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by (DICKENS, CHARLES) GREEN, FRANK W., WORDS BY, AND ALFRED LEE, MUSIC BY
Philadelphia: Lee & Walker, 1875. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Folio. Two nested bifoliums making eight pages. Light foxing and offsetting throughout, toning to the exterior, and light bumping to the corners, still a very good and complete copy. For voice and piano. Plate number, 13189 - 4. The cover illustration shows a young woman in a style of dress that was popular at the time known as "Dolly Varden," named after the Charles Dickens character from *Barnaby Rudge*. The song speaks playfully of the new fashion stating, "Have you seen my little girl? She doesn't wear a bonnet/She's got a monstrous flip-flop hat with cherry ribbons on it/She dresses in bed furniture just like a flower garden/A blowin' and a growin' and they call it 'Dolly Varden.'" The front cover of this piece features a beautiful example of the style. *OCLC* locates only a single holding of this song and it appears to be equally scarce in the trade.
Offered by Between the Covers Rare Books.
by Wallace Stegner
8vo. New York: The Viking Press, 1962. 8vo, 306, 1, pp. Original orange cloth, a very good, square copy; shadows of tape marks on upper and lower boards and a stain on rear endpaper. In the original unclipped dust-jacket priced $5.95; lightly faded else very good. First edition, signed by Stegner on the half title. "A history, a story, and a memory of the last Plains frontier" where Stegner spent his boyhood.
Offered by John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller.
by LALANDE, [JEROME] DE.
Paris.: Desaint & Saillant., 1764. 1st Edition.. 4to, contemporary full brown leather, raised bands, gilt spine decorations, red spine labels, red edges.. Good plus, moderate wear to covers, spine ends chipped, hinges cracked, scattered marginalia minor marginal worming to a few leaves, contents tight and bright.. 26.5x20.5 cm.. French text. First edition of this important work by the eminent French astronomer. Bookplate of George Harvey, fellow of the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh on the pastedown of volume one. Heavy set, will require extra shipping. weight: 9.4 lb. 36 engraved folding plates.
Offered by Lee Johnson's Zephyr Books.
Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1937. First edition. 286 pp. Publisher's orange cloth. A few spots to boards, a dog-eared page or two, ownership signature of Elizabeth L. McCraw, teacher in Port Republic, VA, dated 1937, on front paste-down. Unclipped dust jacket, expertly restored. First edition. 286 pp. In the Rare Dust Jacket. Hurston's second novel, her best known book, and by far the scarcest of the three novels she wrote during the 1930s. Set in her hometown of Eatonville, Hurston's dialect dialogue was employed to display her affection for the folk culture and traditions of the poor black people she grew up with and wrote about, rather than for the strictly comic effect to which it was generally put. A very nice copy of a Harlem Renaissance rarity. Alice Walker's interest in and celebration of Hurston and her influence on African-American literature and culture marked one of the major literary rediscoveries of the last few decades. One of the most important novels of the century past, rare in jacket.
Offered by James Cummins Bookseller.
Pippi Longstocking Original Drawing Signed
by Astrid Lindgren
Lindgren has drawn a colorful full length sketch of her beloved character, Pippi Longstocking, wearing two different long stockings. The author writes at the top margin, "Pippi Longstocking," draws an arrow to her arm and writes, "incredibly beautiful isn't she." Lindgren signs to the right under her printed photograph, "Astrid Lindgren."
The sketch was crafted on a folded card with Lindgren on the cover. Opened flat, the black and white photograph shows to the right of the Pippi Longstocking sketch. Lindgren signs, "Astrid Lindgren, " on the light lower portion of her smiling half length image as she leans out of a window. Condition: Drawing is done in crayon on a shiny card requiring a cover to protect the crayon. Author sketches of Pippi are rare. . Autograph
Offered by Schulson Autographs.
The First Widely Distributed Transgender and Crossdressing Magazine Archive, Transvestia, 1963-1981
PRINCE, Virginia et al. Transvestia. Los Angeles: Chevalier Publications. 1968-1981. Archive of 4 issues. Includes one copy of Femme Fantasies by the same publisher from 1963. Pages range from 15-96. Three 8vo and one 4to. Original pictorial wrappers.Transvestia was founded in 1960 by Virginia Prince, a transgender woman and activist who began her identity expression at the age of 12. Having been divorced by her wife and disowned by her socialite parents because of her identity, Prince returned to the University of California, San Francisco and began working as a research assistant and lecturer in pharmacology. During this time, Prince took advantage of the university's small collection of medical literature on transvestism. She began the publication with 100 dollars from donors and it became the first widely distributed transgender and crossdressing magazine. The beginning dedication of these issues read "TRANSVESTIA is dedicated to the needs of those heterosexual persons who have become aware of their "other side" and seek to express it." The stated aim is to help their readers achieve "Understanding, acceptance, peace of mind." The contents contain primarily readers' submissions, from photographs, research papers, book reviews, letters to the editor, short stories, advertisements, and more. Transvestia was published bi-monthly by Prince between the 1960s and 1980s, with a total of roughly 100 issues being created. This collection includes; [1] Femme Fantasies: A Collection of Short Stories with a Transvestite Background, 1963. Multiple authors, either anonymous or with pen names, and black and white illustrations throughout; [2] Transvestia Volume IX, No. 54, 1968. Includes poetry, short fiction, short autobiographies, comics, and photography. [3] Volume X, No. 59, 1969. Includes a story of a cisgender woman helping her husband find his true identity, a scientific article on psychological aspects of transvestism, and a large spread of Virginia's trip to Europe for the first time fully presenting as her identity. [4] Transvestia Vol. XVIII, No. 104, 1981. Edited and published by Carol Beecroft. Short stories and fiction, one about an army commander's son who poses as a girl singer Allied spy, a memorium to Virginia Prince, illustrated comics, and photography. Some minor foxing and staining to some covers, the 1963 issue has wear to spine, binding is a bit delicate but overall text block, and pages are clean and crisp.
Offered by Max Rambod, Inc.
by MILLS, MABEL L.
First edition. Tall octavo. 28 b/w halftone photographs of movie stars each planting a tree or bush. Original tan pictorial wrappers. No dust jacket. Very good (few chips and few nicks). 118 pages. No signatures or bookplates.
Membership form laid in loose. Printed by The Times-Mirror Printing & Binding House.
Offered by Houle Rare Books & Autographs.
by DE FER, NICOLAS
Paris: Nicolas De Fer, 1689. unbound. Map. Engraving with original hand outline color. Sheet measures 13" x 9.5". Image measures 12.75" x 7.25". This is a lovely 1689 map of Ireland by Nicolas De Fer. Depicts the Emerald Isle in its entirety, color coded and subdivided into its four provinces of Ulster, Connacht, Leinster and Munster. Parts of Scotland, the Isle of Man, and England and Wales are also visible. Major towns, lakes, rivers, and islands are noted in Ireland and mountains beautifully rendered in profile. The title cartouche represents the Celtic Harp. The map is in good condition with minor toning along the original fold. Original platemark visible. Nicolas de Fer (1646-1720) was a prolific cartographer, engraver and publisher who took over the family map business from his mother when she retired in 1687. The business flourished and he gained a great reputation in his lifetime and was appointed 'Geographer to the King' in 1690. This map demonstrates his skill and provides a curious yet alluring mixture of history and geography.
Offered by Argosy Book Store.
London: Printed for H.D. Symonds, 1800. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Small octavo. 279pp. Frontispiece and five additional engraved plates. Bound in early 19th C. half purple morocco gilt and cloth over boards. With five plates, including the frontispiece. Scattered foxing, some light stains in the text mostly confined at the margins, light mottling on the boards, a sound and tight else very good copy. A very uncommon title.
Offered by Between the Covers Rare Books.
by CARL BERNSTEIN; BOB WOODWARD
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974. Near Fine/Near Fine. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974. First Edition with full numberline. Octavo. 349 pp. Black and white photographs. Photo-illustrated dust jacket with $8.95 price intact. Navy boards stamped in white; red endpapers. A touch of rubbing and toning to edges of jacket. Boards show light shelfwear. Binding is sound and interior unmarked; a Near Fine copy.
Offered by Capitol Hill Books.
by F. SCOTT FIZGERALD
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good +. Edward Shenton. A markedly above-average copy of the 1934 true 1st edition, in a very presentable example of the 1st issue dustjacket (with the T.S. Eliot and H.L. Mencken blurbs). Solid and VG+ to Near Fine, with very light offsetting to the endsheets. There's a touch of mild spotting to the panels but the gilt-titling along the spine is bright, vivid and completely unrubbed. And in a crisp, price-intact ($2.50), VG to VG+ dustjacket, with the faintest touch of chipping at the front tips and more pronounced --though still very light-- chipping and creasing at the spine ends. There's 3/4" of loss just above the foot of the spine (with several streaks of creasing running from it) and mild, even fading to the spine as well, which lacks the more vibrant coloring of the front and rear panels. Still though, very handsome and appealing in its original dustjacket (whose artist, even to this day, is still unknown).
Offered by Appledore Books.
Notes on the Summer Solstice. June 21, 1969
by Diane Di Prima
San Francisco: n.pub, 1969. Pamphlet. 3p. poem with cover sheet; 8.5x11 inch mimeographed pages stapled together at corner, very good.
Offered by Bolerium Books.
[n.p., 1790. Oblong, puzzle is 7-1/8" X 11-3/4" completed. Housed in a period bottom of the box. Color lithograph mounted on wood and cut using a round knob jigsaw puzzle cutting style. Pink marbled paper backs the puzzle pieces. One edge piece has a small area of loss. A few very light stains or water spots, else quite clean and bright. Very Good.
Offered by David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books.
Juneteenth" [story in] Quarterly Review of Literature. Volume XIII, Numbers 3/4
by Ralph Ellison
Annandale-on-Hudson, New York: Bard College, 1965. Softcover. Near Fine. Magazine. Octavo. Printed paper wrappers. Near fine with light wear and toning, along with the ownership signature of a noted American psychologist. This issue includes Ralph Ellison's "Juneteenth," an excerpt which was later published as part of a novel under the same name. While the book was published posthumously, this and a few other shorter pieces were first published in magazines.
Offered by Between the Covers Rare Books.
[Maine(?), 1930. Original black & white photograph (10.3 x 16 cm.). Silver gelatin photograph depicting a roadside picnic, with two men and two women sitting on the ground or on rocks, surrounded by an impressive amount of camp or picnic cookware, including a camp stove, thermoses, aluminum pots, lids, dishes, cups, etc. Their dress is a bit formal by today's standards. No automobile is visible. Small stain to upper right hand corner, but the image is still clear. Pencil annotation to verso states, "Roadside Picnic, ME, c. 1920s", but we would date this a decade or two later.
Offered by Rabelais: Fine Books on Food & Drink.
by Marion Richardson
London: University of London Press, 1951. Midcentury set of English educator Marion Richardson's handwriting guides, first published in 1935. Richardson was a pioneer in English art education, who first achieved fame when Bloomsbury critic Roger Fry featured her students' work in his children's art shows at Omega Workshops. Fry wrote of Richardson: "she really has found out how to educate and not to teach, which I thought was impossible." Richardson's method of teaching handwriting begins with the child's spontaneous drawing of shapes and patterns - "a free live quality of line is always to be valued above mere neatness" -- gradually leading to the development of a fluid personal script. The five student books demonstrate increasingly complicated abstract patterns constructed out of basic penmanship strokes, paired with examples of literary passages to be copied: the passages begin with nursery rhymes in Book I and conclude with excerpts from Shakespeare, Defoe, Kipling, and Hardy in Book V. Richardson's handwriting curriculum remained in active use as late as the 1980s. A near-fine set. Six side-stitched volumes, measuring 8.5 x 6.75 inches. Teacher's handbook: 61, [3]. Original black patterned wrappers, color frontispiece, dozens of black-and-white photographs in text. Student books, numbered I-V: [40]; [20]; [24]; [24]; [24]. Original color patterned wrappers, text printed in red and black or tan and black. Occasional pencil note in text; creasing to several corners; light sunning to spines. With: specimen card printed in tan and black, featuring text from Book II.
Offered by Honey & Wax Booksellers.
Collection of educational and manuscript material related to dentistry
[ Ohio and Pennsylvania, ca. 1900 – 1923] Includes six booklets by dentist Charles R. Hambly: Dental Bridge Work Today (1901), Dollars and Sense in Bridge Work (1901), Tooth Facts (1902), Tooth Truth Plainly Told (1902), The American Dental Instructor (n.d., ca. 1900), and Dr. Earl E. Bird, Dentist (n.d., ca. 1900). The seventh booklet is the Bulletin of the Department of Industrial Relations and Industrial Commission of Ohio (1929), which includes a list of standard dental procedure charges and regulations on x-ray usage. Booklets in publisher's printed paper wrappers. Some discoloration to booklets. One manuscript account book bound in stiff cloth wrappers and the other in stiff paper wrappers. Seven booklets (various sizes, 3 x 6 in. to 5 x 6 in.), two manuscript account books (3 x 5 in., about 150 ff., and (2 x 5 in., about 50 ff.), and a business card. Also, with five contemporary publisher's order forms for these dental booklets and seven prepaid Ohio stamps. Manuadript bookslets worn, with fraying to cloth and old tape repairs to the binding of the paper wrappers. A good set of manuscript material and rare ephemera documenting the practice of an Ohio dentist. The business card is for Union Painless Dentists in Mt. Vernon, Ohio. These items presumably belonged to a dentist employed at Union Painless Dentists (possibly one of the proprietors), as one of the manuscript account notebooks contains a multi-year list (1903 – 1907) of patients and how much they paid for each of their procedures (some of which are enumerated in the account). The notebook also contains several pages of notes on dental procedures and lists of prices of dental supplies. The other notebook is a personal account book (1917 – 1923) that also lists expenses relating to the operation of a dental clinic ("dental gas," "Dental Society dinner," "dental meeting," or often just "dental").
Offered by Michael R. Thompson Rare Books.
by WILSON, AUGUST, 1945-2005
New York: A Dutton Book, 1993. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 110p. Original cloth-backed boards. dj. 22 cm. Narrow jagged chipping at upper corner on front and back panels. Binding chipped at same corner on both front and back cover. SIGNED by Wilson on title-page.
Offered by McBlain Books.
by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
London: Chatto and Windus, 1883. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. The true first edition, preceding the American edition by 5 days. First binding with 32 pages of ads dated March 1883. Over 300 engravings by various artists. Spine faded half a shade, foxing to title and frontispiece from the tissue guard that's between them, else near fine condition, uncharacteristically little wear, an unusual survivor. Scarce in this condition.
Life on the Mississippi is part memoir, part travel book. It tells of Mark Twain's period as a steamboat apprentice and then a pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War. It also describes his trip along the Mississippi River from St. Louis to New Orleans many years later. The book opens with a brief history of the river beginning with the Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto in 1542. It continues with anecdotes of Twain's training as a steamboat pilot, as the 'cub' (intern) of an experienced pilot, Horace E. Bixby. Twain describes the science of navigating the Mississippi in a section that was first published in 1876, entitled "Old Times on the Mississippi." Although Twain was actually 21 when he began his training, Twain the storyteller makes himself appear somewhat younger, referring to himself as a "fledgling" and a "boy" who "ran away from home" to seek his fortune on the river. He also tells the reader about the later competition from railroads, and of the new cities, and adds his observations on greed, gullibility, tragedy, and bad architecture.
Offered by Biblioctopus.
The Works. Complete in Seven Volumes
by Hannah More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1836. Seven volumes. 8vo. 205 x 130 mm., [8 x 5 inches]. Bound in brown publisher's floral patterned textured cloth, title gilt at head of spine; corners a bit bumped, head of spine of a few volumes with minor chips, otherwise a very attractive copy.
Second American edition of the Complete Works of Hannah More (1743-1833) published by Harper, a two volume set by the same publisher appeared the previous year. The first English edition of the Works appeared in 1830. Very attractive copy in original publisher's cloth, of one of Great Britain's most prolific and beloved authors. The American edition includes all of her writings that appeared in the 11 volume English edition, plus the biography of Miss More by William Roberts, originally published in 1834.
Hannah More was an independent, self-confident, and ground breaking author, who avoided convention and began and sustained a literary career that lasted decades. Poet, playwright, memorialist, teacher, and editorialist, Hannah More's career spanned the age of Johnson through the Romantics and beyond. Her consistent message of religiosity and patriotism to God and Country fostered a loyal and vast audience who supported her work and brought her independence, a rare commodity for women at the time.
"The sale of many of her religious and moral tracts has been very large. Of the Cheap Repository series, 2,000,000 copies were sold in the first year; and more than 150,000 of one of the best of them, the excellent story of the Sheperd of Salisbury Plain have been put into circulation. Nor must her many political tracts in defense of the English Constitution against the Revolutionary party be passed over with respectful remembrance." Allibone, S. Austin. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, V. II, pp. 1360-61.
Offered by De Simone Company.
Buffalo Soldier Stereoviews during W.W.I photograph Archive
Archive of 7 stereoview photographs of Buffalo Soldiers during the W.W.I era. Published by the Keystone View Company. Photos depict the 9th U.S. Cavalry, the 8th Regiment Colored Troops, the 10th Cavalry, the Chicago Regiment of Colored Troops, and the 15th Regiment of the 369th Infantry. We see two shots of the Black troops in machine gun companies, manning the Lewis guns which tore up the battlefield in W.W.I. A light cavalry unit, Troop K of the 10th, is seen on the move on horseback in Camp Chickamauga, GA. W.W.I was the final major conflict where there was a sizable force of soldiers on horseback. Given that many Buffalo soldiers were skilled horsemen due to training in the West and during the Indian Wars, they found themselves in these units. Eventually, armor would take over and the cavalry charge would be a totally outmoded war tactic. Four stereoviews show Buffalo soldiers having returned from the European front, two of which they are marching down grand boulevards such as 5th Avenue in New York. In this moment, they were heroes, but black soldiers still faced widespread discrimination and racism while on duty and certainly after they took their uniforms off and returned to a deeply unequal society. Formed as a segregated African-American unit, the 10th Cavalry was one of the original "Buffalo Soldier" regiments in the post-Civil War Regular Army. It served in combat during the Indian Wars in the western United States, the Spanish-American War in Cuba,[2] Philippine-American War and Mexican Revolution. This black regiment was a trained as a combat unit. In very good condition overall.
Offered by Max Rambod, Inc.
by Jane Rule
Cleveland & New York: The World Publishing Company, 1964. First Edition. First American edition. Signed by Jane Rule on the front free endpaper, inscribed to poet and compuer science pioneer Josephine Miles, "For Jo[,] Probably illegal "skys of [illegible] vision", but there is a "human show". Jane." 224 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with gilt spine lettering. Fine in a Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket.
One of the first novels to deal with lesbian characters in a literary/ romantic context (rather than pulp or erotic), and published in hardcover rather than paperback. The basis of a 1985 film. Uncommon signed.
Offered by Burnside Rare Books.
South of the Border, West of the Sun
by MURAKAMI, HARUKI; TRANSLATED FROM THE JAPANESE BY PHILIP GABRIEL
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good. SIGNED. 213pp. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] Black paper over boards with a metallic-pink stamped title on the backstrip and a circular printed title label on the front board. With a very minor lean to the spine and light soiling to the label on the front board. No dust jacket. Signed by Haruki Murakami on the front flyleaf.
A often dreamlike novel which recounts the story of Hajime ("Beginning") from his childhood as an only child in a small town in Japan to his adulthood in Tokyo.
From the publisher-
"Hajime has arrived at middle age with a loving family and an enviable career, yet he feels incomplete. When a childhood friend, now a beautiful woman, shows up with a secret from which she is unable to escape, the fault lines of doubt in Hajime's quotidian existence begin to give way. Rich, mysterious, and quietly dazzling, in South of the Border, West of the Sun the simple arc of one man's life becomes the exquisite literary terrain of Murakami's remarkable genius.
Offered by Ken Sanders Rare Books.
The Art of Hunger: Essays, Prefaces, Interviews (Signed Limited Edition)
by Paul Auster
Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1992. First edition thus. Hardcover. 312 pages. Number 158 from an edition of 300 copies. The true first edition was put out by a small publisher in England as a paperback. This version was expanded from the original and includes a number of new essays and interviews. A fine copy in paper covered boards with a cloth spine and in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Auster.
Offered by Jeff Hirsch Books.
by FABRE, J. HENRI; DE MATTOS, ALEXANDER TEIXEIRA (TRANS.); HASBROUCH, LOUISE SEYMOUR; GOLDBERG, ELIAS (ILLUST.)
Yonkers-on-Hudson, New York: World Book Company, 1918. Hardcover. Good +. Hardcover. Led by "the insects' Homer," the French entomologist Jean Henri Fabre (1823-1915), the adventures within these frog-guarded green covers will have you greeting familiar friends in new ways, from "burgling" bees to that
"talented weaver" and "wily huntress" the tarantula, along with "truffle-hunting" beetles, Great Peacock Moths, and many more, illustrated throughout in vignettes and 13 full-page illustrations by Elias Goldberg. This edition has been adapted for readers of all ages by Louise Seymour Hasbrouch from the translation by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. This 1918 book, teeming with friendly prose and lively illustrations, will have you exclaiming along with Fabre and friends, "I am never tired of looking in a pond. What busy life there is in that green world!"
7 1/2" X 5 1/2". 287pp. Bound in deep sage green cloth over boards, with frog sitting below a spider web stamped in light green and black to upper board, small faded butterfly in kind to spine, both letttered in light green. Moderate wear to binding, with rubbing to corners and head and tail of spine, scattered rubbing, especially to decorations at spine, and faint ring stain to upper board. Hinges a touch tender; binding remains sound. Spiderweb endpapers. Pages are clean and unmarked.
Offered by Underground Books.
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