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192118101801San Francisco: Edwin & Robert Grabhorn 1921. Limited Edition. Wraps. Very good . One of 250 copies octavo size 16 pp. We all know the story of the Grabhorn brothers arrival in San Francisco on "December 24 1919 several weeks in advance of their equipment which has been sent on from Indianapolis by freight" Magee p. 12. Edwin and Robert became one of the largest forces for fine printing not only in San Francisco but both nationally and internationally printing imaginative quality fine press work for the next several decades and raising the standard for all who would follow.<br/><br/>This relatively scarce item there is one other online as of this writing was printed by the Grabhorn brothers in September of 1921 less than two years after arriving in San Francisco "for complimentary distribution"; per the Magee bibliography it was the fifth and last of "The Printing Press" series. Here is presented an extract from the copius "American Encyclopedia of Printing" which was written and published by J. Luther Ringwalt in 1871 and which contained "over 1600 entries and 200 illustrations to educate its audience about the history machinery tools process and products of printing" n.b. quote from the web site of The Library Company of Philadelphia. <br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Bound in evergreen laid paper wraps white paper label to the front wrap with black lettering and a black decorative border stitched binding title caption title and one decorative initial printed in black and red caption title of quotation in red one decorative headpiece decorative rule at the top of each page of text; handset Oxford type paper Glaslan octavo size 8.5" by 5.5" pagination: i-ii 1-13 14 a quote "To the Reader"; limited edition of 250 copies unnumbered with "some copies in terra-cotta boards" Magee.<br/><br/>___CONDITION: Better than very good the wraps clean the label on the front wrap unrubbed the stitched binding strong the interior clean and bright and entirely free of prior owner markings; we would have rated near fine except for a separation of the wrap at the fold above the stitching a very small area of loss at the tail of the crease and light overall wear to the edges of the wraps.<br/><br/>___CITATION: Grabhorn Bibliography no. 30.<br/><br/>___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire 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. Edwin & Robert Grabhorn unknown books
187822274n.p.: S.D. Harris Printer 1878. 42pp. Original printed wrappers light dustsoiling and wear stitched wraps lightly dusted. Institutional rubberstamp on front wrapper. Very Good. <br/> offered with EBEN NEWTON ET ALS. VS. THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF MAHONING COUNTY OHIO. ARGUMENT FOR DEFENDANT BY T.W. SANDERSON. Youngstown OH: News Print. 23 1 blank 35 1 blank pp. @1878 Original printed wrappers light dust and wear stitched. Institutional rubberstamp on front wrapper. <br/> offered with EBEN NEWTON ET ALS. SUPPLEMENTAL ARGUMENT FOR DEFENDANT BY. THOS. W. SANDERSON. Youngstown OH: News Print. @ 27 1 blank pp. Original printed wrappers light dust rubberstamp on front wrap stitched. Very Good. Two stab holes in left margin. Very Good. Light old folds. Very Good. <br/><br/> The controversy related to the removal of a county seat from one town to another. Plaintiffs sought to prevent the removal on the ground that the State's action violated the Constitution's prohibition on impairing the obligation of contracts. The case is reported at 100 U.S. 548 1879. S.D. Harris, Printer unknown books
199273732Berkeley: University of California Press 1992. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. First edition second printing. The first volume in the anticipated fourteen-volume definitive edition of King's most significant sermons speeches correspondence published writings and unpublished manuscripts. Presentation copy inscribed and dated on the front flyleaf in the first volume by Coretta Scott King 1927-2006 to Dr. C.T. Wright 1942-2020: "with deep appreciation for your commitment to the fulfillment of the dream." The only son of Georgia tenant farmers Wright served as a teacher and administrator at several colleges and universities establishing himself later in life as a prominent and much-respected civic and religious leader in Arizona. Small quarto: 484 p. with a frontispiece portrait and textual photographs. Original green cloth binding with gilt titles. Minor bump to the top corner of the front board with some light edgewear to the dust jacket; otherwise very good. University of California Press hardcover books
1947149307Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1947. Vintage reference photograph taken on the set of the 1947 film showing actors Clark Gable Deborah Kerr Gloria Holden and Adolphe Menjou sitting around a nightclub table with director Jack Conway and two crew members in the foreground. With a mimeo snipe on the verso and holograph pencil annotations regarding layout.<br/><br/>Based on the 1946 novel. A World War II veteran wants to return to his former life as an advertising executive but finds the business world has changed while he was away.<br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine with light edgewear. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1855274329Charleston VA 1855. unbound. 1 page 9.75 x 7.5 inches Charleston Virginia October 1 1855 to Dr. Rufus Woodward during Bell's brief retirement in full: "Your letter was received just as I was leaving home and with some others accidentally overlooked until to-day when the application of an interested party to learn where a patient could be sent when insane to a State Hospital reminded me of it. I need scarcely say that I shall be very willing to be referred to via connection with your.for which I wish all success. Hoping that this reply may not be too late for your purpose." Irregular left margin; natural folds but otherwise in very good condition. Provenance: The Rufus Woodward Archive: sold at Alexander Autographs February 2007; The Richard Manzi Collection; Argosy Books.<br/><br/> American physician and one of the most important figures in Mental Health during the early 19th century. He was one of the founders of the Association Institutions for the Insane now the American Psychiatric Association -- the first Medical Society in the United States. During the Civil War he was assigned a commission as a surgeon in the U.S. Army 11th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers. He took part in the Battle of Bull Run but became ill and died several months later on February 11 1862. His papers are housed in the University of New Hampshire Library.<br/><br/> unknown books
1894242457Franklin Falls N.H.: Merrimack Journal Print 1894. Vignette of black gelding. 98 lines of text including ornamental headline and 27-line advertisement for Dr. Goudy's Magic Liniment; 24 lines naming references in N.H. and Vt. 15 inches x 5-1/2 inches. A few tiny marginal flaws. Small tape repair on verso at old fold. Fine. Vignette of black gelding. 98 lines of text including ornamental headline and 27-line advertisement for Dr. Goudy's Magic Liniment; 24 lines naming references in N.H. and Vt. 15 inches x 5-1/2 inches. Informative professional circular for an unusual specialty with related advertisements for liniment and for spaying dogs. Merrimack Journal Print unknown books
1968148442Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1968. Vintage poster for the 1968 film boldly signed by Kirk Douglas in holograph marker on lower right adjacent name.<br/><br/>Vince Ginetta Alex Cord son of powerful Mafia don Frank Ginetta Kirk Douglas returns home from the Vietnam War and is reluctantly dragged back into organized crime.<br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Sicily Italy and New York City.<br/><br/>27 x 41 inches folded as issued. Near Fine. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1778LV2122aLeipzig:: Bey Christian Gottlob Hilscher 1778. 1778. Small 8vo. ii 131 1 pp. Engraved frontispiece of Luther by Bruhl engraved title-page and text head and tailpiece vignettes; modern glossy pastedowns and free end-papers. Quarter dark brown calf marbled boards gilt-stamped spine. Small inked shelf-number on verso title-page. Fine. Later edition of Schrockh’s "‘eminent’ biography of Luther" first published in 1773 Backus & Benedict p. 221. <br /><br /> "Schrockh. . .sympathized with Erasmus’ stand in the free-will controversy against Luther’s extreme determinism which says Schrockh the modern Protestant church does not feel committed to defend. . . .Schrockh stands by the narrower Lutheran definition of the Reformation. . . .In Planck and Schrockh despite their differences Protestantism and the Enlightenment remained in easy association" Mansfield. p. 46. <br /><br /> "The notion of Luther as the embodiment of the German Volksgeist for example could not but degenerate into that of simple patriotism or ‘Luther the German.’ On this view when Luther enjoined obedience to the secular authorities on the occasion of the peasants’ revolt he laid the groundwork for ‘respect for the authorities and for the inner peace of the state’—so says church historian Johann Matthias Schrockh 1733-1808. Indeed according to Schrockh in the intervening centuries all of Europe should have come to understand that the Protestant religion ‘is alone suited to the legitimate power and the true interests of the princes’ and that ‘all of this is without doubt Luther’s work’" Perkins pp. 69-70. <br /><br /> The frontispiece of Luther is fine example of German engraver Johann Benjamin Bruhl 1691-1763. <br /><br /> Schrockh "was an Austrian-German historian and literary scholar born in Vienna. He was a grandson to Pietist preacher Matthias Bel 1684-1749" Wikip. REFERENCES: Backus Irena & Philip Benedict Calvin and His Influence 1509-2009 Oxford: Oxford University Press 2011; Mansfield Bruce Man on His Own: Interpretations of Erasmus c. 1750-1920 Vol. 2 Toronto: University of Toronto Press 1992; Perkins Robert L. ed. For Self-examination and Judge for Yourself! Macon GA: Mercer University Press 2002. Bey Christian Gottlob Hilscher, 1778. hardcover books
1949149210Universal City: Universal Pictures 1949. Revised Final Shooting script for the 1950 film here under the working title "Java." Copy belonging to director H. Bruce Humberstone with his name in holograph pencil on the front wrapper and single annotation on page 41. <br/><br/>Loosely based on Tay Garnett's 1940 film "Seven Sinners." A sick steam ship crewman attempts to clear his name while being blackmailed for wartime collaboration with the Japanese. Liberace's first credited film appearance as a cabaret performer named "Maestro."<br/><br/>Set on the fictional Pacific island of Oraka.<br/><br/>Tan textured titled wrappers noted as REVISED FINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT on the front wrapper dated June 14 1949. Title page present noted as Revised Final Screenplay with credits for screenwriter Oscar Brodney. 123 leaves with last page of text numbered 109. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue yellow pink and white revision pages throughout dated variously between 6/15/49 and 7/21/49. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Universal Pictures unknown books
1947130829Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1947. Draft script for the 1948 film. Copy belonging to Actor Van Heflin. <br/><br/>Based on John P. Marquand's 1946 novel. Released in the UK as "Polly Fulton" because "B.F" is a British euphemism for "bloody fool." Polly Stanwyck is the daughter of a wealthy industrialist about to marry a lawyer. Then she meets Tom Heflin who blames the world's problems on the rich. Despite their differences they fall in love and marry. WWII takes Tom to the nation's capital and their relationship begins to spiral into turmoil. Nominated for an Academy Award. <br/><br/>Lacks front studio wrapper and title page rear wrapper is gray. 131 leaves mimeograph duplication with pink and white revision pages throughout dated variously between 9-10-47 and 9-30-47. Pages Near Fine rear wrapper Very Good bound with two gold brads. <br/><br/>Warner Archive. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
191544660Battle Creek Michigan: Good Health Publishing Company 1915. 1st Edition. Brown cloth binding printed in dark brown. Decorative eps. Dust jacket. Square & tight showing only light shelfwear. VG. Jacket with light wear & soiling VG - VG. 249 3 blank pp. Illustrated. 12mo. <br/><br/> Good Health Publishing Company hardcover books
195882640Detroit: Dept. of Christian Social Relations Episcopal Diocese of Michigan 1958. Paperback. Near Fine. 9p. Original wrapper. 22cm. Staples rather rusty. Keynote address delivered on May 16 1958 at a conference on "Christ the Church and Race" before an audience of about 260 Episcopal priests and laymen at the Veterans Memorial Building in Detroit. Foreword 1p. by Joseph A. Pelham Executive Director of the Dept. of Christian Social Relations which published this rare pamphlet followed by King's address 9p. including the inside of the back cover. OCLC locates one copy Stanford. We found no reference to this text in the King Papers. <br/><br/> Dept. of Christian Social Relations, Episcopal Diocese of Michigan paperback books
1860241907New York: James Egbert Printer 321 Pearl Street 1860. First edition. 247 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Original cloth. Fine. Bookplate. First edition. 247 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Cowan p. 570; Hill 1535; Wheat Gold Rush 176; Sabin 77485 James Egbert, Printer, 321 Pearl Street unknown books
1921BL1058New Haven & London:: Yale University Press & Oxford University Press 1921. 1921. Two volumes. FIRST EDITION. Series: Publications of the Hispanic Society of America No. 86. 8vo. xxvi 218; xi 291 pp. Frontis. two color title printed in red and black numerous plates index. Reddish-brown cloth gilt-stamped spine title; top front cover corner bumped on Vol. I. Burndy bookplate; small rubber stamp at rear released. Very good. Limited to 1000 copies. Original and best edition of this standard work. Yale University Press & Oxford University Press, 1921. hardcover books
184221404Lowell Mass: Daniel Bixby 1842. First edition large 12mo pp. 242 2; very good copy in orig. green ribbed cloth paper label on spine with one very small nick in the corner. "A work dealing with the chemistry of soils and manures and one of the first such scientific treatises written by an American and published in the United States. It attracted immediate attention and went through several editions. He later wrote an Essay on Manures 1850 which was widely used as a rural handbook and for which the author was awarded a prize by the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture" DAB. <br/><br/> Daniel Bixby hardcover books
181935752Lancaster Pa.: Johann Bär 1819. Folio 39.5 cm 15.5". Frontis. 5 ff. 100 12 pp. 2 ff. 738 26 pp.; 2 blank ff.; 227 1 92 pp. Lacks plate before the N.T. <br><br>Johann Bär's 1819 German Luther Bible in fraktur type a.k.a. "black letter" was the first complete Bible printed in "Lancaster Penn" and the=> first folio German Bible printed in America: It was an impressive production large in size set on good paper and the type pleasantly laid out and neatly impressed in double-column format. The frontispiece engraved by J. Henry and showing Moses with the tables of the law is appealing.<br>Â Â Â Â In the preliminaries the double-column text includes a brief biography of Luther and an essay by the famous Pietist August Herman Franke 16631727 advising how to read Scripture. The printer was only 19 years old when he undertook this massive project and despite the numerous subscribers listed on five preliminary pages in four-cloumn format he was nearly bankrupted by the enterprise.<br>Â Â Â Â In the upper outer corner of the front pastedown is the large printed binder's label of "Henrich Miller buchbinder in der Ost Dranien Strasse gegeneuber der Lancaster. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â O'Callaghan 146; Shaw & Shoemaker 47206; Arndt & Eck German Language Printing in the U.S. 2363. Contemporary calf over wood boards evidence of metal and leather clasp closures; leather perished joints outside open front board much loosened but holding tenuously and rear board more securely attached. Foxing and brown staining as usual. Lacks the plate opposite the New Testament title-page. A good copy only yet still => a touching "story" and a touchstone American Bible. Johann Bär hardcover books
196550258Birmingham AL: Southern Christian Leadership Conference 1965. First Edition. Quarto 27.5cm; printed card wrappers stapled; 40pp. Trivial wear and dustiness to wrappers oxidation to staples else Near Fine. Detailed summary of the SCLC's 9th annual convention held in Birmingham Alabama from August 9-13 1965. Contents include introductory greetings by SCLS Secretary Rev. Fred Shuttleworth text of the annual report by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. a detailed list of resolutions the keynote address by Rev. Andrew Young an addresses by Ambassador S.O. Adebo Mrs. Constance Baker Motley and others. Scarce with no examples for sale in the trade July 2020 and OCLC noting 3 holdings NYPL UC Davis U.Texas at Arlington. Southern Christian Leadership Conference unknown books
1715WRCLIT66991Cassel i.e. Kassel: In Verlegung Jacob Estienne . 1715. 32630183 leaves evidently lacking a terminal blank. Thick quarto. Contemporary brown calf raised bands spine gilt extra side panels with plain gilt rules a.e.g. gilt decorated floral endsheets. Engraved pictorial extra- title and engraved portrait of Carolus I Landgraf von Hersfeld by Joseph Montalegre. Text in double columns. Crown of spine snagged with resulting tears at crowns of joints a bit rubbed occasional mild tidemarks and light foxing but a good sound copy. An uncommon edition of the Luther Bible with an extended dedication by the publisher to Carolus I Landgraf von Hersfeld and extensive introductory matter on the history of Luther's text. Not in Darlow & Moule and OCLC/Worldcat only locates one copy of an edition under Estienne's imprint dated 1735. In Verlegung Jacob Estienne .. hardcover books
18994990New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons The Knickerbocker Press 1899. First edition. First edition. Thick quarto. Original blue fine weave cloth with gorgeous all over gilt blocked cover design by Margaret Armstrong consisting of grapes and grape vine on a trellis also used for spine. This model cover design appears in later Putnam titles Morris Tennyson Emerson Rossettis however in those later uses clumsy lettering by another hand was employed as per Gullans. This is the quite rare first edition of 1899 the only copy on the market as of this date. Two marks are rear cover slight wear to corners and margins of spine. Overall the binding is very good and near fine in the interior. Gullans #61. G. P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press unknown books
18973752New York: D. Appleton 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. No DJ as Issued. Light/moderate shelf wear tips through light wear at head minor rubbing at hinges/tips spine evenly toned gilt bright else tight bright and unmarred. Halfbound black leather spine and tips blue pebbled cloth boards red dye speckled at text block edges. 8vo. xvii 1117pp. Illus. color and b/w plates one fold-out. Index. <br/><br/>The first real complete and authoritative American text on pediatrics. Cone History of American Pediatrics 104- 105pp; Levinson p.108; Veeder 33-60pp. Overall a handsome copy. D. Appleton hardcover books
181565189Lenox Mass 1815. Single sheet 24.5 x 20 cm. partly printed completed in manuscript. Old folds heavily foxed. For $60.00 Gale sells one bark mill and grants to Elias Gould of Henniker County of Hillsborough NH "the full and exclusive right and liberty of using the said Bark-Mill in the town and county aforesaid." Signed by Gale and witnessed probably by his wife dated in ink September 11 1815. See RINK 1394 for one copy of an 1818 broadside printed in Lenox which takes note of a patent infringement for this patent; and for the grant of patent right see RINK 1392 which is an 1813 notification that Gale has purchased exclusive right to C. Tobey's patent bark mill. Presumably this is a somewhat different machine than our 1811 Gale patent. This broadside is not listed in Rink or Imprints. <br/><br/> unknown books
1958140941010New York: Harper & Brothers 1958. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition stated first printing. Near Fine with light softening at spine ends offsetting to endsheets and light toning to pages. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with fading to the spine light edge wear and toning to the verso. A lovely copy. Harper & Brothers unknown books
1900136802Philadelphia & London: J. B. Lippincott Company 1900. Octavo pp. 1-6 7-308 309-320: ads frontispiece with illustration by Virginia H. Davisson title page printed in red and black original pictorial white cloth front and spine panels stamped in red and purple rear panel stamped in red binding signed "H" t.e.g. other edges untrimmed. First edition. A presentation copy with initialed inscription by Long on the front free endpaper: "Das heist vergiss-mein-nich" This means "forget-me-not". "If the exotic quality in Lafcadio Hearn was made authentic by observation that of John Luther Long 1861-1927 was largely the product of his imagination at times of high order and one that has not had proper appreciation either in fiction or drama. He was never in Japan but inspired by information which he received from his sister Mrs. Irwin Currell he established an atmosphere which has the illusion of reality and from it he evolved one character at least of supreme importance who has passed into world literature . Long continued his exotic romance in THE FOX WOMAN 1900 an imaginative novel of a crippled Japanese artist and his worship of a beautiful but soulless American woman to whom he is just a passing whim. She is the 'Fox Woman' of the Japanese who is without a soul. For her own pleasure she models him after the hideous Ni-O figures and in order to please her he tries to look like these grotesques until he grows as bestial as they and his soul becomes subject to his body just as before his ugly body had been made noble in the eyes of his wife Jewel by the splendor of his soul. Long uses effectively the utter submission of a Japanese wife to her husband's will in Marushida's present to Miss Carroway of Jewel for her body servant. The inevitable discovery on the artist's part of his abandonment by the goddess and the return of Jewel are told simply and naturally." - Quinn American Fiction pp. 516-518. Long is best known for his long short story "Madame Butterfly" dramatized in collaboration with David Belasco later made into the famous opera by Puccini. Wright III 3388. Stamping on spine panel faded mild dust soiling to rear panel a very good copy. A very nice copy of a rare vampire novel. #136802 J. B. Lippincott Company unknown books
1857694891857. A Notable Nineteenth-Century Will Case Involving Codicils and Questions of Sanity Trial. Parish Will Case. Bell Luther V. 1806-1862. Medical Opinion in the Parish Will Case. New York: John F. Trow 1857. 69 pp. Octavo 9-1/4" x 6". Stab-stitched pamphlet in printed wrappers spine reinforced with archival tape. Light soiling and a few minor marks to exterior wear to spine ends and corners a few small chips to wrappers and edges of a few leaves moderate toning to interior. $450. Only edition. Henry Parish a New York merchant died in 1856 at age 69. He left a will made in 1842 that had been amended with three codicils signed by him some time after suffering a paralyzing stroke in 1849. These codicils were contested on the grounds of mental impairment. This trial attracted a good deal of attention and it involved testimony by several leading medical and legal experts. At time of this pamphlet's publication Bell was president of the Massachusetts Medical Society and a former superintendent of the McLean Asylum for the Insane near Boston. Not in Cohen which lists a composite volume by Trow containing this title. See Bibliography of Early American Law 11386. unknown books
1965List915New York: Pix Incorporated 1965. Double weight silver gelatin photographs 6 â…ž x 9 â…ž. With Pix stamps on versos crediting the images to Ernest Reshovsky. One image with a small section of loss other with some edgewear overall very good to near fine with fine contrast. A pair of original photographs of Martin Luther King Jr. speaking at the Los Angeles World Affairs Council at the Hollywood Palladium in 1967 a speech in which he compared the plight of African-Americans to the untouchable class in India. King would revisit in other speeches from the era. The previous night King had attempted to attend the The Greatest Story Ever Told at the nearby former Cinerama Dome where the police found dynamite in the theater and also delivered a famous speech at the Temple Israel of Hollywood during the same trip. Offered here are two original press photographs from King's speech at the Hollywood Palladium taken by Ernest Reshovsky for the Pix agency. Pix Incorporated unknown books
