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185064899New York 1850. Beautiful painted trade sign 11 7/8 x 14 inches watercolor and gouache in gold black and several shades of blue with some remaining traces of pencil outlining all enclosed within an embossed gilt border. Signed by the artist in lower corner: "I. L. Lazarus / 179 Broadway N.Y." According to an ad in the Geneva newspaper May 22 1847 Newell would be using a newly developed "Letheon Vapor" as an anesthetic; Newell was still practicing at this address in 1860 from the "Vulcanite: A Quarterly Journal Devoted to the Science of Mechanical Dentistry". The 1848 New York City Directory identifies I. L. Lazarus "manufacturer of ornamental show cards and importer of lever watches &c." at "179 Broadway up stairs." A beautiful trade sign for a provincial dentist. Glazed and in an old frame. 11170. <br/><br/> unknown books
194921628Washington: The Public Affairs Institute 1949. 72p. wraps. Collective bargaining report no. 3. The Public Affairs Institute unknown books
1894240958London: T. Fisher Unwin 1894. Hardcover. xi 463p. cover slightly shelf worn mild bumping of corners else good condition first edition. "Mostly criticism of contemporary society from the perspective of a future eutopia." - p. 52 of Lyman Tower Sargent's British and American utopian literature 1516-1975 an annotated bibliography. T. Fisher Unwin hardcover books
189475693London: T. Fisher Unwin 1894. Octavo pp. i-ix x-xi xii-xviii 1 2-463 464: ad original charcoal gray cloth spine panel stamped in gold top edge untrimmed other edges rough-trimmed black coated endpapers. First edition. "A revolution by labor led by one Carlyle Democritus brings about a new government and major social reform." - Lewis Utopian Literature p. 109. Clarke Tale of the Future 1978 p. 20. Locke A Spectrum of Fantasy p. 135. Negley Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 666. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 p. 103. Suvin Victorian Science Fiction in the UK p. 58. Bleiler 1978 p. 120. Reginald 08740. Some faint scratching and spotting to cloth still a near fine bright largely unopened copy. A nice copy of a book that rarely turns up in good shape. #75693 T. Fisher Unwin unknown books
6519LAZARUS Emma. A DAY IN SURREY WITH WILLIAM MORRIS. San Francisco: Roxburghe/Zamorano Keepsake 1988. 4to Wrappers. 14 pages illustrations. First edition thus. Limited edition of 150 copies. Remembered best as the author of the sonnet engraved on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty Emma Lazarus met Morris in 1883. The article which is reprinted here from the 1886 Century Magazine complete with illustrations w published with Morris' approval and is followed by an extract of a letter fro him concerning his socialist and artistic views. unknown books
1871D5051New York / Cambridge: Hurd and Houghton / Riverside Press 1871. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Publisher's green cloth gilt-stamped lettering and detail on spine. Small chips at spine tips and corners; paint smudge on fore-edge of front board; FFEP and flyleaf detached laid-in. Scarce. <br/><br/> Hurd and Houghton / Riverside Press hardcover books
187157697NY: Hurd & Houghton 1871. First Edition. 8vo pp. 228. Author's second book only 500 copies were printed. Minor external wear terra cotta cloth a very good tight copy. Dedicated To my friend Ralph Waldo Emerson. BAL 11485; Singerman 2284. Her Scarce second book. A Sephardic Jew born in New York City Lazarus 1849!87 is best known for her poem The New Colossus the final five lines of which are inscribed at the foot of the Statue of Liberty. NAW: "Her second volume Ametus. received critical praise in England and the United States. Revealing a greater interest in contemporary themes it marked as she wrote to Emerson her 'mental journey from Greece to America. Hurd & Houghton unknown books
194423426NY: Cooperative Book League 1944. 8vo pp. 105. Edited with an introduction by Morris U. Schappes. Paper wraps. Cover little soiled o/w VG. Cooperative Book League unknown books
1889140941538Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1889. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition. vi 342; 257 pp. Publisher's green cloth with gilt spine lettering top edges gilt. Two volumes. Near Fine with light foxing to edges and endpapers hint of foxing to cloth; very attractive clean volumes. Rare in commerce.<br /> <br /> <p>A posthumous collection by the Jewish American poet best-known for her sonnet "The New Colossus" included in this collection which is inscribed on a bronze plaque on the Statue of Liberty with the famous lines: "Give me your tired your poor / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free / The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. / Send these the homeless tempest-tost to me / I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" Volume one begins with a short biography of the poet from The Century Magazine. Houghton Mifflin Company unknown books
197830303NY: Emma Lazarus Federation of Jewish Women's Clubs 1978. Fourth revised and enlarged edition. 8vo pp. 110. Paper wraps with dj. Edited with an introduction by Morris U. Schappes. Vg in little scuffed dj. Emma Lazarus Federation of Jewish Women's Clubs unknown books
1998Embry 187278Times Books 1998. First edition first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. Times Books, 1998. First edition, first printing. unknown books
199146295New York: HarperCollins 1991. Hardcover. xvii 486p. first edition first printing very good condition in like dj with flap price intact. HarperCollins hardcover books
127782hardcover. illus. 576pp. 8vo cloth d.w. N.Y.: Times 1998. vg<br/><br/> unknown books
1998021099New York: Times Books Random House 1998. 1st Edition. xiv 576p. b/w illus. dj. Times Books, Random House unknown books
1970127164Chicago IL: Windfall Press 1970. First edition. Hardcover. 64 pages. Introduction by X.J. Kennedy. A very good plus copy with some minor bumping to the corners in an about very good dust jacket that has a number of edge tears and some soiling to the front panel. Signed and warmly inscribed on the front free endpaper in the year of publication. Windfall Press unknown books
1977007573Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press 1977. xvi 426p. original blue cloth ex libris. Indiana University Press unknown books
198839954Madrid: Editorial Betania 1988. Paperback. 262p. text in Spanish biographical sketches of the poets very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Colección Antologias. Editorial Betania paperback books
192363215Habana: Editorial Hermes 1923. Paperback. Poor. 98p. 18cm. Wrapper quite soiled and worn. Backstrip heavily chipped and mounted on later underlying reinforcement. Contents sound but with extensive foxing and brown stains. Spanish text. <br/><br/> Editorial Hermes paperback books
2003256880Jerusalem: Yad Vashem 2003. hardcover. very good-/fine. Illus. 606pp. 4to green cloth d.w. cloth corners bumped otherwise very good. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem 2003.<br/><br/> Yad Vashem unknown books
1970TB30402New York: Parke-Bernett Galleries Inc 1970. First Editions. An exlibrary copy in near fine condition in dark blue paper covered boards with gilt text stamped on the spine and on the front board and with a book plate from the Rhode Island Historical Society on the front paste down. A small quarto of 9 7/8 by 6 7/8 inches with the spine slightly faded due to exposure to the sun and with a library call label on the spine. Without a dust jacket as issued. A Dictionary Check-List Of The Seven Sale Catalogues October 1966 - October 1969. Containing 336 pages followed by the prices realized for all lots in the 20 sessions. Although this is an ex-library copy it is evident that few patrons ever consulted this volume as it is in such nice condition. Parke-Bernett Galleries, Inc hardcover books
105710hardcover. 352pp. 4to cloth. N.Y.: Parke-Bernet 1970. First Edition. vg<br/><br/> unknown books
1966178184New York: Parke Bernet Galleries 1966. Softcover. VG some general shelf wear on wraps text and plates very clean. Cream wraps with red text and stars. B&W photographic frontispiece. B&W illustrations facsimiles and portrait. 23 pp. Published in preview of a series of auctions taking place between 1966 and 1969. Parke Bernet Galleries unknown books
197139239New York: Columbia Univ. Press 1971. First printing. Red cloth. Very good. 8vo. Columbia Univ. Press hardcover books
1946LLV2415New York:: A. A. Wyn 1946. 1946. First edition. 8vo. 509 pp. Miniature portrait vignette on title color illus. Gilt-stamped maroon cloth; spine faded. Very good. Includes a short biography of Hoffmann 1776 - 1822 author composer and caricaturist of the Romantic era and these stories: Mademoiselle De Scudery Don Juan Antonia’s Song The Golden Pot The Doubles The Vow The Fermata Berthold the Madman Salvator Rosa and The Legacy. A. A. Wyn, 1946. hardcover books
19183197Berlin: Max Perl 1918. First edition. First edition. Folio. Bound in full rich black crushed morocco with gilt ruled lines on both covers and spine by Rud Schmid of Berlin. ONE OF ONLY SIX COPIES; Goldschmidt's Own Copy with his superb bookplate on front pastedown woodcut Hebrew lettering at top. Translated by Lazarus Goldschmidt number 5 of only 6 copies on thick paper and illuminated in gold from an edition limited to 200 frontispiece borders and decorations printed in green and brown with initials supplied by hand in gold and red prospectus loosely inserted frayed at edges the translator's own copy with his bookplate. Lazarus Goldschmidt 1871-1950 was a widely acclaimed German Jewish writer and translator who was the first to translate the entire Babylonian Talmud into German a hitherto supreme obstacle for scholars. A gorgeous and lofty production printed on very thick handmade paper with superb flowing border design motifs throughout in many colors and highlighted in gold. Spine a little rubbed and faded slightly chipped at head and foot joints repaired slip-case. A most scarce and desirable item of Judaica. <br/><br/> Max Perl unknown books
