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193816060JBurbank: Warner Brothers Pictures 1938. Original 322 page private in-studio conductor’s score printed in purple ink used by Erich Wolfgang Korngold in recording his musical score for the classic film Robin Hood. With occasional annotations and markings by Korngold in pencil. Additionally each musical sequence is marked with red pencil for recording. This score was presented to Hal Wallis the producer of the film with a large remarkable two page Korngold written inscription: “To Hal Wallis with many thanks in friendship and admiration Erich Wolfgang Korngold Hollywood 4.18.1938â€. On the facing second page Korngold has written out the first bars of music for six of the film’s musical themes “Robin Hood†“Robin Hood’s Companyâ€â€Lady Marian†Lionheart England†“Sir Guy†“Love Themeâ€. Beneath which Korngold has written “One minute - one page†--â€One hour - a million of notes†The genning of each sequence is marked in print CONDUCTOR. Beautifully bound in dark green Niger leather with gilt-stamping. The volume measures 10 1/2 inches wide by 12 1/2 inches tall. It is enclosed in a custom clamshell full linen cloth box. Hal B. Wallis 1899-1986 was one of Hollywood’s greatest film producers whose additional accomplishments include the films Casablanca The Maltese Falcon Yankee Doodle Dandy Dark Victory and many others. The resulting film has come down to us as one of Hollywood’s greatest classics and stars Errol Flynn Olivia de Havilland Claude Rains and Basil Rathbone. Korngold won the Academy Ward for Best Original Score for The Adventures of Robin Hood. The American Film Institute chose Robin Hood as number eleven in its list of the top 25 best American film scores. This score is included in any of the serious lists of the greatest film scores of all time. Warner Brothers Pictures hardcover books
196287436Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1962. First edition of Friedman's magnum opus. Octavo original blue cloth. Association copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to colleague and friend "For Merton Miller with many thanks for his assistance Milton Friedman." Fine in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. An exceptional association linking these two Nobel Prize-winning economists and giants in the field as Friedman revolutionized economic theory with his free-market free-from-government principles and Miller changing the way markets assess a company's value. "Friedman a laissez-faire economist and professor at the University of Chicago is considered one of the leading modern exponents of liberalism in the 19th-century European sense. In Capitalism and Freedom he argued for a negative income tax or guaranteed income to supersede centralized bureaucratized social welfare services which in his view are inimical to the traditional values of individualism and useful work" Britannica. Selected by the Times Literary Supplement as one of the "hundred most influential books since the war". It also placed tenth on the list of the 100 best non-fiction books of the twentieth century compiled by National Review and on Time Magazine's top 100 non-fiction books written in English since 1923. University of Chicago Press hardcover books
196223005Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1962. First edition of Friedman's magnum opus. Octavo original blue cloth. Signed by Milton Friedman on the front free endpaper in a contemporary hand. Fine in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Rare signed. "Friedman a laissez-faire economist and professor at the University of Chicago is considered one of the leading modern exponents of liberalism in the 19th-century European sense. In Capitalism and Freedom he argued for a negative income tax or guaranteed income to supersede centralized bureaucratized social welfare services which in his view are inimical to the traditional values of individualism and useful work" Britannica. Selected by the Times Literary Supplement as one of the "hundred most influential books since the war". It also placed tenth on the list of the 100 best non-fiction books of the twentieth century compiled by National Review and on Time Magazine's top 100 non-fiction books written in English since 1923. University of Chicago Press hardcover books
1970123601New York: Cinnamon Press 1970. Rare Bag One lithograph signed by Beatles icon John Lennon. One page the title page from Lennon's Bag One Portfolio. Signed by him beneath the image. One of 300 numbered copies this is number 172. In near fine condition. Matted and framed. Rare and desirable. In 1969 as a wedding gift for Yoko John drew the 'Bag One Portfolio'--a chronicle of their wedding ceremony honeymoon and their plea for world peace in the Bed-In. The following year the artwork was produced in a series of three hundred portfolios of fifteen signed prints each. The majority depict John and Yoko's most intimate private moments--upon their first exhibition in London more than half were deemed 'indecent' and confiscated by Scotland Yard. The rare title page features perhaps the most famous and recognizable print of the suite. Cinnamon Press unknown books
195968003Government of the Dalai Lama 1959. First edition of this important document which details the historical relationship between Tibet and China from the 7th century to the 1950s and presents arguments supporting Tibet's claim for sovereignty. Octavo original printed flexible board wrappers with the title and date printed in red letters. Boldly signed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama on the front panel. Table of contents and 63 pages of text. In 1959 the Dalai Lama sought support from the U.S. and other nations to recognize their government in exile and to bring their case for Tibetan sovereignty and against Chinese aggression before the United Nations. It is necessary to distinguish between two 1959 publications under the same title. The more common today appears to be an octavo volume of 49 pages which several sources attribute to the Central Electric Press in Delhi India. The British Library and Harvard University each has a copy in that smaller format; WorldCat details 10 locations of the 49 p. 8vo edition under two OCLC numbers. Our publication a mimeographic duplication from a document produced on a typewriter printed on rectos only of quarto sized sheets has 63 leaves and an un-numbered first leaf "Table of Contents". Technical limitations mean that our publication in quarto mimeographed format is both more fragile by nature and less likely to have been issued in a large number of copies. Considering that the 14th Dalai Lama spent all but the first 90 days of 1959 residing in exile in Dharamshala in the state of Himachal Pradesh in northern India it is likely that our publication was produced there. Historical Context: In 1959 within days of the rapidly devolving March uprising in Lhasa the Dalai Lama and his retinue fled Tibet with the help of the CIA's Special Activities Division. They crossed the border into India on 30 March 1959 and soon afterward the Dalai Lama set up the Government of Tibet in Exile in Dharamshala receiving support from the CIA including a personal annual stipend of $180000 and other material support from at least 1959 until about 1974. CIA support for the Government of the Dalai Lama in Exile and other potential Tibetan assets reportedly totalled about $1.7 million per annum. In April 1959 the Dalai Lama sent a message to the U.S. Government requesting that the U.S. formally recognize the Free Tibetan Government and that he encourage other nations to do so. Under Secretary of State C. Douglas Dillon advised President Eisenhower that the U.S. should "avoid taking any position which might encourage the Dalai Lama to seek international recognition." Despite considerable U.S. covert support of the Tibetans' efforts to oust the Chinese the official U.S. position held that Tibet was an autonomous country under Chinese suzerainty. The State Department believed this position better served America's broader foreign policy interest viz. China and India. In fact the Eisenhower administration both the State Department and the CIA restrained the Tibetans from presenting their case against Chinese aggression instead skirting the political issues and treading the softer line of human rights violations and cultural oppression. The Tibetans finally enlisted Ireland and Malaya to request "The Question of Tibet" to be added to the U.N. agenda for its 14th session. Consequently the United Nations' Resolution 1353 XIV on Tibet was passed in October 1959. This first U.N. resolution on Tibet did not address the sovereignty issue but voiced their "grave concern at the continued violation of the fundamental rights and freedoms of Tibetans" and calling for "respect of the fundamental human rights of the Tibetan people and for their distinctive cultural and religious life." For an interesting exposition of this era of Tibetan diplomacy see "Tibet Issue at the UN: a case study in informal diplomacy 1950-65" by Kalzang Diki Bhutia. Either directly or indirectly this publication was made possible by support from the CIA; it is a fascination sidelight of history that the official US government position was not in alignment with this text and also that no copy of our rare publication seems to have survived in any institutional library in the United States. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Government of the Dalai Lama unknown books
1937004544Tokyo: Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai The Society for International Cultural Relations 1937. First edition. Leporello. Hardcover boards paper pastedown. Very Good. The Japanese photobook equivalent of a Leni Riefenstahl movie! Deemed "arguably the high point of both the Japanese propaganda and the modernist photo book" by Parr and Badger in "The Photobook: A History". Oblong folio 27 by 30 cm. 64 pp. or 32 double-page back-to-back photomontages configured as an accordion fold-out and a deliberate attempt to adapt the traditional Japanese pillow book to a more modern usage. Text captions in English French and German. The photographers involved were also staff photographers of the Japanese photo magazine "Nippon". The black and white photos have an extraordinary dynamism and three dimensionality achieved by the artful juxtapositions and there is a cumulative power to the whole enterprise. Just as the photos themselves are able to convey movement the message of the whole is that Japan itself was on the march forward into a new dawn! And virtually every aspect of Japanese life is presented -- economic religious cultural architectural artisanal rural urban etc. Only two of the montages relate to the military -- one the army one the navy -- and this is in sharp contrast to similar publications emanating from Germany and Italy at the time. Japan had by then actually embarked on its program of foreign aggression and conquest whereas for the other Fascist regimes that still lay in the future. The scarce book was probably never for sale but rather was given as a gift to foreign dignitaries. Scarce with the only known institutional copies at the British Museum the Library of Congress. Two folds professionally and discreetly repaired with very minor loss a very thin sliver along those joints. A quarter sized infill to where there was a corner chip to the silver Japanese paper pastedown on the front cover. The front blue blank or endpaper does not have a title label pastedown which has been seen in other copies but it is obvious that there never was such a label pasted into this copy. <br/><br/> Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai (The Society for International Cultural Relations) hardcover books
194129370n.p. n.d.: privately printed 1941. Only edition 4to pp. 8 20; photographic frontispiece; original blue printed wrappers with crossed fishing-poles; saddle-stitch binding; slight shadow on front cover else near fine. Inscribed "For Chief Boatswain's Mate W.A. Bartos USN from Franklin D. Roosevelt." "Having had a desire for some time to get away from Washington for a few days of restful diversion including some hoped for fishing in southern waters the President had previously instructed Captain Callaghan his Naval Aide to have the Potomac available at Port Everglades Florida for a projected cruise to the Bahamas." A working vacation affording the President fine fishing opportunities along the coast of Florida and the Bahamas. The President on the first day alone caught a tuna a skipjack and a mackerel. Bartos to whom the book is inscribed was an enlisted sailor attached to the President's party. Also attached to the President's party were the Attorney General Robert H. Jackson; Harold Ickes the Secretary of the Interior; and a young William J. McNamara. Included with the pamphlet are two 10" x 7½" photographs of Bartos sporting his rod and reel. <br/><br/> [privately printed unknown books
190763141Princeton NJ 1907. 4to 28 cm. 10 pages typed rectos only approximately 2850 words each leaf mounted along the left edge to a larger heavier sheet each page double-spaced with 29 separate ink corrections deletions and additions by Cleveland in his characteristic hand 44 words added 19 deleted 20 typos of poor strikes corrected; in addition there are numerous editorial marking on each page "by Grover Cleveland" is written in pencil in another hand underneath the title on the first page and "corrected by Cleveland" is written in pencil in yet another hand at the upper corner of the first page. The longest correction or addition occurs in the final paragraph where Cleveland strikes through four words replacing them with twelve. Following publication the "Youth's Companion" the essay appeared in newspapers e.g. "The Daily Republican" Monongahela Pennsylvania 25 February 1908 under the title "Our People and Our Ex-Presidents." We found one other unsigned essay by Cleveland at auction also a 10-page typescript with holograph corrections "Woman's Mission and Woman's Clubs" sold at Christie's in 2002 $8000. Very good condition throughout. 9870. An essay on the relationship between the American people and their ex-presidents by the only man who was ex-president twice. It addresses the expectations and demands the people place on their former presidents the personal financial effects these may have and the failure of the country to provide any support for them. Noting thankfully his own personally secure estate he based this one and cites specific examples of financial distress among earlier presidents. That combined with his own observations gave him concern for future ex-presidents. "If in concluding this discussion a personal word is necessary or permissible in view of the fact that I am the only man now living who could at this time profit by the ideas I have advocated I hope my sincerity will not be questioned when I say that I have dealt with the subject without the least thought of personal interest or desire for personal advantage. I am not in need of aid from the public treasury. I hope and believe that I have provided for myself and those dependent upon me a comfortable maintenance within the limits of accustomed prudence and economy and that those to whom I owe the highest earthly duty will not want when I am gone." <br/><br/> unknown books
1937308243Corvinus Press 1937. No. 20 of 30 copies on J.B. Green unsized paper edition of 32. 1 vols. 4to. White linen. Fine. No. 20 of 30 copies on J.B. Green unsized paper edition of 32. 1 vols. 4to. Poet and diplomat James Elroy Flecker 1884-1915 burned bright and briefly. He joined the diplomatic service in 1908 trained for two years and was posted to Constantinople in 1910 "but in September a slight fever was diagnosed as tuberculosis and he returned to England to a sanatorium. He pronounced himself cured and . went back to Constantinople in March 1911 to be transferred in April to Beirut. Flecker was not a very efficient vice-consul" ODNB. His first formal collection of verse The Bridge of Fire was published in 1907 and The Golden Journey to Samarkand was published in 1913. He died in Switzerland aged thirty-one.<br/>Lawrence knew Flecker in Beirut before the war. "Flecker probably introduced Lawrence to contemporary poetry" wrote Wilson in his introduction to Minorities 1971. <br/>According to O'Brien An Essay on Flecker was "written in 1925 with the intention of publication in a periodical and did not appear in print until 1937". O'Brien A198; Ridler p. 58 #41 [Corvinus Press unknown books
1936308242Corvinus Press 1936. No. 11 of 17 copies this copy on Milbourn hand made paper. 15 unnumbered leaves. 1 vols. 8vo. Full white vellum with yapp edges upper cover titled in gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Liddell Hart bookplate. No. 11 of 17 copies this copy on Milbourn hand made paper. 15 unnumbered leaves. 1 vols. 8vo. Presentation to Eric Kennington. Inscribed to artist Eric Kennington: "EK from Carlow"<br/><br/>Only 17 copies were printed on a variety of paper stocks for private distribution only.<br/><br/>RARE. O'Brien A193 [Corvinus Press unknown books
1946140941373Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office 1946. First Edition. Very Good. First edition first printings. Seven titles: Wartime Exile 167pp.; Impounded People 239pp.; The Relocation Program 105pp; Administrative Highlights of the WRA Program 82pp.; Token Shipment 104pp.; The Evacuated People 200pp.; People in Motion 270pp. Good. Wraps worn some soiled foxed chipped or stained; People in Motion has a long tear to the rear cover. Handwritten titles on spines which are also creased and chipped with loss to spine ends. Pages toned sometimes creased. <p><br /> <br /> Rare documents of the American government's official record of its WWII internment of people of Japanese descent one of the most controversial official programs in American history as reported by the War Relocation Authority. The WRA managed the forced confinement of people of Japanese ancestry in America during World War II as well as their return to civilian life with the commencement of the war. U.S. Government Printing Office unknown books
1977127072N.p.: N.p. 1977. Original manuscript by Joey Ramone for an unrecorded Ramones song "Let's Go Playmates" executed by the punk legend in holograph pencil on both the recto and verso of a legal size sheet of lined notebook paper. The lyrics appear in every orientation a beautiful messy gathering of ideas-some crossed through-rather than a finished song. They read variously: Recto "Let's go playmates / Hey man / Cool man / Pretty cool / Hey Mommy / Take a bath / Get a job / What is it / Hey got my ludes man / Tell me my son / Flies flies / As I live and breathe / Get me / Buy me / Do for me / Hey what's in it fer me / Get with it / Tell me / What does minimalism me to you." Verso: "Does this life look interestin to you well you too can have all this and more / Not another fly / Im so cold / No no no." <br/><br/>A rare example of the songwriting process of a writer for a band whose work stands not only at the top of the punk ladder but really in a realm of its own. The manuscript is not dated but judging from the content it could not have been written after 1978 though probably not prior to the 1977. The final lyric "Does this life look interestin to you" puts it right on the borderline between the band's early fun-drug-crazed songs and the later more goofily philosophical ones. In any case one hell of a piece of paper. <br/><br/>Lined legal size notebook paper 8 x 12.5 inches. Fine. N.p. unknown books
196712983Boston: np 1967. First Edition. Fine. 11 3/8” x 8.5” offset poster black ink on brown paper. Hand-lettered in a psychedelic style designed by "T. F Murphy.” PROVENANCE: From the estate of Velvet Underground guitarist Sterling Morrison with Morrison's widow Martha's signed letter of provenance included. Originally glued to another piece of paper the poster has been professionally restored and is now backed with archival rice paper. Fine. <br/><br/>Rare poster to what has become an historic event. The Velvet Underground played The Boston Tea Party the Beantown equivalent of Max's Kansas City numerous times throughout their career. And their performances over the weekend of August 11th-12th might have been just another appearance had Andy Warhol not been present to film the band. The footage he shot is one of only two performance films of The Underground with synched sound and more importantly is the only footage of the band in color extant. Capturing The Velvets just before the WHITE LIGHT/WHITE HEAT sessions Warhol's footage features the Exploding Plastic Inevitable and utilizes numerous experimental techniques – in- camera edits sudden zooms single-frame stills sweeping panoramas – meant to mimic the experience of seeing live The Velvets and their troupe. Warhol's film was long believed lost. As Steve Nelson remembered: "There's this mythical film that was shot at the Tea Party in August 1967 . That weekend was the first time they incorporated the Andy Warhol side of The Velvet Underground into the Tea Party presentation. Andy actually came there . and Paul Morrissey was there and supposedly they filmed . I know they were there; I know they were pointing cameras. Was there any film in the cameras or did it just disappear I really don't know. The film just never seems to have shown up" quoted in WHITE LIGHT/WHITE HEAT 158. The film was unearthed remastered and restored in 2009-2010 and toured museums and art houses around the country from late 2010 through early 2011 as THE VELVET UNDERGROUND IN BOSTON 1967 16mm 33 mins. Dir: Andy Warhol. C/O THE VELVET UNDERGROUND 53 and NEW YORK ART 202 reproduce the original art for this poster but not the poster itself the latter noting it now seems erroneously that the shows “never took place.” Not in DeRogatis. A rare artifact to an important Warhol film and document of The Velvet Underground in their prime. Warhol's film work continues to be recognized as being as groundbreaking as anything he did on canvas and The Velvets remain probably the most influential band of the last fifty years. As Lester Bangs has written: "Modern music begins with the Velvets and the implications . of what they did seem to go on forever." With extraordinary provenance from the estate of VU member Sterling Morrison knee-weakeningly cool. np unknown books
19963406V.p. 1996. A collection of 410 titles concerning Women in the West. Condition Statement: Overall most of the books in the collection are in "good" or "good" condition which typically describes a book that is sufficiently worn the binding soiled scuffed stained or spotted and may have loose joints hinges pages etc. To a lesser extent there are books in "fair" condition namely a well-worn book that has complete text pages including those with maps or plates but may lack endpapers half-title etc. The binding and/or jacket may also be worn. Women in the American West: Books and Ephemera from the Collection of Dorothy Sloan. SEE DETAILED FINDING AID on our website. <br/><br/>Dorothy Sloan b. 1943 is justly considered to be one of great scholar-booksellers of Western Americana Texana and Latin Americana. Dorothy Sloan Rare Books auction catalogues are recognized as models of their kind and feature an unusually broad array of printed books maps manuscripts and ephemera and are particularly strong in 19th-century materials. In many instances Sloan's bibliographic descriptions have become the description of record.<br/>She began her career at John Howell in San Francisco and thence to Jenkins Company in Austin. She issued her first rare book catalogue in 1984 and her first auction catalogue in 1994. Suffice it to say that as a woman she was literally a pioneer in such an endeavor. <br/><br/>Over the years she built a collection of Women in the West which is described in the 29-page Inventory below. Here is a collection of both women authors and women as the subject of historical and literary narrative. Most of the collection was kept in storage for the last twenty-eight years awaiting cataloguing and eventual sale. As we all know "Life" often interferes with our plans particularly as we grow older. <br/><br/>When Dorothy retired last year we acquired the collection of Women in the West. We are pleased to offer it en bloc for the price of $8200 which includes free shipping in the Continental United States. <br/><br/>Of the 410 titles in the collection nearly 25% are more than a century old. The earliest book in the collection is Sally Hastings' Poems on different subjects. To which is added a descriptive account of a family tour to the West. Lancaster 1808. The author describes her travels from Lancaster County to Washington PA. through the Alleghenies and gives an account of the Ohio River at Pittsburgh.<br/><br/>Only a handful of titles in the collection were published in the last 30 years the "newest" one dated 1996 namely: Anne Butler and Ona Siporin Uncommon common women. which contains culturally and ethnically diverse accounts of women who lived in the American West.<br/><br/>The physical size of the collection is considerable. Without any packing material it would encompass 15 large boxes. There are photographs gum cards engravings various inscribed books plays of the California Gold Rush memoirs and captivity narratives travelogues captivity narratives autobiographies Western novels pamphlets private press material a few 'zines journals catalogues and magazines. It is the culmination of decades of labor spanning all genres in the Western Americana tradition. The collection represents women's voices of a myriad of ethnicities including various Native American tribes African and African-American women Hispanic women prostitutes madams cowgirls ranchers pioneers and their struggles in the face of physical social and cultural adversity. <br/><br/>We are reluctant to mention "highlights" as it would suggest that "lowlights" do not merit attention from scholars and bibliophiles alike. We invite readers to peruse the Inventory of the collection capably prepared by Hunter Corb to allow readers to make that determination for themselves. <br/><br/>Included is the first edition of Miriam Colt's autobiography which describes her ill-fated expedition to Kansas Went to Kansas 1862 in which she traveled more than 1300 miles to establish a communal vegetarian colony. Colt provides vivid and frightening details of a family's ordeals on the frontier landscape including severe illness and encounters with lawless gangs. Defrauded of their investment in the Vegetarian Settlement Company the Colts left Kansas in the fall of 1856. Colt's husband and son died en route leaving only mother and daughter to return to New York. <br/><br/>Another work of interest is Sarah Hopkins's Life Among the Piutes an autobiography written at the encouragement of Ralph Waldo Emerson. This is considered to be the first book written and published in English by a Native American woman. It provides "extensive information about pre-White northern Paiute culture the types of foods marriage and other social practices as well as political leadership" Paher while simultaneously increasing awareness and sympathy for the plight of Native Americans. <br/><br/>Melinda Rankin's Twenty Years Among the Mexicans describes her missionary labor in south Texas and Mexico. Herein are depicted the experiences of the first Protestant woman missionary in Latin America. Although laws in Mexico at the time forbade the introduction of any form of Protestantism into the country Rankin traveled there in 1852 and established the first Protestant mission in Northern Mexico continuing her work there for a few decades before returning to the United States due to health problems. This narrative describes not just Rankin's missionary labors but also many dramatic events in Texas and Mexico including revolutionary turmoil the American Civil War and her capture by the notorious military leader rancher and outlaw Juan Cortina.<br/><br/>From early settlers of the West during and shortly after the American Revolution; to ranchers and pioneering women in the early days of the Republic of Texas and the fight for independence; to overland travels in covered wagons on the famed Oregon Trail at the outset of the American Civil War; to excursions into Mexico and Latin America at the end of the 19th and into the 20th centuries. Over two hundred years of women's experiences can be found within this collection and as such there is something for every student and subject matter.<br/><br/>SEE DETAILED FINDING AID ON OUR WEBSITE which enumerates each and every one of the 410 titles:<br/><br/>https://www.michaellaird.com/cat.phpid=307. unknown books
19732316951973. Pen and ink watercolor and pencil heightened with white on cream paper. 27 x 42 inches. Framed. Fine. Pen and ink watercolor and pencil heightened with white on cream paper. 27 x 42 inches. The original illustration for the second of four title cards used in the opening credits of the classic 1973 motion picture "The Sting" Provenance: Estate of George Roy Hill unknown books
191332077Chicago: I.W.W. Publishing Bureau n.d. but 1913. Reprint 1917. 12mo 17cm.; original drab pictorial staplebound card wrappers; 32pp. Wrappers separated and staples cleanly removed; still a Good complete copy of a very uncommon pamphlet. Accompanied by the original cover artwork 43x27.75cm. black ink on cream stock several losses and a few closed tears to margins none approaching image old vertical fold line stock rather brittle from age and poor quality else Near Very Good. Quite possibly the earliest iteration of Ralph Chaplin's now-ubiquitous "Sabo-Tabby" the I.W.W.'s black cat symbol for sabotage. The present work shows the black cat with its claws fully extended while it arches its back on top of a bag of money coins spilling out. As Chaplin later wrote "My 'Sab Cat' was supposed to symbolize the 'slow down' as a means of 'striking on the job'" cf. https://iww.org/history/icons/black_cat though many including the United States government interpreted it as something much more pernicious. In fact the accompanying pamphlet with its cover art and title raised serious red flags and by the time the United States entered WW1 all copies of Sabotage still in the hands of the I.W.W. were destroyed. The present copy has the small promotional blurb by Jack London dated 1913 on p. 32 though the headquarters address printed on the recto and verso of the rear wrapper 1001 W. Madison St. in Chicago indicates that this is a reprint dating around 1917 probably just before an order was made to destroy all copies. MILES 462. I.W.W. Publishing Bureau unknown books
191222680EGlen Ellen Sonoma County CA 1912. Original Autograph Letter Signed by Jack London to his friend poet George Sterling. 3 pages 8†x 5†dated July 13 1912. With the postmarked envelope which is addressed by Charmian London to George Sterling Carmel-by-the-Sea CA - which is crossed out with “Bohemian Club San Francisco†at the bottom of the address. The text of the letter indicates that it was written on board the ship Dirigo toward the end of the voyage and reads in full: “133 days at sea On board Ship Dirigo 145 W. Long. 42 N. Lat. July 13 1912. Blessed Greek: Just to let you know we’re back. Expect to see you at Jinks and later at ranch to tell you all about the voyage. Say - never let him know it - I’ve forgotten the name of our partner in the tent at Bohemian Grove. You and I are third owners each in the outfit. Only I don’t know what I’ll have to bring. A cot Blankets of course. Find out from him and have a letter at Glen Ellen giving me his name and all essential data. Of course you’ll be at the Jinks. I haven’t had a drink for 144 days! Wolf. Charmian sends love. Say: this time you shall not escape me. You must play pinochle. Greatest two-handed game invented.†Creases from folding else fine. The voyage London speaks of is that of a 148 day sail from Baltimore to Seattle aboard the windjammer Dirigo he took with his wife Charmian. The Bohemian Club is a private club in San Francisco which has a restricted campground called Bohemian Grove in nearby Monte Rio. On August 18 1904 Jack London went with his close friend the poet George Sterling to "Summer High Jinks" at the Bohemian Grove. Subsequently London was elected to honorary membership in the Bohemian Club and took part in many activities. Other noted members of the Bohemian Club during this time included Ambrose Bierce Gelett Burgess Allan Dunn John Muir Frank Norris and Herman George Scheffauer. George Sterling 1869 - 1926 was an American writer based in the San Francisco California Bay Area and Carmel-by-the-Sea. He was considered a prominent poet and playwright and proponent of Bohemianism during the first quarter of the twentieth century. In addition to Jack London his work was admired by writers as diverse as Upton Sinclair Theodore Dreiser and Sinclair Lewis. The American historian Kevin Starr wrote this about Sterling: “The uncrowned King of Bohemia so his friends called him Sterling had been at the center of every artistic circle in the San Francisco Bay Area. Celebrated as the embodiment of the local artistic scene though forgotten today Sterling had in his lifetime been linked with the immortals his name carved on the walls of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition next to the great poets of the past.†unknown books
191927014London: Constable 1919. Octavo bound in full scarlet crushed levant morocco Cosway-style binding by Bayntun-Riviere. Front and rear panels with single gilt filler border upper cover set with an oval miniature painting of a battle scene under glass framed with a variety of weapons and emblems gilt; spine in six compartments with five raised bands a decorative panel in the rest each bearing crown eagle or fleur-de-lys; board edges gilt dotted turn-ins gilt doublures and free endpages of yellow watered silk all edges gilt. In fine condition. Housed in a custom cloth folding box. Frederick the Great was King of Prussia from 1740 until 1786 the longest reign of any Hohenzollern king. His most significant accomplishments during his reign included his military victories his reorganization of Prussian armies his patronage of the arts and the Enlightenment in Prussia and his final success against great odds in the Seven Years' War. Frederick was the last titled King in Prussia and declared himself King of Prussia after achieving full sovereignty for all historical Prussian lands. Prussia had greatly increased its territories and became a leading military power in Europe under his rule. Cosway bindings named for renowned 19th-century English miniaturist Richard Cosway were popularized if not invented in the early 1900s by the renowned London bookselling firm of Henry Sotheran. The earliest Cosway bindings were created by Miss C.B. Currie who faithfully imitated Cosway's detailed watercolor style of portraiture from designs by J.H. Stonehouse Sotheran's manager. These delicate miniature paintings often on ivory were set into the covers or doublures of richly-tooled bindings and protected by a thin pane of glass. Constable hardcover books
196283782New York: Duell Sloan and Pearce 1962. First edition of this early biography of The Dalai Lama. Octavo original cloth frontispiece. Signed and dated in the year of publication by His Holiness The Dalai Lama on the front free endpaper. Laid in is a note to the recipient on official Tibetan letterhead from the private secretary to the Dalai Lama stating that The Dalai Lama has signed this copy. Also inscribed on the half-title page by the author "With warmes regards and best wishes to Kenneth Crouch- and with a special salute from- Lowell Thomas Jr. Dec. 14 62." Near fine in a very good dust jacket with some tape to the exterior. Jacket design by Gary Gore. Contemporary signatures of His Holiness are scarce. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Rare and desirable signed. Duell, Sloan and Pearce hardcover books
1935226762London Jonathan Cape 1935. 1935. First trade edition. 4to. Illustrated with 54 plates and 4 folding maps. In a designer binding of full tan niger morocco gilt stamped the covers with elaborate interlocking linear design based on the traced route of a journey by Lawrence in the desert spine lettered in gilt marbled doublures and endpapers. Enclosed in a mahogany edged slipcase with marbled boards and a matching marbled chemise. Fine fresh as new. Binding by J.J.D. Yardley 1971. Includes correspondence between binder and Colonel Bradfer Lawrence giving a detailed story of the binding design and materials used to bind the book and to make the unusual slipcase. H.J. Desmond Yardley 1905-1972 was a binder who enrolled at the Central School of Arts and Crafts where he was taught by William Matthews. In 1956 he was elected to the Guild of Contemporary Bookbinders later becoming an exhibiting Fellow of the Designer Bookbinders. Exhibited: "The Art of the book William Morris and after 1892-1977 Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge England 1978.". Hardcover. Fine. London, Jonathan Cape, 1935. hardcover books
196230019New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company Inc 1962. First edition of the Dalai Lama's first autobiography. Octavo original half cloth illustrated. Signed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama on the title page with the added words "with prayers." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Recognized at the age of two as the reincarnation of the Thirteenth Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso was brought to Lhasa the capital of Tibet and enthroned two years later as the fourteenth Dalai Lama. In 1959 following the Chinese suppression of the Tibetan national uprising he was forced to seek asylum in India. As Tibet's leader-in-exile he has worked tirelessly not only on behalf of the Tibetan people but as a voice for human rights worldwide. "My Land and My People is without a doubt one of the most moving memoirs I have ever read" Stanley Gosh Saturday Review. McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc hardcover books
1917R5124Published at the Governing Senate 1917. Paperback. Good. Folded sheets sometimes in two gatherings. The paper is brittle sometimes with large chips eliminating text -- but overall legible and satisfactory. The collection includes: Numbers 151-155 158-181 183x2-186 193-198 200 x2 202 205-214 217-221 224 published 1 July - 15 September 1917. A total of 58 issues very rare. The October Revolution is said to have begun with the storming of the provisional government's Winter Palace on 25 October 1917 according to the pre-Revolutionary calendar which lagged behind the Western calendar by 2 weeks. 25 October corresponds to 7 November in the post-Revolution calendar tho all Russian religious holidays still lag 2 weeks behind their Western counterparts. <br/><br/> Published at the Governing Senate paperback books
1967123671Hollywood: Capitol Records 1967. Rare Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band LP boldly signed by Paul McCartney one of the most-admired and influential lyricists of the twentieth century. Quarto signed by Paul McCartney on the front panel. Recording produced by George Martin. Cover by M C Productions and The Apple. Staged by Peter Blake and Jann Haworth. Photographed by Michael Cooper. Wax figures by Madame Tussauds. A splendid time is guaranteed for all. In near fine condition. Rare and desirable. Released on May 26 1967 The Beatles' eighth studio album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band spent 27 weeks at number one on the Record Retailer chart in the United Kingdom and 15 weeks at number one on the Billboard Top LPs chart in the United States. It was lauded by critics for its innovations in songwriting production and graphic design for bridging a cultural divide between popular music and high art and for reflecting the interests of contemporary youth and the counterculture. Its release was a defining moment in 1960s pop culture heralding the Summer of Love while the album's reception achieved full cultural legitimization for pop music and recognition for the medium as a genuine art form. Capitol Records unknown books
19625520London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1962. First edition of the Dalai Lama's first autobiography. Octavo original black cloth illustrated. Signed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama on the title page with the added words "with prayers." Near fine in a excellent dust jacket with light rubbing. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. A very sharp example uncommon signed. Recognized at the age of two as the reincarnation of the Thirteenth Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso was brought to Lhasa the capital of Tibet and enthroned two years later as the fourteenth Dalai Lama. In 1959 following the Chinese suppression of the Tibetan national uprising he was forced to seek asylum in India. As Tibet's leader-in-exile he has worked tirelessly not only on behalf of the Tibetan people but as a voice for human rights worldwide. "My Land and My People is without a doubt one of the most moving memoirs I have ever read" Stanley Gosh Saturday Review. Weidenfeld and Nicolson hardcover books
199415922J1994. An original camera clapperboard used in the creation of the classic final picture in the film trilogy adaptation of Forrest Gump which eventually won the Academy Award for Best Picture. A clapperboard is a pair of hinged boards clapped together at the beginning of a film shot in order to aid sound synchronization and at the same time record the shot number and the number of individual takes of a scene. The board lists the production name the director’s name Robert Zemekis the cameraman’s name Don Burgess the scene number the roll of film number the take number and the date of shooting. 11 inches wide by 9 3/4 inches tall. Very good condition. The film won 6 Academy Award Oscars for Best Picture Best Actor - Tom Hanks Best Director. Best Adapted Screenplay Best Visual Effects and Best Film Editing. hardcover books