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1915003384New York 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. Paper pastedown. . Very Good. 4to. 28 by 21 cm. 48 pp. With many color illustrations of home exteriors and interiors. National Lead Co. produced Dutch Boy paint still a popular brand. The book depicts a variety of home styles -- Colonial Revival bungalow Queen Anne etc. -- then in favor and for both then and now the renderings capture a suburban ideal. The advice extends well beyond the subject of paint colors to include such topics as exterior landscaping. Above all else though the booklet is a well-written "primer" on paint its purposes its make-up its costs etc. Small corner bump to front and back cover with matching crease to corner of leaves within. Bright and clean pages. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1952WRCLIT67398Brussels: Royal Films Societe Anonyme 1952. Six panel gatefold. Quarto. Pictorial self wrappers. Illustrated with stills. Light use at edges pencil erasure from one corner of upper panel otherwise very good or better. A souvenir program for the Belgian release of Welles's film adaptation of OTHELLO. Finally produced under the auspices of Mercury Productions Inc. and Les Films Marceau it first started filming in 1949. After several financial mishaps it saw first release at Cannes in May of 1952 with distribution in Europe thereafter. It did not see general distribution in the US until Sept. 1955 and then in a revised edit. Besides Orson Welles the cast consisted of Micheál MacLiammóir as Iago Robert Coote as Roderigo Suzanne Cloutier as Desdemona Michael Laurence as Cassio Fay Compton as Emilia and Doris Dowling as Bianca. Royal Films Societe Anonyme unknown books
193624729New York: The Macmillan Company 1936. Light wear and soiling to the edges of the covers bottom front corner tapped hint of foxing to the gutter of the rear endpapers; a sharp near fine copy in a better than very good dust jacket lightly faded at the spine corners clipped with wrinkling at the spine head a chip to the edge of the back cover a faint stain at the top of the back fold two small closed tears repaired by tape at the verso. Excellent example of the fragile dust jacket: the front panel illustrated with black and white photographic portrait of Lead Belly is remarkably clean and bright with no fading to the orange. Despite these small defects an incredible copy. First Edition. Quarto. American folk and blues musicologists John and Alan Lomax's book on Lead Belly comprised of five biographical pieces and forty-eight songs transcribed and with commentary. Lead Belly and the Lomaxes collaborated on the book in the mid-1930's. During this time John was Lead Belly's manager an arrangement that would end badly before publication with a successful lawsuit brought by Lead Belly demanding full wages and a release from his management contract. The book though not successful on release has endured. New York: The Macmillan Company unknown books
1936140939307New York: The Macmillan Company 1936. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition first printing. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. Bound in publisher's coarse ochre cloth stamped in red; lacking the dust jacket. Near Fine with slight fading and very faint stains to spine cloth. A fantastic copy. Features annotated songs and an oral biography of the iconic blues legend transcribed by the folklorist father-and-son duo John and Alan Lomax. The Macmillan Company unknown books
199424707Ithaca: Lead Belly Society. 1994-1996. Periodical. Wraps the last 8 issues some of which are double issues for a total of 100pp. Volume 5 No 3 has a subscription coupon clipped from the rear wrap but the verso of the coupon was only the blank for subscriber's address. Otherwise near fine copies. Killeen began his newsletter several years before the Wolfe and Lornell biography came out and he was one of the earliest to use Lead Belly's own spelling of his name. A pioneering work.; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall . Lead Belly Society unknown books
1993140195Moskva: Bol'shaya Rossiyskaya entsiklopediya/ Great Russian Enclyclopedia 1993. Hardcover. VG clean and tight with museum ex-lib. book plate inside front cover; light rubbing to covers. Black cloth with gold lettering and decoration; 862 pp.; no illustrations. Text in Russian. Each entry has extensive narrative text. Entries arranged according to the Russian alphabet obviously!. This is the first of two volumes published beginning in 1993. The material herein is based on research and writings of eminent Russian theologians prior to the Russian Revolution. A scarce and valuable reference manual. Please note a three-volume set of the same material also was published at the same time. Bol'shaya Rossiyskaya entsiklopediya/ Great Russian Enclyclopedia hardcover books
186441942Boston: F. A. Searle Printer 118 Washington Street 1864. Some age toning light crease here & there with the occasional spot or two. Horizontal fold-line. Still a VG example of this fragile item. One broadside sheet printed recto only. 18-1/8" x 6-1/4" <br/><br/>Margaret Julia Mitchell popularly known as Maggie Mitchell was an American actress born in New York. She made her first regular appearance as Julia in The Soldier's Daughter at the Chambers Street Theatre in 1851. The parts in which she was best liked were Jane Eyre Mignon Little Barefoot and Fanchon the Cricket. Wiki In January 1861 At at De Bar’s St. Charles Theatre in New Orleans Mitchell first appeared in Fanchon the Cricket a new secondhand adaptation by August Waldauer from George Sand’s story “La Petite Fadette.” Her characterization of the sprite of a heroine which included a graceful and entrancing shadow dance was an immediate sensation. Her Southern tour was cut short by the Civil War and Mitchell took Fanchon to Boston and New York where it was equally successful. Fanchon remained her mainstay for 30 years. Audiences never tired of it—her admirers included the likes of Abraham Lincoln and Ralph Waldo Emerson—and even in her 50s Mitchell retained the winsome elfin appeal that made her so successful. She also early obtained the rights to Fanchon which enabled her to amass a considerable estate. EB. We find one institutional holding of this playbill at the MHS. A rare survivor of this play's northern run. F. A. Searle, Printer, 118 Washington Street unknown books
39350PAINT-SALESMAN'S COUNTER DISPLAY SAMPLE ACME WHITE LEAD AND COLOR WORKS. COMBINATION OF COLORS OF NEW ERA HIGH-GRADE PREPARED PAINTS. Detroit: Acme White Lead and Color Works circa 1895. Oak wood display cas 19 x 5 1/2 x 16 inches w/ glass viewing window mounted in front containing linen scroll with 22 color plates each plate 14 1/2 x 12 inches mounted and wound between two rollers each of which is controlled by an exterior nickel plated handle. Celluloid labels carefully mounted on all sides of the glass window with metal pins. First edition. An exceedingly rare example of a salesman's counter display advertising exterior color schemes of paints and trims for Victorian Era homes. The hous illustrated in this ingenious piece are composed primarily of Queen Anne Victorians Queen Anne Revival. Twenty-two paint schemes are presented in t piece including two-tone Flesh tones & Gray upper & lower siding with Dark Green trim and Red roof; French Gray siding with Bronze Green roof; Light Oli siding and Forest Green lower two-tone siding with Victorian Red roof and white trim and many others. There appear to be six main exterior architectu designs which are repeated with assorted paint color designs. All of the pai are carefully labeled with tiny images of Acme White Lead & Color paint can product numbers. There is a record of this work issued as a standard trade catalogue by the company using the same plates mounted on linen bound in an oblong folio and the only known copy is at The Athenaeum of Philadelphia bu is incomplete having only fifteen of the twenty-two plates. Acme White Lead and Color Works was incorporated in Detroit in December 1884 by H. Kirke White A.E.F. White and W.L. Davies. The manufacturing plant an offices were located at the corner of Grand River Ave. & Fourth St. They originally specialized in the manufacture of dry colors white leads zincs putties but quickly moved into manufacturing prepared paints. They maintai a traveling sales staff of thirteen experienced salesmen and Acme was especially known for their New Era high-grade prepared paints which had quick drying properties. The plates were printed by Whitehead & Hoag Newark New Jersey. A couple of the larger labels have minor splits at t. unknown books
14072Collection of Civil War Era lead case shot balls and fragments. Fort Huger was an earthwork fortification located on Harden's sometimes called Hardy's Bluff along the James River in Virginia. The bluff is directly across the river from Newport News Virginia. Fort Huger along with nearby Fort Boykin were built in order to prevent Union forces from trying to move up the river towards the Confederate capital of Richmond. The fort was named after Major General Benjamin Huger. unknown books
1989PW1440Staffordshire:: Center for Local History 1989. 1989. 8vo. 183 1 pp. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. ISBN: 0951371312 Center for Local History, 1989. unknown books