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19004801900. Softcover. Good covers soiled and chipped. Green wraps. 200 pp. No illus. 103 artists represented by 270 listed paintings. 17 works by Inness and F.S. Church 14 by Homer Dodge Martin. A famous collection based on the strength of the representation and a valuable reference because of the individual artist biographies provided. Extremely scarce. Each works is described in detail. Prices and buyer names realized are inked in. This copy from the library of Samuel T. Shaw the famous American Art collector with his signature. paperback books
190023220Paris & Pise: Antonin L. Neurdein and Étienne Neurdein 1900. A good large-sized image of some of the buildings of this expo along the river with tour boats in the foreground and crowds of visitors along the opposite avenue; albumen process photograph mounted on pale ivory gilt-edged cardstock; with the studio stamp of N.D. Phot. at lower right margin Antonin L. Neurdein and Étienne Neurdein; photo is approx. 10 1/2" x 17" size the mount makes it 12 1/2" x 18 3/4" overall; light edge tips wear to the cardstock one corners' surface scraped away; image a bit faded still good; an interesting original Paris Exposition and photographic history photograph. Photograph. Not Bound. Very Good. Antonin L. Neurdein and Étienne Neurdein Paperback books
003518West Germany. NA. Very Good. N.d. late 1940s to early 1950s. The largest block measures 22 cm or 8.5 inches square and the smallest 6 cm or 2.5 inches with each successive block about 1.5 cm or .5 inches larger than the preceding one. The illustrations applied to a particular block tend to have some element in common -- fruits on one or farm animals teddy bears or some other cohesive element with the largest and most prominent block being the one that is always exposed showing scenes from fairy tales. Ilse Lungershausen was a prolific illustrator of children's books and toys. The fairy tale scenes in particular will bring to mind Disney style and some of the other illustrations have a kinship to other mid-20th century juvenile illustration such as the Sally Dick and Jane primers used in the English-speaking world. The Snow White litho on the largest block has loss on the bottom running between one and two inches tall and representing perhaps 15 percent of the image and the wood behind this paper loss is also a little chewed up. Otherwise some wear along the edges both of the paper and the wood but all the other images barring a few trivial losses are virtually entirely intact. <br/><br/> unknown books
19632832401963. unbound. fine. Signed photograph "Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit" 4 ½ X 6 ½ black & white matte-finish. An original J. Allen Cash photograph with back stamp depicting the Stateswoman wearing traditional garb while seated. This photograph was most likely taken while she was serving as Nehru%u2019s "special" envoy to Great Britain. Fine.<br/><br/> Indian diplomat and politician. She was the sister of Jawaharlal Nehru the Aunt of Indira Gandhi and the grand-aunt of Rajiv Gandhi each of whom served as Prime Minister of India.<br/><br/> unknown books
1940220481Frankfurt 1940. unbound. 1 page on official letterhead with a blind-stamped Nazi logo 11.5 x 8.25 inches Frankfurt June 1 1940. Written just four months before his untimely death mentioning the landmark Frankfurter Theatre. Signed: "Heil Hitler A. Raskin." Natural folds; small tears and slight chipping along the top edge. Very good- condition.<br/><br/> National Socialist German radio and television pioneer who served as head of propaganda under Josef Goebbels. He contributed heavily to programs concerning psychological warfare and developed the first Nazi Television Network. On November 8 1940 Raskin was killed in a plane crash at the age of 40.<br/><br/> unknown books
1872248184Hyde Park 1872. unbound. Father of FDR. 4 pages front and back each two-page spread measuring 8.25 x 10.5 inches Hyde Park New York February 10 1872. Written in mock indignation to a friend acting as a broker in a small business arrangement in part: ".I am sorry to say I didn't think too much of your business capacity as I did before I received your note of yesterday.I cannot make erasures in my check book and you must either consent to accept the check or I shall spend it for you and perhaps get something that you would not like at all." Slight tears along the natural folds; chip in the right margin of the third page. Very good- condition.<br/><br/> unknown books
193826095Wien: Franz Salmhofer 1938. Folio. Publisher's original light green printed wrappers. 1f. title i facsimile autograph dedication to the composer's wife i cast list and copyright notice 213 i blank pp.<br/><br/>Boldly inscribed to the distinguished Moravian soprano Maria Jeritza 1887-1982: "Der unübertroffenen großen einzigartigen Künsterlin: Maria Jeritza für ihre großen Verdienste um die Wiener Staatsoper. Franz Salmhofer Zum 29 Mai 1950" at lower portion of title.<br/><br/>Wrappers slightly worn faded and soiled. Occasional light wear to outer corners and blank margins not affecting music. A clean very attractive copy overall. First Edition. Scarce. OCLC no. 27239830 2 copies only in the U.S. at Harvard and the Free Library of Philadelphia.<br/><br/>Iwan Tarassenko to Salmhofer's own libretto was first performed in Vienna at the Staatsoper on March 9 1938.<br/><br/>"A pupil of Franz Schreker and Franz Schmidt Salmhofer was musical director and composer at Vienna's Burgtheater for many years and subsequently director of the Staatsoper and the Volksoper 1945-63. With a conception of music that took Romanticism as its starting point he was regarded by many at the end of the 1920s as progressive but not to an extent that would have endangered performances of his works in the 1930s and 40s or that would have forced him to emigrate. Among the most widely performed of contemporary composers he became known primarily through his operas; Iwan Tarassenko 1938 demonstrates the humanistic ideals of the 'good man' and both the ballet Österreichische Bauernhochzeit 1933 and the opera Das Werbekleid 1943 feature folk elements. His honours include the Austrian State Prize 1937 and the prize of the City of Vienna 1960." Sigrid Wiesmann in Grove Music Online. [Franz Salmhofer] unknown books
189091474London: Kegan Paul Trench Trubner & Co 1890. Hardcover. Good. folding map index xiii 503p. Original red cloth. 21cm. Backstrip faded. Ends of backstrip and corners rubbed. Front endpaper split along hinge. Some foxing on endpapers. Contents sound. Tiny "Times Book Club" sticker at base of rear pastedown. <br/><br/> Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, & Co hardcover books
1900318306London: Macmillan 1900. Seciond edition revised. xx 541pp. 8vo. Bound in full polished blue Prize binding. Seciond edition revised. xx 541pp. 8vo. Robinson Wayward Women page 138 Macmillan unknown books
1936266694New York 1936. unbound. 1 page 10.5 x 7.25 inches Park Avenue New York City March 16 1936. Written to Nelson Bell entertainment editor at the Washington Post in full: "Here is the photograph I promised you of Frank and me enclosed. It is not nearly nice enough for you but it is the only one I have at the moment." Accompanied by an outstanding heavy-stock 10 x 8-inch original silver gelatin photograph by George Hurrell 1904 - 1992 with his stamp on the bacl in which he used his trademark "soft lighting affect" achieving extraordinary results. Both items have a paperclip impression near the upper left corner; otherwise very good condition.<br/><br/> English actress of the stage and cinema who often worked with her husband-actor Frank Lawton.<br/><br/> unknown books
71752Album. Very good. An elaborately annotated photo album created by Harold Roberts "Bobs" Quinney 1900-72 chronicling his life between 1919 and 1923 including his move to the United States from Ottawa Ontario Canada travel aboard a merchant ship life in New York and his home in Los Angeles. The album is filled with 192 black and white images measuring 2 x 2 1/2". Each of the images is held in place with black paper inset matting and accompanied by handwritten captions written in white pencil. The photo album opens in 1919 with Quinney's trip to New York. There are four photos showing a large gathering of military on the street labeled "the homecoming 1919" referring to soldiers returning from World War I pictures of the Bronx Zoological Park Grant's Tomb Coney Island and other New York sights. In 1920 it would appear he joined the crew of a Standard Oil tanker and visited Mexico the Brazilian Coast and Argentina. A series of 12 photos show travel through the Panama Canal. The album also contains photographs of family and friends then transitions in 1922 to images of Southern California where he took a job as a drug clerk and officially emigrated to the U.S. According to ancestry records Quinney was one of 11 children. He married in 1926 moved to San Francisco and graduated from dental college. The oblong black buckram album and photographs are in very good condition and provide a pictorial story of one young man's new life in America. unknown books
184647675Oxford: Printed for J. H. Parker J. Vincent and H. Slater / T. MacPherson 1846. 1st Edition / Second Edition. Period maroon half-calf binding with marbled boards & eps "Vol I" stamped to 4th compartment. Red edgestain. Modest wear to binding. Spine a bit sunned. Bookplate of Robert Holdsworth Carew Hunt. Table of Contents with some contributions credited by a prior owner. Very Good. 371 1 blank; 62 pp. Frontispiece to Petra. 12mo. <br/><br/> Printed for J. H. Parker, J. Vincent, and H. Slater / T. MacPherson hardcover books
189884579Philadelphia: Lippincott 1898. 1st Amer. ed. Hardcover. Good. frontis photos 4 folding maps in cover pocket index xiv 440p. Original cloth. 23cm. Ends of backstrip chipped. Cover soiled also some spotting. Maps browned. No Jacket. <br/><br/> Lippincott hardcover books
190136336Boston Mass: Privately Printed by the Stanhope Press 1901. 1st printing. Original green cloth binding with elaborate gilt stamping to front board. TEG. Original onionskin wrapper. Original white box. An As New copy in a Very Good box and uncommon thus. xii 2 blank 131 3 blank pp. Unopened. Illustrated with special drawings on inserted plates by William F. Kingman and Sears Gallager 1865 - 1955. 8vo. <br/><br/> Privately Printed [by the Stanhope Press] hardcover books
1880S6387In: Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Vol. X 1878-1880. Edinburgh:: Neill 1880. 1880. 8vo. Pages 274-275; 554; 710; 711-712. Entire volume: ix 1 blank 781 1 blank pp. Full brown cloth gilt spine. Very good. FIRST EDITION. Charles Piazzi Smyth charted the spectra of the sun and various luminous gases. Smyth was Regius Professor of Practical Astronomy in the University of Edinburgh and Astronomer-Royal for Scotland. DSB XII pp. 498-499. Item 1: Houzeau & Lancaster II col. 1061. Neill, 1880. hardcover books
1956283317Chicago 1956. unbound. very good. T.L.S. 4to. 1 page personal letterhead Chicago June 29 1956 to Presidential delegate Bernard Nadel reminding him of the important role he will play in selecting a candidate who will represent the Democratic Party at the up-coming convention. In small part: "Now that the Presidential Primaries are over I want to write to you in your capacity as a delegate to our Party's National Convention. The role you'll play in shaping our Party's course in this fateful year is most important. We must have a Democrat in the White House because the times are too perilous and the stakes too high for the country to run the danger of further Republican part-time management by people who do not represent all of us." Also included: a second T.L.S. 8vo. 1 page personal letterhead Chicago August 10 1956 to Bernard Nadel on the eve of the Democratic National Convention. In part: "Welcome to Chicago! - I am sure you and I as Democrats are resolved that our Party shall display once again to the watching world that united and pioneering concern for human needs which has been our special mission and strength. The decisions we reach the moral leadership we provide America may in sober fact determine the future of humanity" Both items are boldly signed and are in very good condition. Fine content.<br/><br/> American politician and diplomat who received the Democratic Party%u2019s nomination for President in 1952 and 1956.<br/><br/> unknown books
1932S6207Berlin:: Julius Springer 1932. 1932. 8vo. Pages 348-365. Entire volume: vii 846 pp. 17 figs. Navy cloth gilt spine. Blind-stamp of the Carnegie Institution of Washington Mount Wilson Observatory. Fine. FIRST EDITION. "The period 1923-1933 marks the peak of Stern's contributions to physics. Shortly after assuming his post at Hamburg on 1 January 1923 he set out to organize a laboratory specially equipped for molecular-beam research and to devise a program for conducting this research which was executed to a large degree with remarkable success. . . . The program was concerned with demonstrating the wave nature of particles - a revolutionary assumption introduced in 1924 by Louis de Broglie that became the foundation of modern quantum mechanics. . . . The significance of the work on the wave nature of particles is similar to that of the Stern-Gerlach experiment: each provided unambiguous direct and thoroughly convincing proof of revolutionary concepts introduced into the foundations of physics. These experiments were essential for the acceptance of new ideas that had previously been regarded with considerable skepticism." DSB. DSB XIII pp. 40-43. Julius Springer, 1932. hardcover books
189528895Praha: Fr. A. Urbánek PN U.874 1895. Small folio. Half dark blue leather with textured paper boards. 1f. recto title verso blank 3 cast list. 4-217 pp. Text in Czech and German. <br/><br/>Binding slightly worn and rubbed; labels to front pastedown. Minor thumbing to lower right corners of first approximately 30 pp.; some markings to title in black and purple ink; minor repair to final leaf; small oval ownership stamp of V. Plzni to a number of pages including title. First Edition. <br/><br/>"After Smetana and Dvořák Fibich was the most prominent Czech composer of the second half of the 19th century notably of operas and orchestral and piano music. His concert and stage melodramas were some of the most ambitious and effective ever written and prompted other Czech composers to write in the same genre thus creating a sizable and unique repertory for Czech music." John Tyrrell and Judith A. Mabary in Grove Music Online. Fr. A. Urbánek [PN U.874] unknown books
1882S3816London:: Kegan Paul Trench 1882. 1882. The International Scientific Series Vol. XLII. 193 x 135 mm. 8vo. 313 ads 4 pp. Index. Black- and gilt-stamped red cloth; lightly rubbed. Bookplate of Robert Washington Oates. Very good. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION first edition New York 1881. This work was translated into French German Spanish Italian and Russian. It was primarily an epistemological criticism of the corpuscular-kinetic theory of nature. In this work Stallo attempted to define the contemporary position of science and as a result foreshadowed the contributions of Einstein and the new physics of the early twentieth century. Stallo's The concepts and theories of modern physics the importance of which is explained in four columns in the DSB was reprinted in 1960. Johann Bernhard Stallo was born in Sierhausen Oldenburg Germany. After an early education in Germany he emigrated to the United States in 1839. He pursued a varied career in teaching and the law in the United States in Cincinnati and New York City. From 1884 to 1889 he was American ambassador in Florence where he remained until his death even after his official period of service had ended. DAB XVII pp. 496-497; DSB XII pp. 606-610. Kegan Paul, Trench, 1882. hardcover books
19502169571950. unbound. 10 x 8.25 inches no place no date circa 1950 -- a vintage shoulder-up photograph depicting Baccaloni in the role of Don Pasquale. Inscribed: "To Arthur St. Brackbill Sincerely Salvatore Baccaloni." Near fine condition.<br/><br/> Italian bass opera star often regarded as the greatest buffo artist of the 20th century. Baccaloni was encouraged by Arturo Toscanini to pursue comic roles such as Rigoletto and Leporello in Don Giavanni a move which culminated into his being in demand at every major opera house in the world.<br/><br/> unknown books
198262871Salisbury CT 1982. 8vo and 4to. Six pages for the Borland letters approximately 2500 words in part: "specially glad you agree with me that Ruark's best book was 'The Old Man and the Boy.' Most of the other things were tripe 1965 . that review of yours of 'Hill Country Harvest' made me feel like a million bucks and very proud to have written that book 1967 . our river right in the dooryard is too polluted to swim in almost too polluted for fish to endure 1967." Five of the letters are accompanied by their mailing envelopes. Very good lot in all respects. 9745. <br/><br/> unknown books
1897L0084a203 pages. Small octavo 7 1/2" x 5 1/4" bound in original publisher's tan buckram with red and black lettering to spine and cover with red ornaments to both. Stallman: 13 First edition.<br /><br />Stephen Crane was an American author. Prolific throughout his short life he wrote notable works in the Realist tradition as well as early examples of American Naturalism and Impressionism. He is recognized by modern critics as one of the most innovative writers of his generation. At the time of his death Crane was considered an important figure in American literature. After he was nearly forgotten for two decades critics revived interest in his life and work. Crane's writing is characterized by vivid intensity distinctive dialects and irony. Common themes involve fear spiritual crises and social isolation. Although recognized primarily for <i>The Red Badge of Courage</i> which has become an American classic Crane is also known for his poetry journalism and short stories such as "The Open Boat" "The Blue Hotel" "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky" and <i>The Monster</i>. His writing made a deep impression on 20th-century writers most prominent among them Ernest Hemingway and is thought to have inspired the Modernists and the Imagists.<br /><br /><b>Condition:</b><br /><br />Corners gently bumped lightly soiled spine age toned else a very good copy.<br /> D Appleton and Company hardcover books
12742Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Boldly signed portrait postcard of the English comedian writer composer actor and singer and creator of nine of the G&S roles including Sir Joseph Porter in H.M.S. Pinafore. Â The actor is shown with his characteristic pince-nez and with his hands on his hips. Â He has signed "Yours faithfully Geo. Grossmith." Â Some scratches and wear to the image and signature creases; mounting remnants on the verso; otherwise in good condition. Â 8.8 x 13.6 cm. unknown books
12819Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Two signed postcards from the English singer actor comedian and Edwardian musical comedy star best remembered for originating the lyric baritone roles in the Gilbert and Sullivan operas from 1877 to 1896.  The first postcard shows him in Japanese dress in his famous role as Pooh Bah in The Mikado and is postmarked April 30 1904.  On the second postcard he appears in a formal portrait in everyday dress.  Both are signed elegantly "With pleasure Rutland Barrington."  Slight wear to the corners and mounting remnants; else in very fine condition.  Each 8.8 x 13.7 cm. unknown books
1936MMRM1518Baltimore:: Williams & Wilkins 1936. 1936. Reprint 1936. 8vo. xii 396 pp. Indices. Blue gilt-stamped cloth. Very good . "The book contains an enormous amount of information much of which is based upon Dr. Harrison's own observations. The style is clear and the presentation log ideal. The monograph is heartily recommended to all who are interested in the study of the circulation. It can be read with profit and it is fair to add with pleasure both by investigator and practitioner." – Robert L. Levy American Heart Journal 1940 Vol. 19 Issue 1 review of the second edition. As for the author "Tinsley 1900–1978 would graduate from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1922 — where he was a classmate roommate and tennis doubles partner of Johns Hopkins' future surgeon-in-chief Alfred Blalock — and ultimately become "one of the most important and pivotal medical doctors in U.S. history" according to his biographer and protege James Pittman Jr. 1927–2014. Harrison is best remembered for Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine published in 1950 reprinted 16 times translated into 14 languages and perhaps the world's most-used and best-selling internal medical text. He was the first chair of medicine and dean of the Medical College of Alabama now part of the University of Alabama at Birmingham" – Neil A. Grauer Johns Hopkins Medicine. Williams & Wilkins, 1936. hardcover books
