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192804404THE EARLY LIFE OF THOMAS HARDY 1840-1891 London Macmillan 1928 first edition a bright vg/vg copy in a near vg dust-wrapper with some wear and tear and chipping. Illustrated with photos sketches and facsimile letters and thus a marvelous reference tool for those interested in verifying the authors handust-wrapper riting. Compiled largely from contemporary notes letters diaries and biographical memoranda as well as from oral information in conversations extending over many years. Macmillan unknown
1960575236New York: Simon and Schuster 1960. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Introduction by Ted Patrick. Folio. Measuring 10½" x 13½". Illustrated. Fine in near fine dust jacket with a lightly tanned spine that has a tiny scratch. Housed in a tanned and lightly worn slipcase. Simon and Schuster hardcover
1910ST17129-032London: Published for the Florence Press by Chatto & Windus 1910. ONE OF 250 COPIES ON PAPER 12 additional copies were printed on vellum. 250 x 185 mm. 9 7/8 x 7 1/4". 5 p.l. 120 pp. 1 leaf. <br/> ANIIMATED DARK GREEN INLAID CRUSHED MOROCCO ELABORATELY GILT BY SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE signed on front turn-in covers with inlaid border of russet ribbon laced at each corner through a blue heart from which is suspended a pair of bells in inlaid brown morocco an inner border of red inlaid hearts alternating with small gilt floral tools front cover with centerpiece medallion of five inlaid flowers in green white and yellow on a densely stippled ground within a red inlaid circle with a gilt collar of oak leaves and acorns rear board with centerpiece inlay in brown and pink of Pan pipes suspended on a ribbon the whole enclosed in a gilt garland; raised bands spine gilt in compartments featuring floral cornerpieces and knotwork centerpiece with red heart and dot inlays very ornate gilt inner dentelles silk pastedowns and endpapers all edges gilt. In a slightly marked quarter morocco fleece-lined clamshell box with gilt titling on spine. 12 fine color plates by Norman Wilkinson. With the binders' typed description of the binding on Sangorski & Sutcliffe letterhead laid in at front. ◆Tips of joints and corners almost imperceptibly rubbed one leaf with small faint stain a few minute marginal adhesions otherwise INTERNALLY AND EXTERNALLY IN VIRTUALLY PERFECT CONDITION.<br/> <br/> This is a finely bound and finely printed edition of a group of essays short stories and autobiographical and travel sketches originally published in various periodicals and first printed as a collection in 1881. Founded in 1908 by the London publishers Chatto & Windus and operated by Philip Lee Warner the Florence Press had as its expressed intention the production of "beautiful books in the choicest types . . . in larger editions and at lower cost than was usual with such monuments of typography as the issues of the Kelmscott and other presses." Florence books are readily distinguishable by their special type designed by Herbert P. Horne after 15th century Italian faces that are elegant simple and easily readable. Binders Francis Sangorski and George Sutcliffe met as boys attending Douglas Cockerell's bookbinding classes at the L. C. C. Central School. Cockerell was so impressed by their skill that he hired Sutcliffe as a finisher and Sangorski as a forwarder. In 1901 Francis and George went into business for themselves and before long they had become two of the most renowned English binders of the 20th century. We can date the time of our binding to the decade of the 1910s because there is a letter from the binders laid in with an explanation of the decoration on stationery with the printed date "191__." The letter indicates that "250 different pieces of various colored leathers are used as inlays" many to suggest the contents of the essays: "the wedding bells and heart border are suggestive of the first essay 'Virginibus Puerisque.' The front centerpiece composed of spring flowers surrounded by a wreath of oak suggests 'Crabbed Age and Youth' and the back centerpiece suggests 'Pan's Pipes.'" In terms of its design quality of execution and condition the binding is simply beautiful. Published for the Florence Press by Chatto & Windus unknown
1988342329New York: The International Society of Copier Artists 1988. Softcover. Near Fine. Magazine. Oblong octavo. 94pp. Comb bound with some publisher's material laid in. Fine. A quarterly issues from The International Society of Copier Artists founded by Louise Neaderland as a non-profit group to help establish electrostatic art or xerography as a legitimate art form. The quarterly magazine was started in April of 1982 as a way to distributor the work of artists with the first issue distributed as loose sheets. Starting with this issue spiral bound volumes were released along with an annual box of books each summer. The magazine and organization finally ceased publication in 2003. Each page of this issue of the magazine represents a different artist with many contributions signed and numbered along with a collation stamp on the verso of each. Contributors include David Bolyard Curtis La Follette Phyllis Cairns Sally Blakemore Panchal Mansaram Stephanie Regen Florence Weisz Zella Funck Ralph Neaderland Steve Harp Fitzgerald-Stasa Elisabeth Relin Pat Roberts Carol Neiman Al Nigrin Shirl Green David Jarvis Randy Koppang Carolyn Berry Jenifer Cairns Amie Oliver Kake Art Gail Smuda Sarah Jackson Millie Becker Dave Winchester Carolyn Bell-Tait Clare Forster Janet Higgins Kathy Thompson Sara Roberts Barbara Bishop Homer Springer Maggie Walker Heino Partanen Minoy Fruit Basket Upset Walter Zimmerman Kedayhoff Mae Lee Thomson Foster Marcello Diotallevi T.E. Good Ioan Bunus Ed Powis Jones and Jan Lincoln. The International Society of Copier Artists unknown
1919518595Boston: Privately Printed by the Riverside Press 1919. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 80 4 pp. Illustrated with several plates. Slightly oversized wrappers with light wear and soil near fine. Contains a biographical sketch of Boston educator Harriet Elizabeth Caryl and an historical sketch of the Boston Girls' High School Association beginning in 1825. Arranged by three graduates of the Girls' High School of Boston: Florence Dix Class of 1868 Alice M. Dickey class of 1876 and Katharine H. Shute class of 1879. Uncommon. Privately Printed (by the Riverside Press) unknown
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. 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
198168668NY:: Holiday House. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1981. Hardcover. 0823404250 . Stated first edition. Fine in an about fine dust jacket. . Holiday House, hardcover
1927056652San Francisco Ca: The American Committee For Fair Play In China 1927. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. 6 Pp Outer Covers. Soft Cover Staple Binding But Disbound Original Covers No Marks. "The Unequal Treaties Are The Weapons By Which The Powers Have Established Themselves In China". In Hindsight The Treaties Left An Opening To Japan To Seek Similar Opportunities At The Expense Of The Chinese Which Even The Near-Idiots In Charge Of American Foreign Policy 1789 To 1927 Should Have Foreseen. Very Scarce Worldcat Locates 4 Institutional Holdings All On The East Coast Of The Usa. Unpopular Viewpoints Pointedly Criticizing The Habitual And Monomaniacal Acquisitive Childishness Of The Great Powers Here Shown Particularly Egregiously In China For Hundreds Of Years And Setting The Climate For Japan's Essentially Copycat Invasions And The Start Of Wwii. <br/> <br/> The American Committee For Fair Play In China paperback
192472940T. Fisher & Unwin 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. binding is worn with split to side of spine fraying to top and bottom of spine corners rubbed spilt tea on endpapers. With illustrations Size: Octavo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Travel & Places; Inventory No: 72940. . T. Fisher & Unwin hardcover
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
1928mon0003485251Houghton Mifflin 1/1/1928 12:00:00 AM. hardcover. Good. . Houghton Mifflin hardcover
1929101457Des Moines Iowa: The Register and Tribune Company 1929. First edition. 8vo. Eight plates from b/w portrait photographs. 221 1 pp. Publisher's printed wrappers yapp edges; wrapper edges chipped spine toned. Inscribed by the author on the ffep. PROVENANCE: Everett D. Graff booklabel; Newberry Library deaccessioned and sold Parke Bernet 4 May 1966 The Register and Tribune Company unknown
1914606026Chicago: Historical Feature Film Company 1914. Unbound. Near Fine. Film program. Octavo folded once to make 4pp. Illustrated from two black and white photographs. Two old horizontal folds a couple of thin stains on the front panel a bit of rubbing about near fine. A program for the film Money Talks in Darktown starring Florence McLain Frank Montgomery Bert Murphy and Jimmie Marshall. The Historical Feature Film Company was a White-owned production studio in Chicago producing films with largely Black casts but which still incorporated all of the racial stereotypes of the period. The company is largely credited with being established in 1915 though this program is for a film releasing on November 30 1914. Following poor public reception to their early films the company changed their name to the Ebony Film Corporation in 1917 in an attempt to appeal to the Black audience and hired Luther J. Pollard a young Black entrepreneur who was given the title of president and general manager. The company officially shut down just a couple of years later. Very scarce. Historical Feature Film Company unknown
1985601203Claremont California: Claremont Graduate School 1985. Hardcover. Near Fine. Student dissertation. Quarto. 164pp. 14pp. appendix. Red textured paper boards with gilt spine letters. Near fine with some light general wear. Inscribed by Lenz to children's book author Charlotte Zolotow: "May 1985 To Charlotte Whose gentleness and grace inspired this work." An educational dissertation published at Claremont University by Karen Champan Len that studied the productivity of 80 female American children's book author over their careers and features multipage interviews with Elizabeth George Speare Jean Craighead George Adrienne Jones Florence Parry Heidi Lorriaine Henriod Barbara Cohen Natalie Babbitt and Georgess Mc Hargue. Claremont Graduate School hardcover
1989009867<p>Singapore Life Art Society Printed by Golden Earth Design and Printing 1989 1989. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fine. 1st ed. ; 66 p. ; illustrated some in color ; color pictorial stiff paper wrappers ; Tan Khim Ser 1943- is a prominent Singaporean painter and calligrapher widely recognised for his influence in the local art community. In 1972 he established and has since led the Life Art Society an organisation focused on incorporating traditional calligraphy and painting into community activities. Under his leadership the Society has actively fostered multicultural interactions supported local art initiatives nurtured artistic talents and enhanced public appreciation for the arts. Born into a well-off family Tan had a father who was originally from Nan'an Fujian and ran several grocery stores. Tan attended Zhangde Primary School Chung Cheng High School and subsequently pursued studies in Chinese painting watercolour and Western oil painting at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts NAFA. Upon graduating in 1966 he joined a flourishing art education market where art subjects could also help students in gaining additional points for the Form 4 entrance exams. Seizing the opportunity and with the support from his parents Tan acquired a shophouse in Tiong Bahru where he began offering art lessons-an endeavour he continues to this day. Recurring motifs in his art include lotuses and angelfish-elements strongly resonate with the traditional cultural psyche of Singapore's Chinese community. The lotus historically a representation of purity and nobility among intellectuals and the fish is emblematic of wealth and abundance are relatable images that connect well with the general public. Tan uses warm harmonious and auspicious imagery to enhance the cultural identity of the Chinese community steering clear of excessively academic methods. His impact also extends beyond ethnic boundaries adding significant value to the enhancement of Singapore's multicultural environment. ; FINE <br /><br /></p> Singapore Life Art Society, Printed by Golden Earth Design and Printing, 1989 paperback
199054482New York: Florence Anthony Enterprises Inc 1990. First Edition. Quarto 27.5cm; photo-illustrated wrappers stapled; 80pp; illus. Light wear to extremities some mild wrinkling to lower rear corners due to moisture; Near Fine. Debut issue of this short-lived sports entertainment magazine established by African American author editor and publicity consultant Florence Anthony. Contents include feature articles on Darryl Strawberry Magic Johnson Deion Sanders Butch Lewis Michael Spinks George Foreman and others. OCLC notes a single holding for any issues LC. Florence Anthony Enterprises, Inc unknown
193663942Boston: Little Brown and Co. 1936. 8vo. 6 389 1 pp. Black publisher’s cloth dark red lettering minor shelfwear w/ d.j. cover art by Anton Otto Fischer minor creasing edgewear couple slight closed tears still VG/VG copy. First hardcover edition of this Alaskan novel first serialized as “The Captive Bride†in The American Magazine. Willoughby 1886-1959 noted Alaskan author of romantic fiction and nonfiction who was bestselling author through the 1920’s and 1930’s. Little, Brown, and Co., hardcover
1908M13447Paris:: Henri Jouve 1908. 1908. 25 cm. 8vo. 51 1 pp. Early quarter dark morocco green marbled boards; spine ends a tad worn rubbed spine faded. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. Very good. RARE. Alebrand of Florence physician to the King of France wrote the first French medical book in the vulgar tongue the Regime du Corps written in 1256 a treatise that is largely devoted to the care of children. See: Chereau A. «Les medecins et les chirurgiens de saint Louis roi de France» L'union medicale ns 14 1862; Havelock Ellis Sex in Relation to Society vol. VI 1920 p. 633; Osler 1763; John Carmi Parsons & Bonnie Wheeler eds. Medieval Mothering Garland 1996. Not in Grulee. FFrye C188 Henri Jouve, 1908. hardcover
196743954AB1967. London The Folio Society 1967. 15 cm x 22.5 cm. 286 pages. With 7 illustrations. Original hardcover with original slipcase. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. With an introduction and note on books by W.S.F.B. Includes the following: Author's Preface / Cardinal Manning / Florence Nightingale / Dr Arnold / The End of General Gordon. "Giles Lytton Strachey 1 March 1880 21 January 1932 was a British writer and critic. A founding member of the Bloomsbury Group and author of Eminent Victorians he is best known for establishing a new form of biography in which psychological insight and sympathy are combined with irreverence and wit. His biography Queen Victoria 1921 was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize." Wikipedia "Eminent Victorians is a book by Lytton Strachey one of the older members of the Bloomsbury Group first published in 1918 and consisting of biographies of four leading figures from the Victorian era. Its fame rests on the irreverence and wit Strachey brought to bear on three men and a woman who had till then been regarded as heroes and heroine. They were: Cardinal Manning Florence Nightingale Thomas Arnold and General Gordon. The book made Strachey's name and placed him firmly in the top rank of biographers. Strachey developed the idea for Eminent Victorians in 1912 when he was living on occasional journalism and writing dilettante plays and verse for his Bloomsbury friends. He went to live in the country at East Ilsley and started work on a book then called Victorian Silhouettes containing miniature biographies of a dozen notable Victorian personalities. In November 1912 he wrote to Virginia Woolf that their Victorian predecessors "seem to me a set of mouth bungled hypocrites". After his research into the life of Cardinal Manning he realised he would have difficulty managing twelve lives. In the following year he moved to Wiltshire where he stayed until 1915 by which time he had completed half the book. One of the subjects he considered but rejected was Isabella Beeton. He chose not to write about her because he could not find sufficient material about her. By then it was wartime and Strachey's anti-war and anti-conscription activities were taking up his time. He changed his views and concluded that the Victorian worthies had not just been hypocrites but that they had bequeathed to his generation the "profoundly evil" system "by which it is sought to settle international disputes by force". Wikipedia By 1917 the work was ready for publication and Strachey was put in touch with Geoffrey Whitworth at Chatto. The critic Frank Swinnerton was taken with the work and it was published on 9 May 1918 with almost uniformly enthusiastic reviews." Wikipedia hardcover
193864257London: Jonathan Cape Thirty Bedford Square 1938. 8vo. xiv 324 pp. Frontisp. numerous illustrations plates. Red publisher’s cloth gilt lettering on spine red topstain to upper fore-edge as issued minor shelfwear very slight bumping to a couple corners w/ d.j. minor shelfwear price-clipped still VG/VG copy from the library of David Kohl 1946-2025 former art teacher at the Hong Kong International School musician artist and historian. First edition of this uncommon history detailing the impact of women in China over the centuries including such figures as Chi’iu Chin Qiu Jin woman martyr of a failed uprising against the Qing Dynasty who was beheaded in 1907; Hua Mu Lan legendary Chinese folk heroine from the Northern Wei Period 386-535 based on the 6th Century poem; the three Soong Sisters Ai-ling Ching-Ling and Mei-Ling with Ching-ling marrying revolutionary Sun Yat-Sen while Mei-Ling married Chiang Kai-shek after he successfully divorced his first wife and became Chinese political power centers in their own right. Ayscough 1875/78-1942 was a noted sinologist editor poet and translator of Chinese literature who wrote and lectured on Chinese Art & Literature and also worked as librarian of the Royal Asiatic Society in Shanghai. She co-wrote with Hobart relating their experiences during the Nanking Incident in March 1927 when the National Revolutionary Army and Communist troops took Nanjing from Beiyang warlord Zhang Zongchang killed the American vice president of Nanking University and looted homes and businesses of Americans British Japanese and other foreign citizens. Jonathan Cape, Thirty Bedford Square, hardcover
192954544New York: The Macmillan Co. 1929. 8vo. 243 1 pp. Photo frontisp. plates maps. Tan publisher’s cloth green lettering front cover gilt lettering on spine w/ d.j. wraparound cover art of walls of Nanking minor chipping head & foot of spine edgewear still NF/VG copy from the library of Marjorie Fleishhacker Mitau 1906-1983 and Martin Mitau 1900-1973 noted San Francisco collectors of fine printing and members in the Roxburghe Club and Book Club of California w/ their bookplate on front pastedown. First edition of this graphic memoir by these two noted authors relating their experiences during the Nanking Incident in March 1927 when the National Revolutionary Army and Communist troops took Nanjing from Beiyang warlord Zhang Zongchang killed the American vice president of Nanking University and looted homes and businesses of Americans British Japanese and other foreign citizens. Royal Navy and US Navy cruisers and destroyers responded engaging and driving off the NRA soldiers and Chinese rioters evacuating many foreigners including the families of Hobart & Ayscough to Shanghai. The Macmillan Co., hardcover
193149819Cleveland OH: The Harter Publishing Co. Educational Publishers 1931. 4to. 4 folding poster leaves 36 x 12 in. printed in black with brown colour printed the posters. Colour-illustrated softcovers cover art by Sampson back cover art contains colour suggestions for the four posters minor edgewear creasing four posters neatly stapled to back cover still VG copy. First edition of this fantastic activity book intended to provide children with a box of crayons or watercolours large simple drawings many happy hours of colouring and enjoyment. These were intended to be hung as a twelve-foot frieze on the wall of the play room bedroom or classroom. Sampson was also known for her 1933 Aesop silhouette book as well as her charming Mother Goose Posters in 1925. No copies located in Worldcat. The Harter Publishing Co., Educational Publishers, paperback
1998137518London: Thames and Hudson 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. London Thames and Hudson 1998. Large quarto 288 pages with 482 illustrations 224 in colour. Papered boards slightly rubbed along the bottom edges; small name-stamp on the half-title; a near-fine copy with the lightly scuffed dustwrapper. Thames and Hudson hardcover
19296094Seattle: Frank McCaffrey / Dogwood Press 1929. One of thirty five copies. 30x44cm printed on both sides of a single leaf folded across the grain of "British Handmade" paper by Joseph Batchelor & Sons Ford Mill Kent. Printed in "blackletter text" font with an "O" initial designed and hand illuminated by McCaffrey gilt ruling and St.Christopher woodcut print from the 1417 Laus Virginia manuscript at the Rylands Library. Slightly dusty along top edge few smudges and pin-sized blemishes perhaps from the printing process else clean and nearly fine. <br /> <br /> A defining piece of Northwest fine printing and bibliophilia and with an interesting back story being an original invitation to the Book Club of Washington in Seattle 1929. Jodee Fenton notes in her excellent article from The Journal of the Book Club of Washington Fall 2013 businessman Nathan Eckstein and young Seattle printer Frank McCaffrey decided to host a dinner meeting discussing the possibility of forming a club of bibliophiles not unlike the Book Club of California Zamorano Club and other such groups. McCaffrey had just purchased his first press and opened business as Acme Press. This invitation however represents one of if not the first piece printed under his Dogwood Press name for which he would become well known in the following decades. <br /> <br /> <br /> This particular invitation was sent to Mrs. Florence Armstrong Grondal 1889-1977 of Seattle astronomer photographer and author of The Music of the Spheres: A Nature Lover's Astronomy 1926. As Fenton states regarding the inclusion of women one other woman was invited:<br /> <br /> "Women were generally not admitted to book clubs in the early part of the twentieth century and this departure from standard practice is notable."<br /> <br /> Interestingly the invitations were never sent the meeting never occurred and the Book Club of Washington did not form until 1982. There is speculation as to the reason: Eckstein's fear of leaving someone important out; prominent UW professor and invitee Edmund Meany's bad car accident delaying the event; the stock market crash of 1929. Whatever the case McCaffrey held on to the invitations until his death in 1985. <br /> <br /> The beauty and bibliophilic lore contained in this example of McCaffrey's printing cannot be overstated. A truly remarkable piece of Seattle art printing. . Frank McCaffrey / Dogwood Press unknown
1932150697Norwich: A.E. Soman & Co. Ltd 1932. Original handbook and program of the National Council of Women of Great Britain which represents women’s societies and reform groups across the country. Duodecimo original wrappers illustrated throughout. From the library of Florence Ada Keynes with her ownership signature to the top right corner of the front panel and her marginal annotations throughout the section titled "Agenda". Florence Ada Keynes is the mother of famed British economist John Maynard Keynes whose ideas fundamentally changed the theory of macroeconomics and the economic policies of governments. In very good condition. Rare and desirable. Florence Ada Keynes 1861–1958 was a British social reformer municipal politician and local historian whose work significantly shaped civic life in Cambridge in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. One of the city’s first female councilors she was deeply involved in social research housing reform education and public welfare combining empirical inquiry with practical governance. In addition to her political career Keynes produced detailed studies of Cambridge’s municipal history reflecting her sustained commitment to documenting and improving local institutions and civic traditions. A.E. Soman & Co., Ltd unknown
