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199349638Amherst MA: University of Massachusetts 1993. 8vo pp. xi 231. Notes bibliography index. Red cloth. A nice copy in scuffed dj. The Society disbanded in 1840 over disagreements about gender roles religion and socio-economic status. The author concludes that many of the same issues divide women today. University of Massachusetts unknown books
197519038ENashville TN: Thomas Nelson 1975. Book Club Edition. From the library of Joan Simpson the woman with whom science fiction author Philip K. Dick shared his last serious romantic relationship. Laid in is a documentation book mark stating that this book is from the Simpson library with photographs of Philip and Joan and with the text of a letter dated April 27 1977 which Philip wrote to his friend noted book dealer Ray Torrence lovingly and eloquently expressing his deep feelings for Joan. On the ending of their relationship in late 1977 this from ‘Divine Invasions. A Life of Philip K. Dick’ by Lawrence Sutin pg. 252: “.Phil now balked at a permanent move back to Northern California and Joan would not consider Orange County residence. The relationship ended. For years to come Phil would miss Joan - the last woman with whom he lived in a serious relationship.†A collection of eight science fiction stories: ‘The Golden Man’ by Philip K. Dick ‘Danger - Human!’ by Gordon R. Dickson ‘All the People’ by R.A. Lafferty ‘Oddy and Id’ by Alfred Bester ‘The Man with English’ by Horace L. Gold ‘To Be Continued’ by Robert Silverberg ‘Humpty Dumpty Had a Great Fall’ by Frank Belknap Long and Bettyann’ by Kris Neville. Near fine copy with a touch of edge wear in a very good bright dust jacket with a bit of edge wear. Thomas Nelson unknown books
198731848New York: St. Martin's Press 1987. Paperback. 320p. 11 x 8.5 inches preface forword resources illustrations forms guides very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. St. Martin's Press paperback books
2009120539New York: Alfred A. Knopf 2009. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. The second novel from the acclaimed "Carter Beats The Devil." A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Gold on the title page. A sharp copy. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
6566Title within architectural woodcut border incorporating the date "1534." Largely printed in black letter. 67 leaves 8 pp. Small 8vo antique calf by Sangorski & Sutcliffe spine gilt red leather lettering pieces on spine. London: Printed by H. Wykes 1567. An early edition of the first text on surveying printed in English. The first edition was printed by Richard Pynson in 1523; all early editions are rare as copies were used to death. Our copy is most unusual as it is fine and large with a number of lower edges uncut. Fitzherbert's book is concerned primarily with giving instruction to land stewards and overseers of the manor. The authorship of this work has long been disputed: was it Anthony Fitzherbert ca. 1470-1538 judge and legal writer or his older brother John d. 1531 The current scholarship supports John Fitzherbert as the more likely author. The book is "addressed to the landed interest and is an explanation of the laws relating to manors. Fitzherbert sets forth the relation between the landlord and the tenant with observations on their respective moral rights and mutual obligations to each other. The author is also concerned with the best means of developing and improving an estate to the advantage of both the lord and the tenant. "As defined by Fitzherbert the duties and functions of the surveyor were many and varied. In the preface he states that the surveyor should prepare his findings in a small book or put them on a large piece of parchment. This parchment or book should show the 'buttes' and 'bounds' of all the holdings as well as the leases grants and tenures. Along with this information he should state the number of buildings and their location and give a description of the lands specifying whether they are meadow grainland or woodland and by whom held. He should also record the value of all properties along with their rents and fines. The author then goes into considerable detail in giving the form for the preparation of this information. "The author states that the word 'surveyor' is from the French signifying an overseer and that the surveyor must appraise and make recommendations to the lord of the manor."-Richeson English Land Measuring to 1800: Instruments and Practices pp. 33-34. Fine copy. ❧ Fussell I p. 6-"contains a great deal of matter of service to farmers in particular as well as to the agricultural community in general." ODNB. hardcover books
20149021393New York: Free Press 2014. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Bound in the publisher's original quarter cloth and paper over boards spine stamped in gilt. <br/><br/> Free Press hardcover books
197580223London: Hutchinson 1975. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First British edition. Fine in a very good plus dustwrapper with two half inch closed tears to top of rear panel. Novel about the Beautiful People the Kennedy Camelot and other aspects of the sixties. Hutchinson hardcover books
1814D1409Paris: Gide Fils 1814. Hardcover. Very Good. Red paper over boards ruled and lettered in gilt on spine; 4 volumes 8vo 5 x 8.25 inches; pp. lxxx 432; 4 494; 4 434; xv 1 139 104 tables; all volumes with half-title page and title-page. Spine tips and corners lighly chipped; boards faintly rubbed; a little faint foxing but overall nice and clean. An excellent working set. <br/><br/> Gide Fils hardcover books
2221572<p>First edition. 7" x 9". Original stiff green wrappers stamped in white cord tie oval b/w halftone photograph of water front Tacoma. Illustrated with two fold out b/w panorama views and 17 b/w mounted halftone views on stiff grey papers. Uncommon. Very good.</p><p>Printed by Albertype Co. Brooklyn N.Y.</p> P. A. Kaufer unknown books
7194164 stories in six series bound in 18 vols. Small 8vo orig. wrappers new stitching. China: Bian shan lou cang ban 1806. An early edition of Tang Dynasty 618-907 fiction containing 164 stories some of which are concerned with gastronomy medicine calligraphy and tea. Others concern extraordinary events and strange spirits. Nice set. Scarce. unknown books
200225785NY: Newmarket Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2002. Hardcover. 1557044910 . First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Newmarket Press hardcover books
1958238231Jean-Jacques Pauvert 1958. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Good dust jacket. Illustrated; No pencil or ink markings in text. Black cloth binding. Chip at bottom front dustjacket cover at middle and top of spine. Closed tears at top and bottom dustjacket spine. Small closed tears at top of front and rear dustjacket covers. DJ protected with Mylar Cover. Very Good binding / Good dust jacket. Jean-Jacques Pauvert unknown books
146575Hollywood: Firewater Productions Unknown. Draft script for an unproduced film. With a number of small holograph ink annotations throughout mostly noting grammatical revisions and diacritical marks.<br/><br/>In the final days of World War II Allied forces race to take down Hitler and the Nazi elite while German and Italian prisoners of war plot to escape from an American camp in Texas.<br/><br/>Set in Germany France America and North Africa.<br/><br/>Black non-standard titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter James Gray-Gold. 157 leaves with last page of text numbered 150. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus in a three ring binder. Firewater Productions unknown books
128918hardcover. 4to cloth d.w. N.Y.: Amer. Arbitration Assoc. 1978. vg<br/><br/> unknown books
188461664Cleveland OH: S. Brainard's Sons 1884. Second edition. 4to. 11 pp. Long introduction on the verso of the title page the music with printed notes indicating stages of the battle. Thomas "Blind Tom" Wiggins Bethune 1849-1908 an African-American autistic savant and musical prodigy was born a slave on a plantation in Harris County Georgia near Columbus and began his musical career at an early age on his master's piano. At eight Tom was hired out to a promoter who toured him extensively in the United States earning prodigious sums of money; his former master took him to Europe in 1866 for a successful tour there. A series of custodial battles and other problems essentially ended Blind Tom's career in the mid-1890s. "In the wave of euphoria after Manassas Tom turned his hypersensitive ear into the music of the big-mouthed guns. He then framed these sounds with the South's triumphant version of events before composing what many believed was his masterpiece . Tom's impressionistic musical description of the battle pits the harmony of the right hand against the discord of the left. An insistent bass conjures the trudge of marching columns tonal clusters evoke the roar of cannon and musketry. A brooding soundscape then ducks weaves and punches its way into a medley of popular and patriotic songs . discord tugging at the heels of melody until it finally explodes into the chaos of a harem-scarem finale" from Deidre O'Connell's "The Ballad of Blind Tom Slave Pianist America's Lost Genius". The first edition of "The Battle of Manassas" was published in 1866 by Root & Cady in Chicago; this second edition including a catalogue of other war related pieces of sheet music available from the publisher was issued by Brainard's in 1884. Both editions are uncommon in institutional holdings and in trade. Not in Dichter & Shapiro Levy or Wolf. OCLC locates 9 copies of the first edition and 8 for the one offered here Yale Columbus State Allen County Public Detroit Public Michigan Virginia SE Illinois Library of Virginia; it's unclear how many of those still retain the color illustrated front wrapper but at least two include it. Spine with tape repairs several marginal tears to interior leaves one leaf with tape repairs not extending into text old tidelines in upper margin of several leaves not extending into text lower front wrapper chipped a good copy of a scarce printing of Blind Tom's masterpiece. Original chromolithographic wrappers illustrated with a Civil War battle scene by Goes & Quensel Lith. Chicago. 8686. <br/><br/> S. Brainard's Sons unknown books
192673865Garden City New York: Published for The Theatre Guild by Doubleday Page & Company 1926. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. Based on Maxim Gorky's The Lower Depths 1902 The Chief Thing was Evreinov's one international success was done on stage and screen in France as La Comedie du Bonheur and was staged on Broadway in 1926 by The Theater Guild with Harold Clurman and Edward G. Robinson. This acting version was made from translations by Herman Bernstein and Leo Randole. Octavo: 226 p. Original printed orange paper wrappers. Light dust staining to the top edge with a bit of mild toning along the spine; otherwise very good. Published for The Theatre Guild by Doubleday, Page & Company unknown books
201030150Vancouver: Talon Books 2010. First edition. Paperback. Fine. Trade paperbound book. 298 pp. Stated first printing. Compiles the eight collections of poems written during Artie Gold's lifetime. A fine unread copy. Talon Books paperback books
16711002105London: E.T. and R.H. for H. Brome B. Tooke and T. Sawbridge 1671. First edition in English of the complete Colloquia Familiaria of Erasmus first published in 1518 and expanded by Erasmus over the next fifteen years a lively collection of Latin dialogues that found a readership far beyond the Renaissance schoolroom. Originally intended to model colloquial conversation for students of Latin the dialogues feature pointed free-thinking exchanges on modern political religious and philosophical questions. In "Of the Abbot and Learned Woman" an ignorant abbot tries and fails to get the better of the classically educated Magdalia a character almost certainly based on Thomas More's eldest daughter: "I think thou art some sophistress thou protest so wittily." Magdalia: "I will not tell thee what I think thou art." And later: "I have often heard it usually spoken that a wise woman is twice a fool." Magdalia: "Indeed it useth to be said so but by fools." The Colloquia Familiaria was widely read and debated across Europe drawing immediate notice for its anticlerical satire: "its influence on the dialogues of Reformation Germany and Tudor England is a critical commonplace" Zlatar Reformation Fictions 11. The original purpose of the Colloquies as a text for teaching Latin postponed its direct translation; this first complete English edition was published more than 150 years after the work's first appearance. The edition opens with a short life of Erasmus and concludes with the first appearance in English of De utilitate colloquiorum Erasmus's 1526 defense of the Colloquies published after the Sorbonne condemned the book for impiety. In response Erasmus makes a case for the educational value of his dialogues' humor: "I cannot tell whether any thing be learned more successfully than that which is learned in playing." Despite his efforts the Colloquies would remain on the Papal Index of banned books through the end of the nineteenth century. Wing E-3190; PMM 53. A very good copy of a humanist landmark in a handsome contemporary binding. Octavo measuring 6.5 x 4.25 inches: 8 555 1. Contemporary Cambridge-style full speckled calf boards ruled and ornamented in blind raised bands red morocco spine label lettered and decorated in gilt top edge stained black. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Erasmus. Final leaf containing second page of bookseller catalogue excised. Joints and spine head expertly repaired; evidence of bookplate removal on front pastedown; effaced signature on title page; some running titles shaved. E.T. and R.H. for H. Brome, B. Tooke, and T. Sawbridge unknown books
200915279New York: Clarkson Potter 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/near fine. Quarto 25.5 cm pp. 224. Navy blue boards white titling pictorial jacket. Profusely illustrated with color photos includes index. Boards are bumped at corners. Clarkson Potter hardcover books
1923240826Hollywood CA: Paramount PIctures 1923. Stapled Pamphlet. Very Good binding. The Covered Wagon" is considered the first great Western epic in movie history establishing a number of cliches that became staples. Very nice copy of the booklet that "has been prepared to present to the public some interesting facts in connections with the production of this Paramount picture" price 25 cents. Interesing item for the Teddy Roosevelt completist as the Paramount dedicated the movie to his memory; it so states on the verso of the front panel. Very Good binding. Paramount PIctures unknown books
198448393San Francisco: The Yolla Bolly Press 1984. 1st edition thus. Copy B of 220 cc. SIGNED by Gold & Prochnow on the colophon. INSCRIBED by Setrakian on the ffep. Mauve cloth binding with gilt stamping. Slipcase with printed paper title label to spine panel. Square & tight. Spine panel ever-so-lightly sunned. A Nr Fine copy in a VG slipcase. xv 1 194 2 pp. Illustrated with woodcuts by Bill Prochnow. Facsimile letter at rear. Royal 8vo. 10" x 7-5/8" <br/><br/>Setrakian also a Fresno boy friend to Saroyan who headed the foundation that oversaw Saroyan's legacy cf. LA Times March 4 2002 The Yolla Bolly Press hardcover books
1965246563no place: Royal Line Novels 1965. Paperback. 157p. remainder cut on top edge and mark on for-edge otherwise very good first edition PBO in sexy photographic wraps. Lesbian pulps for straight men. RL 124. In the opening excerpt a man leaps into an orgy of lesbians and has his manhood cut off and tossed away! Royal Line Novels paperback books
197463448London:: Octagon Press. Very Good. 1974. Hardcover. 0900860189 . Two volumes bound as one. Translated from the Persian into English prose with critical and explanatory remarks with an introductory preface with a note on Sufism and with a life of the author by H. Wilberforce Clarke. First impression thus. Thick quarto in blue leatherette binding with gilt lettering and design. Previous owner's book-plate on front paste-down else near fine in a good patch of white paint on back side minor edge wear slipcase. ; 1011 pages . Octagon Press, hardcover books
199146408NY: Knopf 1991. Hardcover. Very good. First Edition. ix 336pp index. Very good hardback in a very good dustjacket. Signed by Fizdale on the half title page. <br/><br/> Knopf hardcover books
305740New York Alfred A. Knopf 1991. First edition so stated. 8vo. 102 illustrations. Dust jacket designed by Louise Fili unclipped. Fine. 349 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Provenance: from the estate of Charles Williamson. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. hardcover books
