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190034647Europe 1900. Photograph Album. Fair. Album. Approx. 12.5" X 10" brown cloth covers with leather spine and corners. Gilt title "Scrapbook" lettered on the spine. Illustrated hand drawn armorial book plate without a name located on the front paste down. The front cover is detached. <br /> <br /> Album consists of multicolored paper containing 119 photographs plus a few paper items. Most of the pictures are of women with a variety of picture types including studio miniature cards CDV's silver gelatin prints etc. Some of the photographs show women playing stringed instruments one wearing a red cross badge one picture of lady on a horse next to a business and others wearing outfits similar to nuns. Some of the small photographs are from Brussels. A few of the pictures are dated 1906. Album also includes a page of clippings in the German language some photographs of soldiers and non uniformed men and old photo card scenes of ancient Athens and Constantinople. A typed invitation is pasted down inside from "Lieut. Colonel H.R. Hunt D.S.O. and Officers The 25th Punjabis request the pleasure of the company of Miss Mitchell at dinner on Saturday the 19th June at 8 p.m." dated 9-6-1920. No loose items. Several empty colored paper pages in back. From wikipedia:<br /> <br /> In 1911 the 25th Punjabis moved to Hong Kong to protect British interests following the Chinese Revolution of 1911. On the outbreak of the First World War the regiment returned from Hong Kong to India. In December 1917 it moved to Mesopotamia as part of the 54th Indian Brigade 18th Indian Division. In September 1918 the 25th Punjabis moved to Salonika in Greece and then to Turkey as part of the Allied occupation forces. It returned to India in 1921. The regiment raised a second battalion on 1 November 1917. The 2/25th Punjabis served in the Third Afghan War of 1919. The battalion was disbanded in 1922.2. unknown
1999137734Adelaide: Friends of the State Library of South Australia 1999. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Friends of the State Library of South Australia 1999 facsimile edition/ 1848. Octavo xvi xvi last blank 438 pages with 11 illustrations including the title-page vignette plus 12 plates and 7 maps 4 folding. Gilt-decorated red cloth very slightly marked; commercial bookplate to the front pastedown; an excellent copy. Australiana Facsimile Editions Number 220; one of only 501 copies thus. The 14-page introduction by Valmai Hankel and Valerie Sitters is new to this edition; publisher's brochure is loosely inserted. Friends of the State Library of South Australia hardcover
193675637New York:: Famous Music Corporation 1936. publisher's illustrated wrappers. . Smudged old music retailer's stamp on front cover; edges of wrappers lightly worn. Folio. The three stars have inscribed and signed the sheet music cover illustrated with a scene of Fonda and Sidney: "To Ed--Fred Mac;""To Eddie A darling boy Silvia Sidney" and "Eddie ol pal -- I kinda fonda you Henry Fonda." Famous Music Corporation, unknown
182931013Augusta: W. A. Mitchell 1829. Letter. Good. Receipt and letter. Approx. 10" x 8" folded paper. 4 pages. Page 3 and 4 has a v shaped chipped on the edge with the chipped section stuck to the wax seal on blank side of page 2 all content present. A large closed tear to the document on the right side no loss of content. Small splits at the fold intersections.<br /> <br /> Top of page 1 heading "Augusta Feb. 14th 1829". Bot of Wm. Mitchell". Goods purchased include Bushels of Salt Sacks Coffee Small Bag and Nails. Inside on page 3 is a 14 line written note to Capt. Smith discussing his order and the "Merchants and Planters Bank is now good and I think will remain so at least one year." Page 4 is addressed to "Capt Lewis Smith Gwinnett County Geo. W. A. Mitchell unknown
19396037561939. not signed on a 3/4 length pose of Thomas Mitchell with dramatic lighting after the death of his wife in a scene from the 1939 film "Gone With The Wind." Photograph is on single stock; 10" x 8 1/4" with linen strip added to left margin; very good fresh; 1939. Information slip on back reads: "SCARLETT'S FATHER -- Gerald O'Hara Tom Mitchell lost his mind from the shock of his wife's death and was living in the past when Scarlett returned to Tara. A scene from Selznick International's technicolor production of 'Gone With The Wind' which stars Clark Gable Vivien Leigh Leslie Howard and Olivia de Havilland.". No Binding. Very Good. unknown
1909W1387<p>Augusta Maine: The Mitchell-Cony Company 1909. 160 page Maine reference manual that includes a brief history of Maine that references governors members of Congress state government plantations newspapers churches and more. In addition there is an 80 page census of Winthrop and Monmouth Maine. A large folding color map is laid in. The book is especially useful for genealogical researchers. The book is clean and tight with a tiny scrape on rear cover; pages lightly toned. The map is clean and bright with tanning in the margin along one edge; a couple of closed tears limited to that same edge. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.</p> The Mitchell-Cony Company hardcover
14380Without place or date. Postmark dated 24 April 1837. 1p. 4to. Bifolium. Reverse of second leaf with wax seal postmark and address to 'Mr. Mitchell High Street Portsmouth'. The letter begins: 'Mr Cust wishes Mr Mitchell to send up Master Custs best uniform coat & waistcoat & if any difference from those he has got the Trowsers; as soon as possible.' He complains that the shirts 'do not sit quite neat about the collar' before listing more requirements: '1 Pewter hand Bason & cup. 2 Bars common soap. 1 Packet Windsor Do. 2 Pair of Braces 2 Log Books size for 3 yrs 1 Watch Bill Book 2 Bottles of Ink. 1 set shoe Brushes 1 Clothes Brush cases of Blacking - Slate.' Further requirements are mentioned: 'Mr. Cust is recommended to have an Indian rubber cape or cloak such as Mr. Mitchell will of course be able to know is proper but Mr Cust would wish to know the difference of the Price.' Without place or date. Postmark dated 24 April 1837. hardcover
197063242Boston: Little Brown & Co 1970. First Edition. First printing. Maroon cloth spine over red cloth-coverered boards; dustjacket; 182pp. Fine apparently unread copy in the original dustwrapper unclipped priced $5.95 minutely creased on front flap still Fine and completely free from the marginal toning that is endemic to his title. Rarely found in fine condition.<br /> <br /> Mitchell's first book a picaresque celebration of late-Sixties hippie counter-culture the narrative framed loosely around a series of hitch-hiking adventures up and down the California coast with sex and drugs in abundance. The novel was adapted for the 1972 feature film of the same title directed by Quentin Masters and starring Meg Foster and Bruce Dern. Little, Brown & Co unknown
1932Q407University of California 1932. Paperback. Very good. 1932 University of California Botany Notebook by a student of Richard Holman head of Botany at UC Berkeley and co-author of the influential 'Textbook of General Botany' with Wilfred Robbins 1924. 39 labeled plates: Plant Cell 5 Plant 2 Plant Tissues 6 Stem 4 Root 2 Leaf 4 Flower 7 Fruit 3 Seed 6. Approx. 20 sheets of notes on seed experiments some with application to agricultural practices. Graphite drawings on thick card stock in UC branded cover fastened with brads. A few grading marks on the written notes drawings remain clean and crisp very fine work. See: 'Botany at Berkeley: The First Hundred Years' by Lincoln Constance 1978. https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/history/botanyatberkeley/ <br /> <br /> <br/><br/> University of California paperback
CNWT01Berkeley: Elysian Editions Wesley B. Tanner 1985. First and Limited Edition. Folio in a case. Fine. Mitchell Margaretta K. The printer's proof from an edition of fifty copies seven text pages and twelve photogravures all housed in a clamshell case. This an homage to Angela Isadora Duncan 1877-1927 and the incredible effect she had on modern dance which she initiated at the turn of the last century. <br /> <br /> She "emphasized the dynamics and rhythm of movement invoked the Greeks and refused to perform anywhere but in the sanctified halls of the opera house and concert stage. Duncan avoided all links with dance as it had been known in the nineteenth century - a 'leg business' that was titillating and low class. She remains a key figure in the history of American modern dance primarily because she established dance as a legitimate artistic practice" n.b. info and quote from the online Dictionary of American Biograpy. <br /> <br /> A native of San Francisco she spent much of her adult life in Europe and Russia. However her influence was deeply felt in the San Francisco Bay Area; an admirer and childhood friend of hers Florence Treadwell Boynton and her husband built a home in Berkeley designed by Bernard Maybeck which was named the "Temple of Wings". It was there that Florence created a dance school that adhered to her own beliefs regarding raising children with these beliefs integrated with the dance style of Duncan. Annual summer dance events were held at the Temple of Wings from 1914 through 1985 and it is this style of dance which is celebrated in this photographic portfolio. <br /> <br /> With photographs by Margaretta K. Mitchell b. 1935 whose "photographs belong to the Pictorialist tradition addressing formal concerns of line and shadow primarily in black and white" n.b. from Wiki. Her style shows in the twelve gravure plates in this work which bring to life the interpretation by Duncan and Boynton of the ancient Greek-style of dance. <br /> <br /> Issued in an edition of fifty copies plus nine copies reserved for the participants in the project this the printer's proof copy which we acquired directly from him. Somewhat uncommon in the marketplace as of this writing we see only a single other offering online; our search of OCLC locates four institutional holdings. <br /> <br /> ___DESCRIPTION: The work consists of nineteen sheets in a portfolio box the title page in blue and black four pages of Introduction this followed by the poem "The Dancer" this by the twelve photgravures with the colophon at the end the first page of the Introduction has a small photoengraved illustration printed in black there are nine continous-tone offset illustrations printed in black throughout the Introduction the twelve photogravures are all titled numbered this copy noted as "Printer's Proof" and dated by Margarette Mitchell each photogravure interleaved with archival paper for protection; types Castellar Van Dijck and Garamond on Arches paper the pages measure 19" by 15"; the box is covered in blue cloth with a white paper label mounted onto the front with blue lettering and measures 20 3/4" by 16 1/8". <br /> <br /> ___CONDITION: The text pages and photogravues all fine clean and without wear; the box near fine strong and sturdy but with a few spots of soil and a few areas of light wear including a small tear to the cloth at the bottom of the front of the box. <br /> <br /> ___CITATION: The Book Club of California Quarterly Newsletter Vol. LV Number 4 Autumn 1990 "A Bibliographical Checklist of Wesley B. Tanner Printer" Part II p. 98. <br /> <br /> ___POSTAGE: Please note that this is an extremely large and heavy item and additional postage may apply please inquire for details. International customers also please note that any taxes duty or tariffs charged by your country will of necessity be your responsibility. <br /> <br /> ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. Elysian Editions [Wesley B. Tanner] unknown
1999152988Various cities: Scalo 1999. Hardcover. Fine in an about Fine dust jacket. Scalo unknown
19091660H84283Philadelphia: Samuel T. Freeman. Auction was March 1 1909 and Tuesday morning and After Noon March 2. . Good. Soft cover. 1909. Samuel T. Freeman paperback
1993100880AB1993. Dublin Moytura Press 1993. 22 cm. 186 pages with illustrations. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. paperback
199019672Saint Paul: Rulon-Miller Books. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. No. 7 of an edition of 100 copies. This copy with a personalized pencil inscription on the title page by the publisher Rob Rulon-Miller. The inscription is dated "8/8/13". 61 2 pages. Green cloth boards with green cloth slipcase. Paper title label on spine of book and also on slipcase. Page dimensions: 253 x 161mm 10" x 6 1/2". Hand-set text printed on handmade Umbria Bianco paper. An edition of a handwritten specimen for an etymological dictionary. The anonymous specimen was dated 1830 and has entries for 51 words. The Introduction gives an interesting short history of the development of etymological dictionaries of English words. Among the evidence assembled for the attribution of the 'Specimen' to Kemble are "two explicit references to 'Beowulf' under 'fey' and 'sark'." - Introduction page 18. Contents includes an "Editor's Bibliography" a list of "Works Cited in the Manuscript" and a list of "References Used by the Compiler". One tipped-in illustration shows a page of the 1830 manuscript. Text predominantly in black with the numerals for the 51 entries and some other ornaments printed in a crimson-red colour. . Rulon-Miller Books hardcover
222Minor shelfwear; small stain to lower textblock edge; jacket lightly rubbed creased and sunned tape repair to verso. Very Good. LMM-222. <p>SIGNED Don Mitchell. Thumb Tripping. Boston/Toronto: Little Brown & Company 1970. First edition. <br /> Signed by Don Mitchell. <br /> Octavo. 182pp. Publisher's hardcover paper boards copper lettering to spine endleaves in maroon original unclipped dust jacket listing price $5.95.</p> <br /> <p>From the collection of Larry McMurtry at his home in Archer City Texas. His book with personal brand-mark bookplate.</p> . unknown
183434428Nashville: Published by J. C. Mitchell and C. C. Norvell. Printed by Allen A. Hall 1834. First Edition. Leather bound. Fair. Octavo. 1 viii 534 pages. Brown sheepskin leather binding with leather title label on the spine. Leather is scuffed and rubbed with a few dark damp stains on the front cover. Cracked leather on the spine. Light damp stains to the end sheets. Ink stain top edge of the text pages 475-534. Moderate toning and foxing throughout the text. Pair of old ink names on the front end sheets. Contents include sections on Slavery including beating Slaves. A fair copy. Published by J. C. Mitchell and C. C. Norvell. Printed by Allen A. Hall unknown
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
184996Philadelphia: Augustus Mitchell 1849. First Edition. Hand-colored Map. Very Good . Lithographed. Folio overall measures 13 3/4" x 17 1/4" with the printed area being 12" W x 15 1/4" H. Hand-colored. Published soon after Illinois became a state. Noteworthy depiction of booming lead mining region centered on Galena. Augustus Mitchell unknown
1889395904New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1889. Hardcover. Good. Limited edition. Half white vellum with printed paper spine label. Owner's name inked on front fly corners worn spine labelchipped and torn a good only copy. This is number 62 of 200 copies printed on Holland paper. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
17033to an unnnamed actor saying that "Mr Mitchell has informed me that you are disengaged at Easter will you in confidence oblige me with the terms upon which you would appear at the Olympic Negotiations are pending with Miss Lacombe - Miss Birch - Travers Stretton Miran &c &c" 2 sides small 8vo Olympic Theatre 444 Broadway New York 'Thursday' no date c. Mitchell's reign at the Olympic 1839-1850 was famous for topical burlesques. He himself was particularly admired as Vincent Crummles in 'Nicholas Nickleby'. unknown
1279New York: Charles Scribner and Company 1866. . 2 volumes. 8vo green pebbled cloth corners slightly bumped and minimal wear to extremities of spine; bookplate on front pastedowns glue from which has lifted minute sections from the brown-coated free endpapers. First Edition. BAL 13943 Born in Norwich Connecticut New York: Charles Scribner and Company, 1866. hardcover
183613051Philadelphia: Mitchell and Hinman. 1836. Hardcover. Very Good. Staining to obverse & verso of title page. Bookplate to front pastedown. Previous owner's name to rear endpaper. Steel engraved and hand colored map torn; Stunning early example of a guide to the USA basically ending at the Mississippi river before California or Texas was a state ; Maps; 24mo 5" - 6" tall; 78 pages . Mitchell and Hinman hardcover
185516332Philadelphia: Cowperthwait Desilver & Butler 1855. First Edition Early Issue. Quarter Leather. Very good. The 1855 Mitchell's Universal Atlas published by Cowperthwait Desilver & Butler in Philadelphia. Folio 74 plates. Three-quarter polished red morocco marbled boards title in gilt on label affixed to front panel. Measures 17" x 14". Front hinge reinforced donation bookplate on front endpaper. Faint damp stain to front and rear endpaper no impact to maps. Occasional toning to plates faint spotting to a few plates a bright example. This work is complete with 71 hand colored lithographed maps with three double page maps for a total of 74 plates. Includes a city plan of Washington D.C. Frontispiece map of the "Lengths of the Principal Rivers in the World." This work is an early issue of the 1855 Mitchell's Atlas with Pierce County Minnesota Plate 35 before it was divided into Pierce Davis and Renville Counties. Includes the Arkansas population map not the table of steamboat routes. Lacking the "New Map of Nebraska Kansas New Mexico and Indian Territories" which follows Plate 37 in the first issue. Philips Atlases 6118. Cowperthwait, Desilver & Butler unknown
1852236680Philadelphia: Thomas Cowperthwait & Co 1852. Chromolithograph title hand-colored frontispiece 73 hand-colored lithographic maps. 1 vols. Folio. Half red morocco in period style original marbled boards with printed label on upper cover very clean. Chromolithograph title hand-colored frontispiece 73 hand-colored lithographic maps. 1 vols. Folio. Mitchell & Sons first published their NEW UNIVERSAL ATLAS in 1846 having acquired Tanner's NEW UNIVERSAL ATLAS in 1845 and printed it several times subsequently until 1850 when the firm sold the rights to Cowperthwait & Co. of Philadelphia who published it until 1856 continually adding to and editing the hand-colored maps. Despite the attribute "Universal" in the title the Atlas clearly concentrates on America with 43 maps of the continent and features a large double-page transcontinental map of the U.S; and this 1852 Cowperthwait edition is the first to show counties in California and New Mexico. Phillips 809; Ristow pp.311-13; Rumsey p.240 Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co unknown
18980582741898. Original Manuscript . No Binding. Very Good. Two Page Autograph Manuscript Poem Written In A Fine Cursive Hand Dated Christmas 1898 At End And Appears To Be Written At That Time. May Have Been Written By Writer/Editor Edmund Mitchell As It Was With His Journal Etc. <br/> <br/> unknown
