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201911493Ft. Lauderdale FL 2019. Artist's book unique an altered book signed by the artist on the rear pastedown "DKrause." Page size: 5 x 8 inches; 20pp. Bound by the artist: in the original boards of a used copy of the 100th anniversary edition of this children's classic. The artist removed the covers spine and eight illustrations and inserted a strip of ochre leather which became the new spine. Details from the original black and white illustrations were then watercolored and placed on botanically-printed pages. The whole was then bound using original boards of anniversary edition and a slipcase made using the original spine of the book. The artist's title ANNE with an e is written in pencil by the artist below the cover portrait of "Anne." taken from a postcard. This altered book was occasioned by the artist's visit to Charlottetown PEI the setting for Montgomery's story. unknown books
1960150624UK: Warwick Film Productions 1960. Collection of 35 vintage double weight reference photographs from the 1960 film. One photograph showing actors Yvonne Mitchell and Peter Finch relaxing on the set a second photograph with holograph annotations regarding layout on the verso. <br/><br/>A dramatization of the libel and criminal cases involving Oscar Wilde and the Marquess of Queensberry based on both the 1948 nonfiction book by Montgomery Hyde and the 1955 play "The Stringed Lute" by John Furnell. <br/><br/>10x 8 inches. Generally Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Warwick Film Productions unknown books
12962Image size approximately 17 x 13 inches. 1 vols. Matted. James Montgomery Flagg. Image size approximately 17 x 13 inches. 1 vols. Charcoal Portrait by James Montgomery Flagg. A strong portrait a little larger than life size of a dark haired young woman in profile looking right her shoulders bare wearing an ornament on a ribbon around her neck. The subject is attractive but the artist has not idealized her: it is a candid and compelling rendering done with the typical bravura of the almost legendary American artist and illustrator.<br/><br/>A FINE EXAMPLE OF FLAGG'S PORTRATURE. unknown books
4420The drawing shows Flagg and fellow artist Harry Beckhoff watch a mouse draw. Flagg has written a caption at the top margin of the card above the figures of himself and Beckhoff. Referring to the green shirted mouse with pen in hand Flagg writes "He's my stooge - does my king size stuff." Below the art table he writes in red "Merry Xmas in purple 1950 to Harry X Handsome wife in green from Monty." A bright and appealing ink and water color holiday illustration. unknown books
19441717London: George G. Harrap & CO. LTD 1944. First Edition / Limited Edition. Cloth. Near fine. Signed limited edition of Poems From The Desert Versus by Members of the Eighth Army by Field Marshall Montgomery of Alamein. Octavo 45pp. Beige cloth over original blue morocco spine title in gilt on spine. Bound by Leighton Straker in London. Light soiling to cloth covers. Frontispiece portrait with tissue cover. Housed in scarce publisher's cardboard slipcase limitation number on bottom panel in ink. Limited edition of 110 signed copies by General Sir Bernard Montgomery this being number 53. The first 10 copies of this signed limited edition were bound in full leather for the author's personal use. Number 10-110 were bound in cloth as with this example here. Frontispiece portrait is signed by artist Stephen Gooden. George G. Harrap & CO. LTD unknown books
193291Various places 1932. Very good. Seventy-five items plus six small notebooks and one folio scrapbook. Some wear and soiling to a few items but condition generally clean and quite good. Extensive archive of transit information for the cities of Lima Peru and Santiago Chile compiled by traffic expert M.T. Montgomery of Lancaster Pennsylvania. Based near Lima Montgomery gathered information on bus rail chauffeur and rail-less trolley travel. Included here are manuscript notes and recommendations typed reports his pocket notebooks travel ephemera printed tracts and booklets and more. A repurposed ledger serves as a scrapbook holding 120 pages of Spanish-language newspaper clippings documenting traffic conditions and issues. The archive contains about thirty-five pieces of travel-related ephemera -- bus tickets calling cards transit passes -- from Montgomery's time in South America. There is a large broadsheet advertising the fiestas for Carnaval complete with a map of the festivities on the back. . Also present is a blueprint plan of Lima showing the omnibus service routes in 1927 and a mimeographed study on the bus service between Santiago and San Bernardo. In his work Montgomery points out the traffic chaos in the region and the associated difficulty of making profit under the current rate for fares. He provides a list of recommendations for ameliorating the situation including "All taxis until further notice will work only 20 days per month which will reduce the vehicles on the streets ." Other memos include "High Spots of Improvements Made in Tramway Service in Cordoba - Mendoza - Santa Fe - Tucuman & Parana"; "Personal Views Regarding Points Discussed at Tramway Managers Meeting"; and "A Few Facts about Schedules: One Man's Opinion." He also recommends that businesses building factories in South America not hire Latin American managers lest they lose control of their customer base. Montgomery appears to have been worried about the threat of Communism as well as there are a handful of manuscripts and pamphlets documenting the dangers of that political bent. A wonderful trove of information on an unusual subject giving the perspective of an American specialist on the issues of traffic and transportation in South America. unknown books
1860258259London: Routledge Warne & Routledge Farrington Street 1860. First edition thus. One hundred wood engravings by Pickengill Birket Foster J. Wolf John Gilbert William Harvey Duncan and others engraved by the Dalziel Brothers. 4to. Publisher's presentation binding of full green morocco covers with bevelled edges gilt a.e.g. Some rubbing to binding retouched else fine. First edition thus. One hundred wood engravings by Pickengill Birket Foster J. Wolf John Gilbert William Harvey Duncan and others engraved by the Dalziel Brothers. 4to. Inscribed by the Daziel Brothers on Christmas Eve to the Publisher's Widow. A pretty copy in a publisher's deluxe presentation binding with a Christmas inscription by the engravers the Daziel brothers to Mrs William Warne the widow of the publisher William Warne d. 1859. Routledge, Warne & Routledge, Farrington Street unknown books
18402307812London: Ball Arnold & Co 1840. Small Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. New edition revised seventh edition and fourth edition respectively. Both volumes feature idyllic fore-edge paintings: the first of a woman and a boy holding hands as they walk a road with large trees on either side in the foreground and copses of trees in the distance; the second depicts two figures rowing a canoe down a stream with a village in the distance. Each appears to be by the same artist. Corners a bit rubbed with evidence of minor restoration to spine head and foot ink name on front endpaper of each volume. 1840 Small Hard Cover. xi 171; 208 12 pp. 12mo. Volumes one and two of what was ultimately a six-volume set of Montgomery's collected poems. The presence of fore-edge paintings on these volumes is somewhat unusual as traditionally this was done on leather-bound volumes often quite a bit larger than these and the practice in general was considerably more common in the 18th century and earlier. That being said these are ably done so it is clear that they are not the work of an amateur and it is possible someone commissioned a contemporary artist to do the entire set and these are the volumes that remain. His poetry while it sold well during his lifetime is remembered best as the victim of excoriating reviews by John Wilson in Blackwood's and Thomas Babington Macaulay in the Edinburgh Review. Ball, Arnold, & Co hardcover books
1895018728New York: Francis P. Harper 1895. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First edition thus. Octavo 8vo. Three volume set. Original matching green cloth bindings in very good condition with minor bumping to two corners minor shelfwear and slight discoloration to the spine of the 2nd volume. Vol. I: cxiii 356 pages with portrait and facsimile. Vol. II: vi 357-855. Vol. III: 856-955 plus plate of the Falls of St. Anthony and 6 lithographed folding maps in rear pocket two of which are somewhat browned on one panel as a natural effect of offsetting from the binding material inside the pocket. An excellent edition of one of the first explorations of the American West and Southwest. See Wagner-Camp 9. Howes P373 aa "best edition." Limited to 1150 copies; this is number 946 printed on Fine Book Paper. The inner front hinge of the first volume is somewhat weakened and the title page was re-attached. Many pages in the 2nd and 3rd volumes are uncut and unopened. First thus edition. Francis P. Harper Hardcover books
1943WRCLIT75412Washington Providence Montauk etc. 1943. Thirteen pages on six quarto and octavo lettersheets one folded to quarter panels. Three in ink one in pencil. Folded for mailing otherwise fine accompanied by two envelopes addressed in his hand hastily torn open at one end. Four substantial boisterous opinionated and occasionally inebriated letters from Flagg to Willis Birchman addressed variously as "Kid" "Country Gentlemen" "Dear Temperamental Meringue" and "Will Bill" who became one of Flagg's frequent correspondents as a consequence of Birchman having featured Flagg in his 1937 book FACES & FACTS BY AND ABOUT 26 CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS. One letter 4pp. in ink on letterhead of the Providence Biltmore consists of an account of a rather Cutty Sark driven meeting with "Cecil" likely film star Cecil Humphreys with whom he had a long association. Another letter 4pp. written on letterhead of Montauk Manor at Montauk Beach is in pencil and opens with an attractive pencil drawing of a beach scene with cars parked and facing out over the ocean; it relates chiefly to the circumstances of his stay at Montauk and is signed "Cap. Kidd." Another letter 4pp in ink on letterhead of the Hotel Raleigh relates to events surrounding a vague series of meetings in Washington DC involving representatives of the Australian and British governments stops at embassies a meeting with Sumner Welles etc. The last letter dated simply Friday 2pp. in ink is somewhat diffuse but mentions a pending trip to Washington and meetings there perhaps anticipating the stay mentioned in the letter above. Flagg 1877 - 1960 was in his time one of the most prolific and popular of American artists and illustrators. His best known work was one of the most widely distributed recruitment posters for the US military: the iconic image of Uncle Sam captioned "I Want YOU for U.S. Army" unknown books
1961141358Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1961. Vintage photograph from the 1961 film. An image with an intentional" trick of the light" showing Monroe playing paddle ball as a crew member runs a cable in foreground. <br/><br/>A famously difficult shoot and just as famously the final film of both Gable's and Monroe's careers it also ranks among their best work as it does for co-stars Clift and Wallach and director Huston. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. United Artists unknown books
44116Mooresville IN et al.: various various. Circa 1930 - 1950. Dark brown three-ring binder stamped "Supplements. The Seeforth Service"; teal cloth book in tan dj printed in black; wrappered magazines. Tears to binding holes of two typescript leaves; occasional minor soil or edgewear; occasional pencil notations and corrections; binder worn. Book lightly damp-stained to bottom edge of boards and some leaves spotting/soil to endpapers and few leaves; in Poor dj panels split and damp-stained loss to spine and edges. Average general wear to magazines with occasional chipped edges faint staining and rusted staples; wrappers of one quite foxed. Overall Good to Very Good condition. Binder: 64 leaves most typescript to recto only containing 57 poems. INDIANA POETS: 160 pp. Poetry magazines: various paginations. 2 b/w photographs laid in both ~3-1/2" x 3-1/2". 4to binder 11-1/2" x 9-1/2"; 8vo book and magazines. <br/><br/>The poetry archive of Winona Montgomery Gilliland a minor Indiana poet who garnered some national and local acclaim primarily in the 1930s. The feature item of the archive is a binder of over 50 typescript poems with occasional pencil notations and corrections in what we presume to be Gilliland's hand accompanied by a typed and incomplete List of Publications. Given that several of the poems were typed on the blank verso of her husband's life insurance office stationery it seems likely that these were Mrs. Gilland's personal collection comprised of both published and apparently unpublished poems. Also included is a copy of Indiana Poets: An Anthology of 48 Living Writers New York: Henry Harrison 1935 in which Gilliland is one of the featured 48 writers; 20 issues of various poetry magazines one duplicate containing publications of her poetry; and two b/w photographs one of which is identified as a portrait of the author. Mary Winona Gilliland lived in Indianapolis most of her life graduating from Tudor Hall and then DePauw University before marrying Robert V. Gilliland in 1915. She was published in The American Mercury Poetry Kaleidograph Indiana Poetry Magazine Weird Tales Bozart Westward Better Homes and Gardens Wings and the 1937 issue of American Women Poets among other magazines and was invited to join the Poetry Society of America in 1937. A unique collection of material documenting the literary achievements of a largely forgotten mid-20th century poet. (various) hardcover books
183510077Philadelphia: Carey Lea & Blanchard 1835. First Edition. iv 13-254 blank leaf; iv 13-228pp. 34pp. publisher's catalogue inserted in rear of volume I; 4pp. catalogue at front of volume II and 36pp. catalogue at rear. 2 vols. 12mo. Original purple cloth slightly faded. Fine copy in quarter blue morocco slipcase with chemise. First Edition. iv 13-254 blank leaf; iv 13-228pp. 34pp. publisher's catalogue inserted in rear of volume I; 4pp. catalogue at front of volume II and 36pp. catalogue at rear. 2 vols. 12mo. Wright I 320; BAL 1154 Carey, Lea & Blanchard unknown books
19492147New York: E.P. Dutton & Company Inc 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Signed first edition of El Alamein To The River Sangro by Field Marshal Montgomery. Octavo 192pp. Red cloth title in gilt on spine. Stated "first printing" on copyright page. Some wear to cloth at edges wear at top edge of spine. Fully illustrated with 16 full color fold-out maps. In scarce publishers dust jacket price clipped light toning to spine closed tear to top edge of back panel in exceptionally good condition. Inscribed by Field Marshall Montgomery on the front free end paper in blue pen. E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc hardcover books
1835WRCLIT27676Philadelphia: Carey Lea & Blanchard 1835. Two volumes. Original purple muslin paper spine labes BAL's state B - no priority. Trivial sunning and slight smudges to cloth some marginal discoloration early in the first volume typical uniform toning of paper but a very good set unusually nice for this title. First edition of the author's third novel a tale of a family of Tories who in the wake of the Revolution turn to outlawry. BAL 1155. WRIGHT I:1319. Carey, Lea & Blanchard hardcover books
1966117Viking 1966. Hardcover. This is the uncommon limited edition one of only 200 copies. Handsomely bound in full leather with bright gilt lettering along the spine this is a Fine copy without dustjacket as issued in a Fine buckram slipcase. <br/><br/> Viking hardcover books
19906630Los Angeles CA 1990. Broadsheet. Near Fine. Slight edge wear else bright and clean. Illus. b/w print <br/><br/>"Michael Jackson was preparing his 'DANGEROUS' album & was looking for one production company to oversee all the short films this is what he called music videos documentaries TV and pretty much anything having to do with film plus an image revamp. Propaganda Films began talks with his managers GALLIN/MOREY. Eventually myself and Ute Leonhardt began meetings with MJ & his team. In one meeting Michael seemed overwhelmed with the complexity of all the different projects he would be working on during the next few years & blurted out in a moment of frustration: 'I wish I had a blueprint for my life'. At this stage Propaganda had not officially been selected. The job of producing all his projects was a massive undertaking and everyone in town was jockeying for the position. So I took it upon myself after consulting with my partners Joni Sighvattson and Steve Golin to employ an artist who iIhad worked with on many occasions to make a chart based on Egyptian Hieroglyphs which would categorize in a schedule everything MJ had happening in the next few years. Awest & I worked none stop for three or four days eventually taking it to a blueprinting shop in LA. the large version of the finished product was on display in my next meeting with Michael.he LOVED it Propaganda was awarded the job & I went on to work with him for almost two years." A handsome copy of this scarce and interesting piece of Jackson ephemera unknown books
196613960NY: Viking Press 1966. Hardbound. VG. Brown leather gilt-embossed presentation copy leather-edged slipcase. 497 pp. Hundreds of bw illustrations. Foreword by Henry Francis Dupont background section on various fascinating aspects of furniture followed by catalogue sections on beds all manner of chairs chests of drawers clocks desks and bookcases fire screens looking glasses sofas all manner of tables unusual specialized and fancy furniture as well as helpful appendices of cabinetmakers' labels stamps and biographies. Contents as follows: The business of cabinetmaking -- Price books -- Woods used in American furniture 1790-1825 -- Upholstery and furnishing fabrics -- Conoisseurship and attribution -- Beds -- New England chairs: side chairs armchairs and chair-back settees -- New York chairs 1790-1805 -- New York chairs 1805-1825 -- Philadelphia and southern chairs -- Martha Washington or "Lolling" chairs -- Easy chairs -- Chests of drawers -- Clocks -- Desks and bookcases -- Fire screens -- Looking glasses -- Sofas and couches -- Card tables -- Drop-leaf and dressing tables -- Pier and side tables and sideboards -- Small tables and stands -- Work tables -- Unusual and specialized furniture -- Fancy furniture -- Details of carving -- Cabinetmakers' labels and stamps -- Cabinetmakers' biographies. Gorgeous autographed presentation copy excellent condition #169 out of 200 in the leather binding and accompanying slipcase. Viking Press unknown books
1864WRCAM19660Chicago 1864. 288pp. plus folding map. Woodcuts. Original full morocco stamped in blind. Some minor rubbing at extremities occasional light foxing. Overall very good. An account of the early settlement of the county along with a history of involvement in the Civil War with lists of the officers and recruits of several Indiana regiments. Contains interesting material pertaining to fugitive slaves Indians early state organizations wild animals of the region etc. HOWES M743. SABIN 50154. CHICAGO ANTE-FIRE IMPRINTS 841. unknown books
021146Three volume set. New York Francis P. Harper 1895. Numbered 248 out of 1150 copies. Large 8vo 9 - 10 tall. Paginated 356; 357-855; 856-955. Hardcover. Very Good. Green cloth with gilt lettering; collated and complete with frontis folding plate and 7 maps 6 folding maps as called for; some leaves are uncut. All boards have light wear and soiling; all volumes have Union League Club of Chicago bookplate on front pastedown; all text blocks have light toning; front gutter of Vol. I is cracked; rear pocket in Vol. III is torn along top edge; maps are fragile along folds and have a few closed tears. Subtitle: A New Edition Now First Reprinted in Full from the Original of 1810 with Copious Critical Commentary Memoir of Pike New Map and Other Illustrations and Complete Index By Elliott Coues. Pike commanded two expeditions in the newly acquired Louisiana Territory. In 1805 he was sent to find the headwaters of the Mississippi River in northern Minnesota designated as Part 1 Mississippi Voyage. In 1806 he journeyed to the interior portion of then-Louisiana Territory to the sources of the Arkansaw River and the Rocky Mountains of present Colorado Part 2 Arkansaw Journey. After this expedition he was captured by the Spanish and taken through Mexico to then Spanish-American boundary between Texas and Louisiana Part 3 Mexican Tour. . hardcover books
1983139199Encino CA: Laurelwood Productions 1983. Revised Shooting Script for the 1984 film released to theaters as "Night Shadows" but retitled on video as "Mutant" retaining that title for all subsequent releases. Copy belonging to special effects personnel Paul Stewart with his name on the title page and annotations throughout in holograph ink. Stewart is notable for having also worked on "Fat City" 1972 "The Exterminator" 1980 "Heaven's Gate 1980 "Predator" 1987 "Thelma and Louise" 1991 and "Planet of the Apes" 2001. <br/><br/>Two brothers vacation to a small Southern town only to find most of the inhabitants have turned into bloodthirsty zombies due to toxic waste. One of the brothers goes missing and it's up to the second brother a local sheriff and a sexy school teacher to find him or hunt him down. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Georgia. <br/><br/>Blue wrappers with paper title label. Title page present dated July 29 1983 noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT with credits for screenwriters Orton Jones and Kruize. 134 leaves with last page of text numbered 106. Mechanical duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated 8/8/83. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three silver brads. <br/><br/>Lentz p. 1350. Thrower Nightmare USA. Laurelwood Productions unknown books
18147383Norristown Penn. 1814. Single sheet 20.75 x 11.5 cm. but irregular printed recto only; typographical border. Manuscript annotations. ~ A very early Pennsylvania bill of fare for the Norristown Hotel with a list of items on offer including Breakfast Dinner Supper Lodging Wine Brandy Gin Spirits Punch Porter Beer Cider Segars Hay and Oats. Manuscript annotations indicate "Gentleman's Bill May 16th 1814" with handwritten prices added for dinner brandy porter hay and oats a man on the move!. The final lines indicate payment of $4.25 and the elaborate signature of hotel owner Morris Jones. "Morris Jones gives notice in July 1813 that he kept the "Norristown Hotel corner of Egypt or Main and De Kalb Streets" and that "a constant supply of newspapers will be kept for the use of the house." This is interesting for giving an early mention of "hotel" which it would appear was now about being introduced as more pretentious than inn or tavern. It was a two-story stone house forty by thirty-seven feet with an adjoining kitchen. The stable was also of stone fifty by twenty-seven feet with sheds and outbuildings. This property was built by General Isaiah Wells about 1800 and kept by him until his election as sheriff when he moved to the jail. It was long known as the most noted stage-house in Norristown. In 1834 the Norristown Hotel was then kept by Levi Roberts and was offered at public sale by the assignees of Isaiah Wells." Bean's 1884 History of Montgomery Co PA; http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/montgomery/beantoc.htm. A single horizontal crease from a fold; small pinhole between first two lines of text. Otherwise fine. Unrecorded. OCLC locates now copies not in AAS or Library Company of Philadelphia. unknown books
5001983/4 length seated pose ca. 1935 working on a drawing in his somewhat cluttered studio holding a pencil in his right hand and a cigarette in the left see Susan Meyer's "James Montgomery Flagg." page 12 7 1/2" x 9 1/2" short tear to lower right edge matted not signed. Signed by Authors. F. Soft cover. paperback books
18499001London: T. and W. Boone 1849. First Edition. Cloth. Very good. viii1751pp. partially unopened. Plus 48248pp. publisher's ads. Illustrated with a text woodcut and a large folding map of British possessions in North America with the southern Canadian border outlined in red. Orig. blind stamped purple cloth corners a bit rounded rebacked in red morocco with brown morocco spine label small chip at top of spine. Large engraved library bookplate on front pastedown and with the same library's small embossed oval stamp on the title page. Sabin 44915. T. and W. Boone hardcover books
187335188New York: Diossy & Company 1873. Original printed front title wrapper loose but present lacking the rear wrapper. Pages 207-257 1 blank pp as issued. Disbound loosening rubberstamp on title page. Else a clean and Good text.<br/><br/> The publisher's Note says the case "is one of the most important of the recent adjudications on the subjects of insanity as a defense in criminal cases and the use of the testimony of experts." The pamphlet reproduces the official report published in the State law volumes. Montgomery was convicted of murdering his wife at Rochester New York in 1870. His defense was insanity. "He was a young man of twenty-two years of age; he had been married two years; his wife was a woman of bad character. She had left him a short time before he killed her and had gone to live in a house of ill-fame. She had a child nine months old; the child he kept and took care of himself during the nights; it was taken care of at his father's during the day." <br/> Montgomery got worn out from all the stress; he had several epileptic fits. "He had a disease of the brain also" all of which brought on "dementia which had the effect of enfeebling the mind." He had experts on his side: three physicians testified that "he was insane at the time the crime was committed." They were rebutted by the prosecution's physicians. After closely examining the evidence and the relevant law the Court upholds Montgomery's conviction and rejects his insanity defense.<br/>OCLC 41599720 5. Not in McDade Marke or Harv. Law Cat. II Harv. Law Cat. 1147 has a related pamphlet. Diossy & Company unknown books
