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1633306616Paris: Societatis Typographic Librorum Officii Ecclesiastici . 1633. Engraved title numerous small and large engraved vignettes head-and tail-pieces one full-page engraving; text printed in black running headlines and chapter headings in red numerous large decorated initial capitals. 1 vols. Folio. Full red crushed morocco covers decorated with single black and gilt fillets including a central diamond in black and gilt with a gilt-rolled frame spine in six compartments with raised bands gilt lettered in two others with simple frame of black and gilt fillets wide gilt turn-ins with large gilt cornerpieces a.e.g. gilt-stamped on the turn-in of the inside front cover "French Binders Garden City NY" and on that of the rear cover "H. Hardy Relieur 1934 G. Pilon Doreur." Very slight rubbing to extremities still near fine with some toning to text. In a quarter morocco slipcase with chemise. Engraved title numerous small and large engraved vignettes head-and tail-pieces one full-page engraving; text printed in black running headlines and chapter headings in red numerous large decorated initial capitals. 1 vols. Folio. Bound by The French Binders 1934. Beautifully bound in full red morocco by The French Binders successors to The Club Bindery and signed on the rear turn in by two of the firm's most distinguished binders Henry Hardy and Gaston Pilon. <br/>The French Binders traces its lineage back to The Club Bindery founded in 1895 by members of the Grolier Club to provide exceptionally fine bindings for American collectors. The Club Bindery moved to Cleveland where it was successively renamed the Rowfant Bindery 1909-1913 the Booklover's Shop 1914-1917 and finally The French Binders 1918-1920s as in-house bindery to Doubelday in Garden City New York. Henry Hardy worked for all incarnations of the bindery starting with The Club Bindery; his brother-in-law Gaston Pilon worked with Chambolle-Duru in Paris and came over to America to join the Rowfant Bindery. Both Hardy and Pilon were named Officers of the French Academy in 1933 the highest recognition given by the French government to naturalized Americans see Martin Antonetti's essay in Bound to Be the Best: The Club Bindery. Provenance: Estelle Doheny red morocco booklabel; Carl C. Kalbfleisch brown morocco booklabel Societatis Typographic Librorum Officii Ecclesiastici .. unknown books
188811623New York: Scribner & Welford 1888. 1st US. Blue cloth with gilt lettering/designs. VG gilt bright/pos on title page. A nice set. 2 volumes. Illustrated 8 plates in each volume. 8vo. <br/><br/> Scribner & Welford hardcover books
19685903Binghamton NY: Roberson Center for the Arts and Sciences 1968. Hardcover. G Label & few marks from previous gallery owner; front hinge beginning to pull away. Tan buckram. 73 pp. 12 color 59 bw plates. Considers the life and work of American artist Fletcher Martin 1904-1979. With foreword by Keith Martin. Introductory essay by Peter Pollack. Illustrated comment by the artist followed by a detailed chronology and the plates. Lists 9 drawings and 61 paintings. Uncommon. Roberson Center for the Arts and Sciences hardcover books
198831023Stockholm: Rene Coeckelbergh 1988. First edition. Cloth. Fine/fine. Folio size linen-backed boards in dustwrapper and housed in a hard slipcase. Text in German. Gorgeous color plates of bird drawings by Rudbeck the Elder. Fine condition all around. Very large and heavy volume. Additional shipping charges may apply. Rene Coeckelbergh unknown books
1920215643London: Constable and Company Limited 1920. First edition number 64 of 100 signed copies. Frontispiece Portrait. 206 pp. Printed by the Chiswick Press. 1 vols. 4to. Cream cloth t.e.g. rest uncut. Bookplate of Alan Thomas. First edition number 64 of 100 signed copies. Frontispiece Portrait. 206 pp. Printed by the Chiswick Press. 1 vols. 4to. Constable and Company Limited unknown books
1915129280Chicago: Illinois Theatre 1915. Octavo pp. 1-16 unpaginated illustrations self-wrappers stapled. First edition. Souvenir program includes a photographic portrait of Griffith a cast of characters and three pages of text: "A Nation is Born" "The Play's Message of Peace" and "Facts about the Pictures" the latter an account of how the film was made with some technical information. The controversial now classic film originally called "The Clansman" was released earlier in 1915 in Los Angeles and New York. The Chicago premiere was delayed and contested until the late summer of 1915 and the Illinois Theatre later renamed the Biograph was the site of notable public protests against the perceived racism of the film. Horizontal crease where folded a very good copy. Together with a very good copy of a contemporary Grosset & Dunlap reprint edition of THE CLANSMAN by Thomas Dixon Jr. the novel that inspired Griffith's film along with Dixon's THE LEOPARD'S SPOTS. The program is signed and dated August 13 1915. The book has a gift inscription to owner of the program inscribed on front free endpaper "to remind her of Friday Aug. 13th 1915 'The Birth of a Nation.' Illinois Theatre unknown books
1948S13088Lancaster PA:: American Physical Society 1948. 1948. In: The Physical Review Second Series Volume 74 July 1 – December 15 1948. pp. 230-231; 231-232; 232-233. 4to. 10.5 x 8 inches; 263 x 200mm. whole volume. 1932 pp. Illus. index. Full green gilt-stamped buckram. Library bookplate. Very good. FIRST PRINTING ANNOUNCING THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE TRANSISTOR A DISCOVERY THAT INITIATED THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AGE. / "In 1947 John Bardeen and Walter Brattain working at Bell Telephone Laboratories were trying to understand the nature of the electrons at the interface between a metal and a semiconductor. They realized that by making two point contacts very close to one another they could make a three terminal device - the first "point contact" transistor. They quickly made a few of these transistors and connected them with some other components to make an audio amplifier. This audio amplifier was shown to chief executives at Bell Telephone Company who were very impressed that it didn't need time to "warm up" like the heaters in vacuum tube circuits. They immediately realized the power of this new technology. This invention was the spark that ignited a huge research effort in solid state electronics. Bardeen and Brattain received the Nobel Prize in Physics 1956 together with William Shockley "for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect." – Nobel Prize Committee. / In "The Transistor" 1948 is the schematic diagram showing the construction of the germanium triode or transistor a semi-conducting device which could act as an oscillator or an amplifier thereby replacing larger bulky less efficient vacuum tubes. The longer 1949 paper includes this same diagram but also contains a cutaway microphotograph of the transistor. Research by Bardeen and Brattain led them to the discovery that electron flows on the surface of a semi-conducting surface initially silicon and germanium may be modulated and controlled by "doping" the crystal with specific quantities and depositions of conducting elements. Hence was born the technology of microelectronics by employing layers of "dirty sand" to build the complex electronic circuitry that we use every day today. "The transistor revolutionized the electronics industry allowing the Information Age to occur and made possible the development of almost every modern electronic device from telephones to computers to missiles. Bardeen's developments in superconductivity which won him his second Nobel are used in medical advances such as CAT scans and MRI." – Wikip. Bardeen is the only person to have won the Nobel Prize in physics twice. The first time was for the invention of the transistor awarded in 1956. The second time was in 1972 with Leon N. Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer for a fundamental theory of conventional superconductivity known as the "BCS theory." / With: Richard P. Feynman "Relativistic Cut-Off for Classical Electrodynamics." – pp. 1430-1438. Vol. 74 no. 10. Nov 15 1948. Feynman's first paper on quantum electrodynamics. / Norman Origins of cyberspace 450. American Physical Society, 1948. hardcover books
190221115New York: J. F. Taylor & Co 1902. First American edition. Hardcover. Orig. drab gray boards front cover lettered and decorated in white and blind. Very good. Unpaginated. 32 x 23.5 cm. Color lithograph frontispiece. French leaved title page and text printed in red and black within decorative borders. The author Librarian at the New York Public Library who notes "A Sufi is simply a Mystic in Mohammedan garb." Wear to backstrip extremities. J. F. Taylor & Co hardcover books
19839007790Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press 1983. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. <br/><br/> Louisiana State University Press hardcover books
196921191New York: Grove Press. Near Fine in Very Good dj. c.1969. First American Edition. Hardcover First Printing. NOISBN . nice clean book with just the teensiest bumping to the bottom corners; jacket also very nice but with a few pen-point indentations no ink marks however on the front panel as though someone once used it momentarily as a scribble pad. First-person narrative novel about a "19-year-old girl troubled by her frigidity with boys" who discovers her Lesbian libido via a serious fight with a girlfriend "complete with scratching hair-pulling and fists." Purportedly "widely published in Europe" without incident it ran into trouble in the author's native Norway with their Supreme Court banning the book and fining Bjørneboe for "sexual nihilism." The book seems to have not been published in the U.S. until November 1969 just a month or so before the release of a Danish-made film adaptation; it was the latter event that led Grove to issue a new dust jacket featuring a still from the film which appears on the second and all subsequent printings. However there may have been another reason the original jacket was "retired." Take another look at that naked beach babe: it's none other than Jane Fonda and although the photo itself is properly credited to the photographer she might as well have been an anonymous model. But the weird thing is that Jane was hardly an unknown at the time: on-screen since 1961 she'd reached the peak of the first sex-kitten stage of her career by starring in her then-husband Roger Vadim's ultra-campy 1968 film BARBARELLA. Nor was this particular nude-ish photo session exactly obscure: a very similar shot had been given major exposure sorry in a March 1968 issue of Life Magazine in a cover story on BARBARELLA and yet another was mass-marketed as a male-dorm-room-suitable poster -- which poster in turn would be re-purposed a few years later as a vehicle for expressing anti-"Hanoi Jane" vitriol. The point being: did Grove's decision to use this already-close-to-iconic celebrity image to package their titillating Scandinavian import represent prescient marketing boldness or a simple unlicensed "oops" The episode if it can be called that seems to have gone unremarked-upon in any of the literature on Ms. Fonda so any claims that she might have effected its "withdrawal" or "suppression" should be taken with a grain of sand pending actual you know evidence. Do note however that second and subsequent printings with the film-still jacket are considerably more common than the "naked Jane" first. . Grove Press hardcover books
1980265573New York 1980. unbound. Extremely scarce Playbill-sized signed program 8.5 x 5.5 inches for "Black Broadway" a retrospective musical revue that featured songs by black and white composers from the golden jazz age including Irving Berlin Duke Ellington George Gershwin and Fats Waller performed at Town Hall New York City May 1 - 24 1980. Boldly signed on the cover by the starring cast: "John W. Bubbles" "Nell Carter" "Honi Coles" "Adelaide Hall" "Gregory Hines" "Bobby Short" "Elisabeth Welch" "Edith Wilson" & special guests "Charles Cookie Cook" & "Leslie Bubba Gaines." Near fine condition.<br/><br/> unknown books
117016Compton CA: County of Los Angeles nd. Pamphlet. 36p. stapled wraps 5.5x8.5 inches illus. in text front wrap foxed previous owner's name penned on front wrap else good condition. Short bios of prominent African Americans and photos of African presence in Egypt and the Americas. County of Los Angeles unknown books
1967007068Harlem NY: Black Liberation Commission of the Progressive Labor Party 1967. Near Fine 24 pp. in stapled red wrappers handwritten price of 35 cents front wrapper small corner crease top corner. . First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Black Liberation Commission of the Progressive Labor Party Paperback books
1970List902New York: Committee to Defend the Panther 21 1970. First Edition. The Panther 21 who were eventually acquitted of plots to carry out rifle attacks on police stations and an education center had widespread support from varied groups including various church groups Abbie Hoffman and Leonard Bernstein. Communist Party members and sympathizers formed the Committee to Defend the Panther 21 in 1970. They sold these broadsides on the Columbia campus in the spring of 1971 to raise money for Panther 21 legal expenses. They published three issues all present here. A near fine set with minimal age-related wear. Committee to Defend the Panther 21 unknown books
201822312ELos Angeles: Focus Features 2018. First Edition. Small format paperbound 5 1/4†x 8 1/4â€. This is first appearance in book form of this screenplay specially printed for distribution to members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences in consideration for nomination of the Best Adapted Screenplay for BlacKkKlansman written by Charlie Wachtel David Rabinowitz Kevin Willmott and Spike Lee based on the book by Ron Stallworth. The film was directed by Spike Lee and stars John David Washington as Ron Stallworth Alec Baldwin Isiah Whitlock Jr. Adam Driver and Laura Harrier. A perfectbound book looking like a trade paperback. Fine copy in printed wrappers. The film tells the true story of Ron Stallworth who becomes the first black detective on the Colorado Springs Police Department as he sets out to infiltrate the local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan and convincing his Jewish colleague Adam Driver to go undercover as a white supremacist. Focus Features paperback books
04421New Rochelle New York: The Elston Press 1901. Early Twentieth Century American Designer Bookbinding at its Very Best<br/>Shakespeare's Sonnets Bound by Henry Blackwell of New York<br/><br/>BLACKWELL Henry binder. SHAKESPEARE William. The Sonnets of Shakespeare now newly imprinted from the first edition of 1609 by Clarke Conwell at the Elston Press. New Rochelle New York: The Elston Press 1901.<br/><br/>Large octavo 9 1/8 x 6 1/4 inches; 232 x 159 mm. iv blank iv 1-126 1 127-154 1 limitation 5 blank pp.<br/><br/>".The Sonnets of Shakespeare newly imprinted by Clarke Conwell at The Elston Press from the first edition of 1609 with initial letters designed by H.M. O'Kane. Sold by Clarke Conwell at The Elston Press Pelham Road New Rochelle New York. Two hundred and ten copies have been printed: Finished this twelfth day of December MDCCCI."<br/>Limitation leaf. <br/><br/>Superbly bound ca. 1901 by Henry Blackwell stamp-signed in black "Bound by Blackwell" on verso of front end-paper. Full teal crushed levant morocco covers with triple-ruled borders surrounding an inlaid border of maroon morocco in turn surrounding a highly elaborate gilt and inlaid morocco design featuring 'Cobden-Sanderson' style gilt leaves and inlaid red morocco flowers. Each cover with four circles of inlaid maroon morocco. Spine with five raised bands decoratively tooled and inlaid in the same style lettered in gilt in the second compartment. Gilt ruled board edges and highly elaborate gilt decorated wide turn-ins. Doublures of orange morocco with a very intricate and pleasing geometric design. Lilac purple and cream decorated silk end-papers all edges gilt. A truly amazing example. Early twentieth century designer bookbinding at its very best.<br/><br/>Henry Blackwell 1851-1928 bookbinder and bookseller bibliographer and biographer was the son of bookbinder Richard Blackwell of Liverpool whose bindery appeared in the Liverpool & Birkenhead Trades Directory in 1870.<br/><br/>Henry emigrated to New York in 1877 where he supervised a large bindery. In 1892 he established his own shop in New York City. Blackwell played a prominent part in the Welsh-American life of his adopted country. He was a scholar of Welsh literature as well as binding his 1899 essay Notes on Bookbinding was a memorable contribution. He had the largest Welsh Collection of books on this side of the Atlantic and wrote articles books and bibliographies about Welsh-American books. In 1893 he commissioned H.T. Sears to engrave a Welsh bookplate for his Welsh books.<br/><br/>He also wrote articles about bookplates. He was a member of ex libris societies in America England France and Germany. He wrote the Introduction and a chapter on the study and arrangement of bookplates for W.G Bowdoin's book The Rise Of The Book-Plate New York 1901. His Private Library was sold at The Collectors Club in November 1915.<br/><br/>"A New Book on Bookbinding. In the coming fall the Briggs Brothers of Plymouth Mass. will publish under the title of "Twentieth Century Cover Designs." an elaborate volume devoted almost exclusively to the work of American binders and artists. Engravings of bindings by Toof & Co. Stikeman Dudley & Hodge F.J. Pfister Henry Blackwell Emily Preston Schleuning & Adams the Club Bindery and a few of the leading foreign binders will illustrate the text." The American Bookbinder Volume VI No. 4 November 1895 p.127. <br/><br/>"Among the binders who now have notable shops in New York City Henry Blackwell is one." The Outlook. Volume LXXI May-August 1902 p. 258.<br/><br/>"The most important of the New York private presses was in a suburb. The Elston Press began in Manhattan in 1900 but its owner Clark Conwell moved it to New Rochelle in 1901. Conwell with the aid of his designer and wife Helen Marguerite O'Kane was one of the most brilliant of the Kelmscott disciples. His books exemplify the best in the private press spirit: with traditional models as a point of departure they achieve freshness of their own. They were printed by handpress in limited editions on handmade paper and Japan vellum bound in boards or cloth or vellum with ties." Susan Otis Thompson. American Book Design and William Morris.<br/><br/>While Thompson compares the Elston Press books to those of the Kelmscott Press many of the Elston books are closer in style to the books of the Vale Press of Charles Ricketts. Either way the books of the Elston Press are some of the finest examples of printing and book design ever done in America. <br/><br/>Herbert H. Johnson. Notes on The Elston Press #7; Will Ransom. Private Presses and Their Books p. 260 #6. New Rochelle, New York: The Elston Press, 1901 unknown books
197219998ELos Angeles: American International Picture 1972. Original full color and black & white lobby card from the film Blacula 14†x 11â€. Fine condition. The card shows William Marshall in color in character as a vampire and a black & white still from the film of his co-star Denise Nicholas. Blacula was directed by William Crain. American International Picture unknown books
197219997ELos Angeles: American International Picture 1972. First Edition. Original 14 page pressbook for the film Blacula. 8 1/2†x 14â€. Illustrated with stills from the film and posters banners and display material issued for the film. Very good slightly used copy with a trace of edge wear in printed wrappers. Blacula was directed by William Crain and starred William Marshall Vonetta McGee and Denise Nicholas. American International Picture unknown books
197013951New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux 1970. Hardcover. 217p. very good first US edition in cloth boards and edgeworn unclipped dj. Young 308 Grier C. Farrar, Straus & Giroux hardcover books
010810Minneapolis MN: University of Minnesota Press. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 147pp. Uncommon cloth bound edition of this powerful staging of Glasser's "365 Days" a huge novel of a soldier's tour in the Vietnam War. Bound in black cloth boards with illustrated dust jacket light rubbing and offset fading to yellow color. University of Minnesota Press unknown books
1992231031San Francisco: Good Vibrations & Down There Press 1992. Paperback. 40p. 5.5x8.5 inches introduction illustrated with drawings very good first printing of the 15th anniversary memorial edition advertising catalogue and chapbook in stapled pictorial wraps. Good Vibrations & Down There Press paperback books
191118240Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co. Very Good. 1911. 1st U.S. edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . no dust jacket moderate overall wear and external soiling dust-soiling to top page edges light bumping at several corners one-time owner's name on ffep bottom half-inch of spine cloth looks like it might have glued back in place after having been ripped a bit at the bottom spine corners. color frontispiece 3 color plates The first American publication of Blasco Ibañez's classic novel of the rise and fall of a great matador later the basis for two outstanding Hollywood films both using the more marquee-friendly title BLOOD AND SAND: a 1922 silent version starring the gorgeous Rudolph Valentino and the 1940 Technicolor production directed by Rouben Mamoulian for 20th Century-Fox starring the even-more-gorgeous Tyrone Power. Originally published in Spain in 1908 as "Sangre y arena"; following this edition it next saw print in the U.S. in 1919 as "Blood and Sand" in a translation by Mrs. W.A. Gillespie that was designated as the "Authorized American Edition" -- implying that this McClurg printing may have unauthorized. This is mere speculation on my part not based on deep research. . A.C. McClurg & Co. hardcover books
2005231064New York: Atria Books 2005. Hardcover. 245p. very good first US English language edition in glossy red laminated boards and die-cut "corset" designed dj. Another in the 50 Shades of Gray line of S/M erotica written by a woman. This a Parisan lawyer. Atria Books hardcover books
1977166280Berkeley CA: Gina Rosenberg 1977. 10p. very good in staplebound wraps. Ford 154. Gina Rosenberg unknown books
192420137New York: E.P. Dutton & Company. Very Good. c.1924. First American Edition. Hardcover. no dust jacket light wear to extremities and a bit along hinges gilt spine lettering a bit dulled but still fully readable one-time owner's name at top of ffep light staining to rear free endpaper. B&W photographs An early attempt to formulate an aesthetic of the cinema not on a purely theoretical basis but also grounded in the realities of film production and economics: the author as a scenarist himself was well aware that this still-nascent art form operated as a unique fusion of art and business and that "the task of the film artist is always.to effect a happy union between the two." He makes plenty of observations that wouldn't sound at all odd coming from the lips of someone like Samuel Goldwyn or Darryl Zanuck e.g.: "A work let it be ever so artistic and valuable in itself which brings economic distress to the film company that produces it harms indirectly the entire film business as an art." Writing from within the midst of the glory days of the German silent cinema many of his examples are naturally drawn from films still regarded as classics today -- THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI DIE NIEBELUNGEN DR. MABUSE DESTINY -- and the 22 photographic plates all present are drawn from those films as well. One wonders what a close reading of this book which I have not performed might bring out since Bloem reportedly welcomed Hitler's rise to power in 1933 and indeed went on to become a member of the Waffen-SS during World War II. I'll let you work on that one. . E.P. Dutton & Company hardcover books
