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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
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
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
128918hardcover. 4to cloth d.w. N.Y.: Amer. Arbitration Assoc. 1978. vg<br/><br/> 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
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
200225785NY: Newmarket Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2002. Hardcover. 1557044910 . First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Newmarket Press hardcover 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
180565766Hartford CT: Printed by Hudson & Goodwin 1805. First edition. 8vo. 20 pp. Sabin 15859. American Imprints 8284. Disbound pamphlet. Bottom corner of title leaf chipped a good copy. <br/><br/> Printed by Hudson & Goodwin unknown books
158273<p>COPY CONTAINING THE MINUTE OF A LETTER ADDRESSED BY GIORGIO RAGUSEO TO HIS COLLEAGE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PADUA GIROLAMO PALLANTIERI</p><p>8vo 153x93 mm. 16 327 1 pp. and 1 folding plate with the movable parts to be cut out and the instructions on how to assemble them. Collation: †8 A-V8 X4. Printer's device on title page and several woodcut diagrams and illustrations in text. On the front pastedown label with the shelf mark "Scansia N. G10 Palchetto N.". On title page is the ownership's entry "Della libraria di Brisighella" and an old faded stamp. Contemporary binding made with a manuscript vellum leaf datable to the 12th-13th century inked title on spine and on the upper edge round worm holes and small losses to the panels heavier loss to the bottom part of the spine lacking ties and front flyleaf. Leaves †6 and †7 stained and with minor losses of paper and occasionally also of text small hole in the middle of quire M affecting a few letters other hole in the lower blank margin of ll. V3-X4 with no loss of text uniformly browned throughout first quire slightly loose. A genuine copy.</p><p>On back flyleaf recto is a manuscript note containing the minute of a letter presumably autograph by Giorgio Raguseo d. 1622 dated "Patavi ex academia nostra V. Non. Marti 94" 3 March 1594 and addressed to the "Admodum Rev.do ac Ecellentiss.o Patri Magistro Hieronimo Palanterio in almo Patavino Gimnasio theologiam publice proficienti" in which Raguseo thanks his colleague and professor of theology Girolamo Pallantieri 1533-1619 and asks his permission to print some not better specified academic "conclusiones ex variis doctoribus scholasticiis" which he thinks are worth publishing. It is also not clear which academy he is referring to in the letter.</p><p>On the verso of the same leaf is another note by the same hand quoting as a reminder the 1566 Giovanni Battista & Marchiò Sessa edition of <i>Le nuove teoriche de i pianeti</i> by Georg Peurbach in the translation by Orazio Toscanella.</p><p>RARE EDITION published in Antwerp of Sacrobosco's famous astronomical treatise accompanied by notes of Francesco Giuntini 1523-1590 Elie Vinet 1509-1587 and Albert Hero d. 1589 which appeared for the first time in the Lyon edition of 1562.</p><p>"Sacrobosco's <i>Sphaera</i> written in Paris around 1220 enjoyed a long popularity as the leading introduction to spherical astronomy. First printed in 1472 it went through at least a score of editions in the fifteenth century and something over 100 in the sixteenth … Publishing Sacrobosco entered a new and different phase in Wittenberg in 1531. Prior to that year all the editions were folio or quarto that is large often quite beautiful and presumably expensive volumes. In 1531 the Lutheran University of Wittenberg apparently sponsored a version cheap enough to become a required textbook for the astronomy course. It is fully illustrated with didactic figures and comes with a preface in praise of astronomy by Philipp Melanchthon … Demand for the small Sacrobosco textbook remained high at Wittenberg and a new edition was issued every few years. In 1538 a revised revision appeared: for the first time three of the diagrams incorporated moving parts. This proved to be such a popular feature that virtually every octavo Sacrobosco from the 1540s on – regardless of whether it was printed in Paris Antwerp Cologne or Venice – included these same identical volvelles. Incidentally these volvelles were not pre-cut and pasted by the printer. They were issued on ancillary sheets together with instructions for assembling them. Hence it is possible to find copies of these text books with no sign that the volvelles were ever in place and very occasionally the original sheet with the instructions and cutouts can still be found with the book" O. Gingerich <i>Sacrobosco as a Textbook</i> in: "Journal of History of Astronomy" 19 no. 4 Nov. 1988 pp. 269-273.</p><p>The letter contained in the present copy is particularly interesting as it connects two prominent figures of the University of Padua at the end of the 16th century highlighting their academic and professional ties. It is also worth noting that Raguseo wrote a commentary on Sacrobosco's <i>Sphaera</i> <i>Expositio super spheram Ioannis de Sacrobosco</i> Milan Biblioteca Ambrosiana manuscript N.207 sup. which has remained unpublished.</p><p>Giorgio di Ragusa or Raguseo as he was called after the name of his hometown today's Dubrovnik in Dalmatia was born on an unspecified date in the second half of the 16th century. He spent his youth in Venice where he was educated in mathematics by his father in the letters by L. Natali and in astrology his favourite discipline by Osvaldo da Gent and F. Barozzi. He then studied and graduated at the Studio of Padua first in the arts the exact date is not known then in 1592 in theology and in 1601 in medicine. In the meantime he took the minor orders and gained a certain reputation as an expert in Lull's art taking part in two public disputes over theological conclusions exposed according to R. Lull's method one in Venice in 1594 and the other in Padua in 1595. In 1599 he set off on a journey that kept him away from Venice for two years. In Pisa he met G. Mercuriale while in Naples he made the acquaintance of G. Della Porta. When he returned to Padua in the spring of 1601 he was appointed to the second ordinary chair of natural philosophy at the local Studio replacing C. Cremonini recently promoted to the first chair. In the following years he was deeply involved in all academic activities not only in teaching. His name in fact is one of those that most often appears in the commission that conferred the doctorate titles according to the practice of the Palatine counts and in this capacity on April 25 1602 he conferred the title of doctor in philosophy and medicine to W. Harvey. In 1613 in Venice he published twenty-four Aristotelian disputes under the title of <i>Peripateticae disputationes</i>. Around 1618 Raguseo took part in the discussions raised by the appearance of a comet. Despite his academic Aristotelianism he expressed an original position in the debate supporting the need for critical scrutiny by the senses and experience. From a letter of 1611 we also know that he used the telescope to verify some of discoveries announced by Galileo in the <i>Sidereus nuncius</i>. Raguseo died in Padua on 13 January 1622 cf. C. Preti <i>Giorgio da Ragusa</i> in: "Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani" LV 2001 s.v.; see also L. Thorndike <i>A history of magic and experimental science</i> VI New York 1941 pp. 198-202; M. Josipovic <i>Il pensiero filosofico di G. Raguseo</i> Milan 1985; and G.F. Tomasini <i>Gymnasium Patavinium</i> Udine 1654 pp. 309 and 445 for Ragueseo and p. 284 for Girolamo Pallantieri professor of theology from 1580 to 1603.</p><p>Bernardino Pallantieri was born in Castel Bolognese in 1533. In 1547 at the age of fourteen he entered the order of friars minor conventual taking the name of Girolamo. In Ferrara he studied philosophy with the theologian Filippo Braschi and the famous philosopher Vincenzo Maggio. He then continued his studies in Bologna under the guidance of Giovanni Antonio Delfini and Franceschino Visdomini. At first appointed regent of the Studio of Pavia in 1566 Pallantieri took up the chair of theology at that university. In 1568 he was called to Milan by St Charles Borromeo archbishop of that city who appointed him as preceptor of the candidates for priesthood and as his personal theologian. Pallantieri remained in Milan for 5 years then in 1573 he resumed his teaching in Pavia. Between 1575 and 1581 he was in Rome at the service of Cardinal Felice Peretti as his personal advisor and theologian. In 1581 he was called back to Bologna and in 1582 he was elected minister provincial of the friars minor of the province of Bologna. He was also a member of the Accademia degli Infiammati of Parma with the name of "Solingo". When his three-year mandate in Bologna expired in 1585 Pallantieri was called by the Reformers of the Studio of Padua to occupy the chair of theology and at the same time he was appointed superior of the convent of the Saint Anthony the patron of the city. Girolamo remained in Padua for ten years until about 1595. In 1603 he was appointed bishop of Bitonto by Pope Clement VIII but he moved to his diocese only in 1605. Pallantieri died in Bitonto in 1619 at the age of eighty-six cf. E. Papagna <i>Pallantieri Bernardino</i> in: "Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani" LXXX 2014 s.v.</p>Houzeau-Lamcaster no. 1658; L. Desgraves <i>Elie Vinet</i> Genève 1977 no. 125. Jean Bellère books
025641Los Angeles CA. 1974. 12mo. 36 unnumbered pages. Laid in is a facsimile of the original cash subscripton blank a four page promotional leaflet explaining why investing in their old mining venture was good in 1903 and they survived well enough to keep up their promises to reprint this in 1974. OCLC reports that the only copy of this item is in the Bancroft Library. photographs of the mine and miners map of the region and other data. Staple bound wraps. unknown books
1985197567n.p. The Author 1985. 1985. First edition. Oblong 4to. Illustrated with 26 lino and wood-cut drawings by Clarke. Printed yellow pictorial board; spiral bound. Fine fresh. No signatures or bookplates. #9/50 numbered copies the entire edition. An attractive alphabet book. F. Hardcover. [n.p.] The Author [1985]. hardcover books
1920009370Elkhorn Oregon now a dead post office 1920. Unbound. Very good. This lot of consists multiple items: <p style="margin-left:3%; margin-right:3%;">One canceled check from the Silver King Mining Company <p style="margin-left:3%; margin-right:3%;">One application and contract to purchase Silber King Mining Company stock <p style="margin-left:3%; margin-right:3%;">Two Silver King Mining Company employment agreements accepting shares of capital stock in lieu of wages <p style="margin-left:3%; margin-right:3%;">Two letters on Silver King Mining Company letterhead regarding "grub" needed at the mine <p style="margin-left:3%; margin-right:3%;">One note on plain paper enclosed in a Silver King Mining Company envelope and <p style="margin-left:3%; margin-right:3%;">One file copy of a letter regarding the transfer of a stock certificate. The items are in nice shape. <p>Two of the covers are postmarked with Doane Type 2 No. 1 "railroad track" cancels. Doane Cancels were the Post Office Department's first attempt to improve postmark legibility by issuing rubber handstamps. The name honors Edith R. Doane a Postal Historian who became interested in these early 20th Century Handstamps in the 1950's. They were used at smaller 4th class post offices where receipts did not exceed $500 in a year. Type 2 Doane Cancels have 2 sets of railroad track type bars with a number in them. They were issued from Sep. 29 1903 until Jun. 30 1905. The "1" inside the bars meant the Elkhorn Postmaster annual compensation less than $100. <br /><br />The contents of two letters suggest that one supervisor and four miners worked the mine and are rather eye-opening with regard to life at site: <p style="margin-left:3%; margin-right:3%;">"Have recd some of the grub. Wish you would send me $5 or $10 . . . as my old 30-30 is Broke and I want to get it fixed . . . as there is a cooger hanging around. . . have got to get some nails to do some fixing up things and have borrowed money to by Postage Stamps and tobacco. I hear there has been $150000 put up to sink on the Silver king how is it. There was a party here from Portland who tells me that . . . there was some machinery bought for the Silver King. What is it. . . I have rcd. 100 lbs of flower and the bacon coffee one case - tomatoes - and one case milk beans and if you have sent anything more I have not recd it old man shire said that was ll that was there - I am out of lard and sugar." <p>The mine was located in the Lester Mining District on the western slope of the Cascades about 24 miles from the summit of Mt. Jefferson and ten miles from Gates and 17 miles from a railway station at Lyons. The complex consisted of 12 contiguous claims with a total of 240 acres. The "Queen Vein" reached by tunnel contained the best developed and richest ore. Although only traces of gold lead and zinc were present assays showed in places it contained up to almost 41 ounces of silver per ton. Although no official production numbers were recorded the mine is remembered for providing a large amount of silver for the relative short time it was operated. It is still accessible and safe to explore as the Bureau of Land Management has left it open and ungated. <br /><br /> A nice grouping of documents from a short-lived but productive Oregon silver mine made more interesting by the use of relatively scarce postal handstamps on the companies outgoing mail. <br /><br /> books
1958304001958. GOLD Herbert. "Sleepers Awake." In Playboy Magazine September 1958. Very Good. $50.00. <br/><br/> unknown books
1978WRCLIT60146New York: Arbor House 1978. Printed wrappers. Uncorrected page proof of the first edition. Near fine. Arbor House unknown books
1978WRCLIT24225New York: Arbor House 1978. Printed wrappers. Uncorrected page proofs of the first edition. Fine. Arbor House unknown books
