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1949102814Slim 8vo. Cleveland: Hyacinth Press 1949. Slim 8vo 11 pp. with a frontispiece and 8 plates 7 mounted. Original printed wrappers and spiderweb glassine head of spine bumped and chipped but otherwise a fine copy. Together with the original announcement and two TLSs from the author. § Limited to 100 copies a very scarce and quite lovely collection of bookplates for children or children’s book collectors the second collection of bookplates published by the Hyacinth Press the wrapper bears the title "A Second Garland of Bookplates". The nine bookplates are prefaced by "A Mother's Viewpoint" and "An Artist's Viewpoint." Four of the bookplates are hand colored eight are tipped-in one is printed and one features as the frontispiece and is printed on silver paper. Laid in is the original announcement and two typed letters from the author to a fellow bookplate collector. The booklet was printed by the author and her husband. Hyacinth Press unknown books
1997125087New York: W. W. Norton & Company 1997. First edition of Diamond's Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo original half cloth. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper "best wishes Jared Diamond." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Calvin Chu. Jacket Painting: Sir John Everett Pizarro Seizing Peru 1845. Author photograph by Jerry Bauer. Why did Eurasians conquer displace or decimate Native Americans Australians and Africans instead of the reverse In this groundbreaking book evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles radically based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors arguably responsible for history's broadest patterns. Hailed by Berkeley economic historian Brad DeLong as a "work of complete and total genius" the book won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction Aventis Prize for Best Science Book and was adapted into a National Geographic Society documentary in 2005. W. W. Norton & Company hardcover books
199322543New York: I.C. Editions 1993. Fine in fine box; lacks pencil. Unlimited Edition. Loose sheets in box. A do-it-yourself kit containing paper stencil overhead transparency diagrams and and open ended instructions on how to execute three conceptual artworks by Jessica Diamond Sol Lewitt and Lawrence Weiner. Published by I.C. Editions via Susan Inglett Gallery and with design by Dan Miller Design NYC and printed by Anne Noonan of Soho Letterpress NYC. New York: I.C. Editions unknown books
1966136089Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1966. Collection of five vintage borderless black-and-white studio still photographs from the set of the 1966 film. All photographs show Billy Wilder giving direction including scenes in a bedroom on a football field in a cemetery and more. <br/><br/>Walter Matthau won an Academy Award for his role in the film. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. United Artists unknown books
199215078New York: Harper Collins Publishers 1992. First edition of this early work by the award-winning scientist. Octavo original half cloth. Association copy warmly and lengthily inscribed by the author to fellow writer Peter Matthiessen on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Plenty of provocative ideas in this grand sweep of evolutionary biology and anthropology: not surprising for this MacArthur ``genius'' Award-winner Natural History columnist and UCLA Medical School physiology professor. With only 1.6 percent difference between the human genome and the genomes of two species of chimps Diamond declares that we should call ourselves the third chimpanzee. "The Third Chimpanzee will endure" Edward O. Wilson Harvard University. Harper Collins Publishers hardcover books
1786LD16927Paris 1786. Hardcover. Good. 4to 249x195 mm contemporary tree sheep recased. Miscellaneous publications relating to the scandal at the court of Louis XVI in which the self-styled Comtesse de Valois manipulated the Cardinal de Rohan into purchasing a diamond necklace for Queen Marie Antoinette which the Comtesse and her husband then broke up and sold. A complete list of the pamphlets is available upon request. The condition of the first 14 pamphlets is excellent the 9 that follow have marginal dampstaining and spotting. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1786LD17850Paris 1786. Hardcover. Good. 4to 249x195 mm contemporary tree sheep recased endpapers renewed front joint chipped and repaired at top. 23 pamphlets bound together. Condition of contents generally very good or better through the first 14 pamphlets. Last nine with marginal dampstaining and occasional traces of mold. Overall an impressive sammelband of historical importance. The publications relate to the scandal at the court of Louis XVI in which the self-styled Comtesse de Valois manipulated the Cardinal de Rohan into purchasing a diamond necklace for Queen Marie Antoinette which the Comtesse and her husband then broke up and sold. Complete list of contents available upon request. <br/><br/> hardcover books
191912574Paris: Pathe Freres 1919. Original wraps. Very Good . Hebdomadaire. An impressive crop of 32 issues of this early very uncommon Parisian trade magazine issued by "Pathe Freres" one of France's and the world's leading film production companies at the time. Spanning 1918 and 1919 the magazine's 5th and 6th years in existence this weekly and sometimes bi-weekly offers a detailed very sophsiticated look at mostly the world of French film and cinematography but also covers the world of French theatre concert-going and music halls. Crisp black-and-white photos run thru each issue as does wonderful multi-colored typography and design. Magazine-formatted uniform tall quartos in their stapled pictorial wrappers. A razor-thin innocuous crease running vertically along all of the front covers; otherwise each issue is clean and crisp and easily VG to Near Fine. Internally immaculate as well with no writing or markings to any of the issues. One of the great undertakings in early French and international cinema. <br/><br/> Pathe Freres paperback books
