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1912219757Ardsley-on-the-Hudson 1912. unbound. 2 pages together measuring 6.75 x 10.5 inches Ardsley-on-the-Hudson New York September 10 1912. In this letter Nordica is declining to reveal her diet secrets to a fan in part: ".Owing to the unforeseen and unprecedentive sic demand for this treatment it has seemed best to give the same to the public on a purely business basis. I have therefore made arrangements with Miss Beverly.who will act as my agent.I sincerely hope that if you conclude to try this cure it will benefit you as much as it has me." Usual folds; very good condition.<br/><br/> The first American to achieve opera stardom in Europe.<br/><br/> unknown books
1913283403Salt Lake City 1913. unbound. near fine. T.L.S. "Joseph F. Smith" 4to. 2 pages The Presidency Church of Jesus Christ Latter-day Saints Salt Lake City Utah February 21 1913 to journalist Nicola Gigliotti. After writing an extensive article on the Mormon Church in part:.In view of your statements that some have averred that you are in the employ of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints we hereby declare that at no time have you been in such employ nor have you received any anytime directly or indirectly any pay from this Church" Additionally signed by: Charles W. Penrose 1838 - 1925 and Anthon H. Lund 1844 - 1921. Fine.<br/><br/> President of the Mormon Church 1901 - 1918. His administration is recognized for its gestures in improving relationships with non-Mormons.<br/><br/> unknown books
1974228859Egypt 1974. unbound. Two rare and seldom seen official holiday greeting cards unsigned printed by the Egyptian government for official use by President Anwar Sadat. The first from 1974-1975 measures 5.5 x 8 inches and depicts a Muslim-stained glass image and an embossed Egyptian Heraldic Eagle Coat of Arms on the cover. Mounted inside is a separate sheet that reads in English and Arabic "President Anwar El Sadat extends his best wishes for Christmas & New Year." Arguably the most desirable of the "official" holiday cards sent by the Sadat regime due to his immense success in concluding two agreements that year on disengagement of forces with the Israeli government. The second from 1980-1981 measures 5.25 x 7.75 inches and depicts Islamic artwork and an embossed Egyptian Heraldic Eagle Coat of Arms on the cover. Mounted inside is a separate sheet with an identical printed salutation as above. Both cards are in very good condition.<br/><br/> Third president of Egypt serving from October 1970 until his assassination on October 6 1981. He was a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for his contribution to the Middle East Peace Accords.<br/><br/> unknown books
196049221Paris: Mistral Bookshop 1960. 1st Printing. Original publisher's blue paper covers printed in white & black. Average wear bit of age-toning overall VG. 112 pp. Advertising bifolium laid-in. 8vo. 8-3/8" x 5-3/8" <br/><br/>Publishes 6 letters from Thomas to Durrell with an introduction written by Durrell as well as poetry by Corso. Mistral Bookshop unknown books
197341628Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co 1973. 1st edition. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by author. Black cloth binding silver stamped lettering and design to spine and front board. Color illustrated DJ. Modest wear to binding some rubbing. Withal a VG example. 241 3 blank pp. 8-1/4" x 5-1/2" <br/><br/>Inscribed and dated by author to front free endpaper signed on title leaf. Houghton Mifflin Co hardcover books
1970GG01516Pasadena:: Grant Dahlstrom 1970. 1970. Second edition. 16 cm. 39 pp. Printed wrappers. Fine. Translation of Was einen Bucherfreund argern kann oder Herzensergiessungen eines bucherliebenden Weltkindes originally delivered at a dinner for Paul Hirsch in Leipzig on February 24 1931. First English translation was issued in 1935. Grant Dahlstrom, 1970. unknown books
188541347Genève: Au Siège Comité International de la Croix-Rouge 1885. 1st edition. PRESENTATION copy INSCRIBED from Barton "To my friend / Dr. Joseph Gardner / with sentiments of esteem and cordial regard. / Which words cannot express. / Clara Barton. / Washington D. C March 15 1889." Further a 2 line quote by Barton underneath "As the best of all fortune has come squiggly underline in the past / My heart only prays that the present may last." concluded with her "C. B.". Original publisher's blue cloth binding with silver stamped lettering to spine & front board accompanied by an impressed silver & red Red Cross logo. Housed in a custom chemise & 1/4 leather slipcase with marbled paper boards. Volume shows wear & evidence of dampstaining. Rear hinge paper starting at bottom. An About VG copy. Chemise & slipcase - Fine. xix 1 blank 444 pp. Text in French. 4to. <br/><br/>Scarce Red-Cross volume of which OCLC records 5 institutional holdings none in the US inscribed to Dr Joseph Gardner a prominent Indiana citizen and early friend/benefactor of Clara Barton as well as patron of the recently-formed American Red Cross founded in 1881 and of which Barton was president when this volume was inscribed. <br /> <br />Barton had a long-standing friendship with the Gardners with her one-time sectetary Enola Lee becoming the 3rd Mrs. Joseph Gardner. <br /> <br />In 1893 Dr. Gardner donated a large plot of his land in Indiana to the American Red Cross which Barton envisioned becoming a central-states headquarters/warehouse for the organization. All was to come to naught however as the plot was never developed & ulitmately sold to settle back taxes et al. Such was to later cause Barton problems however as she was accused of financial malfeasance which ultimately contributed to her 1904 retirement from the Red Cross. Cf. Cavinder MORE AMAZING TALES OF INDIANA pp. 79 - 80. <br /> <br />Early inscribed Barton material is somewhat uncommon in the trade. We are pleased to be able to offer this volume documenting the friendship between these two civic-oriented individuals. Au Siège Comité International de la Croix-Rouge hardcover books
191033660Paris: A. Durand & Fils PN D. & F. 7179 1910. Quarto. Original publisher's light brown wrappers with titling in red and black within decorative border. Unbound as issued. 1f. recto title printed in red and black verso blank 19 pp. Text in French and English. With "Ch. Douin gr. ." and "Imp. A. Mounot. Paris" printed at foot of final page of music.<br/><br/>Wrappers very slightly worn; publisher's handstamps to lower outer corner of upper. Light uniform browning. First Edition later issue Lesure 92.<br/><br/>The present work premiered in Paris on 9 April 1909 at a Concert Colonne under the composer's direction.<br/><br/>"One of the most important musicians of his time Debussy's harmonic innovations had a profound influence on generations of composers. He made a decisive move away from Wagnerism in his only complete opera Pelléas et Mélisande and in his works for piano and for orchestra he created new genres and revealed a range of timbre and colour which indicated a highly original musical aesthetic." François Lesure and Roy Howat in Grove Music Online. A. Durand & Fils [PN D. & F. 7179] unknown books
1967M5262St. Louis:: C. V. Mosby 1967. 1967. Series: Pediatric Plastic Surgery Vol. I. 29 cm. ix 245 pp. 419 illus. index. Green and black cloth. Signature Jeff R. Moore. Contains a brief history of plastic surgery. Other chapters treat tetanus tracheostomy local anesthesia facial fractures hand injuries bites burns etc. Original artwork by Elisabeth North. C. V. Mosby, 1967. hardcover books
191913553n.p. 1919. Paperback. Good. 138p. Original wrapper. 29cm. Cover soiled and worn. Austrian legation stamp. Italian language version. <br/><br/> paperback books
1978M14046New York:: Basic Books 1978. 1978. 8vo. xiv 382 pp. Figs. index. Cloth dust-jacket; jacket torn. Ownership signature of J. Wayne Cooper. Good. ISBN: 046508687X Herbert Spiegel was Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the College of Physicians Columbia University and his son David was Asst. professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. Herbert Spiegel "was an American psychiatrist who popularized therapeutic hypnosis as a mainstream medical treatment for patients suffering from pain anxiety and addictions. He also gained notoriety for his treatment of the woman known as Sybil whose case became the subject of a book 1976 television miniseries and 2007 television movie. "Spiegel told a reporter in 1977 that he had used hypnosis to help 4000 patients control obesity phobias or addiction to cigarettes over the past ten years. – Wikip. Basic Books, 1978. hardcover books
196734473London: Methuen & Co Ltd 1967. 1st UK Edition. Black cloth binding with gilt title lettering stamped to spine. Color illustrated dust jacket with black title lettering printed to front panel and spine. Lean to spine. Price clipped. Withal a VG copy in a VG jacket. 158 2 blank pp. 8" x 5-1/2" <br/><br/> Methuen & Co Ltd hardcover books
186538770New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1865. 1st US edition. Not in Wolff. Publisher's original printed buff paper wrappers. Slight roll to volume. General wear & soiling to wrappers. A respectable VG copy. 158 2 pp. Text double column. Last 2 pages publisher adverts. 8vo. 9-1/8" x 5-3/4" <br/><br/>Thomas wrote by necessity doing so to support herself after her father passed. She authored 60 novels which Margaret Oliphant & Charlotte Yonge were said to loathe with this title ". another very feeble story pomposly told" with just enough "spice to keep the pages turning." Feminist Companion to Lit in Eng p. 1073. However Tinsley one of her publishers described her thusly: "a bright merry light-hearted girl and a writer of bright easy-reading fiction of which she could write acres in a short time ." A publisher's dream author it seems though now somewhat faded in current reputation & scholarly attention. This one of her earlier efforts quite scarce in this edition & condition with OCLC showing just 7 institutional holdings none west of the Rockies. Harper & Brothers, Publishers unknown books
196748816London: Rupert Hart-Davis Upper James Street 1967. 1st Edition. Black cloth binding with gilt stamping to spine. Red dust jacket. NF/VG light edgewear/spine panel lightly sunned. 198 pp. Illustrated by Anthony Little. 8-5/8" x 5-3/8" <br/><br/>"Guillaume Apollinaire was a French poet playwright short story writer novelist and art critic of Polish-Belarusian descent. Apollinaire is considered one of the foremost poets of the early 20th century as well as one of the most impassioned defenders of Cubism and a forefather of Surrealism. He is credited with coining the term "Cubism" in 1911 to describe the emerging art movement and the term 'surrealism' in 1917 to describe the works of Erik Satie. The term Orphism 1912 is also his. He wrote poems without punctuation attempting to be resolutely modern in both form and subject. Apollinaire wrote one of the earliest Surrealist literary works the play The Breasts of Tiresias 1917 which became the basis for Francis Poulenc's 1947 opera Les Mamelles de Tirésias. Apollinaire was active as a journalist and art critic for Le Matin L'Intransigeant L'Esprit Nouveau Mercure de France and Paris Journal. In 1912 Apollinaire cofounded Les Soirées de Paris fr an artistic and literary magazine. Two years after being wounded in World War I Apollinaire died in the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918." Wiki Rupert Hart-Davis, Upper James Street hardcover books
1977LLV2412Philadelphia:: Franklin Library 1977. First edition. 1977. Series: The First Edition Society. 24 cm. xii 227 pp. Brown lettered title illus. Decorative orange and gilt-stamped full textured leather a.e.g. satin endpapers ribbon bookmark. Fine. " On the verge of a new life in New Haven Elaine Quinlan becomes the unsuspecting and increasingly fearful object of the vague advances and designs of self-styled security salesman Eddie Macaboy." Franklin Library, 1977. First edition. hardcover books
194816936New York: Oxford Univ. Press 1948. 1st printing of the revised & enlarged edition. Beige cloth binding. Dust jacket. VG slightly cocked top edge is dust-soiled/Gd small closed tear on front rubbed along edges and chipped along corners and spine. sun faded spine. x 270 pp. 8vo. <br/><br/>Richard Ellmann's copy w/his signature on the ffep. Oxford Univ. Press hardcover books
194832775New York: Ace Books Inc 1948. 1st book publication PBO. Softcover. Yellow edgestain. VG miodest wear & age toning. 142 pp. Cover Illustration by Alex Schonburg. 6-1/2"x 4-1/4" <br/><br/>Kuttner is considered an influence on the young Ray Bradbury he finished one of Bradbury's first stories and Bradbury would later write introductions to Kuttner's work and an underappreciated writer of Science Fiction in general. Nicholls 1979. Ace Books Inc paperback books
19541338109New York: Random House 1954. Hardcover. Octavo; Sixth printing; G/G-; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine brown with white print; DJ in mylar light edgewear light shelfwear; Boards in red cloth with black print light wear to spine caps light bump to rear top edge else clean and strong; Text block has red tinted top edge clean and tight; xii 178 pages illustrated b&w plates. 1338109. FP New Rockville Stock. Random House hardcover books
195634536New York: The Blue Heron Press Inc 1956. 1st Edition. Blue cloth binding with black title lettering stamped to spine. Cream colored dust jacket with red and blue title lettering printed to front panel and spine. A VG copy in a Good dust jacket. Jacket has light sunning and 2" horizontal open tear to head of spine. 219 5 blank pp. 8" x 5-1/2" <br/><br/> The Blue Heron Press, Inc hardcover books
18781341677Royal Oak: Strathcona Publishing Co 1878. Hardcover. 12mo; VG/G; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine black with white print; DJ has edgewear with slight tears to front top edge and rear bottom edge mild rubbing/shelfwear; Boards in red cloth with gold print clean and strong; Text block clean and tight; "Originally published by the Committee for the Perpetuation of the Memory of F.F. Kokoshkin and A.I. Shingarev"- title page; 120 pages frontispiece port. drawing of Peter and Paul Fortress on endpapers b&w. 1341677. FP New Rockville Stock. Strathcona Publishing Co hardcover books
190930886San Francisco: A. M. Robertson 1909. 1st edition. Green buckram cloth binding stamped in black & gilt. Pale green dust jacket which replicates binding design. VG dj offset to eps/VG some modest sunning to spine panel & edges. xi 1 blank 249 1 blank pp. Partially unopened. 8vo. <br/><br/> A. M. Robertson hardcover books
1967S5322Offprint from:: Physics Today Vol. 20 No. 10 October 1967. 1967. 285 x 210 mm. 4to. Pages 42-48. Entire offprint: 34-53 pp. Illus. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. This offprint from Physics Today contains a twenty-page "Memorial to Oppenheimer" with contributions by Robert Serber Victor F. Weisskopf Abraham Pais and Glenn T. Seaborg and includes an Oppenheimer bibliography. Physics Today, Vol. 20, No. 10, October 1967. unknown books
1967S5321Offprint from:: Physics Today Vol. 20 No. 10 October 1967. 1967. 285 x 210 mm. 4to. Pages 42-48. Entire offprint: 34-53 pp. Illus. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. This offprint from Physics Today contains a twenty-page "Memorial to Oppenheimer" with contributions by Robert Serber Victor F. Weisskopf Abraham Pais and Glenn T. Seaborg and includes an Oppenheimer bibliography. Physics Today, Vol. 20, No. 10, October 1967. unknown books
187035981New York: MacMillan and Co 1870. 1st edition. Presentation copy "With the Publisher's compts". Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt stamping including vignette of dancing insects to front board. Bevelled edges. Professionally recased. A VG copy. viii 221 5 pp. Numerous illustrations by Becker. 7-3/8" x 4-3/4" <br/><br/>Factual information in a fictional setting intended for the juvenile audience. MacMillan and Co hardcover books
194648600London: Hollis and Carter Ltd. 28 Ashley Place S.W.I. 1946. 1st edition thus. Bookplate SIGNED by Duncan. Original publisher's blue cloth binding with gilt stamping. Abt VG square & tight/spine sunned/spotting to cloth/bookplate of Ronald Duncan. ix 1 blank 388 pp with Index to First Lines. 8-5/8" x 5-1/2" <br/><br/> Hollis and Carter Ltd., 28 Ashley Place, S.W.I. hardcover books
