These items were reported stolen May 14, 2020 from Columbus OH.
Please contact Rex.w.brown47@gmail.com with any information.
ABAA members are adapting to the new reality of shelter-in-place orders and self-isolation in myriad different ways. Most are finding creative solutions to serve their customers while complying with state-mandated restrictions on movement and opening hours. While larger stores in states currently under shelter-in-place or similar orders are closed and staff are subsequently unable to get to the stores, many ABAA bookstores are family businesses or run from home, and as such are still able to meet their community's needs.
Here are some of the different initiatives ABAA members have launched over the past two weeks:
"Front Porch Deliveries" -- The Book Bin, Salem Oregon
Obadiah Baird, owner of The Book Bin, a new, used, & rare bookstore in Salem, Oregon, has been putting in long days getting books, puzzles, and magazines to his self-isolating customers. As well as offering free home delivery and curbside pickup, Baird has partnered with a local coffee shop to stock their coffee beans while the cafe has to remain closed. Baird says he regularly ends his days “dropping books off on people’s porches” — and now coffee, too! Musing that “under normal circumstances we booksellers can be a reclusive, skittish, introverted lot,” Baird declared “but now is not normal. We want to drive books to your home! We want to walk out to your cars! We are here for you. Please make use of us!”
You can follow Baird's progress on The Book Bin Facebook page...
Daily Special Offers on Facebook -- Dark Parks Book & Collectibles
ABAA members have a wide variety of interests and expertise! Ryan Parks, owner of Dark Parks Books and Collectibles, specializes in the occult, and the genres of science-fiction, horror, and fantasy. As well as exhibiting at antiquarian book fairs (such as the recent California Book Fair) Parks exhibits at numerous genre cons every year, where he is well-known as the “book guy” — although he also carries genre-focused movie memorabilia, artwork, autographs, and other items. As these shows have been postponed or canceled for the foreseeable future, Ryan is using Facebook to offer select items for sale daily. You can browse his invertory at www.darkparksbooks.com or follow his Facebook feed for more information.
As with any ABAA member, if you are hunting for any particular books or collectible in the realm of science-ficiton and fantasy, reach out to Parks by phone or email, as he may be able to locate it for you! Remember, most ABAA members only list a tiny fraction of their
inventory online. If you are hunting for a particular book, they may already have it on the shelves — but you won’t know unless you ask!
Embracing Phone & Email Orders -- Laurie Booksellers, Minneapolis, MN
James and Mary Laurie of Laurie Booksellers say that they miss the company and simulation provided by walk-in customers -- and their "shop dog" Buddy is particularly pining for attention. "We opened our shop 45 years ago because we love the personal contact it allows with customers," Mary Laurie told the StarTribune before they closed the store to drop-in visitors. "We learn from them every day. We have bemoaned the internet for taking this away from us. In the face of this virus we have found that the internet is actually an ally."
The Lauries have discounted the items listed on their website 50% (with free shipping!) and will extend that discount to email and phone orders. Although they caution that they only list about 20% of their inventory online, so "if you don't see (or know) what you want," call them and they will "check the shelves and/or catacombs." Additionally, they are always "happy to hear about your taste in books and make recommendation."
Laurie noted that she is "grateful for the emails and purchases that have been made on the internet with notes of support for what we are doing." The Lauries continue to serve their customers by email, phone, and through www.lauriebooks.com.
Free Shipping and Store Dog! -- johnson rare books & archives, Covina, CA
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In Southern California, johnson rare books & archives closed their storefront, The Book Shop, in Covina to walk-in customers on March 16 and have been offering free domestic shipping for anyone who calls. “The reality is just 25 percent of our stock is listed online, so we are offering to do the browsing for you and ship for free during this period of quarantine. We feel it's important that everyone take care of themselves physically and emotionally, so allow yourself to get lost in a book for a few hours,” said co-owner, Jen Johnson. They've also been sharing pictures of their dog, Elke, on social media.
Podcasts -- Brattle Book Shop & Les Enlulmineures
ABAA-member Ken Gloss, the owner of Brattle Book Shop, may have closed his store to the public but he still arrives at work at 5:30am every day to answer phones & emails. His employees are working from home and are still being paid. “We know we are going to lose a significant amount of business,” Gloss said. “We are hoping much of it is just delayed business.” The Brattle Book Shop team will continue to produce their beloved podcast “Brattlecast” while the storefront is closed (it can be found on iTunes and GooglePlay), and maintain their website at www.brattlebookshop.com.
Speaking of podcasts, ABAA-member Les Enlumineures (Paris, Chicago, & New York) is another member with their own podcast. The latest episode, "Van Eyck: An Optical Revolution with Lieve de Kesel and Dominique Vanwijnsberghe,” is available now.
A Cure for Loneliness at Ken Sanders Rare Books, Salt Lake City, Utah
ABAA-member Ken Sanders Rare Books reports they are feeling “pretty lonely” at the store, having “pretty much read all the books in the shop” (a jest -- or is it?). They have also introduced free shipping from their website and like The Book Bin offer “front-porch” delivery to customers in Salt Lake City (at least until a shelter-in-place order comes through). To sweeten the deal, Sanders offers an "investment" gift certificate: buy a gift certificate from their website in any amount now, and 90 days from now you can redeem it for 25% more!
Free Books (and Burritos) for Students -- Back of Beyond Books, Moab, UT
ABAA-member Andy Nettell of Back of Beyond Books is working to single-handedly keep his locality — especially students — supplied with reading material. Until further notice, residents of Grand County, UT, can pick up two free books each time they visit the store (curbside pickup preferred!) and school students can receive a free age-appropriate book — while supplies last.
Additionally, Back of Beyond have partnered with local restaurant Moab Garage Co. to support service industry workers who are impacted by job losses or reduced hours. Workers can get a free burrito on the house at Moab Garage Co and also enjoy a free book courtesy of Back of Beyond!
Renewed Interest in Blogging -- Manhattan Rare Books
Manhattan Rare Books have restarted their blog to share uplifting or interesting stories of their experiences in the rare book world. The first new post is a testament to the challenge of finding the perfect gift!
Mystery Grab Bag Boxes -- B&L Rootenberg Rare Books
Last week, B&L Rootenberg Rare Books offered a "Mystery Grab Bag Box" promotion through their social media channels. This week, they shared some photos of the first mystery grab bags winging their way to new homes! Their offer is this: for $25 they will hand select five mystery books and mail them to you! Most will be first editions, but five boxes selected at random will contain a book worth more than $100! Shipping is included in the US, while for international customers there will be an additional shipping charge. Find out more at B&L Rootenberg Rare Books...
Book Packs! -- Second Story Books, Washington, DC
In a similar vein, DC's Second Story Books introduced several book packs. Let them know what you like to read: favorite genres, authors, etc., and the staff will make a pack of five softcover books for you. They’ll also throw in three extra books and a free Second Story Tote. The also unveiled the "Quarantine Pack": a cookbook, DVD, book of fiction, one book of nonfiction, and three random books in a cool Second Story Books tote bag. Contact the good folk at Second Story Books for full details. Next day delivery is available within the beltway!
Livestreaming History -- Abraham Lincoln Book Shop, Chicago, IL
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ABAA-member Daniel Weinberg, owner of Chicago’s Abraham Lincoln Book Shop, has started "Take A Break with History," a series of live talks on Facebook sharing the stories behind historical artifacts, rare books, and other interesting items from their
shelves. Tune in at 1pm CST Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays for a dose of history and a quick, virtual visit to the Abraham Lincoln Book Shop! If you can’t join them live, the videos will be archived on the Abraham Lincoln Book Shop Facebook
page after the broadcast.
We will continue to highlight the efforts of ABAA members to respond to the current quarantines with good humor and abundant reading material daily on the ABAA instagram page...
Here's the description of a book that was stolen from a local FedEx in NYC last week on or after 6/1/20. If anyone is offered the below, please contact Josh Mann of B&B at 646-652-6766.
Hemingway, Ernest. Green Hills of Africa.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. Decorated by Edward Shenton. First edition, first printing. Publisher's green cloth, stamped to front board in gilt with author's facsimile signature, stamped in black and gilt to spine; in the original green, black, and white dust jacket with a photograph of the author to rear panel. A near fine copy with some fading to extremities, particularly the spine, toning to page edges, small bookseller's sticker to rear pastedown; in a very good dust jacket with toning to spine and wear to extremities, some shallow chipping to spine head, rubbing to folds, a few scattered scratches. Overall, a nice copy that presents well. Hanneman A13a.
Our members list new acquisitions and recently cataloged items almost every day of the year. Below, you'll find a few highlights from these recent additions...
Poster for a 1966 Appearance in France
Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Poster for a March 28, 1966 appearance by the Civil Rights leader together with singer Harry Belafonte at the Palais des Sports in Paris. Organized by the Comité de Soutien Franco-Américain pour l'Intégration Raciale, the event featured a speech by King and music from Harry Belafonte and French singer Hugues Aufray, sponsored by Suze Liqueur. Two-color poster, with folding creases, one tear to the right edge, minimal wear and toning; overall very good. Sight size 14.5 x 22.5 inches (37 x 57 cm), archivally matted and framed to an overall size of 20.5 x 26.5 inches.In March 1966, King and Belafonte went to Europe for fundraising appearances on behalf of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, starting with the Palais des Sports in Paris on the 28th, and closing in Sweden on the 31st. This poster for the French appearance is emblazoned with the logo of a sponsor, Suze Liqueur, and also cites the French-American Committee for Racial Integration as the organizing body. The opening act for the evening was the popular French folksinger Hugues Aufray doing a set of Bob Dylan covers, followed by a set by Belafonte. Dr. King closed out the evening with a speech on civil rights, touching on the war in Vietnam and American support for South African apartheid. The tour raised more than $100,000, but drew the wrath of the American ambassador to France for airing American problems overseas. See Ross, Hollywood Left and Right, p. 220. We have traced no other copies of this poster at auction or elsewhere.
Offered by Schubertiade Music & Arts.
Where Do We Go From Here? Chaos or Comminity?
By Martin Luther King, Jr.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1967. First edition of King's "last grand expression of his vision" (Cornel West). Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with eight pages of black-and-white photogravures. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Mr. Otto E. Geppert Martin Luther King Jr." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, small date to the endpaper. Jacket design by Ronald Clyne. Jacket photograph of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Bob Fitch. Where Do We Go from Here is Dr. King's analysis of the state of American race relations and the movement after a decade of U.S. civil rights struggles. ''With Selma and the Voting Rights Act one phase of development in the civil rights revolution came to an end,'' he observed (King, 3). King believed that the next phase in the movement would bring its own challenges, as African Americans continued to make demands for better jobs, higher wages, decent housing, an education equal to that of whites, and a guarantee that the rights won in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 would be enforced by the federal government.
Offered by Raptis Rare Books.
The Heart is a Muscle (First Edition, 1 of 15 copies with print signed by Hal Hartley)
by Hal Hartley
Stockholm: Libraryman, 2010. First Edition. First Edition. One of 15 unnumbered copies with a chromogenic print SIGNED by director Hal Hartley affixed to the last leaf. A collection of selected film still photographs from the noted independent filmmaker's oeuvre, beginning with his 1988 debut "The Unbelievable Truth" up to the 2011 film "Meanwhile", with stills from "Amateur" (1994), "Flirt" (1995), and "Henry Fool" (1997), and others. 81 color plates. Fine in glossy perfect bound wrappers, with no dust jacket as issued.
Offered by Royal Books.
New York: J. Ottmann Litho Co, 1910. Ephemera no binding. Very good. 11 ½" x 8 ¼"envelope; 10 ½" chromolithographed stiff paper die-cut Teddy Bear paper doll with an attached back stand; all 5 original chromolithographed clothing outfits with tabs and caps, lacking cap for the "Driver" outfit; envelope has extensive chipping, soiling, and tearing, but remains intact; bear doll has light wear to edges and a small scratch to the face; clothing outfits have small creases and scuffing; Envelope condition poor; Teddy bear doll and outfits condition very good. Young 148. Not in WorldCat. Scarce. Wonderfully large paper doll Teddy Bear with five brightly colored tabbed clothing outfits: a Dress Suit with vests, tie, pocket square and top hat; a Nautical Suit of blue blazer with gold buttons, stripes, anchors, and white trousers with a cap featuring an eagle; a Baseball Uniform for the NL, National League, with a striped cap; a yellow Bathrobe trimmed in red, striped socks, and a red sleeping cap; and a Driver's Coat with brass buttons, belt, and grey gloves, the cap with goggles is missing from this outfit. Playing on the craze teddy bears arising during this decade from President Theodore Roosevelt, Teddy Bears were loved and played with by both girls and boys.
OFfered by Sandra L. Hoekstra.
by P.G. Wodehouse
London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1938. First English Edition. [Jasen 58A in a later dust jacket]. Preceded by the first American Doubleday, Doran edition, published in Oct. 8, 1937. This edition was published on Feb. 11 1938. 12mo., red cloth, stamped in black, 312 pages, plus eight-page catalog; in later "2/6 net" price on spine [whereas the earliest dust jacket is priced at "7/6 net." on the spine]. Very Good (little soil covers; contents clean & tight but for a tiny spot fore-edge; neat ink name front endpaper); some edgewear (few small chips & tears- some with internal mends with archival tape) d/j.
Offered by Antic Hay Books.
by FOWLER, H. ALFRED
Kansas City: H. Alfred Fowler, 1912. First edition. First edition. Original decorative card paper wrappers. The rare "Eragny Press" number (Volume I, Number 3) which features notes on bookplates by Esther and Lucien Pissarro, by J. M. Andreini, including three superb color printed specimens of book plates by the Pissarros, printed in colors on china paper and tipped-in. A scarce and very attractive rendering. There are also two other features in the number. Near fine.
Offered by Nudelman Rare Books.
New York: Barrymore Theatre, 2002. Unbound. Fine. Color insert poster. 18" x 22". Printed on thin poster cardstock with a photographic image, with printed gold circle noting it was opening night. Top corners a little bumped, else fine. Poster for a show featuring the cantankerous relationship between Hellman and McCarthy, written by Nora Ephron, music by Marvin Hamlisch, and lyrics by Craig Carnelia. The poster is Signed by the entire opening night cast including Swoosie Kurtz, Cherry Jones (who has inscribed it: "Cold Eye/Sharp Tongue. Love you Abe"), Harry Groener, Anne Pitoniak, Anne Allgood, Bernard Dotson, Rosena M. Hill, Gina Lamparella, Dirk Lumbard, Peter Marx, Perry Ojeda, Karyn Quackenbush, and stand-in Susan Pellegrino. The show ran for about two months and 76 performances. Presumably not many of these would be found, especially signed, and particularly on opening night.
Offered by Between the Covers Rare Books.
Tratamiento de una ofrenda para pedir la lluvia : San Pablito Pahuatlan Pue
by GARCIA TELLEZ, ALFONSO
San Pablito Pahuatlan, Puebla, Mexico: Manuscript, 1978. Hand-made volume, 17 x 13cm, pp 28, accordion-fold pages, on indigenous amate paper, made from the bark of the amate and other trees, including 22 amate paper cut-outs depicting native Otomi divinities. Each page contains, at the top, a hand-lettered description of the various steps of the "tratamiento" or progression of the ritual through its various stages, lasting a total of 15 days. Below that, are the cut-outs, or "munecos" which were believed to have a magical quality. Garcia Tellez himself was from a family of curanderos. The ritual is a mixture of both Christian and Otomi divinities.Garcia Tellez, with the help of his wife and children, who did the lettering, made a total of 5 different books, numerous copies of each, however each copy was unique due to small differences of detail. (We had a previous copy of this with 19 images, e.g.) This copy has the title, the signature of Tellez, and the date and place of composition, all on the front cover. The contents are bright and clear, and the original green ribbons are present. Very good copy.
Offered by Plaza Books.
Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health (Signed)
by HUBBARD, L. RON
New York: Hermitage House, 1950. Fifth Printing. Near Fine/Very Good. Fifth printing of the first edition. Signed by L. Ron Hubbard and inscribed to a former owner on the verso of the front free endpaper. Near Fine with light insect wear to textblock top edge, pages lightly toned. Browning between to textual pages from loosely laid in clipping, still present, reading "Come in and Meet L. Ron Hubbard" in an advert for the Kansas City department store Emery, Bird, Thayer. In a Very Good dust jacket with insect holes to spine and rear panel, tear to base of spine repaired from verso. The main text of Scientology, scarcely found signed by it's founder, L. Ron Hubbard.
Offered by Burnside Rare Books.
Color in the Home: Suggestions for Interior and Exterior Decorating
by W.P. FULLER & CO
Unpaginated (75 double-sided leaves) Art Deco paint sample display catalog from the Fuller Paint Company of San Francisco, containing within a catalog of 99 paint samples, along with design recommendations for how best to use the Fuller paint colors in exterior and interior applications in various types of homes, including Colonial, Cape Cod Cottage, Southern California Spanish, and Tudor, with each design recommendation printed in glossy black text on gold card stock, facing a mounted full-color plate rendering (with a total of 59 plates) of how best to employ the suggested technique or design idea. Profusely illustrated throughout. Some scattered scuffing, abrasions scattered throughout, one paint sample page missing the sample piece for "3442 Dark Lead", tissue guard cover sheets for paint samples with some chipping and minor losses. Oblong 4to. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering to front cover and sewn black string-tied binding. Some minor wear, slight scuffing to cover, overall very good. San Francisco (W.P. Fuller & Co.) 1934. Includes an additional double-sided illustrated loose sheet with instructions for "How to Use Textone Glaze to Produce Blended Effects Over Textone." The catalog is divided into four main sections. Section I covers Exteriors; Section II comprises Living Rooms, Dining Rooms, Breakfast Rooms, and Kitchens; Section III covers Bedrooms, Bathrooms, and Occasional Furnishings; and Section IV closes out with "Directions for Applying Fuller Products". The first section is devoted to exterior styles such as "A Home in Simple Colonial Style", "An English House Adapted for America", or "A Cape Cod Cottage of Appealing Simplicity", each with a depicted color scheme and suggestions for alternate color schemes, with Fuller paint color numbers provided. The second and third sections are similarly formatted, for rooms instead of overall exterior styles, featuring descriptions such as "A Bright, Cheerful Color Scheme for a Sun Room", "Semi-Modernistic Living Room in Blue and Red", "Breakfast Room in Blue, Apricot, and Coral", "A Sunny Kitchen in Ivory, Apricot, and Venice Blue", "Bedroom in Shell Pink and Shades of Green", and "Nursery with Gay, Colorful Painted Furnishings", each accompanied by a full-color rendering, color scheme, and suggestions for alternate color schemes. The final section includes directions for such applications and techniques as antiquing, glazing, barn and roof paint, cement and stucco, painting decks, lacquering floors, painting plastered walls, treating linoleum, refinishing woodword, staining floors or shingles, and varnishing. A scarce and wonderful artifact of Art Deco design; as of May 2020, WorldCat only locates two holdings in North American institutions.
Offered by Bernett Penka Rare Books.
by JAMES, P. D.
London: Faber, 1962. First. hardcover. Very good./Very good.. A very good first edition with a charming inscription by James on the front free endpaper to a close friend ("with love") and the humorous comment ("P.S. I wrote it! You bought it!!!). The author's first book. Housed in a custom-made set of slipcases.
Offered by Bookbid.
by WILDE, OSCAR
London & New York: A.R. Keller & Co, 1907. leather_bound. Orig. brown calf, backstrips lettered in gilt. Teg. 15 Vols. Near fine. 21 x 14 cm. The Oxford Uniform Edition. Limited edition, copy 103 of 250. Title pages printed in red and black. Host of illustrations with lettered tissue guards by assorted artists, 48 in total, including Aubrey Beardsley who illustrates "The Sphinx." Bright, fresh set, wide text margins, covers embossed with floral and ribbon motif bearing a central ornament on front cover -- a Nightingale from "Nightingale and the Rose." A few backstrip extremities very slightly rubbed.
Offered by Roy Young, Bookseller.
Superb Abraham Lincoln Signed Photo Authenticated, Slabbed, and Graded Mint 9!
"A. Lincoln" as President, Washington, DC, August 9, 1863. Albumen photograph, 2.5" x 3.5" including card backing, lower corners rounded, top edge trimmed, Gardener's backstamp on verso. Hamilton and Ostendorf, Lincoln in Photographs: An Album of Every Known Pose, O-71B. Authenticated, slabbed, and graded Mint 9 by PSA. Sold for over $65,000 at Christie's in 2004.
On Thursday, August 6, in accordance with a proclamation issued by Lincoln, a day of thanksgiving and prayer was observed throughout the North in the wake of recent important Union military successes at Gettysburg and Vicksburg. In this well-known portrait by Gardner, Lincoln is seated at an ornate circular table, his legs crossed, holding a newspaper in his left hand, his reading glasses in his right. His expression - especially in the lines about his mouth - is resolute and determined. According to John Hay, who accompanied the President to Gardner's studio, Lincoln "was in very good spirits" that day. The images of Lincoln by Gardner that day are the first photographs taken in Gardner's new studio. Lincoln had promised Gardner to be the first to sit for a portrait, and decided on a Sunday visit, in order to avoid curiosity seekers and onlookers in the streets of the capital.
This item comes with a Certificate from John Reznikoff, a premier authenticator for both major 3rd party authentication services, PSA and JSA (James Spence Authentications), as well as numerous auction houses.
Offered by University Archives.
The Complete Writings of William Blake. With all the variant readings.
by BLAKE, WILLIAM. KEYNES, GEOFFREY, EDITOR.
3 vols. London: The Nonesuch Press; New York: Random House, 1957. 3 vols. in one, roy. 8vo, 364, 397, and 429 pp. Illustrated with 58 plates. Original full brown morocco extra, a very good copy with the bookplate of Scott Cunningham at the front. § From a limited edition of 1500 copies on Vidalon handmade paper, this is #L of 75 copies on Oxford India paper, numbered I to LXXV. Bentley, Blake Books, 370 A.
Offered by John WIndle, Bookseller.
Hollywood: American Movie City
by RAND, AYN
Moscow & Leningrad, 1926. First edition. Very Good +. Original pictorial wraps. 48 pages. Wraps with some light soiling; spine restored, pages gently toned throughout. Else, a tight and complete copy of this rare work, which last appeared at auction over a decade ago in 2008. Rand's second published work, Hollywood appeared in Russia during her youth. "Trapped in the totalitarian dictatorship of Soviet Russia, the young Ayn Rand found a lifeline in the form of foreign movies. In her late teens, she kept a journal in which she recorded each movie she saw, along with a list of the cast, the director, the date she saw the movie and a grade rating. She also studied writing for the screen, and two of her pieces were published in Russia in 1925 and 1926" (Federer). The second was the present work. "In Hollywood, one can see the very beginnings of the development of Ayn Rand's literary style" as she set the scene of Los Angeles and introduces Russian language readers to such icons as Cecil B. DeMille (Federer). A scarce and important foundation for Rand's later work. Very Good +.
Offered by Whitmore Rare Books.
by Sir Issac Newton
London:: Printed for William Innys, 1730., 1730. Sm. 8vo. [viii], 382, ads. [2] pp. 12 engraved folding plates [Book I: pt. 1, 5 pls.; Book II: pt. 2, 4 pls.; Second Book: Pt. I: 2 pls.; Book III: 1 pl.]; minor ms. annotation on p.1 [GT-xxx :: ownership initials?]; margins show some minor worming. Antique-styled modern blind-ruled full calf, raised bands, massed gilt stamped spine, gilt-stamped red leather label, mild foxing. Very good (in a fine binding). NEWTON'S FINAL EDITION OF THE OPTICKS: Fourth edition, corrected. "This is the final edition, revised by Newton." "This new edition is carefully printed from the Third Edition, as it was corrected by the Author's own Hand, and left before his Death with the Bookseller." – Advertisement. "Newton's contributions to the science of optics: his discovery of the unequal refractions of rays of different color, his theory of color, and his investigations of 'Newton's rings,' to mention only a few of the most noteworthy: place him among the premier contributors to that science. . . . Today we recognize that his work on optics offers unique rewards in its exciting, innovative conjunction of physical theory, experimental investigation, and mathematics, and in the revealing glimpse that it provides of a crucial period in the evolution of experimental science." – Alan E. Shapiro, The Optical Papers of Isaac Newton: Volume 1, (1984), p. xi. / This edition contains the full set of 13 Observations [Book II, Part IV], and 31 queries or questions [Book III, see p. 350]. As written by the respected Newton scholar, Richard S. Westfall, "From the perspective of natural philosophy, the 'Quaestiones' were the first of the series of speculations that form the warp on which he wove the fabric of his scientific career. Throughout his life, his speculations turned on a limited set of crucial phenomena which seem to have functioned in his eyes as keys to the understanding of nature. Nearly all of them appear in the 'Quaestiones.'" – Westfall, p. 96. / "Whereas the Principia is a mathematical work involving intricate geometrical relationships and only a handful of major experiments, the Opticks overflows with detailed accounts of reflection and refraction, the separation of white light into the colors of the spectrum, the manner of the eye's operation, the formation of images by lenses, the colors of the rainbow, the construction of the reflecting telescope, and much more. Unable to contain himself, the author introduces many subjects that have little or nothing to do with the behaviour and analysis of light: metabolism and digestion, the circulation of the blood, the creation of the world and the Great Flood of Noah, the scientific method, even the images that haunt the dreams of madmen. Moreover, Newton wrote the Opticks in English, making its contents accessible to a far wider audience than the Principia, whose classical Latin had stymied many potential readers. His friend John Locke, who had only months to live, was baffled by the earlier work, but read the Opticks 'with pleasure, acquainting myself with everything in them.'" :: Gale E. Christianson, Isaac Newton, Oxford University Press, 1996. REFERENCES: Babson, 136 (v. I, pp. 68-9); Gray, Newton, p. 37. See: Richard S. Westfall, Never at Rest, p. 96.
Offered by Jeff Weber Rare Books.
Bournemouth and London: W. Mate & Sons, 1913. Softcover. Very good. Travel brochure/booklet. 8.25 x 4.5 inches, 23 pp, illustrated with b/w photos, double-page route map at center. Light cover wear; very good. Includes sections on Belgian seaside resorts; towns to visit from the coast (Bruges, Ypres, Furnes, Ghent); Brussels and Antwerp; Liege, Namur, and the Ardennes; Tournai, Mons, Charleroi. At the end are various tours and itineraries, an invitation to seek further information from your local Thos. Cook office, and a page describing features of the upcoming Universal and International Exhibition in Ghent.
Offered by Walkabout Books.
Anne with an E (Anne of Green Gables)
by KRAUSE, DOROTHY SIMPSON. L. M. MONTGOMERY
Ft. Lauderdale, FL, 2019. Artist's book, unique, an altered book, signed by the artist on the rear pastedown, "DKrause." Page size: 5 x 8 inches; 20pp. Bound by the artist: in the original boards of a used copy of the 100th anniversary edition of this children's classic. The artist removed the covers, spine, and eight illustrations and inserted a strip of ochre leather which became the new spine. Details from the original black and white illustrations were then watercolored and placed on botanically-printed pages. The whole was then bound using original boards of anniversary edition and a slipcase made using the original spine of the book. The artist's title, ANNE with an e, is written in pencil by the artist below the cover portrait of "Anne." taken from a postcard. This altered book was occasioned by the artist's visit to Charlottetown, PEI, the setting for Montgomery's story.
Offered by Priscilla Juvelis.
Madame de Pompadour (Cosway-Style Jeweled Binding; Sangorski & Sutcliffe Binders)
London and New York: Harper and Brothers, 1902. Madame de Pompadour - Mistress of Louis XV A Superb Early Cosway-Style Jeweled Binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe [COSWAY-STYLE JEWELED BINDING]. SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE, binders. WILLIAMS, H. Noel. Madame de Pompadour. With sixteen photogravures. London and New York: Harper & Brothers, 1902. Quarto ( 9 3/8 x 7 3/8 inches; 238 x 188 mm.). xiv, 430, [431], [1, blank] pp. Sixteen photogravure plates with lettered tissue-guards. Handsomely bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe ca. 1912 in full royal blue crushed levant morocco over beveled boards.
The inside front cover elaborately decorated in gilt surrounding a fine doublure of rose morocco with the arms of Madame de Pompadour in a geometric design and the letters B.C.H at the lower center. In the center is a recessed and quite magnificent, hand painted circular, gilt framed portrait miniature (2 7/8 inches diameter) on ivory, set under beveled glass, surrounded by a circular gilt design set with four garnets and four pearls. Watered light blue silk endleaf. The inside rear cover has the same elaborately gilt border surrounding a light blue watered silk doublure and matching endleaf. Covers with triple gilt rule borders enclosing an elaborate fleur-de-lys design in gilt with ten onlaid red morocco flowers. In the center of the front cover is an oval dark blue morocco onlay with the arms of Louis XV stamped in gilt. In the center of the rear cover is an oval dark blue morocco onlay with the arms of Madame de Pompadour stamped in gilt. Spine with five raised bands, elaborately decorated and lettered in gilt in compartments, four of which have onlaid red morocco flowers. Double-ruled gilt board edges, all edges gilt. Housed in the original blue velvet lined, blue cloth clamshell case, spine lettered in gilt. Top of front and rear joints expertly and almost invisibly restored.
A wonderful early Sangorski & Sutcliffe Cosway-style jeweled binding. The miniature is of exceptional quality and is quite possibly the work of Miss C.B. Currie. Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Marquise of Pompadour (29 December 1721 - 15 April 1764), commonly known as Madame de Pompadour, was a member of the French court. She was the official chief mistress of Louis XV from 1745 to 1751, and remained influential as court favorite until her death. Pompadour took charge of the king's schedule and was a valued aide and advisor, despite her frail health and many political enemies. She secured titles of nobility for herself and her relatives, and built a network of clients and supporters. She was particularly careful not to alienate the Queen, Marie Leszczy ska. On 8 February 1756, the Marquise de Pompadour was named as the thirteenth lady in waiting to the queen, a position considered the most prestigious at the court, which accorded her with honors. Pompadour was a major patroness of architecture and decorative arts, especially porcelain. She was a patroness of the philosophes of the Enlightenment, including Voltaire. Hostile critics at the time generally tarred her as a malevolent political influence, but historians are more favorable, emphasizing her successes as a patroness of the arts and a champion of French pride. Art historian Melissa Hyde argues that the critiques of Pompadour were driven by fears over the overturning of social and gender hierarchies that Pompadour's power and influence, as a woman who was not born into the aristocracy, represented.
Offered by David Brass Rare Books.
American Anhinga Snake Bird [Plate 420]
by John James Audubon
Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen. unbound. very good. Octavo bird print. Lithograph with original hand coloring. Page measures 6.25" x 10". Sometimes called snakebird, darter, American darter, or water turkey. It is a water bird of the warmer parts of the Americas. The word anhinga comes from the Brazilian Tupi language and means devil bird or snake bird. The origin of the name snakebird is apparent when swimming : only the colored neck appears above water so the bird looks like a snake ready to strike. First Royal Octavo edition, circa 1842. John James Audubon (1785-1851) was an American naturalist, painter and ornithologist who did extensive field work studying birds before painting them. Please visit our gallery for more Audubon prints.
Offered by Argosy Book Store.
Harper's Weekly: September 28, 1861 Hand Colored Cartoons (1 page only)
Harper's Weekly, 1861. Paperback. Paperback. Includes 4 hand colored ads about the Union and Sucession, Chipping to edges. Size: 16 x 11 inches. Frameable. PRINTS/041620.
Offered by Kelmscott Bookshop.
by J. R. R. TOLKIEN
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1956. First US editions. hardcover. Near fine./Near fine.. All three first printings of the US edition, with all first edition points in the bibliography, including the correct dates on the title pages (matching the copyright dates) and the correct information on the jacket flaps. Near fine in near fine jackets. Housed in a custom-made collector's clamshell case with a leather spine and lettered in gold.
Offered by Bookbid.
The Antikamnia calendar 1899 [-1900]
by ANTIKAMNIA CHEMICAL COMPANY; LOUIS CRUSIUS
St. Louis: Antikamnia Chemical Co, 1898. Antikamnia Chemical Company. (1) The Antikamnia calendar 1899. 6 sheets (plus duplicate of November-December sheet). Chromolithograph illustrations after watercolors by Louis Crusius (1862-98). St. Louis: Antikamnia Chemical Company, 1898. (2) The Antikamnia calendar 1900. 6 sheets. Chromolithograph illustrations after watercolors by Louis Crusius (1862-98). St. Louis: Antikamnia Chemical Company, 1899. Together 2 items. 254 x 177 mm. Edges a bit frayed, marginal dampstains, but good to very good. First Editions of the 1899 and 1900 promotional calendars issued by the Antikamnia Chemical Company, featuring the comically macabre "skeleton sketches" of Louis Crusius, a physician and amateur artist. The St. Louis-based company produced these calendars in limited editions between 1897 and 1901, sending them to "members of the Medical Profession" in the United States and Europe to advertise the patent medicine "Antikamnia," a pain reliever based on the coal tar derivative acetanilide. Although the Antikamnia Chemical Company aggressively promoted its product as a certain remedy for everything from headaches to tuberculosis, the main ingredient, acetanilide, was known to be toxic in high doses or to sensitive individuals. After passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906, which mandated that products containing dangerous drugs be clearly labeled as such, the makers of Antikamnia attempted to skirt this requirement by replacing acetanilide with its less toxic derivative, acetphenitidin. In 1910 U.S. marshals seized a shipment of Antikamnia for violating the Pure Food and Drug Act, and in 1914 the Supreme Court ruled against the company for failing to state that its product contained an acetanilide derivative. The Antikamnia Chemical Company went out of business a few years later, although not before making the fortune of one of its founders, Frank A. Ruf, who died a millionaire in 1923. B. Lovejoy, "The Deadly Pain Medicine Sold by Skeletons." Mental Floss, 7 May 2016 (web).
Offered by Jeremy Norman & Co.
Americans All! : Victory Liberty Roll : Du Bois, Smith ... Et Al. (Poster)
by Howard Chandler Christy
Boston: Forbes, 1919. poster. Near fine condition. World War I bond poster conservation mounted on paper and linen. Columbia hangs a wreath above a list of ethnic European surnames united in generous sacrifice. Printed in full color. Poster measures 40 x 27 inches
Offered by James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers.
by Ruth Berolzheimer
The Culinary Arts Institute / Consolidated Book Publishers, Inc, 1943. Reissue. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Includes scarce publisher's box, with original publisher's list price of $3.75 (which is equivalent to over $50 today). Near fine book in very good jacket. Box rubbed with a few light spots, jacket edges lightly rubbed with 1 inch closed tear on front corner. 1943 Hard Cover. viii, 816, A-H, 1-64 pp. 8vo. Delightful American cookbook with a wartime theme, printed during World War II. Extensive index follows text. Appended to original text are the following sections: Wartime Cookery; How to Feed a Family of Five on $15.00 Per Week (includes a menu with a full month of recipes). Many color photos and memorable recipes. Thumb-indexed. Frontispiece portrait of Douglas MacArthur.
Offered by Yesterday's Muse.
1992 Postcard from Paul Bowles to Gregory Corso (With Accompanying Envelope from Tangier)
1992. Original wraps. Near Fine. A wonderful piece of post-War literary ephemera, a dense, neatly-written postcard from Paul Bowles (at his Tangier residence) to Gregory Corso (in New York). Clean and Near Fine, dated November 3rd, 1992. "dear Gregory: It was good to hear from you after such a very long time. Forgive the card, sent in place of a letter. I'm still in bed, where I've been since the middle of June, and the pain doesn't go away. So I'm grateful to you for the pills you entrusted to Paola Iglioni. Pain is something I can do happily without. There's nothing much to write about. Tangier, like the rest of the world, has grown larger, uglier, more crowded and expensive. Everyone tells me it's preferable to New York, so I stay right on here. Very likely I'll draw my last breath here. But cremation is forbidden in this country. A problem. Anyway, again thanks. best, Paul B." The card is crisp and very sharp, as is the original light-pink, hand-addressed envelope which houses it and which shows 2 clear postmarks from Tangier. And the postcard's image is of the Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco.
Offered by Appledore Books.
Autograph Letter Signed, to "Dear Mrs [Richard] Darcy", with accompanying photograph
by Rudyard Kipling
1898. Both sides of a card, which bears the heading "The Elms | Rottingdean, | nr Brighton." Dated Dec 12, 1898. In its original envelope, which provides the recipent's address "The Cottage, Clifton," with both Rottingdean and Brighton postmarks. With accompanying sepia photographic portrait of Kipling standing on a sailing vessel (mounted on gilt-edged card). This is a very intriguing, if not tantalizing, letter from Rudyard Kipling to a Mrs Darcy. It reads: That is indeed a beautiful photograph. Of course _we_ know what it means; but to the average spectator it looks very much as if your sailing-master had "shanghaied" one of the inhabitants of Adrigole and the unhappy native was slowly reviving on the decks of the _Margharita_. And the worst of it is, I can't explain to anyone that they are your husband's clothes I'm wearing! I feel I never thanked you properly for the good times you gave me on the yacht that wonderful day ... [+ final long sentence hard to decipher] ... With best regards to your husband, Very sincerely yours [signed] Rudyard Kipling. Accompanying the letter is a photo of Kipling standing on a sailing vessel, presumably the Margharita; Mrs Darcy must have sent it to Kipling, and with this letter he was returning it to her. We have not been able to learn who Mr & Mrs Richard Darcy were, in connection with Kipling. But we DO know (a) that Adrigole is a harbor village on the southwest corner of Ireland; (b) that the Darcys' hometown of Clifton is right by Bristol, on the southwest shore of England -- not all that far from Adrigole; and (c) that Kipling spent some time in Autumn 1898, including time in Adrigole's Bantry Bay, observing naval manoeuvres on board the Pelorus (the guest of Captain Bayly). At that time, Kipling must have spent a day on board the (Darcys'?) yacht, and subsequently (after each was back in England) she sent him a letter enclosing this photograph of Kipling. It is tempting to jump to the conclusion that this was some sort of illicit rendezvous -- and in fact, whatever dealer previously wrote a description for this letter (several decades ago) did just that. However, the jocular tone of Kipling's letter, combined with the formality of both the greeting and the signature, leads us to suggest that they simply had "good times on the yacht that wonderful day" -- perhaps (for all we know) with numerous other people. The puzzle that Kipling is wearing her husband's clothes is most easily solved by the idea that his clothes got soaked, as often happens on a sailboat. The letter/card is in very good condition (one corner has a few creases, with a couple of short pieces of tape, one of which encroaches on RK's signature; both the envelope and the photo are fine.
Offered by Sumner & Stillman.
Book 171: A Kinetic Book Collage
by Keith A. Smith
24 hand-cut pages with intricate geometric designs. 8vo (200 x 160 mm.), hand-sewn to a pleat by the artist, saw-tooth spine, marbled endpapers. [Rochester]: Keith A. Smith, October 1994. One of Smith's most splendid creations, one of only three copies produced. Here, for the first time, the artist employed a new method of spine sewing. In personal correspondence Smith writes that he was inspired by Eikoh Hosoe's famous Kamaitachi in the conception of this book. From the printed explanatory text laid-in: "The geometric forms were drawn with the program Aldus Freehand™ on a Power Macintosh 7100/66. The drawings were proofed onto typing paper using a Laserwriter II NT. These were cut and bound as a prototype as a means of a sketch of the book. The designs of several pages were then altered and proofed. The end result was printed onto various laid and etching papers. The sections are pamphlet sewn to a pleat, which is decorated by cutting and folding. The spine sewing is devised by Keith Smith, and this is the first use of this new sewing." A superb example of Smith's ingenuity with the book form. Smith gave the other copies to his partner and a friend. His books are hardly ever available on the market. ❧ K.A. Smith, 200 Books, p. 281-"Book 171 is hand cut and hand bound. The title means that no single page is the collage, but it is a layer of pages, ever-changing as pages are turned."
Offered by Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller.
Jonas Salk typed signed letter with envelope
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: [ University of Pittsburgh ], 1955. First Edition. Near Fine. First Edition. Single 8 1/2 x 11 inch sheet. A TLS (typed letter signed) from Jonas Salk dated August 25, 1955 on University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine letterhead thanking a Mr. Arthur Wilson for his good wishes. 'It was very kind of you to express your good wishes; we appreciate having them.' SIGNED boldly in ink 'Jonas E. Salk'. Creasing as expected for a mailed letter. Includes the matching mailing envelope with Virus Research Laboratory return address.
Dr. Jonas E. Salk is best known for his discovery of a safe and effective polio vaccine. His development of the vaccine was completed during a very intense period of several years (even though other scientists had been pursuing different research paths since the late 1930s). The new vaccine was officially announced on April 12, 1955. A competing 'live-virus' vaccine by Dr. Sabin was eventually discontinued in favor of Salks 'dead-virus' vaccine because of the greater efficacy of Salk's vaccine.
Offered by Kuenzig Books.
New-York: Printed and Sold by S. Wood, 1813. Second Wood edition. A trifle foxed; some light rubbing; a handsome copy in very good condition. 32mo (2.06 x 1.31 inches), original green morocco, spine stamped in gilt, boards ruled in gilt, 254 pages. Frontis, illus. A handsome little Thumb Bible. Welch 856.3; Adomeit, Three Centuries of Thumb Bibles, A26: "Illustrations as in A17 [Wood, 1811], but type reset.
Offered by Garrett Scott, Bookseller.
All the Pretty Horses; The Crossing (signed); Cities of the Plain; 3 Volume Set, All First Editions
by Cormac McCarthy
New York; 1992, 1994, 1998: Alfred a Knopf. First Editions. Octavo. The Trilogy: The Crossing (signed on the flyleaf--integral not one of the tipped-in examples). This trilogy represents his great vision of the Southwest where boundaries are incidental (Texas, Mexico, and New Mexico are all part of a landscape of beauty, desolation, love, violence and survival. A fine set bound in 1/4 black cloth over black paper covered boards stamped in gilt, spine lettering gilt, in fine unclipped pictorial dust jacket.
Offered by Alcuin Autographs.
FLICKA, RICKA, DICKA AND THEIR NEW FRIEND
by Maj Lindman
Chicago, Illinois: Albert Whitman & Company, 1942. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Color text illustrations on the recto, and text on the verso of the pages. Slight silverfishing to the spine of the binding, and spot of soiling to the rear board. Blue cloth with a illustrated paper pastedown on the front board. Very Good binding.
Offered by Black Swan Books.
Make Good the Promise; Second War Fund
New York: American Red Cross, 1918. Original poster mounted on linen. Color lithograph. 34 3/4" x 55 3/4" This vibrant WWI poster was part of the American Red Cross' fundraising campaign for the 'Second War Fund', with the goal of raising $100 million in a single week in May. Beautiful colors, good condition with repair to center and repairs around margins. Poster features an outline map of North America and Europe, with a pot of gold in America that reads 'Keep It Full', and a rainbow stretching from the pot to a Red Cross aid truck in Europe.
Offered by Argosy Book Store.
ALICE IN WONDERLAND (Superb Copy of the 1933 English Film Photoplay Version in Original Dust Jacket)
by Lewis Carroll
London & Glasgow: Collins, 1933. Carroll, Lewis (Charles L[utwidge] Dodgson). ALICE IN WONDERLAND. London & Glasgow: Collins, (n. d. but 1933). First U. K. Photoplay edition (9" by 7") issued in tandem with the 1933 Paramount film adaptation starring Charlotte Henry as Alice and co-starring Cary Grant, W. C. Fields, and Gary Cooper among others. This is a Very Good example, designed with wonderful Art Deco elements to it, with hardly any wear to the fragile oatmeal-buckram cloth covers as well as the spine, small previous owner's signature in ink, there are eight b&w full-page still photos from the film along with numerous charming line drawings oof the Alice characters by Irene Mountfort. The Very Good ORIGINAL DUST JACKET partially incorporates photographic images from the film including that of Charlotte Henry with the Dodo. The DJ is flap-clipped but not price-clipped. Perhaps best of all, the dust jacket is 100% complete although there is some soil and a long closed tear to the white back panel, and overall edge-wear in general. Despite faults, the exceedingly rare DJ shows very well indeed. . First Thus. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Irene Mountfort.
Offered by Lakin & Marley Rare Books.
by Frank Hurley
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1925. First Edition. Near Fine. 8vo [9.5x6.5in]; [2], xv, [1], 290 pp., [2], frontispiece of Endurance crushed in the ice, 46 plates of 71 images and 5 illustrations, 2 folding maps; Dark green cloth covers with gilt lettering on front and spine, blind stamped borders on front, image of seals and penguins on ice flow in Commonwealth Bay on front end papers and rugged landscape of So. Georgia Is. from high ridge line above Stromness Harbor and Bay, top edge gilt and foredge untrimmed; Minor shelf wear, covers, spine and gilt lettering darken with age and soling, minor rubbing to back cover with some wrinkling of cloth, old stain along edges of back end papers. [Rosove 178.A1, Conrad p.205].
James Francis (Frank) Hurley (1885-1962) ), adventurer, photographer and film maker, in 1911 was asked to by the photographer on Sir Douglas Mawson's Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-1913 (Aurora). This expedition was to explore to the west of the Scott and Shackleton expeditions in the McMurdo Sound. The main base was established at Cape Denison 142 and the western base 600 kilometers further west. Hurley worked in difficult conditions of unrelenting cold and katabatic winds to take still images and movie film. After the expedition, Hurley created exhibitions of his images and films in major cities of the world. In London, Shackleton was impressed with the exhibition and asked Hurley to join him on the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1914-1917, the Weddell Sea Party (Endurance) and he accepted. The expedition did not achieve the objectives as the Endurance was beset and crushed in the ice covered Weddell Sea before reaching land. All but 150 plates of Hurley's still images and some pocket camera images survived the 9 month trek across the ice dragging overloaded lifeboats to reach open water and sail for desolate Elephant Is. to await an uncertain rescue. Hurley and all the other men survived the ordeal when rescued by Shackleton after his miraculous 800 mile sea voyage to the nearest whaling station on South Georgia Is. Hurley's images from the Mawson and Shackleton expeditions have become iconic images in telling the stories of the expeditions.
Offered by David Spilman Fine Books.
Dorchester, MA: Walter Baker & Co., Ltd, 1913. Oblong 8vo, pp. 39, [1], followed by 6 high-quality chromolithograph plates of Walter Baker products; 5 other full-page illustrations; fine in original maroon cloth, gilt-lettered on upper cover. The educational exhibit consists of what presumably is a salesman's wooden lacquered case (approx. 9½" x 5½" x 3½"), with a hinged lid on top, and a brass plaque and pull; mounted inside the lid are 4 Baker products, and inside the box itself are four apothecary viles, each still containing Baker products! Uncommon salesman's sample case and companion handbook which were released to promote the Walter Baker "health-giving breakfast cocoa and chocolate." The text explains the transformation of the cocoa seeds from the raw material, describes the early uses of cocoa and chocolate, a description and analysis of the cocoa seeds, the cocoa tree and the gathering of the crop. The four vials represent the various stages of cocoa production, and the cocoa tin mounted 1nside the lid preserves the trademarked chocolate server logo, La Belle Chocolatiere, adopted by the company in 1883 after a painting by the Swiss artists Jean-Etienne Liotard. Founded in 1780 the Walter Baker Company grew throughout the 19th century and into the 20th becoming one of the largest in the United States. Purchased by the Forbes syndicate in 1896, the brand was eventually absorbed in 1979 by Kraft Foods.
Offered by Rulon-Miller Books.
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by Giovani Boccacio
Venice: Repario and Cesano, 1551. vellum. 393 pages. Engraved title page. Full vellum binding with red leather spine label. Thick 12mo [4.5x6.5cm]. Vellum shows soiling, edgewear and some stains. Front hinge cracked but binding sound. Spine label dulled and chipped. Most of the inside paste down pulled out leaving residue and border. Some rippling to rear pastedown. Title page foxed, otherwise clean with mild toning. Good. Item #76851
Boccacio's first major work, preceding the DeCameron. A retelling of the 12th Century French romance. In Italian.
Offered by Aardvark Books and found in "Recent Acquisitions."
ANTIPODEAN BOOKS, MAPS, PRINTS
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GRAY, Thomas J. (words); WALKER, Raymond (music) "Your Mother's Gone Away To Join The Army"
New York: Broadway Music Corporation, 1913. First Edition. Quarto (35cm); illustrated wrappers; 6pp. Some trivial wear to extremities, a few tiny tears, and a few faint foxed spots to rear wrapper; Near Fine.
Suffrage-themed sheet music, with lyrics told from the perspective of a father and his little boy, whose mother was absent due to her involvement in the women's rights movement. "A little lad with curly hair stood by his father's knee / Could see that he was crying he was sad as he could be / He sobbed and said "I feel so blue," as tears ran down his cheeks / "Oh father where is mother she has not been home for weeks" / His Pa said "Lad the tale is sad, She's down at Suffrage Hall / She's gone to fight for women's rights, why there's their bugle call." In comparison to the denigrating tone of other suffrage songs from the period, the chorus here conveys familial pride: "Hear the tramp of their feet - as they come down the street / Gee those girlies look sweet, They're all dressed up so neat / Your dear old ma just took a fighter's place / She likes the smell of powder 'cause it's always on her face / There's no rats in her hair - you can see she don't care / Holds her head in the air, Gee your mother's a bear / Tramp, Tramp, Tramp the girls are marching, Your Mother's gone away to join the army." OCLC notes 3 holdings (LC, Baylor, British Library). CREW S-1913-18.
Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books and found in "From Suffrage to Second Wave."
W. C. BAKER RARE BOOKS & EPHEMERA
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Handcast Lord of the Rings Figurines by Strerling E. Lanier.
A collection of nine bronze or pewter miniature figurines made by editor and sculptor Sterling E. Lanier in the 1960s. All items fine and housed in original handmade box. The figurines, representing characters from the beloved series The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien, depict Frodo, Samwise, Gandalf, Legolas, Gimli, a hooded Nazgul, and three orcs. Lanier only made three sets of his Lord of the Rings figures, one of which was a gift to Tolkien himself, which helped strike up a long-distance friendship. According to letters from Tolkien to Lanier, they were among his most prized possessions and were housed in a display cabinet where they were “much admired.”
Sterling Edmund Lanier (1927-2007) was an American editor, science-fiction author, and sculptor. He is perhaps best known as the editor who championed the publication of Frank Herbert’s bestselling novel Dune. His sculptures have been exhibited in the Smithsonian and other venues. According to his Sarasota Herald Tribune obituary, “His sculptures included his vision of the characters from The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien. Mr. Lanier depended upon his own imagination for the characters, which were only slightly described in the trilogy published in 1953-1954. Mr. Tolkien accepted and admired a set of the sculptures but, through his advisers, he said that they could not be made commercially available. When The Lord of the Rings became a movie in 2001, the on-screen characters amazingly resembled Mr. Lanier’s sculptural portrayals. Mr. Tolkien had died in 1973, and so Mr. Lanier was seemingly free to market his creations. But he refrained, honoring what he believed to be Mr. Tolkien’s wishes.” A unique fan-made item by an amateur sculptor and science-fiction editor.
Offered by Between the Covers Rare Books and found in "Catalog 241."
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DOWNTON BROWN BOOKS, LLC (Previously: Eureka Books)
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Not So Deep as a Well: The Collected Poems (Signed, Limited)
by Dorothy Parker.
New York: The Viking Press, 1936 First Edition 210 pages. "This volume contains all of Dorothy Parker's poems excepting a few which she did not wish to retain..."— copyright page. This volume has all of Parker's bestknown verse. Decorations by Valenti Angelo. This is one of 485 numbered copies signed by Parker on a tipped-in page. First edition (first printing). Some spotting to fore-edge of book; a bit of discoloration along the gutter of the limitation page, due to the glue used to attach it. No dust jacket, as issued, but with the goldpaper slipcase showing some shelfwear at the edge. An attractive copy.
Offered by Downton Brown Books, found in "List 16: Modern First Editions" (item #15).
RODGER FRIEDMAN RARE BOOK STUDIO
THOMAS A. GOLDWASSER RARE BOOKS
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JONATHAN A. HILL, BOOKSELLER, INC.
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Chicago & Western Soap Works Fine Toilet Soaps Illustrated Catalog
No date, probably around 1900. A wonderful trade catalog of fine soaps, most in fancy paper wrappers, with large colored illustrations. Since this is a trade catalog the text dispenses with the usual vacuous frou-ha used on the public and gets down to the nuts and bolts- beauty of packaging, actual ingredients, and how well it sells (they all seem to sell really really well). Softcover. 4”x6.5”. 56 pages, color illustrations. Minor soil, light wear.
Offered by Joslin Hall Rare Books and found in "Catalog 411."
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ALBUM des titres d’alimentation. Septembre 1941. 3eme Bureau.
1941. 31.5cm x 21cm. One typed sheet tipped in followed by 21 ll, [1 - blank] leaf (of which five of the leaves have manuscript and documents recto and verso; the other sixteen recto only). Contemporary plain paper wrappers, title in manuscript on the upper wrapper, light wear to the edges of the wrappers and some sunning. $1500.00 An incredible document from the German occupation of Paris during the Second World War. The Germans took control of Paris on June 14th, 1940. Already, food was scarce in France due to much of the work force having already left for war and the supply chains from France’s colonies greatly disrupted. This was made far worse when Germany occupied France. Immediately, the remaining French products were sent to Germany to support the German cause, and only what was left over, was made available to the French through a strict rationing system.
The current album relates to the rations available in Paris during the month of September, 1941. On the upper wrapper is written “3eme Bureau;” this likely refers to the rationing office of the 3rd arrondissement in Paris. The first leaf is a typescript index for the album (all leaves are present). The sheets are numbered 1-21 (with a few versos numbered with a “bis” number) and contain the original ration sheets that were being issued by the German occupation government during the war. The sheets are pasted in, and in most cases, small ration tags are cut out and mounted alongside. On each sheet, there is also manuscript information that explains the quantity of the given foodstuff that the ration is good for and how it is to be administered. For example, one ration tag is good for 325 grams of butter, another for 60 grams of cheese, and so on. The foods included are bread; meat and cold cuts; and matières grasses (i.e. oil; butter; cheese; beef fat; margarine; and lard). There is also a special coupon for workers which entitles them to greater amounts of food. On the verso of that coupon, it states “L’hiver qui s’aproche sera rude. Les effectifs des cuisines d’entr’aide vont croître. Vous aiderez le SECOURS NATIONAL à « tenir ». Et la misere reculera !” (The coming winter will be harsh. The number of service kitchens [i.e. soup kitchens] will increase. You will help SECOURS NATIONAL to “hold on.” And misery will recede!) Also laid in is a contemporary newspaper clip entitled “Le ravitaillement. Les rations alimentaires du mois de juillet” and an unused contemporary German postcard (printed in Berlin) that is a picture of German ration coupons.3 A remarkable glimpse into the conditions under which the Parisians had to live during the Second World War. In good condition and preserved in an archival folder.
Offered by Ben Kinmont, Bookseller and found in "Gastronomy & Economic Precarity."
JOHN W. KNOTT, JR., BOOKSELLER
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Ascham, Roger
19th c. calf, single gilt filet framing the boards, hinges discreetly repaired, gilt spine, label chipped, edges worn. Fine copy with the initial leaf with signature mark and blank ¶8 both present. Marginal worm-trail to blank lower margin in middle signatures, not affecting text. Title with decorative border, woodcut of Robert Dudley, Earl Leicester’s emblem (the muzzled bear) inscribed with the Garter motto on leaf ¶3. Woodcut initials, diagram of divisions of the Mass, some passages in Greek. Rare. 7 institutional holdings in North America. Provenance: bookplates of George Stokes, Cardiff Castle, and Robert Pirie.
One of the greatest of the Tudor humanists, Ascham was favored by Henry VIII, to whom he dedicated his “Toxophilus”, tutor to the princess Elizabeth, and author of a masterpiece of English pedagogy, “The Scholemaster”. Ascham also tutored the boy king Edward VI in the art of elegant handwriting, and Edward thought of him fondly, and so it is of interest that Ascham wrote this “reformed” work while Edward was being groomed by his close advisors to be a thoroughly Protestant monarch.
Roger Ascham (1515/16-1568) penned his ‘Apologia pro Caena Dominica contra Missam & eius Praestigias’ (‘A Defense of the Lord’s Supper against the Mass and its Magic’) at Cambridge in 1547/8 during the first year of Edward VI’s reign. It was published in Ascham’s name some thirty years later (and about ten years after Ascham’s death) in 1577/8, together with his dedicatory preface to Robert Dudley and his other theological pieces, which are also in Latin...
Offered by Liber Antiquus and found in "Rare Books & Manuscripts 13th-18th c."
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JESSE, J. HENEAGE. LONDON: ITS CELEBRATED CHARACTERS AND REMARKABLE PLACES
(London: Richard Bentley, 1871) 200 x 130 mm. (7 3/4 x 5”). Three volumes expanded to six. “SPECIAL COPY, extra illustrated in six volumes.” CHARMING OLIVE GREEN CRUSHED MOROCCO, GILT AND WITH PICTORIAL INLAY, BY BAYNTUN (stamp-signed on front turn-in), upper covers with leafy strapwork gilt frame, central inlay in multiple colors of morocco depicting one of the characters from the book, with gilt lettering beneath it, lower covers with gilt-rule frame, raised bands, spines gilt in compartments with strapwork and leaf ornament, gilt lettering, gilt-ruled turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Housed together in a green cloth slipcase. WITH 537 PLATES, consisting of 27 folding plates (nine hand-colored), 124 hand-colored plates (19 of them from the Rowlandson “Dr. Syntax” series), and 386 black & white engravings, all but one of the plates with original tissue guard. Spines evenly sunned to a pleasing hazel brown, one leaf with neat repair to upper corner (away from text), occasional mild foxing to plates (usually marginal, never offensive), other trivial imperfections, but A VERY FINE SET, clean and fresh, with none of the offsetting that usually plagues extra-illustrated works, IN SPARKLING BINDINGS.
This is perhaps the ultimate copy of Jesse’s entertaining and informative tour of his beloved city and the characters who have inhabited it over the centuries: it was professionally “grangerized” with fine specimens of 96 relevant prints, all with tissue guards; it was beautifully bound by a leading firm in a style that perfectly complements the contents; and, despite these obvious benefits, it has seen very little use. John Heneage Jesse (1809-74) wrote a number of popular historical works, including royal biographies and court memoirs, that drew praise for their conscientious attention to fact and detail, if not for their originality or wit. Described by DNB as “a dedicated Londoner, [who] seldom ventured away from the metropolitan area,” Jesses leads us here through the districts of his home city, relating anecdotes, noting the locations of momentous events, and pointing out architectural treasures. The added portraits, scenes, and views help to bring his account to life, and the diligent use of tissue guards has prevented these illustrations from affecting the adjacent leaves in a detrimental way. Rowlandson’s famous caricatures from “Dr. Syntax,” portraying the amusing adventures of a country parson in the metropolis, comprise just one example of the half a thousand inserted plates here. The bindings from Bayntun of Bath depict some of the humble characters whose presence gives the capital so much of its flavor: those who sell their wares on the streets and do everyday jobs that keep the city running. The Bayntun firm, founded in Bath in 1894, is now the last of the great Victorian trade binderies still in family ownership. Our binding probably dates from the first quarter of the 20th century, when the workshop was known for imaginative designs that involved the augmenting of gilt decoration with inlaid pictorial designs.
Offered by Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and found in "Catalogue 76" (item #100).
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30 volumes. Paris: En la Imprenta de E. Thunot y Cª; text Paris: en casa del Autor and Chile: en el Museo de Historia Natural de Santiago, 1844-1871. Large 4° (37 x 29 cm.) and large 8º, text in contemporary quarter green morocco over marbled boards, atlas in contemporary half morocco; spines gilt, some rubbed, head and tail of a few volumes frayed. Hinge of volume II of atlas strengthened; spines of 2 atlas volumes and 4 volumes of text not quite uniform. Together 30 volumes (28 volumes text, in 8°, and 2 volumes atlas, in large 4°). Some foxing to text, very occasional marginal spotting to plates, tear in lower margin of one plate (affecting caption). A handsome set overall. Rubberstamps of former owner on all half-titles, and on titles of text volumes. 30 volumes.
FIRST EDITION. Monumental account of the natural and civil history of Chile, with two volumes of beautiful illustrations, mostly hand-colored. Gay’s work set the tone for all future historiographers of Chile with its meticulous examination of sources, including contemporary documents from the period immediately following the conquest. The overall condition of this copy as well as the quality of the plates and coloring are far superior to most. In fact, many copies are without coloring altogether. In addition, this set has the complete text, which is unusual since the work was issued over a period of 27 years. The two volumes of the atlas contain a total of 315 plates: one tinted lithographic frontispiece portrait; 20 engraved maps plus a folding cloth-backed map of Chile; two hand-colored plates of antiquities; 53 lithographic plates of views and costumes (12 are hand-finished colored, 41 are tinted); and 238 hand-colored engraved plates (103 botanical, 135 zoological).
Offered by Richard C. Ramer, Old & Rare Books and found in "Special LIst 376 : Zoology."
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Warren, John. The Conchologist.
Boston: Russell, Odiorne & Metcalf, 1834. First edition, small 4to, pp. [4], 204; lithograph frontispiece and 16 composite lithograph plates; contemporary and likely original red roan-backed marbled boards, gilt lettered direct on gilt-paneled spine; spine worn, and chipped at the bottom, joints cracked, occasional light spotting, leaf [16-4] with two tiny holes affecting a half-dozen letters (sense remains clear); good, sound, and quite clean. This copy inscribed by the author to "Miss Mugford from Mr. Warren, Boston Oct. 9, 1835." Misss Mugford is likely Sarah S. Mugford of Salem, an invalid poet, dress-maker, and needlepoint artist. (See Worcester, Samuel M., Triumph in Trial. A Memorial of Sarah S. Mugford, of Salem, Mass., Boston, 1862.)
This is the first American manual of conchology. Includes a "Glossary of terms used in conchology" on pp. 120-22.
Offered by Rulon-Miller Books and found in "Recently Catalogued (May 12, 2020)" (item #33).
MARC SELVAGGIO, BOOKS & EPHEMERA
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Hand, Dr. D[avid] B. Dr. Hand’s Remedies contain no stupefying narcotic drugs. Dr. Hand’s Common Sense Advice to Parents. 24th ed. [Philadelphia: Hand Medicine Co., ca. 1912.] 14 cm. [32]pp + pictorial chromo wrappers (of children hanging onto a life preserver made of Dr. Hand medications). Fuzzy half-tones of kids throughout. Replete with dated testimonials from happy parents. OCLC cites on two locations for a 29th edition (1916), at the Winterthur and Rochester.
Offered by Marc Selvaggio, Books & Ephemera and found in "Health & Medicine Ephemera, Part 2."
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INTERNATIONAL LADIES' GARMENT WORKERS' UNION
Signature of 450,000: This publication is a presentation of the 65th Anniversary Convention of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, Miami Beach, Florida, May 1965.
New York: ILGWU, 1965. 64 pages. Compilation of photographs that tell the history of the ILGWU to commemorate the union's 65th anniversary. Original union receipt, showing purchase of this book, tipped in. Side-stapled with tanning to edges of back cover. Mild wear to front cover with a minute crease to the edge of the right upper corner; lower right corned and pages slightly creased as well, not effecting text. Circular stain on the letter "u" of title, not effecting readability, else very good.
Offered by Tomberg Rare Books and found in "E-list #27."
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"Congress shall make no law establishing religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, nor shall the rights of conscience be infringed."
"The freedom of speech, and of the press, and the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and consult for their common good, and to apply to the government for a redress of grievances, shall not be infringed."
"A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, being the best security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed...."
After months of work, on August 24, 1789, the House of Representatives approved seventeen Constitutional amendments, including the first to use the exact phrase, "freedom of speech." This newspaper includes the full text of the resolution sent by the House to the Senate for approval. The Senate began deliberating the next day, approving some articles and rejecting or altering others. [BILL OF RIGHTS].
Newspaper. Gazette of the United States, August 29, 1789. New York: John Fenno. Includes a complete printing of the first House of Representatives proposal for amending the Constitution on page 2. 4 pp., 10 x 15¾ in.
Historical Background
The lack of a Bill of Rights, a central feature of most state Constitutions, was a principal criticism of the recently-drafted federal Constitution. During the Constitutional Convention some delegates opposed its inclusion, thinking it unnecessary or afraid that the act of enumerating specific rights would imply that those not listed did not exist. On the other side, Anti-Federalists wary of new federal powers were among the most ardent proponents of a Bill of Rights. Ultimately, to ensure ratification of the Constitution, the Convention delegates promised that Congress would address guarantees of specific liberties in their first session.
During the ratification process, five states that approved the Constitution passed along lists of proposed amendments, while two states, Rhode Island and North Carolina, that had refused to ratify also suggested amendments. In all, nearly one hundred discrete amendments were offered.
James Madison, the "father of the Constitution," was at first lukewarm to the idea of a Bill of Rights. However, during his first Congressional campaign against James Monroe, he promised to fight for such a measure. Among Madison's fears were threats by Anti-Federalists, even after the Constitution had been ratified, of calling another convention, which would have likely been much less harmonious. On May 4, 1789, Madison told the House of Representatives that he planned to present a slate of amendments in three weeks. When May 25 arrived, the Congressmen were locked in a debate over import duties. Madison demurred until June 8, when the House again rebuked his efforts, citing more pressing business. Rising once more, Madison justified his timing, apologized to his colleagues, and proceeded to introduce his proposed amendments.
On July 21, 1789, the House formed the Committee of Eleven (a member from each state) to consider the proposed Amendments. The Committee reported on July 28, taking the nine broad areas Madison had suggested for amendment and drafting 17 individual amendments for House approval. These passed the House on August 24, and the Senate began their debate the next day. The Senate initially reduced the House's proposed 17 amendments to 12, and then passed its own version on September 9. The bill then went back to the House for reconciliation. The House reconciled the two bills on September 24, and the Senate issued its final approval the next day.
The twelve articles of amendment were sent to the states for ratification on October 2, 1789. Two of the twelve proposed amendments, the first regarding apportionment of representation in the House and the second, congressional salaries, were not ratified by the states. However, article #2, which stated that Congressional pay increases (or decreases) would not take effect until an election had ensued, eventually became the 27th Amendment on May 8, 1992, 203 years after it was first proposed. Articles 3 through 12 became the 1st through 10th Amendments of the federal Constitution upon Virginia's ratification on December 15, 1791.
Complete Transcript
CONGRESS of the UNITED STATES.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 1789
RESOLVED, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, two thirds of both houses deeming it necessary, that the following articles be proposed to the legislatures of the several states, as amendments to the constitution of the United States, all, or any of which articles, when ratified by three fourths of the said legislatures, to be valid, to all intents and purposes, as part of the said constitution.
ARTICLES in addition to, and amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America, proposed by Congress, and ratified by the legislatures of the several States, pursuant to the 5th article of the original constitution.
ARTICLE 1. After the first enumeration required by the first article of the constitution, there shall be one representative for every thirty thousand, until the number shall amount to one hundred, after which the proportion shall be so regulated by Congress, that there shall be not less than one hundred representatives, nor less than one representative for every forty thousand persons, until the number of representatives shall amount to two hundred, after which the proportion shall be so regulated by Congress that there shall not be less than two hundred representatives, nor more than one representative for every fifty thousand persons.
[First Amendment proposed: not ratified.]
ART. 2. No law varying the compensation to the members of Congress shall take effect, until an election of representatives shall have intervened.
[Second Amendment proposed: modified version ratified May 7, 1992 as the Twenty-Seventh Amendment.]
ART. 3. Congress shall make no law establishing religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, nor shall the rights of conscience be infringed.
[Modified version ratified as part of the First Amendment]
ART. 4. The freedom of speech, and of the press, and the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and consult for their common good, and to apply to the government for a redress of grievances, shall not be infringed.
[Modified version ratified as part of the First Amendment]
ART. 5. A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, being the best security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, but no one religiously scrupulous of bearing arms, shall be compelled to render military service in person.
[Modified version ratified as the Second Amendment]
ART. 6. No soldier shall in time of peace be quartered in any house without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
[Modified version ratified as the Third Amendment]
ART. 7. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated; and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
[Modified version ratified as the Fourth Amendment]
ART. 8. No person shall be subject, except in a case of impeachment, to more than one trial or one punishment for the same offence, nor shall be compelled in any criminal case, to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life or liberty or property, without due process of law, nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation.
[Modified version ratified as part of the Fifth Amendment]
ART. 9. In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, to be informed of the nature and the cause of the accusation, to be confronted by witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defence.
[Modified version ratified as part of the Sixth Amendment]
ART. 10. The trial of all crimes (except in cases of impeachment, and in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia when in actual service in time of war or public danger) shall be an impartial jury of the vicinage, with the requisite of unanimity for conviction; the right of challenging and other accustomed requisites; and no person shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment by a grand jury; but if a crime by committed in a place in the possession of an enemy, or in which an insurection may prevail, the indictment and trial may by law be authorised in some other place within the same state.
[Modified version ratified as parts of the Fifth and Sixth Amendment]
ART. 11. No appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States shall be allowed, where the value in controversy shall not amount to one thousand dollars; nor shall any fact triable by a jury according to the course of the common law, be otherwise re-examinable, than according to the rules of common law.
[Modified version ratified as part of the Seventh Amendment]
ART. 12. In suits of common law, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved.
[Modified version ratified as part of the Seventh Amendment]
ART. 13. Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
[Ratified as the Eighth Amendment]
ART. 14. No state shall infringe the right of trial by jury in criminal cases, nor the rights of conscience, nor the freedom of speech, or of the press.
[Modified version passed by Congress on June 13, 1866; ratified July 9, 1868, as part of the Fourteenth Amendment]
ART. 15. The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
[Ratified as the Ninth Amendment]
ART. 16. The powers delegated by the constitution to the government of the United States shall be exercised as therein appropriated, so that the legislative shall never exercise the powers vested in the executive or judicial; nor the executive the powers vested in the legislative or judicial; nor the judicial the powers vested in the legislative or executive.
[Dropped in subsequent drafts]
ART. 17. The powers not delegated by the constitution nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively.
[Modified version ratified as the Tenth Amendment]
Ordered, that the Clerk of this house do carry to the Senate a fair and engrossed copy of the said proposed articles of amendment, and desire their concurrence. Extract from the journals,
JOHN BECKLEY, Clerk.
Additional Content
This newspaper also prints "The Tablet" (p1/c1-2); an essay on processing sugar from maple trees, by "A Sugar Boiler" (p1/c2-3); proceedings of Congress on the location of the national capital, the safeguarding of official records and the great seal, and the establishment of the treasury department (p2/c2-p3/c3); a humorous poem on the scramble for the national capital (p3/c3); a continuation of "The Right Constitution of a Commonwealth Examined" (p4/c1-2); a continuation of "An Essay on Free Trade and Finances" (p4/c2-3); An Act to Provide for the Government of the Territory North-West of the River Ohio and An Act providing for Expences which may attend Negotiations or Treaties with the Indian Tribes, and the appointment of Commissioners for managing the same, both signed in type by George Washington and John Adams (p4/c3); and another installment of "The National Monitor" (p4/c3).
Gazette of the United States (1789-1793) was a semiweekly Federalist newspaper first published in New York City by John Fenno (1751-1798). It is often considered the most significant political newspaper of the late eighteenth century. In 1790, it followed the government to its temporary capital in Philadelphia. Early Acts of Congress and Presidential Pronouncements were often first printed in this newspaper, and it circulated to major cities where other Federalist newspapers copied freely from it. Among its pseudonymous contributors were Alexander Hamilton and John Adams. It continued under a variety of titles as a daily newspaper in Philadelphia from 1793 to 1818. After John Fenno's death in the 1798 yellow fever epidemic, his son John Ward Fenno continued the newspaper until 1800, when he sold it.
"The Tablet" appeared in the Gazette in every issue from the first, April 15, 1789, into August 1790, and then periodically to No. 155 in the April 9, 1791 issue. The first number announced its purpose "to touch upon such subjects as are calculated to afford amusement or instruction, without disturbing society with calumny and petulance." Anonymous contributors included publisher John Fenno and lexicographer Noah Webster (1758-1843), who shared a common political nationalism.
"The Right Constitution of a Commonwealth Examined" was written by Vice President John Adams (1735-1826). The first three-quarters of it appeared serially in the Gazette
between May 23 and November 4, 1789. Adams particularly criticized the republican theories of Marchamont Nedham (1620-1678), a pamphleteer during the English Civil War.
"An Essay on Free Trade and Finances" appeared serially in the Gazette
between June 3 and October 21, 1789. The author was Pelatiah Webster (1726-1795), an ordained Congregationalist minister and Philadelphia merchant. The essay was first published in Philadelphia on March 24, 1783. T. Bradford's bookstore in Philadelphia sold it in pamphlet form as early as April 1783. It was the sixth of seven essays Webster wrote on Free Trade and Finance between 1779 and 1785.
"The National Monitor" appeared in thirty-four numbers from April 25, 1789, and January 20, 1790. (Inventory #: 25430)
Offered by Seth Kaller, Inc.
by Arnold Lobel
First printing of this universal expression of male bonding and friendship as seen through all the seasons. INSCRIBED on front free endpaper "For Eddie from Arnold Lobel" with a sketch of Frog below (upper torso only, as usual). Lobel's four Frog & Toad books are highly collectible and with his premature death (at age 54) inscribed copies of his major titles seldom come onto the marketplace.
Offered by Batteldore.
Poster for a 1966 Appearance in France
Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Poster for a March 28, 1966 appearance by the Civil Rights leader together with singer Harry Belafonte at the Palais des Sports in Paris. Organized by the Comité de Soutien Franco-Américain pour l'Intégration Raciale, the event featured a speech by King and music from Harry Belafonte and French singer Hugues Aufray, sponsored by Suze Liqueur. Two-color poster, with folding creases, one tear to the right edge, minimal wear and toning; overall very good. Sight size 14.5 x 22.5 inches (37 x 57 cm), archivally matted and framed to an overall size of 20.5 x 26.5 inches.In March 1966, King and Belafonte went to Europe for fundraising appearances on behalf of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, starting with the Palais des Sports in Paris on the 28th, and closing in Sweden on the 31st. This poster for the French appearance is emblazoned with the logo of a sponsor, Suze Liqueur, and also cites the French-American Committee for Racial Integration as the organizing body. The opening act for the evening was the popular French folksinger Hugues Aufray doing a set of Bob Dylan covers, followed by a set by Belafonte. Dr. King closed out the evening with a speech on civil rights, touching on the war in Vietnam and American support for South African apartheid. The tour raised more than $100,000, but drew the wrath of the American ambassador to France for airing American problems overseas. See Ross, Hollywood Left and Right, p. 220. We have traced no other copies of this poster at auction or elsewhere.
Offered by Schubertiade Music & Arts.
Where Do We Go From Here? Chaos or Comminity?
By Martin Luther King, Jr.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1967. First edition of King's "last grand expression of his vision" (Cornel West). Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with eight pages of black-and-white photogravures. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Mr. Otto E. Geppert Martin Luther King Jr." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, small date to the endpaper. Jacket design by Ronald Clyne. Jacket photograph of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Bob Fitch. Where Do We Go from Here is Dr. King's analysis of the state of American race relations and the movement after a decade of U.S. civil rights struggles. ''With Selma and the Voting Rights Act one phase of development in the civil rights revolution came to an end,'' he observed (King, 3). King believed that the next phase in the movement would bring its own challenges, as African Americans continued to make demands for better jobs, higher wages, decent housing, an education equal to that of whites, and a guarantee that the rights won in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 would be enforced by the federal government.
Offered by Raptis Rare Books.
The Heart is a Muscle (First Edition, 1 of 15 copies with print signed by Hal Hartley)
by Hal Hartley
Stockholm: Libraryman, 2010. First Edition. First Edition. One of 15 unnumbered copies with a chromogenic print SIGNED by director Hal Hartley affixed to the last leaf. A collection of selected film still photographs from the noted independent filmmaker's oeuvre, beginning with his 1988 debut "The Unbelievable Truth" up to the 2011 film "Meanwhile", with stills from "Amateur" (1994), "Flirt" (1995), and "Henry Fool" (1997), and others. 81 color plates. Fine in glossy perfect bound wrappers, with no dust jacket as issued.
Offered by Royal Books.
New York: J. Ottmann Litho Co, 1910. Ephemera no binding. Very good. 11 ½" x 8 ¼"envelope; 10 ½" chromolithographed stiff paper die-cut Teddy Bear paper doll with an attached back stand; all 5 original chromolithographed clothing outfits with tabs and caps, lacking cap for the "Driver" outfit; envelope has extensive chipping, soiling, and tearing, but remains intact; bear doll has light wear to edges and a small scratch to the face; clothing outfits have small creases and scuffing; Envelope condition poor; Teddy bear doll and outfits condition very good. Young 148. Not in WorldCat. Scarce. Wonderfully large paper doll Teddy Bear with five brightly colored tabbed clothing outfits: a Dress Suit with vests, tie, pocket square and top hat; a Nautical Suit of blue blazer with gold buttons, stripes, anchors, and white trousers with a cap featuring an eagle; a Baseball Uniform for the NL, National League, with a striped cap; a yellow Bathrobe trimmed in red, striped socks, and a red sleeping cap; and a Driver's Coat with brass buttons, belt, and grey gloves, the cap with goggles is missing from this outfit. Playing on the craze teddy bears arising during this decade from President Theodore Roosevelt, Teddy Bears were loved and played with by both girls and boys.
OFfered by Sandra L. Hoekstra.
by P.G. Wodehouse
London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1938. First English Edition. [Jasen 58A in a later dust jacket]. Preceded by the first American Doubleday, Doran edition, published in Oct. 8, 1937. This edition was published on Feb. 11 1938. 12mo., red cloth, stamped in black, 312 pages, plus eight-page catalog; in later "2/6 net" price on spine [whereas the earliest dust jacket is priced at "7/6 net." on the spine]. Very Good (little soil covers; contents clean & tight but for a tiny spot fore-edge; neat ink name front endpaper); some edgewear (few small chips & tears- some with internal mends with archival tape) d/j.
Offered by Antic Hay Books.
by FOWLER, H. ALFRED
Kansas City: H. Alfred Fowler, 1912. First edition. First edition. Original decorative card paper wrappers. The rare "Eragny Press" number (Volume I, Number 3) which features notes on bookplates by Esther and Lucien Pissarro, by J. M. Andreini, including three superb color printed specimens of book plates by the Pissarros, printed in colors on china paper and tipped-in. A scarce and very attractive rendering. There are also two other features in the number. Near fine.
Offered by Nudelman Rare Books.
New York: Barrymore Theatre, 2002. Unbound. Fine. Color insert poster. 18" x 22". Printed on thin poster cardstock with a photographic image, with printed gold circle noting it was opening night. Top corners a little bumped, else fine. Poster for a show featuring the cantankerous relationship between Hellman and McCarthy, written by Nora Ephron, music by Marvin Hamlisch, and lyrics by Craig Carnelia. The poster is Signed by the entire opening night cast including Swoosie Kurtz, Cherry Jones (who has inscribed it: "Cold Eye/Sharp Tongue. Love you Abe"), Harry Groener, Anne Pitoniak, Anne Allgood, Bernard Dotson, Rosena M. Hill, Gina Lamparella, Dirk Lumbard, Peter Marx, Perry Ojeda, Karyn Quackenbush, and stand-in Susan Pellegrino. The show ran for about two months and 76 performances. Presumably not many of these would be found, especially signed, and particularly on opening night.
Offered by Between the Covers Rare Books.
Tratamiento de una ofrenda para pedir la lluvia : San Pablito Pahuatlan Pue
by GARCIA TELLEZ, ALFONSO
San Pablito Pahuatlan, Puebla, Mexico: Manuscript, 1978. Hand-made volume, 17 x 13cm, pp 28, accordion-fold pages, on indigenous amate paper, made from the bark of the amate and other trees, including 22 amate paper cut-outs depicting native Otomi divinities. Each page contains, at the top, a hand-lettered description of the various steps of the "tratamiento" or progression of the ritual through its various stages, lasting a total of 15 days. Below that, are the cut-outs, or "munecos" which were believed to have a magical quality. Garcia Tellez himself was from a family of curanderos. The ritual is a mixture of both Christian and Otomi divinities.Garcia Tellez, with the help of his wife and children, who did the lettering, made a total of 5 different books, numerous copies of each, however each copy was unique due to small differences of detail. (We had a previous copy of this with 19 images, e.g.) This copy has the title, the signature of Tellez, and the date and place of composition, all on the front cover. The contents are bright and clear, and the original green ribbons are present. Very good copy.
Offered by Plaza Books.
Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health (Signed)
by HUBBARD, L. RON
New York: Hermitage House, 1950. Fifth Printing. Near Fine/Very Good. Fifth printing of the first edition. Signed by L. Ron Hubbard and inscribed to a former owner on the verso of the front free endpaper. Near Fine with light insect wear to textblock top edge, pages lightly toned. Browning between to textual pages from loosely laid in clipping, still present, reading "Come in and Meet L. Ron Hubbard" in an advert for the Kansas City department store Emery, Bird, Thayer. In a Very Good dust jacket with insect holes to spine and rear panel, tear to base of spine repaired from verso. The main text of Scientology, scarcely found signed by it's founder, L. Ron Hubbard.
Offered by Burnside Rare Books.
Color in the Home: Suggestions for Interior and Exterior Decorating
by W.P. FULLER & CO
Unpaginated (75 double-sided leaves) Art Deco paint sample display catalog from the Fuller Paint Company of San Francisco, containing within a catalog of 99 paint samples, along with design recommendations for how best to use the Fuller paint colors in exterior and interior applications in various types of homes, including Colonial, Cape Cod Cottage, Southern California Spanish, and Tudor, with each design recommendation printed in glossy black text on gold card stock, facing a mounted full-color plate rendering (with a total of 59 plates) of how best to employ the suggested technique or design idea. Profusely illustrated throughout. Some scattered scuffing, abrasions scattered throughout, one paint sample page missing the sample piece for "3442 Dark Lead", tissue guard cover sheets for paint samples with some chipping and minor losses. Oblong 4to. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering to front cover and sewn black string-tied binding. Some minor wear, slight scuffing to cover, overall very good. San Francisco (W.P. Fuller & Co.) 1934. Includes an additional double-sided illustrated loose sheet with instructions for "How to Use Textone Glaze to Produce Blended Effects Over Textone." The catalog is divided into four main sections. Section I covers Exteriors; Section II comprises Living Rooms, Dining Rooms, Breakfast Rooms, and Kitchens; Section III covers Bedrooms, Bathrooms, and Occasional Furnishings; and Section IV closes out with "Directions for Applying Fuller Products". The first section is devoted to exterior styles such as "A Home in Simple Colonial Style", "An English House Adapted for America", or "A Cape Cod Cottage of Appealing Simplicity", each with a depicted color scheme and suggestions for alternate color schemes, with Fuller paint color numbers provided. The second and third sections are similarly formatted, for rooms instead of overall exterior styles, featuring descriptions such as "A Bright, Cheerful Color Scheme for a Sun Room", "Semi-Modernistic Living Room in Blue and Red", "Breakfast Room in Blue, Apricot, and Coral", "A Sunny Kitchen in Ivory, Apricot, and Venice Blue", "Bedroom in Shell Pink and Shades of Green", and "Nursery with Gay, Colorful Painted Furnishings", each accompanied by a full-color rendering, color scheme, and suggestions for alternate color schemes. The final section includes directions for such applications and techniques as antiquing, glazing, barn and roof paint, cement and stucco, painting decks, lacquering floors, painting plastered walls, treating linoleum, refinishing woodword, staining floors or shingles, and varnishing. A scarce and wonderful artifact of Art Deco design; as of May 2020, WorldCat only locates two holdings in North American institutions.
Offered by Bernett Penka Rare Books.
by JAMES, P. D.
London: Faber, 1962. First. hardcover. Very good./Very good.. A very good first edition with a charming inscription by James on the front free endpaper to a close friend ("with love") and the humorous comment ("P.S. I wrote it! You bought it!!!). The author's first book. Housed in a custom-made set of slipcases.
Offered by Bookbid.
by WILDE, OSCAR
London & New York: A.R. Keller & Co, 1907. leather_bound. Orig. brown calf, backstrips lettered in gilt. Teg. 15 Vols. Near fine. 21 x 14 cm. The Oxford Uniform Edition. Limited edition, copy 103 of 250. Title pages printed in red and black. Host of illustrations with lettered tissue guards by assorted artists, 48 in total, including Aubrey Beardsley who illustrates "The Sphinx." Bright, fresh set, wide text margins, covers embossed with floral and ribbon motif bearing a central ornament on front cover -- a Nightingale from "Nightingale and the Rose." A few backstrip extremities very slightly rubbed.
Offered by Roy Young, Bookseller.
Superb Abraham Lincoln Signed Photo Authenticated, Slabbed, and Graded Mint 9!
"A. Lincoln" as President, Washington, DC, August 9, 1863. Albumen photograph, 2.5" x 3.5" including card backing, lower corners rounded, top edge trimmed, Gardener's backstamp on verso. Hamilton and Ostendorf, Lincoln in Photographs: An Album of Every Known Pose, O-71B. Authenticated, slabbed, and graded Mint 9 by PSA. Sold for over $65,000 at Christie's in 2004.
On Thursday, August 6, in accordance with a proclamation issued by Lincoln, a day of thanksgiving and prayer was observed throughout the North in the wake of recent important Union military successes at Gettysburg and Vicksburg. In this well-known portrait by Gardner, Lincoln is seated at an ornate circular table, his legs crossed, holding a newspaper in his left hand, his reading glasses in his right. His expression - especially in the lines about his mouth - is resolute and determined. According to John Hay, who accompanied the President to Gardner's studio, Lincoln "was in very good spirits" that day. The images of Lincoln by Gardner that day are the first photographs taken in Gardner's new studio. Lincoln had promised Gardner to be the first to sit for a portrait, and decided on a Sunday visit, in order to avoid curiosity seekers and onlookers in the streets of the capital.
This item comes with a Certificate from John Reznikoff, a premier authenticator for both major 3rd party authentication services, PSA and JSA (James Spence Authentications), as well as numerous auction houses.
Offered by University Archives.
The Complete Writings of William Blake. With all the variant readings.
by BLAKE, WILLIAM. KEYNES, GEOFFREY, EDITOR.
3 vols. London: The Nonesuch Press; New York: Random House, 1957. 3 vols. in one, roy. 8vo, 364, 397, and 429 pp. Illustrated with 58 plates. Original full brown morocco extra, a very good copy with the bookplate of Scott Cunningham at the front. § From a limited edition of 1500 copies on Vidalon handmade paper, this is #L of 75 copies on Oxford India paper, numbered I to LXXV. Bentley, Blake Books, 370 A.
Offered by John WIndle, Bookseller.
Hollywood: American Movie City
by RAND, AYN
Moscow & Leningrad, 1926. First edition. Very Good +. Original pictorial wraps. 48 pages. Wraps with some light soiling; spine restored, pages gently toned throughout. Else, a tight and complete copy of this rare work, which last appeared at auction over a decade ago in 2008. Rand's second published work, Hollywood appeared in Russia during her youth. "Trapped in the totalitarian dictatorship of Soviet Russia, the young Ayn Rand found a lifeline in the form of foreign movies. In her late teens, she kept a journal in which she recorded each movie she saw, along with a list of the cast, the director, the date she saw the movie and a grade rating. She also studied writing for the screen, and two of her pieces were published in Russia in 1925 and 1926" (Federer). The second was the present work. "In Hollywood, one can see the very beginnings of the development of Ayn Rand's literary style" as she set the scene of Los Angeles and introduces Russian language readers to such icons as Cecil B. DeMille (Federer). A scarce and important foundation for Rand's later work. Very Good +.
Offered by Whitmore Rare Books.
by Sir Issac Newton
London:: Printed for William Innys, 1730., 1730. Sm. 8vo. [viii], 382, ads. [2] pp. 12 engraved folding plates [Book I: pt. 1, 5 pls.; Book II: pt. 2, 4 pls.; Second Book: Pt. I: 2 pls.; Book III: 1 pl.]; minor ms. annotation on p.1 [GT-xxx :: ownership initials?]; margins show some minor worming. Antique-styled modern blind-ruled full calf, raised bands, massed gilt stamped spine, gilt-stamped red leather label, mild foxing. Very good (in a fine binding). NEWTON'S FINAL EDITION OF THE OPTICKS: Fourth edition, corrected. "This is the final edition, revised by Newton." "This new edition is carefully printed from the Third Edition, as it was corrected by the Author's own Hand, and left before his Death with the Bookseller." – Advertisement. "Newton's contributions to the science of optics: his discovery of the unequal refractions of rays of different color, his theory of color, and his investigations of 'Newton's rings,' to mention only a few of the most noteworthy: place him among the premier contributors to that science. . . . Today we recognize that his work on optics offers unique rewards in its exciting, innovative conjunction of physical theory, experimental investigation, and mathematics, and in the revealing glimpse that it provides of a crucial period in the evolution of experimental science." – Alan E. Shapiro, The Optical Papers of Isaac Newton: Volume 1, (1984), p. xi. / This edition contains the full set of 13 Observations [Book II, Part IV], and 31 queries or questions [Book III, see p. 350]. As written by the respected Newton scholar, Richard S. Westfall, "From the perspective of natural philosophy, the 'Quaestiones' were the first of the series of speculations that form the warp on which he wove the fabric of his scientific career. Throughout his life, his speculations turned on a limited set of crucial phenomena which seem to have functioned in his eyes as keys to the understanding of nature. Nearly all of them appear in the 'Quaestiones.'" – Westfall, p. 96. / "Whereas the Principia is a mathematical work involving intricate geometrical relationships and only a handful of major experiments, the Opticks overflows with detailed accounts of reflection and refraction, the separation of white light into the colors of the spectrum, the manner of the eye's operation, the formation of images by lenses, the colors of the rainbow, the construction of the reflecting telescope, and much more. Unable to contain himself, the author introduces many subjects that have little or nothing to do with the behaviour and analysis of light: metabolism and digestion, the circulation of the blood, the creation of the world and the Great Flood of Noah, the scientific method, even the images that haunt the dreams of madmen. Moreover, Newton wrote the Opticks in English, making its contents accessible to a far wider audience than the Principia, whose classical Latin had stymied many potential readers. His friend John Locke, who had only months to live, was baffled by the earlier work, but read the Opticks 'with pleasure, acquainting myself with everything in them.'" :: Gale E. Christianson, Isaac Newton, Oxford University Press, 1996. REFERENCES: Babson, 136 (v. I, pp. 68-9); Gray, Newton, p. 37. See: Richard S. Westfall, Never at Rest, p. 96.
Offered by Jeff Weber Rare Books.
Bournemouth and London: W. Mate & Sons, 1913. Softcover. Very good. Travel brochure/booklet. 8.25 x 4.5 inches, 23 pp, illustrated with b/w photos, double-page route map at center. Light cover wear; very good. Includes sections on Belgian seaside resorts; towns to visit from the coast (Bruges, Ypres, Furnes, Ghent); Brussels and Antwerp; Liege, Namur, and the Ardennes; Tournai, Mons, Charleroi. At the end are various tours and itineraries, an invitation to seek further information from your local Thos. Cook office, and a page describing features of the upcoming Universal and International Exhibition in Ghent.
Offered by Walkabout Books.
Anne with an E (Anne of Green Gables)
by KRAUSE, DOROTHY SIMPSON. L. M. MONTGOMERY
Ft. Lauderdale, FL, 2019. Artist's book, unique, an altered book, signed by the artist on the rear pastedown, "DKrause." Page size: 5 x 8 inches; 20pp. Bound by the artist: in the original boards of a used copy of the 100th anniversary edition of this children's classic. The artist removed the covers, spine, and eight illustrations and inserted a strip of ochre leather which became the new spine. Details from the original black and white illustrations were then watercolored and placed on botanically-printed pages. The whole was then bound using original boards of anniversary edition and a slipcase made using the original spine of the book. The artist's title, ANNE with an e, is written in pencil by the artist below the cover portrait of "Anne." taken from a postcard. This altered book was occasioned by the artist's visit to Charlottetown, PEI, the setting for Montgomery's story.
Offered by Priscilla Juvelis.
Madame de Pompadour (Cosway-Style Jeweled Binding; Sangorski & Sutcliffe Binders)
London and New York: Harper and Brothers, 1902. Madame de Pompadour - Mistress of Louis XV A Superb Early Cosway-Style Jeweled Binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe [COSWAY-STYLE JEWELED BINDING]. SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE, binders. WILLIAMS, H. Noel. Madame de Pompadour. With sixteen photogravures. London and New York: Harper & Brothers, 1902. Quarto ( 9 3/8 x 7 3/8 inches; 238 x 188 mm.). xiv, 430, [431], [1, blank] pp. Sixteen photogravure plates with lettered tissue-guards. Handsomely bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe ca. 1912 in full royal blue crushed levant morocco over beveled boards.
The inside front cover elaborately decorated in gilt surrounding a fine doublure of rose morocco with the arms of Madame de Pompadour in a geometric design and the letters B.C.H at the lower center. In the center is a recessed and quite magnificent, hand painted circular, gilt framed portrait miniature (2 7/8 inches diameter) on ivory, set under beveled glass, surrounded by a circular gilt design set with four garnets and four pearls. Watered light blue silk endleaf. The inside rear cover has the same elaborately gilt border surrounding a light blue watered silk doublure and matching endleaf. Covers with triple gilt rule borders enclosing an elaborate fleur-de-lys design in gilt with ten onlaid red morocco flowers. In the center of the front cover is an oval dark blue morocco onlay with the arms of Louis XV stamped in gilt. In the center of the rear cover is an oval dark blue morocco onlay with the arms of Madame de Pompadour stamped in gilt. Spine with five raised bands, elaborately decorated and lettered in gilt in compartments, four of which have onlaid red morocco flowers. Double-ruled gilt board edges, all edges gilt. Housed in the original blue velvet lined, blue cloth clamshell case, spine lettered in gilt. Top of front and rear joints expertly and almost invisibly restored.
A wonderful early Sangorski & Sutcliffe Cosway-style jeweled binding. The miniature is of exceptional quality and is quite possibly the work of Miss C.B. Currie. Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Marquise of Pompadour (29 December 1721 - 15 April 1764), commonly known as Madame de Pompadour, was a member of the French court. She was the official chief mistress of Louis XV from 1745 to 1751, and remained influential as court favorite until her death. Pompadour took charge of the king's schedule and was a valued aide and advisor, despite her frail health and many political enemies. She secured titles of nobility for herself and her relatives, and built a network of clients and supporters. She was particularly careful not to alienate the Queen, Marie Leszczy ska. On 8 February 1756, the Marquise de Pompadour was named as the thirteenth lady in waiting to the queen, a position considered the most prestigious at the court, which accorded her with honors. Pompadour was a major patroness of architecture and decorative arts, especially porcelain. She was a patroness of the philosophes of the Enlightenment, including Voltaire. Hostile critics at the time generally tarred her as a malevolent political influence, but historians are more favorable, emphasizing her successes as a patroness of the arts and a champion of French pride. Art historian Melissa Hyde argues that the critiques of Pompadour were driven by fears over the overturning of social and gender hierarchies that Pompadour's power and influence, as a woman who was not born into the aristocracy, represented.
Offered by David Brass Rare Books.
American Anhinga Snake Bird [Plate 420]
by John James Audubon
Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen. unbound. very good. Octavo bird print. Lithograph with original hand coloring. Page measures 6.25" x 10". Sometimes called snakebird, darter, American darter, or water turkey. It is a water bird of the warmer parts of the Americas. The word anhinga comes from the Brazilian Tupi language and means devil bird or snake bird. The origin of the name snakebird is apparent when swimming : only the colored neck appears above water so the bird looks like a snake ready to strike. First Royal Octavo edition, circa 1842. John James Audubon (1785-1851) was an American naturalist, painter and ornithologist who did extensive field work studying birds before painting them. Please visit our gallery for more Audubon prints.
Offered by Argosy Book Store.
Harper's Weekly: September 28, 1861 Hand Colored Cartoons (1 page only)
Harper's Weekly, 1861. Paperback. Paperback. Includes 4 hand colored ads about the Union and Sucession, Chipping to edges. Size: 16 x 11 inches. Frameable. PRINTS/041620.
Offered by Kelmscott Bookshop.
by J. R. R. TOLKIEN
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1956. First US editions. hardcover. Near fine./Near fine.. All three first printings of the US edition, with all first edition points in the bibliography, including the correct dates on the title pages (matching the copyright dates) and the correct information on the jacket flaps. Near fine in near fine jackets. Housed in a custom-made collector's clamshell case with a leather spine and lettered in gold.
Offered by Bookbid.
The Antikamnia calendar 1899 [-1900]
by ANTIKAMNIA CHEMICAL COMPANY; LOUIS CRUSIUS
St. Louis: Antikamnia Chemical Co, 1898. Antikamnia Chemical Company. (1) The Antikamnia calendar 1899. 6 sheets (plus duplicate of November-December sheet). Chromolithograph illustrations after watercolors by Louis Crusius (1862-98). St. Louis: Antikamnia Chemical Company, 1898. (2) The Antikamnia calendar 1900. 6 sheets. Chromolithograph illustrations after watercolors by Louis Crusius (1862-98). St. Louis: Antikamnia Chemical Company, 1899. Together 2 items. 254 x 177 mm. Edges a bit frayed, marginal dampstains, but good to very good. First Editions of the 1899 and 1900 promotional calendars issued by the Antikamnia Chemical Company, featuring the comically macabre "skeleton sketches" of Louis Crusius, a physician and amateur artist. The St. Louis-based company produced these calendars in limited editions between 1897 and 1901, sending them to "members of the Medical Profession" in the United States and Europe to advertise the patent medicine "Antikamnia," a pain reliever based on the coal tar derivative acetanilide. Although the Antikamnia Chemical Company aggressively promoted its product as a certain remedy for everything from headaches to tuberculosis, the main ingredient, acetanilide, was known to be toxic in high doses or to sensitive individuals. After passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906, which mandated that products containing dangerous drugs be clearly labeled as such, the makers of Antikamnia attempted to skirt this requirement by replacing acetanilide with its less toxic derivative, acetphenitidin. In 1910 U.S. marshals seized a shipment of Antikamnia for violating the Pure Food and Drug Act, and in 1914 the Supreme Court ruled against the company for failing to state that its product contained an acetanilide derivative. The Antikamnia Chemical Company went out of business a few years later, although not before making the fortune of one of its founders, Frank A. Ruf, who died a millionaire in 1923. B. Lovejoy, "The Deadly Pain Medicine Sold by Skeletons." Mental Floss, 7 May 2016 (web).
Offered by Jeremy Norman & Co.
Americans All! : Victory Liberty Roll : Du Bois, Smith ... Et Al. (Poster)
by Howard Chandler Christy
Boston: Forbes, 1919. poster. Near fine condition. World War I bond poster conservation mounted on paper and linen. Columbia hangs a wreath above a list of ethnic European surnames united in generous sacrifice. Printed in full color. Poster measures 40 x 27 inches
Offered by James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers.
by Ruth Berolzheimer
The Culinary Arts Institute / Consolidated Book Publishers, Inc, 1943. Reissue. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Includes scarce publisher's box, with original publisher's list price of $3.75 (which is equivalent to over $50 today). Near fine book in very good jacket. Box rubbed with a few light spots, jacket edges lightly rubbed with 1 inch closed tear on front corner. 1943 Hard Cover. viii, 816, A-H, 1-64 pp. 8vo. Delightful American cookbook with a wartime theme, printed during World War II. Extensive index follows text. Appended to original text are the following sections: Wartime Cookery; How to Feed a Family of Five on $15.00 Per Week (includes a menu with a full month of recipes). Many color photos and memorable recipes. Thumb-indexed. Frontispiece portrait of Douglas MacArthur.
Offered by Yesterday's Muse.
1992 Postcard from Paul Bowles to Gregory Corso (With Accompanying Envelope from Tangier)
1992. Original wraps. Near Fine. A wonderful piece of post-War literary ephemera, a dense, neatly-written postcard from Paul Bowles (at his Tangier residence) to Gregory Corso (in New York). Clean and Near Fine, dated November 3rd, 1992. "dear Gregory: It was good to hear from you after such a very long time. Forgive the card, sent in place of a letter. I'm still in bed, where I've been since the middle of June, and the pain doesn't go away. So I'm grateful to you for the pills you entrusted to Paola Iglioni. Pain is something I can do happily without. There's nothing much to write about. Tangier, like the rest of the world, has grown larger, uglier, more crowded and expensive. Everyone tells me it's preferable to New York, so I stay right on here. Very likely I'll draw my last breath here. But cremation is forbidden in this country. A problem. Anyway, again thanks. best, Paul B." The card is crisp and very sharp, as is the original light-pink, hand-addressed envelope which houses it and which shows 2 clear postmarks from Tangier. And the postcard's image is of the Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco.
Offered by Appledore Books.
Autograph Letter Signed, to "Dear Mrs [Richard] Darcy", with accompanying photograph
by Rudyard Kipling
1898. Both sides of a card, which bears the heading "The Elms | Rottingdean, | nr Brighton." Dated Dec 12, 1898. In its original envelope, which provides the recipent's address "The Cottage, Clifton," with both Rottingdean and Brighton postmarks. With accompanying sepia photographic portrait of Kipling standing on a sailing vessel (mounted on gilt-edged card). This is a very intriguing, if not tantalizing, letter from Rudyard Kipling to a Mrs Darcy. It reads: That is indeed a beautiful photograph. Of course _we_ know what it means; but to the average spectator it looks very much as if your sailing-master had "shanghaied" one of the inhabitants of Adrigole and the unhappy native was slowly reviving on the decks of the _Margharita_. And the worst of it is, I can't explain to anyone that they are your husband's clothes I'm wearing! I feel I never thanked you properly for the good times you gave me on the yacht that wonderful day ... [+ final long sentence hard to decipher] ... With best regards to your husband, Very sincerely yours [signed] Rudyard Kipling. Accompanying the letter is a photo of Kipling standing on a sailing vessel, presumably the Margharita; Mrs Darcy must have sent it to Kipling, and with this letter he was returning it to her. We have not been able to learn who Mr & Mrs Richard Darcy were, in connection with Kipling. But we DO know (a) that Adrigole is a harbor village on the southwest corner of Ireland; (b) that the Darcys' hometown of Clifton is right by Bristol, on the southwest shore of England -- not all that far from Adrigole; and (c) that Kipling spent some time in Autumn 1898, including time in Adrigole's Bantry Bay, observing naval manoeuvres on board the Pelorus (the guest of Captain Bayly). At that time, Kipling must have spent a day on board the (Darcys'?) yacht, and subsequently (after each was back in England) she sent him a letter enclosing this photograph of Kipling. It is tempting to jump to the conclusion that this was some sort of illicit rendezvous -- and in fact, whatever dealer previously wrote a description for this letter (several decades ago) did just that. However, the jocular tone of Kipling's letter, combined with the formality of both the greeting and the signature, leads us to suggest that they simply had "good times on the yacht that wonderful day" -- perhaps (for all we know) with numerous other people. The puzzle that Kipling is wearing her husband's clothes is most easily solved by the idea that his clothes got soaked, as often happens on a sailboat. The letter/card is in very good condition (one corner has a few creases, with a couple of short pieces of tape, one of which encroaches on RK's signature; both the envelope and the photo are fine.
Offered by Sumner & Stillman.
Book 171: A Kinetic Book Collage
by Keith A. Smith
24 hand-cut pages with intricate geometric designs. 8vo (200 x 160 mm.), hand-sewn to a pleat by the artist, saw-tooth spine, marbled endpapers. [Rochester]: Keith A. Smith, October 1994. One of Smith's most splendid creations, one of only three copies produced. Here, for the first time, the artist employed a new method of spine sewing. In personal correspondence Smith writes that he was inspired by Eikoh Hosoe's famous Kamaitachi in the conception of this book. From the printed explanatory text laid-in: "The geometric forms were drawn with the program Aldus Freehand™ on a Power Macintosh 7100/66. The drawings were proofed onto typing paper using a Laserwriter II NT. These were cut and bound as a prototype as a means of a sketch of the book. The designs of several pages were then altered and proofed. The end result was printed onto various laid and etching papers. The sections are pamphlet sewn to a pleat, which is decorated by cutting and folding. The spine sewing is devised by Keith Smith, and this is the first use of this new sewing." A superb example of Smith's ingenuity with the book form. Smith gave the other copies to his partner and a friend. His books are hardly ever available on the market. ❧ K.A. Smith, 200 Books, p. 281-"Book 171 is hand cut and hand bound. The title means that no single page is the collage, but it is a layer of pages, ever-changing as pages are turned."
Offered by Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller.
Jonas Salk typed signed letter with envelope
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: [ University of Pittsburgh ], 1955. First Edition. Near Fine. First Edition. Single 8 1/2 x 11 inch sheet. A TLS (typed letter signed) from Jonas Salk dated August 25, 1955 on University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine letterhead thanking a Mr. Arthur Wilson for his good wishes. 'It was very kind of you to express your good wishes; we appreciate having them.' SIGNED boldly in ink 'Jonas E. Salk'. Creasing as expected for a mailed letter. Includes the matching mailing envelope with Virus Research Laboratory return address.
Dr. Jonas E. Salk is best known for his discovery of a safe and effective polio vaccine. His development of the vaccine was completed during a very intense period of several years (even though other scientists had been pursuing different research paths since the late 1930s). The new vaccine was officially announced on April 12, 1955. A competing 'live-virus' vaccine by Dr. Sabin was eventually discontinued in favor of Salks 'dead-virus' vaccine because of the greater efficacy of Salk's vaccine.
Offered by Kuenzig Books.
New-York: Printed and Sold by S. Wood, 1813. Second Wood edition. A trifle foxed; some light rubbing; a handsome copy in very good condition. 32mo (2.06 x 1.31 inches), original green morocco, spine stamped in gilt, boards ruled in gilt, 254 pages. Frontis, illus. A handsome little Thumb Bible. Welch 856.3; Adomeit, Three Centuries of Thumb Bibles, A26: "Illustrations as in A17 [Wood, 1811], but type reset.
Offered by Garrett Scott, Bookseller.
All the Pretty Horses; The Crossing (signed); Cities of the Plain; 3 Volume Set, All First Editions
by Cormac McCarthy
New York; 1992, 1994, 1998: Alfred a Knopf. First Editions. Octavo. The Trilogy: The Crossing (signed on the flyleaf--integral not one of the tipped-in examples). This trilogy represents his great vision of the Southwest where boundaries are incidental (Texas, Mexico, and New Mexico are all part of a landscape of beauty, desolation, love, violence and survival. A fine set bound in 1/4 black cloth over black paper covered boards stamped in gilt, spine lettering gilt, in fine unclipped pictorial dust jacket.
Offered by Alcuin Autographs.
FLICKA, RICKA, DICKA AND THEIR NEW FRIEND
by Maj Lindman
Chicago, Illinois: Albert Whitman & Company, 1942. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Color text illustrations on the recto, and text on the verso of the pages. Slight silverfishing to the spine of the binding, and spot of soiling to the rear board. Blue cloth with a illustrated paper pastedown on the front board. Very Good binding.
Offered by Black Swan Books.
Make Good the Promise; Second War Fund
New York: American Red Cross, 1918. Original poster mounted on linen. Color lithograph. 34 3/4" x 55 3/4" This vibrant WWI poster was part of the American Red Cross' fundraising campaign for the 'Second War Fund', with the goal of raising $100 million in a single week in May. Beautiful colors, good condition with repair to center and repairs around margins. Poster features an outline map of North America and Europe, with a pot of gold in America that reads 'Keep It Full', and a rainbow stretching from the pot to a Red Cross aid truck in Europe.
Offered by Argosy Book Store.
ALICE IN WONDERLAND (Superb Copy of the 1933 English Film Photoplay Version in Original Dust Jacket)
by Lewis Carroll
London & Glasgow: Collins, 1933. Carroll, Lewis (Charles L[utwidge] Dodgson). ALICE IN WONDERLAND. London & Glasgow: Collins, (n. d. but 1933). First U. K. Photoplay edition (9" by 7") issued in tandem with the 1933 Paramount film adaptation starring Charlotte Henry as Alice and co-starring Cary Grant, W. C. Fields, and Gary Cooper among others. This is a Very Good example, designed with wonderful Art Deco elements to it, with hardly any wear to the fragile oatmeal-buckram cloth covers as well as the spine, small previous owner's signature in ink, there are eight b&w full-page still photos from the film along with numerous charming line drawings oof the Alice characters by Irene Mountfort. The Very Good ORIGINAL DUST JACKET partially incorporates photographic images from the film including that of Charlotte Henry with the Dodo. The DJ is flap-clipped but not price-clipped. Perhaps best of all, the dust jacket is 100% complete although there is some soil and a long closed tear to the white back panel, and overall edge-wear in general. Despite faults, the exceedingly rare DJ shows very well indeed. . First Thus. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Irene Mountfort.
Offered by Lakin & Marley Rare Books.
by Frank Hurley
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1925. First Edition. Near Fine. 8vo [9.5x6.5in]; [2], xv, [1], 290 pp., [2], frontispiece of Endurance crushed in the ice, 46 plates of 71 images and 5 illustrations, 2 folding maps; Dark green cloth covers with gilt lettering on front and spine, blind stamped borders on front, image of seals and penguins on ice flow in Commonwealth Bay on front end papers and rugged landscape of So. Georgia Is. from high ridge line above Stromness Harbor and Bay, top edge gilt and foredge untrimmed; Minor shelf wear, covers, spine and gilt lettering darken with age and soling, minor rubbing to back cover with some wrinkling of cloth, old stain along edges of back end papers. [Rosove 178.A1, Conrad p.205].
James Francis (Frank) Hurley (1885-1962) ), adventurer, photographer and film maker, in 1911 was asked to by the photographer on Sir Douglas Mawson's Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-1913 (Aurora). This expedition was to explore to the west of the Scott and Shackleton expeditions in the McMurdo Sound. The main base was established at Cape Denison 142 and the western base 600 kilometers further west. Hurley worked in difficult conditions of unrelenting cold and katabatic winds to take still images and movie film. After the expedition, Hurley created exhibitions of his images and films in major cities of the world. In London, Shackleton was impressed with the exhibition and asked Hurley to join him on the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1914-1917, the Weddell Sea Party (Endurance) and he accepted. The expedition did not achieve the objectives as the Endurance was beset and crushed in the ice covered Weddell Sea before reaching land. All but 150 plates of Hurley's still images and some pocket camera images survived the 9 month trek across the ice dragging overloaded lifeboats to reach open water and sail for desolate Elephant Is. to await an uncertain rescue. Hurley and all the other men survived the ordeal when rescued by Shackleton after his miraculous 800 mile sea voyage to the nearest whaling station on South Georgia Is. Hurley's images from the Mawson and Shackleton expeditions have become iconic images in telling the stories of the expeditions.
Offered by David Spilman Fine Books.
Dorchester, MA: Walter Baker & Co., Ltd, 1913. Oblong 8vo, pp. 39, [1], followed by 6 high-quality chromolithograph plates of Walter Baker products; 5 other full-page illustrations; fine in original maroon cloth, gilt-lettered on upper cover. The educational exhibit consists of what presumably is a salesman's wooden lacquered case (approx. 9½" x 5½" x 3½"), with a hinged lid on top, and a brass plaque and pull; mounted inside the lid are 4 Baker products, and inside the box itself are four apothecary viles, each still containing Baker products! Uncommon salesman's sample case and companion handbook which were released to promote the Walter Baker "health-giving breakfast cocoa and chocolate." The text explains the transformation of the cocoa seeds from the raw material, describes the early uses of cocoa and chocolate, a description and analysis of the cocoa seeds, the cocoa tree and the gathering of the crop. The four vials represent the various stages of cocoa production, and the cocoa tin mounted 1nside the lid preserves the trademarked chocolate server logo, La Belle Chocolatiere, adopted by the company in 1883 after a painting by the Swiss artists Jean-Etienne Liotard. Founded in 1780 the Walter Baker Company grew throughout the 19th century and into the 20th becoming one of the largest in the United States. Purchased by the Forbes syndicate in 1896, the brand was eventually absorbed in 1979 by Kraft Foods.
Offered by Rulon-Miller Books.
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The Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America (ABAA) condemns the actions of the two individuals sentenced today in the Carnegie Library thefts. John Schulman ceased to be a member of the ABAA within days of his indictment. As antiquarian booksellers, we are the custodians and caretakers of cultural materials. This incident is not only a violation of that responsibility and our rigorous Code of Ethics, it is also a tremendous loss to scholarship in the Pittsburgh community and beyond. When we were alerted to the thefts, the ABAA published lists of the stolen and missing material. Our members continue to assist the authorities and collectors around the globe in identification and recovery activities. We co-sponsored an international seminar on provenance at the Grolier Club in 2019 and as a result, bolstered our communications efforts and stolen and missing books blog. We are continuing to work with our colleagues and law enforcement agencies throughout the world and our counterparts in special collections libraries to develop a more robust international stolen books database and increase awareness on the importance of security and provenance.
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AARDVARK BOOKS/EZRA THE BOOKFINDER
Featured item:
by Giovani Boccacio
Venice: Repario and Cesano, 1551. vellum. 393 pages. Engraved title page. Full vellum binding with red leather spine label. Thick 12mo [4.5x6.5cm]. Vellum shows soiling, edgewear and some stains. Front hinge cracked but binding sound. Spine label dulled and chipped. Most of the inside paste down pulled out leaving residue and border. Some rippling to rear pastedown. Title page foxed, otherwise clean with mild toning. Good. Item #76851
Boccacio's first major work, preceding the DeCameron. A retelling of the 12th Century French romance. In Italian.
Offered by Aardvark Books and found in "Recent Acquisitions."
ANTIPODEAN BOOKS, MAPS, PRINTS
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GRAY, Thomas J. (words); WALKER, Raymond (music) "Your Mother's Gone Away To Join The Army"
New York: Broadway Music Corporation, 1913. First Edition. Quarto (35cm); illustrated wrappers; 6pp. Some trivial wear to extremities, a few tiny tears, and a few faint foxed spots to rear wrapper; Near Fine.
Suffrage-themed sheet music, with lyrics told from the perspective of a father and his little boy, whose mother was absent due to her involvement in the women's rights movement. "A little lad with curly hair stood by his father's knee / Could see that he was crying he was sad as he could be / He sobbed and said "I feel so blue," as tears ran down his cheeks / "Oh father where is mother she has not been home for weeks" / His Pa said "Lad the tale is sad, She's down at Suffrage Hall / She's gone to fight for women's rights, why there's their bugle call." In comparison to the denigrating tone of other suffrage songs from the period, the chorus here conveys familial pride: "Hear the tramp of their feet - as they come down the street / Gee those girlies look sweet, They're all dressed up so neat / Your dear old ma just took a fighter's place / She likes the smell of powder 'cause it's always on her face / There's no rats in her hair - you can see she don't care / Holds her head in the air, Gee your mother's a bear / Tramp, Tramp, Tramp the girls are marching, Your Mother's gone away to join the army." OCLC notes 3 holdings (LC, Baylor, British Library). CREW S-1913-18.
Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books and found in "From Suffrage to Second Wave."
W. C. BAKER RARE BOOKS & EPHEMERA
Featured item:
Handcast Lord of the Rings Figurines by Sterling E. Lanier.
A collection of nine bronze or pewter miniature figurines made by editor and sculptor Sterling E. Lanier in the 1960s. All items fine and housed in original handmade box. The figurines, representing characters from the beloved series The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien, depict Frodo, Samwise, Gandalf, Legolas, Gimli, a hooded Nazgul, and three orcs. Lanier only made three sets of his Lord of the Rings figures, one of which was a gift to Tolkien himself, which helped strike up a long-distance friendship. According to letters from Tolkien to Lanier, they were among his most prized possessions and were housed in a display cabinet where they were “much admired.”
Sterling Edmund Lanier (1927-2007) was an American editor, science-fiction author, and sculptor. He is perhaps best known as the editor who championed the publication of Frank Herbert’s bestselling novel Dune. His sculptures have been exhibited in the Smithsonian and other venues. According to his Sarasota Herald Tribune obituary, “His sculptures included his vision of the characters from The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien. Mr. Lanier depended upon his own imagination for the characters, which were only slightly described in the trilogy published in 1953-1954. Mr. Tolkien accepted and admired a set of the sculptures but, through his advisers, he said that they could not be made commercially available. When The Lord of the Rings became a movie in 2001, the on-screen characters amazingly resembled Mr. Lanier’s sculptural portrayals. Mr. Tolkien had died in 1973, and so Mr. Lanier was seemingly free to market his creations. But he refrained, honoring what he believed to be Mr. Tolkien’s wishes.” A unique fan-made item by an amateur sculptor and science-fiction editor.
Offered by Between the Covers Rare Books and found in "Catalog 241."
ANDREW CAHAN, BOOKSELLER, LTD.
DE SIMONE COMPANY, BOOKSELLERS
Featured item:
Not So Deep as a Well: The Collected Poems (Signed, Limited)
by Dorothy Parker.
New York: The Viking Press, 1936 First Edition 210 pages. "This volume contains all of Dorothy Parker's poems excepting a few which she did not wish to retain..."— copyright page. This volume has all of Parker's bestknown verse. Decorations by Valenti Angelo. This is one of 485 numbered copies signed by Parker on a tipped-in page. First edition (first printing). Some spotting to fore-edge of book; a bit of discoloration along the gutter of the limitation page, due to the glue used to attach it. No dust jacket, as issued, but with the goldpaper slipcase showing some shelfwear at the edge. An attractive copy.
Offered by Downton Brown Books, found in "List 16: Modern First Editions" (item #15).
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DAVID A. HAMILTON AMERICANA BOOKS
JONATHAN A. HILL, BOOKSELLER, INC.
Featured item:
Chicago & Western Soap Works Fine Toilet Soaps Illustrated Catalog
No date, probably around 1900. A wonderful trade catalog of fine soaps, most in fancy paper wrappers, with large colored illustrations. Since this is a trade catalog the text dispenses with the usual vacuous frou-ha used on the public and gets down to the nuts and bolts- beauty of packaging, actual ingredients, and how well it sells (they all seem to sell really really well). Softcover. 4”x6.5”. 56 pages, color illustrations. Minor soil, light wear.
Offered by Joslin Hall Rare Books and found in "Catalog 411."
Featured item:
ALBUM des titres d’alimentation. Septembre 1941. 3eme Bureau.
1941. 31.5cm x 21cm. One typed sheet tipped in followed by 21 ll, [1 - blank] leaf (of which five of the leaves have manuscript and documents recto and verso; the other sixteen recto only). Contemporary plain paper wrappers, title in manuscript on the upper wrapper, light wear to the edges of the wrappers and some sunning. $1500.00 An incredible document from the German occupation of Paris during the Second World War. The Germans took control of Paris on June 14th, 1940. Already, food was scarce in France due to much of the work force having already left for war and the supply chains from France’s colonies greatly disrupted. This was made far worse when Germany occupied France. Immediately, the remaining French products were sent to Germany to support the German cause, and only what was left over, was made available to the French through a strict rationing system.
The current album relates to the rations available in Paris during the month of September, 1941. On the upper wrapper is written “3eme Bureau;” this likely refers to the rationing office of the 3rd arrondissement in Paris. The first leaf is a typescript index for the album (all leaves are present). The sheets are numbered 1-21 (with a few versos numbered with a “bis” number) and contain the original ration sheets that were being issued by the German occupation government during the war. The sheets are pasted in, and in most cases, small ration tags are cut out and mounted alongside. On each sheet, there is also manuscript information that explains the quantity of the given foodstuff that the ration is good for and how it is to be administered. For example, one ration tag is good for 325 grams of butter, another for 60 grams of cheese, and so on. The foods included are bread; meat and cold cuts; and matières grasses (i.e. oil; butter; cheese; beef fat; margarine; and lard). There is also a special coupon for workers which entitles them to greater amounts of food. On the verso of that coupon, it states “L’hiver qui s’aproche sera rude. Les effectifs des cuisines d’entr’aide vont croître. Vous aiderez le SECOURS NATIONAL à « tenir ». Et la misere reculera !” (The coming winter will be harsh. The number of service kitchens [i.e. soup kitchens] will increase. You will help SECOURS NATIONAL to “hold on.” And misery will recede!) Also laid in is a contemporary newspaper clip entitled “Le ravitaillement. Les rations alimentaires du mois de juillet” and an unused contemporary German postcard (printed in Berlin) that is a picture of German ration coupons.3 A remarkable glimpse into the conditions under which the Parisians had to live during the Second World War. In good condition and preserved in an archival folder.
Offered by Ben Kinmont, Bookseller and found in "Gastronomy & Economic Precarity."
JOHN W. KNOTT, JR., BOOKSELLER
MICHAEL LAIRD RARE BOOK & MANUSCRIPTS
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LIBER ANTIQUUS, EARLY PRINTED BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS
Featured item:
Ascham, Roger
19th c. calf, single gilt filet framing the boards, hinges discreetly repaired, gilt spine, label chipped, edges worn. Fine copy with the initial leaf with signature mark and blank ¶8 both present. Marginal worm-trail to blank lower margin in middle signatures, not affecting text. Title with decorative border, woodcut of Robert Dudley, Earl Leicester’s emblem (the muzzled bear) inscribed with the Garter motto on leaf ¶3. Woodcut initials, diagram of divisions of the Mass, some passages in Greek. Rare. 7 institutional holdings in North America. Provenance: bookplates of George Stokes, Cardiff Castle, and Robert Pirie.
One of the greatest of the Tudor humanists, Ascham was favored by Henry VIII, to whom he dedicated his “Toxophilus”, tutor to the princess Elizabeth, and author of a masterpiece of English pedagogy, “The Scholemaster”. Ascham also tutored the boy king Edward VI in the art of elegant handwriting, and Edward thought of him fondly, and so it is of interest that Ascham wrote this “reformed” work while Edward was being groomed by his close advisors to be a thoroughly Protestant monarch.
Roger Ascham (1515/16-1568) penned his ‘Apologia pro Caena Dominica contra Missam & eius Praestigias’ (‘A Defense of the Lord’s Supper against the Mass and its Magic’) at Cambridge in 1547/8 during the first year of Edward VI’s reign. It was published in Ascham’s name some thirty years later (and about ten years after Ascham’s death) in 1577/8, together with his dedicatory preface to Robert Dudley and his other theological pieces, which are also in Latin...
Offered by Liber Antiquus and found in "Rare Books & Manuscripts 13th-18th c."
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JESSE, J. HENEAGE. LONDON: ITS CELEBRATED CHARACTERS AND REMARKABLE PLACES
(London: Richard Bentley, 1871) 200 x 130 mm. (7 3/4 x 5”). Three volumes expanded to six. “SPECIAL COPY, extra illustrated in six volumes.” CHARMING OLIVE GREEN CRUSHED MOROCCO, GILT AND WITH PICTORIAL INLAY, BY BAYNTUN (stamp-signed on front turn-in), upper covers with leafy strapwork gilt frame, central inlay in multiple colors of morocco depicting one of the characters from the book, with gilt lettering beneath it, lower covers with gilt-rule frame, raised bands, spines gilt in compartments with strapwork and leaf ornament, gilt lettering, gilt-ruled turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Housed together in a green cloth slipcase. WITH 537 PLATES, consisting of 27 folding plates (nine hand-colored), 124 hand-colored plates (19 of them from the Rowlandson “Dr. Syntax” series), and 386 black & white engravings, all but one of the plates with original tissue guard. Spines evenly sunned to a pleasing hazel brown, one leaf with neat repair to upper corner (away from text), occasional mild foxing to plates (usually marginal, never offensive), other trivial imperfections, but A VERY FINE SET, clean and fresh, with none of the offsetting that usually plagues extra-illustrated works, IN SPARKLING BINDINGS.
This is perhaps the ultimate copy of Jesse’s entertaining and informative tour of his beloved city and the characters who have inhabited it over the centuries: it was professionally “grangerized” with fine specimens of 96 relevant prints, all with tissue guards; it was beautifully bound by a leading firm in a style that perfectly complements the contents; and, despite these obvious benefits, it has seen very little use. John Heneage Jesse (1809-74) wrote a number of popular historical works, including royal biographies and court memoirs, that drew praise for their conscientious attention to fact and detail, if not for their originality or wit. Described by DNB as “a dedicated Londoner, [who] seldom ventured away from the metropolitan area,” Jesses leads us here through the districts of his home city, relating anecdotes, noting the locations of momentous events, and pointing out architectural treasures. The added portraits, scenes, and views help to bring his account to life, and the diligent use of tissue guards has prevented these illustrations from affecting the adjacent leaves in a detrimental way. Rowlandson’s famous caricatures from “Dr. Syntax,” portraying the amusing adventures of a country parson in the metropolis, comprise just one example of the half a thousand inserted plates here. The bindings from Bayntun of Bath depict some of the humble characters whose presence gives the capital so much of its flavor: those who sell their wares on the streets and do everyday jobs that keep the city running. The Bayntun firm, founded in Bath in 1894, is now the last of the great Victorian trade binderies still in family ownership. Our binding probably dates from the first quarter of the 20th century, when the workshop was known for imaginative designs that involved the augmenting of gilt decoration with inlaid pictorial designs.
Offered by Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and found in "Catalogue 76" (item #100).
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RICHARD C. RAMER, OLD & RARE BOOKS
30 volumes. Paris: En la Imprenta de E. Thunot y Cª; text Paris: en casa del Autor and Chile: en el Museo de Historia Natural de Santiago, 1844-1871. Large 4° (37 x 29 cm.) and large 8º, text in contemporary quarter green morocco over marbled boards, atlas in contemporary half morocco; spines gilt, some rubbed, head and tail of a few volumes frayed. Hinge of volume II of atlas strengthened; spines of 2 atlas volumes and 4 volumes of text not quite uniform. Together 30 volumes (28 volumes text, in 8°, and 2 volumes atlas, in large 4°). Some foxing to text, very occasional marginal spotting to plates, tear in lower margin of one plate (affecting caption). A handsome set overall. Rubberstamps of former owner on all half-titles, and on titles of text volumes. 30 volumes.
FIRST EDITION. Monumental account of the natural and civil history of Chile, with two volumes of beautiful illustrations, mostly hand-colored. Gay’s work set the tone for all future historiographers of Chile with its meticulous examination of sources, including contemporary documents from the period immediately following the conquest. The overall condition of this copy as well as the quality of the plates and coloring are far superior to most. In fact, many copies are without coloring altogether. In addition, this set has the complete text, which is unusual since the work was issued over a period of 27 years. The two volumes of the atlas contain a total of 315 plates: one tinted lithographic frontispiece portrait; 20 engraved maps plus a folding cloth-backed map of Chile; two hand-colored plates of antiquities; 53 lithographic plates of views and costumes (12 are hand-finished colored, 41 are tinted); and 238 hand-colored engraved plates (103 botanical, 135 zoological).
Offered by Richard C. Ramer, Old & Rare Books and found in "Special LIst 376 : Zoology."
B&L ROOTENBERG RARE BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS
BARRY LAWRENCE RUDERMAN ANTIQUE MAPS, INC.
MARC SELVAGGIO, BOOKS & EPHEMERA
MICHAEL R. THOMPSON RARE BOOKS
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INTERNATIONAL LADIES' GARMENT WORKERS' UNION
Signature of 450,000: This publication is a presentation of the 65th Anniversary Convention of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, Miami Beach, Florida, May 1965.
New York: ILGWU, 1965. 64 pages. Compilation of photographs that tell the history of the ILGWU to commemorate the union's 65th anniversary. Original union receipt, showing purchase of this book, tipped in. Side-stapled with tanning to edges of back cover. Mild wear to front cover with a minute crease to the edge of the right upper corner; lower right corned and pages slightly creased as well, not effecting text. Circular stain on the letter "u" of title, not effecting readability, else very good.
Offered by Tomberg Rare Books and found in "E-list #27."
Featured item:
Pool, Bill W. (Editor). Compton Police Annual.
Compton, CA: Compton Police Officers Association, 1964. 8.5 x 11 inches, 72 pp, with illustrations and ads. Three-hole punched, police department stamp on front cover, one gathering loose front staples; very good. Fourth annual edition of this periodical, which was used to raise funds for the Officers Relief Fund and to inform the public of "some of our problems and functions."
Within a year, there would be riots--founded in a long history of friction between African-American residents and the police--in neighboring Watts, and by 1970, Compton would have the highest crime rate in California. This publication starts with a positive story showcasing of a newly completed police building, and includes articles about successful police operations and public safety tips. But hints of the policecommunity tension to come are also present. An article titled "'Defenders of the Peace' in Community and Human Relations" asks citizens to support the efforts of the police, complaining that "unjust charges are sometimes made against the police. Charges made or rumored by persons who do not have all the facts. When this happens, police morale is jeopardized and the development of an esprit de corps is made difficult." Another, titled "Take the Handcuffs Off Our Police," argues that by overzealous interpretation of constitutional rights "we are increasingly throttling our law enforcement officers with judge-made rulings that stagger common sense." And an editorial proclaims that "now, more than ever before in our history, one is either for law enforcement or he's against it. He's either for mob rule--or he's for the law. He's either for America--or he's against America. Let's begin to make our laws say what they mean and mean what they say--and let everybody know it." No holdings (of any issue) located in OCLC.
Offered by Walkabout Books and found in "List 16: Police & Community in the United States" (item #27).
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by Toni Morrison
New York: Holt Rinehart, 1970. First. hardcover. near fine/near fine. 8vo, cloth backed boards, d.w. (slightly browned). New York: Holt, Rinehart, (1970). First Edition. A near fine copy of her uncommon first book, inscribed, "To.... from Toni 11.13.1971 Thank you for all the poetry, sensibility and common sense. First issue dust wrapper, with $5.95 & 10/70 on front flap.
Offered by Argosy Book Store.
by BALDWIN, JAMES
New York: Dial Press, 1964. First edition. Cloth. Very Good/very good. Clothbound 8vo in dustwrapper. 121 pp play by the author of The Fire Next Time and Go Tell It On The Mountain. A handsome very good copy in clipped, but otherwise very good dustwrapper.
Offered by Derringer Books.
by Kenneth Grahame
London: Methuen and Co., 1908. A Near Fine First Edition of Kenneth Grahame's Children's Classic In the Original 'Second Issue' Pictorial Dust Jacket GRAHAME, Kenneth. ROBERTSON, Graham, illustrator. The Wind in the Willows. With a frontispiece by Graham Robertson. London: Methuen and Co., [1908]. First edition. Small octavo (7 1/2 x 4 7/8 inches; 190 x 124 mm.). [8], 302, [1, blank], [1, printer's imprint] pp. Frontispiece with original tissue guard. Publisher's blue cloth pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt within a single gilt rule border on front cover and pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt on spine. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Early ink signature "Bloomfield" on front free endpaper. Minimal rubbing to corners and spine extremities, the gilt bright and fresh. Some scattered light foxing otherwise a near fine copy in the second issue publisher's pictorial peach color dust jacket printed in black with price of 7/6 instead of 6/-. Front flap with neat five-line ink manuscript 'Recipe for Limericks' on verso. The spine of the dust jacket slightly darkened, a couple of tiny chips at head but certainly one of the best, totally original and unrestored jackets that we have seen. Housed in a three quarter dark green morocco over cream buckram boards, spine with five raised bands, lettered in gilt in compartments. The last copy in the first issue dust jacket to appear at auction fetched £60,000 ($75,000) at Sotheby's London, June 15th, 2015 (lot 46). The Wind in the Willows, "one of the central classics of children's fiction, was Grahame's fourth book... It began life as a series of bedtime stories told to his son Alastair, known as Mouse... the first of these was told on Mouse's fourth birthday, 12 May 1904, and concerned 'moles, giraffes & water-rats', these being the animals the boy had selected for subject... Probably the stories continued at intervals over the next three years; certainly a lengthy narrative in which Toad played the principal part (and in which there were no giraffes) had been begun by May 1907. During that month Mouse was on holiday on the South Coast with his governess, Miss Stott, and his father wrote him a series of story-letters... The letters, some of which were addressed to 'Michael Robinson', Mouse's pet name for himself, continued every few days until September (there are 15 in all, with one apparently missing from the series); they describe Toad's adventures much as in the published book, but pay no more that cursory attention to Rat, Mole, and Badger" (The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature). "Arthur Rackham was asked to illustrate the first edition, but was unable to accept the commission. He deeply regretted this decision, but shortly before his death he was able to illustrate the edition which was published by the Limited Editions Club of New York in 1940" (Osborne Collection). Osborne Collection I, p. 349; Grolier. One Hundred Books Famous in Children's Literature. no. 61.
Offered by David Brass Rare Books.
Le Fait Accompli, nos. 1 (April 1968) through 135 (March 1975) (all published)
by Marcel Marien (Editor)
Brussels: Les Lèvres Nues, 1968-1975. Quartos (30 × 23 cm). Issued in uncut loose sheets; approximately 8 to 32 pp. per issue (unnumbered). Illustrations throughout, mostly black-and-white, with some color reproductions tipped in. Most issues printed on laid paper, some on coated stock. Very good or better. A fine complete run of this important post-war Belgian surrealist journal, composed of 135 issues in 98 fascicules, with several double and triple numbers. Issued monthly and edited by Marcel Mariën, the journal features contributions by major Belgian surrealists, including Goemans, Nougé, Scutenaire, Colinet, Dumont, Magritte, Joostens, Lecomte, Tom Gutt, Wergifosse, Bossut, Souris and Bourgoignie, among others. Most issues focus on a unique work by a single author or artist, and are illustrated throughout with reproductions of works by Man Ray, Magritte, Picabia, Mariën, Bossut, Ernst, Graverol, Jamagne, Ubac and Van de Wouver, and others. Especially noteworthy are Magritte's contributions, which are often illustrated by him. Issues 81-95 constitute one volume containing "Lettres surrealistes (1924-1940)" edited and annotated by Mariën. Issue no. 95 contains "Filchings for Annoyed Birds" by Paul Colinet (in English). Most issues feature a distinctive title. Nos. 15, 30, 40, 55, 65, 80, 100, 107, 110, 120, 130, 134 issued as a "nouvelle serie" interspersed throughout the run, under the title "Les Lèvres Nues" and numbered 1-12. The last issue (no. 135) contains a cumulative index to the entire series. All issues uniformly hand-numbered "vingt-deux" (22) of unspecified print runs, which ranged from 50 to 250 copies. Given the low print run of the earliest issues, presumably only fifty complete sets exist.
Offered by Bernett Penka.
by Virginia Woolf
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1927. First American Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original green cloth stamped in blue. Near Fine with bumping to head of spine, faint darkening to spine cloth and very light spine lean. In a Near Fine dust jacket illustrated by Vanessa Bell, with spine toning and minor edge wear. A fantastic copy of Woolf's modernist tour de force, which was ranked by Modern Library as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.
Offered by Burnside Rare Books.
by Walt Disney Studios
An Original Animation Cel from Disneyís First Fully Animated Feature Film "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"
N.p., Hollywood: Walt Disney Studios, 1937. Original animation production cel from Disney's first fully animated feature film, depicting the dwarf Dopey with a chipmunk pulling at his robe. Gouache on celluloid applied to a Courvoisier wood veneer background. Likely original mounts with "©WDE" blindstamped on front lower right corner of matte. Three authenticating labels on rear of the cels. One reading "Original Work from Snow White and the Seven Dwarves" and the other reading "This Material Inflammable Handle With Care Frame Under Glass Copyright 1937 Walt Disney Enterprises" and the final one reading "This is an original painting on celluloid from the Walt Disney Studios, actually used in the filming of 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.' Only a very limited number have been selected to be placed on the market. Walt Disney." Image size: 9 1/2 x 8 inches; 240 x 205 mm. Matted, framed and glazed. Matte size: 17 x 14 inches; 430 x 355 mm. With some bowing to the celluloid and some minor chipping to the figure. A very good specimen of Disney original animation.
Offered by Heritage Book Shop.
by PARUTA, FILIPPO (1552-1629)
4to (200x145 mm). Collation: [π]4 †4 A-T4 V2 X4 Y2 Z4 [χ]2. Half-title, engraved frontispiece, [12], 176, [4: errata corrige] pp. and [4] folding plates engraved by Francesco Nigro and Francesco La Barbera after Gerardo Astorino and Vincenzo La Barbera. Richly gilt modern morocco binding, original sprinkled edges. Minor restorations to the outer margin of the first leaves without loss, small worm track in the gutter of a few leaves not affecting the text, tears repaired along the folding of one plate, all in all a very good copy.
EXTREMELY RARE ORIGINAL EDITION of this festival account attributed to Filippo Paruta, but edited by his son Simplicio, who also signs the dedication to the Senate of Palermo, and published posthumously under the name of his other son Onofrio.
In the note to the reader Onofrio provides a detailed list of the works (orations, occasional writings, inscriptions for ephemeral architectures, etc.) of his father Filippo, who was the secretary to the Palermo Senate and the major responsible for the iconographic program realized on the occasion of the 1625 festivity.
At the beginning of the 1620s the viceroy Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy rebuild the Accademia dei Riaccesi, which gathered in the Royal Palace, and entrusted the scholar and mathematician Carlo Maria Ventimiglia with the direction of the academy. Around his figure gravitated many of the artists and scholars who designed the program and the solemn procession of the relics of St. Rosalia, held in June of 1625 as a sign of gratitude for deliverance from plague. Among them were the painters and architects Gerardo Astorino and Vincenzo La Barbera, the engraver Francesco Negro, the scholar Martino La Farina, who conceived the allegorical arch of the Genoese nation, and, above all, Filippo Paruta, who was linked to Ventimiglia also by a common passion for numismatics and antiquities. Paruta was involved in all literary activities related to celebratory events since the end of the sixteenth century. In 1625 he inspired the triumphal arch that the Senate erected in Piazza Villena and was responsible for the account of the festivities, which however was actually published only after his death in 1651.
The constitution of such a large and complex team to be entrusted with the creation of the apparatuses testifies of the importance of that event that officially marked the beginning of the cult of St. Rosalia. The solemnity of 1625 had no immediate follow-up and only in 1649 the feast of St. Rosalia was formalized with all those peculiarities that would characterize the following decades. In 1625, in addition to the impressive processions and solemn ceremonies to which all local communities, religious and civil, took part, two magnificent horse rides were organized; one, in particular, took place at the conclusion of the festivities, after the solemn mass in the cathedral. Then followed fireworks, organized by the German nation, tournaments and jousts. At the very end the nobility walked in gala dresses along Via Colonna (cf. M. Sofia di Fede, La festa barocca a Palermo: città, architetture, istituzioni, in: "Espacio, Tiempo y Forma", series VII, t. 18-19, 2005-2006, pp. 49-75; see also M. Vitella, Il primo Festino, in: M.C. Di Natale, "S. Rosaliae patriae servatrici", Palermo, 1994; and V. Petrarca, Genesi di una tradizione urbana. Il culto di S. Rosalia a Palermo in età spagnola, Palermo, 1986, p. 82).
Catalogo unico, IT\ICCU\PALE\004559; S.P. Michel, Répertoire des ouvrages imprimés en langue italienne au XVIIe siècle conservés dans les bibliothèques de France, Paris, 1976, VI, p. 80; Biblioteca centrale della Regione siciliana "Alberto Bombace", Sanctae Rosaliae Dicata, Bibliografia cronologica su Santa Rosalia, Settembre 2004, pp. 12-13; G.M. Mira, Bibliografia siciliana, Palermo, 1881, II, p. 186; A. Mongitore, Bibliotheca sicula sive de scriptoribus siculis, Palermo, 1707-1714, I, p. 293 and II, p. 174; M. Cornelles, V. Manuel et al., eds., La fiesta barroca. Los reinos de Nápoles y Sicilia (1535-1713), Palermo, 2014, ad indicem.
Offered by Govi Rare Books.
The Last of the Windjammers. 2 volumes.
by LUBBOCK. BASIL
Glasgow:: Brown, Son & Ferguson, (1948)., 1948. Third impression. Two volumes. 25 cm. xiv, 518; xv, 448 pp. Frontispieces, illustrations, plans (some folding); spine gilt rubbed, corner bumped. Blind and gilt-stamped blue cloth, map endpapers. Very good copies.
Offered by Jeff Weber Rare Books.
Illustrations of the Book of Job.
by BLAKE, WILLIAM.
London: [plates dated] 1825 [but published 1826]. Folio, 320 x 254 mm, engraved title and 21 plates. Proofs on India paper mounted on handmade paper, some leaves (2, 5, 6, 11, 14, 17, 18) watermarked J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1825. Gilt-ruled green morocco over thick boards, fleurons at the outer corners, double-rule inner frame enclosing a bloom roll, gilt-ruled spine, sewing bands with gilt red morocco onlays, thick dark blue endleaves, all edges gilt, by Riviere: a brilliant set with no foxing at all, interleaved with blanks at the time of binding with no offsetting. Lower cover of the binding at some time tied up with string with ensuing indentation. § First edition, limited to 150 proof sets (65 sets were also printed on French paper, and 100 sets on drawing paper with the word ‘proof’ removed). This is one of finest sets of the proofs I have ever seen, and far outshines the other two original printings and the later re-issue. The India paper set is the best printing of these famous plates which comprise Blake’s major single achievement as a printmaker after the illuminated books. Illustrations of the Book of Job was Blake’s last completed prophetic book: the text, a series of biblical quotations, is above and below each image. “It was produced while Blake was still working on Jerusalem, his most obscure book; yet the illustrations are Blake’s most lucid; and they are the supreme example of his reading the Bible in its spiritual sense” (S. Foster Damon, A Blake Dictionary, p. 217). “The modest size of the central panels does not prevent them from ranking with the supreme masterpieces of graphic art” (Ray, Illustrator and the Book in England #8). Note: as always, the first plate after the title-page is misdated 1828.
Offered by John Windle, Bookseller.
"Congress shall make no law establishing religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, nor shall the rights of conscience be infringed."
"The freedom of speech, and of the press, and the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and consult for their common good, and to apply to the government for a redress of grievances, shall not be infringed."
"A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, being the best security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed...."
After months of work, on August 24, 1789, the House of Representatives approved seventeen Constitutional amendments, including the first to use the exact phrase, "freedom of speech." This newspaper includes the full text of the resolution sent by the House to the Senate for approval. The Senate began deliberating the next day, approving some articles and rejecting or altering others. [BILL OF RIGHTS].
Newspaper. Gazette of the United States, August 29, 1789. New York: John Fenno. Includes a complete printing of the first House of Representatives proposal for amending the Constitution on page 2. 4 pp., 10 x 15¾ in.
Historical Background
The lack of a Bill of Rights, a central feature of most state Constitutions, was a principal criticism of the recently-drafted federal Constitution. During the Constitutional Convention some delegates opposed its inclusion, thinking it unnecessary or afraid that the act of enumerating specific rights would imply that those not listed did not exist. On the other side, Anti-Federalists wary of new federal powers were among the most ardent proponents of a Bill of Rights. Ultimately, to ensure ratification of the Constitution, the Convention delegates promised that Congress would address guarantees of specific liberties in their first session.
During the ratification process, five states that approved the Constitution passed along lists of proposed amendments, while two states, Rhode Island and North Carolina, that had refused to ratify also suggested amendments. In all, nearly one hundred discrete amendments were offered.
James Madison, the "father of the Constitution," was at first lukewarm to the idea of a Bill of Rights. However, during his first Congressional campaign against James Monroe, he promised to fight for such a measure. Among Madison's fears were threats by Anti-Federalists, even after the Constitution had been ratified, of calling another convention, which would have likely been much less harmonious. On May 4, 1789, Madison told the House of Representatives that he planned to present a slate of amendments in three weeks. When May 25 arrived, the Congressmen were locked in a debate over import duties. Madison demurred until June 8, when the House again rebuked his efforts, citing more pressing business. Rising once more, Madison justified his timing, apologized to his colleagues, and proceeded to introduce his proposed amendments.
On July 21, 1789, the House formed the Committee of Eleven (a member from each state) to consider the proposed Amendments. The Committee reported on July 28, taking the nine broad areas Madison had suggested for amendment and drafting 17 individual amendments for House approval. These passed the House on August 24, and the Senate began their debate the next day. The Senate initially reduced the House's proposed 17 amendments to 12, and then passed its own version on September 9. The bill then went back to the House for reconciliation. The House reconciled the two bills on September 24, and the Senate issued its final approval the next day.
The twelve articles of amendment were sent to the states for ratification on October 2, 1789. Two of the twelve proposed amendments, the first regarding apportionment of representation in the House and the second, congressional salaries, were not ratified by the states. However, article #2, which stated that Congressional pay increases (or decreases) would not take effect until an election had ensued, eventually became the 27th Amendment on May 8, 1992, 203 years after it was first proposed. Articles 3 through 12 became the 1st through 10th Amendments of the federal Constitution upon Virginia's ratification on December 15, 1791.
Complete Transcript
CONGRESS of the UNITED STATES.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 1789
RESOLVED, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, two thirds of both houses deeming it necessary, that the following articles be proposed to the legislatures of the several states, as amendments to the constitution of the United States, all, or any of which articles, when ratified by three fourths of the said legislatures, to be valid, to all intents and purposes, as part of the said constitution.
ARTICLES in addition to, and amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America, proposed by Congress, and ratified by the legislatures of the several States, pursuant to the 5th article of the original constitution.
ARTICLE 1. After the first enumeration required by the first article of the constitution, there shall be one representative for every thirty thousand, until the number shall amount to one hundred, after which the proportion shall be so regulated by Congress, that there shall be not less than one hundred representatives, nor less than one representative for every forty thousand persons, until the number of representatives shall amount to two hundred, after which the proportion shall be so regulated by Congress that there shall not be less than two hundred representatives, nor more than one representative for every fifty thousand persons.
[First Amendment proposed: not ratified.]
ART. 2. No law varying the compensation to the members of Congress shall take effect, until an election of representatives shall have intervened.
[Second Amendment proposed: modified version ratified May 7, 1992 as the Twenty-Seventh Amendment.]
ART. 3. Congress shall make no law establishing religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, nor shall the rights of conscience be infringed.
[Modified version ratified as part of the First Amendment]
ART. 4. The freedom of speech, and of the press, and the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and consult for their common good, and to apply to the government for a redress of grievances, shall not be infringed.
[Modified version ratified as part of the First Amendment]
ART. 5. A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, being the best security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, but no one religiously scrupulous of bearing arms, shall be compelled to render military service in person.
[Modified version ratified as the Second Amendment]
ART. 6. No soldier shall in time of peace be quartered in any house without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
[Modified version ratified as the Third Amendment]
ART. 7. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated; and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
[Modified version ratified as the Fourth Amendment]
ART. 8. No person shall be subject, except in a case of impeachment, to more than one trial or one punishment for the same offence, nor shall be compelled in any criminal case, to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life or liberty or property, without due process of law, nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation.
[Modified version ratified as part of the Fifth Amendment]
ART. 9. In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, to be informed of the nature and the cause of the accusation, to be confronted by witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defence.
[Modified version ratified as part of the Sixth Amendment]
ART. 10. The trial of all crimes (except in cases of impeachment, and in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia when in actual service in time of war or public danger) shall be an impartial jury of the vicinage, with the requisite of unanimity for conviction; the right of challenging and other accustomed requisites; and no person shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment by a grand jury; but if a crime by committed in a place in the possession of an enemy, or in which an insurection may prevail, the indictment and trial may by law be authorised in some other place within the same state.
[Modified version ratified as parts of the Fifth and Sixth Amendment]
ART. 11. No appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States shall be allowed, where the value in controversy shall not amount to one thousand dollars; nor shall any fact triable by a jury according to the course of the common law, be otherwise re-examinable, than according to the rules of common law.
[Modified version ratified as part of the Seventh Amendment]
ART. 12. In suits of common law, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved.
[Modified version ratified as part of the Seventh Amendment]
ART. 13. Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
[Ratified as the Eighth Amendment]
ART. 14. No state shall infringe the right of trial by jury in criminal cases, nor the rights of conscience, nor the freedom of speech, or of the press.
[Modified version passed by Congress on June 13, 1866; ratified July 9, 1868, as part of the Fourteenth Amendment]
ART. 15. The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
[Ratified as the Ninth Amendment]
ART. 16. The powers delegated by the constitution to the government of the United States shall be exercised as therein appropriated, so that the legislative shall never exercise the powers vested in the executive or judicial; nor the executive the powers vested in the legislative or judicial; nor the judicial the powers vested in the legislative or executive.
[Dropped in subsequent drafts]
ART. 17. The powers not delegated by the constitution nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively.
[Modified version ratified as the Tenth Amendment]
Ordered, that the Clerk of this house do carry to the Senate a fair and engrossed copy of the said proposed articles of amendment, and desire their concurrence. Extract from the journals,
JOHN BECKLEY, Clerk.
Additional Content
This newspaper also prints "The Tablet" (p1/c1-2); an essay on processing sugar from maple trees, by "A Sugar Boiler" (p1/c2-3); proceedings of Congress on the location of the national capital, the safeguarding of official records and the great seal, and the establishment of the treasury department (p2/c2-p3/c3); a humorous poem on the scramble for the national capital (p3/c3); a continuation of "The Right Constitution of a Commonwealth Examined" (p4/c1-2); a continuation of "An Essay on Free Trade and Finances" (p4/c2-3); An Act to Provide for the Government of the Territory North-West of the River Ohio and An Act providing for Expences which may attend Negotiations or Treaties with the Indian Tribes, and the appointment of Commissioners for managing the same, both signed in type by George Washington and John Adams (p4/c3); and another installment of "The National Monitor" (p4/c3).
Gazette of the United States (1789-1793) was a semiweekly Federalist newspaper first published in New York City by John Fenno (1751-1798). It is often considered the most significant political newspaper of the late eighteenth century. In 1790, it followed the government to its temporary capital in Philadelphia. Early Acts of Congress and Presidential Pronouncements were often first printed in this newspaper, and it circulated to major cities where other Federalist newspapers copied freely from it. Among its pseudonymous contributors were Alexander Hamilton and John Adams. It continued under a variety of titles as a daily newspaper in Philadelphia from 1793 to 1818. After John Fenno's death in the 1798 yellow fever epidemic, his son John Ward Fenno continued the newspaper until 1800, when he sold it.
"The Tablet" appeared in the Gazette in every issue from the first, April 15, 1789, into August 1790, and then periodically to No. 155 in the April 9, 1791 issue. The first number announced its purpose "to touch upon such subjects as are calculated to afford amusement or instruction, without disturbing society with calumny and petulance." Anonymous contributors included publisher John Fenno and lexicographer Noah Webster (1758-1843), who shared a common political nationalism.
"The Right Constitution of a Commonwealth Examined" was written by Vice President John Adams (1735-1826). The first three-quarters of it appeared serially in the Gazette
between May 23 and November 4, 1789. Adams particularly criticized the republican theories of Marchamont Nedham (1620-1678), a pamphleteer during the English Civil War.
"An Essay on Free Trade and Finances" appeared serially in the Gazette
between June 3 and October 21, 1789. The author was Pelatiah Webster (1726-1795), an ordained Congregationalist minister and Philadelphia merchant. The essay was first published in Philadelphia on March 24, 1783. T. Bradford's bookstore in Philadelphia sold it in pamphlet form as early as April 1783. It was the sixth of seven essays Webster wrote on Free Trade and Finance between 1779 and 1785.
"The National Monitor" appeared in thirty-four numbers from April 25, 1789, and January 20, 1790. (Inventory #: 25430)
Offered by Seth Kaller, Inc.
by Arnold Lobel
First printing of this universal expression of male bonding and friendship as seen through all the seasons. INSCRIBED on front free endpaper "For Eddie from Arnold Lobel" with a sketch of Frog below (upper torso only, as usual). Lobel's four Frog & Toad books are highly collectible and with his premature death (at age 54) inscribed copies of his major titles seldom come onto the marketplace.
Offered by Batteldore.
Poster for a 1966 Appearance in France
Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Poster for a March 28, 1966 appearance by the Civil Rights leader together with singer Harry Belafonte at the Palais des Sports in Paris. Organized by the Comité de Soutien Franco-Américain pour l'Intégration Raciale, the event featured a speech by King and music from Harry Belafonte and French singer Hugues Aufray, sponsored by Suze Liqueur. Two-color poster, with folding creases, one tear to the right edge, minimal wear and toning; overall very good. Sight size 14.5 x 22.5 inches (37 x 57 cm), archivally matted and framed to an overall size of 20.5 x 26.5 inches.In March 1966, King and Belafonte went to Europe for fundraising appearances on behalf of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, starting with the Palais des Sports in Paris on the 28th, and closing in Sweden on the 31st. This poster for the French appearance is emblazoned with the logo of a sponsor, Suze Liqueur, and also cites the French-American Committee for Racial Integration as the organizing body. The opening act for the evening was the popular French folksinger Hugues Aufray doing a set of Bob Dylan covers, followed by a set by Belafonte. Dr. King closed out the evening with a speech on civil rights, touching on the war in Vietnam and American support for South African apartheid. The tour raised more than $100,000, but drew the wrath of the American ambassador to France for airing American problems overseas. See Ross, Hollywood Left and Right, p. 220. We have traced no other copies of this poster at auction or elsewhere.
Offered by Schubertiade Music & Arts.
Where Do We Go From Here? Chaos or Comminity?
By Martin Luther King, Jr.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1967. First edition of King's "last grand expression of his vision" (Cornel West). Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with eight pages of black-and-white photogravures. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Mr. Otto E. Geppert Martin Luther King Jr." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, small date to the endpaper. Jacket design by Ronald Clyne. Jacket photograph of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Bob Fitch. Where Do We Go from Here is Dr. King's analysis of the state of American race relations and the movement after a decade of U.S. civil rights struggles. ''With Selma and the Voting Rights Act one phase of development in the civil rights revolution came to an end,'' he observed (King, 3). King believed that the next phase in the movement would bring its own challenges, as African Americans continued to make demands for better jobs, higher wages, decent housing, an education equal to that of whites, and a guarantee that the rights won in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 would be enforced by the federal government.
Offered by Raptis Rare Books.
The Heart is a Muscle (First Edition, 1 of 15 copies with print signed by Hal Hartley)
by Hal Hartley
Stockholm: Libraryman, 2010. First Edition. First Edition. One of 15 unnumbered copies with a chromogenic print SIGNED by director Hal Hartley affixed to the last leaf. A collection of selected film still photographs from the noted independent filmmaker's oeuvre, beginning with his 1988 debut "The Unbelievable Truth" up to the 2011 film "Meanwhile", with stills from "Amateur" (1994), "Flirt" (1995), and "Henry Fool" (1997), and others. 81 color plates. Fine in glossy perfect bound wrappers, with no dust jacket as issued.
Offered by Royal Books.
New York: J. Ottmann Litho Co, 1910. Ephemera no binding. Very good. 11 ½" x 8 ¼"envelope; 10 ½" chromolithographed stiff paper die-cut Teddy Bear paper doll with an attached back stand; all 5 original chromolithographed clothing outfits with tabs and caps, lacking cap for the "Driver" outfit; envelope has extensive chipping, soiling, and tearing, but remains intact; bear doll has light wear to edges and a small scratch to the face; clothing outfits have small creases and scuffing; Envelope condition poor; Teddy bear doll and outfits condition very good. Young 148. Not in WorldCat. Scarce. Wonderfully large paper doll Teddy Bear with five brightly colored tabbed clothing outfits: a Dress Suit with vests, tie, pocket square and top hat; a Nautical Suit of blue blazer with gold buttons, stripes, anchors, and white trousers with a cap featuring an eagle; a Baseball Uniform for the NL, National League, with a striped cap; a yellow Bathrobe trimmed in red, striped socks, and a red sleeping cap; and a Driver's Coat with brass buttons, belt, and grey gloves, the cap with goggles is missing from this outfit. Playing on the craze teddy bears arising during this decade from President Theodore Roosevelt, Teddy Bears were loved and played with by both girls and boys.
Offered by Sandra L. Hoekstra.
by P.G. Wodehouse
London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1938. First English Edition. [Jasen 58A in a later dust jacket]. Preceded by the first American Doubleday, Doran edition, published in Oct. 8, 1937. This edition was published on Feb. 11 1938. 12mo., red cloth, stamped in black, 312 pages, plus eight-page catalog; in later "2/6 net" price on spine [whereas the earliest dust jacket is priced at "7/6 net." on the spine]. Very Good (little soil covers; contents clean & tight but for a tiny spot fore-edge; neat ink name front endpaper); some edgewear (few small chips & tears- some with internal mends with archival tape) d/j.
Offered by Antic Hay Books.
by FOWLER, H. ALFRED
Kansas City: H. Alfred Fowler, 1912. First edition. First edition. Original decorative card paper wrappers. The rare "Eragny Press" number (Volume I, Number 3) which features notes on bookplates by Esther and Lucien Pissarro, by J. M. Andreini, including three superb color printed specimens of book plates by the Pissarros, printed in colors on china paper and tipped-in. A scarce and very attractive rendering. There are also two other features in the number. Near fine.
Offered by Nudelman Rare Books.
New York: Barrymore Theatre, 2002. Unbound. Fine. Color insert poster. 18" x 22". Printed on thin poster cardstock with a photographic image, with printed gold circle noting it was opening night. Top corners a little bumped, else fine. Poster for a show featuring the cantankerous relationship between Hellman and McCarthy, written by Nora Ephron, music by Marvin Hamlisch, and lyrics by Craig Carnelia. The poster is Signed by the entire opening night cast including Swoosie Kurtz, Cherry Jones (who has inscribed it: "Cold Eye/Sharp Tongue. Love you Abe"), Harry Groener, Anne Pitoniak, Anne Allgood, Bernard Dotson, Rosena M. Hill, Gina Lamparella, Dirk Lumbard, Peter Marx, Perry Ojeda, Karyn Quackenbush, and stand-in Susan Pellegrino. The show ran for about two months and 76 performances. Presumably not many of these would be found, especially signed, and particularly on opening night.
Offered by Between the Covers Rare Books.
by JAMES, P. D.
London: Faber, 1962. First. hardcover. Very good./Very good.. A very good first edition with a charming inscription by James on the front free endpaper to a close friend ("with love") and the humorous comment ("P.S. I wrote it! You bought it!!!). The author's first book. Housed in a custom-made set of slipcases.
Offered by Bookbid.
by WILDE, OSCAR
London & New York: A.R. Keller & Co, 1907. leather_bound. Orig. brown calf, backstrips lettered in gilt. Teg. 15 Vols. Near fine. 21 x 14 cm. The Oxford Uniform Edition. Limited edition, copy 103 of 250. Title pages printed in red and black. Host of illustrations with lettered tissue guards by assorted artists, 48 in total, including Aubrey Beardsley who illustrates "The Sphinx." Bright, fresh set, wide text margins, covers embossed with floral and ribbon motif bearing a central ornament on front cover -- a Nightingale from "Nightingale and the Rose." A few backstrip extremities very slightly rubbed.
Offered by Roy Young, Bookseller.
Superb Abraham Lincoln Signed Photo Authenticated, Slabbed, and Graded Mint 9!
"A. Lincoln" as President, Washington, DC, August 9, 1863. Albumen photograph, 2.5" x 3.5" including card backing, lower corners rounded, top edge trimmed, Gardener's backstamp on verso. Hamilton and Ostendorf, Lincoln in Photographs: An Album of Every Known Pose, O-71B. Authenticated, slabbed, and graded Mint 9 by PSA. Sold for over $65,000 at Christie's in 2004.
On Thursday, August 6, in accordance with a proclamation issued by Lincoln, a day of thanksgiving and prayer was observed throughout the North in the wake of recent important Union military successes at Gettysburg and Vicksburg. In this well-known portrait by Gardner, Lincoln is seated at an ornate circular table, his legs crossed, holding a newspaper in his left hand, his reading glasses in his right. His expression - especially in the lines about his mouth - is resolute and determined. According to John Hay, who accompanied the President to Gardner's studio, Lincoln "was in very good spirits" that day. The images of Lincoln by Gardner that day are the first photographs taken in Gardner's new studio. Lincoln had promised Gardner to be the first to sit for a portrait, and decided on a Sunday visit, in order to avoid curiosity seekers and onlookers in the streets of the capital.
This item comes with a Certificate from John Reznikoff, a premier authenticator for both major 3rd party authentication services, PSA and JSA (James Spence Authentications), as well as numerous auction houses.
Offered by University Archives.
Hollywood: American Movie City
by RAND, AYN
Moscow & Leningrad, 1926. First edition. Very Good +. Original pictorial wraps. 48 pages. Wraps with some light soiling; spine restored, pages gently toned throughout. Else, a tight and complete copy of this rare work, which last appeared at auction over a decade ago in 2008. Rand's second published work, Hollywood appeared in Russia during her youth. "Trapped in the totalitarian dictatorship of Soviet Russia, the young Ayn Rand found a lifeline in the form of foreign movies. In her late teens, she kept a journal in which she recorded each movie she saw, along with a list of the cast, the director, the date she saw the movie and a grade rating. She also studied writing for the screen, and two of her pieces were published in Russia in 1925 and 1926" (Federer). The second was the present work. "In Hollywood, one can see the very beginnings of the development of Ayn Rand's literary style" as she set the scene of Los Angeles and introduces Russian language readers to such icons as Cecil B. DeMille (Federer). A scarce and important foundation for Rand's later work. Very Good +.
Offered by Whitmore Rare Books.
Bournemouth and London: W. Mate & Sons, 1913. Softcover. Very good. Travel brochure/booklet. 8.25 x 4.5 inches, 23 pp, illustrated with b/w photos, double-page route map at center. Light cover wear; very good. Includes sections on Belgian seaside resorts; towns to visit from the coast (Bruges, Ypres, Furnes, Ghent); Brussels and Antwerp; Liege, Namur, and the Ardennes; Tournai, Mons, Charleroi. At the end are various tours and itineraries, an invitation to seek further information from your local Thos. Cook office, and a page describing features of the upcoming Universal and International Exhibition in Ghent.
Offered by Walkabout Books.
Anne with an E (Anne of Green Gables)
by KRAUSE, DOROTHY SIMPSON. L. M. MONTGOMERY
Ft. Lauderdale, FL, 2019. Artist's book, unique, an altered book, signed by the artist on the rear pastedown, "DKrause." Page size: 5 x 8 inches; 20pp. Bound by the artist: in the original boards of a used copy of the 100th anniversary edition of this children's classic. The artist removed the covers, spine, and eight illustrations and inserted a strip of ochre leather which became the new spine. Details from the original black and white illustrations were then watercolored and placed on botanically-printed pages. The whole was then bound using original boards of anniversary edition and a slipcase made using the original spine of the book. The artist's title, ANNE with an e, is written in pencil by the artist below the cover portrait of "Anne." taken from a postcard. This altered book was occasioned by the artist's visit to Charlottetown, PEI, the setting for Montgomery's story.
Offered by Priscilla Juvelis.
Harper's Weekly: September 28, 1861 Hand Colored Cartoons (1 page only)
Harper's Weekly, 1861. Paperback. Paperback. Includes 4 hand colored ads about the Union and Sucession, Chipping to edges. Size: 16 x 11 inches. Frameable. PRINTS/041620.
Offered by Kelmscott Bookshop.
by J. R. R. TOLKIEN
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1956. First US editions. hardcover. Near fine./Near fine.. All three first printings of the US edition, with all first edition points in the bibliography, including the correct dates on the title pages (matching the copyright dates) and the correct information on the jacket flaps. Near fine in near fine jackets. Housed in a custom-made collector's clamshell case with a leather spine and lettered in gold.
Offered by Bookbid.
The Antikamnia calendar 1899 [-1900]
by ANTIKAMNIA CHEMICAL COMPANY; LOUIS CRUSIUS
St. Louis: Antikamnia Chemical Co, 1898. Antikamnia Chemical Company. (1) The Antikamnia calendar 1899. 6 sheets (plus duplicate of November-December sheet). Chromolithograph illustrations after watercolors by Louis Crusius (1862-98). St. Louis: Antikamnia Chemical Company, 1898. (2) The Antikamnia calendar 1900. 6 sheets. Chromolithograph illustrations after watercolors by Louis Crusius (1862-98). St. Louis: Antikamnia Chemical Company, 1899. Together 2 items. 254 x 177 mm. Edges a bit frayed, marginal dampstains, but good to very good. First Editions of the 1899 and 1900 promotional calendars issued by the Antikamnia Chemical Company, featuring the comically macabre "skeleton sketches" of Louis Crusius, a physician and amateur artist. The St. Louis-based company produced these calendars in limited editions between 1897 and 1901, sending them to "members of the Medical Profession" in the United States and Europe to advertise the patent medicine "Antikamnia," a pain reliever based on the coal tar derivative acetanilide. Although the Antikamnia Chemical Company aggressively promoted its product as a certain remedy for everything from headaches to tuberculosis, the main ingredient, acetanilide, was known to be toxic in high doses or to sensitive individuals. After passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906, which mandated that products containing dangerous drugs be clearly labeled as such, the makers of Antikamnia attempted to skirt this requirement by replacing acetanilide with its less toxic derivative, acetphenitidin. In 1910 U.S. marshals seized a shipment of Antikamnia for violating the Pure Food and Drug Act, and in 1914 the Supreme Court ruled against the company for failing to state that its product contained an acetanilide derivative. The Antikamnia Chemical Company went out of business a few years later, although not before making the fortune of one of its founders, Frank A. Ruf, who died a millionaire in 1923. B. Lovejoy, "The Deadly Pain Medicine Sold by Skeletons." Mental Floss, 7 May 2016 (web).
Offered by Jeremy Norman & Co.
Americans All! : Victory Liberty Roll : Du Bois, Smith ... Et Al. (Poster)
by Howard Chandler Christy
Boston: Forbes, 1919. poster. Near fine condition. World War I bond poster conservation mounted on paper and linen. Columbia hangs a wreath above a list of ethnic European surnames united in generous sacrifice. Printed in full color. Poster measures 40 x 27 inches
Offered by James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers.
by Ruth Berolzheimer
The Culinary Arts Institute / Consolidated Book Publishers, Inc, 1943. Reissue. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Includes scarce publisher's box, with original publisher's list price of $3.75 (which is equivalent to over $50 today). Near fine book in very good jacket. Box rubbed with a few light spots, jacket edges lightly rubbed with 1 inch closed tear on front corner. 1943 Hard Cover. viii, 816, A-H, 1-64 pp. 8vo. Delightful American cookbook with a wartime theme, printed during World War II. Extensive index follows text. Appended to original text are the following sections: Wartime Cookery; How to Feed a Family of Five on $15.00 Per Week (includes a menu with a full month of recipes). Many color photos and memorable recipes. Thumb-indexed. Frontispiece portrait of Douglas MacArthur.
Offered by Yesterday's Muse.
1992 Postcard from Paul Bowles to Gregory Corso (With Accompanying Envelope from Tangier)
1992. Original wraps. Near Fine. A wonderful piece of post-War literary ephemera, a dense, neatly-written postcard from Paul Bowles (at his Tangier residence) to Gregory Corso (in New York). Clean and Near Fine, dated November 3rd, 1992. "dear Gregory: It was good to hear from you after such a very long time. Forgive the card, sent in place of a letter. I'm still in bed, where I've been since the middle of June, and the pain doesn't go away. So I'm grateful to you for the pills you entrusted to Paola Iglioni. Pain is something I can do happily without. There's nothing much to write about. Tangier, like the rest of the world, has grown larger, uglier, more crowded and expensive. Everyone tells me it's preferable to New York, so I stay right on here. Very likely I'll draw my last breath here. But cremation is forbidden in this country. A problem. Anyway, again thanks. best, Paul B." The card is crisp and very sharp, as is the original light-pink, hand-addressed envelope which houses it and which shows 2 clear postmarks from Tangier. And the postcard's image is of the Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco.
Offered by Appledore Books.
Autograph Letter Signed, to "Dear Mrs [Richard] Darcy", with accompanying photograph
by Rudyard Kipling
1898. Both sides of a card, which bears the heading "The Elms | Rottingdean, | nr Brighton." Dated Dec 12, 1898. In its original envelope, which provides the recipent's address "The Cottage, Clifton," with both Rottingdean and Brighton postmarks. With accompanying sepia photographic portrait of Kipling standing on a sailing vessel (mounted on gilt-edged card). This is a very intriguing, if not tantalizing, letter from Rudyard Kipling to a Mrs Darcy. It reads: That is indeed a beautiful photograph. Of course _we_ know what it means; but to the average spectator it looks very much as if your sailing-master had "shanghaied" one of the inhabitants of Adrigole and the unhappy native was slowly reviving on the decks of the _Margharita_. And the worst of it is, I can't explain to anyone that they are your husband's clothes I'm wearing! I feel I never thanked you properly for the good times you gave me on the yacht that wonderful day ... [+ final long sentence hard to decipher] ... With best regards to your husband, Very sincerely yours [signed] Rudyard Kipling. Accompanying the letter is a photo of Kipling standing on a sailing vessel, presumably the Margharita; Mrs Darcy must have sent it to Kipling, and with this letter he was returning it to her. We have not been able to learn who Mr & Mrs Richard Darcy were, in connection with Kipling. But we DO know (a) that Adrigole is a harbor village on the southwest corner of Ireland; (b) that the Darcys' hometown of Clifton is right by Bristol, on the southwest shore of England -- not all that far from Adrigole; and (c) that Kipling spent some time in Autumn 1898, including time in Adrigole's Bantry Bay, observing naval manoeuvres on board the Pelorus (the guest of Captain Bayly). At that time, Kipling must have spent a day on board the (Darcys'?) yacht, and subsequently (after each was back in England) she sent him a letter enclosing this photograph of Kipling. It is tempting to jump to the conclusion that this was some sort of illicit rendezvous -- and in fact, whatever dealer previously wrote a description for this letter (several decades ago) did just that. However, the jocular tone of Kipling's letter, combined with the formality of both the greeting and the signature, leads us to suggest that they simply had "good times on the yacht that wonderful day" -- perhaps (for all we know) with numerous other people. The puzzle that Kipling is wearing her husband's clothes is most easily solved by the idea that his clothes got soaked, as often happens on a sailboat. The letter/card is in very good condition (one corner has a few creases, with a couple of short pieces of tape, one of which encroaches on RK's signature; both the envelope and the photo are fine.
Offered by Sumner & Stillman.
Book 171: A Kinetic Book Collage
by Keith A. Smith
24 hand-cut pages with intricate geometric designs. 8vo (200 x 160 mm.), hand-sewn to a pleat by the artist, saw-tooth spine, marbled endpapers. [Rochester]: Keith A. Smith, October 1994. One of Smith's most splendid creations, one of only three copies produced. Here, for the first time, the artist employed a new method of spine sewing. In personal correspondence Smith writes that he was inspired by Eikoh Hosoe's famous Kamaitachi in the conception of this book. From the printed explanatory text laid-in: "The geometric forms were drawn with the program Aldus Freehand™ on a Power Macintosh 7100/66. The drawings were proofed onto typing paper using a Laserwriter II NT. These were cut and bound as a prototype as a means of a sketch of the book. The designs of several pages were then altered and proofed. The end result was printed onto various laid and etching papers. The sections are pamphlet sewn to a pleat, which is decorated by cutting and folding. The spine sewing is devised by Keith Smith, and this is the first use of this new sewing." A superb example of Smith's ingenuity with the book form. Smith gave the other copies to his partner and a friend. His books are hardly ever available on the market. ❧ K.A. Smith, 200 Books, p. 281-"Book 171 is hand cut and hand bound. The title means that no single page is the collage, but it is a layer of pages, ever-changing as pages are turned."
Offered by Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller.
Jonas Salk typed signed letter with envelope
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: [ University of Pittsburgh ], 1955. First Edition. Near Fine. First Edition. Single 8 1/2 x 11 inch sheet. A TLS (typed letter signed) from Jonas Salk dated August 25, 1955 on University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine letterhead thanking a Mr. Arthur Wilson for his good wishes. 'It was very kind of you to express your good wishes; we appreciate having them.' SIGNED boldly in ink 'Jonas E. Salk'. Creasing as expected for a mailed letter. Includes the matching mailing envelope with Virus Research Laboratory return address.
Dr. Jonas E. Salk is best known for his discovery of a safe and effective polio vaccine. His development of the vaccine was completed during a very intense period of several years (even though other scientists had been pursuing different research paths since the late 1930s). The new vaccine was officially announced on April 12, 1955. A competing 'live-virus' vaccine by Dr. Sabin was eventually discontinued in favor of Salks 'dead-virus' vaccine because of the greater efficacy of Salk's vaccine.
Offered by Kuenzig Books.
Dorchester, MA: Walter Baker & Co., Ltd, 1913. Oblong 8vo, pp. 39, [1], followed by 6 high-quality chromolithograph plates of Walter Baker products; 5 other full-page illustrations; fine in original maroon cloth, gilt-lettered on upper cover. The educational exhibit consists of what presumably is a salesman's wooden lacquered case (approx. 9½" x 5½" x 3½"), with a hinged lid on top, and a brass plaque and pull; mounted inside the lid are 4 Baker products, and inside the box itself are four apothecary viles, each still containing Baker products! Uncommon salesman's sample case and companion handbook which were released to promote the Walter Baker "health-giving breakfast cocoa and chocolate." The text explains the transformation of the cocoa seeds from the raw material, describes the early uses of cocoa and chocolate, a description and analysis of the cocoa seeds, the cocoa tree and the gathering of the crop. The four vials represent the various stages of cocoa production, and the cocoa tin mounted 1nside the lid preserves the trademarked chocolate server logo, La Belle Chocolatiere, adopted by the company in 1883 after a painting by the Swiss artists Jean-Etienne Liotard. Founded in 1780 the Walter Baker Company grew throughout the 19th century and into the 20th becoming one of the largest in the United States. Purchased by the Forbes syndicate in 1896, the brand was eventually absorbed in 1979 by Kraft Foods.
Offered by Rulon-Miller Books.
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by Giovani Boccacio
Venice: Repario and Cesano, 1551. vellum. 393 pages. Engraved title page. Full vellum binding with red leather spine label. Thick 12mo [4.5x6.5cm]. Vellum shows soiling, edgewear and some stains. Front hinge cracked but binding sound. Spine label dulled and chipped. Most of the inside paste down pulled out leaving residue and border. Some rippling to rear pastedown. Title page foxed, otherwise clean with mild toning. Good. Item #76851
Boccacio's first major work, preceding the DeCameron. A retelling of the 12th Century French romance. In Italian.
Offered by Aardvark Books and found in "Recent Acquisitions."
ANTIPODEAN BOOKS, MAPS, PRINTS
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GRAY, Thomas J. (words); WALKER, Raymond (music) "Your Mother's Gone Away To Join The Army"
New York: Broadway Music Corporation, 1913. First Edition. Quarto (35cm); illustrated wrappers; 6pp. Some trivial wear to extremities, a few tiny tears, and a few faint foxed spots to rear wrapper; Near Fine.
Suffrage-themed sheet music, with lyrics told from the perspective of a father and his little boy, whose mother was absent due to her involvement in the women's rights movement. "A little lad with curly hair stood by his father's knee / Could see that he was crying he was sad as he could be / He sobbed and said "I feel so blue," as tears ran down his cheeks / "Oh father where is mother she has not been home for weeks" / His Pa said "Lad the tale is sad, She's down at Suffrage Hall / She's gone to fight for women's rights, why there's their bugle call." In comparison to the denigrating tone of other suffrage songs from the period, the chorus here conveys familial pride: "Hear the tramp of their feet - as they come down the street / Gee those girlies look sweet, They're all dressed up so neat / Your dear old ma just took a fighter's place / She likes the smell of powder 'cause it's always on her face / There's no rats in her hair - you can see she don't care / Holds her head in the air, Gee your mother's a bear / Tramp, Tramp, Tramp the girls are marching, Your Mother's gone away to join the army." OCLC notes 3 holdings (LC, Baylor, British Library). CREW S-1913-18.
Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books and found in "From Suffrage to Second Wave."
W. C. BAKER RARE BOOKS & EPHEMERA
ANDREW CAHAN, BOOKSELLER, LTD.
DE SIMONE COMPANY, BOOKSELLERS
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Not So Deep as a Well: The Collected Poems (Signed, Limited)
by Dorothy Parker.
New York: The Viking Press, 1936 First Edition 210 pages. "This volume contains all of Dorothy Parker's poems excepting a few which she did not wish to retain..."— copyright page. This volume has all of Parker's bestknown verse. Decorations by Valenti Angelo. This is one of 485 numbered copies signed by Parker on a tipped-in page. First edition (first printing). Some spotting to fore-edge of book; a bit of discoloration along the gutter of the limitation page, due to the glue used to attach it. No dust jacket, as issued, but with the goldpaper slipcase showing some shelfwear at the edge. An attractive copy.
Offered by Downton Brown Books, found in "List 16: Modern First Editions" (item #15).
RODGER FRIEDMAN RARE BOOK STUDIO
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(Anonymous) Immense Succés La Caméléonnia. Affiches Américaines: Ch. Levy. Paris:10 rue Martel. (Ca 1895). Colored lithographic poster on paper. Mounted on silk. 22 ½” x 31" folds, chips to margins. Colors bright. The poster advertises a cabaret dancer who wore and waved colored silks in front on electric lights to create a diaphanous effect of movement in colors. This type of performance was pioneered by Loie Fuller but copied in cabarets at the time. The dancer is lost to time. Her name suggests the color changes of a chamaeleon and also evokes the theme of the Dumas story made into a play La Dame aux Camélias (1852). Rare. Only location is at Musée Carnavalet. A
Offered by Golden Legend and found in "Images of Bellet and Danse."
THOMAS A. GOLDWASSER RARE BOOKS
DAVID A. HAMILTON AMERICANA BOOKS
JONATHAN A. HILL, BOOKSELLER, INC.
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Chicago & Western Soap Works Fine Toilet Soaps Illustrated Catalog
No date, probably around 1900. A wonderful trade catalog of fine soaps, most in fancy paper wrappers, with large colored illustrations. Since this is a trade catalog the text dispenses with the usual vacuous frou-ha used on the public and gets down to the nuts and bolts- beauty of packaging, actual ingredients, and how well it sells (they all seem to sell really really well). Softcover. 4”x6.5”. 56 pages, color illustrations. Minor soil, light wear.
Offered by Joslin Hall Rare Books and found in "Catalog 411."
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ALBUM des titres d’alimentation. Septembre 1941. 3eme Bureau.
1941. 31.5cm x 21cm. One typed sheet tipped in followed by 21 ll, [1 - blank] leaf (of which five of the leaves have manuscript and documents recto and verso; the other sixteen recto only). Contemporary plain paper wrappers, title in manuscript on the upper wrapper, light wear to the edges of the wrappers and some sunning. $1500.00 An incredible document from the German occupation of Paris during the Second World War. The Germans took control of Paris on June 14th, 1940. Already, food was scarce in France due to much of the work force having already left for war and the supply chains from France’s colonies greatly disrupted. This was made far worse when Germany occupied France. Immediately, the remaining French products were sent to Germany to support the German cause, and only what was left over, was made available to the French through a strict rationing system.
The current album relates to the rations available in Paris during the month of September, 1941. On the upper wrapper is written “3eme Bureau;” this likely refers to the rationing office of the 3rd arrondissement in Paris. The first leaf is a typescript index for the album (all leaves are present). The sheets are numbered 1-21 (with a few versos numbered with a “bis” number) and contain the original ration sheets that were being issued by the German occupation government during the war. The sheets are pasted in, and in most cases, small ration tags are cut out and mounted alongside. On each sheet, there is also manuscript information that explains the quantity of the given foodstuff that the ration is good for and how it is to be administered. For example, one ration tag is good for 325 grams of butter, another for 60 grams of cheese, and so on. The foods included are bread; meat and cold cuts; and matières grasses (i.e. oil; butter; cheese; beef fat; margarine; and lard). There is also a special coupon for workers which entitles them to greater amounts of food. On the verso of that coupon, it states “L’hiver qui s’aproche sera rude. Les effectifs des cuisines d’entr’aide vont croître. Vous aiderez le SECOURS NATIONAL à « tenir ». Et la misere reculera !” (The coming winter will be harsh. The number of service kitchens [i.e. soup kitchens] will increase. You will help SECOURS NATIONAL to “hold on.” And misery will recede!) Also laid in is a contemporary newspaper clip entitled “Le ravitaillement. Les rations alimentaires du mois de juillet” and an unused contemporary German postcard (printed in Berlin) that is a picture of German ration coupons.3 A remarkable glimpse into the conditions under which the Parisians had to live during the Second World War. In good condition and preserved in an archival folder.
Offered by Ben Kinmont, Bookseller and found in "Gastronomy & Economic Precarity."
JOHN W. KNOTT, JR., BOOKSELLER
MICHAEL LAIRD RARE BOOK & MANUSCRIPTS
DAVID M. LESSER, FINE ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS
LIBER ANTIQUUS, EARLY PRINTED BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS
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Ascham, Roger
19th c. calf, single gilt filet framing the boards, hinges discreetly repaired, gilt spine, label chipped, edges worn. Fine copy with the initial leaf with signature mark and blank ¶8 both present. Marginal worm-trail to blank lower margin in middle signatures, not affecting text. Title with decorative border, woodcut of Robert Dudley, Earl Leicester’s emblem (the muzzled bear) inscribed with the Garter motto on leaf ¶3. Woodcut initials, diagram of divisions of the Mass, some passages in Greek. Rare. 7 institutional holdings in North America. Provenance: bookplates of George Stokes, Cardiff Castle, and Robert Pirie.
One of the greatest of the Tudor humanists, Ascham was favored by Henry VIII, to whom he dedicated his “Toxophilus”, tutor to the princess Elizabeth, and author of a masterpiece of English pedagogy, “The Scholemaster”. Ascham also tutored the boy king Edward VI in the art of elegant handwriting, and Edward thought of him fondly, and so it is of interest that Ascham wrote this “reformed” work while Edward was being groomed by his close advisors to be a thoroughly Protestant monarch.
Roger Ascham (1515/16-1568) penned his ‘Apologia pro Caena Dominica contra Missam & eius Praestigias’ (‘A Defense of the Lord’s Supper against the Mass and its Magic’) at Cambridge in 1547/8 during the first year of Edward VI’s reign. It was published in Ascham’s name some thirty years later (and about ten years after Ascham’s death) in 1577/8, together with his dedicatory preface to Robert Dudley and his other theological pieces, which are also in Latin...
Offered by Liber Antiquus and found in "Rare Books & Manuscripts 13th-18th c."
J. & J. LUBRANO MUSIC ANTIQUARIANS
STUART LUTZ HISTORIC DIOCUMENTS
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Jaws 3D Poster (with Glasses Still Attached) "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" Version
Hallmark, 1983. Minor shelf/edge wear, else bright and clean. Approx. 20x28" Very Good+. There were at least two versions of this poster, one with "I Love Everybody) at the top and this one with "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner." This is clearly the preferred version. A scarce poster to find in good condition, especially in as find condition as seen here.
Offered by Lux Mentis Booksellers and found in "Poster Print Art."
MAIN STREET FINE BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS
MARTAYAN LAN RARE BOOKS & MAPS
BRUCE MCKITTRICK RARE BOOKS, INC.
R & A PETRILLA, ANTIQUARIAN BOOKSELLERS
PHILADELPHIA RARE BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS
PHILLIP J. PIRAGES FINE BOOKS & MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS
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JESSE, J. HENEAGE. LONDON: ITS CELEBRATED CHARACTERS AND REMARKABLE PLACES
(London: Richard Bentley, 1871) 200 x 130 mm. (7 3/4 x 5”). Three volumes expanded to six. “SPECIAL COPY, extra illustrated in six volumes.” CHARMING OLIVE GREEN CRUSHED MOROCCO, GILT AND WITH PICTORIAL INLAY, BY BAYNTUN (stamp-signed on front turn-in), upper covers with leafy strapwork gilt frame, central inlay in multiple colors of morocco depicting one of the characters from the book, with gilt lettering beneath it, lower covers with gilt-rule frame, raised bands, spines gilt in compartments with strapwork and leaf ornament, gilt lettering, gilt-ruled turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Housed together in a green cloth slipcase. WITH 537 PLATES, consisting of 27 folding plates (nine hand-colored), 124 hand-colored plates (19 of them from the Rowlandson “Dr. Syntax” series), and 386 black & white engravings, all but one of the plates with original tissue guard. Spines evenly sunned to a pleasing hazel brown, one leaf with neat repair to upper corner (away from text), occasional mild foxing to plates (usually marginal, never offensive), other trivial imperfections, but A VERY FINE SET, clean and fresh, with none of the offsetting that usually plagues extra-illustrated works, IN SPARKLING BINDINGS.
This is perhaps the ultimate copy of Jesse’s entertaining and informative tour of his beloved city and the characters who have inhabited it over the centuries: it was professionally “grangerized” with fine specimens of 96 relevant prints, all with tissue guards; it was beautifully bound by a leading firm in a style that perfectly complements the contents; and, despite these obvious benefits, it has seen very little use. John Heneage Jesse (1809-74) wrote a number of popular historical works, including royal biographies and court memoirs, that drew praise for their conscientious attention to fact and detail, if not for their originality or wit. Described by DNB as “a dedicated Londoner, [who] seldom ventured away from the metropolitan area,” Jesses leads us here through the districts of his home city, relating anecdotes, noting the locations of momentous events, and pointing out architectural treasures. The added portraits, scenes, and views help to bring his account to life, and the diligent use of tissue guards has prevented these illustrations from affecting the adjacent leaves in a detrimental way. Rowlandson’s famous caricatures from “Dr. Syntax,” portraying the amusing adventures of a country parson in the metropolis, comprise just one example of the half a thousand inserted plates here. The bindings from Bayntun of Bath depict some of the humble characters whose presence gives the capital so much of its flavor: those who sell their wares on the streets and do everyday jobs that keep the city running. The Bayntun firm, founded in Bath in 1894, is now the last of the great Victorian trade binderies still in family ownership. Our binding probably dates from the first quarter of the 20th century, when the workshop was known for imaginative designs that involved the augmenting of gilt decoration with inlaid pictorial designs.
Offered by Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and found in "Catalogue 76" (item #100).
RABELAIS BOOKS ON FOOD & DRINK
RICHARD C. RAMER, OLD & RARE BOOKS
30 volumes. Paris: En la Imprenta de E. Thunot y Cª; text Paris: en casa del Autor and Chile: en el Museo de Historia Natural de Santiago, 1844-1871. Large 4° (37 x 29 cm.) and large 8º, text in contemporary quarter green morocco over marbled boards, atlas in contemporary half morocco; spines gilt, some rubbed, head and tail of a few volumes frayed. Hinge of volume II of atlas strengthened; spines of 2 atlas volumes and 4 volumes of text not quite uniform. Together 30 volumes (28 volumes text, in 8°, and 2 volumes atlas, in large 4°). Some foxing to text, very occasional marginal spotting to plates, tear in lower margin of one plate (affecting caption). A handsome set overall. Rubberstamps of former owner on all half-titles, and on titles of text volumes. 30 volumes.
FIRST EDITION. Monumental account of the natural and civil history of Chile, with two volumes of beautiful illustrations, mostly hand-colored. Gay’s work set the tone for all future historiographers of Chile with its meticulous examination of sources, including contemporary documents from the period immediately following the conquest. The overall condition of this copy as well as the quality of the plates and coloring are far superior to most. In fact, many copies are without coloring altogether. In addition, this set has the complete text, which is unusual since the work was issued over a period of 27 years. The two volumes of the atlas contain a total of 315 plates: one tinted lithographic frontispiece portrait; 20 engraved maps plus a folding cloth-backed map of Chile; two hand-colored plates of antiquities; 53 lithographic plates of views and costumes (12 are hand-finished colored, 41 are tinted); and 238 hand-colored engraved plates (103 botanical, 135 zoological).
Offered by Richard C. Ramer, Old & Rare Books and found in "Special LIst 376 : Zoology."
B&L ROOTENBERG RARE BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS
BARRY LAWRENCE RUDERMAN ANTIQUE MAPS, INC.
MARC SELVAGGIO, BOOKS & EPHEMERA
MICHAEL R. THOMPSON RARE BOOKS
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INTERNATIONAL LADIES' GARMENT WORKERS' UNION
Signature of 450,000: This publication is a presentation of the 65th Anniversary Convention of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, Miami Beach, Florida, May 1965.
New York: ILGWU, 1965. 64 pages. Compilation of photographs that tell the history of the ILGWU to commemorate the union's 65th anniversary. Original union receipt, showing purchase of this book, tipped in. Side-stapled with tanning to edges of back cover. Mild wear to front cover with a minute crease to the edge of the right upper corner; lower right corned and pages slightly creased as well, not effecting text. Circular stain on the letter "u" of title, not effecting readability, else very good.
Offered by Tomberg Rare Books and found in "E-list #27."
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Pool, Bill W. (Editor). Compton Police Annual.
Compton, CA: Compton Police Officers Association, 1964. 8.5 x 11 inches, 72 pp, with illustrations and ads. Three-hole punched, police department stamp on front cover, one gathering loose front staples; very good. Fourth annual edition of this periodical, which was used to raise funds for the Officers Relief Fund and to inform the public of "some of our problems and functions."
Within a year, there would be riots--founded in a long history of friction between African-American residents and the police--in neighboring Watts, and by 1970, Compton would have the highest crime rate in California. This publication starts with a positive story showcasing of a newly completed police building, and includes articles about successful police operations and public safety tips. But hints of the policecommunity tension to come are also present. An article titled "'Defenders of the Peace' in Community and Human Relations" asks citizens to support the efforts of the police, complaining that "unjust charges are sometimes made against the police. Charges made or rumored by persons who do not have all the facts. When this happens, police morale is jeopardized and the development of an esprit de corps is made difficult." Another, titled "Take the Handcuffs Off Our Police," argues that by overzealous interpretation of constitutional rights "we are increasingly throttling our law enforcement officers with judge-made rulings that stagger common sense." And an editorial proclaims that "now, more than ever before in our history, one is either for law enforcement or he's against it. He's either for mob rule--or he's for the law. He's either for America--or he's against America. Let's begin to make our laws say what they mean and mean what they say--and let everybody know it." No holdings (of any issue) located in OCLC.
Offered by Walkabout Books and found in "List 16: Police & Community in the United States" (item #27).
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de Beauvoir, Simone. Le Deuxieme Sexe (in 2 vols.).
Paris: Gallimard, 1949\. First edition. Original publisher's cloth bindings with titles to spine and pictorial illustrations of Mario Prassinos to boards. Pegasus motif endpapers. Gentle rubbing to extremities of spines; gentle bumps to corners. Front board of volume II mildly bowed. In all, a pleasing pair of this important philosophical work, which was released in a limited edition of 2,105 copies, including the present set which is one of 2,000 numbered copies on Alfama Marais paper. One of the preeminent French existentialist philosophers, working alongside other intellectual greats such as Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, Simone de Beauvoir made her greatest contributions in the fields of ethics, feminism, and politics. She is perhaps best known for the present work, The Second Sex, which argues that women have been historically relegated to a second class as men's 'Other,' and that this has led to systemic oppression. "Her revolutionary magnum opus, it was published in two volumes and immediately found both an eager audience and harsh critics. The Second Sex was so controversial that the Vatican put it on the Index of Prohibited Books...Striking for its breadth of research and the profundity of its central insights, it remains to this day one of the foundational texts in philosophy, feminism, and women's studies" (Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Near Fine.
Offered by Whitmore Rare Books and found in "RBMS Virtual Showcase."
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Institutionum [bound with] Infortianum [and] Digestum Novum, 1553-56
1551. A Collection of Texts from the Corpus Juris Civilis in Handsome Uniform Contemporary Paneled Pigskin Bindings Justinian I [483-565 CE], Emperor of the East. Accorso, Francisco (Accursius) [c.1182-c.1260], Glossator. Gaius [Active 130-180 CE]. Institutionum D. Iustiniani Sacratissimi Imperatoris Libri Quatuor: Ad Vetustissimorum Simul et Emendatissimorum Exemplarium Fidem Summa Diligentia Recogniti, Emendati. Cum Scholiis Accursii. Adiecimus Pluribus Locis Annotationes ex Doctissimorum Hominum Commentariis, Ex Quibus non Parum Lucis ac Dignitatis his Iuris Civilis Elementis Accedit. Accessit Corpus Legum, Antea non Impressum, Ac Caii Institutionum Libri Duo. Lyon: Apud Hugonem a Porta, 1553. Pp. [24], 290, [2] pp. Large woodcut image of Justinian surrounded by his court. Main text in parallel columns with linear gloss. [Bound with] Justinian I, Emperor of the East. Accorso, Francisco (Accursius), Glossator. Volumen hoc Complectitur (Sic Enim Peculiari Vocabulo Vocant) Novellas Constitutiones Iustiniani Principis Post Repetitam Codicis Praelectionem Aeditas: Authentica Vulgo Appellant. Tres Item Posteriores Libros Codicis; Feudorum seu Beneficiorum Duos; Constitutiones Friderichi Secundi Imperatoris; Extravagantes duas Henrici Septimi Imperatoris; & Tractatum De Pace Constantiae. Omnia ad Vetustissimorum Simul & Emendatissimorum Exemplarium Fidem Recognita, Emendata. Accesserunt nunc Primum, & Nunquam Antehac Aediti, Iustiniani Novellarum Constitutionum Libri Duo, Cum Multis Annotationibus ex Doctissimorum Hominum Commentariis, Quae non Parum Lucis ac Dignitatis Huic Volumini Afferunt. Lyon: Apud Hugonem a Porta, 1553. [xvi], 276, 148, 99, [1] pp. Woodcut table of descents (in the form of a tree). Main text in parallel columns with linear gloss. [With] Justinian I, Emperor of the East. Accorso, Francisco (Accursius), Glossator. Infortiatum, Pandectarum Iuris Civilis Tomus Secundus: Quartae Partis Reliquum, Itemque Quintam Digestorum Partem, Ac Sextae Partis: Libros Continens, Ex Pandectis Florentinis Ita in Universum Recognitus ac Emendatus, Ut Nihil Praeterea, Quod ad Puram Eorum Librorum Lectionem Attinet, Desiderari Possit. Lyon: Apud Hugonem a Porta, 1556. [xxxvi], 923, [1] pp. Main text in parallel columns with linear gloss. [And] Justinian I, Emperor o.
Offered by Lawbook Exchange.
by Bram Stoker
Westminster: Archibald Constable, 1899. Seventh edition. hardcover. Very good.. A very good early (7th) edition, signed and dated by the author Bram Stoker on the front free endpaper. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase
Offered by Bookbid.
SOURCE Music of the Avant Garde
Davis, California: Composer/Performer Edition, 1974. 11 volumes bound in ten (issues 7 and 8 bound in one). Complete; all issued. Oblong folio. 10-3/4" x 14". Original stiff decorative wrappers in colour. Spiral bound. Unpaginated, but with approximately 100 pages to each volume. Lavishly illustrated with musical scores and striking photographs and graphics in both colour and black and white. With supplementary material bound in, some quite unusual, including such things as magnetic audiotape and synthetic fur, screenprintings on transparencies, etc. Each issue with approximately 10 articles written by the major figures in avant garde music of the time, including Dietrich Albrecht, Charles Amirkhanian, Eric Andersen, Robert Ashley, Larry Austin, David Behrman, Mario Bertoncini, Joseph Beuys, Anthony Branxton, Eugen Brikcius, Jacques Brodier, Earle Brown, Allan Bryant, Boudewijn Buckinx, Harold Budd, Jim Burns, John Cage, Cornelius Cardew, Giuseppe Chiari, Paul Chihara, Barney Childs, Christo, Jani Christou, Philip Corner, Lowell Cross, Alvin Curran, John Dinwiddie, Peter Donath, Manfred Eaton, Robert Erickson, Morton Feldman, Robert Filliou, Fluxus, Lukas Foss, David Freund, Ken Friedman, Kira Gale, Peter Garland, Gentle Fire, Tony Gnazzo, Victor Grauer, Joel Gutsche, Gyula Gulyas, Olaf Hanel, Sven Hansell, John Hassell, Dick Higgins, Lejaren Hiller, Stu Horn, Nelson Howe, Jerry Hunt, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Image Bank, Zdzislaw Jurkiewicz, Udo Kasemets, Per Kirkeby, Paul Klerr, Milan Knizak, Jaroslaw Kozlowski, Carson Jeffries, Bengt Emil Johnson, Will Johnson, Ben Johnston, Alan Kaprow, Ed Kobrin, Alcides Lanza, Douglas Leedy, Daniel Lentz, Anna Lockwood, Arrigo Lora-Totino, Alvin Lucier, Mary Lucier, Stanley Lunetta, Eva Lurati, Stuart Marshall, Richard Martin, Harvey Matusow, Tom Marioni, Ken Maue, Dora Maurer, Maria Michalowska, John Mizelle, Robet Moran, Gordon Mumma, Keith Muscutt, Naked Software, Max Neuhaus, Nam June Paik, the New Percussion Quartet, Jocy de Oliveira, Pauline Oliveros, Harry Partch, Jon Phetteplace, the Portsmouth Sinfonia, David Reck, Steve Reich, Jock Reynolds, John Paul Rhinehart, Mark Riener, Roger Reynolds, David Rosenboom, Frederic Rzewski, Zorka Saglova, J. Murray Schafer, the Scratch Orchestra, Gerald Shapiro, Nicholas Slonimsky, Barry Spinello, Stanley Marsh 3, Andrew Stiller, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Allen Strange, Alvin Sumsion, Endre Tot, David tudor, Bertram Turetzky, Jiri Valoch, Wolf Vostell, Don Walker, Arthur Woodbury, and Christian Wolff. With 6 accompanying 10-inch LPS: - Robert Ashley The Wolfman; Dave Behrman Wave Train - Larry Austin Accidents; Allan Bryant Pitch Out - Alvin Lucier I Am Sitting in a Room; Arthur Woodbury Velox and Mark Riener Phlegethon - Larry Austin Caritas; Stanley Lunetta moosack machine - Lowell Cross Video II; Arrigo Lora-Totino english phonemes - Alvin Curran Magic Carpet; Anna Lockwood Tiger Balm Slightly worn. In very good condition overall. A complete run of this exciting independent periodical devoted entirely to the music of the 20th century avant garde, an outgrowth of the musical experimentalism in the late 1950s and early 60s at the University of California, Davis and Mills College in Oakland, California. In an effort to expand the traditional definition of music and formal concert performance, Source documents many of the most important "new music" trends of the period including improvised and indeterminate music, minimalism, Fluxus, performance art, graphic scores, electronic music, performance art, concrete and sound poetry, intermedia, British Systems music, video/laser light shows, new electronic, video, and communications technologies, etc. A landmark publication of great importance to the study of avant garde music of the mid-20th century, rarely found complete.
Offered by J. & J. Lubrano Music Antiquarians.
by C.S. Lewis
Cambridge: np, 1963. First edition. Fine. C.S. LEWIS GIVES PRACTICAL (AND SOMEWHAT HUMOROUS) ADVICE TO A STUDENT SELECTING A THESIS TOPIC, BEFORE REVEALINGLY SUGGESTING ONE OF HIS FAVORITE WORKS - DOROTHY SAYERS'S THE MAN BORN TO BE KING - AS A SUBJECT WORTHY OF STUDY. Written to a student, John T. Tukey of Rhode Island and dated July 6, 1963, the letter reads in full: As from Magdalene College, Cambridge 6 July 63 I always dissuade students from making a living author the subject of their thesis. When they do, however hard they work, the chosen author and his intimates will know a lot more about the subject that they can find out. Dead authors know a lot about their own work which we don't but fortunately they can't tell it. It has happened before now that those who were examining a thesis on my work have written to ask me whether some interpretation offered by the candidate is correct. This puts me in a v. awkward dilemma. If I refuse to answer they know that my answer would have been no. The candidate's work is thus unfairly subjected to a check which would not have been applied if he had written on a dead author. I suggest you choose Dorothy Sayers' cycle of plays on the life and death of Christ (title, The Man Born to be King). Whether it wd. come under the faculty of Theology or that of Literature depends, I suppose, on how you treat it. Yours sincerely [signed] C.S. Lewis Background - C.S. Lewis, Dorothy Sayers, and The Man Born to Be King: C.S. Lewis and the writer Dorothy Sayers quickly became good friends after the latter wrote him a "fan" letter praising his recently-published Screwtape Letters. It was not a particular surprise they developed a friendship for both had similar views on literature, scholarship, and theology (especially sharing the desire to explain and explore Christianity for their literary audiences). Sayers's The Man Born to Be King, a somewhat controversial re-telling of the life of Jesus, originally appeared as a radio drama airing from 1941-1942 before being published in book form in 1943. Lewis was immediately impressed with the work, writing to Sayers on May 30, 1943 (in one of his earliest letters to her), "I've finished The Man Born to be King and think it a complete success... I shed real tears (hot ones) in places: since Mauriac's Vie de Jesus nothing has moved me so much... I expect to read it times without number again...." Over the years, Lewis's admiration for the work only grew. He professed to reading it "in every Holy Week since it first appeared" and noted in 1949 that he thought "Man Born to be King has edified us in this country more than anything for a long time" (Lewis, Collected Letters, II, 989). Sayers died in 1957 - six years before this letter - and it is fitting that of all the books he could have recommended to the student Tukey, he selected The Man Born to Be King, a book he greatly admired and a book that had remained dear to his heart. Cambridge: 6 July 1963. One sheet, 5 1/4 x 7 inches, written in ink on both sides, signed "C.S. Lewis". With original mailing envelope with postmark. Generally fine condition with expected center mailing fold and a few light spots. Housed in custom presentation folder.
Offered by Manhattan Rare Book Company.
Union with Freemen--No Union with Slaveholders. Anti-Slavery Meetings!
Salem, OH: Homestead Print, n.d., ca. 1850. First Edition. Unused handbill announcing anti-slavery meetings held by the Western Anti-Slavery Society, a splinter group from the Ohio State Anti-Slavery Society. This branch was led by the abolitionist Adam Brooke, a member of the utopian community the Marlboro Association; and, to a lesser extent, Parker Pillsbury, who attended and occasionally spoke at the annual anniversary meetings. The Society, Garrisonian in its rejection of the Church, stated that "We are not merely warring against the extension of new slave territory, nor against any fugitive slave law constitutional or unconstitutional; nor for the writ of habeas corpus, or the right of trial by jury for recaptured slaves, but we are waging eternal war against the doctrine that man can ever under any possibility of circumstances, hold property in man" (cf. William M. Wiecek, "The Sources of Anti-Slavery Constitutionalism in America, 1760-1848" (1977), p. 252). The group reached its peak in 1847 when William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass both spoke at the annual anniversary meeting, which drew several thousand attendees. However, the group always struggled with funding and was defunct by 1861. The present broadside reminds the reader that "Three million of your fellow beings are in chains--the Church and Government sustains the horrible system of oppression. Turn Out! And learn your duty to yourselves, the slave and God. Emancipation or Dissolution, and a Free Northern Republic!" 4 located in OCLC, none in Ohio. Original unused letterpress broadside flyer (40x27.5cm.); a few closed tears expertly mended, stock uniformly toned, else a Very Good, quite fresh copy.
Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books.
by Toni Morrison
New York: Holt Rinehart, 1970. First. hardcover. near fine/near fine. 8vo, cloth backed boards, d.w. (slightly browned). New York: Holt, Rinehart, (1970). First Edition. A near fine copy of her uncommon first book, inscribed, "To.... from Toni 11.13.1971 Thank you for all the poetry, sensibility and common sense. First issue dust wrapper, with $5.95 & 10/70 on front flap.
Offered by Argosy Book Store.
by BALDWIN, JAMES
New York: Dial Press, 1964. First edition. Cloth. Very Good/very good. Clothbound 8vo in dustwrapper. 121 pp play by the author of The Fire Next Time and Go Tell It On The Mountain. A handsome very good copy in clipped, but otherwise very good dustwrapper.
Offered by Derringer Books.
by Kenneth Grahame
London: Methuen and Co., 1908. A Near Fine First Edition of Kenneth Grahame's Children's Classic In the Original 'Second Issue' Pictorial Dust Jacket GRAHAME, Kenneth. ROBERTSON, Graham, illustrator. The Wind in the Willows. With a frontispiece by Graham Robertson. London: Methuen and Co., [1908]. First edition. Small octavo (7 1/2 x 4 7/8 inches; 190 x 124 mm.). [8], 302, [1, blank], [1, printer's imprint] pp. Frontispiece with original tissue guard. Publisher's blue cloth pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt within a single gilt rule border on front cover and pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt on spine. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Early ink signature "Bloomfield" on front free endpaper. Minimal rubbing to corners and spine extremities, the gilt bright and fresh. Some scattered light foxing otherwise a near fine copy in the second issue publisher's pictorial peach color dust jacket printed in black with price of 7/6 instead of 6/-. Front flap with neat five-line ink manuscript 'Recipe for Limericks' on verso. The spine of the dust jacket slightly darkened, a couple of tiny chips at head but certainly one of the best, totally original and unrestored jackets that we have seen. Housed in a three quarter dark green morocco over cream buckram boards, spine with five raised bands, lettered in gilt in compartments. The last copy in the first issue dust jacket to appear at auction fetched £60,000 ($75,000) at Sotheby's London, June 15th, 2015 (lot 46). The Wind in the Willows, "one of the central classics of children's fiction, was Grahame's fourth book... It began life as a series of bedtime stories told to his son Alastair, known as Mouse... the first of these was told on Mouse's fourth birthday, 12 May 1904, and concerned 'moles, giraffes & water-rats', these being the animals the boy had selected for subject... Probably the stories continued at intervals over the next three years; certainly a lengthy narrative in which Toad played the principal part (and in which there were no giraffes) had been begun by May 1907. During that month Mouse was on holiday on the South Coast with his governess, Miss Stott, and his father wrote him a series of story-letters... The letters, some of which were addressed to 'Michael Robinson', Mouse's pet name for himself, continued every few days until September (there are 15 in all, with one apparently missing from the series); they describe Toad's adventures much as in the published book, but pay no more that cursory attention to Rat, Mole, and Badger" (The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature). "Arthur Rackham was asked to illustrate the first edition, but was unable to accept the commission. He deeply regretted this decision, but shortly before his death he was able to illustrate the edition which was published by the Limited Editions Club of New York in 1940" (Osborne Collection). Osborne Collection I, p. 349; Grolier. One Hundred Books Famous in Children's Literature. no. 61.
Offered by David Brass Rare Books.
Le Fait Accompli, nos. 1 (April 1968) through 135 (March 1975) (all published)
by Marcel Marien (Editor)
Brussels: Les Lèvres Nues, 1968-1975. Quartos (30 × 23 cm). Issued in uncut loose sheets; approximately 8 to 32 pp. per issue (unnumbered). Illustrations throughout, mostly black-and-white, with some color reproductions tipped in. Most issues printed on laid paper, some on coated stock. Very good or better. A fine complete run of this important post-war Belgian surrealist journal, composed of 135 issues in 98 fascicules, with several double and triple numbers. Issued monthly and edited by Marcel Mariën, the journal features contributions by major Belgian surrealists, including Goemans, Nougé, Scutenaire, Colinet, Dumont, Magritte, Joostens, Lecomte, Tom Gutt, Wergifosse, Bossut, Souris and Bourgoignie, among others. Most issues focus on a unique work by a single author or artist, and are illustrated throughout with reproductions of works by Man Ray, Magritte, Picabia, Mariën, Bossut, Ernst, Graverol, Jamagne, Ubac and Van de Wouver, and others. Especially noteworthy are Magritte's contributions, which are often illustrated by him. Issues 81-95 constitute one volume containing "Lettres surrealistes (1924-1940)" edited and annotated by Mariën. Issue no. 95 contains "Filchings for Annoyed Birds" by Paul Colinet (in English). Most issues feature a distinctive title. Nos. 15, 30, 40, 55, 65, 80, 100, 107, 110, 120, 130, 134 issued as a "nouvelle serie" interspersed throughout the run, under the title "Les Lèvres Nues" and numbered 1-12. The last issue (no. 135) contains a cumulative index to the entire series. All issues uniformly hand-numbered "vingt-deux" (22) of unspecified print runs, which ranged from 50 to 250 copies. Given the low print run of the earliest issues, presumably only fifty complete sets exist.
Offered by Bernett Penka.
by Virginia Woolf
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1927. First American Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original green cloth stamped in blue. Near Fine with bumping to head of spine, faint darkening to spine cloth and very light spine lean. In a Near Fine dust jacket illustrated by Vanessa Bell, with spine toning and minor edge wear. A fantastic copy of Woolf's modernist tour de force, which was ranked by Modern Library as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.
Offered by Burnside Rare Books.
by Walt Disney Studios
An Original Animation Cel from Disneyís First Fully Animated Feature Film "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"
N.p., Hollywood: Walt Disney Studios, 1937. Original animation production cel from Disney's first fully animated feature film, depicting the dwarf Dopey with a chipmunk pulling at his robe. Gouache on celluloid applied to a Courvoisier wood veneer background. Likely original mounts with "©WDE" blindstamped on front lower right corner of matte. Three authenticating labels on rear of the cels. One reading "Original Work from Snow White and the Seven Dwarves" and the other reading "This Material Inflammable Handle With Care Frame Under Glass Copyright 1937 Walt Disney Enterprises" and the final one reading "This is an original painting on celluloid from the Walt Disney Studios, actually used in the filming of 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.' Only a very limited number have been selected to be placed on the market. Walt Disney." Image size: 9 1/2 x 8 inches; 240 x 205 mm. Matted, framed and glazed. Matte size: 17 x 14 inches; 430 x 355 mm. With some bowing to the celluloid and some minor chipping to the figure. A very good specimen of Disney original animation.
Offered by Heritage Book Shop.
by PARUTA, FILIPPO (1552-1629)
4to (200x145 mm). Collation: [π]4 †4 A-T4 V2 X4 Y2 Z4 [χ]2. Half-title, engraved frontispiece, [12], 176, [4: errata corrige] pp. and [4] folding plates engraved by Francesco Nigro and Francesco La Barbera after Gerardo Astorino and Vincenzo La Barbera. Richly gilt modern morocco binding, original sprinkled edges. Minor restorations to the outer margin of the first leaves without loss, small worm track in the gutter of a few leaves not affecting the text, tears repaired along the folding of one plate, all in all a very good copy.
EXTREMELY RARE ORIGINAL EDITION of this festival account attributed to Filippo Paruta, but edited by his son Simplicio, who also signs the dedication to the Senate of Palermo, and published posthumously under the name of his other son Onofrio.
In the note to the reader Onofrio provides a detailed list of the works (orations, occasional writings, inscriptions for ephemeral architectures, etc.) of his father Filippo, who was the secretary to the Palermo Senate and the major responsible for the iconographic program realized on the occasion of the 1625 festivity.
At the beginning of the 1620s the viceroy Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy rebuild the Accademia dei Riaccesi, which gathered in the Royal Palace, and entrusted the scholar and mathematician Carlo Maria Ventimiglia with the direction of the academy. Around his figure gravitated many of the artists and scholars who designed the program and the solemn procession of the relics of St. Rosalia, held in June of 1625 as a sign of gratitude for deliverance from plague. Among them were the painters and architects Gerardo Astorino and Vincenzo La Barbera, the engraver Francesco Negro, the scholar Martino La Farina, who conceived the allegorical arch of the Genoese nation, and, above all, Filippo Paruta, who was linked to Ventimiglia also by a common passion for numismatics and antiquities. Paruta was involved in all literary activities related to celebratory events since the end of the sixteenth century. In 1625 he inspired the triumphal arch that the Senate erected in Piazza Villena and was responsible for the account of the festivities, which however was actually published only after his death in 1651.
The constitution of such a large and complex team to be entrusted with the creation of the apparatuses testifies of the importance of that event that officially marked the beginning of the cult of St. Rosalia. The solemnity of 1625 had no immediate follow-up and only in 1649 the feast of St. Rosalia was formalized with all those peculiarities that would characterize the following decades. In 1625, in addition to the impressive processions and solemn ceremonies to which all local communities, religious and civil, took part, two magnificent horse rides were organized; one, in particular, took place at the conclusion of the festivities, after the solemn mass in the cathedral. Then followed fireworks, organized by the German nation, tournaments and jousts. At the very end the nobility walked in gala dresses along Via Colonna (cf. M. Sofia di Fede, La festa barocca a Palermo: città, architetture, istituzioni, in: "Espacio, Tiempo y Forma", series VII, t. 18-19, 2005-2006, pp. 49-75; see also M. Vitella, Il primo Festino, in: M.C. Di Natale, "S. Rosaliae patriae servatrici", Palermo, 1994; and V. Petrarca, Genesi di una tradizione urbana. Il culto di S. Rosalia a Palermo in età spagnola, Palermo, 1986, p. 82).
Catalogo unico, IT\ICCU\PALE\004559; S.P. Michel, Répertoire des ouvrages imprimés en langue italienne au XVIIe siècle conservés dans les bibliothèques de France, Paris, 1976, VI, p. 80; Biblioteca centrale della Regione siciliana "Alberto Bombace", Sanctae Rosaliae Dicata, Bibliografia cronologica su Santa Rosalia, Settembre 2004, pp. 12-13; G.M. Mira, Bibliografia siciliana, Palermo, 1881, II, p. 186; A. Mongitore, Bibliotheca sicula sive de scriptoribus siculis, Palermo, 1707-1714, I, p. 293 and II, p. 174; M. Cornelles, V. Manuel et al., eds., La fiesta barroca. Los reinos de Nápoles y Sicilia (1535-1713), Palermo, 2014, ad indicem.
Offered by Govi Rare Books.
The Last of the Windjammers. 2 volumes.
by LUBBOCK. BASIL
Glasgow:: Brown, Son & Ferguson, (1948)., 1948. Third impression. Two volumes. 25 cm. xiv, 518; xv, 448 pp. Frontispieces, illustrations, plans (some folding); spine gilt rubbed, corner bumped. Blind and gilt-stamped blue cloth, map endpapers. Very good copies.
Offered by Jeff Weber Rare Books.
Illustrations of the Book of Job.
by BLAKE, WILLIAM.
London: [plates dated] 1825 [but published 1826]. Folio, 320 x 254 mm, engraved title and 21 plates. Proofs on India paper mounted on handmade paper, some leaves (2, 5, 6, 11, 14, 17, 18) watermarked J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1825. Gilt-ruled green morocco over thick boards, fleurons at the outer corners, double-rule inner frame enclosing a bloom roll, gilt-ruled spine, sewing bands with gilt red morocco onlays, thick dark blue endleaves, all edges gilt, by Riviere: a brilliant set with no foxing at all, interleaved with blanks at the time of binding with no offsetting. Lower cover of the binding at some time tied up with string with ensuing indentation. § First edition, limited to 150 proof sets (65 sets were also printed on French paper, and 100 sets on drawing paper with the word ‘proof’ removed). This is one of finest sets of the proofs I have ever seen, and far outshines the other two original printings and the later re-issue. The India paper set is the best printing of these famous plates which comprise Blake’s major single achievement as a printmaker after the illuminated books. Illustrations of the Book of Job was Blake’s last completed prophetic book: the text, a series of biblical quotations, is above and below each image. “It was produced while Blake was still working on Jerusalem, his most obscure book; yet the illustrations are Blake’s most lucid; and they are the supreme example of his reading the Bible in its spiritual sense” (S. Foster Damon, A Blake Dictionary, p. 217). “The modest size of the central panels does not prevent them from ranking with the supreme masterpieces of graphic art” (Ray, Illustrator and the Book in England #8). Note: as always, the first plate after the title-page is misdated 1828.
Offered by John Windle, Bookseller.
"Congress shall make no law establishing religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, nor shall the rights of conscience be infringed."
"The freedom of speech, and of the press, and the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and consult for their common good, and to apply to the government for a redress of grievances, shall not be infringed."
"A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, being the best security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed...."
After months of work, on August 24, 1789, the House of Representatives approved seventeen Constitutional amendments, including the first to use the exact phrase, "freedom of speech." This newspaper includes the full text of the resolution sent by the House to the Senate for approval. The Senate began deliberating the next day, approving some articles and rejecting or altering others. [BILL OF RIGHTS].
Newspaper. Gazette of the United States, August 29, 1789. New York: John Fenno. Includes a complete printing of the first House of Representatives proposal for amending the Constitution on page 2. 4 pp., 10 x 15¾ in.
Historical Background
The lack of a Bill of Rights, a central feature of most state Constitutions, was a principal criticism of the recently-drafted federal Constitution. During the Constitutional Convention some delegates opposed its inclusion, thinking it unnecessary or afraid that the act of enumerating specific rights would imply that those not listed did not exist. On the other side, Anti-Federalists wary of new federal powers were among the most ardent proponents of a Bill of Rights. Ultimately, to ensure ratification of the Constitution, the Convention delegates promised that Congress would address guarantees of specific liberties in their first session.
During the ratification process, five states that approved the Constitution passed along lists of proposed amendments, while two states, Rhode Island and North Carolina, that had refused to ratify also suggested amendments. In all, nearly one hundred discrete amendments were offered.
James Madison, the "father of the Constitution," was at first lukewarm to the idea of a Bill of Rights. However, during his first Congressional campaign against James Monroe, he promised to fight for such a measure. Among Madison's fears were threats by Anti-Federalists, even after the Constitution had been ratified, of calling another convention, which would have likely been much less harmonious. On May 4, 1789, Madison told the House of Representatives that he planned to present a slate of amendments in three weeks. When May 25 arrived, the Congressmen were locked in a debate over import duties. Madison demurred until June 8, when the House again rebuked his efforts, citing more pressing business. Rising once more, Madison justified his timing, apologized to his colleagues, and proceeded to introduce his proposed amendments.
On July 21, 1789, the House formed the Committee of Eleven (a member from each state) to consider the proposed Amendments. The Committee reported on July 28, taking the nine broad areas Madison had suggested for amendment and drafting 17 individual amendments for House approval. These passed the House on August 24, and the Senate began their debate the next day. The Senate initially reduced the House's proposed 17 amendments to 12, and then passed its own version on September 9. The bill then went back to the House for reconciliation. The House reconciled the two bills on September 24, and the Senate issued its final approval the next day.
The twelve articles of amendment were sent to the states for ratification on October 2, 1789. Two of the twelve proposed amendments, the first regarding apportionment of representation in the House and the second, congressional salaries, were not ratified by the states. However, article #2, which stated that Congressional pay increases (or decreases) would not take effect until an election had ensued, eventually became the 27th Amendment on May 8, 1992, 203 years after it was first proposed. Articles 3 through 12 became the 1st through 10th Amendments of the federal Constitution upon Virginia's ratification on December 15, 1791.
Complete Transcript
CONGRESS of the UNITED STATES.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 1789
RESOLVED, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, two thirds of both houses deeming it necessary, that the following articles be proposed to the legislatures of the several states, as amendments to the constitution of the United States, all, or any of which articles, when ratified by three fourths of the said legislatures, to be valid, to all intents and purposes, as part of the said constitution.
ARTICLES in addition to, and amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America, proposed by Congress, and ratified by the legislatures of the several States, pursuant to the 5th article of the original constitution.
ARTICLE 1. After the first enumeration required by the first article of the constitution, there shall be one representative for every thirty thousand, until the number shall amount to one hundred, after which the proportion shall be so regulated by Congress, that there shall be not less than one hundred representatives, nor less than one representative for every forty thousand persons, until the number of representatives shall amount to two hundred, after which the proportion shall be so regulated by Congress that there shall not be less than two hundred representatives, nor more than one representative for every fifty thousand persons.
[First Amendment proposed: not ratified.]
ART. 2. No law varying the compensation to the members of Congress shall take effect, until an election of representatives shall have intervened.
[Second Amendment proposed: modified version ratified May 7, 1992 as the Twenty-Seventh Amendment.]
ART. 3. Congress shall make no law establishing religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, nor shall the rights of conscience be infringed.
[Modified version ratified as part of the First Amendment]
ART. 4. The freedom of speech, and of the press, and the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and consult for their common good, and to apply to the government for a redress of grievances, shall not be infringed.
[Modified version ratified as part of the First Amendment]
ART. 5. A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, being the best security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, but no one religiously scrupulous of bearing arms, shall be compelled to render military service in person.
[Modified version ratified as the Second Amendment]
ART. 6. No soldier shall in time of peace be quartered in any house without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
[Modified version ratified as the Third Amendment]
ART. 7. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated; and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
[Modified version ratified as the Fourth Amendment]
ART. 8. No person shall be subject, except in a case of impeachment, to more than one trial or one punishment for the same offence, nor shall be compelled in any criminal case, to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life or liberty or property, without due process of law, nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation.
[Modified version ratified as part of the Fifth Amendment]
ART. 9. In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, to be informed of the nature and the cause of the accusation, to be confronted by witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defence.
[Modified version ratified as part of the Sixth Amendment]
ART. 10. The trial of all crimes (except in cases of impeachment, and in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia when in actual service in time of war or public danger) shall be an impartial jury of the vicinage, with the requisite of unanimity for conviction; the right of challenging and other accustomed requisites; and no person shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment by a grand jury; but if a crime by committed in a place in the possession of an enemy, or in which an insurection may prevail, the indictment and trial may by law be authorised in some other place within the same state.
[Modified version ratified as parts of the Fifth and Sixth Amendment]
ART. 11. No appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States shall be allowed, where the value in controversy shall not amount to one thousand dollars; nor shall any fact triable by a jury according to the course of the common law, be otherwise re-examinable, than according to the rules of common law.
[Modified version ratified as part of the Seventh Amendment]
ART. 12. In suits of common law, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved.
[Modified version ratified as part of the Seventh Amendment]
ART. 13. Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
[Ratified as the Eighth Amendment]
ART. 14. No state shall infringe the right of trial by jury in criminal cases, nor the rights of conscience, nor the freedom of speech, or of the press.
[Modified version passed by Congress on June 13, 1866; ratified July 9, 1868, as part of the Fourteenth Amendment]
ART. 15. The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
[Ratified as the Ninth Amendment]
ART. 16. The powers delegated by the constitution to the government of the United States shall be exercised as therein appropriated, so that the legislative shall never exercise the powers vested in the executive or judicial; nor the executive the powers vested in the legislative or judicial; nor the judicial the powers vested in the legislative or executive.
[Dropped in subsequent drafts]
ART. 17. The powers not delegated by the constitution nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively.
[Modified version ratified as the Tenth Amendment]
Ordered, that the Clerk of this house do carry to the Senate a fair and engrossed copy of the said proposed articles of amendment, and desire their concurrence. Extract from the journals,
JOHN BECKLEY, Clerk.
Additional Content
This newspaper also prints "The Tablet" (p1/c1-2); an essay on processing sugar from maple trees, by "A Sugar Boiler" (p1/c2-3); proceedings of Congress on the location of the national capital, the safeguarding of official records and the great seal, and the establishment of the treasury department (p2/c2-p3/c3); a humorous poem on the scramble for the national capital (p3/c3); a continuation of "The Right Constitution of a Commonwealth Examined" (p4/c1-2); a continuation of "An Essay on Free Trade and Finances" (p4/c2-3); An Act to Provide for the Government of the Territory North-West of the River Ohio and An Act providing for Expences which may attend Negotiations or Treaties with the Indian Tribes, and the appointment of Commissioners for managing the same, both signed in type by George Washington and John Adams (p4/c3); and another installment of "The National Monitor" (p4/c3).
Gazette of the United States (1789-1793) was a semiweekly Federalist newspaper first published in New York City by John Fenno (1751-1798). It is often considered the most significant political newspaper of the late eighteenth century. In 1790, it followed the government to its temporary capital in Philadelphia. Early Acts of Congress and Presidential Pronouncements were often first printed in this newspaper, and it circulated to major cities where other Federalist newspapers copied freely from it. Among its pseudonymous contributors were Alexander Hamilton and John Adams. It continued under a variety of titles as a daily newspaper in Philadelphia from 1793 to 1818. After John Fenno's death in the 1798 yellow fever epidemic, his son John Ward Fenno continued the newspaper until 1800, when he sold it.
"The Tablet" appeared in the Gazette in every issue from the first, April 15, 1789, into August 1790, and then periodically to No. 155 in the April 9, 1791 issue. The first number announced its purpose "to touch upon such subjects as are calculated to afford amusement or instruction, without disturbing society with calumny and petulance." Anonymous contributors included publisher John Fenno and lexicographer Noah Webster (1758-1843), who shared a common political nationalism.
"The Right Constitution of a Commonwealth Examined" was written by Vice President John Adams (1735-1826). The first three-quarters of it appeared serially in the Gazette
between May 23 and November 4, 1789. Adams particularly criticized the republican theories of Marchamont Nedham (1620-1678), a pamphleteer during the English Civil War.
"An Essay on Free Trade and Finances" appeared serially in the Gazette
between June 3 and October 21, 1789. The author was Pelatiah Webster (1726-1795), an ordained Congregationalist minister and Philadelphia merchant. The essay was first published in Philadelphia on March 24, 1783. T. Bradford's bookstore in Philadelphia sold it in pamphlet form as early as April 1783. It was the sixth of seven essays Webster wrote on Free Trade and Finance between 1779 and 1785.
"The National Monitor" appeared in thirty-four numbers from April 25, 1789, and January 20, 1790. (Inventory #: 25430)
Offered by Seth Kaller, Inc.
by Arnold Lobel
First printing of this universal expression of male bonding and friendship as seen through all the seasons. INSCRIBED on front free endpaper "For Eddie from Arnold Lobel" with a sketch of Frog below (upper torso only, as usual). Lobel's four Frog & Toad books are highly collectible and with his premature death (at age 54) inscribed copies of his major titles seldom come onto the marketplace.
Offered by Batteldore.
Poster for a 1966 Appearance in France
Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Poster for a March 28, 1966 appearance by the Civil Rights leader together with singer Harry Belafonte at the Palais des Sports in Paris. Organized by the Comité de Soutien Franco-Américain pour l'Intégration Raciale, the event featured a speech by King and music from Harry Belafonte and French singer Hugues Aufray, sponsored by Suze Liqueur. Two-color poster, with folding creases, one tear to the right edge, minimal wear and toning; overall very good. Sight size 14.5 x 22.5 inches (37 x 57 cm), archivally matted and framed to an overall size of 20.5 x 26.5 inches.In March 1966, King and Belafonte went to Europe for fundraising appearances on behalf of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, starting with the Palais des Sports in Paris on the 28th, and closing in Sweden on the 31st. This poster for the French appearance is emblazoned with the logo of a sponsor, Suze Liqueur, and also cites the French-American Committee for Racial Integration as the organizing body. The opening act for the evening was the popular French folksinger Hugues Aufray doing a set of Bob Dylan covers, followed by a set by Belafonte. Dr. King closed out the evening with a speech on civil rights, touching on the war in Vietnam and American support for South African apartheid. The tour raised more than $100,000, but drew the wrath of the American ambassador to France for airing American problems overseas. See Ross, Hollywood Left and Right, p. 220. We have traced no other copies of this poster at auction or elsewhere.
Offered by Schubertiade Music & Arts.
Where Do We Go From Here? Chaos or Comminity?
By Martin Luther King, Jr.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1967. First edition of King's "last grand expression of his vision" (Cornel West). Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with eight pages of black-and-white photogravures. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Mr. Otto E. Geppert Martin Luther King Jr." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, small date to the endpaper. Jacket design by Ronald Clyne. Jacket photograph of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Bob Fitch. Where Do We Go from Here is Dr. King's analysis of the state of American race relations and the movement after a decade of U.S. civil rights struggles. ''With Selma and the Voting Rights Act one phase of development in the civil rights revolution came to an end,'' he observed (King, 3). King believed that the next phase in the movement would bring its own challenges, as African Americans continued to make demands for better jobs, higher wages, decent housing, an education equal to that of whites, and a guarantee that the rights won in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 would be enforced by the federal government.
Offered by Raptis Rare Books.
The Heart is a Muscle (First Edition, 1 of 15 copies with print signed by Hal Hartley)
by Hal Hartley
Stockholm: Libraryman, 2010. First Edition. First Edition. One of 15 unnumbered copies with a chromogenic print SIGNED by director Hal Hartley affixed to the last leaf. A collection of selected film still photographs from the noted independent filmmaker's oeuvre, beginning with his 1988 debut "The Unbelievable Truth" up to the 2011 film "Meanwhile", with stills from "Amateur" (1994), "Flirt" (1995), and "Henry Fool" (1997), and others. 81 color plates. Fine in glossy perfect bound wrappers, with no dust jacket as issued.
Offered by Royal Books.
by P.G. Wodehouse
London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1938. First English Edition. [Jasen 58A in a later dust jacket]. Preceded by the first American Doubleday, Doran edition, published in Oct. 8, 1937. This edition was published on Feb. 11 1938. 12mo., red cloth, stamped in black, 312 pages, plus eight-page catalog; in later "2/6 net" price on spine [whereas the earliest dust jacket is priced at "7/6 net." on the spine]. Very Good (little soil covers; contents clean & tight but for a tiny spot fore-edge; neat ink name front endpaper); some edgewear (few small chips & tears- some with internal mends with archival tape) d/j.
Offered by Antic Hay Books.
by FOWLER, H. ALFRED
Kansas City: H. Alfred Fowler, 1912. First edition. First edition. Original decorative card paper wrappers. The rare "Eragny Press" number (Volume I, Number 3) which features notes on bookplates by Esther and Lucien Pissarro, by J. M. Andreini, including three superb color printed specimens of book plates by the Pissarros, printed in colors on china paper and tipped-in. A scarce and very attractive rendering. There are also two other features in the number. Near fine.
Offered by Nudelman Rare Books.
New York: Barrymore Theatre, 2002. Unbound. Fine. Color insert poster. 18" x 22". Printed on thin poster cardstock with a photographic image, with printed gold circle noting it was opening night. Top corners a little bumped, else fine. Poster for a show featuring the cantankerous relationship between Hellman and McCarthy, written by Nora Ephron, music by Marvin Hamlisch, and lyrics by Craig Carnelia. The poster is Signed by the entire opening night cast including Swoosie Kurtz, Cherry Jones (who has inscribed it: "Cold Eye/Sharp Tongue. Love you Abe"), Harry Groener, Anne Pitoniak, Anne Allgood, Bernard Dotson, Rosena M. Hill, Gina Lamparella, Dirk Lumbard, Peter Marx, Perry Ojeda, Karyn Quackenbush, and stand-in Susan Pellegrino. The show ran for about two months and 76 performances. Presumably not many of these would be found, especially signed, and particularly on opening night.
Offered by Between the Covers Rare Books.
by JAMES, P. D.
London: Faber, 1962. First. hardcover. Very good./Very good.. A very good first edition with a charming inscription by James on the front free endpaper to a close friend ("with love") and the humorous comment ("P.S. I wrote it! You bought it!!!). The author's first book. Housed in a custom-made set of slipcases.
Offered by Bookbid.
by WILDE, OSCAR
London & New York: A.R. Keller & Co, 1907. leather_bound. Orig. brown calf, backstrips lettered in gilt. Teg. 15 Vols. Near fine. 21 x 14 cm. The Oxford Uniform Edition. Limited edition, copy 103 of 250. Title pages printed in red and black. Host of illustrations with lettered tissue guards by assorted artists, 48 in total, including Aubrey Beardsley who illustrates "The Sphinx." Bright, fresh set, wide text margins, covers embossed with floral and ribbon motif bearing a central ornament on front cover -- a Nightingale from "Nightingale and the Rose." A few backstrip extremities very slightly rubbed.
Offered by Roy Young, Bookseller.
Superb Abraham Lincoln Signed Photo Authenticated, Slabbed, and Graded Mint 9!
"A. Lincoln" as President, Washington, DC, August 9, 1863. Albumen photograph, 2.5" x 3.5" including card backing, lower corners rounded, top edge trimmed, Gardener's backstamp on verso. Hamilton and Ostendorf, Lincoln in Photographs: An Album of Every Known Pose, O-71B. Authenticated, slabbed, and graded Mint 9 by PSA. Sold for over $65,000 at Christie's in 2004.
On Thursday, August 6, in accordance with a proclamation issued by Lincoln, a day of thanksgiving and prayer was observed throughout the North in the wake of recent important Union military successes at Gettysburg and Vicksburg. In this well-known portrait by Gardner, Lincoln is seated at an ornate circular table, his legs crossed, holding a newspaper in his left hand, his reading glasses in his right. His expression - especially in the lines about his mouth - is resolute and determined. According to John Hay, who accompanied the President to Gardner's studio, Lincoln "was in very good spirits" that day. The images of Lincoln by Gardner that day are the first photographs taken in Gardner's new studio. Lincoln had promised Gardner to be the first to sit for a portrait, and decided on a Sunday visit, in order to avoid curiosity seekers and onlookers in the streets of the capital.
This item comes with a Certificate from John Reznikoff, a premier authenticator for both major 3rd party authentication services, PSA and JSA (James Spence Authentications), as well as numerous auction houses.
Offered by University Archives.
Hollywood: American Movie City
by RAND, AYN
Moscow & Leningrad, 1926. First edition. Very Good +. Original pictorial wraps. 48 pages. Wraps with some light soiling; spine restored, pages gently toned throughout. Else, a tight and complete copy of this rare work, which last appeared at auction over a decade ago in 2008. Rand's second published work, Hollywood appeared in Russia during her youth. "Trapped in the totalitarian dictatorship of Soviet Russia, the young Ayn Rand found a lifeline in the form of foreign movies. In her late teens, she kept a journal in which she recorded each movie she saw, along with a list of the cast, the director, the date she saw the movie and a grade rating. She also studied writing for the screen, and two of her pieces were published in Russia in 1925 and 1926" (Federer). The second was the present work. "In Hollywood, one can see the very beginnings of the development of Ayn Rand's literary style" as she set the scene of Los Angeles and introduces Russian language readers to such icons as Cecil B. DeMille (Federer). A scarce and important foundation for Rand's later work. Very Good +.
Offered by Whitmore Rare Books.
Bournemouth and London: W. Mate & Sons, 1913. Softcover. Very good. Travel brochure/booklet. 8.25 x 4.5 inches, 23 pp, illustrated with b/w photos, double-page route map at center. Light cover wear; very good. Includes sections on Belgian seaside resorts; towns to visit from the coast (Bruges, Ypres, Furnes, Ghent); Brussels and Antwerp; Liege, Namur, and the Ardennes; Tournai, Mons, Charleroi. At the end are various tours and itineraries, an invitation to seek further information from your local Thos. Cook office, and a page describing features of the upcoming Universal and International Exhibition in Ghent.
Offered by Walkabout Books.
Anne with an E (Anne of Green Gables)
by KRAUSE, DOROTHY SIMPSON. L. M. MONTGOMERY
Ft. Lauderdale, FL, 2019. Artist's book, unique, an altered book, signed by the artist on the rear pastedown, "DKrause." Page size: 5 x 8 inches; 20pp. Bound by the artist: in the original boards of a used copy of the 100th anniversary edition of this children's classic. The artist removed the covers, spine, and eight illustrations and inserted a strip of ochre leather which became the new spine. Details from the original black and white illustrations were then watercolored and placed on botanically-printed pages. The whole was then bound using original boards of anniversary edition and a slipcase made using the original spine of the book. The artist's title, ANNE with an e, is written in pencil by the artist below the cover portrait of "Anne." taken from a postcard. This altered book was occasioned by the artist's visit to Charlottetown, PEI, the setting for Montgomery's story.
Offered by Priscilla Juvelis.
Harper's Weekly: September 28, 1861 Hand Colored Cartoons (1 page only)
Harper's Weekly, 1861. Paperback. Paperback. Includes 4 hand colored ads about the Union and Sucession, Chipping to edges. Size: 16 x 11 inches. Frameable. PRINTS/041620.
Offered by Kelmscott Bookshop.
The Antikamnia calendar 1899 [-1900]
by ANTIKAMNIA CHEMICAL COMPANY; LOUIS CRUSIUS
St. Louis: Antikamnia Chemical Co, 1898. Antikamnia Chemical Company. (1) The Antikamnia calendar 1899. 6 sheets (plus duplicate of November-December sheet). Chromolithograph illustrations after watercolors by Louis Crusius (1862-98). St. Louis: Antikamnia Chemical Company, 1898. (2) The Antikamnia calendar 1900. 6 sheets. Chromolithograph illustrations after watercolors by Louis Crusius (1862-98). St. Louis: Antikamnia Chemical Company, 1899. Together 2 items. 254 x 177 mm. Edges a bit frayed, marginal dampstains, but good to very good. First Editions of the 1899 and 1900 promotional calendars issued by the Antikamnia Chemical Company, featuring the comically macabre "skeleton sketches" of Louis Crusius, a physician and amateur artist. The St. Louis-based company produced these calendars in limited editions between 1897 and 1901, sending them to "members of the Medical Profession" in the United States and Europe to advertise the patent medicine "Antikamnia," a pain reliever based on the coal tar derivative acetanilide. Although the Antikamnia Chemical Company aggressively promoted its product as a certain remedy for everything from headaches to tuberculosis, the main ingredient, acetanilide, was known to be toxic in high doses or to sensitive individuals. After passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906, which mandated that products containing dangerous drugs be clearly labeled as such, the makers of Antikamnia attempted to skirt this requirement by replacing acetanilide with its less toxic derivative, acetphenitidin. In 1910 U.S. marshals seized a shipment of Antikamnia for violating the Pure Food and Drug Act, and in 1914 the Supreme Court ruled against the company for failing to state that its product contained an acetanilide derivative. The Antikamnia Chemical Company went out of business a few years later, although not before making the fortune of one of its founders, Frank A. Ruf, who died a millionaire in 1923. B. Lovejoy, "The Deadly Pain Medicine Sold by Skeletons." Mental Floss, 7 May 2016 (web).
Offered by Jeremy Norman & Co.
Americans All! : Victory Liberty Roll : Du Bois, Smith ... Et Al. (Poster)
by Howard Chandler Christy
Boston: Forbes, 1919. poster. Near fine condition. World War I bond poster conservation mounted on paper and linen. Columbia hangs a wreath above a list of ethnic European surnames united in generous sacrifice. Printed in full color. Poster measures 40 x 27 inches
Offered by James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers.
by Ruth Berolzheimer
The Culinary Arts Institute / Consolidated Book Publishers, Inc, 1943. Reissue. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Includes scarce publisher's box, with original publisher's list price of $3.75 (which is equivalent to over $50 today). Near fine book in very good jacket. Box rubbed with a few light spots, jacket edges lightly rubbed with 1 inch closed tear on front corner. 1943 Hard Cover. viii, 816, A-H, 1-64 pp. 8vo. Delightful American cookbook with a wartime theme, printed during World War II. Extensive index follows text. Appended to original text are the following sections: Wartime Cookery; How to Feed a Family of Five on $15.00 Per Week (includes a menu with a full month of recipes). Many color photos and memorable recipes. Thumb-indexed. Frontispiece portrait of Douglas MacArthur.
Offered by Yesterday's Muse.
1992 Postcard from Paul Bowles to Gregory Corso (With Accompanying Envelope from Tangier)
1992. Original wraps. Near Fine. A wonderful piece of post-War literary ephemera, a dense, neatly-written postcard from Paul Bowles (at his Tangier residence) to Gregory Corso (in New York). Clean and Near Fine, dated November 3rd, 1992. "dear Gregory: It was good to hear from you after such a very long time. Forgive the card, sent in place of a letter. I'm still in bed, where I've been since the middle of June, and the pain doesn't go away. So I'm grateful to you for the pills you entrusted to Paola Iglioni. Pain is something I can do happily without. There's nothing much to write about. Tangier, like the rest of the world, has grown larger, uglier, more crowded and expensive. Everyone tells me it's preferable to New York, so I stay right on here. Very likely I'll draw my last breath here. But cremation is forbidden in this country. A problem. Anyway, again thanks. best, Paul B." The card is crisp and very sharp, as is the original light-pink, hand-addressed envelope which houses it and which shows 2 clear postmarks from Tangier. And the postcard's image is of the Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco.
Offered by Appledore Books.
Autograph Letter Signed, to "Dear Mrs [Richard] Darcy", with accompanying photograph
by Rudyard Kipling
1898. Both sides of a card, which bears the heading "The Elms | Rottingdean, | nr Brighton." Dated Dec 12, 1898. In its original envelope, which provides the recipent's address "The Cottage, Clifton," with both Rottingdean and Brighton postmarks. With accompanying sepia photographic portrait of Kipling standing on a sailing vessel (mounted on gilt-edged card). This is a very intriguing, if not tantalizing, letter from Rudyard Kipling to a Mrs Darcy. It reads: That is indeed a beautiful photograph. Of course _we_ know what it means; but to the average spectator it looks very much as if your sailing-master had "shanghaied" one of the inhabitants of Adrigole and the unhappy native was slowly reviving on the decks of the _Margharita_. And the worst of it is, I can't explain to anyone that they are your husband's clothes I'm wearing! I feel I never thanked you properly for the good times you gave me on the yacht that wonderful day ... [+ final long sentence hard to decipher] ... With best regards to your husband, Very sincerely yours [signed] Rudyard Kipling. Accompanying the letter is a photo of Kipling standing on a sailing vessel, presumably the Margharita; Mrs Darcy must have sent it to Kipling, and with this letter he was returning it to her. We have not been able to learn who Mr & Mrs Richard Darcy were, in connection with Kipling. But we DO know (a) that Adrigole is a harbor village on the southwest corner of Ireland; (b) that the Darcys' hometown of Clifton is right by Bristol, on the southwest shore of England -- not all that far from Adrigole; and (c) that Kipling spent some time in Autumn 1898, including time in Adrigole's Bantry Bay, observing naval manoeuvres on board the Pelorus (the guest of Captain Bayly). At that time, Kipling must have spent a day on board the (Darcys'?) yacht, and subsequently (after each was back in England) she sent him a letter enclosing this photograph of Kipling. It is tempting to jump to the conclusion that this was some sort of illicit rendezvous -- and in fact, whatever dealer previously wrote a description for this letter (several decades ago) did just that. However, the jocular tone of Kipling's letter, combined with the formality of both the greeting and the signature, leads us to suggest that they simply had "good times on the yacht that wonderful day" -- perhaps (for all we know) with numerous other people. The puzzle that Kipling is wearing her husband's clothes is most easily solved by the idea that his clothes got soaked, as often happens on a sailboat. The letter/card is in very good condition (one corner has a few creases, with a couple of short pieces of tape, one of which encroaches on RK's signature; both the envelope and the photo are fine.
Offered by Sumner & Stillman.
Book 171: A Kinetic Book Collage
by Keith A. Smith
24 hand-cut pages with intricate geometric designs. 8vo (200 x 160 mm.), hand-sewn to a pleat by the artist, saw-tooth spine, marbled endpapers. [Rochester]: Keith A. Smith, October 1994. One of Smith's most splendid creations, one of only three copies produced. Here, for the first time, the artist employed a new method of spine sewing. In personal correspondence Smith writes that he was inspired by Eikoh Hosoe's famous Kamaitachi in the conception of this book. From the printed explanatory text laid-in: "The geometric forms were drawn with the program Aldus Freehand™ on a Power Macintosh 7100/66. The drawings were proofed onto typing paper using a Laserwriter II NT. These were cut and bound as a prototype as a means of a sketch of the book. The designs of several pages were then altered and proofed. The end result was printed onto various laid and etching papers. The sections are pamphlet sewn to a pleat, which is decorated by cutting and folding. The spine sewing is devised by Keith Smith, and this is the first use of this new sewing." A superb example of Smith's ingenuity with the book form. Smith gave the other copies to his partner and a friend. His books are hardly ever available on the market. ❧ K.A. Smith, 200 Books, p. 281-"Book 171 is hand cut and hand bound. The title means that no single page is the collage, but it is a layer of pages, ever-changing as pages are turned."
Offered by Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller.
Jonas Salk typed signed letter with envelope
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: [ University of Pittsburgh ], 1955. First Edition. Near Fine. First Edition. Single 8 1/2 x 11 inch sheet. A TLS (typed letter signed) from Jonas Salk dated August 25, 1955 on University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine letterhead thanking a Mr. Arthur Wilson for his good wishes. 'It was very kind of you to express your good wishes; we appreciate having them.' SIGNED boldly in ink 'Jonas E. Salk'. Creasing as expected for a mailed letter. Includes the matching mailing envelope with Virus Research Laboratory return address.
Dr. Jonas E. Salk is best known for his discovery of a safe and effective polio vaccine. His development of the vaccine was completed during a very intense period of several years (even though other scientists had been pursuing different research paths since the late 1930s). The new vaccine was officially announced on April 12, 1955. A competing 'live-virus' vaccine by Dr. Sabin was eventually discontinued in favor of Salks 'dead-virus' vaccine because of the greater efficacy of Salk's vaccine.
Offered by Kuenzig Books.
Dorchester, MA: Walter Baker & Co., Ltd, 1913. Oblong 8vo, pp. 39, [1], followed by 6 high-quality chromolithograph plates of Walter Baker products; 5 other full-page illustrations; fine in original maroon cloth, gilt-lettered on upper cover. The educational exhibit consists of what presumably is a salesman's wooden lacquered case (approx. 9½" x 5½" x 3½"), with a hinged lid on top, and a brass plaque and pull; mounted inside the lid are 4 Baker products, and inside the box itself are four apothecary viles, each still containing Baker products! Uncommon salesman's sample case and companion handbook which were released to promote the Walter Baker "health-giving breakfast cocoa and chocolate." The text explains the transformation of the cocoa seeds from the raw material, describes the early uses of cocoa and chocolate, a description and analysis of the cocoa seeds, the cocoa tree and the gathering of the crop. The four vials represent the various stages of cocoa production, and the cocoa tin mounted 1nside the lid preserves the trademarked chocolate server logo, La Belle Chocolatiere, adopted by the company in 1883 after a painting by the Swiss artists Jean-Etienne Liotard. Founded in 1780 the Walter Baker Company grew throughout the 19th century and into the 20th becoming one of the largest in the United States. Purchased by the Forbes syndicate in 1896, the brand was eventually absorbed in 1979 by Kraft Foods.
Offered by Rulon-Miller Books.
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by Giovani Boccacio
Venice: Repario and Cesano, 1551. vellum. 393 pages. Engraved title page. Full vellum binding with red leather spine label. Thick 12mo [4.5x6.5cm]. Vellum shows soiling, edgewear and some stains. Front hinge cracked but binding sound. Spine label dulled and chipped. Most of the inside paste down pulled out leaving residue and border. Some rippling to rear pastedown. Title page foxed, otherwise clean with mild toning. Good. Item #76851
Boccacio's first major work, preceding the DeCameron. A retelling of the 12th Century French romance. In Italian.
Offered by Aardvark Books and found in "Recent Acquisitions."
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Chidester, Ann. Young Pandora.
New York: Scribner’s, 1942. First edition, first printing. Inscribed by Chidester to Irma Wyckoff, secretary to Maxwell Perkins: “With best wishes to Miss Wyckoff, Sincerely, Ann Chidester”. Additionally laid in to this copy are a typed letter signed and typed postcard signed, also to Irma Wyckoff. Publisher’s pale blue-green cloth; in original blue dust jacket with an illustration by Cleon. Near fine book; in very good unclipped dust jacket with some wear and shallow nicks to corners, a few small closed tears to head of spine, 1” closed tear to top edge of rear panel near the spine, a few small tears to bottom of rear panel, front panel bright and fresh. Overall, a pleasant copy, with an interesting association. Young Pandora is Ann Chidester’s first novel. It is autobiographical in nature, featuring a young girl from the Midwest who falls in love, travels, and begins a writing career. Chidester wrote five novels and many short stories, focusing on women’s issues and the plight of the poor. She was close friends with her publisher at Scribner’s, Maxwell Perkins, who famously published F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe. This copy of Young Pandora was inscribed by Chidester to Irma Wykoff, Perkins’ devoted secretary. Also included are a typed letter and postcard. In them, she discusses their mutual acquaintance Marian, an editor at Mademoiselle, and Chidester’s recent move to Taos, NM. She also talks about the new book she is writing, Mable Dodge Luhan’s literary colony, and refers to Perkins as “my friend, Mr. God.”
Offered by B&B Rare Books and found in "ABAA Virtual Book Fair List."
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Not So Deep as a Well: The Collected Poems (Signed, Limited)
by Dorothy Parker.
New York: The Viking Press, 1936 First Edition 210 pages. "This volume contains all of Dorothy Parker's poems excepting a few which she did not wish to retain..."— copyright page. This volume has all of Parker's bestknown verse. Decorations by Valenti Angelo. This is one of 485 numbered copies signed by Parker on a tipped-in page. First edition (first printing). Some spotting to fore-edge of book; a bit of discoloration along the gutter of the limitation page, due to the glue used to attach it. No dust jacket, as issued, but with the goldpaper slipcase showing some shelfwear at the edge. An attractive copy.
Offered by Downton Brown Books, found in "List 16: Modern First Editions" (item #15).
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(Anonymous) Immense Succés La Caméléonnia. Affiches Américaines: Ch. Levy. Paris:10 rue Martel. (Ca 1895). Colored lithographic poster on paper. Mounted on silk. 22 ½” x 31" folds, chips to margins. Colors bright. The poster advertises a cabaret dancer who wore and waved colored silks in front on electric lights to create a diaphanous effect of movement in colors. This type of performance was pioneered by Loie Fuller but copied in cabarets at the time. The dancer is lost to time. Her name suggests the color changes of a chamaeleon and also evokes the theme of the Dumas story made into a play La Dame aux Camélias (1852). Rare. Only location is at Musée Carnavalet. A
Offered by Golden Legend and found in "Images of Bellet and Danse."
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JONATHAN A. HILL, BOOKSELLER, INC.
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Chicago & Western Soap Works Fine Toilet Soaps Illustrated Catalog
No date, probably around 1900. A wonderful trade catalog of fine soaps, most in fancy paper wrappers, with large colored illustrations. Since this is a trade catalog the text dispenses with the usual vacuous frou-ha used on the public and gets down to the nuts and bolts- beauty of packaging, actual ingredients, and how well it sells (they all seem to sell really really well). Softcover. 4”x6.5”. 56 pages, color illustrations. Minor soil, light wear.
Offered by Joslin Hall Rare Books and found in "Catalog 411."
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ALBUM des titres d’alimentation. Septembre 1941. 3eme Bureau.
1941. 31.5cm x 21cm. One typed sheet tipped in followed by 21 ll, [1 - blank] leaf (of which five of the leaves have manuscript and documents recto and verso; the other sixteen recto only). Contemporary plain paper wrappers, title in manuscript on the upper wrapper, light wear to the edges of the wrappers and some sunning. $1500.00 An incredible document from the German occupation of Paris during the Second World War. The Germans took control of Paris on June 14th, 1940. Already, food was scarce in France due to much of the work force having already left for war and the supply chains from France’s colonies greatly disrupted. This was made far worse when Germany occupied France. Immediately, the remaining French products were sent to Germany to support the German cause, and only what was left over, was made available to the French through a strict rationing system.
The current album relates to the rations available in Paris during the month of September, 1941. On the upper wrapper is written “3eme Bureau;” this likely refers to the rationing office of the 3rd arrondissement in Paris. The first leaf is a typescript index for the album (all leaves are present). The sheets are numbered 1-21 (with a few versos numbered with a “bis” number) and contain the original ration sheets that were being issued by the German occupation government during the war. The sheets are pasted in, and in most cases, small ration tags are cut out and mounted alongside. On each sheet, there is also manuscript information that explains the quantity of the given foodstuff that the ration is good for and how it is to be administered. For example, one ration tag is good for 325 grams of butter, another for 60 grams of cheese, and so on. The foods included are bread; meat and cold cuts; and matières grasses (i.e. oil; butter; cheese; beef fat; margarine; and lard). There is also a special coupon for workers which entitles them to greater amounts of food. On the verso of that coupon, it states “L’hiver qui s’aproche sera rude. Les effectifs des cuisines d’entr’aide vont croître. Vous aiderez le SECOURS NATIONAL à « tenir ». Et la misere reculera !” (The coming winter will be harsh. The number of service kitchens [i.e. soup kitchens] will increase. You will help SECOURS NATIONAL to “hold on.” And misery will recede!) Also laid in is a contemporary newspaper clip entitled “Le ravitaillement. Les rations alimentaires du mois de juillet” and an unused contemporary German postcard (printed in Berlin) that is a picture of German ration coupons.3 A remarkable glimpse into the conditions under which the Parisians had to live during the Second World War. In good condition and preserved in an archival folder.
Offered by Ben Kinmont, Bookseller and found in "Gastronomy & Economic Precarity."
JOHN W. KNOTT, JR., BOOKSELLER
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Ascham, Roger
19th c. calf, single gilt filet framing the boards, hinges discreetly repaired, gilt spine, label chipped, edges worn. Fine copy with the initial leaf with signature mark and blank ¶8 both present. Marginal worm-trail to blank lower margin in middle signatures, not affecting text. Title with decorative border, woodcut of Robert Dudley, Earl Leicester’s emblem (the muzzled bear) inscribed with the Garter motto on leaf ¶3. Woodcut initials, diagram of divisions of the Mass, some passages in Greek. Rare. 7 institutional holdings in North America. Provenance: bookplates of George Stokes, Cardiff Castle, and Robert Pirie.
One of the greatest of the Tudor humanists, Ascham was favored by Henry VIII, to whom he dedicated his “Toxophilus”, tutor to the princess Elizabeth, and author of a masterpiece of English pedagogy, “The Scholemaster”. Ascham also tutored the boy king Edward VI in the art of elegant handwriting, and Edward thought of him fondly, and so it is of interest that Ascham wrote this “reformed” work while Edward was being groomed by his close advisors to be a thoroughly Protestant monarch.
Roger Ascham (1515/16-1568) penned his ‘Apologia pro Caena Dominica contra Missam & eius Praestigias’ (‘A Defense of the Lord’s Supper against the Mass and its Magic’) at Cambridge in 1547/8 during the first year of Edward VI’s reign. It was published in Ascham’s name some thirty years later (and about ten years after Ascham’s death) in 1577/8, together with his dedicatory preface to Robert Dudley and his other theological pieces, which are also in Latin...
Offered by Liber Antiquus and found in "Rare Books & Manuscripts 13th-18th c."
J. & J. LUBRANO MUSIC ANTIQUARIANS
STUART LUTZ HISTORIC DIOCUMENTS
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Jaws 3D Poster (with Glasses Still Attached) "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" Version
Hallmark, 1983. Minor shelf/edge wear, else bright and clean. Approx. 20x28" Very Good+. There were at least two versions of this poster, one with "I Love Everybody) at the top and this one with "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner." This is clearly the preferred version. A scarce poster to find in good condition, especially in as find condition as seen here.
Offered by Lux Mentis Booksellers and found in "Poster Print Art."
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JESSE, J. HENEAGE. LONDON: ITS CELEBRATED CHARACTERS AND REMARKABLE PLACES
(London: Richard Bentley, 1871) 200 x 130 mm. (7 3/4 x 5”). Three volumes expanded to six. “SPECIAL COPY, extra illustrated in six volumes.” CHARMING OLIVE GREEN CRUSHED MOROCCO, GILT AND WITH PICTORIAL INLAY, BY BAYNTUN (stamp-signed on front turn-in), upper covers with leafy strapwork gilt frame, central inlay in multiple colors of morocco depicting one of the characters from the book, with gilt lettering beneath it, lower covers with gilt-rule frame, raised bands, spines gilt in compartments with strapwork and leaf ornament, gilt lettering, gilt-ruled turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Housed together in a green cloth slipcase. WITH 537 PLATES, consisting of 27 folding plates (nine hand-colored), 124 hand-colored plates (19 of them from the Rowlandson “Dr. Syntax” series), and 386 black & white engravings, all but one of the plates with original tissue guard. Spines evenly sunned to a pleasing hazel brown, one leaf with neat repair to upper corner (away from text), occasional mild foxing to plates (usually marginal, never offensive), other trivial imperfections, but A VERY FINE SET, clean and fresh, with none of the offsetting that usually plagues extra-illustrated works, IN SPARKLING BINDINGS.
This is perhaps the ultimate copy of Jesse’s entertaining and informative tour of his beloved city and the characters who have inhabited it over the centuries: it was professionally “grangerized” with fine specimens of 96 relevant prints, all with tissue guards; it was beautifully bound by a leading firm in a style that perfectly complements the contents; and, despite these obvious benefits, it has seen very little use. John Heneage Jesse (1809-74) wrote a number of popular historical works, including royal biographies and court memoirs, that drew praise for their conscientious attention to fact and detail, if not for their originality or wit. Described by DNB as “a dedicated Londoner, [who] seldom ventured away from the metropolitan area,” Jesses leads us here through the districts of his home city, relating anecdotes, noting the locations of momentous events, and pointing out architectural treasures. The added portraits, scenes, and views help to bring his account to life, and the diligent use of tissue guards has prevented these illustrations from affecting the adjacent leaves in a detrimental way. Rowlandson’s famous caricatures from “Dr. Syntax,” portraying the amusing adventures of a country parson in the metropolis, comprise just one example of the half a thousand inserted plates here. The bindings from Bayntun of Bath depict some of the humble characters whose presence gives the capital so much of its flavor: those who sell their wares on the streets and do everyday jobs that keep the city running. The Bayntun firm, founded in Bath in 1894, is now the last of the great Victorian trade binderies still in family ownership. Our binding probably dates from the first quarter of the 20th century, when the workshop was known for imaginative designs that involved the augmenting of gilt decoration with inlaid pictorial designs.
Offered by Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and found in "Catalogue 76" (item #100).
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30 volumes. Paris: En la Imprenta de E. Thunot y Cª; text Paris: en casa del Autor and Chile: en el Museo de Historia Natural de Santiago, 1844-1871. Large 4° (37 x 29 cm.) and large 8º, text in contemporary quarter green morocco over marbled boards, atlas in contemporary half morocco; spines gilt, some rubbed, head and tail of a few volumes frayed. Hinge of volume II of atlas strengthened; spines of 2 atlas volumes and 4 volumes of text not quite uniform. Together 30 volumes (28 volumes text, in 8°, and 2 volumes atlas, in large 4°). Some foxing to text, very occasional marginal spotting to plates, tear in lower margin of one plate (affecting caption). A handsome set overall. Rubberstamps of former owner on all half-titles, and on titles of text volumes. 30 volumes.
FIRST EDITION. Monumental account of the natural and civil history of Chile, with two volumes of beautiful illustrations, mostly hand-colored. Gay’s work set the tone for all future historiographers of Chile with its meticulous examination of sources, including contemporary documents from the period immediately following the conquest. The overall condition of this copy as well as the quality of the plates and coloring are far superior to most. In fact, many copies are without coloring altogether. In addition, this set has the complete text, which is unusual since the work was issued over a period of 27 years. The two volumes of the atlas contain a total of 315 plates: one tinted lithographic frontispiece portrait; 20 engraved maps plus a folding cloth-backed map of Chile; two hand-colored plates of antiquities; 53 lithographic plates of views and costumes (12 are hand-finished colored, 41 are tinted); and 238 hand-colored engraved plates (103 botanical, 135 zoological).
Offered by Richard C. Ramer, Old & Rare Books and found in "Special LIst 376 : Zoology."
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INTERNATIONAL LADIES' GARMENT WORKERS' UNION
Signature of 450,000: This publication is a presentation of the 65th Anniversary Convention of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, Miami Beach, Florida, May 1965.
New York: ILGWU, 1965. 64 pages. Compilation of photographs that tell the history of the ILGWU to commemorate the union's 65th anniversary. Original union receipt, showing purchase of this book, tipped in. Side-stapled with tanning to edges of back cover. Mild wear to front cover with a minute crease to the edge of the right upper corner; lower right corned and pages slightly creased as well, not effecting text. Circular stain on the letter "u" of title, not effecting readability, else very good.
Offered by Tomberg Rare Books and found in "E-list #27."
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Pool, Bill W. (Editor). Compton Police Annual.
Compton, CA: Compton Police Officers Association, 1964. 8.5 x 11 inches, 72 pp, with illustrations and ads. Three-hole punched, police department stamp on front cover, one gathering loose front staples; very good. Fourth annual edition of this periodical, which was used to raise funds for the Officers Relief Fund and to inform the public of "some of our problems and functions."
Within a year, there would be riots--founded in a long history of friction between African-American residents and the police--in neighboring Watts, and by 1970, Compton would have the highest crime rate in California. This publication starts with a positive story showcasing of a newly completed police building, and includes articles about successful police operations and public safety tips. But hints of the policecommunity tension to come are also present. An article titled "'Defenders of the Peace' in Community and Human Relations" asks citizens to support the efforts of the police, complaining that "unjust charges are sometimes made against the police. Charges made or rumored by persons who do not have all the facts. When this happens, police morale is jeopardized and the development of an esprit de corps is made difficult." Another, titled "Take the Handcuffs Off Our Police," argues that by overzealous interpretation of constitutional rights "we are increasingly throttling our law enforcement officers with judge-made rulings that stagger common sense." And an editorial proclaims that "now, more than ever before in our history, one is either for law enforcement or he's against it. He's either for mob rule--or he's for the law. He's either for America--or he's against America. Let's begin to make our laws say what they mean and mean what they say--and let everybody know it." No holdings (of any issue) located in OCLC.
Offered by Walkabout Books and found in "List 16: Police & Community in the United States" (item #27).
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de Beauvoir, Simone. Le Deuxieme Sexe (in 2 vols.).
Paris: Gallimard, 1949\. First edition. Original publisher's cloth bindings with titles to spine and pictorial illustrations of Mario Prassinos to boards. Pegasus motif endpapers. Gentle rubbing to extremities of spines; gentle bumps to corners. Front board of volume II mildly bowed. In all, a pleasing pair of this important philosophical work, which was released in a limited edition of 2,105 copies, including the present set which is one of 2,000 numbered copies on Alfama Marais paper. One of the preeminent French existentialist philosophers, working alongside other intellectual greats such as Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, Simone de Beauvoir made her greatest contributions in the fields of ethics, feminism, and politics. She is perhaps best known for the present work, The Second Sex, which argues that women have been historically relegated to a second class as men's 'Other,' and that this has led to systemic oppression. "Her revolutionary magnum opus, it was published in two volumes and immediately found both an eager audience and harsh critics. The Second Sex was so controversial that the Vatican put it on the Index of Prohibited Books...Striking for its breadth of research and the profundity of its central insights, it remains to this day one of the foundational texts in philosophy, feminism, and women's studies" (Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Near Fine.
Offered by Whitmore Rare Books and found in "RBMS Virtual Showcase."
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This fascinating blog post about the history of vellum and parchment is written by Richard Norman, an experienced British bookbinder now living in France, where he runs Eden Wookshops with his wife and fellow bookbinder, Margaret, specializing in Family Bibles and liturgical books. The article originally appeared on www.edenworkshops.com, and is reprinted below with the author's permission.
--Editor
According to the Roman Varro and Pliny's Natural History, vellum and parchment were invented under the patronage of Eumenes of Pergamum, as a substitute for papyrus, which was temporarily not being exported from Alexandria, its only source.
Herodotus mentions writing on skins as common in his time, the 5th century BC; and in his Histories (v.58) he states that the Ionians of Asia Minor had been accustomed to give the name of skins (diphtherai) to books; this word was adapted by Hellenized Jews to describe scrolls. Parchment (pergamenum in Latin), however, derives its name from Pergamon, the city where it was perfected (via the French parchemin). In the 2nd century B.C. a great library was set up in Pergamon that rivalled the famous Library of Alexandria. As prices rose for papyrus and the reed used for making it was over-harvested towards local extinction in the two nomes of the Nile delta that produced it, Pergamon adapted by increasing use of vellum and parchment.
Writing on prepared animal skins had a long history, however. Some Egyptian Fourth Dynasty texts were written on vellum and parchment. Though the Assyrians and the Babylonians impressed their cuneiform on clay tablets, they also wrote on parchment and vellum from the 6th century BC onward. Rabbinic culture equated the idea of a book with a parchment scroll. Early Islamic texts are also found on parchment.
One sort of parchment is vellum, a word that is used loosely to mean parchment, and especially to mean a fine skin, but more strictly refers to skins made from calfskin (although goatskin can be as fine in quality). The words vellum and veal come from Latin vitulus, meaning calf, or its diminutive vitellus.
In the Middle Ages, calfskin and split sheepskin were the most common materials for making parchment in England and France, while goatskin was more common in Italy. Other skins such as those from large animals such as horse and smaller animals such as squirrel and rabbit were also used. Whether uterine vellum (vellum made from aborted calf fetuses) was ever really used during the medieval period is still a matter of great controversy.
There was a short period during the introduction of printing where parchment and paper were used interchangeably: although most copies of the Gutenberg Bible are on paper, some were printed on animal skins.
In 1490, Johannes Trithemius preferred the older methods, because "handwriting placed on skin will be able to endure a thousand years. But how long will printing last, which is dependent on paper?
For if ...it lasts for two hundred years that is a long time."
In the later Middle Ages, the use of animal skins was largely replaced by paper. New techniques in paper milling allowed it to be much cheaper and more abundant than parchment. With the advent of printing in the later fifteenth century, the demands of printers far exceeded the supply of vellum and parchment.
The heyday of parchment use was during the medieval period, but there has been a growing revival of its use among contemporary artists since the late 20th century. Although it never stopped being used (primarily for governmental documents and diplomas) it had ceased to be a primary choice for artist's supports by the end of 15th century Renaissance. This was partly due to its expense and partly due to its unusual working properties.
[Roycroft Press- Full Limp Vellum, Hand-Illumined] The Last Ride
by Robert Browning
East Aurora: Roycroft Press, 1900. First American edition. First American edition. Publisher's original limp flexible full vellum with gilt lettering on cover, original beige ties wholly in tact. One of 940 copies specially hand-illumined copies, signed by Hubbard as well as the illuminator, Emma Johnson. Silk mauve front and rear pastedowns. Superbly presented with ten full-page illustrations by Henri Caruchet which are expertly hand-illumined by one of the Roycroft's artists. One of the more visually pleasing set of illustrations in all the Roycroft oeuvre. A very nice copy, with some slight warping of vellum covers, clean and bright internally. One tie partially lacking, others foreshortened.
Offered by Nudelman Rare Books)
Vellum and parchment consists mostly of collagen. When the water in paint media touches parchment's surface, the collagen melts slightly, forming a raised bed for the paint, a quality highly prized by some artists. It is also extremely affected by its environment and changes in humidity, which can cause buckling. Some contemporary artists also prize this quality, noting that the skin seems alive and like an active participant in making the artwork.
To support the needs of the revival of use by artists, a revival in the art of making individual skins is also underway. Handmade skins are usually better prepared for artists and have fewer oily spots which can cause long-term cracking of paint than mass-produced parchment. Mass-produced parchment is usually made for lamp shades, furniture, or other interior design purposes.
The radiocarbon dating techniques that are used on papyrus can be applied to animal skins as well. They do not date the age of the writing but the preparation of the skin itself. However, radiocarbon dating can often be used on the inks that make up the writing, since many of them contain organic compounds such as plant leachings, soot, and wine.
[Italy]:: ca. 15th Century.. (130 x 100 mm). Single column, 16 lines of text. The leaf features six initials, three of them in gold with red and blue penwork embellishment, the others in same red and blue. On the left margin is a foliate bar border in gold, resembling sprouting wheat. Nicely matted in cloth with wood frame. Fine. The gold remains bright and the paper is in excellent condition, with only the faintest hint of blemishes. Although not fully translated, this leaf is a possible example of the psalmi idiotici (compositions by private individuals in imitation of the Biblical Psalter). The first line, "tu solus altissimus i oi terra" can be roughly translated into "Thou alone art most high over the Earth."
Offered by Jeff Weber Rare Books.
Parchment is prepared from pelt, i.e., wet, unhaired, and limed skin, simply by drying at ordinary temperatures under tension, most commonly on a wooden frame known as a stretching frame.
After being flayed, the skin is soaked in water for about 1 day. This removes blood and grime from the skin and prepares it for a dehairing liquor. The dehairing liquor was originally made of rotted, or fermented, vegetable matter, like beer or other liquors, but by the Middle Ages an unhairing bath included lime.
Today, the lime solution is occasionally sharpened by the use of sodium sulfide. The liquor bath would have been in wooden or stone vats and the hides stirred with a long wooden pole to avoid contact with the alkaline solution. Sometimes the skins would stay in the unhairing bath for 8 or more days depending how concentrated and how warm the solution was kept—unhairing could take up to twice as long in winter. The vat was stirred two or three times a day to ensure the solution's deep and uniform penetration. Replacing the lime water bath also sped the process up. However, if the skins were soaked in the liquor too long, they would be weakened and not able to stand the stretching required for parchment.
After soaking in water to make the skins workable, the skins were placed on a stretching frame. A simple frame with nails would work well in stretching the pelts. The skins could be attached by wrapping small, smooth rocks in the skins with rope or leather strips.
Both sides would be left open to the air so they could be scraped with a sharp, semi-lunar knife to remove the last of the hair and get the skin to the right thickness. The skins, which were made almost entirely of collagen, would form a natural glue while drying and once taken off the frame they would keep their form. The stretching allowed the fibres to become aligned running parallel to the grain.
To make the parchment more aesthetically pleasing or more suitable for the scribes, special treatments were used. According to Reed there were a variety of these treatments. Rubbing pumice powder into the flesh side of parchment while it was still wet on the frame was used to make it smooth so inks would penetrate deep into the fibres. Powders and pastes of calcium compounds were also used to help remove grease so the ink would not run. To make the parchment smooth and white, thin pastes (starchgrain or staunchgrain) of lime, flour, egg whites and milk were rubbed into the skins.
Meliora di Curci in her paper "The History and Technology of Parchment Making" notes that parchment was not always white. "Cennini, a 15th century craftsman provides recipes to tint vellum and parchment a variety of colours including purple, indigo, green, red and peach." The Early medieval Codex Argenteus and Codex Vercellensis, the Stockholm Codex Aureus and the Codex Brixianus give a range of luxuriously produced manuscripts all on purple vellum, in imitation of Byzantine examples, like the Rossano Gospels, Sinope Gospels and the Vienna Genesis, which at least at one time are believed to have been reserved for Imperial commissions.
During the seventh through the ninth centuries, many earlier parchment manuscripts were scrubbed and scoured to be ready for rewriting, and often the earlier writing can still be read. These recycled parchments are called palimpsests. Later, more thorough techniques of scouring the surface irretrievably lost the earlier text.
Stuttgart: Verlag für Vaterländische Kunst Gesellschaft, 1916. First edition. Hardcover. Elephant folio (16 3/4 x 11"). Elaborate gold-and brown stamped full vellum with metal clasps. Front cover with gold-embossed illustration of a dagger within double-brown border. Outer margins of front board with continuous lettering inside brown border: "Das eiserne Buch. Wir wollen sein ein einzig Volk von Brüdern in keiner Not uns trennen Gefahr" (The iron book. We want to be a people of brothers who never leave each other in times of need and danger). Four metal studs on rear board, top of studs decorated with outline of Iron Cross. Top edge gilt. Deckled fore edge. Unpaginated. Jugendstil front and rear endpapers, 1 blank leaf in front and rear with watermark of a crown followed by 158 blank leaves with decorative head- and tailpieces on high quality JW Zanders paper, all watermarked with image of a dagger. Also contains printed half-title, 2 illustrated section pages as well as printed text leaf in rear. Blank leaves divided into three sections with two titled pages (no titled leaf in first section).
First section leaf: "Ehren / Reihe. Unseren gefallenen Helden" (Honor Row. Our fallen heroes). Top margin of page shows decorative border with some gold overprinting of an Iron Cross with small crown and "W 1914" within. Third section with black printed half-title "Gemeinde Kriegschronik," followed by section leaf "Gemeinde Kriegschronik. Gemeinde Verhältnisse während der Kriegsjahre" (Community War chronicle. Life and events in the community during the war years). Center of that page illustrated with golden dagger surrounded by green leafs within border in gold, black and green. Page in rear with printed text: "Gesamt-Gestaltung des Werkes nach Entwürfen von Professor J. V. Cissarz, Stuttgart. Verlegt vom Verlag für Vaterländische Kunst Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung, Stuttgart. Gestzlich geschützt. Gedruckt bei Decker & Hardt mit Farben von Kast & Ehinger, beide in Stuttgart." Overall layout after designs by Professor J. V. Cissarz. Printed by Decker & Hardt with colors by Kast & Ehinger (Stuttgart). Exquisitely designed binding by Cissarz with fully functioning metal clasps and unused interior leaves. Boards bowed. Minor staining on vellum. Very slight rusting on metal. Binding in very good, interior in fine condition. Scarce.
Johannes Joseph Vincenz Cissarz was a German typographer, designer, illustrator, architect and teacher. After studying under Leon Pohle and Georg Hermann Freye at the Kunstakademie Dresden in the late 20th century, Cissarz worked as Ferdinand Pauwels' master student. After his 'apprenticeship' he became well-known for his typography, working with Eugen Diederichs publisher and the Deutschen Werkstätten Hellerau. From 1903-1906 he was a member of the Darmstädter Künstlerkolonie. Eventually he became head of book design and professor at the Verein Würtembergischer Kunstfreunde in Stuttgart. His 'Cissarz Latin' typeface established him as one of the premiere book designers in Germany.
(Offered by Eric Chaim Klien Bookseller)
Vellum was commonly used in bookbinding. It could be used to cover a wooden or cardboard core or alone without any backing. Many vellum bindings are simple and undecorated. Vellum was often used to cover less-valuable or common books.
However, it could be decorated in a number of ways. Blind stamping or impressing a design into wet vellum (or leather) with a hot punch or roller was a common way of decorating vellum bound books.
Sometimes it (or the designs) was also gilded. One decorative technique, invented in the late 18th century, involved the use of very thin and transparent vellum. A scenic picture, coat of arms, portrait, or other design would be painted on the underside of the transparent vellum.
This protected the painting from smudging or damage from handling. The binding would also be decorated with blind stamped and gilded decorations. This type of binding, named after the family of booksellers/binders that created and sold them, is known as a 'Halifax' binding. Because vellum was expensive, it was not uncommon for old manuscript pages to be reused to make bindings. A number of valuable and important manuscripts have been recovered from old bindings.
Limp binding is a bookbinding method in which the book has flexible cloth, leather, vellum, or (rarely) paper sides. When the sides of the book are made of vellum, the bookbinding method is also known as limp vellum.
The cover is made with a single piece of vellum or alternative material, folded around the text block, the front and back covers being folded double.
The quires are sewn onto cords such as alum-tawed thongs and the sewing supports would be laced into the vellum cover.
The thongs would also often be used at the fore edge of the covers to create a closure or tie.
In limp binding the covering material is not stiffened by thick boards, although paste-downs, if used, provide some stiffness; some limp bindings are only adhered to the back of the book. Limp vellum bindings for commonplace books were being produced at least as early as the 14th century and probably earlier, but it was not usually commonly until the 16th and 17th centuries. Its usage subsequently declined until "revived by the private presses near the end of the 19th century.
So there we have it, vellum and parchment have been used since the earliest times, and still finds use today amongst artists, scribes and bookbinders. Though now costly to produce, it remains one of the most durable of library materials.
-- Richard Norman, Eden Workshops
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Thanks to the following people for allowing the use of images and for assisting me with the early history of parchment.
Michal Manas
Randy Benzie
The Institute of Economic & Social History/Cologne
Big Synagogue Museum, Wlodawa – Poland
William Cowley. England
Stacie Dolin (Limp Vellum bindings)
Henk De Groot. Holland
Our members list new acquisitions and recently cataloged items almost every day of the year. Below, you'll find a few highlights from these recent additions...
Notes on Nursing: What it is, and what it is not (Association copy)
by NIGHTINGALE, FLORENCE
London: Harrison, Bookseller to the Queen, 1860. First edition. Early state. Original charcoal medium-fine bead-cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Yellow advertisement endpapers. Spine and ends discreetly restored (often found thus, as noted by Skretkowicz) and hinges strengthened. Light wear at corners and a few negligible marks to cloth Very faint dampstain to front pastedown, some leaves from gathering B holding at bottom cord only (pages 5-12), occasional notations but overall clean internally. A pleasing copy of this landmark work on nursing, with an intimate association, from the estate of author and politician Richard Monkton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton (1809-1885), Nightingale's favourite, persistent, but ultimately rejected suitor. Nightingale's landmark treatise on nursing, which introduced new and rigorous standards for sanitary and hygienic treatment of patients in hospitals. It is a work that altered how hospitals approached patient care, saving countless lives from infection. It also helped transform nursing from a volunteer role to a more respected and formalized career path for women. The owner of this copy, Richard Monkton Milnes, "was a family friend from Nightingale's childhood, and her most serious suitor. She turned him down finally after a long courtship, not without some regrets ... Milnes and Nightingale remained friends for life and she made a friend also of his wife" (McDonald). One of Nightingale's most vocal supporters, Milnes was prominent in the fund-raising to honour her work in the Crimean War and supported the establishment of the Nightingale Fund; he served on its Council until ill health forced him to quit, when he was succeeded by his son. Nightingale and Milnes would continue a lively correspondence, predominately on social and political themes. "Nightingale was godmother to one of his daughters [Florence Ellen], who indeed was named after her. The daughters were invited to visit and Nightingale sent them books" (McDonald.). A typed letter from Christie's is tipped-in at the rear of this copy, signed by Inken Handane of the Book Department, confirming it as from the library of a direct descendant of Milnes and sold in their 28 November 1997 sale (part of lot 140). The letter is further annotated in pencil to explicate the connection between Nightingale and Milnes, and also bears the small library label of the historian Hugh Small, author of Florence Nightingale: Avenging Angel (1998). Originally published six months before the opening of the Nightingale School at St Thomas's Hospital in London in June 1860, Notes on Nursing was not intended to be a textbook per se but as a book of hints for those nursing in the hospital ward and in the domestic sick room. Nightingale provides practical descriptions of the nurse's duties in supplying her patient's needs, and "indicated a new and more responsible role for nurses, one that required proper training and medical knowledge" (Hook & Norman, p. 260). Given the considerable number of different states of each inner and outer forme in every sheet, the idea of attempting to establish with certainty any specific 'issue' of Notes on Nursing beyond the first is utterly impractical" (pp. 29-30). This copy corresponds with Skretkowicz's group 11 of the 32 that he distinguishes (in either the a or b subcategory, with the combination of Binding 3, Endpapers 3, and the translation notice). While the earliest endpapers are blank, those subsequent bear printed advertisements, with at least eight distinct settings. The pale yellow endpapers of the present copy are in an early state: in the second setting of type, in the first state. Textually, it has the three main characteristics of group 11 as listed by Skretkowicz, and all of the typographical errors mentioned by Bishop & Goldie. Grolier, One Hundred Books Famous in Medicine, 71. Hook & Norman 1600. Osler 7737. Skretkowicz 24-46. PMM 343.
Offered by Whitmore Rare Books.
Paris: Martinet, 1821. Galerie des Grotesques [GONDELIER, Jean-Baptiste]. [Galerie des Grotesques]. [Paris]: [Chez] Martinet, [1821]. Oblong folio (16 x 10 1/2 inches; 406 x 267 mm.). Seven leaves, titled and numbered in manuscript, each with three hand colored etched plates making a total of twenty-one images. Contemporary quarter green calf over floral patterned black boards.
The plates - each one lettered and numbered in manuscript "Galerie des Grotesques" No. 1. Les Rivaux; Partie d'écarté; Les effets du lavement, et la tentation (The Rivals; Discarded party; The effects of enema, and temptation) No. 2. Le maitre de danse, et le Coëffeur; Les joeurs de tonneau; Le remède inévitable (The dance master, and the hairdresser; The barrel joists; The inevitable cure) No. 3. Le bon gout; Cérémonie nuptiale; Le Dentiste (The right taste; Bridal ceremony; The Dentist) No. 4. Les conscrits; La sauteuse; Le bon ménage (The Conscripts; The jumpers; The good housekeeping) No. 5. Lecture des Tourneaux; Le cocher di Fiacre en dèfaut; Le Charlatan (Reading the turns; The coachman of Fiacre in defect; The Charlatan) No. 7. La Rosière; Le Pédicure; Les suites d'une Ribotte (La Rosière; The Pedicure; The aftermath of a Ribotte) No. 6. Partie d'Anes; Le Plaidoyer; Le Boston (Part of Anes; The Plea; Le Boston) Excessively Rare. OCLC locates just one suite (with only six plates) in libraries and institutions worldwide at Kunstbiblio Staatliche Museen Zu Berlin (Germany). GONDELIER, Jean-Baptiste (fl. 1821-1827). Gondelier was an engraver and a papermaker. As early as 1820, he was editor of a singer dedicated to Béranger, Le Constitution. He wanted to do city work but he also printed satirical prints, constituting the Gallery of the Grotesques. In 1826-1827 he collaborated in the writing of several plays performed at the Vaudeville theatre. Perhaps it was for this reason that he abandoned his lithograph patent and then applied for a letter printer's patent obtained in 1828. These 'Grotesque' caricatures appear to be based on the Woodward three-row strip genre typified by Grotesque Borders and Pigmy Revels, published by Ackermann and Fores, respectively, in 1799 and 1800. Fores continued to issue the Pigmy Revels strips in a folding panorama format, as well as in a spooled boxwood drum, well into the 1820s. "The relationship between Martinet-published works and Woodward's caricatures is commented on in an essay by Alberto Milano entitled "Change of Use, Change of Public, Change of Meaning: Printed Images Traveling Through Europe," appearing in a book edited by Evanghelia Stead, Reading Books and Prints as Cultural Objects (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave MacMillan, 2018) at pp. 150-51. I am attaching scanned images of the relevant pages as Scans 1, 2, and 3. As you will note, the author of the essay suggests that Martinet "transferred Woodward's caricatures in a series of larger prints entitled Les Passions," but I am skeptical. The only two examples of those prints I have found -- at the British Museum -- do not relate to any Woodward satire of which I am aware. (For ease of reference, I am attaching the British Museum write-ups as BM-1 and BM-2.)" (William Gordon - author of the William A. Gordon Library of British Caricature)
Offered by David Brass Rare Books.
Moon Rocket: An All-Action Pop-Up Picture Storybook
by Kubasta
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England: Brown Watson, 1986. Paper Covered Boards. As New. 4to. Very hard-to-find reprint of Kubasta's Tip + Top and the Moon Rocket, originally published in 1964. In terrific shape; doesn't appear to have ever been read. All six popups and associated animations work great. Almost no cover wear. Number 10 on Tillman's list of the 100 best popups.
Offered by Read'Em Again Books & Paper.
The Great Gatsby (Limited Editions Club)
by FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT
Lunenberg: Limited Editions Club, 1980. Hardcover. Orig. decorated gray pebble grained cloth stamped in black and silver. Fine in fine black slipcase spine lettered in silver. Fred Me. 224 pages. 22.5 x 17.5 cm. Illustrated with fourteen color gauches by Fred Meyer, designed by Frederick Stinehour, printed at the Stinehour Press. Limited edition, copy 1267 of 2000 signed by Fred Meyer. Printed in Bodoni, cast by the Bauer foundry in Germany. Laid-in the LEC Monthly letter. NEWMAN & WICHE 516. Bright, very fresh copy.
Offered by Roy Young, Bookseller.
by CHERNOFSKY, JACOB L., EDITED BY
(Clifton, New Jersey): AB Bookman Publications, 1994. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Quarto. 2,163-2,274pp. Stapled wrappers, near fine. This issue contains Thomas Frognall Dibdin and Bibliomania, Kepler As Author, Printer and Publisher.
Offered by Between the Covers Rare Books.
London: Darton, 1811. 32mo. 16pp., + 16 inserted plates. Each engraved image depicts the titular good boy engaged in less desirable activities, such as throwing stones, feeding scraps to the family pet, and drawing on the walls. Each is accompanied by a pithy couplet drawn from the soliloquy. The author includes an introductory note, in which he defends himself from the accusation that the verses give children naughty ideas that they would never have thought of themselves, and provides the suggestion that the reader insert his or her own name at the final line and face the potential ruin of the rhyme with bravery. Bound in tan wrappers with illustration to both covers. Expected but minor edgewear, faintest foxing, else near fine. A rare survival, with only two institutional copies listed in OCLC.
Offered by Bromer Booksellers.
LOSER TAKES ALL (inscribed copy)
by GREENE, GRAHAM
1955. London: William Heinemann Ltd, (1955). Original dark blue cloth lettered in gilt, with dust jacket. First Edition of this novella about a man who devises a scheme to win big at Monte Carlo -- but his obsession causes him to lose his girl (whom he planned to marry there) in the process; with an acquaintance's help he gains the girl back, but only by losing all the money he had won -- hence "Loser Takes All." The following year appeared the British film with the same title (screenplay also by Greene) -- starring Glynis Johns, Rossano Brazzi, and Robert Morley. This is a very good copy (wear on some edges of the boards, minor fading, foxing on the top edge). The dust jacket is just about fine (a couple of short closed tears); because the jacket is in better condition than the volume, one may assume that it was "married" to this book. This is a presentation copy signed by Greene, with the inked title page inscription "For Clive | Graham Greene"; at a corner of the front paste-down is the penciled signature "Clive Hirschhorn | Johannesburg, March 1985". For over 30 years, the South African Clive Hirschhorn was a major London theatre and film critic for the Sunday Express; he also wrote biographies of Hollywood stars like Gene Kelly and of the Hollywood studios Warner Brothers, Universal, and Columbia. He was also a major collector of modern first editions (his collection, including 28 Graham Greene titles, sold at Bloomsbury in October 2012). Additionally, the front free endpaper bears the undated ink signature of Anthony Woodward, a professor of English at the University of Wiltwatersrand in Johannesburg (Hirschhorn's alma mater); among Woodward's writings is "Graham Greene: The War Against Boredom" (Cape Town 1971, Cassis B7112). Quite a nice circle of associations.
Offered by Sumner & Stillman.
by HOPKINS, JOHN HENRY
Burlington (VT): Printed by Smith & Harrington, 1836. 4to. 275 x 225 mm., [10 ¾ x 9 inches]. vi. 46 pp. Lithographic title-page and 13 full-page lithographic plates. Original cloth, paper label on spine; cloth discolored and shows some remnants of water staining, spine and tips expertly repaired with tissue, spine label chipped; tide marks to preliminary leaves, frontispiece and title-page, plates 12 and 13 and rear end leaves. With fault a good copy. First edition. Illustrated with fourteen finely drawn and printed lithographs designed by the author and printed by the Pendleton's Lithographic Company, Boston. "John Pendleton, Lithographer. Born in New York State. While traveling in France, he became interested in lithography and studied the art under the best masters in Paris. On returning to America, he settled in Boston with his brother, a copperplate printer, and they established a lithographic establishment in 1825." John Henry Hopkins was an Irish immigrant, home schooled by his mother, who became a lawyer, musician, ordained minister, bishop and author of over thirty publications. He studied gothic architecture during his time in Pittsburg where he was charged with supervising the construction of Trinity Church. Dismayed with the unsightly designs of most churches in America he decided to compile his information as a guide to the elements of style and design characteristics of the gothic. He became of the most notable experts in the field and he published this work, one of the first of its kind in America, for the benefit of local ministers charged with the building of churches in the gothic style. Hitchcock American Architectural Books, 606. Fielding, Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors and Engravers, p. 278. Peters, American on Stone, pp. 312-323. Allibone, Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors I, p. 885.
Offered by De Simone Company.
by BURROUGHS, EDGAR RICE
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1919. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-319 [320: blank], five inserted plates with illustrations by J. Allen St. John and twelve full-page St. John illustrations in the text, original orange cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition, first printing, first binding with publisher's imprint on spine panel set on three lines. A series of twelve stories, "The New Stories of Tarzan," all first published monthly in BLUE BOOK, September 1916-August 1917. The stories, containing some of Burroughs's best writing, were collected in JUNGLE TALES OF TARZAN. A total of 63,000 copies of the book were printed. There were multiple printings, probably four, all dated 1919. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 319. Bleiler (1978), p. 35. Reginald 02286. Heins JT-1. Private owner's bookplates affixed to front paste-down and free endpaper. Top and fore-edge of text block a bit tanned, a bright, nearly fine copy in bright, very good four-color pictorial dust jacket (reproducing painting by J. Allen St. John on front panel) with restoration at corners and spine ends. The jacket presents well overall.
Offered by L.W. Currey.
Institutionum [bound with] Infortianum [and] Digestum Novum, 1553-56
1551. A Collection of Texts from the Corpus Juris Civilis in Handsome Uniform Contemporary Paneled Pigskin Bindings Justinian I [483-565 CE], Emperor of the East. Accorso, Francisco (Accursius) [c.1182-c.1260], Glossator. Gaius [Active 130-180 CE]. Institutionum D. Iustiniani Sacratissimi Imperatoris Libri Quatuor: Ad Vetustissimorum Simul et Emendatissimorum Exemplarium Fidem Summa Diligentia Recogniti, Emendati. Cum Scholiis Accursii. Adiecimus Pluribus Locis Annotationes ex Doctissimorum Hominum Commentariis, Ex Quibus non Parum Lucis ac Dignitatis his Iuris Civilis Elementis Accedit. Accessit Corpus Legum, Antea non Impressum, Ac Caii Institutionum Libri Duo. Lyon: Apud Hugonem a Porta, 1553. Pp. [24], 290, [2] pp. Large woodcut image of Justinian surrounded by his court. Main text in parallel columns with linear gloss. [Bound with] Justinian I, Emperor of the East. Accorso, Francisco (Accursius), Glossator. Volumen hoc Complectitur (Sic Enim Peculiari Vocabulo Vocant) Novellas Constitutiones Iustiniani Principis Post Repetitam Codicis Praelectionem Aeditas: Authentica Vulgo Appellant. Tres Item Posteriores Libros Codicis; Feudorum seu Beneficiorum Duos; Constitutiones Friderichi Secundi Imperatoris; Extravagantes duas Henrici Septimi Imperatoris; & Tractatum De Pace Constantiae. Omnia ad Vetustissimorum Simul & Emendatissimorum Exemplarium Fidem Recognita, Emendata. Accesserunt nunc Primum, & Nunquam Antehac Aediti, Iustiniani Novellarum Constitutionum Libri Duo, Cum Multis Annotationibus ex Doctissimorum Hominum Commentariis, Quae non Parum Lucis ac Dignitatis Huic Volumini Afferunt. Lyon: Apud Hugonem a Porta, 1553. [xvi], 276, 148, 99, [1] pp. Woodcut table of descents (in the form of a tree). Main text in parallel columns with linear gloss. [With] Justinian I, Emperor of the East. Accorso, Francisco (Accursius), Glossator. Infortiatum, Pandectarum Iuris Civilis Tomus Secundus: Quartae Partis Reliquum, Itemque Quintam Digestorum Partem, Ac Sextae Partis: Libros Continens, Ex Pandectis Florentinis Ita in Universum Recognitus ac Emendatus, Ut Nihil Praeterea, Quod ad Puram Eorum Librorum Lectionem Attinet, Desiderari Possit. Lyon: Apud Hugonem a Porta, 1556. [xxxvi], 923, [1] pp. Main text in parallel columns with linear gloss. [And] Justinian I, Emperor o.
Offered by Lawbook Exchange.
by Bram Stoker
Westminster: Archibald Constable, 1899. Seventh edition. hardcover. Very good.. A very good early (7th) edition, signed and dated by the author Bram Stoker on the front free endpaper. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase
Offered by Bookbid.
SOURCE Music of the Avant Garde
Davis, California: Composer/Performer Edition, 1974. 11 volumes bound in ten (issues 7 and 8 bound in one). Complete; all issued. Oblong folio. 10-3/4" x 14". Original stiff decorative wrappers in colour. Spiral bound. Unpaginated, but with approximately 100 pages to each volume. Lavishly illustrated with musical scores and striking photographs and graphics in both colour and black and white. With supplementary material bound in, some quite unusual, including such things as magnetic audiotape and synthetic fur, screenprintings on transparencies, etc. Each issue with approximately 10 articles written by the major figures in avant garde music of the time, including Dietrich Albrecht, Charles Amirkhanian, Eric Andersen, Robert Ashley, Larry Austin, David Behrman, Mario Bertoncini, Joseph Beuys, Anthony Branxton, Eugen Brikcius, Jacques Brodier, Earle Brown, Allan Bryant, Boudewijn Buckinx, Harold Budd, Jim Burns, John Cage, Cornelius Cardew, Giuseppe Chiari, Paul Chihara, Barney Childs, Christo, Jani Christou, Philip Corner, Lowell Cross, Alvin Curran, John Dinwiddie, Peter Donath, Manfred Eaton, Robert Erickson, Morton Feldman, Robert Filliou, Fluxus, Lukas Foss, David Freund, Ken Friedman, Kira Gale, Peter Garland, Gentle Fire, Tony Gnazzo, Victor Grauer, Joel Gutsche, Gyula Gulyas, Olaf Hanel, Sven Hansell, John Hassell, Dick Higgins, Lejaren Hiller, Stu Horn, Nelson Howe, Jerry Hunt, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Image Bank, Zdzislaw Jurkiewicz, Udo Kasemets, Per Kirkeby, Paul Klerr, Milan Knizak, Jaroslaw Kozlowski, Carson Jeffries, Bengt Emil Johnson, Will Johnson, Ben Johnston, Alan Kaprow, Ed Kobrin, Alcides Lanza, Douglas Leedy, Daniel Lentz, Anna Lockwood, Arrigo Lora-Totino, Alvin Lucier, Mary Lucier, Stanley Lunetta, Eva Lurati, Stuart Marshall, Richard Martin, Harvey Matusow, Tom Marioni, Ken Maue, Dora Maurer, Maria Michalowska, John Mizelle, Robet Moran, Gordon Mumma, Keith Muscutt, Naked Software, Max Neuhaus, Nam June Paik, the New Percussion Quartet, Jocy de Oliveira, Pauline Oliveros, Harry Partch, Jon Phetteplace, the Portsmouth Sinfonia, David Reck, Steve Reich, Jock Reynolds, John Paul Rhinehart, Mark Riener, Roger Reynolds, David Rosenboom, Frederic Rzewski, Zorka Saglova, J. Murray Schafer, the Scratch Orchestra, Gerald Shapiro, Nicholas Slonimsky, Barry Spinello, Stanley Marsh 3, Andrew Stiller, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Allen Strange, Alvin Sumsion, Endre Tot, David tudor, Bertram Turetzky, Jiri Valoch, Wolf Vostell, Don Walker, Arthur Woodbury, and Christian Wolff. With 6 accompanying 10-inch LPS: - Robert Ashley The Wolfman; Dave Behrman Wave Train - Larry Austin Accidents; Allan Bryant Pitch Out - Alvin Lucier I Am Sitting in a Room; Arthur Woodbury Velox and Mark Riener Phlegethon - Larry Austin Caritas; Stanley Lunetta moosack machine - Lowell Cross Video II; Arrigo Lora-Totino english phonemes - Alvin Curran Magic Carpet; Anna Lockwood Tiger Balm Slightly worn. In very good condition overall. A complete run of this exciting independent periodical devoted entirely to the music of the 20th century avant garde, an outgrowth of the musical experimentalism in the late 1950s and early 60s at the University of California, Davis and Mills College in Oakland, California. In an effort to expand the traditional definition of music and formal concert performance, Source documents many of the most important "new music" trends of the period including improvised and indeterminate music, minimalism, Fluxus, performance art, graphic scores, electronic music, performance art, concrete and sound poetry, intermedia, British Systems music, video/laser light shows, new electronic, video, and communications technologies, etc. A landmark publication of great importance to the study of avant garde music of the mid-20th century, rarely found complete.
Offered by J. & J. Lubrano Music Antiquarians.
by C.S. Lewis
Cambridge: np, 1963. First edition. Fine. C.S. LEWIS GIVES PRACTICAL (AND SOMEWHAT HUMOROUS) ADVICE TO A STUDENT SELECTING A THESIS TOPIC, BEFORE REVEALINGLY SUGGESTING ONE OF HIS FAVORITE WORKS - DOROTHY SAYERS'S THE MAN BORN TO BE KING - AS A SUBJECT WORTHY OF STUDY. Written to a student, John T. Tukey of Rhode Island and dated July 6, 1963, the letter reads in full: As from Magdalene College, Cambridge 6 July 63 I always dissuade students from making a living author the subject of their thesis. When they do, however hard they work, the chosen author and his intimates will know a lot more about the subject that they can find out. Dead authors know a lot about their own work which we don't but fortunately they can't tell it. It has happened before now that those who were examining a thesis on my work have written to ask me whether some interpretation offered by the candidate is correct. This puts me in a v. awkward dilemma. If I refuse to answer they know that my answer would have been no. The candidate's work is thus unfairly subjected to a check which would not have been applied if he had written on a dead author. I suggest you choose Dorothy Sayers' cycle of plays on the life and death of Christ (title, The Man Born to be King). Whether it wd. come under the faculty of Theology or that of Literature depends, I suppose, on how you treat it. Yours sincerely [signed] C.S. Lewis Background - C.S. Lewis, Dorothy Sayers, and The Man Born to Be King: C.S. Lewis and the writer Dorothy Sayers quickly became good friends after the latter wrote him a "fan" letter praising his recently-published Screwtape Letters. It was not a particular surprise they developed a friendship for both had similar views on literature, scholarship, and theology (especially sharing the desire to explain and explore Christianity for their literary audiences). Sayers's The Man Born to Be King, a somewhat controversial re-telling of the life of Jesus, originally appeared as a radio drama airing from 1941-1942 before being published in book form in 1943. Lewis was immediately impressed with the work, writing to Sayers on May 30, 1943 (in one of his earliest letters to her), "I've finished The Man Born to be King and think it a complete success... I shed real tears (hot ones) in places: since Mauriac's Vie de Jesus nothing has moved me so much... I expect to read it times without number again...." Over the years, Lewis's admiration for the work only grew. He professed to reading it "in every Holy Week since it first appeared" and noted in 1949 that he thought "Man Born to be King has edified us in this country more than anything for a long time" (Lewis, Collected Letters, II, 989). Sayers died in 1957 - six years before this letter - and it is fitting that of all the books he could have recommended to the student Tukey, he selected The Man Born to Be King, a book he greatly admired and a book that had remained dear to his heart. Cambridge: 6 July 1963. One sheet, 5 1/4 x 7 inches, written in ink on both sides, signed "C.S. Lewis". With original mailing envelope with postmark. Generally fine condition with expected center mailing fold and a few light spots. Housed in custom presentation folder.
Offered by Manhattan Rare Book Company.
Union with Freemen--No Union with Slaveholders. Anti-Slavery Meetings!
Salem, OH: Homestead Print, n.d., ca. 1850. First Edition. Unused handbill announcing anti-slavery meetings held by the Western Anti-Slavery Society, a splinter group from the Ohio State Anti-Slavery Society. This branch was led by the abolitionist Adam Brooke, a member of the utopian community the Marlboro Association; and, to a lesser extent, Parker Pillsbury, who attended and occasionally spoke at the annual anniversary meetings. The Society, Garrisonian in its rejection of the Church, stated that "We are not merely warring against the extension of new slave territory, nor against any fugitive slave law constitutional or unconstitutional; nor for the writ of habeas corpus, or the right of trial by jury for recaptured slaves, but we are waging eternal war against the doctrine that man can ever under any possibility of circumstances, hold property in man" (cf. William M. Wiecek, "The Sources of Anti-Slavery Constitutionalism in America, 1760-1848" (1977), p. 252). The group reached its peak in 1847 when William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass both spoke at the annual anniversary meeting, which drew several thousand attendees. However, the group always struggled with funding and was defunct by 1861. The present broadside reminds the reader that "Three million of your fellow beings are in chains--the Church and Government sustains the horrible system of oppression. Turn Out! And learn your duty to yourselves, the slave and God. Emancipation or Dissolution, and a Free Northern Republic!" 4 located in OCLC, none in Ohio. Original unused letterpress broadside flyer (40x27.5cm.); a few closed tears expertly mended, stock uniformly toned, else a Very Good, quite fresh copy.
Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books.
by Toni Morrison
New York: Holt Rinehart, 1970. First. hardcover. near fine/near fine. 8vo, cloth backed boards, d.w. (slightly browned). New York: Holt, Rinehart, (1970). First Edition. A near fine copy of her uncommon first book, inscribed, "To.... from Toni 11.13.1971 Thank you for all the poetry, sensibility and common sense. First issue dust wrapper, with $5.95 & 10/70 on front flap.
Offered by Argosy Book Store.
by BALDWIN, JAMES
New York: Dial Press, 1964. First edition. Cloth. Very Good/very good. Clothbound 8vo in dustwrapper. 121 pp play by the author of The Fire Next Time and Go Tell It On The Mountain. A handsome very good copy in clipped, but otherwise very good dustwrapper.
Offered by Derringer Books.
Le Fait Accompli, nos. 1 (April 1968) through 135 (March 1975) (all published)
by Marcel Marien (Editor)
Brussels: Les Lèvres Nues, 1968-1975. Quartos (30 × 23 cm). Issued in uncut loose sheets; approximately 8 to 32 pp. per issue (unnumbered). Illustrations throughout, mostly black-and-white, with some color reproductions tipped in. Most issues printed on laid paper, some on coated stock. Very good or better. A fine complete run of this important post-war Belgian surrealist journal, composed of 135 issues in 98 fascicules, with several double and triple numbers. Issued monthly and edited by Marcel Mariën, the journal features contributions by major Belgian surrealists, including Goemans, Nougé, Scutenaire, Colinet, Dumont, Magritte, Joostens, Lecomte, Tom Gutt, Wergifosse, Bossut, Souris and Bourgoignie, among others. Most issues focus on a unique work by a single author or artist, and are illustrated throughout with reproductions of works by Man Ray, Magritte, Picabia, Mariën, Bossut, Ernst, Graverol, Jamagne, Ubac and Van de Wouver, and others. Especially noteworthy are Magritte's contributions, which are often illustrated by him. Issues 81-95 constitute one volume containing "Lettres surrealistes (1924-1940)" edited and annotated by Mariën. Issue no. 95 contains "Filchings for Annoyed Birds" by Paul Colinet (in English). Most issues feature a distinctive title. Nos. 15, 30, 40, 55, 65, 80, 100, 107, 110, 120, 130, 134 issued as a "nouvelle serie" interspersed throughout the run, under the title "Les Lèvres Nues" and numbered 1-12. The last issue (no. 135) contains a cumulative index to the entire series. All issues uniformly hand-numbered "vingt-deux" (22) of unspecified print runs, which ranged from 50 to 250 copies. Given the low print run of the earliest issues, presumably only fifty complete sets exist.
Offered by Bernett Penka.
by Virginia Woolf
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1927. First American Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original green cloth stamped in blue. Near Fine with bumping to head of spine, faint darkening to spine cloth and very light spine lean. In a Near Fine dust jacket illustrated by Vanessa Bell, with spine toning and minor edge wear. A fantastic copy of Woolf's modernist tour de force, which was ranked by Modern Library as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.
Offered by Burnside Rare Books.
by Walt Disney Studios
An Original Animation Cel from Disneyís First Fully Animated Feature Film "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"
N.p., Hollywood: Walt Disney Studios, 1937. Original animation production cel from Disney's first fully animated feature film, depicting the dwarf Dopey with a chipmunk pulling at his robe. Gouache on celluloid applied to a Courvoisier wood veneer background. Likely original mounts with "©WDE" blindstamped on front lower right corner of matte. Three authenticating labels on rear of the cels. One reading "Original Work from Snow White and the Seven Dwarves" and the other reading "This Material Inflammable Handle With Care Frame Under Glass Copyright 1937 Walt Disney Enterprises" and the final one reading "This is an original painting on celluloid from the Walt Disney Studios, actually used in the filming of 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.' Only a very limited number have been selected to be placed on the market. Walt Disney." Image size: 9 1/2 x 8 inches; 240 x 205 mm. Matted, framed and glazed. Matte size: 17 x 14 inches; 430 x 355 mm. With some bowing to the celluloid and some minor chipping to the figure. A very good specimen of Disney original animation.
Offered by Heritage Book Shop.
by PARUTA, FILIPPO (1552-1629)
4to (200x145 mm). Collation: [π]4 †4 A-T4 V2 X4 Y2 Z4 [χ]2. Half-title, engraved frontispiece, [12], 176, [4: errata corrige] pp. and [4] folding plates engraved by Francesco Nigro and Francesco La Barbera after Gerardo Astorino and Vincenzo La Barbera. Richly gilt modern morocco binding, original sprinkled edges. Minor restorations to the outer margin of the first leaves without loss, small worm track in the gutter of a few leaves not affecting the text, tears repaired along the folding of one plate, all in all a very good copy.
EXTREMELY RARE ORIGINAL EDITION of this festival account attributed to Filippo Paruta, but edited by his son Simplicio, who also signs the dedication to the Senate of Palermo, and published posthumously under the name of his other son Onofrio.
In the note to the reader Onofrio provides a detailed list of the works (orations, occasional writings, inscriptions for ephemeral architectures, etc.) of his father Filippo, who was the secretary to the Palermo Senate and the major responsible for the iconographic program realized on the occasion of the 1625 festivity.
At the beginning of the 1620s the viceroy Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy rebuild the Accademia dei Riaccesi, which gathered in the Royal Palace, and entrusted the scholar and mathematician Carlo Maria Ventimiglia with the direction of the academy. Around his figure gravitated many of the artists and scholars who designed the program and the solemn procession of the relics of St. Rosalia, held in June of 1625 as a sign of gratitude for deliverance from plague. Among them were the painters and architects Gerardo Astorino and Vincenzo La Barbera, the engraver Francesco Negro, the scholar Martino La Farina, who conceived the allegorical arch of the Genoese nation, and, above all, Filippo Paruta, who was linked to Ventimiglia also by a common passion for numismatics and antiquities. Paruta was involved in all literary activities related to celebratory events since the end of the sixteenth century. In 1625 he inspired the triumphal arch that the Senate erected in Piazza Villena and was responsible for the account of the festivities, which however was actually published only after his death in 1651.
The constitution of such a large and complex team to be entrusted with the creation of the apparatuses testifies of the importance of that event that officially marked the beginning of the cult of St. Rosalia. The solemnity of 1625 had no immediate follow-up and only in 1649 the feast of St. Rosalia was formalized with all those peculiarities that would characterize the following decades. In 1625, in addition to the impressive processions and solemn ceremonies to which all local communities, religious and civil, took part, two magnificent horse rides were organized; one, in particular, took place at the conclusion of the festivities, after the solemn mass in the cathedral. Then followed fireworks, organized by the German nation, tournaments and jousts. At the very end the nobility walked in gala dresses along Via Colonna (cf. M. Sofia di Fede, La festa barocca a Palermo: città, architetture, istituzioni, in: "Espacio, Tiempo y Forma", series VII, t. 18-19, 2005-2006, pp. 49-75; see also M. Vitella, Il primo Festino, in: M.C. Di Natale, "S. Rosaliae patriae servatrici", Palermo, 1994; and V. Petrarca, Genesi di una tradizione urbana. Il culto di S. Rosalia a Palermo in età spagnola, Palermo, 1986, p. 82).
Catalogo unico, IT\ICCU\PALE\004559; S.P. Michel, Répertoire des ouvrages imprimés en langue italienne au XVIIe siècle conservés dans les bibliothèques de France, Paris, 1976, VI, p. 80; Biblioteca centrale della Regione siciliana "Alberto Bombace", Sanctae Rosaliae Dicata, Bibliografia cronologica su Santa Rosalia, Settembre 2004, pp. 12-13; G.M. Mira, Bibliografia siciliana, Palermo, 1881, II, p. 186; A. Mongitore, Bibliotheca sicula sive de scriptoribus siculis, Palermo, 1707-1714, I, p. 293 and II, p. 174; M. Cornelles, V. Manuel et al., eds., La fiesta barroca. Los reinos de Nápoles y Sicilia (1535-1713), Palermo, 2014, ad indicem.
Offered by Govi Rare Books.
The Last of the Windjammers. 2 volumes.
by LUBBOCK. BASIL
Glasgow:: Brown, Son & Ferguson, (1948)., 1948. Third impression. Two volumes. 25 cm. xiv, 518; xv, 448 pp. Frontispieces, illustrations, plans (some folding); spine gilt rubbed, corner bumped. Blind and gilt-stamped blue cloth, map endpapers. Very good copies.
Offered by Jeff Weber Rare Books.
Illustrations of the Book of Job.
by BLAKE, WILLIAM.
London: [plates dated] 1825 [but published 1826]. Folio, 320 x 254 mm, engraved title and 21 plates. Proofs on India paper mounted on handmade paper, some leaves (2, 5, 6, 11, 14, 17, 18) watermarked J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1825. Gilt-ruled green morocco over thick boards, fleurons at the outer corners, double-rule inner frame enclosing a bloom roll, gilt-ruled spine, sewing bands with gilt red morocco onlays, thick dark blue endleaves, all edges gilt, by Riviere: a brilliant set with no foxing at all, interleaved with blanks at the time of binding with no offsetting. Lower cover of the binding at some time tied up with string with ensuing indentation. § First edition, limited to 150 proof sets (65 sets were also printed on French paper, and 100 sets on drawing paper with the word ‘proof’ removed). This is one of finest sets of the proofs I have ever seen, and far outshines the other two original printings and the later re-issue. The India paper set is the best printing of these famous plates which comprise Blake’s major single achievement as a printmaker after the illuminated books. Illustrations of the Book of Job was Blake’s last completed prophetic book: the text, a series of biblical quotations, is above and below each image. “It was produced while Blake was still working on Jerusalem, his most obscure book; yet the illustrations are Blake’s most lucid; and they are the supreme example of his reading the Bible in its spiritual sense” (S. Foster Damon, A Blake Dictionary, p. 217). “The modest size of the central panels does not prevent them from ranking with the supreme masterpieces of graphic art” (Ray, Illustrator and the Book in England #8). Note: as always, the first plate after the title-page is misdated 1828.
Offered by John Windle, Bookseller.
"Congress shall make no law establishing religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, nor shall the rights of conscience be infringed."
"The freedom of speech, and of the press, and the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and consult for their common good, and to apply to the government for a redress of grievances, shall not be infringed."
"A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, being the best security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed...."
After months of work, on August 24, 1789, the House of Representatives approved seventeen Constitutional amendments, including the first to use the exact phrase, "freedom of speech." This newspaper includes the full text of the resolution sent by the House to the Senate for approval. The Senate began deliberating the next day, approving some articles and rejecting or altering others. [BILL OF RIGHTS].
Newspaper. Gazette of the United States, August 29, 1789. New York: John Fenno. Includes a complete printing of the first House of Representatives proposal for amending the Constitution on page 2. 4 pp., 10 x 15¾ in.
Historical Background
The lack of a Bill of Rights, a central feature of most state Constitutions, was a principal criticism of the recently-drafted federal Constitution. During the Constitutional Convention some delegates opposed its inclusion, thinking it unnecessary or afraid that the act of enumerating specific rights would imply that those not listed did not exist. On the other side, Anti-Federalists wary of new federal powers were among the most ardent proponents of a Bill of Rights. Ultimately, to ensure ratification of the Constitution, the Convention delegates promised that Congress would address guarantees of specific liberties in their first session.
During the ratification process, five states that approved the Constitution passed along lists of proposed amendments, while two states, Rhode Island and North Carolina, that had refused to ratify also suggested amendments. In all, nearly one hundred discrete amendments were offered.
James Madison, the "father of the Constitution," was at first lukewarm to the idea of a Bill of Rights. However, during his first Congressional campaign against James Monroe, he promised to fight for such a measure. Among Madison's fears were threats by Anti-Federalists, even after the Constitution had been ratified, of calling another convention, which would have likely been much less harmonious. On May 4, 1789, Madison told the House of Representatives that he planned to present a slate of amendments in three weeks. When May 25 arrived, the Congressmen were locked in a debate over import duties. Madison demurred until June 8, when the House again rebuked his efforts, citing more pressing business. Rising once more, Madison justified his timing, apologized to his colleagues, and proceeded to introduce his proposed amendments.
On July 21, 1789, the House formed the Committee of Eleven (a member from each state) to consider the proposed Amendments. The Committee reported on July 28, taking the nine broad areas Madison had suggested for amendment and drafting 17 individual amendments for House approval. These passed the House on August 24, and the Senate began their debate the next day. The Senate initially reduced the House's proposed 17 amendments to 12, and then passed its own version on September 9. The bill then went back to the House for reconciliation. The House reconciled the two bills on September 24, and the Senate issued its final approval the next day.
The twelve articles of amendment were sent to the states for ratification on October 2, 1789. Two of the twelve proposed amendments, the first regarding apportionment of representation in the House and the second, congressional salaries, were not ratified by the states. However, article #2, which stated that Congressional pay increases (or decreases) would not take effect until an election had ensued, eventually became the 27th Amendment on May 8, 1992, 203 years after it was first proposed. Articles 3 through 12 became the 1st through 10th Amendments of the federal Constitution upon Virginia's ratification on December 15, 1791.
Complete Transcript
CONGRESS of the UNITED STATES.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 1789
RESOLVED, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, two thirds of both houses deeming it necessary, that the following articles be proposed to the legislatures of the several states, as amendments to the constitution of the United States, all, or any of which articles, when ratified by three fourths of the said legislatures, to be valid, to all intents and purposes, as part of the said constitution.
ARTICLES in addition to, and amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America, proposed by Congress, and ratified by the legislatures of the several States, pursuant to the 5th article of the original constitution.
ARTICLE 1. After the first enumeration required by the first article of the constitution, there shall be one representative for every thirty thousand, until the number shall amount to one hundred, after which the proportion shall be so regulated by Congress, that there shall be not less than one hundred representatives, nor less than one representative for every forty thousand persons, until the number of representatives shall amount to two hundred, after which the proportion shall be so regulated by Congress that there shall not be less than two hundred representatives, nor more than one representative for every fifty thousand persons.
[First Amendment proposed: not ratified.]
ART. 2. No law varying the compensation to the members of Congress shall take effect, until an election of representatives shall have intervened.
[Second Amendment proposed: modified version ratified May 7, 1992 as the Twenty-Seventh Amendment.]
ART. 3. Congress shall make no law establishing religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, nor shall the rights of conscience be infringed.
[Modified version ratified as part of the First Amendment]
ART. 4. The freedom of speech, and of the press, and the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and consult for their common good, and to apply to the government for a redress of grievances, shall not be infringed.
[Modified version ratified as part of the First Amendment]
ART. 5. A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, being the best security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, but no one religiously scrupulous of bearing arms, shall be compelled to render military service in person.
[Modified version ratified as the Second Amendment]
ART. 6. No soldier shall in time of peace be quartered in any house without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
[Modified version ratified as the Third Amendment]
ART. 7. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated; and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
[Modified version ratified as the Fourth Amendment]
ART. 8. No person shall be subject, except in a case of impeachment, to more than one trial or one punishment for the same offence, nor shall be compelled in any criminal case, to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life or liberty or property, without due process of law, nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation.
[Modified version ratified as part of the Fifth Amendment]
ART. 9. In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, to be informed of the nature and the cause of the accusation, to be confronted by witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defence.
[Modified version ratified as part of the Sixth Amendment]
ART. 10. The trial of all crimes (except in cases of impeachment, and in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia when in actual service in time of war or public danger) shall be an impartial jury of the vicinage, with the requisite of unanimity for conviction; the right of challenging and other accustomed requisites; and no person shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment by a grand jury; but if a crime by committed in a place in the possession of an enemy, or in which an insurection may prevail, the indictment and trial may by law be authorised in some other place within the same state.
[Modified version ratified as parts of the Fifth and Sixth Amendment]
ART. 11. No appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States shall be allowed, where the value in controversy shall not amount to one thousand dollars; nor shall any fact triable by a jury according to the course of the common law, be otherwise re-examinable, than according to the rules of common law.
[Modified version ratified as part of the Seventh Amendment]
ART. 12. In suits of common law, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved.
[Modified version ratified as part of the Seventh Amendment]
ART. 13. Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
[Ratified as the Eighth Amendment]
ART. 14. No state shall infringe the right of trial by jury in criminal cases, nor the rights of conscience, nor the freedom of speech, or of the press.
[Modified version passed by Congress on June 13, 1866; ratified July 9, 1868, as part of the Fourteenth Amendment]
ART. 15. The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
[Ratified as the Ninth Amendment]
ART. 16. The powers delegated by the constitution to the government of the United States shall be exercised as therein appropriated, so that the legislative shall never exercise the powers vested in the executive or judicial; nor the executive the powers vested in the legislative or judicial; nor the judicial the powers vested in the legislative or executive.
[Dropped in subsequent drafts]
ART. 17. The powers not delegated by the constitution nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively.
[Modified version ratified as the Tenth Amendment]
Ordered, that the Clerk of this house do carry to the Senate a fair and engrossed copy of the said proposed articles of amendment, and desire their concurrence. Extract from the journals,
JOHN BECKLEY, Clerk.
Additional Content
This newspaper also prints "The Tablet" (p1/c1-2); an essay on processing sugar from maple trees, by "A Sugar Boiler" (p1/c2-3); proceedings of Congress on the location of the national capital, the safeguarding of official records and the great seal, and the establishment of the treasury department (p2/c2-p3/c3); a humorous poem on the scramble for the national capital (p3/c3); a continuation of "The Right Constitution of a Commonwealth Examined" (p4/c1-2); a continuation of "An Essay on Free Trade and Finances" (p4/c2-3); An Act to Provide for the Government of the Territory North-West of the River Ohio and An Act providing for Expences which may attend Negotiations or Treaties with the Indian Tribes, and the appointment of Commissioners for managing the same, both signed in type by George Washington and John Adams (p4/c3); and another installment of "The National Monitor" (p4/c3).
Gazette of the United States (1789-1793) was a semiweekly Federalist newspaper first published in New York City by John Fenno (1751-1798). It is often considered the most significant political newspaper of the late eighteenth century. In 1790, it followed the government to its temporary capital in Philadelphia. Early Acts of Congress and Presidential Pronouncements were often first printed in this newspaper, and it circulated to major cities where other Federalist newspapers copied freely from it. Among its pseudonymous contributors were Alexander Hamilton and John Adams. It continued under a variety of titles as a daily newspaper in Philadelphia from 1793 to 1818. After John Fenno's death in the 1798 yellow fever epidemic, his son John Ward Fenno continued the newspaper until 1800, when he sold it.
"The Tablet" appeared in the Gazette in every issue from the first, April 15, 1789, into August 1790, and then periodically to No. 155 in the April 9, 1791 issue. The first number announced its purpose "to touch upon such subjects as are calculated to afford amusement or instruction, without disturbing society with calumny and petulance." Anonymous contributors included publisher John Fenno and lexicographer Noah Webster (1758-1843), who shared a common political nationalism.
"The Right Constitution of a Commonwealth Examined" was written by Vice President John Adams (1735-1826). The first three-quarters of it appeared serially in the Gazette
between May 23 and November 4, 1789. Adams particularly criticized the republican theories of Marchamont Nedham (1620-1678), a pamphleteer during the English Civil War.
"An Essay on Free Trade and Finances" appeared serially in the Gazette
between June 3 and October 21, 1789. The author was Pelatiah Webster (1726-1795), an ordained Congregationalist minister and Philadelphia merchant. The essay was first published in Philadelphia on March 24, 1783. T. Bradford's bookstore in Philadelphia sold it in pamphlet form as early as April 1783. It was the sixth of seven essays Webster wrote on Free Trade and Finance between 1779 and 1785.
"The National Monitor" appeared in thirty-four numbers from April 25, 1789, and January 20, 1790. (Inventory #: 25430)
Offered by Seth Kaller, Inc.
by Arnold Lobel
First printing of this universal expression of male bonding and friendship as seen through all the seasons. INSCRIBED on front free endpaper "For Eddie from Arnold Lobel" with a sketch of Frog below (upper torso only, as usual). Lobel's four Frog & Toad books are highly collectible and with his premature death (at age 54) inscribed copies of his major titles seldom come onto the marketplace.
Offered by Batteldore.
Poster for a 1966 Appearance in France
Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Poster for a March 28, 1966 appearance by the Civil Rights leader together with singer Harry Belafonte at the Palais des Sports in Paris. Organized by the Comité de Soutien Franco-Américain pour l'Intégration Raciale, the event featured a speech by King and music from Harry Belafonte and French singer Hugues Aufray, sponsored by Suze Liqueur. Two-color poster, with folding creases, one tear to the right edge, minimal wear and toning; overall very good. Sight size 14.5 x 22.5 inches (37 x 57 cm), archivally matted and framed to an overall size of 20.5 x 26.5 inches.In March 1966, King and Belafonte went to Europe for fundraising appearances on behalf of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, starting with the Palais des Sports in Paris on the 28th, and closing in Sweden on the 31st. This poster for the French appearance is emblazoned with the logo of a sponsor, Suze Liqueur, and also cites the French-American Committee for Racial Integration as the organizing body. The opening act for the evening was the popular French folksinger Hugues Aufray doing a set of Bob Dylan covers, followed by a set by Belafonte. Dr. King closed out the evening with a speech on civil rights, touching on the war in Vietnam and American support for South African apartheid. The tour raised more than $100,000, but drew the wrath of the American ambassador to France for airing American problems overseas. See Ross, Hollywood Left and Right, p. 220. We have traced no other copies of this poster at auction or elsewhere.
Offered by Schubertiade Music & Arts.
Where Do We Go From Here? Chaos or Comminity?
By Martin Luther King, Jr.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1967. First edition of King's "last grand expression of his vision" (Cornel West). Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with eight pages of black-and-white photogravures. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Mr. Otto E. Geppert Martin Luther King Jr." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, small date to the endpaper. Jacket design by Ronald Clyne. Jacket photograph of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Bob Fitch. Where Do We Go from Here is Dr. King's analysis of the state of American race relations and the movement after a decade of U.S. civil rights struggles. ''With Selma and the Voting Rights Act one phase of development in the civil rights revolution came to an end,'' he observed (King, 3). King believed that the next phase in the movement would bring its own challenges, as African Americans continued to make demands for better jobs, higher wages, decent housing, an education equal to that of whites, and a guarantee that the rights won in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 would be enforced by the federal government.
Offered by Raptis Rare Books.
The Heart is a Muscle (First Edition, 1 of 15 copies with print signed by Hal Hartley)
by Hal Hartley
Stockholm: Libraryman, 2010. First Edition. First Edition. One of 15 unnumbered copies with a chromogenic print SIGNED by director Hal Hartley affixed to the last leaf. A collection of selected film still photographs from the noted independent filmmaker's oeuvre, beginning with his 1988 debut "The Unbelievable Truth" up to the 2011 film "Meanwhile", with stills from "Amateur" (1994), "Flirt" (1995), and "Henry Fool" (1997), and others. 81 color plates. Fine in glossy perfect bound wrappers, with no dust jacket as issued.
Offered by Royal Books.
by P.G. Wodehouse
London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1938. First English Edition. [Jasen 58A in a later dust jacket]. Preceded by the first American Doubleday, Doran edition, published in Oct. 8, 1937. This edition was published on Feb. 11 1938. 12mo., red cloth, stamped in black, 312 pages, plus eight-page catalog; in later "2/6 net" price on spine [whereas the earliest dust jacket is priced at "7/6 net." on the spine]. Very Good (little soil covers; contents clean & tight but for a tiny spot fore-edge; neat ink name front endpaper); some edgewear (few small chips & tears- some with internal mends with archival tape) d/j.
Offered by Antic Hay Books.
by FOWLER, H. ALFRED
Kansas City: H. Alfred Fowler, 1912. First edition. First edition. Original decorative card paper wrappers. The rare "Eragny Press" number (Volume I, Number 3) which features notes on bookplates by Esther and Lucien Pissarro, by J. M. Andreini, including three superb color printed specimens of book plates by the Pissarros, printed in colors on china paper and tipped-in. A scarce and very attractive rendering. There are also two other features in the number. Near fine.
Offered by Nudelman Rare Books.
by WILDE, OSCAR
London & New York: A.R. Keller & Co, 1907. leather_bound. Orig. brown calf, backstrips lettered in gilt. Teg. 15 Vols. Near fine. 21 x 14 cm. The Oxford Uniform Edition. Limited edition, copy 103 of 250. Title pages printed in red and black. Host of illustrations with lettered tissue guards by assorted artists, 48 in total, including Aubrey Beardsley who illustrates "The Sphinx." Bright, fresh set, wide text margins, covers embossed with floral and ribbon motif bearing a central ornament on front cover -- a Nightingale from "Nightingale and the Rose." A few backstrip extremities very slightly rubbed.
Offered by Roy Young, Bookseller.
Superb Abraham Lincoln Signed Photo Authenticated, Slabbed, and Graded Mint 9!
"A. Lincoln" as President, Washington, DC, August 9, 1863. Albumen photograph, 2.5" x 3.5" including card backing, lower corners rounded, top edge trimmed, Gardener's backstamp on verso. Hamilton and Ostendorf, Lincoln in Photographs: An Album of Every Known Pose, O-71B. Authenticated, slabbed, and graded Mint 9 by PSA. Sold for over $65,000 at Christie's in 2004.
On Thursday, August 6, in accordance with a proclamation issued by Lincoln, a day of thanksgiving and prayer was observed throughout the North in the wake of recent important Union military successes at Gettysburg and Vicksburg. In this well-known portrait by Gardner, Lincoln is seated at an ornate circular table, his legs crossed, holding a newspaper in his left hand, his reading glasses in his right. His expression - especially in the lines about his mouth - is resolute and determined. According to John Hay, who accompanied the President to Gardner's studio, Lincoln "was in very good spirits" that day. The images of Lincoln by Gardner that day are the first photographs taken in Gardner's new studio. Lincoln had promised Gardner to be the first to sit for a portrait, and decided on a Sunday visit, in order to avoid curiosity seekers and onlookers in the streets of the capital.
This item comes with a Certificate from John Reznikoff, a premier authenticator for both major 3rd party authentication services, PSA and JSA (James Spence Authentications), as well as numerous auction houses.
Offered by University Archives.
Bournemouth and London: W. Mate & Sons, 1913. Softcover. Very good. Travel brochure/booklet. 8.25 x 4.5 inches, 23 pp, illustrated with b/w photos, double-page route map at center. Light cover wear; very good. Includes sections on Belgian seaside resorts; towns to visit from the coast (Bruges, Ypres, Furnes, Ghent); Brussels and Antwerp; Liege, Namur, and the Ardennes; Tournai, Mons, Charleroi. At the end are various tours and itineraries, an invitation to seek further information from your local Thos. Cook office, and a page describing features of the upcoming Universal and International Exhibition in Ghent.
Offered by Walkabout Books.
Anne with an E (Anne of Green Gables)
by KRAUSE, DOROTHY SIMPSON. L. M. MONTGOMERY
Ft. Lauderdale, FL, 2019. Artist's book, unique, an altered book, signed by the artist on the rear pastedown, "DKrause." Page size: 5 x 8 inches; 20pp. Bound by the artist: in the original boards of a used copy of the 100th anniversary edition of this children's classic. The artist removed the covers, spine, and eight illustrations and inserted a strip of ochre leather which became the new spine. Details from the original black and white illustrations were then watercolored and placed on botanically-printed pages. The whole was then bound using original boards of anniversary edition and a slipcase made using the original spine of the book. The artist's title, ANNE with an e, is written in pencil by the artist below the cover portrait of "Anne." taken from a postcard. This altered book was occasioned by the artist's visit to Charlottetown, PEI, the setting for Montgomery's story.
Offered by Priscilla Juvelis.
Harper's Weekly: September 28, 1861 Hand Colored Cartoons (1 page only)
Harper's Weekly, 1861. Paperback. Paperback. Includes 4 hand colored ads about the Union and Sucession, Chipping to edges. Size: 16 x 11 inches. Frameable. PRINTS/041620.
Offered by Kelmscott Bookshop.
The Antikamnia calendar 1899 [-1900]
by ANTIKAMNIA CHEMICAL COMPANY; LOUIS CRUSIUS
St. Louis: Antikamnia Chemical Co, 1898. Antikamnia Chemical Company. (1) The Antikamnia calendar 1899. 6 sheets (plus duplicate of November-December sheet). Chromolithograph illustrations after watercolors by Louis Crusius (1862-98). St. Louis: Antikamnia Chemical Company, 1898. (2) The Antikamnia calendar 1900. 6 sheets. Chromolithograph illustrations after watercolors by Louis Crusius (1862-98). St. Louis: Antikamnia Chemical Company, 1899. Together 2 items. 254 x 177 mm. Edges a bit frayed, marginal dampstains, but good to very good. First Editions of the 1899 and 1900 promotional calendars issued by the Antikamnia Chemical Company, featuring the comically macabre "skeleton sketches" of Louis Crusius, a physician and amateur artist. The St. Louis-based company produced these calendars in limited editions between 1897 and 1901, sending them to "members of the Medical Profession" in the United States and Europe to advertise the patent medicine "Antikamnia," a pain reliever based on the coal tar derivative acetanilide. Although the Antikamnia Chemical Company aggressively promoted its product as a certain remedy for everything from headaches to tuberculosis, the main ingredient, acetanilide, was known to be toxic in high doses or to sensitive individuals. After passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906, which mandated that products containing dangerous drugs be clearly labeled as such, the makers of Antikamnia attempted to skirt this requirement by replacing acetanilide with its less toxic derivative, acetphenitidin. In 1910 U.S. marshals seized a shipment of Antikamnia for violating the Pure Food and Drug Act, and in 1914 the Supreme Court ruled against the company for failing to state that its product contained an acetanilide derivative. The Antikamnia Chemical Company went out of business a few years later, although not before making the fortune of one of its founders, Frank A. Ruf, who died a millionaire in 1923. B. Lovejoy, "The Deadly Pain Medicine Sold by Skeletons." Mental Floss, 7 May 2016 (web).
Offered by Jeremy Norman & Co.
Americans All! : Victory Liberty Roll : Du Bois, Smith ... Et Al. (Poster)
by Howard Chandler Christy
Boston: Forbes, 1919. poster. Near fine condition. World War I bond poster conservation mounted on paper and linen. Columbia hangs a wreath above a list of ethnic European surnames united in generous sacrifice. Printed in full color. Poster measures 40 x 27 inches
Offered by James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers.
by Ruth Berolzheimer
The Culinary Arts Institute / Consolidated Book Publishers, Inc, 1943. Reissue. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Includes scarce publisher's box, with original publisher's list price of $3.75 (which is equivalent to over $50 today). Near fine book in very good jacket. Box rubbed with a few light spots, jacket edges lightly rubbed with 1 inch closed tear on front corner. 1943 Hard Cover. viii, 816, A-H, 1-64 pp. 8vo. Delightful American cookbook with a wartime theme, printed during World War II. Extensive index follows text. Appended to original text are the following sections: Wartime Cookery; How to Feed a Family of Five on $15.00 Per Week (includes a menu with a full month of recipes). Many color photos and memorable recipes. Thumb-indexed. Frontispiece portrait of Douglas MacArthur.
Offered by Yesterday's Muse.
1992 Postcard from Paul Bowles to Gregory Corso (With Accompanying Envelope from Tangier)
1992. Original wraps. Near Fine. A wonderful piece of post-War literary ephemera, a dense, neatly-written postcard from Paul Bowles (at his Tangier residence) to Gregory Corso (in New York). Clean and Near Fine, dated November 3rd, 1992. "dear Gregory: It was good to hear from you after such a very long time. Forgive the card, sent in place of a letter. I'm still in bed, where I've been since the middle of June, and the pain doesn't go away. So I'm grateful to you for the pills you entrusted to Paola Iglioni. Pain is something I can do happily without. There's nothing much to write about. Tangier, like the rest of the world, has grown larger, uglier, more crowded and expensive. Everyone tells me it's preferable to New York, so I stay right on here. Very likely I'll draw my last breath here. But cremation is forbidden in this country. A problem. Anyway, again thanks. best, Paul B." The card is crisp and very sharp, as is the original light-pink, hand-addressed envelope which houses it and which shows 2 clear postmarks from Tangier. And the postcard's image is of the Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco.
Offered by Appledore Books.
Book 171: A Kinetic Book Collage
by Keith A. Smith
24 hand-cut pages with intricate geometric designs. 8vo (200 x 160 mm.), hand-sewn to a pleat by the artist, saw-tooth spine, marbled endpapers. [Rochester]: Keith A. Smith, October 1994. One of Smith's most splendid creations, one of only three copies produced. Here, for the first time, the artist employed a new method of spine sewing. In personal correspondence Smith writes that he was inspired by Eikoh Hosoe's famous Kamaitachi in the conception of this book. From the printed explanatory text laid-in: "The geometric forms were drawn with the program Aldus Freehand™ on a Power Macintosh 7100/66. The drawings were proofed onto typing paper using a Laserwriter II NT. These were cut and bound as a prototype as a means of a sketch of the book. The designs of several pages were then altered and proofed. The end result was printed onto various laid and etching papers. The sections are pamphlet sewn to a pleat, which is decorated by cutting and folding. The spine sewing is devised by Keith Smith, and this is the first use of this new sewing." A superb example of Smith's ingenuity with the book form. Smith gave the other copies to his partner and a friend. His books are hardly ever available on the market. ❧ K.A. Smith, 200 Books, p. 281-"Book 171 is hand cut and hand bound. The title means that no single page is the collage, but it is a layer of pages, ever-changing as pages are turned."
Offered by Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller.
Jonas Salk typed signed letter with envelope
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: [ University of Pittsburgh ], 1955. First Edition. Near Fine. First Edition. Single 8 1/2 x 11 inch sheet. A TLS (typed letter signed) from Jonas Salk dated August 25, 1955 on University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine letterhead thanking a Mr. Arthur Wilson for his good wishes. 'It was very kind of you to express your good wishes; we appreciate having them.' SIGNED boldly in ink 'Jonas E. Salk'. Creasing as expected for a mailed letter. Includes the matching mailing envelope with Virus Research Laboratory return address.
Dr. Jonas E. Salk is best known for his discovery of a safe and effective polio vaccine. His development of the vaccine was completed during a very intense period of several years (even though other scientists had been pursuing different research paths since the late 1930s). The new vaccine was officially announced on April 12, 1955. A competing 'live-virus' vaccine by Dr. Sabin was eventually discontinued in favor of Salks 'dead-virus' vaccine because of the greater efficacy of Salk's vaccine.
Offered by Kuenzig Books.
Dorchester, MA: Walter Baker & Co., Ltd, 1913. Oblong 8vo, pp. 39, [1], followed by 6 high-quality chromolithograph plates of Walter Baker products; 5 other full-page illustrations; fine in original maroon cloth, gilt-lettered on upper cover. The educational exhibit consists of what presumably is a salesman's wooden lacquered case (approx. 9½" x 5½" x 3½"), with a hinged lid on top, and a brass plaque and pull; mounted inside the lid are 4 Baker products, and inside the box itself are four apothecary viles, each still containing Baker products! Uncommon salesman's sample case and companion handbook which were released to promote the Walter Baker "health-giving breakfast cocoa and chocolate." The text explains the transformation of the cocoa seeds from the raw material, describes the early uses of cocoa and chocolate, a description and analysis of the cocoa seeds, the cocoa tree and the gathering of the crop. The four vials represent the various stages of cocoa production, and the cocoa tin mounted 1nside the lid preserves the trademarked chocolate server logo, La Belle Chocolatiere, adopted by the company in 1883 after a painting by the Swiss artists Jean-Etienne Liotard. Founded in 1780 the Walter Baker Company grew throughout the 19th century and into the 20th becoming one of the largest in the United States. Purchased by the Forbes syndicate in 1896, the brand was eventually absorbed in 1979 by Kraft Foods.
Offered by Rulon-Miller Books.
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by Giovani Boccacio
Venice: Repario and Cesano, 1551. vellum. 393 pages. Engraved title page. Full vellum binding with red leather spine label. Thick 12mo [4.5x6.5cm]. Vellum shows soiling, edgewear and some stains. Front hinge cracked but binding sound. Spine label dulled and chipped. Most of the inside paste down pulled out leaving residue and border. Some rippling to rear pastedown. Title page foxed, otherwise clean with mild toning. Good. Item #76851
Boccacio's first major work, preceding the DeCameron. A retelling of the 12th Century French romance. In Italian.
Offered by Aardvark Books and found in "Recent Acquisitions."
ANTIPODEAN BOOKS, MAPS, PRINTS
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Chidester, Ann. Young Pandora.
New York: Scribner’s, 1942. First edition, first printing. Inscribed by Chidester to Irma Wyckoff, secretary to Maxwell Perkins: “With best wishes to Miss Wyckoff, Sincerely, Ann Chidester”. Additionally laid in to this copy are a typed letter signed and typed postcard signed, also to Irma Wyckoff. Publisher’s pale blue-green cloth; in original blue dust jacket with an illustration by Cleon. Near fine book; in very good unclipped dust jacket with some wear and shallow nicks to corners, a few small closed tears to head of spine, 1” closed tear to top edge of rear panel near the spine, a few small tears to bottom of rear panel, front panel bright and fresh. Overall, a pleasant copy, with an interesting association. Young Pandora is Ann Chidester’s first novel. It is autobiographical in nature, featuring a young girl from the Midwest who falls in love, travels, and begins a writing career. Chidester wrote five novels and many short stories, focusing on women’s issues and the plight of the poor. She was close friends with her publisher at Scribner’s, Maxwell Perkins, who famously published F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe. This copy of Young Pandora was inscribed by Chidester to Irma Wykoff, Perkins’ devoted secretary. Also included are a typed letter and postcard. In them, she discusses their mutual acquaintance Marian, an editor at Mademoiselle, and Chidester’s recent move to Taos, NM. She also talks about the new book she is writing, Mable Dodge Luhan’s literary colony, and refers to Perkins as “my friend, Mr. God.”
Offered by B&B Rare Books and found in "ABAA Virtual Book Fair List."
W. C. BAKER RARE BOOKS & EPHEMERA
ANDREW CAHAN, BOOKSELLER, LTD.
DE SIMONE COMPANY, BOOKSELLERS
RODGER FRIEDMAN RARE BOOK STUDIO
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(Anonymous) Immense Succés La Caméléonnia. Affiches Américaines: Ch. Levy. Paris:10 rue Martel. (Ca 1895). Colored lithographic poster on paper. Mounted on silk. 22 ½” x 31" folds, chips to margins. Colors bright. The poster advertises a cabaret dancer who wore and waved colored silks in front on electric lights to create a diaphanous effect of movement in colors. This type of performance was pioneered by Loie Fuller but copied in cabarets at the time. The dancer is lost to time. Her name suggests the color changes of a chamaeleon and also evokes the theme of the Dumas story made into a play La Dame aux Camélias (1852). Rare. Only location is at Musée Carnavalet. A
Offered by Golden Legend and found in "Images of Bellet and Danse."
THOMAS A. GOLDWASSER RARE BOOKS
DAVID A. HAMILTON AMERICANA BOOKS
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Charles Barney Cory, The Birds of Haiti and San Domingo
Boston: published for the Author by Estes & Lauriat, [1884-] 1885. Quarto. (11 3/4 x 8 7/8 inches). Uncoloured lithographic map, 22 hand-coloured lithographic plates (18 of birds, 1 of a nest and eggs, 3 of details of heads of birds).
Contemporary half morocco and marbled paper covered boards, spine gilt with raised bands, marbled endpapers. Provenance: W. L. Foster (booklabel).
A fine monograph on the birds of Haiti and San Domingo, from an edition limited to 300 copies.
An exhaustive account of all the birds of Haiti and St. Domingo known in the late 19th century. The advertisement for the work notes that the "edition will be absolutely limited to three hundred copies, and will be sold only to subscribers for the complete work. Price $5.00 per part." Included are representatives of 87 genus from 42 different families. Each entry includes the synonymy and description of the individual species, together with interesting more personalised notes by the author about where he encountered the birds, how many specimens he collected, etc. The fine plates are by various artists including eight by Joseph Smit. They include 18 plates of individual or pairs of birds (these are of a total of 17 different species as there are two plates of adults and a juvenile of the same species), 1 plate of a nest with eggs in it, and three plates with multiple images of bird's heads showing a total of 23 species.
Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books and found in "New Acquisitions (July 2020)."
JONATHAN A. HILL, BOOKSELLER, INC.
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ALBUM des titres d’alimentation. Septembre 1941. 3eme Bureau.
1941. 31.5cm x 21cm. One typed sheet tipped in followed by 21 ll, [1 - blank] leaf (of which five of the leaves have manuscript and documents recto and verso; the other sixteen recto only). Contemporary plain paper wrappers, title in manuscript on the upper wrapper, light wear to the edges of the wrappers and some sunning. $1500.00 An incredible document from the German occupation of Paris during the Second World War. The Germans took control of Paris on June 14th, 1940. Already, food was scarce in France due to much of the work force having already left for war and the supply chains from France’s colonies greatly disrupted. This was made far worse when Germany occupied France. Immediately, the remaining French products were sent to Germany to support the German cause, and only what was left over, was made available to the French through a strict rationing system.
The current album relates to the rations available in Paris during the month of September, 1941. On the upper wrapper is written “3eme Bureau;” this likely refers to the rationing office of the 3rd arrondissement in Paris. The first leaf is a typescript index for the album (all leaves are present). The sheets are numbered 1-21 (with a few versos numbered with a “bis” number) and contain the original ration sheets that were being issued by the German occupation government during the war. The sheets are pasted in, and in most cases, small ration tags are cut out and mounted alongside. On each sheet, there is also manuscript information that explains the quantity of the given foodstuff that the ration is good for and how it is to be administered. For example, one ration tag is good for 325 grams of butter, another for 60 grams of cheese, and so on. The foods included are bread; meat and cold cuts; and matières grasses (i.e. oil; butter; cheese; beef fat; margarine; and lard). There is also a special coupon for workers which entitles them to greater amounts of food. On the verso of that coupon, it states “L’hiver qui s’aproche sera rude. Les effectifs des cuisines d’entr’aide vont croître. Vous aiderez le SECOURS NATIONAL à « tenir ». Et la misere reculera !” (The coming winter will be harsh. The number of service kitchens [i.e. soup kitchens] will increase. You will help SECOURS NATIONAL to “hold on.” And misery will recede!) Also laid in is a contemporary newspaper clip entitled “Le ravitaillement. Les rations alimentaires du mois de juillet” and an unused contemporary German postcard (printed in Berlin) that is a picture of German ration coupons.3 A remarkable glimpse into the conditions under which the Parisians had to live during the Second World War. In good condition and preserved in an archival folder.
Offered by Ben Kinmont, Bookseller and found in "Gastronomy & Economic Precarity."
JOHN W. KNOTT, JR., BOOKSELLER
MICHAEL LAIRD RARE BOOK & MANUSCRIPTS
DAVID M. LESSER, FINE ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS
LIBER ANTIQUUS, EARLY PRINTED BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS
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Ascham, Roger
19th c. calf, single gilt filet framing the boards, hinges discreetly repaired, gilt spine, label chipped, edges worn. Fine copy with the initial leaf with signature mark and blank ¶8 both present. Marginal worm-trail to blank lower margin in middle signatures, not affecting text. Title with decorative border, woodcut of Robert Dudley, Earl Leicester’s emblem (the muzzled bear) inscribed with the Garter motto on leaf ¶3. Woodcut initials, diagram of divisions of the Mass, some passages in Greek. Rare. 7 institutional holdings in North America. Provenance: bookplates of George Stokes, Cardiff Castle, and Robert Pirie.
One of the greatest of the Tudor humanists, Ascham was favored by Henry VIII, to whom he dedicated his “Toxophilus”, tutor to the princess Elizabeth, and author of a masterpiece of English pedagogy, “The Scholemaster”. Ascham also tutored the boy king Edward VI in the art of elegant handwriting, and Edward thought of him fondly, and so it is of interest that Ascham wrote this “reformed” work while Edward was being groomed by his close advisors to be a thoroughly Protestant monarch.
Roger Ascham (1515/16-1568) penned his ‘Apologia pro Caena Dominica contra Missam & eius Praestigias’ (‘A Defense of the Lord’s Supper against the Mass and its Magic’) at Cambridge in 1547/8 during the first year of Edward VI’s reign. It was published in Ascham’s name some thirty years later (and about ten years after Ascham’s death) in 1577/8, together with his dedicatory preface to Robert Dudley and his other theological pieces, which are also in Latin...
Offered by Liber Antiquus and found in "Rare Books & Manuscripts 13th-18th c."
J. & J. LUBRANO MUSIC ANTIQUARIANS
STUART LUTZ HISTORIC DIOCUMENTS
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Jaws 3D Poster (with Glasses Still Attached) "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" Version
Hallmark, 1983. Minor shelf/edge wear, else bright and clean. Approx. 20x28" Very Good+. There were at least two versions of this poster, one with "I Love Everybody) at the top and this one with "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner." This is clearly the preferred version. A scarce poster to find in good condition, especially in as find condition as seen here.
Offered by Lux Mentis Booksellers and found in "Poster Print Art."
MAIN STREET FINE BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS
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BRUCE MCKITTRICK RARE BOOKS, INC.
R & A PETRILLA, ANTIQUARIAN BOOKSELLERS
PHILADELPHIA RARE BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS
PHILLIP J. PIRAGES FINE BOOKS & MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS
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JESSE, J. HENEAGE. LONDON: ITS CELEBRATED CHARACTERS AND REMARKABLE PLACES
(London: Richard Bentley, 1871) 200 x 130 mm. (7 3/4 x 5”). Three volumes expanded to six. “SPECIAL COPY, extra illustrated in six volumes.” CHARMING OLIVE GREEN CRUSHED MOROCCO, GILT AND WITH PICTORIAL INLAY, BY BAYNTUN (stamp-signed on front turn-in), upper covers with leafy strapwork gilt frame, central inlay in multiple colors of morocco depicting one of the characters from the book, with gilt lettering beneath it, lower covers with gilt-rule frame, raised bands, spines gilt in compartments with strapwork and leaf ornament, gilt lettering, gilt-ruled turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Housed together in a green cloth slipcase. WITH 537 PLATES, consisting of 27 folding plates (nine hand-colored), 124 hand-colored plates (19 of them from the Rowlandson “Dr. Syntax” series), and 386 black & white engravings, all but one of the plates with original tissue guard. Spines evenly sunned to a pleasing hazel brown, one leaf with neat repair to upper corner (away from text), occasional mild foxing to plates (usually marginal, never offensive), other trivial imperfections, but A VERY FINE SET, clean and fresh, with none of the offsetting that usually plagues extra-illustrated works, IN SPARKLING BINDINGS.
This is perhaps the ultimate copy of Jesse’s entertaining and informative tour of his beloved city and the characters who have inhabited it over the centuries: it was professionally “grangerized” with fine specimens of 96 relevant prints, all with tissue guards; it was beautifully bound by a leading firm in a style that perfectly complements the contents; and, despite these obvious benefits, it has seen very little use. John Heneage Jesse (1809-74) wrote a number of popular historical works, including royal biographies and court memoirs, that drew praise for their conscientious attention to fact and detail, if not for their originality or wit. Described by DNB as “a dedicated Londoner, [who] seldom ventured away from the metropolitan area,” Jesses leads us here through the districts of his home city, relating anecdotes, noting the locations of momentous events, and pointing out architectural treasures. The added portraits, scenes, and views help to bring his account to life, and the diligent use of tissue guards has prevented these illustrations from affecting the adjacent leaves in a detrimental way. Rowlandson’s famous caricatures from “Dr. Syntax,” portraying the amusing adventures of a country parson in the metropolis, comprise just one example of the half a thousand inserted plates here. The bindings from Bayntun of Bath depict some of the humble characters whose presence gives the capital so much of its flavor: those who sell their wares on the streets and do everyday jobs that keep the city running. The Bayntun firm, founded in Bath in 1894, is now the last of the great Victorian trade binderies still in family ownership. Our binding probably dates from the first quarter of the 20th century, when the workshop was known for imaginative designs that involved the augmenting of gilt decoration with inlaid pictorial designs.
Offered by Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and found in "Catalogue 76" (item #100).
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Pool, Bill W. (Editor). Compton Police Annual.
Compton, CA: Compton Police Officers Association, 1964. 8.5 x 11 inches, 72 pp, with illustrations and ads. Three-hole punched, police department stamp on front cover, one gathering loose front staples; very good. Fourth annual edition of this periodical, which was used to raise funds for the Officers Relief Fund and to inform the public of "some of our problems and functions."
Within a year, there would be riots--founded in a long history of friction between African-American residents and the police--in neighboring Watts, and by 1970, Compton would have the highest crime rate in California. This publication starts with a positive story showcasing of a newly completed police building, and includes articles about successful police operations and public safety tips. But hints of the policecommunity tension to come are also present. An article titled "'Defenders of the Peace' in Community and Human Relations" asks citizens to support the efforts of the police, complaining that "unjust charges are sometimes made against the police. Charges made or rumored by persons who do not have all the facts. When this happens, police morale is jeopardized and the development of an esprit de corps is made difficult." Another, titled "Take the Handcuffs Off Our Police," argues that by overzealous interpretation of constitutional rights "we are increasingly throttling our law enforcement officers with judge-made rulings that stagger common sense." And an editorial proclaims that "now, more than ever before in our history, one is either for law enforcement or he's against it. He's either for mob rule--or he's for the law. He's either for America--or he's against America. Let's begin to make our laws say what they mean and mean what they say--and let everybody know it." No holdings (of any issue) located in OCLC.
Offered by Walkabout Books and found in "List 16: Police & Community in the United States" (item #27).
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de Beauvoir, Simone. Le Deuxieme Sexe (in 2 vols.).
Paris: Gallimard, 1949\. First edition. Original publisher's cloth bindings with titles to spine and pictorial illustrations of Mario Prassinos to boards. Pegasus motif endpapers. Gentle rubbing to extremities of spines; gentle bumps to corners. Front board of volume II mildly bowed. In all, a pleasing pair of this important philosophical work, which was released in a limited edition of 2,105 copies, including the present set which is one of 2,000 numbered copies on Alfama Marais paper. One of the preeminent French existentialist philosophers, working alongside other intellectual greats such as Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, Simone de Beauvoir made her greatest contributions in the fields of ethics, feminism, and politics. She is perhaps best known for the present work, The Second Sex, which argues that women have been historically relegated to a second class as men's 'Other,' and that this has led to systemic oppression. "Her revolutionary magnum opus, it was published in two volumes and immediately found both an eager audience and harsh critics. The Second Sex was so controversial that the Vatican put it on the Index of Prohibited Books...Striking for its breadth of research and the profundity of its central insights, it remains to this day one of the foundational texts in philosophy, feminism, and women's studies" (Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Near Fine.
Offered by Whitmore Rare Books and found in "RBMS Virtual Showcase."
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One phrase you might hear at a rare-book fair is mapbacks. No, that’s not some sort of tattoo favored by rare map dealers; a "mapback" is the informal name for a series of pulp paperback books published by Dell between 1943 and 1950.
Initially, the back cover of these books featured bland art, but starting with the fifth book in the series, Four Frightened Women by George Harmon Coxe, Dell added an illustration showing the locale where the book’s events took place. (Note: the previous book in the series, The American Gun Mystery by Ellery Queen, was later reprinted with a map on the back cover, but it was the fifth book in the series that was the first to feature a map.)
The “maps” were not all conventional maps by any means, with cut-away illustrations of buildings being a frequent option the various artists used when the action was largely confined to one house or building.
Dell paperbacks were distinguished airbrushed art and a distinctive Keyhole collophon with an eye peering through, a nod to the lurid mysteries they mainly published in the paperback line — although they soon began to add thrillers, romance, western titles, even historical novels and nonfiction as the series grew in popularity. The keyhole logo soon accreted a number of variations to denote genre, and (according to Piet Schreuders in The Book of Paperbacks) in 1949 it ceased to be used on the rear of mapbacks).
by Thomas Polsky
New York: Dell Publishing Company. First edition. Softcover. Dell Book 29, a mapback. A tight very good copy with some minor creases to the corners of the wrappers and some of the usual tanning to the pages. Otherwise, a very nice copy.
Offered by Jeff Hirsch Rare Books.
Initially, there was no numbering on this series, but Dell began adding a number to enhance collectability with Thomas Polsky’s Curtains for the Copper in 1944 (according to the wonderful resource The Mapback Index). Eventually the keyhole design was changed to incorporate the number.
Collectors have long had great affection for the Dell mapbacks, and their original large print runs and popularity means that most are not difficult to come by, but institutional respect was slower to develop — in part because of the sheer number of volumes and the small paperback format posed problems for institutional storage. Despite the fact that the Library of Congress was required to receive two complimentary copies of any and all copyrighted works published in the United States since 1870, the Library had routinely rejected copyright receipts of mass-market paperbacks because they didn’t have the space to store them! It wasn’t until the 1970s that the Library made an effort to incorporate mass market paperbacks in their collection, and in 1976, Helen Meyer, the Chairman of Dell Publishing, donated a complete archive of 8500 Dell paperbacks to the library.
The Big City After Dark - New York: Confidential! the lowdown on its bright life (1950) edition
by Jack Lait & Brad Mortimer
New York: Dell, 1950. Paperback. 240p., mapback paperback reprint of the 1948 original, very worn pictorial wraps. Dell Book 400. Several sections on gay and lesbian interest.
Offered by Bolerium Books.
Today, most mapbacks are available for modest prices in fair condition. There are of course titles that are harder to find, and a wide gulf between copies in fair and fine condition! There are several good books and websites that explore the history of the Dell paperbacks, mapbacks, and pulp paperbacks in general, and these are good resources if you wish to build up a collection of mapbacks or other mass-market paperbacks from the era.
ABAA members have many Dell mapbacks listed on abaa.org — search by the keyword mapback — and many more that they have not posted online. If you are hunting for a specific title or titles, we encourage you to contact an ABAA member near you directly, so they can help you locate the best copy. Here is a sample of the titles currently available:
Silent are the Dead (Dell Mapback Series No. 225)
by George Harmon Coxe
Dell, 1941. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Wrappers very faintly creased, pages faintly toned. 1941 Mass Market Paperback. 240 pp. Flash Casey snaps a photo that holds the key to a corrupt lawyer's murder. Casey shouldn't have had to go back for more pictures of Stanford Endicott. He was at the court with the other newspaper photographers when the wealthy lawyer was arraigned, and got pictures of him smiling as he put on a hat to hide his bald head. But before Casey can get the negatives developed, a pair of urchins steal his camera case and expose the plates to the sun. At his editor's orders, Casey visits Endicott's office for another round of photos. The picture he takes there is altogether more interesting: Stanford Endicott, dead on his office floor. Casey hears a sound in the next room and knows the murderer is close. He gives chase out the front door, and takes a picture just as the killer drives away. Suddenly, Flash Casey has a bigger story than he bargained for.
Offered by Yesterday's Muse.
Brandy for a Hero (Dell Mapback)
by William O'Farrell
New York: Dell Publishing Co. (306). Very Good+. [1949] (c.1948). 1st printing thus. Softcover. NO ISBN . [nice tight copy, mild edgewear, some soft creasing in front cover, inked number at top of first inside page]. Mass Market PB "The Story of a Night of Terror." The rear cover crime map depicts "The Old Fort Skating-Rink, where death pursues a doctor" (a cutaway view of the building, with a map of Manhattan as background).
Offered by ReadInk.
by Dashiell Hammett
New York: Dell #129, 1946. Hammett, Dashiell. THE CONTINENTAL OP. NY: DELL #129 [1946]. First Printing. A FINE copy with only the most minor of blemishes. Great mapback of the streets of San Francisco.. Fine.
Offered by Lakin & Marley Rare Books.
by Dashiell Hammett
New York: Dell Publishing Company, Inc., [1950].. Small octavo, cover art by Robert Stanley, pictorial wrappers. First mass market paperback edition. Dell #379 A Dell mapback. Collects four stories, "Nightmare Town," "The Scorched Face," "Albert Pastor at Home" and "Corkscrew." First book publication for all. The first story appeared in ARGOSY ALL STORY WEEKLY, the second in BLACK MASK, the last two in ESQUIRE. Introduction by Ellery Queen. Reading crease at spine edge, spine ends rubbed, a near fine copy.
Offered by L.W. Currey.
They Can't All Be Guilty (Dell Mapback No. 401)
by M.V. Heberden
Dell Publishing Company, 1950. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Light creasing to spine. 1950 Mass Market Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 240 pp. By the author of Murder of a Stuffed Shirt, Vicious Pattern, Drinks on the Victim, and Murder Cancels All Debts.
Offered by Yesterday's Muse.
The Affair at the Boat Landing
by A. B. Cunningham
New York: Dell Publishing Company, 1943. Paperback. 224pp. Sextodecimo [16 cm] Illustrated wraps. The text block edges have the publisher's blue stain. Very good. The covers are mildly creased and rubbed. Slight spine slant. There are several very tiny moisture stains on the top edge of the text block. Browned pages. A Dell Book. Dell 410. Map Back. A Sheriff Jess Roden Murder Mystery. Cover painting by Robert Stanley. Numerous well-known authors had their books reprinted as Dell Map Backs such as Rex Stout, David Dodge, Agatha Christie and Dashiell Hammett. According to William H. Lyles, author of Putting Dell on the Map: A History of the Dell Paperbacks, "Dell achieved more variety than any of its early competitors. It did so, at first, with an instantly identifiable format of vibrant airbrushed covers for its predominantly genre fiction, varying 'eye-in-keyhole' logos, maps on the back covers, lists of the books' characters, and 'tantalizer-pages.'"
Offered by Ken Sanders Rare Books.
Mignon G. Eberhart
New York: Dell, 1942. Softcover. Very Good. Mass market paperback. Pages lightly age-toned with bottom corners creased, about very good with modest edgewear. A Nurse Keate Murder Mystery. A Dell Book 136, complete with map on rear wrapper.
Offered by Between the Covers Rare Books.
by Clifton Cuthbert
New York: Dell, [194-?]. Mass Market Paperback. 191p., first wraps edition, light handling wear. Cuthbert explores black/white relations with jazz themes, set in Harlem. *Rideout author. A Dell 'Mapback'.
Offered by Bolerium Books.
by H. Rider Haggard
New York: Dell #339, 1949. Haggard, H. Rider. SHE. New York: Dell #339, 1949. First Edition thus. A Near Fine unread copy of one of the iconic "good girl art" paperbacks from the golden age of GGA by Lou Marchetti. The stunning black cover is especially prone to wear but this example is a beauty. The mapback reverse is equally pristine. Uncreased and square, with full gloss. Not much point having this book unless you acquire it this nice (just our opinion). "She who must be obeyed" is one of Haggard's great creations and if you haven't read the book, you're missing out. But don't read this particular copy!. First Edition Thus. Mass Market Paperback.
Offered by Lakin & Marley Rare Books.
by Faith Baldwin
New York: Dell Publishing Company, 1940. Paperback. 240pp. Sextodecimo [16 cm] Illustrated wraps. Publisher's blue stain on the text block edges. Very good. The covers are lightly creased. There is a previous owner's faint ink stamp on the front cover, and again on the first blank page. Abraded along the inside margins of the free endsheets and the internal sides of the covers. Browned pages. A Dell Book. Dell 116. Map Back. The intricately rendered scene-of-the-crime/action representations on the back of the Dell Map Backs made them popular and collectible. Numerous well-known authors had their books reprinted as Dell Map Backs such as Rex Stout, David Dodge, Agatha Christie and Dashiell Hammett.
Offered by Ken Sanders Rare Books.
THE BOOK OF PAPERBACKS; A Visual History of the Paperback.
by Piet Schreuders (Translated from the Dutch by Josh Pachter)
London: Virgin Books, 1981. Stiff pictorial wrappers. A VG copy. xi, 259 pp. Illustrated in color and b/w. 8vo., 9" x 6"
Offered by Tavistock Books.
DELL PAPERBACKS, 1942 TO MID-1962
by William Lyles
Westport: Greenwood Press, 1983. cloth. Dell. 8vo. cloth. xxxv, 471, (3) pages. A catalog-Index of Dell paperbacks.
Offered by Oak Knoll Books.
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If you are interested in the history of paperbacks, be sure to read "Collecting Armed Services Editions"...
The following book was apparently “delivered to” and “signed for” by Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Manuscripts, but the firm never received it. Please contact Jill Mann if you know the whereabouts of this item:
Jill Mann, Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Manuscripts
(503) 472-0476 or jill@pirages.com
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Lot #87 at the Christie’s Paris sale on 5/27
REDOUTÉ, Pierre-Joseph (1759-1840). Les Roses peintes par P. J. Redouté… décrites par C. A. Thorry. Paris : C. L. F. Panckoucke, 1824 [-1826].
Bel exemplaire en demi-maroquin rouge de l’époque, bien complet de toutes ses planches et des feuillets de texte. On a relié in fine les quatre pages de prospectus pour cette édition : « L’éclat, la vérité, l’élégance, le plus grand luxe typographique, ont procuré aux Roses de M. Redouté une vogue européenne. On a reconnu, dans les portraits qu’il a donnés de toutes les variétés de la rose, la nature même… ».
Cette édition in-8, la première de ce format, fut publiée en 40 livraisons de 4 planches chacune. Nissen BBI, 1599.
Fort volume in-8 (246 x 162 mm). Faux-titre, titre et 160 planches hors-texte, toutes coloriées à la main. Demi-maroquin rouge à coins de l’époque, dos à nerfs orné (petits frottements d’usage aux coiffes et aux coins ; rares rousseurs).
[We're reposting this piece from 2017 about the great Shirley Jackson because of the interest spurred in Jackson by the new film, Shirley (now streaming). Starring Elizabeth Moss as the reclusive author, the film is an adaptation of Shirley: A Novel by Susan Scarf Merrell.]
For those of you unfamiliar with Shirley Jackson’s work, consider yourself warned of potential SPOILERS right now and exit out of this page. Preferably to pick up one of her books and see for yourself.
I still remember the first Shirley Jackson piece I ever read. Like most American high-school teenagers, it was one of her short stories. A terrifying and eye-opening piece entitled The Lottery. To this day, I think it is one of the most horrifying works I’ve ever read (and this coming from an avid Agatha Christie fan). A work that reveals a callous and mindless side of human nature – just following the herd mentality, even if it involves killing your own mother – what wouldn’t be creepy about that? The Lottery has always stuck with me, and also have the other stories by Jackson that I have read since. We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a fan favorite for a reason! So here’s to the real question… what had this seemingly average American housewife done to become the architect of such frightening tales? Well… let’s take a look!
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New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. First edition. (First state with the "fs" logo on the copyright page. Jacket has correct first issue price of $2.75 and correct back panel and flap info: "Farrar, Straus Company/ 53 East 34th Street, New York 16, N. Y.") 306 p. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. Offsetting to end papers, cloth is bit grubby, worn at tips. Jacket has some chips missing along edges,scratch on front panel, small piece of archival mending tissue on verso near foot, price intact. A nice copy.
Offered by Burnside Rare Books.
Shirley Hardie Jackson was born on December 14th, 1916 in San Francisco, California. She discovered writing at an early age, and during her teenage years dealing with stressful weight fluctuations and feeling like an outcast, writing was her main joy. She originally attended Rochester University, but after feeling unhappy there (with professors who judged her writing quite harshly), she transferred to Syracuse University where she thrived and finally felt like she fit in with her peers. She was involved with the University’s literary magazine, where she met her future husband, literary critic Stanley Edgar Hyman. Around 1935 she and her new husband moved to the sleepy town of North Bennington, Vermont, where Hyman taught at Bennington College and Jackson continued working on her writing. Later on, in 1954, Jackson would say of these years in North Bennington: “our major exports were books and children, both of which we produce in abundance. The children are Laurence, Joanne, Sarah, and Barry” (Twentieth Century Authors).
by Shirley Jackson
New York: Viking, 1959. First. hardcover. near fine/near fine. 8vo, yellow & aqua cloth, d.w. New York: Viking, (1959). First Edition. One of the best ghost stories of the 20th century, and the basis for two films. Near fine, with the slightest of wear to the extremes of the dust wrapper.
Offered by Argosy Book Store.
When The Lottery was first published in The New Yorker in June of 1948, Jackson was catapulted to fame - the likes of which she never expected. The initial response to the story was extremely negative. Jackson received 400 letters from readers over the course of the summer – and only 13 were kind (and mainly from personal friends). Many readers instantly cancelled their subscriptions to The New Yorker. While Jackson would tell others that the tone of the letters ranged from “bewilderment, speculation, and plain old-fashioned abuse.” Readers wanted to know if such rites existed, and if so – where they could go and watch someone being stoned to death. They “declared the story a piece of trash.” What could a story possibly do to make people so violently angry? Well… remind them of their own cruelty and confuse them with their own emotions, of course. While Jackson was somewhat shocked by the extremely negative reception of her story, she often refused to give the readers the one thing they wanted… an explanation of what it “really means”. One sentence she was able to send to the San Francisco Chronicle gave an explanation (that I’m sure went over really well with the readers) as such: “I suppose, I hoped… to shock the story’s readers with a graphic dramatization of the pointless violence and general inhumanity in their own lives.” Zing!
The negative response her story received did not stop her, however. Jackson continued to write stories and would come to be known as a Mistress of Terror. Her subtle plots infused with strange characters and sinister themes and plots held her audience captivated. She wrote over 100 short stories throughout the years, some children’s stories and several novels. Her novels The Bird’s Nest (1954) and The Haunting of Hill House (1959) are commonly regarded as fantastical and ghostly stories, and have inspired authors Stephen King and Neil Gaiman in their own works. In 1962 she published her novel We Have Always Lived in the Castle, a story following two sisters after the mysterious and unsolved mass murder of their entire family in their childhood home.
The Bird's Nest (First Edition)
by Shirley Jackson
NY: Farrar, Straus and Young,. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1954. Hardcover. A novel. Stated first printing. Foxing to edges and endpapers, else very good in a very good (minor edge wear and age toning) dust jacket. ; 276 pages.
Offered by Grendel Books.
So what made Shirley Jackson tick? What gave her these ideas? Her own husband has said of the matter that the darkness found in Jackson’s stories were not the side-effects of personal neurosis, but rather a result of the hard times she had seen of the world – “fitting symbols for [a] distressing world of the concentration camp and the [Cold War] bomb.” Jackson wrote of the psychological and physical destructiveness of human nature, and its consequences on others. Her stories obviously resonated with readers so upset by the simultaneous horror and unbelievably realistic nature (after all, many readers believed The Lottery was based on actual rituals experienced throughout the country) and forced all to take a deep look inside and wonder at the violence and evil that could be found in us all. One thing is for sure – were Jackson still alive today (she unfortunately passed away at only 48), I am sure she would find several ways to shock us all into submission.
Items of Interest...
Spectre: A Literary Quarterly. Volume I: Number 3
by JACKSON, SHIRLEY (EDITOR); HYMAN, STANLEY EDGAR (EDITOR)
Syracuse University, 1940. Elusive example of this short-lived college literary journal, self-published by Shirley Jackson and her future husband Stanley Edgar Hyman as an alternative to the official Syracuse University literary magazine. In a run of four issues, Spectre satirized the intellectual shortcomings of the student body, championed progressive politics, and stirred some mild campus controversy with its stylized nude illustrations. In this third issue, Jackson and Hyman confront the racial hypocrisy of the university, which refused to house black students on campus: "Marian Anderson sells out every time she comes here, but they won't allow negro girls in the college dormitories. Maybe it's all right if you're no closer than the sixth row." Jackson herself contributes an autobiographical short story, "Had We But World Enough," in which a penniless young couple imagine their future with a combination of longing and dread: "'The hell with you,' she said. 'You think I'm going to have children and ruin my whole life?' They laughed. 'Twenty children,' he said. 'All boys.'" Jackson and Hyman would marry shortly after graduation, and raise four children on her earnings as a writer. Known to her neighbors only as "Mrs. Hyman," the increasingly reclusive Jackson would publish some of the most unsettling fiction ever produced in America, including "The Lottery" (1948), The Haunting of Hill House (1959), and We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962).
All copies of Spectre are rare: aside from Syracuse University, OCLC locates one microfilm copy at Yale. An evocative survival. Side-stapled volume, measuring 10.75 x 8.5 inches: 60 numbered leaves [120 pages]. Original dark blue pictorial wraps, beige cloth tape-bound spine. Sixty mimeographed leaves, printed on rectos only, black and white illustrations throughout text. Center crease to front cover and first few pages, shallow chipping and creasing to back cover, text block toned.
Offered by Honey & Wax.
by Shirley Jackson
[New York: Farrar, 1958. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. THE SUNDIAL,] Jackson's work, and one which she conveys with consummate skill ... All Jackson's work -- with the exception, perhaps of THE BIRD'S NEST, a clumsy novel about multiple personality -- is subtle, powerful and flawlessly written; it reveals Jackson's keen insight into human personality and human society and her cynical, even jaundiced view of the world and its occupants. She has left a legacy of complex, richly textured horror writing that requires little or no bloodletting for its haunting effectiveness." - S. T. Joshi, Pringle (ed), St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost & Gothic Writers, p. 292. "Comic modern Gothic novel concerned with the eccentric Halloran family who shut themselves away on the family's estate to await the apocalypse prophesied by the ghost of the family patriarch ... It can be read as a lighter treatment of the themes of isolation and family madness that dominate WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED IN THE CASTLE (1962)." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-182. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-156. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-120. Winter list, p. 269. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. A sharp copy of a book that is uncommon in nice condition.
Offered by L.W. Currey.
by JACKSON, SHIRLEY
London: Victor Gollancz, 1951. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First English edition. Fine in very good or better dustwrapper with a few small nicks and tears, and a small, faint splash mark on the spine. Author's third book, and second novel, and her first novel to deal with the darker regions of human nature and personality. Inscribed by the author to her in-laws, the parents of her husband, Stanley Edgar Hyman: "For Lulu and Dad with all my love - Shirley." The recipients were, along with her own parents, the dedicatees of Jackson's *Life Among the Savages.* Books inscribed by Jackson are uncommon, especially with any kind of significant association.
Offered by Between the Covers Rare Books.
Our members list new acquisitions and recently cataloged items almost every day of the year. Below, you'll find a few highlights from these recent additions...
Five Days in London, May 1940 (Folio Society)
by LUKACS, JOHN
Green cloth with white and black titles and decorations, slipcase, 16 by 22.7 cm, xxii 190 pp., illus. Fine, unread copy in near fine slipcase. "The days from May 24 to May 28, 1940 altered the course of the history of this century, as the members of the British War Cabinet debated whether to negotiate with Hitler or to continue what became known as the Second World War. The decisive importance of these five days is the focus of John Lukacs's magisterial book. Lukacs takes us hour by hour into the critical unfolding of events at 10 Downing Street, where Churchill and the members of his cabinet were painfully considering their war responsibilities. We see how the military disasters taking place on the Continent—particularly the plight of the nearly 400,000 British soldiers bottled up in Dunkirk—affected Churchill's fragile political situation, for he had been prime minister only a fortnight and was regarded as impetuous and hotheaded even by many of his own party. Lukacs also investigates the mood of the British people, drawing on newspaper and Mass-Observation reports that show how the citizenry, though only partly informed about the dangers that faced them, nevertheless began to support Churchill's determination to stand fast. Other historians have dealt with Churchill's difficulties during this period, using the partial revelations of certain memoirs and private and public papers. But Lukacs is the first to convey the drama and importance of these days, and he does so in a compelling narrative that combines deep knowledge with high literary style."
Offered by Bay Leaf Books.
Lenore Kandel
San Francisco: Stolen Paper Editions, 1966. Second printing. Paperback. Very Good. Wide stapled illustrated wrappers. Second printing of Kandel's controversial volume of sexually explicit poems that was banned and seized by the police when first published. A very good copy with some wear to covers. Six pages, printed on rectos only.
Offered by Derringer Books.
A Visit From Santa Claus with Santa Claus And HIs Works
by Clement C. Moore
New York: McLoughlin Brothers, 1906. First Edition. Very good in heavy paper, printed wraps over a replacement sewn binding. A quarto measuring 12 1/8 by 9 7/8 inches with archival tape repairs along the length of the fold of the spine and with similar repairs to several of the page folds. The sewn binding has been restored professionally. Unpaginated, but containing 14 pages illustrated with 8 full color lithographic plates (counting the covers) and line drawings throughout. Identified on the front panel as "158". Copyright dates of 1899 appear on the front cover and 1906 on the rear cover. The illustrator is not indicated. Clement Moore's poem comprises the first six pages which includes three full color plates. The remaining pages of text and plates contain the poem Santa Claus And His Works written by George P. Webster. (Very similar to Marshall 133).
Offered by Town's End Books.
The Last Week of the World. A Vision
by John Campbell
London: John Evans, [ca. 1810?]. 8vo (16.7 cm, 6.57"). 8 pp. Apocalyptic warning, written by a Scottish missionary (1766–1840) known for his Travels in South Africa. This printing, apparently the first, is scarce; WorldCat locates three U.S. institutional holdings of a later "Evans and Son" imprint, but none of this "John Evans, No. 42" printing. The large title-page wood-engraving illustrates the dividing of the wicked from the righteous.
Provenance: From the chapbook collection of American collector Albert A. Howard, sans indicia. Removed from a nonce volume; page edges gently browned. The workmanlike printingis somewhat uneven, and the title-page vignette shows a few small ink spots from the press. Uncommon and interesting.
Offered by Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts.
by Zora Neale Hurston
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincot, 1935. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 342 pages; VG/none; bound in publisher's brown stamped orange cloth, mild wear to extremities; bookplate to front pastedown; front gutter beginning to show webbing; small bookstore sticker to rear pastedown; shelved case 1.
Offered by Second Story Books.
by DUBULA, SOL
Prague: Peace and Socialism Publishers, 1965. First Edition. Paperback. Exposé of the apartheid system, with contents dealing with the politics of cheap labour, apartheid in practice, the confidence trick of apartheid, international action and the collaborators, and the people's struggle. Slim octavo (22cm); pictorial wrappers, stapled; 38,[2]pp. Light wear to wrappers, touch of dustiness to rear wrapper, else Near Fine.
Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books.
by MARKHAM, BERYL
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1942. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. 8vo. Green cloth printed in back on the spine and upper board. The cloth has slight aging to the boards and spine, some offsetting on the endpapers and pastedowns,a penciled ownership name and another blindstamped on the half title and the title, but it is still a very good copy. The dustwrapper is rubbed at the folds and rough along the edges including a couple of short marginal closed tears. It shows the first state points: $3.00 on the flap, and on the box on the rear panel, and with the war bond ad on the rear flap. The author was an English girl raised in British East Africa, conversant in native languages and customs, a horsewoman and a pilot when airplanes were unique in that part of Africa. Accompanied by her biography: Mary S. Lovell, STRAIGHT ON TILL MORNING, New York, St. Martin's Press, 1987. First US edition. A fine copy in a fine, clipped dustwrapper.
Offered by Thorn Books.
Classic Navajo Third Phase Chief Blanket Numbered Serigraph
by SILVERMAN, JACK
New with no dust jacket. 1984. Serigraph. 29 1/2 x 41 1/2 inch serigraph on Arches 140 pound moulded paper. Print is numbered (76 of 100) but not signed. In this superb example, the bold design and restrained size of the diamonds strikes an elegant balance with the striped field. The result is an icon of the 19th century Navajo Third Phase Chief Blanket weaving. This serigraph is the result 65 to 100 screen applications on Arches handmade paper. In speaking with the artist, he explained how he perfected his printing craft by adding layer after layer until he felt he had the richness and depth he was after. He was particularly proud of achieving the three-dimensional feel to his serigraphs. Each ripple and fold in the blanket is tangible and unique. One can actually 'feel' the multiple layers of ink on these masterpieces. During the second half of the 19th century, the primary market for Navajo blankets shifted from other Native American tribes to Anglo-Americans. While Native Americans had preferred Navajo Blankets featuring simple arrangements of horizontal stripes, Anglo Americans found the relative simplicity of first and second phase chief's blankets uninspiring, Anglo Americans also preferred bordered compositions to unbordered compositions, probably because most Oriental carpets featured bordered compositions. In response to the Anglo American preferences, Navajo weavers introduced the concentric diamond to their chief's blankets. The chief's blanket's traditional, horizontally striped field was decorated by the arrangement of a full central diamond surrounded by eight partial diamonds. This gave the chief's blanket a focal point, and the suggestion of a border. Almost overnight, the diamond pattern (or “third phase" pattern, as it is more commonly known) became extremely popular among Anglo American tourists, settlers, military personnel and merchants throughout the Americana west. ; Serigraph; 24" x 36" .
Offered by Back of Beyond Books.
Notes on Nursing: What it is, and what it is not (Association copy)
by NIGHTINGALE, FLORENCE
London: Harrison, Bookseller to the Queen, 1860. First edition. Early state. Original charcoal medium-fine bead-cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Yellow advertisement endpapers. Spine and ends discreetly restored (often found thus, as noted by Skretkowicz) and hinges strengthened. Light wear at corners and a few negligible marks to cloth Very faint dampstain to front pastedown, some leaves from gathering B holding at bottom cord only (pages 5-12), occasional notations but overall clean internally. A pleasing copy of this landmark work on nursing, with an intimate association, from the estate of author and politician Richard Monkton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton (1809-1885), Nightingale's favourite, persistent, but ultimately rejected suitor. Nightingale's landmark treatise on nursing, which introduced new and rigorous standards for sanitary and hygienic treatment of patients in hospitals. It is a work that altered how hospitals approached patient care, saving countless lives from infection. It also helped transform nursing from a volunteer role to a more respected and formalized career path for women. The owner of this copy, Richard Monkton Milnes, "was a family friend from Nightingale's childhood, and her most serious suitor. She turned him down finally after a long courtship, not without some regrets ... Milnes and Nightingale remained friends for life and she made a friend also of his wife" (McDonald). One of Nightingale's most vocal supporters, Milnes was prominent in the fund-raising to honour her work in the Crimean War and supported the establishment of the Nightingale Fund; he served on its Council until ill health forced him to quit, when he was succeeded by his son. Nightingale and Milnes would continue a lively correspondence, predominately on social and political themes. "Nightingale was godmother to one of his daughters [Florence Ellen], who indeed was named after her. The daughters were invited to visit and Nightingale sent them books" (McDonald.). A typed letter from Christie's is tipped-in at the rear of this copy, signed by Inken Handane of the Book Department, confirming it as from the library of a direct descendant of Milnes and sold in their 28 November 1997 sale (part of lot 140). The letter is further annotated in pencil to explicate the connection between Nightingale and Milnes, and also bears the small library label of the historian Hugh Small, author of Florence Nightingale: Avenging Angel (1998). Originally published six months before the opening of the Nightingale School at St Thomas's Hospital in London in June 1860, Notes on Nursing was not intended to be a textbook per se but as a book of hints for those nursing in the hospital ward and in the domestic sick room. Nightingale provides practical descriptions of the nurse's duties in supplying her patient's needs, and "indicated a new and more responsible role for nurses, one that required proper training and medical knowledge" (Hook & Norman, p. 260). Given the considerable number of different states of each inner and outer forme in every sheet, the idea of attempting to establish with certainty any specific 'issue' of Notes on Nursing beyond the first is utterly impractical" (pp. 29-30). This copy corresponds with Skretkowicz's group 11 of the 32 that he distinguishes (in either the a or b subcategory, with the combination of Binding 3, Endpapers 3, and the translation notice). While the earliest endpapers are blank, those subsequent bear printed advertisements, with at least eight distinct settings. The pale yellow endpapers of the present copy are in an early state: in the second setting of type, in the first state. Textually, it has the three main characteristics of group 11 as listed by Skretkowicz, and all of the typographical errors mentioned by Bishop & Goldie. Grolier, One Hundred Books Famous in Medicine, 71. Hook & Norman 1600. Osler 7737. Skretkowicz 24-46. PMM 343.
Offered by Whitmore Rare Books.
by TUCKER, GILBERT NORMAN, PH.D. (CANTAB.); ILLUSTRATED [ILLUSTRATOR]
King's Printer The Minister of National Defence, 1952-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 2 Volume Set. Both dust jackets have minor wear. Both are clean, both have good bindings, no marks or notations.
Offered by Ed's Editions.
Paris: Martinet, 1821. Galerie des Grotesques [GONDELIER, Jean-Baptiste]. [Galerie des Grotesques]. [Paris]: [Chez] Martinet, [1821]. Oblong folio (16 x 10 1/2 inches; 406 x 267 mm.). Seven leaves, titled and numbered in manuscript, each with three hand colored etched plates making a total of twenty-one images. Contemporary quarter green calf over floral patterned black boards.
The plates - each one lettered and numbered in manuscript "Galerie des Grotesques" No. 1. Les Rivaux; Partie d'écarté; Les effets du lavement, et la tentation (The Rivals; Discarded party; The effects of enema, and temptation) No. 2. Le maitre de danse, et le Coëffeur; Les joeurs de tonneau; Le remède inévitable (The dance master, and the hairdresser; The barrel joists; The inevitable cure) No. 3. Le bon gout; Cérémonie nuptiale; Le Dentiste (The right taste; Bridal ceremony; The Dentist) No. 4. Les conscrits; La sauteuse; Le bon ménage (The Conscripts; The jumpers; The good housekeeping) No. 5. Lecture des Tourneaux; Le cocher di Fiacre en dèfaut; Le Charlatan (Reading the turns; The coachman of Fiacre in defect; The Charlatan) No. 7. La Rosière; Le Pédicure; Les suites d'une Ribotte (La Rosière; The Pedicure; The aftermath of a Ribotte) No. 6. Partie d'Anes; Le Plaidoyer; Le Boston (Part of Anes; The Plea; Le Boston) Excessively Rare. OCLC locates just one suite (with only six plates) in libraries and institutions worldwide at Kunstbiblio Staatliche Museen Zu Berlin (Germany). GONDELIER, Jean-Baptiste (fl. 1821-1827). Gondelier was an engraver and a papermaker. As early as 1820, he was editor of a singer dedicated to Béranger, Le Constitution. He wanted to do city work but he also printed satirical prints, constituting the Gallery of the Grotesques. In 1826-1827 he collaborated in the writing of several plays performed at the Vaudeville theatre. Perhaps it was for this reason that he abandoned his lithograph patent and then applied for a letter printer's patent obtained in 1828. These 'Grotesque' caricatures appear to be based on the Woodward three-row strip genre typified by Grotesque Borders and Pigmy Revels, published by Ackermann and Fores, respectively, in 1799 and 1800. Fores continued to issue the Pigmy Revels strips in a folding panorama format, as well as in a spooled boxwood drum, well into the 1820s. "The relationship between Martinet-published works and Woodward's caricatures is commented on in an essay by Alberto Milano entitled "Change of Use, Change of Public, Change of Meaning: Printed Images Traveling Through Europe," appearing in a book edited by Evanghelia Stead, Reading Books and Prints as Cultural Objects (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave MacMillan, 2018) at pp. 150-51. I am attaching scanned images of the relevant pages as Scans 1, 2, and 3. As you will note, the author of the essay suggests that Martinet "transferred Woodward's caricatures in a series of larger prints entitled Les Passions," but I am skeptical. The only two examples of those prints I have found -- at the British Museum -- do not relate to any Woodward satire of which I am aware. (For ease of reference, I am attaching the British Museum write-ups as BM-1 and BM-2.)" (William Gordon - author of the William A. Gordon Library of British Caricature)
Offered by David Brass Rare Books.
Moon Rocket: An All-Action Pop-Up Picture Storybook
by Kubasta
England: Brown Watson, 1986. Paper Covered Boards. As New. 4to. Very hard-to-find reprint of Kubasta's Tip + Top and the Moon Rocket, originally published in 1964. In terrific shape; doesn't appear to have ever been read. All six popups and associated animations work great. Almost no cover wear. Number 10 on Tillman's list of the 100 best popups.
Offered by Read'Em Again Books & Paper.
The Great Gatsby (Limited Editions Club)
by FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT
Lunenberg: Limited Editions Club, 1980. Hardcover. Orig. decorated gray pebble grained cloth stamped in black and silver. Fine in fine black slipcase spine lettered in silver. Fred Me. 224 pages. 22.5 x 17.5 cm. Illustrated with fourteen color gauches by Fred Meyer, designed by Frederick Stinehour, printed at the Stinehour Press. Limited edition, copy 1267 of 2000 signed by Fred Meyer. Printed in Bodoni, cast by the Bauer foundry in Germany. Laid-in the LEC Monthly letter. NEWMAN & WICHE 516. Bright, very fresh copy.
Offered by Roy Young, Bookseller.
by CHERNOFSKY, JACOB L., EDITED BY
(Clifton, New Jersey): AB Bookman Publications, 1994. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Quarto. 2,163-2,274pp. Stapled wrappers, near fine. This issue contains Thomas Frognall Dibdin and Bibliomania, Kepler As Author, Printer and Publisher.
Offered by Between the Covers Rare Books.
London: Darton, 1811. 32mo. 16pp., + 16 inserted plates. Each engraved image depicts the titular good boy engaged in less desirable activities, such as throwing stones, feeding scraps to the family pet, and drawing on the walls. Each is accompanied by a pithy couplet drawn from the soliloquy. The author includes an introductory note, in which he defends himself from the accusation that the verses give children naughty ideas that they would never have thought of themselves, and provides the suggestion that the reader insert his or her own name at the final line and face the potential ruin of the rhyme with bravery. Bound in tan wrappers with illustration to both covers. Expected but minor edgewear, faintest foxing, else near fine. A rare survival, with only two institutional copies listed in OCLC.
Offered by Bromer Booksellers.
LOSER TAKES ALL (inscribed copy)
by GREENE, GRAHAM
1955. London: William Heinemann Ltd, (1955). Original dark blue cloth lettered in gilt, with dust jacket. First Edition of this novella about a man who devises a scheme to win big at Monte Carlo -- but his obsession causes him to lose his girl (whom he planned to marry there) in the process; with an acquaintance's help he gains the girl back, but only by losing all the money he had won -- hence "Loser Takes All." The following year appeared the British film with the same title (screenplay also by Greene) -- starring Glynis Johns, Rossano Brazzi, and Robert Morley. This is a very good copy (wear on some edges of the boards, minor fading, foxing on the top edge). The dust jacket is just about fine (a couple of short closed tears); because the jacket is in better condition than the volume, one may assume that it was "married" to this book. This is a presentation copy signed by Greene, with the inked title page inscription "For Clive | Graham Greene"; at a corner of the front paste-down is the penciled signature "Clive Hirschhorn | Johannesburg, March 1985". For over 30 years, the South African Clive Hirschhorn was a major London theatre and film critic for the Sunday Express; he also wrote biographies of Hollywood stars like Gene Kelly and of the Hollywood studios Warner Brothers, Universal, and Columbia. He was also a major collector of modern first editions (his collection, including 28 Graham Greene titles, sold at Bloomsbury in October 2012). Additionally, the front free endpaper bears the undated ink signature of Anthony Woodward, a professor of English at the University of Wiltwatersrand in Johannesburg (Hirschhorn's alma mater); among Woodward's writings is "Graham Greene: The War Against Boredom" (Cape Town 1971, Cassis B7112). Quite a nice circle of associations.
Offered by Sumner & Stillman.
by HOPKINS, JOHN HENRY
Burlington (VT): Printed by Smith & Harrington, 1836. 4to. 275 x 225 mm., [10 ¾ x 9 inches]. vi. 46 pp. Lithographic title-page and 13 full-page lithographic plates. Original cloth, paper label on spine; cloth discolored and shows some remnants of water staining, spine and tips expertly repaired with tissue, spine label chipped; tide marks to preliminary leaves, frontispiece and title-page, plates 12 and 13 and rear end leaves. With fault a good copy. First edition. Illustrated with fourteen finely drawn and printed lithographs designed by the author and printed by the Pendleton's Lithographic Company, Boston. "John Pendleton, Lithographer. Born in New York State. While traveling in France, he became interested in lithography and studied the art under the best masters in Paris. On returning to America, he settled in Boston with his brother, a copperplate printer, and they established a lithographic establishment in 1825." John Henry Hopkins was an Irish immigrant, home schooled by his mother, who became a lawyer, musician, ordained minister, bishop and author of over thirty publications. He studied gothic architecture during his time in Pittsburg where he was charged with supervising the construction of Trinity Church. Dismayed with the unsightly designs of most churches in America he decided to compile his information as a guide to the elements of style and design characteristics of the gothic. He became of the most notable experts in the field and he published this work, one of the first of its kind in America, for the benefit of local ministers charged with the building of churches in the gothic style. Hitchcock American Architectural Books, 606. Fielding, Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors and Engravers, p. 278. Peters, American on Stone, pp. 312-323. Allibone, Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors I, p. 885.
Offered by De Simone Company.
by BURROUGHS, EDGAR RICE
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1919. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-319 [320: blank], five inserted plates with illustrations by J. Allen St. John and twelve full-page St. John illustrations in the text, original orange cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition, first printing, first binding with publisher's imprint on spine panel set on three lines. A series of twelve stories, "The New Stories of Tarzan," all first published monthly in BLUE BOOK, September 1916-August 1917. The stories, containing some of Burroughs's best writing, were collected in JUNGLE TALES OF TARZAN. A total of 63,000 copies of the book were printed. There were multiple printings, probably four, all dated 1919. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 319. Bleiler (1978), p. 35. Reginald 02286. Heins JT-1. Private owner's bookplates affixed to front paste-down and free endpaper. Top and fore-edge of text block a bit tanned, a bright, nearly fine copy in bright, very good four-color pictorial dust jacket (reproducing painting by J. Allen St. John on front panel) with restoration at corners and spine ends. The jacket presents well overall.
Offered by L.W. Currey.
Institutionum [bound with] Infortianum [and] Digestum Novum, 1553-56
1551. A Collection of Texts from the Corpus Juris Civilis in Handsome Uniform Contemporary Paneled Pigskin Bindings Justinian I [483-565 CE], Emperor of the East. Accorso, Francisco (Accursius) [c.1182-c.1260], Glossator. Gaius [Active 130-180 CE]. Institutionum D. Iustiniani Sacratissimi Imperatoris Libri Quatuor: Ad Vetustissimorum Simul et Emendatissimorum Exemplarium Fidem Summa Diligentia Recogniti, Emendati. Cum Scholiis Accursii. Adiecimus Pluribus Locis Annotationes ex Doctissimorum Hominum Commentariis, Ex Quibus non Parum Lucis ac Dignitatis his Iuris Civilis Elementis Accedit. Accessit Corpus Legum, Antea non Impressum, Ac Caii Institutionum Libri Duo. Lyon: Apud Hugonem a Porta, 1553. Pp. [24], 290, [2] pp. Large woodcut image of Justinian surrounded by his court. Main text in parallel columns with linear gloss. [Bound with] Justinian I, Emperor of the East. Accorso, Francisco (Accursius), Glossator. Volumen hoc Complectitur (Sic Enim Peculiari Vocabulo Vocant) Novellas Constitutiones Iustiniani Principis Post Repetitam Codicis Praelectionem Aeditas: Authentica Vulgo Appellant. Tres Item Posteriores Libros Codicis; Feudorum seu Beneficiorum Duos; Constitutiones Friderichi Secundi Imperatoris; Extravagantes duas Henrici Septimi Imperatoris; & Tractatum De Pace Constantiae. Omnia ad Vetustissimorum Simul & Emendatissimorum Exemplarium Fidem Recognita, Emendata. Accesserunt nunc Primum, & Nunquam Antehac Aediti, Iustiniani Novellarum Constitutionum Libri Duo, Cum Multis Annotationibus ex Doctissimorum Hominum Commentariis, Quae non Parum Lucis ac Dignitatis Huic Volumini Afferunt. Lyon: Apud Hugonem a Porta, 1553. [xvi], 276, 148, 99, [1] pp. Woodcut table of descents (in the form of a tree). Main text in parallel columns with linear gloss. [With] Justinian I, Emperor of the East. Accorso, Francisco (Accursius), Glossator. Infortiatum, Pandectarum Iuris Civilis Tomus Secundus: Quartae Partis Reliquum, Itemque Quintam Digestorum Partem, Ac Sextae Partis: Libros Continens, Ex Pandectis Florentinis Ita in Universum Recognitus ac Emendatus, Ut Nihil Praeterea, Quod ad Puram Eorum Librorum Lectionem Attinet, Desiderari Possit. Lyon: Apud Hugonem a Porta, 1556. [xxxvi], 923, [1] pp. Main text in parallel columns with linear gloss. [And] Justinian I, Emperor o.
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by Bram Stoker
Westminster: Archibald Constable, 1899. Seventh edition. hardcover. Very good.. A very good early (7th) edition, signed and dated by the author Bram Stoker on the front free endpaper. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase
Offered by Bookbid.
SOURCE Music of the Avant Garde
Davis, California: Composer/Performer Edition, 1974. 11 volumes bound in ten (issues 7 and 8 bound in one). Complete; all issued. Oblong folio. 10-3/4" x 14". Original stiff decorative wrappers in colour. Spiral bound. Unpaginated, but with approximately 100 pages to each volume. Lavishly illustrated with musical scores and striking photographs and graphics in both colour and black and white. With supplementary material bound in, some quite unusual, including such things as magnetic audiotape and synthetic fur, screenprintings on transparencies, etc. Each issue with approximately 10 articles written by the major figures in avant garde music of the time, including Dietrich Albrecht, Charles Amirkhanian, Eric Andersen, Robert Ashley, Larry Austin, David Behrman, Mario Bertoncini, Joseph Beuys, Anthony Branxton, Eugen Brikcius, Jacques Brodier, Earle Brown, Allan Bryant, Boudewijn Buckinx, Harold Budd, Jim Burns, John Cage, Cornelius Cardew, Giuseppe Chiari, Paul Chihara, Barney Childs, Christo, Jani Christou, Philip Corner, Lowell Cross, Alvin Curran, John Dinwiddie, Peter Donath, Manfred Eaton, Robert Erickson, Morton Feldman, Robert Filliou, Fluxus, Lukas Foss, David Freund, Ken Friedman, Kira Gale, Peter Garland, Gentle Fire, Tony Gnazzo, Victor Grauer, Joel Gutsche, Gyula Gulyas, Olaf Hanel, Sven Hansell, John Hassell, Dick Higgins, Lejaren Hiller, Stu Horn, Nelson Howe, Jerry Hunt, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Image Bank, Zdzislaw Jurkiewicz, Udo Kasemets, Per Kirkeby, Paul Klerr, Milan Knizak, Jaroslaw Kozlowski, Carson Jeffries, Bengt Emil Johnson, Will Johnson, Ben Johnston, Alan Kaprow, Ed Kobrin, Alcides Lanza, Douglas Leedy, Daniel Lentz, Anna Lockwood, Arrigo Lora-Totino, Alvin Lucier, Mary Lucier, Stanley Lunetta, Eva Lurati, Stuart Marshall, Richard Martin, Harvey Matusow, Tom Marioni, Ken Maue, Dora Maurer, Maria Michalowska, John Mizelle, Robet Moran, Gordon Mumma, Keith Muscutt, Naked Software, Max Neuhaus, Nam June Paik, the New Percussion Quartet, Jocy de Oliveira, Pauline Oliveros, Harry Partch, Jon Phetteplace, the Portsmouth Sinfonia, David Reck, Steve Reich, Jock Reynolds, John Paul Rhinehart, Mark Riener, Roger Reynolds, David Rosenboom, Frederic Rzewski, Zorka Saglova, J. Murray Schafer, the Scratch Orchestra, Gerald Shapiro, Nicholas Slonimsky, Barry Spinello, Stanley Marsh 3, Andrew Stiller, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Allen Strange, Alvin Sumsion, Endre Tot, David tudor, Bertram Turetzky, Jiri Valoch, Wolf Vostell, Don Walker, Arthur Woodbury, and Christian Wolff. With 6 accompanying 10-inch LPS: - Robert Ashley The Wolfman; Dave Behrman Wave Train - Larry Austin Accidents; Allan Bryant Pitch Out - Alvin Lucier I Am Sitting in a Room; Arthur Woodbury Velox and Mark Riener Phlegethon - Larry Austin Caritas; Stanley Lunetta moosack machine - Lowell Cross Video II; Arrigo Lora-Totino english phonemes - Alvin Curran Magic Carpet; Anna Lockwood Tiger Balm Slightly worn. In very good condition overall. A complete run of this exciting independent periodical devoted entirely to the music of the 20th century avant garde, an outgrowth of the musical experimentalism in the late 1950s and early 60s at the University of California, Davis and Mills College in Oakland, California. In an effort to expand the traditional definition of music and formal concert performance, Source documents many of the most important "new music" trends of the period including improvised and indeterminate music, minimalism, Fluxus, performance art, graphic scores, electronic music, performance art, concrete and sound poetry, intermedia, British Systems music, video/laser light shows, new electronic, video, and communications technologies, etc. A landmark publication of great importance to the study of avant garde music of the mid-20th century, rarely found complete.
Offered by J. & J. Lubrano Music Antiquarians.
by C.S. Lewis
Cambridge: np, 1963. First edition. Fine. C.S. LEWIS GIVES PRACTICAL (AND SOMEWHAT HUMOROUS) ADVICE TO A STUDENT SELECTING A THESIS TOPIC, BEFORE REVEALINGLY SUGGESTING ONE OF HIS FAVORITE WORKS - DOROTHY SAYERS'S THE MAN BORN TO BE KING - AS A SUBJECT WORTHY OF STUDY. Written to a student, John T. Tukey of Rhode Island and dated July 6, 1963, the letter reads in full: As from Magdalene College, Cambridge 6 July 63 I always dissuade students from making a living author the subject of their thesis. When they do, however hard they work, the chosen author and his intimates will know a lot more about the subject that they can find out. Dead authors know a lot about their own work which we don't but fortunately they can't tell it. It has happened before now that those who were examining a thesis on my work have written to ask me whether some interpretation offered by the candidate is correct. This puts me in a v. awkward dilemma. If I refuse to answer they know that my answer would have been no. The candidate's work is thus unfairly subjected to a check which would not have been applied if he had written on a dead author. I suggest you choose Dorothy Sayers' cycle of plays on the life and death of Christ (title, The Man Born to be King). Whether it wd. come under the faculty of Theology or that of Literature depends, I suppose, on how you treat it. Yours sincerely [signed] C.S. Lewis Background - C.S. Lewis, Dorothy Sayers, and The Man Born to Be King: C.S. Lewis and the writer Dorothy Sayers quickly became good friends after the latter wrote him a "fan" letter praising his recently-published Screwtape Letters. It was not a particular surprise they developed a friendship for both had similar views on literature, scholarship, and theology (especially sharing the desire to explain and explore Christianity for their literary audiences). Sayers's The Man Born to Be King, a somewhat controversial re-telling of the life of Jesus, originally appeared as a radio drama airing from 1941-1942 before being published in book form in 1943. Lewis was immediately impressed with the work, writing to Sayers on May 30, 1943 (in one of his earliest letters to her), "I've finished The Man Born to be King and think it a complete success... I shed real tears (hot ones) in places: since Mauriac's Vie de Jesus nothing has moved me so much... I expect to read it times without number again...." Over the years, Lewis's admiration for the work only grew. He professed to reading it "in every Holy Week since it first appeared" and noted in 1949 that he thought "Man Born to be King has edified us in this country more than anything for a long time" (Lewis, Collected Letters, II, 989). Sayers died in 1957 - six years before this letter - and it is fitting that of all the books he could have recommended to the student Tukey, he selected The Man Born to Be King, a book he greatly admired and a book that had remained dear to his heart. Cambridge: 6 July 1963. One sheet, 5 1/4 x 7 inches, written in ink on both sides, signed "C.S. Lewis". With original mailing envelope with postmark. Generally fine condition with expected center mailing fold and a few light spots. Housed in custom presentation folder.
Offered by Manhattan Rare Book Company.
Union with Freemen--No Union with Slaveholders. Anti-Slavery Meetings!
Salem, OH: Homestead Print, n.d., ca. 1850. First Edition. Unused handbill announcing anti-slavery meetings held by the Western Anti-Slavery Society, a splinter group from the Ohio State Anti-Slavery Society. This branch was led by the abolitionist Adam Brooke, a member of the utopian community the Marlboro Association; and, to a lesser extent, Parker Pillsbury, who attended and occasionally spoke at the annual anniversary meetings. The Society, Garrisonian in its rejection of the Church, stated that "We are not merely warring against the extension of new slave territory, nor against any fugitive slave law constitutional or unconstitutional; nor for the writ of habeas corpus, or the right of trial by jury for recaptured slaves, but we are waging eternal war against the doctrine that man can ever under any possibility of circumstances, hold property in man" (cf. William M. Wiecek, "The Sources of Anti-Slavery Constitutionalism in America, 1760-1848" (1977), p. 252). The group reached its peak in 1847 when William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass both spoke at the annual anniversary meeting, which drew several thousand attendees. However, the group always struggled with funding and was defunct by 1861. The present broadside reminds the reader that "Three million of your fellow beings are in chains--the Church and Government sustains the horrible system of oppression. Turn Out! And learn your duty to yourselves, the slave and God. Emancipation or Dissolution, and a Free Northern Republic!" 4 located in OCLC, none in Ohio. Original unused letterpress broadside flyer (40x27.5cm.); a few closed tears expertly mended, stock uniformly toned, else a Very Good, quite fresh copy.
Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books.
Le Fait Accompli, nos. 1 (April 1968) through 135 (March 1975) (all published)
by Marcel Marien (Editor)
Brussels: Les Lèvres Nues, 1968-1975. Quartos (30 × 23 cm). Issued in uncut loose sheets; approximately 8 to 32 pp. per issue (unnumbered). Illustrations throughout, mostly black-and-white, with some color reproductions tipped in. Most issues printed on laid paper, some on coated stock. Very good or better. A fine complete run of this important post-war Belgian surrealist journal, composed of 135 issues in 98 fascicules, with several double and triple numbers. Issued monthly and edited by Marcel Mariën, the journal features contributions by major Belgian surrealists, including Goemans, Nougé, Scutenaire, Colinet, Dumont, Magritte, Joostens, Lecomte, Tom Gutt, Wergifosse, Bossut, Souris and Bourgoignie, among others. Most issues focus on a unique work by a single author or artist, and are illustrated throughout with reproductions of works by Man Ray, Magritte, Picabia, Mariën, Bossut, Ernst, Graverol, Jamagne, Ubac and Van de Wouver, and others. Especially noteworthy are Magritte's contributions, which are often illustrated by him. Issues 81-95 constitute one volume containing "Lettres surrealistes (1924-1940)" edited and annotated by Mariën. Issue no. 95 contains "Filchings for Annoyed Birds" by Paul Colinet (in English). Most issues feature a distinctive title. Nos. 15, 30, 40, 55, 65, 80, 100, 107, 110, 120, 130, 134 issued as a "nouvelle serie" interspersed throughout the run, under the title "Les Lèvres Nues" and numbered 1-12. The last issue (no. 135) contains a cumulative index to the entire series. All issues uniformly hand-numbered "vingt-deux" (22) of unspecified print runs, which ranged from 50 to 250 copies. Given the low print run of the earliest issues, presumably only fifty complete sets exist.
Offered by Bernett Penka.
by Virginia Woolf
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1927. First American Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original green cloth stamped in blue. Near Fine with bumping to head of spine, faint darkening to spine cloth and very light spine lean. In a Near Fine dust jacket illustrated by Vanessa Bell, with spine toning and minor edge wear. A fantastic copy of Woolf's modernist tour de force, which was ranked by Modern Library as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.
Offered by Burnside Rare Books.
by Walt Disney Studios
An Original Animation Cel from Disneyís First Fully Animated Feature Film "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"
N.p., Hollywood: Walt Disney Studios, 1937. Original animation production cel from Disney's first fully animated feature film, depicting the dwarf Dopey with a chipmunk pulling at his robe. Gouache on celluloid applied to a Courvoisier wood veneer background. Likely original mounts with "©WDE" blindstamped on front lower right corner of matte. Three authenticating labels on rear of the cels. One reading "Original Work from Snow White and the Seven Dwarves" and the other reading "This Material Inflammable Handle With Care Frame Under Glass Copyright 1937 Walt Disney Enterprises" and the final one reading "This is an original painting on celluloid from the Walt Disney Studios, actually used in the filming of 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.' Only a very limited number have been selected to be placed on the market. Walt Disney." Image size: 9 1/2 x 8 inches; 240 x 205 mm. Matted, framed and glazed. Matte size: 17 x 14 inches; 430 x 355 mm. With some bowing to the celluloid and some minor chipping to the figure. A very good specimen of Disney original animation.
Offered by Heritage Book Shop.
by PARUTA, FILIPPO (1552-1629)
4to (200x145 mm). Collation: [π]4 †4 A-T4 V2 X4 Y2 Z4 [χ]2. Half-title, engraved frontispiece, [12], 176, [4: errata corrige] pp. and [4] folding plates engraved by Francesco Nigro and Francesco La Barbera after Gerardo Astorino and Vincenzo La Barbera. Richly gilt modern morocco binding, original sprinkled edges. Minor restorations to the outer margin of the first leaves without loss, small worm track in the gutter of a few leaves not affecting the text, tears repaired along the folding of one plate, all in all a very good copy.
EXTREMELY RARE ORIGINAL EDITION of this festival account attributed to Filippo Paruta, but edited by his son Simplicio, who also signs the dedication to the Senate of Palermo, and published posthumously under the name of his other son Onofrio.
In the note to the reader Onofrio provides a detailed list of the works (orations, occasional writings, inscriptions for ephemeral architectures, etc.) of his father Filippo, who was the secretary to the Palermo Senate and the major responsible for the iconographic program realized on the occasion of the 1625 festivity.
At the beginning of the 1620s the viceroy Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy rebuild the Accademia dei Riaccesi, which gathered in the Royal Palace, and entrusted the scholar and mathematician Carlo Maria Ventimiglia with the direction of the academy. Around his figure gravitated many of the artists and scholars who designed the program and the solemn procession of the relics of St. Rosalia, held in June of 1625 as a sign of gratitude for deliverance from plague. Among them were the painters and architects Gerardo Astorino and Vincenzo La Barbera, the engraver Francesco Negro, the scholar Martino La Farina, who conceived the allegorical arch of the Genoese nation, and, above all, Filippo Paruta, who was linked to Ventimiglia also by a common passion for numismatics and antiquities. Paruta was involved in all literary activities related to celebratory events since the end of the sixteenth century. In 1625 he inspired the triumphal arch that the Senate erected in Piazza Villena and was responsible for the account of the festivities, which however was actually published only after his death in 1651.
The constitution of such a large and complex team to be entrusted with the creation of the apparatuses testifies of the importance of that event that officially marked the beginning of the cult of St. Rosalia. The solemnity of 1625 had no immediate follow-up and only in 1649 the feast of St. Rosalia was formalized with all those peculiarities that would characterize the following decades. In 1625, in addition to the impressive processions and solemn ceremonies to which all local communities, religious and civil, took part, two magnificent horse rides were organized; one, in particular, took place at the conclusion of the festivities, after the solemn mass in the cathedral. Then followed fireworks, organized by the German nation, tournaments and jousts. At the very end the nobility walked in gala dresses along Via Colonna (cf. M. Sofia di Fede, La festa barocca a Palermo: città, architetture, istituzioni, in: "Espacio, Tiempo y Forma", series VII, t. 18-19, 2005-2006, pp. 49-75; see also M. Vitella, Il primo Festino, in: M.C. Di Natale, "S. Rosaliae patriae servatrici", Palermo, 1994; and V. Petrarca, Genesi di una tradizione urbana. Il culto di S. Rosalia a Palermo in età spagnola, Palermo, 1986, p. 82).
Catalogo unico, IT\ICCU\PALE\004559; S.P. Michel, Répertoire des ouvrages imprimés en langue italienne au XVIIe siècle conservés dans les bibliothèques de France, Paris, 1976, VI, p. 80; Biblioteca centrale della Regione siciliana "Alberto Bombace", Sanctae Rosaliae Dicata, Bibliografia cronologica su Santa Rosalia, Settembre 2004, pp. 12-13; G.M. Mira, Bibliografia siciliana, Palermo, 1881, II, p. 186; A. Mongitore, Bibliotheca sicula sive de scriptoribus siculis, Palermo, 1707-1714, I, p. 293 and II, p. 174; M. Cornelles, V. Manuel et al., eds., La fiesta barroca. Los reinos de Nápoles y Sicilia (1535-1713), Palermo, 2014, ad indicem.
Offered by Govi Rare Books.
The Last of the Windjammers. 2 volumes.
by LUBBOCK. BASIL
Glasgow:: Brown, Son & Ferguson, (1948)., 1948. Third impression. Two volumes. 25 cm. xiv, 518; xv, 448 pp. Frontispieces, illustrations, plans (some folding); spine gilt rubbed, corner bumped. Blind and gilt-stamped blue cloth, map endpapers. Very good copies.
Offered by Jeff Weber Rare Books.
Illustrations of the Book of Job.
by BLAKE, WILLIAM.
London: [plates dated] 1825 [but published 1826]. Folio, 320 x 254 mm, engraved title and 21 plates. Proofs on India paper mounted on handmade paper, some leaves (2, 5, 6, 11, 14, 17, 18) watermarked J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1825. Gilt-ruled green morocco over thick boards, fleurons at the outer corners, double-rule inner frame enclosing a bloom roll, gilt-ruled spine, sewing bands with gilt red morocco onlays, thick dark blue endleaves, all edges gilt, by Riviere: a brilliant set with no foxing at all, interleaved with blanks at the time of binding with no offsetting. Lower cover of the binding at some time tied up with string with ensuing indentation. § First edition, limited to 150 proof sets (65 sets were also printed on French paper, and 100 sets on drawing paper with the word ‘proof’ removed). This is one of finest sets of the proofs I have ever seen, and far outshines the other two original printings and the later re-issue. The India paper set is the best printing of these famous plates which comprise Blake’s major single achievement as a printmaker after the illuminated books. Illustrations of the Book of Job was Blake’s last completed prophetic book: the text, a series of biblical quotations, is above and below each image. “It was produced while Blake was still working on Jerusalem, his most obscure book; yet the illustrations are Blake’s most lucid; and they are the supreme example of his reading the Bible in its spiritual sense” (S. Foster Damon, A Blake Dictionary, p. 217). “The modest size of the central panels does not prevent them from ranking with the supreme masterpieces of graphic art” (Ray, Illustrator and the Book in England #8). Note: as always, the first plate after the title-page is misdated 1828.
Offered by John Windle, Bookseller.
Poster for a 1966 Appearance in France
Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Poster for a March 28, 1966 appearance by the Civil Rights leader together with singer Harry Belafonte at the Palais des Sports in Paris. Organized by the Comité de Soutien Franco-Américain pour l'Intégration Raciale, the event featured a speech by King and music from Harry Belafonte and French singer Hugues Aufray, sponsored by Suze Liqueur. Two-color poster, with folding creases, one tear to the right edge, minimal wear and toning; overall very good. Sight size 14.5 x 22.5 inches (37 x 57 cm), archivally matted and framed to an overall size of 20.5 x 26.5 inches.In March 1966, King and Belafonte went to Europe for fundraising appearances on behalf of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, starting with the Palais des Sports in Paris on the 28th, and closing in Sweden on the 31st. This poster for the French appearance is emblazoned with the logo of a sponsor, Suze Liqueur, and also cites the French-American Committee for Racial Integration as the organizing body. The opening act for the evening was the popular French folksinger Hugues Aufray doing a set of Bob Dylan covers, followed by a set by Belafonte. Dr. King closed out the evening with a speech on civil rights, touching on the war in Vietnam and American support for South African apartheid. The tour raised more than $100,000, but drew the wrath of the American ambassador to France for airing American problems overseas. See Ross, Hollywood Left and Right, p. 220. We have traced no other copies of this poster at auction or elsewhere.
Offered by Schubertiade Music & Arts.
Where Do We Go From Here? Chaos or Comminity?
By Martin Luther King, Jr.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1967. First edition of King's "last grand expression of his vision" (Cornel West). Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with eight pages of black-and-white photogravures. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Mr. Otto E. Geppert Martin Luther King Jr." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, small date to the endpaper. Jacket design by Ronald Clyne. Jacket photograph of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Bob Fitch. Where Do We Go from Here is Dr. King's analysis of the state of American race relations and the movement after a decade of U.S. civil rights struggles. ''With Selma and the Voting Rights Act one phase of development in the civil rights revolution came to an end,'' he observed (King, 3). King believed that the next phase in the movement would bring its own challenges, as African Americans continued to make demands for better jobs, higher wages, decent housing, an education equal to that of whites, and a guarantee that the rights won in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 would be enforced by the federal government.
Offered by Raptis Rare Books.
The Heart is a Muscle (First Edition, 1 of 15 copies with print signed by Hal Hartley)
by Hal Hartley
Stockholm: Libraryman, 2010. First Edition. First Edition. One of 15 unnumbered copies with a chromogenic print SIGNED by director Hal Hartley affixed to the last leaf. A collection of selected film still photographs from the noted independent filmmaker's oeuvre, beginning with his 1988 debut "The Unbelievable Truth" up to the 2011 film "Meanwhile", with stills from "Amateur" (1994), "Flirt" (1995), and "Henry Fool" (1997), and others. 81 color plates. Fine in glossy perfect bound wrappers, with no dust jacket as issued.
Offered by Royal Books.
by P.G. Wodehouse
London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1938. First English Edition. [Jasen 58A in a later dust jacket]. Preceded by the first American Doubleday, Doran edition, published in Oct. 8, 1937. This edition was published on Feb. 11 1938. 12mo., red cloth, stamped in black, 312 pages, plus eight-page catalog; in later "2/6 net" price on spine [whereas the earliest dust jacket is priced at "7/6 net." on the spine]. Very Good (little soil covers; contents clean & tight but for a tiny spot fore-edge; neat ink name front endpaper); some edgewear (few small chips & tears- some with internal mends with archival tape) d/j.
Offered by Antic Hay Books.
by FOWLER, H. ALFRED
Kansas City: H. Alfred Fowler, 1912. First edition. First edition. Original decorative card paper wrappers. The rare "Eragny Press" number (Volume I, Number 3) which features notes on bookplates by Esther and Lucien Pissarro, by J. M. Andreini, including three superb color printed specimens of book plates by the Pissarros, printed in colors on china paper and tipped-in. A scarce and very attractive rendering. There are also two other features in the number. Near fine.
Offered by Nudelman Rare Books.
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