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1955233936New York: Simon and Schuster 1955. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Cloth. Fine in almost fine dust jacket. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Simon and Schuster unknown books
20042312006Berlin: Die Gestalten Verlag 2004. Signed Copy. Large Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Signed by author. Limited edition numbered 352 of 1250. Signed. A fine hardcover in a near fine publisher sleeve. 2004 Large Hardcover. Unpaginated. A monograph collection the typographic designs and graphic art of the influential studio. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: "Ken Barber is a professional lettering artist with over 25 years of experience in the field. As principal letterer at the distinguished design studio and font foundry House Industries he creates logos and wordmarks for people products companies and brands the world over. In his dual role as typeface design director he also curates the company's coveted retail font library. His work is in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institution's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation. Ken has been honored by the New York Type Directors Club Association Typographique Internationale and Design Museum London. He has taught design at many recognized schools including Maryland Institute College of Art University of Delaware and Moore College of Art and is currently an instructor at The Cooper Union in New York City. Ken also enjoys sharing his experience with the students in his hand-lettering workshops that he regularly conducts around the globe. Ken co-authored House Industries: The Process is the Inspiration Watson-Guptill 2017 and House Industries Gestalten 2004 with Andy Cruz and Rich Roat. His forthcoming House Industries Lettering Manual Watson-Guptill will be released in the spring of 2020." ABOUT HOUSE INDUSTRIES: "House Industries is a type foundry and design studio based in Yorklyn Delaware. The company was created in the 1990s in Wilmington Delaware by co-founders Andy Cruz and Rich Roat. The company is best known for its typeface creations which have appeared on television e.g. Nickelodeon's TV Land VH1's Best Week Ever in film e.g. Mission: Impossible III and on commercial products e.g. Ann Taylor garment tag Lucky Charms logo and Green Day's Dookie album. Founders Andy Cruz and Rich Roat met at Miller Mauro Group Inc. a Wilmington Del. marketing communications agency. They briefly worked for Swfte International a Miller Mauro Group client before leaving to form Brand Design Co. Inc in 1993. Cruz and Roat formed House Industries in late 1993. Popular typefaces sold by House Industries include Neutraface a geometric sans-serif Eames Century Modern inspired by the design work of Ray and Charles Eames and Chalet a set of designs inspired by common sans-serifs such as Avant Garde Grotesque Helvetica and its adaptations from the 1960s to the 1990s and a collection of revivals of the lettering of Ed Benguiat. Its SignPainter script font is bundled with macOS. The company goes to elaborate lengths to promote its typefaces including creating chairs pillows and various other items inspired by the typefaces they sell. In one promotion they created the fictional character Ren Die Gestalten Verlag hardcover books
182586549New Haven: J. W. Barber 1825. Fair. Three unfolded partial sheets two pages to a side containing the 11 pages of text plus 6 wide-margined hand-colored plates. Later amateur stitching along left side. Ownership signature on front. Title-leaf portion copyright page on verso lacking about 30%. Edgeworn. Some foxing and browning. <br/><br/> J. W. Barber unknown books
1939Embry 186083Derrydale 1939. Limited edition of 750 copies. Fine with bookplate and partially unopened in lightly rubbed original box. Red leather with gilt titles in original box match numbered to book. Signed by author. Derrydale, 1939. Limited edition of 750 copies. hardcover books
183446567London: Simpkin & Marshall 1834. Engraved title only folding map 40 plates. 1 vols. 8vo. Three-quarter calf red morocco spine label. A bit rubbed else Fine. Previous owner's signature on ffep. Engraved title only folding map 40 plates. 1 vols. 8vo. Simpkin & Marshall unknown books
200724941New York: TV Books 2007. A few spots of scuffing to the white covers else near fine in photo-illustrated wrappers. Limited edition. Quarto. Handmade edition of 50 copies SIGNED by Tim Barber; this is number 50. Photocopy zine taped at the spine with high-contrast black and white images of pets signs interiors and cityscapes. New York: TV Books unknown books
191818397New York: Robert M. McBride & Company 1918. Cloth. Very Good . A tight very presentable copy of the November 1918 1st edition. Clean and solid in its olive-green cloth with bright gilt-titling to the front panel and rubbed titling along the spine. Very light foxing to the endsheets and pastedowns a bit of foxing at a number of the margins. 29 black-and-white aerial plates of the "aerobatics" complementing H. Barber's text. <br/><br/> Robert M. McBride & Company hardcover books
17963513Paris: Didot jeune 1796. First edition with these illustrations 2nd printing. One of 300 copies. 4 engraved plates after drawings by Le Barbier engraved by Baquoy Dambrun Dupréel and Patas. 272pp. 1 vols. Tall 8vo. Quarter green morocco and paper over boards; spine with elaborate gilt ornamentation; slight rubbing to covers edges a bit bumped; two discreet library stamps on title-page else a fine copy. Le Barbier J.-J.-F. First edition with these illustrations 2nd printing. One of 300 copies. 4 engraved plates after drawings by Le Barbier engraved by Baquoy Dambrun Dupréel and Patas. 272pp. 1 vols. Tall 8vo. Beautifully printed by Didot on fine papier vélin with generous margins and superb engravings by Le Barbier v. Ray I pp. 76-78. Cohen-de-Ricci records gives the imprint as "an III 1795" with the same collation as this issue with cancel title. Cohen-de-Ricci 991-992; Brunet V 836 Didot jeune unknown books
1831008715New Haven CT: J. W. Barber. 1831. Hardcover. Eleven color plates including a map illustrate views of New Haven Connecticut in the "49th year of the Independence of the United States of America." 1831 printing. Some foxing throughout splitting along hinges. Quarter leather over marbled paper boards corners and edges quite rubbed. Howes B-125 lists a1831 printing. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall . J. W. Barber hardcover books
1844TB31515Newark N.J.: Benjamin Olds for Justus H. Bradley 1844. First Edition. Very good although rebacked with original end pages with gilt text stamping on the spine it is in its original blind embossed cloth covered boards with an embossed gilt laurel seal on the front board. An octavo of 8 3/4 by 5 3/4 inches with the cloth at the tips of the boards and lower edges of the boards worn through. There is a dampness stain on the front end sheets and foxing throughout the contents. Without a dust jacket. 620 pages of text and illustrated with a hand-colored double frontis and with 120 from engravings. The hand-colored fold-out map of the New England states New York Pennsylvania and New Jersey follows page 8 and suffers only from multiple creases and very minor losses to the margins several other maps within the text and a number of plates. Howes B-121 Benjamin Olds for Justus H. Bradley hardcover books
1959149485Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1959. Vintage reference photograph from the 1959 film showing actor Lou Costello giving a more than suggestive shower to Dorothy Provine his new gargantuan girlfriend.<br/><br/>A rare appearance of Lou Costello without Bud Abbott wherein a junk collector and inventor accidentally turns his girlfriend into a giantess. <br/><br/>Shot on location at Iverson Ranch in Los Angeles.<br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1964118514Paris: G.-P. Maisonneuve & Larose 1964. cloth title gilt-stamped on spine. 8vo. cloth title gilt-stamped on spine. variously paginated. 5 volumes. Text in French. Reprint of the edition first published 1822-1827. Includes a biographical sketch of the author Antoine-Alexandre Barbier born 1765. Includes introduction from the first edition. An alphabetical dictionary of all known anonymously published works in France. Fifth volume is a supplement. Arranged alpahbetically. Includes bibliographical information. Two columns on each page separately paginated. G.-P. Maisonneuve & Larose unknown books
185214323Detroit 1-17 and Kalamazoo 18 1852. January 1 1852 - September 15 1852. Each issue is 16pp consecutively numbered pp 1-288 untrimmed and uncut generously margined with some edge wear browned light foxing printed in double columns. Good. <br/><br/> This scarce item was "A New Church Periodical. The design of The Medium is to aid in the dissemination of the Doctrines of the New Church signified by the New Jerusalem in the Apocalypse as they are deduced from the Holy Word in the writings of Emanuel Swedenborg. The Medium is published on the First and Fifteenth of each month at Wm. Harsha's Printing Office in Detroit for One Dollar Per Year Payable in advance." <br/>FIRST EDITION. OCLC 191123359 12 as of December 2015. Not in Sabin Greenly Eberstadt Decker Soliday Graff Union List of Serials Lomazow. unknown books
1831D13070New York: J. W. Barber 1831. Hardcover. Fair. Original cloth paper spine label; 8vo; pp. 108 with 7 hand-colored plates landscapes landmarks maps engraved illustrations in text. Cloth soiled; frayed and chipped along spine; corners bumped. Text block browned and foxed throughout with a little soiling here and there. Uncommon. Sold as is. <br/><br/> J. W. Barber hardcover books
186163387Little Rock AR: Johnson & Yerkes State Printers 1861. First edition for this annual compilation Vol. XXII in the long running series. 8vo. vii 638 pp. Although slavery is not a separate subject heading in the index slavery issues appear in a number of other topics. A view of the law in Arkansas on the eve of the Civil War. Arkansas seceded in early May of 1861 and this volume was printed in Columbia Missouri. Very good. Original law sheep rubbed red and black spine labels. 10096. <br/><br/> Johnson & Yerkes, State Printers unknown books
192433240Chicago: Haleton 1924. First edition. 160pp. Illus. from photographs plates live drawings vignettes. Largely wild fowling in North Carolina's Currituck and Pamlico Sounds. Original cloth lacks flyleaves some light wear at lower spine. Phillips p.165 : "a good book" an unusual comment for this bibliography. Haleton hardcover books
199961021Mansfield Centre: Martino Fine Books 1999. cloth. thick 8vo. cloth. xlvii.Coll.1130; pp.iii.Coll.1360; pp.iii.Coll.1166; pp.iii.Coll.1410; pp.iii.iii.Coll.310.pp.cxi.Coll.122.pp.xiv29. 5 volumes bound in 4. Reprint of the third and best edition of 1872-1889 published in Paris by Paul Daffis Besterman 401-402; Breslauer & Folter no.117. Anonymous and pseudonymous works of French literature the French equivalent of Halkett and Laing. Nearly 55000 attributions. Contains all supplements and corrections. Martino Fine Books unknown books
188082960London: Sotheran 1880. First. hardcover. very good. 30 exquisite full-page color plates of church needlework tisue guards folio gilt decorated olive pebbled cloth small piece missing from top and bottom of spine a.e.g. London: Henry Sotheran & Co. 1880. A very good copy but for light foxing on the title page and a tiny bit of foxing scattered throughout.<br/><br/> Sotheran unknown books
194215033Hanoi-Haiphong: Imprimerie d'Extreme-Orient 1942. 2 chunky 12mo volumes both 6th editions pp. viii 856; vi 2 951; both with pages toned the first in contemporary half black cloth over marbled boards the second in original printed paper-covered boards backed in red cloth printed paper label on spine. Nice pairing. <br/><br/> Imprimerie d'Extreme-Orient hardcover books
1986151196London: Virgin Films 1986. Draft script for the 1986 film. Copy belonging to an unknown crew member with holograph pencil annotations throughout regarding shooting locations and times of day. <br/><br/>Based on the 1983 book written by Lucy Irvine which detailed her experiences living for a year on the remote uninhabited island of Tuin in the Torres Strait with middle-aged writer Gerald Kingsland. <br/><br/>Shot on location in London and the Seychelles. <br/><br/>Mustard untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present undated with credits for screenwriter Allan Scott and book credits to Lucy Irvine. 109 leaves with last page of text numbered 108. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with light rust marks near the binding bound internally with two silver brads. Virgin Films unknown books
1837TB31667New Haven: Durrie & Peck and J. W. Barber 1837. Second Edition. Very good in its original binding of full leather covered boards with a black leather label with gilt text and extensive gilt decorations on the spine. The front and rear boards are decorated with gilt borders. An octavo measuring 8 7/8 by 5 1/2 inches with heavy rubbing to the leather over the joints and to the edges of the boards. The front free end page is torn at its lower two inches and there is an early prior owner's name Lynda Brownell Sherman Conn. written in pencil on the third free end page. The hand-colored fold-out map of Connecticut is completely intact and has suffered no damage. The preliminaries show moderate foxing and the last 50 pages of the text also show moderate foxing. The joints and hinges remain tight and strong. 560 pages of text. Illustrated throughout with 190 wood block engravings. Contrary to the information contained in Wright Howes bibliography U.S. Iana the first edition of this title was published in 1836. Barber an illustrator and historian 1798-1885 was Connecticut's first popular historian creating one of the first travel guides of the state. Following the index in the front of the book is a hand colored fold-out map of the State of Connecticut noting all of its towns at the time see note above regarding condition. Considered to be "mildly scarce" by Howes. Howes B-120 Originally published in 1836. Durrie & Peck and J. W. Barber hardcover books
191620416Paris: Printed by Maison Maquet for Jules Meynial 1916. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/good. 12 mo. 88 pp ads pages for notes illustrated with six pochoir plates by Barbier. Original pictorial silk binding and paper dust jacket. Dust jacket is missing a v-shaped chip at the head of the spine and the spine of the book is faded in the same spot. Otherwise a lovely copy with slight fraying of the cloth at the extremities and some glue staining to the front hinge which appears to have been repaired. The scarce first volume of this five-volume series of annual almanacs. Printed by Maison Maquet for Jules Meynial hardcover books
18222171961822. Second. hardcover. very good. .Accompagne de Notes Historiques et Critiques. Copper engraved frontispiece portrait . 4 volumes 8vo 1/2 leather spines slightly scuffed one chip mended marbled boards. Paris 1822-1827. Seconde Edition Revue Corrigee et Considerablement Augmentee. Very Good .<br/><br/> unknown books
1873013842Philadelphia: Barclay & Co. Good. 1873. First Edition. Softcover. Original green pictorial wrappers housed in a custom green cloth portfolio with a red morocco label on front. Wrappers have moderate soiling and minor chipping at corners and on spine. String bound binding is tight. Leaves are uncut and numbered 19-94 97-108. Illustrated with nine b&w engravings. From the title page: "Miss Barber a native of Massachusetts in her religious enthusiasm resolved to go among the Indians as a missionary and with that purpose in view married Squatting Bear at Washington D. C. After five years of suffering and stirring adventures this beautiful young lady has just returned East and her narrative is one of deep and entrancing interest. A valuable feature of this work is the Indian Receipts given by Miss Barber for the cure of various diseases. They are very efficacious." Howes denotes this work to be "probably as spurious as are the medical remedies contained." Howes B-116. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall . Barclay & Co. paperback books
1939253002New York: The Derrydale Press 1939. First Edition One of 750 copies this one marked "HH" on the box label and the colophon and signed by the author. Frontispiece and six full-page drawings of ducks decoys and hunters. xviii i 1-108 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Full red morocco gilt glassine jacket original publisher's box with printed label on upper cover uncut at fore and lower edges. Some very minor scattered foxing to initial three leaves. Some fading and rubbing to box with some loss. Bookplate. An attractive copy. Fuller Arthur D. First Edition One of 750 copies this one marked "HH" on the box label and the colophon and signed by the author. Frontispiece and six full-page drawings of ducks decoys and hunters. xviii i 1-108 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Siegel 151 The Derrydale Press unknown books
