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20121307186Mississauga ON Canada: Random House of Canada Limited 2012. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket. Advance review copy in wrappers. Fine condition. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Mississauga, ON, Canada: Random House of Canada, Limited unknown books
193975547New York: Richard R. Smith 1939. Hardcover. viii 217p. first edition very good condition in the original cloth binding with spine lettering dulled. The retired pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church details his trip to the middle east in the book's first five chapters and discusses the types of ministers - fundamentalist modernists and progressives - and the importance of the social gospel which he himself espouses. Powell was an early leader of the NAACP and National Urban League and he promoted the notion of an institutional church that offered social as well as spiritual services to the community. Richard R. Smith hardcover books
1961144105Nice: Gaumont-Palace 1961. Vintage French program and two invitations for the 1961 film here under the original French titles. The collection both predates and postdates November 1 1961 generally considered the original release. <br/><br/>A small invitation "for two" doubles as a folding RSVP for the October 17 showing at the Cyrano theatre in Villeneuve-sur-Lot a Southwest France commune with the Lot River running through the middle. The invitee's RSVP is unsigned. The two remaining pieces are from a slightly later November 15 1961 showing at the Gaumont-Palace in Nice in the Southeast of France the Riviera. A folding invitation stamped in blind with the theatre's coat of arms credits the president of the Societe Nouvelle des Etablissements Gaumont Jean Le Duc suggests formal wear and the invitee has inscribed in holograph blue ink in French "one chair." A large program accompanies printed by Havas for the Gaumont-Palace showing details film credits and synopsis greetings from the Gaumont and advertisements for businesses in Nice. Formal programs often omitted still images from the film like this example opting for candor instead of promotion. <br/><br/>The film echoes director's Clair's early silent films interweaving separate themes of comedy and fantasy involving a well with supernatural powers that lengthens life expectancy. <br/><br/>Cyrano invitation 4 x 5.25 inches Gaumont invitation 4 x 8.25 inches the program 8.25 x 10.75 inches. Light rubbing and foxing overall and a vertical crease to the Gaumont invitation else Near Fine. Gaumont-Palace unknown books
1818WRCAM27845Philadelphia 1818. xxvii1803pp. Thick quarto. Contemporary boards rebacked in modern buckram. Binding detached. Ex-lib. bookplate on front pastedown. Old dampstain in upper or lower margin of some leaves. A good copy untrimmed. The masses of information included were gleaned from official documents dating from 1789 to 1818. Included is material on the establishment of the Mint the military public debt fisheries navigation public lands commerce and much more. "Especially useful on early financial history" - Howes. HOWES S309. SABIN 79631. GOLDSMITHS 22031. KRESS C.169. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 45692. RINK 337. hardcover books
184414945London: Smith Elder and Co 1844. iv 44 pp. Stitched. Fine but for the absence of wrappers. "Refutation of American claims" Howes particularly those advocated by Greenhow. "Thom was personally familiar with the country and here ably sets forth the British claims to it. An important work when studying the Pacific Northwest." Jenkins. FIRST EDITION. Howes T161. Jenkins Full Howes 2505. 111 Eberstadt 497. 34 Decker 516. Smith, Elder and Co unknown books
178957019Rhineback N.Y.: May 25 1789. Folio approx. 12" x 8" 42 lines approx. 300 words; a few minor breaks at the edges but overall very good and legible. This indenture binds David Runnels son of Stephen Runnels in the town of "Rynbeck" i.e. Rhinebeck Dutchess County New York to a farmer and weaver named Adam Zufeld 1760-1849 as a servant and apprentice "to work farmers work and to learn the art of trade to weave." Although a wax seal is affixed the document is unsigned. David Runnels b. ca. 1774 signed up for six years and three months until age 21 and vows to "faith fully serve his secrets keep his lawful commands every where gladly obey . not commet fornication nor contract matremony with any lawful games he shall not play nor absent himself from his master's service day or night." In return for this service Zufeld agrees to "teach and instruct the said apprentice in the trade of Weaven and shall send Runnels to school to lern English read and write" and to provide "sufficient meat drink apperal washing and lodging fitting for an apprentice." After the apprenticeship is over Zufelf agrees to "give the said apprentice a new cloth or garment and a mare colt." <br/><br/> May 25 hardcover books
1985157990New York: Abaris Books 1985. Hardcover. VG- Ex-art library with numbers on spine; i.d. marks on book block edges; pocket at rear; some scuffs and wear to binding which is slightly sunned along spine; pages are clean. Brown cloth with gilt letters and lines on spine and front cover 359 pp. 300 BW illus. Part of a lengthy series of illustrated picture atlases presenting the reproduction of prints rendered by European masters. Once based primarily on the compilations created by Austrian scholar and artist Johann Adam Bernhard Ritter von Bartsch 1757-1821 in his 21-volume "Le Peintre Graveur." This volume addresses the work of a number of anonymous artists of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Illustrations are arranged bty subject matter or use such as playing cards. Uncommon. Abaris Books hardcover books
1622222961622. 143 x 97 mm. wide margins.<br/><br/>Slightly worn; edges browned. In very good condition overall. Possibly after the same painting on which the woodcut portrait in his Compendium Musicae of 1632 is based. <br/><br/>Gumpelzhaimer spent most of his active life in Augsburg where he was Kantor and Präzeptor at the school and church of St. Anna from 1581 until his death. "Gumpelzhaimer was probably best known to German musicians of and after his time through his Compendium musicae. The richness of musical activity of St Anna is indicated not only by Gumpelzhaimer's music but also by the extensive holdings of the church library during his 44 years there. A handwritten inventory was started by Gumpelzhaimer in 1620 and continued by Faust in 1625. This list includes in addition to many printed collections several large manuscript books of polyphonic music in score notation. Two of these books have survived one begun in 1599 and the other completed in 1624. They were copied out mostly by Gumpelzhaimer and contain compositions by many prominent musicians of the time." William E. Hettrick in Grove Music Online. unknown books
2012121334Norwalk: Easton Press 2012. First Easton Press edition. Issued signed by Johnson. Leather-covered boards all edges gilt satin pagemarker. In the publisher's unopned mailing carton with all inserts as issued. Fine condition. Johnson's second novel and winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. . Signed by Author. Hardcovers. Fine/Not Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Easton Press Hardcover books
1828M13950London:: Printed for Horatio Phillips 1828. 1828. 8vo. viii 105 3 pp. 1 hand-colored plate; pp. 101-4 upper corner oddly worn but confined to the outermost part of the sheet not touching any text. Early turquoise blue wrappers small printed label applied to upper cover; extremities worn rubbed. Very good. RARE. First edition of the first serious English study of ergot of rye which was a folk remedy known to be effective for pregnant mothers to ease the birth and "control postpartum haemorrhage." Neale studied medicine at Edinburgh earning his degree in 1802. "In 1806 he was appointed as a physician to the army and saw considerable service during the Peninsula War under Sir John Moore and Sir Arthur Wellesley. In 1809 he published an account of his experiences in Letters from Portugal and Spain. In 1814 he settled in Exeter where he remained for the next 10 years apart from a tour of Germany Poland Moldavia and Turkey in 1818 and a short sojourn in Cheltenham in 1820 made brief by the fact that he rashly and publicly questioned the medicinal value of the spa waters of that town. In 1828 he published a monograph on the use of ergot of rye as a remedy in certain states of the uterus.' Four years later he died in Dunkirk in 1832." Dunn. / "Epidemics of St Anthony's fire due to ergot of rye had been recognised since the middle ages but the effect of ergot on the uterus was not recognised by the medical profession until 1688 when Camerarius mentioned that women in certain parts of Germany were in the habit of employing this sort of diseased grain to accelerate parturition. One hundred years passed before Tessier in France once more drew the attention of doctors to a similar practice among the midwives around Lyon. From then on medical interest in the subject increased and 50 years later Neale was able to review 720 reported cases in which ergot had been used in Europe and North America mostly with success either to expedite delivery of the baby or placenta or to control postpartum haemorrhage." Dunn. / In July 1805 Adam Neale c.1780-1832 travelled to Turkey to take a position as physician to the British embassy in Constantinople were he arrived in March 1806. This is a description of the overland journey to Jassy in Moldavia the Danube and then via the Black Sea several plates depict villages along the Black Sea to Constantinople. His observations on Turkey include descriptions of the manners and customs of the people the navy fishery and the plague which broke out regularly in Constantinople. This is one of the most vivid and readable of all accounts of Constantinople. He also discourses on some of the renegades present in Constantinople at the beginning of the 19th century Koç Collection 208. SEE: Peter M. Dunn "Adam Neale c1780-1832 and ergot of rye." Arch Dis Child. 1993 May; 685 Spec No: 617–618. 241-47. Printed for Horatio Phillips, 1828. unknown books
179648977Avgvstae Vindelicorvm i.e. Augsburg: officinae librariae Joseph Wolffianae 1796. Thick 8vo pp. xxviii 3028 columns; engraved frontispiece; contemporary full calf gilt-paneled spine in 6 compartments old brown morocco label in 1 edges stained red; several old ownership inscription on the front flyleaf some cracking at the tops of both joints; good and sound. A comprehensive German-Latin dictionary. Vancil p. 139 cites the 1750 and 1754 editions; Zaunmuller col. 254. <br/><br/> officinae librariae Joseph Wolffianae unknown books
20129016496New York: Random House 2012. Advance Reader's Edition. Paperback. Fine condition. Bound in publisher's printed wrappers. Includes a special conversation between the author and Richard Powers. Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. <br/><br/> Random House paperback books
1939171127New York: Richard R. Smith 1939. Hardcover. viii 217p. first edition very good condition in the original cloth binding many unopened pages number in grease pencil on free front endpaper. The retired pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church succeeded by his son Adam Clayton Powell Jr. details his trip to the middle east in the book's first five chapters and discusses the types of ministers - fundamentalist modernists and progressives - and the importance of the social gospel which he himself espouses. Powell was an early leader of the NAACP and National Urban League and he promoted the notion of an institutional church that offered social as well as spiritual services to the community. Richard R. Smith hardcover books
1913M12883Paris:: Librairie Le Francois 1913. 1913. One volume plus atlas volume. 273 x 203 mm. Tall 8vo. xxi 242 pp. Indexes 18 figs. 48 color plates most with 2 figs. QUARTER MAROON MOROCCO vellum tips gilt spine. Bookplate. Bookseller's ticket. Fine. FIRST FRENCH EDITION. Extensively illustrated with beautiful fundus pictures. Librairie Le Francois, (1913). hardcover books
3845ADAM BADEAU 1831-1895. Badeau was an Union Army officer who served on Ulysses Grant’s staff during the Civil War. AL. 5pg. 5†x 8â€. Feby 18 1891. New York City. An autograph letter unsigned in the handwriting of Adam Badeau. It is addressed to General William Sherman’s son Father Thomas Sherman four days after the legendary general’s death. Badeau wrote “I hardly dare intrude on you at this sacred moment…I am willing to offer my sympathy to you are your dear brother and sisters. Now while the whole country mourns I will not admit that after those who were closest in blood there is no who loved or admired your great father more…than I. Surely no one had more peculiar opportunities to know the wisdom and the genius of your great father to test his full and loyal nature. My life…should for twenty years made me contemplate his career and the constant assistance he gave me by…the informal knowledge I had…in him the solder was truly the development of the man…know not only the soldier by the man. He came towards Genl Grant…so magnanimous and so difficult…unsurpassed for freedom from moral defect. In all my…peculiar knowledge of his character and career I never found a manner a shadow of a vice…My heart has spoken in spite of me. I only want to say to all the sons and daughters of Genl Sherman that after themselves and the others closest in blood no one in the nation has better cause to mourn because no one has more cause to love and admire his memory. Your father and mother were both my friends and you will let me tell you all that…â€. There are some additional words in another’s handwriting. There are a few crossouts and two faint folds that affect little. unknown books
1991150137Arcadia: Celebrity Photo Agency 1991. Vintage borderless reference photograph with left margin of Traci Lords and Stephen Kearney sitting amongst the aftermath of a massive pie fight on the set of the 1992 film. Printed snipe label here under using the working title "The Nutty Nut" and photographer "John Paschal" stamp on verso. <br/><br/>Wealthy Presidential candidate Philbert Nutt's identical twin separated since birth Nathan who suffers multiple personality disorder shows up at his mansion ensuing a series of mistaken identity mishaps which spiral out of control.<br/><br/>Screenwriters Sam Raimi Ivan Raimi and Bruce Campbell were so displeased with the film they used pseudonyms in the credits with the Raimis using the long running pseudonym Alan Smithee Jr. and Sr. respectively.<br/><br/>Shot on location in Los Angeles California. <br/><br/>7 x 9 inches. Near Fine. Celebrity Photo Agency unknown books
1998149960New York: Glenn Horowitz Bookseller Inc 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Number 195 of only 200 copies printed on Mohawk Vellum and Dulcet Papers at the Stinehour Press. Concept and book design by Adam Fuss and Andrew Roth and with typography by Jerry Kelly. Includes 7 color and black and white images. A fine copy in Japanese black cloth boards and in a the publisher's folded red glassine wrapper that is very near fine condition. Signed by Roth on the colophon page in red ink. A beautiful production. Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, Inc unknown books
1973149662N.p.: N.p. 1973. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1973 French film showing actress Brigitte Fossey in silhouette.<br/><br/>A man recently released from the hospital falls in love with a woman who is identical in appearance to his wife.<br/><br/>Shot on location in Morbihan France. <br/><br/>9.25 x 7 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
2011RMAICAM00MELCambridge University Press 2011. Fine. Maiden Martin. The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages 2 volumes. Smith John Charles; Ledgeway Adam. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2011. 866pp. Indexed. 8vo. Black cloth with gilt lettering. Book condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine in plastic protector. Cambridge University Press hardcover books
186542656Philadelphia: Published by John Dainty 1865. Age-toning to engraving with some discoloration sections to margins especially to left. Minor wear to frame. Very Good. Oval image sepia toned 8" x 6-1/8". Period black oval wood frame 13-7/8" x 11-5/8" <br/><br/>Full-length group portrait of Abraham Lincoln and his family. Mary Todd Lincoln and the president are seated left to right with Robert Todd standing behind them and Thomas to Lincoln's right. A portrait of William Wallace Lincoln hangs on the wall. Published by John Dainty unknown books
172741751Amsterdam: Isaak vander Putte 1727. Later printing. Vellum. A good copy with top half of backstrip perished soiling on boards dampstain to top edge to preliminaries and rear blanks and end-papers some leaves quite dark; binding secure. 16 576 pp. Illus. with engraved title. 16mo. This traditional book of homilies prayers and hymns for seamen was first published in 1625 and reprinted a number of times until 1743. Contains sections on whaling. Isaak vander Putte hardcover books
1946138606Paris: Ecran Francais 1946. Original program for the 1946 French film based on the play by Alfred Adam. <br/><br/>On the eve of his daughter's 16th birthday a father hires a man to dress as the ghost of the figure in her favorite painting which he just sold. Two suitors also dress as ghosts to vie for her attention. All this commotion causes the real ghost to appear in order to help Sylvie sort everything out. <br/><br/>12.25 x 9.5 inches. Saddle stapled. Near Fine with cello tape reinforcements to the staples. Ecran Francais unknown books
1980147262N.p.: N.p. 1980. Draft script for an unproduced film. <br/><br/>Based on Joseph Conrad's 1911 novel "Under Western Eyes" which was considered by some to be Conrad's response to "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky whom Conrad purportedly despised. The narrative generally depicts the life of an oft-downtrodden revolutionary told through the story of a language teacher living in Geneva. <br/><br/>Set in St. Petersburg Russia and Geneva Switzerland. <br/><br/>Goldenrod titled wrappers with credits for screenwriters Adam Gillon and Scott Gordon and novelist Joseph Conrad. 128 leaves with last page of text numbered 127. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good with the front wrapper partially detached from the binding bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1948220115Pasadena California: Trail's End Publshing Co 1948. Collector's Edition one of 600 copies. Illustrated. 2 vols. 8vo. Black morocco spine and black boards bevelled edges. In black cloth slipcase. Collector's Edition one of 600 copies. Illustrated. 2 vols. 8vo. Rampaging Herd 16; Adams Six-Guns 14 Trail's End Publshing Co unknown books
177717132London 1777. Copper engraving. Engraved by Roe. In excellent condition. An elegant engraving of the elaborate ceiling in the dining room of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn's celebrated house in St. James's Square London.<br/> <br/>Robert and his brother James Adam forever changed the face of British architecture by introducing innovative Classical design ideas. From 1754-57 Robert lived in Italy where he had a long productive friendship with Piranesi which was inspirational for both men. Adam's first book on Diocletian's palace in Dalmatia is clearly very like the archaeological investigations Piranesi was making at the same time of similar ruins. Piranesi's friendship and passion for Roman Classicism were seminal influences on Adam and the greatest single factor other than his own talent in the work Adam produced on his return to England. Upon his return the brothers launched their career by building the Adelphi from the Thames to the Strand in London which although not a commercial success at the time included one of London's most cherished buildings the Adlephi Theatre. Together the Adam brothers designed and built some of the most famous buildings in England including such bastions of English architecture as Kenwood House Keddlestone Manor and Syon House. To the interiors of their English country houses the Adams brought wonderful ornamental elements in niches lunettes festoons and reliefs. Their classically designed buildings were so numerous in London that they changed the prevailing feel of the city and established their brand of neo-Classicism as the model of elegance and importance. It is asserted that the brothers originated the concept of the uniform facade attached to the typical English row house an architectural device that distinguishes London buildings. This monumental contribution is evidenced in the Adams' designs for Portland Place and Fitzroy Square and these were used as architectural models for the whole city. The brothers brought their talents into other areas by designing furniture to complement their beautiful interiors and by creating and publishing a treatise of design entitled 'Works in Architecture'. The work was published in three volumes over an extended span of time beginning in 1773 with the final volume being published posthumously in 1822.<br/> <br/>Cf. Brunet I.47; cf. Lowndes I p.8; DNB; Wilton-Ely The Mind and Art of Giovanni Battista Piranesi. unknown books
