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1885242017London: W. Stevens 421 Strand 1885. First edition. No. 30 in The Family Story Teller Series. 224 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Stiff gray paper over boards. Very good. First edition. No. 30 in The Family Story Teller Series. 224 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Wolff 7052 W. Stevens 421, Strand unknown books
19849005329New York: Norton 1984. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. Bound in the publisher's original red cloth with the spine stamped in gilt. The dust jacket has one minor closed tear. <br/><br/> Norton hardcover books
1928211892n.p.: Published by the New Mexico Dept. of Game and Fish . 1928. First trade edition. Illustrated with color plates by Allan Brooks etc. xxiv 807 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Green cloth gilt. A bit shaken else Fine. First trade edition. Illustrated with color plates by Allan Brooks etc. xxiv 807 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Published by the New Mexico Dept. of Game and Fish .. unknown books
1926015073Little Brown 1926. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Fine Copy In a Very Good Jacket First Edition. Vintage Biblio-Mystery. Excellent Copy Very Scarce In Jacket. Little Brown Hardcover books
197828460Bridgewater CT: The Flume Press 1978. cloth leather spine label. Papermaking. 8vo. cloth leather spine label. 1011 pages. First edition. One of 450 copies printed by this private press of which this is one of 25 copies to be in a special binding and contains a specimen of paper made at The Red Mill located in Bridgewater CT. A charming essay about the joys and pitfalls of starting a papermaking mill. The book is illustrated by Elmer Garrett. Presentation on the half-title. Loosely inserted is a prospectus to the book a signed poem by Garrett a large newspaper clipping giving us history of the mill and two newspaper clippings listing the sale price of the mill. The Flume Press unknown books
198661785bdDayton Ohio: Morningside Bookshop Reissued in One Volume in 1986. Octavo blue cloth hardcover gilt letters fold-out maps map illus. endpaper 1103 pp. Fine. Morningside Bookshop, Reissued in One Volume in 1986. hardcover books
1905213819London: A. & C. Black 1905. First edition. xii 262 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Three-quarter green morocco marbled boards a.e.g. Spine tanned light rubbing to extremities else Fine. Bookplates of Edward Lawrence and Carrie Estelle Doheny. First edition. xii 262 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. A. & C. Black unknown books
1909265953Boston: Dana Estes 1909. First Edition. 312 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Brown pictorial cloth. Fine in Very Good pictorial dustjacket with chips. First Edition. 312 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. IN DUSTJACKET. From the Introduction: "We of the Anglo-Saxonrace still believe in slaying the fatted calf to which there is surely no objection.In the sudden deveolpment of enormous wealth in our own country there is some danger that we shall be dazzled by the pomp and display of of the very rich and lose sight of the true nature of hospitality."<br/><br/>Cahpter on the Country Hostess Picnics House-OParties Dances Women's Club etc. Dana Estes unknown books
194814718JNew York: Harper 1948. Later printing. Signed presentation copy from the author to his friends actors Fredric March and Florence Eldridge husband and wife. Inscribed: For Florence and Frederic With love from Stuart. October 1949. With the March’s decorative bookplate which reads EX LIBRIS - FLORENC AND FREDRIC MARCH. Very good clean copy without dust jacket. Harper unknown books
1876135400Chicago: Jansen 1876. 12mo pp. 1-6 7-282 1-4: ads flyleaves at front and rear original decorated brown cloth front and rear panels stamped in blind spine panel stamped in gold brown coated endpapers. First edition. Eleven stories most of them dark tales of mental aberration. The title story concerns the invention of a machine to amplify sound and the murder of an elderly deaf woman who tries to take the instrument away from its inventor. Most of the stories can be characterized as Gothic fantasies. Clareson Science Fiction in America 1870s-1930s 546. Bleiler 1978 p. 131. Not in Reginald 1979. Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1087. Wright III 3531 locating 2 copies. Cloth worn at spine ends and corner tips a very good copy. Scarce. #135400 Jansen unknown books
194117927New York: Ives Washburn Inc. Near Fine in Very Good- dj. c.1941. First Edition. Hardcover. price-clipped light shelfwear very slight bumping at a couple of corners; jacket moderately worn at edges and extremities and the bottom one-third of the spine has gotten scrunched with resulting wrinkling and chipping at base of spine. B&W photo frontispiece "The leading woman penologist of our country presents the absorbing story of her life among the women who have failed society and themselves." Ms. Monahan the stern yet somehow motherly type to judge from her frontispiece portrait photo had headed up a number of penal institutions including the California State Prison for Women at Tehachapi. At the time of writing she was Superintendent of the Shakopee Minnesota State Women's Reformatory which transitioned to a new facility in 1986 but is still in operation as the state's only women's prison. She dedicates her book "to the hundreds of women prisoners I have known who are now good citizens." The Foreword is by Lewis E. Lawes ex-warden of Sing Sing who was well-known for his own chronicles of penal life "Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing" et al. Homosexuality among women prisoners is discussed in Chapter XVI "The Sex Problem." Very scarce especially in the jacket. . Ives Washburn, Inc. hardcover books
19302630051930. unbound. 10 x 8 inches no place no date circa 1930 -- a Maurice Seymour three-quarters black-and-white image of Reed dressed in a Bohemian outfit complete with hat scarf and bangles holding a musical score. Near fine condition.<br/><br/> American actress of the stage screen and television. She appeared in the classic motion picture "Great Expectations" in 1934 as Miss Havisham and finished her cinema career three years later.<br/><br/> unknown books
190519010London: Longmans Green & Co n.d. 19051. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Florence K. Upton. Oblong 4to. 66pp. Green cloth spine pictorial boards. Decorated endpapers. 32 full page color plates including the title page and numerous illustrations on the text. Boards somewhat rubbed upper inner hinge neatly repaired some fingerling smudges on the pages but a very good copy. Page opposite title shows previous five Golliwogg books and the Vege-Men's Revenge. Longmans, Green & Co hardcover books
192220133Philadelphia: Lippincott 1922. 1st edition. Maroon cloth stamped in gilt & with color pictorial onlay to front board. Dust jacket replicates the binding design. NF/VG light wear/sm chip to head of spine panel. Uncommon in dj. 215 pp. Illustrated with 8 inserted color plates on coated paper by Gertrude Kay. Royal 8vo. <br/><br/> Lippincott hardcover books
193511678New York: Beautician Publications 1935. Second Edition. Partially Revised by Members of the Staff of Inecto Inc." Seventh Printing. Illustrated. 1 vols. 12mo. Original black cloth. Second Edition. Partially Revised by Members of the Staff of Inecto Inc." Seventh Printing. Illustrated. 1 vols. 12mo. TheArt & Science of Dyeing Hair - Author's Own Copy. Signed on the flyleaf: Florence Ernestine Wall Personal Copy" and with her marginal notes thorughout. Inscribed on p. iv: "To Miss Florence E. Wall - It is my great pleasure to do what one seldom has an opportunity to do: - To present an "autographed" copy of a book to its author! Ralph L. Evans Feb 12 1936.". Beautician Publications unknown books
197121032124New York: Holiday House 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Gorey Edward. First printing oblong sixmo size 64 pp. signed by Edward Gorey. Edward St. John Gorey 1925-2000 is well-known and well-loved for his poisonously funny picture books which are complex humorous serious and provocative. <br/><br/>In this work Treehorn was shrinking.and he didn't know why.as the publisher says on the dust jacket flap: "With his usual tongue-in-cheek approach Edward Gorey glorifies the many imaginings of the story in witty pen and ink drawings." The book would win the New York Times Illustrated Book of the Year Award for 1971 with the reviewer stating: "The spare orderly illustrations counterpoint the garrulous text and thereby the vacuum in the middle of the child's life is chillingly and hilariously conveyed" n.b. from the web site of the New York Times. <br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Cloth-covered boards of green with illustrations in black and white and black lettering decorative boards on the title page signed by Gorey on the title page in his usual manner of putting a line through his printed name and signing above in black ink the story unfolds with text on the left verso and illustrations on the right recto; oblong sixmo size 6 1/4" by 7 1/8" unpaginated with thirty-two printed leaves. Dust jacket shows the original price of $3.95 and mirrors the design of the book on the panels and spine the front flap with a short summary of the book the back flap with short bios of the author and artist. <br/><br/>___CONDITION: Volume could almost be deemed fine; the binding is clean other than a speck or two the corners are perfectly straight with just a hint of rubbing the text block is strong and square with solid hinges the pages are clean and bright and the book is free of prior owner markings. The unclipped dust jacket is also near fine clean with minimal edgewear and a hint of toning to the spine. <br/><br/>___CITATION: Toledano B51a. <br/><br/>___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. <br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. Holiday House hardcover books
602444on the original printed photographer's mount by Parker 740 Fifth Ave. San Diego. Three story wooden structure occupied the entire block bounded by Third Fourth Fir and Grape streets. 8 1/2" x 6 1/2"; very good; ca. 1880. A contemporary note on verso records a visit in 1886. F. Hardcover. hardcover books
602407not signed on original printed photographer's mount by Parker 740 Fifth Ave. San Diego. 8 3/8" x 5 1/4"; very good light toning and soiling; minor signs of handling; ca. 1880's. The three story wooden structure occupied the entire block bounded by Third Fourth Fir and Grape Streets. The Florence claimed to be the "Society Hotel of Southern California; as well as the largest hotel in San Diego with extensive ocean views. A contemporary note on verso records a visit in 1886. F. Hardcover. hardcover books
1872242124London: Richard Bentley 1872. Second edition. 2 vols. 8vo. Publisher's gilt-stamped maroon cloth. Very Good lendinbg library lael removed on upper cover of each volume. Second edition. 2 vols. 8vo. Sadleir 1761 second edition; Wolff 4849 Richard Bentley unknown books
1930Z1731New York:: Charles Scribner's Sons 1930. 1930. 8vo. xii 160 pp. Frontis. port. of Osborn plates index. Burgundy cloth gilt-stamped cover and spine titles dust-jacket; jacket worn and stained with some tape repair. Very good. Dr. George R. Minot's copy with the Author's presentation inscription: "To Dr. George R. Minot; In memory of Charles Sedgwick Minot & Dr. George R. Minot- with the best wishes of Henry Fairfield Osborn December 18th 1930 Congratulations on the well-deserved award." Minot was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine which he shared with William P. Murphy and George H. Whipple. The reference to the "award" in the inscription was not to the Noble Prize which came to Minot in 1934. Also in the inscription the use of the phrase "In memory of" certainly applied to Charles Sedgwick Minot who died in 1914 but not to George since he died in 1955. Osborn himself died in 1935. Two earlier editions of the bibliography had been published the first for the period 1877-1910 and the second for the period 1911-1918. Both were compiled by Harriet Ernestine Ripley and continued thereafter by Janette May Lucas. This bibliography is identified in the text as the third edition but it is the first edition of the complete bibliography. A special copy in every respect. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. hardcover books
19315467Florence Ala: The Church 1931. Octavo 22.5 x 14.5 cm. x 151 xxix pages. Advertisements. Table of contents. Stated second edition likely a corrected printing of the first edition. An evidently well-received collection of nine hundred recipes following closely upon the first edition of only two years previous with the same 151 pages. Southern favorites stand in relief: Southern Egg Bread Okra Gumbo Bishop Whipple Pudding Ambrosia Owendaw Asparagus Loaf Blackeye Peas Elder Blossom Wine Creole Pralines. But it would be misleading to truncate the story there for the Women of Trinity Guild could venture out as eagerly as their counterparts elsewhere from Almond Bisque and Lobster Canapes to Queen of Trifles and Banberry sic Tarts. Marginalia on page 110 comments on the Sponge Cake fine ".grand but a lot of work". For more local color an advertisement on the rear of wrappers is for "Dowdy's Pit Bar-B-Q Fish-Chili Lee Highway." ~ Florence is a well-known constituent municipality of The Shoals in Alabama's northwestern corner the birthplace of W. C. Handy and by extension it is often said the birthplace of the Blues. The seat of Lauderdale County the city and the surrounding region had become prosperous through its abundant access to water power early in the nineteenth century. Though not the first Episcopalian congregation established in Alabama - Anglicans had already settled in Mobile and Tuscaloosa - Trinity Church founded in 1836 and still an active community lays claim to the title of oldest parish in the Tennessee Valley. ~ Several pages splash-stained but text unobscured throughout. Stapled in blue wrappers titled in black; stained and faded but nonetheless intact. Good. A lengthy gift presentation handwritten in ink on page ix addressed to "a bride" as per page 48 with corresponding recommendations marking several recipes. Scarce. OCLC locates no copies of this second edition though one copy of the first edition and three copies of the revised third edition of 1943 are reported; none of these editions in Brown Cagle or Cather. [The Church] unknown books
190319008London: Longmans Green & Co 1903. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Florence K. Upton. Oblong 4to. 66pp. Cloth spine pictorial boards. Decorated endpapers. 32 full page color plates including the title page numerous illustrations in text. Boards somewhat rubbed soiled and edgeworn; some fingerling smudges on the pages else a very good copy. The page facing the title page lists the previous seven Golliwogg books as well as the Vege-Men's Revenge. Longmans, Green & Co hardcover books
195049264London: James Barrie 1950. Third Printing. PRESENTATION copy INSCRIBED to Florence Scripps Kellogg and SIGNED by the Author with her full signature. Blue cloth binding with gilt stamped spine lettering. No dust jacket. Average wear Very Good. All correspondence Very Good. 237 1 pp. Letters accompanied by envelopes: one stamped & mailed from Tunbridge Wells England to Culver City California; the other two unmailed hand delivered. 8vo. 8-3/4" x 5-1/2" <br/><br/>"Lady Cynthia Mary Evelyn Asquith was an English writer and socialite known for her ghost stories and diaries. She also wrote novels and edited a number of anthologies as well as writing for children and on the British Royal family." Wiki <br /> <br />Kellogg a California resident with estates in Altadena & La Jolla who was the widow of Frederick William Kellogg newspaper publisher & Vice-President of the Copley Press. <br /> <br />Here Asquith in her ANs on stationery from the Times Bookshop London dated Oct 5th 1951 sends Kellogg "a copy of one of my books. Please dont lend it to your friends but make them buy it from Scribner's ." In a ANs on personal stationery Asquith thanks Kellogg for sending her Kellogg's book of "charming Poems. I am delighted to have them." published Pasadena ca 1950. The accompanying 3 page Oct 5th '51 ALs on "Cynthia's Home" stationery 15 Queen's Gate Gardens S.W.7 Western 1931 presents the book to "My dear Mrs Kellogg" signed by Asquith's friend Bibs . James Barrie hardcover books
192817322Paris France: Edition d'Etudes et de Documents 1928. Hardcover. VG internally original glassine cover on wraps. Appears unusedm but has library labels stamps and bookplate foxing to free enbdpapers. Black cloth gilt lettering on spine. 2 preliminary leaves vii-viii 221 pages 1 leaf including plates. Numerous bw plates. Text in French. The catalogue is preceded by a section on Pater's life and work. A superb copy library markings notwithstanding. Edition d'Etudes et de Documents hardcover books
1970WN2817New York: The Viking Press 1970. A bit of fading at book spine ends and faint shelfwear. Dust jacket spine a little sunned. Price clipped. This is the standard work on the subject written by the wife of Charles Montgomery noted expert on 18th century American furniture. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Trade. The Viking Press Hardcover books
