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005639Seattle Washington: Berger Enterprises. First edition. Heavy card. Plastic spiral. . Fine. N.d. circa 1950. 4to 27.5 by 23 cm. Unpaginated thirteen leaves with printing only on rectos. Story of what happens to piglets who defy their mother when told to stay at home while she went out to the market -- they end up in the mouth of a sly alligator named Big Bad Snipper Snapper. Only by odd circumstances not to be divulged here are they saved as the alligator's sneeze sends them through the air back to their home's front porch. Berger we are told was "better known as Seattle's all weather swimmer" for swimming "Daily with hundred of wild ducks seagulls and mud hens for company." He was also a recreational director in the Northwest for many years. MacPherson's enchanting illustrations would seem to owe a debt to Looney Tunes. Scarce with no copies located on OCLC. <br/><br/> Berger Enterprises unknown books
1943004499London: Nicholson & Watson 1943. First Edition. Wraps. Very Good Minus. Wonderful light verse satirizing bureaucratic red tape and bureaucratise by the "Naked Civil Servant" himself and inimitable Peake illustrations. The story is of a kangaroo thwarted in his application to join the zoo. 8vo. 21 by 13.5 cm. 29 pp. Wraps are foxed. Otherwise mostly clean and a handsome copy. <br/><br/> Nicholson & Watson paperback books
1915222951Paris: Le Mot at Societe General 1915. Newspaper. 6p 17.5x11 inches text in French illustrations one gigantic leaf tri-fold to create a broadside/magazine one fold-line is split halfway down the other is at risk. Cover illustration a generic medal labeled 'la cicatrice' and back cover cartoon Iribe printed in monochrome. Paper stock is pulpy and acidic is somewhat toned dusty and edge worn with two inch-long marginal tears as well as the above-mention long split. After attempting to enlist at 25 in 1914 Cocteau joined with Paul Iribe to publish this patriotic journal fortnightly. By January 1915 1915 the journal published weekly. Publication ended in July 1915. Cocteau's contribution is a substantial poem 'La Grande Pitie des Victimes de France' printed in large-point occupying all three center pages. Iribe and Cocteau's wartime. Le Mot at Societe General unknown books
1915222950Paris: Le Mot at Societe General 1915. Newspaper. 8p 17.5x11 inches two enormous leaves folded and printed to make a broadside/magazine one staple slightly rusted fastens as issued. Both cover illustration Iribe and back cover cartoon Cocteau as "Jim" printed with spot-color and the poem within has multi-colored capitals. Paperstock is pulpy and acidic is somewhat toned dusty and edgeworn with two inch-long marginal tears. After attempting to enlist at 25 in 1914 Cocteau joined with Paul Iribe to publish this patriotic journal fortnightly. By January 1915 1915 the journal published weekly. Publication ended in July 1915. Le Mot at Societe General unknown books
198430151West Branch: Coffee House Press 1984. First edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Oblong sewn wrappers. A 12 pp poetry chapbook containing a single poem by Fischer and three drawings by Dave Morice. A near fine example. This is number 306 of 450 copies SIGNED BY BOTH THE POET AND THE ARTIST. Additionally this copy has been INSCRIBED BY FISCHER to a fellow poet and his wife and dated in 1985. Published as Morning Coffee Chapbook Series 10 by the Coffee House Press. Coffee House Press paperback books
1968011664Santa Barbara: Board of Regents University of California 1968. 1st Edition Limited. Soft cover. Very Good . Catalog published in conjunction with an exhibition of original drawings by George Grant Elmslie held at the Art Gallery University of California Santa Barbara January 4 through January 31 1968. Limited edition of 250 copies this numbered 206. Portfolio fomat loose sheets measuring approx. 10.5"x 14.5" in folder with printed title. Four page booklet of notes by David Gebhard then 12 single sheet plates of reproductions of Elmslie's drawings executed by Elmslie at his architectural firms of Purcell Felick and Elmslie or Purcell and Elmslie with William L. Steele. Elmslie 1869 - 1952 was a Scottish-born American Prairie School architect whose worked with Louis Sullivan and later with William Gray Purcell as a partner in the firm Purcell & Elmslie. The plates reflect commissions in the midwest United States including projects like the E. L. Powers house in Minneapolis the First National Bank in Rhinelander WI and other commercial or municipal structures throughout Minnesota Wisconsin Illinois and Iowa. Booklet and plates are fine cover folder worn at images separated for a 2" stretch top of fold. Board of Regents, University of California unknown books
1930008403New York: Doubleday Doran & Co. 1930. SIGNED BY AUTHOR at Dedication Page and uncommon thus. First Printing of the Illustrated Edition. Very Good hinge starting at half-title page author's note one page only with neat underlining in red ink. In about Very Good dust wrapper old internal tape mends chipping along edges and folds spine darkened still more than presentable appearance under mylar. Winner of the 1928 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry and a classic of American poetry. . SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Illustrated Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good Minus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Doubleday, Doran & Co. Hardcover books
1959008908New York: Simon & Schuster 1959. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket the white wrapper lightly toned and with slight soiling. With the wonderful Hilary knight drawings a quite pleasing and gift-quality copy of the 4th Eloise title. . First Printing. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Simon & Schuster Hardcover books
1928011842NY: Harcourt Brace and Company 1928. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/VG-. Uncommon juvenile music songbook edited by Untermeyer and charmingly illustrated by Peggy Bacon who became best known for her cartoons in The New Yorker. Large 4to publisher's ribbed blue cloth titles pressed in green in pictorial dustjacket in yellow green and black Dustjacket is soiled worn abot edges and moderately chipped with an inch loss foot of spine. Still presenatble. Internals near fine. A solid copy of an uncommon Bacon title. Harcourt Brace and Company hardcover books
LD12916Amsterdam mid-20th century. Paperback. Near Fine. Wraps "AMSTERDAM" painted in gold on front cover; oblong 345x258mm; contains 10 drawings pencil and ink drawings on white paper avg. size 215x150mm tipped onto the recto only of black cardstock leaves with a pun handwritten in gold ink in the bottom margin; the final drawing "Mengelberg" showing a trio of black jazz musicians see below hand-painted in gouache. Covers a little wrinkled and torn along yapp edges otherwise fine. <br/><br/>An odd one -- this volume of adept drawings shows for example a male and female cow dressed in high style walking on two legs past a row of shops captioned "Kalverstraat" Calf Street; tiny people walking between two rows of drug mortars "Vÿzelstraat" Vessel Street; ocean waves hitting a dike "Zeedyk" Dike Street; a male back-side "Heerengracht" Gentleman's Ditch; a male back-side with a crown tattooed on the lower back "Keizersgracht" Emperor's Ditch; and others. The final image richly painted in red and black et al refers to Willem Mengelberg the conductor of the Amsterdam Concertebow Orchestra from 1895-1945. He lost his job in 1945 due to his collaboration with the Germans during WWII. paperback books
4671PORNOGRAPHIC WATERCOLORS. Album. 9pgs. 7†x 5â€. No date circa 1950s. Cleveland. A scrapbook of nine pornographic watercolors probably dating from the 1950s. On the back of the last page is a pencil note “Drawn by an artist named Ganzman of Clevelandâ€. Without giving away too many details the illustrations concern a “relationship†between Elsie May and Zeke and the drawings get more obscene as the book progresses. Finally Elsie May’s father a farmer shows up with a shotgun on the last page. Based on the misspellings the artist either wasn’t a native English speaker or a poor speller. I do not believe this is the work of a teenage boy. The scrapbook is held together by two clasps and the edges have some wear and folds. unknown books
196618302Garden City: Doubleday & Company 1966. First Edition. First Printing with publication date on title page and "47G" code present in lower gutter of p.405. Octavo; rust-colored cloth with titles stamped in black and gilt on spine; dustjacket; 406pp. Inscribed by Bradbury on the front endpaper in an early though not contemporary hand. Small wrinkle to crown else Fine in a Very Good dustjacket unclipped with a touch of sunning to spine faint stain to front panel a few short edge tears and a single tape mend verso. Comprised of the 44 stories from The Golden Apples of the Sun and A Medicine For Melancholy including many of the author's most beloved stories. An attractive copy. Doubleday & Company unknown books
19621332054New York: Simon & Schuster 1962. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo 318 pages; VG-/G; spine white with black titling; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering price uncut '$4.75' water-stained primarily to head of spine upper front and rear flap lower rear cover and flap; water-staining to fore-edge of text block only slightly impacts margins; Inscribed on second free endpaper by Isherwood dated January 1963; inscription on lower rear flap by Don Bachardy who did the drawings on the front and rear of jacket inscription slightly impacted by water; scarce signed by either Isherwood or Bachardy let alone both.; shelved case 6. 1332054. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Simon & Schuster hardcover books
193914597Mexico City 1939. Cloth. Near Fine. Handsome 1939 portfolio of 13 leading Mexican painters of the 20th century. #177 of only 400 copies issued. Loose as issued cream-colored signatures contained within a folding gray-cloth chemise. Just a touch of soiling at the half-title otherwise very clean. Introductory text "The New School of Painting in Mexico" by Jose Gorostiza translated into English by Pablo Martinez Del Campo. Skillful line-drawn portraits of each artist by Carlos Orozco Romero. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1923007713London: William Heinemann 1923. Finely bound by Sangorski & Suttcliffe signed in half polished calf over marbled boards green leather labels lettered in gilt on an ornately gilt spine with five raised bands and gilt tail date marbled end papers top edge gilt. Published by Heinemann in 1923 they also published a signed limited edition that year. This edition with 8 color plates by William Nicholson. The sequel to "The Beggar's Opera". Near Fine light rubbing to calf at tips. . First Thus. Half Calf Over Marbled Boards. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. William Heinemann Hardcover books
1895001393Paris: Librairie A. Rouquette 1895. First Limited Edition. Half Morocco. Near Fine. One of 100 copies issued on Japon paper with extra suite of illustrated plates on chine paper. 8vo 21 by 14 cm 41 pp not counting the extra suite. With superb vignette color illustrations by Morin depicting characters at a masque described by Vaucaire's witty verse. Many of the characters derive from the Commedia dell'Arte Pantalon Arlequin. The entirety of the production captures the spirit of the Belle Epoque or Fin de Siecle at least as we like to remember it. Complementing the work itself is the spine decoration of masked figures linked by a floreate vine. Some foxing on the chine extra suite leaves. The half morocco leather is sunned. Spine gilt decorations though remain vividly bright. <br/><br/> Librairie A. Rouquette unknown books
1919011793London: William Heinemann 1919. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Bianco's first illustrated book; her illustrations apparently moved de la Mare to compose these poems. About the nicest copy we could expect to see in original dustracket which has expectedly imparted the faintest of toning to the edges of the white covers. Little evidence of use or readership at all; internals unblemished. The brown paper illustrated dustjacket is a tad soiled at top edge where it shows little creasing at the front top edge and some very shallow chips top edge rear panel and a narrow strip of loss head of spine. This book ends with the poem Sephina on page 43 with a small drawing at the end of the poem. William Heinemann hardcover books
183095864London: A. Fullarton And Co c.1830. Finely bound example of the poems of Lord Byron each accompanied by a period engraving. Quarto bound in three quarters morocco over decorative boards gilt titles and tooling to the spine raised gilt bands inner dentelles all edges gilt frontispiece engraved portrait of Lord Byron. Illustrated with 36 full page engraved plates. In very good condition with the plates bright and crisp. George Gordon Byron commonly known as Lord Byron was an English poet and politician and a leading figure in the Romantic movement. Among his best-known works are the lengthy narrative poems Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and the short lyric poem "She Walks in Beauty". Byron is regarded as one of the greatest British poets. He traveled extensively across Europe especially in Italy where he lived for seven years in Venice Ravenna and Pisa where he had a chance to frequent his friend the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Later in his brief life Byron joined the Greek War of Independence fighting the Ottoman Empire for which Greeks revere him as a national hero. A. Fullarton, And Co hardcover books
195392794Garden City NY: Doubleday & Company Inc 1953. First edition of Ray Bradbury's fourth book. Octavo original cloth. Signed by Ray Bradbury in a contemporary hand on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. A very bright example. An anthology of 22 short stories The Golden Apples of the Sun includes The Fog Horn The Flying Machine Sun and Shadow and The Exiles. Groff Conklin of Galaxy Science Fiction praised the collection saying it included "some of the best imaginative stories Bradbury or anyone else has ever written. One cannot even begin to describe their delights." Doubleday & Company, Inc hardcover books
1910D7471Paris 1910. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Original paper-covered boards; small folio with 6 plates by Paul Iribe. One of 934 copies "sur Japon." Spine and corners lightly chipped; a little faint foxing or dust-smudges here and there; nternally nice and clean. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1930857New York: Bibo & Lang Exclusive Distributors 1930 First edition second issue. Quarto 12" x 9" 15 & 1 pages plus covers. Original pictorial stapled paper wraps.<br /><br /><p>Moderately soiled & rubbed wraps beginning to separate about 3 inches brief wear at edges & corners light foxing a Very Good copy of a fragile book. </p><p>The second issue of the first Mickey Mouse book which adds Bobette Bibo's age on the title page revises the lyrics of The Mickey Mouse Song removing "Kill Him" & adds two comic strips. The game board & adjacent perforated sheet with the games pieces so often lacking are present & uncut.<br /></p> Bibo & Lang paperback books
1926D8774Paris: Au Divan 1926. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Original printed wraps bound in orange cloth gilt-stamped lettering in brown leather spine label; folio; pp. 8 plus 15 hand-colored illustrations. Number 97 from a limited edition of 100 copies. Boards and lightly rubbed; spine tips a little frayed and label a little chipped; original wraps toned with flattened creases; previous owner's bookplate. Contents are fine -- bright and clean. SOLD WITH two letters handwritten illustrated and signed by Fabres to a female companion Antoinette "Mi muy querida y siempre recordada amiga". Both are mostly in French with just a little Spanish both list an address of 715 Madison Avenue in New York and both are absolutely charming. The first dated 18 Mai 1951 has 5 hand-painted illustrations. The second 5 Aout 1951 has an ink doodle of a winged man flying with a heart in one hand and flowers in the other. Flattened creases from folding but displays nicely contents on the rectos only. Fabres pitches some wonderful woo. <br/><br/> Au Divan hardcover books
1830D7399Italy c. 1830. Hardcover. Very Good. Modern half morocco and marbled boards gilt-stamped lettering and ornament on spine; 430 x 560 mm; contains 26 anatomical drawings in red and grey chalk most of them full-page but also including double-page spreads tipped onto stubs. Spine tips and corners gently bumped; some faint dampstaining; a few leaves with repaired tears. Images of skeletal and muscular representations of arms legs feet torsos and heads. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1902D12396Paris 1902. Hardcover. Very Good. Half cloth and marbled paper portfolio hand-calligraphed paper label "Paris Enghien Costumes de G Marie" affixed to upper board; contains 43 gouache ink and watercolor costume designs many heightened with wash gold or silver; loose sheets 380x254mm with artwork on the recto only each one signed by the artist with handwritten text description of the characters and costumes. Inscribed by the artist Gustave Marie to Madame Langlois likely a patron on the inside front board: "en souvenir. en bien respectueux hommage / 5 September 1902." Portfolio rubbed; frayed at spine tips corners and along joints; fore-edge ties lacking. Contents are VG or better; some leaves a little wrinkled and dusty along the edges; occasional faint foxing. Highly detailed skilled costumes designs for men and mostly women begging for display. <br/><br/>Papers of the day hailed the 3 act 5 tableaux revue by "masters of the genre" Monreal and Blondeau as a sensation. It boasted all new costumes and sets and a battalion of young and pretty women. The plates here show a range of amusing sexy chaste or dignified characters described as Parisiana La Cigalle Le Moulin-Rouge Les Enfants Terribles Le Chic L'Amour Le Fetard plus some dandies some military men and more. The costumes are abundant in detail with lace bows fanciful hats and accessories even some surprisingly risque cut-outs. hardcover books
682014 sheets ranging from 2000 x 377 mm. to 670 x 385 mm. the 12 drawings to 567 x 380 mm. the furnace plus the wrapper. All on fine thin paper. Japan: ca. 1855-63. With the first demonstration of steam power in Japan thanks to Commodore Perry's visit in July of 1853 the feudal domains immediately began to organize the construction of a fleet of large Western-style warships. By the August 1853 arrival in Nagasaki of the Russian Admiral Yevfimy Putyatin who gave a demonstration of a steam engine on his ship the Palladia. Hisashige Tanaka 1799-1881 the founder of the future Toshiba Corporation and the "Thomas Edison of Japan" promptly copied these models and built Japan's first steam engine. The first steam-powered warship to enter the Japanese navy was the Kanko Maru given by the Dutch government in 1855. Western naval technologies were quickly assimilated; the earliest Japanese steam-powered warships were based on Dutch shipbuilding manuals and with direct assistance from Dutch representatives. In 1863 Japan completed is first domestically built steam warship the Chiyodagata. Following the humiliations at the hands of foreign navies in the Bombardment of Kagoshima in 1863 the shogunate began to rely more on French and British warship technologies. The large drawing of the steam engine and its parts is captioned in trans.: "The steamship's measurements: length is ca. 50 meters width is ca. 11 meters and depth is ca. 7 meters. Steam engine's structure and the parts described with measurements." From right to left we see about thirty of the parts of the steam engine often with katakana labels and measurements the latter written in red ink. On the farthest left of this sheet is a remarkable and fine drawing 770 x 380 mm. in brush with wash in various grays yellow and pink of the assembled engine. On the first leaf of the series of 12 numbered sheets of drawings of the naval architecture of the proposed warship a label pasted-on states in trans.: "The 12 sheets of illustrations are copies of red-haired origin of the ship." These sheets contain hundreds of drawings many heightened with gray wash and many with specific measurements of various aspects of the ship's design in preparation for construction. Included are numerous depictions of the hull deck bulkheads rudders winches and gears from different viewpoints and of structural and strengthening elements with many manuscript labels in katakana of Dutch terms. There is some worming on the sheets which does touch some drawings and characters but it is not offensive. unknown books
