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2004VBF08<b>SENDAK</b> Maurice<br /><br /><b><i>"Give and Take"</i></b> <b>original pencil study</b> for contribution to Marlo Thomas' THANKS & GIVING All Year Long<br /><br />New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2004<br /><br />This fine <b>Wild Thing fantasy drawing</b> was prepared for a cumulative celebration of original donated texts illustrated art music &c on behalf of St Jude Children's Research Hospital charity. The images may have been suggested by a story "The Birthday Doll" which precedes the Sendak illustration although Maurice has re-imagined the scenario to make it entirely his own. The images are brilliant and demonstrate the importance of sharing. The actual drawing measures 10-3/4 x 8 inches on larger paper matted with UV Protective clear museum-glass in a wooden frame.<br /><br />This original pencil study was given by the artist to his close friend Lynn Caponera and acquired directly from her. The finished watercolor is in the permanent collection of Marlo Thomas. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers books
1973BB011SENDAK MAurice<br />MAX - Where The Wild Things Are Animation 1973<br />A series of seven character sketches of the protagonist Max dressed in his wolf suit intending to show the animators how the figure should move throughout the animated film.<br />Weston Woods Studio under the leadership of Morton Schindel introduced film strips in 1968 and eventually translated popular children's picture books into animated films for American schools. In 1973 he developed a rendition of Sendak's WILD THINGS created under the direction of Gene Deitch in Prague which proved a great success. Sendak put together this study sheet showing a variety of hand and foot gestures head motions &c with both front and partial profile views. Each of the seven sketches he has annotated below then writing a full line of extended text across the bottom: <i>"Note: all of this should be more agitated - more stacato ! - all sharp pointing stabbing gestures - Hitler moves : harsh sharp goose-stepping gestures"</i> with his signature at far right "M Sendak". <br />The drawings are first sketched in pencil and then further developed in ink using a pentel felt tip pen on smooth matte paper. A few copies were photographically reproduced to send to Czechoslovakia for animators to follow but this sheet is the actual artwork. books
196896790New York: Atheneum 1968. First edition of Watson's ground breaking work regarding the discovery of DNA for which the author Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1962. Signed by all three laureates on the title page James D. Watson Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins. Octavo original blue cloth with numerous diagrams and photographic illustrations. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jeanyee Wong. Foreword by Sir Lawrence Bragg. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. We have never seen another example signed by all three contributors; exceptionally rare. "Science seldom proceeds in the straightforward logical manner imagined by outsiders" writes James Watson in The Double Helix his account of his codiscovery along with Francis Crick of the structure of DNA. Watson and Crick won Nobel Prizes for their work and their names are memorized by biology students around the world. But as in all of history the real story behind the deceptively simple outcome was messy intense and sometimes truly hilarious. To preserve the "real" story for the world James Watson attempted to record his first impressions as soon after the events of 1951-1953 as possible with all their unpleasant realities and "spirit of adventure" intact. Atheneum hardcover books
1963874New York: Harper & Row Publishers 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. First edition of Where The Wild Things Are signed by Maurice Sendak in first state dust jacket. Oblong quarto 38pp. Illustrated boards olive green cloth spine. Light shelf wear to edges of boards. Housed in custom cloth clamshell title on spine on red morocco label. On title page contains Library of Congress number 63-21253. Pictorial endpapers bright boards and clean illustrated text. In a first issue dust jacket near fine with $3.50 price on front flap code "40-80 / 1163" on bottom of front flap three paragraph blurb on front flap and no mention of the Caldecott Award. Light wear to dust jacket on spine with 1 mm chip at top corner of spine. Signed by author and illustrator Maurice Sendak on half title with illustration of "Wild Thing" drawn in his hand dated September 1971. Hanrahan A58 An exceptional signed copy. Harper & Row, Publishers hardcover books
196495688Amsterdam: Elsevier Publishing Company 1964. First edition of this collection of Nobel Lectures in physiology or medicine from the years 1942-1962. Thick Octavo original yellow cloth. Signed by all three Nobel Prize-winning scientists Francis Crick James D. Watson and Maurice Wilkins on the title page. They were awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1962 "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material."Fine in a very good dust jacket with some closed tears and toning to the spine. An exceptional piece signed by these Nobel Prize-winning scientists. In the early 1950s the race to discover DNA was on. At Cambridge University graduate student Francis Crick and research fellow James Watson had become interested impressed especially by Pauling's work. Meanwhile at King's College in London Maurice Wilkins b. 1916 and Rosalind Franklin were also studying DNA. The Cambridge team's approach was to make physical models to narrow down the possibilities and eventually create an accurate picture of the molecule. The King's team took an experimental approach looking particularly at x-ray diffraction images of DNA. Watson and Crick took a crucial conceptual step suggesting the molecule was made of two chains of nucleotides each in a helix as Franklin had found but one going up and the other going down. Crick had just learned of Chargaff's findings about base pairs in the summer of 1952. He added that to the model so that matching base pairs interlocked in the middle of the double helix to keep the distance between the chains constant. Watson and Crick showed that each strand of the DNA molecule was a template for the other. During cell division the two strands separate and on each strand a new "other half" is built just like the one before. This way DNA can reproduce itself without changing its structure -- except for occasional errors or mutations. The structure so perfectly fit the experimental data that it was almost immediately accepted. DNA's discovery has been called the most important biological work of the last 100 years and the field it opened may be the scientific frontier for the next 100. Elsevier Publishing Company hardcover books
195044861Cambridge: University Mathematical Laboratory 1950. <p>Wilkes Maurice 1913-2010 et al. Report on the preparation of programmes for the EDSAC and the use of the library of subroutines. Dittoed document in two colors. 3 40 2 26 39 xi ff. 323 x 201 mm. N.p. September 1950. Original tan printed wrappers cloth spine. Fine. Stamp of John Todd 1911-2007 on the front wrapper.</p> <p> First Edition One of No More Than 100 Copies Issued. The first report on how to program an operational stored-program computer—Cambridge University's EDSAC the world's second stored-program computer and the first to be truly usable for large-scale operations. The machine was constructed at the University's Mathematical Laboratory now the Computer Laboratory by Maurice Wilkes who was inspired by John von Neumann's account of the EDVAC; it ran its first program on 6 May 1949. The Report on the Preparation of Programmes for the EDSAC was prepared by Wilkes and a fifteen-man team of researchers at the Mathematical Laboratory and distributed to no more than one hundred people—"everyone we thought would be interested both in the United Kingdom and abroad" Wilkes Memoirs of a Computer Pioneer p. 149. The material in this dittoed report was published with very few changes in Wilkes Wheeler and Gill's Preparation of Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer 1951.</p> <p> This copy bears the ownership stamp of mathematician John Todd professor of mathematics at Caltech and pioneer of numerical analysis and high-speed computer programming. Origins of Cyberspace 1027. </p> . University Mathematical Laboratory unknown books
1898307181Caucasus mountains 1898. 38 vintage platinum print photographs printed circa 1900 mounted on card captioned in pencil and signed and dated beneath the image by the photographer. Sizes vary all approximately 7 x 5 inches. Generally fine images not faded heavy spotting to one mount slight warping to mounts. In a custom black half morocco slipcase and chemise. 38 vintage platinum print photographs printed circa 1900 mounted on card captioned in pencil and signed and dated beneath the image by the photographer. Sizes vary all approximately 7 x 5 inches. A fine group of ethnographic and mountaineering scenes from the Causasus Mountains by the Hungarian photographer and mountaineer Maurice de Déchy 1851-1917. A wide-ranging selection of views encompasing scenes from Chechnya Dagastan Georgia and the breadth of the Caucasus Mountains. Images include Mount Elbrus several views Mount Adyr Mount Chikhildi Mount Kasbek and numerous passes valleys glaciers and gorges; ethnographic scenes including Tatar Digor Karachai Daghestani and Khevsuri people and villages; mountaineering scenes including camping beneath Katchou pass with a note that the guide Maser of Tyrol died in 1900 and "en route pour la découverte du col Djiper 1885" with de Déchy identified as one of the mountaineers.<br/><br/>Douglas Freshfield in his classic Exploration of the Caucasus 1896 summarizes de Déchy's activities in the Caucasus: <br/><br/>". M. de Déchy a Hungarian gentleman took up the task of exploration. In 1884 1885 and 1886 he made three extensive journeys in the range. In 1884 . he climbed Elbruz and a fine peak near the Mamison Pass. In the course of his wanderings he made the first passage by travellers of several native glacier passes and collected a considerable amount of scientific information with regard to the glaciers and the snow region. He also took a very large number of most valuable photographs of the scenery and people thus making himself the pioneer in Caucasian photography. I am indebted to him for some of the most interesting illustrations in these volumes" Freshfield p. 19. <br/><br/>De Déchy returned to the Caucasus again in 1887 this time with Freshfield. Fourteen of De Déchy's photographs were reproduced in Freshfield's Exploration of the Caucasus including "Ice-Lake at Klukhor Pass" one of the images in the present group. He also contributed an entire chapter "The Sources of the Kuban" vol. II chapter XXI. <br/><br/>These beautifully printed platinum prints are in a fine state of preservation and exhibit the wide tonal range and delicate shading characteristic of the process. unknown books
13580Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Rare autograph musical quotation on an album page two measures the instantly recognizable tune from Boléro signed "Maurice Ravel" and dated 17/1/32 and signed additionally beneath on the same date by the important pianist so closely associated with the composer Marguerite Long.  In fine condition also signed on the verso by the pianist Alexander Borovsky. 5.2 x 7.5 inches 13 x 19 cm. <br style="">The premiere of the G major Concerto by Ravel conducted by the composer and featuring the pianist Marguerite Long had taken place just three days prior on January 14 1932 at the Salle Pleyel after which the two musicians had immediately embarked together on a European tour that would last until April. At the premiere in a program largely repeated on the tour the Concerto had appeared in a program of Ravel works exclusively including Pavane pour une infante défunte and Boléro. Long herself reported that Ravel grew so tired of Boléro that when she would hum the tune in his presence he would snap: "Quit singing that" to which she would retort "Oh! my friend you shouldn't have composed it then!" As quoted in Cecilia Dunoyer "Marguerite Long: A Life in French Music 1874-1966" p. 95<br style="">Originally composed as a ballet commissioned by Russian actress and dancer Ida Rubinstein the one-movement orchestral piece Boléro was premiered in 1928 and is Ravel's most famous musical composition.  Nevertheless it is surprisingly uncommon in musical quotations from the composer perhaps as Long reports because he himself grew to find the tune tiresome!<br style=""> unknown books
72755Autograph musical quotation signed and an autograph letter signed by Maurice Ravel. The quotation 3 bars from his Chansons madecasses notated on a two-stave system with holograph title lyrics tempo directive and instrument labels. The letter in French is addressed to "My friend" in French stating that he received his note when leaving Geneva and mentioning two places he might be when he returns at Christmastime dated Paris 15 December 1928 With Hotel D'Athenes" stationery. Both matted and framed together with a commemorative medallion. The entire piece measures 19 inches by 27 inches. A striking piece rare and desirable. Maurice Ravel was a French composer pianist and conductor. He is often associated with impressionism along with his elder contemporary Claude Debussy. In the 1920s and 1930s Ravel was internationally regarded as France's greatest living composer. The Chansons madecasses Madagascan Songs is a collection of three art songs by Maurice Ravel written between 1925 and 1926 for voice mezzo-soprano or baritone flute cello and piano with words from the poetry collection Chansons madecasses fr by Evariste de Parny. The song cycle consists of the three titles "Nahandove" "Aoua" and "Il est doux". They are dedicated to the American musician and philanthropist Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge. unknown books
02253Paris: Chez Aubert 1839. With 150 Hand-Colored Lithographs<br/>including Forty-Five by Honoré Daumier and Forty-Two by Gavarni<br/><br/>DAUMIER Honoré Gavarni and others illustrators. ALHOY Maurice Louis Huart and Charles Philipon editors. Le Musée pour rire. Dessins par tous les caricaturistes de Paris; Texte par MM. Maurice Alhoy Louis Huart et Ch. Philipon. Paris: Chez Aubert Editeur des Cent-et-Un Robert-Macaire 1839-1840.<br/><br/>First edition. Three quarto volumes bound in one 10 x 7 5/8 in; 251 x 193 mm. 1 half-title 2 title 600 pp. With 150 numbered hand-colored lithographs heightened with gum arabic by Honoré Daumier forty-five Gavarni forty-two Frédéric Bouchot twenty-two Victor Adam ten Platier seven Benjamin i.e. Benjamin Roubaud four Bourdet three Pruche three Platel two Grandville two Edme-Jean Pigal two Alophe Menut two Charles Vernier two Charles-Joseph Traviès one and others.<br/><br/>Bound ca. 1886-1890 by James Screeton of Hull with label to rear pastedown half black pebbled morocco over gray-brown cloth. Elaborately gilt tooled compartments gilt-rolled raised bands. All edges gilt. Some foxing and toning throughout but still a very good copy.<br/><br/>"The house of Aubert was ingenious in marketing its products. Its lithographs.were published one by one in periodicals like Le charivari and together in suites by the same artist without letterpress. Still a third form of publication was in albums made up of lithographs by several artists with accompanying texts. These collections most commonly took the form of volumes with the generic title Paris comique which consisted of twenty colored lithographs accompanied by quite unrelated texts. Aubert remarked that the resulting hodgepodge had ‘a plan that is easy to follow for it consists in not having any' and in fact this was indeed a frugal procedure for reusing old texts and already published plates. The interest of the various volumes of Paris comique resides entirely in the lithographs they happen to contain. It can be considerable however since Daumier and Gavarni are the predominant artists. Le musée pour rire represents a more considerable effort on the part of Aubert. To accompany 150 lithographs including forty-five by Daumier among them twenty-seven from Croquis d'expressions and eight from La galerie physionomique and forty-two by Gavarni new commentaries were commissioned on each plate all except two by Alhoy and Huart. Daumier's lithographs were trimmed slightly and their captions were relettered. The designs of the other artists were provided with decorative frames. The whole was then published in three handsome volumes and in copies with expert contemporary coloring like this one Le musée pour rire is among the freshest and most attractive of romantic illustrated books" Ray The Art of the French Illustrated Book.<br/><br/>Le Musée pour Rire "contained 150 lithographs by Daumier Gavarni Bouchot Traviès etc. These are re-impressions some of them in mirror image which had previously already been used for publication in Le Charivari. Most prints of the series ‘Croquis d'expressions' are contained in the book. The name of the series is missing and the texts were printed in a different type than in the original Charivari version. We do not consider these prints original lithographies but rather prints ‘after Daumier'". <br/><br/>James Screeton was the son of bookbinder William Screeton of Hull. It appears that he was partner of binder William Wardell until opened his own shop in 1886. <br/><br/>Ray The Art of the French Illustrated Book 164. Paris: Chez Aubert, 1839 unknown books
1791284301791. Folio. 24pp. Stitched as issued. Top corner of first leaf torn away affecting several lines of text. Lightly dampstained and worn throughout. Still very good. Early and unrecorded imprint from the colonial press at the French colony of Mauritius also known as the Ile de France. Issued at a critical moment at the beginning of the French Revolution the lengthy text concerns the government and judiciary of the island together with a proclamation by the King dated August 24 1790. The text nominally recognizes the authority of the King while taking measures to establish major autonomy of local government. The Dutch were the first Europeans to become interested in the island taking possession in 1598. After exploiting the island's dense forests for a century and introducing the cultivation of sugar cane and cotton in 1710 the Dutch abandoned the colony. The French soon claimed it as "Ile de France" and the island remained under the control of the French East India Company until 1767. During the long war between France and England at the beginning of the 19th century Mauritius proved to be an important strategic naval base and as a result the British took charge of the island in 1810 and the Treaty of Paris confirmed official British possession in 1814. It remained an important sugar producing colony and in the 20th century agricultural production was expanded to include tea rice and other produce. Printing began on Mauritius in 1768. During the French period until 1810 only about 400 imprints were produced mostly in the form of official documents and newspapers though there are also almanacs and a few other items. All are quite rare. No copies located in OCLC and not recorded by Toussaint in his bibliography of Mauritius imprints. unknown books
1791WRCAM48597Isle de France: Chez F.N. Bolle 1791. 24pp. Folio. Stitched as issued. Top corner of first leaf torn away affecting several lines of text. Lightly dampstained and worn throughout. Still nearly very good. Early and unrecorded imprint from the colonial press at the French colony of Mauritius also known as the Ile de France. Issued at a critical moment at the beginning of the French Revolution the lengthy text concerns the government and judiciary of the island together with a proclamation by the King dated Aug. 24 1790. The text nominally recognizes the authority of the King while taking measures to establish major autonomy of local government. <br> <br> The Dutch were the first Europeans to become interested in the island taking possession in 1598. After exploiting the island's dense forests for a century and introducing the cultivation of sugar cane and cotton in 1710 the Dutch abandoned the colony. The French soon claimed it as "Ile de France" and the island remained under the control of the French East India Company until 1767. During the long war between France and England at the beginning of the 19th century Mauritius proved to be an important strategic naval base. The British took charge of the island in 1810 and the Treaty of Paris confirmed official British possession in 1814. It remained an important sugar producing colony and in the 20th century agricultural production was expanded to include tea rice and other produce. <br> <br> Printing began on Mauritius in 1768. During the French period until 1810 only about 400 imprints were produced mostly in the form of official documents and newspapers although there are also almanacs and a few other items. All are quite rare. No copies located in OCLC and not recorded by Toussaint in his bibliography of Mauritius imprints. Chez F.N. Bolle unknown books
1790WRCAM48602Isle de France: Imprimerie Royale 1790. 29pp. Folio. Printed self-wrappers. Folded sheets several leaves loose. Moderate wear and soiling heavier to wrapper. Wrapper with some minor loss not affecting text. Good. Early and unrecorded imprint from the colonial press at the French colony of Mauritius also known as the Ile de France. An extract from the journals of the "Délibérations & Arretés de L'Assemblée- Générale de la Colonie de l'Isle de France" dated Sept. 25 1790 this document records the steps made to establish what was largely self-government at the outset of the French Revolution. <br> <br> The Dutch were the first Europeans to become interested in the island taking possession in 1598. After exploiting the island's dense forests for a century and introducing the cultivation of sugar cane and cotton in 1710 the Dutch abandoned the colony. The French soon claimed it as "Ile de France" and the island remained under the control of the French East India Company until 1767. During the long war between France and England at the beginning of the 19th century Mauritius proved to be an important strategic naval base. The British took charge of the island in 1810 and the Treaty of Paris confirmed official British possession in 1814. It remained an important sugar producing colony and in the 20th century agricultural production was expanded to include tea rice and other produce. <br> <br> Printing began on Mauritius in 1768. During the French period until 1810 only about 400 imprints were produced mostly in the form of official documents and newspapers although there are also almanacs and a few other items. All are quite rare. No copies located in OCLC and not recorded by Toussaint in his bibliography of Mauritius imprints. Imprimerie Royale unknown books
1790284331790. Folio. 2 9pp. Printed self-wrappers. Folded sheets several leaves loose. Moderate wear and soiling heavier to wrapper. Wrapper with some minor loss not affecting text. Early and unrecorded imprint from the colonial press at the French colony of Mauritius also known as the Ile de France. An extract from the journals of the "Délibérations & Arretés de L'Assemblée-Générale de la Colonie de l'Isle de France" dated Sept. 25 1790 this document records the steps made to establish what was largely self-government at the outset of the French Revolution. The Dutch were the first Europeans to become interested in the island taking possession in 1598. After exploiting the island's dense forests for a century and introducing the cultivation of sugar cane and cotton in 1710 the Dutch abandoned the colony. The French soon claimed it as "Ile de France" and the island remained under the control of the French East India Company until 1767. During the long war between France and England at the beginning of the 19th century Mauritius proved to be an important strategic naval base and as a result the British took charge of the island in 1810 and the Treaty of Paris confirmed official British possession in 1814. It remained an important sugar producing colony and in the 20th century agricultural production was expanded to include tea rice and other produce. Printing began on Mauritius in 1768. During the French period until 1810 only about 400 imprints were produced mostly in the form of official documents and newspapers though there are also almanacs and a few other items. All are quite rare. No copies located in OCLC and not recorded by Toussaint in his bibliography of Mauritius imprints. unknown books
1794284251794. Small quarto. 28pp. Stitched as issued. Contemporary notation on first page some contemporary underlining in text. Minor soiling. Very good. A remarkable early imprint from the colonial press at the French colony of Mauritius also known as the Ile de France in the south Indian Ocean. The text contains a report of the French Revolutionary Committee of Public Safety regarding prisoners arrested on the island of Réunion being held as enemies of the Revolution. The document was printed in the capital Port Louis which was called Port de la Montagne from 1792 to 1795. The Dutch were the first Europeans to become interested in the island taking possession in 1598. After exploiting the island's dense forests for a century and introducing the cultivation of sugar cane and cotton in 1710 the Dutch abandoned the colony. The French soon claimed it as "Ile de France" and the island remained under the control of the French East India Company until 1767. During the long war between France and England at the beginning of the 19th century Mauritius proved to be an important strategic naval base and as a result the British took charge of the island in 1810 and the Treaty of Paris confirmed official British possession in 1814. It remained an important sugar producing colony and in the 20th century agricultural production was expanded to include tea rice and other produce. Printing began on Mauritius in 1768. During the French period until 1810 only about 400 imprints were produced mostly in the form of official documents and newspapers though there are also almanacs and a few other items. All are quite rare. No copies located in OCLC; Toussaint locates a copy at the Archives Nationales in Paris.<br/> <br/>Toussaint A247. unknown books
1794WRCAM48588Port de la Montagne i.e. Port Louis: Chez F.N. Bolle 1794. 28pp. Small quarto. Stitched as issued. Contemporary notation on first page some contemporary underlining in text. Minor soiling. Very good. A remarkable early imprint from the colonial press at the French colony of Mauritius also known as the Ile de France in the south Indian Ocean. The text contains a report of the French Revolutionary Committee of Public Safety regarding prisoners arrested on the island of Réunion being held as enemies of the Revolution. The document was printed in the capital Port Louis which was called Port de la Montagne from 1792 to 1795. <br> <br> The Dutch were the first Europeans to become interested in the island taking possession in 1598. After exploiting the island's dense forests for a century and introducing the cultivation of sugar cane and cotton in 1710 the Dutch abandoned the colony. The French soon claimed it as "Ile de France" and the island remained under the control of the French East India Company until 1767. During the long war between France and England at the beginning of the 19th century Mauritius proved to be an important strategic naval base. The British took charge of the island in 1810 and the Treaty of Paris confirmed official British possession in 1814. It remained an important sugar producing colony and in the 20th century agricultural production was expanded to include tea rice and other produce. <br> <br> Printing began on Mauritius in 1768. During the French period until 1810 only about 400 imprints were produced mostly in the form of official documents and newspapers though there are also almanacs and a few other items. All are quite rare. No copies located in OCLC; Toussaint locates a copy at the Archives Nationales in Paris. TOUSSAINT A247. Chez F.N. Bolle unknown books
1973BB012PRESENTATION COPY the first volume inscribed by the artist on the half-title: "For dear Judy - with all my love! Maurice Sendak Dec. '73" which was actually the earliest month the book was available. ALSO INCLUDED is a folded paper chemise inscribed by the artist "For Judy from her loving friend Maurice / Oct. 2002." Inside is a complete set of all 27 page illustrations as individual prints handsome impressions on large paper each sheet measuring 8-3/4 x 6-5/8 inches compared to the published sheet size in the book of 6-7/8 x 5-1/2 inches.<br />The recipient of these two inscriptions is Sendak's close friend Judy Taylor his British editor The Bodley Head from 1960 onwards who is largely credited with having helped to promote and popularize Sendak's illustration art in Europe. Farrar, Straus & Giroux hardcover books
1963140941462New York: Harper & Row 1963. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition first printing in lovely example of the first issue dust jacket. Illustrated paper-covered boards with gray cloth backstrip. Near Fine with slight toning to covers tiny area rubbed through at bottom edge of rear board in a Near Fine dust jacket with light toning and trivial wear with publisher's original price of $3.50 is present on the top corner of the front flap and lower corner clipped three paragraphs of text on the front flap and no Caldecott Medal on the front panel. A groundbreaking work for its honest treatment of children's emotions especially anger and winner of the 1964 Caldecott Medal. Harper & Row unknown books
03815New York: Harper & Row 1988. One of 220 Copies Specially Bound and Signed by Maurice Sendak<br/>With an Original 'Wild Thing' Pen & Ink Drawing<br/><br/>SENDAK Maurice. Where the Wild Things Are. Story and Pictures by Maurice Sendak. New York: Harper and Row 1988. <br/><br/>Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition. Limited to 220 copies of which this is No. 85 signed by the author on the half-title and additionally a signed original drawing of a 'Wild Thing'. <br/><br/>Oblong quarto 8 15/16 x 9 7/8 inches; 227 x 252 mm. 40 pp. <br/><br/>With an original pen & ink drawing measuring 6 x 5 inches; 151 x 126 mm. of a 'Wild Thing' signed and dated Oct. 1988. <br/><br/>Publisher's full blue morocco front cover decoratively stamped in yellow spine lettered in yellow multi-patterned end-papers all edges gilt. Housed in the original purple felt-lined cream buckram clamshell case with color plate on front panel similar to the color illustration on page 33 and rectangular limitation label with "85" written in black ink on inside. A very fine copy.<br/><br/>Where the Wild Things Are is a 1963 children's picture book by American writer and illustrator Maurice Sendak 1928-2012 and was originally published by Harper & Row. The story of only 338 words focuses on a young boy named Max who after dressing in his wolf costume wreaks such havoc through his household that he is sent to bed without his supper. Max's bedroom undergoes a mysterious transformation into a jungle environment and he winds up sailing to an island inhabited by malicious beasts known as the "Wild Things." After successfully intimidating the creatures Max is hailed as the king of the Wild Things and enjoys a playful romp with his subjects; however he decides to return home to the Wild Things' dismay. After arriving in his bedroom Max discovers a hot supper waiting for him.<br/><br/>The book has been adapted into other media several times including an animated short in 1974 with an updated version in 1988; a 1980 opera; and a live-action 2009 feature-film adaptation directed by Spike Jonze. The book had sold over nineteen million copies worldwide as of 2009 with ten million of those being in the United States.<br/><br/>Sendak won the annual Caldecott Medal from the children's librarians in 1964 recognizing Wild Things as the previous year's "most distinguished American picture book for children". It was voted the number one picture book in a 2012 survey of School Library Journal readers not for the first time. This 25th Anniversary edition had the color reproductions done to Maurice Sendak's exact specifications. New York: Harper & Row, 1988 unknown books
1803WRCAM40583N.p. but probably Tobago 1803. 68pp. plus two folding manuscript plans. Approximately 14500 words. Folio. Folded sheets stitched together. Stitching loose some sheets loosely laid in. Spine chipped. Titlepage lightly soiled some small chips and tears around the edges. Some light soiling and dampstaining to outer leaves else clean and bright. Written on the right half of each page with some additional notes or corrections on the left. Near fine. An important document in French detailing the functions of the island of Tobago written by Louis-Maurice Le Rat De Magnitot 1757-1823 colonial prefect of Tobago and Saint Domingue. Tobago changed hands many times during the 18th century and the island was briefly in French possession again in 1802-03 before being captured by the British in June of 1803. In this document Magnitot summarizes the situation of the newly reclaimed island. The first four sections of his MEMOIRE deal with military matters. In the first section "Troupes" he lists seventy-seven men garrisoned on Tobago noting that the garrison is a varied blend of men. He includes details on discipline causes of sickness and mortality among the men and uniforms. The second section "Artillerie" provides details of the number of guns and munitions at Tobago. The third section "Fortifications" includes two plans of Man of War Bay complete with soundings observations and important locations marked. This is followed by a section entitled "Marine" in which he details the condition of the ports and harbors. In the next four sections Magnitot gives details about the civil operations of the island: Laws Police Agriculture and Commerce. The section on the law is very detailed giving the organization of the courts civil and criminal. The section on police is perhaps the most interesting in which he gives not only information on keeping the public peace but on the public itself. Magnitot delineates in several separate points policing among the black populace the conduct of masters toward slaves and the condition of roads and the means of their maintenance. In the last of these points he gives numbers on both the European and colored populace. The "population blanche" numbers no more than 600 while the "population noire" at the time of the assessment numbers 17485. Breakdowns within each group are also given dividing rural from urban and free from slave. <br> <br> In the seventh section "Agriculture" Magnitot declares Tobago's agriculture to be flourishing. He lays out the reasons for that success before going into specific crop information detailing production of coffee cotton rum and sugar. The final section "Commerce" is the most extensive. It lays out details of Tobago's trade with France and reasons for variation on the flow of commerce as well as discussing the cost of national trade versus trade with other nations. Clearly the French administrators hoped Tobago would become a productive colony but Napoleon's entire American strategy collapsed in 1803 with the loss of Saint Domingue to the freed slaves the sale of Louisiana and the choking off of Caribbean commerce by the Royal Navy. <br> <br> First colonized by the Dutch in the early 17th century over the next two hundred years Tobago changed hands thirty-three times among the Spanish Dutch English and French all of them rival colonists. In 1763 Tobago was ceded to Britain captured by the French in 1781 and then recaptured by the British in 1793. In 1802 Trinidad was ceded to the British through the Treaty of Amiens and Tobago returned to the French. Britain re- captured it in 1803 when the peace broke and the Napoleonic Wars resumed. At the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1814 Britain gained formal possession of Tobago with the Treaty of Paris. <br> <br> A fascinating and detailed document illuminating this last brief period of French rule on the island of Tobago a small part of Napoleon's strategy to build a French empire in America. unknown books
194716078Paris: Imprimerie National 1947. First edition of Allais' groundbreaking work. Octavo 2 volumes original wrappers as issued. Inscribed by Maurice Allais on the title page of volume one. From the library of fellow Nobel Prize-winning economist Kenneth Arrow with his name in each volume. In near fine condition with light shelfwear minor mending to the first few pages of volume one. A nice association linking these two Nobel Prize winning-economists and giants of twentieth century economics. In Economie & Interet Maurice Allais introduced the first overlapping generations model later popularized by Paul Samuelson in 1958 introduced the golden rule of optimal growth later popularized by Edmund Phelps or described the transaction demand for money rule later found in William Baumol's work. In 1988 Maurice Allais became the first French citizen to receive the Nobel Prize in economics. He won it for his contribution to the understanding of market behavior and the efficient use of resources. Allais also showed that his insights could be applied to help set efficient prices for state-owned monopolies of which France had many. Allais's work paralleled and sometimes preceded similar work done by English-speaking economists Sir John Hicks and Paul Samuelson. He also proved a result in growth theory in 1947 that had been credited to Edmund Phelps. Allais did not get credit as early as his English counterparts because his work was in French. "Had Allais' earliest writings been in English" commented Paul Samuelson "a generation of economic theory would have taken a different course. Imprimerie National unknown books
05039Paris: Librairie Charles Tallandier 1898. A Fine Pictorial Inlaid Binding by Franz Ostermann<br/>Specially Bound for Sir Henry Harben<br/><br/>BINDING. OSTERMANN Franz binder aka FRANZ. PRÉVOST L'Abbé. LELOIR Maurice illustrator. Histoire de Manon Lescaut et du Chevalier des Grieux. Préface de Guy de Maupassant. Illustrations de Maurice Leloir. Paris: Librairie Charles Tallandier 1898. <br/><br/>Large octavo 9 13/16 x 6 3/8 inches; 250 x 162 mm. xxiv 203 1 blank 2 list of illustrations & contents 1 printer's statement 1 printer's emblem pp. Twelve color plates two black & white plates each leaf of text with a black & white vignette. <br/><br/>Bound ca. 1905 by Franz Ostermann stamp signed in gilt "Franz" on front turn-in. Full green crushed levant morocco.<br/>Front cover with an elaborate inlaid design taken from the second chapter heading vignette on p. 113 in multi-colored morocco's depicting Manon and Des Grieux. "Folding her in my arms I rained a hundred fond kisses on her lips and besought her to forgive my angry words confessing that I was a brutal wretch and utterly unworthy of the happiness of being loved by such an adorable woman as herself". Also with the gilt arms and Latin motto "Summis Viribus" Greatest Strength of Sir Henry Harben. Rear cover with a smaller but equally elaborate inlaid design in multi colored morocco's taken from the vignette on p. 85 depicting Des Grieux and and his his loyal friend Tiberge "I thanked M. de Tiberge for rendering me so important a service; and returning his confidence unreservedly.". Spine with four raised bands with in the center an inlaid design of Des Grieux surrounded by an anchor and a fine gilt design lettered in gilt in compartments. Double gilt-ruled board edges elaborate gilt floral turn-ins colored silk liners with gold thread floral design front and rear free endpapers also in colored silk with gold thread floral design additional green marbled endpapers all edges gilt. With the original pictorial printed front wrapper and plain rear wrapper bound in. Absolutely fine.<br/>Housed in the original quarter green morocco over green marbled boards same as endpapers felt-lined chemise spine with four raised bands lettered in gilt in compartments slightly faded in turn housed in the original matching green morocco edged green marbled board slipcase. <br/><br/>Franz Ostermann 184 - 1938. Bookbinder of Alsatian origin who always signed his bindings with his first name. He trained in Strasbourg before moving to Paris and opening his workshop in 1872 at 80 boulevard Malesherbes. He moved his workshop to 28 rue Ampère in 1902. Thirty-one of his bindings were sold at auction at Drouot Richelieu in Paris in 2008 Piasa Livres Anciens et Modernes December 2nd 2008.<br/> <br/>Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles 1697-1763 usually known simply as the Abbé Prévost was a French author and novelist.<br/><br/>The Story of the Chevalier des Grieux and Manon Lescaut Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut is a novel by Antoine François Prévost. Published in 1731 it is the seventh and final volume of Mémoires et aventures d'un homme de qualité Memoirs and Adventures of a Man of Quality. The story set in France and Louisiana in the early eighteenth century follows the hero the Chevalier des Grieux and his lover Manon Lescaut. Controversial in its time the work was banned in France upon publication. Despite this it became very popular and pirated editions were widely distributed. In a subsequent 1753 edition the Abbé Prévost toned down some scandalous details and injected more moralizing disclaimers.<br/><br/>Seventeen-year-old Des Grieux studying philosophy at Amiens comes from a noble and landed family but forfeits his hereditary wealth and incurs the disappointment of his father by running away with Manon on her way to a convent. In Paris the young lovers enjoy a blissful cohabitation while Des Grieux struggles to satisfy Manon's taste for luxury. He acquires money by borrowing from his unwaveringly loyal friend Tiberge and by cheating gamblers. On several occasions Des Grieux's wealth evaporates by theft in a house fire etc. prompting Manon to leave him for a richer man because she cannot stand the thought of living in penury.<br/><br/>The two lovers finally end up in New Orleans to which Manon has been deported as a prostitute where they pretend to be married and live in idyllic peace for a while. But when Des Grieux reveals their unmarried state to the Governor and asks to be wed with Manon the Governor's nephew sets his sights on winning Manon's hand. In despair Des Grieux challenges the Governor's nephew to a duel and knocks him unconscious. Thinking he had killed the man and fearing retribution the couple flee New Orleans and venture into the wilderness of Louisiana hoping to reach an English settlement. Manon dies of exposure and exhaustion the following morning and after burying his beloved Des Grieux is eventually taken back to France by Tiberge.<br/><br/>Maurice Leloir 1853-1940 was a French illustrator watercolourist draftsman printmaker writer and collector. Leloir was the son and pupil of painter Auguste Leloir and watercolorist Héloïse Suzanne Colin daughter of painter Alexandre-Marie Colin. His brother Alexandre-Louis Leloir was also a well known painter and illustrator. Leloir married Céline Bourdier with whom he had a daughter Suzanne Leloir who married Philippe the son of Pauline Savari in 1912. Leloir first exhibited his work at the Salon des Artistes Français of which he became the secretary. With many other painters he was a member of the Crozant School in the valleys of Creuse. In 1907 he was the founding president of the Société de l'histoire du costume and he donated the family's collection of fashion prints to the society.<br/>Around the 1890s Leloir and his students flooded the picture book market inspired by photographs representing accurately costumes and attitudes of the past much appreciated by bibliophiles. He was a prolific illustrator of books especially for children such as the Richelieu by Théodore Cahu of magazines and fans. In 1929 Leloir traveled to Hollywood at the urging of Douglas Fairbanks to work on his last silent film The Iron Mask. He chronicled his experiences in his memoir Five Months in Hollywood with Douglas Fairbanks.<br/><br/>Harben Henry Sir 1823 -1911. The pioneer of industrial life assurance Henry Harben rose to become President of the Prudential Assurance Company. He was knighted in 1897. He married Ann Such in 1846 with whom he had one son. In 1900 Sir Henry was elected the first mayor of the newly created Metropolitan Borough of Hampstead. In 1877 arms were granted to Henry Harben of Seaford Lodge Hampstead London.<br/><br/>References: <br/>Fléty Julien. Dictionnaire des relieurs français ayant exercé de 1800 à nos jours. Paris 1988.<br/>Suares Alain. Le livre de l'émeraude. Paris 1927. Paris: Librairie Charles Tallandier, 1898 unknown books
1939112422London: Macdonald and Co 1939. First edition of this overview of Hollywood. Quarto original cloth illustrated. Signed on the front pastedown and endpapers by <span class="match">Walt</span> <span class="match">Disney</span> and 13 other Hollywood actors and actresses including Chico Marx "To Pat Sincerely Chico Marx"; Pat O'Brien; "To Pat my own namesake Love Pat O'Brien Nov 21 1947; Deborah Kerr "I see a dark Stranger" on page 76 "with best wishes Deborah Kerr"; Merle Oberon "To Pat all the best Merle Oberon"; Joe E. Brown "To Pat Joe Brown." Brown was one of the most popular American comedians in the 1930s and 1940s with films like A Midsummer Night's Dream Earthworm Tractors Alibi Ike and Some Like It Hot. Jack Train "Best wishes Pat Jack Train Don't' mind if I do"; Ray Milland "Merry Xmas Pat Ray Milland." Milland is best remembered for his Academy Award-winning portrayal of an alcoholic writer in The Lost Weekend<i> </i>leading man opposite John Wayne's corrupt character in Reap the Wild Wind 1942 the murder-plotting husband in Alfred Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder 1954 and Oliver Barrett III in Love Story. <sup id="cite_ref-mgrmdmg_3-0" class="reference"></sup>Two of the signatures are pasted onto the end papers while the rest are signed directly onto the end papers with one on page 76. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. An exceptional collection of signatures in this film review book. Macdonald and Co hardcover books
1963313503New York: Harpers 1963. First edition first-issue dust jacket. Story and Pictures by Maurice Sendak. 1 vols. Oblong 4to. Cloth backed boards illustrated dust jacket. Some browning to jacket and minor wear to jacket extremities boards a touch browned at extremities as well a very good copy. First edition first-issue dust jacket. Story and Pictures by Maurice Sendak. 1 vols. Oblong 4to. "LET THE WILD RUMPUS START!" A first edition in the first issue dust jacket with no Caldecott gold medallion or reviews on back inner flap price $3.50 dated 40-80 1163 on front flap. Hanrahan A58 Harpers unknown books
7685New York 1930: Edward J. Clode Inc. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Very Good. Octavo 286 pages; original green cloth printed in black; original pictorial dust jacket with price of $2.00 on the front flap; top edges are stained black. Rare on the market; none are on the current market and none appear in the auction record. A fine copy clean and bright in a colorful dust jacket which has some minor expert restoration. Neat owner name on front pastedown. The source of the 1932 classic film by Howard Hawks starring Boris Karloff Ann Dvorak and Paul Muni. The movie was remade in 1983 starring Al Pacino. The dust jacket art is by Edward C. Caswell. Armitage Trail is the pseudonym for Maurice Coons. <br/><br/> Edward J. Clode, Inc hardcover books
