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188647697New York: The De Vinne Press 1886. 1st edition. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION copy from Sampson to Theodore Watts dated 1887. Original publisher's quarter-vellum over grey paper wrapped boards; title stamped in blind to front board. Printed paper title label to spine. TEG. Wear & soiling to binding. Terminal flyleaf with short closed tear to bottom edge. Booklabel of Walter Theodore Watts-Dunton. About Very Good. 72 pp. Errata leaf tipped-in after p. 72. 8vo. 9" x 6-1/8" <br/><br/>Publication of "a paper read before the Association of Haverford Alumni in Alumni Hall Haverford College Pennsylvania on the Evening of the Twenty-First of June 1886 by Alden Sampson A. M. Haverford and Harvard." "Theodore Watts-Dunton was an English critic and poet. He is often remembered as the friend and minder of Algernon Charles Swinburne whom he rescued from alcoholism." Wiki The De Vinne Press hardcover books
195913028Oslo: H. Ashehoug 1959. Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Norwegian edition of Lerner's classic play adapted from George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion signed by the legendary American chef author and television personality. Text in Norwegian and with photos of cast members from a Norwegian production of the play. Signed by Julia Child on the front cover and further signed "P. And J. Child Oslo 19 Jan 60" on front free endpaper. This date corresponds with the time that the Childs lived in Oslo during Paul's waning years as an American diplomat. Amusingly the dialogue entries for Henry Higgins and Eliza pp. 49 - 58 have been "X"-marked in the margins beginning with the line "En perfekt siggarett gir sollid appetit" which corresponds to and here replaces the famous line in which Eliza mispronounces her vowels leading then to the celebrated song "Just you wait Henry Higgins." It is charming to imagine the Childs together hamming it up in this scene perhaps entertaining friends in their Norwegian home. <br>124 pp. Softcover with French flaps; covers lightly worn; overall in very good condition.<br><br>A fabulous item from the famous American cook author spy and television personality who introduced French cuisine and cooking techniques to the American mainstream through her many cookbooks and television programs including the series The French Chef which premiered in 1963.<br> H. Ashehoug paperback books
19571340728Asheville: Citizen-Times Publishing Company 1957. Hardcover. Octavo; G-/Poor; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine tan with black print; DJ in mylar tears at spine ends and flap corners portions torn away at top an bottom of spine and front top edge toning to spine peripheral toning moisture stains; Boards in green cloth with gold print mild wear to spine caps and corners else clean and strong; Text block has spotting to edges and endpapers name in ink on front flyleaf else clean and tight; Signed in ink by the author on the front flyleaf; 259 pages illustrated b&w. 1340728. FP New Rockville Stock. Citizen-Times Publishing Company hardcover books
1911CA0100a3 volumes. Volume 1. vi314 with frontispiece and plates; volume 2. 372 pages with frontispiece and plates. volume 3. 518 pages with frontispiece and one plate. Royal octavo 9 1/4" x6 1/4" Bound in quarter leather with gilt lettering to spine and raised spine bands; marbled boards. Preface par M. le Cte de MoüyFirst edition.<br /><br />Mémoires: L'Intervention Française au Mexique by Charles Blanchot. This very rare memoir by Charles Blanchot was aide-de-camp to General Bazaine Supreme Commander of French Forces in Mexico during Mexico's Second Empire. There is so much in here that has never seen light in either Spanish or English for instance: the powerful if behind-the-scenes role of Doña Juliana de Gómez Pedraza widow of Manuel Gómez Pedraza and the vicious if as Blanchot suggests unfounded rumors circulating in Mexico City about Bazaine in 1866-7. Blanchot who married an American of French origin in Mexico City also offers a detailed and lively portrait of Mexico City society at the time.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />First signature of volume one detached with some edge wear along the fore-edges title to volume two detached binding edges and hinges rubbed spines darkened. A good copy of a very rare and scarce work. Librairie Emile Nourry hardcover books
19701342605Philadelphia: Industrial Research Unit Wharton School of Finance and Commerce University of Pennsylvania 1970. Hardcover. Octavo; Fair; Ex-library; Hardcover; Spine blue with gold print call number label at bottom; Boards in blue cloth with gold print wear to spine caps and corners cloth puckering on front and rear shelfwear; Text block has library stamps on edges and front flyleaf library bookplate on front pastedown library pocket and labels on rear pastedown penciled call number on title page verso clean text; xvii 769 pages. 1342605. FP New Rockville Stock. Industrial Research Unit, Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, University of Pennsylvania hardcover books
192433907Milano: G. Ricordi & C. 1924. Large octavo. Original publisher's dark ivory illustrated wrappers with titling in red. 1f. recto half-title verso copyright 1f. recto title verso blank 1f. recto cast list verso blank 9-88 pp. On laid paper with text within thin light green rule. With decorative headpieces by Cesari printed in light green. <br/><br/>Publisher's blindstamp to inner lower corner of first few leaves dated 4 April 1924. <br/><br/>Wrappers slightly worn; spine slightly split. Some light foxing. First Edition. <br/><br/>Nerone was first performed in Milan at La Scala on 1 May 1924. <br/><br/>"Nerone which had engaged Boito's attention irregularly for nearly 60 years was finally performed six years after his death on 1 May 1924 at La Scala in a version extensively revised by a committee consisting of Toscanini Antonio Smareglia and Vincenzo Tommasini . Nerone exists in two versions: in five acts as in the printed libretto of 1901 and in four acts as in the printed score. The excised fifth act for which Boito sketched music presents Nero playing Aeschylus's Orestes while Rome burns. The four-act version ends with the death of the Christian convert Rubria. All in all Nerone possesses great originality vividly contrasting pagan magic imperial corruption and Christian caritas. It is arguably Boito's finest achievement." William Ashbrook in Grove Music Online. G. Ricordi & C. unknown books
192425776Milano: G. Ricordi & C. PN 119599 1924. Large folio. Full original publisher's stiff vellum boards illustrated in black highlighted in red and gold illustrated endpapers. 1f. blank i half-title i copyright notice 1f. limitation statement 1f. title 1f. table of contents 1f. cast list 1f. part-title within illustrated border by Gisari 1f. scene description 1f. second part-title with illustration of scenery for the first act 415 i blank pp. 1f. decorative device by Gisari. Uncut. <br/><br/>Publisher's blindstamp to lower margin of each leaf. Each act preceded by an unpaginated blank leaf scene description and two part-titles the second with a detailed illustration of the scenery. The second part "Lo spoliarum" is preceded by an unpaginated blank leaf and scene description.<br/><br/>Binding slightly worn soiled and warped. Some leaves slightly browned or soiled. Deluxe Limited Edition this number 19 of 120 copies with "XIX" in careful manuscript to lower margin of limitation statement. On fine Pietro Miliani di Fabriano paper. Illuminated and illustrated by Giulio Cisari after sketches by Lodovico Pogliachi.<br/><br/>Begun in 1877 Nerone an opera in four acts to Boito's own libretto remained incomplete when Boito died in 1924. After its completion by Arturo Toscanini Vincenzo Tommasini and Antonio Smareglia it was posthumously premiered at the Teatro alla Scala on May 24 1924 with Toscanini conducting. Although its premiere was very well received it was not performed in the U.S. until April 12 1982.<br/><br/>An attractive copy. G. Ricordi & C. [PN 119599] unknown books
189186934London: Ward Lock and Co 1891. 1st Edition in English. Hardcover. Fair. frontis portrait illustrations index xviii 1 597p. Original reddish pictorial cloth. Rebacked with most of original worn backstrip mounted. 22cm. Covers faded worn and scuffed. Contents sound although lacking the folding map. Translated from the original German by H. W. Dulcken. A worn and mapless copy of a scarce work. Peters was a bit of an adventurer. It seems unclear whether his actions during this expedition were sanctioned by Germany. At any rate Germany and Great Britain concluded the second Anglo-German Agreement on July 1 1890 under which any claims to East African territory secured by Peters for Germany were casually abandoned by the Germans. Peters was later sent to Africa as a German colonial official but highhanded mistreatment of Africans led to his dismissal and forfeiture of his pension rights. Undaunted Peters moved to England and continued as an adventurer and promoter. <br/><br/> Ward, Lock, and Co hardcover books
2005180256Paris: Hazan 2005. Hardcover. VG. Pictorial dj; black boards white lettering on spine. 151 pages : illustrations some color. Catalog of an exhibition at the Musée Picasso Antibes 2 July -16 October 2005./ Includes bibliographical references pages 150-151. Hazan hardcover books
190243064Chicago: Unity Publishing Company 1902. 1st Edition. Brown quarter cloth with grey-brown boards tan title block to front board gilt lettering to spine. Ex university library with only a small one-line name stamp; no other library markings. Mild shelfwear short closed tear and minor soil to pg vi. Interior otherwise clean binding tight. VG. viii 127 7 blank pp plus 2 pp list of publications. Several unopened leaves throughout. 8" x 5-5/8" <br/><br/>Jenkin Lloyd Jones was a Unitarian minister and the founder of All Souls Church in Chicago; he also founded the Abraham Lincoln Centre the church's community outreach program and to which this book is dedicated and became a prominent pacifist during WWI. Weston has compiled these selections of Jones writings under various themes -- Home Individual Church Love etc -- and notes that they "are taken chiefly from the two books in the Bits of Wayside Gospel series entitled 'Jess' and 'A Search for an Infidel.'" Unity Publishing Company hardcover books
1961S4267In:: Reviews of Modern Physics Vol. 33 No. 3 July 1961. 1961. 272 x 202 mm. 4to. Pages 493-497. Entire volume: iv 625 pp. Full orange buckram gilt spine. Ex library rubber stamps those on edges obscured spine label partially removed. Ownership name in gilt on top cover. Very good. FIRST EDITION. Abraham Pais and Murray Gell-Mann teamed together to work on the problem of strong and weak interactions. See: Pais Inward bound p. 520. Abraham Pais received the Ph.D. from the University of Utrecht in 1941 and was professor of physics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton New Jersey from 1950-1963. Pais' research and publications were on the physics of fundamental particles high enery physics and field theory. Reviews of Modern Physics, Vol. 33, No. 3, July, 1961. hardcover books
1952S5007Rio de Janeiro:: Academia Brasileira de Ciências 1952. 1952. 271 x 186 mm. 4to. Pages 44-46. Entire volume: 71 pp. 1 tables. Printed wrappers; wrappers creased several leaves dog-eared. Very good. RARE. FIRST EDITION. "After his well known success in quantum electrodynamics Feynman was working on meson theory. He proposed to Leite Lopes that they investigate whether the pseudoscalar meson theory would give some results in the description of the deuteron which could be experimentally checked in spite of the difficulty of the 1/r3 singularity at the origin of the Yukawa potential. The results of this study were published in an article entitled 'On the pseudoscalar meson theory of the deuteron' in the proceedings of the Symposium on New Research Techniques in Physics 15-29 June 1952. Many physicists from Europe and the United States attended this symposium." Mehra. Among the contributors to this publication are Eugene Paul Wigner 1902-1995 with three papers among the total of 67. Gleick Genius p. 495; Mehra The beat of a different drum p. 334-335. Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 1952. unknown books
1870M13702Philadelphia:: Henry C. Lea 1870. 1870. 8vo. xvi 17-195 1 pp. Original quarter black calf marbled boards gilt-stamped spine; upper joint with kozo repair. Ownership signature Ross MD. Very good. Dedicated to Sir William Jenner. Smith attended University College London. He became F.R.C.P. in 1874. "Early in his career he was through the introduction of the late Sir William Jenner appointed to the Duke of Brabant afterwards Leopold II King of the Belgians and travelled with him in the East visiting India Ceylon and China. King Leopold whose physician he remained until that monarch's death appointed him a Chevalier of the Order of Leopold." He worked at a Children's hospital and gained a wide ranging respect for his personality and knowledge being well read and kind. Sir H. Bryan Donkin singled out this and his Treatise on Diseases of Children as distinguished. See: British Medical Journal 1914 Nov 21; 22812: pp. 904–906. Henry C. Lea, 1870. hardcover books
189734779Leipzig: M. P. Belaïeff PN 1556 1897. Octavo. Original publisher's gray wrappers with titling within decorative border. 1f. recto decorative title printed in dark green verso blank 3-10 pp. 1f. 8 parts: flutes clarinets bells 1 leaf each harp 3 pp. Title in Russian and French to upper. Publisher's catalogue of orchestral music to verso of upper wrapper and recto and verso of lower. Decorative title printed in green with printed dedication at head: "à mon fils Michel."<br/><br/>Wrappers slightly worn. Minor browning. Parts uncut. First Edition of this arrangement. M. P. Belaïeff [PN 1556] unknown books
1864WRCLIT81569Paris: Cadart & Luquet 1864. Original etching plate 16 x 22 cm with full margins 33.5 x 44.5 cm. Short tear in top blank margin some vestiges of mounting tape in extreme corners of blank verso otherwise near fine. An etching by Bracquemond illustrating a scene from Gautier's CAPITAINE FRACASSE printed by Auguste Delâtre. Published as an element in Cadart & Luquet's portfolio for the Sociéte des Aquafortistes. With the publisher's blindstamped paraph in the lower margin. Signed in the plate. Cadart & Luquet unknown books
13459Used; Like New/Used; Like New. An original photograph of the great dancer and choreographer far left together with the Hungarian conductor Ferenc Fricsay the ballerina Karola Szalay and the dancer and choreographer Gyula Harangozó pictured after a performance in Szeged Hungary ca. 1933. Signed on the verso by the photographer Bela Liebmann with some further notes in Hungarian. In fine condition. 5.5 x 3.5 inches 13.8 x 8.9 cm. Also included is a photograph of Nijinksy and his wife issued by Life Magazine in 1973 as a quiz card with trivia questions relating to Nijinksy printed on the verso.<br style="">Hungarian Jewish photographer and businessman Béla Liebmann opened his first photographic supply store in Szeged in 1927. His first wife and daughter were killed in World War II but he survived his conscription in the Hungarian labor service and continued his work after the war becoming the Vice President of the Hungarian Association of Photographers.<br style=""><br style=""><br style=""> unknown books
19501005Thebom Blanche 1918- 2010. Original silver print photograph by Angus McBean. 1950. Extremely large 20 x 15 3/4" image; 23 11/16 x 17 5/16" mat. Signed by McBean on mat. Image in perfect condition mat with several small closed tears to margin lower right corner chipped. Reference: Wilson Frederic Woodbridge The Theatrical World of Angus McBean 2008.<br /><br />Thebom was the first American female opera singer to perform in Russia. With a beautiful mezzo soprano voice and equally beautiful hair that extended six feet in length she had a long and successful career as a soloist that began when Giuseppe Boghetti Marian Anderson's teacher discovered her singing aboard a cruise ship with her parents in 1938. Thebom performed at the Metropolitan Opera House in over 350 performances. <br /><br />Photograph by Angus McBean 1950. Pictured in the new biography of McBean p.103: "After a series of conventional poses the singer suggested that McBean might photograph her with her own hair which reached the floor when let down. McBean contrived this pose which required that the singer lie down on a bed of sand. He tore a sheet of wrapping paper to fit the contours of her hair in order to protect it from the grit." books
47210Ca 1960s. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Modest wear. Faint horizontal abrasion under artwork. Evidence of prior mounting to blank verso. Overall Very Good. 6-3/4" x 6-3/8" <br/><br/>Harry Corbett was an English puppeteer magician and television and stage presenter who is best known as the creator in 1948 of the glove puppet character Sooty. In this original art Sooty is pictured in a play room standing over a box of "Oofle dust". unknown books
19641338404Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1964. Hardcover. Octavo; G; Hardcover; Spine black with silver print; Boards quarter bound with black cloth to spine and grey cloth to boards wear to spine caps mild shelfwear slight stain on rear; Text block has slight tanning to endpapers slight stain to top edge else clean and tight; xxvii 317 pages illustrated chiefly b&w. 1338404. FP New Rockville Stock. Harvard University Press hardcover books
40617The eighth wealthiest American of all time was a German-born lumber magnate who began his empire in Rock Island Illinois in 1856 starting as a night fireman at a sawmill and working his way up until he owned this sawmill then began adding more until the "Weyerhauser Syndicate" was enormous; he moved to the Pacific Northwest in 1900 where the firm still operates and is the world's largest timber seller. Partly-Printed Document Signed 1p 8 3/4" X 3 3/4" Rock Island IL 1881 November 15. Very good. Ornate check drawn on the Peoples National Bank printed in black on blue stock and featuring decorative border a variety of ornate typefaces and a steel-engraved vignette at left showing a puffing locomotive at a train station. The check has been made out to Weyerhaeuser in the amount of $25000 and is signed by the bank president Bailey Davenport. Davenport 1823-90 was the son of Davenport Iowa's murdered founding father fur trader/Indian agent/frontiersman Colonel George Davenport 1783-1845 and was himself a wealthy banker real estate entrepreneur and mayor of Davenport during the Civil War. On the check's verso Weyerhaeuser signs boldly adding "pat to the Order / of H C Putnam" above. Below this Putnam then signs. Henry Cleveland Putnam 1832-1912 was a Wisconsin lumber baron and philanthropist one of the founders of Eau Claire. Three more unidentified persons also sign below Putnam. Twenty-five thousand dollars was a huge sum of money in 1881. Real estate developer Davenport and Weyerhaeuser who also served on the board of directors of this bank surely had many and complex business dealings -- as Weyerhaeuser likewise also had with fellow lumber baron Putnam. Weyerhaeuser's syndicate was vast and he had arrangements with a large number of other lumber businesses. It's possible the transaction had to do with the purchase of timber lands but this warrants further research. In any case a unique and intriguing document. unknown books
1910SGG213B-10San Francisco:: Paul Elder & Company 1910. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Small 8vo. 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches. iv 7 1 blank pp. Frontispiece title page and text printed within a green ruled border printed on laid paper; text clean unmarked. Green printed wrappers printed on laid paper front cover titled in green with vignette all printed within gilt-ruled border sewn binding; binding square and tight lower corner roughed up a bit. Very Good. This little fable about the meaning of life was printed for "Paul Elder and Company by the Tomoye Press under the direction of John Henry Nash during the Month of April nineteen hundred and ten." From the colophon. References: Checklist of the Publications of Paul Elder & Co.: No. 230; Smith American Fiction 1901-1925: A Bibliography No. D-258. Paul Elder & Company, paperback books
1952YF1016-003New York:: Museum Books Inc. 1952. Hardcover. Like New. LIMITED EDITION of 2000 copies. Oblong 4to. 9 x 12 inches. iv pp. 25 ff. 10 pp. Printed in brick-red and black inks throughout; text clean unmarked. Vellum spine blind-stamped brown paper over boards added clear mylar jacket; binding square and tight slight bumps to corners else Fine. This is the first English-Language Edition of Feder und Stichel printed on Italian Fabriano paper in the private printing office of D. Stempel AG type foundry Frankfurt am Main. The calligraphic pages were designed by Hermann Zapf between 1939 and 1941. The Historical Appendix in this volume was also contributed by Hermann Zapf and translated by Paul Standard who contributed the Preface to this volume All the metal plates were cut by hand by August Rosenberger punch-cutter to D. Stempel AG. Text set in Palatino. Museum Books Inc., hardcover books
19771340695New York: Four Winds Press 1977. Hardcover. Octavo; G/G-; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine black with white print; DJ in mylar small tears at spine ends and flap corners slight spotting toning to top edge; Boards in grey cloth with gold print light wear to spine caps and corners wear/creasing to hinges small blemish to front top corner; Text block has spotting to endpapers else clean and tight; unpaged illustrated color. 1340695. FP New Rockville Stock. Four Winds Press hardcover books
73706A collection of four photo albums three panoramic photographs and other material associated with the service of Warren I. Johnson of Northampton Pennsylvania in the U.S. Army during World War II. Extensively annotated the albums are accompanied by 16 issues of the mimeographed shipboard newspaper - Noah's News Noah News is Good News - published aboard the SS Noah Webster during Johnson's return voyage to the United States.<br/><br/>Johnson was working as an elementary school teacher in Columbia Pennsylvania at the time of his enlistment on May 20 1942. The first album which contains 149 original photographs corresponds to his basic training in Miami Beach Florida; radio school in Scott Field Illinois and in Orlando Florida; assignments at Hammer Field Squaw Valley and Hamilton Field California; and service with the 356th Fighter Group in Tonopah Nevada and Santa Rosa California in the spring of 1943. The second album houses 67 photographs taken at Camp Edwards in Massachusetts and Camp Davis in North Carolina and a color rendering of Flick-Flak a cartoon mascot designed by Walt Disney that was adopted by the 247th AAA SL Battalion.<br/><br/>In September 1944 Johnson attended infantry school at Fort Benning Georgia which is extensively shown in the third album. There are 97 original photographs and several acquired images in this album. It also covers his service in England France Belgium Holland and Germany beginning in December 1944. Of particular interest are the seven photographs from Johnson's assignment guarding political prisoners at the internment camp in Schwarzenborn Germany. The final album which includes 64 original photographs covers the remainder of Johnson's service from October 1945 to February 1946. It opens with images from General Dwight D. Eisenhower's visit to Seventh Army Headquarters in Heidelberg and also shows scenes of the German countryside the SS Noah Webster at the docks in Bremerhaven and the evacuation of a seriously ill solder off Plymouth England.<br/><br/>The albums are accompanied by three panoramic photographs: a printed 42" x 10 ½" image of Camp Davis in North Carolina; a 23" x 8" portrait of Class 73 2nd Platoon - 19th Battery at Camp Davis on September 27 1943; and a 40" x 8" portrait of the Anti-Aircraft Artillery Officer's Candidate School Course No. 73 at Camp Davis on September 30 1943. All the men pictured in the second image are identified on the verso while those in the 19th Battery are identified on the recto of the third. All three photographs were rolled for storage. Also present here is a spent anti-aircraft shell label July 1942 and a Souvenir Edition of Noah's News which corresponds with the aforementioned shipboard newspaper.<br/><br/>The photographs are tipped or pasted to the black paper leaves and labeled by hand in white ink below the image. Many of the earlier photographs are additionally labeled on the verso. They vary in size from 2" x 2 ¾" to 8" x 10" with most measuring 4 ½" x 3 ¼". A very small number of photographs appear to be missing. The bindings of the last three albums are loose particularly the second album which is partially disbound. However the images are clean and neatly organized offering a unique glimpse at the American GI experience during the Second World War. unknown books
196936238London: Eyre & Spottiswoode 1969. 1st UK edition. Hardback. Orange dust jacket. VG slight lean/VG spine panel a bit sunned. 175 1 blank pp. 8vo. <br/><br/> Eyre & Spottiswoode hardcover books
