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1874003062Wash. D.C.: U.S. Coast Survey Office 1874. Imperial Edition. Map. Very Good. Double Elephant - over 25 - 50" tall. 1st edition thus. Oblong 34.5" x 42". Hand colored. Very Good. Original folds visible. Very Light toning along folds with a few small pinpoint breaks. Margin intact with small tears where the map was inserted into the atlas. Beautifully hand colored a Very Good example. This important and desirable map comes from the Report of the Superintendent of the U.S. Coast Survey for 1874. This nautical chart details the course of the Mississippi River from Quarantine bay southward to where it divides into numerous passes and bays. Names Grand Bay Bird Island Sound West Bay East Bay Garden Island Bay Blind Bay Bull Bay and Bay Rondo. Also offers some inland detail noting Fort Jackson Fort St. Philip various farms several canals numerous bayous and important lighthouses. It contains recordings of river depth tide tale ocean depths sailing direction road names etc. U.S. Coast Survey Office unknown
1874003032Wash. D.C.: U.S. Coast Survey Office 1874. Imperial Edition. Map. Very Good. Double Elephant - over 25 - 50" tall. 1st edition thus. Oblong 34" x 25.25". Hand colored. Very Good. Original folds visible. Very Light toning along folds with a few small pinpoint breaks. Margin intact with small tears where the map was inserted into the atlas. Beautifully hand colored a Very Good example. This important and desirable map comes from the Report of the Superintendent of the U.S. Coast Survey for 1874. It contains recordings of river depth tide tale ocean depths sailing direction road names towns travelers stops streams necks island and farm names. U.S. Coast Survey Office unknown
1871003031Wash. D.C.: U.S. Coast Survey Office 1871. Imperial Edition. Map. Very Good. Double Elephant - over 25 - 50" tall. 1st edition thus. Oblong 27" x 16.75". Hand colored. Very Good. Original folds visible. Very Light toning along folds. Margin intact with small tears where the map was inserted into the atlas. Beautifully hand colored a Very Good example. This map comes from the Report of the Superintendent of the U.S. Coast Survey for 1871. It contains recordings of river depth tide tale ocean depths sailing direction. road names towns travelers stops streams necks island and farm names. U.S. Coast Survey Office unknown
1870003030Wash. D.C.: U.S. Coast Survey Office 1870. Imperial Edition. Map. Very Good. Double Elephant - over 25 - 50" tall. 1st edition thus. 27" x 24.75". Hand colored. Very Good. Original folds visible. Very Light toning along folds. Margin intact with small tears where the map was inserted into the atlas. Beautifully hand colored a Very Good example. This map comes from the Report of the Superintendent of the U.S. Coast Survey for 1870. It contains recordings of river depth tide tale ocean depths sailing direction. road names towns travelers stops streams necks island and farm names. U.S. Coast Survey Office unknown
20055727New York: Amistad 2005. First edition. 413pp. Photographs index. Signed and inscribed by Marques Haynes to the former owner on the half title page. Blue and white paper boards spine lettered in red in illustrated jacket. Fine condition. <br /> <br /> Definitive work on the famous American exhibition basketball team the Harlem Globetrotters signed by the second player to have his number retired by the team Marques Haynes 1926-2015. Haynes played for the Globetrotters from 1957-1953 and then rejoined the team as a coach in 1972. He was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 1998. . Amistad unknown
L011687Lund Humphries 1948; 1956 0000. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 2 volume set. Solid used set: v.1 underlined v.2 ex-library rebound in buckram. 4to unpaginated. Scarce 2 volume catalogue raisonne. Freitag 7047.Illustrated by Brian Keogh. Lund Humphries 1948; 1956 hardcover
199342552AB1993. New York HarperCollins Publishers 1993. 8°. XIII 256 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the library of philosopher Graham Parkes. Includes for example the following essays: The White Lady and New Germany / Nueva Germania March 1991 / Mother of the Fatherland etc etc. paperback
19909743New York: St. Martin's Press 1990. First Edition. Hardcover in gold dust jacket. Signed by Ben Fong-Torre Otis Williams from the Temptations and Martha Reeves from Martha & the Vandellas. Newspaper clipping and ticket stub of the Temptations for September 30 1995. Photographs throughout. Near fine condition. <br /> <br /> Ben Fong-Torres inscribed "April 94 13 Days!" on the title page. Inscribed by Martha Reeves "We danced all for the Ford Motor Company with 'Nowhere to Run' Loves God Bless Martha R '94" on page 21. She also has multiple signatures on pages 82-83. Signature by Otis Williams on his picture on page 115. St. Martin's Press hardcover
198175416AB1981. Nieuwe uitgebreide editie / Vierde Druk Amsterdam & Brussels Zuid-Hollandsche Uitgeversmaatschappij 1981. 22 cm x 27.5 cm. 273 pages with many illustrations in colour and black-and-white. Original Softcover with gilt-decoration. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Excellent publication. Dutch text throughout. Includes the following chapters: Inleiding Door Hans Vogelesang Anton Pieck door Ben van Eysselsteijn en Hans Bogelesang Felix Timmermans Oeuvre der na-oorlogsjaren Zoeken en Vinden Klimaat van de tijd - de Tweede Wereldoorlog Anton Pieck als illustrator Gebruiks- en gelegenheids-grafiek Olieverfschilderijen sinds 1930 - portretten Intermezzo Reistekeningen Ontwerpen en restauraties De Efteling Het Autotron in Drunen Gezin. .en vrienden Op het atelier and Het verhaal gaat verder. Illustrated throughout both in colour and in black and white with several full-page images. paperback
199139900Schreibershengold Publishing NY NY 1991. Hardcover. 1st edition original cloth with dustjacket 8vo. 494 pages. In English. "The Piotrków Trybunalski Ghetto was created in Piotrków Trybunalski on October 8 1939 shortly after the 1939 German Invasion of Poland in World War II. It was the first Nazi ghetto in occupied Europe founded on October 8 1939. The town was occupied by the Wehrmacht on September 5 1939. Piotrków was made into a county seat Kreis of the newly created Lódz District Regierungsbezirk Litzmannstadt of the German territory of Reichsgau Wartheland. The ghetto was put under the command of Hans Drexler an appointed Nazi Oberbürgermeister who also created the Ghetto. In total some 16500 to up to 28000 Jews went through the Piotrków Ghetto which was liquidated beginning 14 October 1942 in four days of deportations to Treblinka and Majdanek aboard overcrowded Holocaust trains" Wikipedia. Some marks on dust jacket and a tear on back of dust jacket else Very Good Condition. YIZ-19-9a. Schreiber,shengold Publishing, NY, NY hardcover
1956019615Roosevelt NJ 1956. First Trade Edition. Pamphlet. Fine. Ben Shahn. A small 5" x 3-1/8" stapled pamphlet with drawings and text by Ben Shahn. This copy is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Katherine Anne Porter to actor Douglas Watson who had recently starred in an experimental Off-Broadway production of Porter's PALE HORSE PALE RIDER at the Jan Hus Theatre. She doesn't name Watson in the inscription but this was acquired along with a letter to Watson no longer available and the context of the inscription makes it clear that it is to him. The inscription spread across the copyright page and the facing blank page. In full: "This is a pleasant sort of personal anniversary for me as well as the Feast of Christmas. I wish to recall myself to your memory to say again how I admired your work and your spirit in that very troubled play. But I'm still glad it happened and I wish again to thank you with all my heart-- And as to those peach I am in a country where they grow now but oh I wasn't when your wife so sweetly sent me some! Please sing this little song to your children! Katherine Anne Porter Christmas 1958." <br/><br/> unknown
109036Amsterdam Widow and Orphans of Joseph Proops 1800. . 8vo two vols; publishers embossed leather boards with gilt ornamental borders to front and back and decorations to spine red morocco pastedowns to spine with gilt title in Hebrew spine corners rubbed and chipped with a piece missing from the top of the spine of vol. I hinges cracked but holding; all edges gilt contemporary Dutch marbled endpapers leaves clean; 1 52 120; 1 52 186 ll.<br /> Ashkenazic rite prayer-book with Judeo-German translation and commentary by Hadrath Kodesh edited by Aaron ben Isaac Eizerlohn. Title with ornamental border with atypical cupids to the top.<br /><br />The Proops family were a dynasty of well known Hebrew printers publishers and booksellers in Amsterdam. Solomon Ben Yosef d. 1734 whose father may have been a Hebrew printer as well was an established bookseller in Amsterdam and in 1704 had set up his own Hebrew press which produced mainly liturgical books as well as works on halakhah Kabbalah Jewish ethics and history. From 1715 productions by Proops carried advertisements of books he had published and in 1730 he issued a sales catalogue the first such Hebrew publication. <br />After his death appointed guardians continued to operate the press and even when his three sons took over they continued trade under the old name until 1751 and later - under their own names. In 1785 Joseph Proops sold most of his work to Kurzbeck of Vienna and when Proops died a year later his widow and sons continued printing on a small scale with various partners until 1812. Solomon ben Abraham Proops grandson of Solomon Ben Yosef split from the family printing house in 1797 and continued to work alone until 1827.<br /> Vinograd Amsterdam 2293. Amsterdam, Widow and Orphans of Joseph Proops, 1800. hardcover
2299San Francisco: H. S. Crocker & Co. 1883. . Large 8vo printed color-lithographed wrappers; lacking one inch at the head of the spine and one half inch at the foot. Institutionally common. Scarce in trade. San Francisco: H. S. Crocker & Co., 1883. unknown
0989-13Warschau Eli Wolf Rozenberg 1913. gr.-8°. 36 Bll. HLn. d. Zt. Berieb. Russ. Titel: Sefer Rikanty. Menachem ben Benjamin Recanati 1250-1310 hat sich die vorwiegend mit der Kabbala beschäftigt. Er war der einzige italienische Kabbalist seiner Zeit Warschau, (Eli Wolf) Rozenberg [1913]. unknown
SB19K-00109University of Pennsylvania Press. Used - Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. Dust jacket price clipped. American Art Paintings University of Pennsylvania Press unknown
1963L077299University of Pennsylvania Press 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall tall thin. A very good copy in very good- dust jacket with a few short tears small chips and nicks slight rubbing and browning to jacket chiefly at top edges; slight internal browning to edges and endpapers. 125 pages. Concise study of the American painter and victim of the 1918 influenza epidemic; notable for the many reproductions of family photographs. Foreword by Douglas MacAgy; list of known extant works and selected bibliography at rear. Signed by Wolf in blue ink on front free endpaper; with additional pencil inscription on front attached endpaper by the recipient Bert Baum referenced in the author's acknowledgments page 12 and in the listing of private collections page 123 and an additional pencil inscription by Baum in lower margin of page 36. Still a fairly clean and tight copy internally with an exceptional provenance.Over 70 b/w Illustrations chiefly photographs. University of Pennsylvania Press hardcover
1967621718New York: Bread and Puppet Press 1967. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. 16mo. 32pp. Illustrated. Stapled illustrated wrappers. Adaptation of Ben A. Botkin's story "Gretchen and the White Steed" which was included in Botkin's Treasury of American Folkore. A very near fine copy. An early Bread & Puppet publication published before the theatre troupe and art collective moved to Vermont. OCLC locates two copies. Bread and Puppet Press unknown
198144140Tokyo: Libro Port Inc. / Harry N. Abrams Inc 1981. First Japanes Edition. Large Quarto 36cm x 35cm. Red cloth boards hardcover with titling embossed in gold on cover and spine; pictorial dustjacket; 376pp; illus. Near Fine copy; faint soiling to bottom textblock corner; very slight shelf wear to upper corners else clean and tight. Very Good dustwrapper; shelf wear to extremities; two small tears to cover-flap edges. First Japanese edition of the full range of the work of Lithuanian-American artist Ben Shahn by artist and Shahn's second wife Bernarda Bryson Shahn. Bookplate on front paste-down reads: "From the Library of Ben Shahn and Berdarda Bryson Shahn". Hundreds of color and b&w reproductions including many fold-outs. Texts in Japanese language only; work titles dimensions and sources in English. Libro Port, Inc. / Harry N. Abrams Inc unknown
197344141New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc 1973. First Edition. Large Quarto 36cm x 35cm. Red cloth boards hardcover with decoration stamped in gold on cover and titling embossed in gold on spine; 376pp; illus. Near Fine copy; slight shelf wear to upper corners else clean and tight. First edition of the full range of the work of Lithuanian-American artist Ben Shahn by artist and Shahn's second wife Bernarda Bryson Shahn. In the upper top corner of front end-pages the following is hand-written in pen: "Bernarda Bryson Shahn my copy - retain'. A passport-size photo of Bernarda Bryson Shahn as well as three cutouts of facsimiles of Ben Shahn's drawings laid-in. Hundreds of color and b&w reproductions including many fold-outs. Harry N. Abrams Inc unknown
1973138389New York: Da Capo Press 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. New York Da Capo Press 1973. Oblong quarto approximately 140 pages rectos only with 82 full-page illustrations from photographs by Ben Shahn. Silver-lettered cloth a little sunned; extremities slightly bumped; front free endpaper slightly nibbled; a very good copy with the price-clipped dustwrapper a little tanned creased and chipped. Da Capo Press hardcover
1928224750Paris Galerie Charles-Auguste Girard 1928. 1928. First edition. 4to. 2 page preface by Ludwig Lewisohn. Illustrated with 24 plates. English and French text. Original tan stiff wrappers stamped in black and orange. Spine cracked sections loose else very good. Number 26 of 100 numbered copies on Arches Paper. Inscribed by Silbert on the limitation page to the photographer who worked on the book's illustrations: "To my good friend Schindele who is responsible for those beautiful photographs which adore this book from his grateful Ben Silbert Paris Oct. 1928.". Signed by Authors. F. Soft cover. Paris, Galerie Charles-Auguste Girard, 1928. paperback
193755143New York: Covici & Friede 1937. First Edition. Octavo 19cm. Yellow cloth boards lettered in red and black; dustjacket; red top-stain; 183pp. Near Fine unworn copy in original unclipped jacket a bit darkened on spine and with small nicks and losses to extremities; Very Good. A two-act comedy set in the midst of a political uprising in Ecuador. The play was produced by The Theatre Guild and opened at the Guild Theater in October 1937 with Leslie Banks in the lead role. The show lasted only 46 performances closing before Christmas. Covici & Friede unknown
19945272Winnipeg Transcona Manitoba: Ukrainian Orthodox Church of All Saints Transcona Manitoba 1994. First Edition First Printing. Stapled Wraps. pp. 71. Small 8vo. measuring 6" x 9". Richly illustrated with many black-and-white photographs portraits group portraits illustrations facsimiles et al. No detectable flaws contents and extremities without blemish errata leaf laid-in to the prefatory matter. Many congratulatory messages from various prominent elected and religious officials. Comprises a history of the founding of the Parish details of various clubs list of prominent parishioners parishioners who have passed etc. Near fine. Rare in commerce. Unrecorded in OCLC. Not found in Peel BAC/LAC University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections etc. <br/><br/> Ukrainian Orthodox Church of All Saints, Transcona, Manitoba paperback
FORT793868Black Industries. Used - Very Good. Black Industries unknown
199728960AB1997. First US Edition. New York Farrar Straus and Giroux 1997. Octavo. XI 336 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector's mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Now out of print. hardcover