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1966Embry 154006U. of Wisconsin Press 1966. First edition first printing. Fine in fine faintly rubbed dust jacket in mylar cover. U. of Wisconsin Press, 1966. First edition, first printing. unknown books
192815101New York/London: G.P. Putnam's Sons. Good. 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. no dust jacket shelfworn but solid copy with firm binding; internally clean except for some minor ink markings on ffep; spine cloth discolored/darkened light bumping/fraying at spine ends and most corners. One of the best-known works of this Danish essayist poet novelist and social critic 1896-1975 -- and one of only two of his many novels to be translated into English and published in America -- this novel centered around a lighthouse on a lonely North Sea outpost was an exploration of the destructive effects of technological progress on the natural world. . G.P. Putnam's Sons hardcover books
186763216NP 1867. First edition. 8vo. 8 pp. Illustrated with two small woodcuts. From the unsigned prefatory note: "These leaves were printed by an amateur who had never previously set up more than a few pages of type." OCLC locates a dozen copies. Very good. Original printed self-wrappers lacking original stitching recently stapled at the spine. 9897. <br/><br/> unknown books
19801644Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice-Hall Inc 1980. First Edition First Printing. Cloth. Near fine/very good. First edition of Faces In A Mirror: Memoirs From Exile by Ashraf Pahlavi inscribed to Senator Jacob Javits. Octavo xvi 238pp. Blue cloth title in gilt on spine light fading to top edge. First edition first printing with full number line on copyright page. In publishers dust jacket $12.95 on front flap chipping along top edge and some toning to spine. Signed by Princess Ashraf Pahlavi to Senator Jacob Javits: "To Senator and Mrs. Javits with my best wishes Ashraf Pahlavi. 22/4/80." A unique association copy. Senator Jacob Javits was a friend of the Shaw of Iran and the entire House of Pahlavi family. He sponsored legislation condemning the overthrow of the monarch in Iran. He was fiercely condemned by Ayatollah Khomeini and threatened with arrest if he set foot in Iran. Prentice-Hall, Inc unknown books
197018302New York: Home News Co 1970. First edition. Paperback. Good . 4to. Uncommon literary magazine with a bent towards women's issues. A good to very good copy in tall photo-illustrated wrappers. The first copy of any issue of this publication that has crossed our desks. Home News Co paperback books
1935180426New York: Coward-McCann Inc 1935. 53/525; Signed by author. Hardcover. VG slight fading to cloth boards Pages of text and illustrations are very crisp and clean. Cardboard box is missing top and bottom has overall wear and one corner torn. Black cloth boards with gilt design on front cover; gilt spine lettering; vii 2 leaves 3-111 pp; 7 color illustrations on thick card stock with paper guards throughout. Black silk ribbon page marker. Issued in remnants of black cardboard box. "This edition is limited to 525 copies of which 500 are for sale in Great Britain and Ireland; each copy is numbered and signed by the author. This is number 53." Coloured drawings by Jacob Epstein. Includes a list of the 7 illustrations page vii. Table of Contents includes: He-She Standard Bearer of Affinity: 1. In this heroic age -- 2. That night the Man dreamt -- 3. The selfsame morning brought in an old man -- 4. Many days after -- 5. Prince Seafoamya and his famous coffee -- 6. Immoral nature -- 7. The crucifying story -- 8. Five beautiful daughters -- 9. He-She pufed with suspicion -- Brruggbrromm God of Love-Chaos: 10. When He-She left the den -- 11. Said and done -- 12. Suddenly He-She gloating over his trophy of types lifted up his cup -- 13. There was a rattling at the door -- 14. Scoffers mocked -- 15. The Jewish Critic nodded his shivering head -- 16. Synchronizing with this strained moment -- 17. Immediately a cry was raised -- 18. Each eye that gazed raised a query -- 19. Then He-She rose to the occasion -- 20. Now at the eleventh hour -- 21. Finally there was no voice -- The Lion of Judah Conscience of Israel: 22. During the Judgement Banquet -- 23. In the early days of adolescence -- 24. Tell me my Conscience -- 25. The Lion of Judah stormed -- 26. It happened when all being glowed with His Presence -- 27. The Lion of Judah jealously mused -- 28. From behind the veil of shame -- 29. The Lion of Judah lifted his head -- 30. The Man confirmed -- 31. The Lion of Judah enduringly listened -- 32. The Man lit a torch -- 33. The Lion's voice stopped with suddenness -- 34. When the Man was left in the ruin -- 35. Behold a master has chosen a servant -- 36. Into the soul of Jacob you poured your promise -- 37. Oh Israel Israel the world's crown and thorn -- 38. Woe to us -- 39. When the lap of the Shekhinah was still our cradle -- 40. Oh my God I can no more be still -- 41. Once o Lord God I called upon a simple just man -- Ahaviel Archangel of Love: 42. Many days had indifferently flashed past -- 43. But when the Lion of Judah savoured the sweet after-taste of He-She -- 44. Then the Archangel took the Crown from the Lion of Judah's head -- 45. And when the Seven Archangels enquired for the Archangel Ahaviel -- 46. And it came to pass as the Man was waiting -- 47. Yea the Lord denied it to me -- 48. All is known to the Lord of Passion -- 49. Then behold the Ahavah-Light shone down from Heaven -- 50. Listen o remnant -- 51. When I desired Moses to instruct your yet savage senses -- 52. From the darkness of the pit I undug the gold within you -- 53. And thus pivoted in your Holy Land you shall traverse the world -- 54. Behold I the Master shaped this planet to its perfection -- 55. Therefore cling to the Most High -- 56. Loveless and idol-burdened -- 57. And a day shall come -- I gathered word by word. Coward-McCann, Inc hardcover books
221427London W Reeves 1xxx. Fourth edition further enlarged so stated. 8vo. Illustrated and with on fold-out diagram. Translated from the original with additions and illustrations by John Bishop. Preface by the author. 36 page publisher's catalog bound in at end. original black stamped green cloth. Very good. No signatures or bookplates. Provenance: From the estate of Academy Award winner George Stoll. Hardcover. London, W Reeves [1xxx]. hardcover books
6708London Robert Cocks 1860. 2nd edition. Publisher's blind-stamped pebbled cloth professionally rebacked with the original gilt lettered spine retained new endpapers vii 92 4 pp. 3 full-page plates. Scattered light foxing cloth chipped at the head and heel of the spine else very good. <br/><br/> London, Robert Cocks, 1860. hardcover books
1967125714Northwestern University 1967. hardcover. 8vo cloth d.w. Northwestern University Press 1967.<br/><br/> Northwestern University unknown books
19542310341New York: Grosset & Dunlap 1954. Soft Cover. Near Fine. Pencil mark on rear wrapper wrappers lightly rubbed. 1954 Soft Cover. iv 88 pp. More than 30000 words specially selected for playing Scrabble. Arranged in easy-to-follow ABC order. Plus separate lists of special words for high-score plays. Grosset & Dunlap paperback books
1850587New Hampshire 1850. 75 x 160 mm. 3 x 6 ¼ inches. Pencil sketch on blue paper.  Includes small envelope 3 x 4 ½ inches with notation. Previous folds. Light browning at folds. Small pencil sketch of a girl in a bonnet and a man who appears to be an itinerant with patched clothes and a liquor bottle in his hand. A note on the envelope accompanying the sketch and entitled in faint pencil "N.H. Portrait Painter" is signed by E.S. Eaton who writes:  "Enclosed is a drawing made by Mr. J. Bailey Moore upon a stray slip of paper as he sat making a call at our home. I a little girl was greatly pleased and have kept and been pleased with it ever since. I remember that my dear Mother was amused at the two funny figures. E.S. Eaton". Jacob Bailey Moore was born in Candia New Hampshire in 1815 and died there in 1893. For a brief time he worked in Boston before returning to New Hampshire. During his career he spent brief stints as a journalist and as a phrenologist as well as an itinerant artist. Moore is closely identified as a member of the "Prior-Hamblen" group of early 19th portrait artists. This group's work closely follows that of William Matthew Prior 1806 -73 and Sturtevant J. Hamblen 1837-56. Their portraits have been characterized as "very flat posterlike" and were painted in oils or gouache on a variety of backings including cardboard academy board or canvas. Numerous works signed by Prior have been identified as have a few signed by Hamblen. Signed works by other members of the "Prior-Hamblen" group are quite rare. Those known to have been painted by Jacob Bailey Moore feature a flat style almost identical to that of Prior. The writer may be Ellen S. Eaton who lived in Candia on a farm with her parents Henry M. and Eliza Parker Eaton. She was born in 1846 became a school teacher and appears to have never married. Ellen's father Henry M. Eaton was selectman a number of years town clerk a representative to the state legislature two years and also town agent. He was also Captain of Candia Light Infantry. He was married a second time to Hannah G. Lane who died in 1892.  Appleton. Cyclopedia of American Biography IV pp. 380-1. Allibone's Critical Dictionary of English Literature and English and American Authors. II p. 1352. J. Bailey Moore  History of the Town of Candia 1893. unknown books
17329N.p. Printed portrait on thin coated paper 19cm x 12cm. Tipped in to folding card portrait case. Inscribed beneath image: "Study Art 1 Sec 8 Clause 5 of the Constitution of the U.S. and help to abolish interest / Yours truly / Jacob S. Coxey Sr." undated but likely dating from the period of Coxey's unsuccessful 1932 Presidential run as the candidate of the Farmer-Labor Party. Jacob S. Coxey Sr. 1854-1951; aka "General" Coxey was among the most colorful agitators of the early labor movement. He gained the sobriquet "General" when in 1894 he led a group of 400 unemployed laborers popularly known as "Coxey's Army" from Massillon Ohio to Washington DC. to demand unemployment benefits for all laid-off workers. The march did little to alter public policy but gained Coxey nationwide celebrity propelling him into a long series of highly public but unsuccessful political candidacies over the next 50 years though he did succeed in getting elected to the post of Mayor of Massillon Ohio in 1931. unknown books
2003Embry 176374Wayne State U. Press 2003. First edition first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. B&W and color reproductions. Wayne State U. Press, 2003. First edition, first printing. unknown books
1698D2444Lubeck: Christoph Gottfried Jäger for Peter Böckmann and Johann Wiedemeyer 1698. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to 190 x 156mm. 16 197pp. 2 including index and errata leaf at end. Dedicated to Joseph I Holy Roman Emperor and first King of Hungary reunited under Hapsburg rule. Over 70 copper-plate engraved illustrations for portraits of kings and emperors of the Roman Empire from Albertus to Sigismundus Franciscus all on coins recto and verso giving heraldry and one engraved chapter vignette heraldic on dedication page. Text in Latin. Later paste-paper boards paper label with manuscript title to spine edges stained red; margins trimmed close lightly toned scattered light foxing; lightly rubbed. German numismatist Jacob von Melle was a renowned poly-historian and a distinguished authority on the town of Lübecks history. Notably Melle was one of the first people to use the term bracteates for thin metal or gold medals. He was also the vicar for his local parish knew ten languages and directed a museum in Lübeck. In his time Melle published countless books; among these a Low German dictionary with 20000 entries and a book about the so-called guldgubber on the Danish island Bornholm guldgubber gold old men are tiny pre-historic gold-plates with a stamped human image. Interesting record with several important imperial portraits and heraldry on coins invaluable to the study of numismatics. <br/><br/> Christoph Gottfried Jäger for Peter Böckmann and Johann Wiedemeyer hardcover books
1725227524Uppsala: Werner 1725. Collation π1 A-C8; Pp. i title-ii verso blank 1-48. 1 vols. 16mo. Stitched. Ink signature at foot of title minor paper flaw in top margin of first two leaves three manuscript corrections in text else fine. Collation π1 A-C8; Pp. i title-ii verso blank 1-48. 1 vols. 16mo. The Norse and the Skraelings in America. Early work on the Norse voyages to Greenland Vinland Helluland Skraelingaland and discussion of the textual record of the exploration of North America.<br/><br/>Celsius the uncle of Anders of the temperaturs scale fame was an early mentor of Carl Linneaus. Howes W15; Sabin 100960; Alden 725/208 Werner unknown books
1887288689New Ulm. : Verssasers. 1887. 1st Edition. Softcover original printed wraps. . Covers toned sticker removal to front cover spine repaired with archival tape otherwise a very good copy. . 12mo. Scarce. Verssasers. paperback books
1971105188Penland North Carolina: The Jargon Society 1971. Hardcover. VG/VG-. Tan cloth with bw illustrated dustjacket. Unpaginated. Appx. 32 pp of text followed by 63 full-page photographs. Twenty-five page Introduction gives wonderful insights and annecdotes about Ulmann. The b/w photographs in this book were taken by Doris Ulmann in the 1930's when she traveled through the southern Appalachians with John Jacob Niles. Scarce and quite noteworthy. The Jargon Society hardcover books
194845858NY: Schirmer 1948. 8vo pp. 5. Paper wraps. Ex library with stamp. Pencil doodle on front and small note at beginning of score. VG. A Kentucky mountain song. Schirmer unknown books
19611327956Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1961. Hardcover. Octavo; First printing; G/Poor; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine green and white with green and white print; DJ has portions torn away at front top edge bottom of spine and bottom edge tears to flap folds peripheral soiling and creasing shelfworn price-clipped; Boards in green cloth with green print light wear to corners and spine caps else clean and strong; Text block has yeloow-tinted top edge inscription in ink on front endpaper else clean and tight; xxii 369 pages frontispiece illustrated b&w printed music for voice and piano includes chord symbols. 1327956. FP New Rockville Stock. Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover books
1938019897NY: G Schirmer. 1938. First Edition. Paperback. Wraps Set 20 in Schirmer's American Folk-Song Series near fine. . G Schirmer paperback books
197145020North Carolina: The Jargon Society. Very Good. 1971. Hardcover. Penland NC: The Jargon Society 1971. First edition. Hardbound. Contents are clean and fresh containing 63 black and white photographic plates. Brown cloth binding is stamped in blue tight and unmarked. Overall NF/NF. DJ is in protective mylar. . The Jargon Society hardcover books
01735New York: George H. Doran Company 1925. Limited to 600 Copies<br/>Signed and Numbered by the Artist<br/><br/>NIELSEN Kay illustrator. GRIMM Jacob and Wilhelm. Hansel and Gretel and Other Stories by the Brothers Grimm. New York: George H. Doran Company 1925. <br/><br/>American signed limited edition comprised of 600 copies numbered and signed by the artist this being copy no. 49. Large quarto 11 7/8 x 9 5/8 inches; 301 x 246 mm. 12 275 1 4 blank pp. Twelve mounted color plates with descriptive tissue guards. Ten black and white plates included in pagination. Title and initials letters printed in red and black.<br/><br/>Handsomely bound by The Chelsea Bindery stamp-signed on front turn-in in full black crushed levant morocco covers ruled in gilt front cover with original gilt stamp spine with five raised bands bordered and lettered in gilt in compartments gilt board edges decorative gilt turn-ins plum end-papers original decorative end-papers preserved top edge gilt others uncut. A very fine copy. <br/><br/>There was no signed limited English edition of this book.<br/><br/>"In an attempt to reinvigorate the market for gift books after the war Hodder & Stoughton resumed the publishing of Kay Nielsen's books though on a more modest scale. In 1924 they published a work that Nielsen had begun in 1912 Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales including sixteen stories illustrated with twelve watercolors. Nielsen returned to London and in 1925 his final book for Hodder & Stoughton Hansel and Gretel appeared with twelve color plates" Susan E. Meyer A Treasury of the Great Children's Book Illustrators p. 206.<br/><br/>Larkin p. 13. New York: George H. Doran Company, 1925 unknown books
1995S13612New Jersey:: Humanities Press 1995. 1995. 8vo. ix 139 pp. Illus. index. Printed wrappers. Fine. ISBN: 039103877X Published posthumously as the author passed in 1994 while visiting the Grand Canyon. Dobbs was a prominent University of California Davis history professor known for her scholarship on Sir Isaac Newton. Professor Dobbs taught and researched the history of science specializing in early modern science and the history of alchemy and chemistry. Jacobs is History Professor Emeritus at UCLA. Humanities Press, (1995). unknown books
1747RW1580London:: Printed by W. Innys T. Longman and T. Shewell C. Hitch and M. Senex 1747. 1747. 2 volumes. 4to. 4 lxxv 1 475 1; ii 389 33 pp. Original full calf raised bands calf gilt-stamped red & brown spine labels; joints cracked. Small rubberstamp on title. Very good. NICE CLEAN COPY. Sixth edition "greatly improved by the author" of 'sGravedande's extensive experimentation and instruction in Newtonian physics. The experiments range from basic physics to hydraulics optics electricity and astronomy. The entire work is profusely illustrated with folding engraved plates detailing among many other experiments and apparatuses a steam-powered Hero's Engine plate 78 a static electricity generator plate 79 the first magic lantern slide projector plate 109 the prismatic effect of a rainbow plate 120 and the known solar system plate 122. 'sGravesande "is the author of Elements de physique demonstres mathematiquement. . . ou introduction a la philosophie Newtonienne which was translated from the Latin and published at Leyden in 1746. In the second volume he gives a description of an electrical machine constructed on the plan of that of Hauksbee. It consisted merely of a crystal globe which was mounted upon a copper stand and against which was pressed the hand of the operator while it was made to revolve rapidly by means of a large wheel." Mottelay. / Willem Jacob 'sGravesande was a Dutch philosopher and mathematician. Born in 's-Hertogenbosch he studied law in Leiden and wrote a thesis on suicide. In 1715 he visited London and King George I. He became a member of the Royal Society. In 1717 he became professor in physics and astronomy in Leiden and introduced the works of his friend Newton in the Netherlands. He was ardently opposed to fatalists like Hobbes and Spinoza. In 1724 Peter the Great offered him a job in Saint Petersburg but 'sGravesande did not accept. His best remembered work is Physices elementa mathematica experimentis confirmata sive introductio ad philosophiam Newtonianam or Mathematical Elements of Natural Philosophy Confirm'd by Experiments Leiden 1720 in which he laid the foundations for teaching Newtonian physics. / 'sGravesande's chief original contribution to physics involved an experiment in which brass balls are dropped with varying velocity onto a soft clay surface. This demonstrated that a ball with twice the velocity of another would leave an indentation four times as deep that three times the velocity yielded nine times the depth and so on. He shared these results with Emilie du Châtelet who subsequently corrected Newton's formula E = mv to E = mv2. / 'sGravesande was also the owner of the oldest known magic lantern which was built around 1720 by Jan van Musschenbroek and is currently housed at the Museum Booerhave in Leiden. / "From the outset of his teaching both physics and astronomy 'sGravesande modeled his lectures on the example of Newton in the Principia and Opticks although in later years they incorporated other influences especially that of Boerhaave. Moreover he adopted from Keill and Desaguliers the notion of demonstrating to his classes the experimental proof of scientific principles accumulating an ever larger collection of apparatus as may be seen from successive editions of his Physics elementa mathematica experimentis confirmata. Sive introductio ad philosophiam Newtonianam Leiden 1720 1721. The scientific reputation of 'sGravesande is enshrined in this book which he constantly corrected and amplified in later editions. An 'official' English translation prepared by Desaguliers to whom copies of the Latin original were sent in haste was also issued in 1720 and 1721 and it passed through six editions. The booksellers Mears and Woodward printed a rival version under the name of John Keill. French translations appeared only in 1746 and 1747 but a critical review by L. B. Castel was published in the Memoires de Trevoux in May and October 1721. The book was at once welcomed by British and a number of German scholars." – DSB V p. 510. References: Babson 70; Mottelay p. 181. Printed by W. Innys, T. Longman and T. Shewell, C. Hitch, and M. Senex, 1747. hardcover books
181736738New York 1817. Printed in typescript completed in manuscript "To the Treasurer of the City of New-York" instructing payment of Fifteen hundred dollars"By order of Common Council." Signed as well by the Comptroller G.N. Bleecker and Clerk. Text surrounded by decorative border. A colorless indented 'X' mark is present evidently to indicate payment resulting in barely noticeable perforation. An attractive and early New York City document. Very Good.<br/><br/> On the otherwise blank verso Anderson's name is signed in ink. unknown books