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19849317New York: Limited Editions Club 1984. Hardcover. Fine condition in a fine slipcase. Larry Rivers. Illustrated with three original lithographs by Larry Rivers. One of 1500 numbered copies printed at the Anthoensen Press and signed by the author and the artist. This edition has been quarter bound in Nigerian goatskin and Irish linen at the shop of Gray Parrot Easthampton Massachusetts. <br/><br/> Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1980162452Garden City: Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday & Company 1980. Octavo boards. First edition. A presentation copy with signed inscription by Asimov on the title page: "To --- / best wishes / Isaac Asimov / 11 Jan 80." Third collection of Black Widowers stories. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #162452 Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday & Company unknown books
1966138655Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1966. Octavo cloth. First edition. 1966 Nebula nominee. Filmed in 1966 by Richard Fleischer with Stephen Boyd Raquel Welch and Donald Pleasance. This is a novelization of the screenplay by Harry Kleiner from the original story by Otto Klement and Jay Lewis Bixby. Anatomy of Wonder 1981 3-43. Slight spine lean a nearly fine copy in good or somewhat better dust jacket with wear and creasing along top and bottom edges and rubbing to black background ink. #138655 Houghton Mifflin Company unknown books
1986296404Garden City: Doubleday 1986. First. hardcover. fine/fine. 356 pages. 8vo red cloth backed boards dust wrapper. Garden City: Doubleday 1986. First edition. Fine.<br/><br/> Inscribed by Assimov on title page: "To . with admiration Isaac Assimov 7 Dec 86.<br/><br/> Doubleday unknown books
1979163952Garden City: Doubleday & Company 1979. Octavo pp. i-v vi-vii viii-xii 1-3 4-732 cloth. First edition. A presentation copy with brief signed inscription by Asimov to "Dave" David G. Hartwell dated 5 July 1980 on the titile page. First volume of Asimov's autobiography published as his 200th book along with OPUS 200. A fine copy in fine dust jacket save for a bit of dust soiling to rear panel. #163952 Doubleday & Company unknown books
1985128347Garden City: Doubleday & Company 1985. Octavo cloth-backed boards. First trade edition. Presentation copy with signed inscription by Asimov to a mystery book publisher and bookshop owner on the title page. Robots re-negotiate the laws of robotics and set humankind on the road to galactic empire. Anatomy of Wonder 2004 II-52. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #128347 Doubleday & Company unknown books
1974109956Garden City: Doubleday & Company 1974. Tall octavo sheets printed on rectos only unprinted light blue wrappers printed label affixed to front panel. Unpaged galleys uncorrected proof of the first edition. The first collection of "Black Widowers" stories. Covers wrinkled and faded label loose glue dried out rubber cement stains to front cover and label inevitable with this type of production. Rare. #109956 Doubleday & Company unknown books
1951159520Garden City: Doubleday & Company 1951. Octavo cloth. First edition. Asimov's third sf book and second sf novel. Asimov's first three published novels are set earlier in the galactic empire future history of the Foundation stories but have no direct connection with them. THE STARS LIKE DUST is a space opera in which rebels fight the powerful war lords of Tyrann whose goal is the domination of the Galaxy. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 p. 239. A fine copy in good dust jacket with wear along top and bottom edges mainly spine ends and corner tips several short closed edge tears with internal tape mends pink ink on spine panel faded mostly to white and clipped price. #159520 Doubleday & Company unknown books
1956279528West Newton MA 1956. unbound. very good. 1 page 11 x 8.5 inches West Newton Massachusetts September 19 1956 writing to an old college buddy and reminiscing about the past in part: ".Good to hear from you. It brings back a host of memories very sharply and clearly from the day I first stepped into the Chem lab on 10 April 1942 see I still date things Navy-style---never broke the habit till my last visit in 1947. We match you in children Gertrude and I but in the reverse order of sexes. And they're much younger since we got started later. David is 5 years old and has just entered kindergarten; while Robyn Joan is 1 1/2. We own a house now see address above in West Newton a Boston suburb. We bought it last February. You'll remember how I used to rant against owning houses. I'm still against it but with 2 kids we needed the room. As soon as they grow up and get married I intend to move to a penthouse in Manhattan and never look at a tree again.P.S As for best-sellers unlikely---but I've been averaging 3 books a year counting textbooks since 1950 and they all are fair-sellers---so I'll settle." Very good condition.<br/><br/> American biochemist who became one of the world's most beloved writers of science fiction and popular science books.<br/><br/> unknown books
196630445Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1966. FIRST EDITION. Near fine book in a bright unfaded dust jacket with a few minor nicks at edges. Nebula nominee for 1966. Filmed in 1966 by Richard Fleischer starring Stephen Boyd Raquel Welch and Donald Pleasance. <br/><br/> Houghton Mifflin Company unknown books
1822005191Philadelphia PA: Carey & Lea 1822. Book. Very good condition. Unbound. First Edition. 22.25" width x 17.5" height printed sheet with 8.75" x 11.75" hand-colored map near center of sheet five color. Excellent condition except for slight browing to center fold which is offsetting from original glue from reverse hinge. Minor browning to margins of sheet easily framed out. Small tear entering text not affecting image or presentation. An attractive image suitable for office/library display or gift. Originally bound in an atlas titled "A Complete Historical Chronological and Geographical Atlas Being A Guide to the History of North and South America and the West Indies: Exhibiting an Accurate Account of the Discovery Settlement and Progress of their Various Kingdoms States Provinces &c. Together with Wars Celebrated Battles and Remarkable Events to the Year 1822. According to the Plan of LeSage's Atlas and Intended as a Companion to Lavoisne's Improvement of that Celebrated Work." Americana. Carey & Lea Paperback books
1822005196Philadelphia PA: Carey & Lea 1822. Book. Very good condition. Unbound. First Edition. 22.25" width x 17.5" height printed sheet with 8.25" x 11.25" hand-colored map near center of sheet five color. Excellent condition except for slight browing to center fold which is offsetting from original glue from reverse hinge. Minor browning to margins of sheet easily framed out. An attractive image suitable for office/library display or gift. Originally bound in an atlas titled "A Complete Historical Chronological and Geographical Atlas Being A Guide to the History of North and South America and the West Indies: Exhibiting an Accurate Account of the Discovery Settlement and Progress of their Various Kingdoms States Provinces &c. Together with Wars Celebrated Battles and Remarkable Events to the Year 1822. According to the Plan of LeSage's Atlas and Intended as a Companion to Lavoisne's Improvement of that Celebrated Work." Americana. Carey & Lea Paperback books
1822005201Philadelphia PA: Carey & Lea 1822. Book. Very good condition. Unbound. First Edition. 22.25" width x 17.5" height printed sheet with 9.25" x 12" hand-colored map near center of sheet five color. Excellent condition except for slight browing to center fold which is offsetting from original glue from reverse hinge. Minor browning to margins of sheet easily framed out. A few tiny spots of staining to text not affecting image. An attractive image suitable for office/library display or gift. Originally bound in an atlas titled "A Complete Historical Chronological and Geographical Atlas Being A Guide to the History of North and South America and the West Indies: Exhibiting an Accurate Account of the Discovery Settlement and Progress of their Various Kingdoms States Provinces &c. Together with Wars Celebrated Battles and Remarkable Events to the Year 1822. According to the Plan of LeSage's Atlas and Intended as a Companion to Lavoisne's Improvement of that Celebrated Work." Americana. Carey & Lea Paperback books
1793299055London: S. W. Fores 1793. Etching with hand coloring. Sheet measures 10 5/8" x 17"<br/><br/> This satirical print features two frames depicting four Frenchmen and four Englishmen sharing a meal. On the left four emaciated French sanculottes are depicted tugging the limbs of one frog with violent imagery in the background. A broken pitcher is labeled 'Water'. Rats are seem scurrying around while a starved cat appears dead or dying. On the right four plump Englishmen sit around a table indulging in a feast. Pitchers are seen overflowing with foam. A well fed dog is resting while a cat catches prey. A window in the background shows lush vegetation and people working the land. In very good condition for this scarce caricature. Small chips and spotting to margins not affecting the image.<br/><br/> S. W. Fores unknown books
1793298969London: S. W. Fores 1793. Etching with hand coloring. Sheet measures 10 1/8 x 14 1/8"<br/><br/> This caricature depicts the Duke of Orleans Philippe Egalite dressed as a sansculotte holding an axe above Louis XVI who is kneeling with his head on a chopping clock. Marie Antoinette and the Dauphin kneel behind the King crying and pleading with the Duke to show "a touch of pity". An unattractive old woman holds a basket ready to catch the king's severed head. Published on January 26 1793 by SW Fores "who has again opened his Caractur Room to which he has added many hundred old & new subjects. admittance 1 shilling." The caricature published mere days after the King's execution references Egalite's vote on Jan 16. In very good condition for this scarce caricature. British Museum 8680808.6274<br/><br/> S. W. Fores unknown books
179523991London: T. Cadell and W. Davies 1795. First Edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound in half later blue morocco and marbled boards all edges uncut. First Edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Very scarce. Roth Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica B20; CBEL III 1278 T. Cadell and W. Davies unknown books
183123859Columbia SC: Printed at the Times and Gazette Office 1831. 15 1 blank pp. Disbound partly untrimmed Top blank margin of title page torn away probably to remove an inscription; no text loss Scattered foxing. Good. <br/><br/> On the eve of the Nullification Crisis Hayne emphasizes the South's "oppression" the North's disregard of the national government's limited and enumerated powers and its actions which "deeply touch and threaten entirely to destroy the ends of our government." <br/>AI 7482 2. II Turnbull 234. OCLC locates three copies under several accession numbers as of December 2016 Case Western U. So. Car. NYHS. Printed at the Times and Gazette Office unknown books
18631007608vo modern calf spine and corners with marbled boards illustrated 354 2 pp. Library stamps including title slight aging; really nice copy in a fine modern binding. Heard was with general Sibley in his campaign against the Sioux. It appears he was stationed in Minnesota for 12 years and witnessed the removal of the Sioux from their ancient homelands to reservations along the Minnesota River. He spent considerable time collecting information from the Indians about what he referred to as massacres and outrages against the whites. This work reflects the output of those efforts. Sabin 31178 Howes H378a Harper & Brothers hardcover books
1781203922London: T. Kitchin 1781. unbound. very good. Map. Uncolored engraving. Image measures 10.5" x 12.75".<br/><br/> Published for "Universal Magazine". Right margin is missing.<br/><br/> T. Kitchin unknown books
1889002426Toledo OH: Isaac D. Smead & Co. Printed by Henry O. Shepard & Co. Chicago 1889. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. Inscribed by Snead under his frontis portrait possibly holographic and FFEP. 4to. 154 pp. With fourteen pages of chromolithographs some full page plates and many other illustrations of schools heating systems and the like. The primary thrust of this promotional book is the application of the heating system to schools but even those not particularly fascinated by the topic will find the illustrations pleasing and as a sales-oriented book this one stands out as especially elaborate for its day. The work also addresses other piquant topics such as "The Dry Closet System of Disposing of Excrement" "The Physiology of Respiration" etc. Much of the text is presented as a dialogue making this work a precursor of sorts for the modern day infomercial. Referred to in RomaineGuide to American Trade Catalogs p. 263. A few shallow blisters of cloth and some other light inconspicuous soiling of boards. Generally clean and tight. <br/><br/> Isaac D. Smead & Co. Printed by Henry O. Shepard & Co., Chicago hardcover books
1959338New York 1959. Manuscript Patent Drawing. Oblong 4to. 260 x 385 mm. 10 x 15 inches. Text in brown ink and four drawing in black ink. On coated paper. Small tear to lower margin some minor discoloration to the paper otherwise very good.Patent number 24.375 signed by Clough and Burrell and witnessed by A. Sidney Drane and I. Townsend Cannon. Received by Arthur L. McIntire of Director of the Patent Office. The patent record located online dates the application and drawing to June 14 1859. It reads in part that Isaac Clough and Samuel Burrell "have invented a new and Improved Fly and Mosquito Trap and hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description of the same reference being had to the accompanying drawings. . ." The record goes on to describe all the components of the drawings how the 'trap' is constructed and operated and some information about a competing trap patented by T. Gilbert and T. M. Scott.Attractive drawing showing how the flies or mosquitoes enter the cylinder trap and not allowed to escape. Wonderful exhibition item reinforcing the idea of 'Yankee Ingenuity". A copy of the patent application is supplied. 338. unknown books
1850261020Albany: Joel Munsell 1850. First. hardcover. good. Frontispiece 4 lithograph battle maps. x 431pp. tall 8vo rebound in brown cloth with a leather spine label. light foxing. Albany: Joel Munsell 1850. First Edition. Near fine.<br/><br/> Howes L-165. Internally a tight bright copy.<br/><br/> Joel Munsell unknown books
19317523n.p. Dodd Mead and Co. 1931. Bound in titled cloth covered boards with a colour pictorial cover plate depicting a sad clown. 12mo. Second edition. Illustrated with 3 monochrome drawings and one colour frontis. Widely regarded as one of the most desireable of clown books. Very rare. Covers very lightly soiled. Corners gently rubbed. Spine slightly sunned. Head and tail pieces mildly chipped. Ink inscription by the author to ffep dated 1941. A Very Good copy.Featured Children. Dodd Mead and Co. hardcover books
1829303513Portland Maine: Shirley and Eyre 1829. Illus. 428pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Bound in quarter calf and marbled boards. Signed on the ffep Abby Caroline ---the Seminary July 24 1838. Illus. 428pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Ray was an American psychiatrist one of the founders of forensic psychiatry. This is Ray's first book. Shirley and Eyre unknown books
1984WRCLIT62694New York: Limited Editions Club 1984. Large quarto. Quarter morocco and Irish linen by Gray Parrot. Illustrated with three original color lithographs by Larry Rivers. Bookplate of the James S. Copley collection on front pastedown trace of faint sunning to spine tiny bump to fore-edge but a very good copy in slipcase with short snag at bottom fore-edge and tiny sticker shadow on side panel. First edition in this format with a new Author's Note by Singer and three original lithographs by Rivers. One of 1500 numbered copies signed by Singer and Rivers. Limited Editions Club unknown books
