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193111058London and New York: John Lane the Bodley Head Ltd./Charles Scribner's Sons 1931. Limited. Cloth. Collectible; Very Good. The 1931 limited edition "printed on a specially made rag paper with two extra plates in hand-coloured photogravure limited to 125 copies for sale in Great Britain and the USA of which this is No. 80". Tight and VG- in its light-brown cloth with soiling to the panels and a bit of darkening along the spine. Quarto 240 pgs. top-edge gilt deckled fore and bottom edges. "A Companion Volume of New Research to 'British Sporting Artists' and 'Angling in British Art'. 138 Illustrations complementing the text. <br/><br/> John Lane the Bodley Head Ltd./Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
1774623261774. Annapolis: Printed by Ann Catherine Green 1774. Annapolis: Printed by Ann Catherine Green 1774. Copy of the First American Treatise on Wills that Belonged to an Important Early Illinois Statesman Vallette Elie. Sparrow Thomas 1746-1780 Engraver. The Deputy Commissary's Guide Within the Province of Maryland Together with Plain and Sufficient Directions for Testators to Form and Executors to Form Their Wills and Testaments For Administrators to Compleat Their Administrations And for Every Person Any Way Concerned in Deceased Person's Estates To Proceed Therein with Safety to Themselves and Others. Annapolis: Printed by Ann Catherine Green and Son 1774. ii iv 248 12 pp. Copperplate title page and table of descents. Octavo 7-3/4" x 5". Contemporary sheep re-backed in calf retaining original lettering piece endpapers renewed. Light rubbing to boards corners bumped and lightly worn. Moderate toning to text somewhat darker in places occasional dampstaining mostly to margins. Early owner signature of Ninian Edwards to front endleaf and margin of p.50 interior otherwise clean. $1500. The first original American legal guide it is also the first American book on the law of wills. Dedicated to Maryland Governor Robert Eden it was printed by Dutch immigrant Ann Catherine Hoof Green wife of Jonas Green who inherited his bankruptcy debt along with his shop and she succeeded as public printer of Maryland from 1767 to 1775. The engraved title page the only one issued from a colonial Maryland press and the plate is considered to be the finest work of of Thomas Sparrow the only engraver south of the Mason-Dixon Line prior to 1775. Vallette was registrar of the Prerogative Office of Maryland Province. Originally from Maryland Edwards 1775-1833 was an important early Illinois statesman and political leader. He was the only governor of the Illinois Territory from 1809 to 1818 one of the first two United States Senators from Illinois from 1818 to 1824 and the third Governor of that state from 1826 to 1830. Wroth Maryland Imprints 338. Wroth The Colonial Printer in America 290. Cohen Bibliography of Early American Law 4632. unknown books
1964BL1538New York:: Thomas Y. Crowell 1964. 1964. American issue. 8vo. 302 pp. Frontis. plates index. Green cloth gilt-stamped spine title. Burndy bookplate. Very good. Complimenting this work as the best of biographies written on Rumford Oesper offers: "The subtitle of this biography … scientist inventor Revolutionary War turncoat financial wizard philanthropist-reformer Bavarian general. To this might well have been added: Founder of the Royal Institution discoverer of Humphry Davy husband of Lavoisier's widow. It is not therefore surprising that biographers have often chosen to deal with this in many respects fiction-like life." – Ralph E. Oesper University of Cincinnati book review. - J. Chem. Educ. 1966 43 6 A550. Thomas Y. Crowell, (1964). hardcover books
19371287303New York: Henry Holt and Company 1937. First Edition. Octavo; VG-/VG-; blue spine white text; jacket has light rubbing on front and back light staining on back age toning three small open tears on head edge one open tear and two closed tears on bottom edge chipping on the head and tail of spine clipped and has protective mylar cover; boards have bumping on head and tail of spine age toning along top and bottom edges interior boards have age toning front board has a newspaper clipping pasted on the board; textblock has age toning top edge stained dark blue outer and base edge have light spotting; interior pages have age toning; LP consignment; pp 82. 1287303. Full-priced Rockville. Henry Holt and Company unknown books
19361290805Bromsgrove School 1936. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Quarto; VG/no-DJ; greenish-tan spine with gold text; cover has age toning spotting along spine bumping in front upper corner spine slightly cocked; textblock has spotting around edges on pastedowns and endpapers slight waving otherwise clean; pp 60; limited edition - one of 500 unnumbered copies. 1290805. Full-priced Rockville. Bromsgrove School hardcover books
195112311TRIPTYCH OF ORIGINAL SCRATCHBOARDS FOR STEWARD'S UNPUBLISHED TRANSLATION OF JEAN GENET'S QUERELLE <br /> Three scratchboards two 12'x 15" the other 16" x 12" depicting critical scenes from Jean Genet's classic Querelle. Two are uniform in size and are matted and framed in the style of the oblong one which wads originally matted and framed by the artist. <br />The life of Sam Steward 1909 - 1983 the subject of Justin Spring's biography "Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward Professsor; Tattoo Artist and Sexual Renegade "Farrar Strauss Giroux 2010 took Steward from a small town Ohio upbringing to personal friendships with Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas associations with George Platt Lynes Glenway Wescott and other literati and a close relationship with sex researcher Alfred Kinsey. Steward's life may well be most provocatively known for his explicit diaries journals photography and art that both recorded his sexual life in detail and which he shared with Kinsey. Starting out as an English professor at DePaul University with literary aspirations and after writing several commercially unsuccessful books Steward attempted mid-life in the early 1950s to seek approval from Jean Genet to publish his own English translation—with his own original illustrations - of Querelle de Brest. When it became clear to Steward that Genet was disinterested he dropped the project: these three scratchboards the art he he created for it. Steward's pursuit of "serious" literary expression ebbed and later in the 1960s under the pseudonym Phil Andros he authored a series of gay paperback novels STUD The Greek Way etc. regarded as the most literate of homoerotic fiction featuring his alter-ego hustler. He turned his artistic energies to tattooing operating parlors catering to naval and military servicemen in Chicago Milwaukee and finally Oakland. And his sexual activities increasingly involved sadomasochism in which he had always been interested All three of these drawings were reproduced in "An Obscene Diary: The Visual World of Sam Steward" Antonius Press/ Elysium Press 2010. During Steward's lifetime the "Lucky Strike" image was published in the Zurich-based Der Kries an early homophile publication introduced to Steward by Dr. Kinsey and also in the rare anthology of homoerotic art published by Der Kries in 1960 Der Mann in der Zeichnung under one of Steward's pseudonyms <br />Philip von Chicago. Spring writes: "Noteworthy among Steward's many illustrations for Der Kries is one that was originally created for Steward's 1951- 1952 English language translation of Querelle de Brest. Working form Polaroid photographs taken of himself in various poses Steward fashioned three scratchboard illustrations for the story. In the first a man lights a cigarette for a sailor; in the second Querelle strangles the Armenian pederast; in the third Querelle is penetrated by the bartender husband of Madame Lysiane. The illustration of the sailor having his cigarette lit subsequently appeared in Der Kreis under the caption "Lucky Strike." Indeed Steward etched "LUCKY STRIKE" in the cigarette in the picture on the verso it is signed "Sam Steward 1951 1952". The strangulation picture has in Steward's hand on the verso: "From Genet's Querelle de Brest. Querelle strangles the Armenian". In the picture itself Steward etched his signature and date in the design on the Armenian's shirtcuff: "Sparrow Phil 1951". The picture of Querelle and the bartender in sexual union hung on the wall of Steward's apartment for many years. It is pictured in one of Steward's sex Polaroids reproduced in "Obscene Diary". On the verso of it Steward wrote "L'Execution De Querelle 9-19-51" <br />Steward did not work in scratchboard alone. His art was quite versatile: murals in his apartments tempera watercolor pastel pen/ink and some wire sculpture and collage. These drawings could be regarded as the most important of his visual art. While they were motivated by literary aspiration they in effect represented a real turning point in his life. They combine a fascination with uniformed sailors and sadomasochism that was thematic to much of his art. And finally with their clear bold stroke of line these scratchboards capture intrinsically the violence and passion in Genet's landmark of 20th century erotic literature. <br /><i>NOTES ON THE IMAGES: The framed pictures are the orignals. The picture on the horizontal hung as framed on Seward's wall witness to his sexual activites as imaged in the cropped snapshot reproduced in Obscene Diary. The two original images on the vertical were reframed in the style that Seward framed the horizontal one. The close-ups of Seward's signature is from the verso of the horizontal image: the other two are photocopies taken from the versos before they were framed. The two reproduced images are as reproduced in the book Obscene Diary. </i> original art books
012311No Binding. Fine. Three scratchboards two 12'x 15" the other 16" x 12" depicting critical scenes from Jean Genet's classic Querelle. Two are uniform in size and are matted and framed in the style of the oblong one which wads originally matted and framed by the artist. The life of Sam Steward 1909 - 1983 the subject of Justin Spring's biography "Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward Professsor; Tattoo Artist and Sexual Renegade "Farrar Strauss Giroux 2010 took Steward from a small town Ohio upbringing to personal friendships with Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas associations with George Platt Lynes Glenway Wescott and other literati and a close relationship with sex researcher Alfred Kinsey. Steward's life may well be most provocatively known for his explicit diaries journals photography and art that both recorded his sexual life in detail and which he shared with Kinsey. Starting out as an English professor at DePaul University with literary aspirations and after writing several commercially unsuccessful books Steward attempted mid-life in the early 1950s to seek approval from Jean Genet to publish his own English translation-with his own original illustrations - of Querelle de Brest. When it became clear to Steward that Genet was disinterested he dropped the project: these three scratchboards the art he he created for it. Steward's pursuit of "serious" literary expression ebbed and later in the 1960s under the pseudonym Phil Andros he authored a series of gay paperback novels STUD The Greek Way etc. regarded as the most literate of homoerotic fiction featuring his alter-ego hustler. He turned his artistic energies to tattooing operating parlors catering to naval and military servicemen in Chicago Milwaukee and finally Oakland. And his sexual activities increasingly involved sadomasochism in which he had always been interested All three of these drawings were reproduced in "An Obscene Diary: The Visual World of Sam Steward" Antonius Press/ Elysium Press 2010. During Steward's lifetime the "Lucky Strike" image was published in the Zurich-based Der Kries an early homophile publication introduced to Steward by Dr. Kinsey and also in the rare anthology of homoerotic art published by Der Kries in 1960 Der Mann in der Zeichnung under one of Steward's pseudonyms Philip von Chicago. Spring writes: "Noteworthy among Steward's many illustrations for Der Kries is one that was originally created for Steward's 1951- 1952 English language translation of Querelle de Brest. Working form Polaroid photographs taken of himself in various poses Steward fashioned three scratchboard illustrations for the story. In the first a man lights a cigarette for a sailor; in the second Querelle strangles the Armenian pederast; in the third Querelle is penetrated by the bartender husband of Madame Lysiane. The illustration of the sailor having his cigarette lit subsequently appeared in Der Kreis under the caption "Lucky Strike." Indeed Steward etched "LUCKY STRIKE" in the cigarette in the picture on the verso it is signed "Sam Steward 1951 1952". The strangulation picture has in Steward's hand on the verso: "From Genet's Querelle de Brest. Querelle strangles the Armenian". In the picture itself Steward etched his signature and date in the design on the Armenian's shirtcuff: "Sparrow Phil 1951". The picture of Querelle and the bartender in sexual union hung on the wall of Steward's apartment for many years. It is pictured in one of Steward's sex Polaroids reproduced in "Obscene Diary". On the verso of it Steward wrote "L'Execution De Querelle 9-19-51" Steward did not work in scratchboard alone. His art was quite versatile: murals in his apartments tempera watercolor pastel pen/ink and some wire sculpture and collage. These drawings could be regarded as the most important of his visual art. While they were motivated by literary aspiration they in effect represented a real turning point in his lif. unknown books
187217231Philadelphia: Leighton Publications. Very Good. 1872. Hardcover. Light foxing to wraps and title and last page; otherwise clean; 34 pages; Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Diocese of Virginia; Good . Leighton Publications hardcover books
187273574Philadelphia: Leighton Publications. Very Good. 1872. Softcover. Published By request of Bishops and Clergy present on the occasion The Leighton Publications. Philadelphia PA. 1872. This pamphlet is soft-bound in lightly soiled tan wrappers. The binding is holding solid and tight. The contents are bright but with some light foxing at the front and rear pages. . Leighton Publications paperback books
1905175440London: Hodder & Stoughton 1905. Softcover. Good overall wear to spine staining and shelfwear to wraps light tanning to pages but overall text pages and plates are clean. Tan canvas wraps with brown lettering on front cover and spine color frontispiece 22 text pages followed by 19 pages of plates some in color. With four lithographs four plates in colour twelve Rembrandt photogravures five woodcuts and a critical essay by Léonce Bénédite. Hodder & Stoughton paperback books
190890430Eveleigh Nash: London 1908. Finely bound example of Sparrow's illustrated work on the history and landscape of Old England. Octavo bound in three quarters morocco by Bayntun Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine raised bands top edge gilt marbled endpapers. Walter Shaw Sparrow was a Welsh writer on art and architecture with a special interest in British sporting artists. His best-known works include Women Painters of the World 1905 British Sporting Artists from Barlow to Herring 1922 and A Book of British Sporting Painters 1931. Old England: Her Story Mirrored in Her Scenes contains chapters on the English seacoast the Church in the midst of the War England's ancient castles and the reign of the Sheepfolds and Sherpherds. London hardcover books
192666619NY:: Knopf. Fair. 1926. Hardcover. 14 color 9 black and white plates and one fold-out map. First edition thus. Separating at the rear hinge damp mark on front board edge worn and faded else fair in red cloth with gilt lettering. No dust jacket. . Knopf, hardcover books
1905036266London: Hodder & Stoughton 1905. 332p. b/w and colored illus. deckle edges original grey cloth quarto format The art and life library 3. Hodder & Stoughton unknown books
1926116730London: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited 1926. Hardbound. Mostly clean and tight text but with some sunning to pages art museum library markings and light soiling to covers;. Beige linen with brown lettering; 227 pp. plus book advertisements; with 156 etchings;. Divided into two parts: Foreign etchers who worked in Great Britain and the British Schools; with indices to each part and a glossary to part 2. John Lane, The Bodley Head Limited hardcover books
1926103510London: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited 1926. Hardbound. VG. Brown cloth with red ink printing. frontis portrait ills index xiv 227pp. plus 10pp. publisher's advertisements at rear. British ethers from 1650 to 1925 excluding living artists. Includes 156 illustrations of etchings. A beautiful copy. John Lane, The Bodley Head Limited hardcover books
192616161London: John Lane 1926. First. hardcover. very good. 156 illustrations. Large 4tobeige cloth lightly soiled. London: John Lane 1926. First Edition. Very good.<br/><br/> John Lane unknown books
1924WN26035London: John Lane The Bodley Head 1924. Bookplate and bookseller ticket. Dust jacket with material loss at spine ends and on upper front panel. Small chips and tears on edges and 2 tears repaired on lower edge upper cover. Jacket generally soiled and rubbed. Some faint foxing in text block. A profusely illustrated volume a leading artist of his day. First Edition. Cloth Backed Boards. Good/Poor. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Trade. John Lane The Bodley Head Hardcover books
192332316London: John Lane: The Bodley Head 1923. First Edition. 200 Illustrations including 39 in Colour. 1 vols. 4to. Original blue cloth spine faded else very nice. First Edition. 200 Illustrations including 39 in Colour. 1 vols. 4to. A very nice copy of this indispensable--and fascinating--work. The first book devoted to Angling art exclusively. John Lane: The Bodley Head unknown books
1923235755London: John Lane: The Bodley Head 1923. First edition. 200 Illustrations including 39 in Colour. xxii 288 4 ads pp. 1 vols. 4to. Original blue cloth. A very good copy spine quite sunned. First edition. 200 Illustrations including 39 in Colour. xxii 288 4 ads pp. 1 vols. 4to. The first book devoted to Angling art exclusively. Hampton Modern Angling Bibliography p. 88 "A really important work." John Lane: The Bodley Head unknown books
192641837London: John Lane The Bodley Head 1926. cloth top edge gilt others uncut. small 4to. cloth top edge gilt others uncut. xvi 227 pages. First edition. Contains illustrations of 156 etchings. The first section of the book deals with foreign etchers who worked in Great Britain and the second section deals with the British schools. Covers soiled. John Lane The Bodley Head unknown books
19261342359London: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto; G-; grayish beige spine with black text; no jacket; first edition; original publisher's cloth has modest soiling to exterior; some rubbing wear to edges; sturdy boards; text block edges slight age toning; deckled edges; offset to endpapers; frontispiece; cracked hinges; illustrated; previous bookshop's small sticker to rear pastedown; pp 227; arts - British. 1342359. FP New Rockville Stock. John Lane, The Bodley Head Limited hardcover books
1922046668London: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited; New York Charles Scribner's Sons 1922. With a foreword by Sir Theodore Cook. xvii 249p. 27 colored and 76 b/w plates original green decorative cloth with black and gilt trim and lettering deckle edges quarto format. Bit of foxing on the text leaves plates are clean. John Lane, The Bodley Head Limited; New York, Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
192218519London: John Lane the Bodley Head 1922. xvii 249 pages 2 pages of publishers' announcmenents at back; color black and white plates throughout; with a Foreword by Sir Theodore Cook who writes ".he best of English open-air life is portrayed by men who knew it well because they shared in it.it stands alone in its contribution to our knowledge of a splendid company of painters."; previous owner bookplate of Fox Hollow on the front pastedown paper with the booksellers ticket of Charles E. Lauriat Co. Importers & Booksellers 385 Wash'n St. Boston on the free front endpaper; original publishers green cloth binding gilt sporting scene devices on front cover and spine; edge tips wear spine ends fraying cloth splitting to covers; leaves foxed; binding loosening; still a good sporting art reference; fair condition overall. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair. John Lane the Bodley Head Hardcover books
1922171508London: John Lane 1922. hardcover. very good. 29 color illustrations and 76 in black & white rubricated title tall thick 4to white cloth slightly dust soiled. London: John Lane 1922. A very good copy.<br/><br/> One of only 95 numbered copies with 2 extra plates and signed by the author.<br/><br/> John Lane unknown books
1922000721London and New York: John Lane & Scribner's Sons 1922. Gilt pictorial spine. Gilt circular cover vignette bordered in black. Twenty-seven illustrations in color and 76 in black and white. Scattered light foxing mainly peripheral. 249pp. with two pages of advertisements at the conclusion. . Green Cloth. Minor Wear. Quarto. John Lane & Scribner's Sons Hardcover books