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1995158961New York: Vantage Press 1995. 90p. very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Self-published vanity press erotic thriller set in San Francisco. Personal inscription signed by the author. Vantage Press unknown books
1999163857New York: Walker and Company 1999. Hardcover. 276p. very good first edition first printing stated in boards and unclipped dj. Gunn p. 210-211. Walker and Company hardcover books
199470647Albuquerque: Zerx Press 1994. First edition. 26 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 500 copies. Albuquerque: Zerx Press unknown books
2000163954New York: Walker & Co 2000. Hardcover. 227p. fine first edition in boards and unclipped dj. Second novel in the series. Mystery featuring gay sleuth Nick Hoffman. Gunn page 210. Walker & Co hardcover books
1991264750New York: St. Martin's Press 1991. Hardcover. xiii 351p. preface introduction appendix notes selected secondary bibliography index fine first edition in boards and unclipped dj. Critical study. St. Martin's Press hardcover books
2007240740Durham: Duke University Press 2007. Paperback. 99p. personal isncription signed by the poet very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Cuban American physician harvard professor and poet. His fifth collection. Duke University Press paperback books
19852635New York: Limited Editions Club/Anthoensen Press 1985. First Edition Thus. Loose Signatures. Fine. Bright and unmarred. fo. 32pp. Illus. color and b/w plates. Signed by Neel and Soyer. Unnumbered. <br/><br/>This is a set of loose signatures of Poe's classic tale printed by the Anthoensen Press on mould-made paper designed by Ben Shiff and hand-set by Michael and Winifred Bixler. The bound copies were bound by John Isakovics in hand-marbled paper by Faith Harrison. Alice Neel died shortly before the publication of this volume and the images are dark and exceptional and include her stunning skull "self-portrait" the last not present in the loose signatures. The printer brought blank pages to Neel to sign and she signed approximately 400 of them before she passed away. This copy is additionally interesting as it was a printer's proof from Anthoensen Press and is unnumbered. Signed by Neel and Soyer. Limited Editions Club/Anthoensen Press unknown books
2723Paris: Librairie Des Editions Modernes. Three-Quarter Leather. Collectible; Very Good. First Thus. Elegant French erotica translated into English "the suppressed English edition" circa 1920. Special issue with 2 original signed-- by the artist Malay-- erotic watercolors bound-in. Octavo 126 pgs. Handsomely rebound in 3/4 calf over green linen. 5 raised bands bright gilt-decorated compartments and bright gilt-letttering along spine. Original pictorial wrapper very saucy bound-in as well. New marbled endpapers top-edge gilt. A solid VG copy with light fraying along spine creases and light scuffing along front panel. Internally very clean. Wonderfully-illustrated early 20th century French erotica. Signed by Illustrator. <br/><br/> Librairie Des Editions Modernes hardcover books
15872142London: John Harrison George Bishop Rafe Newberie Henrie Denham and Thomas Woodcocke 1587. Second Edition. 18th-century calf rebacked. Very Good. THE SECOND EDITION 1587 OF HOLINSHED'S "CHRONICLES": THE BOOK AND THE EDITION USED BY SHAKESPEARE AS A SOURCE FOR A DOZEN OF HIS PLAYS. "In 1548 the prominent London printer and bookseller Reyner or Reginald Wolfe ambitiously decided to produce a universal history and cosmography. of the world. After Wolfe's death in 1573 his assistant Raphael Holinshed took over the project hired more writers and restrained its scope to the British Isles. The Chronicles was first published in 1577 in a two-volume folio edition illustrated with numerous woodcuts. After Holinshed's death in 1580 Abraham Fleming published the significantly expanded revised second edition of 1587 in a larger folio format this time without illustrations" British Library. By scholarly consensus it is the second 1587 edition offered here that Shakespeare used as the source of many of plays: "Shakespeare used Holinshed as a source for more than a third of his plays including Macbeth King Lear and the English history plays such as Richard III. He used it in a range of ways sometimes following the text of the Chronicles closely even echoing its words and phrases; sometimes using it as an inspiration for plot details; and at other times deviating from its account altogether either preferring other sources or his own imagination. Comparing Shakespeare's plays to Holinshed and other sources can provide rich insight into his creative intentions and processes as well as giving us an idea of some of the context in which Shakespeare's contemporary audiences would have understood his plays" British Library. The major use that Shakespeare made of Holinshed was certainly in the British history plays: "Queen Elizabeth herself said that Shakespeare's history plays existed 'aswell for the recreacion of our loving subjects as for our solace and pleasure.' Both sovereign and subject certainly found much comfort and recreation in Shakespeare's histories because they stage a thematic movement that shapes Holinshed's Chronicles 1377-1485; from the death of a frequently chaotic violently chivalric medieval world to the birth of the 'Peaceable and Prosperous' early modern commonwealth of their day. "An astute reader Shakespeare transformed into the medium of drama four major political themes and messages taught by Holinshed and his successors who enlarged the 1587 text: the ideal and decorum of English kingship the role of France in English public discourse the idea of Englishness and the idea of the commonwealth." Igor Dhjordjevic "Shakespeare and Medieval History" Oxford Handbook. On the bibliography of the 1587 edition: In February 1587 the Archbishop of Canterbury was ordered by the Privy Council to recall and censor "reform" the book on the grounds that the new material in the second edition included "sundry things which we wish had bene better considered; forasmuch as the same booke doth also conteyne reporte of matters of later yeeres i.e. the reign of Elizabeth I that concern the State and that "ther is inserted such mention of matter touching the King of Scottes as may give him cause of offence." As a result some 16 pages in volume II and almost 150 pages in volume III were excised "castrated" and replaced by a much smaller number of pages only seven leaves in volume III to paper over the gaps. The censors however neglected the index which continued to contain references to the excised pages. In the early eighteenth century three separate publishers issued sets of replacement leaves that collectors could use to complete their castrated sets of the 1587 edition. Cyndia Susan Clegg "Censorship" in Oxford Handbook; Keith L. Maslen "Three Eighteenth Century Reprints of the Castrated Sheets in Holinshed's Chronicles" The Library 5th Series. There is wide variation among the surviving sets of the second edition partly because of the presence of three different eighteenth century sets of replacement leaves and partly because the original sixteenth century castrations and replacements were apparently not applied consistently to all of the then-existing sets. Some sets now have one or more of the castrated pages; some have the sixteenth century replacement pages; some have the eighteenth century replacement pages; and some are mixed-and-matched. Thus "no two copies of Holinshed's Chronicles. are likely to have identical text" Randall McLeod "Cronicling Holinshed's Chronicles: Textual Commentary" in "The Peaceable and Prosperous Regiment of Blessed Queene Elisabeth: A Facsimile from Holinshed's Chronicles" 2005. In the copy offered here the replacement leaves in volume III appear to conform to the set issued in 1722/1723 by William Mears Fletcher Gyles and James Woodman "The castrations of the last edition of Holinshed's Chronicle: both in the Scotch and English parts containing forty four sheets; printed with the old types and ligatures and compared literatim by the original". However volume II of the offered copy does not include a complete set of the 18th-centurty replacement leaves and the replacement pages that are present do not conform to the Mears/Gyles/Woodman set. Thus this volume most likely contains the publisher's original sixteenth-century replacement leaves. Castrated pages 421-24 are here replaced by a single leaf with the recto numbered 421 and the verso numbered 424; 432-38 are replaced by a single page 433 and 443-50 are replaced by two leaves numbered 443/444 and 445/450. Provenance: With stamps on titles and privilege leaves from "Bibliotheca Regia" an unidentified Royal library including the de-accession stamps "Double Vendu". London: John Harrison George Bishop Rafe Newberie Henrie Denham and Thomas Woodcocke 1587. Folio 234x363mm eighteenth-century calf rebacked. Some wear to boards. Text extraordinarily clean with wide margins. A beautiful and important set. John Harrison, George Bishop, Rafe Newberie, Henrie Denham, and Thomas Woodcocke unknown books
158795438London: John Harrison George Bishop Rafe Newberie Henrie Denham and Thomas Woodcocke 1587. Preferred second edition of the greatest Elizabethan repository of English history which served as an important source for Shakespeare's plays. Folios 3 volumes bound into 2 bound in full calf gilt titles and tooling to the spine raised bands red morocco spine labels gilt ruled woodcut initials and title pages. Separate title pages and pagination for The Description and Historie of England The Description and Historie of Ireland and The Description and Historie of Scotland comprising volume 1. When this expanded second edition of the Chronicles appeared in January 1587 the Privy Council responding to Queen Elizabeth's displeasure at certain passages ordered the Archbishop of Canterbury to recall and censure the work; as a result extensive cancellations 74 pages were made of offending sections in Volumes II and III. The censors removed "all references to English intervention in Scottish politics raised the profile of the Earl of Leicester and distanced England from Elizabeth's one time suitor the Duc d'Alencon. Any accounts of trials and executions were altered to ensure proceedings were unequivocally portrayed as being fair and legal" King's College London. The work of altering the entire edition of the Chronicles was rather haphazardly carried out so that the sections affected vary from copy to copy. In this copy all of the offending sections are cancelled or excised. A nice example scarce and desirable. An immediate success upon publication Holinshed's Chronicles "form a very valuable repertory of historical information. The enormous number of authorities cited attests Holinshed's and his successors' industry. The style is clear although never elevated and the chronicler fully justified his claim 'to have had an especial eye unto the truth of things" DNB. As the foremost British history available at the time the Chronicles did more to shape Elizabethan literature than any English historical work. "The Elizabethan dramatists drew many of their plots from Holinshed's pages" and this second edition is demonstrably the edition employed by Shakespeare as the principal source of his "history" plays. "Both W. G. Boswell-Stone and H. R. D. Anders have shown that it was this second edition which Shakespeare employed as the source sole or part of ten of his plays" Pforzheimer 494 note. "Nearly all of the historical plays as well as Macbeth King Lear and part of Cymbeline are based on Holinshed" DNB. In fact Shakespeare drew not only his plots from Holinshed but occasionally his phrases. The complete story of the rise and fall of Macbeth can be found in the Scottish history Part III pp. 170-76 and the Chronicles' eloquent descriptions intimate at times the very wording of Shakespeare's drama: Macbeth is described as "a valiant gentleman and one that if he had not beene somewhat cruell of nature might have beene thought most worthie the governement of a realme"; the three "weird sisters. women in straunge and wild apparell resembling creatures of elder world" deliver to Macbeth and Banquo the fateful prophecies; and in the final battle Macduffe reveals that "I am even he that thy wizzards have told thee of who was never borne out of my mother but ripped out of her wombe" Whitaker Shakespeare's Use of Learning. John Harrison, George Bishop, Rafe Newberie, Henrie Denham, and Thomas Woodcocke hardcover books
19713056New York: Walker and Company 1971. Octavo boards. First edition. First book of "The Coscuin Chronicles." A fine copy in fine white dust jacket. A sharp copy. Scarce thus. #3056 Walker and Company unknown books
1996145258New York: Tor 1996. Octavo boards. First edition. "THE FORTUNATE FALL 1996 which -- though its basic premise derives from D. G. Compton's THE CONTINUOUS KATHERINE MORTENHOE 1974; rev vt THE UNSLEEPING EYE 1974; vt DEATH WATCH 1981 -- intensely presents a cyberpunk world two centuries hence; the female protagonist a news reporter with a computer-driven camera wired into her sensorium finds herself deeply involved in an ancient conspiracy involving zombie Russian soldiers and mean streets. The world she inhabits is described with color and verve." - John Clute and David R. Langford SFE online. "Carter's brio and inventive spin on all the cyber tropes apparently exhausted in the 1980s and early 1990s is fun speedy if never quite as wrenchingly moving as the writer clearly wishes it to be . But the artificial life speculations are exactly right in their quicksilver detail: species and genera and entire phyla of viruses and grander alife creatures that prey on each other in grayspace the realm of virtual reality." - Broderick and Di Filippo Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels 1985-2010 #45. The author's first novel. A John W. Campbell Award nominee for best new writer. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1986-2009. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #145258 Tor unknown books
17868168London: Published by J. R. Smith No. 83 Oxford Street 1786. Coloured mezzotint. In good condition with the exception of some faint soiling in upper margin. Bottom margin outside platemark is coated with white paint. Water stains on verso of sheet not noticeable on front of sheet. Image size: 14 3/4 x 17 inches. Plate size: 17 7/8 x 19 5/8 inches. Sheet size: 19 5/8 x 20 inches. A wonderful mezzotint after Rev. Matthew William Peters by one of the finest eighteenth century engravers.<br/> <br/>This charming print is engraved after a painting by Rev. Matthew William Peters and is a fascinating example of this period in British printmaking. Matthew Peters was trained in London under the portraitist Thomas Hudson. He quickly became a prominent member of the Society of Artists exhibiting portraits in oil and pastel and attracting a number of prominent aristocratic patrons including the Duke of Manchester the Marquess of Granby and Lord Grosvenor for whom he painted some of his most controversial pictures. Urged by his patrons Peters painted a series of quasi-erotic character studies of courtesans which at that time were quite unusual in Britain. These controversial pictures were eagerly reproduced by industrious printmaker/publishers such as Smith and caused a flurry of curious customers to hurry to London print-shops. Following his ordination in 1781 Peters quickly denounced his early erotic pictures as immoral. Upon being appointed Honorary Chaplain to the Royal Academy Peters expressed a profound regret "that he ever devoted his talents to such subjects". With this in mind this picture becomes extremely interesting. In this work Peters continues to observe and appreciate charming subjects in fancy costumes but eliminates the erotic overtones present in his earlier works. Instead he has chosen to depict an age-old moral subject fortune-telling an institution in western art since the Renaissance. This print which is expertly engraved by one of the finest eighteenth century printmakers is a fascinating view into a turbulent period in Peters' life when he struggled to produce images that would appeal to his viewers while remaining true to his moral beliefs.<br/> <br/>D'Oench Copper into Gold: Prints by John Raphael Smith 1751-1812 p. 224 No. 274; Smith Catalogue No. 135 & 136; Ackermann 1802 p. 9 described as companion prints; Chaloner Smith British Mezzotinto Portraits Ward 97 Smith 186; Frankau An 18th Century Artist and Engraver: John Raphael Smith 146. Published by J. R. Smith, No. 83 Oxford Street unknown books
196073130San Francisco: Galley Sail Publications 1960. Volume 2 Number 1. 40 pp. Very good plus in illustrated wrappers. William Carlos Williams Zukofsky Snyder Creeley Souster McClure Whalen and others contribute. San Francisco: Galley Sail Publications, unknown books
1949211016Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1949. First. hardcover. near fine/very good. 8vo green cloth; one corner bumped; d.w. chipped ate edges. Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1949. First American Edition.<br/><br/> Houghton Mifflin unknown books
1926312474Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1926. First American edition. With four plates by Charles E. Brock tissue guards with printed captions. 1 vols. 8vo. Original black cloth titled in orange. Fine copy in fine later state dust jacket. First American edition. With four plates by Charles E. Brock tissue guards with printed captions. 1 vols. 8vo. Jacobite Intrigue. 'if a man won't drown who's born to hang neither will a man hang who's born to drown'<br/><br/>First American edition of this Jacobite adventure featuring Captain Henry Gaynor a wanted man delivered to the watch by Lord Paunceforth a ruined gambler. Gaynor was arrested as Captain Jenkyn hanged at Tyburn; his body was cut down by rogues and sold to an anatomist who restored him to health. Gaynor seeks his revenge.<br/><br/>The dust jacket is a later state advertising The Sword of Islam 1939 of the front flap and The Lost King 1937 on back flap. Book and jacket are in superior condition. Houghton Mifflin unknown books
192487683Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1924. 1st Amer. ed. Hardcover. Near Fine. 343p. Original black cloth. 19cm. No jacket. <br/><br/> Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover books
9457Limited Editions Club. Hardcover. Fine. With an introduction by Harry T. Moore. Illustrations taken from water-colors by Raphael Soyer. This edition designed by Bruce Campbell and printed at the Hampshire Typothetae. One of 2000 copies signed by both the author and the artist. Bound in quarter grey buckram with "Elephant Hide" paper over boards. Monthly LEC letter laid in. Fine in a fine slipcase. <br/><br/> Limited Editions Club hardcover books
197919495New York: The Limited Editions Club 1979. Limited ed. Hardcover. Near fine. Small 4to. Quarter gray cloth over paper-covered boards. With gray slipcase. Very near fine. SIGNED by Singer and Soyer at colophon. Slipcase about very good plus. Some sun-bleaching to slicpase; trace soil. Trivial sunning to spine. Interior bright crisp and clean. Includes newsletter and sheet on this volume which is third in the LEC's 45th series. 59pp plates. <br/><br/>#1160 from an edition of 2000. A handsome edition comprising two tales by Singer and excellent illustrations. The Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1979D7033New York: The Limited Editions Club 1979. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Cloth-backed paper over boards; slipcase; 4to. Illustrated with watercolors reproduced in full-color and with reproductions of pencil studies at rear. Number 1983 from a limited edition of 2000 copies signed by Singer and and Soyer on the limitation page. Colophon and monthly letter of the LEC laid in. <br/><br/> The Limited Editions Club hardcover books
197938939New York: Limited Editions Club 1979. 8vo 26.6 cm 10.5". xi 1 59 5 pp.; 11 col. plts. 23 plts. <br><br>The quintessence of Singer's genius": two supernatural tales by the Nobel Prize winner with an introduction by Harry T. Moore. => The stories are illustrated with 11 plates after watercolors by Raphael Soyer and followed by 23 plates after Soyer's pencil sketches.<br>Â Â Â Â The volume was designed by Bruce Campbell and set in Centaur and Arrighi types with the text printed by Hampshire Typothetae under Harold McGrath's supervision and the watercolors by the Princeton Polychrome Press; the binding was done by the Tapley-Rutter Company. This is numbered copy 1063 of 2000 printed and it is => signed at the colophon by author and artist. The monthly newsletter and prospectus are laid in. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club 514. Publisher's grey-green marbled papercovered boards with grey natural-finish buckram shelfback spine with title stamped in silver in original gray papercovered slipcase; slipcase faded lightly on one side. => A fresh and attractive copy. Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1979CNJL685New York: The Limited Editions Club 1979. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Soyer Raphael. No. 631 of 2000 quarto size 126 pp. signed by Isaac Bashevis Singer and Raphael Soyer. Isaac Bashevis Singer 1902-1991 was a Polish-born Jewish writer who wrote and published only in Yiddish. He won he Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978 and was also awarded two National Book Awards. The artist for this edition Raphael Soyer was a Russian-born American painter draftsman and printmaker referred to as an American scene painter because of his interest in men and women viewed in contemporary settings N. B. info from Wikipedia. <br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Bound in Elephant Hide paper with natural finish buckram with silver lettering on the spine light-grey coloured top edge of text block watercolour illustrations by Raphael Soyer including twenty-three preliminary sketches; printed on natural-tone wove rage stock paper made specifically for this edition; pagination: i - xii 1 - 59 blank 60 illustrations 61 - 108 colophon 109; 10.5" tall signed by author Isaac Bashevis Singer and illustrator Raphael Soyer Limited Edition no. 631 of 2000; original glassine wrapper present; light-grey paper slipcase. <br/><br/>___CONDITION: Volume is fine the binding clean and unrubbed hinges solid textblock strong the interior is clean and bright and it is entirely free of prior owner markings. The glassine wrapper and slipcase are also in fine condition the glassine wrapper does have some offsetting along spine. <br/><br/>___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please contact us 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 Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1977255932New York: St. Martin's 1977. First. hardcover. fine/fine. 8vo cloth d.w. New York: St. Martin's 1977. First American Edition.<br/><br/> Some tanning on end-leaves otherwise fine copy of a novel based on an award winning television series.<br/><br/> St. Martin's unknown books
1993152053Walnut Creek: Self-published by the poet as Gurgling Feet Press 1993. viii 48p. 5.5x8.5 inches illustrations very good second edition booklet in stapled pictorial wraps. Typed note to San Francisco poet Ed Mycue tipped-in and signed by the poet Tom Ross. Original edition published by Mother's Hen in 1974. Infantile poetry. Self-published by the poet as Gurgling Feet Press unknown books
1972115828Los Angeles: Aztlán Publications Univeristy of California 1972. Paperback. iv 90p. introduction illustrations very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps with cover design and title page design by Carmen Lomas Garza. Creative Series #2. Aztlán Publications, Univeristy of California paperback books
