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19979229London: Artangel 1997. 1st. Decorative Cloth. Collectible; Fine. A lovely copy of the 1997 signed/limited. #58 OF ONLY 100 COPIES ISSUED SIGNED BY BOTH NEIL BARTLETT AND ROBIN WHITMORE who respectively wrote the text and illustrated this artist's book. Clean and Fine in its decorative cloth with Robin Whitmore's monoprints complementing the text. Oblong quarto 51 pgs. Also includes a Near Fine example of the publisher's printed cardboard slipcase. Signed by Authors. <br/><br/> Artangel hardcover books
20142309745New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard 2014. 1st Printing. 1st Printing. Near Fine. First printing. Top corner of front wrapper creased bottom corner of rear wrapper creased. 2014 Trade Paperback. 367 pp. "When the Norwegian ambassador to Thailand is found dead in a Bangkok brothel Inspector Harry Hole is dispatched from Oslo to help hush up the case. But once he arrives Harry discovers that this case is about much more than one random murder. There is something else something more pervasive scrabbling around behind the scenes. Or put another way for every cockroach you see in your hotel room there are hundreds behind the walls. Surrounded by round-the-clock traffic noise Harry wanders the streets of Bangkok lined with go-go bars temples opium dens and tourist traps trying to piece together the story of the ambassador's death even though no one asked him to and no one wants him to Vintage Crime/Black Lizard unknown books
19234589Brooklyn: Mergenthaler Linotype Co 1923. cloth. 4to. cloth. 256 pages. Extensively illustrated in red and black. Near fine copy. Mergenthaler Linotype Co unknown books
183831686London: Published for the proprietors by George Virtue 1838. First edition. Three quarter dark green morocco over marbled boards boards ruled in gilt five raised bands ruled in gilt four compartments with floral gilt decorations two with gilt titles marbled endpapers all edges gilt. Very good boards and extremities rubbed owner's bookplate to free front end paper small faint semicircular stain to fore edge of first two preliminary leaves tissue guard and engraved title foxed and offset faint dampstain to lower inner corner marginal only scattered foxing to plates nearly all marginal or on blank backs otherwise plates are crisp text clean binding sold. A very handsome copy. 164 pp. 81 lvs. Illus. with 81 steel engravings: port. frontis title page vignette 78 view plates and 1 map. Sm. 4to. "This work had much influence in terms of increasing popular appreciation of its subject" Blackmer Lib. p. 405. Atabey 922; CBEL 3rd IV: 1378; Blackmer Coll. 1254; Blackmer Lib. 888. Published for the proprietors by George Virtue hardcover books
182956027Plymouth Mass: published by Ezra Collier Allen Danforth printer 1829. First edition 12mo pp. xii 13-312; contemporary mottled calf; red morocco label; textblock slightly toned; otherwise very good. Ink ownership inscription of Josiah Ames 1834. Parris 1806-1827 began his medical practice in Attleborough MA in 1825 and died only two years later. He composed most of these writings between the ages of 12 and 18 and they were posthumously discovered by his friends and family who desired printed copies. The text is mostly comprised of poems and discourses on various subjects. American Imprints 39969. <br/><br/> published by Ezra Collier, Allen Danforth, printer unknown books
1961007252Los Angeles CA: Cole-Holmquist Press. Very Good. 1961. Limited and Numbered. Hardcover. 31/350. Privately printed. Green boards are rubbed along edges with a bit of tearing some sunning and soiling along spine. Interior clean and free of markings. Foldout map at rear. ; Book; 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall . Cole-Holmquist Press hardcover books
182320045Boston: Printed by Jonathan Howe 1823. Original grained sheep spine and tips blue boards 7.25 x 4.5 inches 148 16 16 pages. Errata slip tipped in after the final page of text. Second edition. <br /><br />The attorney Bartlett first published this collection of aphorisms in 1810 in Portsmouth N.H.; this edition has a new dedication to John Quincy Adams the 1810 edition had been dedicated to his enemies has a new preface and an added poem on Lavatar and the science of physiognomy as well as an essay on the blessings of poverty. <i>American Imprints</i> 11752. <br /><br />Spine and corners somewhat rubbed some soiling to the boards; a bit foxed and a trifle shaken; a very good copy. Printed by Jonathan Howe books
1949123272New York: Oxford University Press 1949. first edition. Hardbound. VG previous owners' bookplate. Bicolored grey and yellow cloth-covered boards. 110 pp. profusely illustrated in color and bw. A fantastic presentation. Part 1: Reasons For Abstract Forms In Painting. Part 2: Comparison of Techniques Old and New. Part 3: Influences of Modern Environment On The Artist's Use of Abstract Images. Oxford University Press unknown books
1958139409Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1958. Two vintage black-and-white reference studio still photographs from the 1958 film. <br/><br/>"Silver" Ward Hogan Mahoney is hired to track down the last surviving murderer of a wealthy prospector. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Lone Pine California. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Pitts 2676. Universal Pictures unknown books
1980Embry 159995Nebraska State Historical Society 1980. First edition first printing. Owner's gift inscription else fine in fine dust jacket. Nebraska State Historical Society, 1980. First edition, first printing. unknown books
1961133200N.p.: N.p. 1961. Vintage oversize double weight candid photograph of Gregory Peck and producer Sy Bartlett conferring on the set of "Cape Fear" in 1961 during the final scene in which Peck's character Sam Bowden fights in swamp water with Max Cady Robert Mitchum. Shot struck and mounted by the film's still photographer Bob Willoughby. The photographer has written at the top of the verso in holograph ink: "Greg on set listens to producer Sy Bartlett." With Willoughby's ASMP rubber stamp with his Pacific Palisades address and a separate stamp with the address of the Lee Gross Agency in New York. Full provenance available. <br/><br/>After studying with Saul Bass at the Kann Institute of Art in Los Angeles photographer Robert Willoughby began working for magazines such as "Life" "Look" and "Harper's Bazaar" in the late 1940s. He spent the next 20-plus years as a set photographer for every major studio and magazine with his images seen in print literally every week of his career. Willoughby's photographs are in the permanent collections of ten museums including The National Portrait Galleries in Washington DC and London the Bibliotheque Nationale de France The Museum of Modern Art and The Tate Modern. <br/><br/>In a custom museum-quality frame archivally mounted with UV glass. 13.5 x 9 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Hardy The BFI Companion to Crime. Silver Classic Noir. Selby US. Spicer US. N.p. unknown books
1872246457Cambridge MA: Printed at the Riverside Press 1872. Soft Cover. Good binding. 27pp. No pencil or ink markings in text; paper binding with light to moderate edge wear to covers and spine. Good binding. Printed at the Riverside Press unknown books
19722490NY: Farrar Straus & Giroux. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1972. Hardcover. 0374307075 . First edition. Very good in a very good dust jacket. . Farrar, Straus & Giroux hardcover books
1972227185New York Farrar Straus & Giroux 1972. 1972. First edition so stated. 8vo. 15 halftone illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Dust jacket designed by Cynthia Krupat unclipped. Fine. No other signatures or bookplates. 207 pages. Advance review copy with the publisher's slip laid in loose with publication date of May 5 1972 with the original price of $6.50. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux [1972]. hardcover books
1972Embry 162809Farrar Straus and Giroux 1972. First U.S. edition. Small inked name and tiny owner's label near fine in near fine dust jacket with a short closed tear in mylar cover. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1972. First U.S. edition. unknown books
196977630Cleveland:: World Publishing Company. Fine. 1969. Hardcover. B0006BVUZM . First printing library binding - NOT ex-library. Fine in illustrated boards. No dust jacket. . World Publishing Company, hardcover books
1930295720London: Victor Gollancz 1930. hardcover. very good. Original 1/2 vellum black cloth boards gilt lettering to spine pages untrimmed. Spine speckled with extremities lightly bumped offsetting and mild foxing to endpapers internally clean. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd 1930. A very good copy.<br/><br/> Number 409 of 600 copies signed by the authors.<br/><br/> Victor Gollancz unknown books
1930WRCLIT75666London: Victor Gollancz 1930. Quarter vellum and black cloth. Very slight darkening to vellum endsheets darkened and slightly foxed as often for this book spine slightly cocked but a good to very good copy. First edition limited issue of the novelization of Sherriff's play. One of six hundred numbered copies printed on handmade paper specially bound and signed by the authors. FALLS p.297. Victor Gollancz hardcover books
193030624New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company 1930. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Some spotting to page edges otherwise a clean nearly fine copy gound in quarter vellum cloth-covered boards. Gilt title on spine of book reads "Journey's End /American Edition." In a near fine example of the scarce dust jacket with some restoration at edges. Originally published in play form this novel version was how Sherriff first intended to issue this important WWI narrative. <br/><br/> Frederick A. Stokes Company hardcover books
19303001London: Victor Gollancz Ltd 1930. Hardcover. Very Good. Number 501 of an edition of 600 signed by both authors on limitation page. Quarter vellum and black cloth. One corner bumped with a small split in the cloth light dust soiling to top edge otherwise a very nice copy with some pages unopened. Victor Gollancz Ltd hardcover books
1999227090Liberty: Short Mountain Collective 1999. Magazine. 72p. 8.5x11 inches illustrations photos very good magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Rustic Fairy Dreams aka Radical Faerie Digest. Magazine emphasizing communal aspects of rural gay life. Short Mountain Collective unknown books
1769315321Rockingham County NH 1769. 1 p. pen and ink on paper blank on verso. 4.5 x 7.75 inches. Old folds dog-eared corner else fine. 1 p. pen and ink on paper blank on verso. 4.5 x 7.75 inches. A memo written during Bartlett's tenure as justice of the Peace for Rockingham County recording an agreement for the transfer of a deed from Joseph Chandler to Josiah Judkins upon payment of a note. <br/><br/>American physician statesman and jurist Josiah Bartlett 1729-1795 was born in Amesbury in the Province of Massachusetts Bay and moved to the frontier settlement of Kingston in Rockingham County New Hampshire in 1751 where he opened his practice as the county's sole physician. Bartlett was elected to the New Hampshire colonial assembly in 1765 served as colonel of the Rockingham County militia and was appointed justice of the peace. From 1775-1776 and in 1778 and 1788 Barteltt was New Hampshire's delegate to the Continental Congress where as the representative of the northern most colony he was the first delegate to vote for independence from Great Britain. Bartlett was a signer of the Declaration of Independence served on the committee that drafted the Articles of Confederation and helped ratify the Constitution. He later served as a judge in the Court of Common Pleas and despite not being a lawyer was appointed Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court and in 1792 he became New Hampshire's fourth Governor. <br/><br/>Two-hundred years after his death Josiah Bartlett entered the chronicles of American pop culture when despite a difference in the spelling of his last name he became the fictional direct ancestor of "President Josiah Bartlet" a leading character played by actor Martin Sheen in NBC's drama The West Wing. Bartlett is also a character in both the stage and motion picture adaptation of the musical 1776. Photo unknown books
1902vas5259Cambridge: Printed for the Museum 1902. Quarto new cloth hardcover 127 pp. plus 25 full-page plates of various crab species each with opposing descriptive sheet. Fine. Printed for the Museum, 1902. hardcover books
193011222JNew York: Stokes 1930. First Edition second impression. The first juvenile novel to use Lawrence as a historical character. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a small chip at the conjunction of the top o f the spine and the front panel. The dust jacket has colorful artwork of a man in Arab dress brandishing a rifle while counted on a camel. Stokes unknown books
1980114644Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press 1980. Hardcover. 219p. one of 200 numbered copies signed by Spender and Bartlett on the first blank after the copyright page near fine in cloth-backed pictorial boards and mylar jacket. Black Sparrow Press hardcover books
