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1823WRCAM43415APhiladelphia: H.C. Carey & I. Lea 1823. Letterpress title copyright notice on verso 1p. advertisement verso blank 1p. table of contents verso blank. Forty-six double-page handcolored engraved maps of the United States all but one with borders of letterpress descriptive text; uncolored double-page engraved view showing the comparative heights of mountains throughout the world; handcolored double-page engraved table showing the comparative lengths of the principal rivers worldwide; five letterpress tables four double-page three of these handcolored; 18pp. of letterpress text. Mounted on guards throughout. Modern half calf and marbled boards spine gilt leather label. Dampstaining along lower edge causing chipping to initial leaves. Closed tear in bottom margin of first map repaired with tissue. Very light offsetting from maps. Some dust soiling light tanning and foxing. Good plus. A handsome atlas of the Americas with individual color maps of each state in the Union including a seminal map of the West by Stephen H. Long. At the time of publication this was the best and most detailed atlas to be produced in the United States with substantial historical background text accompanying each map. Fielding Lucas the major Baltimore printer was the principal engraver. <br> <br> Among the most noted maps in the atlas is Major Stephen H. Long's "Map of Arkansa and other Territories of the United States." That map which depicts the Missouri basin between Nashville in the east the Mandan villages in the north and the Rocky Mountains in the west was based on the surveys conducted by Long on his expeditions of 1819 and 1820. The map published in Carey & Lea's atlas preceded the official account of that expedition by expedition botanist Edwin James which includes a smaller map with similar detail titled "Country drained by the Mississippi Western Section." Carey & Lea's 1823 publication of James' ACCOUNT perhaps explains the prior inclusion of this map with Long expedition information in their atlas. <br> <br> On this famous map is the printed legend which would perpetuate a myth for many years to come identifying the high plains as the "Great American Desert." Carey & Lea's atlas was first issued in 1822; this is the second issue with revised states of three maps Maine North Carolina and Louisiana with the same printing of the remaining maps and a cancel title. HOWES C133 "aa." PHILLIPS ATLASES 1373a. SABIN 15055. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 348 352. H.C. Carey & I. Lea hardcover books
182729764Philadelphia: H.C. Carey & I. Lea 1827. Folio. Mounted on guards throughout. Letterpress title copyright notice on verso 1p. "Advertisement" to Third Edition dated "January 1827" verso blank 1p. "Contents" and "Index" verso blank plus forty-six double-page handcolored copper engraved maps most with descriptive letterpress in margins and many with supplementary text pages following; one double-page engraved plate of mountains uncolored; and one double-page colored plate of river lengths. Titlepage remargined minor foxing some faint staining along bottom edge. Later 19th-century three-quarter calf and original plain paper boards later gilt morocco label. Boards slightly rubbed.<br/> <br/>One of the most important early atlases printed in the United States: a handsome atlas of the Americas with individual colour maps of each state in the Union including a seminal map of the West by Stephen H. Long.<br/> <br/>At the time of publication this was the best and most detailed atlas to be produced in the United States. Fielding Lucas the major Baltimore printer was the principal engraver and substantial historical background text accompanies each map. Among the most noted maps in the atlas is Major Stephen H. Long's "Map of Arkansa and other Territories of the United States." That map which depicts the Missouri basin between Nashville in the east the Mandan villages in the north and the Rocky Mountains in the west was based on the surveys conducted by Long on his expeditions of 1819 and 1820. On this famous map is the printed legend which would perpetuate a myth for many years to come identifying the high plains as the "Great American Desert." The 1827 edition "Third edition Corrected and Improved" of Carey & Lea's historic atlas first published in 1822 includes much new material with all the maps and text updated except for the Washington D.C. and Michigan maps. This was the first American atlas that was modeled on Le Sage's plan of having explanatory text surrounding the maps. The maps for the most part by Fielding Lucas are beautifully drawn and colored.<br/> <br/>Howes C133 "aa"; Phillips 1373a; Sabin 15055; Wheat Transmississippi West 348 and 352. H.C. Carey & I. Lea unknown books
182325085Philadelphia: H.C. Carey & I. Lea 1823. Folio. 17 1/2 x 11 7/8 inches. Mounted on guards throughout letterpress title copyright notice on verso 1p. Advertisement verso blank 1p. Contents verso blank 46 double-page hand-coloured engraved maps of the United States all but one with borders of letterpress descriptive text 1 uncoloured double-page engraved view showing the comparative heights of mountains throughout the world 1 hand-coloured double-page engraved table showing the comparative lengths of the principal rivers worldwide 5 letterpress tables 4 double-page 3 of these hand-coloured 18pp. of letterpress text. Expertly bound to style in half calf over contemporary marbled paper covered boards flat spine in six compartments divided by gilt roll tools red morocco label in the second compartment the others with a repeat decoration in gilt.<br/> <br/>One of the most important early atlases printed in the United States: a handsome atlas of the Americas with individual colour maps of each state in the Union including a seminal map of the West by Stephen H. Long.<br/> <br/>At the time of publication this was the best and most detailed atlas to be produced in the United States. Fielding Lucas the major Baltimore printer was the principal engraver and substantial historical background text accompanies each map. Among the most noted maps in the atlas is Major Stephen H. Long's "Map of Arkansa and other Territories of the United States." That map which depicts the Missouri basin between Nashville in the east the Mandan villages in the north and the Rocky Mountains in the west was based on the surveys conducted by Long on his expeditions of 1819 and 1820. The map published in Carey & Lea's atlas preceded the official account of that expedition by expedition botanist Edwin James which included a smaller map with similar detail titled "Country drained by the Mississippi Western Section". Carey and Lea's 1823 publication of James Account perhaps explains the prior inclusion of this map with Long expedition information in their atlas. On this famous map is the printed legend which would perpetuate a myth for many years to come identifying the high plains as the "Great American Desert." Carey and Lea's atlas was first issued in 1822; this is the 1823 second issue substantially the same as the first but with a new title and revised states of several maps and text leaves generally minor revisions including additional shading to maps and improved resetting of several text leaves though this copy with first state settings of the Maryland and Virginia text leaves.<br/> <br/>Howes C133 "aa"; Phillips 1373a; Sabin 15055; Wheat Transmississippi West 348 and 352. H.C. Carey & I. Lea unknown books
183824620New York 1838. xxiv xxxiii-280 2 pp as issued 2 folding charts one with large pieces missing. Original blindstamped brown cloth boards detached textblock loosening. Rubberstamps on front pastedown and endpaper. Scattered foxing. A candidate for rebinding else Good. <br/><br/> This is Volume I of the first edition. The advertisement after the Introduction states that the second volume will appear "about the close of the year."<br/>Singerman 0655. unknown books
1973249469New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1973. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/near Very Good dust jacket. Signed. 342pp. Second printing; signed and inscribed by author on ffep; no pencil or ink markings in text; black cloth binding slightly cocked; dust jacket is price-clipped; small chips and closed tears at top and bottom dust jacket spine; dust jacket protected in a mylar cover; digital images can be made available upon request. Very Good binding / near Very Good dust jacket. Farrar, Straus and Giroux unknown books
19731328426New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1973. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo 342 pages; VG/VG; in black dust jacket black spine with yellow and orange titling; mild rubbing and wear particularly to head and tail of spine small closed tears; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering price uncut '$8.95'; newsprint staining to the ffep;<br /> <br><br /> <br><br /> Inscribed on the ffep by Isaac Bashevis Singer "For Rachel / with my love and / admiration / Isaac"<br /> <br><br /> <br><br /> JM consignment;. Rachel MacKenzie was a fiction editor at The New Yorker from 1956 through 1979. Known for nurturing the careers of such literary giants as Isaac Bashevis Singer and Saul Bellow she also had a correspondence with Muriel Spark and encouraged her to submit to the New Yorker<br /> <br><br /> <br><br /> Charles McGrath former writer and editor for The New Yorker writes "MacKenzie was a bluestocking a former college professor who had a discerning eye for talent she more or less discovered Isaac Singer and was a supporter of the young Philip Roth."<br /> <br><br /> <br><br /> This collection of stories contains 24 stories 14 of which first appeared in The New Yorker including the title story. It shared the 1974 National Book Award for Fiction with Thomas Pynchon and Singer went on to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978. 1328426. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Farrar, Straus and Giroux hardcover books
19743245New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux 1974. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Third Printing. Original cloth in dust jacket. Inscribed by Singer to Henry Miller: "To My Good Friend Henry Miller with admiration and love Isaac B. Singer. May 26 1975." Beneath this inscription Singer has written: "Here is the story you quoted in your letter. I wish you long and creative years. I.B.S." Miller often wrote about how much he loved Singer's work. A wonderful literary association. Offered with: A copy of the first edition in DJ worn of Singer's 1961 book The Spinoza of Market Street also from Miller's library though unmarked as such. <br/><br/> Farrar, Straus, & Giroux hardcover books
1974USINCRO00LWFawcett Crest 1974. Very Good. Singer Isaac Bashevis. A Crown of Feathers: And Other Stories . Greenwich CT: Fawcett Crest 1974. 319pp. 12mo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with marks on Table of Contents page 5. Fawcett Crest paperback books
1969USINDAY00LRFarrar Straus and Giroux 1969. Very Good. Singer Isaac Bashevis. A Day of Pleasure : Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw. New York City: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1969. 227pp. 12mo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good. Farrar, Straus and Giroux paperback books
1969101488New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1969. First edition. Hardcover. A National Book Award Winner. An about near fine copy in a very good plus dust jacket that has some light foxing to the verso of the jacket and a closed tear to the front panel that has the NBA sticker. Farrar Straus and Giroux unknown books
1969018456NY: Farrar. 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in near fine price-clipped dust jacket. . Farrar hardcover books
1969JC9261New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1969. First Edition First Printing Stated. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Brown cloth; dust jacket; 8vo; pp. 227 with b/w photo-illustrations. Light rubbing at spine tips and along edges of boards; one corner gently bumped; otherwise book is fine. Dust jacket rubbed; lightly chipped along the edges; mended with tape along spine. <br/><br/> Farrar, Straus and Giroux hardcover books
1969USINDAY00MELFarrar Straus and Giroux 1969. Very Good. Singer Isaac Bashevis. A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw. New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1969. 227pp. Illustrated. 12mo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good. Farrar, Straus and Giroux paperback books
1969126393New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1969. First U.S. edition. Hardcover. First printing. National Book Award winning collection. A clean and tight near fine copy in a very good plus price clipped dust jacket with a tiny tear to the top of the front panel near the flap and with some minor scratching to the front panel and some other minor edge wear. Farrar, Straus and Giroux unknown books
1969291807New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux 1969. First. hardcover. fine/fine. Photographs by Roman Vishniac. 8vo cloth d.w. New York: Farrrar Straus 1969. First Edition.<br/><br/> Farrar Straus & Giroux unknown books
1969037834New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1969. 1st Printing. 227p. b/w illus. dj. Farrar, Straus and Giroux unknown books
195036261New York: Reichner 1950. In spite of its limitations this is still the best annotated bibliographical catalogue of Newton's writings. Reichner unknown books
195526903New York: Herbert Reichner 1955. First editions limited to 750 and 450 copies respectively 8vo together 2 volumes: pp. xiv 228; and pp. viii 91; frontis portrait and 19 illus. on rectos and versos of 10 plates in main volume; supplement with one-page "Errata in Original Catalogue;" light wear and soiling main volume a little shaken but still overall a very good sound set. <br/><br/> Herbert Reichner unknown books
1950BL3721New York AND Babson Park MASS:: Herbert Reichner AND Babson Institute 1950 AND 1955. 1950. 2 volumes. 8vo. xiv 228; xiii 91 pp. Illus. including folding plate frontis. index. Gilt-stamped pale red cloth. Burndy bookplates. Fine. Limited editions of 750 copies and 450 for second title printed by The Anthoensen Press. Herbert Reichner [AND] Babson Institute, 1950 [AND] 1955. hardcover books
1997141972New York New York: self-published 1997. Softcover. VG. White stapled wraps; 55 pp.; Profusely illustrated in color and bw. Includes extensive text by the artist himself. self-published paperback books
18082944Walpole NH: Thomas & Thomas 1808. Third Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Light shelf wear several small nicks and pulls chipping at the head of Vol. 1 head of Volume 2 shows damage two small closed tears glue toning at endpages light even toning to leaves owner signature/stamp in each volume else tight bright and unmarred. Full leather boards red leather label gilt lettering and decorative elements in blind decorative elements. 8vo. 871pp. <br/><br/>Overall a handsome set of this early and rather scarce edition. Thomas & Thomas hardcover books
1827305824Charleston: James S. Burges 1827. First and only edition. 18 2 blank pp. 12mo. Modern pale yellow wrappers. Custom chemise and quarter morocco slipcase. Some pale foxing to title otherwise clean. First and only edition. 18 2 blank pp. 12mo. Rarity of American Judaica. A rare pamphlet issued by the first Jewish Reform movement in the United States the Sephardic Reformed Society of Israelites in Charleston South Carolina recording an address by one of the movement's leaders. The Reformed Society of Israelites formed in 1824 when it split off from the Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim KKBE synagogue in Charleston seeking to implement a number of reforms it deemed crucial to engaging the rising generation. In the process the Society posited a distinctly American form of practice. <br/>Led by Isaac Harby Abraham Moise and David Nunes Carvalho the Reformed Society of Israelites reflected the fact that as Jonathan Sarna has phrased it: "Jews who did not feel at home in synagogue no longer had to compromise their principles for the sake of consensus; they felt free to withdraw and start their own congregations. In free and democratic America congregational autonomy became the rule resulting in a new American Judaism - a Judaism of diversity and pluralism."<br/><br/><br/>The present address was delivered on the third anniversary of the Society by Isaac Cardozo 1786-1855 who served as the group's Vice-President from 1828-1832. Cardozo invokes a "spirit of reform in all existing institutions which is abroad" and reminds the group of its origin as "a society that was instituted mainly for effecting the observance of order and decorum in Hebrew worship: for adapting it to the feelings and propensities of the enlightened Israelite of the present day; and for endeavoring to bring about by argument and petition what neither necessity nor persuasion could before accomplish" before he goes on to defend the mission against various critiques. <br/> <br/>Apart from being a leader within Charleston's Sephardic Jewish community Cardozo was also the patriarch of an important southern African-American family. He had six children with his common-law wife Lydia Weston a free black woman from a prominent Charleston family--one of a number of openly mixed-race households in antebellum Charleston. One of their sons was Francis Cardozo 1836-1903 who became the first African-American to hold statewide office in the United States serving as Secretary of State in South Carolina from 1868 to 1872. Another son Thomas served as State Superintendent of Education from 1873 to 1876. <br/><br/>RARE: OCLC reports only two institutional copies and A.S.W. Rosenbach in his American Jewish Bibliography located only one copy in a private collection. Rosenbach 289 locating one copy in a private collection; OCLC USC Presbyterian College; American Imprints 28385; Singerman 0442 James S. Burges unknown books
17994936Boston 1799. Small quarto 23pp half title stitched Near Fine. <br/><br/> Hurd says man's consciousness of his own existence is the basis for "pursuing our own pleasure." But he also discusses the "principle" that leads humans "to love and cherish others" and the manifestations of "that spirit which pervades an American bosom" in the multitude of voluntary associations that proliferate. <br/>Evans 35648. Austin 1007. unknown books
1970275860New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux 1970. First. hardcover. fine/fine. 8vo cloth d.w. New York: Farrar Straus 1970. First Edition.<br/><br/> Farrar Straus & Giroux unknown books
1984USINFRI00MELFawcett Crest 1984. Very Good. Singer Isaac Bashevis. A Friend of Kafka. New York: Fawcett Crest 1984. 320pp. 12mo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good. Fawcett Crest paperback books
