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199249470New York: Persea Books 1992. 1st Edition. Pale green glossy paper covers printed in white & black. Light wear Nr Fine. 78 2 pp. 9" x 6" <br/><br/> Persea Books unknown books
1884833951884. RICHARDSON Benjamin Ward. THE ASCLEPIAD: A BOOK OF ORIGINAL RESEARCH AND OBSERVATION 6 VOLUMES 1884-1889. London: Messrs. Longmans Green and Company 1884-1889. var pp. 8vo. olive green cloth stamped in gilt. Cloth and gilt lettering clean and bright interiors fine tight and clean. A fine set. Medical essays. Extra postage required. unknown books
3031ASPEN COLORADO -- LAND PROMOTION. Aspen in all seasons. Real estate development promotional photo album filled with inviting images of vacationers enjoying the historic Hotel Jerome the Four Seasons Club the Aspens Rodeo Grounds mountain climbing playing tennis and historic Victorian homes. Aspen CO: Walter Paepcke Aspen Skiing Company ca. 1950. 4to. 20 pp unpaginated thick card stock mylar-covered leaves title and typed list of images mounted on front pastedown w/ 20 original silver gelatin images tipped-in sized 7.75 x 9.4 in. and nearly all w/ photographer's stamps and pencil annotations verso. Original padded simulated brown calf comb-bound album spine rebacked minor bumping to corners very minor toning to fore-edges of title leaf on front pastedown still a VG exemplar. This splendid land promotion photo album offers an invaluable visual record of Walter Paepcke's post-World War II effort to remake Aspen Colorado into a kind of American Athens which united art ideas architecture music and outdoor leisure activities into a popular destination. At the urging of his wife Paepcke came to Aspen Colorado just after World War II and immediately saw the tremendous development possibilities and began buying prime Aspen CO Victorian homes secured a 25-year lease on the historic Jerome Hotel and the Wheeler Opera House and organized the Aspen Skiing Company to build and operate the hotels restaurants and develop the ski industry. In 1949 he founded the Aspen Institute and by 1949 made Aspen the site for the 200th anniversary of the birth of Johann Wolfgang Goethe. The celebration featured such attendees as Albert Schweitzer Jose Ortega y Gasset Thornton Wilder and Arthur Rubinstein. These images include a birds-eye view of Aspen and Red Mountain the Hotel Jerome Lobby Dining Room mountain climbing horseback riding swimming in the Four Seasons Club an informal rodeo at the Aspen Rodeo Grounds and even restored Victorian homes. Most of these promotional images were taken by several famed Western photographers. These include Ferenc Berko 1916-2000 who while teaching film & photography at the Chicago Institute of Design was invited by Paepcke to photograph the Goethe Bicentennial and enamored with the stunning vistas relocated to Aspen where he began promoting and documenting Aspen's growth as a cultural and leisure community; Fritz Kaeser 1910-1990 world-renowned Aspen CO ski photographer trained with Ansel Adams served with the 10th Mountain Division during World War II and later operated the Aspen Photo Gallery/Studio that became the Mother Lode on Hyman Ave. ; and Loey Ringquist 1919-2006 who first came to Aspen in 1949 and began her career with Patrick Henry at the Aspen Tintype Studio and whose beautiful images included the mountain passes ghost towns abandoned mines wildflower meadows and other areas around Aspen. See: Mark Seal For Love of Aspen Vanity Fair Jan. 23 2014; Ferenc Berko The Ferenc Berko Collection Biography Aspen Colorado 2017 ; Tim Willoughby Fritz Kaeser -- Roch and rocks The Aspen Times July 28 2010; Loey Ringquist Obituary The Aspen Times Nov. 22 2006. unknown books
198719907Sydney: Golden Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1987. Hardcover. 0855589140 . Color photographs throughout by Robbi Newman. A later printing. Front free endpaper has been removed else near fine in a near fine minor edge wear dust jacket. . Golden Press hardcover books
1929263161Haverstock Hill Hampstead London 1929. One page in ink on a bifolium letterhead. 12mo. Fine. One page in ink on a bifolium letterhead. 12mo. Winner of the 1928 Nobel Prize in Physics. Owen Willans Richardson 1879-1959 was a leading British physicist and winner of the 1928 Nobel Prize in Physics who 'kept a good table and a well-stocked cellar wherein whisky was drawn from the wood" ODNB. He accepted his prize during the 1929 ceremony.<br/><br/>Attractive autograph letter from the Nobel laureate to Alfred Eisenstaedt thanking him for photographs of the Nobel award ceremony in Stockholm and providing an address for 1929 Nobel laureate in medicine Frederick Gowland Hopkins discoverer of glutathione. unknown books
1872170118Washington D.C. 1872. unbound. 4 pages front and back with each two-page spread measuring 10 x 16 inches marked "Private" Washington D.C. April 12 1872. Rare letter by the American politician and negotiator to the former Confederate States of America Treasurer Tyler in preparation for Richardson's successful trip to Geneva to obtain damages from Great Britain letting Tyler know of a Judgeship opportunity available to him by the means of Richardson's resignation in part: ".In any article that is written in the newspaper perhaps it will be well to state the fact of the immediate cause of my resignation the desire of Secretary of the Treasury Boutwell to have me manage the refunding of the national debt after my successful operation of the hundred million negotiation in London.Now I hope you will be my successor and you must attend to it immediately and persistently." It has long been speculated that the job opportunity and Tyler's assistance to the government were linked and crucial to the successful outcome of the Alabama Claims Commission.<br/><br/> unknown books
187125699Baltimore Maryland : Richardson & Bennett 1871. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. Bendann Brothers. Bendann Brothers. First Edition. 562 pages separately engraved title page noting illustrations are by Bendann Brothers. 4to. 3/4 leather over pebbled cloth covered boards. Illustrated with sixty two tissue protected photographic unsigned portraits of luminaries fifty-one from life the balance copyprints after paintings or engravings. The photographs are in excellent condition strong and rich. Gilt ruling and decoration on raised bands on spine. Overall minor wear to extremities. Where leather rubbed toned to match. Page edges tinted red. One front endpaper with inked previous owner names and past purchase date. Small chip missing from front marbled endpaper occasional corners turned from past readers with bad habits. Seven pages noted with a few words underlined. No doubt the publisher's trade edition the deluxe edition which we've also owned had facsimile signatures underneath each portrait and a deluxe binding. Cloth. The first 146 pages are a historical sketch of the area by Brantz Mayer titled "Baltimore As it Was and As it Is: A Historical Sketch of the Ancient Town and Modern City from the foundation in 1729 to 1870; Compiled and written from Authentic Materials.". The second section is titled "Biographical" and provides biographical sketches and in many cases photographs from life of those worthy of inclusion. John W. Woods printer. Richardson & Bennett unknown books
1979100745.1Baltimore Md: Baltimore Museum of Art 1979. Softcover. G No dust jacket; white cover has some scuffs and aging as well as a distinct fold at one corner; interior is clean. White illustrated wraps. 219 pp. Profusely illustrated in color and bw. Issued in conjunction with an exhibition of these works by American abstract expressionist Barnett Newman 1905-1970. With lengthy essays bibliographical information a complete list of exhibitions etc. Large crisp plates. Baltimore Museum of Art paperback books
1994Embry 197072St. Martin's Press 1994. First U.S. edition. Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. St. Martin's Press, 1994. First U.S. edition. unknown books
196397664Hamden CT: Archon Books 1963. cloth. tall 12mo. cloth. ix 176 pages. Reprint of the 1914 first edition. Gives a lot of information on the evolution of libraries. Archon Books unknown books
198848382London:: Victor Gollancz. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1988. Hardcover. 0575042184 . The author's second mystery. First British edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Victor Gollancz, hardcover books
1968116422London: Faber and Faber 1968. Octavo boards. First edition. Sixteen stories by Julian Symons Patricia Highsmith Eric Ambler Cyril Connolly and others plus poems by Maurice Richardson. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #116422 Faber and Faber unknown books
198950652New York: Viking Kestrel 1989. 1st Amer. ed. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. dj. Text moderately browned. <br/><br/> Viking Kestrel hardcover books
1867106342<p> 8vo original cloth illustrated 572 pp. Binding shows some moderate wear and top hinge is weak. Tape repair to front endpaper rubber stamp and owner signature on front endpaper normal aging; otherwise very good. Many illustrations including an illuminated title page by Thomas Nast. Text and illustrations try and give a feel for life on the prairies mountains and the Pacific Coast. Richardson presents views of Indians trappers pioneers and some of the curiosities of the western territories in his work. </p> books
18671004748vo original cloth illustrated 572 pp. Binding shows some moderate wear and top hinge is weak. Also some moderate toning and foxing. One illustration is detached. Many illustrations including an illuminated title page by Thomas Nast. Text and illustrations try and give a feel for life on the prairies mountains and the Pacific Coast. Richardson presents views of Indians trappers pioneers and some of the curiosities of the western territories in his work. American Publishing Company, books
196397666Hamden CT: Archon Books 1963. cloth. small 8vo. cloth. xvi 252 pages. Reprint of the 1914 first edition. Illustrated. Archon Books unknown books
2004111255Munich: Langemann and Langemann 2004. Softcover. VG As new. Plain blue wraps; White illus. dj.; 87 pp.; 100 color and bw figures. Text in German; An overview of the collection at the Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum in Braunschweig; Includes works by Lucas Cranach Johann Heinrich Roos Jan Vermeer van Delft and others. Langemann and Langemann unknown books
198939462Winchester: St. Paul's Bibliographies 1989. cloth dust jacket. 8vo. cloth dust jacket. xii 372 pages. First edition. This index provides references to over 700 British and American books periodicals and exhibition catalogues that make it possible to find about 4000 different photographs and works of art relating to Bloomsbury and the Bloomsbury group including portraits sketches and photographs of people places and things. The iconography also references their books and homes ancestors and close friends including 34 pages devoted to Leonard and Virginia Woolf. The annotations chiefly in the form of quotations from published diaries letters and other books help settle dates identify places and occasions evoke emotional overtones and reflect the personality of artist or sitter. The various indices of artists locations and photographs which accompany the general index help make the book easy to use. St. Paul's Bibliographies unknown books
1997235452London: Porcupine Press & Socialist Platform Ltd 1997. Paperback. 318p. wraps very good condition. Revolutionary history volume 6 no. 4. Porcupine Press & Socialist Platform Ltd paperback books
1992238865London: Socialist Platform 1992. Magazine. 160p. paperback bookseller's sticker on cover otherwise very good. Revolutionary history vol. 4 no.3. Summer 1992. Socialist Platform unknown books
199288300London: Socialist Platform 1992. Magazine. 160p. wraps creased minor internal creasing and wear else good condition. Revolutionary history vol. 4 no.3. Summer 1992. Socialist Platform unknown books
1947018070London: Cassell 1947. First Edition. 12 38 plates three of which are colored. The cloth cover of St. Paul's through the ruins of Bow Church Windows which are all that survived in that raid. The drawings include the destruction of the such buildings as the Royal College of Surgeons St. Thomas Hospital Charterhouse color the ruins of St. James Piccadilly The Record Office and many others. Cassell unknown books
291231Hale Publishing. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. The dustjacket has some chipping to the top of the front panel. It is now protected with a new mylar cover. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket. Hale Publishing unknown books
1989URICBOO01ECVictor Gollancz Ltd. 1989. Fine. Richardson Robert. Book of the Dead Sherlock Holmes content. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd. 1989. 192pp. 12mo. Black paper covered boards. Signed by author. Book condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Victor Gollancz Ltd. hardcover books
198948145London:: Gollancz. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1989. Hardcover. 0575045000 . First British edition. Very near fine in like dust jacket. . Gollancz, hardcover books
