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1930List328Boston 1930. Oblong quarto 49 pp. With appx. 1400 photos most measuring less than an inch square with roughly 175 in larger formats up to 3 ½ by 5 inches. Very Good. A wonderful labor of photographic love created by an unidentified young woman with ties to the Cabot family of Beacon Hill. The album composed largely of tiny contact prints glued in neat grids. Off-kilter compositions - a portion of a steeple against the sky the tail of a dog etc. - are mixed in with more traditional landscapes leading one to question whether the photographer had modernist aspirations or just took a lot of pictures.<br /> <br /> The photographer is unknown but our best guess is that it was someone who was a friend of Ellen Cabot of Beacon Hill perhaps while both were students or just after. Ellen Cabot the most frequent subject of the album is shown in a variety of settings often accompanied by her dog Prowler. Aerial photography the New England coastline camping life in Cambridge and equestrian competition are all on display. Other highlights include a dog named Benito Mussolini and artful shots of a monk's torso. A portion of the photos perhaps five or ten percent are not present though the album is otherwise in excellent condition. Handwritten label on the front reads "Newport Races to Topsfield autumn 1930". Overall the album is a testament to the energy and spontaneity of youth and the possibilities of the photographic form as well as an intimate look into Boston's storied upper class. unknown books
1961106295<p>Program format 8 1/2 x 11 paper illustrated 48 pp. Some slight aging otherwise in near mint condition. This 1961 Boston Red Sox Yearbook that features pictures profiles and records of players on the 1963 team. Featured players include Carl Yastrzemski in his first season with Boston Chuck Schilling Frank Malzone Don Conley Russ Nixon Rico Petrocelli Lou Clinton and Ed Bressoud. Copy is in excellent condition. # 106295</p> books
19231511111923. BOSTON VARNISH COMPANY. Kyanize: the highest grade varnishes and enamels in the World. 40 pp. Illustrated with 75 paint and varnish samples 8 varnished wood samples on one leaf and colour illustrations throughout. Oblong 4to. 155 x 245 mm bound in original embossed black and gold post binder. Boston Chicago San Francisco: Boston Varnish Company 1923. First Edition of this catalogue providing an excellent historical reference for the colour schemes of stains varnishes and paints for finishing Jazz Era home interiors and exteriors as well as automobiles. The Boston Varnish Company was founded in 1900 by James B. Lord one of the early leaders in the New England coatings industry. The samples and illustrated colour schemes show Kyanize enamels for exteriors floor finishes and furniture; Celoid finish for artistic and sanitary floors; Kyanize varnishes for woodwork and architectural details; early automobile paints in many colours and much more. With coloured advertisements and images of can labels. unknown books
19347508Boston: B.B. Inc.; Ben-Burk Distillers 1934. Small folded pamphlet 11 x 6.5 cm. 16 pages when folded. Printed in red black and blue. FIRST EDITION. One of the very rare precursors to the famous Old Mr. Boston Bartender's Guide 1935. Following Repeal Ben-Burk Distillers published the Guide which was to become one of the iconic cocktail recipe books. Originally published as a promotional item for the Ben-Burk line of spirits distilled in Boston the Guide became a staple of professional and home bars around the country. But prior to the first work titled Old Mr. Boston Guide Ben-Burk published One Hundred Cocktails Some Old -- Some New 1932 and One Hundred and Twenty Cocktails Fizzes Punches Highballs Toddies and Long Drinks 1934 both of which are very rare. We can add this small work - previously unrecorded - to this short list of precursors. A bit of soiling to edges and one corner dog-eared; otherwise very good. All early printings of the Mr. Boston Guide are scarce. Unrecorded. OCLC records no copies; no in Noling or EUVS. B.B. Inc.; [Ben-Burk Distillers] unknown books
19054334baX5Boston MA: F. H. Gilson 1905. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo 8vo. xvi 452 pages including index; 22.9cm; 3/4 black leather binding rubbed; top edge gilt; tipped in frontispiece portrait of Charles third Earl of Stanhope 1753-1816 who perfected stereotyping process acquired by Clarendon Press; #244 of limited edition. Defective in that the reproduction of the Stanhope letter is lacking. Contains specimens of paper typefaces illustration processes leather and cloth for binding etc. Books about books; printing. F. H. Gilson Hardcover books
19401330Boston 1940. Paperback. Very Good. Stiff wraps spiral bound. Oblong 8vo. Intro. by J. Hudnut. White covers slightly soiled. Loan exhibition catalogue. Published writings of Wright. 62pp. 50 illus. <br/><br/> paperback books
19347498Boston Mass: Ben Burk Inc 1934. Folio in post & staple-bound folder 31.5 x 24.5 cm. 28 pages. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. A trade catalogue for the distilled products of Ben Burk Inc. the distillery more famous for their long-running Old Mr. Boston Bartender's Guide. The Guide first appeared with Repeal of Prohibition in 1934 though it was preceded by a number of printings of One Hundred Cocktails Some Old -- Some New and One Hundred and Twenty Cocktails Fizzes Punches Highballs Toddies and Long Drinks 1932 ff. So this trade catalogue is concurrent with the end of Prohibition and the beginnings of the famous cocktail guide. With promotional descriptions of eight spirits each with an 'actual size' image of the bottle. Some rubbing and staining to wrappers with some of the staining reaching the interior. Stiff card wrappers printed in red black and silver and with a de-bossed silver image of Mr. Boston himself. Near very good. Unrecorded. OCLC locates no copies; not in Noling. Ben Burk Inc unknown books
196136204Boston:: Fan Guild of Boston. Very Good. 1961. Hardcover. B000JLVSA6 . Black and white photographs throughout. First edition number 50 of 100 copies. Very good or better in green cloth with gilt lettering and design. No dust jacket. . Fan Guild of Boston, hardcover books
1907820171907. BOSTON. STARK'S ANTIQUE VIEWS OF YE TOWNE OF BOSTON. Boston: Morse-Purce Co. 1907. Large 8vo. green cloth illustrated in gilt spine in gilt. Illustrated profusely throughout with full page and folding plates; folding map. A very good copy clean and bright with just some light wear and spotting along the edges ink signature slightly cocked light soil. An attractive copy. $275.00. unknown books
1907653401907. BOSTON TRAVELER COMPANY. BAY STATE NOTABLES IN CARTOON. Being a series of cartoons of leading Massachusetts men published in The Boston Traveler and gathered together in this form as a permanent souvenir. Published by the Boston Traveler Company January 1907. 102 engraved caricatures of prominent Massachusetts politicians and businessmen of the time. Each engraving is printed in sepia on laid paper with an accompanying verse printed below. 103 ff. Bound in flexible salmon-color suede gilt-stamped to upper cover side-sewn with a matching suede ribbon. Negligible light rubbing and soiling to suede else clean and crisp. A scarce title in very fine condition. unknown books
1951106288<p>Program format 8 1/2 x 11 paper illustrated 48 pp. Some slight aging some edgewear a little soiling to back cover; otherwise very good plus. The 1951 Boston Red Sox Yearbook features pictures profiles and records of players on the 1951 team. Featured players include Ted Williams Johnny Pesky Dom DiMaggio Vernon Stephens Ellis Kinder and Jimmy Piersall. This is a Red Sox classic issue with some of their best players from that era. </p> books
1927843931927. MASSACHUSETTS - BOSTON BOSTON DIRECTORY FOR THE YEAR COMMENCING AUGUST 1 1927 VOL. CXXIII. Boston: Sampson & Murdock Co. 1927. 2344 pp. Thick 4to. quarter black cloth stamped in gilt green cloth boards stamped in black. Spine cocked. Light wear and soil to covers. Folding map has closed tear with no loss. Indexed. Pp. 111 - 2344 are advertising pages some on colored stock dark gold or blue. Complete tight. Extra postage required. unknown books
193614156Boston 1936. Hardcover. Very Good. ixp. plus 119 plates with descriptive text on versos facing plates. Flexible cloth binding tied Japanese-style in pegged portfolio binder. 39cm. Copy #70 of the deluxe edition limited to 300 numbered copies. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1907779361907. BOSTON. STARK'S ANTIQUE VIEWS OF YE TOWNE OF BOSTON. Boston: Morse-Purce Co. 1907. Large 8vo. yellow cloth illustrated in gilt spine in gilt. Illustrated profusely throughout with full page and folding plates; folding map. Large not unattractive presentation bookplate on front pastedown A near fine copy with a touch of soil on the rear board just a touch of wear at the extremies. unknown books
196614694JNew York: New American Library 1966. First Edition First Printing. Signed and inscribed by Gerold Frank to musician and writer Artie Shaw. Inscribed on the half-title. “For Artie fellow worker in a brambled vineyard. Most cordially Gerold New York Oct. 1 1966.†With Shaw’s bookplate. Very good in a very good dust jacket with some light rubbing and small tears. The basis of the 1968 motion picture directed by Richard Fleischer and starring Tony Curtis as the mass murderer De Salvo and Henry Fonda as the chief detective that got the murderer to confess. Arthur Jacob Arshawsky 1910 - 2004 better known as Artie Shaw started out his career in music at thirteen as a saxophone player and switched to the clarinet at sixteen. He gained experience and skill while on the road at a young age which lead to steady work in the 30s as a session musician and performing with various bands and orchestras and on radio. His first critical acclaim came with his performance of “Interlude in B-flat" at a swing concert at the Imperial Theater in New York in 1935. And during the swing era Shaw's big band enjoyed such enduring hits like Cole Porter's "Begin the Beguine" and Hoagy Carmichael's "Stardust" "Back Bay Shuffle†"Moonglow†"Rosalie" "Frenesi" and "Summit Ridge Drive." Throughout his career he worked with many of the great jazz musicians and vocalists of his day including Helen Forrest Mel Torme drummers Buddy Rich and Dave Tough guitarists Barney Kessel Jimmy Raney and Tal Farlow and trombonist-arranger Ray Conniff. A charismatic and complicated man Shaw was married eight times most notably to actresses Lana Turner Ava Gardner Doris Dowling and Evelyn Keyes Betty Kern the daughter of songwriter Jerome Kern and ‘Forever Amber’ author Kathleen Winsor. In 2004 he was presented with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. In addition to his musical career and accomplishments he is the author of an autobiography ‘The Trouble With Cinderella: An Outline of Identity’ three short novels; ‘I Love You I Hate You Drop Dead!’ a collection of short stories ‘The Best of Intentions and Other Stories’ and an autobiographical novel titled ‘The Education of Albie Snow’ which sadly never made it to publication. New American Library unknown books
19622023Cornish Sam. <b>People Beneath the Window</b>. Baltimore: Sacco Publishers 1962. First Edition First Printing.<br /><br />Octavo 8 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches; 215 x 135 mm 48 pages in stapled pictorial wrappers.<br /><br /><b>INSCRIBED</b> to Izzy Young former owner of the Folklore Center in New York with Young's ownership note on the last page. <br /><br />Scarce first book by Boston's first poet laureate a collection of poems. Cornish died in August 2018 at age 82. "On his many walks from his Brighton home Mr. Cornish traveled Boston's streets watching the world through his thick glasses missing nothing." The Boston Globe August 23 2018. <br /><br /> CONDITION: Light sunning to spine small stain to upper wrapper internally clean and unmarked. A Very Good or better copy. Sacco Publishers books
1955106289<p>Program format 8 1/2 x 11 paper illustrated 48 pp. Some aging and browning a little spine wear corner piece missing from pages 42 and 43 but not really affecting text or pictures; otherwise very good. Classic 1950s Boston Red Sox Yearbook that features pictures profiles and records of players on the 1955 team. Featured players include Ted Williams Frank Malzone Billy Goodman Sammy White Dick Brodowski Jimmy Piersall Fear Stikes Out and Joe Buck. # 106289</p> books
1960105026<p>Program 4to illustrated. Tiny corner fold much less than normal aging covers and contents bright and clean; near fine. This is the Red Sox 1960 annual which covers the 1959 season and gives a schedule for 1960; Ted Williams is still playing but hit below .300for the first time in his major league career because of a back injury. Boston finished 5th that year. </p> books
1957106290<p>Program format 8 1/2 x 11 paper illustrated 48 pp. Some aging and browning slight edgewear; otherwise in excellent shape. The 1957 Boston Red Sox Yearbook features pictures profiles and records of players on the 1957 team. Featured players include Ted Williams Frank Malzone Billy Goodman Sammy White Jimmy Piersall Fear Stikes Out and Mickey Vernon.</p> books
19613608Boston: Museum of Fine Arts 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. white cloth. Near fine in slightly chipped dust wrapper. 232 pages. Introduction by Philip Hofer. Voluminously illustrated in black and white and a handful of colorplates. Bibliography. Index. Index of Publishers. Index of Printers. Individual entries are classified by country instead of by artist; France 182 US 47Germany 39 England 26 Switzerland 14 Belgium 7 Italy 6 Spain 3 and Austria 2. Owner inscription. Museum of Fine Arts hardcover books
19417528Boston: Ben-Burk Inc 1941. Small octavo 18 x 12 cm. 112 16 113-160 pages. Includes the color-illustrated "Home Bar Guide". Printed in bladk and lavender and with decorative borders throughout. Stated "5th Printing" but formally Second Revised edition second printing the revision was published in 1940. Issued as a promotional item for the Ben-Burk line of spirits distilled in Boston the book became a staple of professional and home bars around the country. The Old Mr. Boston Guide finds its roots in a slim booklet One Hundred Cocktails Some Old -- Some New in 1932 prior to the Repeal of Prohibition. In 1934 it was expanded and the title changed to 120 Cocktails. Expanded once again in 1935 and re-titled it was an instant hit and went on to become one of the most iconic American cocktail recipe books. In gold-decorated and textured burgundy leatherette with a color "medallion" depicting Mr. Boston laid on the front board. Slight bump to top fore corner; one leaf dog-eared otherwise fine. Noling page 117. Ben-Burk Inc hardcover books
1978286141Boston: Design Media Concepts Corporation 1978. unbound. very good. Poster. Offset lithograph. 27.5" x 22.5". In very good condition.<br/><br/> Original exhibition poster for "Costumes of the Latin Quarter" at the Boston Center for the Arts. Art work by Erte with decorative text that reads "Woman As Fantasy". Romain de Tirtoff 23 November 1892 %u2013 21 April 1990 was a Russian-born French artist and designer known by the pseudonym Erté. 20th-century artist and designer who flourished in an array of fields including fashion jewelry graphic arts costume and set design for film theatre and opera and interior decor.<br/><br/> Design Media Concepts Corporation unknown books
1979217552Berkeley: City Miner Magazine 1979. Magazine. Eleven issue broken run various pagination 7x10 inches articles photos poetry fiction reviews interviews lightly wear otherwise very good first edition magazines in stapled pictorial wraps. Issue numbers 1-5 7-9 11 12 & 14. numbering was erratic with whole numbering beginning with issue #8 aka volume 3 #1. Mostly Bay Area San Francisco Counter Culture art poetry literature and politics. Issue number one has an interview with Moe Moskowitz of Moe's Books in Berkeley. City Miner Magazine unknown books
196150152Boston: Jewish Community Council of Metropolitan Boston 1961. Broadside 17" x 11". Printed in blue ink on white wove stock recto only. Original vertical and horizontal folds; a few inconspicuous nicks to extremities; Very Good or better. The observance included performances by Cantor Gregor Shelkan and the Children's Chorus of the Y.L. Peretz School. Signed in type by the event's sponsors which included the Bessarabian Society of Boston the Jewish Labor Committee the United Shepetovker of Boston and the Workmen's Circle Arbeiter Ring. Jewish Community Council of Metropolitan Boston unknown books
1907007124Boston: Museum of Fine Arts 1907. SIGNEDat bottom front wrapper -"Compliments of Contractor". RARE Worldcat lists only 2 institutional holdings. Paginated 27-47 with several drawings and a map of Boston showing area of new museum. Very Good wrappers soiled particularly along top edge front wrapper pp. 33-40 loose from staples. . SIGNED. First Edition. Stapled Folder. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Museum of Fine Arts Paperback books
