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193478282London: Printed by Order of the Trustees 1934. 1st ed. Hardcover. Good. 466p. Original cloth. 25cm. Joints scuffed. Backstrip faded. Contents sound and clean. No Jacket. Persian text introductory material in English. At head of title: British Museum. Department of Oriental Printed Books and Manuscripts. <br/><br/> Printed by Order of the Trustees hardcover books
18792222086<p>Presumed first edition. Thick octavo. Frontispiece and four full page chromolithographs. Original green cloth stamped in black. No dust jacket. Good light soiling; minor rubbing. 584 pages. No signatures or bookplates.</p><p>Guide to the management of a happy home children servants finances etc.</p><p>Useful to new bride and wife.</p> J. C. McCurdy & Co. hardcover books
18812222083<p>Early edition. Thick octavo. Illustrated. Lithographed frontispiece of 11 people seven adults and four children in a boat by Thos. Sinclair & Son.; color plate at page 460. Original gilt and black stamped decorative cloth a.e.g. brown coated endpapers inner joints cracked. No dust jacket. Good edges rubbed. 584 pages.</p><p>Engraved full page presentation leaf for L. D. Grid from N. E. Grid Bates Co. Mo Oct. 1887.</p> J. C. McCurdy & Co. hardcover books
192426028New York NY: The New York Herald 1924. 4 pages printed in sepia tones on newsprint. The cover with dramatic pictures of the funeral cortege of Lenin being borne through the woods near Gorky tomb piled with flowers Kalenin Zerzinsky Kameneff bearing the coffin ".With the thermometer at 35 degrees below zero Moscow turns out en masse as the red draped coffin of Lenin is carried through the streets." The cover also notes the marriage of the Prince regent of Japan; within pictorials on the Zionists in Palestine sporting news Mrs. O.H.P. Belmont estate from the air & more; final page with advertisements. Approx. 16 1/2" x 21 3/4" size; a little edge tips wear and chipping old fold lines. In good condition interesting early 20th century graphic history. Newspaper. Soft Cover. Good. The New York Herald paperback books
59115Photograph albums. Oblong folio. 2 volumes: 401 mounted photographs 4 3/8 x 2 to 3 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches; 102 mounted photographs 2 3/4 x 1 7/8 to 3 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches predominantly of the larger size in both volumes and with nearly all of the images captioned in white. Included are sections dedicated to Pinehurst North Carolina 75 images Lake Placid New York 37 Detroit Michigan 68 and several other eastern United States locales where Bigelow and his family lived and vacationed and depictions of the Sound Beach Golf Club of Old Greenwich Connecticut in its inaugural year of 1905 6 the Detroit Country Club in 1905 4 the Pinehurst Golf Club in 1905 16 identifying golfers George Low Sr. Alex Findlay Andrew Kirkaldy Alan Lard and Donald and Alec Ross photo-essays on the 1906 and 1910 Vanderbilt Cup Automobile Races at Westbury Long Island 13 Dyker Meadow Golf Club in 1907 Brooklyn New York 6 the White Mountain Express train wreck of 1908 4 Salisbury Golf Links & Club in 1911 Garden City New York 6 a 1911 Lake Placid fire department drill 7 and the Ann Arbor and Detroit Golf Clubs in 1915 and 1925 8. Scattered through the text are images of other golf courses and country club buildings a baseball game and cricket match horseback riding and other outdoor sporting activities making a total of about 130 in the album 25 per cent of the total. Covers very worn but images for the most part are bright and sharp. Original gilt-stamped suede rear cover detached spine eroded yapped edges chipped and gilt-stamped brown fabrikoid tied original ties replaced. #6114. Of particular interest is the 75-image section documenting the early days of the Pinehurst development a photo-essay examining the relatively new golf resort which had opened its first course in 1899 and saw Donald Ross appointed golf pro there in 1900 a position he would hold until his death in 1948 productive decades that would find him designing over 400 courses in the United States; this section of the first album includes in addition to the 16 images of the golf course and golfers photographs of the train depot a "Negro cabin" 'possum hunting elaborate cottages the town hall an African-American with his wagon pulled by the "oldest mule in the state" sand hills pine stands and other scenery quail hunting the deer park owl cage and hennery the golf club house and an old turpentine mill. Other sections of the albums picture Bigelow and his family living vacationing and participating in various outdoor activities as they moved from Brooklyn to Greenwich and Farmington Connecticut Long Island Grosse Point Michigan and Philadelphia and visited a wide range of cities and outdoor destinations in the south middle Atlantic and upper midwest states. The Vanderbilt cup race was the first major trophy in American auto racing; the inaugural race in 1904 and the next two were held on winding dirt roads in Nassau County Long Island suspended for a year and then held 1908-1910 on the Long Island Motor Parkway the first specially built racetrack in America. We have not found much information on Bigelow; apparently he studied at Cornell in the 1880s playing on the baseball team competed in tennis and golf tournaments around New York in the 1890s and 1900s and was a member of the Brooklyn Boat Club in the 1910s. Nevertheless his photograph albums offered here provide an expansive look at the leisure activities of the well-to-do in the early decades of the 20th century especially revealing for the views of American golf courses clubs and play just at the time when the wave of professionals from Scotland began to make their presence felt with improved course design and instruction. <br/><br/> unknown books
1868List1022Oberlin 1868. Albumen photographs 2 ½ x 3 ½ inches on larger mounts. Some fading to one of the photographs other image with excellent contrast near fine condition overall. Near Fine. An uncommon early pair of views of the Second Ladies' Boarding House at Oberlin College in the 1860s taken at a time when Oberlin was one of few coeducational colleges having first admitted women in 1837. Oberlin's Second Ladies Hall was built in 1861-1863 and featured Itlianate architecture and a rooftop balcony. The building was opened for student accommodations in 1865. The first floor held an assembly room a reading room a dining room parlors and stewards' quarters. The second and third floors housed 100 women. The building was destroyed by a fire in 1889. unknown books
197556605Buffalo NY: Patricia Budd Kepler 1975. Broadside 17x22 inches printed in blue and red folded twice. Two small rust stains o/w a VG clean copy. Patricia Budd Kepler unknown books
19201500Lowell MA c. 1920. Hardcover. 68 pages. 23 x 15 cm. Prefaced by the poem - A Recipe For a Day. Boards rubbed and bumped. BROWN 1433. <br/><br/> hardcover books
200136673NY:: Norton. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2001. Hardcover. 0393050092 . First printing. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. . Norton, hardcover books
200231666Westport: Greenwood Press. As New. 2002. Hardcover. 0313315019 . First printing. As new in glossy illustrated boards. No dust jacket as issued. . Greenwood Press hardcover books
18022433S W Fores 1802. Loose_leaf. Hand colored etching. Very good. Williams Charles. A waggish sense of humor is presented here in this etching. A massive butcher presides in front of his stall pointing out the benefits of a gargantuan joint of beef. His clientele dressed in ostentatious costume look on as he points of the merits of his wares: "There is not such dignified Beef in the Market - believe me Right Honorable every Inch of it; Coronets marked in the fat and Genealogy in the lean - had it pon Honor - from my Lord cram Bullock - delicious! - you may smell the Oil Cake a mile - no vulgar ingredients - only half a Crown per pound - a mere trifle - I have indeed some low bred beef at Sixpence but I am sue Sir it would not suit your refined Taste." The gentleman answers: "Why look ye - Master Suet as I am not over ambitious if you please - I'll have a slice of the Citizen." His wife adds: "Husband dont be so Wulgar I say send home a Sir Loin of true Nobility." Light foxing small close tear to top edge. Past crease marks visible. <br /> <br /> <br/><br/> S W Fores unknown books
19431417Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1943. Wraps. title 1 -117 pages. Copy belonging to Marguerite Chapman who played Pamela with her character's name on the front wrapper in holograph pencil. One of a number of comedies made during World War II that built around the "servant shortage" in the US during wartime this one with a bit of "The man Who Came to Dinner" mixed in. An English author visits a small town in New England and inflames the local population by trying to take away a noted chef who serves a Daughter of the American Revolution and in turn rekindles hostilities in British-American relations. Set in New England. Green titled wrappers noted as Final Draft on the front wrapper rubber-stamped and production No. 195 dated April 6 1943. Title pate present dated April 6 1943 noted as Final Script. 118 leaves with last leaf of text numbered 117. Mimeograph. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good bound with two gold brads. Lacking rear wrapper. <br/><br/> Columbia Pictures paperback books
19422477Philadelphia: W. Atlee Burpee Co. 1942. Paperback. Color illustrated wraps. Near fine in very good envelope. 160 pages. 22.5 x 15 cm. Fully illustrated seed catalog featuring a new product: Celtus a combination of Celery and Lettuce. Order form and envelope attached. In tan illustrated addressed envelope. <br/><br/> W. Atlee Burpee Co. paperback books
19792222123<p>First edition. 10" x 7". Text printed in red and black. Frontispiece seven illustrations endpaper maps. Maroon cloth over grey boards. Plain white dust jacket. Fine. 74 pages. No signatures or bookplates.</p><p>Prospectus and order form laid in loose.</p><p>One of 500 copies.</p><p>BCC 162.</p> The Book Club of California hardcover books
182526869Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd 1825. 12mo. Early dark green cloth-backed green paper boards titling within decorative devices gilt to spine. 1f. frontispiece engraved by J. Mitchell after Clennel depicting three gentlemen raising their glasses in a toast 1f. half-title with decorative device 1f. title 5-300 303-310 index pp. <br/><br/>Text only but with indication of tunes to which the text is to be sung in many instances. <br/><br/>Binding slightly worn bumped soiled and dampstained. Blank margins of some leaves moderately browned or slightly lacking affecting several letters; some foxing; offsetting from frontispiece to half-title. Rare. Worldcat 3 copies only of this edition at the Smithsonian Edinburgh University Library and Norfolk UK County Council Library; copies of all editions are quite scarce. Catalogue of English Song Books Forming a Portion of the Library of Sir John Stainer p. 65. Humphries & Smith p. 248. OCLC no. 28012823. Oliver & Boyd unknown books
36228Oblong folio 225 x 300 mm. Contemporary vellum-backed marbled boards. Ca. 250 pp. Watermarks include "La Stella" and "G & C Cini" prominent papermakers in Tuscany in the 1830s and 40s. <br/><br/>39 pieces in total. Composers include Beethoven 3 Bellini 2 Donizetti 3 Pacini 2 Paer 2 Weber 2 Strauss and Zingarelli 2 plus a number of unattributed works.With contemporary signature of "Mrs. S. Smith" to front endpapers and contemporary manuscript index to pastedown endpapers; her additional signature to Beethoven Waltz. Notated in ink in one primary hand<br/><br/>Contents:<br/>Paer Ferdinando 1771-1839<br/>Ah Lucinda Signor Duetto in the Favorite Opera of Agnese di Fitzhenny Arrang'd with a Piano Forte Accompt. by J.C. Pyne 80th Regt. 1 title 2-20 pp. <br/><br/>Donizetti Gaetano 1979-1848<br/>Cavatina Nell fior degl' anni miei Nell' Opera L'Ajo in Imbarazzo. Ridotta per Piano Forte Dal J.C. Pyne. 9 pp. <br/><br/>Italian Ariettes with a Piano Forte Accompaniment. Benedetto 2 pp.; Buona Notte 3 pp.; Nel Tempo Felice 3 pp.; Grato Momento é Caro 2 pp.<br/><br/>Bailey Thomas Haynes 1797-1839<br/>I'd be a Butterfly a Ballad Sung by Mrs. Haylett The Words & Melody by Thos. Haynes Bailey. 6 pp. <br/><br/>Canzonici Siciliane. 14 pp. 7 short pieces for voice and piano<br/><br/>Pacini Giovanni 1796-1867<br/>Come provar quest' anima Cavatina in the Opera La Schiava e' Bagdad. 12 pp. <br/><br/>Craven J.T. 1796-<br/>The Light Bark. Scene The Bay of Naples. 7 pp. Text by Anna Mahony<br/><br/>Beethoven Ludwig van 1770-1827<br/>No. 2 Grand Sonata composed & dedicated to Prince Lichnowski . Op. 26. 22 pp. <br/><br/>Anon. Waltz. 1/2 page. <br/><br/>Beethoven<br/>Waltz. 4 pp. LvBWVAnh 14/3 <br/><br/>Weber Carl Maria von 1786-1826<br/>Weber's Last Composition. 2 pp. Waltz in Ab major<br/><br/>Weiner Volkslied. 1 page.<br/><br/>Zingarelli Niccolò Antonio 1752-1837<br/>Ombra adorata aspetto. 9 pp. From his opera Romeo and Juliet<br/><br/>7 pp. 3 sets of 6 instrumental dance tunes unidentified most likely for violin.<br/><br/>Dance Music. 24 dance tunes for solo violin with titles including Quadrile! of Navarino Pantalone L'Elé La Pouyle La Trenis La Pastorale La Promenade and Quadrille a 2 Figure. 10 pp. <br/><br/>Donizetti<br/>3 pp. Unidentified work for piano solo. Incomplete<br/><br/>Bellini Vincenzo 1801-35<br/>Sinfonia Nel Opera Il Pirata. 16 pp. containing the overture for piano solo. With occasional corrections.<br/><br/>Waltz. Chap. Rouge. 1 page. For solo piano.<br/><br/>Military Waltz. 1 page<br/><br/>The Merry Days When We Were Young. 2 pp. For voice and piano. Notation and text carefully penned on mid-blue paper within highly decorative embossed border. Signed "E.R.P. 6. Novr. 1841" at conclusion.Two small pinholes to upper left margin. In very good condition overall. <br/><br/>Binding somewhat worn soiled rubbed and bumped; number "41" to spine. Very minor internal wear and browning. unknown books
184424937London: Sherwood & Co 1844. 5 volumes bound in 1. Small octavo. Newly bound in full marbled paper boards with printed title label to spines. <br/><br/>Vol. 1: Nos. 1 August 1842 - 6 January 1843. 48 pp.<br/>Vol. 2: Nos. 7 February 1843 - 12 July 1843. 48 pp. <br/>Vol. 3: Nos. 13 August 1843 - 18 Jan 1844. 48 pp. <br/>Vol. 4: Nos. 19 February 1844 - 23 June 1844. 40 pp. Lacking No. 24 July 1844.<br/>Vol. 5: Nos. 25 August 1844 - 26 September 1844. 16 pp. Lacking title table of contents and several issues.<br/><br/>With 2 preliminary leaves title and table of contents to each volume except Vol. 5. <br/><br/>Occasional light soiling and browning minor annotations in pencil and black ink; slight loss to lower corners of first volume not affecting music. Quite rare. OCLC incomplete runs only. <br/><br/>These volumes comprise several hundred melodies without text from operas popular songs dances and orchestral and chamber music. References are made to fuller versions e.g. with accompaniments in contemporaneous periodical publications in particular the Flutonicon and the Pianista. <br/><br/>A significant resource for tunes popular at the time. Sherwood & Co unknown books
1725358341725. A singing master stands in front of a large open choir book using a pointer to guide a small group of adults and children in song. Image size 50 x 85 mm sheet size 153 x 105 mm. On laid paper.<br/><br/>Extracted from Orbis sensualium picti pars prima secunda der sichtbaren Welt an instructional book for children first published in 1658 with editions extending up to ca. 1730. <br/><br/>Slightly worn; hinged to mat at upper margin of verso. unknown books
1535SAV123Venice: Nicolo de Aristotele detto Zoppino 1535. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio 295 x 190mm. 12 I-CX 110ff. Signatures: AA6-BB6; A8-N8; O6. Title printed in red and black with woodcut block border depicting strewn armor and dueling knights with wreathed portrait of Cicero at top and plaques with monogram initials of Roman Emperors Fabius Maximus Julius Caesar and Alexander Magnus. 136 woodcut in-text illustrations depicting lives of primitive humans the famous Vitruvian Man on p. XXII constellations rules for perspective and other mathematical figures and diagrams of architecture. Woodcut historiated chapter initials throughout of repeating portraits. Translated by Benedetto Giovio 1471-1545. Edited by Francesco Lutio Durantino. 19th-century calf with decorative stamps spine stamped in gilt TRAT DE ARCH endpapers renewed; loose in binding some margins trimmed close some light worming at least six early cancelled inscriptions on title leaf CX with significant excision otherwise an crisp and clean text block with wonderful woodcut impressions. 19th-century inscription on fly-leaf Famoza Archi-tectura. Another 19th-century inscription on front flyleaf Presented to the Mercantile Library Association of New York by Philip A Reach .Consul/ Lisbon Jan. 7 1848. Sold in 1958 on removal of Architecture Books from the Library pencil note. Rare illustrated Durantino edition of Vitruvius printed in Venice by Zoppino in 1535. This Vitruvius work was first printed in 1521 for Como. As it gained notoriety another edition in the vernacular Italian was prepared by Giovanni Antonio and Pietro de Nicolino da Sabbio in 1524. It incorporated woodcuts from a 1511 Latin edition produced by Giovanni Giocondo in Venice Tacuino. This Zoppino printing had a newly redesigned title-leaf with an elaborate woodcut border of chivalric battle scenes between Augustus Caesar Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great. The 136 in-text woodcuts are an all too interesting miscellany of late-medieval life nature and architecture and are characteristic of Vitruvian ideals in regards to proportion ornament language space place and beauty. The famous figure of Symmetria Vitruvian Man is present on p. XXII. Both the 1524 and 1535 editions were widely read by an Italian public. Vitruvian principles deeply influenced early Renaissance artists thinkers and architects who believed they were rediscovering an ancient discipline which would be the foundation of their culture. <br/><br/>Rare illustrated Durantino edition of Vitruvius printed in Venice by Zoppino in 1535. This Vitruvius work was first printed in 1521 for Como. As it gained notoriety another edition in the vernacular Italian was prepared by Giovanni Antonio and Pietro de Nicolino da Sabbio in 1524. It incorporated woodcuts from a 1511 Latin edition produced by Giovanni Giocondo in Venice Tacuino. This Zoppino printing had a newly redesigned title-leaf with an elaborate woodcut border of chivalric battle scenes between Augustus Caesar Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great. The 136 in-text woodcuts are an all too interesting miscellany of late-medieval life nature and architecture and are characteristic of Vitruvian ideals in regards to proportion ornament language space place and beauty. The famous figure of Symmetria Vitruvian Man is present on p. XXII. Both the 1524 and 1535 editions were widely read by an Italian public. Vitruvian principles deeply influenced early Renaissance artists thinkers and architects who believed they were rediscovering an ancient discipline which would be the foundation of their culture. Nicolo de Aristotele detto Zoppino hardcover books
14217Sepia toned albumen 9.75" x 8.75". Photo by Oscar Kramer. Photograph of Vienna Austria. Image of trees in foreground hill tops in background and in middle 19th century Austrian city landscape. Most recognizable buildings are the Stefansdom Cathedral on the right and the Karlskirche Cathedral in the middle. Top corners have been cut round. unknown books
11774Three 19th Century Photographs of Venice Italy. First photograph sepia tone 10 x 7.5" Image of front view of St. Mark's Cathedral the most prominent church in of the city of Venice. Second photo sepia tone 9.5 x 7.25" photo of a close up of a horse statue outside of St. Mark's Cathedral. photo has a small tear on top right corner. Third photo sepia tone 9.5 x 7.25". Photo of the Ducal Palace. The palace is the highest and richest symbol of Venetian civilization of its cultural military political and economic history. In excellent condition. unknown books
192883773London: Argonaut Press 1928. Hardcover. Near Fine. maps index lxxxv 121p. Original vellum-backed cloth. 26cm. Minor cover soiling. Corners slightly bumped. No jacket. Copy No. 543 of an edition limited to 975 numbered copies on Japon Vellum. <br/><br/> Argonaut Press hardcover books
19422225New York: The Twentieth Century Fund 1942. xxviii 986p. tables first printing very good condition in a worn and chipped dj. The Twentieth Century Fund unknown books
194020942EBeverly Hills CA: Twentieth Century-Fox Studios 1940. Original 1940 Studio Pass to Twentieth Century-Fox Studios for Hollywood columnist Jimmy Starr with his signature. Orange cardstock 3 5/8†x 2 3/8†with rounded corners. Studio passes were given to press and industry representatives allowing the bearer access to the studio’s lot and sets. It reads in full: “Press Pass to Publicity Department Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation Beverly Hills California Name Jimmy Starr typed Representing L.A. Herald & Express typed Valid Until December 31 1940 Studio Publicity Manager Harry Brand typed No. 141 This Pass Not Valid Unless Signed by the Holder on the Reverse Side.†On the verso is a printed set of basic terms regarding the holder of the pass and is signed by Jimmy Starr in ink as the recipient of the pass. Very good with some minor use and dust soiling. Jimmy Starr 1902 - 1990 is best known as a Hollywood columnist though he was also a writer and actor known for The Corpse Came C.O.D. 1947 A Night for Crime 1943 and Pink Pajamas 1929. Some of the Twentieth Century-Fox films Mr. Starr may have enjoyed include such popular productions released in 1940 as The Grapes of Wrath directed by John Ford starring Henry Fonda and Jane Darwell. The film won Oscars for Best Director and Best Supporting Actress Darwell and was nominated for Best Picture Best Actor Fonda Best Screenplay Best Sound and Best Editing. Other 1940 releases include Brigham Young directed by Henry Hathaway starring Tyrone Power and Linda Darnell Charlie Chan’s Murder Cruise with Sidney Toler and Johnny Apollo with Tyrone Power and Dorothy Lamour. Twentieth Century-Fox Studios unknown books
1986WALTER-FILM000750Set of eight 8 vintage original 18 x 26" 45 x 65 cm. fotobusta posters Italy. Jeff Goldblum Geena Davis John Getz dir: David Cronenberg: Twentieth Century Fox. <br /><br />The truism is that remakes of movies are inferior to the originals -- but not in this case! The original version starring Vincent Price is a bit of a mid-century cult classic. But clearly the David Cronenberg remake is a vastly superior film. <br /><br />This set of large-scale images reflect the drama and terror evoked by this movie. These were stored rolled and never folded nor used. Minor center crease and ding at center top from storage ABOUT FINE. Twentieth Century Fox books