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1838WN61677XNew York: Robinson and Franklin 1838. Full calf with gilt rules and lettering in red morocco label on spine. All edges sprinkled. Owner name in pencil on ffep. Text block is extensively foxed. Fascinating lectures on a range of subjects pertaining to rhetoric literature etc. Third Edition. Full Leather. Poor/No Dust Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Learned. Robinson and Franklin Paperback books
1838WN61677New York: Robinson and Franklin 1838. Full tan calf with gilt spine lettering on red morocco label and gilt rules. Edges sprinkled. Spine edges and corners with moderate wear. Text block has fair amount of browning and foxing. Owner pencil signature on ffep. Unusual combination of technique and criticism regarding writing and literature. Third Edition. Full Leather. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Trade. Robinson and Franklin Paperback books
184622588New Haven: Printed by B.L. Hamlen Printer to Yale College 1846. 28pp disbound title page loosening light wear. Numerical reference in pen at head of title page. Good. Pastor Baldwin relates a sad tale of unseemly behavior by his erstwhile Congregation the Howe Street Society which stiffed him on his salary and refused to reimburse him for expenses he advanced in building and furnishing its church. OCLC 21526837 8. AI 46-413 4. Printed by B.L. Hamlen, Printer to Yale College unknown books
1866WRCLIT18304New York: D. Appleton 1866. 91pp. Full blue polished calf gilt a.e.g. a presentation binding. Inscribed on the front binder's blank in pencil by the author to his sister. Light rubbing else fine with a decent familial association. D. Appleton unknown books
1926494851926. ERLANGER Abraham. AN AMERICAN CONTRIBUTION: A RESUME OF THE NATIONAL FARM SCHOOL CONFERENCE. NY: The National Farm School 1926. Small 4to. brick-colored cloth stamped in gilt. First Edition. Signed presentation by Erlanger on front pastedown: "Dear Mr. Black! Your sympathy and help goes to illegible word where the purpose is to and illegible word to keep themselves practical philanthropy hence I take great pleasure in inscribing this book to you. Very Sincerely Abraham Erlanger. New York. March 22 1927." Near fine limitation bookplate on front pastedown. $50.00. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1974043879Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag 1974. xv 271p. dj author's SIGNED presentation copy Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Europäische Geschichte Mainz 71. Abetilung Abendländische Religionsgeschichte. Franz Steiner Verlag unknown books
1935WN12166New York: N.Y.Genealogical Soc. 1935. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Trade. N.Y.Genealogical Soc. Hardcover books
1965299511Stanford: Stanford University Press 1965. hardcover. fine/very good. x 119 pages thin 8vo brown cloth d.w. spine sunned and with a few small spots. Stanford: Stanford University Press 1965. A fine copy in a very good dust wrapper.<br/><br/> Stanford University Press unknown books
1969044233London etc.: Oxford University Press 1969. xix 565p. b/w illus. music dj The new Oxford history of music 3. Oxford University Press unknown books
186732457Washington: GPO 1867. xxx 930 pp as issued. Covers absent text block split. Minor soiling. Good.<br/>Monaghan 881. GPO unknown books
1938WB14641New York: Philip Duschnes 1938. Limited Edition. Paperback. Fair. Scarce printing one of 500 copies privately printed of Lincoln's second inaugural address. Original wraps defective split chipped and loose. Contents good. Sold as is. <br/><br/> Philip Duschnes paperback books
19594641baDetroit MI: Friends of the Detroit Public Library 1959. Book. Very good condition. Paperback. Civil War; slavery; p. 5-8; 22.8cm; light green paper wrapper; facsimile of portion of original manuscript of President's second annual address preserved in Burton Historical Collection Detroit Public Library; comments by James M. Babcock; reproduction of Mathew Brady portrait of U. S. pres. 1861-65; supplement in 1959 spring issue of Among Friends quarterly publication of the Friends. Friends of the Detroit Public Library Paperback books
19598816baDetroit MI: Friends of the Detroit Public Library 1959. Book. Very good condition. Paperback. Civil War; p. 5-8; 22.8cm; light green paper wrapper; facsimile of portion of original manuscript of President's second annual address preserved in the Burton Historical Collection Detroit Public Library; comments by James M. Babcock; reproduction of Mathew Brady portrait of U. S. pres. 1861-65; supplement in 1959 spring issue of Among Friends quarterly publication of the Friends. Friends of the Detroit Public Library Paperback books
193633264Chicago: The Black Cat Press 1936. 1st edition Monaghan 3515. Limited to 1000 cc. Grey cloth binding. Yellow dust jacket. VG/VG spine a bit darkened/slight chipping at spine ends/pc. 258 2 pp including Index. Frontis of Lincoln after a portrait by John Doctoroff. 8vo. <br/><br/> The Black Cat Press hardcover books
1985161986Philadelphia: Oswald Train: Publisher 1985. Octavo pp. 1-10 11-399 400: blank illustrations cloth. First edition. Miscellany edited with 145-page bio-critical introduction by Sam Moskowitz. Collects six fictions including a third ending for Dwellers in the Mirage twenty-six poems letters by and to Merritt articles by and about Merritt photographs of Merritt and his associates and other material. Barron ed Fantasy Literature 8-66. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #161986 Oswald Train: Publisher unknown books
1926125835New York: Putnam 1926. Octavo cloth. 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. ". 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. Bookplate affixed to front paste-down. Page edges dusty some rubbing to edges some chipping to lettering on front cover and spine wrinkle to cloth of rear cover a very good copy. No dust jacket. #125835 Putnam unknown books
1945262582Stanford: Stanford University Press 1945. First. hardcover. very good-/very good-. 559pp. 4to blue cloth d.w. and cloth lightly soiled d.w. chipped corners of cloth bumped. Stanford: Stanford University Press 1945.<br/><br/> Stanford University Press unknown books
1883290160Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co 1883. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good binding. Previous owner's name on the front board and front flyleaf. Slight dusty odor. Binding is cocked with red stain on the front board some rubbing and shefwear to the edges joints and corners. Brown cloth with black decorations and gilt lettering. Good binding. J. B. Lippincott & Co unknown books
195624803New York: Cameron Associates. Very Good in Good dj. 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. solid book with a bit of wear at both ends of spine pages browned as typical with this cheaply-manufactured book; jacket has a few small edge-tears small chip and some associated creasing at bottom of front panel some paper loss to upper spine extremities. SIGNED by the author on the ffep. Polonsky's second novel published like his first during the period of his blacklisting by the Hollywood studios is about a California civil engineer "a typical American who signed a loyalty oath with hardly a second thought" only to discover that this simple act in fact has a profound effect on his life. Signed by Author . Cameron Associates hardcover books
199626188Northridge CA: The Center for Telecommunication Studies/California State University. Near Fine. 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. no dust jacket as issued very nice copy tight and clean with just a touch of wear to the extremities minor staining on front pastedown. Film as Literature Series Series B&W photographs The screenplay to Polonsky's great 1948 film classic starring John Garfield in one of his signature roles. The screenplay actually credited to Polonsky and Ira Wolfert author of the source novel "Tucker's People" is supplemented by extensive annotations a biographical interview with Polonsky a critical commentary by John Schultheiss and a Polonsky filmography and bibliography. . The Center for Telecommunication Studies/California State University hardcover books
196792250The Hague:: Kruseman. Very Good. 1967. Hardcover. Text is in Dutch. 100 black and white illustrations. Limited facsimile of the 1732 edition: this copy is number 147. A few light stains on fore and bottom edges of text block else very good in a burgundy leatherette binding with gilt lettering borders and design. Housed in a very good light dust soiling illustrated slipcase. . Kruseman, hardcover books
1970225735Rutland: Tuttle 1970. hardcover. fine/fine. Many black & white illustrations. Small 4to black cloth d.w. Rutland: Charles Tuttle 1970. Fine.<br/><br/> Tuttle unknown books
1960407701960. ROSENBACH Abraham. ROSENBACH: A Biography. By Edwin Wolf 2nd and JohnF. Fleming. Cleveland: The World Publishing Company 1960. Second printing. 8vo red cloth. Ink ownership. Touch of foxing at endpapers. Fine in lightly paint-speckled slightly nicked dust jacket. unknown books
5884NY PUTNAM 1978. ADVANCE REVIEW COPY FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD. F. NY, PUTNAM, 1978 unknown books
1979206760New York: Viking 1979. First. hardcover. fine/very good. Soyer Raphael. Translated by Rebecca S. Beagle and Rebecca Soyer Introduction by Peter S. Beagle. Illustrated by Raphael Soyer. 17 black & white illustrations. viii 70pp. 8vo cloth d.w.; lightly worn along top edge and corners. New York: Viking Press 1979. First edition. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket. Signed by the illustrator on the half-title.<br/><br/> Viking unknown books