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1897WRCLIT77280New York: Breitkopf and Hartell 1897. 92pp. Small folio 34 x 27.5 cm. Khaki cloth elaborately decorated in green gilt and dark brown with a floral art nouveau motif signed 'M.M'. Pictorial endsheets. Publisher's address revision stamp on title below imprint some pencil annotations otherwise a very near fine copy. A handsome period binding from the American branch of the venerable music publishers. While there are plate marks for the music v.a. 1868 OCLC suggests a far more reasonable publication date of 1897 which is highly consistent with the style of the binding and printing. OCLC locates copies at Cleveland Public and Martin Luther College. OCLC: 22334613. Breitkopf and Hartell 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
186820565New York: Currier & Ives 1868. Hand-coloured lithograph by James Merrit Ives after Fanny Palmer. A poignant image demonstrating the triumph of the human spirit and depicting the twin stack steam paddle wheel and riverboat "Stonewall Jackson."<br/> <br/>In the foreground uprooted trees bob in the current using a roof as a raft two men pole themselves and nine others to safety one of their companions holds tight to reins of a mule swimming beside the roof whilst two others rescue furniture and a barrel. In the mid-ground: a large white-painted house with second-floor balconies front and back and a smaller cook-house off to the right side. Two men in a row boat approach the back of the house a lady stands on the balcony speaking to the men; on the widow's walk on the roof a man and a woman stand: the man waves a handkerchief to the twin-stack riverboat. The riverboat "Stonewall Jackson" is travelling at speed: the near-side paddle creates a substantial wake the flags fly in the stiff breeze and the smoke from the stacks steams backwards: passengers line the rails attracted by the human drama they are passing. The overall impression is of a crisis that is being survived and dealt with by man's ingenuity whilst life continues.<br/> <br/>Conningham 2819; Gale 3057. Currier & Ives unknown books
1994252978Gottingen Germany: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1994. Hardcover. 430p. 6.5 x 9.75 inches illus. corners bumped else very good condition in cloth-covered boards. No dj. Text in German. Philologisch-Historische Klasse Dritte Folge; Nr. 203. Papers presented at a the colloquia of the Southeast Europe Commission on court culture in south east Europe. Covers the Byzantine court the Middle Ages the Baroque period the Ottoman Empire and the 19th and 20th centuries. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht hardcover books
1933WRCLIT83926New York: ASCAP 1933. 32pp. Large octavo. Printed wrapper. Slight bumps and soft creases trace of dust to wrapper very good. First edition. Laid in is a quarto multilithed letter of conveyance as well as a 12mo printed "Note." An explanation of recent developments re: copyright and royalties for broadcast recorded ambient and motion picture use of music. ASCAP unknown books
45562Meadville PA: Keystone View Company n. d. Ca. early 1900s. Housed in a clear mlyar sleeve. Vertical crack to card visible on verso. Image clear & sharp. Verso with extensive description of Hydraulic Mining. Oblong format: 3-1/2" x 7" <br/><br/> Keystone View Company unknown books
197420026Berkeley: For Ourselves Council For Generalized Self-Management 1974. First Edition. Wraps. Very good . 8vo. Stapled self-wraps. Very good plus. Light toning to edges. Price penned to upper-right corner of front. Interior clean and unmarked throughout. 11 pp. <br/><br/>Distributed by the "pro-situationist" group For Ourselves. The statement discusses Portugal's Carnation Revolution as an example of "today's battles between capital and the world proletariat." For Ourselves disagreed with several of the points made in the groups' statement and add a critique at the end making use of their own brand of "Marxist-Stirnerist" ideology. OCLC locates only two copies. For Ourselves Council For Generalized Self-Management paperback books
39301Meadville PA: Keystone View Company n. d. Ca. early 1900s. Stiff-stock paper warped light wear. A VG example. Stereo image of the interior of the Mormon Tabernacle Church mounted to grey stiff-stock paper lettered in black ink. Oblong format: 3-1/2" x 7" <br/><br/>Further detailed explanation of the view and park is printed to verso. Keystone View Company unknown books
193047724New York: Murphy & McCarthy 1930. Reprint. Slim quarto 25cm; brown leatherette stamped in blind with gilt heraldry design on front; brown endpapers; 19pp 40 colorplates. Spine bumped at heel and crown; boards show minor rubbing and bumps to edges with small abrasions to upper leading corners. Textblock torn along gutters at pastedowns; ownership signature to ffep; creasing toning and light soiling throughout; marginalia on some pages. Else Good.<br/><br/>An extensive guide to the coats of arms employed by prominent Irish families; 40 colorplates illustrate these heraldic symbols with a complete index alphabetical by family name plus translations of mottos. This reprint bears an original copyright date of 1923. Murphy & McCarthy unknown books
2007191491Sacramento: DNA Pub 2007. Magazine. 64p. 8.5x11 inches photos articles reviews recipes profiles ads very good glossy lesbian magazine in pictorial wraps. Family magazine for lesbians. DNA Pub unknown books
2007191489Sacramento: DNA Pub 2007. Magazine. 64p. 8.5x11 inches photos articles reviews recipes profiles ads very good glossy lesbian magazine in pictorial wraps. Family magazine for lesbians. DNA Pub unknown books
2006191487Sacramento: DNA Pub 2006. Magazine. 64p. 8.5x11 inches photos articles reviews recipes profiles ads very good glossy lesbian magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Family magazine for lesbians. DNA Pub unknown books
40078New York: McLoughlin Bros Publishers n. d. Apparent later printing of the first edition ca late 1860s. Color illustrated yellow & red printed paper wrappers. Modest wear to wrappers faint creasing light rubbing & soiling. 2cm tear to bottom of spine no losses. Paper age-toned and slightly foxed. An about VG example. 32 2 pp. Many b/w intratextual illustrations. 6-5/8" x 5-3/8" <br/><br/>OCLC records just 2 institutional holdings of this item Fuller Seminary & the AAS. Rare in the trade. McLoughlin Bros Publishers unknown books
2008189355Hendrickson Publishers 2008-09-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Clean has a good binding no marks or notations. Illustrated boards. Hendrickson Publishers hardcover books
2004236343Salamanca Spain: Ediciones Almar 2004. Paperback. xxx 308p. illustrated with b&w artwork texts in Spanish with all duplicated in English softbound in 9.5x6.5 inch decorated wraps. Slight edgewear a clean sound copy with no markings except for a presentation inscription on titlepage signed as "Frances" by the co-author. Some destinations in the diaspora were to other parts of Africa; some to countries bordering the Indian Ocean as Arab countries and to Southeast Asia. Whatever the destination woman-centered groups were fundamental. Colecion Almar-Anglistica serie ensayos. Ediciones Almar paperback 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
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
1929132025Paris: Bureau de la Chambre Syndicale des Editeurs de Liveres d'Art et de Publications a Tirage Limite 1929. Softcover. VG sunning/age toning to cover and spine wear to cover chip in spine first few pages coming loose. Blue paper wraps folded over. Unpaginated. Pages partially uncut. Many BW and color illustrations. In French. No. 1035 of 1800. This volume is the third of three annual volumes of "Livre D'or du Bibliophile" which collected examples of outstanding books from books top art and limted-edition publishers. The catalogue reproduces title pages excertps and illustrations and features many outstanding examples of typesetting and book design . Begins with a poem by Tristan Dereme. Bureau de la Chambre Syndicale des Editeurs de Liveres d'Art et de Publications a Tirage Limite paperback books
1967239914New York: Merit Publishers 1967. 16p. wraps pen scrible on front wrap ordering notes in pen in text else good condition 3.5x8.5 inches. Merit the successor to Pioneer Publishers later became Pathfinder Press. Merit was the publishing house of the Socialist Workers Party. This catalog also includes works from other publishers that they were distributing along with a short blurb for their "rare and out-of-print book service. Merit Publishers 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
1972258571Berkeley: New Morning Collective 1972. Newspaper. 20p. folded tabloid underground newspaper local ads stories reviews events comix opinion politics psychedelia listings lightly-worn newsprint. Radical paper originally distributed for free with cover story on the Yenan Spirit in Berkeley with a centerfold poster of a revolutionary Chinese papercut. Other articles on organic food KPFA radio and more. New Morning Collective unknown books
2008191120Thomas Nelson Inc 2008-12-02. Hardcover. Very Good. Clean has a good binding no marks or notations. Light wear. HB HS Thomas Nelson Inc hardcover books
5153Engraved title-page & 24 engraved plates several plates slightly dampstained. Large 4to orig. blue wrappers frayed & scribbled upon by an early owner stitched as issued uncut. London: I. & J. Taylor 1792. First edition and very rare; ESTC locates only two copies: at the Bodleian and Avery Architecture Library. This is very attractive work of designs for storefronts and specialized doors issued by the leading publishers of architectural works of Britain the Taylor's Architectural Library. The Taylors father and son were shrewd businessmen and gave priority to the practical manuals required to support the building boom of the late eighteenth century. Bound-in at end is a two leaf folio catalogue of the Taylor's publications this seems to be ESTC T80563 dated after 1795. Good copy of a very rare book preserved in a box. ❧ ODNB. unknown 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
1896LV1550Los Angeles:: Elstner-Morehouse 1896. 1896. Large oblong 4to. Not paginated. 36 full page illustrations of Los Angeles with related adverts on the opposite pages 15 full page photos of individual Los Angeles Buildings. Original full gilt stamped brown cloth; inner hinges neatly repaired. Early inscription to Arthur Ellis 1927. Early Ownership signature of Sam Behrendt Los Angeles 1925. Fine. EXTREMELY SCARCE. BEAUTIFUL COPY OF THIS VERY RARE LOS ANGELES SKETCHBOOK. With 36 full-page plates depicting early Los Angeles buildings. This unequaled record of the central Los Angeles business district was created according to the preface in order ". . .to show the active business portions together with a few of the more pretentious of the office buildings and manufactories". Arthur Ellis was a founding member of the Zamorano Club. Provenance: Sam Behrendt the son of Los Angeles pioneer Caspare Behrendt d.1913 the discovery of gold brought him to California "acquired his education in the Spring Street and Eighth Street Grammar Schools at Los Angeles and after he was fifteen years old spent one year in a business college. For to years he clerked in a grocery and cigar business and remained there until 1900. Selling out and returning to Los Angeles he became connected with the San Gabriel Electric Company later merged with the Pacific Light and Power Company. He was employed as a collector and later solicited new contracts for three years. On leaving that corporation Mr. Behrendt entered the insurance business for himself and in 1907 took in Mr. I. O. Levy as a partner under the name Behrendt-Levy Company and they incorporated the business in 1908. This is a general insurance agency and the establishment now employs twenty-one people. Mr. Behrendt is also a director of the Union Bank and Trust Company and a director of the Shiff Lang & Company." He is a member of Hollenbeck Lodge no. 119 a Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner Elk Corona Parlor of the Native Sons of the Golden West B’nai Birth Los Angeles Athletic Club San Gabriel Country Club City Club Chamber of Commerce Merchants and Manufacturers Association and the Friars Club of New York. At Oakland Ca. he married Sadie Mosbacher. Together they had a son George b.1904. Behrendt was also known to be a friend of film star Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle holding a dinner in his honor at the Alexandria Hotel February 12 1917. – McGroarty. John Steven McGroarty Los Angeles from the mountains to the sea: with selected biography vol. II p. 422; James Miller Guinn A history of California and an extended history of Los Angeles and . . . 1915 page 124; Harris Newmark Sixty Years in Southern California. Elstner-Morehouse, 1896. hardcover books
