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1965338416Buenos Aires: Falbo Librero 1965. First edition. 21 pp. Pages 1-8 printed on blue paper. 1 vols. 12mo. Printed wrappers. Near fine. First edition. 21 pp. Pages 1-8 printed on blue paper. 1 vols. 12mo. Essay on Borges by Maria Esther Vázquez co-author with Borges of Introducción a la literatura inglesa 1965. Includes the title poem Everness first published in La Nación 3 November 1963 and a short note by José Edmundo Clemente. Uncommon. Becco 1275; Foster B27. Becco 1275; Foster B27 <br/><br/> Falbo Librero unknown
19437361Cleveland OH: A.R. Mueller Printing & Lithograph 1943. First Edition. Original wraps. Very Good. 6 1/8 X 9 Inches. 52 PP. Complete issue with cover art by Fern Bisel Peat. This particular issue of Play Mate magazine quite scarce in commerce. Contents include an eight page story titled "Zbik was a Gremlin" by Esther Brown Cooper. Roald Dahl's "The Gremlins" had been introduced earlier in the same year. Prior to this Zbik story Gremlins in RAF folklore and the Dahl story were generally associated with aviation incidents. Zbik was one of the first to exclude planes and bring Gremlins to a much wider audience ON THE GROUND. Important to note that we are speaking specifically of the term "Gremlin" and not that of little people fairies etc. Stories of those little spirits far precede the use of the term "Gremlin" as we all know. Light wear at spine. A.R. Mueller Printing & Lithograph unknown
1979585182Atlantic Highlands New Jersey: Atlantic Highlands Historical Society 1979. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Quarto. 30 1pp. Map. Illustrated. Stapled illustrated buff wrappers. Owner name on front wrap tiny spots on rear wrap else near fine to the 30 illustrations only four have been partly colored. OCLC locates no copies. Atlantic Highlands Historical Society unknown
1960004958Ballantine 1960. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Fine. Uncredited. Beautiful and collectible 1st paperback edition 1960 Ballantine 441 K. Very Fine probably unread condition! Great new uncredited cover art. Scarce in such nice condition. "The underlying horror for women of Timeslip or for that matter Time Travel of any sort into the past is here conveyed with a singular intensity that prefigures the even more terrifyingly overdetermined horror of Octavia E Butler's Kindred 1979." JC The Encyclopedia of SF; 2nd Internet Ed. <br/> <br/> Ballantine paperback
194674054London: W. & G. Foyle 1946. Hardcover. Fair Condition. Signed by Author. Originally published in Yiddish this is the first English translation of this novel. It is SIGNED on the free endpaper by the author and dated 1947. There is also a school prize bookplate on the front pastedown. The boards are bumped the top of the spine is heavily frayed and the pages are very tanned. Size: Octavo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; Signed by Author. Inventory No: 74054. . W. & G. Foyle hardcover
1928383745North Adams Massachusetts: Young Judea Club 1928. Softcover. Very Good. Typescript magazine. One monthly issue March 1928. Quarto. Stapled. Eight typescript sheets with a hand-lettered front cover designed by Abe Gabriner editor-in-chief of the magazine. The last three sheets are detached very good. The first newsletter of the Young Judea Club organized in North Adams Massachusetts in January 1928. Included is an overview of the club's founding and mission club notes and short pieces on Purim. A very scarce survival. No known copies. Young Judea Club unknown
19572110502150413634Jiji sekaisha 1957. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Jiji sekaisha paperback
198062971Seattle WA: Ananse Press 1980. 8vo. 235 1 pp. w/ very scarce inserted errata slip. With numerous photo illustrations text illustrations maps. Illustrated printed softcovers cover art of Victorian African-American family front cover minor scuffing edgewear some rubbing a couple leaves w/ underlining still G- copy w/ ownership date marking on ffep. of 1987. First edition of this very uncommon and significant local history of African-Americans in Seattle Washington Territory and then Washington State from before the Civil War until the dawn of the 20th-Century at the height of the Progressive Era. Heavily drawn from Oral-Aural History Program interviews Mumford after graduating from the U of W devoted extensive time to searching through newspapers census records property transactions bills of sale chattel mortgage records church registers and family scrapbooks and photo albums in order to recreate the largely forgotten Black experience in Seattle. In addition this was the first book she published as well as the first printed and issued from her own “Ananse Press†imprint. Mumford b. 1941 is one of the most important historians and authors on African-Americans in the Pacific Northwest and most publications will include references to her work. Ananse Press, paperback
1968219077New York: Walker and Company 1968. First edition first printing. Hardcover in dust jacket. General wear and toning to extremities boards with a slight bow very good in near fine price-clipped dust jacket in mylar cover. 9.25" x 9.75". 155pp. Briefly inscribed by Craig Ellwood. Walker and Company hardcover
1941170066New York: Perls Galleries 1941. Vintage bi-fold brochure for the May 5 to June 7 1941 joint exhibition at Perls Galleries New York.<br /> <br /> 6.25 x 9.25 inches Bi-fold. Near Fine. Perls Galleries unknown
1947304815<p>First edition. Octavo. Introduction "Robert Frost and the Mertins Collection" by Fulmer Mood. Frontispiece b/w portrait photograph with facsimile autograph 1 facsimile reproduction. Dust jacket price clipped; few nicks. Very good. 91 pages. No other signatures or bookplates. Chronology of the composition of Frost's poems with an annotated bibliography. Signed and inscribed by Louis Mertins to Florence Fisk White on front free endpaper; also signed and dated by Esther Mertins on front free endpaper August 7 1947. With a one-page TLS of Louis Mertins Riverside CA August 6 1947 laid in loose. Crane p.261; one of 1500 unnumbered copies.</p> University of California Press hardcover
192467078NY: Harcourt Brace 1924. Second edition first printing. 233 pp. Small spot on fore-edge else very near fine in near fine dust jacket with light wear to base and crown of spine. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. NY: Harcourt, Brace unknown
194853190Clifton NJ: Tobin-Howe Paper Box Co. 211 Mt. Prospect Ave. ca. 1948. 4to. 9.5 x 9.75 in. 2 56 colour-printed paper box top label samples 2 pp. Printed tan softcovers black lettering on front cover minor chipping to lower fore-edge front cover repaired minor tears back cover minor creasing to covers still a VG copy. First edition thus of this very scarce post-World War II handkerchief box top label catalogue with multiple designs available in a variety of tinted papers and coloured inks including some metallic inks as well. The artwork motifs encompass such possibilities as a kitten on a ball of yarn; a polk-dot donkey pulling a cart; a drum majorette with stars & strips designs; Greenaway inspired girls in bonnets with umbrellas silhouettes; several bird & birdhouse designs roses and a leaping stag. Tobin 1894-1974 was a Russian-Jewish immigrant who began working in his parents wholesale grocery following his stint in the Army during World War I and by 1925 was operating the Paper Box Co. with his wife Esther. The company specialized in boxes and box tops and operated according to street directories in Clifton NJ until the late 1950s. Tobin-Howe Paper Box Co., 211 Mt. Prospect Ave., paperback
196287693Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press 1962. First American Edition. Quarto. 28.5cm. Publisher's terracotta cloth titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. xxii; 170pp. Light bumping and scuffing to corners strong and tight bumped to spine ends; internally clean and fresh bookplate to front pastedown illustrated throughout; in priceclipped pictorial dustjacket with some scuffing and fraying to corners and spine ends some minor soiling and scuffing of the black portions of the jacket. A very good copy with some shelfwear.<br /> <br /> In the 1930's an ethnological researcher named Dr. Elsie Clews Parsons received a letter from an anonymous Native American offering under rather mysterious circumstances to offer her a series of paintings and sketches of the lives customs costumes and rituals of the Pueblo peoples in an effort to assist with the factual accuracy of her researches and subsequent publications. Dr. Parsons accepted and began a back and forth correspondence with the individual whom she named "Felipe" for a number of years. This volume gathers together the Isleta paintings together in context for the first time providing a valuable eyewitness insight into the daily lives and special occasions of the Pueblo peoples. Smithsonian Institution Press unknown
19388934Seattle: Printed by C. Ellis Shephard 1938. First edition. 8vo 8 64 1pp. Presentation inscription from Shephard to a T.D. Schindler on the ffep. Printer's ornaments devices borders vignette's throughout. 2pp of musical notation at rear. Bound in beige cloth boards stamped in black on front cover. Few bumps and scuffs to boards clean internally and near fine. <br /> <br /> Scarce book of poetry from American folklorist writer and critic Esther Shephard 1891-1975. Shephard is most well-known for her work Paul Bunyan published in 1924 with an illustrated edition by Rockwell Kent appearing in 1941. As a teacher Shephard held posts at Reed College in Portland the University of Washington in Seattle Lower Columbia College in Longview WA and San Jose State University. <br /> <br /> This collection was printed by her then husband C. Ellis Shephard and contains 31 pieces on topics from Seattle to Dante and Demeter. <br /> <br /> OCLC cites just 6 holdings. Printed by C. Ellis Shephard unknown
1977105301<p>London: Heinemann. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1977. Third Printing. Hardcover. 0434926825 . Hbk with d/w; Vg/Vg; a lovely copy; no handwriting inside; not clipped; ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .</p> Heinemann, hardcover
197799571London: Heinemann. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1977. Third Printing. Hardcover. 0434926825 . Hbk with d/w; Vg/Vg; a lovely copy; no handwriting inside; not clipped; ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Heinemann, hardcover
193010607<p>Dodd Mead and Company MDCCCCXXX 1930. Reprint. HC Near Fine brown and black cover with gilt writing and design on front cover. The book does have a penciled name of George J. Johnson on title page with Ephemeraem a slip of paper regarding Zerocel acoustic material which was ordered. He 'may' have been involved in the technical side of an opera production possibly managing the complex sound requirements. Albert Lavignac was a Professor of Harmony a the Conservatoire at Paris. Translated from the French by Esther Singleton with Illustrations and Diagrams.</p><p>.</p> Dodd, Mead and Company hardcover
1974106377US: Nelson. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1974. First US Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0840763840 . 1st US edition stated ; Hardback in d/w; vg/vg-; navy cover; ; slight corner bumping; silver gilt lettering to spine; no handwriting inside such as names; a nice clean copy; d/w not clipped; a little rubbing to d/w at corners; very attractive design; supernatural story set in Cornwall ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Nelson hardcover
1973107022UK: William Heinemann Ltd. 1973. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Good in Good dust jacket. Ex-library; 1st UK edition; g/g; navy cloth boards; some marks to cover; gold gilt lettering to spine; the page opposite the title page has been stuck to the inside cover presumably to tidy up prelims with library markings; this page has then got the author's signature on it with her usual address; there is also the name of the previous owner written at the top; remains of 1 rubber library stamp on rear of title page; text contents quite clean although I spotted 1 small page corner torn off no text affected ; d/w has small chipping to fold and spine ends; g/g; ; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 160 pages; Author . Signed by Author . 0434926930 . William Heinemann Ltd hardcover
1975107030US: Nelson 1975. 1975. First US Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1st US ed ; 8vo hbk in d/w; Vg/Vg-; a nice copy; book has no handwriting inside such as names; an attractive d/w just minor wear to edges; ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . 0840764443X . Nelson, 1975 hardcover
1980G0396078133I4N00Dodd Mead 1980. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Dodd Mead hardcover
1980G0396078133I3N00Dodd Mead 1980. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Dodd Mead hardcover
1956106484London: Ward Lock & Company Limited. Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket. 1956. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A scarce title; 1st edition hbk in d/w; unfaded scarlet boards; no handwriting inside but evidence of a little rubbing out of pencil inside cover ; brown spots across blocked page foredges; rear endpaper removed; genuine d/w price clipped ; rubbing to spine ends; vg-/vg. ; Ward Lock's New Junior Novels; Vol. 40; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 160 pages . Ward, Lock & Company , Limited hardcover
1955106469London: Pickering & Inglis Ltd. Very Good-. 1955. Hardcover. 1st edition; 8vo hbk in photocopied d/w; green cloth boards; black vignette on front cover; award sticker on fep; corner of fep clipped; colour frontis; book paper lightly tanned; book comes in photocopied d/w; ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Pickering & Inglis Ltd. hardcover
