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182319787Philadelphia: Carey & Lea 1823. Engraving with full period colour. Backed on linen. Split at fold expertly repaired. Occasional creases. Fascinating and informative map of Connecticut from one of the most innovative American atlases of the 19th century.<br/> <br/>Carey & Lea's atlas established a style that was widely admired especially in Europe: placing a fully coloured map as the centerpiece of the page and surrounding it with geographical and historical facts. The texts were well written and intriguing. The immense transformation of continental America: the vast migration settlement and industrialization really began at about this time not long after the War of 1812 when expansion and opportunity were American by-words. It was at this time that American atlases began to need semi-annual revisions because the country had changed so rapidly. In fact the Carey & Lea gazetteer style most reminiscent of Herman Moll really was too time consuming for the firms that published atlases of America as the century progressed. Carey & Lea unknown books
1925167263Paris: Siege Social - Cercle de la Librairie 1925. paperback. very good. Two volumes. Profusely illustrated throughout some in color with samples of finely printed book pages covers and drawings. 4to original brown printed wrappers edgeworn especially at spine ends; some signatures starting in second volume; uncut edges. Paris: Siege Social - Cercle de la Librairie 1926 1928. Very good.<br/><br/> I: Premiere Annee 1925. Limited edition of 2000 numbered copies. II: Deuxieme Annee 1926-1927.<br/><br/> Siege Social - Cercle de la Librairie unknown books
18801006298vo original decorative cloth illustrated with 44 of 48 plates Volume two of a three volume set. Binding is worn around the extremities library plate some loose pages hinges are weak and a bit of foxing and aging but plates are generally bright and attractive. Originally published in a three volume set with 144 chromolithographed plates. Although the present volume contains only 44 of the plates they are bright and colorful illustrations. Hume & Marshall, hardcover books
188219572New York: G.W. Carleton & Co. 1882. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. Printed cloth gilt-stamped titles. Very good. Modest scuffs edgewear to boards. Pages moderately to heavily foxed throughout but complete and unmarked. Binding cracked at several points; mostly good and sound throughout. 514pp. <br/><br/>Rare. Stated eighteenth edition but OCLC locates no other editions of this title so this was likely a marketing tactic to increase the impression of the book's popularity. OCLC finds only four worldwide holdings of the physical book: one in Canada and three in the U.S. An extensively illustrated general encyclopedia for popular consumption which includes "whole chapters upon" subjects including Fine Arts Jurisprudence Vegetable Creation Animal Creation Mineralogy Chronology and more; edited by "The Ablest Talent the World Affords." G.W. Carleton & Co. hardcover books
191760665Oklahoma City OK 1917. Beige wrappers with stapled spine red ink title and illustration on front cover. 8vo. 28pp. with photo illustrations. World War I battalion of engineers gettting ready to go overseas songs poems group pictures and roster. <br/><br/> unknown books
306138New York The Vanguard Press 1954. First edition. 8vo. Dust jacket unclipped; rubbed; few nicks. Very good. 442 pages. No other signatures or bookplates. Presentation copy signed and inscribed by Sitwell: "For Helen and Kurt Wolff signed with best wishes by Edith Sitwell." Helen and Kurt Wolff were book publishers associated with Harcourt Brace and Jovanovich. Fifoot EA49: Pages 115-116 are on a stub. The English edition was not published until 1957. Signed by Authors. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. New York, The Vanguard Press [1954]. hardcover books
187824532Boston Massachusetts: Sampson Davenport and Company 1878. First Edition. Cloth. Good. First Edition. 6 ads 860 2 pages. Advertisements on endpapers as well. Colored folded map of Massachusetts in front. 8vo. Publisher's black cloth with coppergilt lettering on spine panel. Cover is worn with silverfish damage to surface of cloth and front hinge paper. Sound textblock front hinge loose and could use reinforcement. Cloth. A scarce survival most were discarded as they became dated or when the nice colored map was removed and sold separately. Now a great reference for who was active in Boston a major city at the time. Sampson, Davenport, and Company unknown books
1804247484Hudson N.Y. 1804. 8 pp. printed in three columns. 4to. Old fold lines. Minor soiling and toning. Very good. In a tan half morocco and cloth folder spine gilt. 8 pp. printed in three columns. 4to. A single issue of this Upstate New York weekly newspaper which began publication in 1801. This issue contains the text of President Jefferson's Message to Congress of Nov. 8th. In his speech Jefferson discusses relations with foreign powers including the Delaware and other Indian tribes the Louisiana Purchase; the United States Navy; and the federal budget. Critical of Jefferson Croswell would later be tried for libel and defended before the Supreme Court by Alexander Hamilton. The publication of this weekly newspaper would continue through 1807. unknown books
1979011475London: Prospect Books 1979. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. A nice run of the first 20 issues plus 4 non-contiguous issues and the book list for summer/autumn 1982. This copy of issue 1 is a limited edition of only 500 copies for sale and this is especially numbered "HS Lors serie JS 20 of the surplus review copies" and then signed by publisher Alan Davidson. Scarce thus. All clean solid copies - very good or better or near fine. Prospect Books unknown books
193979729Moscow and Leningrad: State Art Publishers 1939. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good. frontis sepia-toned photos unpaginated. Original blue cloth with beveled edges. 26cm. Light cover soil and wear including a small scratch on back cover. Bookplate. No Jacket. Consists almost entirely of captioned photos of Soviet athletics physical culture and mass parades. <br/><br/> State Art Publishers hardcover books
18676779London: F. Warne; Savill and Edwards Printers Chandos-Street Covent Garden 1867. From the "Warne's Bijou Books" series. Duodecimo 9.5 x 6.5 cm. 95 1 pages. Illustrated with a color lithograph frontispiece and extra-title and additional wood engravings in the text. Publisher's advertisement at rear listing twenty-one titles in the series at the time of publication. Evident FIRST EDITION. A tiny etiquette manual with information on how to behave at table accompanied by carving instructions which explain how to portion out a saddle of mutton and many other cuts. With a color lithographic frontispiece and extra title. Bound in blind- and gilt-stamped brown cloth covering flexible boards all edges gilt spine edges showing wear. The gilt-illustrated cover depicts a man and a woman at their dinner table. Edgeworn and a bit shaken; generally good. OCLC records two copies of this original edition. F. Warne; Savill and Edwards, Printers, Chandos-Street, Covent Garden hardcover books
19891994China Tiananmen Square New Star Publishers. <b>The Beijing Riot--A Photo Record</b>. Beijing: New Star Publishers 1989. First Edition First Printing. <br /><br />Small Quarto 10 1/8 x 7 1/4 inches; 260 x 185 mm 32 pages in stapled wrappers.<br /><br />Chinese government booklet justifying the bloody crackdown in Tiananmen Square in June 1989. "Beijing experienced a horrifying counter-revolutionary rebellion on June 3 and 4 1989" according to the introduction. "The purpose of the rebellion was to overthrow the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party and subvert the socialist People's Republic of China."<br /><br />Profusely illustrated with gruesome color photos of soldiers allegedly beaten or killed by "ruffians" and "thugs" as well as photos of burned-out vehicles; ordinary people supposedly thanking soldiers for ending the rebellion; scenes from Tiananmen Square and the surrounding streets; government and party leaders; and much more.<br /><br />This booklet is rare. OCLC lists only three institutional holdings: Harvard and Linfield College in the U.S. and the International Institute of Social History in the Netherlands. An oddly fascinating -- if jarring -- attempt by the Chinese government to present its case to a foreign audience. <b>RARE</b>. <br /><br />CONDITION: Light edge wear rubbing to laminated wrappers internally clean bright and unmarked. A Very Good or better copy. New Star Publishers books
197019264Highland Park MI: Red Hanrahan Press ca. 1970-1974. Near fine. 43 items 20 broadsides 11 postcards 5 bookmarks 3 chapbooks and 4 miscellaneous. Most are about fine with a handful of exceptions light corner creases hints of soil etc. PROVENANCE: Ex-libris Ken Mikolowski who along with his wife Ann operating the long-running Ann Arbor-based Alterative Press publisher of letterpress-printed mail art and broadsides. <br/><br/>A nice collection of publications from this early '70s Michigan fine press named after the W.B. Yeats bard. Red Hanrahan produced primarily broadsides by Detroit-area poets including Henrietta Epstein and other prominent names including Richard Austin Marge Piercy Donald Hall. Many of the publications are advertised as originally being free or costing as little as 50 cents. The collection presents a charming picture of the varied activities of this small press during what appears to be the length of its run WorldCat Identities only locates works from Red Hanrahan published during this period. An itemized list is available on request. Red Hanrahan Press unknown books
186521705St. Paul: Groff & Bailey 1865. First edition 8vo pp. 16 ads 399 including rear free endpaper and rear pastedown; 6 leaves printed on colored paper and outside the pagination are inserted; final 18 leaves in pagination also printed on colored paper; lacking front free endpaper containing ads p. 120-121 torn with loss also pp. 225-234; worn and rubbed soiling to covers else good and sound in orig. red morocco-backed printed paper-covered boards. Includes a full-p. illustrated ad for the North-Western Packet Co. James J. Hill agent. Preface identifies this directory as "the first state directory ever published in Minnesota." <br/><br/> Groff & Bailey hardcover books
1883L0531<p>624 pages with frontispiece and over 300 black and white illustrations. Royal Octavo 9" x 6 1/4" bound in the original publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering and pictorial on spine and black and gilt lettering with pictorial to cover. Lacks the illustration of Twain's head in flames on page 441 and the corrected "St Charles Hotel" on page 443. Simultaneously published in 1883 in the United States and Great Britain the book is the first submitted to a publisher as a typewritten manuscript BAL 34II Second state of the first American edition.<br /><br />Twain once remarked that he considered this book his masterpiece the book that would outlive his other works and endure as a classic. Of course Twain once defined a classic as a book everybody talks about but nobody ever reads. At first glance it seems to be a travel book but it is really a highly readable discursive autobiographical account of Twain's boyhood and his region and of a culture that radically changed since he left home 30 years earlier. It makes good reading as background for <i>Huck Finn</i>. The only thing that is known of the printing history is what Twain wrote in 1891: that 50000 copies were printed and bound but only 32000 sold. Implication is that the unsold copies were reissued by Charles L Webster between 1884 and 1891 when he took over Osgood's stock. Copies are found with Osgood's sheets and Webster cancel title-page in Webster bindings dated 1888 and 1891. As a subscription book this book was similar in size to the hefty tomes of the American Publishing Company but the handsome pictorial brown cloth binding ranks with the binding of <i>Huck Finn</i> as one of the best on a Twain first edition. It could be ordered with gilt edges in full sheep three-quarter morocco and three-quarter calf. MacDonald: <i>Firsts</i>.<br /><br />This is a memoir by Mark Twain of his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War and also a travel book recounting his trip along the Mississippi River from St. Louis to New Orleans many years after the War. The book begins with a brief history of the river as reported by Europeans and Americans beginning with the Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto in 1542. It continues with anecdotes of Twain's training as a steamboat pilot as the 'cub' apprentice of an experienced pilot Horace E. Bixby. He describes with great affection the science of navigating the ever-changing Mississippi River in a section that was first published in 1876 entitled "Old Times on the Mississippi". Although Twain was actually 21 when he began his training he uses artistic license to make himself seem somewhat younger referring to himself as a "fledgling" and a "boy" who "ran away from home" to seek his fortune on the river and playing up his own callowness and naïveté. In the second half Twain narrates his trip many years later on a steamboat from St. Louis to New Orleans. He describes the competition from railroads and the new large cities and adds his observations on greed gullibility tragedy and bad architecture. He also tells some stories that are most likely tall tales. In 1980 the book was adapted as a TV movie for American public television with David Knell performing as Sam Clemens and Robert Lansing as Horace Bixby the steamboat pilot who mentored him. The film used many tall tales from the book woven into a fictional narrative. In 2010 <i>Life on the Mississippi</i> was adapted as a stage musical with book and lyrics by Douglas M. Parker and music by Denver Casado. It was produced that year in Kansas City Missouri and Door County Wisconsin. <br /><br /><b>Condition:</b><br /><br />Recased in original spine some occasional foxing and finger soiling one signature slightly sprung else a very good and bright copy.</p> James R Osgood and Company hardcover books
193923519Moscow: State Art Publishers 1939. Hardcover. Very good/No dust jacket. Moscow: State Art Publishers 1939. Copious b/w photographs. Unpaginated. Hardcover. Small 4to size. Blue cloth. Extremities rubbed; head and heel bumped heel fraying and damaged as well; front joint beginning to crack; preliminaries very lightly toned; former ownerÕs bookplate to verso of ffep. Interior clean; sound. Very good/No dust jacket. Insurance required to ship this item. State Art Publishers hardcover books
185524811Fairfield Iowa and Philadelphia: Henn Williams & Co. and R. Barnes 1855. Folding pocket map lithographed by Friend & Aub of Philadelphia full original period hand colouring. Folds into original blue cloth covers blocked in blind the upper cover with publisher and title in gilt. A fine copy of this attractive map of Iowa from the early years of its settlement this second edition shows the rapid development within the state and is the first edition to include Sioux City and many proposed railroad routes.<br/> <br/>This large and colourful map of Iowa shows the state divided into numerous counties all within nine land districts with the sites of the land offices identified in each. Issued to promote settlement in the state the map includes an advertisement in the upper left corner for Henn Williams and Co.: "dealers in land land warrants & exchange . special attention given to Location of Land the sale and loan of Warrants and to the collecting & remitting of sight and time bills. Investments made in any part of Iowa." Besides locating numerous towns and river systems the state's burgeoning railroad system is shown with many proposed routes depicted across the state by means of dotted lines. This is the second edition of the map after the first of 1854 but apparently printed from a new plate to incorporate the rapid growth. A third edition followed in 1856.<br/> <br/>Phillips A List of Maps of America p. 337; Rumsey 1739; Graff 1857; Streeter sale 3898. Henn, Williams & Co. and R. Barnes unknown books
177318688Paris 1773. Engraved plan cut into sections but now mounted on a single sheet of card. Image size: 20 1/4 x 31 1/2 inches. Lovely pre-Revolution map of Paris.<br/> <br/>Fascinating 1773 map of Paris that locates all major buildings and parks with an extensive index. unknown books
17836524London: R. Sayer & J. Bennett 1783. Mezzotint collection mark on verso tipped onto early mount. Expert small repairs to upper corners. A charming anonymous image from the collection of Frederic R. Halsey 1847-1918 'un des principaux collectionneurs de son èpoque à New York' Lugt 1308<br/> <br/>The image of a fashionably-dressed young lady reclining by a brook being approached by a young gentleman is explained by the engraved verse by 'Mr. Nicholl' in the title area beneath the image: Alone by the side of a murmuring rill / That lav'd the gay foot of a primrosy hill / Pastora beneath a broad poplar was laid / When Damon in extasy enter'd the Shade / He sigh'd & he swore by the pow'rs overhead / If she'd bless him to day to morrow he'd wed. R. Sayer & J. Bennett unknown books
186145862Philadelphia 1861. Broadside approx. 18 x 14"; adorned with 32 small circular mustard-colored vignettes engraved in black each depicting the seal of a state of the Union; some offsetting due to having been previously folded else a fine example. Attractive advertisement for the Philadelphia weekly illustrated newspaper which "contains 8 Pages 40 columns of reading matter from the pens of the best American authors; national and not sectional; it is emphatically the best literary paper in America. It has no equal." Contents also include a review excerpt from the Philadelphia Weekly; terms of subscription; and a call for agents. Subscribers are additionally bribed with the promise of certificates being sold at $1 and redeemable for various goods the most luxurious of which is a gold chronometer hunting watch valued at $200. AAS only in OCLC as of July 2014. <br/><br/> unknown books
7421818. BLACK Adam and Charles Publishers. BLACK'S NEW LARGE MAP OF ENGLAND & WALES. According to the Ordnance Admirality and Other Surveys. On the scale of 4 miles to an inch by John Bartholomew F.R.G.S. Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black n.d. circa 1870-1890. Three color sheets folding mounted on linen. The North and Midlands Sections are each 37 1/2 by 81 1/2 inches 95 x 206 cm; the South Section is 28 3/4 by 81 1/2 inches 73 x 206 cm. All fold to 9 1/2 by 6 3/4 inches 24 x 17 cm. A fine copy housed in slightly rubbed and soiled green cloth pull-off slipcase with publisher's paper label on the front gilt-stamped title and a hand-lettered label on one side. Unfolded this is a huge and wonderful map. unknown books
186213817New York: Currier & Ives 1862. Hand-coloured lithograph. Very good condition apart from a few small tears in the top margin and several light water stains in the margins one of which slightly extends into the top of the image. Slight discolouration of the paper due to age. A scenic tranquil landscape in upstate New York with a small glimpse of the Hudson River visible through the foliage between the two rocky outcroppings bordering the dirt road.<br/> <br/>Frances Flora Bond Palmer known as Fanny worked for Nathaniel Currier for over than twenty-five years. She was according to Gloria Deak "the foremost woman lithographer of her time" Picturing America 647. Born and raised in England by a cultivated family she was already an accomplished painter and lithographer when she came to America in 1844 at which time she exhibited two works at the National Academy of Design. By 1849 she was working for Currier producing landscapes and still lifes. She lithographed these prints herself usually after her own sketches.<br/> <br/>Cf. Gale Currier & Ives: A Catalogue Raisonné 1984 vol. 1 4611. Currier & Ives unknown books
193115086JNew York: E.P. Dutton 1931. First American Edition. This copy is signed by an amazing collection of 34 classic American publishers at a New York City gathering of the Publisher’s Lunch Club on November 3 1932. The list of signatures include both Alfred Harcourt and Donald C. Brace of Harcourt Brace Edward H. Dodd of Dodd Mead Alexander Grosset of Grosset & Dunlap Bertram Lippincott of J.P. Lippincott Russell Doubleday of Doubleday Doran George P. Brett - R. M. Brett - Richard H. Thornton of Macmillan Company Whitney Darrow Sr. of Charles Scribner’s Sons Lincoln Mac Veigh of The Dial Press Ives Washburn Harry P. Burt of A.L. Burt Herschell Brickell - John Macrae - John Macrae Jr. of Henry Holt Cass Canfield of Harper & Brothers George Shively of Bobbs-Merrill William Farquhar Payson editor at NY Times Vogue Magazine and author Richard J. Walsh of John Day Company Horace W. Stokes of Frederick A. Stokes Ives Washburn of Ives Washburn Inc. etc. The book is designed to be used as a record for important birth dates with spaces for each day of the year charmingly illustrated by Shepard and with quotations from the Winnie the Pooh books chosen by A.A. Milne. There are no notations - the only writing being that of the publisher's autographs. Measures 6 1/4" x 5". Green cloth stamped in gilt. Housed in a custom green cloth slipcase. The spine has faded and is worn at top and bottom. Corners worn. With an introduction by A.A.Milne and black and white illustrations of the Winnie the Pooh characters by Ernest H. Shepard. The Publisher’s Lunch Club was founded in 1915 by publisher Henry Holt and still exists today in New York City. A remarkable collection of publishing autographs. E.P. Dutton hardcover books
200030939NY: Simon & Schuster 2000. First edition. Limited issue signed by Thompson on the front free endpage as issued. Leather-covered boards with gilt lettering and decorations all edges gilt moire pastedowns and endpages satin pagemarker. Issued without dustjacket. Limitation not specified purportedly about three hundred copies. Introduction by David Halberstam. Edited by Douglas Brinkley. Rear board bottom edge with trifle bump; otherwise an unread copy in Fine condition. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Not Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition. Simon & Schuster Hardcover books
189021478Np: MacLin-Zimmer-McGill 1890. Stiff Boards. Orig. decorated light blue and white illustrated backs. Fine. Complete deck of 53 chromolithographic playing cards 9.5 x 5.5 cm. including the "Little Joker." The Aces and numeral cards have the suit symbols superimposed over the costumes. Backs in blue and white depicting a sailor at the helm with the advertising line "Smoke and Chew Hard-A-Port Cut Plug." Hard-a-Port Cut Plug" tobacco insert playing cards published by MacLin-Zimmer-McGill USA c.1890 featuring a selection of beautiful actresses from a past era in poses some might consider risqué. This set of designs was used in around six different editions with various backs advertising "Hard-a-Port Cut Plug" and/or "Trumps Long Cut" chewing tobacco. They were originally produced by Moore and Calvi then by their successors MacLin and Zimmer and Maclin-Zimmer-McGill in around the 1890s. The "Hard-a-Port Cut Plug" series depicts actresses with angelic faces dressed for the pantomime or dance hall. MacLin-Zimmer-McGill unknown books
