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17857343Madrid: Pantaleon Aznar 1785. First printing. Small octavo 2 ff pp 164. History of two famous royal impersonators in Spain of King Sebastian of Portugal who disappeared after being defeated in battle presumably killed. Senor Espinosa was a pastry chef -- un pastelero. Bound in full period calf original marbled endpapers. Very good copy. <br/><br/> Pantaleon Aznar unknown books
1797184023Paris.: Perronneau. 1797. 1st edition. Contemporary quarter cloth over marbled boards gilt spine title. . Good plus moderate shelfwear corners bumped minor dampstaining along foredge. . 8vo. 21x12 cm. . French text. Early biography of Marie Antoinette by the royalist Montjoye. Portrait frontis plus 2 additional plates. Perronneau. hardcover books
1815291677London: Patrick Martin 1815. First. hardcover. fine. Thomas Rowlandson. 15 color plates by Rowlandson. Thin 8vo full red crushed morocco decoratively stamped in giltall edges gilt by Morrell. London: Patrick Martin 1815. First Edition.<br/><br/> Elegant copy. Tooley 417.<br/><br/> Patrick Martin unknown books
1910011887The Alps: private 1910. Hardcover. Fine. An astonishingly well-preserved pressed Alpine floral album assembled from plants collected on a motor journey in the summer of 1910 that starts in Gibraltar then Naples and spends most time in and around St Moritz and Mt Muraigl. The collector is anonymous but we might assume she he was American as a postcard laid-in is addressed to New Hampshire. We can assume the album with the titles FLORA ALPINA: GENEROSO KULM on its cover was purchased at the Hotel Generosa one of several in the region where the flowers were collected which catered to motoring tourists of the period. Oblong approx 13" x 9" cobalt blue cloth with gilt titles and decoration front cover floral patterned endpapers in red and gold 20 leaves pages. A total of 27 specimens each most delicately arranged so as to display optimally stalk leaf and flower each with a daintily handwritten description identifying type of flower or species place and date of collection most August 1910 sometimes with the most charming notations which we have highlighted in bold in the page-by-page listing below . There is virtually no deterioration of specimens each conveying still the texture and weight of each plant. Laid-in is a un-stamped postcard in German of Pontresina from which the album has a specimen which pictures a number of hotels on the mountain slopes addressed to New Hampshire USA. The best preserved floral album we have seen. Page 1. "Pepper Tree Almeda Gardens Gilbraltar"; unidentified perhaps secum "wound round basket with wine carried to the top of Mt. Vesuvius July 2. 1910" Page 2. "Genistas Naples 1910"; "Bluebells St. Moritz 1910" Page 3. "Heather. On drive from Malfi to Cava July 1910"; "Foxglove In stonework of tower Sam Gamignano July 16 1910"; "Pomegranate Forum Rome 1910". Page 4. Unidenified bunch of wildflowers "Mt. Generoso Lake Lugano August 1910". Page 5. "Fragrant Orchis Maloya Pass 1910;" "White Coeloglossum Mt. Muraigle St Moritz August 1910". Page 6. "Alpine Rose Julier Pass near top August 1910"; "Edelweiss Bought from small boy Beyond Julier Pass August 1910" Page 7. "Mountain Cudweed Mt. Muraigle St. Moritz August 1910" 2 specimens Page 8. "Heather St. Moritz August 1910"; Great Burnet Mt Muraigle St Moritz August 1910" Page 9. "Gentiana On lake near top Oberalp Pass driving trip August 1910; 'Gentina aucalis Mt Muraigle St Moritz August 1910"; "Gentian Mt Muraigle St Moritz August 1910" Page 10. "Primula. Mt Muraigle St Moritz" 3 specimens Page 11. "Forget-Me-Nots. Mt Murgail St Moritz August 1910"; "Alpine Trepoil Mt Murgail"; "Alpine Fleabane Mt Murgail" Page 12. "Morteratsch Glacier Ponteresina Augits 1910" 2 specimens Page 13. "Homogyne Aplina Mt Muraigl August 1910" 2 specimens Page 14. "Mountain Aven Mt Muraigl August 1910" 3 specimens Page 15. 3 unidentfied specimens "St Moritz August 1910"; "Mt Muraigl August 1910"; "St Moritz August 1910" Page 16. 2 unidentified specimens "Mt Muraigl August 1910"; "Soldanella in soft snow Mt Muraigl August 1910" Page 17. "Cotton grass St Moritz August 1910"; "Cyclamen Lake Lugano and Lucerne August 1910" Page 18. "Wood pinks Oberalp Pass driving trip August 1910"; "Crocus Oberalp Pass" Page 19. unidentified "driving trip after we left Thusis August 1910"; "Wood cudweed Glacier du Rhone August 1910" Page 20. unidentified "St Moritz August 1910" ; unidentified 2 specimens Glacier du Rhone grows in rocks August 1910 private hardcover books
1765154541London: Printed for W. Nicoll 1765. 12mo two volumes pp. 1-2 i-iii iv-x xi-xiv 1 2-336; i-viii 1 2-358 full calf all panels ruled in gold edges speckled red. First edition. Highway robbery piracy on the Thames murder rape a midwife tried for "not doing his duty" and more. Female miscreants are well represented. Many of the cases concern conspiracy forgery. counterfeiting and fraud. ESTC T114036. Half titles present lacks front free endpaper in volume II a very clean attractive copy. Scarce in commerce. #154541 Printed for W. Nicoll unknown books
197020022Berkeley: np 1970. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. 8vo. Saddle-stapled pictorial wraps. Very good. Moderate toning touches of soil and handling wear to wraps. Interior clean throughout though lightly creased throughout. 16pp. <br/><br/>Published anonymously by Ken Knabb and others including Isaac Cronin under the name Council for the Eruption of the Marvelous. Throughout 1970 the group produced this and several pamphlets; the present work is illustrated throughout with drawings and typographically laid out like poetry. "We see subversion as a sort of phenomenological scalpel cutting through the surface of the spectacle of the commodity & bringing to light all the most subtle presuppositions on which the society is based." OCLC finds only one copy. np paperback books
1991197851New York: Masquerade Books 1991. Paperback. 232p. very good first mass-market paperback edition in pictorial wraps with tiny tear in cover. Some lesbian content in this SM erotic novel. Masquerade Books paperback books
19902801941990. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. A clean copy. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket. unknown books
1970190167Zondervan 1970-01-01. Hardcover. Good. Dark blue cloth boards have minor wear. Clean has a good binding first page of the Introduction has several lines underlined- no other marks or notations. Zondervan hardcover books
189019000Hitchin: Paternoster & Hales 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Small 8vo. Gray gilt-stamped boards. Very good. Mild touches of shelfwear to boards. Endpapers browned a bit but text block bright and clean throughout. Good and sound. 47pp. <br/><br/>Eulogy for the recently-deceased schoolmaster William Dawson for whom a prize in botany was established the recipients of which appear to be the intended audience for this publication. Includes a frontis depicting Dawson. Paternoster & Hales hardcover books
194025623New York: Richard R. Smith. Very Good-. 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. no dust jacket moderately shelfworn copy with numerous abrasions to cloth along top and bottom edges of both covers some wear at spine ends modest bumping at all corners some discoloration in gutters. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the ffep: "To Robert Rainer / With kindest regards / Frederick Hazlitt Brennan / Santa Ana Jan. 4 1944." One of the odder novels you'll ever run across -- as one contemporary reviewer described it "a singularly unclassifiable mixture of whimsey dullness vulgarity and illuminating thought." It's kind of a fantasy-satire in which the title character a Big Thinker expounds at great length upon his plan to establish an experimental educational institution rather ominously dubbed "The Laboratory" the purpose of which would be to teach people particularly children to love their country through a program of lectures thought experiments and entertainments. Brother Barnabas has holed himself up in a poorhouse in order to hatch his scheme which he hopes to persuade a rich acquaintance to bankroll to the tune of ten million dollars. Another critic of the day praised it as some of "the most exciting social sermonizing that you will read in many a dreary year" and opined that "you are as dead as John Marshall if you do not thrill to the blasting dynamic fire-spitting challenge of brave Brother Barnabas who thinks that Americans should be taught to love their country even if they need strip-teasers and Mickey Mouse pictures to coax them to it." Apparently the idea behind Brennan's publishing the book pseudonymously was so that his own reputation primarily as a prolific author of magazine fiction and sometime-screenwriter wouldn't get in the way of his Big Ideas about what was ailing modern American society and how to fix it. In any event however the anonymity had a short shelf-life: the book was published in April 1940 and by early July he'd already been outed as its author by who else Walter Winchell. There was a little flurry of gossip-column items that July in fact claiming that the book was "a sensation in Hollywood" and that a movie version was in the offing -- backed by "top democrats" in one telling; possibly to star Raymond Massey in another -- but no such film ever materialized. Signed-by-the-author copies are for understandable reasons uncommon. Signed by Author . Richard R. Smith hardcover books
11491822. From the journal "La Foudre". Lithograph. Proof before the letters. Touched with pen. Image: 7 x 9 3/4. Margins: 8 1/2 x 11/ unknown books
23288San Francisco: No Publisher No Date. First edition. Loose Sheets. Fine. Tall single sheet of brown paper printed in black. Topographical drawing by an unstated illustrator at top. Measures 8 1/2 x 22" tall. Per the Gary Snyder bbiliograohy by McNeil this is A51 although Snyder's name is not noted on the sheet a prose broadside published in an edition of one thousand copies anonymously by a San Francisco architectural firm in 1975. Fine condition. <br/><br/> No Publisher unknown books
1923002543Los Angeles: S. n. by the author 1923. First Edition. Very good. Advertising broadside; 14 x 8 1/2; cream stock printed in black; several old fold lines; a bit of age-toning to verso; very good condition. At first sight published by an anonymous supporter the broadside was quite obviously released by Householder himself whom advertised a "free name analysis" for anybody who would buy his book "The Four Basic Principles of Numerology" which was in turn published under the name Frank Householder. Although not much is known about him he claimed he was the World's Greatest Numerologist and worked in the Los Angeles area in the early 20th century. The broadside assured people they would have their soul number and name vibration harmonized and would live a life of privilege. It also contained a convenient order form for the book. S. n. (by the author) unknown books
1919001838Scranton PA: Ukrainian Book Store 1919. Softcover. First edition; 6 x 4 1/2; pp. 1 4-30; light brown wraps ruled with an intricate border; thin closed cut to tail of spine; mild age-toning to margins; very good condition. A mysterious little work it was presumably written and published by Vasyl Hryshko who was considered by some the first Ukrainian bookseller in the United States. Humorous and at the same time offensive and steeped in stereotypes the book contained poems and stories about the gypsies and their lives including chapters such as "A Gypsy Funeral" and "A Gypsy Bull." Not in OCLC or in the trade as of July 2015. Scranton, PA: Ukrainian Book Store paperback books
191025010Prague: Druk H. Mercy 1910. 8vo107 pp stab-stapled and glue bound into violet printed wraps. Front and back panels of wraps detached but present with the paper covering the spine mostly perished. Marginal annotations in pencil throughout. The second edition of this privately published and circulated utopian proposal to create an organized intelligentsia and foster human creativity against capitalism. Published around Whitsun in Prague it includes reactions from readers who had received the first version of the text. A third publicly published edition would follow later this same year. The work was written by Viktor Hueber a former Austrian captain who became a member of the circle which published the short-lived magazine Der Anfang in which Benjamin published his first poems and essays. Hueber was later associated with Franz Pfemfert's better known periodical Die Aktion and early issues of the magazine bore the subtitle "Publikationsorgan der Organization der Intelligenz" a reference to this work though subsequent efforts to create an actual organization based on the book's principles failed due to infighting Portner p. 140. Benjamin discusses the book in a September 15 1913 letter to Carla Seligsohn the first person he'd met who had also read the book. "Those of us who understand Hueber feel our youth complete only in the presence of his ideas- the others who feel noth- ing are not young. They have simply never been young. They took pleasure in their youth only when it was over just a memory. They did not know the great joy of its presence which we are now feeling and which I sense in your words . But in every individual who is born no matter where and turns out to be young there is not 'improvement' but perfection from the very start. This is the goal that Heuber so messianically feels is near . " McCole analyzing this same letter notes that this appears to be Benjamin's first use of the term "Messianic" in his writings McCole p. 61. The idea would haunt Benjamin's subsequent works on history and reach its conclusion in the second thesis in On the Concept of History written just before his march into the mountains. "The past carries with it a secret index by which it is referred to its resurrection. There is an agreement and an appointment between us and the generations of the past. For we have been expected upon this earth. Like the generations before us we have been given a weak messianic power which the past can lay claim to. This claim is not to be settled lightly. The historical materialist knows why." Rare. OCLC locates only two holdings and none in North America. The preceding edition is not located in OCLC. <br/><br/> Druk H. Mercy paperback books
19203217n.d. 19th or 20th century. Two illuminations on thin India paper some vertical creasing professionally matted and framed. Ad 1 priapus: 300 x 250 mm frame size 198 x 140 mm visible 147 x 93 mm size of illumination. Ad 2 she-devil: 306 x 231 mm frame size 205 x 140 mm visible 150 x 83 mm size of illumination. Sold as a pair. Two weird erotic Indian illuminations the likes of which we have never before encountered and are unlikely to encounter again. <br/><br/>Popular in Roman decorative art the winged priapus is uncommon in Indian iconography. Our illumination is of particularly high quality and depicts a beautiful Indian woman riding a reined priapus perhas twice her size. The priapus is depicted with avain feet and giant wings. The environment is like a strange dream: in the foreground a grey pool with pink flowers; behind are dark green hills with eerie trees and vegetation. In the sky at sunset are what appear to be rain clouds touched in white. We have been unable to transcribe the text but there is writing on the verso. <br/><br/>The second illumination depicts a grotesque she-devil with fangs horns and a long tongue naked save for pearls around her wrists ankles and biceps. Above her waist her speckled skin is light purple and below dark green. The monster clutches to a strange tree on which four priapus grow and with it engages in sexual relations. She reaches toward a basket of several other priapus which are positioned on an upper branch. As with the accompanying illumination in the foreground we find a watery pool and pink flowers and dark green hills studded by surreal trees. The setting is at twilight. <br/><br/>HIGHLY CURIOUS AND MUST BE SEEN TO BE FULLY APPRECIATED. unknown books
1827295301London: Colburn 1827. First. hardcover. near fine. 329 pages. Small 8vo 3/4 red polished calf over old marbled boards ornate gilt-stamped spine with raised bands. London: Colburn 1827. First Edition.<br/><br/> Comprising an Account of his Campaigns and Adventures in England Ireland Denmark Portugal Spain Malta Sicily and Italy.<br/><br/> Colburn unknown books
186728384New York: Leonard Scott Publishing Company 1867. First Edition. Three Quarter Leather. Very Good. Fleeming Jenkin 1833-1885 was an English engineer and scientist who discovered and exposed an error in Darwin's statement of his Theory of Evolution. Not knowing about genetics Darwin believed that evolution took place through the "blending" of inherited characteristics. Jenkin showed that this blending would lead to the inability of individual mutations to survive in the population. 282 282 pp. 4to. Three quarter leather binding with light tan corners and spine gold embossed titling on dark black and dark red patches five raised bands. Marbled paper insets to front and rear boards marbled endpapers. Clean within. Leonard Scott Publishing Company unknown books
196051988New York: Viking Press 1960. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo 22cm.; yellow cloth spine over black paper-covered boards; stamped in black on spine; yellow topstain; dustjacket; 178pp. Light rubbing slightly nudged at spine ends - a Near Fine copy; dustjacket is price-clipped; lightly rubbed with a few nicks at spine ends; Very Good. Anonymously-published first novel by John Grant better known under the pen name Jonathan Gash. Viking Press unknown books
1671182236No place.: No publisher. 1671 . Old full calf raised bands gilt spine decorations gilt ruled borders and edges red spine label marbled endpapers red edges ribbon marker. Very good light shelfwear to extremities very light scattered foxing. 12mo. 14.5x8 cm. . French text. A collection of essays by the skeptic philosopher. weight: 0.3 lb. No publisher. hardcover books
30832No Place: No Publisher No Date. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Thick side-stapled wrappers. The "anonymous" issue of Larry Fagin's literary journal entitled Adventures In Poetry. Published without any names or publication info due to the pornographic comic strip covers. A clean very good copy. Undated but from circa 1973. One of the most difficult issues of this poetry journal to locate. Only four copies noted in institutional hands. No Publisher paperback books
1853008705Edinburgh Dublin and London: A. Fullarton 1853. SCARCE. vii440; viii 464; 436; iv 416. with 23 of the 25 leaves of plates present. Vol. I published 1853 Vol. II 1851 Vols. III and IV 1852. Four volumes in contemporary half calf over pebbled brown morocco gilt backs with red morocco labels the bookplates of George D. Gregory. Hinges starting to open yet holding nicely boards rubbed interiors clean. Only auction record found for this set in any edition at RBH was 1915. John Parker Lawson was an ecclesiastical historian who was also a Deacon in the Scottish Episcopal Church. Later Edition. Half Calf. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. A. Fullarton Hardcover books
197025554Berkeley: Berkeley Poster Workshop circa 1970. Light creasing along right edge. In fine excellent condition. Silkscreen poster. 11 1/2 x 18 inches. An anti-war poster from the Berkeley Political Poster Workshop featuring a version of the "Lets Have Peace / Lisa" logo here being painted by a little girl onto a t-shirt worn by a man who resembles MalaquÃas Montoya. Printed on bright lime-green paper. The Political Poster Workshop was a loose collective of student activists that formed in 1970 out of screenprinting classes led by Montoya an important figure in the Chicano Art Movement and lecturer at Berkeley. Berkeley: Berkeley Poster Workshop unknown books
1991198065New York: Masquerade Books 1991. Paperback. 192p. extensive backlist very good first mass-market paperback edition in pictorial wraps. Erotic novel with some lesbian content what I like to call L4Str8 or Lesbians for straight men. Masquerade Books paperback books
