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1888307523Philadelphia: Wm. M. Bradley & Bro 1888. Folio. Later blue cloth spine label. Very Good. Folio. Wm. M. Bradley & Bro unknown books
18261773251826. unbound. 2 pages 12.5 x 8 inches no place December 7 1826. In this somewhat quirky letter he writes to a friend who has sent him a deformed apple that resembles a chicken in part: ".This production of nature puts the beholder in mind from its size and figure of a chicken coming forth from its native eggshell. Perhaps no such anomaly has occurred before." Signed "Samuel L. Mitchell." Natural folds; faint ink bleeding. Very good- condition.<br/><br/> Mitchell an American physician botanist politician and promoter of science was appointed in 1788 one of the commissioners to negotiate with the six nations for the purchase of lands in Western New York.<br/><br/> unknown books
186947402Minneapolis MN: O.S. King's Book & Job Printing House 1869. First edition. 12mo. 191 pp. 3 ad pp. Illustrated. Howes M-694. Original printed front wrapper corner chipped no rear wrapper bound into quarter morocco and marbled boards; institutional bookplate on pastedown ele avery well preserved copy. <br/><br/> O.S. King's Book & Job Printing House hardcover books
186958572Minneapolis MN: O.S. King's Book & Job Printing House 1869. First edition. 12mo. 191 3 ads pp. Illustrated from wood engravings. Howes M-694. Eberstadt 106 225: "This is the earliest work on the county cited by Bradford. Contains a great mass of important historical and statistical data on the state county and towns including as well perhaps the first business directory of Red Wing." Ex-Massachusetts Historical Society withdrawn stamp with its bookplate on the front pastedown but very good. Later brown quarter-morocco and marbled boards rubbed gilt spine title original printed front wrapper bound in by F.P. Hathaway Boston. #5683. <br/><br/> O.S. King's Book & Job Printing House hardcover books
181044570Westminster: printed for Mitchell Stace. by George Smeeton 1810. First edition folio pp. 196; 4 engraved plates including folding facsimile title page printed in terracotta and black; full contemporary gilt-tooled calf recently rebacked new endpapers; corners a bit dinged offsetting from plates else a very good copy. "The intention of the publisher was to submit for his patrons and subscribers such anecdotes of Oliver Cromwell as could be collected." Lowndes notes that "the volume was printed almost expressly for illustrations; accordingly it often occurs filled with engravings." Here the book is in its unadorned state with only the 5 engravings as issued. Lacking the advertisement leaf describing 23 related portraits and views available for purchase individually. <br/><br/> printed for Mitchell Stace... by George Smeeton unknown books
192925231929. MITCHELL Gladys. SPEEDY DEATH. NY: Lincoln MacVeagh/ The Dial Press 1929. Small 8vo embossed green cloth with black-stamped title on spine. First American Edition. Mitchell's rare first mystery title introducing Beatrice Adela Lestrange Bradley a polymathic psychoanalyst and author that was featured in 65 further novels by Mitchell. The novel begins with the death of famous explorer Everard Mountjoy who drowned in his bath. The rare first Mrs. Bradley novel. Very Good spine sunned; contents clean & tight; very small Brentano's bookstore label on rear pastedown. $650.00. <br/><br/> hardcover books
197927448NY: The Viking Press 1979. First edition. Gilpin Laura. 4to. 208 pp. full-page b&w photographs. Cloth over boards with the top edge slightly discolored 4 page tips uncut; otherwise a very good copy in a moderately chipped and torn dust jacket. SIGNED. This volume includes a statement by each photographer a portfolio and a chronology and bibliography. The photographers include: Berenice Abbott Ruth Bernhard Carlotta M. Corpron Louise Dahl-Wolfe Nell Dorr Toni Frissell Laura Gilpin Lotte Jacobi Consuelo Kanaga and Barbara Morgan. This book was also issued as the catalogue for an exhibition held at the International Center of Photography NYC. The exhibition opened to the public on September 21 1979. At a special preview of the exhibition on September 20 1979 many of these photographers were in attendance. This copy was presented to Barbara Morgan and was INSCRIBED to her by Ruth Bernhard Lotti Jacobi Carlotta M. Corpron Pat Schoenfeld and Greta Margaretta K. Mitchell. <br/><br/> The Viking Press hardcover books
1874106572<p>Sold as a collection of maps. Folio original cloth with leather spine and corners about 48 colored maps. Joints cracked text block almost separated from coverts some spine and edge wear endpapers folded and creased some margin staining on maps of Ohio Cincinnati Illinois Chicago and Iowa. Pages 66 and 68 loose. Missing maps of Alaska Africa Central America Cuba Ireland Greece Connecticut Boston Norway New Jersey and Maltese Islands. However does contain attractive double page maps of the United States Texas California New York World and five other double page maps. Other maps appear to be present. Sold as collection of maps.</p> S. Augustus Mitchell, books
1867D17724Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company 1867. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo. Plate illustrations. 79 pp. Title page in red and black. Publisher's brown cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Spine and extremities rubbed some bubbling to cloth scattered staining and toning else very good. BAL 14065. <br/><br/>First edition of Mitchell's anonymous collection written and published for the benefit of the Children's Hospital in Philadelphia. Blanck's "Intermediate sheets" binding B with a gift inscription to the front free endpaper "Emily Yarnall/from Aunt Sally/December 25/66." The book was advertised as "just published" on December 15 1866. Blanck cites this very copy which was once in the collection of Harvard. J. B. Lippincott Company hardcover books
1937137890Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1937. Vintage photograph for the 1937 film showing stars Lombard McMurray and Butterworth relaxing with director Leisen behind the scenes. With an archive stamp of Argentine writer and film critic Israel Chas de Cruz and holograph ink annotations identifying the subjects on the verso. <br/><br/>The second of three adaptations of the Broadway play "Burlesque" following "The Dance of Life" 1928 and preceding "When My Baby Smiles at Me" 1948. The second teaming of Lombard and MacMurray with Mitchell Leisen after the classic screwball comedy "Hands Across the Table" 1935 and the third of four on screen pairings between Lombard and McMurray. <br/><br/>10.25 x 8 inches. Near Fine with some light wear to the corners. Paramount Pictures unknown books
9013298paperback. Fine. Bound in publisher's original illustrated wrappers. Minor wear to the extremities of the dust jackets. Text is in Japanese. Dust jacket. <br/><br/> paperback books
194458816New York: The New Yorker 1944. First separate edition originally appeared in the November 1944 issue of The New Yorker. 8vo. 16 pp. printed double-column. A native of eastern North Carolina Mitchell 1908-1996 wrote similar sketches for The New Yorker for decades 1930s-1960s continuing to go to his office every day until near his death though publishing nothing of significance in the periodical after 1965. Not in Thornton. OCLC locates one copy Ohio State. Very good. Original decorated tan wrappers rubbed small browned spot on front wrapper stapled. #5910. <br/><br/> The New Yorker unknown books
183737872Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell 1837. 8vo. 143 pp. Folding map with hand-colored outline dated 1838. Original cloth-backed printed boards giving the title "Illinois in 1837 & 8" and dated 1838. Cloth a little frayed along the front joint and chipped at head of spine else very good. Second edition. Howes M-689. <br/><br/> S. Augustus Mitchell hardcover books
19480105302Duell Sloan and Pearce 1948. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Published in New York by Duell Sloan and Pearce in 1948. First Edition stated on copyright page. This copy is SIGNED by the author on the front free endpaper. Three stories of New York and New Yorkers that originally appeared in The New Yorker magazine during the war. Book very good paper slightly damaged on rear free endpaper. DJ very good 1.5" tear at top edge of rear panel. DJ price is $2.00. Book comes in specially made slipcase. We will provide a certificate of authenticity for this item. Duell, Sloan and Pearce hardcover books
199050334Saint Paul: Rulon-Miller Books 1990. Edition ltd. to 100 copies this no. 32 8vo pp. 61 3; photographic facsimile tipped in original green cloth slipcase paper label on spine. Printed by hand in red and black on handmade Umbria Bianco paper by Emily Mason Strayer of the Kutenai Press South Willington CT; designed and produced under the direction of Gerald Lange of the Bieler Press at the University of Southern California Los Angeles; matrices for unique characters were provided by Monotype International Surrey England; additional characters were supplied by MacKenzie-Harris Corp. San Francisco. Kemble 1807-1857 the son of Charles Kemble the actor was the foremost English philologist of his day and a friend correspondent and protege of Jacob Grimm. The text is taken from the recently discovered eight page manuscript dated 1830 compiled three years before the appearance of his influential edition of Beowulf--the first in English and the first to show competent knowledge of Old English. No trace of the Dictionary itself is known. But coming at in important juncture of English etymological research and Anglo-Saxon scholarship this Specimen of select English words traced back through centuries of Middle and Old English literature is fitting tribute to Kemble's erudition and interest in the history of the English language. <br/><br/> Rulon-Miller Books hardcover books
184942332London: Longman Brown et al. 1849. First edition 8vo 2 vols.; slight staining to covers but generally a very good copy in original blue-green cloth gilt-lettered spine. George Stephens's copy with his ownership signature dated the year on publication on the flyleaf of each volume with an occasional annotation by him in the text and three 12mo leaves of notes in his hand laid in. Important history by the famed philologist and Anglo-Saxon scholar. <br/><br/> Longman, Brown [et al.] hardcover books
1972855371972. MITCHELL C.H. THE ILLUSTRATED BOOKS OF THE NANGA MARUYAMA SHIJO and Other Related Schools of Japan. A Biobibliography. Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop 1972. First edition. Large 8vo 623 pp. Dark blue cloth. Fine. An indispensable reference now increasingly hard to find. unknown books
200417664Sceptre Hodder & Stoughton 2004. First British and true first Edition first printing. The third novel by the author of UTOPIA AVENUE and NUMBER9DREAM the stories of several characters whose voices are echoed "down the corridor of history." Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and basis for the film. With the original wrap-around band. Fine/Fine but for very slight crimping at the foot of the spine. Signed by Mitchell on the title page. . Signed by Author. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Sceptre (Hodder & Stoughton) Hardcover books
1944S8675Offprint from:: Journal of the American Chemical Society 66 1944. 1944. 8vo. 267-278 pp. Figs. Printed wrappers. Ownership signature of Norman Horowitz. FINE. Mitchell was associated with the School of Biological Sciences Stanford University. Many of the papers bear the rubber stamp or signature of pioneer Caltech geneticist Norman Horowitz. WITH: MITCHELL & William D. McELROY. "A Spectrophotometric Measurement of Adenosine Deamination." Offprint from: Archives of Biochemistry vol. 10 no. 3 1946. 8vo. 343-349 pp. Self-wraps. WITH: MITCHELL & McELROY. "Adenosine Deaminase from Aspergillus Oryzae." Offprint from: Archives of Biochemistry vol. 10 no. 3 1946. 8vo. 351-358 pp. Figs. Self-wraps. Full list available on request. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 66, 1944. paperback books
1944124776New York: New Yorker 1944. First. paperback. near fine. 8vo 16 pages pictorial self-wrappers stapled. N.Y. 1944. First separate printing. Reprinted from The New Yorker November 25 1944. Presentation copy boldly inscribed on the front wrapper. "For Edith Oliver Mr. Flood sends his best regards and so do I." Oliver was Mitchell's long time friend and colleague at The New Yorker.<br/><br/> New Yorker unknown books
19485398N. Y.: Duell Sloan & Pearce 1948. First edition. Signed by Mitchell on the front free endpaper. Fine copy in a trifle dust-soiled jacket with a short pen mark on front panel. 8vo red cloth pictorial dust jacket by Immerman. Fine copy in a trifle dust-soiled jacket with a short pen mark on front panel. Duell, Sloan & Pearce unknown books
1954249841Atlanta 1954. unbound. 2 pages on "Margaret Mitchell Marsh Estate letterhead" 10.25 x 7.25 inches Atlanta June 11 1954. This important and strongly-stated letter was written by Margaret Mitchell's brother Stephens Mitchell to the editor of "Look Magazine" to dispel a printed rumor that Mitchell had help in researching her wildly popular novel "Gone with the Wind" in part: ".ever since the sudden success of 'Gone With the Wind' the rumor has arisen that this or that person wrote the book or helped with the writing or research. These rumors included even me and Mrs. Marsh's husband.I -- and no one else except her husband -- ever saw "Gone With the Wind" until it was in its final typescript.and no one else has any right to claim any part of it." Natural folds; staple holes in the upper left corners but still in very good condition.<br/><br/> Extraordinary literary content pertaining to Gone With the Wind<br/><br/> unknown books
184048012Boston: Printed For the Author by Kidder & Wright 1840. Hardcover. Very good. iii 402pp. Foxed throughout ink name and date on front free endpaper tide mark to last few pages small chip to foot of preface page; spine label perished darkened and rubbed overall with some wear to the extremities else a very good example in contemporary cloth backed boards. <br/><br/>Howes M 681; Sabin 49707. Printed For the Author by Kidder & Wright hardcover books
1888008035New York: Dodd Mead & Co. 1888. The two titles each in two volumes each with numerous illustrations. Four volumes uniformly bound in contemporary red pebbled morocco over marbled boards backs intricately gilt marbled boards top edges gilt. Near Fine light rubbing at corners a quite handsome set in contemporary fine bindings and uncommon thus. A heavy set please be advised added shipping charges will be requested for international orders. . Later American Editions. Half Morocco. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. Tall 8vo. Dodd Mead & Co. Hardcover books
1834401821Philadelphia: Samuel Augustus Mitchell 1834. Early issue the first was 1831. Light rubbing to binding a few short separations along folds light wear at sheet edges. Hand-colored engraved folding map 15 3/4 x 13 1/4 inches. Folding to 5 x 3 inches into original green gilt-decorated roan binding. Provenance: William Fitch contemporary ownership signatures on verso of map. Mounted on the inside front cover of the binding is the 1830 Census data for the state recording the total population of the state at 937903. At bottom of the map are Profiles of the Ohio and Erie Canal and the Miami Canal. 73 counties are delineated the most populated then being Hamilton Columbiana and Muskingum. <br/><br/> Samuel Augustus Mitchell unknown books
