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196735203NY: Grove 1967. First printing. 8vo pp. 250. Two volumes in one. Little scuff on cover o/w a nice copy in soiled dj. A piece of underground Edwardian literature. Grove unknown books
190639308NY: Putnam's 1906. First Edition. 8vo pp. 300. Index. Illustrated with photographs and reproductions. Hinges tender cover little scuffed and worn o/w VG. Putnam's unknown books
1945001193S.l. Chicago: American Restaurant Magazine 1945. Softcover. First edition n. d. ca 1945; 5 1/2 x 8 1/2; pp. 64; pictorial wraps; minor rubbing to tips of spine; faint age-darkening to wraps; pages uniformly toned; illustrated with numerous photographs; small personal stamp with name of previous owner to front wrap; minor nick to bottom edge of back wrap very good or better. An apparently unrecorded book published by then influential "American Restaurant Magazine" it contains numerous delightful and some of them even a bit strange recipes for sandwiches and salads. S.l. [Chicago]: American Restaurant Magazine paperback books
18031261Paris: Barba Delaunay Cavanagh Les Marchands de Nouveautes & Tiger 1803. Hardcover. Very good. Dates: 1803-1824. 16mo. together 5 works in one volume: 144 pp 179 pp 160 pp 122 pp 108 pp. each work accompanied by an engraved frontispiece of which 2 are hand-colored some fraying along outer edges. Bound in contemporary French half basane over marbled boards a little worn but suitable for exhibition and study. Highly curious Sammelband of five "Ana" an important genre of late-18th and early 19th century French literature today little known and under-appreciated by academics. At that time EVERYONE read Ana even the critics who excoriated these fugitive pieces of literary ephemera while secretly delighting in their unabashed "bad taste." Concerning Ana Mornet correctly states: "One misunderstands the history of French thought in the 18th-century if one confines it to the history of strictly literary genres . In the provinces especially far from the theater the opera and the fashionable salons when one ceases to be ignorant and indifferent." Mornet judges that the genre of Ana is particularly responsible for assembling useless fragments of knowledge without a greater plan. He qualifies Ana as "crumbs of science" "empty and puerile curiosities" "and chatter." Modern academics ignore Ana at their peril. Once ubiquitous many of them are now very scarce as they were read and reread by audiences all over French and soon discarded. Ana serve to inform us about French language and culture high and low in the broadest possible way. A very balanced account of the history and significance of Ana is given by Jennifer Tsein The Bad Taste of Others: Judging Literary Value in Eighteenth-Century France 2012 pp. 173-174 with references to Daniel Mornet's Histoire De La Clarte Francaise 1929. <br/><br/>¶ CONTENTS OF THE COLLECTION: 1. Angotiana ou suite de calembours comme s'il en pleuvait. Contenant les amours du Per-Vertisseur et l'histoire du fameux Lagalisse sa naissance sa vie sa mort en 50 couplets. Avec le portrait de Corsse dans madame Angot. Septième édition. Paris 1803. 2. Armand Raguenau de la Chaînaye. Facetiana précédé de l'origine de Mlle d'Alambic épouse d'Esprit-Pointu et orné de son portrait en taille d'ours. Avec les bons mots de Marianne par Anagrame Dauneur sic. Paris 1817. 3. Rousseliana ou recueil de tous les bons mots vers calembourgs lazzis et facéties des Cadet-Roussel où l'on a réuni toutes les additions de Monsieur Brunet qui ne se trouvent pas dans les pièces imprimées. Avec sa permission et la tragédie de Matapan ou les assassinats de l'amour. Par Anagrame Dauneur. Paris n.d. 4. Carnavaliana et Caremiana ou Variétés sur le carême et le carnaval bons mais anecdotes plaisantes chansons etc'. A Baochopolis. Paris n.d. ca. 1811 "Ce n'est pas un chef-d'oeuvre" ! according to Adrien-Jean-Quentin Beuchot Répertoire de bibliographies spéciales curieuses et instructives Paris 1811 where he describes the work as appearing "only a few days ago" p. 7. 5. Paysaniana ou Recueil d'anecdotes bons mots plaisanteries sarcasmes réparties ingénieuses traits de naïveté de finesse d'ingénuité et de malice des paysans entremêlé de chansons villageoises et terminé par l'oraison funèbre d'un paysan; par un Campagnard. Paris n.d. <br/><br/>¶ REFERENCES: Aude Bibliographie des Ana pp. 7 40 92 25 et 80. Barba, Delaunay, Cavanagh, Les Marchands de Nouveautes, & Tiger hardcover books
1885TB28717n.p. New York: McLoughlin Brothers n.d. circa 1885. First Edition. Very good in heavy paper printed wraps over a double stapled binding. A folio measuring 13 3/4 by 9 inches with the crease over the spine worn through in several places. Unpaginated but containing 10 pages with 4 full color lithographic plates and line drawings throughout. Identified on the front panel as "270". The illustrator is not indicated. Very uncommon as no other copies are listed elsewhere. McLoughlin Brothers paperback books
002673Santa Fe: 1995. Pictorial Cover. Very Good. Limited. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 103 pp. 219 full-color reproductions. Santa Fe: , 1995 unknown books
198552555Surrey UK: Crown 1985. 4to pp. not numbered. Paper over boards. All color photographs some on two-page spreads. A nice copy in dj. Crown unknown books
184066391Early Compilation of Voyages The Sea. Narratives of Adventure and Shipwreck Tales and Sketches Illustrative of Life on the Ocean. Edinburgh: Published by William and Robert Chambers 1840. Early English edition. Octavo. 144 pp. Modern marbled wrappers. Printed in double columns. A few pages with foxing. Otherwise a fine copy of this scarce British edition published the same year as Two Years Before the Mast. Contains stories such as Vasco Nunez Byron's Narrative Alexander Selkirk Mutiny of the Bounty Mocha Dick among many other shipwreck stories. HBS 66391. $450 Published by William and Robert Chambers unknown books
2978188vo in 3/4 dark brown leather spine rubbed with laid title on front cover. 40pp with 35 actual specimens carefully preserved on white cards tipped in to each page. p18 has small tape repair otherwise in very good condition. London circa 1890.<br/><br/> Exquisite 19th century scrapbook of artfully arranged seaweed specimens. Seaweed collecting was a sub category of scrapbooking and a popular activity for women during the Victorian era. It was considered a wholesome way for women to engage with the outdoors.<br/><br/> unknown books
004614Quarter Calf. Wood Boards. . Very Good. Could this be an unabashed gay celebration from the Thirties Here with a single exception only men are presented and in two images with a suggestion of intimacy and elsewhere with a constructivist-style muscularity that somehow also brings to mind Tom of Finland the pioneer in depicting hyper-masculine muscle men among them sailors and dock worker-types the specific subject matter of this unpublished unfinished manuscript. And the one exception with a woman in the illustration depicts what could be depicted as dissention between the muscular man and the diminutive girlfriend. N.d. circa 1930. Folio. 33 by 24 cm. 4 9-35 pp. The songs represented here include "Whiskey for My Johnny" "Paddy Doyle" "Across Western Ocean" "Poor Old Joe" "One Day More" "Banks of the Sacramento" "Blow the Man Down" "Captain Kidd" "It's Time for us to Leave Her Johnny" and a few songs without the title written in. Even with the gaps in illustration title or text the work delivers a strong punch and there is absolutely nothing tentative or sketchy about what is present. This was done by someone with a clear vision and testament to that is that the leaves are a Normandy Vellum France paper which is both a heavy and luxuriant stock. The paper was in common use between 1915 to 1925 anchoring our dating. However we believe the aesthetic is late twenties to early thirties. Also included are two separate sheets with three pages of pencil sketches with some red watercolor employed in one of the drawings for the artwork presumably that did not get entered into the book. <br/><br/> hardcover books
19000000268Germany 1900. 4to 23.0 x 30.9 cm. Original quarter black pebble cloth and green paperboards in very good condition. Collation: 30 stiff gray paper leaves sewn to backing. Each leave has12 red ink rectangles in three horizontal rows on each side. The upper portion of each seed packet is glued to the gray paper within an individual red ink margin. Each packet has a printed number at the top and complete taxonomic name beneath the flower image. There are 651 seed packets in alphabetical order glued to both sides of each of 27 leaves and the first row of the 28th leaf. The remaining leaves have culture information for each of 292 plants representative of those illustrated on the seed packets. The culture information for each genus is printed on small squares of paper glued in alphabetical order to the stiff gray paper. Each packet has chromolithograph image on each side. The front has the flower and the back has an image of the entire plant. All packets are in very good condition. <br/><br/>Collection of seed packets with chromolithograph images of plants and flowers. This is an exceptional and scarce collection of early printed seed packets collected in a single volume. It is likely that a traveling salesman in Germany would present such an album to nurseries to illustrate the available seeds for ordering. Most of the plants are annuals or biennials. This album is in very good condition and probably not used in the field. This suggests that it may have been for reference in a seed company's office. hardcover books
188630061886. ANONYMOUS. SHADOWS. London: George Bell And Sons 1886. Small 8vo. decorative green cloth stamped in gilt & black; 88 pages. First Edition. I have been unable to find out anything about this title but it is certainly rare. Very Good contents clean & tight but with one front & rear page somewhat browned; covers minor wear & bright. $175.00. <br/><br/> hardcover books
194722673Edinburgh: Privately printed 1947. 8vo pp. 75. soft cover linen on paper very slightly frayed and owner's signature on flyleaf o/w a nice copy. A "dialogue" between three friends about Shakespeare and his work. Hard to tell but it might be considered amusing by a British or Scottish reader. Privately printed unknown books
1986108232New York: Star Dist 1986. 158p. very good first printing PBO in explicit color photo wraps. Transgender pulp fiction. Transvestia TV-191. Star Dist unknown books
198039778New York: Star Distributors 1980. Paperback. 180p. very good first edition PBO in original camp pictorial wraps. Drag pulp fiction. Cross Dressers Book Club CD-11. Star Distributors paperback books
1983173959New York: Star Dist 1983. Paperback. 170p.170p. personal ad sections two novels in one first edition thus PBO in explicit color-photograph illustrated wraps. Transexual erotic fiction. TDB-7. Star Dist paperback books
1983175154New York: Star Dist 1983. Paperback. 170p. 170p. two novel reprints in one mass-market paperback personal swinger ads very good in explicit color photo wraps. TDB-8. Star Dist paperback books
1980176995New York: Star Dist 1980. Paperback. 180p. very good first edition PBO in original camp pictorial wraps. Transvestite gay pulp fiction. Crossdressers Book Club CD-5. Star Dist paperback books
1262864Unique ca 1956-1970<br /> Collection of over 70 objects mostly postcards in a 1960s era photo album related to famous ocean liners and other ships many of which met their end in tragedy. Postcards of ships ranging from the USS Maine to RMS Titanic and Lusitania as well as coastal riverine and lake steamers and shipboard-cancelled envelopes. Included is a full-page magazine ad for the Andrea Doria and a copy of Life Magazine from 1956b featuring the tragedy of the Andrea Doria.<br /> 12.5" x 12.75" 10 album pages plus magazine. Condition is Good most of the postcards being in plastic sleeves rather than glued in to the album.<br /> Room 429. 1262864. Rockville Non-Retail Listings. unknown books
198661164NY:: Grove Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1986. Hardcover. First printing thus. Near fine in a near fine minor edge wear dust jacket. . Grove Press, hardcover books
1920002879S. l. Hollywood : s. n. 1920. Very good. Two silver gelatin photographs n. d. 1920s - 1930s; 8 1/2 x 6 1/2 and 5 x 7; signed in black and blue ink respectively; affixed to photo-album sheets; Moore's with a bit of rubbing and two small creases to edges and corners; Bond's with a small cut to top edge and the signature ink slightly smeared; overall in very good condition. Colleen Moore nee Kathleen Morrison 1899 - 1988 began her career during the Silent Film Era continued performing in sould films and soon became one of the film industry's biggest stars of the period. She was also considered one of the most fashionable ones popularizing her trademark bobbed hairstyle. Moore's filmography included 64 movies. Today due to a series of unfortunate events and inadequate preservation half of her films are considered lost. Lilian M. Bond 1908 - 1991 was a British-American actress who began her Hollywood career in 1929 in "No More Children." She appeared in 48 films including her her best-known role in "The Westerner" in 1940 together with Gary Cooper and Walter Brennan. s. n. unknown books
192739783Vancouver B.C.: B. C. Electric Railway Co 1927. Light wear to edges. Inked '1927' to bottom right edge margin. Mount remnants to verso top. Date & Place stamp to verso. Very Good. Oblong format: 3-3/4" x 9-1/4" <br/><br/>Street scene with the open air car loaded with passengers. B. C. Electric Railway Co unknown books
179268343A Collection of Five Political Tracts from the Years 1792-1793 Anonymous. Six essays on natural rights liberty and slavery consent of the people equality religious establishments the French Revolution which were greatly approved and have been in much request since their original appearance in the Public Advertiser. London Printed for S. Woodfall 1792. First edition. 8 48 pp. We could find no copies at auction and only four are listed at libraries according to ESTC N62745 Bound with ANDERSON George. A general view of the variations which have been made in the affairs of the East-India Company since the conclusion of the war in India in 1784. By George Anderson. London Printed in the Year 1792. First Edition. 8 102 2 blank 11 folding appendix tables pp. With half-title and 11 folding appendix tables. There have been no copies at auction since 1978. George Anderson was a colonial official and writer. In 1792 he published this present highly regarded study as to the condition of Indian trade and finance. ESTC T97303 Bound with Anonymous Callender James T. The political progress of Britain; or an impartial account of the principal abuses in the government of this country from the revolution in 1688. The Whole tending to prove the ruinous Consequences of the popular System of War and Conquest. Part first. Edinburgh Printed for Robertson & Berry 1792. First edition. 80 pp. We could find no copies at auction in over 50 years. Previous owner's old ink notes on blank verso of title-page. "In February 1792 Callender published in the Edinburgh Bee the first of eight parts of what was to become a very successful pamphlet The Political Progress of Britain. As an inflammatory critique of imperialism war and corruption with a strong Scottish nationalist flavour Callender's work rivalled Thomas Paine's in its radicalism. It sold well although not in the numbers of the Rights of Man." Oxford DNB. ESTC T43967. Bound with CARLYLE Alexander. A sermon on the death of Sir David Dalrymple Bart. Lord Hailles; from Eccles. VII.3. Preached In the Church of Inveresk on Sunday the 9th day of December 1792. By Alexr. Carlyle D. D. F. R. S. E. Chaplain to His Majesty & Minister of that Parish. With an address to the congregation suited to the circumstances of the times. Edinburgh Printed for John Balfour 1792. First edition. 33 1 blank pp. We could find no copies at auction in over 50 years. ESTC T53279. "Carlyle was a Church of Scotland minister and memorialist. During the French Revolution he was equally conservative in regard both to domestic issues.and to foreign issues such as the war with France which he exalted as a divinely sanctioned cause and a test of British virtue and resolve in three published sermons including: Sermon on the Death of Sir David Dalrymple Bart. Lord Hailes 1792." Oxford DNB. Bound with Mallet du Pan M. Jacques. ConsidÈrations sur la nature de la rÈvolution de France et sur les causes qui en prolongent la durÈe. A Bruxelles et se trouve a Londres chez Owen 1793. Early edition. viii 79 1 table pp. ESTC T75704. Mallet du Pan was a Swiss journalist who "Published with the approval of the foreign representatives a work which was to make a prodigious sensation and which is still the best know of his writings his Considerations on the Revolution." Mallet du Pan and the French revolution by Mallet Bernard. He is considered a pioneer of modern political journalism. Octavo 8 1/8 x 4 7/8 inches; 205 x 125 mm. All tracts bound together in contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Red morocco spine label lettered in gilt. Some occasional foxing but otherwise very clean. Previous owners old ink notes on front endpapers. Outer hinges cracked but holding. Top of spine chipped. Otherwise a very good copy. HBS 68343. $5000 Printed for S. Woodfall hardcover books
18675264Boston: Ticknor and Fields 1867. 16mo. vii 183 pages. First edition. A novel addressing the strains of running a household during the Civil War including the challenges of War-time taxation speculation oil fever inflation etc. A section in which the main character considers charitable work with the Sanitation Commission or ladies' charitable groups is enlightening. Some soiling to a few pages. Previous owner's inscription to endpapers; newspaper clipping bearing a mosquito bite remedy pasted to foot of title page; bookseller's ticket removed from rear paste-down. wear and rubbing to boards and spine of blind- and gilt-titled brick red cloth. Good. Wright American Fiction vol. 2 no. 2235. Ticknor and Fields hardcover books
19011202London: Liberty and Property Defence League ca. 1901-05. First Edition. <br /><br />Unbound pamphlet 8 x 5 1/4 inches 205 x 132 mm 4 pages.<br /><br />A wonderfully lurid warning against socialism by a British organization devoted to laissez-faire economics. The anonymous author suggests that socialism would lead to the breakup of families.<br /><br />"There would be no such place as home under socialism" the author writes. "Everyone would live in the State barracks. There would be no breakfasts dinners or teas with one's family at one's own table as in the first place meals in private would not be permitted as it would be against the socialist idea of equality.In other words everybody when hungry would be reduced to the necessity of repairing to the common swine-trough and eating the hogwash the State had placed therein. No roast beef turkey and plum pudding no smiling faces of children and friends around the table on Christmas Day. Indeed there would not be any Christmas Day under socialism." <br /><br />This pamphlet carries no publication date but it appears to have been issued sometime between 1901 and 1905. It refers to "the late Mr. Oscar Wilde" who died in late 1900. In 1906 the Liberty and Property Defence League issued a book "Socialism: Its Fallacies and Dangers" which included the text of this pamphlet. <br /><br />OCLC lists 7 institutional holdings: Syracuse Stanford Amherst Harvard Michigan Texas and Wisconsin Historical Society. No other copies in commerce. <b>SCARCE</b>.<br /><br />CONDITION: Paper lightly toned old stab holes along the gutter a couple small closed tears small ink stamp at the end of the text general handling wear. A Very Good copy of an uncommon publication. Liberty and Property Defence League paperback books