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18192041Boston: Printed and sold by Lincoln & Edmunds No. 53 Cornhill 1819. JUVENILE RELIGIOUS CHAPBOOK. 24mo 5" x 2 ¾"; 16pp final numbered page is rear of wrapper; front of imprinted wrapper woodcut vignette of 4 children standing before a seated woman and the Old Testament words "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy."; rear wrapper is numbered page 16 with a rhyming hymn and the word "Finis" in fancy ornament; publisher's string binding; small ornaments and decorations in text; age toned paper chipping of spine fold a few small ink stains; very good minus. Welch 1052.2. The contents include hymns from Watt's a poem and portions of an address to Sabbath School children and their parents given by the Rev. Dr. Dana to the "public meeting of the Sabbath Schools under the patronage of the Newburyport Sabbath School and Tract Society." Also included are excerpts from the address of Mr. Sharp from the General Meeting of the Sunday Schools of the three Baptist Societies in Boston in 1817. Printed and sold by Lincoln & Edmunds, No. 53 Cornhill unknown
1229620th century. 555 by 555mm. 21.75 by 21.75 inches. Map printed on cloth some spotting. Unusual map of the Isle of Man printed on cloth presumably as a souvenir "A Present From". The map shows the roads railways and topographical detail. It is surrounded by views of Kirk Braddan the Tower of Refuge the Laxey Wheel and the seafront. The two symbols of the Isle of Man the Manx cat and the triskelion of three legs joined together are shown at either end of the island. hardcover
17146033Oxford: The Theater 1714. Later printing. Hardcover. Very good . Octavo 62pp.; 206pp. Frontispiece to first volume. A clean brigh very good or better copy in later 19th or early 20th century 3/4 brown morocco and tan cloth. Later endapers. Binding gently worn but quite presentable and internally a very nice copy indeed. There is a somewhat whimsical typed letter dated 1938 in which a previous owner gifts the volume to another collector. Nice little taste of bibliophilic provenance. The Theater hardcover
23870London: The Argonaut Press. 1930. First English edition first printing. First English edition first printing. Signed by the editor. Numbered 282 of of 525 limited copies. Original quarter vellum with orange cloth-covered boards titles in gilt to the spine and a gilt motif to the upper board. Illustrated in black and white with a fold-out map a fold-out frontispiece and five further illustrations. A very good copy the binding square and firm the velum and cloth with some light discolouration the edges a little rubbed and a slight bump to the bottom corner of the lower board. Without the silk page marker. The contents with some offsetting and spotting to the endpapers are otherwise clean throughout. Signed by N. M. Penzer in black ink on the half title. The first English translation of an anonymous account of a Spanish 1792 expedition to what is now British Columbia describing the geography flora fauna and the indigenous people that they came across as well as an encounter with an English expedition led by George Vancouver. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers. London: The Argonaut Press. 1930 hardcover
18642165Boston: Taggard & Thompson 29 Cornhill 1864. JUVENILE ILLUSTRATED. Boston Stereotype Foundry electrotype.<br /> <br /> Reprint first printed by Taggard & Thompson in 1863. 32mo 4 ¼" x 3"; 48pp; glazed yellow pictorial boards printed in red and green a girl and boy reading a book on the front; rear board publisher's ad for "Popular Juveniles" including "The Martin & Nelly Stories" "The Summer House Series" and "My Uncle Toby's Library"; glazed yellow eps; engraved fp & pictorial title page; publisher's string binding; engraved illustrations throughout; light shelf wear to boards back joint split a few spots; very good minus. A bright and interesting child's book with many subjects but lessons of morality and religious instruction at the heart of all the stories. Taggard & Thompson, 29 Cornhill unknown
179612801London: J. Debrett 1796. Very Good. London: J. Debrett 1796. First Edition. Octavo; removed from covers; 490pp. A2 B-M4 N1 half title present. Some minor toning to textblock with a few cover remnants along spine else Very Good and sound.<br /> <br /> Oft-reprinted contemporary account of the ongoing conflict between Great Britain and France during the French Revolutionary Wars. <br /> <br /> ESTC 1257. J. Debrett unknown
1899u3190New York: McLoughlin Bros. 1899. "A was an Apple-pie; B bit it;." Classic pie-desire abecedary with b/w line drawings some with red tinting & accents. McLoughlin's 'New Little A.B.C. Series' their number 1125; the entire book printed on linen full color covers. Worn with some creases pencilled gift note on first page minor staining inside. 8 pages including the covers. Staple Bound Softcover. Good. 4½" by 6½". McLoughlin Bros. Paperback
18891993No place listed: No publisher listed 1889. EPHEMERA POETRY VICTORIAN GIFT BOOK LOVE TOKEN. ANONYMOUS. 7 ¼" x 8 7/8"; 5 leaves; stiff board with a calendar style easel backing easel back has pencil inscription "From Samuel Danforth 1889"; 3" x 3 ¾" booklet bound with a pink silk ribbon affixed to a 4 ¼" x 6" color printed card that is encircled by a twisted decorative cord; booklet has 5 leaves printed verso only; light soiling small chip to pictorial booklet onlay; very good plus. A lovely and unusual commercially produced Valentine or love token card with an easel backing for standing it up. Layers of decorative paper the outer one with deckle edging and folded corners is hand-lettered in gold ink with the words "Affectionate Regards." Blue and white twisted silk cording surrounds a layer printed with gilt branching. The small onlaid booklet contains a broken-hearted love poem. The last verse reads<br /> <br /> "Had we ne'er met sae kingly<br /> Had we never loved sae blindly<br /> Never met or never parted<br /> We had ne'er been broken-hearted.". No publisher listed unknown
19403870s.l. Pittsburgh 1940. Good. 7 glossy black and white prints on paper 3 3/16 x 4 1/2 inches on versos the paper numbered M001 M220 and M349. Some general wear creasing from handling soiling on versos one small tear. ODD CLAUSTROPHOBIC INNER-CITY VERNACULAR PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE 1940s. Depicted here are unnamed African-American neighbors and probably relatives assembled on brick streets against brick-walled houses. At least three of the photos were taken on the same street corner. A well-dressed man stands in front of a grocery store; one very young woman smokes; behind a wide-eyed girl wearing glasses and too-large sandals hangs laundry; another woman sits in a shadowy alley; three girls pose against a brick wall which exhibits faint graffiti behind them a contraption of some kind appears in the darkness for no reason; a stone step worn and sunken supports the feet of two boys in a doorway: on the sidewalk in front of them falls the shadow of the amateur photographer his fedora visible in the flawed negative. The photographer's subjects are often strangely positioned to one side; he has decapitated 1.5 heads; he has made the children squint and scowl uncomfortably; one woman smiles at the camera a bag of trash on the ground at her feet while her companion stares into a window. The several ghostly flaws to the negatives remove the viewer even further away from these lost moments. But not every photograph is claustrophobic: there is one of a forgotten family-outing at a hard-scrabble beach with radio towers and industry looming vaguely in the background. But we all know that the outing will be brief that they must soon return to the inner-city where perhaps there will live out the end of their days. The photographs were discovered in Pittsburgh and it is very possible that they were all taken there. At present we have only the emulsion and paper and thoughts of Temps Perdus. unknown
70861London: Henry Serventi Ltd. no date circa 1927. Hairstyles FIRST EDITION. Quarto 31 x 23cm 34 unnumbered leaves of captioned plates each with a tissue guard no text leaves. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt titles to upper. Also with a loose pamphlet: 'L'Oreal Guide for Harmless Hair Tinting' London: Debacq & Harrop in publisher's brown paper wrappers stapled twice. Light spotting and a few minor marks throughout with one tissue guard chipped and re-inserted and another creased and torn to one corner. Moderate general wear to cloth including some marks and stains. Good. A very scare publication showing French high-society hairstyles from the period of Henri III to the time of publication including the famous 'Marcelle Wave' from the late nineteenth-century. Only one copy listed on Library Hub at the University of the Arts London. London: Henry Serventi, Ltd., no date [circa 1927] unknown
190161480N.p. Kilbourn Wisconsin ca 1901. Oblong octavo 6-1/2" x 9". Bound album of 17 mounted silver-gelatin photographs most 5" x 7" two smaller on heavy pasteboard mounts. Captioned but one; unsigned; apparently the work of a talented amateur or possibly a professional photographer see note below. Binding worn with losses at spine ends and corners; internally quite good though one photograph has fallen victim to the work of an infant graffiti artist fortunately working in pencil; the image is not entirely defaced; another image the first in the album is slightly faded and aged. Overall Very Good and apparently complete as assembled.<br /> <br /> Of the seventeen views eight are of the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo New York. The remainder but for one a view of Niagara Falls are scenes in Wisconsin which would appear to be the photographer's home. Though unsigned the work is of a constistently high quality printed from large-format negatives suggesting a talented and well-heeled amateur working with a view camera. The only place-name referenced other than the Exposition is Kilbourn Wisconsin a mill town on the Wisconsin River that changed its name to Wisconsin Dells in 1931. Kilbourn was the home of the celebrated photographer and publisher of stereoviews H.H. Bennett and the Wisconsin views herein bear a very strong resemblance - both compositionally and in terms of overall quality - to Bennett's work. But while it is tempting to attribute these photographs to Bennett the one biographical detail we have found in the album - an image captioned "Our Boys Playground" - positively eliminates Bennett from consideration; he had two young children at the time of these photos but they were both girls.<br /> <br /> Amateur 20th-century Exposition albums filled with small-format tourist snapshots are abundant as are published views by professional photographers. But we have seen very few examples like this one: a hand-assembled album of exceptional well-printed views intended only for private consumption.<br /> <br /> The photographs are all but one hand-captioned in ink as follows: <br /> <br /> 1. "Court of Fountains" Pan American Expo<br /> 2. "The Narrows of the Wisconsin River"<br /> 3. "The Old Mill at Kilbourn Wis."<br /> 4. "Streets of Venice Pan Amer. Exp." <br /> 5. "Down the Lagoon" Pan American Expo<br /> 6. "Triumphal Bridge from Illinois Building" Pan American Expo<br /> 7. "Niagara above the Falls"<br /> 8. "Ohio and Illinois Buildings Pan Amer Exp." <br /> 9. "On the Wisconsin River"<br /> 10. "Our Wisconsin Farm Buildings"<br /> 11. "On the Pan Amer. Exposition Grounds"<br /> 12. "Temple of Music where President McKinley was Shot"<br /> 13. "The Midway Pan Amer. Exp."<br /> 14. "On Littler's Creek"<br /> 15. "The Jaws of the Dells of the Wisconsin" with view of The Dell Queen a tourist steamboat<br /> 16. Uncaptioned <br /> 17. "Our Boys Playground unknown
195118181Algiers: Literary Guild. 1951. Softcover. Good. Glassine wraps bit torn. Boards with brown spots. Hinges weakening ; A forerunner of a coffetable book in its original glassine wraps. Full page photogravures with multi language legends for the pictures ; 8vo . Literary Guild paperback
74972Oxford : Printed at the Clarendon Press by J. Cooke and S. Collingwood printers to the University; and sold by E. Gardner 1820. Church of England Liturgy FINE CONTEMPORARY BINDING. Quarto 32 x 25cm pp.4 192 4. Bound in straight-grained brown full morocco with raised bands gilt titles and elaborate decoration in gilt and blind to spine and boards. 'Brunswick Chapel St. Mary-Le-Bone 1824' stamped in gilt to upper. All edges gilt with brown-coated endpapers. Central gathering on Communion proud and heavily browned worn and stained presumably from long-continuous use. Sections referring to 'George our King' have been crossed through in black ink and replaced with 'William' and later 'Victoria'. Gently toned throughout with an incense scent. Wear to joints and scrapes to boards have been carefully re-coloured and toned-in. Moderate general wear to binding. Good. Oxford : Printed at the Clarendon Press by J. Cooke and S. Collingwood, printers to the University; and sold by E. Gardner, 1820 unknown
40620n.p.: n.p. 1990. Very good plus. Stunning and extensive collection of original artwork album covers and two lengthy reference books - all describing a vast imaginary world of 20th century rock-and-roll that never existed. Introducing the auto-fanfictive outsider art of The Indoor Kid - a Henry Darger of Greil Marcuses Syd Barrett of Daisy Ashfords Robert Christgau of Richard Dadds - who fell through the pages of ten thousand music magazines into a wonderland of his own making. The anonymous creator hereafter The Artist fashioned an entirely fictitious musical universe. From dozens of albums drawn and collaged over actual LPs as well as what might perhaps best be described as concept art for those albums to extensive accompanying commentaries whose tone owes a great deal both to zines of old and the once-popular Encyclopedias of Rock the impression is one of carpeted suburban bedrooms and children longing to escape both backwards into lost decades and forwards into the autonomy and sexuality of imagined adulthood. The Artist's mock-authoritative assertions of judgment and offhand omniscience speak of a child raised by a stacks of ROLLING STONE and CREAM in lieu of the foundling's traditional pack of wolves. His major fascinations - psychedelia the particular flavor of British whimsy that preceded it and hippie-tinged heavy metal of the Zeppelin-Black Sabbath era- are all in line with this lineage and with the character of the solitary late-'80s adolescent.<br /> <br /> THE DREAM OF FAME BEATS FAME ITSELF:<br /> <br /> The Artist's record collection most immediately calls to mind the work of Mingering Mike the D.C.-based self-made recording artist who constructed scores of fake albums by "unheard artists such as Joseph War the Big 'D' and Rambling Ralph on labels such as Fake Records Inc. Decision Sex and Mother Goose" Hadar. Discovered at a flea market in the early 2000s Mike's work found instant cult and early online fame. The present collection however can be dated with a great deal of confidence to the mid-late 1980s through perhaps the very early 1990s from the issue dates of the original repurposed albums as well as triangulating particular contemporary references coupled with certain early laser-print fonts. Thus while it is almost certainly impossible that the one could have influenced the other the similarities of technique imagination and single-minded dedication in their respective oeuvres are striking. <br /> <br /> Their art styles however are highly individuated. Though both may be placed under the broad umbrella of outsider art our Artist abhors a vacuum; he does not have Mike's appreciation of negative space. Lacking any formal skills or apparent training and with a representational style much younger than his assumed years he works in blasts of color in layers of collage and pen and children's marker in puns and allusions and call-backs both verbal and visual. And whereas Mingering Mike's invented record labels and bands lent verisimilitude to his own fantasied career in which he was the star The Artist is self-effacing to a fault. His dream is pure and strange. Not so much the protagonist of this created world but its chronicler publicist. In short that most reviled and necessary of creatures: the rock journalist. <br /> <br /> "OPIUM: ONE OF THE MOST POTENT DRUGS. NOW THE NAME OF A NEW ROCK AND ROLL BAND."<br /> <br /> Clearly a deep reader if only of music journalism the artist scatters little gems in the corners. Little clusters of mini-trends pop up in band names: the exquisitely named Sand Witch Witch-ita Falls Witching Hour and Witches Comettee sic; Mezzanine Anecdote and The Syntax Man; Tar-O and the O-CULT Band. Elsewhere there's a knowing nod to the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band clearly a source of inspiration; a song called "Austin Osmanspare" described as a "creepy tale of a black magic practitioner"; a reference to vocals vocals! like H.P. Lovecraft. Well-versed in the style of Bangsian word-omelettes "a sound full of ponderous organ pounding plodding rhythms screaming operatic vocals fast blitzkrieg-Bach-inspired guitar runs" some of the song titles are undoubtedly jokes on purpose: "Who When And Where Is Our Love Machine" "Soldier Sentry Squabbie Cockleshell Army" "666 All in the Name of Satan" Death Banquet's "Let Me Bludgeon You" followed by "No No No Don't Break The China" and the magisterial "Surrender Your Arms Sexual Metaphor." <br /> <br /> Meanwhile the real world does exist but is kept resolutely peripheral: nods to Timothy Leary praise from George Harrison glowing comparisons to Ozzy Osbourne and sneering ones to Michael Bolton creep in. Occasionally a deep-cut cover appears like "Magic Handkerchief" Bown/Bannister always scrupulously attributed. In a stroke of crossover genius one of the two encyclopedic notebooks explains that the imaginary band Iron Maiden had to change its name when the other real Iron Maiden got too famous. Poets too feature not only in certain liner notes "The group are heavily into Shelly sic Byron Keats William Blake and Sigfried Sasoon sic" but also most intriguingly in one unique piece of album art: "Strange Games" by "WILLIAM BLAKE." Unlike all the others however this album incorporates actual photographs of a teenage boy sulking theatrically for the camera in a red-collared black cape heavy bangs and incipient wispy mustache. We suspect the subject of being the artist and if we are correct his choice of pseudonym is impeccable.<br /> <br /> ENTRANCE TO THE SOLAR MINE<br /> <br /> What became of the creator is unknown and likely unknowable. Perhaps like Mingering Mike he decided that "the dream of fame beats fame itself" Washington City Paper. Perhaps he put away childish things and went on to be a sober and square maker of spreadsheets and never reminisced about a single song no one else had ever heard. Or perhaps he struggled when abruptly deposited in an adult world more real but less beloved than his own - a sadly more likely scenario as this collection was rescued from a storage locker auction.<br /> <br /> What is known for certain however is that the most compelling of pasts is the dream-past just before one's own birth well-remembered by parents and better-known to cool older siblings but eternally opaque to oneself. It is tragically the strangest history of all farthest away yet tantalizingly close. One cannot remember it so one invents. Wasn't Satanic Brittanica's "Moanin' Alone If You Leave Me Girl" a banger And that the song "Bastard" by Dallas sure rocks. Tune the FM dial of the aimless drives of youth. You remember. Collection includes the following 101 items: 52 original hand-colored and collaged record album sleeves. Two handwritten clamp-bound journals. Six color xerox reproductions and 41 original color marker-and-collage artworks for a subtotal of 47 different images; the color xeroxes do not reproduce any of the original works present and though some band names and iconographic motifs recur no images repeat from the album covers. Collaged materials include one piece with several original photographs of a young man tentatively identified as the anonymous artist. All materials show minor wear with occasional glue separation of artwork from original album cover; on the whole spectacularly well preserved. A complete inventory is available as well as a document with further sample quotes. n.p. unknown
174019585Amsterdam 1740-60. Other. In very good condition. 290 by 443mm 11½ by 17½ inches. 290 by 443mm 11½ by 17½ inches. Copper engraving uncolored as published. Historical scene showing an extensive land battle in the background an impressive fortified antique town. unknown
1755309551755-1780. Other. In excellent condition. Cut close to the engraved border lines. 152 by 190mm 6 by 7½ inches. Original copper engraving hand colored in outline and wash when published. An unusual small map of North America not listed in various collections. According to the style of the engraving the map could be published either in Germany or England in the 2nd half of the 18th century. Many engraved names of cities and towns rivers. A little cartouche is in the lower left side with three different small mileage scales. unknown
1820239491820. Very good condition. A magnificent unsigned folk art watercolor of a multicolored bird with long tail feathers which are painted in patriotic red white and blue. The striking image is done in an expert and mature hand using 10 or so different colors and with each feather highlighted at the edges with fine pen strokes of color. <br /> <br /> The bird somewhat resembling a peacock in overall shape perches on a willow tree with slender green vines climbing the trunk. Painted on heavy paper 10 x 13" unknown
54523London: John Player and Sons no date 1936. Cigarette Cards COMPLETE ALBUM. Octavo 19 x 13cm eight leaves with 50 cards pasted-in. Publisher's soft card covers. Very lightly spotted and browned. Near fine. London: John Player and Sons, no date [1936] unknown
54525London: John Player and Sons no date 1935. Cigarette Cards COMPLETE ALBUM. Octavo 19 x 13cm eight leaves with 50 cards pasted-in. Publisher's soft card covers. Very lightly spotted and browned. A 2cm tear to front cover repaired with tape to verso. Very good. London: John Player and Sons, no date [1935] unknown
3102A Dutch oil painting of a landscape scene - a water mill by a canal with trees and sky. Probably an amateur artist it is signed P.M. '85. Assumed 1985. Oil on canvas and mounted in a wooden and gilt frame. Sold with the frame. Frame size 500 mm width x 420 mm height. Image size 285 mm x 230 mm. The painting is in very good condition with just a touch of crackle to the glaze. The frame is mainly in good condition but with a little rubbing to the lower edge. unknown
14266London Printed: Sold by J. Bell 1772. 1772. . iii-vi ii 87 1pp. 8vo. Engraved title vignette. Disbound. "The Second Edition." The first edition appeared the same year and this one was followed by at least two more. The work is largely an account of George Alexander Stevens’s enormously popular Lecture on Heads with a substantial preface concerning other performers including Garrick and Foote. Lowe English Theatrical Literature 3760. London Printed: Sold by J. Bell, 1772. 1772. unknown
18552366London c1855. 510 by 590mm 20 by 23.25 inches. Engraved plan printed in red and black on cloth key to plan below. Rare map of London printed on cloth. The plan is printed in red and black. All bridges railways public buildings squares parks and borough names are printed in red. To the left and right of the title is a note: "Below is a List of the chief Sights & Amusements of London and it's Environs worthy of notice. The Star denotes free admittance. The Figures on the left refer to the map on the right the distance in miles from London." Although the plan is not dated we can assign a date of around 1855: it depicts both Holloway Prison 'Model Prison' opened in 1852 and the Metropolitan Cattle Market 'New Cattle Market' opened in 1855. Strangely the plan fails to show King's Cross Station which was opened in 1852. Not in Hyde. hardcover
188135615Manhattan: The Nationalist 1881. 1881. First edition. 7 3/4" x 6" blue printed wrappers with decorative type border 142 pp. including covers illustrated plates appendix table of contents advertisements. Much information on farm products and livestock. Discusses the character of the people of Kansas. Includes the Bismarck Fair Report on Riley County. Information on the soil crops rainfall horses mules the barge system manufacturing and its advantages religion and morality education etc. A 2-page business directory followed by 92 pages dealing primarily with Manhattan of biographical information on important men and businesses in Manhattan to include Hon John A. Anderson E.B. Purcell and the Manhattan Mill and Elevator Building the Rocky Ford Mills Hon. Geo. W. Higinbotham the general merchants Stingley & Huntress hardware dealer P.W. Zeigler dealer in farm implements W.H. Love H.A. Young & Co. as well as many other proprietors of various businesses. Also has information on people and businesses in Ashland Township Jackson Township Swede Creek Township Mayday Township Grant Township Zeandale Township etc. Advertising for the sale of Red Belle property of C.M. Gifford on rear wrapper. Inside rear wrapper is an illustration and advertisement for the Kimble Pump. Spine cover missing but all text still intact. Light stamp of the Anderson Memorial Library at bottom corner as well as the small letters "AZE" lightly printed at top along with a small area of sticker residue of front wrappers. Light chipping to edges of front and rear wrappers. A very interesting item. The Nationalist, 1881. unknown
112937London Wertheim Macintosh and Hunt 1859. 12mo. 48 pp. Publ. embosssed cloth with front board gilt red edges. English history in 171 verses from year BC 54 to AD 1837 and Queen Victoria. â€This neat and unpretending little volume is well suited for children. In pleasent and easy verse it gives a sketch of English history which may be readily commited to memory†was the short notice given by the London Quarterly Review in 1859. hardcover
11961London: John Harris 1837. . viii 207 1pp. 16mo. Wood-engraved frontispiece and eight plates with the half-title; one plate reinserted and consequently a little dusty at the outer edge. Still a nice copy in the original gilt-titled purple cloth; slightly faded. First edition featuring various early English kings and also Alexander and Peter the Great. Moon John Harris 20. London: John Harris, 1837. hardcover
