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190033380New York: Street & Smith 1900. Early if not 1st printing. Rear wrapper advert lists through #233. Color pictorial wrappers stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Modest wear. Newsboy clip. Paper yellowing as is often the case. A solid VG copy of a publication known for its fragile nature. 32 pp. Text double column. Mostly unopened. P. 1 with masthead cut. 10-3/16" x 7" <br/><br/>Rare- not in McCue and OCLC while having a record of this publication shows no holding libraries. Street & Smith unknown books
191181115London: Stanley Paul & Co 1911. 1st ed. Hardcover. Good. frontis photos index xii 380p. Original decorated cloth. 22cm. Ends of backstrip rubbed. Foxing heaviest on cover and page edges. Gift inscription. No Jacket. From the John R. Willis Collection of Africana with his bookplate on endpaper. <br/><br/> Stanley Paul & Co hardcover books
192448909New York 1924. 1st Printing. SIGNED by the Ambassador. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. A bit of age-toning. Some modest edgewear and light soiling in margins. A VG copy. Broadside with a 'plate' impression applied. Image of Howard with credits & accomplishments listed underneath as well as the evening's menu. Graphics by Chas. Sindelar signed in the plate. 18" x 13" <br/><br/>"Esmé William Howard 1st Baron Howard of Penrith GCB GCMG CVO PC was a British diplomat. He served as British Ambassador to the United States between 1924 and 1930. He was one of Britain's most influential diplomats of the early part of the twentieth century. With a gift for languages and a skilled diplomat Howard is described in his biography as an integral member of the small group of men who made and implemented British foreign policy between 1900 and 1930 a critical transitional period in Britain's history as a world power." Wiki. "The Lotos Club was founded in 1870 as a gentlemen's club in New York City; it has since also admitted women as members. Its founders were primarily a young group of writers and critics. Mark Twain an early member called it the 'Ace of Clubs'. The Club took its name from the poem 'The Lotos-Eaters' by Alfred Lord Tennyson which was then very popular. Lotos was thought to convey an idea of rest and harmony. . The Lotos Club has always had a literary and artistic bent with the result that it has accumulated a noted collection of American paintings. Its 'State Dinners' are legendary fetes for scholars artists and sculptors collectors and connoisseurs writers and journalists and politicians and diplomats. Elaborate souvenir menus are produced for these dinners." Wiki "Charles Sindelar was an American illustrator and painter who in later life focused on religious art. Sindelar established a reputation for himself in graphic design and illustration during the first quarter of the 20th century through his favourably reviewed creation of a number of menu cover designs produced for a series of events referred to as the Lotos Club dinners in New York City. The guest lists for the events included four U.S. presidents and other notables of the time including writer Mark Twain. Sindelar's covers incorporated a likeness of the celebrity who was being feted at the event accompanied by intricate detailing." Wiki And here offered is one of these Sindelar-designed souvenir dinner menus printed for the fete honoring Farrand not too long after accepting the Cornell position. unknown books
189449261New York: Frank Tousey Nos. 34 & 36 North Moore St 1894. 1st Printing. Printed paper newspaper format. Folded now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Age toning & browning to paper which is becoming brittle. Some edge chipping noticably at the end of the fold. Penciled pos to top margin of first page. A Good copy of this exceedingly uncommon survivor. 16 pp. Text quadruple column. Adverts. Large wood engraved image to front wrapper. Internal wood engravings. 13-1/4" x 11-1/2" <br/><br/>The rare second installment from Tousey's celebrated story paper which would remain in print through 1924. Frank Tousey, Nos. 34 & 36 North Moore St unknown books
19261258baRParis France: Plon-Nourrit 1926. Book. Very good- condition. Paperback. Signed by Authors. First French edition. Octavo 8vo. vi 397 pages of text including table. Paperback binding; original blue printed paper wrappers with numerous small creases and tears and extremities and a few tiny chips at top of spine; protected in custom stiff archival mylar and further protected by a custom made gray and navy linen clam-shell box with printed spine label. Measues 20 cm in height. Illustrated with a historic photograph of Ashford as a girl and a facsimile of the first page of the original manuscript. Pages 133-221 contain the French translation of "The young visitors" which Ashford wrote at age 9; it was first published in 1919. This edition with an introduction by Cocteau and translated by Maurice Sachs who was Cocteau's secretary at the time. Sachs has inscribed and signed the book on the half-title page in the year of publication. Sachs was a black marketeer anti-semitic collaborateur went to Germany 1943 to work with Gestapo arrested and shot 1945. Contains the following works: "La messagere de la politique divine" by Humbert Clerissac; "Renoncer a toute richesse" "Jeunesse lacustre" and "Angoisses et autres" by Max Jacob; "Et le sentiment de la mort" by Charles Maurras; "Et sa pensee" by Paul Valery; "Et le soldat" by Anatole France; "Si Peguy etait la." by Henri Massis; "Le destin de la culture" by Nicholas Berdiaeff; "Scenes dans le paradis" by Justin Klotz; "Les freres caches" by Jean Aurenche; "Daisy en France" by Jean Cocteau; "Les jeunes visiteurs ou le plan de Mr. Salteeana" by Daisy Ashford; "Veillee" by Alfredo Gangotena; "Erasme et Thomas Morus contre Machiavel ou la politique et la morale" by Emile Dermenghem; "La traversee inutile" by Julien Green; "I. Mariage" and "II. Les bisons Porteciel" by Paul Sabon; "La Chine et les missions" by Leopold Levaux; "Les traces de Dieu dans la vie de Jacques Riviere" by Jules Lebreton; "Lettre a Frederic Lefevre" by Georges Bernanos. Plon-Nourrit Paperback books
2011SP92510-002Simi Valley CA: Pie in the Sky Press 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New. Rebecca Chamlee. Signed. 8vo. 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches. 16 pp. Linoleum cut water designs provide a background and theme to the poems and the end-papers wood type numbers for the separate poems and titles typographic ornaments throughout; text clean unmarked. Dark blue cloth spine paste-paper over boards title printed on front cover; binding square and tight. SIGNED on the colophon by Barbara Maloutas and Rebecca Chamlee. SP92510-002. Fine. LIMITED EDITION of 30 copies this is number 6 signed by Barbara Maloutas and Rebecca Chamlee on the colophon. Designed printed and hand-bound by Rebecca Chamlee at the Pie in the Sky Press. Printed on a Vandercook 4 flat-bed cylinder press from Frank Hein's Tribute type assorted wood type and linoleum cuts on Rives Heavyweight paper. The binding is a drumleaf sewn board-style binding with a cloth spine and boards covered in paste papers made by the binder. Barbara Maloutas is Associate Chair Communication Arts at Otis College of Art and Design where she makes and exhibits artist books. She won the 2008 Sawtooth Poetry Prize for The Whole Marie. Her work appears in many journals and anthologies. Pie in the Sky Press hardcover books
1924318634London: Robert Holden & Co 1924. Illus. 316pp. 8vo. Bound in three quarters green morocco te.g. VG. Illus. 316pp. 8vo. Born in 1854 in Liverpool to an Irish mother Cohen sailed for the Cape at 17 to Kimberley and went into partnership with Barney Barnato in 1873 they were cousins. During this time Cohen was a contributor to the Dutoitspan Herald. His first book Reminiscences of Kimberley got him sued by mining magnate J.R. Robinson and put into bankrutcy. In 1894 he returned to England and worked as a Journalist. Robert Holden & Co unknown books
1926028013London: Albert and Charles Boni 1926. First Edition. Octavo. 2nd Issue. The author's first book of fiction first issued in 1922 Illustratated by Keith Henderson Gate which was partially issued as a first edition in 1958. A classic fantasy novel set on Mercury. Bound in black cloth centrally stamped in gilt depicting a peguses endpapers with the rich design of Keith Henderson some staining to binding gilt spine fading some toning to leaves a very good copy .Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 599. Cawthorn and Moorcock Fantasy: The 100 Best Books 32. Albert and Charles Boni unknown books
1934185627Munchen : Zentralverlag der N. S. D. A. P. F. Eher nachf. g. m. b. h 1934-01-01. Hardcover. Good/Good. Bucherei der RSK" stamp is verso the the front endpaper and numbered #2325. "Reichsschrifttumskammer" stamp is on the title page. Dust jacket is wrapped- jacket has shallow chipping to the edges. Boards have minor wear. Clean has a good binding front endpaper has pencil notations in German- few pages have pencil notes. German language text. 1942 308 pages plus 4 pages of ads in rear. Munchen : Zentralverlag der N. S. D. A. P., F. Eher nachf., g. m. b. h hardcover books
1984WRCLIT74264Zurich: The Artist 1984. 16 panel leporello. Executed in a 'found' satin covered remembrance folder 15 x 10.5 cm. Album cover very slightly soiled internally fine. An original artist's book by Hartmann signed titled and dated by him on the rear pastedown. Each panel bears a watercolor drawing or design. Laid in is a photo postcard of the artist. For a useful account of Hartmann's life and work see: www.werner- hartmann.ch. The Artist unknown books
1925R5182Moscow: Zhizn' i znanie 1925. Paperback. Very Good. Staple-bound original wraps. A bit worn along the edges; stained from rusty staples. Obshchedostupnaia biblioteka A Universally Accessible Library Series Book 47. <br/><br/> Zhizn' i znanie paperback books
412Photo relief. Czechoslovakia. June and December 1897. LITHOGRAPH FROM L'ESTAMPE MODERNE. L'Estampe Moderne 1897-1898 a more commercial and later version of L'Estampe Originale was a monthly publication of print portfolios producing twenty-four issues containing four color lithographs each. Only a few prints exhibiting Japanese influence were issued mostly by minor artists yet they were equally as beautiful in image as their predecessors. unknown books
1915215998Brook Green 1915. unbound. 2 pages each measuring 7.25 x 4.5 inches Brook Green November 7 1915 This fine-content letter was written to Dr. Hermann Radin concerning the engraving of bookplates in part: ".I have now done a tiny bookplate though I have directed many.I did not know that Wm. Cole had ever done any. I am always much interested in his work and what is the American School of Engraving - which gave rise to it." One horizontal fold; very good condition.<br/><br/> English etcher mezzotint artist and engraver who holds the distinction of having his work displayed in every art museum in the world. William Cole was one of the greatest engravers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.<br/><br/> unknown books
192348892New York 1923. 1st Printing. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. A bit of age-toning. Some modest edgewear and light soiling in margins. A VG copy. Broadside with a 'plate' impression applied. Image of Farrand with credits & accomplishments listed underneath. Graphics by T. Sindelar signed in the plate. 18-1/8" x 13-1/8" <br/><br/>"Livingston Farrand was an American physician anthropologist psychologist public health advocate and academic administrator." In 1893 he concluded his studies as an M.D. he pursued a career in anthropology and eduction becoming President of the University of Colorado in 1914 a position he would hold for the next 5 years. In 1921 he became the fourth president of Cornell University. Under his leadership Cornell's enrollment and endowment increased rapidly. He held the office of President until 1937 leaving a brief 2 years before his death in 1939. Wiki. "The Lotos Club was founded in 1870 as a gentlemen's club in New York City; it has since also admitted women as members. Its founders were primarily a young group of writers and critics. Mark Twain an early member called it the 'Ace of Clubs'. The Club took its name from the poem 'The Lotos-Eaters' by Alfred Lord Tennyson which was then very popular. Lotos was thought to convey an idea of rest and harmony. . The Lotos Club has always had a literary and artistic bent with the result that it has accumulated a noted collection of American paintings. Its 'State Dinners' are legendary fetes for scholars artists and sculptors collectors and connoisseurs writers and journalists and politicians and diplomats. Elaborate souvenir menus are produced for these dinners." Wiki Sindelar a Cleveland Ohio native who it is believed moved to NYC in the mid-1890s becoming a life-long member of the Lotos Club. He is said to have studied art with Alphonse Mucha Paris. And here offered is one of these Sindelar-designed souvenir dinner menus printed for the fete honoring Farrand not too long after accepting the Cornell position. unknown books
1907224954Washington 1907. unbound. American author editor and compiler of historical fiction and factual reminiscences. She had a long association with Harper's Monthly Magazine and published two books about Abraham Lincoln with Harper and Brothers: "The Toy-Shop" a romantic story of the president's quest to recapture his youth and "Body-guard to the President" the recollections of Col. William H. Crook. In 1907 Harper's Monthly Magazine published "The Toy -Shop" originally a 15-page story about Abraham Lincoln. The response was so great that Harper's suggested that Gerry write a full-length book. We offer the original 15-page signed printed story of "The Toy-Shop" that appeared in Harper's Monthly Magazine in 1907 in which Margarita Gerry has made extensive handwritten corrections deletions sentence changes added writings etc. which has altered the published version to the point of it becoming an entirely new manuscript unpublished. It is quite possible that she used this extensively-corrected and altered manuscript as a guideline for the book project which resulted from the original short story. Her editing covers almost every single printed line in red ink. Also included: two typed letters signed each 1 page on personal stationery Washington D.C. no date but docketed 1907 both dealing with her difficulties in parting with a photograph of herself that a publisher needs for reproduction "Please return this picture.it is the only one I have.so I really couldn't bear to give it up." Both letters are trimmed; all items are in good condition.<br/><br/> unknown books
1924GG217-002San Francisco CA: John Henry Nash 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Rowena Meeks Abdy 1887-1945. Signed. LIMITED EDITION of 400 copies this is number 136 printed by John Henry Nash for Rowena Meeks Abdy with Garamond type on Van Gelder paper. Folio. 15 1/4 x 11 1/4 inches. xi 20 pp. Color reproductions of Rowena Meeks Abdy's watercolors; text clean unmarked. Quarter linen printed paper spine label marbled paper; binding square and tight shelf wear covers bowed. SIGNED by John Henry Nash on limitation statement. Very Good. Rowena Meeks Abdy was an American modernist painter who specialized in the landscapes of Northern California. This coffee table book of her watercolors with a Forward by fellow landscape painter Gottardo Piazzoni and an introduction by her husband Harry Abdy has become a collector's item. "A very handsome presentation of some typical work of this gifted Californian artist. Many of the scenes which Mrs. Abdy has so delightfully portrayed have changed materially in the wake of progress and we are indebted to her facile brush for the perpetuation of these glimpses of Old California." O'Day pg. 34. REFERENCE: OâDay A Catalogue of Books Printed by John Henry Nash pg. 33. John Henry Nash hardcover books
31903In black ink. Dated Vienna January 6 1923. With Salten's stamp with return Vienna address. In German with translation.<br/><br/>Salten writes to fellow children's book author Hermine Lorch after reading one of her manuscripts:<br/><br/>"The fairy tales are very pretty very sentimental and also of the type that I like. I truly believe that they will find readers."<br/><br/>From the collection of the distinguished American mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne b. 1934. <br/><br/>Uniformly browned; light scattered foxing. Austrian author Felix Salten is best known for his novel Bambi: A Life in the Woods 1923 which was the basis for the Disney film. His stories also inspired the Disney films Perri 1957 and The Shaggy Dog 1959. Apart from this legacy Salten was a prominent art and theater critic in Vienna. As a Jew living in Vienna Salten's books were banned in 1936 and he fled to Switzerland following the German annexation.<br/><br/>Hermine Lorch was also a children's author in Austria but there is little record of her work. It is possible that she was a victim of the Holocaust as there is someone of that name listed in the database of the Holocaust Museum. <br/><br/>"Horne had a voice of extraordinary range rich and tangy in timbre with a stentorian chest register and an exciting top. In concert she once achieved the feat of singing in a single programme Rossini arias and Brünnhilde's Immolation Scene proof of her exceptional versatility. Throughout her lengthy career she was an admired recitalist singing lieder mélodies Spanish and American songs with equal aplomb." Alan Blyth in Grove Music Online. unknown books
1929265642New York: Heron Press 1929. First edition. Number 38 of 200 numbered copies of an edition of 1100 printed on Van Gelder and bound in leather signed by Dreiser. Frontispiece signed by the artist and woodcut Decorations by Robert Fawcett. 1 vols. 4to. Black Morocco stamped in gilt and silver. Slipcase lacking top and bottomworn at corners and splitting else very good with spine slightly sunned. Fawcett Robert. First edition. Number 38 of 200 numbered copies of an edition of 1100 printed on Van Gelder and bound in leather signed by Dreiser. Frontispiece signed by the artist and woodcut Decorations by Robert Fawcett. 1 vols. 4to. Heron Press unknown books
1910316782London: Chatto & Windus 1910. First edition. Fold-out color map of Central Asia at p. 248 24 colour plates by the author 2 figures. xv i 248pp. Small 4to. Bound in modern red three quarters morocco gilt spine leather title label. Fine. First edition. Fold-out color map of Central Asia at p. 248 24 colour plates by the author 2 figures. xv i 248pp. Small 4to. Ms. Kemp's second of 4 travel books in Asia for which she also did the art. Cordier Sinica 4036 Chatto & Windus unknown books
1941266567Gloucestershire 1941. unbound. 3 pages front and back 4.5 x 7 inches Cotswold House Campden Gloucestershire England January 19 1941. Written to powerful New York attorney Frederic R. Coudert in part: ".Our house in London was bombed in September and though not wrecked is uninhabitable nor could it be of any use in London now whether here or elsewhere alas. Otherwise we manage to get on pretty well. People as no doubt you know in living at Beaconsfield which though so near to London has been a comparatively safe area.At the age of 81 I stand and wait or rather I sit and wait is all one can do in the way of National Service." One vertical fold but still in fine condition.<br/><br/> British classical scholar and professor of poetry at Oxford.<br/><br/> unknown books
1893S8964Leipzig:: B. G. Teubner 1893. 1893. 8vo. 230 x 152 mm xii 4 810 pp. Figs. index. Light toning throughout marginal pencil annotations in German. Bound in dark green cloth gilt-stamped spine title. Rare. FIRST EDITION. Georg Scheffers studied at Leipzig from 1884 to 1888 obtaining his doctorate in 1890. From 1896 he lectured at Darmstadt becoming a full professor there in 1900. In 1907 he was appointed to Charlottenburg where he held the chair of mathematics until he retired in 1935. Scheffers was a student of Sophus Lie who was at Leipzig from 1886 until 1896 and he greatly influenced Scheffers' work. Lie suggested the topic for his doctoral thesis on plane contact transformations and also the topic for his Habilitationsschrift on complex number systems. Scheffers' most important work also inspired by Lie was a paper in 1903 on Abel's theorem. Later in life Scheffers wrote many popular mathematics textbooks and edited Lie's works. His favorite topic was differential geometry and here he discovered many properties of particular curves and surfaces. University of St. Andrews. Marius Sophus Lie 1842-1899 Norwegian mathematician noted for his contributions to the theories of differential equations and continuous transformation groups. DSB Vol. XII p. 150; University of St. Andrews Scotland. B. G. Teubner, 1893. hardcover books
1922M6724New York:: Macmillan 1922. 1922. 223 x 147 mm. 8vo. xvii 240 pp. 79 figs. 1 folding table index. Blind-stamped red cloth gilt spine lightly rubbed rear cover soiled. Very good. FIRST EDITION. "The first authoritative book in the field." Ring. Quoted in: Garrison and Morton. Garrison and Morton 3690.1; Weinberger Dental bibliography p. 130. Macmillan, 1922. hardcover books
191332207Chicago 1913. 1st appearance. Original printed drab-grey wrappers yapp edges. Front wrapper printed in red & blank. Light wear only. Nr Fine. Pp. 4 blank 137 - 172 8. Adverts last 8 pages. 7-1/2" x 5-1/8" <br/><br/>The scarce 5th issue of this ground breaking little magazine by Monroe with 7 early poetical efforts by Bynner as well as 7 by Ficke together both of whom later perpetrated the somewhat infamous "Spectrist Theory" literary hoax of 1916. unknown books
1916M12827Stuttgart:: Ferdinand Enke 1916-1918. 1916. Two volumes in three. 316 x 228 mm. 4to. 589 pp. 511 figs. 77 color plates indexes. Printed wrappers. Ownership rubber stamps of Dr. K. Wessely on top covers. Bookplates including that of A. Franceschetti with Franceschetti's rubber stamps. Fine. RARE. COMPLETE SET IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS. An outstanding atlas of treatments for eye injuries arising from World War I. In 1927 von Szily became professor of ophthalmology at the University of Munster where he established the most modern eye clinic in Germany where he remained until 1934 the year he was forced to resign under the Nazi regime. Gorin History of ophthalmology p. 399. Ferdinand Enke, 1916-1918. unknown books
1946A08036 volumes. 420 pages with plates tables and figures. Articles by 17 various authors in the field of anthropology; 571 pages with two foldout maps tables and figures; 345 pages with seven fold out maps tables foldout figure and accordion fold "El Lienzo de Jucutacato"; 399 pages with tables; 33025 maps two folding and 21 foldout table pages with tables four folding and maps two folding;551 pages with tables some folding plates and figures. Royal octavo 9 1/4" 7 1/4" bound in three quarter leather. Prologue by Silva Herzog. From the library of Professor Robert "Van" Kemper First edition.<br /><br /> Miguel Othon de Mendizabal wss an educator and Mexican anthropologist who fought for agrarian reform and the welfare of the indigenous people of Mexico. He studied at the National Preparatory School and later at the National Museum of Archaeology Ethnography and History. In the National Autonomous University of Mexico UNAM worked as chief investigator in the Mezquital Valley Hidalgo state and then as director of the Institute for Social Research. He worked for the National Polytechnic Institute and head of the Laboratory of Anthropology and later became director of the Institute of Economic Research. During the administration of President Lazaro Cardenas 1934-1940 he served as advisor to the Department of Indian Affairs and director of the Workers' University. His work scattered in journals was published in six volumes under the title Collected Works 1946. He also published An Essay on the American native civilizations The Nahua chronology The evolution of the indigenous cultures of Mexico and the division of labor The evolution of northwestern Mexico Mining and Mexican metallurgy Four problems of indigenous and Agricultural developments Mezquital Valley among others. Included is El Lienzo de Jucutacato with the codex in folder.Robert V. Kemper born in San Diego California on November 21 1945 resided in Dallas Texas where he was Professor of Anthropology at Southern Methodist University. He received his Ph.D. in Anthropology in 1971 from the University of California at Berkeley and spent the academic year 1971-1972 there as a National Endowment for the Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellow in Mexican American Studies before joining the SMU faculty. At SMU he served as Chair of the Department of Anthropology President of the Faculty Senate and member of the University Board of Trustees. His research interests included migration and urbanization history of anthropology community development tourism Mexico and the United States. His numerous publications include Anthropologists in Cities 1974 Migration and Adaptation: Tzintzuntzan Peasants in Mexico City 1977 Migration Across Frontiers: Mexico and the United States 1979 Chronicling Cultures: Long-Term Field Research in Anthropology 2002 and Urban Life 5th ed. 2010. He has served as President of the Society for Latin American Anthropology and the Society for Urban Anthropology as well as editor of Human Organization editor for Social-Cultural Anthropology of the American Anthropologist and associate editor for Urban Anthropology.<br /><br />Condition<br /><br />Bound in three quarter leather with "Kemper" stamped to spine heal. Some staining to leather else a very good set. Kemper Derechos Asegurados hardcover books
