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1832bas27Providence RI: Cranston & Hammond 1832. First Edition. Octavo tan cloth hardcover paper label 200 pp. Fair with edgewear that includes chipping to spine; foxing age darkening throughout. Cranston & Hammond, 1832. First Edition. hardcover books
1942144042New York: Samuel French 1942. First Edition. First Edition. Three-act play that is the basis for the 1945 film noir "The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry" directed by Robert Siodmak and starring George Sanders and Geraldine Fitzgerald. <br/><br/>Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. Jacket is lightly soiled with a few short closed tears and light chipping. Samuel French unknown books
1942137922New York: Samuel French 1942. First Edition. First Edition. Three-act play that is the basis for the 1945 film noir "The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry" directed by Robert Siodmak and starring George Sanders and Geraldine Fitzgerald. <br/><br/>Near Fine in a Very Good or better dust jacket with a couple of tiny chips at the extremities and very light occasional foxing. Samuel French unknown books
1856M13479New York:: Holman & Gray Steam Printers 1856 1863. 1856. Two papers bound together. 24 cm. 62; 299-351 1 pp. Title inscribed "from the author" . . . "and an essay on cyanosis". Nineteenth century brown cloth; extremities worn; lacks ffep first title gutter with tears to the title. Rubber-stamp on title of the Mercantile Library Assoc. NY. Good minor kozo repairs. Rare. "FROM THE AUTHOR" Smith also wrote A Treatise on the Diseases of Infancy and Childhood. Philadelphia 1869. Cyanosis or "blue disease" is described here in full via the author's 2-part lecture at the New York Academy of Medicine February 18 and March 4 1863. Smith considered the talk statistical as its results are based on the analyses of 191 cases. Within his paper is a detailed history of the literature on the same topic. "It is only just to state that Dr. J. Lewis Smith of New York in his admirable work on Diseases of Infancy and Childhood gives the best consideration of this subject that I have met with among out systematic treatises." -- Frank Woodbury "The Significance of Bloody Discharges from the Bowels in Young Children" JAMA vol. III no. 7 August 1884 p. 180. Smith was born in Spafford NY. His studies took him to the Buffalo Medical School where he interned. Smith graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York 1853. He worked as physician to the Charity Hospital and the NY foundling asylum etc. Ashwal mentions Smith as one of the persons advancing the field of pediatrics which he tells started in the early nineteenth century but also developed more strongly by the middle of the century. Smith was also the second president of the American Pediatric Society the first such organization in the Unites States. -- Ashwal p 120. p. 171. Atkinson Physicians and Surgeons of the United States p. 136. See: Ashwal The Founders of Child Neurology. Cone Thomas E. Jr. History of American pediatrics Little Brown 1980 pp. 103-104. REFERENCES: These works not in Grulee. FFrye C188 Holman & Gray, Steam Printers, 1856, 1863. hardcover books
002783Paris: Charavay Martoux the first two works. Charavay Martin the third work. Edouard Crete printer. Half Morocco Marbled Boards. Good. Folio 14 by 11.5 inches 36 by 30 cm. N.d. circa 1900. Rebacked with the original morocco spine mounted onto skiver. The skiver though being a different shade of red is conspicuous along the entire front joint and at the lower end in particular the reattachment looks clumsy. The leather of the spine has heavily rubbed with dry chipping at the extremities. The leaves within are heavily age toned and a bit brittle with some marginal chipping. A few tape repairs. The leaves of the three volumes are not exactly even and so this comes off similar to many a sammelbund. Still excellent value for two antique French juvenile classics. <br/><br/> Charavay, Martoux (the first two works). Charavay, Martin (the third work). Edouard Crete, printer. hardcover books
201248386Yonkers: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press 2012. Paperback. Very good. 313pp. Very good in publisher's wraps. <br/><br/> St. Vladimir's Seminary Press paperback books
1945136083Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1945. Vintage black-and-white studio still photograph from the set of the 1945 film. Director Robert Siodmak shown in conversation with Geraldine Fitzgerald. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Grant US. Selby Canon US. Silver Classic Noir. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Universal Pictures unknown books
1911014861New York: Outing Publishing Company 1911. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. Second edition. Octavo 8vo. xiv 284 pages of text followed by iv pages of index. Original hardcover binding with minor rubbing. No dustjacket. Illustrated by approximately 120 black & white photographs. One page with a tiny chip to the edges and a few smudges here and there to the margins. The text is otherwise clean and unmarked. Second Edition Revised. Outing Publishing Company Hardcover books
32857Other: Other. Very Good. Hardcover. NY 1922. 312 pages clothbound no jacket very good condition. . Other hardcover books
1804WRCAM7141Philadelphia 1804. v2-224pp. Contemporary calf leather label. Boards bowed wear to extremities. Tanned and foxed old rubberstamp on endsheet. A good sound copy. A survey of agriculture and agricultural practices of the day with information partially borrowed from Spurrier and Bordley as well as that gleaned from the author's own polls. Scarce here in the first edition. SABIN 71898. RINK 1148. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 7203. hardcover books
180454777Philadelphia: Jacob Johnson and others A. Bartram printer 1804. First edition. 12mo. v 3 5-224 pp. With the contemporary bookplate of "Alfred Macay of Millford" on the front pastedown; an Alfred Macay owned Milford Plantation in Rowan County North Carolina at this time. Sabin 71898. American Imprints 7203. Contemporary calf a little eroded leather label gilt rules and ornaments on spine. Persistent foxing but a very good copy. 1612. <br/><br/> Jacob Johnson [and others], A. Bartram, printer hardcover books
184654235Boston: Thomas H. Webb & Co 1846. First edition 8vo pp. 176; original printed wrappers backed with red cloth at an early date manuscript paper label on spine; wrappers lightly soiled and worn with minor loss to back wrap; a few corners creased and curled but text generally clean. A good sound copy. A work of Emersonian pantheism by the Chief Judge of the Rhode Island Supreme Court who presided over the Dorr trials. In an earlier work The Influence of Scientific Discovery and Invention on Social and Political Progress 1843 Durfee believed that he had found in the advent of steam power a sign of divine intervention indicating a "law of progress" in man's development. Panidea adumbrates this theme: all is eventually assimilated into the "Theanthropoid" Durfee's term for the Divine Mind. See Schneider History of American Philosophy. DAB offers a concise assessment: "a somewhat pretentious philosophical work which nobody read." American Imprints 2262. <br/><br/> Thomas H. Webb & Co hardcover books
1870GG01758Cincinnati:: Cincinnati Weekly Times/Times Steam Job Color Press ca. 1870s. 1870. Engraved framed print. 52.5 x 66 cm. Printed in color caption title lower left margin: "G.K. Stillman Engraver 4th & Walnut Cin."; insect damage to lower right margin affecting text but not image. age toning from backing. Gold-leaf frame probably contemporary. Very good. "A fanciful engraving of the Calaveras Grove showing the principal trees living and dead grouped around the hotel. The text identifies the trees and provides minimal statistical information. The 'Big Tree Stump' is depicted without a structure on it and 'The Mother of the Forest' is shown with scaffolding still in place. However style printing and paper would indicate a date circa 1870s or later." Currey & Kruska. REFERENCES: Currey & Kruska Bibliography of Yosemite the Central and the Southern High Sierra and the Big Trees 1839-1900 #246; Robert B. Honeyman Jr. Collection of Early California and Western American Pictorial Material. Indicating 1855 Bancroft Library Banc Pic 1963 002:0379-D. Cincinnati Weekly Times/Times Steam Job Color Press, [ca. 1870s]. unknown books
184355252Providence: B. Cranston and Company 1843. First edition 8vo pp. 52; removed from binding wrappers wanting; very good. Durfee here propounds the theory that "the recent revolutionary development of steam power was not merely an instance of man making progress it was a revelation of the divine 'law of progress' and of a 'higher destiny' planned by God himself for the new age" Schneider History of American Philosophy. These ideas were adumbrated by Durfee in The Panidea; Or An Omnipresent Reason Considered as the Creative and Sustaining Logos 1846 "a pretentious work that nobody read" DAB. More charitable comments are made by Joseph Blau in his collection of American Philosophic Addresses 1700 to 1900 page 381 ff where the Oration is reprinted in full. An important aspect of Durfee's deterministic theory of history is that "there is no absolute undefinable popular sovereignty which can in a manner its own and at any moment carry a certain supposed natural equality into social and political life and thereby elevate poor human nature however rude and degraded in condition at once as by a sort of magic into a state of supreme and absolute perfection" quoted by Blau. This is because the advances of science and technology impose conditions upon society which democracy cannot control and to which it must adapt. Blau notes that Durfee's views were influenced by German transcendentalism as mediated by Coleridge and Cousin. Not surprisingly given his skepticism on the efficacy of popular sovereignty Durfee as Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court played a prominent role in opposition to the Dorr forces. Not in American Imprints Bartlett or Parks; Sabin 21427 note. <br/><br/> B. Cranston and Company unknown books
184385836Providence: B. Cranston and Company 1843. Paperback. Very Good. 52p. pamphlet. 22 cm. Disbound removed from a bound volume. Stitch marks along left side. Wrapper not preserved. Durfee served as Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court for the last 12 years of his life 1835-1847. <br/><br/> B. Cranston and Company paperback books
1979246853Ann Arbor Mich.: UMI Research Press 1979. Hardcover. vii 361p. corners bumped else very good condition. No dj. Studies in American History and Culture; no. 1. UMI Research Press hardcover books
184956158Providence: Gladding and Proud 1849. First edition 8vo pp. xxvi 523 1; contemporary half brown morocco over marbled boards; binding scuffed ex-Brown University with an Ives Collection bookplate withdrawn call slip on the rear pastedown; no external markings; good and sound. Durfee was the jurist who first called the Dorr Rebellion illegal and treasonable. Includes two lectures "History of the Subjection and Extermination of the Narragansetts" and "The Idea of the Supernatural among the Indians." Bartlett p. 115. <br/><br/> Gladding and Proud hardcover books
187423871New York: Scribner Armstrong & Co. 1874. 8vo. xxvi 2 633 pp. <br><br>The "rhythmical version" is by Tayler Lewis of Union College. "A commentary by Otto Zockler. Translated from the German with additions by Prof. L. J. Evans. Together with a general introduction to the poetical books by Philip Schaff. Publisher's black embossed cloth with decorative design on boards. Spine with extremities frayed and gilt-stamped title dimmed. Binding is shaken but in generally good condition. Ex-library: call number on binding bookplate on front pastedown. Scribner, Armstrong & Co. hardcover books
1969189897Berkeley.: University of California Press. 1969. 1st edition. Hardcover tan cloth black spine title. . 4 dog eared miscut pages otheriwse near fine in a near fine dust jacket. . 4to. University of California Press. hardcover books
1969193617Berkeley.: University of California Press. 1969. 1st Edition. Hardcover tan cloth black spine title. . Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. . 4to. University of California Press. hardcover books
1793247373Providence: Printed by J. Carter 1793. First edition. vii. 185 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. With an owner signature in ink on title page: "John Hoskins his book 11 mo 12th 1793. 1/10 1/2" Contemporary quarter sheep and boards. Nice copy. First edition. vii. 185 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Evans 26146 Printed by J. Carter unknown books
181054074Baltimore: published by Joseph James 1810. Second edition 12mo; pp. 3 iv-vii 1 2-200; full contemporary mottled calf gilt-paneled spine in 6 compartments red morocco label in 1; joints starting with leaves moderately browned; good and sound. In the 1820s Scott's views became controversial among Quakers and were adopted by the Hicksite faction. First published in 1793 this is only the second American edition. American Imprints 21291. <br/><br/> published by Joseph James unknown books
179427839Providence printed; Dublin reprinted: Rachel Maria Jackson 1794. 8vo 19.5 cm 7.7". vii 1 192 pp. <br><br>Uncommon first Irish edition of this work following its initial appearance in Providence RI the previous year. This treatise on baptism arguing against baptizing with water and for baptizing with the Holy Ghost was written by a doctrinally controversial American Quaker. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â ESTC T76779. Contemporary speckled sheep spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label; edges and extremities darkened and rubbed joints cracked spine with shelving label. Ex-library: bookplate title-page and one other perforation-stamped endpapers rubber-stamped rubber-stamped numerals to lower margin of first preface page. First and last few leaves with upper margin-edges lightly waterstained pages otherwise clean. Rachel Maria Jackson hardcover books
2016405215New York: Skira Rizzoli 2016. A near-fine copy with minor bumps at ends of spine. Folio. 256 pages. Color photographs. Pictorial boards. FIRST EDITION. "Blurring the lines between industrial design and art installation Job Smeets and Nynke Tynagel of Studio Job have vaulted into the top ranks of contemporary design. Studio Job redefines the applied arts for the contemporary age" the publisher. <br/><br/> Skira Rizzoli hardcover books
1819SS321-001Various: Various 1918-1955. Hardcover. Very Good. For an itemized list of the items in this lot please inquire. Condition Very Good to Good. The Courier-Journal newspaper began publication in Louisville Kentucky in 1868 - the last run of the Courier-Journal newspaper was Sunday February 28 2021; the Courier-Journal Job Printing Company printing facilities closed for good on March 4th 2021. The material offered here is dated 1918 through circa 1955 and includes technical material used by apprentices and compositors working in the composition and press rooms of the Courier-Journal Job Printing Co. Included are 6 volumes of the Typographic Technical Series For Apprentices Part VI Nos. 32-40 out of series Chicago IL: Published by the Committee on Education United Typothetae of America 1918. All copies with the bookplate "Property of Courier-Journal Job Printing Co. For EMPLOYES' sic Use Only Return to Superintendent's Office" in a handsome Art Nouveau design on the front paste-down. This educational material demonstrates that the Courier-Journal Job Printing Company was unionized at least from the beginning of the twentieth-century and highlights the power and influence of typographers who were among the most educated economically mobile wage laborers in the United States and who were represented in every major urban center in the newspaper industry; the typographic unions won a 48-hour work week in 1897 and a standard wage scale throughout the newspaper industry; as an example of the power of the typographers unions in the 1930s the International Typographical Union introduced the 40-hour work week across the industry which spread to other unions and has sinse been codified across the labor sector by federal legislation; the typographers occupied an important if ambiguous place in the development of American labor history in as much as American labor was never successful in uniting all laborers together in one force but tended organize within industries. This grouping tends to focus on the tools of the trade including type specimens and catalogs of process inks issued in the 1920s and 1930s; Courier-Journal typographers left notes to themselves in these catalogs indicating material they felt needed representation in the Courier-Journal Job Printing Company's shops. Something of an outlier in this grouping is an accordion-fold volume of photographs of printing equipment available for use in the 1950s by the competing print shop The Standard Printing Company Incorporated of Louisville Kentucky. Most likely a salesman's dummy to show potential clients that The Standard Printing Company had the latest printing equipment and the most prestigious customers this undated circa 1955 without imprint accordion-fold photo-archive of printing equipment shows the most modern print shop of the 1950s. The earliest book printed by the Courier-Journal Job Printing Company was issued in 1884. An interesting article by Chris Kenning in the Louisville Courier Journal March 11 2021 gave some valuable insights into the history of the newspaper the Courier-Journal Job Printing Company and the challenges to the newspaper business and printing in general in the United States with the advent of desktop computers and the rise of the internet. While the Kenning article did not touch much on the time period 1918-1955 there are still interesting stories to tell about the printing industry in America the place of printing in the American labor movement and printing technology in the first half of the twentieth century that can be told using the materials offered here as visual aids. With the sale of the Courier-Journal to the Gannett Co. Inc in 1986 the road to the shut down of the Courier-Journal Job Printing Company was opened. Now the Courier-Journal newspaper will be printed in Indianapolis IN. The current print circulation of the paper is now under 60000 while the Courier Journal's digital journalism garners 4.5 million monthly visitors to their website. Media consolidation has been made possible with the internet's ability to distribute news on a minute-by-minute basis making regional newspapers printed on paper a redundancy. The Cincinnati Enquirer the Lexington Herald-Leader the Bowling Green Daily News are all regional newspapers that will no longer be produced locally after having been produced in Louisville by the presses of the Courier-Journal. This consolidation of the newspaper industry means the loss of 102 Louisville jobs including printing press operators mailroom and transportation jobs that have been lost to the relocation of the press work to Indianapolis. Various hardcover books