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192130389London: The Poetry Bookshop 1921. 1st appearance Woolmer E2:1-24. cf. Sullivan. BLM 1837 - 1913; pp 69-76. No. 14 contains the 1st separate appearance of Millay's ARIA Da CAPO Yost #4. No. 21 contains the 1st UK publication of Ford's A HOUSE Harvey A51. Original paper wrappers sewn often with a color pictorial image to the front wrapper usually designed by Albert Rutherstone or C. Lovat Fraser. Housed in two publisher portfolios 12 issues per portfolio; green cloth spines over marbled paper boards closed with cloth ties; printed paper title labels to spine & front boards. Issue 4 Oct 1919 of a variant brown acidic paper with spine paper split and some minor chipping to edges. Philip C. Duschens label to each portfolio rear board. Otherwise a generally VG run and not often found thus. The first 24 issues consecutive of an eventual 40 32 pages per issue on average adverts. Printed "Numbers One to Twelve" Index bifolium laid-in to Series One portfolio. Decorations by C. Lovat Fraser. 8vo. 8-3/4" x 6-3/4" <br/><br/>The Chapbook the successor to Monro's previous publication POETRY And DRAMA 1913 - 1914 and together they "represented an expression of Monro's lifelong commitment to support of new directions in poetry poetic drama and criticism and to increasing the audience for this writing." Over the course of publication contributions came from over 150 writers of which many notables of the day were included: T. S. Eliot Richard Aldington A. E. Coppard H. D. W. H. Davies Walter De La Mare John Drinkwater Ford Maddux Hueffer Ford Aldous Huxley Edna St. Vincent Millay Siegfried Sassoon Edith Sitwell & Alex Waugh to name but a baker's dozen. The June 1921 issue the 24th in this run here offered saw the cessation of publication until February 1922 with the 40th and final issue coming in 1925- as was often the case with such 'Little Magazines' both financial troubles & personal health difficulties Monro's eyesight combined to bring this then 'avant garde' magazine to a close. The Poetry Bookshop hardcover books
19442727841944. unbound. Inscribed in a calligrapher's hand: "To E.L. Alperson for his help in the fight against infantile paralysis" no date circa 1944. Alperson 1895 - 1969 was an American film producer at Warner Brothers who later formed Grand National Distributors as an outlet for independent films in the 1940s. In 1942 he became the general manager of RKO Pictures' theater circuit and it is likely that his work with the March of Dimes earned him this personally signed engraving from the President. 13.75 x 10.5 inches set in a gorgeous wood burgundy stained frame measuring 17 x 14 inches. Roosevelt has signed this boldly with a brown fountain pen. The engraving has a few scattered small spots but is still in near fine condition.<br/><br/> Evidence suggests that Roosevelt signed this piece in early 1944. In February 1943 motion picture theaters organized a drive to raise funds for the March of Dimes. On his birthday January 30 in 1944 Roosevelt signed lithographs such as this one in order to thank those whose work helped make the drive successful. According to auction records Roosevelt presented a similar engraving to Frank Meyer an executive at Paramout Pictures Corporation. Accompanying Meyer's engraving when it was sold at auction was a copy of a book titled "So They May Walk Again.A Book of good Deeds / Report of Collectors by Motion Picture Theatres / March of Dimes / February 18 to 24 1943 / In Co-Operation with National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis."<br/><br/> unknown books
1898M13765Paris:: Masson et Cie 1898. 1898. Large 8vo. 608 VI pp. 70 figures bibliog. index; last 8 leaves show minor waterstains along edge. Beautiful French red half gilt-tooled morocco raised bands edges sprinkled; kozo reinforced joints. Inscribed by the author's son 1978. Very rare on market. First Edition. This work is a monumental and innovative thesis of Oscar Amoedo y Valdes MARKING THE BIRTH OF THE FORENSIC DENTISTRY. It was the first treatise on forensic odontology and according to Vale History of Bitemark Evidence it was not until 1966 that the second major text on the subject Gustafson's treatise Forensic odontology appeared after this masterpiece. This text provoked a great sensation and had a great influence on the development of this discipline throughout the world. / Oscar Amoedo y Valdes 1863-1945 a native of Matanzas Cuba graduated as a dental surgeon in Havana then took a degree from the New York Dental College. He moved to Paris in 1889 and decided to study medicine. The burning of the bazaar of Charity on May 4 1897 during which dentists were solicited to identify victims gave Amoedo the opportunity to take an interest in this new discipline legal odontology. Amoedo considered the creator of forensic odontology became professor at the Ecole Odontologique and president of the Odontological Society of France. During World War II the Germans imprisoned and transferred him in a concentration camp. Oscar Amoedo y Valdes died in Toulouse on September 27th 1945. He was 82 years old. "This is not a thesis but a treatise on odontology. It has filled in great gaps that existed as regards forensic identification." -- Brouardel July 7 1898. 12th International Congress in Moscow Amoedo recounted the mission of the dentists in identifying the corpses of the Bazar de la Charite disaster. / There are 52 detailed observations; The first of them concern victims of the fire of the Bazaar of Charity including that of the Duchess of Alencon transmitted by Davenport. A remarkable section within the volume deals with the teeth of those out-cast by society: criminals "idiots" prostitutes and dwarves. SEE: Tedeschi CG et al. Forensic Medicine Vol. II p. 1117: "The first treatise on forensic odontology as a subject in its own right was written in 1898 by Dr. Oscar Amoedo who is universally recognized as the father of forensic odontology. ; Taylor J & Kieser J. Forensic Odontology pp. 2-3: "a considerable text on many aspects of the use of teeth for legal purposes"; Hill I.R. et al. Forensic odontology: its scope and history pp. 14-16; Senn D.R. & Stimson P.G. Forensic Dentistry second edition pp. 17-18; Riaud X & Brousseau Ph "Medico-legal odontology and serial killers: The tooth that knew too much" pp. 15 23-26. Masson et Cie, 1898. hardcover books
006222Hardcover. Very Good. Mock-up manuscript for an unpublished children's book manuscript. N.d. circa 1930. Oblong 25 by 38 cm. 15 pages of illustrated text following the manuscript cover. In addition there are three matted illustrations of the semi-abstract animal motives found on the front cover. It is unknown with any certainty why this immensely charming and very professional manuscript was never published. It is our conjecture that the manuscript was submitted early in the Depression when publishers were cutting back on the children's book list and especially color illustrated books both because of the economic straits they were suffering like virtually every industry in the American economy and more specifically perhaps changes in the marketplace for children's books with some shift of buying from families to public libraries with a subsequent drop in overall sales as a result. Nonetheless this manuscript was intended by Bull to be published as on the back cover there is a label indicated that the manuscript had been submitted by Fred A. Wish Inc. presumably Bull's literary agent. The book is a small collection of nonsense verses about animals around a house -- cats dogs mice chickens ducks. Each of the poems runs one to two pages and is accompanied by one to five illustrations with the text and illustrations pasted onto the heavy card stock leaves. Condition: card leaves are detached from spine band. A few minor edge chips to cards. <br/><br/> hardcover books
193257745New York 1932. Photograph 10 x 8 inches. Roosevelt's photographer for this portrait was Louis Fabian Bachrach Sr. 1881-1963 second in a three generation commercial photography business Bachrach Studios started by his father David Bachrach photographer of Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg in Baltimore Maryland in 1868; Louis Fabian Bachrach Jr. representing the third generation of the family was best known for his portrait of John F. Kennedy that was used as the president's official photograph after his election in 1960. A very nice image of FDR boldly signed by him. Matted glazed and framed. #6455. <br/><br/> unknown books
192439723London: Ernest Benn Limited 1924. 4to. 13 x 9 1/4 inches. viii 84pp. 110 full-page black and white plates. Signed by the author. Full original brown leather spine in six compartments with raised bands top edge gilt other edges uncut.<br/> <br/>Deluxe first edition of this scarce reference book on Chinese bronze objects: numbered 31 out of 40 copies of which only 35 were offered for sale.<br/> <br/>An important work in the fields of both art and archaeology the author attempts to display the range of bronze objects produced in China from the Hsia dynasty 2205 BC to the Sung dynasty 1279 AD. It includes an excellent bibliography is well indexed and provides information on detecting forgeries. Koop wrote the work while he was on the staff of the Victoria and Albert Museum. Ernest Benn Limited unknown books
1910244527Rome 1910. unbound. Complete aria 4 oversize pages measuring 12.5 x 11.5 inches on music notation paper with words written in Italian/Sicilian dialect -- the original working draft for a scene from the Opera Isabeau Rome 1910. The duet here given terminates with Isabeau submitting to an act of obedience by bowing low before her father and then kissing his feet "Mio padre.e Re!.e Re saggio!" Isabeau premiered on June 2 1911 at the Teatro Coliseo Buenos Aires and was conducted personally by Mascagni. The Italian premier was held several months later at La Scala in Milan. A rare offering by what many scholars of operatic music believe to be "one of the most underrated Italian composers of the Golden Era." Small closed tear along the horizontal fold; otherwise very good condition.<br/><br/> Italian composer best known for his 1890 masterpiece Cavalleria rusticana which caused one of the greatest sensations in opera history and single-handedly ushered in the Verisomo movement in Italian dramatic music.<br/><br/> unknown books
18800064001880-1917. Full Morocco. Very Good. Oblong 21 by 30 cm. 92 numbered leaves with content with log entries more or less statistical on all the versos and pictures and/or original drawings mostly mounted on 58 rectos with some additional loose material. 129 numbered leaves in all. Several of the log pages have mounted photos obscuring the log as it is clear that this game book was at some point re-purposed to be a more general album with some emphasis on sports including also fishing foxhunting and sailing but also there are two pages of photos from South Africa with photos of native tribesmen ostriches a hut Cecil Rhodes house etc. 13 original works of art -- watercolored pencil pen and ink -- in addition to numerous painted fish hook and fly vignettes these sometimes done directly onto the page. Most charming are the comical illustrations of anthropomorphic foxes. Sepia photos are of the country estates their stately homes and rural settings of the hunts as well as the people involved -- the hosts and guests during these country weekends. Many but by no means all of the photos have captions helpfully identifying the participants or the locations. And the log proper provides the names of those participating in the shooting and often what would now be regarded as obscenely large kills. Among the many aristocrats and wealthy in the photographs and/or logs are Lady Randolph Churchill Jennie Churchill Arthur Balfour Lady Minto Mary the famous 4th Countess Henry Lascelles the 5th Earl of Harewood the 5th Earl of Carnavon of King Tut fame as well as the owner of the castle used in Downton Abbey Baron Rothschild Lord de Grey Lord Ashburton Prince Murat the Duke of Buccleuch Prince Duleep de Singh Lord Rosebery and on and on. Country homes include Longleat Greystoke Castle the Hirsel Highcliffe Castle etc. Alexander McDonnell was a son of the 5th Earl of Antrim and a clerk in the House of Lords. Obviously he was very well connected and surely very popular among the upper echelons of English society back then. And we would note that many of the most illustriously titled have frequent entries here; what we have here is a window into a cohesive social network it is our sense. Condition: morocco binding has moderate to heavy wear along edges some scuffs on the boards and spine. The leaves can have a waviness the result of the interaction of the mounted material upon the leaves. A few photos are loose. There is a little bit of a scrappy quality to the book as befitting a log book that was partially turned into something much more and this quality is part of its charm as well. <br /><br /> books
193941578San Francisco Shanghai / Macao / Hong Kong: The Trans-Pacific Chinese Junk Expedition Inc 1939. Letters are dated: Nov 20 1938; Jan 18th 1939; Jan 27th 1939; and Feb 16th 1939. Though typewritten and mimeographed all four are personally signed by Halliburton. Letters typewritten to buff paper envelopes with blue seal of the "Sea Dragon" with illustration printed to front. Modest wear to paper some light age-toning and rubbing to papers. Envelopes rubbed and worn. Withal a VG lot. Pages within the letters: 5 3 4 3 Total of 16 typewritten pages. Two black and white Kodak photographs are included printed in 1957 presumably from a negative of Robert Pullen's famous shots of the "Sea Dragon" taken just before its doomed maiden voyage. Letters: 14" x 8-1/2". Photographs:. <br/><br/>Who took the first aerial picture of Mount Everest after receiving express permission by stunning the Majarajah of Nepal with bi-plane aerobatics Richard Halliburton was a legendary American travel writer and adventurer. Reading stories of his feats and antics seem surreal - after all who flies an airplane upside down over the Taj Mahal Halliburton was born in January of 1900 in Brownsville Tennessee. Deciding at an early age not to settle down and grow old with a wife and family as the rest of his family and friends seemed to be doing. After graduating from Princeton Halliburton traveled on as many adventures as possible and published his first novel The Royal Road to Romance in 1925 at the tender age of 25. His first novel became a bestseller and was followed by more published adventures in 1927 and 1929. He enjoyed fame and adventures for a little over a decade before deciding in 1938 that his next grand feat would be to cross the Pacific ocean from Hong Kong to the San Francisco International Exposition in a Chinese Junk ship made expressly for his purposes. It is on this voyage that Halliburton and the entire crew of the Junk the "Sea Dragon" were lost at sea having gotten caught in a typhoon. In 1945 a 150-foot ship outline with Chinese lettering washed ashore in California this thought to possibly be some of the wreckage of the "Sea Dragon." Letter I: Halliburton describes the arrival in China and purpose of the expedition as well as his interest in junks stemming from a 1 ft. scale model he sailed as a child. He explains that he chose to use a junk for his journey because of their stability and notes that it is possible it will not be the smoothest ride. He quips: "If the junk should be small the storms violent and the voyage long - all the better. For if there is no hazard no battle where is the sport" He introduces the "friends" of the expedition to his crew of Captain John Welch Henry von Fehren "Bru" Potter among others. Halliburton also spends a significant amount of time discussing the war with China and Japan and the Japanese belief systems. Letter 2: The second letter discusses the search for an appropriate junk and the ultimate decision to build their own that could be modified for the journey. Working with the man said to be the best ship-builder in Hong Kong Mr. Fat Kau and the appropriation of a few more crew members a chef and a radio operator. Letter 3: The third letter posted from Canton desribes their taking the Sea Dragon out for a "shake down" cruise with Mr. Fat Kau as his guest who though a builder of ships had never sailed on one and with high seas nearly everyone aboard became seasick. Halliburton notes the dry deck despite the high waves and believes he was right about the Sea Dragon's sea-worthiness. Much of the rest of the letter is spent discussing Canton the disputes between the Chinese and Japanese the destruction the looters and other conditions in the city. Letter 4: After setting out on their voyage the Sea Dragon needed to return after only 2 days due to sickness on the boat. Though Halliburton seems only a trifle annoyed at the delay of their voyage he is excited enough to try again and leaves his readers with this: "In about another week we plan to leave again to slip away as quietly as possible and head east once more around the southern tip of Formosa - and straight on to Midway. If all goes well the next letter the fifth will carry an American stamp for Midway Island is American. When this the fourth letter reaches you we'll be a thousand miles along the way - I hope. Many thanks again for your interest and good will. Faithfully Richard Halliburton" The Trans-Pacific Chinese Junk Expedition, Inc unknown books
1930307818New York: Horace Liveright 1930. First edition. 347 pp. 8vo. Original black cloth pictorial dust jacket designed by Hynd. Very good with rubbing to spine titles stain to top edge a few chips to jacket with partial loss to publisher's imprint but a nicer than usual example of a fragile jacket. First edition. 347 pp. 8vo. An Outstanding Association Copy. Inscribed on the ffep "To Edwin Lefevre with the sincere regards of Arthur Train March 24 1930." A better association copy of this title is hard to imagine. Lefévre was the preiminant documentarian of Wall Street and its personalities in the thirty years leading up to the crash of 1929. His Reminiscences of a Stock Operator 1923 a fictionalized account of the life of stockbroker Larry Livermore is perhaps the most famous Wall Street novel ever written; his other works included Wall Street Stories 1901 and The Making of a Stockbroker 1925. Arthur Train began his career as an Assistant District Attorney in Manhattan before becoming a best-selling author of court-room thrillers. In Paper Profits he turned his attention to Wall Street and the crash the year after it happened. Horace Liveright unknown books
1930266671930. Etched signed lower right remarque of a cowboy on horseback in pencil lower left. Rare sepia printed example of a superb Edward Borein print signed and with a pencil drawn remarque.<br/> <br/>Edward Borein 1872-1945 was born near San Francisco. He showed a very early talent for drawing which developed with very little training. He spent a number of years working as a cowboy throughout the southwest and Mexico sketching at the same time. His career as an artist evolved beginning with magazine illustrations and going on to more ambitious oil and watercolor paintings. He spent a number of years in New York City where he met Charles Russell and Will Rogers then returned to California based in Santa Barbara as of 1921. By this time he was working largely in etching a method he perfected always working with cowboys Indians and the West as his subject matter. This fine sepia printed etching of the Navajo is especially desirable because of its setting in Oraibi an ancient continuously inhabited Hopi town in Navajo County Arizona in the northeastern portion of the state. The etching is unusual too for the mild psychological drama evoked: the four Navajo riders face in various directions as if they were uncomfortable or uncertain none is actually looking at the village and one is prepared to ride away.<br/> <br/>Galvin 210. unknown books
1936314549Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Instiution 1936. First edition. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Volume 95 Number 3. 11 plates on 6 leaves. 2 10 pp. 8vo. Original side-stitched printed wrappers; partially unopened. Minor shelfwear but fine. First edition. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Volume 95 Number 3. 11 plates on 6 leaves. 2 10 pp. 8vo. An important marker in the development of rocketry and space flight the pamphlet sums up Goddard's pioneering work in rocketry over the previous two decades. On March 16 1926 Goddard launched the world's first liquid propellant rocket from a site near Auburn Massachusetts and he would continue to develop the technology for the rest of his life. He held over 200 patents relating to rocketry and space flight and in honor of his contributions NASA named its first space-flight center after him. The pamphlet was produced in part as a report back to the Smithsonian who had begun contributing financially to his research beginning in 1915. Smithsonian Instiution unknown books
1938319579New York 1938. 87 silver print photographs each captioned in the negative. Each measuring approx. 7 3/4 x 9 5/8 inches. Mounted on linen at a period date with two-ring punched linen guards at the left margin. Many stamped on verso "Official Photograph / President Borough of Queens. Fine. 87 silver print photographs each captioned in the negative. Each measuring approx. 7 3/4 x 9 5/8 inches. Mounted on linen at a period date with two-ring punched linen guards at the left margin. Many stamped on verso "Official Photograph / President Borough of Queens" This photographic archive documents the construction of a massive double-barrel sewer line running from the World's Fair grounds largely in the vicinity of Grand Central Parkway and Roosevelt Avenue. Many of the images are dated in the negative depicting the surveying of the region in June 1937 to ground breaking in July through completion of the lower barrel in September and the work on the upper barrel through November of that year. Additional photographs depict a second sewer project on the grounds through March 1938 including images of the completed tunnel with a group of well-dressed gentleman standing inside.<br/><br/>"The magnitude of the work may be appreciated when it is realized that on a site previously considered useless except as a rubbish dump a city has been constructed to supply a million people all the business and living facilities except shelter. Its construction therefore involved all braches of municipal enginineering architectural construction terminals for rapid transit and bus transportation internal travel bridge construction landscape engineering utility construction and management for light power and water supply and general sanitation" -- Henry Welles Durham "Construction of the New York World's Fair" in The Military Engineer Vol. XXXI Sept.-Oct. 1939. <br/><br/>Construction and development of the site was undertaken by the Fair Corporation's own engineers and workers but also by outside contractors the latter which was evidently the case here as many of the images are identified by contract and project numbers. Chief Engineer and Director of Construction John P. Hogan likened the work on the site to "an expeditionary force of an army in the field." In the end the World's Fair grounds included some 50 miles of water and sewage lines and would be the second most expensive fair of all time. 1 unknown books
30832Executed in ink pencil gouache and silver paint on wove paper. Unsigned but with monogrammatic handstamp to lower left corner. With annotations in ink in Russian relative to various parts of the costume. 13.125" x 8.75" 332 x 222 mm.<br/><br/>Slightly worn and soiled; some edge tears and repairs; upper right corner with erasure resulting in minor paper loss. Korovine designed costumes for productions of Russian operas including Borodin's Prince Igor Mussorgsky's Khovanshchina and Rimsky-Korsakov's Sadko and Le Coq d'Or.<br/><br/>"Konstantine Korovine is one of the most famous of Russia's twentieth-century stage designers. He made his debut as a theatrical painter in 1885 when he executed the sets and costumes for the production of Snegurochka at Savva Mamontov's Private Opera after Vasnetsov's designs and thereafter he emerged rapidly as an independent stage designer - decorating according to one souce 80 operas 37 ballets and 17 dramas during his lifetime. Korovine brought to the Russian stage a vibrancy and richness that was lacking in the traditional Imperial theaters. He felt more at ease when called upon to design operas and ballets treating of Russian history and legend such as Prince Igor Sadko and The Golden Cockerel and he designed sets and costumes for such spectacles at home and abroad." Bowlt: Russian Stage Design Scenic Innovation 1900-1930 from the Collection of Mr. & Mrs. Nikita D. Lobanov-Rostovsky pp. 175-176. MacDougall Arts Ltd. London auction June 9 2011 lot 413 catalogue p. 17. unknown books
193226554Wien-Leipzig: Universal-Edition PN U.E. 10.050 1932. Small folio. Original publisher's wrappers. 1f. 13 pp. Publisher's catalogue dated July 1932 to verso of lower wrapper.<br/><br/>Autograph inscription from the composer to title in black ink: "Dr. David Bach herzlichs überreicht von seinem Webern Nov. 1932." <br/><br/>From the collection of the pianist and teacher Jacob Lateiner 1928-2010 with a note laid in from the distinguished music antiquarian Albi Rosenthal 1914-2004: "for Jacob - as a souvenir of his first and frustrating visit to Otto Haas - Albi London 12 May 1967." <br/><br/>Wrappers slightly worn and soiled. First Edition. Moldenhauer pp. 714-15. <br/><br/>"Alban Berg repeatedly assured the composer of his special admiration for this work. On 19 August 1932 he wrote: 'This Quartet is a miracle. What amazes me above all is its originality.' Schoenberg was equally impressed. On receipt of the printed score he thanked Webern for the 'fabulous piece.' Today theorists recognize the Quartet as a masterpiece of formal construction." Moldenhauer pp. 426-27.<br/><br/>Dr. David Josef Bach 1874-1947 an important figure in Viennese cultural life in the first quarter of the 20th century was a significant patron of the arts an academic and a writer who championed the dissemination of the arts to the masses. Many important musical and visual artists were indebted to his patronage and support including Webern Schoenberg who wrote an atonal birthday canon of 21 measures for him in 1934 and Oskar Kokoscha who executed a portrait of him. Universal-Edition [PN U.E. 10.050] unknown books
1973187771973. Mixed media on paper. Signed "Grasse" Design for Bricklin car company.<br/> <br/>This strikingly handsome sports car design was designed for Malcolm Bricklin's unsuccessful car manufacturing effort of the mid-1970's. Handsomely engineered on the outside the cars were poorly made and designed within and very few survive. Herb Grasse began designing cars professionally in 1968 for Dodge. He worked for Chrysler Ford and Nissan and eventually had his own design firm. From 1973-75 he was Chief Designer for Bricklin. He died in 2010.<br/> <br/>"herbGrassedesign"; The Museum of Automobile Art and Design website. unknown books
192412317London: n.p. 1924. Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Irving Thalberg's personal copy of this splendid Limited production Grigoriev's artwork beautifully presented in the form of 30 color and black and white plates tipped to embossed mat pages separated by vellum leaves. The title page is inscribed and signed by the publisher "To Irving Thalberg with kindest regards and best wishes Morris Gest". Original half vellum over paper-covered boards the upper side illustrated and titled in gilt spine lettered in gilt. With minor soiling and handling to cover light toning on backing paper pages else fine condition. From the estate of Norma Shearer whom Thalberg married in 1927. 100 pp. 11 x 14 .5 in. <br><br><br />A remarkable association copy inscribed to the legendary Hollywood production executive Irving Thalberg who took hold of Universal City at age 20 and supervised such films as Ben Hur and Mutiny on the Bounty among many others. He died of pneumonia at age 37.<br><br><br />Morris Gest born 1881 in Vilna Lithuania as Moses Gershonovitch died May 16 1942 at the age of 61. He produced "The Miracle" in 1924 and "Lady Precious Stream" in 1936 introduced an original Russian ballet to America Baliev's 'Chauve-Souris' and brought Stanislavski's Moscow Art Theatre in repertory to America in 1923. n.p. hardcover books
1916FF2441London:: Constable & Company Ltd. 1916. 1916. Series: Makers of the nineteenth century edited by Basil Williams. Crown 8vo. viii 479 1 pp. Frontispiece portrait of Abraham Lincoln at Springfield index large folding map. Specially bound for Sotheran by Riviere & Son in full black gilt-stamped morocco all edges gilt; neatly rebacked preserving the original spine. Preserved with the original chemise and cloth slipcase with gilt-stamped calf spine label: "ABRAHAM LINCOLN - LORD CHARNWOOD - 1916 - FORE-EDGE PAINTING". This is also a very rare specimen with the original chemise and box extant. Provenance: ownership names of R. Joseph Rich Margaret Rich Carr; Joseph Sampsell Carr. Fine. WITH A FORE-EDGE PAINTING BY MS. C. B. CURRIE showing "a view of Harper's Ferry W. Virginia." "This is No. 145 of the Books with Fore-edge Paintings by Miss Currie. . . " Painted ca. 1928/9. See: Weber p. 341 #145 was previously unknown. Currie painted a scene of Harper's Ferry on the Life of John Brown See Weber A8 p. 348. SIGNED IN INK AT FOOT OF LIMITATION PAGE BY C. B. CURRIE. / In all about 172 Currie fore-edge painting were painted. Each is numbered in consecutive order with her known active period of painting fore-edges from c.1909/10-1929/33. All Currie fore-edge paintings are rare. / Miss Caroline Billin Curry aka "Miss. C.B. Currie" 1849-1940 was famous for painting both ivory miniatures and on fore-edge paintings exclusively for Sotheran's and strictly on Riviere bindings. Currie is important as being the only known artist to have signed all her work and numbered the pieces. She was highly touted in her lifetime as an artist who was singled-out for her skill and exquisite artistry that she thereby became the first artist so-named by Sotheran prominently in their catalogue series. Indeed she was a close associate and friend of the shop manager Mr. John Harrison Stonehouse and his wife Currie was named in their will. Even despite her prominence Currie's correct full name was a mystery until very recently. See Weber. This particular specimen was 1 previously unknown to myself 2 preserved the most-frequently missing chemise and 3 a clear provenance to this copy is noted the only one so located by myself. / PROVENANCE: Oddly this is the first known Currie fore-edge painting with provenance that is understood to be after the painting of the Harper's Ferry scene. The importance of that is the relationship of the ownership of a book to the date of the painting or otherwise owning a book before a fore-edge painting is applied to the book. In this case the ownership is surely after the work of Currie. Three persons' names are found in the volume: Joseph Sampsell Carr may have lived in Chicago Illinois. Margaret Rich Carr may have been Margaret Lee Smith Rich Carr 1917-1981 buried in Lubbock Lubbock County Texas. R. Joseph Rich may have been associated with Jefferson Medical College Hospital Philadelphia. REFERENCE: Jeff Weber Annotated Dictionary of Fore-edge Painting & Binders 2010. JWRB Constable & Company, Ltd., 1916. hardcover books
190844888London New York: William Heinemann Doubleday Page & Co 1908. First Trade Edition. Original tan cloth with gilt-pictorial and lettering to upper board gilt lettering to backstrip in original tan dust jacket printed in black. Housed in a blue morocco fall-down-back box with gilt lettering and decorations plate mounted and matted inside with caption from the text. A NF copy some minor scattered foxing in a VG jacket some loss at backstrip chips to corners. i-vi 1-134 pp. 40 color plates mounted on tan paper with captioned tissue-guards and numerous drawings in b/w. 4to. 10" x 7-1/2" <br/><br/>One of the finest of Rackham's illustrated books heightening Shakespeare's dreamy comedy with otherworldly imagination both delicate and grotesque. Copperplate for illustration facing p. 102 ".Are you sure That we are awake It seems to me That yet we sleep we dream." Riall p. 87. William Heinemann, Doubleday, Page & Co hardcover books
19102660811910. Original watercolour and ink on illustration board. 10 x 13 inches 25.4 x 33 cm. In gilt silver frame. Inscribed verso "Mr. Strawbridge. Original watercolour and ink on illustration board. 10 x 13 inches 25.4 x 33 cm. A comical scene of five fishermen on the bank with their poles in hand looking miserable. unknown books
100176Watercolor and ink on illustration board signed lower right "A. Rackham" within rectanglein script verso "Board of Education S.K./Exhitn. Of Illustr/Illustr. To Grimm. Freemouth.". 9-3/8 x 7-9/16 inches. Matted and framed. Fine. Watercolor and ink on illustration board signed lower right "A. Rackham" within rectanglein script verso "Board of Education S.K./Exhitn. Of Illustr/Illustr. To Grimm. Freemouth.". 9-3/8 x 7-9/16 inches. Exhibition label verso "Exhibition of Works by Arthur Rackham/Held at the Leicester Galleries/Leicester Square London/Dec 1909/No. 33./Purchaser Z. Merton Esq." "Rec. July 16 3 col.not exceed 7 x 5" unknown books
