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1894305505<p>Oblong octavo 9 5/8" x 6 1/4". 16 pages of plates from photographs accordion style panorama with captions in English German French and Spanish. Original elaborately gilt stamped red cloth later red cloth spine; corners and edges worn. Good. No signatures or bookplates. Numerous views of San Francisco Sausalito etc.</p> [San Francisco? Hergert & Frey?] hardcover books
1955TB26010Norman: University of Oklahoma Press 1955. First Edition. Fine in light green cloth covered boards with a gilt on maroon title block on the spine. The top edge of the text block is speckled. In a very good price clipped dust jacket with the upper edge of the spine area rubbed and with the same to the upper fore corner of the front panel. The 18th volume in the American Exploration and Travel Series. 275 pages of text with 16 illustrations. University of Oklahoma Press hardcover books
1674D6962Venice: apud Franciscum Brogiollum 1674. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio book 5 only 325 x 220mm. 12 159pp. 9 443pp. 21. Engraved woodcut printers device depicting Europa. Title printed in red and black. Tables. Double column. Some woodcut ornamental head- and tailpieces and initials. Later half vellum over marbled boards endpapers renewed light browning and foxing or dampstaining. Pictorial wood-engraved ex-libris by Leo Wyatt for Lord Norwich on pastedown. <br/><br/>Rivières extensive compendium of medicine. There was a parallell edition of Rivières Opera medica universa printed in Frankfurt of this same year Sumptibus Joannis Petri Zubrodt. This volume is book five in his extensive compendium of medicine with sections on physiology pathology semiotics preservation of health and therapeutics. Subjects dealt with include cancer haemorrhaging the amount of food required by a healthy individual the diagnostic significance of bloodshot eyes and the medical properties of various fruits nuts and vegetables. Rivière 1589-1665 professor at Montpellier was the first to introduce the Paracelsian iatro-chemistry or the internal use of metallic compounds to Montpellier and the first to note aortic stenosis. apud Franciscum Brogiollum hardcover books
200124631Tokyo Japan: International House 2001. 84 pages with articles on Football Hooliganism as a Global Problem by Eric Dunning; EU-Japan Relations: The Swedish EU Presidency by Krister Kumlin; an essay of Remembrances by Edward Sedensticker and Recollections of Postwar Japan by Burton Watson. Also listing recent library notes from the IHJ the Asia Leadership Fellow Program and new IHJ members. Approx. 6" x 9" size printed paper covers. Light wear little rolling to the binding; in very good condition. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. International House Paperback books
195922698Cincinnati Ohio: International Molders and Foundry Workers Union of North America 1959. 80 pages; black and white illustrations cover portrait of William H. Sylvis 'The Father of Our Union'; contents including poem by Alfred Grant Walton; History of the Molders and Foundry Workers Union Part II; union and local news; "History and Mystery of Stainless Steel"; job safety articles; correspondence in memoriam roster of local unions; approx. 6 1/2" x 9 1/2" size; original illustrated printed stapled printed paper wrap covers; previous owner name at top edge of cover; light wear; in very good condition; good mid-20th century ephemeral American labor industrial union history especially as regards the foundry and molding industry. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. International Molders and Foundry Workers Union of North America Paperback books
1896D11320Berlin / Weimar: Neue Photogr. Gesellsch / Deutschen Photogr. Seitung K. Schwier 1896-1897. Hardcover. Very Good. Cloth and decorative paper portfolio "Internationale Musterblätter von Portrait-Aufnahmen" stamped on front board; contains 49 silver print photographic plates 6x9 inches with 3-9 images per sheet; loose as issued. Commercial portraits and images of European theatre performers with the plate number and date in the plate. Some show good humor -- a classroom of children being taught by a dog men drinking a woman peering through a tennis racket and the like. Portfolio soiled and worn. A few plates very lightly chipped along the edges but contents are generally VG or better. <br/><br/> Neue Photogr. Gesellsch / Deutschen Photogr. Seitung (K. Schwier) hardcover books
19301734Oshkosh Wis.: Castle-Pierce Press c. 1930's. Staplebound. Color illustrated wraps. Very good. 24 pages. 28 x 24 cm. Illustrated sales catalog featuring detailed descriptions of the ironing machines offered by the American Ironing Machine Co. Algonquin Illinois. A distinctive feature of this catalog is the visual portrayal of women operating the machines throughout the history of the company. Catalog emphasizes profit/sales of the new models. Other products include a Washers Extractors Drying Tumblers and Ironing boards. <br/><br/> Castle-Pierce Press paperback books
199923797Santiago Chile: Marlborough Gallery 1999. 16 pages; color illustrating the artworks of Chilean artist Isabel Klotz b. 1962; Spanish & English text; this catalog presenting her 'Tsunami' series; essay "The Standing Fragility of Isabel Klotz" by Justo Pastor Mallado; printed in Chile; approx. 9 1/2" x 11 1/2" size; light wear & some rubbing to the printed paper covers; in very good condition; an interesting overview of this artists' work from this period which also offers biological details & art chronology. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Isabel Klotz. Marlborough Gallery Paperback books
25432- Corticelli Gaetano 1804-1840<br/>Op. 65. Il Sorriso dell'Innocenza Divertimento brillante per piano forte a 4 mani composto e dedicato Alla Noblie Fanciulletta Alda Pio di Savoja. Milano: Fco. Lucca PN 1729 after 1856. 1f. title 1 blank 2-13 i publisher's catalogue pp. Music engraved; catalogue typeset. Signature "Pia Tolomei" in brown ink to upper right corner of title. Stain to lower margin of p. 9. A later issue. The catalogue lists works up to PN 12289 including a transcription by Fortunato Senna PN 10425 from Errico Petrella's L'Assedio di Leida an opera first performed in 1856.<br/><br/>- Cunio 1833-1891<br/>Le Rose 4 Piccole Fantasie Sopra motivi favoriti die Verdi per Piano Forte . Op. blank . No. 3 Rigoletto. Milano: F. Lucca PN B 8192 B after 1858. 1f. title 9 i publisher's catalogue pp. Music engraved; catalogue typeset. Text incipits from arias quoted printed in syllabification above music. Signature "Tolomei Antonietta" in brown ink to upper right corner of title; titling underlined in red crayon; some fingering in ink; multiple paper repairs. A later issue. The catalogue lists works up to PN 11874 including transcriptions from Errico Petrella's Jone an opera first performed in 1858. Rigoletto the latest of the Verdi operas paraphrased in the cycle offered on the present title was first performed in 1851.<br/><br/>- Fanna Antonio 1783-1845<br/>Op. 70. Otto Ricreazioni per Pianoforte a quattro mani Brevi Pezzi adattati per uso della Gioventù . No. 1 Bellini_Beatrice di Tenda: Io soffrii tortura list of seven more numbers follows the latest being Verdi's Ernani 1844. Milano: Gio. Canti e C PN 871fb after 1844. 1 title printed in blue with decorative frame 2-3 blank 4-9 i blank pp. Title lithographed; music engraved. Signature "Pia Tolomei." in brown ink to upper right corner of title; some paper repairs.<br/><br/>- Hünten Franz 1793-1878<br/>Op. 87. Le premier succès Morceau brillant sur un thême de Bellini composé Pour le Piano. Milan: Jean Canti et C. PN 1135 mid-1840s. 1 title 2-3 blank 4-11 i blank pp. Engraved. Signature "Tolomei Antonietta" in brown ink to upper right corner of title trimmed.<br/><br/>- Menozzi Giovanni fl. 19th century<br/>Op. 39. Simpatie musicali Raccolta di Pezzi brillanti per Pianoforte a 4 Mani . Fasc. 3. Milano: Francesco Lucca PN n 9403 n; Z 9403 Z ca. 1854. 1f. title with printed text and decorative frame in blue and lithographed vignette in black 1 blank 2-13 i publisher's catalogue pp. Title lithographed; music engraved; catalogue typeset. Plate number N 9403 N through p. 5 Z 9403 Z from p. 6. Handstamped: I Lombardi di G. Verdi. A later issue. The catalogue lists works up to PN 13493 including a fantasy by Menozzi PN 12849 on Verdi's Un ballo in maschera first performed in 1859.<br/><br/>- Poppi Giovanni 1828-1891<br/>Op. 45. Le Pensioniste Dodici Ricreazioni per Pianoforte a quattro mani somposte sopra melodie del Celebre Verdi N. 1 Nabucco list of 11 more operas follows ending with Giovanna de Guzman. Milano: Gio. Canti PN 3031 after 1855. 1 decorative series title with charming engraved vignette depicting domestic music-making: four women around a piano two seated at a piano and two listening 2-3 blank 4-9 i blank pp. Engraved. Ink stain to final blank page.<br/><br/>- Zenoni Leopoldo 1818-1879<br/>L'Adolescenza seguito all' Infanzia del primogenito Suonate per Piano-forte a quattro mani . Fasc. 5o. Fantasia sull'opera Simon Boccanegra del M. Verdi. Milano: Gio. Canti PN 4599 after 1857. 1-2 title within decorative blue border 3-4 extracted and thus lacking 5-11 i blank pp. Engraved. Signature "Tolomei Pia" in brown ink to upper right corner of title.<br/><br/>Folio. Mid-tan tooled morocco-backed blue mottled paper boards title label with "Tolemei Antonietta" in manuscript within blue decorative border to upper. <br/><br/>Boards worn rubbed and bumped. With occasional fingerings and other annotations in pencil throughout. A compilation of chiefly rare editions primarily intended for the amateur. Of note are the presence of three scarce Lucca catalogues and the charming engraved illustrated title of the Poppi arrangement depicting two young women playing four-hand piano music. unknown books
187826953Gotha Germany: Justus Perthes 1878. Color map of this area only. Approx. 10 1/2" x 16" overall size. from Petermann's Geographische Mitteilungen Schnellpressendruck v. C. Hellfarth in Gotha. Small faint previous ownership stamp on one of the back blank panels of the map of collector Dr. George R. Brush U.S. Navy; served as a surgeon and medical inspector from 1861-1894 & often on-station in various locales in Japan; he has noted a couple of dates on the map journeying from Ozaka to Nara in 1889. A little splitting along old fold lines; in good condition. Map. Not Bound. Good. Justus Perthes paperback books
199723789New York N.Y.: Hugo De Pagano Gallery 1997. 33 pages; inscribed and signed by the artist to a gallery owner on the front endpaper with the artists' small informational sticker as well; color illustrated with the abstract artworks of American contemporary artist Jamie Dalglish b. 1947; essay by Frederick Ted Castle "The Pure Abstractions of Jamie Dalglish" as introduction; includes artist chronology & biographical information exhibitions bibliography approx. 8 1/2" x 9 3/4" size; oblong format; some light wear to the printed softcovers; a few of the items are marked as sold with stickers and the buyer name in the catalog; in very good condition; an interesting overview of this artists' work. Signed by Artist. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Jamie Dalglish. Hugo De Pagano Gallery Paperback books
201125548New York NY: Loretta Howard Gallery 2011. 64 pages; artworks illustrated in shades of white throughout with information on the title of the piece materials used size provenance. Over 60 artist works including Sol Lewitt Alice Aycock Yayoi Kusama John Chamberlain Anselm Reyle and others. Approximately 6" x 7 1/2" size; embossed printed flocked-white paper covers. Slight edge tips wear; contents clean and in very good condition. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Loretta Howard Gallery paperback books
1956WALTER-FILM002064Vintage original 8 x 10" 20 x 25 cm. color photo USA. Jayne Mansfield Tom Ewell Edmond O'Brien dir: Frank Tashlin; Twentieth Century Fox. <br /><br />Most likely Jayne Mansfield's most memorable film in which she plays a wannabe actress bankrolled by a gangster. The film is a comic masterpiece and Mansfield was never displayed to more outrageous and curvaceous effect. <br /><br />Jayne strategically holds two milk bottles as she flirts with the disheveled Tom Ewell in this color still coded "950-16". There is minor blank white margin wear ABOUT FINE. Twentieth Century Fox books
WALTER-FILM000570No binding. Very Good. Photo Vintage original 10 x 8"" 25 x 20 cm. black-and-white single weight glossy silver gelatin print photo USA. Tom Ewell Jayne Mansfield Edmond O'Brien Julie London Ray Anthony dir: Frank Tashlin; Twentieth Century Fox. Jayne stands at her dressing room holding her Chihuahuas who are wearing sweaters which she knitted for them according to the attached typed paper blurb at the bottom of the still -- and we know that studio publicity never made such things up!. The film was considered Jayne's film debut though she had appeared in a few films already and starred on Broadway. A down-and-out gangster hires an alcoholic press agent to make his blonde bombshell girlfriend into a recording star despite the fact that she has no talent. Grand comedy vehicle for Jayne. There are several pinholes at each of the four corners and minor wear VERY GOOD-FINE. unknown books
WALTER-FILM001028No binding. Very Good. Photo Set of twenty-three 23 vintage original 8 x 10"" 20 x 25 cm. photos USA. Jayne Mansfield Tom Ewell Edmond O'Brien dir: Frank Tashlin; Twentieth Century Fox. Most likely Jayne Mansfield's most memorable film in which she plays a wannabe actress bankrolled by a gangster. The film is a comic masterpiece and Mansfield was never displayed to more outrageous and curvaceous effect. A few photos that are in sepia tone show a little toning overall NEAR FINE. unknown books
20182402New York: Little Brown and Company 2018. Hardcover. Pink boards. Near fine in near fine dust wrapper. 277 pages. 24 x 16 cm. A gripping examination of the dark side of an iconic American product and a moving portrait of the women who lived in the shadow of its fractured fortune Jell-O Girls is a family history a feminist history and a story of motherhood love and loss. In crystalline prose Rowbottom considers the roots of trauma not only in her own family but in the American psyche as well ultimately weaving a tale that is deeply personal and deeply connected to the collective female experience. <br/><br/> Little, Brown and Company hardcover books
161037309Etonae: In Collegio Regali excudebat M. Bradwood for Ioannes Norton in Graecis &c. regius typographus 1610. 4to 22.8 cm; 9". 4 ff. 73 1 pp. 4 ff. <br><br>One of the first two books printed at Eton both in Greek and both printed in 1610. The Byzantine poetry here is from the pen of John Mauropus an 11th-century teacher hymnographer orator Byzantine Greek poet and correspondent of scholars.<br>Â Â Â Â This the editio princeps was edited by and has the notes of Matthew Bust 1543 or 15441613 Fellow of Eton College and father of his namesake who was Master of Eton 161130. The prefatory matter and notes are printed in Latin in italics and the main text is in a large greek face; the actual printer's name is from STC.<br>Â Â Â Â Searches of STC WorldCat and ESTC locate many copies in Britain and even Europe but only five in U.S. libraries.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: 18th-century ownership inscription at top of title-page: "Petri Bonifantii." Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard small booklabel "AHA" at rear.<br>Â Â Â Â => An amazing early English schoolbook! <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â STC rev. 14622; ESTC S103427. 20th-century quarter red morocco with red cloth sides. Light age-toning and some stray ink spots. In fact very good. In Collegio Regali, excudebat [M. Bradwood for] Ioannes Norton, in Gr[a]ecis, &c. regius typographus hardcover books
189489582London: Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society 1894. Paperback. Very Good. index v 52p. Softcover in original wrapper. 23cm.Modest chipping and browning around cover edges. Unopened. Edited by Titus Tobler and translated from Tobler's text by Aubrey Stewart. <br/><br/> Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society paperback books
WALTER-FILM000081No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print Vintage original 14 x 17"" 35 x 43 cm. jumbo lobby card USA. Tyrone Power Dorothy Lamour Edward Arnold Lloyd Nolan Charley Grapewin Lionel Atwill dir: Henry Hathaway; Twentieth Century Fox. A crime drama considered amongst the forerunners of the film noir genre. It is the story of a college grad who turns to a life of crime in order to get his father out of jail for embezzlement. Not typical of the Fox output at the time the film was a vehicle to present Power in drama and modern dress after a series of costume films. Dorothy Lamour was borrowed from Paramount and sang several songs. The original screenplay was filmed under the title DANCE WITH THE DEVIL. In the card are Power with Edward Arnold. There is a little wear to bottom right overall NEAR FINE. unknown books
200325551Montclair New Jersey: Montclair Art Museum 2003. 19 pages; with a autograph note signed from the artist "John - Hope all's been well. I often look at the beautiful book you sent me & think of you. Many thanks again. Hope to see you perhaps this summer - All the best Jonathan." Black and white illustrated with the artists' works on this theme including titles dates sizes provenance and with biographical section and introductory essay by the chief curator of this exhibition Gail Stavitsky. Approximately 6" x 9" size illustrated stapled paper covers. Slight wear; contents and note clean and in very good condition. Signed by Artist. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Jonathan Santlofer. Montclair Art Museum paperback books
198024691Cuba: Union de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba UNEAC 1980. Poster in colors text in Spanish; Approx. 18 1/2" x 28" size some edge-crinkling roll-creases; in very good condition. Poster. Not Bound. Very Good. Union de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba UNEAC Paperback books
1977WALTER-FILM004163<p>Lillian Hellman source Vintage original press kit USA Printed folder with fifteen 15 8 x 10″ 20 x 25 cm. photos laid in a paper sleeve with twenty-three 23 printed promotional texts about 60 pp. of text overall. Creasing and shelf wear to folder particularly to spine internally VERY GOOD.</p><p>Adapted from a section of Lillian Hellman's memoir <i>Pentimento</i> this acclaimed film by director Fred Zinneman portrays an episode in Hellman's life when she reunites with her girlhood friend Julia in Germany and embarks on a dangerous anti-Nazi mission.</p><br /> Twentieth Century Fox books
1922206370New York: Dutton 1922. Second. hardcover. near fine. Fronitspiece many b/w plates. 140pp. 4to blue cloth spine ends very slightly frayed. New York: E.P. Dutton 1922. A near fine copy.<br/><br/> Printed by D. B. Updike at the Merrymount Press.<br/><br/> Dutton unknown books
172026935Lugduni Batavorum: Samuelem Luchtmans 1720. 64 215 57 pages; title page printed in red & black; a few woodcut initial ornaments & tailpieces; Latin text throughout. Title page with the small previous ownership stamp of collector Dr. George R. Brush U.S. Navy; served as a surgeon and medical inspector from 1861-1894. Approx. 5" x 7 1/2" size; bound in green marbled cover boards dark green morocco leather spine gilt decorated and with gilt spine titles; marbled endpapers. Some edge tips wear and rubbing to the cover base of spine covering scraped; contents fresh and clean and in very good condition. First Edition. Illustration. Very Good. Samuelem Luchtmans paperback books
197326171Kathmandu Nepal: United Nations 1973. 2 43 pages; printed one side only. Contents include information on previous developments and the Valley Project; planning implementation preservation; proposals for administration and organization; consultancies: Lumbini Project & UNHCR; proposed future assistance and co-operation of associate experts. Includes information on basic premises of traditional Nepalese architecture as a foundation for contemporary design development of building materials components systems for economic structures demonstration and pilot projects. Previous owner name on front cover. Approx. 8 1/2" x 11" size; side-stapled printed titled cover. Paper darkened dog-eared; in good condition. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good. United Nations paperback books
