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1985001960Baton Rouge LA: Louisiana State University Press 1985. Book. Near fine condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo 8vo. 147 pages of text. Hardcover cloth binding. Unclipped dustjacket shows moderate shelfwear minimal sunning to spine and a wrinkle to the rear panel; protected in archival mylar. Louisiana State University Press Hardcover books
19488007baJNew York NY: Harper & Brothers 1948. Book. Very good condition. Paperback. First Edition. Octavo 8vo. American drama; 183 pages; 22.3cm; black hardcover cloth very good; frontis. photo portrait of author; #338 of 500; 12 page facsimile holograph letter specially bound in; Dustjacket price clipped spine darkened; slip-case very rubbed broken; script. Harper & Brothers Paperback books
1987180948Paris: Galerie 1900-2000 1987. Softcover. VG. Green illustrated wraps. 48 pages : illustrations some color portraits. Text in French. Vernissage: 16 décembre 1987 : exposition du 16-12-87 au 13-1-88. Catalogue of 47 works exhibited. Retrospective of works from 1929 to 1950 with introduction "chemins du surréalisme" by the artist; statements byJean Bouret 1946 André Breton 1948 Arpad Mezei 1959 Jean Arp 1969 Charles Duit 1973 Jacques Prévert 1980 and Herbert Molderings 1983; exhibitions 1946-1986. Galerie 1900-2000 unknown books
19211324104New York: Boni and Liveright 1921. Hardcover. 16mo; G; Paperback; Spine brown with gold print; Cover is flexible leatherette light wear to corners and spine caps; Text block has brown-tinted top edge pastedowns separating from cover and with slight tears to top and fore edges else clean and tight; 245 pages.<br /> <br /> <p>NOTE: Shelved in 15's ephemera box 7 in Netdesk office. 1324104. FP New Rockville Stock. Boni and Liveright 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
1859C0297144 pages with diagrams. Duodecimo 6 1/4" x 4" issued in original publisher's decorative blind stamped boards with gilt-decorated and lettered spine. Hagedorn: 51 First edition.<br /><br />The second part of this book contains many clever problems selected from those which competed in a tournament arranged by Frere the chess editor of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper. The first part was published without the sanction or approval of Morphy and comprises games with notes copied form the Chess Monthly The Era and other sources without any special acknowledgment. The collection was evidently hurriedly and incompetently made to take advantage of the demand created by Morphy's success in Europe. Hadgedorn.<br /><br />Born on 8th December 1820 in Brooklyn of a French Creole father and a mother of Irish descent Thomas Frere's interest in chess is sparked in 1827 on seeing "the Turk" Maelzel's automaton chess player at Tammany Hall. The story leaps forward to 1854 with Frere a married man with three children working for the Home Life Insurance Company in Wall Street whilst also operating a printing engraving and publishing business. He witnesses the start of public chess in New York when the owner of Limberger's saloon at the corner of Fulton and Nassau Streets decides to replace the decrepit chess equipment used by two patrons with several new sets and boards. Within three years in excess of fifty players are frequenting the establishment. Moving from Limberger's saloon to Brooklyn in 1856 Frere starts the Brooklyn Chess Club. Frere becomes involved with organizing and running the First American Chess Congress held in New York. Morphy takes first prize in the Grand Tournament ahead of Louis Paulson in second. Paulsen causes a sensation with his feats of blindfold chess. In 1859 Frere publishes the first book about the new American chess sensation Morphy's Games of Chess and Frere's Problem Tournament. During 1858 through 1859 he becomes embroiled in a feud with Daniel W. Fiske Editor of Chess Monthly and lead organizer of the First American Chess Congress regarding Staunton's refusal to contest a match with Morphy.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Spine head lightly chipped corners rubbed else a very good copy of an early American chess title. T W Strong hardcover books
190053064Paris: Publisher not identified 1900. First edition. 4to. 28 cm. x 19 cm 102 pp. portrait frontispiece with tissue guard illustrations in text 10 plates with tissue guards 1 of these in color. Original printed wrappers. Neat ownership signature of a member of the jury of classe 5 on the blank reverse of the half-title page. Fine as new. A history of photography and processes which includes two chapters by Léon Vidal - one is a history of photogravure and the other on color photography. Details several other photomechanical processes and their inventors. Illustrations include those by Robert Demachy and by Puyo. <br/><br/>There are several issues of this report three of which vary only in size; a fourth a later issue has a slightly different wording to the title and is dated 1903. Étienne-Jules Marey was the president of the committee.<br/><br/>Roosens and Salu No. 3704. <br/><br/> Publisher not identified unknown books
188524423New York 1885. Octavo. Original publisher's wrappers illustrated by C. de Grimoy. 24 pp. <br/><br/>Slightly worn browned and stained; minor paper loss to upper outer corners. Heinrich Conried became general manager of the New York Metropolitan Opera in 1903 and remained until Gatti-Casazza took over in 1908. He is particularly distinguished as having been responsible for bringing Enrico Caruso to the Met in 1903 and later Fremstad and Farrar. The American premieres of both Parsifal and Salome were both presented under his stewardship. unknown books
028026London: Gilbert and Rivington. Octavo and Folio. Volume I 373 pages; Volume II 478 pages index no dateca.1900 Volume III folio oversize was prepared by West Point's Department of Military Art and Engineering in 1942 by Colonel T.D. Stamps. with 125 full page maps each measuring approximately 13" x 8" or 13" x 16" for the larger maps. David Chandler considered this one of his major sources in his study of the Napoleonic Wars. The maps have been used by military history experts as well as those devoted to war games since they were issued forty years after the original volumes by Wartenburg. Bound in full modern leather trimmed in gilt and blind spine lettered and rule in gilt top edges gilt endpapers renewed. Gilbert and Rivington unknown 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
19005747Boston: Noyes Platt & Company 1900. Hardcover. VG. Red cloth. 110 48 pp. 48 bw plates. Includes biographical paragraphs on every American artist who was represented at the 1900 Exposition. Lists 255 paintings 160 drawings and illustrations 41 miniatures 69 works of sculpture 56 architecture entries and 3 mural decorations. Quite rare. Noyes, Platt & Company hardcover books
196035505Kassel: Bärenreiter 1960. Paperback. Very Good. Small octavo. Wrappers. 2ff. 83 pp.<br/><br/>Taschenpartituren 110.<br/><br/>Slight damage to lower from previous price sticker. Very slight browning to edges. Out of print. Now rental only. Bärenreiter paperback 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
189728897Praze Prague: Fr. A. Urbáneck PN U.998. 1897. Small folio. Black-cloth backed black textured paper boards. 1f. recto fine decorative polychrome lithographic title verso blank 3 cast list 4-179 pp.<br/><br/>Binding quite worn; tears to spine. Lower outer corners soiled; signatures split; previous owner's signature to upper outer margin of 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. Urbáneck [PN U.998.] unknown books
193235504Wien: Universal Edition U.E. 10.374 1932. Good. Octavo. Wrappers. 42 pp.<br/><br/>From the collection of noted musicologist Stanley Boorman with his signature to upper.<br/><br/>Lower wrapper lacking; upper soiled and nearly detached. Light soiling to corners and last page. First Edition likely later issue. Universal Edition [U.E. 10.374] unknown books
195131366London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd 1951. 1st edition. Hardback. Dust jacket. NF/VG chip from top of spine panel/pc. 336 pp adverts at rear. 8vo. <br/><br/> George Allen & Unwin Ltd hardcover books
194134941New York: Whittlesey House 1941. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. Full white cloth. 305 pp. Manuscript annotations to front and rear free endpapers. Endpapers browned. Outer edges browned. In worn dustjacket. Whittlesey House hardcover 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
188127924London: Chappell 1881. Quarto. Plain light tan wrappers. 1f. recto title verso cast list and contents 3-117 iii publisher's advertisements pp.<br/><br/>Small composer's facsimile signature handstamp to title.<br/><br/>Wrappers slightly worn; partially disbound. Title somewhat worn and with former owner's name in pencil; occasional minor tears to edges not affecting music. Chappell unknown books
186762744New York NY: Charles Magnus 12 Frankfort St 1867. A collection of 360 images including several numbered sets. The majority approx. 280 are printed in bronze or sepia ink plus approx. 73 hand or stencil colored and 7 in green ink. All are printed on individual envelope-sized sheets most 3 x 5 1/2 in. but none are full envelopes. The majority are blank on verso and show no signs of mounting some few are backed with blue yellow or pink paper sheets trimmed to fit. All but a dozen or so bear the imprint of "Chas. Magnus 12 Frankfort St. NY." At least one has a Sachse imprint the other handful without imprint are all in the style of Magnus. All are in very good condition. <br/>The several sets include: 1 36 images in bronze ink not consecutively numbered of military hospitals encampments and batteries; 2 12 numbered images in bronze ink of various Civil War battles; 3 12 numbered images in bronze ink of the "Movement of the Army from Washington to Richmond" caption title; 4 11 of 12 numbered images in bronze ink lacking #9 of the "Battle of Gettysburg Pa. July 3 1863" caption title; 5 3 numbered images in bronze ink "Long Bridge Washington By Moonlight" caption title plus copies of two hand or stencil colored; 6 5 numbered images in bronze ink of the "Battle of Winchester under Gen. Shields" cation title; 7 12 numbered images in bronze ink "Siege and Capture of Fort Donelson" caption title plus copies of 8 of the 12 hand or stencil colored; 8 12 numbered images in bronze ink "Camp Scene from Photograph" caption title plus copies of 7 of the 12 hand or stencil colored; 9 12 unnumbered images of Maj. Gen. McClellan and his Generals in bronze ink; 10 two unnumbered sets of 12 each in bronze ink of various Generals portraits over a banner "The Union Must and Shall be Preserved" and accompanied by a full battle map of the U.S.; 11 10 unnumbered images in bronze ink of various Generals portraits each inset on a battle map plus copies of all 10 hand or stencil colored; 12 4 numbered images in bronze ink "Battle of New Bern NC" caption title.<br/>Additional images depict various Union Generals singly or in groups; the Battle of Bull Run; McClellan's Advance on Richmond; the Engagement between the Monitor and the Merrimac; etc. many with caption titles. Charles Magnus a German immigrant was a prolific publisher of lithographed material in New York City including maps and city views and during the Civil War pro- Union patriotic covers stationery and songsheets. He experimented with various colors of ink including the bronze and sepia colors represented in this group and was known for the quality of his printing techniques. <br/><br/> Charles Magnus, 12 Frankfort St unknown books
23791Three-quarter-length portrait in black dress. From the studios of Ray Lee Jackson New York. 255 x 203 mm. <br/><br/>Slightly worn; several pinholes to corners; small tear to lower edge; minor staining to verso; signature partially obscured by its placement on the dark background of the soprano's dress. Italian soprano Gina Cigna made her debut at La Scala in 1926. In 1929 she "returned there and sang every season until 1943 establishing herself as a leading Italian dramatic soprano. She was particularly admired as Norma La Gioconda Turandot and in Verdi; she also took part in important revivals of Alceste 1935 and L'incoronazione di Poppea 1937 at Florence and was the KostelniÄka in the first performance in Italy of Jenůfa 1941 Venice. Cigna made her Covent Garden début as Marguerite in La damnation de Faust in 1933 and returned there in 1936 1937 and 1939. She sang at the Metropolitan 1937-8 and also in San Francisco and Chicago. In 1947 following a car accident she retired devoting much of the rest of her life to teaching." She was a highly dramatic and musical singer with a dark voice and an attractive rapid vibrato. "Her pre-war recordings of Norma and Turandot show the physical excitement of her singing and her dramatic involvement." Harold Rosenthal and Alan Blyth in Grove Music Online. unknown books
23822Full-length portrait in formal attire. Ray Lee Jackson NBC Studio. Ca. 254 x 205 mm. Handstamps with photographer's name and job and negative numbers to verso.<br/><br/>Creased and bumped at corners; minor soiling and wear; pencil annotation to verso. Jessica Dragonette was a popular American singer and radio personality. During her 22-year radio career "The Princess of Song" as the media nicknamed her helped popularize operetta and semi-classical music. She is especially remembered as the star of the Cities Service Concerts program which she joined in 1930 and her many charitable performances for the U.S. armed forces during World War II. unknown books
1991PW1616Cambridge:: Cambridge University Press 1991. 1991. 8vo. xv 1 182 pp. Figs. index. Black gilt-stamped cloth dust jacket. Near fine. ISBN: 0521400775 Rivers was a British officer and an early anthropologist. His collection of over 22000 artifacts was the basis for the Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford. Cambridge University Press, 1991. 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
48849London: George Routledge & Sons Limited n. d. Ca early 20th C. Green cloth binding with gilt stamping to spine. Average wear. Pencil pos to ffep. Faint foxing to eps. Very Good. 246 pp. 16mo. <br/><br/> George Routledge & Sons, Limited hardcover books
