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19232221629<p>IN RARE DUST JACKET</p><p>First edition. Octavo. Original pictorial brown cloth stamped in yellow/orange and black with design of prospector child covered wagon and oxen team. Dust jacket unclipped; short tears; small chips; stains to back panel. Very good. 289 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Uncommon thus.</p> The Times-Mirror Press hardcover
19212221716<p>First edition so stated. Octavo. Nine page introduction by Gelett Burgess. Grey's article appears at pages 80-83. Original gilt blue cloth. Dust jacket unclipped. Fine. 288 pages. No signatures or bookplates.</p><p>Other contributors include Mary Austin Rex Beach Robert W. Chambers Edna Ferber Hamlin Garland Rupert Hughes Sinclair Lewis Opie Read Ernest Thompson Seton Booth Tarkington Owen Wister Harold Bell Wright et.al.</p><p>Russo & Sullivan page 169 - Tarkington's poem "Tree."</p> The Authors' League of America by Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover
19032221577<p>First edition October 1903. 7 1/2' x 5 1/4". Illustrated with four inserted b/w plates by C. W. Ashley and eleven chapter drawings by G. W. H. Original blue pictorial cloth stamped in gilt white green and olive with nautical design of ship in turbulent waters and five ambling penguins. No dust jacket. Tight fresh bright fine gorgeous copy. 328 pages. No signatures or bookplates.</p> The Baker & Taylor Co. hardcover
191047464London / Garden City NY: William Heinemann / Doubleday & Company 1910. Early reprint . Hardcover. Near Fine. Arthur Rackham. Intruduction with list of illustrations. Rip Van Winkle plus plus postscript 61 pages. A all forty-nine tipped in color plates with tissue gaurds plus the frontis are present total 50. Publisher Doubleday printed in gilt at the base of the spine. Bound in original green cloth with lettering and illustration embossed in gilt on the front cover and gilt lettering on the spine also in gilt. A near fine copy. <br/> <br/> William Heinemann / Doubleday & Company hardcover
19692222193<p>First edition thus. 32mo 3 1/2" x 2 3/4". Full gilt stamped blue morocco. Fine. 8 pages.</p><p>This copy is printed for San Francisco bookseller David Magee.</p><p>One of five copies printed entirely on vellum.</p> The Beagle Press hardcover
1939603046<p>"Sidney Sheldon" in black fountain pen ink on pictorial Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation Studios letterhead Beverly Hills California May 1 1939. 8 1/2" x 11"; 2 separate pages recto only. Very good. To Mr. Robert Lewis H.N. Swanson Beverly Hills Sheldon newly arrived in Hollywood and employed at 20th Century Fox as a reader submits his resume to the Swanson agency. He lists his academic credits at Northwestern University as well as radio work acting and newspaper jobs writings etc. A fascinating look into his life years before he became famous. IMDB lists his first film credit as "South of Panama" 1941. Sheldon b. 1917 - d. 2007 born February 11 1917 Chicago Illinois; died January 30 2007 Rancho Mirage California; American novelist and screenwriter. His screenplays include: "Annie Get Your Gun" 1950; "Bloodline" 1979; "Sands of Time" 1992; "A Stranger in the Mirror" 1993. Hi work for television includes: creator of "I Dream of Jeannie" 1965 and "Hart to Hart" 1979.</p> unknown
16-6456Circa 1930s. Color lithograph. 39.5 x 32.5cm One of 20 signed numbered and annotated impressions.Annex Galleries: "Elie Georges Marie Villa was born in Montmédy the Meuse Lorraine France on January 24 1883. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Francais. Vila was a prolific painter engraver lithographer poster designer and illustrator of political and sports themes for some of the most prominent newspapers and magazines of his time: Artes et Sports l’ Assiette au Beurre Comedia Illustre etc. He was also a well-known portrait artist whose subjects included aviation fencing gastronomy and aristocratic ladies of the 18th century. Between 1944 and 1946 he did illustrations of Montmartre songs including “Avec les lorettes Mimi Pinson et Pierrot.†He gained fame as a portraitist and was invited to Russia by the uncle of Tzar Nicolas II to do portraits of Russian officers. It is probably here where he met General Dimitri d'Osnobichine who was also an artist and whose estate these works are from. In 1908 Villa accompanied a Russian archaeological expedition to Egypt.Back in France he began a new career as an illustrator doing mainly cartoons. He also illustrated books including works by Anatole France Theophile Gautier Edgar Allen Poe and Louys Pierre. In the 1920’s Villa was part of the Parisian Année Folles Crazy Years and became known for his caricatures and portraits as well as his erotic drawings using charcoal and pastel. Many of Villa’s outstanding illustrations can be found in limited edition collectors’ books including 12 erotic lithographs to accompany the poetry of Edmond Haraucourt Poemes hysteriques an eroticized parody of the poems of Victor Hugo. Georges Villa cut his own copper and stone plates for his engravings. Villa illustrated 26 menus between 1925 and 1964 and painted a “masterpiece†Pierrot postcard for Wague in 1930.He was a member of Les Humoristes as well as a Knight of the Legion of Honor. In 1929 Georges Villa and Roger Braun started the Bibliophiles of Cornet an appendage of the Cornet Society. Villa remained a Cornet Society member until his death. He authored his own novel Special Infirmiry published in 1953.Georges Villa died in Paris on November 19 1965. " Provenance: Jacques Cathy - Né en 1906 à Lezay Deux-Sèvres Jacques Cathy a exercé d’abord la profession de caricaturiste à l’hebdomadaire « Le Rire ». Il a rejoint vers 1927 l’équipe du Cabaret « La Vache Enragée » conduite par Roger Toziny. Jacques Cathy poursuit sa carrière de chansonnier après le décès de Toziny en 1939 et après la guerre il conduit parallèlement une carrière d’acteur dans le cinéma. Jacques Cathy était le 3ème Maire de La Commune Libre de Montmartre à partir de l’élection en 1949.Final provenance: Les Collections Aristophil - 164 bis avenue Charles-de-Gaulle 92200 Neuilly-sur-Seine. Circa 1930s unknown
16-64551931. Color lithograph. 38 x 28 cm One of 20 signed numbered and annotated impressions.Lithograph for the Pharmaciens Bibliophiles for the publication of: "Contes choisis de J.-F. DEMACHY. Maître Apothicaire de Paris. Démonstrateur au Collège de Pharmacie de Paris. Censeur royal 1728-1803. Notes et Préface de L.-G. TORAUDE. Ornés d'illustrations en couleurs de Georges VILLA.".Annex Galleries: "Elie Georges Marie Villa was born in Montmédy the Meuse Lorraine France on January 24 1883. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Francais. Vila was a prolific painter engraver lithographer poster designer and illustrator of political and sports themes for some of the most prominent newspapers and magazines of his time: Artes et Sports l’ Assiette au Beurre Comedia Illustre etc. He was also a well-known portrait artist whose subjects included aviation fencing gastronomy and aristocratic ladies of the 18th century. Between 1944 and 1946 he did illustrations of Montmartre songs including “Avec les lorettes Mimi Pinson et Pierrot.†He gained fame as a portraitist and was invited to Russia by the uncle of Tzar Nicolas II to do portraits of Russian officers. It is probably here where he met General Dimitri d'Osnobichine who was also an artist and whose estate these works are from. In 1908 Villa accompanied a Russian archaeological expedition to Egypt.Back in France he began a new career as an illustrator doing mainly cartoons. He also illustrated books including works by Anatole France Theophile Gautier Edgar Allen Poe and Louys Pierre. In the 1920’s Villa was part of the Parisian Année Folles Crazy Years and became known for his caricatures and portraits as well as his erotic drawings using charcoal and pastel. Many of Villa’s outstanding illustrations can be found in limited edition collectors’ books including 12 erotic lithographs to accompany the poetry of Edmond Haraucourt Poemes hysteriques an eroticized parody of the poems of Victor Hugo. Georges Villa cut his own copper and stone plates for his engravings. Villa illustrated 26 menus between 1925 and 1964 and painted a “masterpiece†Pierrot postcard for Wague in 1930.He was a member of Les Humoristes as well as a Knight of the Legion of Honor. In 1929 Georges Villa and Roger Braun started the Bibliophiles of Cornet an appendage of the Cornet Society. Villa remained a Cornet Society member until his death. He authored his own novel Special Infirmiry published in 1953.Georges Villa died in Paris on November 19 1965. " Provenance: Jacques Cathy - Né en 1906 à Lezay Deux-Sèvres Jacques Cathy a exercé d’abord la profession de caricaturiste à l’hebdomadaire « Le Rire ». Il a rejoint vers 1927 l’équipe du Cabaret « La Vache Enragée » conduite par Roger Toziny. Jacques Cathy poursuit sa carrière de chansonnier après le décès de Toziny en 1939 et après la guerre il conduit parallèlement une carrière d’acteur dans le cinéma. Jacques Cathy était le 3ème Maire de La Commune Libre de Montmartre à partir de l’élection en 1949.Final provenance: Les Collections Aristophil - 164 bis avenue Charles-de-Gaulle 92200 Neuilly-sur-Seine. 1931 unknown
1917602122<p>"Kate Douglas Wiggin" in black fountain pen ink on 3/4 length pose seated in an ornate Chinese chair wearing large hat with her hands inside of a fur muff. Photograph is by Aimee Dupont N.Y. with logo in the lower left corner and is on heavy stock and on the original photographer’s mount. Image size 4 3/8" x 6 1/8" on a contemporary beveled edge mount no printing on the back 5 1/4" x 7 1/4"; very good several tiny chips to the emulsion; very good; 1917. Signed and inscribed: "To Louis Raker with sincere regard Kate Douglas Wiggin." Also signed in the upper left corner: "L.R./K.D.W. 1917." Wiggin 1856-1923 American writer and educator; organized in San Francisco the first free kindergarten on Pacific coast in 1878; founded with her sister California Kindergarten Training School in 1880; also wrote the enormously popular "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm" 1903 filmed by Fox in 1932 and 1938.</p> unknown
1903310454Verlags-Anstalt vorm. G.J. Manz Buch- u. Kunstdruckerei A.-G. München 1903. Hardcover Leinen ohne Schutzumschlag Und aus den Jahren 1904190519071908. Zustand: Keine Beschädigungen leicht fleckig. Rücken Ecken Kanten sind gut. Aus einer Klosterbibliothek mit Kennungen Stempel Rückenschild. Verlags-Anstalt vorm. G.J. Manz, Buch- u. Kunstdruckerei A.-G., München, hardcover
2004021985Los Angeles: Mooradian Fine Art Inc` 2004. First Edition . Cloth. Fine/Near Fine DJ. 13" Tall. Color Plates Throughout. 338 Pp. Illustrated Cloth We Have Also Seen An Unillustrated Blue Cloth Binding Perhaps A Remainder. Massive Profusely Illustrated With Appendices Including Chronology And Bibliography At End. Ex-Libris Nicolas Cage Although Not Marked As Such. <br/> <br/> Mooradian Fine Art Inc` hardcover
1931009107London: Newly Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press and Published for the Press By Basil Blackwell 1931. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Limited Edition. Large 8vo. "One thousand copies of this edition have been printed in England at the Shakespeare Head Press Saint Aldates Oxford" Frontispieces with captioned tissue guards a few further plates with captioned tissue guards. Original dust jackets very good to fine with minimal general wear and a little rubbing to edges a few small marks slightly scuffed to head/tail of spines with minimal chip to vol II now protected in a clear archival sleeve. Orange cloth binding fine and bright with minimal wear having been protected by the dust jackets. Contents clean and tight no inscriptions appear unread. A fine set in very good dust jackets. Newly Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press and Published for the Press By Basil Blackwell Hardcover
1892268469Verlag der J.C. v. Seidelschen Buchhandlung Sulzbach 1892. Softcover 12 Bände 1892-1895 1899-1901 1904 1906 1907 1909 1910. Zustand: keine Beschädigungen keine Eintragungen. Ecken Kanten gut. Rücken teilweise leicht beschädigt Rückencover beim Jahr 1910 mit Fehlstelle. Verlag der J.C. v. Seidelschen Buchhandlung, Sulzbach, paperback
1895249416Verlag von Otto Janke Berlin 1895. Hardcover Pappe mit Lederrücken und -ecken ohne Schutzumschlag Zustand: keine Eintragungen. Rücken Ecken Kanten bestoßen. Die Seiten 87-90 drohen sich vom Block zu lösen und haben einen Randriss. Vorsatz und Schnitt sind fleckig. Verlag von Otto Janke, Berlin, hardcover
30602LONDON M JONES 1812. SCARCE. THE LOUNGER AND SPORTMAN'S VADE-MECUM. LACKS FRONTIS. REBOUND IN GREEN CLOTH NEW ENDPAPERS. VERY GOOD. A DICTIONARY OF THE VULGAR TONGUE NOT FOR THE POLITICALLY CORRECT. LONDON, M JONES, 1812 hardcover
1929018025New York: Thornton W. Allen Co. 1929. Volume I is No 6 of 500 first and autographed editions signed and inscribed by the author. The inscription reads ' For the mother of our dear little daughter Mrs Arthur Guy with sincere appreciation and best wishes' No other marks. No creasing to covers or to spines. Three very clean very tight copies with very slightly faded very slightly foxed unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Grey cloth corners and spines on blue stiff card boards with quality paper untrimmed on two edges. Volume II of identical format and condition is the fifth trilogy edition. Total of 603pp. Epic poems of the lives of US Presidents George Washington The Commander-in-Chief and Abraham Lincoln The Emancipator and of US Confederate General Robert E Lee The Gray Cavalier. Signed by Author. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 7.75 x 5.25 x 2.75 Inches. Thornton W. Allen Co. Hardcover
177021677London: S. Hooper 1770. Book. Good Reading Copy. Full-Leather. Third Edition. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 293 280 pages. Fold-out frontispiece to volume I. Published in two volumes - Third edition greatly enlarged and improved. Both volumes are in need of rebinding. S. Hooper Hardcover
38618LONDON CADELL 1806. SIXTH EDITION CORRECTED. FINELY REBOUND IN QUARTER CALF OVER MARBLED BOARDS RAISED BANDS NEW ENDPAPERS. A HANDSOME BOOK. LONDON, CADELL, 1806 hardcover
44868HALAE MAGDEBURGICAE 1741. .CUM FUNDAMENTIS NECESSARIIS TUM PARADIGMATIBUS PLENIORIBUS TUM DENIQUE UBERE SYNTAXI ET IDIOMATIBUS LINGUAE INSTRUCTA. FIRST EDITION RUBRICATED TITLE LATER 19C CLOTH OVER MARBLED BOARDS MARBLED EDGES. 176 PAGES. A VERY GOOD COPY. SYRIASMUS THAT IS IS THE GRAMMAR OF THE SYRIAC LANGUAGE WITH THE NECESSARY FOUNDATIONS BOTH WITH THE FULLER PARADIGMS AND THE LESSER SYNTAX AND IDIOMS OF THE LANGUAGE. HALAE MAGDEBURGICAE, 1741 hardcover
191218514London: Stanley Paul 1912. Book. Good. Hardback. Signed by Author and Publisher. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 313 pages. White vellum spine with gilt title vellum is dusty. Green cloth boards with gilt title and decoration. Top edge gilt other edges uncut. This edition is limited to 20 copies for sale of which this copy is No. 19. Authors signature. Publishers signature. 15th September 1912. 31 Essex Street London W.C. Stanley Paul Hardcover
1925017535London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd 1925. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards minor sunning and very minor marking to cream vellum spine marbled end papers dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. Clear gilt lettering on light brown label on spine. 315pp. Undated ca 1920s. Introduction on 38 pages. The medieval epic tale of Reynard the Fox first printed by Caxton in the 15the century here with a text modernised by William Swan Stallybrass and with an Introduction by William Rose. This is followed by the writings of Physiologus translated from the Latin by James Carlill. Lastly there is an extensive Glossary and Notes on Caxton's words and phrases. Included are Kaulbach's famous illustrations. We do not use stock photos the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery. Hard Cover. Very Good /No Jacket. Illus. by Kaulbach. 7.5 x 5 inches. George Routledge & Sons Ltd Hardcover
179343288Leipzig: In Officina Weidmannia. 1793. Hardcover. Very Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. Book has been rebound in 1/2 leather binding with dark speckled boards with brown leather spine labels. Attractive. Small chip to spine label with some loss. Corners slightly worn. Foxing passim. Tanning to pages. Notes in ink to ffep in very neat hand.; Xxx 482 pp; Vol. 1 Only; 1; 482 pages . In Officina Weidmannia hardcover
199436774E. J. Brill. 1994. Hardcover. Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket. Scholar's name to ffep D. Gerber. Very faint shelfwear to book and DJ. Very minor bumping to corners of rear board.; Mnemosyne Bibliotheca Classica Batava Supplementum; 6.75 X 1.5 X 10 inches; 448 pages . 9004101586 . E. J. Brill hardcover
170929127Thomas Lombrail. 1709. Hardcover. Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. Vellum binding. Ex-library plate to front inner cover Porkington Library. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover G. P. Goold. No markings to text. Internally VG. All edges sprinkled red and blue. Front hinge starting to crack. 2 corners rounded. Spine is torn at top 10 cm with chipping and tears to top of spine and some loss. Else book is still solid.; Titlepage in red and black with woodcut 2pp Dedication 4pp Preface 6pp of Testamonia & Emendanda bust of Menander 375pp including Philemon's bust on page 289 29p of index in Greek and Latin.; 375 pages . Thomas Lombrail hardcover
1993294142Verlag Herder Freiburg 1993. Softcover Dritte Auflage Fünfzehn 15 Bände. 1-11: A-Z 12: Register 13-15: Das vatikanische Konzil. Die Konzilsbände sind von 1966. Zustand: keine Beschädigungen aus eienr Klosterbibliothek mit Kennungen Rücken Ecken Kanten gut. Verlag Herder, Freiburg, paperback
