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19774619London: 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
1953170707005New York: The Viking Press 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition first printing. Signed by Robert McCloskey the illustrator and the author's son-in-law on the title page. Very Good with light rubbing to cloth previous owner names on front free end paper and toning to pages. In a Good dust jacket which is price clipped leaving just a sliver of a dollar sign visible which has foxing edge tears and chipping to the spine ends. A lovely copy of this scarce Caldecott Honor signed by the illustrator. The Viking Press hardcover books
201110466Stillwater ME 2011. Artist's book one of 12 copies all on archival paper vellum and transparent vellum with original each different collages of hand-made pastepaper by the artist Nancy Ruth Leavitt and archival Mohawk Superfine paper for the hand-lettered text each signed and numbered by the artist Nancy Ruth Leavitt. Page size: 4-3/4 x 7 inches; 16pp. Bound by Joelle Leavitt Webber: accordion folds based on a structure developed by Hedi Kyle and re-interpreted by Joelle Leavitt Webber each fold holding a double-sided leaf with text on one side and collage on the reverse all housed in a hand-painted pastepaper inside and outside box hinged with Japanese paper to open as a Japanese-style box lying completely flat with button closure. The book can be read by turning each page as in a conventional book or can be removed from the box and displayed as screen of the collages. As with the collages each box varies in colors but all are in the blue-purple-green palette. The text is hand-lettered in black Sumi ink in an Italic script by the artist. Both texts - the Emily Dickinson the more well-known - are complementary and both irresistible to any bibliophile.<br/><br/>The text of the verse by Emily Dickinson Verse 1263 reads:<br/>There is no Frigate like a Book<br/>To take us Lands away<br/>Nor any Coursers like a Page<br/>Of prancing Poetry -<br/><br/>This Traverse may the poorest take<br/>Without oppress of Toll -<br/>How Frugal is the Chariot<br/>That bears the Human soul.<br/><br/>The text of Theodore Parker's "The Book Lover" reads:<br/>A great book that comes from<br/>a great thinker - it is a ship of thought<br/>deep-freighted with truth<br/>with beauty too. It sails the ocean<br/>driven by the winds of heaven<br/>breaking the level seas of life into beauty<br/>where it goes leaving behind it<br/>a train of sparkling loveliness<br/>widening as the ship goes on.<br/><br/>And what a treasure it brings<br/>to every land scattering the seeds of<br/>truth justice love and piety<br/>to bless the world in ages yet to come! unknown books
196760053London: John Long 1967. First edition of the second Inspector Wexford novel. Octavo original cloth. Signed by Ruth Rendell on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing and wear. Jacket design by William Randell. "Ruth Rendell has quite simply transformed the genre of crime writing. She displays her peerless skill in blending the mundane commonplace aspects of life with the potent murky impulses of desire and greed obsession and fear" Sunday Times. John Long hardcover books
1931107178Cosmopolitan 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. A very good first edition of one of the rarest baseball and Babe Ruth books. The 1931 Cosmopolitan first edition of his book How to Play Baseball. Cosmopolitan hardcover books
19739024478Berlin: Gebr. Mann. 1973. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Bound in publisher's original grey coarse cloth with printed labels on front covers and spines. Volumes 1 and 2 in publisher's original heavy cardstock slipcase. Text in German. A prodigious reference work with over 5000 illustrations mostly in black and white. In immaculate condition. <br/><br/> Gebr. Mann. hardcover books
1982176023Vermont: The Janus Press 1982. Hardcover. VG back cloth of case has light black speckles; scratches/wear to silver lining. foxing to the edge of Metzker's Hill Fling photo; edge foxing to Siegl's woodblock for The Dialogues. brown clamshell case w/ silver spine printing; interior silver lined. 19 handmade loose pieces w/ cloth-bound 52 pg catalogue raisonne. Of 75 Copies. 19 Pieces of handmade artistry from John Anderson Jerome Kaplan Howard and Kathryn Clark Ruth Fine Helen Siegl Ray K. Metzker Peter Schumann and others. Pieces signed & numbered. An artist's tribute to Claire Van Vilet of Janus Press. Hardbound 'Catalogue Raisonne' has light black shelf-wear/scuffs to spine top & bottom otherwise clean. The Janus Press hardcover books
1953245465New York: Harper & Row 1953. First. hardcover. fine/very good-. Pictures by Maurice Sendak. 4to cloth backed pictorial boards. New York: Harper & Row 1953. First Edition.<br/><br/> Presentation copy signed in full by Sendak with a small sketch of his Sealyham dog. The book is in very fine condition; the dust wrapper has some edge-wear light dust soil & a small water spot.<br/><br/> Harper & Row unknown books
1933141639Vienna: Illustrierter Film-Kurier 1933. Vintage Austrian film program for the 1933 US film. Cinema paper relating to "King Kong" is rare this being the only example we have offered. Text in German. <br/><br/>Issue No. 637 of "Illustrierter Film-Kurier" one of the oldest European film magazines which ran weekly from 1929 to 1956. Like its German counterpart "Film-Kurier" each issue focused on a single film and used a gravure process to reproduce images from the film making for striking images and design. <br/><br/>6 x 9 inches. Six pages saddle stapled. Near Fine with light toning to the wrapper edges. <br/><br/>National Film Registry. Ebert II. Godard Histoires du cinema. Illustrierter Film-Kurier unknown books
192040004Pasadena: Upton Sinclair 1920. First Edition. Octavo 18.75cm; maroon cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; ii9911pp. With a full-page contemporary inscription from Le Prade to U.S. Attorney General A. Michell Palmer on the front endpaper: "To A. Mitchell Palmer - The poets of the world appeal to you for the liberation of Eugene V. Debs. - Sincerely / Ruth Le Prade / Editor of "Debs and the Poets" / "Glad witness to your zeal for God and love of man I bear." - Whittier / December 25 1920." Gentle sunning to spine hint of dustiness to upper edge of textblock else Near Fine and clean throughout. 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". A key association copy inscribed to Palmer who served as Attorney General under Woodrow Wilson from 1919-1921. As a reaction to domestic unrest Palmer created the General Intelligence Unit in 1919 recruiting J. Edgar Hoover to lead the new organization. During the First Red Scare 1919-1920 the "Palmer Raids" were launched which resulted in numerous suspected radicals to be rounded up and deported. During the final weeks of Wilson's time in office Palmer requested a Presidential pardon for an aging Debs whose health was deteriorating in prison; Wilson's response was "Never! Upton Sinclair unknown books
195319238New York: The Viking Press 1953. Decorative Cloth. Very Good /Very Good . Robert McClosky. A solid very presentable copy of the 1953 1st edition. Clean and VG very light creasing along a number of bottom edges in a crisp price-intact $2.50 VG dustjacket with very mild chipping at the spine ends and just a touch of light soiling to the front panel. Quarto brilliantly illustrated in rich color by Robert McClosky of "Make Way for Ducklings" fame among other triumphs. <br/><br/> The Viking Press hardcover books
1952264806New York: Harper and Row 1952. Later printing. 48 pp. 1 vols. 6.5 x 5.5. Paper dust-jacket over cloth-covered illustrated boards. Upper corner of front inner flap clipped with price of $2.57 net on lower corner and "Harper Crest" foil sticker to front cover otherwise fine. Maurice Sendak. Later printing. 48 pp. 1 vols. 6.5 x 5.5. Signed by Sendak on the front endpaper with an original drawing in black ink and dated "Feb. '69 / for Bob Wilson". Hanrahan A4 Harper and Row unknown books
1511012Reilly and Lee. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A near fine first edition in a very good dust jacket both first state. Lists to book 26 in the series on the flaps of the dust jacket. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase. Reilly and Lee hardcover books
20101436662010. ROTHCHILD Judith. Nacre. Poems by Ruth Fainlight. 20 pp. Illustrated with 8 mezzotints by Judith Rothchild. Square 4to. 255 x 220 mm bound by Mark Lintott with wrap- around boards consisting of mauve-coloured paper over boards raspberry-coloued linen chemise with titled spine in matching grey paper over boards slipcase. Octon France: Verdigris Press 2010. First Edition limited to 42 copies with the mezzotints printed on Hahnemülhe paper colophon hand-numbered and signed by the author Ruth Fainlight and the artist Judith Rothchild. The text has been hand set and printed letterpress in Vendome Romain on an Albion press of 1867 by Mark Lintott. Rothchild designed and printed the mezzotints herself. Title-page and colophon with embossed text and/or imagery. "The magnificent pearls with their orient nacre were saved for queens and emperors. Entire villages holding their breath: how many diver's lives lost in the oyster beds for a royal crown" The poems by Fainlight are a perfect compliment to Rothchild's characteristically black-velvet mezzotints infused with sexual overtones of elegance and luxury offering the perfect medium for the mysteriously creative cradle of the pearl. As new. hardcover books
201010294Octon France: Verdigris Press 2010. First Edition signed limited edition one of 42 copies only from a total edition of 50 8 deluxe copies with one of the original copper plates all on Hahnemulhe paper each hand-numbered and signed by the author Ruth Fainlight and the artist Judith Rothchild. Page size: 8-1/2 x 9-7/8 inches; 20pp. colophon. Bound by Mark Lintott: leporello style with wrap-around boards of marbled paper made by Judith Rothchild over boards in grey with hints of deep pink and pale blue raspberry-colored linen hinges title author artist and press printed in black in the spine title on front panel housed in custom-made matching grey paper over boards slipcase. The text has been hand set and printed letterpress in Vendome Romain on an Albion press of 1867 by Mark Lintott. The artist herself printed her mezzotints. The text has debossing on the title page with the title NACRE repeated twice in blind on either side of the printed title. The shaped colophon is debossed in the form of a cowrie shell. Noted American poet living in London Ruth Fainlight has contributed six poems; the first "Pearls" has four sections; the fifth "Clam Chowder" has two sections. Judith Rothchild has contributed eight mezzotints relating to or inspiring Ms. Fainlight's verse. The book was collaboration with each artist reacting and creating to her friend's work. The verse speculates on the beauty of the pearl and how it has been valued throughout the ages - reserved for the wealthy and powerful. Ms. Fainlight asks in "Pearls" "Entire villages holding their breath: how many divers' lives lost in the oyster beds for a royal crown" The first mezzotint certainly captures the mysterious dark lustrous glamour of this "crystalline substance iridescent nacre" and the interplay between text and image is set from this beginning. As Ms. Fainlight's text turns to the sensuous associations of love oysters - with great subtlety - the images take on a sensuality of their own. A stunning book that is at once provocative intimate and philosophical and more than a bit Proustian. An object as simple as a cowrie shell button causes the author to recall her mother's treasured memory. The reader / viewer is compelled to join in this lovely remembrance - and perhaps recall something of one's own. Verdigris Press unknown books
1986170404Wallingford Pa: The Elm Press 1986. Hardcover. VG. Light blue clamshell box with inlaid fabric on cover. Thirty-six pages are hinged in an accordion fold permitting the images to interweave from page to page. This artist's book developed from a plan by Ruth Mortimer former Curator of Rare Books at Smith College for an anthology of poems using weaving and fabric arts as metaphor. The text of The Bewildering Thread contains fifteen poems selected from the work of fourteen contemporary women poets: Sandra M Gilbert Eleanor Wilner Jody Aliesan Carolyn Kizer Amy Clampitt Linda Pastan Maura Stanton Adrienne Rich Katha Pollitt Lyn Lifshin May Swenson Margaret Atwood Susan Snively and Gjertrud Schnackenberg. The poem by Emily Dickinson from which the title of the collection is taken is printed as an epigraph. This is copy No. 13 of the 50 printed. Eleanor Wilne described the book as ".contained poems about the womanly arts of the thread---spinning embroidery lacemaking weaving-the tapestries in which women spoke before the page and the public stage were open to us." Includes some associated paperwork in the back on the clamshell box. 34 of the 50 copies are held in institutions. The Elm Press hardcover books
196961004London: John Lang 1969. First edition of the fourth Inspector Wexford novel. Octavo original cloth. Signed by Ruth Rendell on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light wear. Jacket design by William Randell. Edgar Award-winning author Ruth Rendell wrote more than seventy books and sold more than twenty million copies worldwide. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature she was the recipient of the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Crime Writers' Association. Rendell's award-winning novels include A Demon in My View 1976 A Dark-Adapted Eye 1987 and King Solomon's Carpet 1991. Her popular crime stories featuring Chief Inspector Reginald Wexford were adapted into a long-running British television series 1987-2000 starring George Baker. John Lang hardcover books
1949293Westport Connecticut: The Tiger's Eye Publishing Company 1949. 9 issues all published. 4to. Original color printed wrappers; spine edges rubbed with a few minor repairs and a few pieces missing otherwise sound and attractive.  First edition of this highly regarded art and literary magazine edited by Ruth and John Stephan which became the voice for abstract expressionism surrealism and the Latin American avant-garde in the United States. Blending the prose and images of post WWII artists like Max Ernst Alberto Giacometti Stanley William Hayter Pablo Picasso Rufino Tamayo and Anne Ryan to name a few the Tiger's Eye became the visual forum for the "new". In a review of an exhibition on the Stephans at Yale University in 2002 Roberta Smith of the NY Times wrote "the magazine which took its title from William Blake was one of the few that 'took visual art as seriously as literature.' It was also an eccentric mom-and-pop operation put together with love sophistication and a fair amount of attitude as well as Ruth's money. Her family owned Walgreen's. It largely excluded criticism in favor of artist's writings and reproduced artwork without captions to unfetter the reader's response."  Ruth and John Stephan's paper are at Yale University. In 2002 the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library organized an exhibition of their work with emphasis on The Tiger's Eye. Pamala Franks published a catalogue entitled The Tiger's Eye: The Art of a Magazine and Robert Smith reviewed both the exhibition and the publication for the NY Times March 22 2002.  "The Tiger's Eye was designed by Ruth Stephan. Cover and color scheme by John Stephan. Typography by Sven Jansen. Composition and printing by the Elm Tree Press Woodstock Vermont. Collotypes by Meriden Gravure Company Meriden Connecticut. Color Reproductions and Photo Engraving by Melford Photo Engraving Company New York."  With faults a very good copy of the complete set. 293. The Tiger's Eye Publishing Company unknown books
20029115Octon France: Verdigris Press 2002. One of 30 copies all on Hahnemulhe paper each signed by the artist and the poet on the colophon page. The first eight copies have an original copper plate as well as an additional mezzotint and a text in the hand of the author. Page size: 15-1/2 x 10-1/4"; 10 double-fold leaves. Bound: publisher's wrappers in aubergine Canevas paper by Thibierge & Comar screen-printed in black by the artist matching screen-printed slipcase with wood edges by Claude Vallin and Mark Lintott. The eight mezzotints nine plates and the two embossments on the title and contents page were printed by the artist. The text is hand-set in Vendome Romain and printed letterpress on a Stanhope press by Mark Lintott fine. This is the third collaboration between poet Ruth Fainlight and artist Judith Rothchild. The poems inspired by the feather images and the mezzotints inspired by the poems form an ongoing dialogue. Verdigris Press unknown books
196023<b> INSCRIBED BY SENDAK - 1st Edition in DJ</b><br /><br />Ruth Krauss and Maurice Sendak collaborated on this wonderful book done in the style of the 1952 book - <i>A Hole To Dig</i>. This copy of <i>Open House Butterfles </i>is made extra special as it <br /><b>INSCRIBED "To Arlene Maurice Sendak". </b> Arlene was married to bookseller Reed<b><br /></b>Orenstein . Typeface in brown b/w illus and b/w illus eps. Light edgewear light corner rub<br />o/w VG copy. In an un-clipped dj / with light rub at corners & spine tips o/w VG.<br />Hanrahan A39<br /><br /> Harper & Bros hardcover books
19979731Reynes: Editions de l'eau 1997. One of 14 deluxe copies all on Hahnemuhle paper each numbered and signed by Fainlight and Rothchild on the colophon with an original drawing and page of manuscript. In addition there were 28 regular copies 8 hors commerce. In addition there were 40 additional copies of the mezzotints editioned. Page size: 15-1/2" x 10-1/2". Bound: loose in original wrappers housed in red publisher's slipcase paper over boards. New. With mezzotints printed by the artist Judith Rothchild the text was printed by Albert Woda the publisher who also designed the layout. This is Judith Rothchild's first livre d'artiste. Noted poet Ruth Fainlight has contributed a moving poem using the imagery of pomegranates and its association with the Greek myth of Persephone and Demeter to pose questions about the life process aging revisiting our youth death and rebirth. Ms. Rothchild's pomegranates are rich and warm almost supernaturally lit images -- always in pairs -- exposing its complicated fruit. The artist usually works in the pastel medium using vibrant strong colors usually still lifes bringing life to inanimate objects with magical light. Encouraged by master engraver Albert Woda to work in mezzotints Ms. Rothchild has created six haunting images to perfectly complement Ms. Fainlight's poem. See illustration.7. Editions de l'eau unknown books
201240353Nottingham England: Artist Studio 2012. 16mo 6" x 11". <br><br>Ruth Scott Blackson's near-kinetic artist's "flag" book "Life of a Weave" is best appreciated for its movement in the moments after it is opened as thin woven strips of light polymer paper in bright pink and yellow burst a'quiver from an accordion binding.<br>Â Â Â Â => The weave is indeed lively! And there is a suggested "narrative" here too as the weave's "story" when read from cover to cover becomes more and more complicated . . .<br>Â Â Â Â Binding: Yellow spine paper over grey boards the covers further supplied with deep rose-pink paper slip-on over-sheaths which according to the artist were constructed by "a specific type of folding in case you ever wanted to change the covers. They slip on and off quite easily nice and versatile and good for non-adhesive books. Fine and => one-of-a-kind. Artist Studio hardcover books
195713776EPhiladelphia: Lippincott 1957. First Edition. Signed presentation copy from Ruth Nichols inscribed by the author: “To Maurice Charles With my good wishes as a mutual friend of a real Spartan pilot - Lorraine Emerson - and in memory of Fred Ames. Sincerely Ruth Nichols.†Illustrated with black & white photos including one of Ruth and Amelia Earhart taken at the Santa Monica airport after the 1933 Bendix Transcontinental Trophy Race. Foreword by Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd U.S.N. Near fine or better copy with just a faint trace of edge wear in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing and a couple of very small tears. The autobiography of famous aviatrix Ruth Nichols who began her career flying with Rogers Airlines in 1922 and went on to establish three new international records for women in 1931 altitude speed and distance. In 1932 she flew from Los Angeles to New York in thirteen hours and twenty-one minutes - one hour less than the previous transcontinental record set by Charles Lindbergh. In 1955 she became the first woman in the United States to pilot a twin-engine Executive aircraft. In addition to her amazing career in aviation Ruth Nichols was a tireless promoter of aviation to the public especially to children and was the first woman to receive the title of ‘World Pilot’ when serving as special correspondent for the U.S. Committee for U.N.I.C.E.F. Lippincott unknown books
52406Thorne-Thomsen Ruth. Original vintage toned silver gelatin photograph image size 4 7/16 x 5 3/8 in. 11.3 x 13.6 cm. tipped to archival board with window-mat 14 x 18 in. SIGNED and titled with "printed 1978" in pencil on the blank verso by the photographer. Affixed to the blank verso of the mat is a gallery label. Fine. Ruth Thorne-Thomsen 1943 has worked exclusively with the pinhole camera and paper negatives since 1976. She describes her work as "environmental collage" since she incorporates props and other elements that she has created into her images. <br/><br/> unknown books
52404Thorne-Thomsen Ruth. Original toned silver gelatin photograph image size 4 1/2 in x 5 1/2 in. 11.6 x 13.8 cm. tipped to archival board with window-mat 14 x 18 in. SIGNED and titled with "printed 1982" in pencil on the blank verso by the photographer. Affixed to the blank verso of the mat is a gallery label. Fine. Ruth Thorne-Thomsen 1943 has worked exclusively with the pinhole camera and paper negatives since 1976. She describes her work as "environmental collage" since she incorporates props and other elements that she has created into her images. <br/><br/> unknown books
