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1895289119San Francisco. : Filmer-Rollins Electrotype. 1895. . 1st Edition. Hardcover original blue cloth over beveled boards. . Light wear to extremities spine title faded otherwise very good. . 8vo. Filmer-Rollins Electrotype. hardcover books
1867285059Philadephia. : E. Cuminskey. 1867. . Original brown cloth gilt title vignette on cover no spine title. . Light spotting to cover otherwise a very good copy. . 12mo. Scarce. E. Cuminskey. hardcover books
193316207New York: The Macaulay Company. Good in Very Good dj. 1933. 2nd printing. Hardcover. ex-rental library book Vierstahler Bros. on Walnut St. city unknown marked by only a single stamp on the ffep some soiling to fore-edge and bottom page edges binding a little weak but no cracks or splits light shelfwear; jacket is edgeworn with small tears and a teensy bit of paper loss at several corners a bit of smudging/creasing in front panel moderate soiling to rear panel. According to the jacket blurb of this book -- "so startling so new that is is certain to make literary history" -- both men AND women would find out more about the mysteries of the female body than they ever imagined. "The secret side of womanhood most of it dark even to the women themselves is revealed under the searching kindly inquiry of the consultation-chamber and the relentless probing insistence of the operating-room." Despite the singular title the book is actually structured around the experiences of two doctors who eventually come into conflict when one is accused of having facilitated an abortion. The setting is specified as Toronto which is a tipoff to the identity of the author: one Sol Allen a Canadian writer whose 1929 novel "They Have Bodies" published in the U.S. under the name "Barney Allen" has been cited as an almost unique early example of modernist Canadian fiction. And interestingly he also published two novels later as "Sol Barney Allen" -- apparently his true full name -- that would appear to cover the same ground: "Toronto Doctor" 1949 and "The Gynecologist" 1965. There's an extensive glossary of medical terms at the end of the book which permits the author to avoid the use of "repellent terms." And speaking of relentless probing by the way: could anything be much scarier than that jacket illustration . The Macaulay Company hardcover books
193321064New York: The Macaulay Company 1933. Second printing. Hardcover. Very good/good. 8vo. Dark brown cloth with maroon titles and illustration stamped to front board and spine. In original pictorial dust jacket. A very good copy in a good DJ. 1.25" tall chip to jacket front panel. Some creasing and chipping to top and bottom of jacket especially at spine; price clipped. Boards a bit rubbed with a thin layer of soil. Front hinge repaired. Clean throughout. 307pp. <br/><br/>Sensational novel of two OB-GYN doctors and their patients. Despite the book's "completely frank medical vocabulary" and use of a "simple and easily understandable glossary" a contemporary review in the Journal of the American Medical Association summed up the work thus: "The book is neither fish nor fowl neither fiction nor science neither essay nor poetry. It is just an attempt to capitalize the public's morbid interest in obstetrics gynecology and abortions." The Macaulay Company hardcover books
19881691.1Southeastern PA: Stoneway 1988. Hardback. Nr. F sl. cock. 8vo. <br/><br/> Stoneway hardcover 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
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
195810122New York: Macaulay 1958. First Edition. First Edition. Browning to page edges and light shelfwear but no tears to dust jacket else Fine. Blindstamp to half-title page. Macaulay unknown books
1957WRCLIT71460Paris: The Traveller's Companion Series / The Olympia Press 1957. Stiff printed wrappers. Tiny label affixed over price on lower wrapper modest rubbing at spine ends otherwise a very good or better copy considerably above the norm. First edition of this unexpurgated translation attributed to Austryn Wainhouse of Cocteau's anonymously published 1928 novella LE LIVRE BLANC. Published as TC #51. The wrapper title incorporates the indefinite rather than definite article. KEARNEY 1987 126. KEARNEY & CARROLL 5.51.1. YOUNG 499. The Traveller's Companion Series / The Olympia Press unknown books
195835640NY: Macaulay 1958. Jean Cocteau. Small 8vo pp. 88. Introduction and illustrations by Jean Cocteau. A VG tight copy. Macaulay unknown books
183728010London: Edward Lacey; Liverpool: Henry Lacey 1837 1837. Second printing; the first was dated 1830 issued by the same publisher. OCLC records four locations for the 1830 issue Florida Indiana BL UBS and one for this 1837 issue Toronto. Boards worn and a little darkened but the images are clear and intact; very good copy. 12mo original blue cloth backed pictorial boards. Frontispiece vignette title three plates and one vignette. Four pages of advertisements. A scarce work of fiction for young adults with a dual moral lesson about the poor in which the anonymous author attributes their misery to the surplus of labor caused by mechanization. The "increasing depravity of the lower orders" is a result of economic forces not moral turpitude. The main character Richard Strange is born into poverty but manages to succeed with determination hard work - and some luck. <br/><br/> London: Edward Lacey; Liverpool: Henry Lacey, [1837] hardcover books
2002467852002. ANONYMOUS. THE WAY OF A MAN WITH A MAID. New Milford Conn.: Magic Carpet 2002. 8vo. boards in dust jacket. Reprint. A Victorian erotic novel. Near fine in d/j. $25.00. <br/><br/> hardcover books
186941375Boston: Henry A. Young 1869. 12mo pp. ix 160. Series: The rosy dawn. Donor's presentation on flyleaf. Green cloth stamped in black and gilt. Cover little worn at edges o/w a VG tight copy. For children a story about a a poor child in London and her rescue. Lots of religion added. Henry A. Young unknown books
182319968Boston: Published by Samuel T. Armstrong and Crocker & Brewster No. 50 Cornhill 1823. First edition. Original pictorial wrappers 5.5 x 3.5 inches 36 pages with the frontispiece first leaf mounted to the inside front wrapper as published. <br /><br />"Thus died an amiable and excellent youth. His parents lost a beloved son and the Sunday-school a valuable teacher and society a useful member. There was much energy in his character which promised to be very beneficial to mankind. He was a very active member of the committee of the Bible Association. He regularly collected from several of its districts and from the workmen of the manufactory where he was employed as clerk; he obtained upwards of forty subscribers to the Bible Society since April last." <br /><br />The supposedly biographical account of the deathbed conduct and conversations of a pious 17-year-old confident in his new birth in Jesus and full of parting counsel for his younger siblings etc. with a remarkable coda as narrated by the departed young man from beyond: <br /><br />"You remember me when I wore an earthly form and spoke to you in human language. Many of you followed my body to the grave and wept as you saw my coffin committed to the ground. My spirit dwells not there. Through the riches of the Savior's love and the power of his grace I have reached the skies." <br /><br />The anticipation here in voice and approach to the trance medium messages from later Spiritualist accounts is not far to seek suggesting that the language of spirit communication may have awaited only the scientific explanations of mesmerism trance clairvoyance etc. to become empirical truths rather than simply theological allegories. OCLC suggests two locations AAS Free Library of Philadelphia plus the OCLC FAST Project--a location one half-suspects is as insubstantial as the nature of spiritual communication itself. <br /><br />Some light foxing and soiling and wear; a very good copy. Published by Samuel T. Armstrong, and Crocker & Brewster, No. 50, Cornhill books
1872002741Boston: D. Lothrop & Co. 1872. First Edition. Very good. Presumed first edition n. d. ca 1872; 4 3/4 x 3 1/4; pp. 7 8-53 3; beige paper over boards; chromolithographed illustration pasted on front board; illustrated with black and white plates and small vignettes at the beginning of each chapter; thin closed cut to paper along spine; a small gift inscription to ffep; in about very good condition. An unusual Victorian chapter book it told the story of a little boy his longing for the life of a sailor and his path to the ultimate victory. D. Lothrop & Co. hardcover books
1851m1310London: John W. Parker 1851. 1st edition. Duodecimo cloth 215 pp. Wood-engraved plates illus. Good; moderate shelf wear. John W. Parker, 1851. hardcover books
281056No place. : No publisher. No date. . Reprint. Olive stapled wraps black cover title. . Owner’s notes to one page otherwise a fine copy. . 4to. Numerous illustrations. No publisher. paperback books
189029233London: Routledge 1890. Small 8vo pp. 106-199. Illustrated. Paper over boards loose in case Worn. A book for children. Routledge unknown books
1710290254London. : Jacob Tonson. 1710. Contemporary full leather raised bands. . Fair boards detached many leaves darkly toned text still tightly bound and attached to spine. Small folio 32x20.3 cm. . Folio edition published for the House of Peers. Pages 77-84 with no page number on the verso. weight: 2.8 lb. Jacob Tonson. hardcover books
174427491London: Printed for T. Harris and Sold by C. Corbet 1744 1744. Second edition; first published in 1637. ESTC T51881. Fine copy. 8vo disbound 30 pages. The story of a famous miser who operated a ferry boat on the Thames near where the London Bridge eventually went. John Overs was frugal to a fault and from his appearance it was thought he was poor. But he died a rich man leaving wealth to his beautiful daughter. <br/><br/> London: Printed for T. Harris and Sold by C. Corbet, 1744 unknown books
27068British Isles: No Publisher No Date. First edition. Paperback. Good. 10 1/4" x 7 1/4" wide stiff cardboard wrappers. Illustrated children's book about Chinko the monkey. No publication info provided other than a statement that it was produced in the British Isles. Presumed first. A good-only copy. Worn and with some hand-coloring by unknown youngsters. No author or illustrator noted. No Publisher paperback books
1931002664Racine WI: Whitman Publishing Co. 1931. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 12" in diameter; pp. 18 including text to wraps verso; pictorial wraps; numerous in-line illustrations; closed splits and two small rubbed spots to tips of spine; fore-edge lightly curved upward; a few small nicks to edges; in about very good- condition. A beautiful children's travel book shaped like a globe it followed Peter and Peggy's adventure around the world and described various countries with their landmarks and places of interest including Cuba China Singapore Palestine France Costa Rica and more. Whitman Publishing Co. paperback books
197226416San Francisco: Hermes Free Press 1972. First edition. Paperback. Very Good . Folio. Sewn wrappers. 6 pp. Printed on Bergstrom papers with the text set on Centaur & Cloister types. Rare anonymous collaboration between Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder. Subtitled "Being the Assignment of Same to the Honorable Senators Lawmakers of the United States Government toward the Preservation of Life and Spirit in these Lands. This Investiture Proclaimed in Grace Cathedral at the Autumnal Equinox 1971." Published by the Hermes Free Press an offshoot of the Zephyrus Press of San Francisco. Noted on page 175 of Alistair Johnston's "Zephyrus Image: A Bibliography" who notes "10 1/4 x 14 3/4" 12 page book sewn into brown Tweedweave cover "printed on Bergstrom papers at Hermes Free Press in San Francisco Spring 1972" Centaur type in brown on cover. This book assigns specific endangered plants and animals to each U.S. Senator. Originally in printed manila envelope lacking with this copy. One copy was mailed to each U.S. Senator. Rob Rusk writes . The Totem Protectorates appeared in another issue of Place magazine half on the inside front cover and half on the inside back cover - the Neon Rose issue - tho I'm unsure whether it was photocopied or reset". Interestingly neither the Morgan bibliography of Ginsberg or the McNeil bibliography of Snyder makes mention of this independent piece. Only four copies located in O.C.L.C. Although the print run is unstated according again to Johnston the typical Zephyrus Image publications were generally produced in small quantities perhaps 100 to 200 copies. Scarce item. Hermes Free Press paperback books
197038410N.p. n.d. ca. 1970s. First Edition. Octavo 20cm.; publisher's pictorial staplebound card wrappers; unpaginated; illus. throughout. Wrappers very slightly toned else Near Fine. S&M erotica. unknown books
1844214686Edinburgh: Fullerton 1844. hardcover. very good. Large folding map of Scotland and numerous steel engravings. 2 volumes 814 852 pages double column tall thick 8vo 3/4 black calf ornate gilt and blind stamped pattern on spines marbled boards. Edinburgh: Fullerotn 1844. Very good .<br/><br/> Previous owner's bookplate.<br/><br/> Fullerton unknown books
