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AARDVARK BOOKS/EZRA TISHMAN BOOK APPRAISALS
- March Exit Stage Left List
- March Lion List (March 2024)
Featured item:
Mitchell, Samuel Augustus
MITCHELL'S NATIONAL MAP OF THE UNITED STATES; (Leather, with Brass Clasp and Two Foldout Maps)
Philadelphia, PA: Samuel Augustus Mitchell, 1843. First Edition. Leather-bound. 12mo. (7 1/4 in. x 4 1/2 in.) Rich dark-brown leather, double ruled in blind, brightly lettered and ornamented in gilt. Rays of the sun in an arch above the lettering to front board; this repeated to rear board with the addition of an eagle, with wings outspread holding an American shield in its beak, grasping an olive branch with his right talon, and a brace of arrows in its left. All this above ta cloud-construct with a large banner ("E. Pluribus Unum" above and "United States" below. Recent conservator's touch-up to previously lightly rubbed extremities.
Two lovely colored mounted folding MAPS in clean, bright condition.
The first map (34 1/2 in. x 25 1/2 in, and bordered in lovely rose and yellow) is entitled: "A CONCISE VIEW OF THE NUMBER, RESOURCES, AND INDUSTRY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, IN THE YEAR 1840: Comprising the Different Classes of the Inhabitants, Population of the Principal Cities and Towns, THE CHIEF AGRICULTURAL, MINERAL, AND MANUFACTURED PRODUCTS, EXPORTS AND IMPORTS OF EACH SEPARATE STATE; The most important Canals and Rail-Roads, the Lengths of the Principal Rivers, and the Heights of the Principal Mountains in the United States". The format is a large central chart of statistics, surrounded by 32 separate 3 1/2 in. x 3 in. mini-maps in yellow, green, rose and black, depicting Vicinities of various U.S. cities or states. The larger central chart (16 1/2 in. x 16 in.) includes statistics on Aggregate of the Different Classes (Men, Women, White, Colored, Number of Slaves); Several very short tears along folds.
The second fold-out map is a bright, multicolored map of the (then) entire United States, the title of which is: "Mitchell's National Map of the American Republic Or United States of North America (Together with Maps of The Vicinities of Thirty-Two of the Principal Cities and Towns in The Nation), Clearly intended as the overall title to the entire two-map leather-housed, brass-clasped endeavor, including the first map described above. A lovely copy of this beautiful cartographic endeavor, drawn by H. Young and engraved by J.H. Brightly, with classy gilt designs to both front and rear boards. Near Fine.
Offered by Aardvark Books and found in "March Lion List."
ANTIPODEAN BOOKS, MAPS, PRINTS
- E-list #44 ~ W.W.I., Americana, Australia, Photographs, Maps, Ephemera
- E-list #43 ~ Antipodean Books at the Brooklyn Virtual Book Fair
Featured item:
Nissen, Georg Nikolaus von.
Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, 1828. Large octavo, 6 x 8.25 in (15 x 21 cm), two parts in one volume, including the supplement (Anhang); xliv, 702, 220 pages. Contemporary paper boards; expertly rebacked. Moderate external wear, light occasional foxing to contents, overall an attractive copy. All illustrations, facsimiles, etc. are present, except the family portrait that is usually missing. There are 8 lithograph plates, ; a manuscript music facsimile; a text facsimile of Nissen’s tombstone; and 8 folded music plates.
This collection of family letters, journals, contemporary criticism, etc. was assembled with connecting text by Danish diplomat Georg Nikolaus von Nissen, the second husband of Mozart’s widow, Constanze. She edited it for publication after Nissen’s death. It remains one of the most important collections of primary source material on the composer.
Offered by Archway Books and found in "A Short Musical List."
Featured item:
Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Co., State Printers, 1888. 8vo (9.5” x 6.25”), later blue library buckram, gilt title at spine. 469 pp. Autograph of “Waldbridge A. Field” pasted in above tipped in autograph letter from Sarah Jane Robinson to “Judge Field,” dated 30 May, 1888. CONDITION: Very good, tissue repairs to chipped edges of first 6 and last 4 leaves; letter very good.
The official report on the first of two trials of Sarah Jane Robinson, the “Massachusetts Borgia,” who murdered her landlord and seven of her own family members, with a brazen letter from the murderer herself to Massachusetts Justice Waldbridge A. Field, requesting a private meeting.
After the death of her parents, Sarah Jane (Tennant) Robinson emigrated from Ireland to the U.S. at the age of fourteen, and at nineteen married Moses Robinson, a carpenter. They lived in poverty, dogged by creditors and moving frequently to escape unpaid rent. She gained notoriety in the 1880s for committing a series of murders, beginning with her elderly landlord in August 1881 and followed by her husband (1882), their young daughter (1884), her sister and brother-in-law (1885), an older daughter, her seven-year-old nephew, and her son William (1886). Most of Robinson’s victims were insured—some thanks to her own urging—and she found ways of becoming the beneficiary: in the case of her sister and brother-in-law, whose insurance benefited their young son, she simply adopted her nephew and “put [him] out of the way” (“A Bay State Borgia”).
Robinson was tried twice—first for William’s murder, and then for those of her sister and brother-in-law, their son, her landlord, and her husband. This volume is the report on the first trial. Robinson’s letter, dated May 30th, 1888, was written from “E. Cambridge Jail” after the second trial. It reads in full:
Judge Field Dear Sir:—
As you well know I am here charged with one of the highest crimes known to the law & convicted by false evidence since my trial I have not felt able to be off my bed having been quite sick.
Would it be asking too much if you could find time for me to have a short interview with you I want to see you very much hoping you will grant me the favor of seeing you I remain
Respectfully
Sara J Robinson
Excised from a different sheet and affixed above the letter is the autograph of Judge Walbridge A. Field (1833–1899). Originally from Vermont, Field studied at the Harvard Law School and practiced law in Boston in between periods of service as the Assistant Attorney General of the United States, Republican Representative to the House of Representatives, and justice—eventually Chief Justice—of the Massachusetts Supreme Court (1881–1899).
Accounts differ as to what finally tipped off the police to Robinson’s guilt—the increasingly frequent insurance payouts to her, or the fact that William, after being struck on the back by a falling object at work, became, in his mother’s care, seriously ill with the same stomach convulsions that had carried off his siblings, aunt, uncle, and cousin. A suspicious doctor, Emory White, sent a sample of William’s vomit to Harvard chemist and toxicologist Edward Wood, who found it to contain arsenic. Eventually, all Robinson’s victims were exhumed, and all were found to have been poisoned with arsenic. While “nursing” her victims, Robinson apparently had several premonitions and prophetic dreams about their imminent deaths, which soon—or at least, as soon she confirmed that their life insurance was in order—became reality. After her imprisonment, newspapers reported the discovery of a box of rat poison in a hole in the wall of her former basement: “That it may have been there before Mrs. Robinson took the house of course is possible, but the police firmly believe that Mrs. Robinson placed it where it was found” (“Circumstantial Evidence”).
Naturally, newspapers were inclined to sensationalize Robinson’s story, the interest of which was no doubt increased because she had an “intelligent” face and “the appearance of a refined woman” (“Arsenic Grains Found”). Around the time of her sentencing in November, 1888, however, “public sentiment had turned in Mrs. Robinson’s favor and a petition to commute her sentence [from death by hanging] to life in prison” was submitted to and granted by the Governor (Wilhelm). Her sympathetic bearing in court, as well as her gender, may have had something to do with this. A modern author, also sympathetic, put it this way: “If there is shrewd calculation in such long-range plans as her elimination of Annie [her sister] to get at Prince [her brother-in-law], there is also a desperate necessity in picking off one insured worker after another. In the circle of poverty, no person’s work was as valuable as life insurance; and even that lump—the sum of a person’s life—was never, in the long run, enough” (Jones, p. 156). Robinson died in prison on January 3rd, 1906.
REFERENCES: “A Bay State Borgia,” Morning Journal and Courier (New Haven, CT), August 13 1886; “Arsenic Grains Found,” Fall River Daily Herald, 13 August 1886, p. 1; “Circumstantial Evidence,” Boston Evening Transcript, 31 May, 1888, p. 1; Jones, Ann. Women Who Kill (New York: The Feminist Press, 2009), pp. 149–157; Wilhelm, Robert. “The Massachusetts Borgia,” at Murder by Gaslight online.
Offered by James Arsenault & Company and found in "Recent Acquisitions & Highlights in Americana, June 2024."
- Artists' Books and Exhibition Catalogues: Electronic List 146
- French World War I Print Portfolios, Drawings, Photographs, Periodicals & Livres d'artistes: Electronic List 145
- EVOLVING HISTORY of IDEAS (New York Book Fair)
- Catalog 24: LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN – THE MAN and HIS THOUGHT
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19th Century Decorated Paper Bindings, Decorated Cloth Bindings and Historic Works New York Book & Ephemera Fair Catalog
W. C. BAKER RARE BOOKS & EPHEMERA
- Our Favorite Summer Reads *New*
- Views of the West *New*
- eList 208: Aviation *New*
- eList 207: Medicine *New*
- eList 206: New Arrivals *New*
Featured item:
Anatomical Chart: The Healthy Heart
New York: Rudolph Schick, (1940).
Color lithographic chart (32” x 43”). Backed on linen cloth with a black wooden rolling rod stapled along the top and bottom edges, with a mounted printed paper index label identifying 48 features of the heart. The top rod is partly detached with a few associated small tears, else very good with modest toning to the bottom edge. A visually striking classroom anatomy chart presenting a series of cross-sectional views of the human heart.
Offered by Between the Covers Rare Books and found in "eList 207: Medicine."
BLUEMANGO BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS
- How NASA Helped Preserve the US Constitution *New*
- Caldecott Winning Illustrators Series: Emily Arnold McCully *New*
Featured item:
A fine plan, quite scarce, of the shambolic British attack on Charleston, South Carolina in June 1776. Blessed by a fine harbor and proximity to the Lowcountry indigo and rice plantations, Charleston had the largest urban population south of Philadelphia and was the wealthiest city in the Colonies. During the Revolution it was much coveted by the British, who worked under the false assumption that the South had a high percentage of Loyalists, needing only some encouragement to rise up and help put down the rebellion. Charleston was thus the target of not one but two major British campaigns, in 1776 and again in 1780. This plan depicts the first, which ended quickly and ignominiously at the June 1776 Battle of Sullivan’s Island, where South Carolina militia withstood a British attack on the fortifications protecting the seaward approaches to the city. The British plan suffered from imperfect intelligence about both the strength of the American fort at Sullivan’s Island and the hydrography of the surrounding waters. The attacking fleet suffered heavy casualties and serious damage to many of its vessels, and subsequently limped north to join Howe’s New York campaign. This rare and important British chart depicts Charleston Harbor and its immediate surroundings, with a detailed treatment of the battle. The chart was based on surveys conducted by the Royal Navy during the campaign and was first published on August 31, 1776, little more than two months after the battle. The example offered here is a slightly-later issue bearing a date of 1791, with very substantial re-engraving of the waters around Charleston. It seems plausible that this new information was obtained from surveys conducted during and after the British capture of the city in 1780. The Charleston campaign of 1780 was a different matter altogether: In May of that year a British army under Lord Cornwallis captured the city after a siege and took thousands of American prisoners, marking one of the worst Continental Army defeats of the war. In all, a most interesting plan, depicting an important American victory early in the Revolution. Nebenzahl, Atlas, pp. 55-57 (illus.) Nebenzahl, Bibliography, 65. Sellers & Van Ee, 1548 (noting only the 1776 edition).
Offered by Boston Rare Maps and found in "From Riot to Revolution."
- Brattlecast #184: A Collection of New Books (Podcast) *New*
- Brattlecast #183: Famous Old People (Podcast)
Featured item:
Rian, Kirsten
Henkin, Lauren (illus.)
(Portland, OR: Vela Noche, 2010). Folio. (17)ff. One of thirty copies, this one being out of series. Fourteen of Lauren Henkin's photographs make up the majority of the book, with Kirsten Rian's poem, "Fieldnotes," appearing on the penultimate page. The poem, from which the book's title derives, meditates with equal parts fondness and sadness on the quietude of memory, and the tension that lies between recording a moment and letting it pass away. Henkin's photographs capture this same feeling, depicting different views of a single field located in Acadia, Maine. Her images target the field's present state, but even so, let the present slip; they are black and white, leaving color up to the inaccuracies of the viewer's imagination. The field of memory—and of photographic record—is already past, a different place by the time the images have reached publication. Printed on Japanese kozo paper, the book is a collaboration between five Northwest women artists: Rian, Henkin, Sarah Horowitz (cover etching), Inge Bruggeman (letterpress printing), and Sandy Tilcock (binding). Bound in Bhutan Mitsumata over boards, with Horowitz's etched branches reaching over both covers. Near fine, with single long, thin scuff to upper board. Prospectus laid in.
Offered by Bromer Booksellers and found in "Environmental Justice."
Featured item:
Roberta Cowell's Story by Herself
Cowell, Roberta; Canon Millbourn [Preface]
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1954. First edition. xii, 154 pp. Bound in publisher's navy cloth with silver spine lettering. About Very Good with light dampstaining to cloth along bottom edge, slightly musty smell, a little foxing along top edge, in About Very Good dust jacket with toned spine panel, head and tail chipped, dampstaining along bottom edge. Uncommon.
In The SAGE Encyclopedia of Trans Studies Genny Bemyn calls this "an account by the woman who had the first known vaginoplasty in England and who was legally recognized as female in 1951. Being the first British trans woman to undergo surgery and having achieved some fame previously as a race car driver, Cowell’s transition made headlines in Britain."
Offered by Burnside Rare Books and found in "e-List #76: LGBTQ+ Pride."
ANDREW CAHAN, BOOKSELLER, LTD.
- E-list on the South (June 2024) *New*
- New York Book Fair 2024
- From the library of John Henry Nash -- list available on request from info@carpediemfinebooks.com...
- New Arrivals
- Inhabited by Winston (January 2022)
- Winston for Your Walls
- Antiquarian Agrarian *New*
- Edmund Blunden & Siegfried Sassoon *New*
- Gifts for Dad, a Miscellany *New*
- THE LUNAR VOYAGE FROM THE 17th CENTURY TO THE PRESENT -- In conjunction with the RBMS and the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing -- Offered jointly with John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller
- Popular Fiction 1814-1939: Selections from the Anthony Tino Collection -- Offered jointly with John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller
- E-list: Photographic Archives, Latin-Americana, African-Americana, Lincoln Conspirators, American Indian History, and More -- Joint catalog with Auger Down Books
DE SIMONE COMPANY, BOOKSELLERS
- New Arrivals (June 24, 2024) *New*
- Shaker Books, Ephemera and Photography
Featured item:
Hours of Fun. [Patty Hearst Ident-i-Kit]
[Zephyrus Image & Tom Raworth]
[San Francisco]: [Hermes Free Press], [1974]. Diminiutive paper sculpture, made of two sheets of paper glued together with die-cut flaps [folded size 2 1/4 x 1 1/2"].
One of the most provocative and ingenious publications of the Zephyrus Image. After the Los Angeles shoot-out, Patty Hearst and members of the SLA went into hiding in the Bay Area, at which time the San Francisco Chronicle published artist's renderings showing how Patty might appear in disguise. According to Johnston, Tom Raworth conceived of the idea in conversation with Michael Myers after "a liquid lunch, and the team sprang into action, turning the book out overnight." [Johnston p. 99].
In our experience, the rarest book of the press.
Horizontal crease the back cover, with some rubbing to extremities. Very good.
Offered by Division Leap and found in "Poetry."
- Catalog #88, Medical Books from the Fifteenth to the Twentieth Centuries -- This catalog is print-only. To request a copy, contact MedBks@aol.com...
- List 111 - Miscellany *New*
- List 110 - Ripped from the Flat Files *New*
- List 109: Pulled from Storage (Modern Firsts) *New*
- e-list No. 103 Miscellany: Circus Ephemera, Butter Wrappers, Victory Rations, a Jesuit Priest's Guide to "Going Steady" & Of Course, the Children *New*
- Eclectibles e-list 102 Miscellany: Citrus Wrappers, Everlasting Silver Leaves, Computer Woman & Of Course, the Children
Featured item:
Printed Sicilian Citrus Fruit Wrappers Marketing to American Consumers.
Sicily, Italy. 1920s. A group of eleven (11) illustrated citrus fruit wrappers from Sicily, featuring fabulous bits of design marketing the fruit to American consumers. Used to wrap individual pieces of fruit, the wrappers protected the product while it was being transported to its final destination in a shop and finally the consumer. As might be surmised, these items rarely survive due to their ephemeral nature. These examples feature clever design, many which make the fruit appear to be a sunburst. Two of the designs feature patriotic American-centric themes. The fruit producers and exporters represented here include Nicolo Pietro Zito (Palermo, Italy); V. Cutietta (Carini, Italy); A. Venuti (Palermo, Italy); Cuneo Fruit & Co. (Palermo, Italy); and Gius. Sacca di Fsco. (Messina, Italy). Each measures approx. 8.5" by 7.25" and is printed on delicate tissue paper.
Citrus fruit wrappers are ephemera produced to both protect the fruit in transit and represent the brand in a colorful way. Very good. Some toning, wrinkles/creasing, staining, short tears or nicks.
Offered by Eclectibles and found in "e-list 102."
EDITIO ALTERA RARE BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS
- RBMS 2024 *New*
- New York Book Fair 2024 (Revised)
- Comic collection of William "Gatz" Hjortsberg -- Details available upon request from info@elkriverbooks.com...
- Highlights from the ABAA Virtual Book Fair
Featured item:
De Sibour, Violette. Flying Gypsies: The Chronicle of a 10,000 Mile Air Vagabondage.
New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1930. First edition. 8vo. [2], iii-iv, 1-306, [4] pp. Black cloth with green lettering on the front board and spine; green topstain. Price of $2.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Maps on the endpapers and pastedowns, drawn by Vicomte Jacques De Sibour. With 24 illustrations, including a black and white photograph frontispiece of the plane the author and her husband used in their travels. The other 23 illustrations are black and white photograph plates, showing scenes from the author’s trip around the world. With several full-page maps drawn by the author’s husband. Very near Fine. A touch of offsetting to the jacket’s reverse. Library Thing, “People/CharactersViolette De Sibour.” Violette De Sibour and her husband Jacques became the first couple to fly around the world. Violette herself trained as a pilot, and is considered an early female aviator. A fascinating female travel narrative, written by a trailblazer.
Offered by Evening Star Books and found in "May 2024."
RODGER FRIEDMAN RARE BOOK STUDIO
- Monastic Financial Records *New*
- Archive of a Spider Man *New*
- Fresh List: Iran & Palestine *New*
Featured item:
Iran Report [September '71, November '72, and August '73]
Frankfurt: Conföderation der Iranischen Studenten [CISNU], 1971–1973. 205 by 145mm (8 by 5¾ inches). Stapled brochure; 56 pp; 84 pp; 95 pp. Three issues of this German-Iranian student publication. In German. Very Good. 1971 issue with interior pages bound upside-down. Informative Anti-Shah publication with extensive articles on the history of oil in Iran; neo-colonial infrastructure; and the CIA’s involvement in the country. Publication predates the overthrow of the Shah in 1979. Published by the infamous CISNU. In 1965, CISNU leaders were arrested for attempting to murder Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and as a result the group pushed towards more radicalization. By 1971, the Iranian government declared CISNU illegal.
Offered by Mark Funke, Bookseller and found in "Fresh Sheet: Iran & Palestine."
- OCCASIONAL LIST 22: A Miscellany: Original Art Work; Small Archive of Major English Watercolourist; Interesting Theatrical Pieces; Manuscript Material, Etc., Etc. -- available on request from fgrare@fgrarebooks.com...
- Has the following lists available: California, Texas, Kansas, Missouri, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Oregon, Louisiana, Colorado, Ohio and New York. Will email to interested parties. Contact info@ginsbook.com to request...
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THOMAS A. GOLDWASSER RARE BOOKS
DAVID A. HAMILTON AMERICANA BOOKS
- Americana
- Antiquarian Miscellany (May 28, 2024)
JONATHAN A. HILL, BOOKSELLER, INC.
- RBMS 2024 *New*
- Catalogue 248 *New*
- Asian Printing Woodblocks *New*
Featured item:
ACUPUNCTURE: A COLLECTION OF TEXTS
Manuscript on paper, entitled in manuscript on title label on upper cover & on first leaf: “Kyuji hizoku den” [“Acupuncture Treatments Passed on from Many Sources”]. Many small brush & black ink drawings in the margins throughout. 111 folding leaves. 8vo (232 × 157 mm.), later patterned wrappers, new stitching. [Japan]: (in trans.): “copied by Tanaka on 29 January 1830.”
The index on the first two pages describes the arrangement of the manuscript: by sections of the body. These include the upper section (head, eyes, nose, teeth, throat, and lungs), middle section (heart, abdomen, hips), and lower section (urinary tract, large intestine, rectum, and legs). This is followed by one page describing treatments, which are either fast-acting or long-term. There is a further division of treatments for women (including reproductive organs), children, and skin diseases (which include contagious diseases and cancer).
Next we have the main text, which gives a series of approximately 450 case histories and general diagnoses and treatments, arranged by symptom. Within each case history or diagnosis, the following information is given: symptoms, references to either medical works or doctors who have dealt with this illness, names of relevant pressure points, recipes for medicines to be used, and details of the specific case history.
In the section devoted to women’s reproductive organs, there are treatments to encourage pregnancy, to cause an abortion, and recipes for birth control.
The printed or manuscript medical texts referred to are largely Chinese works. They include Zhang Jiebin’s 張介賓 Lei jing 類經 [IIlustrated Appendix to the [Yellow Emperor’s Inner] Canon Arranged by Topic], Chen Ziming’s 陳自明 Waike jingyao 外科精要 [Essentials of External Medicine], Sun Simiao’s 孫思邈 Qianjin yifang 千金翼方 [Supplementary Prescriptions Worth a Thousand Gold Pieces], Gong Tingxian’s 龔廷賢 Shou shi bao yuan 壽世保元 [Prolonging Life & Preserving the Origin], and others. The references to Japanese medical authors include many leading doctors: Okamoto, Tanba, Ajioka, Takeda, Tokumoto, and others.
The delicate drawings depict mostly pressure points on the body. Fine copy, written in one neat hand.
Offered by Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. and found in "Catalogue 248."
- elist 247 New Arrivals in Poetry Photography Art Literature *New*
- elist 246 New Arrivals in Poetry Photography Art Literature
Featured item:
Thea Friederici. [Monatsbilder].
Leipzig: privately published, circa 1920. First and only edition of this charming children’s calendar by German illustrator Thea Friederici (1897-1971), with binding and plates watercolored by hand. Twelve full-page lithographs, one for each month, depict villagers enjoying seasonal pastimes: gathering flowers in March, sailing in August, apple picking in October, hunting in November, ice skating in December. February features a quartet of masked, dancing children celebrating Fasching, the traditional German carnival to welcome spring. Friederici lived and worked in Leipzig with her husband, Moravian-born book illustrator Karl Stratil, who moved there in exile after World War I.
Though the print run of this series is unknown, the delicate string-tied binding and handcolored pictorial boards suggest a very limited edition. Text in German. Not listed in the major children’s bibliographies; OCLC locates two institutional holdings (Princeton and Winthrop). A near-fine copy of a scarce and striking book. Single volume, measuring 9.5 x 8.5 inches: 12 plates. Original hand-colored lithographic pictorial boards, red paper spine tied with gold cord. Twelve handcolored lithographs, the first signed by Friederici in pencil, the rest initialed. Light shelfwear, paper spine chipped, lightest foxing to endpapers and first plate.
Offered by Honey & Wax Booksellers and found in "A Children's List, June 2024."
- Summer 2024 *New*
- Spring 2024
Featured item:
GAY PRIDE PARADE and PERSONAL PHOTOS OF FRIENDS AND LOVERS AIDS QUILT 1989 PHOTO LOT
23,500 people died of AIDS in the United States in the year 1989, and still many gathered to mourn, revel, and celebrate love. Forty-six 5” x 3 3/4” photographs document a Gay Pride parade and friends and lovers in 1989.
Hundreds of people are pictured in procession smiling, laughing, and marching in the parade. Many are walking while others are riding motorcycles, many hold each other while others hold up banners. Banners read: FIGHT AIDS! WE NEED HEALTHCARE RESEARCH!, National Lesbian Conference, SMYAL (Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League),
The Lesbian & Gay Big Apple Corps, Stonewall 1969-1989.
One photograph features an AIDS memorial quilt. Two names are visible: Paul McLean and Stanley Lawrence Roberts.
Other images frame personal photos of friends and lovers. In good overall condition.
Offered by House of Mirth Photos and found in "Summer 2024."
- Harold Bloom Archive - Details and price available upon request to james@jamesjaffe.com. Institutional inquiries only. *New*
- New York Book Fair 2024
- MARIJUANA: From Grassroots to Mainstream *New*
- RIOT GRRRL *New*
- Alaska *New*
- Pride Month 2024 List *New*
Featured item:
BENDING THE LANDSCAPE: ORIGINAL GAY AND LESBIAN WRITING – FANTASY, SCIENCE FICTION, HORROR
Griffith, Nicola and Stephen Pagel (Editors)
Clarkston, Georgia and Woodstock, New York: Borealis and Overlook Press, 1997, 1998, and 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printings. The groundbreaking series of LGBT-themed anthologies of short speculative fiction. Winner of World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology, two Lambda Literary Awards, and two Gaylactic Spectrum Awards. The first volume (Fantasy) is signed by the editors and seven contributors: Carolyn Ives Gilman, Mark W. Tiedmann, Ellen Kushner, Delia Sherman, Robin Wayne Bailey, Tanya Huff, and Richard Bowes. The second volume (Science Fiction) is signed by the editors and eight contributors: Keith Hartman, Ellen Klages, Stephen Baxter, Allen Steele, L. Timmel Duchamp, Nancy Kress, Shariann Lewitt, and Mark W. Tiedemann. The third volume (Horror) is signed by the editors and seven contributors: Cynthia Ward, Ellen Klages, James Van Pelt, Alexis Glynn Latner, Barbara Hambly, Keith Hartman, and Mark W. Tiedemann. Octavo, three volumes. Typical mild toning to the contents in the second volume. Mild bumping to the tips, with some very light edgewear to the dust jacket. Near fine. Near fine / Near fine.
Offered by johnson rare books & archives and found in "Pride Month 2024 List."
JOHN W. KNOTT, JR., BOOKSELLER
Featured item:
THE FEDS. June 1937. (Volume 2, No. 4). John L. Nanovic, editor.
New York: Street and Smith Publishing, Inc., 1937. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Lead feature is "Public Hero No. 1-The Life Story of John Edgar Hoover and the F.B.I." Also includes a Steve Fisher novelette. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 237-239. Tanning to text paper, still supple, mild edge wear, small paper loss at the head of the spine, light damp stain to verso of lower front edge.
Offered by John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller and found in "New Arrivals: Pulps."
- Catalog #74: 100 Rare Books -- with an emphasis on history and military affairs. Please request from mail@kubikbooks.com...
MICHAEL LAIRD RARE BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS
Featured item:
GOLD-PRINTED LITHOGRAPH: A PROTECTIVE TALISMAN, WITH SPECIAL APPEALS FOR HEALING
[Anonymous Lithographer].
S.l. (probably Istanbul): late 19th century or ca. 1900. Gold printed lithograph (51 x 16 cm; 20” x 6.25”), stained, significantly repaired on verso, some small holes in folds. Preserved in a mylar L-sleeve (folded once horizontally). Good.
PROTECTION FROM EVIL SPIRITS, LITHOGRAPHED IN GOLD. An intriguing Ottoman talisman; unusually, it was executed in gold ink lithography. As customary, there are two columns of various prayers and spells, references to the Qur’an, the names of God, the Prophet, other prophets, and other magical terms and magical squares. The text is Arabic, here presented in calligraphic handwriting. The talisman itself was created to be carried (or worn), either folded or in a protective case. The vertical texts on the borders of the two columns are verses taken from the Qur’an and are REQUESTS FOR HEALING. The two middle columns are requests for aid by God through the Qur’an, the Prophet Muhammed, and the other prophets. Such objects have been popular as a personal protection against evil spirits in the Middle East for centuries until today. Nonetheless, examples printed in gold lithography, are very uncommon. We are grateful to Kelly Tuttle for her kind assistance in cataloguing of this talisman.
Offered by Michael Laird Rare Books & Manuscripts and found in "RBMS 2024."
- Prisons & Punishment, 1717–1982 (June 25, 2024) *New*
- Recent Acquisitions: English, American & Continental Law, 1594-1919 (June 18, 2024) *New*
- English Law in America, 1772–1875 (June 11, 2024) *New*
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Featured item:
Dunbar, Paul Laurence:
New York: Harry Van Tilzer Music Publishing Co., [1902]. Folio, 10-7/8" x 13-7/8." 5, [1] pp. At head of title: "Paul Laurence Dunbar and Will Marion Cook's Latest & Greatest Success." Original printed and illustrated glossy title wrappers, with inks in red, green and black. Inner margins reinforced archivally; title illustrated with dancing black children, and old black man flanked by black men playing trombones. Rear wrapper prints words and music to several songs, "For Sale by All Dealers." "Try These on Your Piano." Text prints words and music. Toned, several closed margin tears and light margin chips, not affecting text. Good+.
The song begins, "Streets are gay, On de way, All de alleys done turned out. . ." OCLC records 14 locations under several accession numbers.
Offered by David M. Lesser Fine Antiquarian Books and found in "African-Americana, Slavery, Civil War, & Southern."
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Featured item:
Brown, Virginia Lee
Attleboro, Massachusetts: 1950-60's. Sewn binding. 10 books of various sizes.
Virginia Lee Brown (1918-1989) was a dedicated homemaker outside Boston during the mid-century. Her love of cooking is evident here in all these books she made to keep in her kitchen, reminding her "what's for dinner?" Besides the one store-bought book that she neatly recorded, in cursive, all her favorite recipes, all the other books were handmade/hand sewn out of heavy stock brown paper, most likely used paper bags or wrapping she had previously used.
Homemade brown paper bags, sewn binding: "Cakes - Make fine cakes", 9 pages, recipes pasted in. "Puddings & Desserts", 13 pages, recipes pasted in. (No title), 26 pages, recipes pasted in. "Chocolate Cakes & Frostings", 8 pages, recipes pasted in. "Salads, Salad Dressing, Slaws & Dressings", 41 pages, recipes paste in. "Ice cream, Syrups for cold drinks, Sandwiches, Candy & Cough Syrups", 22 pages, recipes pasted in. "Miscellaneous", 9 pages, recipes pasted in. "Wine, Jellie, Jam, Tomato preserve", 46 pages, recipes pasted. Envelopes filled with recipes: Frostings, Orange Cake, Chocolate Cake, Spice Cake. Packets made from old envelopes filled with recipes: Sauces, Pickles, and Cookies. One handmade brown paper bag book that had not been used. Marbled ring bound book, lined, and handwritten book - 158 pages filled with recipes, with an index written on one of the first pages: Meats, Deserts, Vegetables, Salads, Candy, Cakes, Misc., Fish, Cookies, Breads & Biscuits, Heavenly Jam, and Easy & Cheap Christmas Cake. Laid in are at least 30 pages of recipes pasted on on paper, recipes written on scrap paper, and some ephemera. Also in this collection are folded pieces of paper, with recipes attached, a letter to Davis & Lawrence Co. asking about a cream that has been discontinued.
Offered by Lizzyoung Bookseller and found in "Homemade Cookbooks/Culinary Manuscripts."
J. & J. LUBRANO MUSIC ANTIQUARIANS
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- Rare First and Early Editions of the Works of George Frideric Handel 1685-1759
Featured item:
Aetius [Ezio] an Opera as it is Perform'd at the Kings Theatre in the Hay Market.
London: Printed for and Sold by I: Walsh Musick Printer & Instrument maker to his Majesty at the Harp and Hoboy in Catherine Street in the Strand, [1732]. Folio. Modern quarter mid-tan calf with marbled boards, dark red morocco title label gilt to upper. 1f. (title), 1f. (recto "A Table of Songs," verso blank), 91, (blank) pp. The music comprises the overture, arias, and final chorus. Named singers include Senesino and Signoras Strada, Bagnolesi, and Bertolli. Text added in pencil to pp. 47-51. Binding slightly worn and bumped. Occasional light browning, soiling, and small stains; several leaves trimmed at lower margin with loss to figured bass; loss to lower outer margin of p. 47, not affecting music; foot of page 50 trimmed, just touching bass figuring. A very good copy overall.
Provenance: The noted Handel collector Godfrey E. Arkwright (1864-1944), and then Gilbert Samuel Inglefield (1909- 1991), Lord Mayor of London, with their bookplates to front pastedown and front free endpaper, respectively; small decorative oval handstamp "Thos. Gill No. 18" to title. First Edition. Smith p. 23, no. 1. BUC p. 426. RISM H130 and HH130 (3 copies only in the U.S.). Aetius, to a libretto by Metastasio, was first performed in London at the King's Theatre on 15 January 1732. "The opera was a failure, attaining only five performances, the lowest total for any of Handel's London operas before Berenice. ... The first modern revival was at Göttingen in 1926, two years after Leichtentritt had described it as one of the most stageworthy of Handel's operas." Dean: Handel's Operas 1726-1741, p. 206.
Offered by J. & J. Lubrano Music Antiquarians and found in "Rare First and Early Editions of the Works of George Frideric Handel."
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Featured item:
Akin, Emma
Negro American Series. Book One [-Four]
Oklahoma City: Harlow Publishing Corporation, 1938. Four volumes: 251; 135; 184; 217pp. Profusely illustrated with photographic and silhouette illustrations. Original pictorial cloth of various colors. Minor wear and soiling to covers, a couple of volumes with mild fraying to spines. Occasional light foxing to text. One volume ex-library, with stamps to endpapers, inked call number to spine tail, and pocket on rear endpaper. Overall, a nice set. Very good.
A complete set of four titles published as part of the "Negro American Series" of textbooks intended for African-American primary school students in the American South. The books were written by a white teacher, Emma E. Akin, who was working at an African-American school in Dunbar, Oklahoma when she noticed a lack of textbooks focusing on Black history and achievements. The four titles are Negro Boys and Girls (designated as "Book One" on the spine); Gifts ("Book Two" on the spine); A Booker T. Washington School ("Book Three" on the spine); and Ideals and Adventures ("Book Four" on the spine).
The books contain biographies of prominent African Americans, as well as many short stories that follow the daily lives of Black students, in which they participate in daily lessons and learn about their heritage, along with reading and counting lessons, poetry, advice on how to make new friends, vocabulary lists, study questions for students, and more. An example of a couple of study questions, which follow a biography of Dr. Alphonso Mitchell, is stated as follows: "How many colored doctors do you know?" and "Why are there so few Negro dentists?" The text is enhanced with photographs taken in the Dunbar School in an effort to provide Black students with imagery with which they could identify. The acknowledgements section of the books gives thanks to fellow teachers, as well as parents and students at the Dunbar School for their contributions to the textbooks. Among those thanked by Akin is Mary McLeod Bethune (who is also profiled in the book) as well as other prominent African-American educators who contributed information and photographs or pictures. The dedication page in each volume reads simply: "This book is dedicated to America's Negro Boys and Girls."
According to a seminal work on the societal impact of children's literature, Defining Print Culture for Youth, the Cultural Work of Children's Literature: "The Negro American Series cut against the prevailing stereotypes in textual theme and content as it did in its illustrations. Each volume includes information on the accomplishments of at least one notable African American, from Paul Laurence Dunbar to Roland Hayes to Phillis Wheatley, to lesser-known figures as well. Farm children and children who live in town are treated with equal respect. Families are described as loving and concerned. Class differences are never mentioned.... Neither children nor adults are depicted as menials or buffoons.... Race progress and uplift are constant themes."
A rare opportunity to obtain the full four-volume set of these scarce publications intended to educate and uplift African American schoolchildren in the Jim Crow South.
Offered by McBride Rare Books and found in "List 54."
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A unique Depression-era map set from a San Francisco Fireboat.
Title: Fire Boat No. 2. S.F.F.D.
Cartographer: San Francisco Fire Department
Place/Date: San Francisco, 1931 Dimensions: 25.5 x 17.75 inches.
An extraordinary atlas of 11 San Francisco Fire Department maps published in 1931 under pioneering fire chief Charles J. Brennan.
A bound set of maps in a black canvas folder that rolls into an original leather embossed tube, marked ‘Fire Boat No. 2 S.F.F.D.’ in distinct black lettering. The water-resistant materials indicate that this atlas would have been kept on the fireboat, presumably as part of its official inventory. It is a fascinating survival of Depression-era cartography for one of America’s most important maritime cities.
Two steam-powered fire boats were put into active duty following the 1906 Earthquake: the David Scannel and the Dennis T. Sullivan (named after the SF Fire Brigade’s Chief Engineer, who was killed in the 1906 earthquake). Both fireboats were built by the Risdon Iron & Locomotive Company in San Francisco and launched in 1909. As our map book belongs to Fire Boat No. 2, we know it was from Dennis T. Sullivan, not the Scannel. Each map is numbered (1-11), dated 1931, and labeled as coming from the office of Chief Engineer Charles J. Brennan.
Brennan’s tenure as fire chief (1929-1943) left an enduring impact on fire safety and emergency response in San Francisco. Assuming the role of Chief Engineer amidst the economic upheaval of the Great Depression, Brennan was tasked with steering the Fire Department through turbulent financial waters. He reorganized and fortified its structure despite stringent budget constraints and spearheaded modernization efforts. This unique survival reflects Brennan’s efforts to create reliable fire infrastructure maps designed to be kept on fire-fighting units.
The maps cover the area from today’s Marina District and Fort Mason, the Embarcadero, and down to Islais Creek. The scope extends across most of the San Francisco peninsula, including the eastern part of Golden Gate Park and as far south as Twin Peaks (which has a reservoir) and Bernal Heights. Each map shows a distinct area and includes features such as hydraulic infrastructure (cisterns, pumps, hydrants, water mains, distribution stations, and gate valves) and the delineation of dedicated zones within the city.
Census: This atlas is entirely unrecorded. We assume a single copy was made for each fireboat, and others were held at firehouses. It is unclear to what extent such a set was unique to San Francisco. Cities like New York, Seattle, and Vancouver have all employed fireboats, but no records of equivalent map books exist. It is unclear which maps the SFFD used before compiling this set, but a likely source was Sanborn Insurance Maps
Offered by Neatline Antique Maps and found in "May 2024."
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[Adams, Katharine- Binding and Original Stunning Illuminations By Allan Vigers]
Morris, William. Art and the Beauty of the Earth.
London: Longmans & Company; The Chiswick Press, 1898. First Edition. 8vo, 8 ¼ x 5 ¾ inches. EXQUISITELY ILLUMINATED BY ALLAN F. VIGERS (1858-1921), including half-title decorated with white rose blossoms and leafy tendrils hanging down in multiple colors, verso with square illustration of flowers in garden, with striking blue ornamental background, opening text leaf with stunning full-page wide border design in multiple colors composed of dozens of flowers in bright red bordered design panels, and two graceful long-beaked birds at the bottom (dated “1903”), large illustration on the colophon page including the two birds facing each other in a garden, with 12 roses overhead, bright blue background, and red bordering panels, and approximately 48 tendril and flower infills within the text in various colors--all in watercolor; the colophon illumination is signed below by Vigers: “1903 A.V.F.” This wonderfully illumined masterpiece is further complemented by its superb binding by KATHARINE ADAMS, one of the top bookbinders in the modern era, who became an acclaimed and highly sought-after bookbinder in Britain and abroad, creating intricate gold-tooled bindings with tools she herself had designed. Adams became the second president of the Women’s Guild of Art, and bound many books which have become legendary in the trade by famous publishers such as the Doves and Kelmscott Press. Bound in full crushed green morocco, signed and dated “K.A. 1906,” on lower dentelle, lettered on upper cover and spine, top edges gilt, and dentelles made up of small circles; joints slightly rubbed, internally fine. Printed at the Chiswick Press in Golden type designed by William Morris for the Kelmscott Press.
Allan Francis Vigers (1858-1921) was trained as an architect, but was best-known (like Morris) as a designer of textiles, furniture and especially beautifully designed wallpaper in distinctively Arts & Crafts modalities. Vigers joined the Art Workers Guild in 1903, and exhibited at the Royal Academy and at the Arts and Crafts Exhibition in 1910, and took a highly individualistic approach to pattern design, informed by his skills as an illuminator. He specialized in intricate florals, composed of a mass of small flower heads, mounted like jewels on white or dark-blue backgrounds. At once naturalistic and symbolic, his patterns feature typical English garden flowers... simply and accurately depicted, but arranged in consciously artful synchronized formations.
Offered by Nudelman Rare Books and found in "Catalog 52."
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Featured item:
Bruce Rogers Selected Letters, 1915-1918.
Caliban Press, 1988. Octavo. [4], viii, [2], 61, [2] pp., illus. Limited edition, number 62 of 190 copies. As issued, backed in calf with flexible covers. A very nice copy with only light shelf-rubbing; clean throughout. A significant collection of letters from Rogers to Emery Walker, Sydney Cockerell, and others. These 16 letters were written during "a very unsettling time for Rogers. In 1912 he resigned from the Riverside Press after sixteen years and some 60 limited editions published under his direction. He was 42 and had made a significant name for himself at Houghton Mifflin, the parent company of Riverside Press. Yet he became dissatisfied" (p. vii). The letters address both projects and possibilities with which Rogers is struggling. An important look into a critical time on his career and life. Here beautifully printed by Mark McMurray at his Caliban Press.
Offered by Michael Pyron, Bookseller and found in "Fine & Private Press."
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Featured item:
Robert Altman (director) Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Robert Duvall (starring)
Final script for the 1970 film, dated February 26, 1969. Included with the script are eight borderless double-weight reference photographs from the film, with stamps specific to the film’s French release on the versos. A core New Hollywood film, based on the 1968 novel by Richard Hooker, and in turn the basis of the acclaimed television show which ran for eleven seasons, from 1972-1983 on CBS. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Screenplay, and nominated for four more, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Supporting Actress. Winner of the Palme d’Or. Housed in a custom clamshell box. National Film Registry.
Offered by Royal Books and found in "Catalog Eighty-Two" (item 56).
BARRY LAWRENCE RUDERMAN ANTIQUE MAPS, INC.
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Featured item:
Leipzig, Germany. Illustrite Zeitung (Illustrated Newspaper), Circa 1845. Disbound.
This wood engraving clipped from an unidentified edition of the Illustrite Zeitung (Illustrated Newspaper), known colloquially as the ‘Leipziger,’ is undated, but information on the reverse indicates that it was published by J. J. Weber of Leipzig, Germany. It is titled, Quarantine und Marinehosital fur Einwanderer auf Staten Island, Newyorf (Quarantine Station and Marine Hospital for Immigrants at Staten Island, New York). It is in nice shape with some light toning.
It can be dated as locations of the buildings and dock exactly as shown almost identically match those shown on a map of the grounds, “Marine Hospital Ground, Staten Island . . . made by John Ewein. Dated March 1845 . . . City Surveyor.” The large building in the foreground is “[St. Nicholas] Hospital.” The center building on the hill is the “Yellow Fever Hospital.” The building to the far right is the “Small Pox Hospital.” The small buildings on the “Wharf” and “Pier” are a “Shed” and “Store House.”
Between 1795 and 1798, Yellow Fever killed thousands in New York City, spurring passage of a quarantine law that funded the construction of the New York Marine Hospital on this site. At its peak, the hospital could house 1,500 patients and was treating more than 8,000 per year. Before landing at New York, all vessels were boarded by inspectors, and if they found any trace of disease, everyone was unloaded at the Quarantine. First-class passengers spent their quarantine at the St. Nicholas while lower-class passengers were held in shanties not visible in the wood engraving.
There was considerable local opposition to the hospital, both from land developers who wished to use the grounds for projects and locals who blamed outbreaks of disease on the passengers under quarantine. The tension escalated and in 1856, a local health board prohibited anyone, including staff, from exiting the building by land. On the first of September 1858, the same board passed a resolution declaring the facility to be ”a pest and a nuisance of the most odious character, bringing death and desolation to the very doors of the people [who must abate] this abominable nuisance without delay.” That night a giant mob attacked the hospital, and after evacuating patients and staff from the buildings, burned most of the complex to the ground. The following night, they burned the rest. When later brought to trial, the mob leaders were acquitted, the jury deciding that they had acted in self-defense.
In his semi-autobiographical novel, Redbun: His First Voyage, Herman Mehlville recounts a typical chaotic scene as ships were searched and inspected by health officials and later expresses relief when upon returning to New York harbor as his ship passed the Staten Island complex, apparently unnoticed by port officials, and escaped inspection.
(For more information, see Stephenson’s “"The Quarantine War: the Burning of the New York Marine Hospital in 1858" in the Jan-Feb 2004 issue of Public Health Reports, available online.)
Uncommon. Wood engravings of the Staten Island hospital from illustrated magazines and auctions occasionally appear at auction. The majority are post-attack illustrations showing the ruins or replacement buildings.
Offered by Kurt A. Santfleben, LLC. and found in "Catalog 24-2."
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Featured item:
Letterproef: Spécimen de Caractères.
[Amsterdam]: N. V. Lettergieterij “Amsterdam” voorheen N. Tetterode, [1932]. First edition. Large 8vo (10.63 x 7.88 inches), original red cloth stamped in silver, xx, 432 pages + 114a-h. Illus. Some darkening to the cloth, spine just a trifle rubbed; a nearly fine copy.
A later issue of the [1932] specimen, bound with (as issued) the [ca. 1935] supplement. A substantial specimen, including ornaments and borders, with the promotional text in both Dutch and French. Dating of this specimen taken from the catalog record at the Dutch Koninklijke Bibliotheek, which notes the publication of a separate supplemental price list dated January, 1933. Contemporary violet ink stamp to the front free endpaper for the Swedish sales representative in Stockholm.
Offered by Garrett Scott, Bookseller and found in "Occasional List 84."
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Featured item:
Free Brush Pattern in Color and Design.
Springfield, Massachusetts: Milton Bradley Co., [1929]. 6 in. x 9 in. 32 pp. With fifteen color plates reproducing original paintings by students in the seventh, eighth, and ninth grades. Also with sixteen text figures, eleven of which are in color.
Original color-printed buff paper wrappers. Minor chipping to fore-edge and some dustsoiling to back cover. Otherwise very clean and bright. A very good copy of a scarce a fragile art education item. First edition.
Along with the plates, the present item also includes an introduction to the role of art in public school education as well as explanations of color theory and design techniques for freehand pattern painting. The introduction reads, “Education in Art in the Public Schools of this country has seen many changes in aim, policy, content and method since its first inauguration. One of the very earliest and generally accepted methods was that of copying drawings, designs and lettering on slates…We then advanced to the use of drawing books to do more copying of drawings and some painting. Next, we began to urge naturalistic forms to be conventionalized within prescribed areas… In pursuing these several types of work…we have ignored the consideration of a most essential factor in education — the creative power, supremely valuable, when well directed, in developing individuality. It is this power of creative expression, guided by principles of orderly arrangement, and tone relations, that present-day Art Education in Public Schools is encouraging, and leading into wider channels of progressive thought, skill and appreciation adaptable to any environment,” (p. 3).
Offered by Michael R. Thompson Rare Books and found in "Friedrich Froebel & Milton Bradley (Education)."
Featured item:
Adams, Richard
New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., (1973). First US edition. Fine. Hardcover / Near fine. 8vo. ix,(3),429,(1) pp. A fine copy. The dustwrapper is clipped, and we note a small, nearly invisible stain on the rear cover, else it is near fine.
The first printing of the US edition, with the full number line on the copyright page; cream-colored binding; and with 70003 on the rear board. The dustwrapper is also first state, with the rabbit and compass repeated on the rear panel; a price of $6.95; and blurbs from UK entities. Author's first book and a classic adventure novel. Winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Prize.
Offered by Thorn Books and found in "May Short List."
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Featured item:
by James Baldwin
1962. First edition, review copy with publisher's publicity photo laid in of novel that Baldwin said "makes GIOVANNI seem conservative—almost square."
Fine in very good plus jacket.
Offered by Type Punch Matrix and found in "James Baldwin Catalog."
Featured item:
[214] pp., including 90 full-page illustrated plates (most full colour) of maps, graphs and photographs. Folio, 470 x 360 mm., bound in half black cloth with illustrated covers. Athens: Aspioti-Elka, 1945.
An astonishing piece of bookmaking, especially given the time at which it was produced. The illustrations, many of which involve Isotypes, are nothing short of stunning, and completely overshadow the subject matter, much in the manner of the pre-war Soviet books. Of great rarity, with OCLC recording only one copy, at the University of Alberta.
Offered by Ursus Rare Books and found in "Isotypes & Infographics."
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ANONYMOUS. A mid-18th century manuscript ‘price book’ for the costs of building construction.
Tours, 1758. A very fine copy in the original motttled calf binding, with beautifully gilt spine and dark red lettering piece. Entirely written in one hand, easily legible throughout. The work, probably written by an entrepreneur (or in modern terminology a ‘developer’) for his own use of for the training of his workmen, reports the costs of the different materials and estimates for projects: excavation and embankment, masonry, plastering, framing, tile roofing, straw or slate ditto, carpentry, locksmithing, painting, glazing, etc. - all the various building t r ade s. Such ‘p rice books’, as they are called in English, were more common in the U. K. than in France (at least to judge by the survival of printed price books). The book also includes prices for horse-drawn carts and carriages, combining carpentry, metal working and harness making.
8vo, bound in full mottled calf, gilt spine, red edges. 14+(ii) +149 pp. As noted. a beautiful copy. Unique.
Offered by Charles B. Wood, Bookseller and found in "Catalogue 197."
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ST. VINCENT DE PAUL (1581-1660)
Regulae seu constitutiones communes congregationis Missionis
Paris: 1658. The first edition of the rules of the Congregation of the Mission, the religious society founded by St. Vincent de Paul. Founded in 1625, the society was concerned especially with charitable works and expanded rapidly in Europe and abroad. The edition offered here is the only one published during the saint's lifetime and includes an exhortation by Vincent to this followers. There are several variants of this first edition, some have a different engraved portrait of Vincent, others have a different spelling on the title-page, and still others include an errata sheet at the end (this one does not). 12mo (12 x 6.5cm), [iv], 112pp., [ii]. Engraved title-page, engraved portrait, and engraved plate of Christ. Bound in contemporary calf, some wear to spine.
Offered by Zinos Books and found in "New Arrivals."
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Sherman, Orin The Sherman Clothes Wringer, Warranted Without Cog Wheels
Boston: By the author, n. d. (1860s). Small broadside; 8 3/4 x 5 3/4; off-white stock printed in black and illustrated with a woodcut; a small nick to right edge and a tiny puncture to lower margin; a bit of age-toning and spotting; in about very good condition. A fabulous, mid-19th-century advertising piece, it showed a lady using the Sherman Wringer, dressed in a patriotic, American-Flag-pattern dress. Historically, laundry was a dreaded household chore in the 19th century, one which women did everything they could to avoid - including sending their washing out for others to do and hiring laundresses to come to their homes, when they could afford it. Those, who could not afford help needed a large variety of supplies - water, heating sources and vessels for boiling water, pails, tubs, dippers, wash-boards, soaps, drying areas, and so on. The Sherman Wringer promised to make everyone's life easier by being improved, compact, simple, durable, and without cog wheels "to cause it to turn hard, or to break and render the machine useless," like other wringers on the market. The broadside stated that the Sherman was far superior to Putnam's, Colby's, and many other competitors' contraptions and that it could fit both round and square tubs, making it universal.
Offered by ZH Books and found in "E-list: Everyday Life."
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