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19753291Kinderhook NY: Columbia County Historical Society 1975. VG. Wraps. appx. 40 pp. 17 bw plates. Essay written by Ruth Piwonka and Roderic C. Blackburn. Sub-titled "A Catalogue of An Exhibition of Portraits by James E. Johnson 1810-1858 of Columbia County NY". Published to accompany an exhibition held in Kinderhook NY: Columbia County Historical Society July 1 to Aug. 15 1975. Columbia County Historical Society paperback books
287240Paris; Havana: Grand Publishing Co. Stapled Pamphlet. Very Good binding. A sixteen page piece of erotica titled A Roman Vassal with three pages of erotic illustrations. Vertical crease to the covers and text. Green paper wrappers printed red. Overall in Very Good condition. No copies found on OCLC. Very Good binding. Grand Publishing Co unknown books
18901088Frederick A. Stokes New York 1890. 1st. Hardcover. A well-preserved copy of the 1890 1st edition. VG in its original green cloth with bright gilt-lettering and gilt-bordered embossed pictorial on front panel. Minor scuffing to front and back panels and a bit of customary fading to the spine. Still a sharp crisp copy. Octavo 217 pgs. <br/><br/> Frederick A. Stokes, New York hardcover books
19686556Middletown CT: Wesleyan University Press 1968. 1st. Cloth. Collectible; Very Good/Very Good. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO MAXWELL GEISMAR pre-eminent literary critic and biographer 1909-1979. A well-preserved copy to boot of the 1968 stated 1st edition. Solid and VG in a bright price-intact VG dustjacket with very light chipping and creasing along the spine crown and rear panel's top-edge. Octavo 480 pgs. Signed by Author. <br/><br/> Wesleyan University Press hardcover books
199912667Jerusalem: Center for Jewish Art 1999. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. A near-pristine copy of the 1999 1st edition. Tight and Near Fine in a bright Near Fine dustjacket with just a touch of creasing at the foot of the spine. Quarto high-quality color and black-and-white plates thruout. <br/><br/> Center for Jewish Art hardcover books
19523869London: Werner Laurie 1952. 1st. Cloth. Collectible; Very Good/Very Good. 1952 1st edition. Tight and VG in a bright price-intact VG dustjacket with one tiny chip at the top-edge of the front panel. Thick octavo 359 pgs. <br/><br/> Werner Laurie hardcover books
1991181605Westphal Pub 1991-09-01. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1991 First Edition. Book and dust jacket are clean has a good binding the pages are crisp and free of markings/notations. Minimal wear. lz Westphal Pub hardcover books
195519221New York: Harper & Brothers 1955. Pictorial boards. Very Good /Very Good. Maurice Sendak. A handsome copy of the 1955 correct 1st edition Hanrahan A-18. Solid and VG light spotting to the boards in a crisp price-intact $2.00 VG dustjacket with very mild creasing and soiling to the panels. 16mo wonderfully illustrated throughout by the maestro Sendak. <br/><br/> Harper & Brothers hardcover books
196519295New York: Pantheon Books 1965. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good . SIGNED BY BOTH THE AUTHOR RUTH KRAUSS AND THE ILLUSTRATOR ANTONIO FRASCONI on the half-title. A very solid copy to boot of the 1965 1st edition. Clean and Near Fine light creasing to the lower edges of the preliminaries in a crisp price-intact $2.95 VG dustjacket with one small closed tear and just a tpuch of spotting along the front panel. Octavo wonderfully illustrated throughout in colorful playful woodcuts by the great Uruguayan artist Frasconi. <br/><br/> Pantheon Books hardcover books
1951278718New York: Harper & Brothers 1951. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Fair dust jacket. A clean First Edition copy in the a raggedy publisher's dustjacket. The jacket has loss to the spine extremities and significant shelfwear. It has not been price-clipped and still has the original price of $1.75 on the flap. The binding is paper-covered boards backed in black cloth. The cloth spine has some minor silverfishing but the boards are bright and attractive. Very Good binding / Fair dust jacket. Harper & Brothers unknown books
195419200New York: Harper & Brothers 1954. Pictorial boards. Very Good /Very Good. Crockett Johnson. The 1954 1st edition. Solid and VG light offsetting at the inner hinges very mild soiling to the rear panel in a crisp price-intact and price-clipped VG dustjacket with chipping at the front tips and the spine ends light blotching along the rear panel and mild soiling to the flap-folds. Still though a presentable clopy. Octavo wonderfully illustrated throughout by Ruth Krauss's husband the great Crockett Johnson of "Harold and the Purple Crayon" fame. <br/><br/> Harper & Brothers hardcover books
19609771New York: Harper & Brothers 1960. 1st. Decorative Cloth. Collectible; Very Good/Very Good. The 1960 correct 1st edition Hanrahan A-39. Solid and VG in a bright price-clipped VG dustjacket. 16mo wonderfuly illustrated thruout by Maurice Sendak. <br/><br/> Harper & Brothers hardcover books
19833882Magic Circle Press 1983. Decorative Cloth. Collectible; Very Good. 1983 reprint WARMLY INSCRIBED BY RUTH KRAUSS on the front free endpaper. Clean and VG in its decorative boards without dustjacket as issued. Very light scuffing at the bottom of the front panel minor offsetting to rear panel. Tall octavo 43 pgs. Wonderfully illustrated by the great Sendak. Signed by Author. <br/><br/> Magic Circle Press hardcover books
193620107036Vienna Austria: Austrian Junior Red Cross 1936. General wear. Small burn mark on back on envelope. . A set of ten 10 postcards featuring a young boy and girl in a variety of summer activities originally drawn by Ruth Kalmar 1916-2012 when she was fourteen and in Franz Cizek's Juvenile Art Class in Vienna Austria. The images depict a charming young blond boy and girl in a variety of outdoor settings such as on a walk holding a white rabbit fishing on a dock playing in the sand on a beach and riding a scooter together. The prints are bright and colorful and the children themselves depict an idealized sweetness and innocence of childhood. These prints are actually postcards and on the back of them is a space to write a short message and address. Additionally the cards are captioned with "Junior Red Cross Summer Cards Austrian Junior Red Cross Vienna I Stubenring 1 By Ruth Kalmar 14 years old former pupil in Prof. Cizek's Juvenile Art Class Vienna". Numbered 1-10. In original folder with Junior Red Cross The text on the envelope features the title of the set of cards and a brief description. Measures 5 3/4" x 3 3/4" postcards. Franz Cizek 1865-1946 was an Austrian genre and portrait painter who was also well known as an art teacher and art education reformer particularly when it came to teaching art to children. In 1903 Cizek started a small art school for children ages 4 to 14 with classes each Saturday broken up into two hour blocks the first for the younger students and the second for the older ones. Cizek's students would produce an overwhelming amount of art work which starting in the 1920s was used to promote a variety of childhood charities. Ruth Kalmar attended Cizek's art school between 1926-1930 and in her last year at age fourteen completed the set of ten images seen on the postcards. <br />Ruth Kalmar now Ruth Kalmar Wilson herself would become an artist and designer in her own right traveling the world and teaching at several prominent schools such the Museum School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston Tufts University Harvard University's Art Program for Children and Massachusetts College of Art. Austrian Junior Red Cross unknown books
1985270054Univ of California Pr 1985. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. A clean copy with no marks of any kind. Flexible record in pocket in the back of the book. Very Good binding. Univ of California Pr unknown books
1972BO618-004Van Nuys CA: Richard J. Hoffman 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. LIMITED EDITION of 50 copies printed by Richard J. Hoffman. 8vo. 9 1/2 x 5 7/8 inches. 144 pp. Title-page printed in 3 colors headpiece in 2 colors printer's device on colophon; text clean unmarked. Quarter red cloth spine titled in gilt patterned paper over boards; binding square and tight gentle bumps to upper corners else Fine. Subtitle: "The record of a sabbatical year 1966-67 made up of notes written by Ruth Hoffman with asides in brackets added by Richard Hoffman who first set the type in 1967; the project was resurrected & completed in the Fall of 1972." Records a sabbatical year in Europe but the project was interrupted by the throat cancer that debilitated Richard Hoffman. Rounce & Coffin Club Western Books Award 1973. REFERENCE: Petko: A Tribute to the Life and Work of Richard John Hoffman No. 212. Richard J. Hoffman hardcover 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
WALTER-FILM002096No binding. Very Good. Photo Vintage original 10 x 13"" 25 x 32 cm. black-and-white double weight glossy silver gelatin print still photo USA. Memorable for her run-in with the Marx Brothers in 1933's DUCK SOUP Raquel Torres had a Hollywood film career for 5 years which encompassed the very end of the silent era and early talkies between 1928 and 1933. Born in Mexico she had the distinction of appearing in MGM's first Synchronized sound film WHITE SHADOWS OF THE SOUTH SEAS. She soon appeared in the Academy Award-winning first version of THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY and continued in a variety of genres including Westerns South Sea sex epics comedies and of course DUCK SOUP. When she married a business tycoon in 1935 she stopped making films and after he passed she was married to actor Jon Hall for awhile. She remained in Los Angeles until her death in 1987 at 78-years-old. While at MGM in 1928 she had her portrait done by MGM's most prestigious photographer Ruth Harriet Louise. Raquel is likely in costume for THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY. There is a blind stamp at the bottom right edge as well as Ruth Harriet Louise ink stamp on verso and the ""Raquel Torres Metro Goldwyn Mayer"" ink stamp as well. There are two light inter creases one at the center of her chest and a diagonal one at the center of her face. Neither show unless held up to the light NEAR FINE. unknown books
1938261342London: George G. Harrap & Company 1938. First British Edition. Hard Cover. Good binding/no dust jacket. Binding sound though small superficial separation to front joint 1/2"; moderate edgewear. Binding protected in a hand cut mylar cover. Charming children's bookplate to front pastedown; no markings in text. Warning: this book contains an excessive number of ridiculously cute panda photos. Good binding / no dust jacket. George G. Harrap & Company unknown books
193321398No Place Listed: Not Published 1933. Signature on loose sheet of paper simply signed "Ruth Hanna Simms"; the sheet of plain paper no markings or date; about 6" x 9 1/2"; Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms 1880-1944 womens suffrage leader congresswoman and political leader daughter of politician Mark Hanna ".first woman to win a Senate nomination by a major political party not elected however.McCormick had the background and determination to take advantage of new opportunities for women in electoral politics in the first half of the twentieth century. As a leader in the suffrage movement and the Republican party as well as a successful campaigner she attracted large numbers of women into partisan politics." Kristie Miller in the ANB; wear and staining old tape residue to the margins of the paper; signature very good bold and underlined with the signer's flourish; not dated and circa 1933 when Ruth Hanna McCormick had been married to her second husband Albert Gallatin Simms of New Mexico; very suitable for framing with photograph or with a document. Unique. Not Bound. Good. Not Published Paperback books
19365112New York: Round Table Press Inc 1936. Cloth. Collectible; Fine/Very Good. 1923 1st American edition in the uncommon pictorial dustrjacket. Tight and Near Fine with bright gilt-lettering to the front panel and spine in a crisp price-intact VG dustjacket with very light rubbing at the spine base. Thick octavo 432 pgs. plus intact fold-out map at rear. Signed by Author. <br/><br/> Round Table Press, Inc hardcover books
199027673Munich: R. Oldenbourg 1990. Hardcover. Very good. xv 675pp. Very good hardback in a very good dustjacket. Small ink gift inscription on front free endpaper else internally fine. Text in German. <br/><br/> R. Oldenbourg hardcover books
1932225885New York: National Dairy Products Corporation 1932. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. No pencil or ink markings in text. Paper binding with onion skin wrapper.; Stapled Wrappers; glassine wrapper. Very Good binding. National Dairy Products Corporation unknown books
196926000136Los Angelos California: Angeleno Doll Club 1969. Minor edge wear otherwise fine. . The Happifats cookbook is a miniature book 1st edition with recipes inspired by dolls. Each recipe is accompanied charming by a black and white with accents of hand coloring done in crayon. Some recipes included are: Raggedy Ann Bars Hello Dolly Dingles and Brownies Supreme. These book was compiled by Ruth E Adomeit and published by the Angeleno Doll Club which was a women's association in Southern California. All the illustrations in this cookbook are of a specific type of doll known as Happifats. They are bisque dolls a doll made partially or wholly out of bisque porcelain and they are often characterized by their realistic skin-like matte finish that are solely inspired by the illustrations of Kate Jordon which appeared in John Martin's Books from 1913 to 1921. John Martin's Book was a children's magazine aimed at five- to eight-year-olds and included stories illustrations and puzzles. Measures 3" x 2". <br/><br/> Angeleno Doll Club unknown books
1960265484New York: Wholesale Book Corp./Mutrix Books 1960. Magazine. 51p. 5x7 inches illustrated with b&w photos of transvestites very worn digest-sized magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. A Mutrix Book. Irving Klaw was the publisher of Nutrix which later became Mutrix under Ed Mishkin. Both were published out on NYC in the 1950s until Kefauver Hearings of the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency. Wholesale Book Corp./Mutrix Books unknown books
