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19398321Paris: The Obelisk Press 1939. First Edition. First Issue with price of 60 FRS on spine and publisher's errata slip tipped in before title page - one of 1000 copies. Octavo 19.5cm; pictorial card wrappers with French flaps printed in red and black; 1011-3672pp. Inscribed by Miller on the front endpaper in a contemporary hand: "To Miola and Annie / from / Henry Miller / with best of greetings / Paris / 5/25/39." Light wear to extremities some creasing to lower edge of front wrapper base of spine internally strengthened small closed tears to upper and lower front joint with some dust-soil to rear wrapper and a dampstain to left edge of same; Very Good and sound. Housed in a custom velvet-lined half morocco clamshell case.<br /> <br /> Miller's semi-autobiographical follow-up to his 1934 novel Tropic of Cancer. His early books with contemporary inscriptions are uncommon in commerce. Shifreen & Jackson A21.a. The Obelisk Press unknown
19431249011943. First Edition. Signed. MILLER Glenn. Glenn Miller's Method for Orchestral Arranging. New York: Mutual Music Society 1943. Quarto original gilt-stamped red cloth. Housed in custom half morocco clamshell box. $3800.First edition inscribed by the composer on the front free endpaper Sincerely Glenn Miller extremely scarce signed.In a patriotic gesture in the fall of 1942 Glenn Miller disbanded his group to join the army. His mysterious deathhe boarded a plane to Paris on December 15 1944 and was never seen againonly added to his legend. This work on Miller's style of arranging includes sections on saxophone trumpet trombone brass and rhythm. With an Instrument Chart and 29 musical examples including the piano-vocal score to the song ""I'm Thrilled."" Given his untimely death Miller's signature is exceptionally scarce. Without two inserts of facsimile scores for ""I'm Thrilled"" and ""Song of the Volga Boatmen."" Without the two scores ""I'm Thrilled"" and ""Song of the Volga Boatmen"" that were laid in by the publisher. Two ink notations to front free endpaper.Miller's signature bold and clear. Some light wear to original cloth. Handsomely boxed. hardcover
1895140943136St. Paul MN: R. C. Miller 1895. First Edition. Very Good. First edition of this very early and scarce cocktail guide. Bound in publisher's brown cloth stamped in black over semi-flexible boards. Very Good with fraying soiling light staining and wear to covers. Pages toned ink notation to contents page the first two leaves are partially cracked at the hinge and fragile occasional creased corners. R. C. Miller unknown
18031199961803. MILLER William. The Costume of the Russian Empire Illustrated by a Series of Seventy-Three Engravings with Descriptions in English and French. London: William Miller 1803 i.e. London: J. Stockdale 1811. Folio 10-1/2 by 14 inches contemporary full maroon straight-grained morocco gilt rebacked with elaborately gilt-decorated spine laid down raised bands all edges gilt. $3800.Early 19th-century re-issue by John Stockdale with 73 brightly hand-colored stipple-engraved plates by J. Dadley.Costume of the Russian Empire was one of a series of six costume books published by William Miller over a four-year period. Other volumes in the series featured the costumes of Turkey Austria China two volumes and Great Britain see Abbey Travel 533. The plates for this edition were copied from a series of engravings begun at Petersburg in 1776 and finished in 1779 under the care and at the expense of C.W. Müller for J.G. Georgi's work Beschreibung ""at the request of the late empress."" Text in English and French with a separate title-page in each language. The popularity of Miller's books created a demand for successive re-publications though the title-page of this copy states 1803 the year of the first edition this is actually a re-issue with the French title page dated 1811 and watermarks dated 1811 text and 1817 plates. Abbey Travel 244. Colas 702. Hiler 192. Lowndes 530. Evidence of bookplate removal.Only occasional patches of foxing and faint offsetting of plates to text. Light expert restoration to extremities of contemporary morocco binding. A near-fine copy. hardcover
59-1193Oakland Calif. ca. 1930s. Original watercolor by Doris Miller Johnson 1907-2001. Image size: 265 x 353 mm. Signed: "Doris Miller April 1935." Exhibited at Pals Club Tea Hotel Senator Sacramento April 21 1937. From the personal collection of the artist. Oakland, Calif., ca. 1930s. unknown
1947155698New York: Reynal and Hitchcock 1947. First Edition. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Arthur Miller on the title page: "For Bryan Sheahy / Arthur Miller." <br /> <br /> The author's first play after writing a novel and a nonfiction book winner of two Tony Awards for Best Author and Best Director and basis for the 1948 film noir starring Burt Lancaster and Edward G. Robinson. <br /> <br /> Very Good plus in a Very Good or better dust jacket. Boards lightly rubbed with offsetting and faint soil on the endpapers. Jacket has small chips on the spine ends and corners with a lightly toned rear panel. Reynal and Hitchcock unknown
1950160284New York: W. Eugene Smith 1950. Five vintage oversize borderless photographs taken during the original 1949-1950 Broadway production of Arthur Miller's 1949 play. All photographs bear catalog stamps and credit stamps of noted photographer W. Eugene Smith on the versos.<br /> <br /> The production made its debut on February 10 1949 at the Morosco Theatre and ran for 742 performances closing on November 18 1950. Winner of the Tony Awards for Best Play Best Supporting Actor Best Author and Best Director as well as the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The play has since been revived on Broadway five times in 1975 1984 1999 2012 and 2022 and has been adapted for the screen ten times including the Academy Award-nominated 1951 film directed by Laslo Benedik starring Fredric March and Mildred Dunnock.<br /> <br /> Described by critic Sean O'Hagan in a 2017 article in "The Guardian" as "perhaps the single most important American photographer in the development of the editorial photo essay" W. Eugene Smith's innovation integrity and technical mastery made his work the standard by which photojournalism is measured. The W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund was established in 1979 a year after his death to promote and support photographers whose work explores matters of global importance for humanitarian purposes.<br /> <br /> 10.5 x 12.25 inches to 10.5 x 13.5 inches. About Near Fine with light edgewear and two with small vertical creases to the bottom right corner. W. Eugene Smith unknown
19444458New York: Reynal & Hitchcock 1944. First Edition. Attractive copy of the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright's first book based on his experiences researching the war correspondence of journalist Ernie Pyle. The title derives from the widely-used military acronym slang "SNAFU" Situation Normal: All Fucked Up which translates to a bad situation that is a normal state of affairs. Miller was tasked by Hollywood to gather material for "an honest movie" about American GI's during the war about their training daily life their hopes dreams and why they are fighting. Miller visited several Army camps training living and interviewing soldiers and taking down the unvarnished truth of his discoveries. "I was the person fate picked out of Brooklyn to go among the soldiers and pick up enough facts honest-to-God true facts to make a soldier picture which soldiers could sit through until the end without once laughing in derision. A picture that would properly end all soldier pictures" p.1. The film in question was William A. Wellman's The Story of G.I. Joe to be adapted by Miller for Lester Cowan from Pyle's 1943 book This Is Your War. Miller's version was ultimately not produced likely due to ideological differences and his communist sympathies. The typescript written the year before Situation Normal was published summarizes the conception of the book detailing his early meetings with Ernie Pyle over how his work would be translated into film and what they wanted to accomplish. "I bring up the idea that it would be a shame to show this massive canvas without reducing what is chaos to at least an inkling of purpose and order and of course he agrees. But we both feel that to lard on ideology where there is no ideology would be to wrap the truth. You can't have soldiers talking about four freedoms when all they want is to go home. Myself I curse the press and the million textbooks that turn out the billions of words and never add up to an excuse for dying" typescript p.5. A superlative copy of an important debut. Crandell A1. First Printing. Octavo 21.25cm; yellow cloth with titles stamped in black and red on spine and front cover; dustjacket; x1793pp. Signed by Miller in blue ball-point pen on the title page. Spine ends gently nudged some trivial wear to lower board edges with a hint of sunning to upper board edges and a faint shallow stain to lower edge of rear cover; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $2.00 with two tiny tears at crown and a faint vertical crease along left joint; a bright very Near Fine example. Laid into this copy is an untitled seven-page carbon typescript on onionskin 8" x 10.5" written by Miller in 1943 relating details about the book's conception; horizontal fold at center staple holes at upper left corner with two neat punctures along left margin; Very Good. Reynal & Hitchcock unknown
19387289Paris: The Obelisk Press 1938. First Edition. First Impression one of 1000 copies. Octavo 21.5cm; original decorative wrappers with French flaps; 1112-3244pp. Inscribed by Miller on the half-title page to his physician Jim O'Roark: "For Jim O'Roark / a great reader and a great physician! / Henry Miller / 7/30/77." Housed in a custom quarter morocco slipcase and chemise. The tiny printed ownership label of bibliophile and Black Sparrow Press publisher John K. Martin is mounted on the verso of the rear wrapper. There is the most subtle degree of toning to wrappers light wear to extremities with a few tiny tears and creases along the lower edge; contents fresh with the remnants of the publisher's printed wraparound band laid in "Cannot be bought in England and U.S.A. - A magnificent new book by the author of Tropic of Cancer"; very Near Fine housed in a custom half-morocco slipcase and chemise.<br /> <br /> Miller's first book of short fiction and the second volume in the publisher's Villa Seurat series. The collection gathers 12 works including "The Cosmological Eye" "Scenario" "Max" "The Eye of Paris" and "An Open Letter to Surrealists Everywhere." O'Roark was Miller's opthalmologist a friend and long-time correspondant whose comprehensive collection of Miller's work was first offered by Joseph the Provider in 1982. An exceedingly well-preserved copy. Shifreen & Jackson A19a. The Obelisk Press unknown
19383924Paris: Booster Publications 1938. First Edition. A pair of distinguished copies inscribed to Huntington Cairns a young Baltimore lawyer who in September 1934 was appointed official U.S. Censor by the Secretary of the Treasury. It was Cairns who declared Miller's 1934 novel Tropic of Cancer and subsequently Black Spring Tropic of Capricorn and The Rosy Crucifixion obscene based on the laws of the day despite his admiration for Miller as an author and artist. His decision led to a 25-year correspondence and friendship between censor and author. In Money Miller offers his "meditations and lucubrations" on the subject - the direct result of receiving a postcard from Ezra Pound who asked him "if he had ever thought of money what makes it and how it gets that way. The truth is that until Mr. Pound put the question to me I had never really thought about the subject. Since then however I have thought about it night and day" from the foreword. The proof copy printed on paperstock a notch above newsprint is a marvelous survival not mentioned by the bibliographers or found in the auction record. Shifreen & Jackson A18a. One of 495 copies. Octavo 18.5cm; thick black wrappers with titles printed in gold on spine and front cover; 89-64pp. Inscribed by Miller one month after publication on the first half-title page: "To Huntington Cairns / Money money money / with greetings / Henry Miller / Paris 10/38." Faint crease to lower right corner of front wrapper else a Fine unopened copy. <br /> <br /> Offered together with an uncorrected proof copy New York: Marion Saunders n.d. but 1937. Octavo 17.75cm; side-stapled sheets rectos bound into printed wrappers; ii67-62pp. Inscribed by Miller on the front wrapper nine months prior to publication: "Proof Copy uncorrected / For Huntington Cairns / a little memento from the works Paris / Yours Henry Miller / 12/31/37." Publisher's imprint crossed-out by Miller on lower front wrapper; reviewer's rubber-stamp in French to half-title page; wrappers detached but present toned and edgeworn with two stains to front cover; text edges a bit toned; complete; Good to Very Good. Booster Publications unknown
200186990Richter Verlag. New. 2001. Hardcover. 393380731X . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 384 pages; 338 illustrations including 100 in color. Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works Leben Und Werk Oeuvre-Katalog Kritischem Oeuvrekatalog Raisonnee Richter Verlag hardcover
1946611897London: Scientific Computing Service Ltd 1946. Large hard cover in very good condition. No jacket. This volume is Leslie John Comrie's personal copy; his bookplate is adhered to the front pastedown with initialled details pencilled to FEP. In addition a personal postcard from Professor Raymond C. Archibald Brown University Rhode Island to Comrie is laid in postmarked October 15th 1946 Providence Rhode Island along with a used slip of astronomical paper. Comrie was one of the pioneers of mechanical computation; in 1937 he founded Scientific Computing Service Ltd at 23 Bedford Square London. This volume is from that library's collection numbered 584e stamped to FEP. It is considered that this volume was specially bound for Comrie; a blank page is inserted between each printed leaf possibly for his notes doubling the size of the book. He refers in his Publisher's Preface to the two-year delay in production due to wartime constraints and acknowledging a necessary revision of the Index in the 'next few years'. General shelf and handling wear includes fading and wear to blue cloth boards edges and corners. Age-related discolouration and tanning to pageblock this leading into page edges with light foxing to pastedowns and endpapers. Within pages are tightly bound and content unmarked. Further details and additional photographs available upon request. CN. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Used. Scientific Computing Service Ltd Hardcover
1933122334455755<p>The sole UK printing published by The Gregynog Press in 1933. Number '161' of only 250 copies issued. The BOOK is in Very Good or better condition with the publisher's original citron sheepskin binding and gilt titling by the Gregynog Bindery. A little rubbing at the spine and edges as usually encountered with this binding. The gilt titling and decorations remain bright. The binding remains tight. Free from inscriptions. Mild offsetting from the in-turns. Light toning to the text-block with a sprinkling of spotting to the prelims and the page edges 68-70 not involving any text. Wood-engraved title-vignette and 7 header wood engraved illustrations by Agnes Miller Parker. The book is protected in a removable Mylar archival cover. Loosely inserted is the 4 page publisher's Prospectus which includes a specimen page with one illustration. This prospectus is in near Fine condition. Along with 'Esope's Fables' also illustrated by Agnes Miller Parker one of the highlights of The Gregynog Press. A sharp copy of a very elusive title. The second of Agnes Miller Parker's major works with the Gregynog Press which was in the this period run by her husband William McCance. The first we have handled. Harrop 27. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contac</p> The Gregynog Press, UK hardcover
1889ST20805Paris: P. Rouquette 18891890. First work: ONE OF 75 COPIES on Japon and No. 98 of a total edition of 505. Second work: FIRST EDITION. 240 x 155 mm. 9 1/2 x 6". 1 p.l. half title 38 pp. 1 leaf; XII pp. Two volumes bound in one. . <br/> LOVELY CELADON GREEN MOROCCO GILT AND ONLAID TO A ROCOCO DESIGN BY CHARLES MEUNIER stamp-signed in gilt and dated 1908 on front doublure covers with ornate frame featuring onlaid gray-blue morocco compartments diapered with dotted gilt lines and many gilt volutes acanthus leaves turtle doves and other tools raised bands spine compartments with onlaid gray-blue mandorla centerpieces similarly gilt and framed by volutes gilt lettering CELADON GREEN MOROCCO DOUBLURES lavishly gilt with repeating rows of flower baskets iridescent green silk endleaves marbled flyleaves all edges gilt. Original pink printed wrappers of each work bound in. Housed in a fine just slightly rubbed chamois-lined olive green morocco pull-off box resembling a book thick raised bands blind ruling gilt lettering the spine of the box evenly sunned. With etched frontispiece portrait of the author and 13 illustrations by Paul Avril most half-page all in a second state before letters. Faint foxing to half title otherwise AN IMMACULATE COPY the binding gleaming and the text untouched.<br/> <br/> Handsomely printed and illustrated this libertine tale of seduction and deception in Louis XV's France was lavishly bound in the Rococo style by the master Flety describes as "the apostle of emblematic bookbinding." Legendary among French binders of the late 19th and early 20th centuries for his energy and imagination Charles Meunier 1865-1940 was apprenticed to Gustave Bénard at the age of 11 worked for a time in the atelier of Marius Michel and then set up his own studio when he was 20. According to Duncan & De Bartha he drew "on both traditional and modern techniques and forms of decoration mixing classical punches . . . with newly fashionable incised and modelled leather panels." He was especially adept at creating bindings that were not merely apt for the contents of the book but that embodied in their design the themes of the work. His Rococo pattern here is extravagant even for that over-the-top style the decoration as unrestrained as the amoral aristocrats whose exploits Denon exposes here. First printed anonymously in 1777 "No Tomorrow" is narrated by a callow youth who falls under the spell of Madame de T a brilliant manipulator who uses his infatuation with her to draw her husband's attention away from her long-term affair with a marquis. Her plan is so successful that she succeeds in enjoying a dalliance with our narrator convinces both her husband and her lover that she is faithful to them and keeps all three men on good terms with each other. At the end of his adventure our hero searches for a moral to the story but finds none. Like the anti-heroine of his work our author diplomat courtier and polymath Dominique Vivant Baron Denon 1747-1825 had the wit and the talent to thrive during a tumultuous period in France managing to stay in the good graces successively of Louis XV Louis XVI Robespierre and Napoleon. He had met the last of these rulers at the salon of future empress Josephine de Beauharnais and was invited by Napoleon to join the Egypt expeditionary force as an arts and culture observer. Earning the moniker "Napoleon's Eye" he made sketches of the remarkable monuments--sometimes while under enemy fire--as well as of the ports the cities the inhabitants and the art particularly ancient hieroglyphics. When the illustrated account of his journey was published Russell tells us that Denon became "the first to present to Europe a true and honest image of ancient Egypt" after being "the first European traveller to spend months exploring the desert and recording the monuments he found there." He was "the primary force behind revealing Egypt's civilisation to an astonished Europe." The graceful etchings in the present volume are by the celebrated illustrator Paul Avril 1849-1928 who studied art in various Paris salons including the École des Beaux Arts. According to Ray Avril "was a witty and ingenious artist" and a prolific one as well illustrating a number of bibliophile's editions as well as classics of erotica. His illustrations here bring to mind work of the Rococo artists Watteau Boucher and Fragonard. Our edition benefits from the addition of a second work containing notes on the life of the author by prominent man of letters Anatole France 1844-1924 who would win the 1921 Nobel Prize for literature "in recognition of his brilliant literary achievements characterized as they are by a nobility of style a profound human sympathy grace and a true Gallic temperament." The beauty of our item was clearly treasured and protected by previous owners as it is virtually unchanged from the day it left Meunier's workshop. P. Rouquette unknown
1964177535New York: no publisher 1964. Inscribed to a fellow playwright Rehearsal script inscribed by the author on the title page "To Gerald Kean with my best wishes Arthur Miller Dec 12/68". The text is noted on the title page as the "acting version as performed by The Lincoln Center Repertory Company" and differs from that first published in 1964 by The Viking Press. This was Miller's first full-length play since A View from the Bridge 1958 and was commissioned for the opening production of the Lincoln Center Repertory Company. It premiered on 23 January 1964 and ran for 208 performances. The play achieved notoriety for presenting on stage Miller's experiences during his marriage to Marilyn Monroe his despair at the failure of their marriage and then the eager pursuit of a relationship with the photographer Inge Morath. Gerald Kean 1915-2002 was an influential figure in radio and television. His media career started in the Office of War Information during the Second World War. In the 1950s he worked with Himan Brown 1910-2010 the American producer as a radio script writer for Brown's "CBS Radio Mystery Theater". He was also active in the transition of drama from radio to television n the 1960s. The script comprises a title page annotated "#2" a listing of characters the script of Act 1 70 pages and Act 2 61 pages. There are a few scattered examples of pencil underlining. Folio. Mimeographic typescript 133 leaves 280 x 216 mm printed on rectos only. Loosely inserted is a copy of the 1964 Repertory Theatre of Lincoln Center programme. Original black wrappers front wrapper lettered in gilt comprising title author and "studio duplicating service inc." name and address two brass screw brads. Housed in a custom red cloth folding box. Wrappers worn with adhesive tape added to edges tears to front cover at screw brad fixing tear to top right corner of title page some light toning throughout and occasional minor spots of foxing: a very good copy. hardcover
1967177442New York: no publisher 1967. An earlier state of the text Rehearsal script signed by the author on the title page. Written as a response to the Vietnam War the play premiered on 7 February 1968 in New York. The text as presented in this script differs from that first published in 1969 by The Viking Press. The original production was directed by Ulu Grosbard and was nominated for two Tony awards. There have been four subsequent Broadway revivals many regional productions and the play was adapted for television in 1971. This script comprises a title page with copy number 38 noted 1 leaf a listing of cast 1 leaf the text of Act 1 63 leaves a divisional title 1 leaf and the text of Act 2 75 leaves. Folio. Mimeographic typescript 141 leaves 280 x 216 mm printed on rectos only. Original black wrappers front wrapper lettered in gilt comprising title and "studio duplicating service inc." name and address two brass screw brads. Housed in a custom black cloth folding box. Creases to wrappers extremities bumped some browning to leaves occasional finger-soiling some soiling to edges: a very good copy. hardcover
1933004354New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1933. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. Lamb in his Bosom" by Caroline Miller. First edition first printing with FIRST EDITION stated on the copyright page. Published by Harper & Brothers Publishers New York 1933. The book measures 5" x 7.75" 345 pages. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Novel Fiction in 1934. Original dust jacket flaps present but lacking the panels and spine. The book is in good plus condition. The black cloth boards are worn or mottled - giving a white appearance. Gilt lettering and design still vibrant and intact. Previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown. The textblock is clean bright unmarked and complete. The binding is sound. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory #M1-16. Harper & Brothers Publishers hardcover
1947140941739New York: Reynal & Hitchcock 1947. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Bound in publisher's original pale green cloth with spine lettered in navy blue. Near Fine with slight fading to spine pages toned. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with toning several edge-tears with old tape repairs made to the verso one of which has bled through at the top edge of the rear panel. Uncommon in such nice condition. The author's elusive first published play preceded by a non-fiction book and a novel. Reynal & Hitchcock unknown
1949326961New York: Viking Press 1949. First edition. 139 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Orange boards lettered in black upper cover with vignette pictorial endsheets. Near fine copy in very good dust jacket some chipping to spine ends. First edition. 139 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Signed by the author on the first blank.<br /> <br /> Attractive copy of this key mid-twentieth-century play. Viking Press unknown
19491704236Viking 1949. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A fine first edition in a fine dust jacket. Signed on a tipped-in page. Rare in this condition. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase. Viking hardcover
1962305650New York: New Directions 1962. Softcover. Near Fine. Folded uncorrected long galleys printed rectos only. A little age-toning to the outside galley and a small tear to one leaf else near fine. Prepared for the author and publisher's use this is one of what must be only a handful of copies; we've never seen another. New Directions unknown
1949026467Paris: Obelisk Press 1949. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. #1067 of 3000 printed copies. Inscribed and signed by Henry Miller on front free endpaper. Inscription reads: "For Lillik possibly Lillian Bos Ross a fellow author and Big Sur cohort of Miller's from this time period the real maestro in life as well as art - rare thing! If this book is ever translated into Hebrew I will eat my shirt. Open it on the shores of Galilee or at the Dead Se or at Sau'a or Mt. Sinai. If it stinks like a dead fish write me a post card - from wherever. Yours always - a brother. Henry 10/29/50 Big Sur". Book is in solid overall condition with lightly cocked but sound binding fade to spine no markings otherwise. Cloth boards protected by glassine sleeve. <br/> <br/> Obelisk Press hardcover
1739227332London: T. Read 1739. hardcover. near fine. First carefully collected in the Company and many of them transcribed from the Mouth of the Facetious Gentleman whose Name they bear; and now set forth and published by his lamentable Friend and former Companion Elijah Jenkins Esq. 2 70pp. Thin 12mo bound by Riviere in 19th century straight-grained olive green morocco a.e.g. lightly edgeworn but sound; light foxing and toning throughout; several bookplates on endpapers and one description mounted to flyleaf; housed in an attractive cloth-backed marbled board slipcase with leather spine label. London: Printed and Sold by T. Read 1739. Genuine first edition with "Price One Shilling" at bottom of title. Scarce. Near fine.<br/> <br/> Extremely scarce. First edition of the most famous collection of anecdotes and humor. Compiled by Elijah Jenkins pseudonym of John Mottley partially from several other jestbooks. Mottley named the book in honor of Josias Miller the famous comic actor who had died the previous year. --DNB; ESTC T124768.<br/> <br/> T. Read unknown
51-5718San Francisco and New York: The J. Dewing Co. 1888. Folio. 34 x 47cm. Original gilt morocco with all edges gilt with restorations. Marbled endpapers. 478 text pages and and 120 hors text plates. 5 volumes. Stamped with the name of an original subscriber… Mrs. R. McElroy. Fine condition. OCLC Number 36006168. Very heavy.Note from the Sierra Club: Picturesque California was an 1888 elephant folio edited by John Muir published by the J. Dewing Publishing company featuring over 600 etchings photogravures and wood etchings 700 additional illustrations in the text and 120 tinted plates. The original work was sold by subscription and was distributed monthly in thirty parts. Muir wrote six of the articles which we provide here:ContentsPeaks and Glaciers of the High Sierra by John MuirThe Passes of the High Sierra by John Muir;A Glimpse of Monterey by J. R. Fitch;The Yosemite Valley by John Muir;Totokonulu poem by J. Vance Cheney;A Visit to the Lick Observatory by Edward S. Holden;About the Bay of San Francisco by W. C. Bartlett;Game Regions of the Upper Sacramento by Joaquin Miller;The Heart of Southern California by Jeanne C. Carr;Mount Shasta by John Muir;Southernmost California by T. S. Van Dyke;North of the Golden Gate by Kate Field;Early California Mining and the Argonauts by Joaquin Miller;The Santa Clara Valley and Santa Cruz Mountains by George Hamlin Fitch;The San Joaquin Valley by Joaquin Miller;The Foothill Region of the Northern Coast Range by Charles Howard Shinn;The New City by the Great Sea--San Francisco by Joaquin Miller;On the Height poem by J. Vance Cheney;The Sacramento Valley by John P. Irish;The Tule Region by Charles Howard Shinn;Monterey to Ventura by WIlliam L. Ogle;The Plain of Oaks by Albert E. Gray;The Land of the Redwoods by Charles Howard Shinn;Washington and the Puget Sound by John Muir;The Basin of the Columbia River by John ;Muir;The Canadian Rockies by Ernest Ignersoll.Bibliographic InformationOriginally published as thirty parts then ten and finally as two volumes J. Dewing and Company: 1888-1890. Reprinted as West of the Rocky Mountains Philadelphia: Running Press 1976. Chapters 10 24 and 25 were reprinted in Chapters 3-5 17-20 and 21-23 respectively of Steep Trails San Francisco and New York: The J. Dewing Co. , 1888 unknown
1953420973Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1953. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Fine in attractive very good price-clipped dust jacket with small nicks and tears mostly at the spine ends. Author's autobiographical first novel about her seemingly happy hetrosexual married life in the early Fifties subtitled on the jacket as "A novel about the 'Found' Generation."<br /> <br /> Routsong the mother of four daughters eventually dispensed with her husband and writing under the pseudonym Isabel Miller produced the lesbian classic A Place for Us. The original edition was self-published in 1969 and sold by Routsong outside the meetings of the New York chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis. A later hardcover version was published by McGraw-Hill under the new title Patience and Sarah. A Gradual Joy is exceptionally uncommon and this is a very nice copy. Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover
