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196490080Phoenix: Phoenix Art Museum 1964. Paperback. Good. illustrations 2 pages 16p. Softcover. 26cm. Moderate cover scuffing and wear. Issued in connection with an exhibition held October1963 through March 1964. <br/><br/> Phoenix Art Museum paperback books
1804WRCAM37730London 1804. Bifolium consisting of one unaccomplished broadside form and one broadside advertisement 19 1/2 x 12 inches. Copper- engraved scene 5 3/4 x 7 inches at head of form. Woodcut emblem 3 x 4 1/2 inches at head of advertisement. Two vertical and three horizontal folds. Contemporary manuscript inscription "June 1804" in left margin beside engraving in first leaf; contemporary manuscript inscriptions dated November 8 1804 on blank verso of first leaf referring to policy rates in Charleston. Half-inch tear at gutter of first leaf repaired with tape on verso. Portion of upper corner at fore-edge and portion of margin at gutter lacking from second leaf supplied in later paper. Second leaf somewhat faded. Else near fine. Bifolium of two broadsides for the Phoenix fire insurance company of London at the time of the opening of its first agency in New York. The Phoenix Assurance Company still operating today as Phoenix Life Ltd. was founded in 1782 by a consortium of sugar refiners in London seeking more reasonable rates for the insurance of their risky holdings against fire. By the mid-1780s Phoenix had established itself as a successful fire insurer across the whole of Great Britain for a wide array of businesses and homes. In 1785 the Phoenix Company sold its first North American policy at Charleston and the first policy in New York was accepted two years later. It was not until 1804 however that Phoenix began establishing actual agencies in the New World breaking ground in New York with the appointment of Theophylact and Andrew Bache as agents there. <br> <br> The first leaf is a printed policy form for the Phoenix Company in New York never filled in. The second leaf is an advertising broadside for the company containing a table of rates for New York subscribers and a detailed list of conditions for new policies. The handsome copper engraving at the top of the form leaf depicts a helmeted goddess presumably Athena on a pedestal bearing a shield stamped with the word "PROTECTION" and the image of a phoenix rising from ashes. Behind the figure is a nighttime scene of the burning remains of a building and a family of victims spilling onto the street. A team of firefighters is extinguishing the flames with a pump-operated hose and behind them is a scaffolded building under repair. The engraved caption reads: "PHOENIX FIRE OFFICE LOMBARD STREET and CHARING CROSS." A similar illustration in woodcut is included at the head of the "Proposals" broadside. Here the goddess is the only figure depicted. On her left are both the burning building and the new construction; on her right is a ship at sea engulfed in flames. The hooks and axes of the firefighter adorn the sides of the cut. <br> <br> The Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature at Harvard lists a copy of the Boston variant of the advertising broadside. The only located institutional holding of this New York issue however is at the Connecticut Historical Society. No records of the printed form in any issue have been located. A rare and interesting pair of documents from the early history of international insurance. KRESS B4839 variant. Clive Trebilcock PHOENIX ASSURANCE AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF BRITISH INSURANCE VOLUME I 1782-1870 Cambridge University Press 1985 pp.184-201. unknown books
1986WRCLIT69451Np: Printed for Phoenix Editions during the black spring of 1986. Folio broadside 63 x 47.5 cm. Printed on rectos only of rough-textured "antiqued" tan stock. A couple creases and smudges closed tear in top margin; a good copy. "Printed . in an edition of ten copies & dedicated to Beatrix Boelens love's answer to ecstasy." A bibliographically mysterious undertaking - OCLC locates copies at Brown and in the Koninklijke Bibliotheek in the Netherlands. An immediate connection with the song-writer seems unlikely as the song had been released as a single two years earlier. Printed for Phoenix Editions during the black spring of unknown books
198275661982. Softcover. VG label on cover. Wraps. 16 pp. 15 bw plates. Catalogue lists 16 works and an additional 4 which were not in the exhibition. One page introduction by Gail Gelburd. Metal sculpture and installations. unknown books
198171221981. Softcover. VG. Black wraps. 20 pp. 33 bw plates. Catalogue lists 29 works. Two page introduction. Stone sculptures. unknown books
1905659951905. Paperback. Very Good. 159-170p. Wrapper. 26cm. Weekly periodical printed by pupils at the school. <br/><br/> paperback books
1930263869London: Chatto and Windus 1930. pocket size 12mo. Various colours of cloth. Many in red decorated dustjackets with phoenixs repeated priced 3s 6d net or later 4s net. Some signed R.F. Ashley-Montagu London. VG generally. pocket size 12mo. Including Julian Huxley Aldous Huxley Richard Aldington Jane Austen Marcel Proust. Chatto and Windus unknown books
018868Phoenix May 1918: Phoenix Union High School. Octavo. 231pp. The earliest recorded copies in the Arizona Newspaper Project and OCLC are in the 1930's. Much on this item dedicated to those classmates who had gone to fight in World War I. The opening poem is dedicated to the 28th. Besides giving accounts of the different departments there is a nice description of Jefferson Street when it was poorly lit in the first decade of the 20th Century. A later patriotic poem which notes that the Patriots of Phoenix High have "jacked old "Uncle Sammy" to bring justice "to the Hun". It goes on to say they did this by buying liberty bonds. It lists 185 of their older classmates who served in World War I four of whom died in the conflict. The school did not open in the Fall until December 16 because of the influenza crisis. Also there are large ads for some of the well-known Phoenix business some with a patriotic note such as Donofrios which suggests that while "you are thinking about that soldier Boy send him a box of their Cactus Candy." Bound in original pictorial wraps light finger soiling. Phoenix Union High School unknown books
1910025217Phoenix: Phoenix Union High School 1910. Quarto. 100 pages plus 20 pages of ads Laid in is Phoenix Union High School Commencement with list of dignitaries and names of the 40 graduates. Very early with Clarence Tolleston in graduating class.Bound in black "snakelike" black paper lettered in gilt. Rear cover detached but present spine chipped. Phoenix Union High School unknown books
1921025218Phoenix: Phoenix Union High School 1921. Quarto. 196 pages. The growing student body now is involved not only in far more sporting events but producing plays. Page 88ff show the Department for Colored children where a class of thirty-four African American children are taught separately with three seniors graduating. James Benton signed under his photograph. There are several other autographs throughout. He is listed as member of the Latin club and playing basketball but this was probably restrict to other African Americans in his rather small class. The Arizona Republican of May 21 1921 proudly noted there were three "colored" graduating whereas the highest number in previous years was one. Bound in brown pictorial wraps with yapped edges lettered and decorated in gilt short tears or small chips to edges. Phoenix Union High School unknown books
19614019Phoenix: Arizona State University 1961. Hardcover. VG slight wrinkling of a few pages. Brown cloth. 72 pp. 8 color 46 bw plates. Text written by Harry Wood. The work is more or less abstract with some figurative work included as well. Inscribed by the artist. Arizona State University hardcover books
198556461985. Softcover. Wraps. 48 pp. 24 bw 18 color plates. Lists 87 works by 20 artists. Artist information for each exhibitor provided. Introductory essay. unknown books
19621556521962. Softcover. VG. Brown wraps. 16 pp. 8 bw plates. Lists 106 works by 91 artists. Wright Ludington and Robert Wallace were the jurors this year. unknown books
198356171983. Softcover. VG small label on front cover. Wraps. 40 pp. 13 color plates. 13 artists represented. Significant information on each is provided. Lengthy introductory essay. unknown books
