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196786604New York: Mayor's Task Force on Urban Design. January 1967. Trade . Good. Good Softcover. Moderate soiling and shelfwear to covers. Number written in pencil on cover. Textblock mildly soiled. Underlining writing and other marks in margins in pencil on a few pages in the Proposals section at end of book. Otherwise pages clean and tight in binding. Pictures available upon request. A locally owned independent book shop since 1984. New York: Mayor's Task Force on Urban Design. unknown
20101-0810989980Harry N Abrams Inc 2010. Paperback. New. 256 pages. 10.00x7.25x1.00 inches. Harry N Abrams Inc paperback
1728ST19567-025London: Bernard Linton 1728. Second Edition in English. "With very large Additions and a new Treatise of Flowers and Orange-Trees. 255 x 195 mm. 10 1/8 x 7 3/4. viii 297 i.e. 299 17 pp.Translated by John James. <br/> Contemporary calf boards capably rebacked in a lighter calf raised bands dark brown morocco label with gilt lettering. With tailpieces a number of illustrations and 38 folding plates of garden plans. Front pastedown with armorial bookplate of Whyte Melville of Bennochy and Strathkinness; front free endpaper with ink singature of Robert Melvill and the armorial bookplate of Francis Gray Smart. Hunt 471; Henrey 950; Fowler 171 first edition in English; Harris 381. Original boards somewhat crackled as nearly always with treated calf and slightly marked corners quite worn a hint of browning to title and final leaf of ads otherwise a very desirable copy the text and plates in remarkably clean and bright condition.<br/> <br/> This is the definitive guide to formal gardening practices in the 18th century containing a thorough exploration of both theory and practice that is elucidated by nearly 40 folding plates drawn by one of the most influential architects of the period. Henrey calls it "the first important book on garden design to appear in England in the eighteenth century" and according to the Met museum's website the work "became the standard international text of the grand French manner of garden design." The text includes a wide array of design recommendations that comprise elements such as labyrinths groves bowling greens porticos colonnades and stairways; examples of different types of ornamentation and embellishment such as statuary and water features; recommendations for the best type of trees to employ; and practical advice for the care and management of plants and gardens. It is also notable as the first book to describe the "ha-ha" a type of fence with a sunken grade on one side creating an invisible livestock barrier while also preserving an unspoiled view of the countryside beyond it. The name supposedly derives from the astonished sound a viewer would make when encountering this ingenious solution. The work was originally published anonymously in French in 1709 and the first edition in English translated by architect John James appeared in 1712. Although the title page of the present work credits it to the great French architect Alexander Le Blond named "architecte du Roi" in France and the chief architect of St. Petersburg it is actually the work of his pupil Antoine Joseph Dezallier D'Argenville 1680-1765. Le Blond however did provide most of the drawings for the plates which beautifully illustrate the various garden designs and structural plans. Our three previous owners are of some interest. The signature on the front free endpaper is probably that of General Robert Melvill or Mellville 1723-1809 who served in the West Indies during the Seven Years' war. He became a plantation owner and governor of the Grenadines Dominica St. Vincent Tobago and Grenada. After returning to Great Britain in 1771 Melvill pursued academic interests and became a member Royal Society and the Society of Antiquaries of London as well as a member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Because he was a bachelor Melvill's estate went to his cousin John Whyte-Melville 1797-1883 a renowned golfer he became captain of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club in 1823 and the father of the novelist and poet George John Whyte-Melville. Francis Gray Smart 1844-1913 was a homeopathic physician who founded the Tunbridge Wells Homeopathic Hospital. He was also an antiquary and avid coin collector who became a member of the Linnean Society the Society of Antiquaries and the British Numismatic Society. Considered apart from the book's sturdy though not especially attractive exterior the contents here are unexpectedly fresh clean and bright--unusual in a type of book that might normally have experienced use in an unprotected environment. Bernard Linton unknown
1968DUNCANRO002031The Tenth Muse San Francisco CA. c 1968. First edition. Quarto. 30 loose sheets stapled. A bookseller's mimeographed catalogue listing 284 items of modern mainly American literature. The wraparound cover design is from a specially commissioned collage by Jess. His partner Robert Duncan provides notes for several of the books listed.Very good indeed. Very scarce. The Tenth Muse, San Francisco, CA. unknown
1954011462London: Putnam 1954. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good-. Uncommon cuisine title in original dustjacket with painterly pictorial by William Maclaren. Gift inscription dated 1978 in calliogrpagic script ffe. Dustjacket price-slipped with some professional internal repair. Still highly presentable. Putnam hardcover
196329322HBDJ VG/VG- 1963 Stated 1st edition Red Tweed cloth lettered in Black on Spine Cvr light wear Interior nice tight clean light FOX Wear 152 pgs DJ light rub wear FRONT OF DJ SMALL ROUND HOL.E & SCUFF Fox back DJ tiny chips tears edges Extremities dJ DJ spine tiny Chips Tears DJ small mended tears edges 8vo Another great STEVE Grendon & SIM Jones. mystery. Traditionally summer in Sac Prairie means the rollicking arrival of Brooks Stock Co a tent show inhabitants eagerly look forward to. This summer an air of mystery pervades the Show automatically attracting boys attention. who could be threatening the owners & why should anyone want the worthless property on which they perform Amateur detectives prove their talent in Homey Fashion readers have come to Enjoy. <br /><br /><br /> Duell, Sloan & Pearce, NY hardcover
194719881Philadelphia and Toronto: The John C. Winston Company 1947. First Edition. Cloth. Slipcase with same cloth. Fine. 4to. 25.5 by 19.5 cm. Unpaginated 14 folded sheets of glossy paper not counting prelim and final blank leaves. Leaves folded Japanese-style. Szyk illustrations are half-title title first leaf quoting bible as to origin of 10 commandments then an illustration on every recto. Facing versos have commentary. Following tenth commandment two pages of further commentary and final page with content is a colophon crediting those responsible for different aspects of the book including some not mentioned in this description such as the typographers. Light wear on the slipcase with a modest corner bump. Overall Fine. The John C. Winston Company unknown
19822090202118108224Suntory Museum Bunko 2 1982. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Suntory Museum Bunko 2 paperback
1912047756New York: Frederick A. Stokes 1912. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Color And B/W Plates And Illustrations. Xvi 275 Pp. Beige Cloth Stamped In Black Green And Red Top Edge Gilt. First Printing 1912 No Additional Printing Indicated. Fine. With The Rare Dust Jacket Printed On Fine Marbled Paper And Which Almost Never Survives Because The Reverse Shows Brilliantly Colored Marbling And Would Be Put To Other Decorative Use. Dust Jacket States "Library Binding" At Top Of Front Panel And Has Small Chips At Edges Without Loss Of Any Lettering. Personal Bookplate. <br/> <br/> Frederick A. Stokes hardcover
2090502113715656Not Available N.A. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
1932045102Nw York: W. W. Norton & Company 1932. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 38 Pp. Grey Cloth Spine Black Cloth Covers Stamped In Gilt And Red. First Printing Near Fine In Very Good Dust Jacket Priced $1.50. Inscribed From Actor Francis Lederer " Dearest Mrs. Lasky To Find An Artistic Soul As Yours Touched By A Tale Like This Is Greatest Thrill To The Interpreter Francis Lederer". Francis Frantisek Lederer 1899- 2000 Was A Czech-Born American Film And Stage Actor With A Successful Career First In Europe Then In The United States. Lederer Started Acting When He Was Young And Was Trained At The Academy Of Music And Academy Of Dramatic Art In Prague. After Service In The Austrian-Hungarian Imperial Army In World War I He Made His Stage Debut As An Apprentice With The New German Theater A Walk-On In The Play Burning Heart. He Toured Moravia And Central Europe Making A Name For Himself As A Matinee Idol In Theaters In Czechoslovakia Hungary Austria And Germany. Notable Among His Performances Was A Turn As Romeo In Max Reinhardt's Staging Of Romeo And Juliet. In The Late 1920S Lederer Was Lured Into Films By The German Actress Henny Porten And Her Husband. He Worked With G.W. Pabst In Pandora's Box Starring Louise Brooks And Atlantic Both 1929. Lederer Billed As "Franz" At This Time Made The Transition From Silent Films To Sound Films. In 1931 Lederer Was In London To Perform On Stage In Volpone And The Next Year In Autumn Crocus By Dodie Smith Which He Then Performed On Broadway - Using The Name "Francis" - Where It Played For 210 Performances In 1932 And 1933. He Also Performed The Play In Los Angeles. Lederer's First American Movies Were Man Of Two Worlds 1934 Romance In Manhattan 1934 With Ginger Rogers The Gay Deception 1935 With Frances Dee And One Rainy Afternoon 1936. He Was Cast As The Lead With Katharine Hepburn In The 1935 Film Break Of Hearts But The Producers Replaced Him With Charles Boyer. It Was Irving Thalberg's Plan To Make Lederer The Biggest Star In Hollywood But The Death Of Thalberg Ended This Possibility. Although He Continued To Play Leads Occasionally - Notably When He Was A Playboy In Mitchell Leisen's Midnight With Claudette Colbert And John Barrymore - In The Late 1930S Lederer Began To Expand His Character Parts Even Playing Villains. Throughout His Career Lederer Who Studied With Elia Kazan At The Actors Studio In New York City Continued To Take Stage Acting Seriously And He Performed Often Both In New York And Elsewhere. He Appeared In Stage Productions Of Golden Boy 1937 Seventh Heaven 1939 No Time For Comedy 1939 In Which He Replaced Laurence Olivier The Play's The Thing 1942 A Doll's House 1944 Arms And The Man 1950 The Sleeping Prince 1956 And The Diary Of Anne Frank 1958. Although He Took A Break From Making Films In 1941 In Order To Concentrate On His Stage Work He Returned To The Silver Screen In 1944 Appearing In Voice In The Wind And The Bridge Of San Luis Rey And In Films Such As Jean Renoir's The Diary Of A Chambermaid 1946 And Million Dollar Weekend 1948. During The 1950S He Served As Honorary Mayor Of Canoga Park. He Would Continue To Make Television Appearances For The Next 10. In His Later Life Lederer Who Had Become Very Wealthy Invested In Real Estate Especially In The Canoga Park Community Part Of Which At One Time Included West Hills In 1987. He Was Active In Local And Los Angeles Civic Affairs Philanthropy And Politics. He Served As Recreation And Parks Commissioner For The City Of Los Angeles Received Awards For His Efforts To Beautify The City And Was The Honorary Mayor Of Canoga Park For Quite A Time. He Became Involved With Peace Movements Taught Acting And Was One Of The Founders Of The American National Academy Of Performing Arts And The International Academy Of Performing Arts. Jesse Louis Lasky 1880 - 1958 Was An Important Pioneer Film Producer Who Made A Few Films With Lederer. <br/> <br/> W. W. Norton & Company hardcover
1966JC8277New York: Boosey & Hawkes 1966. Paperback. Very Good. Staple-bound illustrated wraps; 4to; pp. 6 1-86. Inscribed by the librettist on the half-title page: "For Claibe - '.came a lovely golden voice.' Love Kenward." Wraps faintly rubbed and a little dust-soiled along spine; tiny chip at top corner of rear cover; small faint stain at top edge of half-title page not infringing upon inscription or text. Kenward Elmslie was a writer publisher and performer associated with the New York School of poetry. He collaborated with the composer Claibe Richardson on the theatrical productions "Lola" and Truman Capote's "The Grass Harp." A nice association copy. <br/><br/> Boosey & Hawkes paperback
0428862624.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
0331400081.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
139189667X.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
026670851X.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
19267284New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1926. Hemingway's first novel synonymous with the Lost Generation in which "the post-war disillusion and the post-war liberation are united in the physical enjoyment of living and the pains of love" Connolly p.53. The novel portrays a group of English and American expatriates frequenting the cafés of Paris who travel along the Camino de Santiago to the Fiesta de San Fermín in Pamplona where they watch the running of the bulls. Basis for Henry King's 1957 film adaptation starring Tyrone Power and Ava Gardner. Uncommon in dustjacket. Grissom A.6.1b. Hanneman 6A; Connolly 100. Second printing one of 1970 copies with the typographical error on p.181 line 26 "stoppped" for "stopped" in the corrected state. Octavo 19.75cm; black cloth with printed gold paper title labels mounted to spine and front cover; dustjacket; viii23-2591pp. Early ownership markings to front endpaper mild softening to spine ends gentle sunning to spine with some trivial dust-soil to upper edge of textblock and some darkening and pinpoint wear to title labels; contents clean; Very Good. In the correct second state dustjacket unclipped priced $2.00 with the typographical error in "In Our Times" in the corrected state along the lower front panel; spine and panels gently sunned and lighty dust-soiled some moderate external wear with a few small nicks and closed tears particularly at base of spine and a few faint scattered stains; still a presentable example unrestored Very Good or better. Housed in a custom clamshell case. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown
191228841London: The Studio 1912. 1st. Hardcover. Good. 11.7x8.6x1.3in. marbled edges; leather spine and corners rubbed and worn. <br>Contains all four issues of Volume 56 numbers 231-234 profusely illustrated in monotone plus 26 supplemental illustrations 24 colored and 2 tinted. <br>340pp 4.30lb 11.7x8.6x1.3in The Studio hardcover
190928838London: The Studio 1909. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good. 11.8x8.6x1.2in. top edge gilt; leather spine and corners rubbed. <br>Contains all four issues of Volume 47 numbers 195-198 profusely illustrated in monotone plus 21 supplemental illustrations 20 in color and 1 tinted. <br>330pp 4.33lb 11.8x8.6x1.2in The Studio hardcover
191228840London: The Studio 1912. 1st. Hardcover. Good. 11.7x8.6x1.3in. marbled edges; leather spine and corners rubbed and worn. <br>Contains all four issues of Volume 55 numbers 227-230 profusely illustrated in monotone plus 30 supplemental illustrations 20 colored 7 tinted 2 on heavy stock and 1 reproduction of a wood-engraving. <br>340pp 4.27lb 11.7x8.6x1.3in The Studio hardcover
190928837London: The Studio 1909. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good. 11.8x8.6x1.2in. top edge gilt; leather spine and corners rubbed. <br>Contains all four issues of Volume 45 numbers 187-190 profusely illustrated in monotone plus 28 supplemental illustrations 21 in color 6 tinted and 1 facsimile reproduction of a sketch. <br>340pp 4.53lb 11.8x8.6x1.2in The Studio hardcover
191328843London: The Studio 1913. 1st. Hardcover. Good. 11.7x8.6x1.3in. marbled edges; leather spine and corners rubbed and worn. <br>Contains all four issues of Volume 58 numbers 239-242 profusely illustrated in monotone plus 27 supplemental illustrations 22 colored 3 tinted 1 reproduction of an engraving and 1 reproduction of a pencil sketch. <br>342pp 4.45lb 11.7x8.6x1.3in The Studio hardcover
190914385London: The Studio 1909. 1st. Hardcover. Good. 11.4x8.7x1.2in. top edge gilt; spine faded covers rubbed spine slant. <br>Contains all four issues of Volume 46 numbers 191-194 profusely illustrated in monotone plus 25 supplemental illustrations 17 in color 2 tinted 2 from lithographs 1 reproduction in photogravure 1 chromo-xylograph and 2 reproductions of drawings. <br>338pp 4.01lb 11.4x8.7x1.2in The Studio hardcover
191014386London: The Studio 1910. 1st. Hardcover. Good. 11.4x8.7x1.2in. top edge gilt; spine faded covers rubbed spine slant. <br>Contains all four issues of Volume 48 numbers 199-202 profusely illustrated in monotone plus 26 supplemental illustrations 21 colored 5 tinted and 1 chromolithograph. <br>340pp 4.15lb 11.4x8.7x1.2in The Studio hardcover
191213356London Paris New York: The Studio Ltd 1912. 1st. Hardcover. Good. 11.3x8.3x1.0in. covers soiled. <br>Covers Great Britain British Country Houses; British Furniture Wall and Ceiling Decoration and Stained Glass; British Embroidery and Textile Fabrics; British Metal-work Pottery and Woodcarving; German Architecture and Decoration; Austrian Architecture and Decoration; and Hungarian Architecture and Decoration. Profusely illustrated with 21 illustrations in color. <br>254pp 2.92lb 11.3x8.3x1.0in The Studio Ltd hardcover
