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196662730Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1966. 8vo. 10 239 1 pp. Gray boards pink lettering slight shelfwear w/ d.j. cover art by Dale Hennesy minor scuffing to upper front cover shelfwear scuffing at foot of spine from removed label still a NF/G copy. Early Houghton edition $ 3.95 price front flap of this Nebula nominee science fiction adventure and movie tie-in released six months before the movie opened August 16 1966 and starred Stephen Boyd Raquel Welch Edmond O’Brien Donald Pleasence and others. Contracted to write the novelization of the script Asimov rewrote a number of plot holes and due to his speed was published prior to the film and won Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects and Best Art Direction in Color. Houghton Mifflin Co., hardcover
195163041New York: Stadium Publishing Corporation 1951. 8vo. 129 1 pp. Text illustrations. Colour-illustrated softcovers cover art by Hannes Bok slight interior toning very minor shelfwear slight creasing still VG bright copy. First edition of this installment of this early issue after the pulp was re-established in digest quarterly following World War II. Science fiction greats’ Bradbury Asimov Matheson and others are all featured. Stadium Publishing Corporation, paperback
194162909Chicago IL: Fictioneers Inc. 1941. 4to. 144 pp. Text illustrations by Morey G. Thorp. Colour-illustrated softcovers yapp fore-edges uniform light interior toning as usual minor shelfwear couple very minor closed tears still VG- bright copy. First edition of this installment in Super Science Stories launched as a cheaper companion to Astonishing Stories and which here features an an early Asimov short story “History†De Camp’s & Miller’s “Genus Homo†and jones’s “Captives of the Durna Rangue.†Fictioneers, Inc., paperback
61396London: John and Josiah Boydell 1798 1803. Original copper engraving 44 x 60 cm overall sheet 55 x 68 cm. Light foxing to lower margin not affecting plate. From "A Collection of Prints. Illustrating the Dramatic Works of Shakespeare." published by Boydell London 1803. In 1789 the publisher John Boydell opened the Shakespeare Gallery an exhibition space in London's Pall Mall showcasing paintings that exclusively represented scenes from Shakespeare's plays. The Gallery was a bid to revive 'history painting' the practice of depicting scenes from the Bible mythology or the classics in contemporary British art a genre thought to be of great public benefit because of its morally instructive messages. What better unifying theme for such a project than the works of Shakespeare which had become so popular and so integral to British identity by the mid-18th century The Gallery opened in May 1789 with 34 canvases by 18 British artists. By the next year there were 55 paintings and in 1796 the total was 84 along with dozens of 'Small Pictures'. Once the exhibition was mounted reproductive engravings of the paintings produced by an in-house team of 46 printmakers were available to purchase either as a large portfolio of 90 prints or as a luxurious illustrated edition of the plays. The British Library London: John and Josiah Boydell, 1798 [1803]. unknown
66999No place: No printer. Prints only no sonnets. Folio 34 cm Illustrated dedication/title page plus 11 mounted woodcut prints images 5 1/2 x 7 1/2"; on paper 7 3/8 x 9 1/2" on loose bifolia sheets 13". Each with a loose tissue guard. All prints are signed by Isaac Friedlander in pencil in the bottom right corner. The Sonnet number is written in pencil in the bottom left corner. The prints are in a folder with a mounted illustrated dedication page on the front wrap 1 1/2" closed tear to the front folder wrap at the foot of the spine. All contents housed in a black paper chemise portfolio with a paper title label on the front of the portfolio. The portfolio is in very good condition with light rubbing and edge wear. Short closed tear to top edge. Light stain along top edge of one bifolium. Prints fine. It is commonly agreed upon that the author of the dedication "T. T." is the publisher Thomas Thorpe however the identity of the dedicatee W. H. has been the matter of widespread and often bitter dispute and is considered to be one of the most elusive figures in literary history.<br /> <br /> With striking images illustrating the following Sonnets by Shakespeare:<br /> <br /> Sonnet 7 traces the path of the sun across the sky; Sonnet 12 the poet realizes that the young man's beauty will be destroyed by Time; Sonnet 27 the poet laments that the night which should be a time of rest is instead a time of continuing labor as in his imagination he wrestles to reach his beloved; Sonnet 34 the sun is overtaken by clouds and the sun/beloved is accused of having betrayed the poet by promising what is not delivered; Sonnet 53 the poet praises the beloved as not only the essence of beauty but also as the epitome of constancy; Sonnet 66 the poet gives examples of the societal wrongs that have driven him to become weary of life and long to die except that he would thereby desert the beloved; Sonnet 97 the poet remembers his separation from his beloved as a period as bleak as winter; Sonnet 116 the poet meditates on what he views as the truest and strongest form of love that between minds; Sonnet 123 the poet muses that there is nothing new under the sun; Sonnet 127 the poet defends his love of a mistress who does not fit the standard conventional definition of beauty; Sonnet 144 reflects an allegory of a person tempted by a good and a bad angel.<br /> <br /> Missing Sonnet 106 . Eleven powerful images by Isaac Friedlander.<br /> <br /> Prolific etcher and wood engraver Isaac Friedlander 1890-1968 was born in Mitau Latvia. Friedlander a fervent opponent of Czarist rule was sentenced to death at the age of 16- a fate he managed to narrowly escape. He moved to Italy in 1912 where he befriended Russian artist Maxim Gorky. During this time he studied etching drawing and relief printing at the Academy of Rome. He emigrated to the United States in 1929 eventually settling in New York where he worked as a full-time artist until his death. His work often emphasizes his native Riga the urban drama of Depression-era New York and the horror of the Holocaust. Friedlander's works are represented in numerous museums including the Smithsonian Bibliotheque Nationale and the Brooklyn Museum. No printer unknown
18631587Plano Ill 1863. Good condition/None. True Latter-Day Saints' Herald Dec. 15 1863 No. 12 Vol. 4 Whole No. 48 Isaac Sheen Plano Ill. 1863. 8.25 x 5.5 inches. 177-192pp. <br /> <br /> Self-wraps. Disbound with remnants of string binding along spine. Text block has moderate soiling and toning and minor chipping along spine. Last leaf has creasing in one corner. Good condition. <br /> <br /> This is the official newspaper of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It was established in 1860 and is still in publication today under the name "The Herald.". unknown
18631588Plano Ill 1863. Fair condition/None. True Latter-Day Saints' Herald Dec. 1 1863 No. 11 Vol. 4 Whole No. 47 Isaac Sheen Plano Ill. 1863. 8.25 x 5.5 inches. 161-176pp. <br /> <br /> Self-wraps. Disbound with last leaf detached. Text block has moderate soiling and toning and 1/4 inch chipping along the bottom edge. Fair condition. <br /> <br /> This is the official newspaper of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It was established in 1860 and is still in publication today under the name "The Herald." This issue contains an article entitled "Brigham's Conference at Salt Lake City Oct. 6-8 unknown
1853005092London: Fred Pitman 1853. 3 4-124pp 4. Original printed card covers. Back strip defective and largely absent binding still holding well corners rubbed covers lightly rubbed and soiled. Internally a few spots of foxing but generally fairly clean. Divided into monthly sections with biblical verses in Pitman's phonetic spelling system which comprised thirty-six letters representing all the sounds of the English language. Seemingly unrecorded. First Edition. Card Covers. Fair. 48mo. Fred Pitman Hardcover
176429779AB1764. Four Volumes complete set. London Printed for J. and R. Tonson J.Buckland H. Woodfall etc. 1764. Small Octavo 11 cm x 17 cm. Frontispiece 2 300 14 Frontispiece 3 336 13 Frontispiece 5 318 16 Frontispiece 7 320 12 pages. Hardcover / Oiginal 18th century full leather with original spinelabels and gilt lettering on spine. All four Volumes complete and in protective Mylar. Housed in a wonderful bespoke Solander-Box. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only. From the library of Daniel Conner Connerville / Manch House with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown of each Volume. Includes wonderful and bizarre articles of 18th-century literature: Earthquakes Pills against them / Education Proposals for reforming the education of Females / Wax-work in Germany / Wine-Brewers / Instructions to unmarried women / Women the happiness or misfortunes of mankind depend on them / Women have ill fancies in their dress / Machiavel author of a mischievous sect / Xerxes why he burst into tears / Mr.Walpole going to England with the Preliminaries of Peace / Witchcraft described and explained / Women natural to talk to themselves / Women More understanding than men in their own affairs / etc. The Tatler was a British literary and society journal begun by Richard Steele in 1709 and published for two years. It represented a new approach to journalism featuring cultivated essays on contemporary manners and established the pattern that would be copied in such British classics as Addison and Steele's Spectator Samuel Johnson's Rambler and Idler and Goldsmith's Citizen of the World. The Tatler would also influence essayists as late as Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt. Addison and Steele liquidated The Tatler in order to make a fresh start with the similar Spectator and the collected issues of Tatler are usually published in the same volume as the collected Spectator. Tatler was founded in 1709 by Richard Steele who used the nom de plume "Isaac Bickerstaff Esquire". This is the first known such consistently adopted journalistic persona which adapted to the first person as it were the 17th-century genre of "characters" as first established in English by Sir Thomas Overbury and then expanded by Lord Shaftesbury's Characteristicks 1711. Steele's conceit embodied in the title "Tatler" was to publish the news and gossip heard in various London coffeehouses in reality he mixed real gossip with invented stories of his own and so he declared in the opening paragraph to leave the subject of politics to the newspapers while presenting Whiggish views and correcting middle-class manners while instructing "these Gentlemen for the most part being Persons of strong Zeal and weak Intellects.what to think." To assure complete coverage of local gossip he pretended to place a reporter in each of the city's four most popular coffeehouses and the text of each issue was subdivided according to the names of these four: accounts of manners and mores were datelined from White's; literary notes from Will's; notes of antiquarian interest were dated from the Grecian Coffee House; and news items from St. James's Coffee House. The journal was originally published three times a week and Steele eventually brought in contributions from his literary friends Jonathan Swift and Joseph Addison though both of them pretended to be writing as Isaac Bickerstaff and authorship was revealed only when the papers were collected in a bound volume. The original Tatler was published for only two years from 12 April 1709 to 2 January 1711. A collected edition was published in 171011 with the title The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff Esq. In 1711 Steele and Addison decided to liquidate The Tatler and co-founded The Spectator magazine which used a different persona than Bickerstaff. Wikipedia hardcover
6916CONNECTICUT. HARTFORD. STUART Isaac C. Hartford in the Olden Time. Its First Thirty Years. By Scaeva. Edited by W.M.B. Hartley. With Illustrations. Hartford: F.A. Brown 1853. 1st ed. Illus. folding map. 316pp. Orig. gilt-decorated cloth. Very good. unknown
1618ABC_45668The Netherlands 1618. ca. 22 x 295 cm. In passe-partout. Engraved print on paper. Rare allegorical print perhaps by Zacharias Dolendo: Exposition of the present state of the free Netherlands a satire against the Remonstrants and supporting Prince Mauritss suppression of them presented as their failed attempt to undo the unanimity within the Republic of the Seven United Provinces. It caricatures waardgelders mercenaries hired by cities in this case to defend the freedom of the dissenting Remonstrants against attacks by Counterremonstrants.The print seems to be the second state of a print of Dolendo after a painting by Isaac Claesz. Swanenburgh. The first state of this print an allegory on the siege and relief of Leiden was printed in 1574. Our copy would be the second state of this 1574-print with another text.At left the Dutch maiden is assailed and driven from her safe seat Christ by Discord Death and Violence. At right Neptune tries to stop a soldier from attacking her. Utrecht appears on the soldiers helmet and the names of the Remonstrant cities on a flap of his trousers: Alkmaar Rotterdam Leiden etc. characterizing him as a waardgelder. With a minor stain on the back faintly visible on the front and 3 barely visible folds. Otherwise in very good condition.l Atlas van Stolk 1320 1337; D.R. Horst De opstand in zwart-wit: propagandaprenten uit de Nederlandse opstand 2003 p. 151 fig. 47 p. 334; Knuttel 2769; Muller Historieplaten 1313 "very rare. unknown
18993118671899. in ink. 4 x 3-1/2 inches image. With Century magazine label on the back. in ink. 4 x 3-1/2 inches image. From an article entitled "Driven out of Tibet. An Attempt to pass from China through Tibet into China. unknown
31186613 x 5 inches. Matted. Fine. 13 x 5 inches. unknown
1836BOOKS329033NY: D. Appleton & Company. Collectible-Good/NO DUSTJACKET. 1836. Hardcover. Nice stamped designed cloth cover of the period . 8vo. 278 pp. Former owner's inscription foxing . D. Appleton & Company hardcover
183614500London: William Pickering 1836. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Original blue cloth spine label slightly chipped. Pickering catalogue bound in at front. Contemporary ownership signature of William Dawson. Small 19th century booksellers' label of Henry Greer Belfast. <br/><br/> William Pickering hardcover
183616522New York:: D. Appleton 1836. First American edition. original cloth. Foxed throughout; ends of spine worn; cloth lightly soiled; very good. 8vo. S & S 40416. Publisher's presentation copy with a pencil inscription on the front free endpaper. D. Appleton, hardcover
18337105Boston: Crocker and Brewster 1833. Third American edition. Hardcover. Good-. Octavo 336pp. Ex-library with the usual markings. A good copy at best heavily dampstained though remaining bright. Some mildew to the margins of many pages. In the publisher's plain boards with muslin cloth spine and paper label. Scarce volume. Crocker and Brewster hardcover
61052London Holdsworth and Ball 1835. 8° VIII 500 S. Ldr. der Zeit goldgeprägt m. Rückenschild rumdum Marmorschnitt Deckel berieben Exlibris a. Vors.; Innen wenige leichte Anstreichungen in Blei sonst gutes Exemplar EA. Isaac Taylor 1787 – 1865 English philosophical and historical writer artist and inventor. His best-known work «The Natural History of Enthusiasm» London; Boston 1830; 10th edit. London 1845 appeared anonymously in May 1829. It was a sort of historico-philosophical disquisition on religious imagination and had an instant vogue. Taylor developed the subject in his «Fanaticism» London 1833; 7th edit. 1866 and «Spiritual Despotism» London 1835 three editions. Three further volumes on scepticism credulity and the corruption of morals were included in the author's plan of a «morbid anatomy of spurious religion» but these complementary volumes were never completed. 010 London, Holdsworth and Ball, 1835 unknown
183554251London:: Holdsworth and Ball 1835. First edition. original cloth-backed boards with printed paper label on spine. . Front and rear free endpapers lacking; a few leaves at beginning and end foxed; rear joint split but structure still sound; light wear and soiling to boards and spine label. 8vo. Holdsworth and Ball, hardcover
182541940Boston New York: Printed by John G. Scobie for the Publisher 1825. 16pp side-stitched. Woodcut of three coffins on title page. Untrimmed. Spotted. Old horizontal crease with some light wear. Good. <br /> <br /> "John Love an itinerant who boarded with one of the Thayer brothers aroused their cupidity by the money he used in a small loan business. On a day selected because they were slaughtering hogs the brothers shot Love first and finished him off with an ax. More than two months passed before suspicions were aroused by the not very sensible explanations which the Thayers were giving for their possession of Love's property. When the body was found in the woods they were tried convicted and finally hanged in a field outside Buffalo" McDade. <br /> "Boston New York the place of printing was a small village south of Buffalo" Cohen. This is one of its earliest imprints. The title page cut of the coffins is eye-catching. Anti-Andrew Jackson broadsides of the period sometimes included a similar motif to commemorate the executions he carried out during his Florida campaign. <br /> McDade 971n. Sabin 95266. Cohen 13087. Not in Eberstadt or Decker. Printed by John G. Scobie, for the Publisher unknown
184842797Philadelphia: Printed by C. Sherman 1848. 1st edition original cloth boards 8vo viii pages 243 242 2 leaves; 24 cm. In Hebrew and English. Hebrew and English on facing pages with duplicate foliation. Singerman 1024. Rosenbach 636 Deinard 959 Goldman-Kinsberg 37. Vinograd Philadelphia 18. <br> The first English translation of the Ashkenazi prayer book published in America. “To unite Ashkenazic Jews in America using different prayer books and to provide them with an error-free text Leeser issued this work the first Ashkenazic prayer book published in America"--Goldman 37. <br> During the mid-19th century IsaacLeeser was the most prominent leader of American Orthodox Judaism and his writings show a defense of traditional Judaism against the changes in doctrine proposed by the growing Reform movement. Starting with Jewish publications in the 1830s Leeser is considered to have laid the foundation for a consistent Jewish printing industry in America. “Practically every form of Jewish activity which supports American Jewish life today was either established or envisaged by this one man†Bertram W. Korn “Isaac Leeser: Centennial Reflections†in American Jewish Archives Vol. XIX 1967 page 136.<br> Hebrew text is chiefly after Rabbi Wolf Heidenheim's celebrated Sapha Berurah. The most recent copy offered at major auction sold for $1250 in 2023. SUBJECTS: Siddurim -- Texts. Judaism -- Liturgy. Prayers and devotions. Ashkenazim. Germany. Poland. OCLC: 13891018. Wear on spine and cover spine internally fixed some pencil marks. Good Condition. A nice solid copy in original binding. BK5 AMR-69-3-. Philadelphia: Printed by C. Sherman unknown
33750Newcastle upon Tyne: Printed for R. Akenhead jun. in Newcastle upon Tyne and C. Hitch in London 1750. First edition 4to 6 28 pp. lacks half-title engraved vignette to title inner margin of title a little torn title and final leaf slightly ceased and soiled disbound. Foxon T165. [Newcastle upon Tyne]: Printed for R. Akenhead, jun. in Newcastle upon Tyne and C. Hitch, in London, 1750 unknown
91116301London 1822 Ackerman. A copper engraving hand colored large folding 21.5 x cm. very clean verso mended in folds & hinge area English text & captions a very RARE EXAMPLE. FIRST & ONLY EDITION . . . . A LARGE FOLDING HAND-COLORED COPPER-ETCHING . . This etching consists of two views of a Japanese funeral processions on one very long sheet. The Samurai are nicely dressed in formal attire and sporting two swords while horse-mounted. . The upper shows the Governors the lower of the Civil shows the Japanese officers. . Each shows the long procession of Samurai retainers led by flag & lantern bearers Buddhist priest portable shrines and loyal devoted followers & mourners. Including those from the Imperial Family in an elaborate palanquin carried by a team of retainers. . This work was gently extracted from Titsingh's famous book: ILLUSTRATIONS OF JAPAN: Consisting of Private Memoirs and Anecdotes of the Reigning Dynasty of the Djoguouns sic for Shoguns or Sovereigns of Japan. A Description of their Feasts and Ceremonies Observed Throughout the Year at their Court. . Based on the author's primary observation of the Shoguns when he visited Edo and was introduced. The Shogun requested Titsingh to stand rotate dance and speak his native language. The Shogun sat behind a see-through screen to prevent Titsingh from seeing him nevertheless the Shogun observed this strange foreigner from Nagasaki. . Titsingh was part of the Dutch East India Company who lived on the small island in Nagasaki bay Deshima. On an annual basis the Shogun requested prominent foreigners residing on Deshima island in Nagasaki bay to come escorted to Edo to pay homage to the Shogun. This scene was one of many Titsingh viewed on his way tither. . Seldom found from the First & Only Edition of his book recording his sojourn in Japan in the early 1820's. An excellent primary resource. . SIZE: The etching measures: 29.8 x 95 cm. with 5 vertical folds. . Color photos are posted to our website. . CONDITION: This is an original hand-color tinted copper etched illustration. There are several vertical mends to the folds & hinges the work is stable and ready for framing and display. . . unknown
91118301London 1822 Ackerman. A hand-colored etching double illus- trations very clean on a sheet 29.5 x 21.4 cm. a solid example of early Nagasaki related material with English titles & captions. FIRST & ONLY EDITION . . . FROM AN EARLY PRIMARY RESOURCE WRITTEN IN NAGASAKI . . This work was from Titsing's famous book: ILLUSTRATIONS OF JAPAN: Consisting of Private Memoirs and Anecdotes of the Reigning Dynasty of the Djoguouns sic for Shoguns or Sovereigns of Japan. A Description of their Feasts and Ceremonies Observed Throughout the Year at their Court. . Based on the author's primary observation of the Shoguns. . Titsingh was part of the Dutch East India Company who lived on the small island in Nagasaki bay Deshima. . Extracted from M. Isaac Titsingh's: ILLUSTRATIONS OF JAPAN: Consisting Of Private Memoirs And Anecdotes Of The Reigning Dynasty Of the Djoguouns Or Sovereigns Of Japan. A Description Of Their Feasts And Ceremonies Observed Throughout The Year At Their Court London 1822. . See our website for other items by Titsingh. . Color photos are posted to our website. . . unknown
1962866831962 Paris, Julliard (Collection "Les Temps Modernes"), 1962, fort volume petit in 8° broché, 695 pages ; couverture recouverte d'un film transparent autocollant ;petits défauts.