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1956008837Urbana IL: University of Illinois Press 1956. Book. Very good condition. Paperback. First Edition. Folio. 20 page booklet with color front cover illustration with text printed and illustrated in red an black. Booklet is signed and inscribed by Rattner "To Herbert L. Sterrett my best wishes and compliments signed Abraham Rattner." Twenty four loose folio plates are included of which six are printed in color plates are not signed by the artist. Booklet and plates measure 16.75 inches in height and are in excellent condition with only minor offsetting to verso of plates not affecting images and are protected in the original clamshell box. The box is illustrated in red and black and is moderately to heavily worn rubbed and soiled with minor splitting at several seams remaining intact attractive and functional. University of Illinois Press Paperback books
193730470NY 1937. Vol. 2 # 1- 12 240 pp. index. Bound in pubisher's black cloth. A very good tight copy. Includes articles by Margaret Sanger Alan Guttmacher Norman Himes Hannah Stone clinic reports and much more. Stone was the husband of Hannah Stone the doctor who ram Sanger's clinic. As Sanger notes:"She had a sympathetic response to mothers in distress and a broad attitude towards life's many problems.These qualities have kept her with us all this time one of the most beloved and loyal workers that one could ever hope for." Autobiography 1938 pp. 360-361. Indeed she came to be known as "the Madonna of the clinic." Emily S. Mudd Interview Schlesinger Library Oral History Project on Women in Family Planning May 21-August 3 1974. unknown books
19081262438London: Hutchinson & Co 1908. First Edition. 4vo. xx 209pp.; VG-; bound in publishers red cloth stamped with a gilt title and blue design on front board gilt lettering on spine; 30 color tipped-in plates with printed tissue guards; bumping to head and tail of spine corners; inscription in ink on ffep; top edge of text block gilt; fore and lower edges of text block show some minor wear wear extend to pages; boards scuffed; DC consignment; shelved case 14. 1262438. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Hutchinson & Co unknown books
1967406387Washington D. C.: Government Printing Office 1967. Ex-library copy with inkstamps on title and at intervals in the margins of the text. Front joint split but holding wear to binding occasional pale foxing. Thick 4to 28.5 x 22 cm. Engraved frontispiece portait of Lincoln. xxx 930 pages. Original dark-green half morocco crimson cloth boards spine gilt marbled edges. FIRST EDITION with inserterd engraved leaf dated 2 March 1867 at front printing the resolution by the Senate and House of Representatives to print this book and distribute one copy to each Senator and Representative of the Thirty-ninth Congress and to each Foreign Government and one copy to each Corporation Association or public body whose expressions of condolence or sympathy are published in the volume. One hundred copies were bound in full morocco and the remaining copies were ound in half morocco as on this copy. <br/><br/> Government Printing Office hardcover books
1941244867New York: Duell Sloan and Pearce 1941. First edition Number 5 of a special edition signed by the author on the half-title. Illustrated throughout. 160 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Quarter brown pebbled morocco and cloth. Fine copy in open-faced slipcase some wear to slipcase. First edition Number 5 of a special edition signed by the author on the half-title. Illustrated throughout. 160 pp. 1 vols. 4to. SPECIAL EDITION. Duell, Sloan and Pearce unknown books
192830490New York: Harper & Brothers 1928. FIRST EDITION. Fine book in a bright crisp dust jacket with a crease at spine and a handuf of closed tears at top edge. Illustrated with numerous photographs. <br/><br/> Harper & Brothers unknown books
1977146208N.p.: N.p. 1977. Fourth Draft script for the 1977 film. With a single holograph ink notation to the front wrapper's right top corner.<br/><br/>Based on the 1977 novel by Colin Forbes about a defecting Russian general who collaborates with an American secret agent to expose KGB spies throughout Europe by luring them onto a train headed west. Director Mark Robson and actor Robert Shaw died of unrelated heart attacks within months of the film's release making "Avalanche Express" a final film for both.<br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Germany England Ireland Italy and the US. <br/><br/>Tan titled wrappers noted as FOURTH DRAFT on the front wrapper dated December 30 1977 with credits for screenwriter Abraham Polonsky. Title page present dated December 30 1977 noted as FOURTH DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Abraham Polonsky. 115 leaves with last page of text numbered 113. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with tearing to the front wrapper binding bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
194896183N.p. n.d. Sedalia Colorado: M. Doreal 1948. Octavo five volumes mimeographed printed wrappers stapled as issued. First edition. Five of the six unauthorized booklets produced by Doreal printing Merritt's short fiction comprising THROUGH THE DRAGON GLASS RHYTHM OF THE SPHERES THE PEOPLE OF THE PIT THE WOMAN OF THE WOOD and THREE LINES OF OLD FRENCH. Each booklet has been sewn into a white paper wrapper with original wrapper retained with uncredited amateur but fairly well accomplished pen-and-ink illustrations in the style of Virgil Finlay and Hannes Bok on front cover and on inside rear cover; all are laid into a pictorial paper portfolio titled "Short Stories by A. Merritt. Pirate Edition." THE DRONE MAN was not included in this set. See Moskowitz A. Merritt: Reflections in the Moon Pool Philadelphia: Oswald Train: Publisher 1985 pp. 157-58. The booklets are in fine condition the paper portfolio is just a bit sunned. #96183 M. Doreal unknown books
1975131605New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc 1975. First edition. Oblong hardcover. Text by Allen Leepa. Includes 212 illustrations of which 50 are tipped in color plates. A very near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket that has some minor wear. Signed by Rattner on the front free endpaper and uncommon thus. Harry N. Abrams, Inc unknown books
191819741Boston: The Stratford Company Publishers 1918. First American Edition. First Printing. Slim octavo 20cm; beige paper-covered boards with titling and rule printed in dark brown on front panel; dustjacket; 58pp 6 ads. Light wear to crown with faint sunning to board edges; Near Fine. Dustjacket shows light edgewear with tiny chips at spine ends and old partial sticker removed from 25c price at base of spine; flaps trimmed presumably as-issued; Very Good. Apparent first appearance of each story in English a joint publication by The Stratford Universal Library. Both Lazarus and The Gentleman from San Francisco are early works in translation for Andreyev and Bunin. Bunin whose style was deeply rooted in the Russian folkloric tradition had the distinction of being the first Russian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. An especially scarce title in dustjacket. The Stratford Company, Publishers unknown books
196680035Amsterdam The Netherlands: Erasmus Buchhandlung 1966. stiff paper wrappers cardboard slipcase. Miniature Books. miniature book 60 x 53 mm. stiff paper wrappers cardboard slipcase. 95 pages. Limited to 200 numbered copies of which this copy is in a lovely full leather and gilt binding with the original wrappers bound in. A charming little production with facsimles illustrations some color and 13 engraved exlibris of Gianni Mantero. Bookplate on front pastedown of the well-known miniature book collector Kalman Levitan. Front hinge showing moderate seperation. Gilt on spine faded else a bright unmarred copy. Erasmus Buchhandlung unknown books
195059371Worecster Mass.: Achille St. Onge 1950. Fifteen hundred copies by the Chiswick Press London. Frontispiece. and 2 other photographs of Lincoln by Alexander Hesler Alexander Gardner and Matthew Brady. vii 1 76 pages. 1 vols. 3 1/8 x 2 1/8 inches. Bound in full blue morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe gilt rules a.e.g. Fine. Fifteen hundred copies by the Chiswick Press London. Frontispiece. and 2 other photographs of Lincoln by Alexander Hesler Alexander Gardner and Matthew Brady. vii 1 76 pages. 1 vols. 3 1/8 x 2 1/8 inches. Inscribed by St. Onge "To Joseph Miller with kind regards Achille St. Onge. Achille St. Onge unknown books
195018093Worcester Mass: Achilles St. Onge 1950. One of 1500 copies printed from Monotype Plantin type on J. Barcham Green's hand made all rag wove paper by the Chiswick Press. Photographs. 1 vols. 12mo 3 x 2 inches. Bound in full blue morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. One of 1500 copies printed from Monotype Plantin type on J. Barcham Green's hand made all rag wove paper by the Chiswick Press. Photographs. 1 vols. 12mo 3 x 2 inches. Inscribed "To Joseph Miller with kindest regards Achille St. Onge. Achilles St. Onge unknown books
1980149081Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1980. Vintage vernacular photo album and scrapbook by Ray Abraham a high school art teacher in Athens OH who also appeared as an extra in the film. Containing 17 predominantly color photographs of actors or crew members on location or interacting with the nearby community as well as clippings from local papers about the film signed letters addressed to Abraham from actors Robert Redford and Konrad Sheehan and other ephemera. <br/><br/>The film which was shot on location at the recently closed Junction City Prison in Ohio used locals as extras for the prison scenes and based on the newspaper clippings was a major source of excitement for the nearby towns. This extended to Abraham who apparently invited the stars of the film to attend an exhibition of his students' art work at Athens High School. While Redford declined local actor and apparent Redford look-alike James Linton caused quite the sensation among the teenagers. Altogether a detailed and charming look at the effects of a major Hollywood production on a community during location shooting. <br/><br/>Inspired by the 1969 nonfiction book "Accomplices to the Crime" by Tom Murton and Joe Hyams about abuse and corruption in the Arkansas prison system. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. <br/><br/>Scrapbook Good only with many interior pages loose or plastic sheets no longer attached. <br/><br/>Photographs variously sized most 3.5 x 5 inches. Generally Near Fine. <br/><br/>Other material Very Good plus or better. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1974003462New York: Harry N. Abrams 1974. SIGNED BY ARTIST Abraham Rattner on the half-title page with black marker. Near Fine page block wavy in a Near Fine dustjacket with some faint foxing. 212 illustrations with 50 tipped-in color plates. Rattner who died in 1978 was one of America's leading Expressionist painters and a long-time friend of the writer Henry Miller. His paintings are in numerous museums. SIGNED BY ARTIST. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Harry N. Abrams Hardcover books
1974147951N.p.: N.p. 1974. Draft script for the 1974 play which premiered at the Booth Theatre on May 5 1974 for 177 performances closing on October 5 1974. Annotations in holograph pencil on title page and on cast page for "Ravenswood" the first of the two one act plays in "Bad Habits" listing names adjacent to the characters.<br/><br/>Two one act comedies the first is "Ravenswood" set in a sanitarium catering to rich "unglued" patients in which Dr. Pepper treats his patients by encouraging them to indulge in bad habits. The second is "Dunelawn" also a sanitarium where Dr. Toynbee treats his patients with a magical drug which inhibits any "urges."<br/><br/>Blue Studio Duplicating Service vinyl titled wrappers with credits for playwright Terrence McNally. Title page present with credits for playwright Terrence McNally. 135 leaves with last page of text numbered 62. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold screw brads. N.p. unknown books
192736305Amsterdam: H. J. Paris 1927. H. J. Paris unknown books
1937D4334Paris: Obelisk Press 1937. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Wraps; 5 loose gatherings pp. 40 3 plus frontispiece. From a limited edition of 200 numbered copies this one out of sequence and unnumbered though inscribed by Miller in the year of publication on the FFEP: "To Anne Poor from Henry Miller Paris 8/15/37 p.s. Jetzt musste die Welt versinker! Et comment!" Anne Poor like Miller was a painter. Wraps heavily chipped and water-stained; frontispiece water-stained on the verso though perfectly presentable. <br/><br/> Obelisk Press paperback books
1931205096New York: Horace Liveright 1931. First edition. Slight lean; black mark to top edge; scratches to front flyleaf; covers soiled; very good in a rubbed dust jacket with fraying to edges and spine ends and a small chip to the base of the spine. 8vo 343pp; yellow cloth stamped in black. A decent copy of this collection of stories by the master fantasist. Horace Liveright unknown books
1919157525New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1919. Octavo pp. i-iv v-viii ix-x 1-433 434: blank 435-438: ads 439-440: blank note: last leaf is a blank inserted frontispiece with illustration by Joseph Clement Coll original maroon cloth front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition. The first of two printings with title pages dated 1919; this one with "Putnam" set in upper and lower case letters at base of spine panel and no advertisement printed on page 434. Merritt's first book. Conrad H. Ruppert's copy with a presentation inscription by Merritt to Ruppert on the dedication page: "To C. Ruppert / With the friendship / of A. Merritt." Ruppert has signed the front free endpaper above his bookplate. Fix-up novel fusing classic novelette "The Moon Pool" ALL-STORY WEEKLY 22 July 1918 and its inferior sequel "The Conquest of the Moon Pool" ALL-STORY WEEKLY 15 February-22 March 1919. "Fine imagination fast motion ridiculous characterizations pretentious style but still one of the historically important works of early American pulp science-fiction and fantasy." - Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1156. Anatomy of Wonder 1981 2-69; 1987 2-77; 1995 2-87; and 2004 II-762. Barron ed Fantasy Literature 3-245. Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1481. Clareson Science Fiction in America 1870s-1930s 557. Locke A Spectrum of Fantasy p. 155. Schlobin The Literature of Fantasy 745. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature III pp. 1060-64. Survey of Science Fiction Literature III pp. 1449-52. In 333. Bleiler 1978 p. 138. Reginald 10066. Cloth worn at spine ends and corners spine lettering tarnished inner hinges professionally strengthened a good copy. A nice association copy. #157525 G. P. Putnam's Sons unknown books
192635002Nyu York New York: Forverts" Asosieyshon 1926. First Edition. Octavo 22cm. Gilt-decorated russia over boards; 515pp; 16 inserted leaves of photographic plates halftones. Generically inscribed "With Compliments" by Cahan on front endpaper. Bit of erosion to spine ends and board exteremities; still a tight VG or better copy. First volume of Cahan's autobiography which appeared in five volumes between 1926 and 1931. Uncommon signed copy of Cahan's monumental autobiography this initial volume chronicling his childhood and young adulthood in Lithuania up to his arrival in New York in 1882. Cahan 1860-1951 was unquestionably the most influential Jewish-American intellectual of his time reaching through his editorship of The Jewish Daily Forward a daily audience of millions of Yiddish-speaking readers and establishing that paper's reputation as one of the leading voices of socialism in the United States. Forverts" Asosieyshon unknown books
1927169951Amsterdam: Scheltema & Holkema's Boekhandel 1927. VG repair to entire spine where the leather cleanly split from front cover at outer hinge tips worn through but edges clean and mostly unscathed. Full burgundy leather heavy embossed and gilt fill to covers and spine. Top edge gilt. 110 pp. profusely illustrated with 100 large photogravure style plates. A stunning example of Dutch bookbinding from the 1920s. Text is in Dutch. A very fine bookbinding designed by C.A. Lion Cachet 1864-1945. Rare. Shipping weight is 24 pounds. Scheltema & Holkema's Boekhandel hardcover books
19051330106New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons The Knickerbocker Press 1905. Connoisseur's Federal Edition #46/400 1000. Hardcover. Large Octavos 8 volumes; VG-; bound in 3/4 brown calf marbled boards and endpapers paneled spines with gilt ruling and titling; top edges gilt others deckled; some rubbing and wear to bindings primarily at extremities hinges and heads and tails of spines; The Connoisseur's Federal Edition of the Writings of Abraham Lincoln is limited to four hundred signed by publisher and numbered sets of which this is Number 46. Perforated limitation number present; shelved above Civil War. 1330106. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. G. P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press hardcover books
195178342Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America 1951. First edition of this modern classic of Jewish theology. Octavo original cloth. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket with some chips and rubbing. Jacket designed by Marshall Lee. Man Is Not Alone is a profound beautifully written examination of the ingredients of piety: how man senses God's presence explores it accepts it and builds life upon it. Abraham Joshua Heschel's philosophy of religion is not a philosophy of doctrine or the interpretation of a dogma. He erects his carefully built structure of thought upon foundations which are universally valid but almost generally ignored. It was Man Is Not Alone which led Reinhold Niebuhr accurately to predict that Heschel would "become a commanding and authoritative voice not only in the Jewish community but in the religious life of America." Jewish Publication Society of America hardcover books
1926163208New York London: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1926. Octavo pp. 1-2 i-iv v-vi 1 2 3-326 327-328: blank note: final leaf is a blank original red cloth front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition. Merritt's second book. Although Wentz notes "several printings" and G. Gordon Dewey in FANTASY ADVERTISER December 1948 notes five "printings" there was but a single printing. ". Putnam had been unable to sell a pitifully small edition of a thousand copies of THE SHIP OF ISHTAR in book form and the sheets for the last three hundred copies were finally purchased by Munsey and were bound and distributed to readers of ARGOSY-ALL-STORY Magazine." - Sam Moskowitz Explorers of the Infinite Cleveland: World 1963 p. 203. This book is found in numerous variant bindings no priority established this copy bound in red mesh weave cloth with black stamping and top edge not stained. ". the most fully realized of all his fantasies." - Cawthorn and Moorcock Fantasy: The 100 Best Books 36. "The most romantic of Merritt's works. Very uneven as a novel. Sometimes fascinating sometimes dull; pretentious yet with a knowing wink of humor now and then; finely imagined if not always executed." - Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1157. Anatomy of Wonder 1976 3-42. Ashley Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction pp. 130-31. Barron ed Fantasy Literature 3-246. Bleiler ed Supernatural Fiction Writers: Fantasy and Horror pp. 838-39. Clareson Science Fiction in America 1870s-1930s 559. Locke A Spectrum of Fantasy p. 156. Schlobin The Literature of Fantasy 746. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature III pp. 1407-11. Tymn ed Fantasy Literature p. 140. In 333. Bleiler 1978 p. 138. Reginald 10070. Currey p. 365 binding E. A fine copy in very good pictorial dust jacket with wear at spine ends and corner tips mild darkening to spine panel and 70 mm closed tear along upper front flap fold. #163208 G. P. Putnam's Sons unknown books