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729NY MERCURY 1969. BRADBURY CONTRIBUTION FIRST EDITION FINE. F. NY, MERCURY, 1969 unknown books
198948924Stockton CA: The Wormwood Review Press 1989. 1st Printing. Copy #154 of a total 700cc run. Printed pale blue paper covers stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Bit of age-toning two faint spots to front cover otherwise VG. 48 pp. Bukowski: pp 44- 46 in double column. T.p. shillouette. 8-1/4" x 5-3/8" <br/><br/>Bukowski "was a German-American poet novelist and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social cultural and economic ambiance of his home city of Los Angeles. His work addresses the ordinary lives of poor Americans the act of writing alcohol relationships with women and the drudgery of work. Bukowski wrote thousands of poems hundreds of short stories and six novels eventually publishing over 60 books. . In 1986 Time called Bukowski a 'laureate of American lowlife.'" Wiki The Wormwood Review Press unknown books
33130New York: Burdick and Scovill n. d. 1st volume edition. Ca 1854 per spine tooling. Period maroon morocco-style full sheep binding with gilt decorated spine & decorative perimeter border to boards. Bright yellow eps. Some general binding wear with the spine sunned. 2" closed vertical tear to bottom edge of first leaf with p. 69/70. Withal a VG copy. 2 9 - 217 3; 9 - 220; 9 - 40 pp. 13 issues total. Illustrated with one steel engraving & one hand-colored plate for each issue 2 colored plates excised. 8vo. 8-3/8" x 5-5/8" <br/><br/>Willoughby's poem offers a lament to the lady left home by one drawn to the gold fields of California. "Thy heart and hopes all buried here / by Sacramento's shore." Burdick and Scovill hardcover books
1786107078Curtis Walworth. London: W. Curtis Botanic Garden. Lambeth Marsh 1786; S. Curtis Walworth April 2 1822 and March 1825. Three hand-colored copperplate engravings 125 x 207mm on separate sheets well-mounted in matching mats 285 x 380mm; very good. § Curtis's Botanical Magazine is the longest running illustrated botanical magazine published continuously since 1787. Initially the work of the influential Quaker botanist William Curtis the magazine is now published for the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. The three plates here include one from the very first volume Plate 2 Rudbeckia Purpurea Purple Coneflower 1787 the plate imprint is dated 1786 as well as Rudbeckia pinnata Plate 2310 Vol. 49 1822 and the Chrysanthemum sinense Plate 2556 Vol. 52 1825. W. Curtis Botanic Garden. Lambeth Marsh unknown books
1927367Chicago: Woman's World magazine Co. Inc. 1927-28. Black boards color illustrated wraps. Good. A full run of all 11 recipe books compiled and laid in boards. Includes: Cakes and Desserts - 1927 The Candy Calendar - 1927 Salads and Sandwiches - 1927 The Fifty Two Sunday Dinners - 1927 The Cookery Calendar - 1927 The Fish Book - 1928 The Menu Book - 1929 The Book of Can Cookery - 1928 The Vegetable Book - 1928 Children's Party Book - 1928 The Fruit Book - 1928. Moderate wear to pamphlets. <br/><br/> Woman's World magazine Co. Inc. hardcover books
1928004599Syracuse NY: Keramic Studio Publishing Co 1928. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First thus edition. Folio. 40 black & white plates and ten color plates. Reprinted from the journal edited by Adelaide Alsop Robineau featuring works of Hiroshigi color Persian miniatures Persian coats Byzantine jewelry East Indian 17th century jewelry Coptic 5th century Egypt coats and designs Island of Titicaca ponchos Peruvian designs Decorative figures by May Warner color surface patterns by M. Chohany and a decorative panel by Eunice Genthner color enamelled silver boxes and decorated textiles from the Austrian Werkbund in Vienna color Persian tiles vases and bowls Chinese porcelains including Ming Blue & White K'ang Hsi saucer 18th c. Yung Cheng Sung Early Ming and Ch'ien Lung mug pottery by Emile Lenoble Hunt Diederich Henry Varnum Poor Carl Walters E. Decoeur Jean Gaugum Catteau Smara Buthaud Paul Jacquet Mougin sculpture vases stoneware vases black with silver gold and white by Jean Luce glassware by Rene Lalique Designs for textiles by Vally Wieselthier color sculpture by Mestrovic Wuilleumier Lalique Do Canto Francois de Leyritz Royal Copenhagen porcelain porcelains by Adelaide A. Robineau color overglaze decorations by Albert Heckman color numerous world design motifs etc. Portfolio: orange printed paper covered boards with blue lettering and decorative motif with moderate shelfwear. Blue cloth spine with minor wear. String ties are lacking. Plates are slightly dusty at edges but are overall clean and in excellent condition. Keramic Studio Publishing Co Hardcover books
1779CAT000511Bath: R. Cruttwell 1779. First Edition. Hardcover rebound in cloth. Very Good Condition. Rebound in full green cloth two volumes in one. Scattered minor foxing small hole touching text in artichoke section - a nice copy. Printed in two columns alphabetically. Size: 4to. 2-volume set complete. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Farming & Rural Life; Inventory No: CAT000511. R. Cruttwell hardcover books
196857773Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1968. First edition. xvii 595 pp w/index. Top edge dusty else near fine in very good plus dust jacket that is rubbed and has a few shallow chips and tears. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, unknown books
164273401London 1642. hardcover. very good. 14pp. 4to later 1/2 calf upper margins trimmed close. Ex-lib stamp on verso of title. London: R.H. 1642. First Edition. Scarce. Very good .<br/><br/> STC Wing M 248 locating only the Huntington and Harvard copies in America.<br/><br/> unknown books
195969294NY: Folder Editions 1959. First edition numbered & signed issue. 116 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with some light wear to crown of spine. Foreword by Wallace Fowlie. One of 150 numbered copies SIGNED by Aldan. Poets include Ashbery O’Hara Corso Ginsberg Kerouac Whalen Levertov Eigner Olson and many others with reproductions of drawings by Pollock Kline de Kooning Joan Mitchell Jane Freilicher Guston Motherwell Hartigan Frankenthaler Rivers DeNiro and more. NY: Folder Editions unknown books
18444333baEDublin Ireland: William Curry 1844. Book. Very good- condition. Hardcover. American Indians; periodical; 768p. incl. index; 22.2cm; original paper covered boards detached; cloth spine; p. 348-9 notice of visit of Ojibways to England in company of George Catlin 1796-1872 painter. William Curry Hardcover books
1989Embry 118898Pagan Publishing 1989. First edition first printing. Owner's name and date light handling or wear still near fine. Cloth-backed boards. Contains two poems marking Hart Cranes' first book appearance. Other contributors include Egmont Arens M. Alexander Maxwell Bodenheim Pauline Cahn Routledge Curry Mary Davies Paul Eldridge Max Endicoff Ernestine Hara Joseph Harris Elizabeth Jaeger Leslie Nelson Jennings Alice Jones Joseph Kling Georges Lewys Marjorie Muir Edward Nagle Ruth Price Helene Thurston Winifred Waldron & Zella Wright. Pagan Publishing, [1989]. First edition, first printing. hardcover books
1757263153London: The London Magazine 1757. unbound. Miniature map. Uncolored engraving. Image measures 4.75" x 6.75".<br/><br/> This unusual plan of Prague was published by The London Magazine just a few months following the 1757 Battle of Prague. Oriented with north facing left it depicts the position of the two armies with a key in the bottom margin locating the positions of the artillery reserves batteries and mortars of the Prussian Army on the map. The Battle of Prague part of the Seven Years' War was fought between the Prussians and the Austrians for control of Prague and its surroundings. Although Frederick The Great from Prussia eventually succeeded in forcing the Austrians to retreat he was unable to take the city due to the heavy losses. A beautiful title cartouche adorns the bottom right corner. Most likely engraved by Thomas Kitchin. The map is in very good condition with narrow bottom margin. "The London Magazine or Gentleman%u2019s Monthly Intelligencer" was founded in 1732 as a rival to the popular Gentleman's Magazine. It is England's oldest cultural and literary journal. The magazine has published a wide range of writers from Wordsworth Shelley Keats T.S. Eliot W. H. Auden Evelyn Waugh among others. The first two installments of Thomas De Quincey's "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater" appeared in the 1820 edition of the journal. Today after nearly three centuries The London Magazine continues to publish some of the best writings from London and beyond.<br/><br/> The London Magazine unknown books
288097London: London Magazine. unbound. very good. Map. Engraving. 8" x 4.75". In very good condition.<br/><br/> Nice early plan published in the London Magazine showing Bedford Bay Chibucto Harbor Halifax Dartmouth the Sandwich River and Cornwallis Island. The London Magazine was founded in 1732 and is still published today.<br/><br/> London Magazine unknown books
196648552San Francisco: Ramparts Magazine 1966. Paperback. Very good. 96pp. Lightly rubbed and edgeworn else very good paperback. <br/><br/> Ramparts Magazine paperback books
1940287687Urbana 1940. paperback. fine. Volumes 1 and 2. Eight numbers. 8vo printed wrappers. Urbana Ill. 1940-43. Fine in two half leather slipcases.<br/><br/> An excellent example of this eclectic little magazine with contributors including Wallace Stevens James T. Farrell John Dos Passos Thomas Mann Kay Boyle and others.<br/><br/> unknown books
45452New York: New-Week 1934. Newsstand advertising placard approx. 12" x 9". Printed in black and yellow on heavy card-stock recto-only. Light wear at edges; corners rounded; Very Good. Montage of photos illustrating the issue's feature on "Labor Strife;" includes central image of boxer James J. Braddock working out in preparation for his famous fight against Max Baer; others of "Violence in San Francisco" dustbowl photograph "Praying for Rain." Attractive and unusual piece of Depression-era publishing ephemera. unknown books
196928940New York: After Dark 1969. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Tall stapled magazine format. The September 1969 issue. With articles photographs and reviews of plays stars and movies. This issue with features on or by John Schlesinger Dermot Burke Neal Weaver on Peer Gynt and much more. 74 pp. A sound very good copy. Address sticker on front cover. After Dark paperback books
197028938New York: After Dark 1970. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Tall stapled magazine format. The August 1970 issue. With articles photographs and reviews of plays stars and movies. This issue with features on or by Michael York Melba Moore Hochhuth's Guerillas Andre Watts and much more. 82 pp. A sound very good copy. Address sticker on front cover. After Dark paperback books
197129292New York: After Dark 1971. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Tall stapled magazine format. The March 1971 issue. With articles photographs and reviews of plays stars and movies. This issue with features on or by Grand Funk Railroad Dorothy Kirsten Craig Zadan and much more. 82 pp. A sound very good copy. After Dark paperback books
197129293New York: After Dark 1971. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Tall stapled magazine format. The May 1971 issue. With articles photographs and reviews of plays stars and movies. This issue with features on or by Claire Bloom Robert C. Roman Robert LaGuardia and much more. 86 pp. A sound very good copy. After Dark paperback books
197128937New York: After Dark 1971. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Tall stapled magazine format. The June 1971 issue. With articles photographs and reviews of plays stars and movies. This issue with features on or by Larry Kert Rae Allen Stephen Sondheim Gerard Malanga and much more. 82 pp. A sound very good copy. Address sticker on front cover. After Dark paperback books
1931287893New York: Radio Science Publications 1931. First. hardcover. very good. January - June 1931. 6 issues 4to bound together in a cloth binding with a typed table of contents bound in. New York 1931.<br/><br/> The contents including the bright colored covers are in very good condition except that they have been cropped to fit the binding so that the upper line of text is occasionally cut off.<br/><br/> Radio Science Publications unknown books
193374633Boston:: Boston Cooking School Magazine Co. Very Good. 1933. Paperback. Black and white illustrations throughout. Original subscription slip laid in. Short edge tear to the covers at the base of the spine else very good in illustrated stapled wraps. . Boston Cooking School Magazine Co., paperback books
1950WRCLIT51432Milwaukee WI 1950. Unnumbered April & June 1929; XXV:3 & 6; XXVI:2; XXX:6; XXXV:234; XXXVI:1-4; and XXXVII:1-3. Sixteen issues. Printed wrappers. A little dusty some staple rust to a few issues most very good or better. Edited by C. C. Prince et al. Founded in May 1919 as the "Official Organ of the American Literary Association Inc." A mercifully slight but variegated sampling from the long lifetime of this haven for versifiers largely of the amateur sort excepting here Ignatow Gogarty Viereck Congdon Turco et al. HOFFMAN et al p.384. unknown books