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1894270237New York: The Strobridge Lith. Co 1894. Original poster. Color lithograph. 38.75 x 29 inches.<br/><br/> This beautiful 1894 poster for Charles Hale Hoyt's 'A Black Sheep And How it Came Out in the Wash' an image of features Fanny Da Costa "The Queen of Burlesque". The New York Times called the play a success and a big hit. <br><BR>According to the review "'A Black Sheep' is amusing and it has an understandable story. It carries as many singing and dancing 'specialties' as Mr. Hoyt ever out into 'The Tin Soldier' or 'The Brass Monkey'; but those specialties are not introduced in the usual 'I'll-sing-a-song-that-will-tell-you-all-about-it' style."<br><br>Charles H. Hoyt was a popular American dramatist in the late 19th century. He wrote over twenty comedy dramas often involving baseball. This is a scarce poster for one of his popular work.<br><br>The poster is in good condition with some wear along the folds. Minor edge wear and toning at places. Large rip on the right hand of the poster repaired on verso.<br/><br/> The Strobridge Lith. Co unknown books
1942292342Board of Tourist Industry; Japanese Government Railways 1942. Early Editions. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. A complete run of this well illustrated series describing various aspects of Japanese life. printed for the Western Tourist market. Illustrated with photographs etc. Each volume with a colored pastedown to the the front cover. Uncommon complete.~~The 40 volumes were printed between 1937 and 1942. The first pamphlets are reprints; the great majority of them are first printings. All but four have the original glassine wrappers though some are tattered. Number 39 has a light stain to the front cover. ~~Much of the publisher's stock was destroyed in during World War II when the cities of Osaka and Tokyo were fire-bombed. Very Good binding. Board of Tourist Industry; Japanese Government Railways unknown books
185257574New York: Charles Scribner 145 Nassau Street 1852. 12mo pp. xii 1 14-271 1; tinted lithograph frontispiece of Charlotte Amalie folding map of the island by H. B. Hornbeck M.D. in Danish; original brown blindstamped cloth gilt-lettered spine; cloth cracked along the upper joint spine a bit dull one gathering extended and the map miscreased; all else good and sound. This copy with a whacky reader's extensive annotations on the preliminaries and also a number of pages within. Starting on the title page in pencil: "A forgery. I heard today that this book was written by a little crown prince's noble royal son March 8 1929. Crown prince Stephen Bond Pelton's father when he was very small he went with his father to the West Indies as his father wished to attend business for the people but was persecuted by the crowd - the renagades. On the verso of title: "Later after they left and he became a crown lawyer in Nova Scotia - the book was stolen by the renagades that had gone to Farlings Cape to hide away as they had killed so many valuable people in Nova Scotia. They are now in Yarmouth Nova Scotia and mean to set up slave business but the law had put a stop to their evil work. They want to have a lot of babies to make slaves of them to make money. They are not ashamed of their evil work. The royal people cannot earn money and work so hard to give eye-sight to their evil babies for them to be and kill good people. On the first page of preface: "This preface was written by Crown Prince Stephen Bond Pelton's father when he was very small. It shows great intellect - and it is a great pity that the true book was stolen because the true book did bring out true facts and would just a lot of lies." Another 15 lines at the end of the preface note that Pelton's son is in Yarmouth that his father "is here in D-mark and that his royal noble grandfather wrote this book before he was sixteen years old and that when they were "in the West Indian Islands they were persecuted by the renagades that hard oathes to behave themselves - they were sent there to work on their crimes." And at the top of Chapter One: "The Historical Society of the World fines the writers of books that are not written truthful - this book is not covered - it is out a page of the renagade life . it was just written by a little crown prince that went to St. Thomas and at his island's wish his noble royal." On p. 64: "Priest wanted to teach the people to be criminals he led to steal or kill. The priest was a renagade - very ignorant person." On p. 77: It was the old crowd that did all the evil deeds - they are insane people - they did bad. The slaves converted and educated. They wanted them ignorant like themselves" and so on for another 5 pages or so throughout the remainder of the text. The reader/annotator is anonymous but given the rough English and the reference to "D-Mark" we might assume him to be a Dane. St. Thomas was largely under Danish control until sold to the United States in 1917. The writer in fact was not a 16-year-old crown price but rather John P. Knox who "was born in Savannah Georgia on July 26 1811. He got his education at Rutgers College and Seminary. From 1837 to 1841 he was pastor of the Reformed Church at Nassau New Providence in the Bahamas. For ten years he was a pastor of the Reformed Church on the island of St. Thomas in the West Indies. While at St. Thomas Knox wrote this history of the island and helped promote education. One young boy Edward Blyden grew up to become an ambassador for the Republic of Liberia the first modern state in Africa" First Presbyterian Church of Newtown. Sabin 38170. <br/><br/> Charles Scribner, 145 Nassau Street hardcover books
193942303London: Williams and Norgate 1939. First edition 8vo pp. xii 2 291 including 129 photographs at the back; fine copy in a fine price-clipped dust jacket. Hitherto uncollected writings by Lawrence about the Middle East including a diary kept on a journey through Syria in 1911 collecting antiquities for the Museum at Oxford. and the suppressed introductory chapter to The Seven Pillars of Wisdom. <br/><br/> Williams and Norgate unknown books
193530032London: Jonathan Cape 1935. Third i.e. second complete edition overall preceded by the incomplete "Oxford Edition" of 1922 8 copies only were printed 6 still extant and the rare privately printed "Subscriber's Edition" of 1927 170 copies; this is the first trade edition there was also a limited issue of 750 numbered copies; sm. 4to pp. 672; uncut and largely unopened; frontis portrait of a bust of Lawrence 4 folding maps 2 facsimiles 1 double-p. and illustrations throughout some in color by John Kennington Roberts Lamb Dobson Sargent Young Gill Spencer Rothenstein and Carline; 3 of the illustrations herein did not appear in the 1926 subscriber's edition original brown buckram gilt lettered spine; spine slightly discolored; original printed dust jacket with chips and tears at extremities the largest about the size of a thumbnail and without any loss of letterpress. Winston Churchill called this book of Lawrence of Arabia's covert activities in the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire "one of the greatest books ever written in the English language." O'Brien A042. <br/><br/> Jonathan Cape hardcover books
172535777Gravenhage: By Hendrick Scheurleer 1725. 4to 25.5 cm; 10". xx 416 415518 517716 pp. <br><br>We have here the minutes of negotiations between Dutch ambassadors and the English Republic regarding the First Anglo-Dutch War various commercial disputes and matters in North America 165354. The documents are chiefly in Dutch but some are in English French or Latin; for example pp. 198214 contain a draft in English followed by one in Latin "of Articles of Union Peace and Confederation to be made between the Common-Wealth of England and the States General of the United-Province of the Neitherlands sic."<br>Â Â Â Â Muller notes that this account "chiefly" concerns New-Netherland and that "it contains all the speeches and reports"; Asher adds that the information here is "not to be found in the letters of the Pensionary J. de Witt and other ministers."<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: 20th-century bookplate of J.W. Six; later in the collection of Frank Marshall Vanderhoof American scholar university librarian private collector; 19192005. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Alden & Landis European Americana 725/147; Asher Dutch books and pamphlets 335; Sabin 98926; Frederik Muller America 1872 catalogue 1100. Contemporary Dutch vellum over boards round spine raised bands blind rules on covers center cartouche blind-embossed. The usual foxing and browning found in so many copies. Solid attractive and a very good copy. By Hendrick Scheurleer hardcover books
58853In very good condition. Included is a small broadside by Howe about the New Orleans Exposition 1884-1885 noting the need for the work of women to be represented at the exposition. not in BAL. Typed transcription of the letter included. Howe writes to "David" about depositing of her semi annual remittance where "it is drawing interest" and noting that $50 is taken out for "dear Cory." She mentions that the "Expo is nearly stripped of all it glories. I am waiting to see the debts of my department duly paid." She notes that she will be coming home soon and approves of all the "bric-a-brac" she mentioned from Howe's dear brother. Howe is best remembered for "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" but she was also a life-long reformer and activist. She was active in the American Woman Suffrage Association Sorosis The Women's Clubs and a host of other organizations. She was the first woman elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1908. unknown books
1981CNJL1175Gloucestershire: The Whittington Press & Angscot Productions 1981. Limited Edition. Full leather. Fine. Blake William. Special Edition number VII of XXV of a total edition of 350 folio size 37 pp. together with an extra suite of illustrations. "John Milton's 1608-1674 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity' is significant for its merit alone though this remarkable poem is also important in the context of the artist's career. His first major work in English the nativity ode reflects 'his desire to attempt the highest subjects and to take on the role of bardic Poet-Priest' Barbara Lewalski Life of John Milton 38." n. b. from the web site of Dartmouth University.<br/><br/>William Blake 1757-1827 had illustrated two other works by Milton before this the third work to be illustrated by Blake for the Rev. Joseph Thomas. It is comprised of six watercolours being almost literal illustrations of the text which is that of the first edition of 1645. Blake's incomparable exquisite and unique style is a perfect complement to this remarkable work by Milton presenting a great English poet with a great English mystic artist.<br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Full dark-green Oasis goatskin title in gilt to backstrip top-edge gilt fore- and bottom edges uncut gilt single-rule border to turn-in marbled endpapers author's portrait and six colour plates tipped-in; Caslon type Barcham Green paper with Three Poplars watermark folio size 12.75" by 10.25" pagination: i-x xi-xii 1-2 3-24 1 colophon special edition number VII of XXV of a total edition of 350. With a set of all six illustrations slipped in to a portfolio covered in marbled paper over boards the book and portfolio both housed in a black cloth fall-down-back box lined in marbled paper with a printed paper label at the backstrip.<br/><br/>___CONDITION: A fine copy the leather binding smooth and unrubbed the corners straight and unrubbed the binding tight with solid hinges the interior clean and bright and free of prior owner markings; clean crisp as new. The portfolio and set of extra illustrations are all fine clean and without wear; the box is near fine strong and sturdy clean with just a hint of rubbing and a few light stray marks. Overall fine a lovely set.<br/><br/>___POSTAGE: Please note that this is a large and heavy item and therefore additional postage may apply; please inquire for details.<br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. The Whittington Press & Angscot Productions unknown books
1935836 issues removed from a bound volume. Born in Brattleboro VT. Noyes 1811-1886 graduated from Dartmouth in 1830 and studied law at Andover and Yale. Reacting against Calvinism he combined prefectionist and adventist beliefs in a personal theology. He developed a society known as the Bible Communists of Putney VT. Amongst other doctrines he professed free love and powers of healing. Arrested on a charge of adultury he broke jail and fled to western NY where he and his followers founded Oneida in 1848. He lived in Oneida for 30 years before fleeing to Canada ahead of the law. Mott: "The Oneida Circular was the chief organ of the perfectionist communties founded by J. H. Noyes. In it Noyes expounded his doctrines of spiritualism communism and free love: though uneven in its editing it was often well written and interestng"Vol II p. 207. The Circular was succeeded by the American Socialist 1876-79 also published by the Oneida group. The issues are: The Circular 2/16/1853 vol II no. 27 2/19/1853 vol II no. 28 2/23/1853 vol II no. 29 2/26/1853 vol II no. 30 3/5/1853 vol II no. 32 3/9/1853 vol II no. 33 4/17/1856 vol. V no. 13 5/29/1856 vol. V no. 19 6/12/1856 vol. V no. 21 7/31/1856 vol. V no. 28 8/21/1856 Vol. V no. 31 9/18/1856 vol. V no. 35 10/23/1856 vol. V no. 40 11/27/1856 vol. V no. 45 Oneida Circular 1/29/1872 new series vol. IX no. 5 whole number 1391 4/15/1872 new series vol IX no. 16 whole number 14024/29/1872 new series vol IX no. 18 whole number. 14047/13/1874 new series vol. XI no. 29 whole number 1519 7/20/1874 new series vol. XI no. 30 whole number 1520 11/16/1874 new series vol. XI no. 47; whole number 1537 12/21/1874 new series vol. XI no. 52 whole no. 1552 2 copies 5/17/1875 new series vol XII no. 20 whole no. 1572 1/20/1876 new series no. XIII no. 3 whole number 1607 2/24/1876 new series no. XIII no. 8 whole number 1612 The American Socialist 11/23/1876 vol. I no. 35 12/7/1876. vol. I no. 37 12/14/1876 vol I no. 38 1/18/1877. vol II no. 3 8/23/1877 vol. II no. 34 9/6/1877 vol. II no. 36 7/11/1878 vol. III no 28 7/18/1878 vol. III no. 29 7/25/1878 vol. III no. 30 10/20/1879 vol. IV no. 44 11/6/1879 vol. IV no. 45. unknown books
45510Folio unbound. 50 issues: Vol VI 37-38 41 43; Vol VII 14-68-914-16 25-33 Vol VIII 3 25-28 30 32 37-39 41 44 49 51 Vol IX 4-6 9-12; Vol XI 3341-42; Vol XII 2 11-12 20. run 5. Born in Brattleboro VT. Noyes 1811-1886 graduated from Dartmouth in 1830 and studied law at Andover and Yale. Reacting against Calvinism he combined prefectionist and adventist beliefs in a personal theology. He developed a society known as the Bible Communists of Putney VT. Amongst other doctrines he professed free love and powers of healing. Arrested on a charge of adultury he broke jail and fled to western NY where he and his followers founded Oneida in 1848. He lived in Oneida for 30 years before fleeing to Canada ahead of the law. Mott: "The Oneida Circular was the chief organ of the perfectionist communties founded by J. H. Noyes. In it Noyes expounded his doctrines of spiritualism communism and free love: though uneven in its editing it was often well written and interestng"Vol II p. 207. The Circular was succeeded by the American Socialist 1876-79 also published by the Oneida group. unknown books
19467697New York: Rinehart & Co 1946. First Edition. Full Leather. Near Fine. Octavo. Bound in full red morocco by Brown & Bigelow of St. Paul. A lovely near fine copy with ownership name of New York Municipal Court Judge William J. Morris printed in gilt on front panel below the gilt image of a stork and fox. <br/><br/> Rinehart & Co hardcover books
19372726141937. paperback. good. Paramount Films 200 pages July 1937 bound in two staples no cover as issued signed in ink on the cast page by director Cecil B. DeMille and actors Anthony Quinn Frederic March Franciscka Gaal Akim Tamiroff Beulah Bondi and Jack Hubbard. Note: Cecil B. DeMille's swashbuckling film was a fictionalized account of General Andrew Jackson's recruitment of the pirate Jean Lafitte to fight for America during the War of 1812. In 1958 DeMille attempted a remake of the film starring Yul Brenner and Charlton Heston but became seriously ill on the set delegating the task of "directing" to his son-in-law Anthony Quinn who had starred in the original. It was the only time in his career that Quinn ever received a motion picture credit for directing. It was also the very last film made by DeMille who died four weeks after the film's release. Condition: usual toning as should be expected with dark bold signatures. Loosely placed inside a leather binder for safer handling.<br/><br/> unknown books
195421020New York: E.P. Dutton 1954. Hardcover. Very good/near fine. First American edition signed on the front free endpaper by expedition members Edmund Hillary George Lowe and Charles Evans and the London Times correspondent James Morris now Jan Morris who accompanied the party. xx 300 pp with index photographic illustrations. Two-tone cloth boards have some old inert mildew spotting internally clean and sound. Original owner's name at top of front free endpaper well above the signatures. Dust jacket has minor creasing to top of front panel and one 1/4 inch closed tear. Original $6.00 price present. Account of the 1953 British Mount Everest Expedition which when Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit on May 29 was the first confirmed complete ascent. Hunt led the expedition with physician Charles Evans as his deputy. Evans was the leader of the first expedition to summit Kangchenjunga the world's third highest peak in 1955. George Lowe directed an Academy Award-nomnated documentary during the Everest expedition and went on to join the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition--the first to reach the South Pole by land since Amundsen 1911 and Scott 1912--and to participate in many other notable mountaineering expeditions. Neate H135. E.P. Dutton hardcover books
1928000435New York: The Derrydale Press 1928. First Edition. Three Quarters Morocco. Fine. Folio. xviii 272 pp. First Limited Edition three quarters red morocco with five raised bands on spine. Beautiful flawless copy. <br/><br/> The Derrydale Press unknown books
1940014787Freeman Journal Co 1940. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fine Copy In Like Jacket Very Scarce in This Condition Beautiful Fresh Copy Without Wear. First Year of Cooperstown Induction. Freeman Journal Co Hardcover books
013457Charles Scribner's Book. Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Illustrators. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Fine Copy In Like Jacket First Edition Four Large Drawn Cartoons by ZieglerGraham WilsonS.Gross And Bill Woodman An Amazing Copy. Charles Scribner's Hardcover books
39528TRADE CATALOGUE-RUGS AND CARPETS KOCH & TE KOCK. CINQUANTE ANS. Oelsnitz in Vogtland: 1930. Oblong folio. Original blind embossed gold-colored pebbled cloth spine and lower board with specially woven knotted carpet-like upper board bound album style with gold cord. 68 pages of which 8 pages text with some figures and the remainder plates th majority in color. A rare carpet trade catalogue not recorded on OCLC. A beautifully produced album by one of Germany's leading carpet manufacturing companies then celebrating its Golden Jubilee. The upper board is covered in a specially wo pile "rug" which according to the text was made to a quality of 720000 knots/sq. meter. The design is the corner of one of their carpets into which has been woven 1880-1930 and the firm's "logo" a crescent moon surrounding a five-point star with the capital letters K facing both ways between the horn of the moon. Koch & te Kock was established in 1880 producing Axminster-sty carpets and rugs initially mainly for the domestic market though in the year following the end of W W.I a useful export business was established. Koch & Kock became the largest carpet manufacturer in Germany and Oelsnitz in Vogtl became known as the "carpet city." Production fell into 22 standard qualitie with a total of 500 designs a great number based on Oriental carpets made i 60 different basic sizes. Their preferred wool was that of Scottish black-fa sheep. The text shows various stages in production followed by a series of interiors showing rugs in situ with floor plans of the rooms facing showing the placement of the rugs within the rooms. Very good. unknown books
1930144256Shanghai: Browhite Arts 1930. First Edition. First Edition. Very Good plus with red and gilt stamping to the front board without dust jacket as issued. Light rubbing at the extremities and light page toning. Browhite Arts unknown books
1961151378N.p.: N.p. 1961. Draft script on yellow leaves for the 1961 British film musical and souvenir 45 rpm record with slipcase from the December 13 1961 World Premiere at the Warner Theatre in London's West End. Script noted as "Copy No. 2" on front label with simple annotations in holograph pencil and ink throughout script. <br/><br/>Released in the US as "Wonderful to be Young" and not to be confused with 1982-1984 BBC British sitcom starring Adrian Edmondson Rik Mayall Nigel Planer Christopher Ryan and Alexei Sayle.<br/><br/>Loosely based on the 1939 musical "Babes In Arms" directed by Busby Berkeley and starring Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland. A group of teens try to save their youth club from a ruthless property tycoon by recording a hit song and broadcasting it on a pirate radio station. The first in a string of British film musicals starring Cliff Richard including "Summer Holiday" 1963 and "Wonderful Life" 1964. Adapted in 2007 as a stage musical by John Plews which premiered that December at the Gatehouse in London.<br/><br/>Set in London's West End shot on location in Finsbury Park Empire and Castrol House now Marathon House London and Middlesex England. <br/><br/>Blue wrappers with titled label dated 18th May 1961 with credits for Screenplay Words and Music by Peter Meyers & Ronald Cass and Copy No. 2. Title page present dated 18th May 1961 with credits for Screenplay Words and Music by Peter Myers & Ronald Cass. 73 leaves with last page of text numbered 81. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three flat metal brads.<br/><br/>45 rpm Record Near Fine. <br/><br/>Record Slipcase 7.5 x 7.75 inches Very Good plus with light creasing and two vertical adhesive stains on seams of verso. N.p. unknown books
38177Some fading from framing marginal repairs with tape good. Howe describes a photo for publication explaining part of her family tree: "Henry Shaw son of my grand daughter Julia Ward Richards and Carlton Shaw her husband . I have no objection to giving his name to the magazine ." Written in a strong hand just a year before her death. Howe is best remembered for "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" but she was also a life-long reformer and activist. She was active in the American Woman Suffrage Association Sorosis The Women's Clubs and a host of other organizations. She was the first woman elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1908. unknown books
56756Wilder writes his regrets at not being to se her: "I went into acting as a lark and found that it was an ex- hausting slave-driven crazy profession. Between performances rehearsals conferences interviews. I was at my wits end and didn't even get to the telephone . unknown books
1891287748Richmond 1891. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Frederick Daniel's Richmond Howitzers in the War is described in the Nevins bibliography as "a strictly military history of one of the Confederacy's most famous batteries; a few personal insights appear amid the flood of facts." The other Civil War references agree that this account is a largely factual narrative by a member of the First Company spanning the breadth of the War in its most important theater. Namestamp on the title page and usual toning. Lacking the publisher's paper wrappers. Bookplate on the modern front endpaper. Cocked. Rebound in gray cloth with leather label. Very Good. Nevins I 78. ITC 33. Coulter 111. Howes D52. Very Good binding. unknown books
185484658London: Wm. H. Allen & Co 1854. Hardcover. Very Good. index c 145p. plus 6p. advertisements. Rebound in a red 20th century quarterbinding red leather backstrip and red cloth. 17cm. Rear joint tender. Richard F. Burton shows up in the list as does John H. Speke. <br/><br/> Wm. H. Allen & Co hardcover books
184829548Newburgh N.Y. 1848. Broadside 6 1/2" x 12". Printed in two columns. Several old horizontal folds Very Good.<br/><br/> The Town Committee presents nine Resolutions expressing concern at the divisive effects of slavery. They deplore "the efforts that are being made to destroy the old land-marks of party destinction sic and to form new political divisions." <br/> David Wilmot of Pennsylvania had introduced a bill The 'Wilmot Proviso' prohibiting slavery in the Territories acquired in the War with Mexico. The Town Committee insists that "no power has been delegated by the Constitution to Congress to abolish slavery where it does exist or to establish it in any State or Territory where it does not exist and that the Wilmot Proviso is a phantom." <br/> The Committee warns fellow Democrats "throughout the State and nation to put on their armor and prepare immediately for the coming conflict" with their political adversaries. The Circular is signed in type at the end by Allen M. Sherman Robert Sterling Chauncey B. Gidney and Daniel A. Deyo; and dated Feb. 29 1848.<br/>Not located on OCLC as of May 2021 or the online sites of AAS and the Library of Congress. unknown books
190075530Columbus Ohio: Ohio State University. Very Good. 1900. Printed Wrappers. Complete run first 15 years of this journal dedicated to Ohio Natural History. Volume 1 #1 Nov. 1900 to Volume XV #8 June 1915. Complete in 120 issues each measuring 9 1/4 x 6 inches. Majority of the issues in nice bright condition - a few with light modest soil to the printed covers. . Ohio State University unknown books
