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2007202001Vancouver: Frank Nugent 2007. 41p. staplebound wraps very good. Anonymous Pamphlets Series 1 no. 1. Frank Nugent unknown books
1980141746Dublin: Irish Academic Press & Four Courts Press 1980. 68p. introduction illustrations folding map tipped-in at rear very good re-issue in quarter cloth over gray boards with paper title label on front cover. Fine Press reissue of a pamphlet originally published anonymously in 1806. Irish Academic Press & Four Courts Press unknown books
197023231ca. 1970. Hardcover. Near fine. Small 4to. Hand-bound in red morocco with raised cords and decorative gilt stamping to spine. Moderate edgewear and rubbing. Top edge gilt. Black and gold patterned endpapers. Bookplate taped to ffep; brown geometric design with designer initials ACW at lower right and "Ex Libris AJ". Slight chipping to leather at inside rear hinge. Gilt stamping to lower edge of back cover below paste-down: "BOUND BY BAILEY BROS. LTD." Near fine. 205pp. <br/><br/>"The stand of yews statues are noseless lichen smirched ghosts; the nomads approach drums of their marches on stone lane steps; the sound of the engines remembered through plate glass while sitting at at pâté de foie" 157. <br /> <br />Enigmatic and disquieting collection of six short stories and one 90-page novella neatly and distinctively handwritten in brown ink. The table of contents gives titles for each work but no author's name; the bookplate with initials "A. J." offer the only clue to the item's creator or owner. <br /> <br />The material veers in tone from the parodic to the surreal to the philosophically melancholic; the style incorporates a recondite vocabulary "the pyral tarantism of being in the world" and a single consistent insistent voice alternating long unpunctuated Joycean streams of frantic consciousness with brief and airless sentence fragments. A perpetual undercurrent of violent sexuality surfaces as much in the settings and scenery as in the events: a car crash; a game of human chess; a blazing furnace; a slaughterhouse. <br /> <br />The authorial narration steps out of its queasy dreamtime now and then to comment on itself "It would appear that this is the whim of the authors ince reason is no part of the relation" or to focus on a concrete and precisely dated image: "Week-end Traffic" catalogs automobile makes and models in obsessive parodic almost Ballardian detail -- a 1931 Alfa-Romeo; a '28 Lombard a Triumph Scorpion -- and characters offer each other Passing Cloud cigarettes. But for the most part settings are as hard to place as the book itself. Character names are almost but not quite real: Nish Rogoze Valetta Fedor Shad. <br /> <br />Illustrated with line drawings in brown pen presumably also by the writer with occasional accents in black and brief captions taken from the scenes they illustrate. The execution is skilled but careful often quoting other artwork as in the illustration to the final story "Communication" whose subject is the Breughel painting Dulle Griet; we see a copy of Brueghel's scene through the latticework of a window. Other illustrations appear to be carefully composed from copies or multiple tracings giving something of the effect of a Max Ernst collage -- particularly the images of a horse-headed woman and a lion-headed man perhaps an intentional quotation from Une Semaine de Bonte. A Piranesi-esque interior gives way to a crowned woman in 20th century corset and garter belt: the Queen. <br /> <br />Although a precise date cannot be given this book bears the stamp of a London bindery which operated as Bailey Bros. until a name-change in the 1970s and references in the text place its composition after the 1930s; we estimate the date of production to be circa the late 1960s to early 1970s - though its private library feel perhaps hints at a possible earlier creation. <br /> <br />Bizarre and unsettling yet also the product of an original voice. In short: a singular artist's book of unique vision. hardcover books
187811886New York: Harper & Bros. 1878. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo. Gray cloth with red lettering and illustration to front board. Good example. Edgeworn. Cloth rubbed and soiled. Front hinge starting. Else sound and clean throughout. <br/><br/>Introduction by W.C. Prime. Early and charming book on China collecting told in a narrative style. 274pp. with 33 plates. Harper & Bros. hardcover books
1912608051912. ANONYMOUS . TEST OF THE ACCURACY OF THE TESTIMONY OF BY-STANDERS. No place: no publisher: c. 1912. Laid in slip notes: "Submitted by George G. Croker Old South Building Boston February 1912." Small 8vo. paper wrappers; 13 pp. Wraps have separated and bear slight soil wear. Contents clean; about very good. unknown books
1990195621San Francisco: Anonymous ACT UP members 1990. Two single-sheet issues printed recto-only 8.5x11 inches black text on white stock the masthead style and font similar to ACT UP publications mildly worn. A disclaimer at the bottom of both sheets states "Chatty CATHY is a public service announcement for members of ACT UP San Francisco while it is in no way connected with that body. The opinions are the writers own and have not been approved by ACT UP San Francisco" while the content speaks as if from an ACT UP member viewpoint. The topics are the voting process and bickering about drugs for AIDS within the organization. [Anonymous ACT UP members] unknown books
1857W121809New York: Robert M. De Witt 1857. Original green cloth blind stamped with gilt spine lettering and vignette. Spine ends frayed edges and corners worn gilt lettering dulled and binding overall worn though book is solid. Brown coated end papers. Engraved frontis and title page with tissue guard. Some foxing. 2 pgs. of publisher adverts at rear. A Victorianesque account of squalor in the slums of New York. Blanck 4880. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade. Robert M. De Witt Hardcover books
21898No Place: Privately Printed No Date. First edition. Loose Sheets. Very Good. Single sheet of pale blue 8 1/2 x 11" paper. Text begins with the words "Chant 2 / Black Man's Nation. NATURAL SOUNDS OF ALL THINGS FROM ALL PLAYERS. No place date or author indicated but this copy has been SIGNED by the author Amiri Baraka. A "stopper" for any Baraka collector. Very good condition. <br/><br/> Privately Printed unknown books
196724327Atlanta: Pendulum Books 1967. Wraps. Very good . Mass market paperback Green printed wraps. Mild edgewear light creasing to corners. Very good plus. 184 pages plus ads. <br/><br/>"Vital Sex Information in Story Form!" Victorian erotica reprinted in '60s pulp form and professing to double as a sex manual though not as a spelling primer as it ranges from "masturbatation sic to lesbian love". Full title: "An Instructive Story: The Simple Tale of Suzan Aked or Innocence Awakened Ignorance Dispelled." Pendulum Books paperback books
191223551New York: McBride Nast & Co. 1912. First edition thus. Hardcover. New. 8vo. Red pictorial cloth. Minor bumping to spine ends and corners; sparse toning/foxing to pages. About near fine. 267pp. <br/><br/>Early work featuring an independent and successful disabled protagonist first serialized in 1908. A first-person narrative ostensibly by an anonymous young woman recounting her ambitions and achievements following the loss of one leg in early childhood and the consequent physical and social restrictions imposed on her. Presented as nonfiction and received as such by contemporary reviewers with the publisher responding to one enthusiastic contemporary reader: "Our contract with the author especially provides that we are not to reveal the identity and we cannot give the names of any other books by this author without violating our agreement." "Travel" Jan. 1913. <br /> <br />Another memoirist however in her own account of life with a similar disability wrote: "The book proved to be the bastard brain child of a big and bouncing and very jolly New York businessman and writer. He does use crutches having a pair of unreliable knees . but he is definitely not a fascinating little feminine hopper. Although he admits openly to a new legitimate book every year or so he never confesses his paternity to THE GIRL WITH THE ROSEWOOD CRUTCHES that poor love child of his careless youth." "Out on a Limb" Louise Baker 1946. <br /> <br />Despite the book's sentimentality and inspirational appeal its treatment of disability is engagingly modern and matter-of-fact in many respects: as the heroine's need for crutches is both permanent and nonprogressive she evades the common literary fates of miraculous recovery or tragic death and holds eternal grudges against well-meaning men who call her a "cripple" to her face. Fighting to make her way in New York 'Kate' endures an interview with a newspaperman who thinks her only fit for desk work: "'I have used them crutches for fifteen years' I told him letting him know how clearly I read his prejudices. 'They are no handicap to me. For the life of me I cannot see how they would affect my ability to work upon a newspaper.'" The narrator finds ultimate success as a concert-hall pianist and singer -- no longer excusing hiding or defending her "wonderful crutches" but proudly using them on stage to applause and acclaim. <br /> <br /> McBride, Nast & Co. hardcover books
18398707Barcelona: Juan Oliveres 1839. 1st Edition. Full calf. Very good. Sm. 8vo. xii114pp. plus 1 leaf of ads. Double column text. Half-title with a fine portrait of Victoria. Cont. mottled calf gilt spine. Marbled endpapers. The section by Isaac Watts on how to improve ones mind is pp. 67-114. Palau 115035. Apparently the author of the English original is not known. Juan Oliveres unknown books
19732N.p. London ca 1985. Original silk-screened poster 29" x 20". Printed in two colors on heavy poster stock. Faint wrinkling throughout; light soil; Very Good . Archivally hinged to acid-free backing in gallery frame. Universal calendar points to 1985 being the most likely date of creation for this vivid and graphically inspired poster advertising a meeting of American radicals at the famed Conway Hall long-time meeting place for radicals and intellectual center of the Conway Hall Ethical Society thought to be the oldest continually-surviving freethought organization in the world. unknown books
19731N.p. London: ca 1976: C.A.C.T.L. Campaign Against the Criminal Trespass Law`. Original silk-screened poster in two colors; 30" x 20". Trivial edge-rubbing; Fine / Grade A. Large vivid poster promoting the rights of squatters tenants and gypsies. Unattributed but possibly from the Paddington Printshop in London a peoples' printmaking workshop where a great many squatters' rights materials were produced. This poster advertises the Campaign Against the Criminal Trespass Law organized in 1976 and warns: "If you are a trade unionist tenant squatter claimant gypsy: this bill attacks your interests - Stop This Bill. C.A.C.T.L. [Campaign Against the Criminal Trespass Law]` unknown books
193016840N.p. 1930. Original pen-and-ink composition with colored-pencil highlights 28" x 22" ca 71cm x 56cm. In hand-made pine frame likely original; overall dimensions 31" x 25" ca 79cm x 64cm. General wear soiling and age with surface abrasions scratches and old stains to margins; crudely placed in frame without backing or mat; Good. A rustic but quite charming juvenile production in which a large central portrait of Uncle Sam is flanked by images demonstrating proper safety techniques for young workers. The truck at center right bears the insignia "U.S. CCC" and most of the figures are uniformed leading us to the conclusion that this poster was created as part of a Civilian Conservation Corps youth project probably meant to be displayed in a common-room or barracks. The CCC brought together youth from all walks of life -- including many from inner city urban environments -- to work in largely rural settings; in such a context we imagine such advice as "A falling tree may strike some one near you" may truly have been life-saving. unknown books
17712992London: printed for J. Cooke 1771. First Edition. Very good. Engraved print framed behind glass. Print size: 215 x 133 mm slightly cropped affecting several letters. Frame size: 342 x 263 mm. Slight foxing some browning along edges upper left corner slightly curled in. A striking 18th century engraving of a great and terrible Wicker Man. It would appear that an image of the iconic Wicker Man first appeared in print in 1610 with the publication of John Selden's "Jani Anglorum." We find it again in Aylett Sammes's "Britannia Antiqua Illustrata" 1676 which clearly influenced the anonymous artist of the present engraving -- and many others who followed. <br/><br/>It is believed that so-called Wicker Man statues were ritually burned by the ancient Druids; that they were at times filled with human sacrifices may be an early modern fabrication. The caption of our print promotes these wild and terrifying claims: "The Wicker Colossus of the Druids wherein Malefactors Prisoners of War and sometimes Innocent Persons when there was a deficiency of the former were Burnt as Sacrifices to their Deities."<br/><br/>This particular print appeared opposite page 77 in the 1771 edition of Spencer's "Complete English Traveller. printed for J. Cooke unknown books
3001S.l. n.d. 20th century. Watercolor on paper. Matted visible 163 x 83 mm and framed 257 x 150 mm. This weird and wonderful watercolor may be something we will forever regret selling at any price. It is unsigned but clearly by an artist of considerable imagination. We find the image compelling and highly curious: in the shadow only one hand is holding the mask and yet the girl is firmly grasping it with two. What is the significance of this demonic mask and why would a girl be presenting it above her head in a manner that could almost be described as ritualistic The child seems to gaze away from the viewer but who - or what - is she looking at We unable to explain our fascination with this watercolor. For those who are similarly ensorcelled: no explanation is required. unknown books
19190032531919. Cloth. Very Good. Patriotic World War One poem "The Man who Keeps his Head" illuminated with exquisite vignettes. Oblong 24.5 by 31 cm. With eight plates including title page plus painted vignette on final leaf. These vignette watercolors four to eight per page depict the diversity of British experience whether its variety of industry its trades its modes of farming its ships etc. The effect is panoramic and epic a visual equivalent to Noel Coward's sweep in "Cavalcade" say. Framing it all are Art Nouveau devices and ornament very much true to the period. The book was easily of publishable quality and its creation demonstrates that a strain of patriotism and optimism somehow withstood the bitterness and cynicism engendered by the war. Tissue guards with creases and one with tear. Binding bowed. Other light wear. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1854132046Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union 1854. 12mo pp. 1-4 5-84 flyleaves at front and rear two inserted plates signed "H. D." seven vignette illustrations on the title page and in the text original decorated brown cloth stamped in gold and blind yellow endpapers. First edition. Didactic fiction. A virtuous orphan newsboy makes good in New York City. Cornell attributes this anonymously published work to Hyatt. Gift inscriptions to Master Frank H. Loud from J. Willett on front and rear free endpapers. A couple of spots to text block a very good copy with bright gold stamping to spine panel. #132046 American Sunday-School Union unknown books
188490051St. Louis Mo.: Little & Becker 1884. Octavo pp. 1-2 1-5 6-353 354-356: blank note: first and last leaves are blanks original decorated black cloth front and rear panels stamped in blind spine panel stamped in gold olive-green floral patterned endpapers. First edition. Lost race novel that describes the migration of a prehistoric people from their homeland on the Phoenician coast to China. The Chinese king gives the wanderers the Japanese islands where they learn shipbuilding and navigation. About 2000 B.C. these people send an expedition to the Pacific coast of North America cross the continent and establish a great city on the present-day site of St. Louis later settlements are made in Illinois Iowa Ohio Kentucky Mississippi and Florida. A copy of this book in the Henry E. Huntington Library indicates that the author was J. M. Hanks of Florence Colorado. The book was printed in St. Louis for the publisher Cyrus F. Newcomb & Company of Del Norte Colorado. Curiously the book is dated 1884 on the recto of the title leaf but is copyright 1875 on the verso. No earlier edition of the book is known but the work may have been published earlier in a newspaper. Clareson Science Fiction in America 1870s-1930s 593. Teitler and Locke By the World Forgot 2013 28. Bleiler 1978 p. 6. Reginald 10642. Wright III 598. Early owner's signature on recto of first blank. Touch of rubbing to cloth at head and tail of spine panel and corner tips a bright near fine copy. A scarce book. #90051 Little & Becker unknown books
188430139St. Louis Mo.: Little & Becker 1884. Octavo pp. 1-2 1-5 6-353 354-356: blank note: first and last leaves are blanks original decorated green cloth front and rear panels stamped in blind spine panel stamped in gold olive-green floral patterned endpapers. First edition. Lost race novel that describes the migration of a prehistoric people from their homeland on the Phoenician coast to China. The Chinese king gives the wanderers the Japanese islands where they learn shipbuilding and navigation. About 2000 B.C. these people send an expedition to the Pacific coast of North America cross the continent and establish a great city on the present-day site of St. Louis later settlements are made in Illinois Iowa Ohio Kentucky Mississippi and Florida. A copy of this book in the Henry E. Huntington Library indicates that the author was J. M. Hanks of Florence Colorado. The book was printed in St. Louis for the publisher Cyrus F. Newcomb & Company of Del Norte Colorado. Curiously the book is dated 1884 on the recto of the title leaf but is copyright 1875 on the verso. No earlier edition of the book is known but the work may have been published earlier in a newspaper. Clareson Science Fiction in America 1870s-1930s 593. Teitler and Locke By the World Forgot 2013 28. Bleiler 1978 p. 6. Reginald 10642. Wright III 598. A fine copy nearly as new. A scarce book. #30139 Little & Becker unknown books
1903113275New York and London: Published by John Lane 1903. Octavo pp. i-vi vii-x xi-xii 1-262 263: advance reviews 264: blank original pictorial boards with cloth shelf back printed paper label affixed to spine panel top edge stained red other edges untrimmed printed endpapers. First edition. First printing with "First edition published Oct. 1903" on copyright page. Mock literary trials held before "The Literary Emergency Court . in and for The District of North America" reported anonymously by "" featuring Mark Twain as one of the three judges and Charles Battell Loomis as prosecutor. Not in Smith American Fiction 1900-1925. Boards worn at corner tips a very good copy. #113275 Published by John Lane unknown books
196976798New York: Guild Press 1969. 85p. 4x7 inches very good in original stapled white wraps. Gay pulp fiction. Reprint of Monkey edition of 1969 Black Knight Classics of the Homosexual Underground. Hey Sailor! Guild Press unknown books
197158502Englewood Cliffs:: Prentice-Hall. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1971. Hardcover. 0133571114 . Third printing. Very near fine in like dust jacket. An attractive well preserved copy.; 159 pages . Prentice-Hall, hardcover books
1893152991Wien: Verlag des "Industriellen Club" und des "Niederösterreichischen Gewerbe-Vereines 1893. Octavo pp. 1-3 4-55 56: blank original blue-gray wrappers printed in black. First separate edition. Utopian proposal by "practical men" who specifically distance themselves from the impractical utopians to make realistic projections of a future society. Probably an offprint from a larger work also published in 1893. Pressure in the Reichstag by the Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands SPD forced a number of social and political reforms in Germany during the late nineteenth century. Ferdinand August Bebel 1840-1913 whose ideas and comments are often mentioned in the text was a German socialist politician writer and orator. He became the leading figure of the social democratic movement in Germany and from 1892 until his death served as chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. See Kretzmann The Pre-War German Utopian Novel 1890-1914 Ph.D. diss. Brown University May 1936 p. 210. Not within the scope of Bloch. A very good copy. OCLC reports 2 copies Harvard; Thüringer Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek. KVK reports 2 other copies. No copies reported by COPAC. Rare. #152991 Verlag des "Industriellen Club" und des "Niederösterreichischen Gewerbe-Vereines unknown books
1855002736Vienne Vienna: M. Auer 1855. Very good. First edition in French translated and published in the same year as the original Russian; 10 1/2 x 7; pp. 1-25 7; green wraps printed and ruled in black; illustrated with three plates by Jos. Stoufs; lacking portrait frontis else complete; tiny white label to upper left corner; faint discolored spot to margin of front wrap; small chips to tips of spine and slight curling to corners; scattered foxing mostly to margins and verso of plates; in about very good- condition. Published anonymously the booklet was allegedly written by Count Dmitrii Nikolaevich Bludov alt. Dimitri Bloudoff 1785 - 1864 - a Russian noble imperial official and a member of the inner circle of Emperor Nicholas I. Over time Bludov served as Minister of Justice Minister of the Interior Chairman of the State Council and President of the Academy of Sciences. He was also a historian author founder of the Arzamas Literary Society close friend of Turgenev Karamzin and Zhukovskii and legal advisor to Nicholas writing many of his speeches editing the Code of Laws of the Russian Empire in 1841-1842 drafting a new Criminal Code in 1845 and presiding over the court that condemned the Decembrists to death. The book gave the official version of Emperor Nicholas' death i.e. pneumonia resulting from an untreated cold touting his unwavering Christian values and refuting the circulating speculations that the ruler had committed suicide while the Crimean War was raging. M. Auer paperback books
