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191693701916. KENNERLEY Mitchell. The Forum Exhibition of Modern American Painters. 78 pp. and 4 pp. of advertisements. Illustrated with 16 plates. Small 4to. 250 x 165 mm bound in original boards title printed in black on front cover and spine. New York: Mitchell Kennerley 1916. Exhibition catalogue for the pioneering show at Anderson Galleries on March 13-25 1916 of works by sixteen American Modernists: Ben Benn Thomas H. Benton Oscar Bluemner Andrew Dasburg Arthur G. Dove Marsden Hartley S. MacDonald-Wright John Marin Alfred Maurer Henry L. McFee George F. Of Man Ray Morgan Russell Charles Sheeler A. Walkowitz and William and Marguerite Zorach. Each artist contributed a statement here printed opposite the plate showing his or her work. Members of the committee that chose the artists and works on view were Christian Brinton Robert Henri W.H. de B. Nelson Alfred Stieglitz and John Weichsel who all wrote forewards and Willard Huntington Wright who also contributed the introduction "What Is Modern Painting" Neat bookplate and slight wear to head and foot of spine but still a good copy of a seminal exhibition catalogue. hardcover books
185545251Augusta House Augusta ME 1855. Very good folded small tear to one edge minor soiling and ink bleed through. 3 pp. Bifolium. 8 x 10 inches. Letter dated January 4th 1855 one day after the Maine elections from Maubec Mitchell Rawson newly elected Whig member of the Maine House of Representatives to fellow Whig party member and candidate for Governor Isaac Reed reporting on the efforts to fix the vote in favor of Reed's opponent Anson Morrill. Rawson had been appointed as a member of a gubernatorial committee that morning so was privy to the shenanigans: "Much talk is made about the course which some members of the Senate & House wish to pursue. I tell them I have no objections to throwing out the votes in the Hancock Plantation & thereby elect or in any way assist Mr. Milliken but to throw them all out & by so doing disfranchise some thousand & declare Mr. Morrill elected by the people. I tell them such a course will be suicidal to the great American party which Mr. Reed & myself are one."<br/><br/>He goes on to report who is opposed to these moves and who might be witnesses: "When I see you I will inform you who are the men who are so conscientious about this matter. I am perfectly quiet & cool but I have been at work. most of the time for the last 24 hours. They the Committee propose to spend the night in the committee room so as to have it said that we are doing up business in shape but they are more anxious to declare Mr. Morill Gov by the dear people. I have heard nothing from you but I think my course is patriotic or an honest one & I shall pursue it unless you suggest otherwise. Don't show my letters to anyone. I shall be glad when this session shall close."<br/><br/>Anson Morrill 1803-1887 was elected Maine's Governor in 1855 and served until 1856. He had been a candidate under the Know Nothing and then Republican parties.<br/><br/>John F. Milliken however was not among the list of Representatives in 1855 but seems to have gotten himself appointed Postmaster in his hometown.<br/><br/>Isaac Reed 1809-1887 was a merchant and shipbuilder. He served in the Maine Senate 1839-1840; 1850 1863; the Maine House of Representatives 1842-1843; 1846; 1870-1871; as State Treasurer 1856; and in the U.S. House of Representatives 1852-1853.<br/><br/>Maubec Mitchell Rawson b. 1825 was from Waldoboro Maine. unknown books
2000167930San Francisco CA: Chronicle Books 2000. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. A photographically illustrated biography of this important photographer. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Bernhard twice and inscribed to fellow photographer Jack Welpott on the half title page. A terrific association between two photographers who spent much of their lives on the West Coast. Chronicle Books unknown books
194057400NY: D. Appleton-Century Company 1940. First Edition first printing. Signed presentation from Mitchell on the title page: "For Maude Miller Curtiss with every good wish and much appreciation Ruth Comfort Mitchell1940. April 26th at San Jose." Ruth Comfort Mitchell Young wrote novels poems short stories and plays. She is perhaps best known for this novel "Of Human Kindness" which she wrote as a counterpoint to John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath." Both the Youngs were involved in Republican politics. Ruth served as Republican National Committeewoman from California for eight years and as national and state president of Pro-America an organization of Republican women founded in 1933. Meanwhile her husband Sanborn Young served as a California State Senator for thirteen years. Sanborn Young returned to life as a cattle rancher after retiring from the Senate and as such he and his wife were upset by Steinbeck's novel "The Grapes of Wrath" which appeared soon after in 1939. Ruth Comfort Mitchell determined to tell their side of the story the result being "Of Human Kindness" in which a gentleman farmer's family must overcome the tribulations brought by migrant workers union organizers liberal academics and Communists. This novel is very scarce with few if any copies appearing on the market today. While reading this particular copy I came across an old San Jose business A. Arzino. Fish Oysters and Poultry receipt laid-in probably contemporary with the inscription. While an interesting piece of memorabilia it was used as a bookmark and it has browned a portion of pages 270-271. I have saved the receipt now in a plastic sleeve. None-the-less a nice inscribed copy of a scarce title!. Small 8vo. green cloth stamped in gilt in dust jacket; 359 pages. Very Good covers nice & bright; contents clean & tight with browned pages noted; little edgewear & few tiny tears & little browning some fading spine with a tiny ink mark mid-spine d/j. Overall a pretty nice copy! D. Appleton-Century Company unknown books
185021873Tuscumbia AL: Printed by William Rollston "North Alabamian" Office 1850. 21 3 blank pp. Original printed yellow wrappers light dust and edgewear a few small chips to back wrap stitched. Accession number stamped in blank margin of title page. Errata slip tipped in after the title page. Light vertical crease through center of text Very Good. <br/><br/> Tuscumbia birthplace of Helen Keller is located in the foothills of the Appalachians in Northern Alabama west of Huntsville and just South of Florence. Imprints from this little town are unusual; OCLC which does not record this one locates only a few Tuscumbia imprints and fewer before 1850. <br/>Owen 1062. Not in Ellison Sabin or on OCLC as of October 2019. Printed by William Rollston, "North Alabamian" Office unknown books
1916312944New York: Menzies Publishing Company Inc 1916. First edition. Frontispiece by Maynard Dixon. 8vo. Bound in full purple morocco a.e.g. for Asprey spine faded on back pastedown stamped in gilt "Gov. Charles Edison Library. First edition. Frontispiece by Maynard Dixon. 8vo. Inscribed to Thomas Alva Edison; "To Thomas A. Edison with compliments from the author Edmund Mitchell New York Xmas 1916. Menzies Publishing Company, Inc unknown books
1945149209N.p.: N.p. 1945. Third Draft Continuity script for the 1945 film here under the working title "This is the Law." Copy belonging to producer Ben Silvey with his name to the front wrapper and holograph pencil and ink annotations throughout.<br/><br/>A stern judge moves with his family across state lines for a new job as a prison warden unaware that his own son harbors criminal intentions.<br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter Eugene Ling on the front wrapper. Title page present dated 1/23/45 noted as Third Draft Continuity with credits for screenwriter Eugene Ling. 119 leaves with last page of text numbered 118. Mimeograph duplication on onionskin stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus lightly toned bound internally with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1973173152New York: Grossman Publishers 1973. First edition. Oblong hardcover. First printing. 127 pages. A posthumously released collection of black and white images of Lange's cabin in California. Foreword by Margaretta K. Mitchell. A clean very near fine copy in a a close to near fine dust jacket with some slight wear. Despite the flaws a nice copy of a seemingly fairly uncommon book. Grossman Publishers unknown books
192722404London: Hodder and Stoughton 1927. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Owner signature on front flyleaf. Illustrated with numerous photographic plates. Very good to near fine in dust jacket with some minor restoration at edges. <br/><br/> Hodder and Stoughton hardcover books
1937515601937. Very Good. The photograph is approx. 17.5 x 23cm. mounted on a larger card mount. Waist length shot of the Congressman wearing a three-piece suit. Signed on photo "Arthur W. Mitchell M.C. May 26 1936". Some marring in background where photo is spotted or gouged but Mitchell's image is clear and unmarked. Also included 1 A Bill to Assure to Persons within the Jurisdiction of Every State the Equal Protection of the Laws and to Punish the Crime of Lynching. Washington: 1937. 4p. pamphlet. Later folds. 75th Congress. 1st Session. H.R. 2251. and 2 The Democratic Party and the Negro: Speech of Hon. Arthur W. Mitchell of Illinois in the House of Representatives April 22 1936. Washington: n.d. 3p. Later folds. Reprinted from the Congressional Record. and 3 Lynching the Blackest Crime in America Today: Speech of Hon. Arthur W. Mitchell of Illinois in the House of Representatives Tuesday May 19 1936. Washington: n.d. 3p. Later folds. Reprinted from the Congressional Record. Mitchell was born near Lafayette Alabama on December 22 1883. He attended Tuskegee Institute and also studied at Columbia and Harvard. He founded the Armstrong Agricultural School in West Butler Alabama. Mitchell turned his attention to the law and after admission to the bar eventually moved to Chicago Illinois. He was the first African American to be elected to the U.S. Congress as a Democrat. He served four terms as an Illinois Congressman 1935-1943. He then returned to the practice of law and other endeavors. He died in 1968 and was interred on his farm near Petersburg Virginia. <br/><br/> unknown books
1975311865Palm Beach Florida 1975. Together 2 pp. 4to. On personal letterhead one with original envelope. Fine. Together 2 pp. 4to. A pair of letters from Apollo 14 astronaut Ed Mitchell 1930-2016 to William Targ editor at Putnam's in which Mitchell expresses his annoyance at the publisher's failure to send royalty statements for his book Psychic Exploration 1974 and expressing frustration at the publisher's failure to adequately promote the book. unknown books
1932111931Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company Publishers 1932. Octavo pp. 1-12 13-303 304: blank original salmon cloth front and spine panels stamped in brown. First U.S. edition. An excellent novel combining time travel and prehistoric life motifs. Three survivors of an airship disaster find themselves 25000 years in the past on the island of Atlantis where they join a Cro-Magnon tribe. This novel was reprinted in FAMOUS FANTASTIC MYSTERIES December 1943. Anatomy of Wonder 1981 2-71; 1987 2-79; 1995 2-89; and 2004 II-772. Angenot and Khouri "An International Bibliography of Prehistoric Fiction" SFS VIII March 1981 45. Clareson Science Fiction in America 1870s-1930s 573. Eichner Atlantean Chronicles pp. 176-77. Locke A Spectrum of Fantasy p. 159. In 333. Mild dust soiling to top edge of text block a fine copy in very good dust jacket with small triangular size chip from top edge of front panel several small chips from front flap fold and some mild shelf wear with shallow loss at spine ends and corner tips. There are two dust jacket states for this edition one pictorial the other with Christopher Morley quote on front panel priority unknown. Example here is the latter and is the less common of the two. An attractive copy. #111931 The Bobbs-Merrill Company Publishers unknown books
1897223233New York The Century Co. 1897. 1897. First edition first issue with title pages on a stub. 8vo. Illustrated by Howard Pyle. Original gray stamped in orange. 2 volumes. Very good. No signatures or bookplates. Enclosed in a 1/2 gray morocco over brown cloth slipcase with brown leather spine labels. BAL 14178. F. Hardcover. New York, The Century Co., 1897. hardcover books
1850100382Square 4to 11 ½ x 9 ½ publishers original quarter green calf and pictorial peach-colored boards. With 17 hand-colored copper engraved maps 5 double pages plus insets. Spine ends and corners bumped shelf wear a few small dampstains soiling; binding a bit loose short splits to some of the centerfolds U.S. map and light toning and foxing to contents. Overall about very good. Interesting double page map of the United States that shows large portions of the map as territories including a good sized section labeled as Indian Territory. The Missouri Territory stretches well into the Northwest portion of the U.S. and a portion of the Northwest is designated as Upper California. An inset at the lower left hand side of the map illustrates the Gold Region of California. Thomas Cowperthwait & Co., hardcover books
1834760761834. Mitchell and Hinman. ACCOMPANIMENT TO MITCHELL'S REFERENCE AND DISTANCE MAP OF THE UNITED STATES; Containing an Index of all the Counties Districts Townships Towns etc. in the Union; Together With an Index of the Rivers. Philadelphia: Mitchell and Hinman 1834. With publisher's label to front pastedown. 324pp. 8vo. marbled paper sides backed in leather gilt spine title. Ink ownership to ffep. Boards are rubbed and edgeworn. Some foxing to endpapers and first/last leaves else generally clean text. About very good. unknown books
1938041178New York: Sheridan House 1938. First Edition. Hardcover Original Cloth. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Light wear to edges of green cloth endpapers a bit browned a few finger marks to edges of preliminaries and title. Generally a nice bright copy. The first book by the New Yorker writer and one of the great American prose writers. Size: Octavo 8vo. Text is clean and unmarked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Inventory No: 041178. <br/><br/> Sheridan House hardcover books
186432827Boston: F. A. Searle Printer 118 Washington Street 1864. VG some creasing folding and wrinkling to edges small horizontal tear to mid left edge. One broadside sheet printed recto only. 18-1/4" x 6-1/4" <br/><br/>A scarce broadside playbill from an early American production of Gounod's Faust in five acts as originally performed at Paris' Theatre Lyrique in 1859 which would later be selected as the inaugural opera performance of the New York Met in 1883. This bill advertises research suggests the same Opera Company as first brought Faust to the States initially performing it at the Philadelphia Academy of Music 1863 cf. Armstrong. RECORD Of The OPERA In PHILADELPHIA. Includes advertisement for Miss Maggie Mitchell on May 16 1864 performing Fanchon The Cricket. F. A. Searle, Printer, 118 Washington Street unknown books
186441942Boston: F. A. Searle Printer 118 Washington Street 1864. Some age toning light crease here & there with the occasional spot or two. Horizontal fold-line. Still a VG example of this fragile item. One broadside sheet printed recto only. 18-1/8" x 6-1/4" <br/><br/>Margaret Julia Mitchell popularly known as Maggie Mitchell was an American actress born in New York. She made her first regular appearance as Julia in The Soldier's Daughter at the Chambers Street Theatre in 1851. The parts in which she was best liked were Jane Eyre Mignon Little Barefoot and Fanchon the Cricket. Wiki In January 1861 At at De Bar’s St. Charles Theatre in New Orleans Mitchell first appeared in Fanchon the Cricket a new secondhand adaptation by August Waldauer from George Sand’s story “La Petite Fadette.” Her characterization of the sprite of a heroine which included a graceful and entrancing shadow dance was an immediate sensation. Her Southern tour was cut short by the Civil War and Mitchell took Fanchon to Boston and New York where it was equally successful. Fanchon remained her mainstay for 30 years. Audiences never tired of it—her admirers included the likes of Abraham Lincoln and Ralph Waldo Emerson—and even in her 50s Mitchell retained the winsome elfin appeal that made her so successful. She also early obtained the rights to Fanchon which enabled her to amass a considerable estate. EB. We find one institutional holding of this playbill at the MHS. A rare survivor of this play's northern run. F. A. Searle, Printer, 118 Washington Street unknown books
1968316111New York: Limited Editions Club 1968. No. 418 of 1500 copies signed by John Groth. Introduction by Henry Steele Commager. Illustrations by John Groth. 2 vols. 4to. Blue and gray cloth. A fine copy in slipcase. Groth John. No. 418 of 1500 copies signed by John Groth. Introduction by Henry Steele Commager. Illustrations by John Groth. 2 vols. 4to. With inscription and drawing by John Groth on the ffep inscribed to Amy. Limited Editions Club unknown books
1936146032Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1936. Continuity and Dialogue script pre-production for the 1936 film here under the working title "Twenty Hours by Air." With faint holograph pencil annotations throughout. Typescript in black and red type.<br/><br/>What should be a routine transcontinental flight from New York to San Francisco is complicated by its shady passengers which include three jewel thieves a strange nobleman and a beautiful socialite. <br/><br/>Brown untitled wrappers rubber-stamped Paramount Production No. 1801. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Kenyon Nicholson. 146 leaves with last page of text numbered 145. Black and red typescript on onionskin stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with yapping to the front wrapper's right edge bound with two gold brads. Paramount Pictures unknown books
200528055New York: Cheim & Read 2005. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/none. Hardbound quarto. Unpaginated and with 20 glorious color plates. Essay by Klaus Kerteess. Published on the occasion of a 2005 exhibition. Supposedly 1500 copies were printed but this is the first we have seen in years. Gorgeous book for fans of this abstract expressionist painter of the New York School. Fine copy in fine printed clear acetate wrapper. Cheim & Read hardcover books
200827654New York and Gottingen: Chaim & Reid / Steidl 2008. First edition. Cloth. Fine/fine. Oblong clothbound quarto in dustwrapper. Unpaginated. With gorgeous color plates by Mitchell and text by Hickey. A fine as-new copy in dustwrapper. One of fifteen hundred copies printed yet seems much scarcer than that rather large print run would suggest. Recommended for fans of this artist. Chaim & Reid / Steidl unknown books
1929004602Boston: Chapple Publishing Co. Limited 1929. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front endpage - "For my friend General Will H. Hays with sincere personal regards Faithfully Joe Mitchell Chapple The Attic Boston Xmas 1929". Will H. Hays managed Warren G. Hardings successful campaign for the Presidency of the U.S. and was subsequently appointed Postmaster General. After a year in that position he resigned to become most famously known as the first President of Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America MPPDA which under his guidance published a blacklist of actors and workers studios should not hire inserted moral clauses into actors' contracts and published an informal list of suggested guidelines for film producers. When the Catholic Church formed its Legion of Decency and threatened nationwide boycotts of movies Hays installed a more formal production code called the Hays Code later simply "The Code" which became the virtual law of Hollywood until the 1960s. Joseph Mitchell Chapple was a well-known editor publisher and author whose 2 Hollywood credits include writer for "Graft"1915 and producer for" Annabelle Lee"1921. In 1897 he took charge of "The Bostonian" magazine which he re-named "The National Magazine" to reflect its expanded coverage of American topics and letters. It became the leading national journal of American life and Washington affairs. "The Attic" was the Chapples well-known home over their publishing plant in Boston where they entertained the likes Presidents Harding and Coolidge as well as the most prominent writers and actors of the day and no doubt Will Hays. A wonderful ASSOCIATION COPY. Book is Very Good lettering at spine worn and illegible. Laid in is an absolutely charming period Christmas Card depicting a jockey on a race horse which is unsigned. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Association Copy. Chapple Publishing Co., Limited Hardcover books
1926004600Boston: Chapple Publishing Co. Limited 1926. Very Good top edge gilt vertical impression rear board light edgewear no dustjacket. With 30 original tissue-covered etchings and drawings by Levon West and numerous photographs. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front endpage - "For my friend Mr. Will H. Hays with sincere regards of the author & an appreciation of a friend who never fails Faithfully Joe Mitchell Chapple The Attic Boston 1928". Will H. Hays managed Warren G. Hardings successful campaign for the Presidency of the U.S. and was subsequently appointed Postmaster General. After a year in that position he resigned to become most famously known as the first President of Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America MPPDA which under his guidance published a blacklist of actors and workers studios should not hire inserted moral clauses into actors' contracts and published an informal list of suggested guidelines for film producers. When the Catholic Church formed its Legion of Decency and threatened nationwide boycotts of movies Hays installed a more formal production code called the Hays Code later simply "The Code" which became the virtual law of Hollywood until the 1960s. Joseph Mitchell Chapple was a well-known editor publisher and author whose 2 Hollywood credits include writer for "Graft"1915 and producer for" Annabelle Lee"1921. In 1897 he took charge of "The Bostonian" magazine which he re-named "The National Magazine" to reflect its expanded coverage of American topics and letters. It became the leading national journal of American life and Washington affairs. "The Attic" was the Chapples well-known home over their publishing plant in Boston where they entertained the likes Presidents Harding and Coolidge as well as the most prominent writers and actors of the day and no doubt Will Hays. A wonderful ASSOCIATION COPY. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Levon West. Association Copy. Chapple Publishing Co., Limited unknown books
2002163942New York and Berkeley and Los Angeles CA: Whitney Museum of American Art in association with University of California Press 2002. First edition. Softcover. 237 pages. Published in conjunction with an exhibition that ran June 20 through September 29 2002 at the Whitney Museum of American Art and then traveled to three other locations for additional dates. essays by Jane Livingston Linda Nochlia and Yvette Y. Lee. Includes 110 illustrations of which 88 are in color. A near fine copy in French style wrappers. Whitney Museum of American Art in association with University of California Press unknown books
