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D17552Autograph diary written in pencil signed by Miss Elizabeth Woods of Bowling Green Kentucky. 135 pp. Well educated wealthy American woman's account of seeing Europe; mostly Paris France. Her Southern sensibilities were shocked at seeing a white woman at the same table with a black man. Turns out he was a minister from Haiti and the lady was his wife. Miss Woods saw the Paris Exposition several times; saw Sarah Bernhardt perform; saw President Kruger of South Africa; saw a street where Jews were not allowed to come out after 6pm; describes fancy balls and dinners; shopping for clothes.much of interest. Worn oil cloth binding. Numerous accounts of "charming" or "lovely" people. <br/><br/> hardcover books
19471342300New York: The Vanguard Press 1947. Hardcover. Octavo; G; Hardcover; Spine blue with silver print; Boards in blue cloth with silver print mild wear to spine caps and corners crease to spine else clean and strong; Text block clean and tight; 424 pages frontispiece illustrated maps b&w plates. 1342300. FP New Rockville Stock. The Vanguard Press hardcover books
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
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
18691322308London: Strahan & Co 1869. 2nd edition. Hardcover. 12mo; 2nd edition; G-/no DJ; Hardcover w/out DJ; Spine tanned with gold print; Boards in purple debossed cloth peripheral tanning and tanning to spine wear to corners and spine caps mild shelfwear; Text block has owner label and name in pencil on front pastedown spotting to endpapers cracked hinges front and rear intermittent spine breaks light amount of pencil annotation final pages advertisement are uncut and torn horizontally in center; ix 200 pages frontispiece folded illustrated b&w drawings. 1322308. FP New Rockville Stock. Strahan & Co hardcover books
189442936Habana Havana: Imprenta y Papeleria "La Universal" de Ruiz y Hermano 1894. 1st Edition. Period quarter bound red sheep spine over red marbled paper boards. Blue marbled paper eps. Binding worn & rubbed with joints starting. Paper yellowed & quite fragile. A Good copy. 6 9 - 377 7 pp. 3 page "Indice" at rear. RNBC "Autorización de Exportación" slip laid-in at rear. 8vo. 7-1/2" x 5-1/8" <br/><br/> Imprenta y Papeleria "La Universal" de Ruiz y Hermano hardcover books
1974S13142Berkeley:: University of California Press 1974. 1974. Third printing. 8vo. xix 390 pp. Index. Blue cloth dust-jacket; jacket edge torn. Embossed stamp on ffep. Very good. ISBN: 0520026497 University of California Press, 1974. 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
186148102Hartford 1861. 1st separate edition Sabin 2726. Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt stamped green morocco leather title label to front board. General wear & soiling to binding. Age toning. Presentation stamp to front paste-down. Very Good. 43 5 pp. One page publisher advert found 3 pages after text. Frontispiece of Bailey. Tissue guard. 8vo. <br/><br/> hardcover books
198215823São Paulo: Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand 1982. 131p. plus viii pp. b/w plates wrps. Pietro Maria Bardi born in Italy moved to Brazil in 1947 from the invitation of Assis Chateaubriand to direct the museum idealized by the entrepreneur MASP. This book expresses the relationship of Bardi and Chateaubriand Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand unknown books
196129160London: Boosey & Hawkes PN B. & H. 18838 1961. Quarto. Original publisher's illustrated wrappers. 1f. recto title verso copyright statement 1f. recto orchestration verso blank 1f. recto cast list verso blank 233 i blank pp.<br/><br/>Wrappers slightly worn; stamped "Complimentary Copy" at upper margin of upper; spine slightly creased and with small label to foot. Boosey & Hawkes [PN B. & H. 18838] unknown books
1979GG01428Toronto:: The Pendomer Press 1979. 1979. 4to. 200 pp. Numerous illus. 11 in color. Cloth dust-jacket. Near fine. Printed by The Scolar Press Ilkley. "While at the RCA Bliss became a close friend of Edward Bawden and Eric Ravilious. Encouraged and inspired by Paul Nash who was then teaching design at the Royal College of Art he and Ravilious taught themselves wood engraving. Bliss was well known as a wood engraver and as a historian of wood engraving although he was also known as a painter of watercolour landscapes. He selected and engraved Border Ballads for Oxford University Press in 1925 and wrote his History of Wood Engraving in 1928. He also illustrated many books throughout his lifetime before returning to painting watercolours in the 1980s. He was elected a member of the SWE 1934 and RBA 1939. He retired to Windley Cottage near Derby and was soon invited to become a Governor of the local art college Derby School of Art. Bliss died on 11 March 1984". Locations: National Library of Australia UCD UCLA UCR UCSB The Pendomer Press, [1979]. hardcover books
1969SFK519-1056New York NY: The Typophiles 1969. Paperback. Very Good. Series: Typophiles Monograph No. 93. NO LIMITATION STATED designed by Janet Anderson at the Composing Room Inc. composed in Monotype Bembo. Pamphlet. 7 1/4 x 4 1/2 inches. x 23 3 pp. Half-title typographic ornaments throughout Foreword by Charles Antin printer's device on colophon; text clean unmarked. Orange embossed wrappers of Fabriano cover stock printed with "BW" on front cover stapled binding square and tight light shelf wear. Muir Dawson's copy without distinguishing marks. SFK519-1056. Very Good. This volume contains the text of an address by Beatrice Warde to the Society of Designer-Craftsmen May 12 1969 one of her last writings. She states: "As for the word craft well in our new cybernetic age you people will be towering up as you exemplify the meaning of that word in a world that has begun to see the electronic devices taking over the controlling responsibilities of the mechanical craftsmen the proud card holders in the craft unions. In our disintegrating civilization you stand out by the integration of your will and your skill. You stand among us as homo faber homo artifex. The Typophiles paperback books
1970MMRM1407Cambridge:: Harvard University Press 1970. 1970. First edition. 8vo. xiv 2 271 1 pp. 12 tables index. Orange black-stamped cloth dust-jacket. Near fine. ISBN: 674401700 "Concerns modernization and development of scientific health services in Kenya Uganda and Tanganyika now Tanzania during the first half of the twentieth century." – Garrison and Morton 8496. Harvard University Press, 1970. hardcover books
193016377London: Chatto & Windus 1930. 1st edition. Association copy. Light brown cloth binding with printed paper spine label. Printed buff dust jacket. VG slt lean/VG some wear & soiling/spine panel a bit darkened. 96 pp. Sm 8vo. <br/><br/>Inscribed on the ffep by both Edna Best and Herbert Marshall the actress & actor and at some point also husband & wife who played Milne's characters Mary & Michael at the production's first London performance St. James Theatre 1 February 1930. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
1982S13170Washington DC:: Smithsonian Institution Libraries and the National Science Foundation by Amerind 1982. 1982. See: Problema nasledovaniya priobremennykh priznakov. Moscow: Nauka 1971 8vo. xvi 267 pp. Numerous portrait illus. index. Gray cloth dust-jacket. Fine. TT 81-52038 Smithsonian Institution Libraries and the National Science Foundation by Amerind, 1982. hardcover books
189549068New York: Dodd Mead and Company 1895. 1st US edition Wolff 542b. The UK edition issued with an 1896 date of publication. Decorative brown cloth binding with green & gilt stamping. TEG. Average binding wear. Age-toning to paper. POI to front paste-down with offset to ffep. Overall Very Good. iii 3 244 pp. Printed by the Caxton Press New York. 12mo. 7-1/4" x 4-3/4" <br/><br/> Dodd Mead and Company hardcover books
25478Ca. 140 x 90 mm. <br/><br/>Verso with minor annotations in pencil and printed biographical notes laid down. Bochmann composed music for over 120 German and international films as well as dance stage and popular music. Among his best-known works are Heimat deine Sterne from the film Quax Der Bruchpilot 1941 and Gute Nacht Mutter. German Wikipedia. unknown books
1975M13718Koln-Mulheim:: Tropon-Werken 1975. 1975. 8vo. Series: Medizin von heute 21. 100 pp. 94 illustrations some color. Orange & white printed wrappers. Ownership signature of Ulrich Hacker. Fine. Atlas of photographs showing dermatological manifestations. Tropon-Werken, 1975. unknown books
1976MMRM1011Philadelphia:: W. B. Saunders 1976. 1976. 4to. xv 1 844 pp. Frontispiece 171 figures 6 tables index. Red gilt-stamped cloth. Ownership rubber-stamp of Russell C. Maulitz. Fine. ISBN: 0721618731 W. B. Saunders, 1976. hardcover 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
185429047Paris: Alex. Grus ainé PN A.G. 1548 1854. Large octavo. Disbound. 1f. recto title within double-ruled border verso blank i named cast list and contents 2-136 pp. Engraved. <br/><br/>Named cast includes Bussine Ste. Foy Pallanti Melles. Boulart and Lemercier.<br/><br/>Minor soiling to title with small publisher's oval handstamps to lower margin. First Edition. <br/><br/>Boulanger father of French composer and pedagogue Nadia Boulanger 1887-1979 was a singing treacher at the Conservatoire. Best known for his comic operas he won the Prix de Rome in 1836. First performed at the Opéra-Comique in 1854 Les Sabots was his most popular work. Alex. Grus ainé [PN A.G. 1548] unknown books
192227783New York: The Century Co 1922. 1st edition. Green decorative binding. VG spine dull. 10 459 pp including Index. Illustrated from photographs. Folding maps 3. 8vo. <br/><br/> The Century Co unknown books
423Poster. Paris J.E. Goosens. Photo-offset in colors. Ad for the German apertif. 31 5/8 x 23 3/4. 3 Silhouettes with black red yellow each enjoying a different kind of beer. J.E. Goosens books
18694241baWashington D.C: F. & J. Rives & Geo. A.Bailey 1869. Book. Paperback. Americana; history; labor; monopolies; American monetary system; 16p.; 21.8cm; disbound. F. & J. Rives & Geo. A.Bailey Paperback books