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19671458751967. Archive of eight vintage borderless photographs three typescript essays and a carbon typescript of the first essay and first page of the second by photographer Jerry Bauer circa 1967 with the photographs corresponding to the topics of the essays. <br/><br/>Bauer was an American photographer best known for his photographic portraits of writers with his portraits of Samuel Beckett being held in particularly high regard. Much of his work resides in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in London.<br/><br/>The first essay "The American Underground: Mind Expansion A Messiah 'Love'" is an examination of Timothy Leary and the "League for Spiritual Discovery" LSD a communal organization carrying out studies in the religious use of psychedelic drugs as well as the effects of LSD. Two photographs are of the New York Millbrook estate mentioned in the essay one of the centers for the group one photograph of the estate itself and the other of two participants on the porch. Another photograph shows three young people lounging on a bed a young man with beads in his hand matching the description in the essay of a subject's focus on "a set of beads" and a description of the living quarters being ". . . simple: mattresses on the floor." <br/><br/>The second essay "American Underground : Mind Expansion The Poets 'Love' 2" is broken into three sections. The first is about the musical group The Fugs who Bauer describes as "the Beatles of the American underground." Two of the photographs in and around Washington Square Park feature members of The Fugs one of a gleaming Ed Sanders and Geoff Outlaw with two unidentified young women. In a second photograph the same group is on the grass along with Ken Weaver and a third unidentified young woman.<br/><br/>The second section of the essay is about "the two stars" of the underground film movement Andy Warhol stars Baby Jane Holzer and Edie Sedgewick with a corresponding photograph taken in Warhol's Factory showing Ingrid Superstar sitting on a mattress Baby Jane Holzer on the floor with her back to the camera along with several unidentified subjects. Holzer is identified from a published photograph by Bauer titled "Baby Jane Holzer" taken at the same time as the one in the archive.<br/><br/>The final section of the essay is a about American youth and drug culture in Greenwich Village as well as the neighborhood itself. Here the related photographs are of several young people seated on the grass one playing the guitar in Washington Square Park and one of several people standing around a Greenwich Village intersection.<br/><br/>The third essay "Andy Warhol: Film Director of America's Underground" is a study of Warhol's early experimental films. Beginning with a brief summation of Warhol's early career Bauer goes on to postulate about Warhol's films discussing the director's various regulars including Elekro Baby Jane Holzer Sally Kirkland Nico here spelled "Nicot" and others.<br/><br/>Photographs: Six photographs 10.75 x 8.25 inches two photographs 10.75 x 8 inches. Near Fine overall.<br/><br/>Ribbon typescript essays: 8.25 x 10.75 inches. Typescript on onionskin stock six leaves bound with a silver corner clip. Near Fine.<br/><br/>Carbon typescript essays: 8.25 x 10.75 inches. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock three leaves bound with a silver corner clip. Near Fine. unknown books
2018407205Houston: Menil Collection 2018. A new set each volume in shrinkwrap and unopened in publisher's cardboard box. 6 volumes 4to. Totalling 1850 pages 926 color plates. Cloth each volume in individual slipcases. Six decades of both iconic and intimate works by Jasper Johns b. 1930 who is still producing at the age of 88 are given their full due in this magnificent multi-volume publication. Featuring exquisite full-page illustrations of all 813 known drawings by Johns more than 200 of which have not been published or exhibited the volumes demonstrate how Johns has been instrumental in elevating and establishing drawing as a major medium in contemporary art and his drawings chart his artistic interests and aesthetic evolution.<br/><br/>Five volumes are dedicated to the drawings documenting materials and listing exhibition and publication histories and the large-scale reproductions feature special production details. These include the use of special inks such as a combination with silver for graphite works and custom mixes to represent particular colors ensuring that the reproductions are as faithful as possible with state-of-the-art printing technology. The sixth volume includes an exhibition chronology and bibliography focused on drawings as well as indexes to the set. <br/><br/> Menil Collection hardcover books
1955117566London: Jonathan Cape 1955. First edition limited issue of Lawrence's semi-autobiographical account of his R.A.F. training days. Quarto original quarter morocco patterned endpapers top edge gilt with others uncut. One of 2000 numbered copies this is number 1039. Although not called for this example is signed by A.W. Lawrence on the limitation page T.E. Lawrence's brother who edited and contributed to introductory notes to this volume. Near fine in the rare original slipcase which is in very good condition. Bookplate. Rare and desirable. Following World War I despite having previously held a senior rank Lawrence disappeared from public view by enlisting in the Royal Air Force as 351087 Aircraftman Ross. THE Mint covers his initial training and part of his service likening RAF training to a coin factory--the men are "The Raw Material" put through "the Mill' that mints them into soldiers. The books was published posthumously according to Lawrence's wishes and shocked many of his contemporaries. Jonathan Cape unknown books
1933306042New York & New Fairfield Ct: Press of William Edwin Rudge 1933. First edition one of 200 copies. Printed in brown from italic type set by Bertha Goudy. 44 ff. 1 vols. 8vo. Limp brown cloth spine lettered in gilt. About fine covers slightly splayed. First edition one of 200 copies. Printed in brown from italic type set by Bertha Goudy. 44 ff. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed from BR to Philip Duschnes. Inscribed on the first blank "Philip C. Duschnes with the regards of Bruce Rogers Christmas 1934"<br/><br/>The scarce privately printed volume of letters from Lawrence to Bruce Rogers 1928-1932 chiefly in connection with Lawrence's translation of the Odyssey designed and produced by Rogers. A great association as New York City bookseller Duschnes was a specialist in fine press books and also sold lots of T.E.L. material. He distributed Secret Dispatches and other Golden Cockerel titles in America. After Lawrence's death Rogers printed a second volume containing a few more letters in 1936. O'Brien A 160 Press of William Edwin Rudge unknown books
1927257407New York: George H. Doran Co 1927. First American Edition Number 209 of 250 copies on white laid watermarked paper. 18 plates 11 in colour 7 in black and white letter tissue guards folding map at rear. 1 vols. 8vo. Blue buckram t.e.g. other edges untrimmed leather spine label; slightly dusty. Some chipping to gutter of frontis & its tissue guard slipcase defective. First American Edition Number 209 of 250 copies on white laid watermarked paper. 18 plates 11 in colour 7 in black and white letter tissue guards folding map at rear. 1 vols. 8vo. With line drawings from the 1926 'Seven Pillars'. Original price $30.00. O'Brien A105;Macro 1439 for London ed. George H. Doran Co unknown books
1935RLAWSEV00AFJonathan Cape 1935. Very Good. Lawrence T.E. Seven Pillars of Wisdom. London: Jonathan Cape 1935. 1 of 750 copies. 672pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 4to. Book condition: Very good with lightly rubbed leather and a tiny chip at top of rear joint. Bumped corners slightly soiled cloth and gently rubbed bottom edges. Internally quite clean. Other printings are known to have only black and white images. In this limited edition a few of those images are in full color. Jonathan Cape hardcover books
1925536421925. Folio. Eight pages approximately 2750 words; accompanied by another autograph letter from Russell to Trowbridge 14 March 1925; 4to four pages approximately 750 words with more information on the political situation in Missouri on the eve of war and an autograph transcription by Russell of the long poem "The Battle of Wilson's Creek August 10 1861" folio two pages with his own commentary on the poem. Folded. Insect damage to the poem and first leaf of the longer letter resulting in the loss of a number of letters but quite legible throughout. 813. Russell a native of St. Louis enlisted under Lincoln's first call for troops and served in a Missouri regiment through the summer of 1864. Following an outline of sectional struggle from 1820 and early events of the war given in the first half of the longer letter Russell describes the events of the Wilson's Creek Campaign and then his own eyewitness to history: "The Kansas boys like ourselves were resting when all at once the rebels crept up the hill to the top of the crest opened a tremendous fire right into the Iowa boys and our regiment but we went at them anyway and a hand to hand struggle began . My Captain Cary Gratz was killed . I was wounded four times and the Kansas boys were holding their own. Capt. Lyon had been hit twice once a scratch along the forehead and a light superficial wound in the knee. I was carried down the hill and placed on the hill side opposite the line of battle the valley being merely a hollow. I had a good view of the fight as it went on. My first attention was attracted to my right as I lay there and watched Capt. Lyon trying to rally the Iowa boys who were in a panic their Colonel had been killed and although the Kansas boys had saved them Capt. Lyon was rallying them into formation to use as they were then near the front. All at once I saw him rear off that dople sic gray horse and fall to the ground. Maj. Schofield also ran to his side a messenger sent for our surgeon Dr. Comyns . Capt. Lyon was carried down the hill he was shot nearly half way up from the hollow to the battle lines. The bullet had struck him squarely in the breast and had gone through his hear and he had lost the pleasure of seeing the victory his indomitable courage had won."_The Confederates commanded by Gen. Sterling Price made another assault following the death of Lyon but Samuel Sturgis rallied the Union troops and the Federal lines held. Sturgis then left the field toward Springfield and the Confederates did not pursue him. "The campaign marked the beginning of the war in Missouri and the trans-Mississippi. Afterward the Federal army withdrew to rolla Missouri leaving the Southerners in possession of most of the southwestern region of the state" "Encyclopedia of the Confederacy"._Lyon 1818-1861 a Connecticut native graduated from West Point in 1841 served in the Mexican War and on the western frontier most of the time to the eve of Civil War in "Bleeding Kansas" becoming involved in the political issue of slavery in the territories. Appointed brigadier general in May 1861 to command the Union forces in St. Louis he also led discussions with Confederate sympathizers on Missouri's position in the union; when compromise failed he launched his first military campaign which culminated in his death at Wilson's Creek. "The entire north mourned his death and he immediately became a national hero and martyr . his brilliant work had done much to hold Missouri for the Union" DAB. <br/><br/> unknown books
1576304748Venice: Aldus Manutius 1576. First edition. viii 125 3 blank; 106 6 blank; 103 pp. 8vo. 17th-century German blind-stamped pigskin red edges. First edition. viii 125 3 blank; 106 6 blank; 103 pp. 8vo. This work on questions of antiquity written by Aldus the Younger son of Paulus Manutius esteemed Cicero scholar and grandson and namesake of the famous Venetian printer Aldus Manutius covers astronomy the Ptolemies and questions of the liberal arts. <br/>Aldus the Younger was the last member of the Manutius family to be active with the family's renowned press in Venice. Ahmanson-Murphy 898; Renouard 223:13. Provenance: early canceled ownership inscription at base of title "Paulus Johanne Patavii MDLXXVII"; Earls of Maccelsfield North Library bookplate embossed stamp to title and following leaf [Aldus Manutius] unknown books
178563329Imprime a Berlin: se vend a Potsdam: aux depends de l'Auteur chez J.F. Unger 1785. First edition in French. Rebound in 3/4 leather and marbled boards gilt rules and gilt stamped black morocco spine label. 27cm. 104 pp. Extra illustrated title page large hand-colored map and 26 hand-colored battle plans mounted on plates. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. A very good copy. A chronology of the campaigns of Frederick the Great during the battles in Silesia and the Seven Years' War appears in printed margin notes. Errata on page 104.<br/>The original edition in German also issued in 1785 under the title "Kurzgefasste Beschreibung der drei Schlesischen Kriege zur Erklarung einter Kupfertafel auf Welcher sechs und zwanzig Schlachten und Hauptgefechte abgebildet sind" was accompanied by a large folding plate at the rear which included all the various battle plans mentioned. For the French language edition this plate was carefully trimmed and separated into the individual plans which were then laid down on plates and interspersed within the text. The extra-illustrated title page was created from the title of the plate. Other copies we have examined show slight variations in the way the plates were trimmed so each copy must have been created by hand. OCLC lists 5 copies of this edition in the U.S.: Stanford Soc. of the Cincinnati Boston Athenaeum U.S. Army War College & Newberry. <br/><br/> aux depends de l'Auteur chez J.F. Unger hardcover books
18913913Glasgow: James Maclehose & Sons 1891. First edition. Fine. Original blue publisher's cloth binding with bright gilt to spine. With some toning to endpapers and half title else internally bright and unmarked.Collating xvi 169 170-173 174-249 1 blank: complete including half title. An exceptionally pleasing copy inscribed by Murray on the front endpaper: "R. E. Aitken Esq. C.A. With the Author's Compliments." In another hand in pencil below it the date "16 Feb. 1891." Scarce institutionally and in trade OCLC reports holdings at only 8 U.S. libraries and the present is the only copy on the market.<br/><br/>After decades of lobbying the women of Great Britain gained several key legal victories in the form of the Married Women's Property Acts 1870-1893. Across the four acts were measures that broke down the English Common Law structure that subsumed married women's legal and social identities under their husbands' through coverture for centuries. With each new act women gained the ability to sue for divorce and custody to own property and wages to enter into contracts and otherwise engage as individual legal entities. At times difficult to navigate -- for both women and men -- books like the present volume became useful for laypeople. According to Murray's preface his "object is to state shortly the effect of marriage upon the property of spouses the claims of the children of the marriage and the rights of creditors." In this sense his book acknowledges from the start that women's gains in legal selfhood affect a much broader system of operations that are deeply ingrained in the U.K. To this end "the common law is first explained -- to some extent in its historical development -- then the alterations made upon it by statute particularly by the Married Women's Property Acts." The result is a highly useful straightforward reference guide that assists the reader and especially women new to having such rights both how the old laws stood and what has now changed. Marginal commentary indexes and appendices assist in bringing further cross-referencing and explanation as needed. <br/><br/>A major set of legal victories for women Murray's text also gestures to the great social shift that has begun taking place alongside them: "Marriage creates a society of partnership between the married pair.a community of property between husband and wife." Fine. James Maclehose & Sons unknown books
176437800New York: Hugh Gaine 1764. First edition. Original full sheep five raided bands red morocco spine label lettered in gilt. Boards very worn front board detached repaired owner's bookplate Historical Society stamp on title and a few leaves first two blanks and first three leaves browned and ragged at the edges two small holes from erasure of name on title leaf one just nicking the V in Votes old but expert repairs to edges of first dozen leaves worming to the margins of about a dozen middle leaves affecting a few words on one leaf only last leaf ragged with a few worm holes affecting a few letters last two blanks lacking portions of lower corner and ragged occasional light dampstaining mostly marginal otherwise leaves clean and impressions sharp. Good. iv 840 2. Signed in type by the editor Abraham Lott Junr. Signed in manuscript "Bound by Rob. McAlpine" at the conclusion of the preface. Contains the added leaf with the "Act of Parliament for reversing the Attainder of Jacob Leisler Jacob Milbourne and Abraham Governeur who were executed for not delivering the Fort at New York to Richard Ingoldsby 1690" Sabin. Evans states that this leaf is "often lacking." Page numbers 665-666 omitted from pagination. Evans 9756. Sabin 53719. ESTC W6332. Marke p. 80. Larned 161. Hugh Gaine hardcover books
2010285779Washington: United States Government Printing Office 2010. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. From the Foreign Relation of the United States series published by the Office of the Historian in the U.S. Department of State; with all volumes covering Vietnam from 1955 to July 1975 the creation of the state to the end of direct U.S. military involvement there complete in eighteen volumes. The FRUS series "serves as the primary venue for publishing documentation on the role of intelligence activities in U. S. foreign relations and it has become renowned internationally for its openness" Immerman. Discrete unobtrusive marginalia in pencil in most volumes. Else bright and clean. Clay colored cloth gilt lettering and decoration on the spines. Overall in Very Good condition. Richard Immerman. "Report of the Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation." . Very Good binding. United States Government Printing Office unknown books
187261239Washington DC: GPO 1872. First edition. 8vo. 318 pp. The report deals with immigration to western public lands expansion of railroads Native American issues the Geological survey etc. Judge Isaac Parker's copy with his signature on the title page; Parker 1838-1896 remembered as the "hanging judge" oversaw 13940 cases on his docket as the presiding U.S. District Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas in Fort Smith Arkansas between 1875 and 1895 overseeing much of the Indian Territory in addition to portions of Arkansas. Of this number 9454 persons about 70 per cent of those tried by him were either convicted by a jury or entered pleas of guilty. 344 were tried to capital offenses and 151 convicted; of those 76 were executed one was killed while attempting to escape four died in jail two were pardoned and the remaining 68 all given sentenced to death by Parker had their sentences commuted by the President to long terms in prison. "Cruel they have said I am but they forget the utterly hardened character of the men I dealt with. They forget that in my court jurisdiction alone sixty-five deputy marshals were murdered in the discharge of their duty. Wilson who was connected with the Starr gang was one of the men whom I sentenced to death. It did not appear to me to be an act of cruelty to sentence that fellow to hand by the neck until he was dead . the trouble is with the bench and behind it the maudlin sentimentality that forgets and condones a crime upon which the blood stains have dried. The bench is indifferent and careless. The avarice which is the curse of this age has so poisoned the people that civil law for the protection of property concerns it more than the criminal law which protects life. 'Which is of greater value your house or your life!" asks the bench and the people by their attitude in specific instances answers: 'My house.' Small wonder that the bench comes to take the same view and adjudges accordingly" from an 1896 interview with Ada Patterson at the Fort Smith National Historic Site webpage. Marbled paper on the upper board eroded but a very good copy with a nice association. Contemporary brown three-quarter leather joints rubbed and marbled boards endpapers and edges. #8369. <br/><br/> GPO hardcover books
60242Single sheet of blue paper folded 4 pp. manuscript approx. 650 words. Marked "Rec'd 25th Oct. Private files". Petigru expresses concern that "a great outcry has been raised against Mr. Owen which cannot fail to injure him because unpopularity in the Democracy is an offence of itself." Owen was accused in the popular press and by some members of the public of failing to intervene with the Cuban government on behalf of the prisoners captured after the failed Lopez expedition. Petigru insists that Owen is of exemplary character and that he was forewarned by the Governor of Cuba himself that any attempts to see the prisoners or make applications on their behalf "would be repulsed as unwarrantable -- and I confess it seems to me that whatever may be thought of the motives of Col. Crittenden & his men they had justly incurred their fate as Pirates and that an interference in their behalf at that instant under the semblance of official authority could have been received & treated only as an impertinence." Petigru hopes that Owen will not be condemned for his actions: "I would be very much gratified indeed if Mr. Owen should stand as an instance of the failure of popular clamor against justice."<br/>This letter was unpublished according to the "Papers of Daniel Webster 1974-1989 vol. 7. James Petigru an anti-nullification and later anti-secession South Carolinian served President Fillmore for two years as U.S. District Attorney in Charleston when Fillmore had difficulty finding a southerner to accept a federal post. In this capacity he wrote his defense of Owen. Narciso Lopez' third filibustering effort to invade and "liberate" the island of Cuba resulted in failure capture and death to many of those involved. The group of some 400 men departed from New Orleans in August 1851 and included Col. William L. Crittenden the nephew of the Attorney General of the United States. Crittenden and his troop of fifty men were captured and executed by firing squad after a very brief confinement. Lopez was executed by garrote. Allen F. Owen 1816-1865; member of the Georgia House of Representatives 1843-47 was the American Consul on the island from May to December 1851. When called upon by a number of Americans to intervene Owen expressed his opinion to Jose Guttierez de la Concha the Captain General in Cuba as reported in a letter dated August 31 1851: "With the greatest dignity he Owen refused such a proposal answering that according to the solemn declaration of the President of the United States they had lost their nationality at the moment of embarking on a piratical expedition." see: Robert Caldwell's "Lopez Expeditions to Cuba 1848-1851" Princeton: 1915 Still the outrage felt by American citizens particularly in the South continued to reverberate during Fillmore's administration. <br/><br/> unknown books
199914955JAbsecon: MagicImage 1999. First Edition First Printing. Laid in is an Autograph Letter Signed by Mary Philbin co-star with Lon Chaney Sr. in the classic film written to the book’s author Philip J. Riley. Dated September 11 1989 Philbin writes: “Dear Mr Riley: I am sorry about the delay in returning the book and papers. I would appreciate eleven complimentary copies of The Phantom of the Opera book or if you cannot then as many as possible. Thank you Mary Philbinâ€. Accompanied by the original hand-addressed envelope from Philbin’s home in Los Angeles. Philbin died before the book was published so this is as close as one can come to a signed copy. Large 317 page paperbound book. Profusely illustrated. Near fine copy enclosed in a handsome morocco leather and cloth clamshell box. MagicImage hardcover books
186516105London 1865. Chromolithograph. Trimmed and mounted on board as issued. In excellent condition with the exception of a tear in the image. Scratch in upper section of image with small puncture mark. Image size: 16 3/4 x 25 13/16 inches. A picturesque view of St. Goar on the Rhine by the celebrated landscape painter Thomas Richardson.<br/> <br/>Thomas M. Richardson born and died in Newcastle upon Tyne but spent a considerable amount of time traveling in France Switzerland Italy and Germany and produced lithographs of the watercolours he did there. This excellent study on the Rhine being a perfect example. The printing a major element in the success of a chromolithograph was done by M. & N. Hanhart. Richardson was son and pupil of T. M. Richardson the Elder who taught him to work in oils and watercolours. After his father's death Richardson the Younger worked exclusively in watercolour. He was a member of the Society of Painters in Watercolour and a member of the Royal Scottish Academy. Chromolithography was achieved by using a series of carefully registered tint stones to create a smooth richly coloured image. This printing process became immensely popular towards the end of the nineteenth century and was widely used in fine art as well as commercial printing. One of the most important chromolithographic firms was M & N Hanhart in London. The firm founded by Michael Hanhart began publishing its first prints in 1840 and remained in business until the end of the century. Hanhart's was known for its large separately published chromolithographs but it printed everything from book illustrations to song sheets. This stunning print after Richardson is a fine example of Hanhart's superior chromolithographs. Its intense colour and meticulous detailing is common of Hanhart's superior printing techniques representing the best example of nineteenth century chromolithography.<br/> <br/>Benezit Dictionary of Artists. unknown books
18223853London: Harvey & Darton 1822. First edition. Near Fine. Contemporary quarter roan over marbled boards with title and price in gilt to spine. All edges speckled blue. Some very gentle shelfwear to extremities but overall a surprisingly well preserved example of this delicate book measuring 90 x 140mm. Small bookseller's tickets of Matthew Brooke to front and rear pastedowns; later ownership signature of Katherine de Reeves to front pastedown. Internally clean and unmarked with some offsetting from the frontis to the title. Collating vii 1 blank 180 4 publisher's catalogue: complete. Scarce institutionally and in trade OCLC reports 8 copies in U.S. libraries with the present being the only one on the market.<br/><br/>Prolific as a writer of juvenile fiction Elizabeth Sandham enters the genre of the imaginary travelogue to instruct her audience of largely young female readers. Making their way for a holiday in Brighton companions Caroline and Harriet navigate the dangers of "mean and selfish" women who propose themselves as friends. Though Harriet is tempted toward the finery and sophistication of Miss Dobson and Miss Penton Caroline's goodness guides her friend toward recognizing and avoiding the "covetous" behaviors their acquaintances encourage. Ultimately Sandham's Sketches "are intended to convince my readers of the advantages of a good education" and the influence that true and kind friendships can exert on character. In urging women to educate themselves about the world and in encouraging girls to connect with other intelligent female characters Sandham also carved out space for educated women's voices in her literary field. Meanwhile her publishers were seeking to establish their own Quaker community as an important part of the book world. The Quakers' classless anti-hierarchical social structure made it possible as early as the 17th century for Quaker women "to publish journals testimonies and spiritual biographies.that gave women first a public voice and then a published identity and tradition" Nussbaum. William Darton and Joseph Harvey harnessed this as did their heirs. As Quakers who were "the most important publisher of juvenile literature of the first half of the nineteenth century they promoted Quaker topics through his books' subjects educational purpose and authorship by a stream of women who were also mostly Quakers. social ethics played a key role in the women's educational publishing phenomenon of 1790-1828" Spies-Gans. An important example of intersectional promotion as members of two communities marginalized for their sex or religion worked to support each other's causes. Near Fine. Harvey & Darton unknown books
1712WRCAM43360London: Printed by Joseph Downing 1712. 266pp. Small quarto. Antique-style three-quarter speckled calf and marbled boards gilt morocco label. Text trimmed a bit close shaving the bottom of five words on one page. Some light foxing. Very good. From the Library of the Earls of Macclesfield with bookplate on front pastedown. Second edition of this collection after the first of 1706. The Society was charged with propagating the gospel in many far-flung regions including to the Indians of the British colonies in North America and to blacks in the West Indies. Included is the charter granted the Society by King William III the Society's request for fit ministers to be sent abroad a description of the qualifications of such ministers the standing orders of the Society and instructions for clergy and schoolmasters as to how they should comport themselves when on their missions. One chapter is devoted to prayers for schools in America. The final two chapters give a list of the members of the Society and a "Catalogue of the Missionaries Library." EUROPEAN AMERICANA and OCLC together locate only six copies of this second edition. A scarce and informative volume on the operations and philosophy of this important missionary organization. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 712/205. OCLC 228754493 54182866 460606759. SABIN 85934 note. Printed by Joseph Downing hardcover books
191134464Cincinnati / Chattanooga: Robert Clarke / MacGowan-Cooke Printing 1911. First editions. Cloth. Very good or better copies with all but four volumes with the bookplate of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States Commandery of the State of Illinois on front pastedowns shelf stickers on foot of backstrips their stamp on title pages otherwise crisp and clean. Illus. 8vo. Most are presentations copies illustrated with frontis engravings color reproductions of the Society badge and include photographs engravings minutes addresses banquet letters constitution by-laws and list of members. The Burial of General Rosecrans Arlington National Cemetary May 17 1902 is the very scarce first edition nearly the complete stock of this original edition was destroyed by a fire at Robert Clarke the publisher just as distribution started. It was subsequently reprinted with a note explaining the reasons for the reissue. The 37th volume includes the scarce accompanying pamphlet: "The Battles of Chattanooga" address of Major W. J. Colburn at the dedication of the New York Monument in Point Park Lookout Mountain Tennessee on Nov. 15 1910. Lacking only the 2nd 19th 23rd 26th and 29th reunions. Robert Clarke / MacGowan-Cooke Printing hardcover books
600554July 14 1939. 4to 12 pages signed by Hardy on page 12 enclosed in the original stiff light blue wrappers with "Agreement Re: 'The Wizard of Oz'" typed on upper cover. Also signed by Assistant Treasurer of Loew's with blindstamped corporate seal of Loew's. Fine fresh example. Agreement between Loew's incorporated and "Hardy Different Toys" of 35 West 35th Street New York New York for their manufacture and sale of dolls marked or labeled with the names or "The Cowardly Lion" and "Commander of the Flying Monkeys" from the film "The Wizard of Oz" for which Loew's is to receive 5% of the selling price. The Wizard of Oz based on Frank L. Baum's book "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" was released by MGM on August 12 1939. It received two Academy Award nominations and won on award for the song "Over The Rainbow.". Signed by Authors. F. Soft cover. paperback books
17916553London: Printed for the author at the Literary-Press No. 62 Wardour Street Soho and all Book-sellers in Town and Country 1791. Duodecimo 16 x 10.5 cm. 120 4-12 pages. Illustrated with twenty-one wood engravings. Publisher's advertisements at rear. ~ Second edition. First issued in 1788 this juvenile etiquette manual for mealtime is best known for its extensive section on carving well-illustrated with nineteen handsome woodcuts of carving instruction for different cuts of meat in addition to an image of the author's coat of arms on the verso of the title page and an illustration within the publisher's advertisements. Oxford points out that the book contains "curious information as to the habits of the day. For example the custom of 'a gentleman and a lady sitting alternately around the table' had only been lately introduced." Trusler 1735-1820 was the editor of Lord Chesterfield's Principles of Politeness 1785 and has been described as an "eccentric divine literary compiler and medical empiric" DNB. Some soiling throughout and a number of closed tears; lower corner of one leaf pages 119/120 torn off effecting one line of text on each page. In early marbled boards over half-calf with the spine now mostly perished with the structure now visible. Some signatures loose but all is present and still well-contained despite the spine. Now housed in an attractive custom clamshell box from Town's End Bindery. With the ownership signature of American historian Wilfrid Harold Munro. OCLC locates twenty-five copies of this London printing and ten of the Dublin issue of the same year; Bitting 466; Cagle 1026; Maclean page 142; Oxford page 117; Pennell page 163; Schraemli 485; Simon BG 1476. Printed for the author at the Literary-Press, No. 62 Wardour Street, Soho, and all Book-sellers in Town and Country hardcover books
19476055131947. 8 3/4" x 11 5/8"; 1 page recto and verso; very good fresh; 1947. Rare and unique! Signed on the front by: Agnes Moorehead; Brian Donlevy; Robert Walker; Tom Drake; Beverly Tyler; Audrey Totter; Hume Cronyn; Hurd Hatfield; Joseph Calleia; Godfrey Tearle; Jonathan Hale; Henry O'Neill; Warner Andersen; Art Baker; Ludwig Stossel; Arno Frey; William Wright; Erville Alderson; Nella Walker; Barry Nelson; Moroni Olsen; Trevor Bardette; Robert Considine - story; Frank Wead - writer; Ray June - Cinematographer; Stanley Goldsmith - assistant director; Joe Edmondson - sound technician; Samuel Marx - producer; Signed on the back by: George Boemler - film editor; H.T. Wensel Harry - technical advisor; Tessa Primock - script; Gertrude Kupwood Ward; Hans Peters - art direction; Dick Campbell - sound; Frank Myers - assitant director; and many others! Although contemporary sources indicate that Leon Ames and Agnes Moorehead were cast they did not appear in the released film. The film marked the motion picture debut of Guy Williams who played the title character in the Walt Disney television series "Zorro" 1957-1959. According to HR news items in June 1946 a controversy erupted when former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt objected to the casting of Lionel Barrymore as Franklin D. Roosevelt alleging that the actor had made desparaging remarks about the late president. Production on the film had already begun when the studio decided to replace Barrymore's scenes with actor Godrey Tearle. "The Beginning or the End" was released February 19 1947 directed by Norman Taurog. Signed by Authors. No Binding. Very Good. paperback books
185142881Thomaston ME: D. J. Starrett 1851. 1st edition Sabin 12800; Wright II 1964. Original publisher's printed blue paper wrappers. General wear & soiling to wrappers with faint tideline to spine side. Bookplate. Prior owner annotation at t.p. base noting name of author. Some interior staining. Very Good. 88 pp. Untrimmed. 8vo. <br/><br/>Regarded as fiction by most the Publisher in a Notice on the front wrapper exhorts the reader "It is difficult to conceive while perusing these Rambles where adventures so exciting and thrilling are so forcibly told that it is a true and veritable narrative but such we assure the reader is the fact." D. J. Starrett unknown books
17211284012London: Printed and are to be sold by W. Taylor 1721. Second Edition. Hardcover. 4to. 797pp. 32 tables and index; VG; bound in polished calf paneled spine with gilt tooling label with gilt lettering mostly worn off; joints weak some scratches to boards general rubbing and wear; two bookplates on front pastedown one from Henry Duke of Kent 1733 the other Thomas Philip Earl de Grey Wrest Park; some scattered ink splatter on page 351 that bleeds through onto 353 text legible; folding plates on pages 1 215 476 present and in excellent condition; Numerous mispagination including p. 447-472 omitted; consignment; shelved case 4. 1284012. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Printed and are to be sold by W. Taylor hardcover books
16699577Amstelodami: Johannis a Someren 1669. Folio pp. 6 319 7; bound with Prophetia Ezechielis cum commentario Johannis Coccei. Amsterdam 1669; engraved title page pp. 8 415 9; woodcut vignette on both titles titles printed in red and black 19 copper-engraved architectural plates on 16 folding or double-page sheets; old leather encrustations on front and back covers otherwise a good sound copy in full contemporary vellum. With an inscription on the flyleaf: "Library of Kenyon College Ohio. Presented by Rev. E. B. Pusey - Regis Professor of Hebrew Oxford 1835." Edward Bouverie Pusey 1800-1882 was a canon of Christ Church an esteemed orientalist and champion of orthodoxy. He counted among his intimate frinds Cardinal Newman and Gladstone. See DNB for a nine-page account of his life. <br/><br/> Johannis a Someren hardcover books
