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1948258511948. hardcover. Profusely illus. Sq. 4to cloth. London 1948.<br/><br/> unknown books
1956005691Iowa City IA: The Prairie Press 1956. One of 600 copies designed hand set and printed by Carroll Coleman. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket 2 tiny tears spine ever so slightly darkened. Cheever 115. Limited First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The Prairie Press Hardcover books
197419899Lincoln Neb: University of Nebraska Press. Very Good. 1974. Hardcover. Vol. 1 & 2; Two volume set complete with DJ's. Very good/good. . University of Nebraska Press hardcover books
1968145560London: John Long 1968. First. hardcover. fine/near fine. 8vo black cloth d.w. London: John Long 1968. First Edition.<br/><br/> Near fine copy with just a touch of wear to the edges.<br/><br/> John Long unknown books
1905113823New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1905. 1905. Octavo twelve inserted plates with illustrations by A. B. Frost and E. W. Kemble original pictorial green cloth. First edition. Smith American Fiction 1900-1925 S-1095. Owner's signature on front free endpaper. Cloth rubbed at edges cloth dusty hairline crack along inner front hinge but a sound good copy with clean interior. #113823 Harper & Brothers Publishers 1905. unknown books
1905113133New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1905. 1905. Octavo twelve inserted plates with illustrations by A. B. Frost and E. W. Kemble original pictorial green cloth. First edition. Smith American Fiction 1900-1925 S-1095. Cloth rubbed at spine ends and corner tips a tight clean very good copy. #113133 Harper & Brothers Publishers 1905. unknown books
1905008354New York: Harper & Brothers 1905. A lovely copy in Fine decorative binding Near Fine overall no jacket top lightly soiled light foxing at end papers only. Illustrations by Kemble and Frost. Small tidy gift inscription dated in year of publication. Louisiana author one of her more uncommon titles. . First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Harper & Brothers Hardcover books
1965127977New York: Atheneum 1965. Later printing. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper: "To Ruth Ford / My favorite metaphysician / Fred Morton / New York / March 1967." Paper-clipped to the front flap is a postcard from the author addressed to Ruth Ford: "Dear Fellow Philosopher / Don't think that sending you a Morton book isn't still one of my favorite categorical imperatives / Will do so soon as I've shaken off the snow week after next / Yours in Kant / Fred."<br/><br/>Ruth Ford was an American stage and film actress sister to the bohemian surrealist Charles Henri Ford. She began her career as a model for the likes of Harper's and Mademoiselle and early on was a member of Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre. With Welles' help she went on to land work in Hollywood. Her best known films include "The Keys of the Kingdom" 1944 Anthony Mann's "Strange Impersonation" 1946 and Frank Perry's "Play It As It Lays" 1972. <br/><br/>Her persona was as important-if not more important-than her career in film and on the stage. For more than 40 years her apartment in the Dakota the gabled fortress-like building on 72nd Street welcomed the likes of William Faulkner Tennessee Williams Edward Albee Terrence McNally Stephen Sondheim and Truman Capote. A chance encounter between Arthur Laurents in her Manhattan living room led to the pair's collaboration on "West Side Story."<br/><br/>Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Faint indentation where the paper clip meets the front endpaper and a tiny dampstain to the top page edges. A few tiny closed tears three with cello-tape repairs at the verso and chips a faint dampstain to the front panel noticeable only at the verso and slight toning to the spine and folds. <br/><br/>From the estate of Ruth Ford. Atheneum 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
1984TB17646London: Quartet Qrime 1984. First Edition. First printing Fine in black paper covered boards with white text stamping on the spine. In a fine dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap. The author's second mystery title which is exceptionally uncommon. Quartet Qrime hardcover books
1979185063Rodale Press 1979-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 1973 later printing. Dust jacket and book are clean has a good binding no marks or notations. minor dust jacket wear including a small chip from bottom front flap. Top page edge is heavily foxed. HB HS Rodale Press hardcover books
9000334Chicago: Reilly & Lee 1921. Hardcover. John R. Neill. Printed after 1935 with illustrations by Neill in black-and-white. Bound in publisher's original full cloth with the title stamped in black on the spine and a large paste down on the front. Fine condition. This was Ruth Plumly Thompson's first Oz book expanded from Baum's notes after his death. <br/><br/> Reilly & Lee, [1921] hardcover books
2003ABE-1392757390United Kingdom: Hutchinson 2003. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket. First British edition. United Kingdom: Hutchinson unknown books
200333505New York: Crown Publishers 2003. 1st US edition. Hardback. Dust jacket. A Fine copy in a similar jacket. 8 339 5 pp. 8vo. <br/><br/> Crown Publishers hardcover books
192020546New York/London: G.P. Putnam's Sons/The Knickerbocker Press. Good. 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . black and gilt decorated cover; no dust jacket front hinge starting light dampstaining to covers offsetting to endpapers spine cloth a bit faded gilt spine lettering rubbed but still readable. Novel about a small-town girl who becomes a stage actress. A contemporary publisher's ad called it "a brilliant novel of stage life with an unusual and unconventional heroine" also noting that it featured "a frankly daring discussion of the sex problem." The author was the second wife and widow of British actor Aubrey Boucicault the youngest child of the famed Irish actor/playwright Dion Boucicault and had herself been "on the stage" for a few years including an appearance in a 1914 Broadway production of "As You Like It." The early thespian activities of this book's heroine involve a lot of Shakespeare. Smith American Fiction1901-1925 B-772. . G.P. Putnam's Sons/The Knickerbocker Press hardcover books
1932142646London: The Readers Library 1932. First UK Photoplay Edition<br/><br/>Based on the 1932 film directed by Walter Forde and starring Muriel Aked Joan Berry and Donald Calthrop a tale of trains stolen art and espionage and often regarded as a one of the earliest "spy" films. <br/><br/>Very Good plus in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Light foxing light rubbing to the extremities. Jacket with light rubbing several tiny chips and tears reinforced on the verso at the spine ends. The Readers Library unknown books
155553hardcover. many color and b/w illus. 4to cloth d.w. N.Y.: Clarkson Potter 1989. vg<br/><br/> unknown books
195429184New York: Oxford University Press 1954. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. Wide hardbound octavo in dustwrapper. 48 pp. A handsome near fine copy in price-intact dustwrapper. Illustrated with pictures by Mimi Love. Nice copy. Oxford University Press hardcover books
190431429New York: The Century Co 1904. First Edition. Octavo 18cm; hunter green cloth with titling and decorative elements stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; 8 179; frontispiece and four illustrations by Harry C. Edwards. Hint of a forward lean spine ends gently nudged with light wear to extremities and lower board edges; brief contemporary ink inscription to front endpaper with a few splits along rear hinge and 4-digit rubber-stamped price to upper left corner of rear endpaper; Very Good. A novel of "Negroes and Creoles in the delta country of Louisiana" HANNA 3418. Superb though uncredited art nouveau cover. SMITH S-1094. The Century Co unknown books
190422243New York: The Century Co 1904. 1st edition. Green cloth binding with gilt stamped spine & upper panel. VG poi at front pastedown/small inked number at rear ep/minimal edgewear & soiling/ binding is tight despite occasional cracked hinge. 179 pp. Illustrations by Harry C. Edwards. 12mo. 18cm x 11.5cm. <br/><br/> The Century Co hardcover books
1904019596New York: The Century Co 1904. First Edition. Octavo. . 179pp. illustrated by Barry C. Edwards some interspersed black dialect within the text. Mary Routh McEnery Stuart working under the name Ruth McEnery Stuart wrote a body of fiction and poetry based on the experiences she had in Arkansas modeling characters dialect and even a fictional town on her interactions within the state. She was both financially and critically one of the most successful fiction writers of her time and in recent years has been studied by feminist and social literary critics. This title is about the people along the Mississippi New Orleans the plantations and the people who worked the fields. Bound in green pictorial gilt cloth spine lettering gilt book has a slight slant previous owner's name in pencil. A very good copy. The Century Co unknown books
1904243471904. STUART Ruth McEnery. THE RIVER'S CHILDREN. NY: Century Co. 1904. 12mo. decorative green cloth. First Edition. Very Good little edgewear & spine bit dull front endpaper bit browned small number stamped rear endpaper. $25.00. <br/><br/> hardcover books
196345099New York: M. Barrows & Company Inc 1963. Third Edition. Purple buckram lettered in white on backstrip in the original dust jacket. A VG copy slight dampstain at top edge of first pastedown and endpaper dust jacket has some small chips otherwise internally bright. 331 pp. Illustrated with drawings throughout. 8vo. 8-1/4" x 5-5/8" <br/><br/> M. Barrows & Company, Inc hardcover books
20111320466Montreal Kingstion Ithaca: McGill-Queen's University Press 2011. Softcover. Octavo; pp 326; G/paperback; lavender spine with yellow and white text; covers show slight rubbing to exterior; mild thumbing to corners; intact panels; text block has some ink underlining to pp 11-13;. 1320466. FP New Rockville Stock. McGill-Queen's University Press unknown books
1994Embry 178531Penguin 1994. First edition first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. Color illus. by Barbara Cooney. Signed by the illustrator on adhered bookplate. Penguin, 1994. First edition, first printing. unknown books
