‎Biographie‎

‎Lise Grenier, Maurice Culot, Robert Delevoy‎

‎Henri Sauvage 1873-1932‎

‎Bruxelles: Archives d'Architecture Moderne 1978. Name/date to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions and no creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 257pp. Biographical details of French archtect and artist Henry Sauvage. With essays by a number of contributors but the main emphasis is on his work with probably hundreds of coloured and black & white depictions of his art and architecture. Text in English. Soft Cover with Self-Wraps. Near Fine. 8.25 x 7.5 inches. Archives d'Architecture Moderne Paperback‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 018881

‎Studd, Stephen‎

‎Saint-Saens : A Critical Biography‎

‎London: Cygnus Arts 1999. No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn wth very slight creasing to upper and lower edges. 356pp. This study of French composer Camile Saint-Saens provides the fullest account yet to appear in English of the composer's long life and huge musical output and will undoubtably become the benchmark for future assessments of him as a man and as a composer. Extremely scarce. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. Cygnus Arts Hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 013107 ISBN : 1900541653 9781900541657

‎Forman, Sir Denis‎

‎Persona Granada: Memories of Sidney Bernstein and the Early Years of Independent Television‎

‎London: Andre Deutsch Ltd 1997. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and very minor bump to lower rear corner. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with very tiny crease to lower rear corner. The story of how Granada Television established itself as the most innovative of the new independent television companies from 1955 and in particular how the company's prime mover Sidney Bernstein led Granada on to great things including Coronation Street World in Action and The Jewel in the Crown. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 9.25 x 625. Andre Deutsch Ltd Hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 017017 ISBN : 0233989870 9780233989877

‎Chipman, Merle S‎

‎The Life of Stephen Washburn Wash Chipman Castle Valley Cattleman 1862-1947‎

‎Utah Printing Company. Fine with no dust jacket. 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Owner's inscription on the fep. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 112 pages . Utah Printing Company hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 25471

‎John Maxson Stillman: in Memoriam‎

‎Stanford CA: Stanford University Press. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Some very light soil on the covers. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 44 pages . Stanford University Press hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 25433

‎Curtis, Walt‎

‎MALA NOCHE‎

‎Out Of The Ashes 1977. Book. Trade Paperback. Author's account of his life on the streets in Los Angeles. A VERY GOOD COPY SIGNED BY Curtis on the title page THIRD PRINTING stated on back cover. Curtis was a Beat Poet and this is his life as a sex hustler and other dealings on the streets and the basis for Gus Van Sant's 1985 movie Mala Noche. Signed " wino poet Walt Curtis". Out Of The Ashes Paperback‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 000732

‎Pepys, Samuel and Richard, Lord Braybrooke (Preface)‎

‎SAMUEL PEPY'S DIARY: Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys Diary Deciphered By Rev. J. Smith A. M from the Shorthand Life and Notes Richard Lord Braybrooke‎

‎Harper & Brothers Book. Hardcover. Preface to the Fourth Edition by Lord Braybrooke. In four volumes with illustrations.The First Am. Edition was 1855 published by Lippincott this appears to be the Fourth Edition of that publication. There is no date given for this edition. Green cloth covered boards with paper labels on the spine the hinge in Volume 1 is starting but is still attached normal slight fading of color to covers no markings within the bright text. Overall VERY GOOD COPY of this set. Harper & Brothers Hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 000468

‎Pommersheim, Frank‎

‎SNAPS: Poetry and Prose From a Family Album‎

‎Rose Hill Books 1994. Book. Trade Paperback. Personal poems on family and belonging by a member of the Rosebud Sioux tribal court in South Dakota illustrated with photos. NEAR FINE COPY INSCRIBED by Pommersheim inside the front cover. Rose Hill Books Paperback‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 000279 ISBN : 0963622412 9780963622419

‎Andrews, Benny and Andrews, Raymond‎

‎The Last Radio Baby‎

‎Peachtree Publishers 1990. Book. Illus. by Andrews Benny. Hardcover. Memoir of Black family life in segregated Georgia starting in 1930's written by Ray Andrews and illustrated by his brother the acclaimed artist Benny Andrews. SIGNED BY BENNY AND RAY NEAR FINE COPY FIRST EDITION. Peachtree Publishers Hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 000294 ISBN : 1561450049 9781561450046

‎Thesiger, Wilfred‎

‎The Life of My Choice signed‎

‎<p>London: Collins 1987 1st ed. SIGNED on title p. by author. 459pp. illus. hardback sm 4to: Very Good in a Very Good dj in Brodart poly cover hint of smudging top & fore edges; a small foxed spot ffep; else VG; dj = short tear @ top rear fold; else VG A very nice signed copy of the autobiography of one of the great English explorers and travel writers of the 20th century. Thesiger 1910-2003 was the grandson of Frederic Thesiger Lord Chelmsford 1827-1905 whose British forces were defeated memorably by Zulu warriors at Isandlwana in the Zulu War of 1879.</p> London: Collins hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 16329 ISBN : 000216194X 9780002161947

‎Dwight, Timothy‎

‎Travels In New England And New York‎

‎New Haven: Published by the author 1822. First edition. Hardcover. Fair. 8vo contemporary quarter sheep top board and front flyleaf detached. <br/><br/> Howes D612. Sabin 21559 . The frontispiece is a folding map of the state of New York. Published by the author hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 002513

‎Bradford, Gamaliel‎

‎Journal Of Gamaliel Bradford.‎

‎Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1933. First edition. Hardcover. Good/good. Tall 8vo 560 pages cloth <br/><br/>This has been ranked with THE EDUCATION OF HENRY ADAMS. Laid in is a 3-page T.L.S. to Henry Seidel Canby by Bradford with inked additions and corrections dated 25 February 1924. In it he requests in part that Lytton Strachey review Bradford's new book on Samuel Pepys. "It is so intimate so self-revealing and so honest that it should take its place among the great diaries of the world - Burton Rascoe." Note: this letter is not in Bradford's LETTERS from 1934. Bradford has been called the Dean of American Biographers and a pioneer in psychographic biography. Houghton Mifflin hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 0009553

‎ANDERSON, Sherwood ( DREISER, Theodore)‎

‎"Dreiser" in A BOOK ABOUT THEODORE DREISER AND HIS WORK‎

‎New York: Boni & Liveright 1925. First edition. stapled wrappers. fine. mounted frontis. portrait. 16mo stapled green wrappers <br/><br/>Also contributions by Edgar Lee Masters H.L. Mencken. With a mounted frontispiece portrait of Dreiser. Boni & Liveright unknown‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : DEMO008045I

‎The Wife Of A Mormon Elder (Maria Ward)‎

‎The Mormon Wife; a Life Story of the Sacrifices Sorrows and Sufferings of Woman. A Narrative of Many Years' Personal Experience‎

‎<p>Full pebbled green cloth with embossed design on the front cover gilt lettering on the spine chipped and frayed at the top & bottom of the spine. Steel engraved frontispiece portrait 16 additional black and white wood engraved plates 449pp. Mrs. Benjamin G. Ferris</p> Hartford Publishing Company hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : biblio480

‎August Derleth‎

‎Village Years‎

‎New York: Coward-McCann 1941 . First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. 8vo 313 pages cloth; dj has short tears edgeworn. <br/><br/>With 23 wood engravings by Frank Utpatel. Inscribed by Derleth to Martha Walker " a portrait of the old home town - Cordially ." and with a smiley emoji. Coward-McCann hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 6452

‎Levy, Lorraine‎

‎PICASSO‎

‎London: Grange Books 1991. Hardcover. About Near Fine in dust jacket; edgeworn price sticker on rear of dust jacket. Quarto. Edition Not Stated Profusely illustrated this biography has an introduction by Pierre Diax Grange Books hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 02997 ISBN : 1840130768 9781840130768

‎WILLIAM TIMMONS‎

‎1935 - 1937 SUPER GROUP OF FOUR 4 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARIES HAND WRITTEN BY AN IRISH IMMIGRANT AND FAMILY DETAILING A LIFE OF INCREDIBLE LOWS AND HIGHS: A WIFE DEAD 2 YEARS 7 CHILDREN UNION AND LABOR STRIFE AND THEN A THUNDER BOLT OF A LOTTERY WIN‎

‎EAST HANOVER NJ 1935. On offer is a fascinating collection of journals from a family struggling through the Great Depression in pre-WWII America. It includes four journals for the years of 1935 1936 1937 and 1943 and a notebook all items are in fair condition. The Journals were written by William J. Timmons and members of his family. Timmons was born in 1889 in Navan Ireland. He emigrated to the United States in 1906. He married and he and his wife had 7 children - 5 girls and 2 boys. His wife passed away in 1933 apparently from injuries resulting from burns. Timmons worked in some manufacturing firms - in particular the Walter Kidde Company and context suggests that he also worked some land. Casual research has not turned up any additional information on him. The journals do not follow a strict chronological structure. Some in fact have entries made by some of his children or are written entirely by one of his daughters. The first journal was written in 1935 it measures 8.25'x6.75' and has 52 pages and is 50% complete. It is a composition book in which he appears to write out the drafts of letters he will then send out. One in particular details his personal and family history as he struggles to raise his 7 children on his own. Written to Rt Rev Monsignor Meehan possibly Rev Robert Meehan he details his difficult circumstances his personal history and his request for a job at the parish cemetery: ". I am working at present for the Walter Kidde fire extinguisher co in Bloomfield NJ. . I find it very difficult to continue sending them his 3 high school age daughters to Bayley High School with the money I make at present. I get 55¢ per hour for eight hours each day . I can't work seven days a week so I can make ends meet… My wife and children moved into East Hanover in 1925. My wife and I agreed to live in very humble living quarters so that we could afford to send our children through a Catholic High School. ." draft letter Oct 7 1935. Another letter is to Walter Kidde detailing improper activities at work including theft of metal and metal scrap. It appears that this was not his first communication and there was tension between himself and other men working in the shop: ". I am bewildered and timid in writing to you as Mr. Hiss has informed me that you do not wish to receive any more letters from me. He also told me that you turned over the last letter to him and that it was confidential between the three of us but it was known throughout the shop and for three weeks the men would not speak to me ." draft letter Oct 7 1935. Other entries detail what he sees as theft or misappropriation of company material. The second journal measures 9.5' x75' has 120 pages and 99% complete. It is written by one of his daughters. She never identifies herself. It opens with good news: "In the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty six on the twenty seventh day of April God bestowed the blessings on Daddy of winning two thousand two hundred and eighty dollars $2280" Page 1. This is the equivalent of nearly 20 years wages for Timmons. Covering the time period from April 27 to July 23 1936 she keeps a record of family expenses and daily events: "Daddy went to Whippany to see about plowing and Charlie Beaumont about truck. Uncle Joe got from Dad $3.00" Jun4. 1933 The 3rd journal measures 95' x75' has 112 pages and is 99% complete. It covers the period June 15th 1936 to July 17 1937. Not all entries are in chronological order. This one appears to have been written by either a son or daughter. It is more likely a son as it refers to the writer working in a shop. Many of the entries describe day-to-day work tasks. He describes an accident he suffered from in which parts he was hand carrying exploded. He also talks about the manufacture of 15 navy shells. He also records conversations about attempts to unionize their shop: ". The men told Dad that Val Hill wanted the shop all one he wanted the union and they said it was Dad who was keeping it from being a union. Dad asked how many men worked there they said about 360. Dad said if 359 joined the union they would never get 360 to join. ." June 19 1937; "Dad had no money to get Bill clothes for graduation so he stood home from work. Cat daughter Catherine and I went to Uncle Joe's house but he was already at work and then we went to Sharkeys and Ruth told us she wouldn't have it. ." June 22 1937. This journal also includes some list of expenses and more importantly full names of people that the family knows. The 4th journal is written by Ann Timmons. It measures 85' x 675' has 50 pages and 78% complete it covers the period from March to October 1943. It begins with a letter dated Mar 17th to the Internal Revenue Service: "Gentlemen I cannot pay. Please grant me a month's grace to pay the balance $50.83 on my income tax. I am sorry to have this happen but faithfully promise to pay the rest on Apr 15th Mar 17. A number of pages appear to be a time record extending from April to Sept. In July she replies to a letter from her brother Bill who is serving in the United States army in North Africa likely as part of Operation Torch: ". I received your letter Saturday July 10 and am really proud of you. It sure gives me a proud feeling to get a letter from a brother of mine in Africa that can beat the h____ out of any enemies that gets in his way. But anyway I'd like to see anybody cross an Irishman and get away with it. ." July 11. On Oct 26 1943 she writes a letter in which she provides her brother Pat's address to a Pvt. Adams. Pat is already in uniform attached to the 92nd Field Artillery Battalion. Also in October she drafts a long 16 page letter to her brother Bill. The last volume is a top-bound writing notebook dated from 1937 it measures 975'x8' has 78 pages and 100% complete. This was written by William Timmons and goes into significant detail about the problems and in-fighting at the Walter Kidde Company where he was working. It is notable that although his full name is William Timmons as evidenced from previous letters he has written the men at work refer to him as 'Mike'. He refused to join a union which caused great animosity: ". He said - Boys when Floria and I go away you boys start to work on Mike Timmons and make him join the C.I.O. Union. . I said to them if the President of the United States asked me to join the C.I.O. Union I would refuse… Then the mob made all sorts of threatening and insulting remarks". This collection offers a fabulous insight into the day-to-day challenges of an ordinary working class man and his family. For a historian it is valuable from several perspectives. It describes the struggle of this man to raise his family on his own it describes industrial life on the shop floor and it provides an insight into the rough world of union organizing. What makes it special is the inclusion of entries and comments by at least two of his children who provide another perspective on life around them. Fair. Illus. by /. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Manuscript. hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 0008178

‎OCrohan, Tomas‎

‎The Islandman‎

‎Dublin & Cork: Talbot Press. Good in Good dust jacket. 1934. First English Language Edition. Hardcover. Withdrawl from convent library with two convent stamps to front endpapers one to title page and one to rear; 2 digit number appears on blank endpaper and half title page; no signs of pockets or due sheets; in blue cloth with bright gilt spine titles; tight clean text with sepia illustrations all quite bright and unmarked; plain blue wrapper with handlettered titles to spine and small spine sticker; clearly home made; mapped endpapers front and rear; 324 pp translated from the Irish by Robin Fowler who also supplies an 8 page foreword. Scarce. . Talbot Press hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 18859

‎Bean, Alan‎

‎Just for Boys Presents My Life as an Astronaut‎

‎<p>July 1988 1st printing. Very Good hardcover no DJ. Purple boards with color photo panels on covers white and yellow titles on spine. Clean square covers and spine; lightly scuffed; rear cover has stickum remains of old label at tail edge and has 1/2 inch chip at top edge near spine joint; tightly bound; clean interior with slight general age darkening; leaves remain supple. This is an original hardcover book not a library rebind but states on copyright page "A Minstrel Paperback Original" and apparently has same ISBN as PB - perhaps this was a library edition. 12mo 106 pp; illustrated with photos.</p> New York: Minstrel Book/Simon and Schuster hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 18703 ISBN : 0671634526 9780671634520

‎CARRINGTON, EDWARD SR AND FAMILY‎

‎ARCHIVE LOT OF 59 DIARIES 1867 THROUGH 1913 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DIARIES OF PATRIARCH EDWARD CARRINGTON SR. AND OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS IN COLEBROOK CONNECTICUT‎

‎Colebrook Connecticut CT 1867. On offer is a superb archive of 59 original manuscript multi-generational family of diaries spanning the civil war era through the early 20th century. The Carrington Family Diaries 1867 - 1913. All 59 diaries from members of the Carrington Family of Colebrook Connecticut. The patriarch Edward Sr. wife Sarah Ann Terry Carrington sons Edward C. Jr. died in the Civil War and Edwin T. and daughters Sarah and Kate. Edward Sr. died in 1878 and Sarah Ann Terry Carrington died in 1881. Both are buried in the Colebrook Center Cemetery in Colebrook Connecticut. Sarah Ann Terry Carrington mother was the daughter of Eliphalet Terry of New York. The group breaks down as follows: Sarah Terry matriarch wife of Edwin: 11 diaries: 1867 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877. typical diary entries; Edward Carrington Snr father of Edwin: 8 diaries: 1857 1867 1868 1869 1870 1872 1873 1874. sporadic point form entries for the most part business like records of day to day business and some personal content.; Edward Carrington Jnr: 4 diaries: 1855 1855 1857 1860. typical diary entries of an obviously young man.; Katherine Carrington a daughter: 2 diaries: 1868 1872. typical diary entries. Edwin Carrington patriarch after Edward Snr: 34 diaries: 1875 1876 1878 1879 1880 1881 1883 1884 1885 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1903 1904 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913. like the father sporadic at tmes point form entries for the most part business like records of day to day business interspersed with personal content. ADDITIONAL BACKGROUND: Lieut. Edward Carrington son was killed in the Civil War in St. Marks Florida in the Natural Bridge Conflict on March 6 1865 but the family did not get the news until March 22 1865. In 1871 the son Edwin was married to Charlotte nicknamed Lottie born April 9. 1847 and the couple moved to Scio NY. Edwin then moved to Bay City Michigan it appears in 1875. His wife and son Winny born in 1873 did not move with him to Michigan but rather stayed in Scio NY. Edwin traveled extensively on business by train and then in the later years by automobile and visited his family about every two months coupled with his business trips. Edwin was Secretary and Treasurer of the Bay City Building Company Rifle Room Company and Ausable Lumber Company in Michigan. Edwin and Lottie's son Winny died at the age of two years and eights months on 2/15/1876 and father did not make it home in time. A daughter Sarah was born in 1876; a son Eddy was born in 1877 and a daughter Gracie in 1882. Some of the earlier years have diaries from more than one member of the family. Edwin's diaries of 1875 - 1913 are both diaries as well as his business day planners. All have notations at the back of expenses and costs. As a hobby he enjoyed duck hunting. In 1901 Edwin and Lottie became grandparents by Sarah. The diaries mention both the deaths of Lincoln and McKinley. Several diaries have newspaper articles tucked at the back. One is an article about Mrs. Abraham Lincoln. There are two articles about how the Edward Carrington Sr. family made their "fortune" in 1874. THIS IS A SENSATIONAL AND UNIQUE MULTI GENERATIONAL FAMILY HISTORY THAT WOULD BE THE PRIDE AND CENTERPIECE OF ANY SERIOUS DIARY COLLECTOR. Good. 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. Manuscript. unknown‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 000060

‎Annette Kunselman Burgert‎

‎Eighteenth Century Emigrants from the Northern Alsace to America‎

‎Camden ME: Picton Press 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/issued without. 8vo 690 pages cloth <br/><br/>Volume 26 in the series of the Pennsylvania German Society. Picton Press hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 6213 ISBN : 1882442008 9781882442003

‎Shaw, Barbara (editor)‎

‎Roxiticus A Meeting Place‎

‎Mendham New Jersey: Roiticus Golf Club 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Royal 8vo. 82 pp. gilt decorated green cloth illustrated. -- History of the Roxiticus Golf Club. Roiticus Golf Club hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 9071

‎Wilson, R L‎

‎Theodore Roosevelt Outdoorsman Signed‎

‎NY: Winchester Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed on the fep as a donation to a benefit auction. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 278 pages; Signed by Author . Winchester Press hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 24925

‎Ray, Edward‎

‎Inland Golf‎

‎London: T. Werner Laurie 1922. 234 pages. Solid with a spine lean back cover is somewhat warped light wear on covers with soiling on spine and some soiling on covers. Front free end paper is missing and the previous owner's gift inscription in fountain pen ink is on second inside page and is dated 1922 rest of interior is unmarked. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. T. Werner Laurie Hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 27256

‎Joe Haldeman‎

‎Vietnam & Other Alien Worlds‎

‎Framingham MA: NESFA Press 1993. First Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 8vo 223 pages cloth <br/><br/>Copy no. 893 of 1000 of which only the first 183 copies were planned to be autographed by Haldeman but he has signed this copy on the title-page. This collection contains four tales from his Confederacion Stories five non-fiction autobiographical essays and 3 story poems. The essays and the poetry concern Haldeman's service in Vietnam. NESFA Press hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 5899 ISBN : 0915368528 9780915368525