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1948106746New York: E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc 1948. First edition of Babe Ruth's autobiography. Octavo original cloth illustrated pictorial endpapers. Association copy inscribed by the author on the half-title page in the year of publication "To my good friend and Pal Dr. Richard Lewisohn From Babe Ruth 1948." Dr. Lewisohn was a surgeon who experimented with an anti-cancer drug teropterin pteroltriglutamic acid. In 1947 Dr. Lewisohn offered Ruth who had been diagnosed with throat cancer in 1946 to receive this experimental therapy. Dr. Lewisohn was very honest with Ruth about his small chances for a recovery although no formal informed consent was signed. Ruth responded bravely that he would still like to go through with the experimental treatment in order to provide the medical community with information that might help individuals in the future with the same ailment. Thus Ruth became a subject in one of the first clinical trials of an anti-cancer drug. Dr. Lewison's experimental course of teropterin injections led to a dramatic albeit short-lived improvement in Ruth. The improvement in Ruth's condition was featured in the lead story of September 11 1947 in the Wall Street Journal which reported on Dr. Lewisohn's report of the case at a medical conference. The Wall Street Journal stated that researchers might be on the verge of a cure for cancer. As a direct result of Dr. Lewisohn's treatment Ruth was able to say farewell to his fans at Yankee Stadium and attend other public functions as well do the interviews for and see the publication of this book in May of 1948. He was also attend the premiere of the film based on upon this book. Ruth passed away just a short time later on August 16 1948 before the film's public release. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket with some professional restoration. As told to Bob Considine. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Signed first editions are scarce given the short time between the release of the book and Ruth's passing. Association copies such as this one are highly prized. The story of the greatest baseball player who ever lived told in his own words spans his life and includes the highs and lows friendships loves and feuds and career milestones of the man who symbolizes America's favorite game. E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc hardcover books
194895879New York: E.P. Dutton & Company Inc 1948. First edition of Ruth's autobiography. Octavo original cloth illustrated pictorial endpapers. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the half-title page "To my good friend Ed Tillman From Babe Ruth." Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. As told to Bob Considine. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Uncommon signed and inscribed as Ruth passed away in the year of publication. The story of the greatest baseball player who ever lived told in his own words spans his life and includes the highs and lows friendships loves and feuds and career milestones of the man who symbolizes America's favorite game. E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc hardcover books
95288Rare original photograph of baseball legend Babe Ruth signing baseballs for four young ballplayers. Boldly signed by Ruth in the upper right corner of the photograph. Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures 17.25 inches by 15.5 inches. Rare and desirable. American baseball legend George Herman "Babe" Ruth Jr. began his MLB career as a stellar left-handed pitcher for the Boston Red Sox but achieved his greatest fame as a slugging outfielder for the New York Yankees. He established a record number of MLB batting records including career home runs 714 runs batted in 2213 and slugging percentage .690. During his career he was the target of intense press and public attention and his sometimes controversial lifestyle was tempered by his willingness to do good by visiting children at hospitals and orphanages. unknown books
19482010112New York: Dutton 1948. First. Hardcover. Near fine./good. A near fine first edition inscribed by Babe Ruth: "To My Pal Johnny Flynn From Babe Ruth 1948." First edition stated on the copyright page. Dust jacket good plus. Housed in a handsome clamshell case with gold lettered leather spine. Dutton hardcover books
1871140939518Hartford CT: Case Lockwood & Brainard Printers 1871. First Edition. Fine. 4 pp. Self-wrappers. First edition. Fine. An announcement by famous feminist Susan B. Anthony and five other suffragettes of the formation of a National Woman Suffrage and Educational Committee and their intent to pursue recognition of voting rights for women under the 14th and 15th amendments. These were recent amendments around three and one years old respectively but this salvo relies on them heavily as well as on a taxation-without-representation argument harking back to the origins of the republic. In 1875 the Supreme Court would close the door on this line of thinking and suffragettes would have to change strategies but this leaflet proceeds all that; it's still heady with fresh ideas and a brand new organization appealing for funds and women's names for a pledge book compiled by the NWSEC Secretary. A rare document of a brief glimmer of optimism in what would be a long hard slog-- the struggle for equal rights-- in excellent condition. Case, Lockwood & Brainard, Printers unknown books
2000118035Washington D.C: Supreme Court of the United States December 12 2000. Rare first page from the Bush v. Gore United States Supreme Court ruling signed by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg Stephen Breyer and John Paul Stevens. One page printed. Double matted. The entire piece measures 15 inches by 12.5 inches. Desirable signed by cultural and feminist icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Bush v. Gore was a decision of the United States Supreme Court that settled a recount dispute in Florida's 2000 presidential election. The Supreme Court decision allowed the previous vote certification to stand as made by Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris for George W. Bush as the winner of Florida's 25 electoral votes. Ruth Bader Ginsburg served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020. She was nominated by President Bill Clinton and was the second woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court after Sandra Day O'Connor. Supreme Court of the United States unknown books
201911402Stillwater ME 2019. Artist's book unique from a series with excerpts from Celia Thaxter's AN ISALND GARDEN reflecting the noted poet's garden in Spring and Summer on Arches text wove signed and dated by the artist Nancy Ruth Leavitt with the notation that this is her 121st manuscript book. Page size: Autumn: Still the Garden Glows. Excerpts from AN ISLAND GARDEN ; 30pp. 24 of which are painted in watercolor and gouache. The previous two titles in the series were slightly larger as befits the longer seasons they represent. Bound by the artist: handsewn in Katie MacGregor handmade paper wrappers on which the artist has painted three large green blooms; housed in custom-made light green cloth over boards clamshell box with label and painted by the artist in greens and oranges - each letter a variant color. <br/>The text is as with the two previous volumes taken from Celia Thaxter's last book she died the year the book was published and according to the important American bibliographer Jacob Blanck it was "one of the most elaborate pieces of bookmaking of the period" featuring cover and page design by Sarah Wyman Whitman and chromolithographs after paintings by Thaxter's friend and guest on Appledore Island Childe Hassam. <br/>Nancy Ruth Leavitt has chosen to interpret Thaxter's text through the flowers the poet describes so lovingly - with smaller amounts of text - scattered below above and beside the major "event" of each page: the flowers. This is the exact opposite of the first edition of Thaxter's important book where the text is first and foremost highlighted by single stalks and single page chromolithographs of Hassam's renderings of the landscape of Appledore Island the gardener and some of her garden. Ms. Leavitt's dizzying exuberant images of flowers are a perfect reflection of the prose: "the clumps of wild roses glow with the red haws in the full light" and "goldenrod and wild asters bloom and a touch of fire begins to light up the huckleberry bushes." The last quote included by Ms. Leavitt signals the closing down of the summer garden until the following spring: "Autumn laying here and there a fiery finger on the leaves." This is lettered in oranges and greens on a vertical above the bold image of greens tipped with orange and red slanting down to the bottom of the last page. Although we are saddened to see the end of the growing season we know it will return and until then we have the inspiring images created here. unknown books
14136American professional baseball player known as "Babe Ruth" "the Bambino" and "the Sultan of Swat". Vintage glossy 8" x 9.75" photo of Ruth late in his Yankees career signed and inscribed in fountain pen "To my good friend Ralph Woodbury from Babe Ruth 5-3-47." Ruth famously set records of long standing in both single season home runs and lifetime record home runs. In very good condition with scattered surface creases most noticeably to his knee area inscription and signature slightly faded with some flaking to ink a slightly trimmed bottom edge and a block of uniform overall toning from previous display. A classic pose of the 'Bambino.' Comes with PSA/DNA. unknown books
16371n.p. n.d. 1 vols. Image 16 x 12-1/4 inches matted and framed to 29 x 23-3/4 inches overall. Framed and glazed. 1 vols. Image 16 x 12-1/4 inches matted and framed to 29 x 23-3/4 inches overall. Original Fashion Gouache by Ruth Morgan. A pretty young woman in springtime--possibly a fashion illustration or a magazine cover. unknown books
1928106624Putnam's Sons 1928. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. FIRST EDITION of Babe Ruth's "Babe Ruth's Own Book of Baseball." Published in New York by Putnam's sons in 1928. "First Edition" stated on copyright page. Book near fine with some offsetting from old newspaper clips on pages vi vii verso of vii ixx xi verso of xi and half-title page. Previous owner's handwritten name on front free end paper tiny white dot on top of edge of front cover very slight rubbing of corners and bottom of spine. DJ very good some chipping at spine ends and corners and minor wear along edges a couple of very small close tears. Comes in custom-made slipcase. Putnam's Sons hardcover books
201811364Stillwater ME 2018. Artist's book one in a series of three all on Katie MacGregor hand-made papers the suite of plates on paper made by Ms. MacGregor and "Pulp Painted" while in the mold by Ms. Leavitt signed and numbered by her on the colophon. Page size: 15W x 10-1/4L inches for volume with text of poem and plates; plate portfolio: 18W x 12L inches; 10pp; and 11 original prints in separate portfolio. Bound by Joelle Webber: full lime green book cloth over boards for text and plate volume with original pulp paintings in oranges and greens inset into front panel matching print portfolio in larger size; both laid into an orange cloth over boards custom-made clamshell box hand-lettered paper label in lime green on white inset into spine the whole a playful and arresting presentation. The artist's choice of text the poem "Slime Molds Have Eleven Sexes" by Professor Margaret Price Ohio State University is a playful list of nature's more obscure creatures. Her verse was originally published in "Gay and Lesbian Review" in November / December 2003. The slime mold vocabulary each print is labeled is: Eukarya Protista Zygote Dictyolsteliomycota Sporangium Spores Amoeboid Flagella Mitosis and Plasmodium. The original prints are paper pulp paintings made by Ms. Leavitt with Katie MacGregor papers. Working with Ms. MacGregor the artist assembled her pulp colors in plastic squeeze bottles and "squirted" them onto a formed sheet of wet paper. The effect is at once organic as befits slime molds and colorful with a depth and texture also befitting the organisms. The artist has hand lettered each print with the name of the mold in a colored gouache complementary to each pulp paper painting. The text is lettered in multi-colored gouache harmonizing with the paintings - mostly orange shades of green yellow pink and blue. The entire presentation is witty and charming - words not usually associated with molds. Such is the talent of the artist Nancy Leavitt that she was able to accomplish such beautiful work. unknown books
201210567Stillwater ME 2012. Unique artist's book on Arches text wove paste paper signed and dated by the artist Nancy Ruth Leavitt. Page size: 13 x 8.75 inches; 56pp. all of which are painted and 43 of which are painted and lettered. Bound: loose as issued by artist housed in custom-made black cloth with orange flecks over boards clamshell box interior of box lined with the artist's own pastepaper. The text is the artist's own combined with the text from a publication of metal furniture manufacturer Steelcase Inc. who supply schools among other institutions. The sun motifs were inspired by children's drawings and rock petroglyphs. In vibrant orange yellow and gold this book is like a warm summer day. The artist has created a vibrant page by lettering on the paper and then painting with chalk pastels and then pasting it. Additional lettering and paint in gouache and watercolor were then added. The result is a resounding luminosity - many times in a sunburst pattern. _Words related to the sun as well as facts relating to earth's source of light radiate out on some pages while others are traditional lettering but all are on a ground of pink orange and yellow. For example below a green sphere lettered in blue is the text "Chloroplasts give plants / their green color and use / light energy to power / the formation of organic / compounds in a process / called photosynthesis." There are further pages about white light and color. We are reminded of the very basic relationship of man to the sun from the dawn of time with man's early attempts to mark seasons. One page is devoted to color - and the visible spectrum. The effects of light and vision which are so central to the human psyche are beautifully written out in words and visually portrayed in a gorgeous sunburst of yellows and pinks. Reading / viewing this book is to feel the warmth of the sun and to revel in it. unknown books
1931BRNYY01New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation 1931 First edition first printing. Original publisher's gray cloth lettered in blue with an illustration of Babe Ruth to the front cover dust jacket with matching illustration to the front panel and lettered in dark red. About near fine with mild wear to the spine ends and a small former owner's signature from 1931 to the front endpaper; dust jacket with some shallow chips slight loss to the spine end splitting along fold at spine and front panel else very good or better. A very attractive example in the extremely scarce dust jacket. Housed in a dark blue custom folding box. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Dust Jacket Included. New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation hardcover books
192046734Pasadena: Upton Sinclair 1920. Two octavo volumes 18.75cm; maroon cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; ii9911pp. The first copy is inscribed by Eugene Debs to American film actress screenwriter and editor Helen Louise Gardner on the front endpaper: "To Helen L. Gardner / With love and greetings and with deep appreciation for her beautiful character her lofty spirit her rare vision courage understanding and her high ideals and noble aspirations - Eugene V. Debs / Terre Haute Indiana / December 1924." Gentle sunning to spine oxidation to gilt with moderate scattered soil to covers light wear to extremities and heavier wear with resulting board exposure to upper right corner of front cover; mild offset to endpapers from binders glue; Good. Housed in a clamshell case. <br/><br/>The second copy is inscribed to Gardner by Ruth Le Prade opposite the title page: "To Helen Gardner - with cordial greetings / Ruth Le Prade." Spine-sunned cloth edge-worn and lightly soiled with oxidation to gilt a few small stains to front cover some erosion to cloth toward lower spine and mild offset to endpapers from binders glue; Good. Poems honoring socialist leader Eugene Debs by a variety of radical 20th century poets including Witter Bynner Max Eastman Charlotte Perkins Gilman Carl Sandburg Siegfried Sassoon Horace Traubel and Israel Zangwill many others. Sinclair contributed the foreword along with letters from H.G. Wells and George Bernard Shaw who states: "Clearly the White House is the only safe place for an honest man like Debs". An interesting pair of copies inscribed to Gardner 1884-1968 acclaimed stage actress and the first actress to form her own production company. <br/><br/>Moved by his circumstances and deeply influenced by his speeches she visited him in prison in 1920 bringing him an autographed photo and beginning a correspondence that would last through the mid-1920's. In a December 21 1920 letter she writes: "Let me tell you that I was surprised to find my emotional self somewhat unaffected while I listened to you talk. I know the reason now. It is the same with you as it was with Epictetus prison walls cannot confine the spirit -- the mind is ever free. So in a way I did not feel your plight as keenly as I would that of another who had little vision little intelligence little understanding about his body being so small a part of the real him that his confinement was of the physical order only." While the "special edition" of 500 with signed bookplate by Debs appears with some frequency inscribed copies of Debs and the Poets are genuinely uncommon. Upton Sinclair unknown books
301531No date but circa 1925-1930. Consisting of a title-page with integral original pen ink and wash image of the ass in a lion's skin with his master 13 original pen ink and wash drawings with associated typescript text. Without drawings for fables numbered III VII & XI. Large 4to. Laid into paper over boards portfolio with color facsimile of the title-page. With original wrapper with notes "Aesop Fables/ Illustrated/ by/ Ruth Sandys/ 5. Hogarth Road S.W.5.:. Consisting of a title-page with integral original pen ink and wash image of the ass in a lion's skin with his master 13 original pen ink and wash drawings with associated typescript text. Without drawings for fables numbered III VII & XI. Large 4to. Maquette for an unpublished illustrated edition of Aesop's Fables by artist Ruth Sandys.<br/>Ruth Sandys 1880-1941 had five close relations who were artists who lived by their work and are still collected - her father Frederick Sandys Pre-Raphaelite described by Dante Gabriel Rossetti as "The greatest living draughtsman" her sisters' father in law Walter Crane her aunt Emma Sandys Pre-Raphaelite her grandfather Anthony Sandys Norwich School of Artists and her sister Winifred Sandys RA miniaturist and portraitist see Delaware Art Museum. unknown books
201510949Stillwater ME 2015. Artist's Book one in a series of 10 "named" copies on handmade "North Pole white" paper by Katie MacGregor hand painted and lettered by Nancy Ruth Leavitt and signed by her on the colophon. Page size: 6 x 9 inches; 27pp; 22 of which are painted or painted and lettered with hand-painted endpapers as well. Bound by Joelle Leavitt Webber of Mermaid Bindery: sewn red cloth over boards with hand-painting and paper collage of Santa's mid-section with his black belt with gold buckle over white "fur" trim and large expanse of red; housed in custom-made dark green cloth clamshell box lined with red and white polka dot fabric paper label on spine of box hand lettered by the artist Nancy Leavitt. The original art includes 5 double-page and 7 single-page illustrations accomplished in watercolor gouache and sumi ink. The copies are named after Santa's reindeer: Dasher Dancer Prancer Vixen Comet Cupid Donder Blixen Rudolph which is the artist's own copy and an AP.<br/>Ms. Leavitt has created a magical book taking the beauty and stillness of winter as a window to enter the wonder of Christmas and Moore's classic poem. Lettered in green and red painted in primary colors with iridescent highlights in silver and gold the reader / viewer enters into this magical myth with its attendant warmth and beauties of the season. unknown books
201811342Stillwater ME 2018. Unique artist's book 1 in a series of 2 in form of diptych Katie McGregor handmade paper signed by the artist Nancy Ruth Leavitt in pencil on the leaf on the lower part of the image page middle leaf. Page size: 10.75 x 14.5 inches; diptych with Dickinson poem HOPE lettered on right and images cut paper flowers with leaves stitched to batik fabric. The artist's gouache lettering on Katie MacGregor handmade paper and hand-cut paper snowflake and feather illustration on batik fabric are attached to the bottom of a dark blue fabric covered box by Joelle Webber green paper label with title in white gouache on lower right front corner The artist has hand lettered a copy of Emily Dickinson's poem 254 c. 1861 "Hope is the things with feathers. . ." and created a flower illustration composed of fabric and paper that are stitched down to a green and purple and blue batik print which might evoke an exotic garden. The white flowers are three-dimensional and pop charmingly out from the subtle print below. The "feathers" leaves are cheerfully suspended above the batik garden as well. The well-known text opens "HOPE is the thing with feathers / That perches in the soul / And sings in tune without words / And never stopes at all / . and the reader / viewer is beguiled. unknown books
19401002711940. Signed by both Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth. Matted laid down. Signed by both Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth. SIGNED BY BABE RUTH AND TY COBB. unknown books
19312102010Cosmopolitan Book Corporation 1931. first. hardcover. near fine/very good. First edition 1931 stated on title and copy right page. Book near fine very slight tanning along edges. Dust jacket very good slight tanning a couple of pieces missing at spine ends closed tears along spine edges and one at bottom of front panel. Housed in custom-made slipcase. Cosmopolitan Book Corporation unknown books
20069795Stillwater ME 2006. Unique artist's book all on handmade papers by Katie MacGregor and Th Saunders as well as found papers decorated with postage stamps signed and dated by the artist Nancy Ruth Leavitt. Page size: 5-1/2 inches x 8-1/2 inches 72pp. Bound by Joelle Leavitt Webber of Mermaid Bindery in found papers with fabric decorated postage stamps housed in a custom-made cloth clamshell box lined with calligraphic fabric. The text is written in gouache and consists of four delightful correspondence poems by Emily Whittle of Red Springs North Carolina. unknown books
198611363Amherst MA: Tomato Press 1986. Artist's book one of 25 on Arches each signed and numbered by the artist / author Nancy R. Leavitt. This is the artist's / author's first book featuring her own science-based text. Page size: 15 W x 11-1/8 H inches; 9 leaves including TP and Colophon. Bound: loose as issued in black portfolio case housed in custom-made black cloth clamshell box with white label lettered in black with title on spine. This is an early work by the artist and the first in which she has illustrated her own science-based text with eight original woodcuts each hand-numbered and signed in pencil The original eight cuts illustrate life in the Sargasso Sea "as it exists for several species of sea turtles who inhabit the weedlines" of this circle of currents in the north Atlantic Ocean . bordered by the Azores in the east and the Bahamas in the west. The woodcuts all convey the mysteries inherent in the natural phenomena and the motion implicit in the story of these turtles and the world they inhabit. Each print has a hand-lettered title above and hand-lettered text below consisting of words associated with the naturally-occurring events of the Sargasso Sea: migrate swim frenzy instinct weedline algal mats air seeds plankton tunicates etc. An elegant harbinger of things to come. Tomato Press unknown books
1929150433Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1929. Two vintage reference photographs on the set of the 1929 film. Mimeo snipes on verso of both one with annotations in holograph pencil and Culver Picture stamp on verso and one with "Menningen" and graphic stamps on verso. <br/><br/>The first Black musical and one of the first all-Black films by a major Hollywood studio with arguably more depth than its predecessor Paul Sloane's "Hearts in Dixie" the first all-black Hollywood film released earlier the same year. <br/><br/>King Vidor's first talkie written by screenwriter Wanda Tuchock who started in the silent era and went on to become one of the first women to be credited as a director on a Hollywood film. <br/><br/>Although King Vidor had expressed his intent of an honest depiction of rural southern African American life the film still clearly advanced racial stereotypes of the era. "Hallelujah" had however authentically represented African American spiritual music from the period which no other film achieved.<br/><br/>Shot on location in Tennessee and Arkansas.<br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with some creasing and waviness one with a chip in the bottom left margin one with faint tape shadows on recto and paper tape on verso. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request.<br/><br/>National Film Registry. Rosenbaum 1000. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
201611137Stillwater ME 2016. Artist's book 1 of 10 copies all on Katie MacGregor blue Sherman handmade paper each copy hand-lettered and decorated with hand-cut paper snowflakes by Nancy Ruth Leavitt who has signed and dated the colophon. Page size: 6-1/2 inches square; 16pp. including covers 8 paper pages 5 of which hand-lettered; 8 pages of fabric in which are embedded with hand-stitching 9 hand-cut paper snowflakes each of course different in addition 1 paper snowflake stitched in with ice blue iridescent thread between 2 paper pages. Bound by Joelle Webber Mermaid Bindery iridescent woven polyester organza and glitter tulle fabric hand-sewn with 3 small crystal beads on the spine housed in custom-made blue cloth over boards clamshell box with snowflake pillow bottom. <br/>First published in BIRDS OF PASSAGE 1863 Flight the Second Longfellow's "Snow-flakes" is one of his best-known short poems and according to many sources reflects the author's profound sadness over the death of his wife Frances.<br/>The somber note sounded by Longfellow in this verse is re-imagined by Ms. Leavitt as part of nature's grand design and inexplicable beauty. The grey porous paper and the glittery casings for the intricately designed snowflakes are echoed in the delicate and lacy white gouache lettering of the text. This is a beautiful book soft and delicate and poignant. unknown books
1943171114005New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. B-S date code on copyright page. Wright/ ZGWS. xvii 409pp. Original green cloth with black lettering no jacket as issued. Very Good with slight sunning to spine cloth a little mottled a few reading smudges. One of the rarest Zane Grey books compiled posthumously by a school librarian for the institutional market-- ergo copies when they turn up are typically ex-library. Not this one! Harper & Brothers, Publishers hardcover books
197744083London: Hutchinson 1977. First edition of the author's masterpiece. Octavo original cloth. Signed by Ruth Rendell on the title page. Near fine in a fine dust jacket. On Valentine's Day four members of the Coverdale family--George Jacqueline Melinda and Giles--were murdered in the space of 15 minutes. Their housekeeper Eunice Parchman shot them one by one in the blue light of a televised performance of Don Giovanni. When Detective Chief Superintendent William Vetch arrests Miss Parchman two weeks later he discovers a second tragedy: the key to the Valentine's Day massacre hidden within a private humiliation Eunice Parchman has guarded all her life. "Rendell writes with such elegance and restraint with such literary voice and an insightful mind that she transcends the mystery genre and achieves something almost sublime" Los Angeles Times. The novel was filmed twice: The Housekeeper starred Rita Tushingham as the illiterate maid and La Cérémonie directed by Claude Chabrol where Sandrine Bonnaire played the role. Hutchinson hardcover books
