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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
2007178245Paris: Editions de la Reunion des Musees Nationaux 2007. Hardcover. VG ex museum library with very minimal marks. Green-grey cloth over boards; Color pictorial djs.; Vol. 1: 383 pp. Vol. 2: pp. 391- 822; Profusely illustrated with bw plates and figures. ontents of this 2-volume set as follows: v. 1. The bronzes of Rodin: catalogue of works in the Musée Rodin I. Casting techniques -- Original editions in bronze by the Musée Rodin: reproductions of Rodin's works: a legal perspective / Régis Cusinberche -- Note to the reader -- Abbreviations -- Catalogue A-F -- v. 2. The bronzes of Rodin: catalogue of works in the Musée Rodin II. Catalogue G-Z -- Chronology -- Table of foundries patina workers metalworkers etc. 1875-1917 -- The Musée Rodin bronzes chronological order of casting -- The Musée Rodin bronzes chronological order of their entrance into the collections -- Selected bibliography -- List of exhibitions -- Table of concordance. Shipping is 12 pounds. Editions de la Reunion des Musees Nationaux hardcover books
194613062NY: Macmillan 1946. First edition. 54 pp. Near fine in very good plus price-clipped dust jacket with some light soiling. NY: Macmillan, unknown books
1946WRCLIT54899New York: The Macmillan Company 1946. Cloth. First U.S. edition. Ink ownership signature of Ann Bradstreet biographer E. Wade White small bookseller label on rear pastedown else very good in spine-sunned dust jacket. REILLY WWII p.258. The Macmillan Company hardcover books
1990URENBRI00LRMysterious Press 1990. Very Good. Rendell Ruth. The Bridesmaid. New York City: Mysterious Press 1990. 294pp. Mass Market. Book condition: Very good. Mysterious Press paperback books
1989708299NY: Mysterious. 1989. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Very Good in wrappers. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. Mysterious paperback books
18999021899. HALL Ruth. THE BOYS OF SCROOBY. Boston: Houghton Mifflin & Company 1899. Small 8vo. pictorial gray cloth. First Edition. Signed presentation from Hall on the front endpaper: "Edward Merrill Hall from his affectionate Aunt The Author. Christmas A.D. 1899." With the ink name of Warren Robert Ward on the front pastedown. Very Good tiny stain front cover; rear hinge cracked but still tight. Scarce!! $175.00. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1973159750Austin & London: University of Texas Press 1973. Hardcover. G Ex-art library with plastic spine label tape residue marks to end papers i.d. marks on outermost pages incl. rear pocket; dj is faded on spine; otherwise only lightly aged overall. Blue cloth blue and illus. dust jacket in mylar cover 281 pp. "One of the most important poets writing in Spanish present his sustained reflections on the poetic phenomenon and one the place of poetry in history and in our personal lives. It is written in the same prose style that distinguishes The Labyrinth of Solitude. And it will serve as an important complement to Paz's own poetry." dj Provides an analysis of the genre and not many examples of the poetry itself. University of Texas Press hardcover books
1991UPAZBOW00LAWUniversity of Texas Press 1991. Good. Paz Octavio. The Bow and the Lyre. Simms Ruth L. C. translator. Austin TX: University of Texas Press 1991. 281pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Good with bumped and rubbed edges and light soiling including remnant from previous bookseller's label. University of Texas Press paperback books
20069795Stillwater ME 2006. Unique artist's book all on handmade papers by Katie MacGregor and Th Saunders as well as found papers decorated with postage stamps signed and dated by the artist Nancy Ruth Leavitt. Page size: 5-1/2 inches x 8-1/2 inches 72pp. Bound by Joelle Leavitt Webber of Mermaid Bindery in found papers with fabric decorated postage stamps housed in a custom-made cloth clamshell box lined with calligraphic fabric. The text is written in gouache and consists of four delightful correspondence poems by Emily Whittle of Red Springs North Carolina. unknown books
194785889New York: Limited Editions Club 1947. Hardcover. Near Fine. Arthur Szyk. color frontis and illustrations by Arthur Szyk 42p. Original 1/2 leather white sheepskin over cream-colored boards. 31cm. Slipcase sound some scratches and scuffing. A bit of the white rubbed off the bottom edge of the sheepskin backstrip. Unnumbered copy of an edition limited to 1950 copies and signed by Szyk. <br/><br/> Limited Editions Club hardcover books
194736857New York: Printed by the Aldus Printers for the Limited Editions Club 1947. Small folio 31 cm 12.2". 42 6 double-fold pp.; col. illus. <br><br>Szyk's eight full-page full-color "Oriental Realism" illustrations in the style and tradition of Oriental miniatures are dramatically eye-filling in this Limited Editions Club production. The edition is limited to 1950 copies this is no. 230 with the appropriate LEC newsletter laid in each signed by the illustrator. The volume is set in intertype Weiss with six large initials in gold; "Ruth" on the half-title and title-page are also printed in gold; and the paper is Worthy special.<br>Â Â Â Â Binding: Bound by Russell-Rutter Company in half white leather with slightly raised bands a gilt-background title label; smooth vellum-paper sides gold-stamped with a large image of Ruth holding a sheaf of grain and a scythe. Top edge gilt. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Limited Editions Club Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by The Limited Editions Club 184. Binding as above in the original gold foil-covered slipcase; volume with spine and corners moderately darkened and rubbed slipcase foil with expectable rubbing and spine chipped. LEC newsletter creased with small stains. In spite of these flaws still a sturdy case and a pleasing book internally bright and lovely. [Printed by the Aldus Printers for the] Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1997Embry 149245Alfred A. Knopf 1997. First edition first printing. Fine in fine faintly worn dust jacket in mylar cover. Color illuminations by Anna Ruth Henriques. Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. First edition, first printing. unknown books
1997146779New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1997. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. A modern day illuminated manuscript with numerous color illustrations. A very near fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
199786653New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1997. 85p. beautifully illus. in colors and metallic gold by the Afro-Jamaican author/artist previous owner's inscription first edition gift inscription dj. A memorial to Henriques' mother and her struggle with breast cancer "inspired by texts from the Book of Job Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
E07F-00215Behrman House. Used - Very Good. Very Good condition. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain a few markings such as an owner’s name short gifter’s inscription or light stamp. Behrman House unknown books
19332222035<p>First edition. Octavo. Original bookplates of Bank B. Gordon frontispiece and F. Charles Blank page 18 and other reproductions. Original black cloth spine labeled over boards minor rubbing. No dust jacket. Very good light edge foxing. 88 pages 1 page ads.</p><p>No. 213 of 360 signed by Saunders.</p> Saunders Studio Press hardcover books
1933TB28834Claremont Calif.: Saunders Studio Press 1933. First Edition. Limited Printing Very good- in 1/4 black cloth and checkered paper covered boards with a printed paper title block pasted to the spine. A 12mo measuring 7 3/8 by 5 1/8 inches with the bookplate of a previous owner on the front paste the cloth at the head of the spine is worn down to the edge of the text block the cloth at the heel of the spine is worn and rubbed as are the tips of the boards. Without a dust jacket. One of only 360 copies printed and signed by the author. This copy is identified as number 282 and is signed by the author on the limitation page. 87 pages of text including an index. Illustrated with 32 bookplate examples. Saunders Studio Press hardcover books
1983261043Toronto: The Body Politic Collective/Pink Triangle Press 1983. Newspaper. 52p. tabloid newspaper illustrations photos news reviews Out in the City film and theatre reviews section opinion resources ads very good on newsprint in stapled wraps. Ten page feature on The New Diseases Among Us. Living with Kaposi's Sarcoma. The real epidemic - paranoia. Also Filmfest: Fassbinder's "Querelle" More. The major Canadian LGBTQ periodical from the 1970s and 1980s. Very political and under constant attack from the Right. The Body Politic Collective/Pink Triangle Press unknown books
1983261042Toronto: The Body Politic Collective/Pink Triangle Press 1983. Newspaper. 52p. tabloid newspaper illustrations photos news reviews Out in the City film and theatre reviews section opinion resources ads very good on newsprint in stapled wraps ex-library stamp on cover. Ten page feature on The New Diseases Among Us. Living with Kaposi's Sarcoma. The real epidemic - paranoia. Also Filmfest: Fassbinder's "Querelle" More. The major Canadian LGBTQ periodical from the 1970s and 1980s. Very political and under constant attack from the Right. The Body Politic Collective/Pink Triangle Press unknown books
1957152823San Francisco: Fearon 1957. First Edition. First Edition. SIGNED by Melvin Van Melvin Van Peebles on the front endpaper. <br/><br/>San Francisco as seen from its cable cars playfully written by Van Peebles when he was a gripman for a San Francisco cable car in the 1950s. Van Peebles went on to become one of the most influential African American film director/producers of his generation followed by a lengthy acting career and is perhaps best remembered for the key Blaxploitation films "Watermelon Man" 1970 and "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song" 1971. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs by Ruth Bernhard.<br/><br/>Very Good plus in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Book has tidemarks to the bottom corners of the pastedowns with the bottom corners of the first and last leaves also affected and a few small splashes to the page fore-edges. Jacket lightly foxed to the front panel and top edges of the flaps with brief wear to the spine ends. Fearon unknown books
19944372Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press copyright 1994. 8vo. 191 1 blank pp. <br><br>A study of the Bible as literature in seven essays. Essay topics include "Hebrew Poetry: The Translatable Structure;" "Handel's English Masterwork;" "Waiting for Gödel: Or Hierarchy and the Book of Job;" "Robert Lowth and Biblical Literary Criticism;" and "Isaiah in England. Publisher's black cloth stamped in silver on the spine. In a dust jacket; one corner of rear flap folded. As new in a near fine dust jacket. The University of Michigan Press hardcover 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
197081878Garden City: Doubleday 1970. Octavo hardcover. First U.S. edition. Chief Inspector Rexford. Remainder spray to bottom edge of text block a fine copy in fine dust jacket. #81878 Doubleday unknown books
