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1934624588Chicago: Reilly & Lee 1934. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Small quarto. 298pp. 12 color plates. A lovely fine copy in a handsome very good first issue dust jacket with shallow loss at the crown a small chip on the spine and light sunning. A very pleasing copy and uncommon thus. Reilly & Lee hardcover
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
192725331Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co 1927. First printing. Fine in very good plus jacket. First edition a lovely copy rarely found so bright - and rare in the original jacket. In this adventurous installment the Gnome King's grudge against Ozma the Scarecrow and other beloved Oz characters leads to trouble. A classic in beautiful condition. 9'' x 6.5''. Original green cloth color pictorial paste-on. In original price-clipped color pictorial dust jacket with ads listing this title last on flap. Illustrated by J.R. Neill with 12 color plates coated on both sides plus and many black-and-white images. 282 pages. Jacket lightly soiled with shallow edgewear and small tape repairs to verso. Book bright with just a bit of bumping to spine ends. The Reilly & Lee Co unknown
196647182New York: A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book / Harcourt Brace & World 1966. ROSHI ROBERT AITKEN'S COPY SIGNED ON THE FRONT ENDPAPER. Also included is a typed and signed postcard dated May 1979 to Zen Pioneer Bill Kembo Wyatt the first person ordained as a Zen monk on British soil mentioning W. S. Merwin a student at Aitken's Maui Zendo and Aitken's friend Gary Snyder. First and only edition of this indispensable work for Zen students. Thick octavo bound in bright orange cloth with gilt titles to spine and Chinese characters blind-stamped to front board. xxii 574 pages. In the scarce price-intact dust jacket. Text includes background notes descriptive bibliography 12 genealogical charts 2 maps indexes and 10 plates of reproductions of drawings by Hakuin. Extended biographies of more than fifty major Chinese and Japanese Zen figures set the historical background of Koan Zen and trace the characteristic styles of the various masters. Ruth Fuller Sasaki was abbess of the Zen temple of Ryosen-an Daitoku-ji Kyoto where she served as director of the First Zen Institute of America. This important text was one of the early books Sasaki saw to completion at The First Zen Institute with the help of Philip Yampolsky Burton Watson and the poet Gary Snyder. Koan study is the method of religious practice unique in the traditional Zen Buddhist school of China and Japan. This book is the first scholarly examination in any language of this method for bringing the student to and maturing the experience of satori - direct intuitive awakening to Reality - tracing this technique from its inception in T'ang China to its culmination under the 18th century Japanese Rinzai master Hakuin. A publishing flaw has left a crinkled edge to page 97 otherwise a tight clean and unmarked copy. In a very good price-intact dust jacket with only minor spine sunning now in a protective archival wrap. A unique and important association copy. See photos. . Signed. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book / Harcourt, Brace & World Hardcover
1957SKU-0048AE05604085Doubleday Publishing 1957. 1. Hardcover. Very Good. Signed gift inscription by Ruth Slenczynska to the previous owner on the front endpaper with the inscription dated April 6 1960 ; Very Good in a Good dust jacket; Hardcover; Dust jacket is moderately shelfworn and edgeworn with a small chip to the back top edge otherwise is clean and intact and has not been price-clipped Now fitted with a new Brodart jacket protector; Very light wear to the boards with "straight" edge-corners; All three textblock sides are unblemished; Minor age-related yellowing no foxing to the endpapers otherwise the endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium Format 8.5" - 9.75" tall; 1.0 lbs; Red and black dust jacket with title in white lettering over gray cloth-covered boards; 1957 Doubleday Publishing; 263 pages; "Forbidden Childhood: The Frank Account of a Girl's Struggle to Free Herself from the Strangle Hold of Her Tyrannical Father" by Ruth Slenczynska & Louis Biancolli. Doubleday Publishing hardcover
1953215850New York: Viking 1953. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in boards. Viking hardcover
1978mon0003712684St. Martin's Press 1978T. hardcover. Good. 1.5000 9.2000 6.2000. St. Martin's Press hardcover
0011109Sayville New York. Very Good with no dust jacket. Hardcover. On offer is a fascinating journal of a young American woman Ruth Harris Diuguid Dougherty Fallon 1917-2007. Born and raised in Sayville New York Diuguid lived most of her life in or near Brooklyn. She married Frederick Howard Dougherty 1918-2004 in 1940 and subsequently Robert Edwards Fallon 1917-2012 in 1987. Ruth and Frederick had two daughters. Ruth was a housewife but on the side she was a published journalist and photographer. She published articles in magazines such as Seventeen but was best known for her historical newspaper articles in the Suffolk County News where she wrote a column called Reflections of the Past about the history of Sayville New York. Ruth also served on the world-wide governing council of the Girl Scouts and was an active member of the Sayville Historical Society. Ruth was 17 when she began this diary in 1935. She was a high school junior at Sayville High School. She crams every single page with detailed entries of the type of personal and social events that are of such crucial importance to a teenager. While the diary is set up to be kept over five years Ruth writes voraciously and the vast majority of the entries are 1935-1937. On some pages the entry for a single day will take up most of the page with entries for other years jotted in the margins or skipped. The diary opens with a Notice: To whoever takes the liberty of reading this diary may it reflect upon their character and be a curse to them if they use the contents against me or those mentioned or to embarrass me or those herein Flyleaf. And with that dire warning she launches in to a breathless description of her life with family and friends. The entries are very long so these are mostly just excerpts: Went to school. I had little homework to finish. I am going with the gang to see Tommy Richards who was stabbed but some of them appeared . Maybe I ought to introduce most of the gang they are the boys and girls of the neighbourhood .she then goes on to list over a dozen friends including Freddie Dougherty whom she would later marry Jan 3 1935. Went to school for an hour in the morning to take English mid-term. I think I barely passed. Bee Vi & I went to Metropolitan Theatre to see Folies Bergere. Had soda in Lofts. Vi & I went to store for mom.Vi Helen Connie Flo Margie and I walked to Bobs sat on steps listening to his orchestra play awhile. Some young boys followed us. Met the boys from our gang on our block. Stood talking a while Apr 3 1935. School. No assembly. Harold & I wandered around a while then went to baseball game. SHS vs Bayshore . We won 5-0. Water pistols were numerous in grandstand May 22 1936. Wednesday work. A day I have long been awaiting arrived - I took my driving test for my senior license! Ma drove me down by 11: 00 to PatchogueGranville Ave. The man was so nice. We carried on quite a conversation. He visited Daddys business in Brooklyn years ago. I didnt do perfectly but I may have passed and I may not have. I do hope I did. I took mom to lunch in the Bonnie Mart. We looked in stores. I had lunch . At home I cleaned my car as I do once in a while. Then went to the beach. I later went to library. We felt the urge to study. I get biology and French. Joe and John came down before we had to with work . At church meeting Howie said he had a compliment to tell me nice to hear that the most enjoyable evening he ever spent was at Darcys party. I can only say I find it enjoyable to when Howie is concerned August 19 1936. For a social historian this is a terrific look into the lives led by American teenagers during the pre-war years. It would be an excellent source record for a Womens Studies program particularly as it shows a lifestyle that was about to undergo a radical change with WWII and the post war years in America. For a genealogist it offers and outstanding list of names and connections in this community including the school community of Sayville High School. This diary measures 5.25 inches by 4.0 inches and contains 365 pages. The covers are in good condition as is the binding. The pages are in good condition although there is some slight ink blotting in places. The handwriting is tight but generally legible. ; Manuscripts; 24mo 5" - 6" tall; 365 pages; Signed by Author . hardcover
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
19539602New York: The Viking Press 1953. First edition. Near fine in very good dust jacket. First printing of this delightful take on the tale of the Gingerbread Man winner of a 1954 Caldecott Honor - scarce in dust jacket. Ruth Sawyer's humorous tale of a runaway cake is brought to life by the art of her son-in-law Robert McCloskey. JOURNEY CAKE HO! earned Sawyer and McCloskey a Caldecott Honor Sawyer's first and McCloskey's third. This is an attractive copy of the beloved story unusual to find in original dust jacket. 10.25'' x 7.75''. Original cloth boards. Original unclipped $2.50 color pictorial dust jacket. Pictorial endpapers of Johnny followed by chickens. Illustrated in blue white and brown. 46 2 pages. Small ink gift inscription to front flyleaf dated Christmas 1953. Jacket with light edgewear a few short closed tears and shallow chipping to joints and spine ends with careful tape repair to verso of lower spine. Binding with mild bumping to spine ends a hint of shelfwear. Clean and solid. The Viking Press unknown
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
2009DADAX1933013443Brand: Assn for Professionals in Infection 2009-06-01. 3. paperback. New. 8.00x2.75x10.50. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Brand: Assn for Professionals in Infection paperback
1986mon00000932221986-12-01. Paperback. Good. in x in x in. paperback
8666[Berne / Kyoto], 1996 à 1999. 1 éventail vert de 50 cm d'envergure, monté sur 5 baguettes de bois laqué rouge de 37 cm, orné d'un masque japonais en couleurs, "Le masque d'Okina", et d'un idéogramme rouge (signature?) au recto, de paillettes dorées au verso, en boîte au couvercle orné d'un idéogramme doré; avec présentoir en bambou et son mode d'emploi et feuillet plié de présentation en anglais et en japonais. Avec un éventail vert de 82 cm d'envergure monté sur des baguettes de 48 cm. comportant quelques accrocs minimes.
1935101400Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co 1935. First edition first impression with correct issue dust jacket. The last Oz title to be issued with colour plates. Octavo. 12 colour plates by John R. Neill. Original purple cloth colour pictorial image pasted down to front board titles and decoration to spine in black blank endpapers as issued. With dust jacket. Ends of spine and corners lightly bumped front inner hinge starting in the dust jacket with wear to the extremities shallow chipping to ends of the spine closed tear along front spine edge small areas of abrasion to the front panel. A lovely copy. Bienvenue & Schmidt p. 117 hardcover
63122London: John Long 1967. Crime Mystery SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo 20 x 13cm pp.184. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's dark brown material over boards with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by William Randell priced at 21s. A lovely crisp clean copy with minor wear only to jacket. Near fine. The second in the Inspector Wexford series following 'From Doon with Death' 1964. London: John Long, 1967 unknown
103381London John Long 1964. . First edition of the author's first novel; 8vo; partly erased library stamps to pastedowns with further stamp to dedication page; publisher's green cloth lettered in white and yellow dust-jacket designed by William Randell some edge-wear slightly chipped at spine ends minor tape-burns to inner flaps but overall very good.<br /> The scarce first edition of the first novel by Ruth Rendell introducing detective fiction readers for the first time to Inspector Wexford who went on to feature in twenty-four of her novels. 'This subtle first novel departs from the well-trodden paths of crime to pose a problem which in its bizarre solution calls for compassion rather than condemnation' introductory blurb.<br /><br />Many copies of the first edition of From Doon with Death went into the public library system so it is unusual to find spared ex-library markings to book or dust-jacket. <br /> London, John Long, 1964. hardcover
200314481purple black text a5 garage F: Back Yard Publisher 2003. Paperback. Good. Signed by Author. Signed by Author Signed by author. Paperback - 2003 - good condition spine creased where read 1-931934-18-5 Isbn 1931934185. Back Yard Publisher paperback
DADAX178474106XChatto & Windus 2016-11-03. UK ed. hardcover. New. 5.50x0.50x7.25. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Chatto & Windus hardcover
SONG111891452XWiley 2015-01-12. 4. ring_bound. Used: Good. 8.20x0.70x10.70. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Wiley unknown
1974948P35London: Hutchinson 1974-89. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed/Very Good Indeed. 9" by 6"; 8.5" by 5.5". None. A set of fourteen first edition thrillers and murder mysteries by the prolific author Ruth Rendell. A set of fourteen first edition first impression novels by Ruth Rendell. Four of the novels in this set feature Rendell's Inspector Wexford one of her recurring characters who stars in twenty-four of her novels. Wexford is a Chief Inspector an intelligent and sensitive mann who lives in Kingsmarkham a fictional in Sussex.Each volume is in its original unclipped dust wrapper except 'A Judgment in Stone' which is price-clipped. 'The Face of Trespass' published in 1974.'A Demon in My View' published in 1976.'A Judgment in Stone' published in 1977.'A Sleeping Life' published in 1978. An Inspector Wexford novel.'The Lake of Darkness' published in 1980.'Put on by Cunning' published in 1981. An Inspector Wexford novel.'Master of the Moor' published in 1982.'The Killing Doll' published in 1984.'The Tree of Hands' published in 1984.'An Unkindness of Ravens' published in 1985. An Inspector Wexford novel.'Live Flesh' published in 1986.'Talking to Strange Men' published in 1987.'The Veiled One' published in 1988. An Inspector Wexford novel.'The Bridesmaid' published in 1989. In the original publisher's cloth binding 'The Lake of Darkness' 'A Demon in My View' and 'Talking to Strange Men' have been rebound in cloth. Each volume is in its original unclipped dust wrapper except 'A Judgment in Stone' which is price-clipped. externally smart. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spines. Gilt is a little rubbed most so to 'The Veiled One'. Light rubbing to 'Talking to Strange Men'. Small tear to the head of the front joint of 'The Lake of Darkness' with marks to the boards. Tape and paper residue to the boards of 'Talking to Strange Men'. A few minor marks to the boards. Loss to the rear board of 'The Face of Trespass'. Light edge wear to the dust wrappers. Spines are a little sunned. Edge wear a little heavier to 'The Face of Trespass' and 'Talking to Strange Men'. Dust wrappers for 'The Bridesmaid' 'Master of the Moor' 'The Veiled One' 'Put on by Cunning' 'An Unkindness of Ravens' 'A Judgment in Stone' 'A Sleeping Life' are very smart. Loss to the head and tail of the spine of 'A Demon in My View' with ink and an institutional label to the reverse. Small tidemark to the reverse of the dust wrapper of 'The Killing Doll'. Light ringmark to the front wrap of 'The Tree of Hands'. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Institutional stamps to 'The Face of Trespass' 'The Lake of Darkness' 'A Demon in My View' 'Live Flesh' 'A Judgment in Stone' and 'Talking to Strange Men'. Label to the title page of 'The Tree of Hands' "With Compliments BBC Radio Solent". Very Good Indeed Hutchinson hardcover
2011__0123736323Academic Pr 2011. Hardcover. New. 2nd edition. 3464 pages. 12.00x9.75x7.75 inches. Academic Pr hardcover
2001SONG0415208386Routledge 2001-12-06. hardcover. Used: Good. 6.00x6.00x9.25. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Routledge hardcover
193481518New York: International Publishers 1934. First Edition. Oblong quarto 23cm x 27cm. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards; 62pp; illus. A remarkably bright unworn copy with minimal rubbing to board corners with the pictorial elements bright and unfaded. Internally clean and unmarked with joints and hinges tight; Near Fine. Lacking the scarce dustwrapper. There was also an issue in plain black bookcloth priority uncertain. <br /> <br /> A biographical encomium to Lenin for juvenile readers with illustrations by the New Masses cartoonist William Siegel. A great example of "party-approved" literature for children during the heyday of communism in America an unusually well-preserved copy. International Publishers unknown
14331Braun Ruth Light American 1906-2003. UNTITLED CLEANING CREW. Lithograph not dated but likely 1930s. Edition size not stated. Signed in pencil lower left. 13 3/8 x 10 1/2 inches image 18 x 12 inches sheet. Framed to 21 x 19 inches. In excellent condition. Ruth Light Braun was born in Brooklyn NY and studied art at Cooper Union. After a period during which she did drawings for the New Yorker and book illustrations she studied for two years with Winold Reiss. She adopted the methods which Reiss used to portray ethnic subjects to doing portraits of Jews in New York. She also did genre scenes of Jew ish life in the city during the 1920s and 1930s and it is likelty that this scene of women cleaning in what may be an office building is one of these. Later she spent time in Palestine but returned to the U.S. after the death of her first husband. She remariied and she and her hisband formed a catering business in Washington DC. In later life she resumed her art career in Florida. unknown
