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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
1846TB27062New York: S. Tuttle 1846. Reprint . Very good in dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt text on a black leather label on the spine. The edges of the text block are marbled. A thick octavo measuring 8 3/4" by 5 1/2" with mild rubbing to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine. The contents are clean and bright with no foxing or tanning to the pages. 608 pages which are illustrated with 230 engravings a frontispiece and 12 plates following pages 44 116 140 148 220 268 372 424 432 472 508 and 552 Howes calls for 10 plates and the map. The hand-colored yellow red green and blue fold-out map of the state following the front index page 12 is in fine condition with no tears or chips. Howes also does not note this reprint copy of 1846 printed in New York City. Several early prior owner's have penciled their names and made mathematical notes on the end pages. Considered by Howes to be "mildly scarce". Howes B-122; Sabin 3331 A tight handsome and thoroughly complete copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind. S. Tuttle hardcover books
1841TB26568New York: S. Tuttle 1841. First Edition. Recently rebound in dark brown cloth covered boards with gilt text stamped on the spine with gilt rules around the title. An thick octavo measuring 9" by 5 1/2". The pages are lightly spotted with foxing throughout particularly around the outside margins and there are occasional notations in ink by an early prior owner. 608 pages which are illustrated with 230 engravings a frontispiece and 12 plates following pages 44 116 140 148 220 268 372 424 432 472 508 and 552 all by the author. Howes calls for 10 plates and the map. The hand-colored fold-out map of New York following the front index page 12 is in very acceptable condition with a 3" long tear at the left margin and a 3" long closed tear at one of the lower folds of the map both professionally repaired. Several early prior owner's have penciled their names and made mathematical notes on the end pages. Considered by Howes to be "mildly scarce". Howes B-122; Sabin 3331 A tight handsome and thoroughly complete copy. S. Tuttle hardcover books
1832WRCAM12754New Haven: Published by J.W. Barber 1832. 324pp. plus thirty plates printed two to a leaf. Frontis. Color folding map. Contemporary gilt mottled calf leather label. Boards nearly detached but cords sound bit chipped at head and toe of spine. Foxed else internally quite good. Describes 119 significant events in the history of America many of them illustrated in the attractive plates followed by a chronological list of events a list of colleges in the U.S. biographical sketches of famous figures in history etc. Howes lists the first edition as 1828 with an undated Boston printing following but does not note the present edition nor does Sabin. This is the fourth edition listed in the NUC with only two locations given one of the which Library of Congress lacks the map. AMERICAN IMPRINTS adds three more locations. SABIN 3326 ref. HOWES B126 ref. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 11194. Published by J.W. Barber hardcover books
1839TB28746Worcester Mass.: Dorr Howland & Co. 1839. First Edition. Near fine in a recent 1/2 brown leather and marbled paper covered boards with gilt black leather text block with gilt text stamping on the spine and new end sheets. A small quarto measuring 9 1/2 by 5 1/2 inches. The contents are in excellent condition with 624 pages of text with occasional spots of foxing to the pages throughout. The hand-colored four-color fold-out map is in place following the front index and is in near fine condition with a tiny 1/4" closed tear at the lower margin. Illustrated throughout by the author's 200 line drawings and wood cut engravings. Howes B-123 Dorr, Howland & Co. hardcover books
05019London: Longmans Green and Co. 1895. Mr. Stark Munro attempts to create a medical practice in partnership <br/>with the brilliant but unorthodox James Cullingworth.<br/><br/>DOYLE Arthur Conan. The Stark Munro Letters. Being a series of sixteen letters written by J. Stark Munro M.B. to his friend and former fellow student Herbert Swanborough of Lowell Massachusetts during the years 1881-1884. Edited and arranged by A. Conan Doyle. London: Longmans Green and Co. 1895. <br/><br/>First English edition. Octavo 7 1/4 x 4 7/8 inches; 184 x 124 mm. vi 346 1 printers device 1 blank pp. Publishers 24 pp catalog dated August 1895 bound in at end. Inserted frontispiece by Alice Barber Stephens with original tissue-guard. Minimal scattered marginal foxing otherwise fine.<br/><br/>Publisher's dark green cloth over beveled boards front cover and spine lettered in gilt black coated endpapers. A near fine copy.<br/><br/>7500 copies were published on 5th September 1895 priced 6/-.<br/><br/>The Stark Munro Letters is an epistolary novel that takes the form of twelve long letters written by J. Stark Munro between March 1881 and November 1884 and sent to his friend Herbert Swanborough of Lowell Massachusetts. Stark Munro is a recent graduate from medical school and the letters detail his attempts to create a medical practice in partnership with the brilliant but unorthodox James Cullingworth. The novel is in fact a thinly disguised account of Doyle's experiences with George Turnavine Budd with whom he was in partnership in Plymouth before finally setting up his own practice in Southsea Portsmouth in 1882.<br/><br/>Green and Gibson A18a. London: Longmans, Green, and Co.,, 1895 unknown books
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
19034918Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art 1903. Hardcover. Very good. One of 300 numbered copies. Signed by the author. 233 pp. frontispiece and 94 text illustrations. The text is bright and clean inside hinges skillfully repaired covers lightly soiled else very good condition. <br/><br/> Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art hardcover books