American style. Ostensibly a satire on the funeral business in which a young British poet winds up in a Hollywood cemetery as part of an inheritance arrangement-but in reality a satire of Hollywood itself as well as the Western malaise of the mid 1960s. <br /> <br /> Script: Self wrappers presumably as this draft was issued. Title page present rubber stamped copy No. 70 dated July 21 1964 with credits for screenwriters Southern and Isherwood. 158 leaves mimeograph duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated 7-22-64. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with two gold brads. <br /> <br /> Staff and Crew listing: two leaves slightly worn with annotations on the second page. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
10245London. First edition first issue. Folding map with small tears not affecting printed map and 10 tinted lithograph plates mostly of indigineous people with illustrations in the text. Two volumes. Pp.vii 413 32 ads. dated March 31st 1851 ; vii 426. 8vo. original brown cloth spine repaired Cruising Association gilt cypher and stamp on the spines and boards.First edition of this account of a voyage to the Arctic regions in search Sir John Franklin's expedition by Sir John Richardson 1787-1865. Richardson studied in the medical department of the University of Edinburgh entered the navy as assistant surgeon in 1807 and was at the taking of Copenhagen. He was surgeon and naturalist to Sir John Franklin in his arctic expeditions in 1819-'22 and 1825-'7. He commanded one of the three expeditions to which this work is dedicated that went in search of Sir John Franklin in 1848 and returned in November 1849. Sir John Franklin b. 1786 had departed in 1845 with an expedition of 129 men on board of the 'Erebus' and the 'Terror' to find the northwest passage from the Atlantic to the Bering Straits. Nothing was heard from him again. No less then 40 expeditions were send out to find him. Many of these expeditions resulted in very useful geographical information: in 1850 for example the Northwest route was actually found by McClure. In 1859 the remains of the expedition were found at Cape Victoria proving that Franklin had died in 1847. In 1930 further remains were located in King Williamsland by a Canadian airman. The work includes a number of images of a sub-Arctic Athapaskan tribe the Kutchin whom Richardson visited in far northwest Canada in 1848. These published images and Murray's original drawings known to scholars only through photostats in the British Columbia Provincial Archives are the best early images of the tribe. Part two contains an appendix devoted to the physical geography climatology flora insects and vocabularies of the polar regions and concludes with an explanation of the two plates with leaves in the first part.<br><br><br><br>Sabin 71025. hardcover
1853144972London: Admiralty 1853. Notes: Folio 34cm one sheet folded 3 printed pages on pale blue stock paper a fine copy very rare. With regard to the Admiralty letters McGahern says "We found no standard references auction records or listings. They are not listed in WorldCat or Amicus. These letters are mentioned in George W. Corner's biography of Kane "Doctor Kane and the Arctic Seas" 1972 p116. 'From England he Kane received letters of advice and encouragement from the experienced Arctic travellers Sir William Parry Sir John Richardson Sir James Ross and Colonel later Sir Edward Sabine.' only reference located. </p><p>WorldCat shows one copy at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign as part of a collection of 3 items Richardson Parry and Sir John Ross sic: this should be James Clark Ross. Described as "Three letterpress copies of letters addressed to Sir Francis Beaufort hydrographer of the British Admiralty… The letters were presumably printed for distribution by the Admiralty each on blue paper bifoliate leaves." OCLC #1114338177.</p><p>In early 1853 Kane was preparing for the Second Grinnell Expedition and apparently he or the US Navy Dept. solicited advice on suitable equipment and technique from the British Admiralty. In response the Admiralty sent letters to several of the better known Arctic explorers of the time their replies being forwarded to Kane in printed form. These letters are filled with detailed suggestions regarding clothing with particular attention to feet fuel sledges tents travelling etc. McGahern Plimer Catalogue #375. 1853 Admiralty hardcover
98046London Longman 1851. . First edition. 2 volumes 8vo viii 413; vii 1 426 pp. 32 pages ads end vol. I 2 coloured lithograph frontispieces 8 lithograph plates folding coloured map handsome modern dark blue half morocco gilt old crease page vi vol. I original cloth sides bound-in at end neat restoration to outer edge first three leaves circa 3 mm a very good set.<br /> Richardson the noted naturalist accompanied Franklin on his first and second expeditions. The present work includes the journals of Richardson and Rae on the MacKenzie Arctic and Coppermine rivers in 1849. The appendix contains a comparative table of dialects spoken by the Eskimo. The book also contains one of the earliest listings of Canadian and Arctic plants.<br /> Arctic Bibliography 14489; Sabin 71025; Wagner-Camp 203:1; Hill 1452. London, Longman, 1851. hardcover
24059London: John Murray. 1828. First edition. First edition. 4to. Publisher's original red cloth with printed paper title label to the spine. Expertly re-backed with the original spine laid down to matching cloth. Page edges untrimmed. Publisher's prospectus for 'North American Views during the land Arctic Expeditions in 1819-1826 under the command of Captain Franklin' bound in at the front. Illustrated with 31 plates engraved by Edward Finden after drawings by George Back & E. N. Kendall with tissue-guards and six folding engraved maps one partially hand-coloured. A near fine copy the binding square and firm with fading to the spine and to the edges of the boards and with a touch of wear to the corners. The contents with some light scattered foxing to the preliminary pages and occasionally to thepage edges are otherwise wonderfully clean and bright throughout. The engraved plates are clean and crisp and the folding maps are in excellent condition with just a little toning remaining free from tears or damage. The first edition of Franklin's account of his second Canadian overland expedition which formed his third expedition to the Arctic. The aim of the expedition was to reach the mouth of the Mackenzie River from which Franklin would follow the coast westward and attempt to meet Frederick William Beechey who would sail northeast from the Bering Strait. Franklin's companion John Richardson meanwhile would follow the coast east from the Mackenzie to the mouth of the Coppermine River. After reaching Great Slave Lake using the existing known route Franklin took a reconnaissance trip 1000 miles down the Mackenzie becoming on 16th August 1825 the second European to reach its mouth. Here he erected a flagpole and buried letters for Parry beneath. Following this success he returned to winter at Fort Franklin on Great Bear Lake heading back downriver the following summer where he found the ocean frozen. He then worked his way west for several hundred miles giving up on 16th August 1826 at Return Reef when he was about 150 miles east of Beechey's Point Barrow and headed back to Fort Franklin reaching safety on 21st September. The present work contains both Franklin's and Richardson's narratives of the expedition and includes descriptions of the lands traversed the weather endured and the numerous encounters with the Esquimaux and Dogrib Indians. The six large handsome folding maps provide extensive cartographical detail of the expedition and the finely engraved plates wonderfully illustrate the experiences of its members. "The beauty of the typography is rivalled by that of the engravings each of which is a splendid specimen of art. Nine of these illustrations represent some incident in the intercourse of the explorers with the Esquimaux" Field. A splendid copy scarce in the publisher's original cloth. Hill 636; Arctic Bibliography 5198; Sabin 25628; Field 561. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers. London: John Murray. 1828 hardcover
1919135563Oxford: Wm. Hunt 1919. Mr. Richardson's main ideas appear to me true original and important" Russell First edition of Richardson's first and pioneering paper on the subject containing Russell's 20-line contribution "Problem: To Produce in Two Nations a Mutual Will to War" pp. 15-16. It was published at the author's own expense costing him £35 for 300 copies total. In this fifty-page essay the mathematician and pacifist Lewis Fry Richardson 1881-1953 developed a mathematical model for describing the change in animosity between two opposing sides during a war and "postulated that the rate of increase of the warlike activity of one nation depended on the current activity of the opposing nation" ODNB. "Russell had been impressed with the manuscript which Stanley Unwin had forwarded him although he thought that Richardson's subject required a more extended treatment and that he should 'eliminate dogmatic statements of his metaphysical opinions where they are irrelevant'. But otherwise 'Mr. Richardson's main ideas appear to me true original and important' 29 December 1918. Russell's 'Problem' was enclosed with this letter to Unwin with instructions that it be passed on to the author 'for his amusement'" Rempel & Haslam p. 405. Loosely inserted is a clipping from The Friend of April 7 1961 reviewing the posthumous publication of two volumes of Richardson's works; Arms and Insecurity and Statistics of deadly Quarrels. Quarto. Roneo typescript pp. 3 50. Original dark blue cloth-backed blue buckram boards printed paper label to front board. Ownership inscription dated 1919 to front pastedown with a typed letter signed loosely inserted returning the book to him. Spine ends worn and corners lightly rubbed Blackwell & Ruja B9. See Richard A. Rempel & Beryl Haslam's critical edition of Russell's Uncertain Paths to Freedom: Russia and China 1919-22 Routledge 2000 Appendix I. hardcover
183140977London: John Murray 1831. 4to. 27.5cm tall copy ix errata slip-xlxvi5231p. errata page with With 46 of 50 hand-coloured lithographed plates & 41 wood-engraved text illustrations rebound in later blue cloth black leather label the plates are clean and the colour is excellent. fine. ~ ~ Of the 4 volumes of Fauna Borealis Americana each covering a different subject Volume 3 THE BIRDS over the years was always considered the rarest of the single volumes. Complete sets in fine bindings are the rarest and most difficult to find in acceptable condition. <br /> <br /> Richardson was surgeon and naturalist with Franklin on his two overland expeditions to discover a Northwest Passage in 1819-22 and 1825-27 and these fine works are the chief scientific data collected. The Illustrations were drawn from specimens volume three being the artistic work of William Swainson the plates being hand-coloured. Richardson wrote most of the text and gives accounts of previous natural history investigations in the Arctic. Most of the species here recorded were then new to science. "To the publication of them the four volumes. the government made a grant of 1000 pounds. This may therefore boast of being the first zoological work published with the support of the British government". -Anker. Anker 493. Nissen 773. Zimmer II520. Casey A. Wood p537. Sabin 71026-7-8. T.P.L. 1454. Sitwell. Fine Bird Books 1700-1900. p135. John Murray unknown
176073880London:: Printed for J. Rivington R. Baldwin and 12 others 1760. Early edition. 19th c. dark blue straight-grain morocco. Lacking one engraved plate as noted. Tiny old ink name partially effaced from title; old signature practiced on the verso of one plate not visible on recto and ink calculations at the bottom margin of one page of text; neat repair to one torn leaf; some light spots and inoffensive soiling. Joints partially cracked; edges and corners quite rubbed; still sound. . 12mo. Engraved illustrated title page. Containing Two Hundred and Forty i.e. 230 Fables with a Cut Engrav'd on Copper to each Fable. The engravings were printed ten to a page and this copy is unfortunately lacking one of the 24 plates Plate XIII. . And the Life of Aesop prefixed by Mr. Richardson. Printed for J. Rivington, R. Baldwin [and 12 others], unknown
Biblio238PATRIOTIC & ECCENTRIC COLLECTOR OF AMERICANA RODE WASHINGTON'S CARRIAGE IN THE STATUE OF LIBERTY PARADE. 7 ½ x 9 ½ inches. Photograph by Oscar G. Mason. Very good condition with deep rich tones. Archivally framed. Born in England in 1812 Benjamin Richardson became an American citizen in 1839. In 1849 he came to San Francisco during the Gold Rush and he bought two waterfront lots at the first sale of real estate held in San Francisco. Richardson later sold these lots to the railroads for $400000 and moved to New York. One of the great eccentrics of his day Richardson was instantly recognizable by his waist-length flowing silvery beard and his 210-pound five feet six inch frame. The bearded eccentric tirelessly pursued and surrounded himself with relics of American history including Lincoln relics and Washington's carriage which he rode in the Statue of Liberty procession. This wonderful photograph shows Richardson and his great-grandson as they appeared in the Statue of Liberty Celebration parade. This photograph is accompanied by the sheet music of Richardson's song Uncle Ben's Liberty Celebration Song which used the photograph as an illustration. Benjamin Richardson
01915Londres Paris: Chez Jean Osborne Didot 1742. Virtue Rewarded - and Fully Told: The First Complete French Paméla"<br /> <br /> RICHARDSON Samuel. Paméla ou la vertu recompensée. Traduit de l'anglais. Londres Paris: Chez Jean Osborne Didot 1742. <br /> <br /> First complete edition first printing in French of Richardson's classic epistolary novel integrating his sequel Pamela's Conduct in High Life translated by F.-A. Aubert de la Chesnaye des Bois erroneously attributed to Abbé Prevost. Four twelvemo volumes 6 7/16 x 3 3/4 in; 165 x 94 mm. xxiii 1 271 1; 4 324; 4 298; 4 302 pp. Two leaves from the end of Volume III have been mis-bound into the last signature of Volume IV.<br /> <br /> Full contemporary French mottled calf with blind ruled border. The spine features five gilt-tooled raised bands separating six compartments with an unusual gilt floral tool of a lily with eight leaves and central annular dot within a double-fillet frame with foliate sprigs as corner pieces. Maroon spine labels lettered in gilt the Volume labels decorated with gilt roseates with lateral floral volutes above and below the lettering in gilt. Original French marbled endpapers. All edges stained red. Original green bookmark ribbons. Small oval stain 1 3/4 x 1 1/4 in. to upper board of volume four otherwise an absolutely stunning copy tight bright and clean inside and out.<br /> <br /> First complete edition in French of what is considered to be the first novel in English by the Father of the English novel Samuel Richardson the translation traditionally attributed to Abbé Prevost but later scholarship has shown it to be the work of François-Alexandre Aubert de la Chesnaye des Bois a defrocked Capuchin monk who was the compiler and author of many books including Lettres amusantes et critiques sur les romans en général 1743.<br /> <br /> Only nine complete copies are known to exist: the ESTC records only eight and NUC records one other. <br /> <br /> Richardson wrote Pamela 1740 at the suggestion of booksellers Rivington and Osborn. "The book was highly successful and fashionable and further editions were soon called for. Richardson felt obliged to continue his story not only because of the success of Pamela but because of the number of forged continuations that began to appear. Pamela Part II appeared in 1741" Oxford Companion to English Literature.<br /> <br /> "A translation of Pamela into French 4 vols. duodecimo with imprint 'A Londres chez Jean Osborne.M.DCC.XLII' was published shortly after the appearance of Vols. III and IV in English. The translator was the Abbé Prevost . It was offered for sale in France before Jan 12 1742 when fifty copies were seized from Guerin's. Apparently it was later sold with the tacit consent of the authorities. The price was six livres stitched" Sale Samuel Richardson: A Bibliographical Record p. 29.<br /> <br /> The correct place of publication Paris and publisher Didot was discovered in a leaf of ads from an incomplete copy at the British Library that lists various Didot publications for sale.<br /> <br /> An earlier translation of Parts I and II of Pamela appeared in 1741 in all likelihood by Chesnaye des Bois as well. "This French edition was published after the fifth English edition at the time when Richardson was begining to revise his text for the handsome octavo edition of the novel. According to the preface of the translator in Volume I Richardson furnished him with a small number of additions and corrections for the text" Ibid p. 16. And in the edition under notice the translation for the first two parts has been revised by Chesnaye de Bois per Richardson and the sequel has been translated for the first time.<br /> <br /> Sale 15n p. 29. Rochedieu pp. 279-80. Londres [Paris]: Chez Jean Osborne [Didot], 1742 unknown
334824New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston 1976. First Edition. 8vo. Brown cloth. Fine in fine yellow dust jacket. First Edition. 8vo. Incsribed on the half-Title: To Archie Cox with warmest regards and great Admiration Elliot."<br /> While serving as Nixon's Attorney General Richardson insisted on appointing Archibald Cox as Special Prosecutor for the Watergate break-in case. As Cox compiled damning evidence Nixon insisted that Richardson or his deputy William Ruckelshaus fire Cox. Rather than do so both Richardson and his deputy resigned leaving Solicitor General Robert Bork to fire Cox resulting in what came to be known as The Saturday Night Massacre. Richardson devotes an 11 page section of this book to the event. A terrific Watergate association. Holt Rinehart and Winston unknown
191993907Montgomery Alabama: National Publishing Company 1919. 1st and only edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Full page frontis portrait of Booker T. Washington photos index 617 3p. Original black cloth. 31 cm. Minor spotting on back cover. One text leaf has a chip in right margin. No jacket did it have one. An appealing copy of this scarce and rather lavish production -- probably the fanciest of the African American Who's Who volumes. National Publishing Company hardcover
1968147232Paris: Les Films Marceau 1968. Three Draft scripts for the 1969 film by three different screenwriters. <br /> <br /> From the estate of film producer Elliott Kastner whose best known credits include "The Long Goodbye" Robert Altman 1973 "The Missouri Breaks" Arthur Penn 1976 and "Heat" Michael Mann 1996.<br /> <br /> The first script is an undated draft script by screenwriter George Bluestone who previously adapted Winston Graham's 1967 novel "The Walking Stick" for the 1968 Eric Till film with copied annotations throughout striking adding and adjusting dialogue.<br /> <br /> The second is a Second draft script dated 1st April 1968 by novelist playwright and screenwriter Derek Marlow with copied annotations striking scenes or pages on nearly every page. Marlow said in an interview that he was asked by director Tony Richardson which book he'd like to adapt for a screenplay and Marlow suggested Nabakov's "Laughter in the Dark." Two or three months afterward Marlow received a call from Richardson asking him to write the adaptation. <br /> <br /> At the time Richard Burton was to star alongside Marianne Faithfull. Marlow then went to the US to promote his 1968 novel "Memoirs of a Venus Lackey" and upon his return to the UK found out a new screenplay by Edward Bond had been written and Burton and Faithfull had been replaced.<br /> <br /> The third is a draft script dated 24th June 1968 by Edward Bond. IMDB shows the filming date as starting June 1968 thus likely a draft used early in the production. The first half of the script to page 66 is on pink paper with the remainder on green paper with no revision date change.<br /> <br /> Based on the 1932 novel by Vladimir Nabokov updating the original 1930s Berlin setting to 1960s swinging London about a wealthy art dealer who is seduced and swindled out of his fortune by a young woman and her lover.<br /> <br /> Set in London and the Riviera shot on location in Spain France and the United Kingdom. <br /> <br /> George Bluestone script:<br /> <br /> Wrapper integral with title page with credits for screenwriter George Bluestone and author Vladimir Nabokov. 114 leaves with last page of text numbered 109. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads.<br /> <br /> Derek Marlowe script:<br /> <br /> Black wrappers with die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present dated 1st April 1968 obscured but visible through Winkast sticker noted as Second Draft with credits for screenwriter Derek Marlowe and author Vladimir Nabokov. 137 leaves with last page of text numbered 136. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two flat metal brads<br /> <br /> Edward Bond script:<br /> <br /> Black wrappers with die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present dated 24th June 1968 with credits for screenwriter Edward Bond and author Vladimir Nabokov. 110 leaves with last page of text numbered 108. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two flat metal brads. Les Films Marceau unknown
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1853678L17London: Chapman and Hall 1853. First edition. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 8" by 5". None. A smartly bound first edition set of James Richardson's narrative of his mission to central Africa. An association copy owned by the author's nephew. With an inscription to the title page 'A Goodsir nephew of author from Gertie'. It is believed this book was presented to one of the sons of Susanna Richardson and her husband Joseph Goodsir probably Alexander David Goodsir. This is one of two works written by Richardson of his travels the second being 'Travels in Morocco'. Half-title to volume I present. Additional half-title from volume II misbound before the preface to volume I. Pages v-vi has been misbound after vii-viii to volume I. Volume I has been rebacked with the original spine relaid. Illustrated with a folding map to each volume. This work regards the wildlife climate people customs and politics of Central Africa during Richardson's travels. His mission under the orders and at the expense of Her Majesty's Government was to propagate Christianity and suppress the slave trade. This was Richardson's second time in Ghat whereby he was accompanied by Heinrich Barth and Adolf Overweg. Though he succumbed to fever before reaching Lake Tchad. They were the first Europeans to cross the stony elevated plain of the Hammada. This work is formed of Richardson's notes and diaries posthumously. A very smart first edition copy of this uncommon work. In uniform full calf bindings. Rebacked with the spine laid down and boards preserved. Renewed spine labels. Externally very smart with light rubbing to the extremities and to the head and tail of spine. Handling marks to boards. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright. Scattered spots to the first and last few pages. Otherwise pages are clean. Very Good Indeed Chapman and Hall hardcover
1844A35042London: E.W. Janson printed by Edward Newman 1844-1848. viii 139 60 lithographic plates. . HB. 4to nineteenth century half morocco rubbed and a little worn to extremities raised bands gt aeg marbled endpapers. Some scattered foxing heavier to a couple of plates. With the bookplate and gilt crest to front cover of the General Assembly Library New Zealand. No stamps. Also with decorative bookplate of a later owner. Zoology of the voyage of the H.M.S. Erebus and Terror Vol. II Part 2 Ichthyology. The complete report concerning the fish specimens collected during Ross' voyage to the Antarctic 1839-1842 including species from Australia New Zealand Cape Horn the Falklands and elsewhere.The expedition of HMS Erebus and Terror to the Antarctic was under the command of Captain James Clark Ross 1800-1862. Francis Crozier was second-in-command Captain of HMS Terror. It was the first of the major Antarctic expeditions with the mission of conducting 'magnetic research and geographical discovery'. The natural history collections collected en route proved of lasting importance many being collected by the assistant surgeon and botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker 1817-1911. Page 15 records an amusing story; �When the ships were in the high latitude of 77�10�S. and long. 178�� a fish was thrown up by the spray in a gale of wind against the bows of the Terror and frozen there. It was carefully removed for the purpose of preservation and a rough sketch was made of it by the surgeon John Robertson Esq. but before it could be put into spirits a cat carried it away from his cabin and ate it. The sketch is not sufficiently detailed so � we have introduced a copy of the design merely to preserve a memorial of what appears to be a novel form.� It would be another 60 years before another specimen of this new species would be caught again.Fine lithographic plates of fish by W. Mitchell printed by Hullmandel & Walton. Also bound at the rear are the first 24 pages and 6 plates of the report on Insects 'Insects of New Zealand' by Adam White 1846 which includes species of stick insects and dragonflies new to European science collected from New Zealand and the Auckland Islands. A further part on insects pp. 25-52 plates 7-10 was published much later in 1874 but is not present here.The present volume comprises an important part of the scientific reports resulting from the expedition. The complete Zoological reports were published in 24 parts in 2 volumes over a thirty-year period and complete sets are extremely rare.BMNH Library Catalogue Vol. IV p. 1698; Nissen ZBI 3386; Rosove 270-8. E.W. Janson, printed by Edward Newman hardcover
1919190803London: Duckworth & Co. 1919. The tide of life had swept away leaving an undisturbed stillness a space swept clear First edition signed by the author of the the fifth instalment in Richardson's semi-autobiographical Pilgrimage series the first literary work to which the phrase "stream of consciousness" was applied. The phrase "stream of consciousness" was previously only used in psychological contexts. The writer and suffragist May Sinclair in a review of the first three Pilgrimage books appropriated it in her praise of the impressionistic style: "In identifying herself with this life which is Miriam's stream of consciousness Miss Richardson produces her effect of being the first of getting closer to reality than any of our novelists who are trying so desperately to get close" p. 58. Many other contemporary authors also expressed their admiration of Pilgrimage such as Virginia Woolf who claimed that Richardson invented "the psychological sentence of the feminine gender" p. 81. The series ran to 13 books in total. Octavo. Original blue cloth spine and front cover lettered and ruled in dark blue. With dust jacket publisher's cancel price sticker to spine. Spine sunned a little wear to head; jacket unclipped spine and panels toned small puncture to front panel occasional short closed tears and shallow loss to edges rear flap folds split at ends but holding: a very good copy in like jacket. May Sinclair "The Novels of Dorothy Richardson" The Egoist vol. 5 no. 4 Apr. 1918; Virginia Woolf "The Tunnel" The Times Literary Supplement 13 Feb. 1919. hardcover
191686362New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1916. First edition. Hardcover. Mild toning to margins but overall a very good copy in very good dust-jacket benefitting from some skilful restoration mostly to spine ends and folds. Very good. First US edition first printing. 8vo. Original blue cloth with printed title label to spine. Dust-jacket. The first US edition of the first book in the author's 'Pilgrimage' series including an introduction by J.D. Beresford. The author was an important innovator in the use of "stream-of-consciousness" and is increasingly viewed now as a key figure in literary modernism. Scarce in the jacket. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
1851144847London: Longman Brown Green and Longmans 1851. viii413; vii426 pp. Octavo. Two volumes. Original blindstamped brown cloth. Gilt title on spine. Joints have had a slight bit of professional restoration. This is the first issue binding. Coated yellow endpapers. 10 coloured lithograph plates including frontispiece in each volume Untrimmed. Top edges a bit dusty. Wood engraved illustrations in text and folding map partly coloured in outline opposite p.1 volume 1. The map is in very good condition and not rebacked. Occasional light foxing on the plates mainly on the margins. The text is generally very clean with a small amount of mainly marginal light foxing or browning. Overall a very attractive set with the fragile folding map in very nice condition. Both volumes with a near contemporary signature of Richard Norman on the top of the title. Arctic Bib. 14489. An account of the Franklin Search expedition led by Sir John Richardson and Dr. John Rae down the MacKenzie then eastward along the coast to the Coppermine River returning overland to Fort Confidence in 1848 and Rae's journey down the Coppermine in the summer of 1849. Includes chapters on the Eskimos Kutchin Cree and Chipewyan Indians. 1851 Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans hardcover
1760962Z5London: J. Rivington et al 1760. Leather. Fine. 7" by 4". None stated. A beautifully bound eighteenth century engraved collection of Aesop's renowned fables bound in half calf and housed in a cloth chemise and uniform slipcase. The Samuel Richardson edited edition. Bound by Eric Sweet a keen collector of private press and fables. He studied at the Brighton College of Art before moving to London to work as a lettering artist and typographer for advertising agencies later becoming the head of Birmingham School of Printing. Sweet's bindings are unique and striking reflecting the topics of the volumes in distinctive style.Illustrated with a monochrome copper engraved frontispiece and twenty-four monochrome cooper engraved plates each depicting ten engravings. Collated complete. Frontispiece incorrectly bound facing pp. xv. A charming collection of fables credited to Aesop a Greek storyteller and fabulist whose tales were characterised by the anthropomorphic animal characters. This collection includes two hundred and forty fables with an account of the life of Aesop by Samuel Richardson. Bound in modern quarter calf with marbled paper to the boards and a cloth chemise and slipcase. Endpapers and blanks renewed. Undated dated by copies held institutionally. Bound in modern quarter calf with marbled paper to the boards and with a cloth chemise and matching slipcase. Endpapers and blanks renewed. Externally lovely. Frontispiece bound before pp.xv. Bookplate of 'Eric Sweet' to the front pastedown. Internally firmly bound with washed bright pages and generally clean with only the odd spot. The slipcase has spotting. Fine J. Rivington et al hardcover
576328New York: Chinaberry Company 1971. Softcover. Near Fine. Playscript. Quarto. 5 78; 43 leaves. Mimeographed sheets printed rectos only tab bound in green leatherette wrappers with die-cut window to reveal title. A few light bumps and light stains on the wrappers very good or better internally fine. Hand written control number "34" on the title page. Eventually produced on Broadway as The Grass Harp the play ran for only seven performances. Very scarce presumably this was an early version with a working title. OCLC locates two variant copies one each at NYPL and Yale; this copy varies significantly from each of those copies with approximately 30 additional pages. Chinaberry Company unknown
181346621Paris: A. Belin 1813. Very good. Beautifully bound set of the works of the French playwright from the library of Frances Mary Richardson Currer who was among the most celebrated book collectors of her era. This set was once owned by Yorkshire coal heiress Frances Mary Richardson Currer 1785-1861 who built a celebrated library of some 20000 volumes. Contemporaries praised Currer's scholarship and taste as well as the rigorous organization and "choice condition" of her books. The bibliographer Thomas Frognall Dibdin called her a "book-genius" and remarked of her library: "I may fairly and honestly say that with the exception of Althorpe Chatsworth and Stowe I know of NO such collection of books situated in the country that can pretend to break a lance with it . The 'Collections' are nearly perfect." In 1820 and again in 1833 Currer issued a catalogue of her holdings widely viewed as "the model catalogue of a private library" DNB and sent copies to book collectors across England and Europe including members of the newly formed Roxburghe Club quietly asserting her place among them. This set is documented in the 1833 catalogue. Also known for her commitment to charitable causes Currer is obliquely noted as a "wealthy lady in the West Riding of Yorkshire" who paid off the debts of a new widower Patrick Brontë; scholars speculate that Charlotte Brontë's unusual pen name Currer Bell is a tribute to Frances Currer. A choice set once held by one of the great English book collectors of the Regency and early Victorian periods when the field of book collecting as practiced in the UK and US today began to cohere. 5 octavo volumes 8.25'' x 5'' each. Contemporary full blue calf raised bands elaborately gilt-stamped spines red goatskin spine labels triple-ruled gilt boards. All edges marbled marbled endpapers. Text in French. clxxii 297 1; 488; 486; 392; 310 pages. Engraved bookplate of Currer on front pastedown of each volume; ink gift inscription dated 1966 on fly leaf of each volume. Bindings with a bit of dryness and trace wear around joints; vol. I with ink stain at top joint of front board; some gatherings foxed and a few areas of marginal staining or spotting. Joints firm. Gilt bright. A. Belin unknown
184965728New York:: Pubilshed by William H. Richardson 1849. Third but actually fourth edition. publisher's illustrated wrappers. Some light use to the wrappers and a small chip to the bottom of the backstrip: a very attractive copy in original condition. 12mo. Plate 3 in this copy depicts the "Execution of Cannales A Mexican Chief" as in W-C:2 rather than "Battle of Sacramento" as in 137:3. Wagner-Camp 137:4. All editions are uncommon. With the 1849 ownership signature of Levi Ward Clarke "recognized head of the financial world" of Rochester New York who later served as Comptroller of Currency under Abraham Lincoln. Pubilshed by William H. Richardson, unknown
20172-0470659637Blackwell Pub 2017. Hardcover. New. 8217 pages. 11.50x11.00x17.75 inches. Blackwell Pub hardcover
