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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
Featured item;
Signed Portrait of the Boxer Cecil Phillips.
Washington or environs, 1938. Silver gelatin print measuring 9 ⅛ x 6 ⅛ inches. Some creasing, very good.
A signed photograph of the boxer Cecil Phillips - of whom we find no record besides a negative in the Smithsonian’s Scurlock collection of this image. The photograph is signed twice by Phillips, and dated april 1, 1938. The Scurlock Studio played a significant role in photographically documenting the African-American communities of Washington D.C. and its environs during this period.
Offered by Auger Down Books and found in "Graphic & Archival Americana."
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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
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."
- 2024-25 The Hotch Potch *New*
Featured item:
Samuel Medary
Columbus, Ohio: 1862-1863. 20.5”x13.5”x1.75” brown cloth binding of one full year of weekly editions of The Crisis, a political newspaper published during the Civil War in Columbus, Ohio. Each issue is 4 pages front and back, printed in 5 columns. Issue 2 is repeated. Title written on front and spine in black marker. Light wear, loose leaves, some discoloration. Last leaf - index to V.2 - has loss affecting some text. Good+
Samuel Medary, a controversial journalist and political activist known as a Peace Democrat or Copperhead, published The Crisis from 1861-1864. Believers in States Rights, Copperheads like Medary vilified Lincoln, despised abolitionists, and disparaged non-white Americans. The Crisis espoused tradition over change and couched Medary’s unpopular political opinions in a desire for peace with the South. His views opposing the Union war effort and encouraging resistance to Lincoln’s policies angered many in the North. The newspaper officers were ransacked and Medary was charged with conspiracy, but the paper was never shut down by he or the government. ~~Of note is Medary’s January 7, 1863 response to the Emancipation Proclamation being enacted on the first of the year, in which he declares Lincoln to be a “dictator” and “usurper”. The language in this and other articles is reminiscent of the pervasive modern political hate-speech. While his politics have gotten no less controversial with time, his tenacious and oppositional publication contributed to ideas about American freedom of the press that remain valuable
Offered by Black Swan Books and found in "2024-25 The Hotch Potch."
BLUEMANGO BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS
- Brattlecast #184: A Collection of New Books (Podcast)
- 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:
Ambler, Eric
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939. First American edition. Signed by Eric Ambler and inscribed to Norman Nolan on page facing title page at the Mystery Writers of America awards (Ambler won the Grand Master award) in New York, April 25, 1975. From the Otto Penzler Collection of Mystery Fiction. [xiv], 281, [1] pp. Publisher's light gray cloth stamped in crimson, crimson top edge. Fine in a very Near Fine unclipped, unfaded dust jacket with light wear to extremities, three tiny closed tears at edges, small smudge to back panel. A very bright, attractive copy.
A truly excellent signed copy of Ambler's best-known thriller, titled Mask of Dimitrios in the British edition.
Offered by Burnside Rare Books and found in "e-List #78: Cloak & Dagger."
ANDREW CAHAN, BOOKSELLER, LTD.
- E-list on the South (June 2024)
- 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
- Literary Acquisitions *New*
- July New Arrivals *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
- List 58: Women, Illustrated Books, Cookery, Collections *New*
- List 55 Illustrated Books, Broadsides & Manuscripts
- New Arrivals (July 8, 2024) *New*
- Shaker Books, Ephemera and Photography
- Catalog #88, Medical Books from the Fifteenth to the Twentieth Centuries -- This catalog is print-only. To request a copy, contact MedBks@aol.com...
- e-list No. 103 Miscellany: Circus Ephemera, Butter Wrappers, Victory Rations, a Jesuit Priest's Guide to "Going Steady" & Of Course, the Children
- 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 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
RODGER FRIEDMAN RARE BOOK STUDIO
- 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.
- Artists' Books *New*
- Recent Asian Acquisitions *New*
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."
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 York Book Fair 2024
- Advancing Women *New*
- California Summer 2024 *New*
- Religion - Book Arts, Leaves, & Antiquarian *New*
- Medical & Psychology Books - Artists' Books & Antiquarian
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."
- Selected Items on Display at the 2024 AALL Annual Meeting & Conference, July 20–23, 2024 *New*
- English and American Ephemera, 1693-1971 (July 2, 2024) *New*
DAVID M. LESSER, FINE ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS
- Maps & More Maps *New*
- Catalogue 204 *New*
Featured item:
Bromley, George W. & Walter S.:
ATLAS OF THE ENTIRE CITY OF BOSTON, BRIGHTON, FROM ACTUAL SURVEYS AND OFFICIAL PLANS.
Philadelphia: G.W. Bromley & Co., 1925. Folio. 29 numbered double-page folio plates, colored, backed in linen; index and general map leaf. The plates are frequently dusted, and include contemporary, relevant notations. Loose covers and leaves.
Offered by David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books and found in "Maps & More Maps."
LIBER ANTIQUUS, EARLY PRINTED BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS
- September Illustrated and Children's New Arrivals
- Fitzgerald's Rubaiyat and Related Persian Expressions
- Food & Drink Writing/History *New*
- Women *New*
J. & J. LUBRANO MUSIC ANTIQUARIANS
- NEW ANTIQUARIAN MUSIC ACQUISITIONS May 2024
- Rare First and Early Editions of the Works of George Frideric Handel 1685-1759
STUART LUTZ HISTORIC DOCUMENTS
- List of 77 Mark Twain First Editions and Ephemera available by request from info@macdonnellrarebooks.com (specify elist or paper copy).
MAIN STREET FINE BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS
- June Miscellany
- List of Early Printing (May 2024)
- MEXICAN ILLUSTRATED BOOKS. 50 YEARS OF ILLUSTRATED BOOKS PUBLISHED IN MEXICO -- catalog available to institutional buyers by request from mmbooks@comcast.net
- Illustrated Catalog on Carlos Merida (1891–1984) -- Mexican painter, sculptor, writer and graphic designer -- available by request from mmbooks@comcast.net
MARTAYAN LAN RARE BOOKS & MAPS
- e-catalog #99: Books from the Collection of Cameron Allan
- Children’s Dance Theater Archive of Carla Blank and Jody Roberts -- Offered jointly with Kate Mitas, Bookseller. Details available on request from maser@detritus.com...
BRUCE MCKITTRICK RARE BOOKS, INC.
Featured item:
Safety Matches / Alumettes de Surete
Moscow: Raznoexport, (n. d.), circa 1958. 10-1/4 x 6-1/2 inches. [32]pp. Stapled blue wrappers illustrated in pink, yellow, orange, etc. Profusely illustrated in color and b&w, with gilt highlights. Text in English and French. Rubbing/scuffing to spine and lightly to wrappers; slight bumping to corners. Very Good.
A scarce promotional booklet of matchbooks from the USSR, gorgeously printed and including a two-page photographic spread of women working in the matchbox factory. The USSR itself is promoted here nearly as much as the matches themselves, which have names like "Soviet Ballet," "Visit the USSR," "Puppet Theatre," and "Festivalniye"; these last were issued in 1957 to mark the Sixth World Festival of Youth and Students, held in Moscow. Naturally, the high quality of Soviet materials and workmanship is touted, too, and the specs for each of the different match sizes offered are carefully delineated.
OCLC locates one holding, at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Offered by Kate Mitas, Bookseller and found in "E-list No. 22: How to Be a Badass."
- Louis M. Jason's book Literary (and Other) Celebrity Doodles II is now available. Contact the store at info@mysterypierbooks.com to order...
- Father's Day Gift Offerings
Featured item:
[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."
- Catalog 65, May 2024 -- by subscription only. Contact oldwestbooks@earthlink.net for details about obtaining a copy.
- Interiors and Decorative Arts *New*
- Bookselling (Newsletter)
- The Horse *New*
- Occasional List (May 2024)
- Timm Ulrichs: A Pioneer of Concrete Poetry, Computer Art and Copy Art
- Fugitives from Culture: The Polish Neo-Avant-Garde and Beyond
PHILLIP J. PIRAGES FINE BOOKS & MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS
- 2024 New Acquisitions List #15 *New*
- 2024 New Acquisitions List #14 *New*
- 2024 RBMS *New*
PRIMARY SOURCES, UNCHARTED AMERICANA
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."
RABELAIS BOOKS ON FOOD & DRINK
RICHARD C. RAMER, OLD & RARE BOOKS
- Catalog 53
- Catalog 52 (October 2023)
ROOTENBERG RARE BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS
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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.
- Recent Acquisitions (July 9, 2024) *New*
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- Catalog 24-2: Suppression of Contagious Diseases
- Catalog 24-1 (January 2024)
- A Handfull of 19th Century American Books
- Wines and Viticulture - 17 items from 4 centuries
- List: 150th Anniversary of Mendeleev's Periodic System
- California Book Fair 2019: 130 Items on Science and Medicine is now available on request from scientiabk@gmail.com...
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MARC SELVAGGIO, BOOKS & EPHEMERA
MICHAEL R. THOMPSON RARE BOOKS
- Advertising, Education, Fine Printing, Medicine, Women’s Studies, World War I, and More *New*
- Archives and Ephemera: Advertising, Education, Health and Medicine, Suffrage, and More...
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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."
- E-List 20, Sales, Marketing & Merchandising in the United States 1886-1973
- E-list #19: Western Americana
- African Americana E-List *New*
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ADICHIE, Chimamanda Ngozi. Half of a Yellow Sun.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. 24.2x16.5cm: 435pp. First North American Edition. SIGNED by author on title page. Yellow paper-covered boards quarterbound in green paper, with title stamped in gilt on spine. Illustrated dust jacket. Spine ends gently nudged with light wear to board edges. Modest stain to textblock foredge that bleeds into the preliminaries and first 20 pages, not affecting text. Dustjacket a bit soiled with scuffing to rear. Small stain on p.178, not affecting text, otherwise internally clean. Better than Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket.
Adichie’s second novel, Half of a Yellow Sun is set during the Nigerian Civil War (Biafran War) and “is a remarkable novel about moral responsibility, about the end of colonialism, about ethnic allegiances, about class and race–and the ways in which love can complicate them all.” It won the UK Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2007, and was turned into a movie in 2013.
Offered by Walnut Street Paper and found in "African Americana E-List."
- 309: Nature of the Chemical World
- 308: King's Choice: Books on Scientific Instruments Especially Relating to Astronomy
JOHN WINDLE ANTIQUARIAN BOOKSELLER
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Hanham, Frederick, editor.
Natural Illustrations of the British Grasses.
1846. Bath: Binns and Goodwin, 1846.
Small folio, xx, 130, (2, ads) with 62 specimens of dried grasses mounted on separate plates each with printed title and border. Publisher’s red pebbled morocco, elaborately paneled in gilt and blind over beveled boards, backstrip gilt with title entwined by grasses of the field and the publisher’s name surmounted by an oval vignette of reeds at the water’s edge, bound by Astle and Sons. Binding lightly rubbed and worn at tips, occasional light foxing and offsetting, specimens astonishingly well preserved.
First (only) edition. A beautifully preserved specimen book describing the grasses of Great Britain. A small ecological treasure from the pre-herbicide era (one wonders how many of the grasses contained are now endangered or extinct) and one with renewed significance in the light of the rewilding movement in England and new efforts by English Heritage and others to restore former meadowlands. Taxonomy is discussed but the accompanying text is mostly literary, extolling the charms of grasses and their vital importance to mankind. The specimens themselves are extraordinarily delicate and attractive. “Dried specimens of plants, when preserved with care as to their natural appearance and character, must always be more interesting and valuable to a Botanist, or a lover of Nature, than engravings; being the real or original object, which drawings are intended only to portray... there is much... that the pencil can never show” (Hanham, Preface).
Offered by John WIndle Antiquarian Bookseller and found in "A Short List of Manuscripts and Other Rarities."
- List #1223: Holiday List
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- Private Press (Summer Sale) *New*
- Design & Book Arts *New*
- Portland & Environs -- catalogue issued in conjunction with the Rose City Book & Paper Fair
- Dreaming of the Open Road: Automobile Dealer Literature, Catalogue Two
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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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