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19035344Beautiful full brown leather with gilt detailing and rule to boards and spine; decorative red labels to boards and spine; 5 raised bands. Elaborately designed doublures with gilt dentelles. Silk fly sheets. "The Delphic Edition of The Breviary Treasures consists of 475 copies printed on French hand-made paper of which this copy is Number 94." xii 214 pp. 6 3/4 x 9 1/4 inches. Nathan Haskell Dole hardcover books
1907876081907. Photograph signed and dated "Gutzon Borglum 1907." The photograph taken by Borglum shows his marble bust of Abraham Lincoln. On February 6 1908 the President's son Robert Todd Lincoln wrote to Borglum regarding the bust as "the most extraordinarily good portrait of my father I have ever seen." The sculpture is on display in the Crypt of the U.S. Capitol Building. A<i> </i>typed Lincoln quotation pasted to mount at lower left. In very good condition. Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures 15 inches by 17.5 inches. Sculptor Gutzon Borglum designed and oversaw the execution of the Mount Rushmore National Memorial from 1927 to 1941 with the assistance of his son Lincoln Borglum. Conceived by South Dakota historian Doane Robinson the 60-foot sculpture was initially intended to promote tourism in the Black Hills Region of South Dakota. unknown books
1950131050Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1950. Revised First Draft Continuity script for the 1951 film. Included is an index to the script breakdown detailing various scenes and script page numbers with revisions. Copy belonging to Dane Anderson an uncredited member of the crew with his name on the front wrapper of the script breakdown and annotations throughout in holograph pencil. File copy rubber-stamped on the front wrapper. <br/><br/>Based on Weidman's 1937 novel and Vera Caspary's loose adaptation. Harriet Boyd Hayward is a fashion designer who partners with Teddy Dailey whom she loves and Sam Jaffe and starts a new business dedicated to selling affordable women's dresses. A rival fashion company lead by Noble Sanders momentarily distracts Harriet but at the last minute she realizes her true devotion to Teddy and Sam. <br/><br/>Screenwriter Polonsky was blacklisted shortly after the film's release refusing to answer questions before the House Un-American Activities Committee. <br/><br/>White titled wrappers rubber-stamped as REVISED FIRST DRAFT CONTINUITY on the front wrapper copy No. 3 and production No. 2446.8 dated August 4 1950. Distribution page present with receipt removed. Title page present dated August 4 1950 noted as Revised 1st Draft Continuity with a credit for screenwriter Polonsky. 170 leaves with last page of text numbered 168. Mimeograph on eye-rest green stock. Pages and wrapper Near Fine internally bound with three gold brads. <br/><br/>Script Breakdown: self wrappers as issued. 88 leaves dated 10/2/50 mimeograph on eye-rest green stock. Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
19042550New York: King Memorial Committee of The Century Association by G.P. Putnam's Sons 1904. First Edition. Leather bound. Near fine. Letter from Secretary of State John Hay to General James Grant Wilson regarding a lock of President Lincoln's hair. Octavo. vii 429pp. Three quarter green morocco title in gilt on spine decorative compartments. Frontispiece portrait with issue cover. Marbled endpapers. Bookplate affixed to front endpaper. Top edge gilt. Letter affixed to front endpaper from Secretary of State John Hay to Gen. James Wilson Grant dated November 8 1902 in response to an inquiry over whether he still possessed a lock of Lincoln's deathbed hair. Includes envelope. Letter notes that he "greatly regrets that I am not the possessor of a lock of Lincoln's hair. I had a little of it for a year or two after his death but in some unaccountable way it was lost." John Hay's search for locks of Lincoln's hair would be a lifelong passion for the friend of the slain president. In 1893 Hay wrote to Doctor Charles Sabin Taft a bystander physician who attended to President Lincoln after being shot at Ford's Theater asking if the doctor had any strands of hair in his possession. Doctor Taft declined to barter for his memento but in 1905 his son found the original letter and contacted Hay. In a hurry the hair was purchased by Hay and promptly encased in a yellow ring. This yellow ring was sent to President Theodore Roosevelt on the occasion of his inauguration. He wore the ring to his inauguration and it remains in the Theodore Roosevelt collection at Sagamore Hill. Mearns 1959. King Memorial Committee of The Century Association by G.P. Putnam's Sons unknown books
1932157782New York: Liveright Inc Publishers 1932. Octavo pp. 1-8 9-295 296: blank original decorated black cloth front and spine panels stamped in gold top edge stained yellow fore and bottom edges rough-trimmed. First edition. Barron ed Fantasy Literature 3-242. Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1159. Clareson Science Fiction in America 1870s-1930s 554. Schlobin The Literature of Fantasy 741. In 333. Bleiler 1978 p. 138. Reginald 10061. Tiny rubber-stamped name J. M. Walsh on front free endpaper with rubber-stamped date of receipt 9 June 1932. A fine copy in very good four-color pictorial dust jacket with some wrinkling to front panel and clipped price the price is clipped because this copy was sold resold in the UK; the book ticket of The American Book Supply Co. Ltd." is affixed to the front paste-down. Quite a nice copy. #157782 Liveright Inc Publishers unknown books
1910WRCAM52703New York 1910. 65pp. plus photographic frontispiece portrait. Original printed wrappers. Corners somewhat worn. Internally clean. Very good. Prospectus for the quite rare visual biography THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN made up of prints from the photograph collection of Frederick Hill Meserve. Meserve purchased nearly the entire Brady archive of Lincoln material and arranged for facsimiles of the numerous photographs to be published in the advertised volume which was limited to 102 copies. The book was published the following year. Meserve is considered to be the first great American photograph collector and he amassed the definitive collection of Abraham Lincoln photographs during his pursuits. The collection is now at Yale. <br> <br> A rare piece of printing in and of itself with a photographic frontispiece portrait of Lincoln. unknown books
199911658N. Y.: Thornwillow Press 1999. First edition. With a never-before-seen collection of all the known letters & telegraph communications exchanged among members of the Lincoln family up to the time of his assassination. One of 185 copies printed on handmade paper & signed by David Herbert Donald a leading Lincoln scholar winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for biography & the Charles Warren Professor Emeritus of American History & American Civilization at Harvard University. A lovely book. As new. Small 4to illustrated with three tipped-in photogravure portraits & two fold-out facsimile letters 3/4 black moroccan goatskin & dark blue paste-paper boards t.e.g. velvet lined folding black cloth traycase. A lovely book. As new. Thornwillow Press unknown books
1928163209New York: Boni and Liveright 1928. Octavo pp. i-iv v vi-viii 9-310 311-312: blank note: last leaf is a blank original tan cloth front panel stamped in red and gold spine panel stamped in red top edge stained red. First edition. First printing with "B&L" monogram on copyright page and no statement of printing. A mystery thriller in the mode of Sax Rohmer concerning Satan an unusual criminal mastermind who rules a band of thieves bound to his service by an elaborate game. The Boni and Liveright edition was reprinted at least twice and the novel was frequently reissued by various publishers in several formats through 1955. "7 FOOTPRINTS TO SATAN one of Merritt's most financially successful works appeared in ARGOSY ALL-STORY in five issues in 1927. Based upon Robert Barr's "A Game of Chess" it is his only pure mystery. Although it contains neither the fantasy nor the occult elements that characterize his earlier novels it is an intriguing tale containing an interesting plot and one of the most sinister villains in mystery fiction." - Foust p. 48. Clareson Science Fiction in America 1870s-1930s 558. In 333. Bleiler 1948 p. 199. Reginald 10068. Hubin 1994 p. 569. Neat contemporary owner's signature dated March 1928 on the front free endpaper. A fine copy in good four-color pictorial dust jacket priced $2.00 on the front flap with wear and shallow loss at spine ends and corner tips. rubbing along folds and several closed tears with internal tape mends. #163209 Boni and Liveright unknown books
1933157781New York: Liveright Inc Publishers 1933. Octavo pp. i-vi vii-ix x xi-xii xiii-xiv 15-301 302-304: blank note: last leaf is a blank original black cloth front and spine panels stamped in gold top edge stained red other edges rough-trimmed. First edition. "Celebrated weird mystery novel of witchcraft and deadly little dolls." - Locke A Spectrum of Fantasy p. 155. "Reputations come and reputations go but in the fields of science fiction and fantasy there is probably no other great reputation of the past that has suffered as much as that of A. Merritt. During the 1930's and 1940's he was widely considered the greatest fantasy writer of modern times . Is any of Merritt's work worth reading today other than as historical documents . A sense of peril emerges from BURN WITCH BURN! ." - Bleiler Supernatural Fiction Writers p. 842. Filmed in 1936 as The Devil Doll directed by Tod Browning screenplay by Garrett Fort Guy Endore and Erich von Stroheim with Lionel Barrymore and Maureen O'Sullivan in lead roles. Barron ed Horror Literature 3-146. Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1160. Clareson Science Fiction in America 1870s-1930s 552. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature I pp. 181-83. In 333. Bleiler 1978 p. 138. Reginald 10058. A fine copy in bright good pictorial dust jacket with wear at spine ends shallow loss at spine folds and corner tips short closed tear at lower edge of rear panel several internal tape mends at edges and some re-coloring of black background ink. The book is quite nice and the jacket presents well overall. #157781 Liveright Inc Publishers unknown books
1919100988Chromolithograph broadside 16" x 20".Creases where folded slight abrasion at the conjunction of one of the folds some slight chipping to the lower right corner and the left margin which extend a little into image; still a colorful and unusual piece. A scarce early 20th century broadside version of the Emancipation Proclamation in the form of a WWI "uplift" poster. At the center is Abraham Lincoln holding a copy of the Emancipation Proclamation. He is flanked with smaller images of Paul L. Dunbar Frederick Douglas Lt. Col. Franklin A. Dennison and Lt. Col. Otis B. Duncan. Other images include soldiers farmers children at school and a bald eagle perched on top of American Flags. We are reminded in the captions of some of the accomplishments of African American and the promise of the future. A very attractive Broadside even with a few imperfections. Renesch, books
1934163204Garden City: Published for The Crime Club 1934. Octavo pp. 1-10 1 2-301 302: blank original decorated black cloth spine panel stamped in green top edge stained green fore-edge untrimmed bottom edge rough-trimmed. First edition. "Sequel of a sort to BURN WITCH BURN! . A good mystery thriller with even some moments of humor." - Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1162. Clareson Science Fiction in America 1870s-1930s 553. Locke A Spectrum of Fantasy p. 155. Schlobin The Literature of Fantasy 740. In 333. See Barron ed Horror Literature 3-146. Bleiler 1978 p. 138. Reginald 10059. A nearly fine copy in a bright very good pictorial proof dust jacket with "PUBLICATION DATE / OCT 24 1934" stamped at the bottom of the front flap. #163204 Published for The Crime Club unknown books
1909240774New York: Privately Printed by the De Vinne Press 1909. First edition. Frontispiece portrait and 7 other photographs and a colored Jock Scott fly at the end. xii 266 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original green cloth t.e.g. Light shelfwear title page foxed else near fine. First edition. Frontispiece portrait and 7 other photographs and a colored Jock Scott fly at the end. xii 266 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Scarce privately printed work with considerable sporting content.<br/><br/>Pp. 123 to 266 comprise the Logbook of Camp Albany on the Ristigouche River with entries from 1883 to 1898 on angling hunting and social topics. A prefatory note quotes from Dean Sage's classic book and an afterword by Charles H. Raymond offers an appreciation of Abraham Lansing 1835-1899 of Albany New York: "To watch his tall graceful form while casting on the river was to see the exemplar of the accomplished fisherman; the man the rod the line were together but the extension and the completion of artistic and practical perfection".<br/><br/>Inscribed by Mrs. Lansing to the Hon. Hampden Roth November 5 1909. Wetzel p. 174; Bruns L39; Bibliotheca Salmo Salar 107 Privately Printed [by the De Vinne Press] unknown books
19649018346New York: American Elsevier Publishing 1964. Hardcover. Fine condition. Facsimile of the Dutch edition of 1570. Bound in publisher's original quarter maroon leather and maroon cloth with front cover and spine stamped in gilt. Engraved colored maps with text reproduced from the original in the Bibliotheque de l'Universite de Leyde. Pages unnumbered. Without dust jacket as issued. A beautiful and high quality production. 16 1/2 inches tall and weighs almost 8 pounds. <br/><br/> American Elsevier Publishing 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
1946202144New York: Machmadim Art Editions 1946. First. hardcover. near fine. 7 pages of text in Hebrew followed by 48 black & white plates. Thin 4to flexible cloth. New York: Machmadim Art Editions 1946. First Edition.<br/><br/> Presentation copy to Mr. and Mrs. Meyer Schapiro.<br/><br/> Machmadim Art Editions unknown 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
