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200689530Editions Gallimard. New. 2006. Paperback. 2070118274 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- Text in French. 168 pp. ; 148 ills. -- with a bonus offer-- . Editions Gallimard paperback
193591986Librairie Floury. As New. 1935. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - Text in French. 188 pages; 71 images including 8 in color. -- with a bonus offer-- . Librairie Floury paperback
192153274Paris France: H. Floury Editeur. As New. 1921. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - Text in French. Original wrappers in slipcase. 276 page monograph. 58 gravures "hors texte" and over 90 within the text. Rare. -- with a bonus offer-- . H. Floury, Editeur paperback
2016127140BNF. New. 2016. Paperback. 2717726209 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- Text in French. 224 pages; 190 illustrations in color. -- with a bonus offer-- . BNF paperback
201095851Chronicle Books. New. 2010. Hardcover. 0811876985 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 106 pp. ; 40 color illustrations. -- with a bonus offer-- . Chronicle Books hardcover
19066420London: Macmillan 1906. Fifth edition. Fine. Later issue. A Fine copy. Octavo 7 3/4 x 5 /14 inches; 197 x 133 mm. iv 1-112 pp. Bound ca. 1906 by Riviére for Hatchards stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-in. Full purple morocco covers paneled in gilt front cover elaborately decorated in gilt in an 'art nouveau' style with fifty-six tiny inlaid red morocco circles rear cover with four tiny inlaid red morocco circles spine with five raised bands decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments gilt board edges and turn-ins marbled endpapers all edges gilt.<br /> <br /> Fitzgerald attributed the original work to the famed astronomer and mathematician Omar Khayyum and this collection of quatrains rapidly became a favored text of the Pre-Raphaelites. "Like the Odyssey or the Vita Nuova it was once the most widely known and quoted work of Victorian poetry in the world" and its place in Western culture at the time was secured by Fitzgerald's "epigrammatic sophisticated often mordant verses that display Fitzgerald's adroitness in handling this stanza form" Warner. Yet with rise of Modernism the Rubaiyat fell out of style for a time its lush and romantic orientalism considered out of step with the concerns of those who were living through a devastating World War. But the beautiful surviving copies in exceptional vellum silk and leather alongside recently released critical editions have helped draw attention back to the Rubaiyat's beauty and its role in inspiring so many monumental pieces of Victorian art and literature. This fifth edition of Fitzgerald's text published posthumously contained some changes from the fourth and was based on his manuscript notations. Fine. Macmillan unknown
17828291Madrid: Imprenta Real 1782. First Edition Primera edición. Hardcover Tapa dura. Madrid Imprenta Real s.a. 1782. En folio. 31 h. 326 136 24 pp. 1 lámina. Encuadernación en pergamino a la romana de finales del siglo diecinueve planos con rueda gofrada y flor en los vértices lomera con tejuelo en marroquén y letrería también dorada. Primera edición de las Ordenanzas de Intendentes para el virreinato del Río de la Plata posiblemente las ordenanzas más importantes que se dictaron para América. Las primeras ordenanzas se dieron para los cuerpos de intendentes en España en 1718 que después sirvieron de ejemplo para las de América. Las Ordenanzas definen a los Intendentes en América como magistrados puestos para fomentar la agricultura promover el comercio estimular la industria y favorecer la minería; la legislación general para los intendentes se fue configurando a medida que se iban solventando las deficiencias que aparecían en el ejercicio diario de sus funciones. La primeras ordenanzas en América se establecieron en Cuba en 1764. Las presentes Ordenanzas para el virreinato de Buenos Aires o Río de la Plata fueron las primeras que se realizaron para el continente americano y son la base de las leyes relativas al comercio y la hacienda en América durante el reinado de Carlos III hasta el fin de la dominación española en América. La premura en este virreinato fue producto de la situación de crisis y conflicto que la sublevación indígena había conseguido establecer en gran parte de su jurisdicción especialmente en el Alto Perú. Este levantamiento indígena que se dio de manera simultánea en distintos lugares tuvo uno de sus focos en Chayanta Potosí liderado por los hermanos Kataris el cual extendiéndose por el altiplano terminó contactando con el movimiento de Tupac Amaru y alcanzando un importante impacto en ciudades como Oruro o La Paz. Una de las quejas de los indígenas sublevados fue la extorsión y abusos de los corregidores. La reforma administrativa a partir de la aplicación del régimen de intendencias contemplaba entre uno de sus objetivos acabar con la odiosa figura del corregidor de indios y sustituirla por los subdelegados. Ejemplar con extensas anotaciones contemporáneas en los márgenes y con dos folios manuscritos adicionales. La primera hoja que contiene la lámina con el escudo está restaurada en el margen interior pero sin afectar al grabado por lo demás es un magnífico ejemplar con muy amplios márgenes. Imprenta Real hardcover
1935161360N.p.: N.p. 1935. Final script for the 1935 film seen here under the working title "Romance in a Glass House." Specially bound copy belonging to screenwriter Jerry Wald with his name in gilt on the front board.<br /> <br /> Jerry Wald is best remembered for his long and successful association with Warner Brothers as both a screenwriter and producer of a number of notable films including "Mildred Pierce" 1945 "Humoresque" 1946 "Key Largo" 1948 and "Flamingo Road" 1949. In the 1950s he moved to Twentieth Century-Fox and was the producer there for "An Affair to Remember" 1957 "Peyton Place" 1957 and "Sons and Lovers" 1960.<br /> <br /> A famed stage diva wants her untalented lover as her leading man. To prevent this from occurring the producers select a handsome novice from the streets and declare him the new contracted lead in their production. <br /> <br /> Bound in full red leather with gilt titles on the spine and front board. Distribution page present stamped copy No. 4 noted as FINAL with receipt removed. Title page present dated 6/25/35 with credits for screenwriters Jerry Wald Julius J. Epstein and Robert Hardy Andrews. 109 leaves with last page of text numbered 105. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Fine binding about Fine. N.p. unknown
4697Offered here is a rare and unusual collection of designs and drawings the work of what appears to be a single binder for Riviere & Son from the late 1920’s with a very few possibly later. There are 8 large designs for spines with some drawings tool impressions two of which are in color; 4 smaller designs for spines; 7 small “snippets†of tooling designs; 7 front cover designs some drawings some with tool impressions; 26 rubbings of bindings covers spines etc. various sizes; 4 miscellaneous: a sheet of oasis leather samples used for the Andrew Lang Fairy Books tool roll samples for a set of Shakespeare a small piece of paper with what looks to be time studies for various bindings e.g. “Ω Plain 50 min†spine design samples from various sets of English authors sheet with various pictorial tools used and which authors titles etc. to use them e.g. a witch on a broom and “The Arthur Rackham Fairy Bookâ€. A variety of paper has been used in these examples some thicker but much of it quite fine i.e. tissue quality. Some small tears and browning from being folded for decades but overall most pieces in nice shape. A most scarce archive of original bookbinding records from one of the most famous bookbinding companies in the history of modern bookbinding. unknown
1838ST13648London: Richard Bentley 1838. FIRST EDITION Second State with frame around final plate "The Last Song". 204 x 125 mm. 8 x 4 7/8". With half titles and with 36 pp. of ads at the end of Vol. II. Two volumes. <br/> HANDSOME FOREST GREEN CRUSHED MOROCCO GILT BY RIVIERE & SON stamp-signed on front turn-in covers with French fillet borders raised bands spines gilt in delicately tooled compartments with scrolling centerpiece within a lozenge of small tools volute cornerpieces gilt titling turn-ins densely gilt with floral rolls and plain and decorative rules purple endpapers top edges gilt other edges untrimmed. Original purple cloth binding bound in. With 13 plates by George Cruikshank. Eckel pp. 140-42; Kitton pp. 177-83; Gimbel Collection B-64. ◆Spines evenly sunned to tan as usual with green morocco faint offsetting from final plate otherwise A VERY FINE COPY with only the most trivial imperfections internally and in a sparkling binding.<br/> <br/> This is an extraordinarily attractive copy of the biography of Joseph Grimaldi 1779-1837 called by Britannica "the most celebrated of English clowns" and generally considered without equal as a clown of pantomime. There has been much debate about the exact nature of Dickens' role in the writing of this book. Forster said that Dickens wrote only the introductory chapter; others have said that he edited the manuscript with the help of his father; and Bentley has stated in print that Dickens wrote a significant portion of the work. Eckel says "It is plain that the last chapter is in Dickens' style and that other parts of the book are his. Grimaldi laid the foundation for his memoirs but in a rough and diffuse manner. He gave the manuscript to Thomas Egerton Wilks who after some condensing sold the manuscript to Bentley who in turn passed it to Dickens for the purpose of embroidery." According to Kitton copies with the frame around the final plate as here are more valuable than others because of their relative scarcity; the border was added without Dickens' consent and when he expressed his displeasure it was quickly removed. The especially pretty Riviere binding is typical of the firm's first-rate work and use of the best materials. Richard Bentley unknown
1967192946Mexico D.F.: Editorial Meridiano 1967. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. 101 vols. color illustrations wrps. most are unopened with age toning around the edges. 101 issues of an important mexican satire magazine by Rius spanning 2 years. Very scarce in this condition. There is no issue 41 since it was numbered 40.5 as a joke. Editorial Meridiano paperback
1923140945682Paris: Albert Lévy 1923. First edition. First edition. Complete in two imperial folio volumes immense illustrated boards with cloth ties containing loose sheets. Copy #52 of 300 total. Text in French. Ex-art museum library copies with tiny call numbers written on spines card pocket on paste down stamps on the verso of each color plate; despite this Very Good overall a few ties have perished typical age-toning to contents but generally bright and clean. A deluxe monograph about Chinese Korean and Japanese ceramics with large color plates.<br /> <p>Please note: these volumes are exceptionally heavy and large and will require substantial additional cost if shipping outside of the USA. Albert Lévy unknown
19135027Keokuk Ia: Mississippi River Power Company 1913. Very good. Ten volumes complete. Profusely illustrated. Oblong folio. Each issue measuring 9 x 12 inches in original pictorial wrappers two holes punched along spines and bound together in a later gray cloth Tatum-style Y binder with leather corners. Minor edge wear and staining to boards. Light edge wear to contents. A couple of panoramic photographs detached but present. A complete run of bulletins tracking the progress of construction on the Keokuk Dam & Power Plant which was then the longest monolithic concrete dam in the world and a pioneering effort in large-scale low-head hydroelectric power. Still in operation today the dame served as a prototype for many future power plants harnessing the power of the Mississippi River between Keokuk Iowa and Hamilton Illinois generating clean low cost and reliable energy enough to power 75000 homes. The present bulletins are chock full of facts figures photographs renderings and progress reports intended to familiarize the public with the project by illustrating the methods employed in its construction from beginning to completion. The bulletins are about equal parts text and photographs providing an easy-to-follow format for learning about the Keokuk project. Some of the issues also have folding maps or larger-format photographs which provide further visual accompaniment to the explanatory text.<br /> <br /> Known as a "run-of-river" plant the Keokuk Dam uses the natural energy of falling water to generate electricity. The power of this part of the river was identified by none other than Robert E. Lee in 1836 when he was serving as a surveyor for the U.S. War Department. Lee called attention to the turbulent waters but found no way to control it. In 1899 a group of leaders from Keokuk and Hamilton teamed up raised the backing funds received governmental approval for the dam and hired Hugh L. Cooper to oversee the project. Cooper had previously engineered construction of a hydroelectric plant at Niagara Falls. Interestingly an observation tower was also built on both sides of the river to allow the public to watch the progress of the Keokuk project then the largest privately-funded construction effort in the world. In addition to the dam a powerhouse and a new lock and dry system to accommodate river traffic were also built. The final bulletin includes comments from the chief engineer who noted that in the first bulletin it was stated that the project would be completed by July 1 1913. He remarks: "It is naturally a source of great satisfaction to all concerned with construction to see this prediction fulfilled."<br /> <br /> An informative and substantial production relating to a major construction project on the Mississippi River in the early-20th century. OCLC records a smattering of institutional holdings but complete runs appear to be rather rare. Mississippi River Power Company unknown
187742208St. Louis: A. Gast & Co. Lith. 1877. 1877. IOWA NEBRASKA. First edition. 8vo. 21.6 cm x 13.3 cm. Original printed yellow wrappers 31 1 pp. illustrated from two full-page pictorial plates three maps on verso of front cover and recto and verso of rear cover. Front map is of the great South Platte region. Map on inside rear cover is a map of Southern Iowa showing lands of the Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company that are available for sale Map on outside of rear cover is a map showing the leading through routes to the West and the land grants in Iowa & Nebraska of the Chicago Burlington and Quincy R. R. and Burlington & Missouri River Railroad in Nebraska. A scarce and interesting promotional for the sale of 1000000 acres of land owned along the routes of the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad. The Burlington and Missouri put out some of the most interesting and compelling railroad land promotionals in the genre nicely illustrated with maps and plates and this example is no exception. The maps show the lands for sale along the line of the railroad from Monroe Iowa to Omaha; lands in Nebraska from Omaha to Kearney along the South Platte; and a map showing railroad routes from Chicago. The plates are entitled "Looking Southwest from Lincoln Neb." and "Valley of the Big Blue South of Seward Neb." The text is devoted to detailed descriptions of the land including natural resources soil climate stock raising and homesteading opportunities and prices for land and for goods. This publication enjoyed some success; another promotional issued the next year advertised only 750000 acres of land left for sale indicating that the Burlington and Missouri had sold off a quarter million acres of land the previous year. Laid into this copy is a four-page "Circular of Rates on Tickets and Freight" for several railroads including the Burlington & Missouri. Not in Railway Economics nor in the Eberstadt or Decker catalogues. OCLC locates three copies at the American Antiquarian Society Harvard Business School Library and the DeGolyer Library. There is also a copy at Yale. This scarce promotional booklet has covers lightly soiled small chips to the covers covers holding but loose internally quite serviceable. Overall a very good copy. A. Gast & Co. Lith., [1877]. unknown
02297London: Printed for Thomas McLean 1821. Scarce Copy<br /> With Earliest Watermarks<br /> Complete With Half-Title<br /> <br /> CARELESS John pseudonym. CHATTO William Andrew. The Old English 'Squire. "A Jovial Gay Fox-Hunter Bold Frank and Free." A Poem in Ten Cantos. Illustrated with Plates by One of the Family. London: Printed for Thomas McLean. by Howlett and Brimmer 1821. <br /> <br /> First edition earliest issue a Large Paper copy complete with half-title; scarce. <br /> <br /> Tall octavo 10 3/8 x 7 1/8 in; 263 x 181 mm . viii 136 pp. Twenty-four hand-colored aquatint plates including frontispiece watermarked "Whatman 1821". The plates in Abbey's copy watermarked "Whatman 1823."<br /> <br /> Bound by Rivière & Son in full green crushed morocco covers with French fillets spine with five raised bands elaborately tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments wide gilt decorated turn-ins plum endpapers top edge gilt others uncut. Spine slightly sunned. With the armorial bookplate of sporting book collector Graham M. Adee on front paste-down. A fine copy.<br /> <br /> "The half-title is frequently missing" Tooley.<br /> <br /> The story of the life of a somewhat debauched squire from birth until his bridle at marriage.<br /> <br /> "'John Careless Esq.' is only known as the author of a rare colour-book The Old English Squire published by M'Lean in 1821 with twenty i.e. 24 coloured plates 'by one of the family' in the style of Rowlandson. The literary matter differs from that of Combe and Mitford in being strongly influenced by the style of Walter Scott wherever the galloping metre of Retaliation and Haunch of Venison is not used. Especially curious is the account of the collection of Old Masters from which the Old English Squire bought his St Anthony preaching to the Fishes." Prideaux.<br /> <br /> "It is not certainly known who 'John Careless' was. He is sometimes said to have been 'Stephen Oliver' a pseudonym of W.A. Chatto; but Chatto's poem of the same title was published in 1838 by 'Phiz.' His 'Old English Squire' with twenty-four aquatints colored by hand 'by one of the family' is in fact something of a mystery and for the collector rather an expensive one: it may cost £20 or even more. The reason of such a price though there is the justification of rarity lies in two features it possesses. One is the plates which are attributed to Thomas Rowlandson of which all that can be said is that they are utterly unworthy of the artist who in the same year completed the illustrations to 'Dr. Syntax's' three 'Tours.' However these puzzles of authorship and illustration make the book interesting. And trashy though the verse is it has yet one other great interest - that of life" Sawyer and Darton English Books 1475-1900.<br /> <br /> The stunning library of color-plate and sporting books collected by Capt. Graham M. Adee USN ret. of Newport. R.I. was sold at Parke-Bernet Galleries in 1953.<br /> <br /> Tooley 128. Abbey Life 387. Prideaux pp. 305 330. Schwerdt I p. 95. London: Printed for Thomas McLean, 1821 unknown
165929260Lyons: Antoine Cellier 1659. <p>First Description of Aortic Stenosis</p> <p>RIVIERE Lazare 1589-1655. Observationum medicarum & curationum insignium centurae tres. . . . Edited by Simeon Jacoz. 4to. 8 311 9pp. Lyons: Antoine Cellier 1659. 225 x 167 mm. Speckled sheep c. 1659 rubbed small wormhole in front cover. Some foxing browning & dampstaining old repair to one leaf. Very good copy. Old signature and notes on endpapers.</p> <p> First Edition. Riviere was the first to describe stenosis of the aortic valve from a case that he treated in 1646. GM 2727 cites Riviere's description of this condition in his Opera medica universa 1674 of which the present work is the first edition; the description appears here on p. 177 and is entitled "Cordis palpitatio & pulsus inaequalitas." Riviere also brought Paracelsian iatrochemistry into the curriculum of the University of Montpellier and it was under his auspices that Alexander Fraser introduced the Harviean theory of the circulation into the University's curriculum in 1636. An edition of the present work was published in The Hague in the same year as this Lyons edition. As Riviere was French it is reasonable to presume that the Lyons edition was first. Hirsch. Norman 1837. Willius & Dry p. 58. Thorndike VIII p. 518. <p>. Antoine Cellier unknown
19192091502135500753Not Available 1919. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
185378787Adelaide: W.C. Cox Printer 1853. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide W.C. Cox Printer 1853. Octavo 46 pages. Antique-style quarter calf and marbled papered boards; title page slightly dusty and a trifle marked with two tiny closed tears to the top edge; a few pencilled emphases to the margins; light vertical crease down the centre of the last six leaves; an excellent copy. The author Clerk of the Executive Council of South Australia was on board the vessel; this is his account of the first successful navigation of the Murray as far as Swan Hill by Captain Francis Cadell. Fellow-passenger James Allen also published his version of events. Captain William Randell and his paddle-steamer 'Mary Ann' left Goolwa at the Murray mouth ahead of Cadell and travelled much farther up the Murray but Cadell overtook him en route and reached Swan Hill first. However both men deservedly earned the bonus of 2000 pounds offered by the South Australian Government 'for each of the first two steamers to travel up the Murray as far as the Darling junction' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. W.C. Cox, Printer hardcover
1942233601942. Internment camp copy of Flowering Plants and Ferns of Arizona from the Gila River Project School Libraries preserving the school library apparatus of a War Relocation Authority camp for Japanese Americans incarcerated in Arizona during World War II. The stamp "Property of Gila River Project School Libraries / War Relocation Authority" the "High School Library" date slip and the retained circulation card checked out to "Mrs. Young" on February 21 place this volume inside the camp's formal school system. Gila River was one of the War Relocation Authority camps created to confine Japanese Americans removed from the West Coast and this is one of the materials which circulated within that controlled educational setting. Gila River confined more than 13000 Japanese Americans and maintained a formal elementary and secondary school system under War Relocation Authority administration with separate school structures in the Canal and Butte camps. The stamp in this volume identifies the bureaucratic machinery through which education was organized inside wartime incarceration. <br /> Kearney Thomas H. and Robert H. Peebles. Flowering Plants and Ferns of Arizona. Washington D.C.: United States Department of Agriculture 1942. USDA Miscellaneous Publication 423. This copy was held by the Gila River Project School Libraries the school library system operating within the Gila River War Relocation Center under War Relocation Authority administration. 9" x 5" x 2" 1069 pages. The ownership stamp rear pastedown date slip marked "High School Library" and retained book pocket and circulation card identify the book as part of that internal educational bureaucracy rather than a later outside institutional holding. Thick octavo in original green cloth stamped in gilt. The title page identifies Kearney as Principal Physiologist and Peebles as Associate Agronomist in the Division of Range Research Bureau of Plant Industry. Preliminary leaves include a detailed table of contents with sections on ecological factors geographical relationships of the flora vegetation and an annotated list of species while the introduction notes Arizona's exceptional botanical diversity and the absence of any earlier comprehensive manual for identifying its flowering plants and ferns.<br /> The camp provenance distinguishes this copy. Gila River divided into the Canal and Butte camps on the Gila River Indian Reservation maintained elementary and secondary schools for incarcerated Japanese Americans and this volume preserves the lending mechanics of that system in unusually direct form through its stamp date slip and borrower record. Because the book is a substantial Arizona reference work rather than casual reading matter its use in a camp high school library points to organized classroom or instructional use within confinement linking federal scientific publishing to wartime educational administration inside the camp. Light rubbing to cloth; text block clean and sound; library pocket date slip and circulation card intact; institutional stamp strong and legible. Overall good condition. An internment camp school library copy with circulation evidence still present preserving the internal educational life of Gila River through the use of a federal Arizona flora. unknown
1935184174Qingdao: no stated publisher 1935. Water power First edition of this rare and extensively illustrated proposal for increasing freight traffic and other commercial transport along China's second-longest river and building new port facilities at the mouth in the Bohai Sea. The valuable maps and plans show infrastructure and key locations along the river as well as past and proposed improvements. Cui Shijie 1888-1970 was a government official in Shandong Province charged with regional economic development. Rivers were a core part of his vision for coastal and hinterland prosperity. He published his report four years after the devastating 1931 floods when China's major water systems burst their banks and claimed the lives of up to 4 million people the worst natural disaster ever recorded. The table of contents calls for two end plans that were seemingly not issued as they are present neither in this copy nor in the copy held by the National Library of China. Quarto 255 x 175 mm bound without author's portrait title page and 2-page preface. With all substantive illustrations including 32 maps and plans 12 folding 2 diagrams tables in text. Text in Chinese. Contemporary blue card covers traces of original spine front cover lettered in manuscript. Red pencil underlining in text; old Chinese bookseller's annotated ink stamp on rear cover. Rear cover reattached contents lightly and evenly toned maps plans and diagrams well preserved: very good. unknown
1937176095China: Hai Ho Conservancy Commission 1937. An imposing cartographic document A rare plan untraced institutionally produced on the cusp of the Japanese invasion of Tianjin showing the fruits of a multi-decade effort to turn the city into a major international port. "Connected with the sea by an artificial river Tianjin's status as a seaport was heavily dependent on the continuous conservancy efforts of the Haihe and its tributaries" "River Conservancy". Formed in 1897 the Hai Ho Conservancy Commission focused on opening the channel to shipping for example by straightening the channel and thereby cutting the route to the sea by 17 miles. This plan shows the river's winding course marked with hundreds of survey stones and the build-up of warehouses and wharves by the foreign concessions Tanggu and Xidagu. Also shown are the results of the most recent survey of the seabed at the river's mouth. Although Japan declared war on China in July 1937 it respected the integrity of Tianjin's foreign concessions and river management remained in the hands of the British French and American authorities until Pearl Harbor. At the same time Japan started development of Tanggu Xingang - the foundations of which blossomed into the present-day megaport at Tianjin. Diazoprint plan 67 x 274 cm printed in reddish brown text primarily in Chinese. Contemporary black ink and red crayon marking and annotations in Chinese and Japanese on both sides. Toned old folds a few small splits and losses neatly conserved with tissue: a very good example of a fragile document. "River conservancy and the undetermined future of the port of Tianjin" Open Rivers available online. unknown
1933165267Nanjing: Yangtse River Commission 1933. Richly illustrated with 130 elevations statistical graphs and plans First edition first printing of this report published in the wake of the devastating 1931 Yangtse floods. In 1930 the Yangtse River Commission focused on hydrological engineering and regulating the channel with surveys conducted at ten of the river's eleven bars. We have traced a single institutional copy of this detailed report held by the Chinese Academy of Sciences Natural Science Library. In keeping with the commission's Chinese and expatriate membership the same information is presented in both English and Chinese. This copy is bound without pages 39-44 of the Chinese-language portion with the corresponding data and text appearing on pages 26-31 of the English section. The bilingual plates employ both English and Chinese. While the English title page dates the report to 1931 this is more accurately a reference to when the text and data were compiled. Quarto 255 x 185 mm. With 130 plates tables in text. Text in English and Chinese. Near-contemporary brown card post-binder purple linen backstrip part of original front wrapper laid down on front cover rear wrapper bound in. Chinese-language section missing pages 39-44. Post-binder worn but still sturdy chipping to first leaf and rear wrapper text generally fresh. A very good copy. unknown
1934161384N.p.: N.p. 1934. Draft script for the 1935 film seen here under the working title "Caliente." Specially bound copy belonging to screenwriter Jerry Wald with his name in gilt on the front board and his annotations in manuscript pencil on the title page.<br /> <br /> Jerry Wald is best remembered for his long and successful association with Warner Brothers as both a screenwriter and producer of a number of notable films including "Mildred Pierce" 1945 "Humoresque" 1946 "Key Largo" 1948 and "Flamingo Road" 1949. In the 1950s he moved to Twentieth Century-Fox and was the producer there for "An Affair to Remember" 1957 "Peyton Place" 1957 and "Sons and Lovers" 1960.<br /> <br /> In order to sober up a hard-drinking magazine editor is sent to a Mexican resort where he falls in love with a dancer about whom he had once written a scathing review. Choreographed by Busby Berkeley. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in Tijuana.<br /> <br /> Bound in red cloth with red quarter leather binding with five raised bands and gilt titles on the spine. Title page present undated with credits for screenwriters Ralph Block Warren Duff Jerry Wald and Julius J. Epstein. 120 leaves with last page of text numbered 115. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 12/21/34 and 1/19/35. Pages Near Fine binding lightly edgeworn and faded else about Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1921ABE-857353084Paris Floury 1921. Renoir et ses amis Riviere George. Paris: Floury 1921. First edition with one original drypoint by Renoir "Le chapeau epingle" Delteil 8 and one color lithograph Tete de jeune fille on front cover printed on fine wove paper in original binding in very good condition. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Paris, Floury paperback
19352110502150414142Heibonsha 1935. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 11 Heibonsha paperback
