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1830BL4680New York:: G. & C. & H. Carvill 1830. 1830. 2 volumes. 8vo. 439 1; 491 1 pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author; a couple of minor waterstains. Original quarter brown cloth plain paper over boards printed paper spine labels; extremities very worn. Untrimmed. Ownership signatures of Rev. John Grosvenor Tarbell 1793-1882. Scarce. The Rev. Robert Hall 1764–1831 born at Arnesby near Leicester taking his degree at King's College he became a prominent Baptist minister. <br /><br /> Carol Rinderknecht A Checklist of American Imprints 1830-1839: Author Index. Scarecrow Press 1989 1731; Edward C. Starr A Baptist bibliography: Being a Register of Printed Material By and about Baptists 1954 H981. G. & C. & H. Carvill, 1830. hardcover books
196831935Los Angeles: the Ward Ritchie Press 1968. First edition 1 of 500 copies 8vo pp. vii 1 39 1; illus.; fine in original gray cloth stamped in gilt near fine slipcase. Introduction by Doyce B. Nunis Jr. <br/><br/> the Ward Ritchie Press hardcover books
1983165322Sao Paulo: Banco Safra 1983. Hardcover. VG-/G. Dust jacket has a rip some soiling and other wear. Soiling wear on boards. Book has a couple light spots of soiling or wear name written on ffep otherwise is clean and tight. Cream boards with pale green lettering and color illustration pasted onto front. Off-white/greenish dust jacket with color illustration black lettering. 269 pp. 156 color plates several color and BW illustrations. Text in Portuguese. Many vibrant illustrations. Banco Safra hardcover books
1960197251Los Angeles: One Inc 1960. Magazine. 32p. including covers 5.5x8.5 inches very good digest size magazine in stapled pictorial wraps with mild foxing and stains. Cover story "Homosexual Servant of God" One Inc. which took its name from Thomas Carlyle's statement that "A mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one" was founded in LA in 1952 as a homophile organization with connections to the Mattachine Society. As the first pro-gay journal of its kind it serves as an important source for pre-Stonewall homophile studies. In 1954 the US Post Office declared it obscene leading to a four-year legal battle chronicled in its pages that concluded with a favorable decision as part of Roth vs. United States. Aside from its articles covering topics ranging from the Beatniks and Gay marriage to homosexuality and national security One Magazine also featured poetry and short fiction by numerous prominent authors. One, Inc unknown books
186319637Madrid: Imprenta de Tejado 1863. Translated from Italian to Spanish. 8vo pp. 220. A good copy in little worn leather binding. Imprenta de Tejado unknown books
198222739Milano: Electa 1982. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. white cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper in matching fine slipcase. 292 pages. 28.5 x 25.5 cm. 258 color and black and white plates. Nine chapters by various hands. Text in Italian. Electa hardcover books
1994197473Oakland et al.: ACT-UP East Bay et al. 1994. Four handbills: 1; Single 5.5x8.5 inch sheet stating Send in the Clowns with clown and Jack-O-Lantern drawings on cover both sides printed orange stock. 2; single 8.5x11 inch sheetprinted both sides open letter from John Iversen some toning at bottom quarter. 3; single 8.5x11 inch sheet explaining the AIDS Cure Project with sign-up slip on back printed both sides. 4; Single 8.5x11 inch sheet printed both sides from AIDS Cure Project Questions and Answers graph on back. Materials seeking support opf the bill titled The AIDS Cure Act. Open letter to Congressman Pete Stark to "Come out of the dark! ACT-UP East Bay, et al. unknown books
2003104614Ferrara: Fondazione Cassa Di Risparmio di Ferrara 2003. Hardbound. As New. Color illustrated boards. 439 pp. 96 bw and color figures within the text and another 101 color plates in the catalogue section. Text is in Italian. In addition to lengthy illustrated essays there are 101 extensively annotated items by Degas and his Italian contemporaries listed in this sumptuous book. Fondazione Cassa Di Risparmio di Ferrara hardcover books
189240709New York: Selmar Hess Publisher 1892. Later printing. Green cloth bindings gilt and black printed lettering and design to spines and front boards. AEG. Bright gilt. Moderate wear to binding extremities rubbing to edges slight fraying of cloth. Previous owner's signatures to front endpapers. A VG set. 408; 408 pp. Many b/w plates throughout both volumes. 4to. 11-7/8" x 9-1/2" <br/><br/>First two volumes only; with volume two ending with "Mark". Heavy set extra postage required. Selmar Hess, Publisher hardcover books
1988213046Milan: Franco Maria Ricci 1988. First. hardcover. fine. Beautifully illustrated with mounted color plates. 150pp with text in Italian. Slim 4to black cloth with inset pictorial label cloth slipcase. Milan: Franco Maria Ricci 1988. First edition. A fine copy as new in a very good slipcase.<br/><br/> Franco Maria Ricci unknown books
1909Embry 132728Intermountain Catholic Press Salt Lake: 1909. First edition first printing. Light drip discoloration to rear panel else near fine and bright with hinges firm. Green cloth no dust jacket. Intermountain Catholic Press, Salt Lake: 1909. First edition, first printing. hardcover books
1962248633Milano: Officine Grafiche Ricordi 1962. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/near Very Good dust jacket. Text in Italian and English; no pencil or ink markings in text; red cloth binding; large heavy book; chips on top and bottom dust jacket spine; light edge wear to dust jacket covers; dust jacket protected in a mylar cover; digital images can be made available upon request. Very Good binding / near Very Good dust jacket. Officine Grafiche Ricordi unknown books
191118033London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons Ltd. 1911. Second edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. Publisher's blue boards with gilt titles. No jacket. A very good copy. Head and tail of spine worn and sunned. Light soil to boards. Top edge gilt. Some foxing to endpapers & pastedowns; sticker from contemporary bookstore at front pastedown. Pages with expected toning but very clean. Remarkably tight throughout but for two small cracks. 424pp. <br/><br/>"Illustrated by Mrs. Temple Perkins together with reproductions of numerous ancient prints." Second edition with new preface after the 1902 printing by Isbister & Co. Extensively illustrated history of the ceremony of the coronation throughout history. OCLC. Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd. hardcover books
1983266000San Francisco: TD Prods. & Stephen Dubov 1983. 36p 6.75x8.5 inches introductions 9 solo pieces illustrated with production photos very good booklet in stapled pictorial wraps. William Talen is an actor/writer from Grand Rapids MI who established himself as a street performer in San Francisco in the 1980s and in the late 1990s NYC as Reverend Billy. This collection of monologues is from a much earlier show. Includes "The Church of Eternal Life Through Mutation" with Billy as a preacher on the tube a foreshadowing if ever there was one! One holding located in OCLC as of 5/2021. TD Prods. & Stephen Dubov unknown books
1903265996Taunton MA: Self-published by the author 1903. 29p. 6x9 inches dedication introduction note very good chapbook in plain printed and stapled wraps with mild toning. Rev. White was a Presbyterian minister born in Hickory who served for a time in the 1890s in Ensenada Baja California where he was known to write poetry. He died in 1907. No holdings located in OCLC as of 5/2021. Self-published by the author unknown books
2001105399Venice 2001. Softbound. VG. Color illustrated wraps. 458 pp. profusely illustrated with 381 mostly in bw one section of color plates. Reviewed in Burlington Magazine Vol. 145 whole issue 1209 Dec. 2003 pp. 863-864 by Dr. Flavio Boggi. Contains fifteen enlightening essays all in Italian that examine the art of Lucca from the times of the Middle ages up to the 1900s. a unique examination of a geographical location nnot often written about in art circles. Profuse illustrations back up the lengthy and extensive essays. paperback books
1929WRCAM39667Paris 1929. 2121pp. plus 4pp. of printed wrappers. Quarto. Original printed wrappers. Contemporary label for the Society for Promoting Christian Bookplate of John Lawson on front wrapper verso. Knowledge mounted on front wrapper largely removed. Institutional inkstamp on front wrapper. Wrappers lightly chipped torn at spine. Paper lightly toned and brittle. Good. A rare ethnological account and extensive lexicon of the Warau or Guarano Indians of the Orinoco Basin originally published in Volumes XX and XXI new series of the JOURNAL DE LA SOCIÉTÉ DES AMÉRICANISTES DE PARIS 1928-29. OCLC lists only nine copies. unknown books
199989453Devon PA: William T. Cooke Publishing Inc 1999. cloth. 8vo. cloth. 400 pages. Prefatory remarks by Most Reverend Michael A. Saltarelli Bishop of Wilmington. Biographical sketches accompanied by photograph when available of every priest that served in Wilmington starting with Patrick Reilly who started in Wilmington in 1834. Scarce book. William T. Cooke Publishing, Inc unknown books
193337685New York: William Abbatt 1933. 1st printing thus. Blue paper wrappers with black lettering printed to spine and cover. Sunning around spine and wrapper edges. Chipping along spine and wrapper edges. A VG copy. 3 -63 3 blank pp. Intratextual illustrations. 10-1/4" x 7-3/4" <br/><br/> William Abbatt unknown books
184312134Alexandria: Printed at the Sou: Churchman Office 1843. 56pp bound in later plain wrappers scattered fox. Good. Meade became Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Virginia in 1841. "Meade's character and leadership made him a power for good throughout not only the Episcopal Church but the entire state." DAB. Meade warns here that "those are most positive and intolerant who most implicitly take their faith from others instead of drawing it by careful study and humble prayer from the word of God. The Romanists who blindly take everything from the infallible oracle of their Church think it impossible they can be wrong and therefore disposed most violently to condemn others." FIRST EDITION. AI 43-3413 5. Haynes 12033. Printed at the Sou: Churchman Office unknown books
200022741Genova: Le Mani 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth lettered in gilt. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 445 pages. 32 x 25 cm. 401 illustrations mostly in color printed on quality glossy stock. A series of scholarly articles. Comprehensive Bibliography. Index of Names. Text in Italian. Le Mani hardcover books
18681060Cincinnati OH: Hitchcock and Walden 1868. Hardbound. Near fine. 1/2 leather. 476 476 pp. 25 steel engravings. Each issue has Literature non-fiction articles prose a Children's Section a Family Section a Review of Contemporary Literature a Monthly Record and The Editors Table. Of the notable engravings found in this volume included are Burgdoerf after L. Rohbock; Attacking An Outpost after W.H. Beard N.A.; On The Magallawa after O.G. Hanks; The Riverside Path a Glimpse of The Catskills after W. Hart; The Deer Lope after W.H. Beard; The Writing Lesson by W. Wellstood; Mount Monadnock NH after R.W. Hubbard; Little Rosebud after L.G.G.L. Brown; The Spring Garland after W. Goodall Esq.; Cincinnati Weslyan Female College after B.B. Chamberlin; Wayside Hospitality after C.F. Blauvelt; At The Spring after J.M. Hart; The Village Spire after W. Hart; The Homestead by W. Whittredge. Hitchcock and Walden hardcover books
189881240New York: E.P. Dutton & Company 1898. First edition of this book of aphorisms created by American Episcopal clergyman and lyricist Phillips Brooks best known for writing the lyrics to the Christmas hymn "O Little Town of Bethlehem." Small octavo bound in full morocco gilt titles and tooling to the spine all edges gilt gilt ruled to the front and rear panels inner dentelles green marbled endpapers. In very good condition with light rubbing to the extremities. Born in Boston Massachusetts Phillips Brooks served as the Rector of Boston's majestic Trinity Church as well as the Bishop of Massachusetts. He was particularly remembered for his dynamic sermons and for championing the liturgical movement particularly congregational singing at the liturgy for which he lyricized many hymns. E.P. Dutton & Company unknown books
181959962Paris: Chez Arthus Bertrand 1819. First edition in French first published in English London 1816. 8vo. 4 volumes: 4 lxxiv 309; 4 346; 4 432; 4 517 pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait to volume one. This work contains a portion of the king's autobiography the original of which is now lost. Some controversy exists over who actually wrote the book and it is variously attributed to a number of authors; Clarke 1766-1834 the biographer of Lord Nelson was certainly involved in its publication. James 1633-1701 the second surviving son of Charles I served as James II King of England and Ireland and James VII King of Scotland 1685-1688 when he was deposed by the Glorious Revolution. Some foxing but a very good copy. Somewhat later French green calf spine faded uniformly to brown gilt ornaments and labels on spine marbled endpapers and edges. 7210. <br/><br/> Chez Arthus Bertrand unknown books
1794BL4614Elizabethtown New Jersey:: Printed and sold by Shepard Kollock 1794. 1794. 12mo. 295 5 pp. Original full calf gilt bands on spine red gilt-stamped leather spine label; rubbed corners showing. Very good copy in original binding. Evans 26976; Felcone New Jersey Books 90; Joseph Felcone New Jerseyana 2312. Printed and sold by Shepard Kollock, 1794. hardcover books
