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184826444London: published by Command of Her Majesty 1848. First and only edition large folio pp. 6 146 2 clxxiii 12 1035; titles printed in red and black lithograph dedication in red and black 17 plates of coins 10 plates of manuscripts folding map hand-colored in outline text in Latin English and Anglo-Saxon; contemporary half tan calf rubbed but sound. Contains some of the earliest texts for a history of Britain including those of Gildas Bede Alfred the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle etc. and with a descriptive catalogue of early English coins and manuscripts. Petrie a close friend of Dibdin drew up plans and solicited public support for this grand undertaking which included all the then-known references to Britain in the Greek and Roman writers in inscriptions charters bulls synods etc. as well as general histories and annals. The first volume was completed in 1835 and a large body of materials had been collected for a second but the work was "suspended by an order of the record commissioners due to a misunderstanding between them and Petrie" see DNB and none but the first volume was published posthumously by Sir Thomas Duffus Hardy who had been trained by Petrie. <br/><br/> published by Command of Her Majesty unknown books
1970List310V.p. 1970. Thirty-three 11 x 14 images thirteen 8 x 10 images. Excellent. These photographs likely taken by a participant in the various events but probably printed in the 1970s encapsulate many of the iconic themes of the New Left. Most of the photographs show protesters at unidentified events though the clothing and settings are without a doubt the late 1960s and one photograph a close-up of Abbie Hoffman as well as several pictures of demonstrators being arrested suggest that the pictures may have been taken at the 1968 Democratic Convention. The smaller series of photographs show mud-caked festival-attendants in various states: having sex smoking marijuana walking pleasantly alongside each other and painting each other with mud. The pictures vary in technical quality but encapsulate the moment quite vividly with an intimacy lacking from most press photographs of the period and despite the student photography feel they show a pivotal moment in American social history with a sympathetic eye. A few photographs of an older woman at a protest and another of a military veteran appear to intend to portray the movement as having a broader purpose. Prints are well preserved and generally in excellent condition with a few prints which appear to be earlier showing some normal signs of wear. unknown books
191259622Attleboro M.A.: Watson Company 1912. The bottom of the sppon is stamped as above the stem has relief images of Philadelphia William Penn the Liberty Bell etc. Four inches tall. Engraved on the back of the handle are images including Philadelphia's City Hall Penn House the Post Office and Girard College. Watson Company unknown books
1973555661973. Folio pp. 40 made up 15 x 10 inch "loose-leaf notebook" in a custom red cloth covered clam shell box with clasp AEG. Each sheet is encased in plastic and contains mounted original wine labels with a hand written name number and cost per glass and bottle. Included are wines from around the World on 40 pages. There are 81 mounted labels as well as an envelope with 20 more laid in. Very fine as one would expect at The Plaza. One of a kind. This is the "wine book" that the sommelier would bring to a table to match the perfect wine with the perfect dinner. unknown books
199616090JSanta Monica CA: Lightstorm Entertainment 1996. First Edition. Original 153 page shooting script for the Oscar winning film Titanic. Bradbound. Very good copy with a trace of handling and wear to the printed studio covers. The film was directed written co-produced and co-edited by James Cameron starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. The film garnered fourteen Academy Awards nominations tying the record set in 1950 by Joseph L. Mankiewicz's All About Eve and won eleven including the Best Picture and Best Director. It also picked up the awards for Best Cinematography Best Costume Design Best Visual Effects Best Sound Gary Rydstrom Tom Johnson Gary Summers Mark Ulano Best Sound Effects Editing Best Original Dramatic Score Best Film Editing Best Original Song and Best Art Direction. Kate Winslet Gloria Stuart and the make-up artists were the only three nominees that did not win. Lightstorm Entertainment unknown books
1968135547N.p.: N.p. 1968. Vintage borderless press photograph of Mick Jagger in the studio from the set of the 1968 French experimental film mixing documentary with surreal imagery and fictitious characters. With a few penciled annotations on the verso indicating placement. <br/><br/>An image of Mick Jagger in the studio from one of the many sequences relating to the band's creation of the song "Sympathy for the Devil." "One Plus One" alternates documentary segments of the band during their last days with Brian Jones with surreal commentary about anarchy and revolution making references to Amiri Baraka Eldridge Cleaver and the Black Panthers pornography "Mein Kampf" and the Nazi movement. <br/><br/>9.5 x 8 inches. In a museum quality frame. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
019388London; 1835-1836: For Henry Colburn. First Edition. Octavo. First Colburn edition. Four volumes in eight consisting of the original 24 weekly parts illustrated with eight frontispieces seventeen engravings two large folding maps and one folding plan and tissue guards. There is a notice to the subscribers mentioning the fact that while there is a total of 20 proposed plates the remaining three volumes will contain 5 more plates for a total of 25 plates. An important work by the Count Las Cases who followed Napoleon into exile at St. Helena. For 18 months he recorded his conversations with Napoleon on his principles of warfare his identification of the French Revolution with the Empire his political philosophy and his sentiments on religion and philosophy. A letter of complaint about Napoleon's treatment led to Las Cases' deportation and to the seizure of his manuscript by the British government. Forbidden to enter England he traveled in Germany and Belgium until he was allowed to return to France after the death of Napoleon in 1822. Las Cases represents the 17th military generation of his family which began with the reign of Louis VIII in 1223. During the time between the reign of Louis VIII and Napoleon's exile in 1815 the Las Cases family was intimately involved in the majority of the European conflicts that occurred being closely tied to the monarchy and writing their biographies including that of Columbus. Ency. Britannica All front and rear wrappers are bound in the rear of each volume with one wrapper used as title pages within the second parts. All bound in ¾ blue morocco over marbled paper covered boards with matching endpapers raised bands with compartments lettered and embellished with gilt top edges gilt. Some minor chipping to heads darkening to edges some minor cosmetic color touch ups added. Interior clean and bright without tears foxing previous owner's names or bookplates. A handsome set and quit scarce. The last set sold at auction in 2006. OCLC records two holding of only eight parts in four volumes. For Henry Colburn unknown books
1899005358Oxford England 1899-1904. Half Leather. Very Good. Madcap "salad days" from back when! 4to. 30 by 25.5 cm. Unpaginated 20 pages with caricatures mounted onto card rectos. Additional blank card and a number of drawings that are loose some of which were probably always so. In total 91 separate pieces of overwhelmingly caricature of varying size and ranging from simple portraits exaggerated in one way or another as called for by the medium to multi-character cartoons or depictions of a scene with dialogue bubbles and captions. The caricatures center around but are not confined to the doings and personalities of Merton College Oxford. A few of the portraits would appear to be of Theodore Roosevelt for example. Many but far from all of the mounted caricature illustrations are signed or credited although we think it is quite likely that pseudonyms were used as was obviously the case with "the Freak". The album is quite unusual then in its creation with multiple contributors something common in a friendship or amicorum album which this decidedly is not. We would surmise that the contributors were members of an informal club of artistic anarchists. The quality is not entirely even as might be expected from such an effort but overall the caricatures are vivid and amusing with quite a few displaying true artistic cleverness. Rebacked in matching calf. Wear to the corners and edges. Some scrappiness to interior. Paste marks where there once were a few mounted pieces. <br/><br/> hardcover books
198420961New York: 55 Mercer Street Gallery 1984. First edition. Loose Sheets. Very Good . Single sheet of paper approx. 11 x 17" high. Offset on paper. Illustrated poster for a group exhibition at 55 Mercer Street Gallery in NYC. Show was curated by Joseph Mashek and included works by The Starn Twins David Wojnarowicz Chaiklin Brazelton Lasker Neher and others. This poster was designed by Wojnarowicz. Faint mailing folds else a near fine example. Poster was designed in 1984 for this show which ran in January 1985. Rare early poster art by Wojnarowicz. <br/><br/> 55 Mercer Street Gallery unknown books
195716096JHollywood May 28 1957. Original 12 page carbon typescript on yellow paper bradbound in blue studio wrappers dated May 28 1957 a year before the final finished film Attack of the the 50 Foot Woman was released on My 18 1958. Taken from her home high in the Himalayas ala King Kong from Skull Island a 100-ft tall woman is brought to NY city.  The opening paragraph synopsis: “Think of Esther Williams; now think of Anita Ekberg. Think of them both -- physically. Then after turning them both slowly over in your mind of course dwell on the most luscious attributes lavished on each by a bountiful Nature. … Take that result and multiply IT by about twenty. Now you have Gigante. She’s something over a hundred feet tall and most ALL of that vast loveliness is quoted practically verbatim under the skimpy animal skins she being feminine to the ultimate has managed to piece together into a garment of sorts.  …. she is found in the limitless unknown of the brooding Himalayan mountains of Mongolia by our intrepid adventurer…later in New York jealous of the attention he pays to another woman she runs amok… Up Broadway and down Fifth Avenue she strides casually kicking taxis trucks and busses out of her way…a squadron of fighter planes are warming up.†Ultimately the final screenplay was written by Mark Hanna who wrote such B films as The Undead Not of This Earth and The Amazing Colossal Man a sort of male precursor to Attack of the 50 Foot Woman. Hanna turned the story into a dramatically changed sci-fi picture with film noir crime film aspects using certain elements from this story idea like the giant woman Gigante her smashing of automobiles her obsession with a man and a rival woman Gigante hunting down her female rival because she knows that her man will be near her rival and Gigante reaches into the building with her giant hand to find them. As envisioned by Beck and Birdwell the film was way too expensive with its elaborate New York location and set scenes with the New York City sequence too close to King Kong Hanna transferred the location to a small American town with inexpensive science fiction alien effects which were suited to the budget of the B movie that was desired to be made cheaply. George Beck wrote the screenplays for several B-movies during the 30’s and 40’s before moving into television where he wrote scripts for GE Theater Make Room for Daddy The Thin Man Lassie The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis and others. Russell Birdwell spent 25 years as a studio publicist doing the publicity for such films as Gone With the Wind Rebecca Nothing Sacred The Outlaw The Alamo etc. before writing the screenplay for Jim Thorpe - All American and several other B-films. unknown books
184358469Tuscaloosa AL: Woodruff & Olcott 1843. First edition. 12mo. 245 pp. Publisher's ad leaf. The author published an earlier arithmetic textbook in Hartford Connecticut in 1830. American Imprints 43-406. Owen p. 811 without location. Ellison 471. OCLC locates four copies Mississippi lacking title page Alabama Yale American. Several leaves remargined no loss of text thoroughly foxed old accession numbers on two leaves a good copy of a rare Alabama schoolbook. Original calf boards rubbed rebacked with new leather spine label and gilt imprint at base new endpapers. #5677. <br/><br/> Woodruff & Olcott hardcover books
177832766Boston 1778. Unsigned manuscript document folded to 9-1/2" x 7-1/4". 2pp plus integral blank. 25 lines. Old folds light foxing Very Good.<br/><br/> "The Subscriber being informed that the Squadron of his most Christian Majesty now in the harbour of Boston require the use of an island in that harbour which is now in his possession known by the name of Gallops Island-- willing to render every assistance in his power to accomodate the Fleets or Army of his most Christian Majesty he would propose to give them his rights to the Improvements of said Island upon the Following Terms viz.<br/> "The major of the Squadron shall grant him the exclusive rights of Erecting a Storehouse on Long Island & Supplying the French Officers & Soldiers with all those necessaries which they may want to purchase ---- viands Groceries of all kinds. Cyder wines vegetables &c & he will agree to sell those articles at a very small advance from the price of Boston & expressly Stipulate that no undue advantage shall be taken in the Price of any necessary that he may have to sell.<br/> "He will also Contract to furnish the Squadron with 2000 Cord of wood delivered at any part of said Island that may be directed to at 28 Lives money of France per Cord payable upon the delivery of each 100 Cords.<br/> "He will supply the Squadron with any Quantity of Fresh water delivered along side the Ships at 7 deniers money of France per Gallon provided that there be no delay in hoisted the water from the Boats on Board the Ships of the Cask are furnished for Transporting the water in ------ here the document ends in the middle of page 2. <br/> Elisha Leavitt Jr. and/or James Brackett owned Gallops Island at this time; historical records are ambiguous. Some sources indicate that the French erected earthworks at Gallops Island in 1778 to defend their fleet anchored in the harbor; others assert that the earthworks were on George's Island bought by Leavitt Jr. in 1768. Leavitt was a Tory a fact well known in town: people burned down his barn and surrounded his home at one point. The story goes that the pleasant elegantly dressed Mrs. Leavitt invited the mob in for cakes and wine which calmed everyone down. unknown books
1861605660<p>"W.A. Buckingham" in black ink on bifold pictorial leaf State of Connecticut Executive Department Norwich letterhead February 5 1861. 5 1/4" x 8" 2 pages. Very good. To Gideon Welles: In part: ". . .I have been solicited to appoint commissioners to the convention which is to be held in Washington on the 4th inst but have not done so. . .I have received no intimation from Virginia that a representation from Conn. is desired except what I have seen in the newspapers. I telegraphed you this noon inquiring your views but as I have received no reply. . ." Welles 1802-1878 born July 1 1802; died February 11 1878; was the United States Secretary of the Navy from 1861 to 1869 under Lincoln and Johnson. A proposed convention of all states to try and adjust differences between the north and the south. Seven states had declared their secession from the Union and established the Confederated States of America on February 4 1861 the day before this letter was written.</p> unknown books
189085342Cosmopoli: Printed by the Translators . for Private Subscribers Only 1890. Hardcover. Good. index xxviii 187p. Original white paper-backed boards. 28cm. Moderate cover soil. Paper overlay on backstrip partially gone; three of four raised bands still present. Pictorial bookplate Jacobus Bromley. Contents generally sound and clean. Copy #219 of an edition limited to 500 numbered copies. The initials "SCL" appear in ink after the number on the colophon Leonard Smithers who collaborated with Richard F. Burton on this work and was identified on the title-page as "Neaniskos. Second issue with only the corrected version of pages xi-xiv present. See Penzer's Burton bibliography at pages 150-153. Although Burton managed to remove his name from almost all copies a seldom-seen specimen title-page has been laid in on which the metrical Version is identified as being by the translator of "The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night" and the Introduction. Notes Explanatory and Illustrative and Excursus as being by "S. C. L." <br/><br/> Printed by the Translators ... for Private Subscribers Only hardcover books
513358vo. Four pages approximately 500 words. In part: "You must think I am a very shabby fellow & to tell you the truth I think I am too . I want to hear from you just how the thing looks and what next I can do for you. I find I rather look for your letters and I know you'll pity a poor old bachelor when it is so little trouble and let me hear again soon." Cleveland had apparently not kept a promise to help with a benefit to raise funds for the enlargement of a Buffalo cemetery and was attempting to make amends here. Folded some browning but very good. <br/><br/> unknown books
196414396JBratislava Czechoslavkia: Ceskolovensky Film 1964. First Edition. A remarkable handmade book specially made for presentation with 20 interior original black and white photographs 7 3/4 inches high by 10 inches wide of films produced in Czechoslavakia during 1962 -1964. The photographs are mounted back to back on thick paper board pages each linen hinged making a thick book 1 3/4 inches. Presented by the Director of Ceskolovensky Film Company to a colleague with a inscription written in English decoratively calligraphed on an early blank. Inscribed: “To____. On the occasion of your first visit to the Slovak Film Company in Bratislava Capital of Slovakia and looking forward to a happy and harmonious cooperation in the future. With fond memories of the many pleasant hours we spent together and best wishes. The Director of the Czechoslovak Film in Bratislava. May 16 1964†The titles of the films shown in the photographs are Janosik Havrania Cesta Slnko V Sieti Boxer A Smirt Vyhybka Trio Angelos Tvar V Okne Kto Si Bez Viny Kazdy Tyzden 7 Dni Archimedov Zakon. The photographs were taken by G. Skoumalova Z. Minacova M. Kordos K. Shoumal A. Podstrasky. The titles and photographers are listed on a special printed colophon page at the rear of the book. The book is bound in full gray linen cloth with an additional original glossy black & white photograph mounted on the front cover showing the studio sound stage in production with many overhead lights. The book 8 inches high by 11 inches wide has the title stamped on the spine and is enclosed in a matching full gray linen cloth clamshell box 9 1/4 inches tall by 12 1/4 inches wife by 2 1/4 inches thick with the title stamped on the cover. The clamshell box has wear and soiling some fraying and dents and the corners of the front board have some rounding wear otherwise very good. The book itself has a few faint spots otherwise is in very good condition with the interior photographs themselves in excellent condition. The 1960s was the great Renaissance in Czechoslovakian film which was even more remarkable as it flowered under the oppression of the Soviet Union. This is an impressive and striking book that is a terrific reminder of that very creative time. Ceskolovensky Film hardcover books
191052132Washington DC: Press of Shaw Bros 1910. First edition. 8vo. 46 pp. Illustrated portrait. Inscribed to John H. Hunter by "the author". Scarce; the NUC locates only three copiesDLC ViU NcD only microfilm editions found on OCLC. Not in Nevins or Broadfoot. Original printed wrappers spine eroded. <br/><br/> Press of Shaw Bros unknown books
1873008009London: William Blackwood and Sons 1873. SCARCE in the complete 28 volume set and in lovely condition. Published from 1873-1882. Overall a Near Fine set bound in quarter vellum over red buckram red morocco labels lettered in gilt edges dyed red the charming period bookplates of Elizabeth Mackintosh along with her name stamp. Light wear to boards small period bookseller's labels rear paste downs the most noticeable flaw a 1/2" tear to vellum at bottom edge of spine to one volume. Three volumes with fold-out maps NF small crease to Fine. Publisher's 16 pp. advertisement at end of Homer volume. Titles are: Iliad and Odyssey; Hesiod Theognis and the Greek Anthology; Plato and Lucian; Aristotle and Demosthenes; Aeschylus and Sophocles; Euripedes and Aristophanes; Herodotus and Xenophon; Thucydides and Livy; Ovid Catullus Tibulus and Propertius; Caesar and Tacitus; Cicero and Pliny; Juvenal Plautus and Terence; Lucretius and Pindar; Virgil and Horace. This multi-volume set will require additional postage for international orders please inquire before ordering. . First Edition. Quarter Vellum. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. William Blackwood and Sons Hardcover books
1814251150Washington: A. and G. Way 1814. First. hardcover. very good. of the Invasion of the City of Washington by the British Forces in the Month of August 1814. November 29 1814. Folding table. 52pp. 8vo modern 3/4 black morocco. Washington: A. and G. Way 1814. First Edition. Very good<br/><br/> Report of the United States House of Representatives Committee ".to inquire into the causes of the success of the enemy in his recent enterprises against this metropolis and the neighboring town of Alexandria; and into the manner in which the public buildings and property were destroyed and the amount thereof." Preface. Shaw and Shoemaker 33404.<br/><br/> A. and G. Way unknown books
1946140941067Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office 1946. First Edition. Very Good. First edition. iv 59 pp. Gray stapled wraps. Very Good with light wear crease to final page. A rare legal history of the War Relocation Authority which 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. It outlines the government response to the Korematsu case as well as the entire program's overall claims to constitutionality. U.S. Government Printing Office unknown books
1955133353Los Angeles: Studio Films 1955. Complete set of 8 vintage two-color lobby cards from the 1955 film. Each of the lobby cards features one of the African American starring performers and each card advertises the Poverty Row studio Studio Films and the short-lived film process "WonderColor" used to make it. <br/><br/>A music revue that set the standard for the much more famous and bigger-budgeted "T.A.M.I. Show" that would come over a decade later and which would be buttressed by white entertainers such as The Rolling Stones and The Beach Boys. Rock and Roll Revue was strictly an African American affair featuring everything from the quite famous Duke Ellington Nat "King" Cole Dinah Washington to the more subtle and sublime Delta Rhythm Boys Little Buck and with a dose of comedy as well "Nipsy" Russell Mantan Moreland. The talent ranged from the young and hot entertainers of the 1950s to more venerable acts of the 1930s and 1940s. Constructed from made-for-television shorts produced by Snader and Studio Telescriptions with newly filmed segments hosted by Willie Bryant. Released in the UK under the title "Harlem Rock 'n' Roll."<br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Studio Films unknown books
1811704201811. 3rd and final ed. 3rd and final ed. Final Edition of Harris's Edition of the Institutes. Justinian I Emperor of the East 483-565 CE. Harris George 1722-1796 Editor and Translator. D. Justiniani Institutionum Libri Quatuor. The Four Books of Justinian's Institutions Translated Into English With Notes. Oxford: Printed by Collingwood Newman And Baxter 1811. 11 370 2 pp. Copperplate table of descents. Quarto 10-1/2" x 8-1/4". Recent period-style quarter calf over cloth gilt fillets and lettering piece to spine endpapers renewed. Some toning to text light foxing in places. An attractive copy. $1250. Third and final edition. This well-respected edition is notable for its elegant parallel translation. Harris an advocate of Doctor's Commons provides an interesting historical introduction and notes that compare the rules of Roman and English law. The final section is a translation of "Concerning the Succession of Descendents" Book 118 of the Novels. This work was owned by many sophisticated lawyers in Great Britain and America such as Thomas Jefferson who owned a copy of the second edition. Sowerby Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson 2191 second edition. English Short-Title Catalogue T102256. unknown books
1562709451562. Paris 1562. Paris 1562. A Respected Edition of the Novels Justinian I 483-565 CE Emperor of the East. Holoander Gregor 1501-1531 Translator and Editor. Scrimger Henry 1506-1572 Editor and Annotator. Novellarum Constitutionum DN. Iustiniani Principis Volumen Quod Authenticon Vocant Gregorio Haloandro Interprete Ad Scrimgerianam Editionem Diligenter Collatum Ac Sedulo Emendatum: Cui Accesserunt Canones Apostolorum. Feudorum Libri Duo. Constitutiones Lothari III. & Friderichi II. Impp. Extravagantes Henrici VII. Imp. Tractatus de Pace Constantiae: Et Nunc Recens Iustiniani Imperatoris Edicta Henrico Agylaeo Interprete. Paris: Apud Gulielmum Merlin 1562. viii 332 4 ff. Last leaf blank. Octavo 6-1/4" x 4-1/4". Contemporary vellum blind panels enclosing large blind arabesques to boards pastedowns renewed. Negligible light soiling boards slightly bowed spine ends bumped owner signature clipped from upper corner of front free endpaper later owner annotation to following endleaf early owner signature to head of title page. Moderate toning to text a few chips and some edgewear to front endleaves. $1250. Along with the Institutes Code and Digest the Novels is one of the writings known collectively as the Corpus Juris Civilis. The first three books were commissioned by the Justinian I in 530CE. The Code is the restated code of law the Digest is a compilation of legal opinions and the Institutes is an introductory textbook on the Code. The Novels is a compilation of laws enacted after the publication of the Code. The subsequent influence of these books on European jurisprudence is difficult to overestimate. Haloander was one of the great sixteenth-century authorities on Roman law. His edition of the Novels includes the Peace of Constantine Edict of Milan the act that recognized the legitimacy of Christianity in the Roman Empire edicts of the Holy Roman Emperors Henry VII reigned 1165-1197 and Frederick II reigned 1194-1250 and a collection of papal legislation falsely attributed to Pope Clement I reigned 88-99CE the so-called "False Decretals." Adams A Catalogue of Books Printed on the Continent of Europe J685. unknown books
1856267760London: Richard Bentley 1856. Extra-Illustrated with 25 portraits 10 of which are hand-colored. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound in full blue morocco strapwork gilt design on upper and lower covers gilt spine a.e.g. by Bayntun Binders Bath England. In cloth open-faced slipcase. Extra-Illustrated with 25 portraits 10 of which are hand-colored. 1 vols. 8vo. Photo Richard Bentley unknown books
1938308290London: Faber & Faber 1938. First editions one of 500 copies signed by Graves and Liddell-Hart both marked "Out of Series. 2 vols. 8vo. Original red buckram Graves and original gray cloth Hart. Bookplate of David Garnett in each volume. Some minor fading to spines occasional light foxing otherwise near fine. First editions one of 500 copies signed by Graves and Liddell-Hart both marked "Out of Series". 2 vols. 8vo. David Garnett's copies. Garnett edited The Letters of T. E. Lawrence 1938. O'Brien A214 & A215 Faber & Faber unknown books
