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19649008309Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 1964. Hardcover. Near fine condition. Bound in the publisher's original blue cloth with the spines stamped in black and gilt. Moner chips to the edges of the covers. Minor ink notation at the top right hand corner of the front free endpaper. <br/><br/> Belknap Press of Harvard University Press hardcover books
19301293609Chicago: Reilly & Lee 1930. Early Reprint. Hardcover. Quarto; VG/G; 282 pages; Green spine with pictorial illustration on front board black titling to spine; "Reilly & Lee" on spine; Jacket is torn in several spots large chip missing from area where publisher would be listed; Flap lists Oz titles to The Yellow Knight of OZ published 1930; Outer edge of text block yellow interior age toned with small spot affecting the lower edge of the last few pages otherwise clean; Previous owner's name inked. LP Collection; Shelved case 13. 1293609. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Reilly & Lee hardcover books
198024398New York: Garland Publishing 1980. cloth. Miniature Books. 8vo. cloth. xl 390 pages. First edition. This excellent bibliography gives much information about miniature Bibles printed from the 17th to the 19th century in America England and Europe. The book is the work of a collector who has brought together much information not available elsewhere. Descriptions are extensive and include size binding contents illustrations other notes references to other bibliographies where they exist and locations for known copies. An essential reference book for collectors of children's books children were the primary audience for these works miniature books and publishing history. Near fine condition. A tight and bright copy. Garland Publishing unknown books
30909369 letters 1489 pp. dated 18 January 1875 to 31 December 1957; bulk from the 1900s-1910s; mostly handwritten several typed; mostly incoming letters to sisters Vesta I and Ruth Margaret Bailey with various correspondents including friends and family or with each other; also included are approximately 300 pieces of ephemera mostly used and addressed envelopes.<br /><br /><p><b>Correspondence:</b></p><p>152 letters 749 pp. dated 24 June 1905 to 22 October 1949; incoming letters written to Ruth Bailey when she was either at home in West Somerville Massachusetts or in Port Arthur New York where she worked at one point; the letters are written by her sister Vesta I. Bailey who wrote 17 letters to Ruth when Ruth moved to Port Henry; other letters are from cousins Dorothea Mabel and Mildred who live in Port Arthur or in different locales in Vermont; her friend Bernice Avery of Ferrisburgh Vermont wrote a number of letters as do others in particular an aunt from Johnson Vermont; the bulk of the letters are from the 1900-1910s period with 37 of these letters undated; her cousins and aunts live in Port Henry New York and Johnson Vermont as well as other locations around New England. Ruth's nickname appears to be "Robbie." There are a number of letters in 1915 related to her attempts to find work as a stenographer at a hotel in the Adirondacks in upstate New York.</p><p>114 letters 386 pp. dated 28 December 1894 to 18 July 1935; incoming letters written to Vesta I. Bailey from friends and family; the bulk date from the 1910s; 26 of these letters are not dated; her correspondents were family and friends in and her sister Ruth Bailey wrote her 28 letters; an Aunt Gus Hyde Park Vermont wrote several as did a a friend Alice in Salem Massachusetts; she also received a number of letters from a woman named Gertrude who calls Vesta "Betty" she may possibly be a cousin from Canaan Maine; Vesta was generally living at home at 50 rear College Ave West Somerville Massachusetts when people wrote to her. When her sister Ruth wrote her Ruth was living and working at Port Arthur New York or while in Burlington and Ferrisburgh Vermont.</p><p>32 letters 129 pp. dated 15 May 1903 to 11 May 1927; written to various members of the Bailey family generally from family members; including letters to Robert M. Bailey 6 his wife Ida S. Smith Bailey 7 their son Morris Bailey 2 and to Ida and Morris 1; to Stanton C. Bailey 2; to "Miss Bailey" 5; three of the letters written to Ida are from her husband Robert M. Bailey; 3 letters are likely written by Robert M. Bailey to his daughters Vesta and Ruth but they are not named simply "to girls" and signed "Papa" ; one letter written by Vesta to her father; two letters written by Ruth to her father; two letters written to Robert by his sister; five letters written simply to "Miss Bailey" which is likely either Ruth or Vesta; six letters are not dated and are addressed to "Girls" or "Cousin" and appear to be written to the Bailey sisters from family members.</p><p>12 letters 53 pp. dated 18 January 1875 to 23 February 1892; incoming letters and Ruth and Vesta Bailey's mother written by friends or family. A couple of the letters are addressed to both Edna and her sister Ida.</p><p>28 letters 70 pp. dated 28 January 1907 to 31 December 1957;incoming letters written to Jennie E. Moore East Boston Massachusetts written by either friends or members of her deceased husband Edwin H. Moore; one letter written to Edwin H. Moore from a friend in Visalia California; seventeen of the letters were written in the 1950s when Moore went to live in a nursing home; friends write wishing her luck asking about her health and welfare; of these letters two are not dated.</p><p>31 letters 102 pp. dated 7 March 1876 to 19 January 1955; miscellaneous letters from various individuals some may be Bailey family members further research needs to be done; of these 31 letters 14 are not dated and eight appear to be incomplete.</p><p><b>Vesta I. Bailey 1881-1974 and Ruth Margaret Bailey 1891-1957</b></p><p>Vesta I. Bailey was born on 22 October 1881 and her sister Ruth Bailey was born on 20 April 1891. They were the daughters of printer Robert M. Bailey 1849- and his wife Ida S. Smith 1853-1907. Ida S. Smith was the daughter of George M. Smith and his wife Sarah of Middlebury Vermont. Ida had a sister Edna S.L. Smith 1852-1899 who died in Somerville. There are several letters in this collection written to Edna. Edna never married. It does not appear that Vesta or Ruth ever married either. There are also several letters written by Robert M. Bailey to his wife Ida as well as a couple of other letters written to or by Ida some letters are written to the Bailey's other children Morris and Stanton.</p><p>Robert Bailey married Ida on 14 June 1876 in Middlebury Vermont. Robert appears to have been from the Bakersfield Franklin Co. Vermont area and had moved to the Middlebury Vermont by 1870. Besides Vesta and Ruth the Baileys also had at least three other children: Harris Stanton and Morris.</p><p>Robert Bailey moved to Somerville Massachusetts from Middlebury sometime between 1881 and 1886 as his daughter Vesta born 1881 was born in Vermont but his son Stanton born 1886 was born in Massachusetts. In 1900 the Bailey family lived in Somerville when the census was taken. By the 1910 Census Mrs. Bailey had died the father continued to work in the printing trade and both Vesta and Ruth were at home not working. Their brother Stanton was living at home working as a rodman for a civil engineering firm.</p><p>Around 1913 Ruth appears to have secured a job in Port Arthur New York as a stenographer. She graduated in June of 1913 from the Somerville High School. She also hunted for a job at a hotel in the Adirondacks for the summer and much of the correspondence between the sisters was during this period. Other than this time the two sisters appear to have lived together most of their lives in the family home in West Somerville Massachusetts as neither ever appears to have married. The Bailey's had family in Port Arthur the family of C.A. Chapman whose daughters and son write to Ruth and Vesta. Ruth appears to have possibly lived with the Chapman family when she worked at Port Arthur.</p><p>The 1920 Census finds the sisters living with their father their mother had died. Their brother Morris and Stanton are living with them as is Morris' wife. Vesta being older appears to be keeping house for her father and brothers while Ruth is working as a stenographer at a leather goods factory.</p><p>Vesta in the 1930 Census is listed living at 50-R College Ave Somerville Massachusetts an address that shows up on much of the correspondence. She was listed as owning the home and her sister Ruth Margaret Bailey lived with her. It appears to be the family home that the sisters took over as they got older. Also in the house in 1930 was the sisters' brother Morris J. Bailey and his wife Abbie. Morris appears to have followed in his father's footsteps and worked as a pressman in the printing trade.</p><p>In the 1940 Census the sisters were found still living at the family home on College Avenue in West Somerville. Both of the women were listed as working as clerks. Vesta worked in the State House and Ruth worked at the "Un. Comp. Comm" Unemployment Compensation Commission. Their brother Morris was living with them still working in the printing trade.</p><p>Vesta I. Bailey never married and died at Somerville in 1974. Ruth Margaret Bailey died in 1957.</p><br /> books
199365236Santa Fe New Mexico: Tallgress Press 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. 43 tritone illustrations. Santa Fe New Mexico: Tallgrass Press 1993. First ediiton. Described by Ansel Adams as the greatest photographer of the nude Ruth Bernhard 1905-2006 created a collection of images that ranks among the most profound photographs of the female form. Her intense studied camerawork transcended the boundaries between the spirit and the flesh. Signed by Bernhard on the title page with a postcard for a 1998 exhibition of Bernhard's work at the Highlands Inn in Carmel California laid in. Quarto. Original black cloth binding with silver titles. Just a hint of edgewear to the dust jacket; else near fine. Tallgress Press hardcover books
1994PB44551Chronicle Books San Francisco 1994. Fine. First printing 11.5 in. x 12 in. Cloth Signed by the photographer in felt pen on title page 50 leaves of plates plus 24 pages. Essay by Margaretta Mitchell Chronicle Books, San Francisco hardcover books
1900235859Massachusetts: Privately Printed 1900. 194 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Tan cloth. Very good. 194 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The story of Ruth Campbell written in the third person. <br/><br/>Not in OCLC. Privately Printed unknown books
1971028421London: Rainbow Press. 1971. One of 300 numbered copies signed by the three authors. Additionally inscribed by both Fainlight and Sillitoe as a birthday gift to a friend in 2000. Leatherbound; fine in a near fine dust jacket. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Rainbow Press hardcover books
195945822New York: Random House 1959. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 21cm; gray vinyl cloth with titles stamped in black and gilt and photographic still mounted to front cover; dark yellow-orange topstain; dustjacket; xiv23-1055pp; illus. Inscribed by Ruth Ford to Harlan P. Kleiman on the front endpaper: "To Harlan / with great expectations / Ruth Ford." Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket unclipped priced $2.95 with sunning to spine and front panel extremities some light dustiness and trivial wear to crown. Distinguished copy of Ford's stage adaptation of Faulkner's 1951 novel written in the form of a three-act play with each act preceded by a narrative section. Ford removed the narrative sections and revised the remainder of the novel for dramatic unity. Inscribed to Harlan Phillip Kleiman screenwriter Broadway producer and co-founder of New Haven's Long Wharf Theatre. Provenance: From the collection of Broadway star Sondra Lee. Petersen Collection A49.1. Random House unknown books
1983WRCLIT63190Austin: W. Thomas Taylor 1983. Folio. Cloth paper label. Photographs. Tipped-in specimen leaves. Bookplate on front pastedown otherwise about fine. First edition. Bibliographical descriptions by W. Thomas Taylor. One of 325 numbered copies printed on Rives heavyweight paper by David Holman at the Windriver Press. A lovely and important book based on the Grolier exhibit and printing capsule histories of forty-one important American fine presses with bibliographic descriptions of the books selected to exhibit the work of each press. Enhancing this volume are specimen leaves printed by each of the following presses: Allen Press Arion Press Bird & Bull Press Cummington Press Laguna Verde Imprenta Perishable Press Plantin Press and the Warwick Press. Other presses treated include Abattoir Anvil Cranium Gehenna Greenwood Heron Janus Labyrinth Editions Lime Kiln Press in Tuscany Alley Stone Wall Windhover et al. W. Thomas Taylor hardcover books
1975Embry 188656Rock House Press 1975. Number 8 of 150 copies signed by the author. Spine mildly darkened else fine in fine faintly rubbed publisher's slipcase. Full page tipped-in color reproductions. Oblong tan leather-backed marbled boards. Rock House Press, 1975. Number 8 of 150 copies, signed by the author. hardcover books
1971150457Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1971. Vintage borderless studio still photograph of director Hal Ashby and actors Charles Tyner Ruth Gordon and Bud Cort along with an unknown crew member on the set of the 1971 film. With a handwritten snipe affixed to the verso along with holograph pencil and ink annotations identifying the figures and film title. <br/><br/>Hal Ashby's idiosyncratic love story following the unlikely romance which blossoms between the young suicidally depressed Harold and the exuberant eighty-year-old Maude. <br/><br/>Set and shot on location in San Francisco. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus lightly worn on the corners. <br/><br/>National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 608. Eureka Masters of Cinema 83. Paramount Pictures unknown books
199515744JNew York: Merchant Ivory Productions May 1995. Original 111 page third draft screenplay for Ismael Merchant produced film directed by James Ivory. Fine. Bradbound in a hardbound black spring binder. The film details the life of Picasso as seen through the eyes of his long time lover Francoise Gilot who has two of his children and is the one one of the women in his life to leave him. The cast includes Anthony Hopkins as Pablo Picasso Natascha McElhone as Françoise Gilot Julianne Moore as Dora Maar Joss Ackland as Henri Matisse Susannah Harker as Marie-Thérèse Jane Lapotaire as Olga Picasso Joan Plowright as Françoise's Grandmother. Merchant Ivory Productions hardcover books
19711266748Meriden Connecticut: Baybery Press 1971. First Edition Limited. 4to. 26pp.; VG; spine red with no lettering; boards light blue paper; of a limited run of about 100 copies this is copy number 1; INSCRIBED on ffep by authors; Tipped in hand-colored illustrated plates; shelved case 14. 1266748. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Baybery Press unknown books
1974Embry 163207Belknap Press Cambridge. 1974 First edition. Fine in very lightly rubbed publisher's slipcase. Hundreds of b&w reproductions. Orange cloth. Belknap Press Cambridge. 1974 First edition. hardcover books
198322619Wisconsin: Black Mesa Press 1983. First edition. Loose Sheets. Near Fine. Tall single sheet of paper measuring approx. 18" tall x 9 1/8" wide. Contains a single poem by Hejinian entitled The Guard and is illustrated by Ruth Lingen. Published one year before the Tuumba Press edition of Hejinian's book of the same name. One of 150 copies. SIGNED by the poet. Scarce and lovely. A near fine example. Will be shipped rolled in a sturdy tube. <br/><br/> Black Mesa Press unknown books
WALTER-FILM000377No binding. Very Good. Photo Vintage original 8 x 10"" 20 x 25 cm. double weight print still photo USA. Portrait of the great director during his early glory days at MGM where he directed a series of major films which included The Big Parade 1925 and The Crowd 1928. The photo has at bottom right the blindstamp of Ruth Harriet Louise whose entire photographic career began in 1925 and only lasted for five years. With photographer's stamp on back as well as one for MGM and a few traces of a descriptive snipe about Vidor ABOUT FINE. unknown books
1934280007220Akron OH: Saalfield No. 1074 1934. A rather unusual uncut book with an affluent family of six plus a nurse for the children and Bim the cat and Pal the dog. Each of the punch-out characters has only one leg attached with a second to be attached according to instructions using a needle and thread. This allows the dolls to both "stand alone" and "walk". Total of three 3 character pages and four 4 costume pages. All of the costumes and accessories were designed to give the appearance of wealth and privilege to the degree of each child's costume is holding a different toy. Unique in many ways the characters are quite tall Father is 15" tall. The book measures 15 3/4" x 10". <br/><br/> Saalfield No. 1074 unknown books
1926223008Chicago: Reilly & Lee 1926. First. hardcover. very good. Illustrated by John R. Neill. with 12 color plates & other text drawings. Large 8vo dull green cloth colored pictorial label. Chicago: Reilly & Lee 1926. First Edition.<br/><br/> The "This book belongs to" page has been filled in with pencil in a childish hand; tiny chip on the top edge of the cover label a slight fraying at the top of the spine but a better than usual copy with firm hinges & a bright aspect.<br/><br/> Reilly & Lee unknown books
19261061524to. Chicago: The Reilly and Lee Company 1926. 4to 261 pp. Dark green cloth with colour plate on upper coveryellow-stained edges black and white illustrated endpapers. No dust jacket. Some minor rubbing to plate on upper board a few light marks on the lower board hinges a bit weak and cracking "This book belongs to page" completed with the name "George R Sneath." A very good copy with the small ticket of Paul Elder & Co. of San Francisco on the back free endpaper. § First edition first state with 12 full-color plates by John R. Neill all coated on one side only; hyphen on the last line of p.21; later printing with the word "two" p.252 last line in damaged type.Hanff 73. The 20th Oz book in the series. The Reilly and Lee Company hardcover books
1930WRCLIT75188New York: Dutton 1930. Quarto. Crimson cloth decorated in gilt black and white. Light rubbing at crown and toe of spine a few faint finger smidges to cloth otherwise an unusually nice bright copy very good or better without dust jacket. First edition trade issue. Illustrated with twenty-two of Vassos's plates depicting a highly Art Deco influenced vision of the future attending Ruth Vassos's text. One of the artist's most significant works. Laid in is a panel of descriptive text on laid paper with a former owner noted as a prospectus; it is just as likely the text from the rear panel of the dust jacket. BLEILER p. 198. NEGLEY 1130. SARGENT p.190. Dutton hardcover books
193024748New York: E.P. Dutton & Company Inc. Very Good in Very Good dj. 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. some wear to cloth at ends of spine very slight bump to bottom front corner; fragile jacket is quite presentable worn along edges and hinges hinges split along several lengths but still holding together about 1" paper loss from top of spine no loss of text tiny chip at bottom left corner of rear panel a few little nicks along top of front panel. B&W plates A memorandum from an imagined future time in which centuries of slow-moving but cataclysmic climate change -- not global warming but rather global freezing -- have forced humans first to reconstitute their civilization far beneath the surface of the earth and ultimately to develop "projectile cars" rocket ships essentially to allow them to escape from an earth that's become "useless and dead." The memo-writer has rejected an alternate plan to use "certain experiments in atomic detonation"! to shift the earth's orbit closer to the sun and to thereby re-heat the planet. Although primarily known for his influential work in the field of industrial design John Vassos's credentials as a modernist artist were firmly established by the three books he published around this time; this one was preceded by "Contempo" 1929 and followed by "Phobia" 1931. The book's dedication is "To D.H.L. D.H. Lawrence who loved the sun"; Lawrence had died in March 1930 the book was published in November. And don't miss the attractive black-on-silver bookplate concealed by the front jacket flap of one A. Eric Armstrong on whose shelves this book once rested. . E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc. hardcover books
502986“Ruth Roland” in black fountain pen ink on 1/2 length provocative pose wearing large hat and short sleeve flapper dress with fur wrap around her shoulders holding her left hand under her chin. Photograph is by Strauss Peyton 1922 with logo in the lower left corner and is on heavy stock; 11” x 14”; very good soft creases to two corners; stain in lower margin; 1922. Signed and inscribed: “To the ‘Dollar Down Club’ with all my most sincere wishes for its every success - Best wishes Ruth Roland.” Roland 1892-1937 born August 26 1892 San Francisco California; died September 22 1937 Los Angeles California; American vaudeville and silent screen actress; film career 1909-1936: "Queen of Hollywood's silent serials"; When sound came to motion pictures in 1929 she decided to try that medium but the film she made "Reno" 1930 was not successful and she retired from the screen after one more film in 1935; films include: “The Old Soldier’s Story” 1909; “The Cardboard Baby” 1909; “Her Indian Mother” 1910; “The Masked Woman” 1927. Signed by Authors. F. Soft cover. paperback books
198338932Austin: W. Thomas Taylor 1983. Edition limited to 325 copies this no. 130 printed and designed by David Holman at the Wind River Press; folio pp. iii-xvi 2 67 3; title page printed in red and black; 18 photographic illustrations of the printers at work plus 8 tipped-in specimens; original 4-color linen cloth binding printed at the Janus Press printed paper label on spine; slight wrinkle at the fore-edge of the upper cover else fine. Among the presses representedare the Abattoir Adagio Arion Bird & BullCummington Gehenna Janus Perishable Press of the Night Owl etc. Laid in is the elaborate 8-page prospectus for the work containing a frontispiece facsimile and one other facsimile in text; original brown printed wrappers printed in blue and black; fine. Order form and envelope laid in. <br/><br/> W. Thomas Taylor hardcover books
19261286862Chicago: Reilly & Lee Co c. 1926. First Edition Later State. large 8vo. 280 pp. VG-; blue cloth boards black lettering to spine pictorial front board with black/white/yellow lettering; bumping/chipping/fraying to head and tail of spine fading to spine lettering legible; bumping/fraying to corners of boards; boards shaken/slightly cocked starting hinge to endpapers no shelf lean binding strong; minimal wear to cover art affixed to front board; boards protected by plastic wrapper; moderate age-toning/wear to text-block; age-toning to margins occasional foxing/staining to interior text and illustrations unaffected; First Edition Later State with 12 full-color plates including frontispiece serif "k" in "back" lacks stem to p. 139 l. 4; LP consignment; shelved Case 12 Dupont. 1286862. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Reilly & Lee Co unknown books