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187749092London: Longmans Green and Co 1877. Sixth Edition. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION COPY SIGNED by Nightingale all in pencil on the half-title page. Modern binding of full brown calf stamped in blind. Binding - Fine. Textblock - VG tideline visible to top edge. xxxi 1 blank 517 3 pp. 8vo. 8-1/8" x 5-1/2" <br/><br/>Nightingale presents the book to "Nurse Webb" adding "delivered from ship wreck by our almighty Father's care & entering on a new post of usefulness at Lincoln Hospital". Followed by her full signature and dated "Nov. 1878" <br /> <br />We know of this incident for on August 16 1878 Florence Nightingale wrote to her local church pastor at Crich Reverend Acraman recounting the ordeal: <br /> <br />"Dear Sir Four of our trained Nurses have been wrecked on their way home from Canada where they had been nursing for us at the Montreal General Hospital & were returning for further Nursing employment under us. The steamer was wrecked upon a reef two days out from Canada on July 2. All night she was beaten about & in danger of going to pieces. At day break the Captain lowered the passengers into a life boat but she drifted out to sea & again they were with difficulty saved. For a whole week till the 28th they were on an island whence an officer made his way to the nearest light house swimming two rivers which the crew would not cross or battened down in the hold of a small fish schooner without food or air in a terrific storm. On July 28 they were rescued by the Erl King Capt. Ed. Scott whose kindness we can never forget bound for Glasgow where they landed safe on Aug 9. <br /> <br />Would you allow me to return thanks for them our four Nurses in your church next Sunday <br /> <br />Their names are: <br />Nurse Styring <br />Nurse Wilson <br />“ Cross <br />“ Webb" <br /> <br />Might I say in any terms you would be good enough to use: <br /> <br />Florence Nightingale desires to return the most humble & hearty thanks to Almighty God for four trained Nurses returning home on duty from Canada who were wrecked on July 21 were saved three times from a watery grave & after severe sufferings for a week from exposure & hardship were rescued on the 28th by a vessel bound for Glasgow & safely landed on August 9 thro’ a merciful Providence. <br /> <br />Pray believe me Sir <br />ever your faithful servt <br />Florence Nightingale" <br /> <br />Cf. "Parish life with a troubled Vicar: Crich 1875-1900". Longmans, Green, and Co unknown books
149633734colophon: Argentina i.e. Strassburg: Johannem Reinhard Grüninger 1496. Folio 32.5 cm; 12.5". Vols. I & II in one volume of V. I: 173 of 174 ff. lacking first leaf of vol. 1; II: 225 of 226 ff. without the final blank. <br><br>The Summa Theologica 1477 more properly the Summa Moralis is the work upon which St. Antoninus's theological fame chiefly rests . . . it is probably the first certainly the most comprehensive treatment from a practical point of view of Christian ethics asceticism and sociology in the Middle Ages" NCE I 647.<br>Â Â Â Â After his ordination in 1413 at Cortona where he was sent for the Dominican novitiate along with artists Fra Angelico and Fra Bartolommeo! Antoninus 13891459 swiftly attained prominence in the Church; returning to his native Florence he consecrated the Convent of San Marco in 1443 and was appointed Archbishop of that city just a few years later. A great yet humble reformer whose writings were widely published even in the incunable period Antoninus was => hailed as a Doctor of the Church in the bull for his canonization.<br>Â Â Â Â The Summa completed shortly before his death is divided into four parts: the first is concerned with the soul and its faculties passions sin and law; the second addresses different types of sin and redress; the third considers various states and professions in life with treatises on ecclesiastical offices and censures; and the fourth contemplates the cardinal virtues religious morals and gifts of the Holy Spirit. Although the text draws heavily on earlier theological works by St. Thomas Aquinas among others it is regarded as => "a new and very considerable development in moral theology" NCE online and it contains => a wealth of matter for the student of 15th-century history.<br>Â Â Â Â Printed in Gothic type double-column format with most capitals supplied in red or blue manuscript in plain style the text here has red markings to aid in reading and navigation. Topics addressed in these volumes include sin penance canon law will original sin privilege lying pride avarice anger and infidelity among several others.<br>Â Â Â Â Goff and ISTC find only one complete set of all volumes in American libraries at the Countway in Boston. All other U.S. libraries save the Newberry report owning one or two of the volumes. The Newberry has volumes IIV.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Old illegible European library stamp in lower margin of first leaf of vol. I; in 20th and early 21st century in the library of the Pacific School of Religion properly deaccessioned. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â ISTC ia00878000; Goff A878; BMC I 109; GKW 2192. Contemporary calf over bevelled wood boards recently rebacked and new endpapers supplied; lacks a blank and a title leaf. Leather of boards elaborately and richly tooled in blind using rolls rules and individual stamps of a rose a fleur de lis and a saint; small area of leather on front board missing and substitute leather inserted. Evidence of brass and leather clasps remnants of vellum guide tabs. Text and boards of binding wormed mostly with many pinhole wormholes and text with some meandering; no great losses. Some small tears in a few margins and one lower margin with an old repair; stamp as above; browning to many margins. A good solid volume one with some condition issues but at the same time a good example of these productions and the era's printing. Johannem {Reinhard} Grüninger hardcover books
15510Florence Nightingale was an English social reformer and the founder of modern nursing. Nightingale came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War in which she organised care for wounded soldiers. ALS London 1864. on her '115 Park Street W' stationery. To Richard Baggallay. Dated July 21 1864 Nightingale writes 4 pages in her hand 7" x 4.5". Black rule borders to pages. She writes:<br/><br/>"My dear sir I was extremely sorry to hear of your approaching resignation of the post of Treasurer of St. Thomas' Hospital. It seems to me poor St Thomas' is in such a "fix" & has so many bad friends that he ought to keep all his good ones. But I was not so much sorry as shocked & surprised to hear the language used concerning Mr. Whitfield. Those persons may rest assured that I should never have placed my Probationers at St. Thomas but that Mr Whitfield & Mrs Wardroper were there. and when St Thomas' with its ample income has not contributed one farthing to but has profited by the services of my Training School." <br/><br/>The Nightingale Home and Training School for Nurses opened its doors to trainees in July 1860 as part of the newly built St. Thomas's Hospital in London. One of the first institutions to teach nursing and midwifery as a formal profession the training school was dedicated to communicating the philosophy and practice of its founder and patron Florence Nightingale. The Nightingale Home and Training School is now part of King's College London and known as The Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery. Important content. unknown books
1880320579Derby 1880. 3pp. folded sheet mourning stationery. With the original mailing envelope. Usual fold. Old tape repair on conjugate leaf with resulting stain affecting a few words of text but not affecting signature. 3pp. folded sheet mourning stationery. With the original mailing envelope. "I am very glad that there is to be a real life of the never to be forgotten glorious Dr. Livingstone. I wish Dr. Blaikie God speed. With regard to my private letter to you it was I need hardly say from the depths of my heart & not written with a view to publication and I cannot recall a word that was in it. But if you think that my poor words can contribute anything to what must be the object of every English speaking nation & not only this but of every man woman & child all over the world viz. to make known one who has opened the way of peace & not terror to those who were 'lying in darkness & the shadow of death' on so large a portion of the globe. I feel that I cannot decline what otherwise is so repugnant to me . And pray believe me ever the faithful servant of yourself & the great memory of as true a hero saint as ever lived ."<br/><br/>Written on the occasion of the preparation for imminent publication of William Garden Blaikie's biography of Livingstone published 1880 the letter gives permission for a letter of hers to be published in which she said of Livingstone: "We cannot console ourselves for our loss. He is irreplaceable" p. 458 and called him "the greatest man of his generation. unknown books
185947915London: John W. Parker and Son West Strand 1859. First Edition Bishop & Goldie 100 iii; Garrison - Morrison 1611. Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to front board. Rust colored eps. Cloth along joints splitting. Rub mark to front paste-down. Prior owner signature to h.t. Withal a VG copy. 8 108 8 pp. 8 page publisher catalogue at rear. Charts including one fold-out 8 intra-textual figures & 4 fold-out plates at rear. 8vo. 9" x 5-5/8" <br /><br />Per B & G "One result of the publication of Notes on Hospitals was to bring upon Miss Nightingale requests for advice on the building of hospitals and infirmaries from all over the world. She devoted much time and endless trouble to dealing with such requests ."Somewhat uncommon title in the trade. John W. Parker and Son, West Strand hardcover books
174038135En Sevilla: En la Imprenta de las Siete Revueltas 1740. 4to 20 cm 8". 8 194 4 pp.; illus. <br><br>Beautifully printed this is the second edition of a major account of a New World wonder by the first Florida-born author Francisco de Florencia 161995 who entered the Jesuit Order in 1642 and became a noted preacher as well as a highly regarded writer.<br>Â Â Â Â First published in 1692 in Seville the Narracion essays the apparition in 1631 of St. Michael to an Indian named Diego Lázaro de San Francisco who lived in Santa María Nativitas on the PuebaTlaxcala border in Mexico. Miracles were attributed to the apparition to the spot of the manifestation and to nearby water as well; the miracles included various forms of spiritual healing including via holy water administered at a distance as recounted here.<br>Â Â Â Â The work received the patronage of Manuel Fernández de Santa Cruz the bishop of Puebla Mexico. It contains a => full-page woodcut of St. Michael offers novenas specific to his chapel and of course gives a full account of the apparition. =>That long account includes a few lines in Nahuatl on p. 119.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: 18th-century ownership signature of Francisco Antonio Ximenez del Arenal on front free endpaper. Unidentified marca de fuego on top edge of volume. Handsome 20th-century bookplate of Jose Rodriguez Familiar on front pastedown.<br>Â Â Â Â => There seems to have been NO Mexico-printed edition of this work. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â DeBacker-Sommervogel III 798; Palau 92347; Sabin 24815; Alden & Landis 740/121; Medina BHA 6467. Publisher's limp vellum with evidence of ties now perished title in old ink on spine all edges speckled red; stain on front cover and another on rear. Bookplate and markings as above. => Overall a clean crisp copy in very good condition. En la Imprenta de las Siete Revueltas hardcover books
WB17838Hardcover. Very Good. A charming pair of sketchbooks illustrating life in India circa 1890. 2 volumes 10 x 7½ in.; 254 x 190 mm. Together 2 manuscript title pages 24 sepia ink and ink wash sketches on tabs interleaved with printed captions; minor foxing and toning occasional offsetting onto verso of caption leaves. The Sal Forests of Mundla: Full green textured cloth covers gilt lettered; recased. The Banjar Valley Forest: Half green morocco over green textured cloth spine with raised bands in six compartments gilt-lettered red morocco label to second. These accomplished sketches were accomplished by Florence and Mary Fosterlikely sistersdepict in detailed fashion felling trees building camps and rafts floating down the Banjar River. <br/><br/> hardcover books
15151NIGHTINGALE Florence. Collection of 32 pieces celebrating the first 50 years of nursing education which made nursing into the first respected medical profession for women. This collection includes a First Edition of Nightingale's influential guide Notes on Nursing 1859 and a handwritten Nightingale letter with wonderful content on her training school and hospital followed by many more tactile and visual pieces from the period ranging from approximately 1880-1930 when women entered the first official nursing programs to obtain theoretical education on disease prevention and antisepsis practical training in patient-centered care and certification and accolades for their excellent work. <br/><br/>While nursing was initially considered a volunteer service the founding of the Nightingale School of Nursing in 1862 caused rapid changes developing nursing into a true medical profession. Programs opened worldwide basing their training on the "Nightingale Principles" that emphasized patient-centered care through systemic cleanliness and stemming of infection in hospitals. The first time these important ideas were placed in print was in Nightingale's 1859 Notes on Nursing¸ a guide to patient care within the hospital and community which has remained relevant to the present day. A First Edition of Nightingale's Notes on Nursing published before even her training hospital was founded is included with this collection. A wonderful early letter on St. Thomas Hospital the site of Nightingale's first training school which she wrote in 1864 shortly after its founding is included here are well. In this letter Nightingale laments that "poor St. Thomas is in such a "fix & has so many bad friends that he ought to keep all his good ones." She is no doubt referring to the back-handed business deal that led to the hospital's moved to an abandoned music hall with sub-par hygiene for nine years starting shortly after her training program had found its home there. She discusses the immediate effects on her own students "I should never have placed my Probationers at St. Thomas but that Mr Whitfield & Mrs Wardroper were there.and when St Thomas' with its ample income has not contributed one farthing to but has profited by the Services of my Training School." Nightingale herself championed the creation of a new building and helped design it for modern standards of safety and hygiene. Among the first programs to model itself after Nightingale's example wertr the Spelman Nursing Program founded in 1886 and the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing in 1889. In order to distinguish nurses' uniforms from those of servants the programs instructed nurses to wear pocketed aprons for carrying tools and the schools provided ruffled caps that were easy for patients to identify in hospital hallways. An early vintage cap from circa 1880 is included in this collection.<br/><br/>By the turn of the century nursing education had aligned with university criteria and rigorous training became mandatory. In 1902 the U.S. and New Zealand initiated standard requirements for registered nurses to pass medical examinations; and by 1909 the University of Minnesota was the first to award a bachelor's degree in nursing. In 1919 the U.K. passed the Nursing Act requiring all nurses to join a registry; and in 1923 Yale University School of Nursing became the first autonomous college in the field. Such programs required women to take 2-3 years of medical coursework and pass certification exams. As is evident by this collection's handwritten nursing class notebook these women gained intensive knowledge about anatomy nutrition and disease. The notes in this collection include anatomical drawings as well as detailed information on "the practice of hygiene important in care of patient.how to prevent infection.uses to body of food and amount of food needed by individual patient" based on condition and diagnosis. It comes with a very rare 1911 "The Trained Nurse" booklet which contains educational matter on sexual and dental hygiene for patients to lower the risk of infection as well as information about a nurse's commitment to her training program. OCLC Worldcat lists no other known copies.<br/><br/>After completing classes nursing students apprenticed in their program's hospital until graduation. Instructors and administrators continued to value the use of uniforms and they made the clothing more functional for women whose daily tasks ranged from explaining doctors' diagnoses and treatments during consultations to the dressing of wounds. While uniforms evolved to become more streamlined they still bore visual signs of a student's experience and accomplishments. The nursing cap continued to be the most recognizable sign of entrance to the profession and getting her cap was a formal right of passage to a young nurse. Women only obtained the cap during a ceremony in which nurses from the program pinned the caps to the new nurses' heads. As students rose through the ranks and ultimately graduated they would receive a nursing lapel pin showing their entrance into a specialized field. This collection includes each of these important pieces: a white vintage nursing cap and lapel pin. In addition it contains a handwritten journal with beautiful colored handdrawn illustrations poems and diary entries by a nurse during her hospital training.<br/><br/>The women who graduated from nursing programs had met the mandatory benchmarks; indeed these women also often exceeded requirements and won honors for their work. Celebrating these landmark accomplishments this collection includes a set of 5 turn of the century graduation invitations an early commencement booklet with individual nursing graduation photos 3 early diplomas for women graduating from nursing programs 8 class photos and 7 individual female graduate portraits. The photos visually document the collective changes that these nurses' uniforms underwent across the decades as well as the women's pride in obtaining their degree. The collection also contains a "Champion of Head Nurses" trophy awarded to a young nurse for her leadership within her new hospital.<br/><br/>As this collection shows these women's educations led them to become proud and dedicated professionals excited to apply their knowledge in ways that made a difference. University of Pennsylvania "American Nursing" p. 1-11. "A Nurse's World" p.1. Heineman "Timelines in American Women's History" p. 219. unknown books
19081002643London: Blackie & Son 1908. First edition of Florence Harrison's In The Fairy Ring a collection of original fairy poetry accompanied by vibrant full-color plates with additional line drawings on every page. A boy falls into the hands of trolls pixies take over one household's chores a fairy replaces mortal children with changelings and a girl interviews the Man in the Moon: "no one thinks for the gold I fling / To send me a brave balloon; / Though the lovers gaze and the poets praise / My ways in many a rune / They never try till the day they die / To bring the Man from the Moon." A sought-after illustrator in the Pre-Raphaelite vein Harrison is celebrated for her contributions to books by Alfred Tennyson Christina Rossetti and William Morris as well as her original work. A near-fine example of a Golden Age classic. Quarto measuring 10.5 x 8.5 inches: 63 1. Original ivory cloth decorated in gilt pictorial endpapers all edges gilt. Twenty-four full-color plates illustrations throughout text. Light scattered foxing heavier to first and last pages rear endpapers toned corners lightly bumped. Blackie & Son unknown books
1928133223N.p.: N.p. 1928. Two vintage oversize photographs from the first stage production of "The Front Page" in 1928 showing two different trio shots of the reporters who grace the majority of the play. The first photo a double weight 8 x 10 by Florence Vandamm with her blindstamped name on the recto shows Lee Tracy later played by Rosalind Russell onscreen Osgood Perkins and Frances Fuller. The second a oversize 11 x 14 uncredited but by White Studios in New York City shows the star Walter Baldwin later played by Cary Grant onscreen Osgood Perkins and Lee Tracy. Both photographs with numerous annotations and stamps on the verso. <br/><br/>Excessively rare photographs from the first staging of the play that made Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur famous. The play would be published the same year in book form by Covici-Friede and was the basis for three films: The Front Page" in 1931 with Adolphe Menjou and Pat O'Brien "The Front Page" in 1974 with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau and most famously the classic screwball comedy "His Girl Friday" with Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell in 1940. N.p. unknown books
1960133256N.p.: N.p. 1960. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1962 film by photographer Andre Marinie. A candid on-the-set photograph of the film's reclusive director Robert Bresson behind the camera typically pensive and with cigarette in hand. Marinie's stamp and stamp from the film's production companies Agnes Delahaie Productions and Consortium <br/>Pathe on the verso. <br/><br/>Linda Rasmussen at AllMovie notes: "Characteristically breaking with tradition director Robert Bresson presents a realistic unique view of the life and death of Joan of Arc. Using a script based on the actual transcript notes taken during her trial Bresson focuses on the psychological and physical torture that Joan had to endure showing how these techniques were used to break her resolve and cause her to eventually recant her faith. <br/><br/>"With impeccable historical accuracy Bresson re-creates the story of the peasant girl who after leading an unsuccessful revolt against the government was brought to trial convicted of heresy and burned as a witch. However Bresson shows Joan Florence Carrez as a woman more sophisticated and calculating and less naive than she has normally been represented. His Joan while more real is no less heroic than the traditional Joan."<br/><br/>In a custom museum-quality frame archivally mounted with UV glass. 9.5 x 7.25 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
192919847New York: E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc. Very Good in Fair dj. 1929. 2nd printing. Hardcover. book is lightly worn with a touch of dust-soiling and faint spotting on the top edge of the text block; the jacket alas is badly compromised due to a large chunk having been torn away from the top left corner of the front panel taking with it about half of the title. "Body horror" novel about the psychological havoc wrought upon a famous pianist when his hands mangled in an accident are surgically replaced by those of a recently-executed murderer. Originally published in France in 1920 the novel was first filmed as a 1924 silent in Austria directed by Robert Wiene of "Caligari" fame; subsequent movie versions acknowledging the source novel were MAD LOVE 1935 starring Colin Clive and Peter Lorre and THE HANDS OF ORLAC 1960 with Mel Ferrer and Christopher Lee. It was also unofficially remade without source attribution as HANDS OF A STRANGER 1962 and is often acknowledged as an inspiration for the 1946 thriller THE BEAST WITH FIVE FINGERS. Rare in the dust jacket this example of which apart from the noted large missing piece is virtually unworn and is a great candidate for professional restoration. Alternatively one could take the much less expensive approach of obtaining a beautiful facsimile of the original jacket from the well-known purveyor of such things; details upon request. . E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc. hardcover books
1731S13115Lugduni Batavorum:: Joan. et Herm. Verbeek 1731. 1731. Two parts bound as one. 4to. xvi xlviii vii 193 1; 192 xiv pp. Title printed in red & black 32 engraved folding plates 1 folding table index; margin of p.99 trimmed 1 ¾ x 2" away. some foxing browning of leaves title very browned due to offsetting. Beautifully preserved original mottled calf raised bands gilt spine compartments red leather spine label. Ownership mark on title of "Mr. Al. Liotard." Very good. FIRST EDITION incorporating the first Latin edition of the Saggi di naturali esperienze 1667 prepared by the Accademia del Cimento Florence with substantial additions throughout by Musschenbroek. Musschenbroek was one of the great physical experimenters and lecturers of the eighteenth century and the teacher of Nollet. This book contains the first description of the pyrometer an instrument for measuring the expansion of solid bodies under the influence of heat. Like many of Musschenbroek's books the Tentamina contains fine illustrations and is concerned with experiments in measuring humidity magnets and electricity air pressure the structure of ice heat and cold capillarity optics the motion of sound etc. / "He devised many of his experiments in the process consulting records of other experimenters among them those of the Accademia del Cimento. Musschenbroek translated their accounts into Latin adding reports concerning his own work 1731." :: Encyclopedia. / The work opens with Musschenbroek's Oratio de Methodo Instituendi Experimenta Physica regarding his views on experimental philosophy as inspired by Newton. "Underlying Musschenbroek's lectures demonstrated with experiments was the experimental philosophy the principal source of inspiration was Newton but Galileo Torricelli Huygens Reaumur and others were important to this school." :: DSB IX p. 596. The Accademia del Cimento Academy of Experiments was founded in Florence in 1657. Among the founding members were Borelli Steno Redi Cassini Viviani and Torricelli these final two being disciples of Galileo. This makes the Accademia older than either the Royal Society or the Academie des Sciences. Count Lorenzo Magalotti's text includes accounts of experiments on temperature and air pressure including Torricelli's invention of the barometer the velocity of sound and light phosphorescence magnetism amber and other electrical bodies the freezing of water etc. The many fine plates in this translation illustrate the Accademia's work as well as Musschenbroek's own subsequent experiments. :: Wolf History of science I pp. 55-59.2 parts in 1. / Musschenbroek 1692-1761 professor of natural philosophy and mathematics at Utrecht and later professor of experimental physics at Leyden. He was one of the most celebrated physicists and investigators of his time; the experiments he describes are classics in primary instruction. / "Musschenbroek's earliest account of electricity 1731 the estimable notes to his Latin translation of the Saggi is fuller more circumspect and less coherent than 's Gravesande's which he later entertained favorably. Two curious points emerge from the notes. To resolve the discrepancy between the results of Boyle and Hauksbee who respectively did and did not succeed in generating electricity in vacuo Musschenbroek hit on an unprecedented and prescient idea; remarking that Boyle used amber and Hauksbee glass he concluded that these substances have different electricities. . . The second point concerns repulsion. Musschenbroek records without emphasizing Hauksbee's observation that light bodies are sometimes repelled farther than they are attracted; he squeezes it into a note that also gives an excellent prescription for rubbing the tube :: always end with your hands together :: and a warning about atmospheric humidity. He does not recognize that the Saggi require updating about repulsion and concentrates on the perplexing behavior of screens the opacity of muslin and the transparency of glass." :: J. L. Heilbron Electricity in the 17th and 18th Centuries: A Study of Early Modern Physics 1979 p.242. / Wheeler Gift 276. Not in Bakken. FULL TITLE: Tentamina experimentorum naturalium captorum in Academia del cimento sub auspiciis Serenissimi Principis Leopoldi Magni Etruriae Ducis et ab ejus Academiae Secretario Conscriptorum: Ex Italico in Latinum Sermonem conversa. Quibus commentarios nova experimenta et orationem de methodo instituendi experimenta physica addidit Petrus van Musschenbroek Joan. et Herm. Verbeek, 1731. hardcover books
1860014565D.Appleton-Century and Company 1860. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Fine Copy Without Wear in Prefered Brown Pebble Cloth First Edition First Issue Ownership Name Gorgeous Fresh Copy Scarce In This Condition. D.Appleton-Century and Company Hardcover books
19141312024Blackie and Son Limited London 1914. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Very good in a good dust jacket. The Jacket is very rare. The spine of the dj is separated from the front and back covers and there are a few tears; good condition; dj missing front and back flap. Book in very good condition. 20cm-26cm with 194 pp. 16 richly colored tipped-in plates by Florence Harrison. The book is further enhanced by many more of her decorations/illustrations. Blackie and Son Limited, London hardcover books
1912232876New York: Caldwell 1912. First. hardcover. very good. Harrison Florence. Illustrated with 12 mounted color plates protected with lettered tissue; 10 black & white plates and many vignette illustrations. 142pp. 8vo gray cloth pictorial stamped in gilt with an elaborately gilt spine very light wear to corners; uncut edges t.e.g. New York: H.M. Caldwell no date 1913. First American edition.<br/><br/> By the English Pre-Raphaelite illustrator of poetry & children's books. This was Blackie's gift book of the year in 1912. The American edition less common contains two additional color plates.<br/><br/> Caldwell unknown books
1929153293New York: Payson & Clarke Ltd 1929. Octavo pp. 1-6 1-265 266: colophon original orange cloth spine panel stamped in black. First edition. A weird mystery thriller with murder seemingly committed by supernatural means. Bleiler 1978 p. 157. Not in Reginald 1979; 1992. Hubin 1994 p. 642. Cloth just a bit dusty a nearly fine copy in nearly fine pictorial dust jacket illustrated by Tony Hughes with faint vertical crease at center of spine panel and a couple of small insect holes along rear flap fold. #153293 Payson & Clarke Ltd unknown books
190343655N.p. New York 1903. Pen and ink on illustration board signed "Florence Scovel Shinn" at bottom captioned dialogue at bottom in light pencil printer's annotations front and rear in colored pencil sticker of "the Century Company" on rear. 1 vols. 13-1/4 x 10-3/4 inches. Small chips at outer edges not into image. Pen and ink on illustration board signed "Florence Scovel Shinn" at bottom captioned dialogue at bottom in light pencil printer's annotations front and rear in colored pencil sticker of "the Century Company" on rear. 1 vols. 13-1/4 x 10-3/4 inches. Interesting drawing by Florence S. Shinn 1871-1940 popular New York illustrator of "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch" and William Dean Howells' "The Flight of Pony Baker" as well as an author in her own right. unknown books
1947145972Universal City: Universal International Pictures 1947. Revised First Draft script for the 1948 film. With faint holograph pencil annotations and watermarked CONTRACT FILE COPY throughout.<br/><br/>Based on the 1946 Broadway play and a prequel to the 1941 film "The Little Foxes." In the fictional town of Bowden Alabama the wealthy Hubbard family holds onto their old-South prominence and prestige through exploitation and cruelty. A searing portrayal of racism and class privilege in the post-Civil War American South.<br/><br/>Set in Alabama. <br/><br/>Green titled wrappers noted as REVISED FIRST DRAFT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped production No. 7494 dated June 9 1947 with credits for screenwriter Vladimir Pozner. Title page integral to the front wrapper. 178 leaves with last page of text numbered 169. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with light foxing to the left edge bound with three gold brads. Universal International Pictures unknown books
19143607London: Medici Society 1914. Finely bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe n full brown morocco with raised bands to spine attractive gilt tooling to all faces including blossom motif at all four corners on both covers gilt titles to spine and upper board. Top edge gilt all others untrimmed. With a frontispiece portrait bound in on a cloth hinge. One of a limited run of 50 copies on handmade paper and one on vellum printed by the Riccardi Press Fount this example being on paper. Front flyleaf removed. Binding is near fine. <br/><br/> Medici Society hardcover books
194414708JNew York: Simon & Schuster 1944. Two copies of this book one belonging to Fredric March and the other to his wife Florence Eldridge. The poem was written during World War II and was presented in adapted dramatic form several times over the NBC radio network. The copy belonging to Fredric March is a second printing and is signed by him in pencil on the flyleaf - Fredric March November 1944. With some pencil notes by him referring to the text. At a later date the author has inscribed the book to his friend - For Fred March - Concerning whose reading of this poem words fail me - Russell Davenport. On the death of President Franklin Roosevelt in April 1945 the NBC Radio Network had March give a dramatic reading of the poem as part of its tribute to the fallen wartime President. The first printing copy belonging to Florence Eldridge is heavily annotated by her in pencil for an earlier radio reading in which she acted. Her copy is a first printing and inscribed by the author - For Florence Affectionately Russell Nov 30 / 44 And don’t for Dec 11!. There is an Autograph Letter Signed by Russell Davenport to Eldridge taped to the front pastedown tape browned dated December 12 1944 written after her radio reading - Dear Florence- This is just a little note wholly inadequate to express my appreciation for all your effort and care in the reading of My Country. You gave a superb performance. If there is ever anything that an unlikely scrivener can do in return you know where to come. Let me see you soon. Affectionately Russ. Both books are enclosed together in a custom clamshell box. Russell Davenport 1899-1954 was a very interesting man and close friend of the Marchs. As Wikipedia notes he “.served with the U.S. Army in World War I and received the Croix de Guerre. He enrolled at Yale University and graduated in 1923 where he was classmate of Henry Luce and Briton Hadden who founded Time magazine. While at Yale he became a member of the secret society Skull and Bones. In 1929 he married the writer Marcia Davenport; they divorced in 1944. He joined the editorial staff of Fortune magazine in 1930 and became managing editor in 1937. At age forty-one he turned to politics and became a personal and political advisor to Wendell Willkie. Willkie was the Republican nominee for the 1940 presidential election and lost the election to Franklin D. Roosevelt. After Willkie's death in 1944 Davenport became a defacto leader of the internationalist Republicans. Following World War II he was on the staff of Life and Time until 1952.†Simon & Schuster unknown books
19483001471948. fine. Very scarce T.L.S "Florence Ryerson Clements" 4to. 1 page Los Angeles October 15th 1948 to her literary agent concerning the licensing of her plays in small part: "We have an offer of $500 for the Bedfellows and I was at first inclined to refuse. Quoted what you said about Harriet. They agreed with you about Harriet but wanted to do the broadcast of Bedfellows because they thought it would help it from the exploitation angle. They have I understand some scheme in mind for having a thirty-day limit on the broadcast and then getting the film. I suppose. to show to theatre managers ahead of the road show." Boldly signed and in excellent condition. From the archive and papers of Samuel French & Son's.<br/><br/> RYERSON Florence 1892 - 2013 1965 American playwright best remembered as the co-author of the screenplay for the 1939 classic film The Wizard of Oz. Her contributions were numerous including the creation of the multi-roles of actor Frank Morgan who played the Wizard and Ryerson's invented character Mr. Marvel. She also focused the story almost entirely on Dorothy's desire to return home and the Wicked Witch's desire to possess the Ruby Red Slippers. It was her script that introduced the blatant "There's No Place like Home" motif to the film: In order to return to Kansas Dorothy must click the Ruby Red Slippers together and say three times; "There's No Place Like Home". It was also her idea that Dorothy first melted the Wicked Witch by accident because the witch was attempting to set fire to the Scarecrow an idea that preserved Dorothy's purity of motive.<br/><br/> unknown books
1983151277London: The Other Cinema 1983. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1983 French documentary film. With printed label snipes on the verso specific to the film's UK release.<br/><br/>A loose experimental meditation on memory told through the stream of consciousness of a world traveler. <br/><br/>Shot in Japan Guinea-Bissau Cape Verde Iceland Paris and San Francisco. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. The Other Cinema unknown books
16495Florence Seibert. Pebbles on the Hill of a Scientist. St. Petersburg FL: Florence Seibert 1968. Signed by author. 9 x 6.5 in. Original boards and dust jacket. Very good.<br/><br/>Autobiography of the history-making scientist whose research paved the way for creating a safe and reliable test for tuberculosis. Her groundbreaking work earned her recognition and awards from groups such as the National Tuberculosis Association the American Chemical Society and the National Women's Hall of Fame. Seibert a world-famous biochemist who was most known for her work involving the ability to test for Tuberculosis a very deadly disease in the 1900s. The ability to test for Tuberculosis significantly decreased the death rate as health care professionals were then able to treat it which is still the case for today. Florence grew up in Easton Pennsylvania with her family in 1897 where she contracted polio. She had difficulty walking as a child and suffered from a limp for the rest of her life due to this. However Florence did not let this disability stop her from pursuing science in fact it encouraged her more to find answers. unknown books
1892315100New York: George Routledge & Sons 1892. First American edition. Steel-engraved portrait frontispiece illustrations of marked cards and other cheats. xi i 195 1 4 ads pp. 8vo. Publisher's lime cloth stamped in gold white and black t.e.g. A beautiful copy. First American edition. Steel-engraved portrait frontispiece illustrations of marked cards and other cheats. xi i 195 1 4 ads pp. 8vo. The rules and play of poker with a chapter on poker sharps describing marked cards and other cheats. Jessel 511 George Routledge & Sons unknown books
