New York: Street & Smith Corporation Publishers 1898. Early printing. Rear advert lists through #136. Color pictorial wrappers stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Wear to wrappers chipping rusting to staples. "Free Sample" and previous owner's name stamped to front wrapper 4x and title page. A Good copy. 32 pp. Text double column. 10-3/8" x 7" <br/><br/>OCLC records 4 institutional holdings. Street & Smith Corporation Publishers unknown books
New York: Frank Tousey 1918. Early printing. Rear advert lists through publication #1008. Color pictorial wrappers stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Wrappers worn and lightly chipped at spine. Paper age-toned. A VG copy. 32 pp. Text double column. 11-1/4" x 8" <br/><br/> Frank Tousey unknown books
New York: Street & Smith Publishers 1913. 1st edition presumed. Rear advert only lists through #68. Color pictorial wrappers stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Average wear to wrappers light soiling & chipping to edges. Front wrapper detaching from bottom. An About VG copy. 32 pp. Text double column. 11-1/8" x 7-1/2" <br/><br/>No records located on OCLC. Street & Smith Publishers unknown books
New York: Street & Smith Corporation Publishers 1900. 1st printing presumed. Interior advert lists through #210 of the series. Color pictorial paper wrappers stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Outer wrappers detached. Severe chipping along edges age toning to leaves. Color illustration still bright and clean. A Good copy. 32 pp. Text double column. 10-3/8" x 7" <br/><br/>OCLC records just one institutional holding. Street & Smith Corporation Publishers unknown books
New York: Street & Smith Coporation Publishers 1901. Early printing listing through #277 in the series advert on rear wrapper. Color pictorial wrappers stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Edge chipping to wrappers and textblock outer wrappers beginning to detach. Age toning to leaves. A Good copy. 32 pp. Text double column. 10-3/4" x 8-1/2" <br/><br/>OCLC records four institutional holdings. Street & Smith Coporation Publishers unknown books
New York: Street & Smith Corporations Publishers 1902. 1st printing presumed. P. 26 gives hint as to what will be published in the next issue no. 323. Color pictorial wrappers stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Soiling and moderate to severe chipping to wrappers. Foxing to front wrapper spin and bottom edge. Large chip to bottom front wrapper. P. 27/28 detached. A Good copy. 32 pp. Text double column. P. 1 with a masthead cut. 10-3/4" x 8-1/2" <br/><br/>OCLC records 2 institutional holdings. Street & Smith Corporations Publishers unknown books
New York: Street & Smith Corporations Publishers 1906. 1st printing presumed. P. 26 gives hint as to what will be published in the next issue no. 521. Color pictorial wrappers stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Light wear and chipping to edges. Chipping along spine bottom front right edge clipped. Sunning to spine. A VG copy. 28 4 pp. Text double column. P. 1 with masthead cut. 11-1/8" x 8-1/8" <br/><br/>OCLC records only 5 institutional holdings. Street & Smith Corporations Publishers unknown books
New York: Street & Smith 1906. 1st printing rear advert lists through #537. Color pictorial wrappers stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Modest wear. A solid VG copy of a publication known for its fragile nature. 32 pp. Text double column. P.1 with masthead cut. 11-1/8" x 8-1/8" <br/><br/> Street & Smith unknown books
New York: Street & Smith Corporation Publishers 1909. Early printing listing through #681 in the series advert. Color pictorial paper wrappers stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Edge chipping to wrappers with lower right corner lacking to front wrapper. Old repair along hinges with 1st & last leaf adhering to wrappers just along edge of text. An About VG copy of a scarce baseball title. 32 pp. Text double column. Last page an advert. 11-1/8" x 8" <br/><br/>OCLC records just one institutional holding. Street & Smith Corporation Publishers unknown books
East Greenwich R. I.: The Gallaudet Aircraft Corporation 1919. 1st printing. Not in Brockett's Bibliography of Aeronautics though 5 other Gallaudet entries are present; no copies located on OCLC. Brown stiff-stock paper wrappers printed in dark olive green string tie. Minor wear with hint of damp adhesion to 'thumb' area of text fore-edge. Still a VG copy. Unpaginated though 16 pages. 8vo. 8-5/8" x 4-1/8" <br/><br/>A rare trade catalogue from this firm first organized in 1908 by Edson Gallaudet forming the first aircraft engineering office. In 1910 he established Gallaudet Engineering Company to build planes under contract. In 1917 he reorganized as Gallaudet Aircraft Corporation which as its first product in 1918 mass produced Curtis floatplanes. In 1923 the firm was sold to Major Rueben Fleet and became part of Consolidated Aircraft. This promotional booklet describes the Gallaudet Chummy Flyabout Sport Model a two-seater powered by two 18 h.p. pusher-type motors. at the bargain price of $3500. We find no evidence this plane was ever actually produced. The Gallaudet Aircraft Corporation unknown books
New York: Street & Smith Corporation Publishers 1910. Color illustrated wrappers with red title lettering printed to front wrapper and black title lettering printed to spine. Front wrapper is nearly detached slight lean wear age toned pages rear wrapper starting. Withal a VG copy. 2 313 5 pp. 7" x 5" <br/><br/> Street & Smith Corporation Publishers unknown books
Chicago: Laird & Lee Publishers 1893. Later printing ca 1897 cf. Wright III 4476. Orange paper wrappers printed in black & dark orange. Vignette to front wrapper. Spine sunned with some paper abrasion along joints. PO oval blindstamp to front wrapper upper right corner. A VG copy. 325 3 pp. Publisher adverts last 3 pages. Frontispiece. 7-1/4" x 5-1/8" <br/><br/> Laird & Lee, Publishers unknown books
New York: Waterson Berlin & Snyder Co 1916. Printed self-wrappers. Stain to top left corner light wear to extremities 2" closed tear to lower part of spine. Withal a VG copy. Single sheet folded once to make 4 pp. Black and orange illustrated front wrapper with orange tinted photographic image placed in the center. Black and pink illustration to rear wrapper. 13-1/2"x 10-1/2" <br/><br/>Rear wrapper has a short song composed by Ted Snyder and lyrics by Edgar Leslie and Grant Clarke. Waterson Berlin & Snyder Co unknown books
Salt Lake City: Ken Sanders Rare Books 2003. 1st printing. SIGNED. Number 14 of 100 copies. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. A Fine copy. Broadside printed recto only in brown & gold on hand-made paper. At top a largish drawing by Eddington and Makov printed in brown ink. 11" x 8-1/2" <br/><br/> Ken Sanders Rare Books unknown books
New York: The Scribner Press 1936. 1st Edition. Red cloth binding with gilt title lettering stamped to front board and spine. Dust jacket. Light shelf wear with sunning to spine and clipped corners to front flap. Withal a VG copy in a VG jacket. xv 3 342 pp. Untrimmed. One b/w photographic image of McClatchy as frontis. 9-1/2" x 6-1/2" <br/><br/> The Scribner Press hardcover books
New York: Street & Smith 1900. Early if not 1st printing. Rear wrapper advert lists through #233. Color pictorial wrappers stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Modest wear. Newsboy clip. Paper yellowing as is often the case. A solid VG copy of a publication known for its fragile nature. 32 pp. Text double column. Mostly unopened. P. 1 with masthead cut. 10-3/16" x 7" <br/><br/>Rare- not in McCue and OCLC while having a record of this publication shows no holding libraries. Street & Smith unknown books
London: The London Mecruy 1938. 1st printing. White and green decorative wrappers with red lettering to front and white lettering to spine. VG head and tail of spine torn 1/2" slight cocking to volume. viii 109 - 276 pp. 10" x 7-1/4" <br/><br/>Contains "Hound Voice"; "John Kinsella's Lament for Mrs. Mary Moore"; "High Talk"; "The Apparitions"; "A Nativity" by W. B. Yeats; and "The Ivory Tower" by E. M. Forster. The London Mecruy unknown books
London: The London Mecruy 1939. 1st printing. Orange paper wrappers with black lettering. VG spine sunned vertical 2" tear slight cocking to volume. iv 277 - 376 pp. 10" x 7-1/4" <br/><br/>Contains "Man and the Echo"; "The Circus Animal's Desertion"; "Politics" by W. B. Yeats; "Galway Bay" by Liam O'Flaherty. The London Mecruy unknown books
New York: Grosset & Dunlap 1912. Circa 1925. Orange cloth with dark green lettering & front board pictorial. Green topstain. Dark green pictorial eps. Dust jacket with pictorial front panel. VG/VG. A nice bright copy. 6 309 pp. 3 pp of adverts at rear. Frontis on coated paper. 8vo. <br/><br/> Grosset & Dunlap hardcover books
Chicago 1913. 1st appearance. Original printed drab-grey wrappers yapp edges. Front wrapper printed in red & blank. Light wear only. Nr Fine. Pp. 4 blank 137 - 172 8. Adverts last 8 pages. 7-1/2" x 5-1/8" <br/><br/>The scarce 5th issue of this ground breaking little magazine by Monroe with 7 early poetical efforts by Bynner as well as 7 by Ficke together both of whom later perpetrated the somewhat infamous "Spectrist Theory" literary hoax of 1916. unknown books
Chicago: Laird & Lee 1894. Early 20th C. reprint ca 1910 cf Wright III 4480 for the 1st edition. Original publisher's full color pictorial wrappers. Some chipping to paper at spine crown. '250' stamped to top of front wrapper. Paper yellowed as usual. A VG copy. 287 3 pp. Adverts last 3 pages. Illustrated. 7-1/4" x 5-1/4" <br/><br/> Laird & Lee unknown books
New York: Viking 1950. 1st edition. Hardback. Dust jacket. VG/Abt VG edgewear with chunk from base of spine panel. viii 439 1 blank pp. Illustrate from photographs. 8vo. <br/><br/>Biography of the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist & author killed in combat during World War II. Viking hardcover books
London: The Poetry Bookshop 1921. 1st appearance Woolmer E2:1-24. cf. Sullivan. BLM 1837 - 1913; pp 69-76. No. 14 contains the 1st separate appearance of Millay's ARIA Da CAPO Yost #4. No. 21 contains the 1st UK publication of Ford's A HOUSE Harvey A51. Original paper wrappers sewn often with a color pictorial image to the front wrapper usually designed by Albert Rutherstone or C. Lovat Fraser. Housed in two publisher portfolios 12 issues per portfolio; green cloth spines over marbled paper boards closed with cloth ties; printed paper title labels to spine & front boards. Issue 4 Oct 1919 of a variant brown acidic paper with spine paper split and some minor chipping to edges. Philip C. Duschens label to each portfolio rear board. Otherwise a generally VG run and not often found thus. The first 24 issues consecutive of an eventual 40 32 pages per issue on average adverts. Printed "Numbers One to Twelve" Index bifolium laid-in to Series One portfolio. Decorations by C. Lovat Fraser. 8vo. 8-3/4" x 6-3/4" <br/><br/>The Chapbook the successor to Monro's previous publication POETRY And DRAMA 1913 - 1914 and together they "represented an expression of Monro's lifelong commitment to support of new directions in poetry poetic drama and criticism and to increasing the audience for this writing." Over the course of publication contributions came from over 150 writers of which many notables of the day were included: T. S. Eliot Richard Aldington A. E. Coppard H. D. W. H. Davies Walter De La Mare John Drinkwater Ford Maddux Hueffer Ford Aldous Huxley Edna St. Vincent Millay Siegfried Sassoon Edith Sitwell & Alex Waugh to name but a baker's dozen. The June 1921 issue the 24th in this run here offered saw the cessation of publication until February 1922 with the 40th and final issue coming in 1925- as was often the case with such 'Little Magazines' both financial troubles & personal health difficulties Monro's eyesight combined to bring this then 'avant garde' magazine to a close. The Poetry Bookshop hardcover books
Chicago: Rand McNally & Co 1896. 1st edition Wright III 4458. Green cloth binding. Red black and gilt decorations on spine and upper panel. TEG. VG moderate soiling to boards/pos in pencil at ffep. 315 pp. Cover & illustrations by W.W. Denslow and Ike Morgan. 12mo. 20cm x 13.5cm. <br/><br/> Rand, McNally & Co hardcover books
New York: Street & Smith 1913. 1st printing. Color pictorial wrappers stapled. One small chip to top edge of rear wrapper otherwise a Nr Fine copy of a publication proven to become very fragile with age. 32 pp. Text double column. Unopened !. Small format: 11-1/8" x 7-3/8" <br/><br/>Rear wrapper advert lists to this title in the series. Street & Smith unknown books
New York: Street & Smith 1913. 1st printing. Color pictorial wrappers stapled. A VG copy of a publication proven to become very fragile with age. 32 pp. Text double column. Unopened !. Large format: 11" x 8" <br/><br/>Rear wrapper advert lists to No 31 in the series. Street & Smith unknown books
New York: Street & Smith 1913. 1st printing. Color pictorial wrappers stapled. A VG copy with minor chipping to wrappers. 32 pp. Text double column. Unopened !. Large format: 11" x 8" <br/><br/>Rear wrapper advert lists to No 31 in the series. Street & Smith unknown books
New York: Street & Smith 1913. 1st printing. Color pictorial wrappers stapled. A Nr Fine copy of a publication proven to become very fragile with age. 32 pp. Text double column. Unopened !. Small format: 11-1/8" x 7-3/8" <br/><br/>Rear wrapper advert lists to No 37 in the series. Street & Smith unknown books
Philadelphia: David McKay 1903. Later printing. Linen cloth pictorial binding Mattson variant #5. Color pictorial dust jacket signed "Wm Francis Taylor". VG top edge soiled/Abt VG some edgewear & soiling/pc msg from head of spine panel affecting title lettering. 384 2 pp. Last 2 pp publisher adverts. 12mo. 5 1/4" x 7 1/2" <br/><br/>Book accompanied by a 11/24/1929 TLs w/ additional 6 -line holograph note at bottom & inscribed 'snapshot' photograph both from Patten to a Mr Seymour Halpern. David McKay hardcover books
New York & London: Harper & Brothers 1907. 1st edition Smith D-289. Decorative pale green cloth binding stamped in pink dark green & gilt. TEG. Pictorial eps. Printed glassine dust jacket. Publisher's box with paper title onlay to lid. Book - Nr Fine. DJ - VG light edgewear. Box - VG age toning/repaired corner to lid. 79 pp. Frontis 2 inserted plates by Alice Barber Stephens. 8vo. <br/><br/>Stamped faintly to front panel of wrapper is a request for the reviewer to note "the book is for a sale by Stationery Richmond VA". Uncommon in dj & box. Harper & Brothers hardcover books
New York: Street & Smith 1913. 1st printing. Color pictorial wrappers stapled. A Nr Fine copy of a publication proven to become very fragile with age. 32 pp. Text double column. Unopened !. Small format: 11-1/8" x 7-3/8" <br/><br/>Rear wrapper notes format i.e. size change. Street & Smith unknown books
<p>March 13 1939. 16 pages plus original printed wrappers. Very good small chip; short tear.</p><p>Annotated on front cover: "Negotiated for the Producers Asso. by Frank Freeman Par. Al Lichtman MGM Pandro Berman RKO. For Directors Guild Frank Capra John Ford Leo McCarey.</p> Directors Guild Hollywood paperback books
1939. Softbound. VG. Tan paper wraps with illustratin and black writing on cover. 107 pp. 53 bw plates. Catalogue lists 367 works. Most members of the New Hope School are represented by illustrations as well as entries. Artists index and addresses at rear. paperback books
1945. V.G. 6 bw repros. One page foreword by Louisa Dresser and Herbert P. Barnett. Catalogue lists 58 works by 58 artists. Full page reproductions after John E. Heliker Walter Houmere Walter W. Quirt Zoltan Sepeshy Judson Smith and Max Weber. Lists artists addresses as well. unknown books
1939. Softbound. VG chipping to top of spine label at upper left of cover. Wraps. appx. 72 pp. 54 bw plates. Lists appx. 103 works by 56 different artists. This was the second annual of this event and some big names are in this catalogue. Terrific plates and an important reference. paperback books
1939. Softbound. Good; ex-lib. Yellow wraps with glued on bw image. 31 pp. 1 color 8 bw repros. Catalog lists 133 works. With an evaluation of the artist and his work by Thomas Craven. paperback books
1939. Softbound. VG. Yellow wraps with glued on bw image. 31 pp. 1 color 8 bw repros. Catalog lists 133 works. With an evaluation of the artist and his work by Thomas Craven. paperback books
1945. Softcover. VG- cover lightly soiled with some rips along spine. White/red wraps. Appx. 50 pp. 50 bw plates. A three-page introductory essay by Walter H. Siple accompanies the checklist of 113 works a list of the critics and their choices and brief biographies of the artists. paperback books
1939. Softcover. VG- cover soiled. Cream wraps. 36 pp. Numerous bw plates. Lists 112 works and includes prices realized for all of them. American artists include Inness Wiggins Norton Crane Remington Reid Gifford Miller Post Eakins among others. paperback books
1939. Softcover. VG- cover soiled. White wraps. 15 pp.No illus. Catalogue listing of 63 works with brief descriptions and a two-page introductiory essay by Elizabeth McCausland "The World of Today" paperback books
1945. Softcover. VG cover detached en masse at spine. Beige wraps. 62 20 pp. 106 bw plates. Includes a foreword by Gordon Washburn; plates with essays; bibliography; very brief biographical information on the 20 American artists; and a detailed catalogue of 64 American paintings and 38 British paintings. The pictures in this exhibition were drawn from both public and private collections with owners names listed. paperback books
Zurich: The Artist 1984. 16 panel leporello. Executed in a 'found' satin covered remembrance folder 15 x 10.5 cm. Album cover very slightly soiled internally fine. An original artist's book by Hartmann signed titled and dated by him on the rear pastedown. Each panel bears a watercolor drawing or design. Laid in is a photo postcard of the artist. For a useful account of Hartmann's life and work see: www.werner- hartmann.ch. The Artist unknown books
Bonn-Grenchen: Hirten-Presse 1984. Sewn printed wrappers. About fine. First edition ordinary issue. One of 150 numbered copies from a total edition of 180. Thirty copies were signed and included an original ink drawing by Hartmann. Hirten-Presse unknown books
Zurich: The Artist 1984. ca. 150 leaves in ink on rectos only. Bound notebook 165 x 105 mm. Cloth and boards. Text stock pale yellow ruled in blue and red. Fine. An original artist's book by Hartmann signed titled and dated by him on the rear pastedown. Each leaf bears an arrangement sometimes occupying most of the page sometimes a portion of it of Hartmann's characteristic symbols including recurrent stylized fish. A number of the individual leaves are dated in September demonstrating that Hartmann's work on this undertaking spanned a number of weeks. Laid in is a photo postcard of the artist. For a useful account of Hartmann's life and work see: www.werner- hartmann.ch. The Artist hardcover books
Used; Like New/Used; Like New. A lovely AMQS from the important opera composer of Cavalleria Rusticana precisely penned on a postcard of the Barcelona Cathedral and dated January 20 1907. Mascagni has written a two-measure extract from the baritone-soprano duet in his opera Amica in bass clef with the text "Più presso al sol!" Addressed on the verso to the collector Ramona Imaz Otaño. In very fine condition. 3.5 x 5.5 inches 8.8 x 13.8 cm. unknown books
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