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1960Best.-Nr. 147315N.p.: N.p. 1960. Original typescript for an unpublished young adult novel. Bound in with the text is a brief typed letter addressed to Ilse Lahn an agent with the Paul Kohner agency signed by authors Allen and Dorothy Childs and a 20 cent stamp tucked above the letter. Incomplete as issued with an outline of further chapters in the novel bound in after the text. A group of teenage girls attend a school-sponsored cross-country road trip unaware that the trip will crack open previously untapped wells of emotion and uncertainty in their interpersonal relationships and extracurricular activities. Set in Burbank CA. Housed in a manila mailing envelope lacking wrappers and a title page. 36 leaves with last page of text numbered 33. Typescript on onionskin stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine partially bound with a single paper clip. N.p. unknown books
1941Best.-Nr. 28256Croton-on-Hudson 1941. Brief 1-pp TNS on Eastman's personal Croton-On-Hudson notepaper addressed to a "Miss Mendham" dated March 30 1938. Old folds; holograph additions in Eastman's hand; Very Good. "I shall be delighted to have you use some of my poems in your Verse Speaking Festival.perhaps the poem called "Battle Fields" in my volume "Kinds of Love" would be appropriate." Adds three further suggestions in holograph beneath signature: "The Sing Sing Alarm" "Isadora Duncan" "To Live in Summer" unknown books
1941Best.-Nr. 28255Croton-on-Hudson 1941. Brief 1-pp TLS on Eastman's personal Croton-On-Hudson letterhead addressed to a "Mr. Simon" dated November 14 1941. Single holograph correction in Eastman's hand. Mailing folds; slightly toned at margins; Very Good. Regarding the recipient's letter to the Reader's Digest of September 24 Eastman had been hired as an editor for the conservative publication earlier in the same year. The subject appears to be the institution of the death penalty in the Soviet Union: ".Nobody questions the fact that the death penalty was decreed for theft of 'socialist property' and the extension of all penalties to children twelve years old automatically extends that one. I am sorry to say I can not tell you offhand when the previous decree was issued but I think it was the Spring of 1934. unknown books
1945Best.-Nr. 28254New York 1945. Brief TNS on Eastman's personal W. 13th St. letterhead addressed to "Josephine" dated November 25 1945. Old folds else Fine with bright clear autograph: "Dear Josephine: Thanks so much for the news -- sad as it all was -- in your letter. It was nice to hear from you. I hope the autobiography may live up to your expectations." The recipient is likely the American proletarian novelist and essayist Josephine Herbst 1892-1969; the "sad news" to which Eastman refers may well have been Herbst's ongoing battles with her former husband and fellow novelist John Herrmann. unknown books
1993Best.-Nr. 9010253London: Arms & Armour Press 1993. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. Translated by Janet S. Mallender and John R. Clements. Foreword by David G. Chandler. Arms & Armour Press hardcover books
1830Best.-Nr. 214546Lipsiae: J.C. Hinrichs 1830. First edition. x 2 pp. 1238 col. 3 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Contemporary half brown morocco and decorated paper boards. Binding a bit scuffed and rubbed but sound internally fine. First edition. x 2 pp. 1238 col. 3 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Massive and early catalogue of manuscripts in the libraries of France England Belgium Holland Spain and Portugal. The work is divided by country city and library and contains an essential Index of proper names at the end. J.C. Hinrichs unknown books
1969Best.-Nr. 1vot481Ann Arbor: University of Michigan 1969. Bulletin 76. Octavo paperbound stiff stapled wrappers 18 pp. Fine. University of Michigan, 1969. Bulletin 76. unknown books
1915Best.-Nr. 3528Philadelphia 1915. Collection of a total of 285 manuscript and typescript pages of prose poetry and dramatic material written and edited by suffragist Sarah Dickson Lowrie 1870-1957. Lowrie a columnist and editor at the Philadelphia Public Ledger was also an activist. Founder of the Philadelphia Women's Committee later Chairperson of the Philadelphia League of Women Voters she used her public platform to promote equality for women and the working poor. An exceptional collection of material capturing the range of Lowrie's work as an author and editor including three genres across a period of at least 15 years. Included are: Autograph Manuscript including 5 published and unpublished works 202 pages dated 1900-1903 Bound in half sheep over pebbled cloth measuring 7 x 8 inches and dated 1900-1903. The gift inscription in Lowrie's hand on the front endpaper "Mabel Norris Stewart April 1900" suggests that the notebook was a gift from her sister a major supporter of Sarah's career. Indeed the bulk of the manuscript documents Lowrie's composition and heavy revision of her story David the Hero from May 1900-August 1902 pages 1-35 59-175 with headings and notes for each section regarding dates of completion. The final entry states: "Finished these tales August 26 1902 - and dedicated them to Mary Mabel Norris Stewart with all my heart. Published Easter 1903." Interspersed within the notebook are other pieces of work by Lowrie. which appear to be unpublished. St. John of the Wilderness pages 35-56 is dated January-February 1901. The poem Away from You pages 57-58 is dated February 25 1901 and is accompanied by an original sketch. A story Peter the Fisherman pages 176-194 is dated August 25 1903. And the final piece dated November 25 1903 is on the death of her father pages 195-202 and appears to include a family history as well as a tribute to the man. Tucked loosely within the volume is a letter to Sarah from another female author identified only as J.S.C. regarding a short story. Also loosely inserted is a 1 page Autograph Poem unsigned in Lowrie's hand with content that ties together authorship and sex: ".Take my ovary Let me go Unapproached by further woe; But if you want What matters next Take o take my Appendix." Together the group shows her writing process and her ability to work on multiple projects during a highly creative period. Further research could link together the works based on religious themes Lowrie's work in activism and journalism and her own family's history. Autograph Playscript Signed for Me-Too 16 pages dated 1915 Unbound but with a contemporary straight pin holding the upper left corner. Written fully in pencil with Lowrie's notation that the play was "written on July 19th & played on August 26 1915." What appears to largely be a fair copy of the two-act play the manuscript does contain checklists and notes on the first page regarding materials and equipment needed for staging. The final page is detached and incomplete but similarly contains scratch notes for the performance. Typed Manuscript Unsigned and hand annotated for The Idol 52 pages undated Unbound with loose pages measuring 8.5 x 11 inches. A short story -- possibly authored by Lowrie but definitely edited and annotated in her hand. Here the attention to detail and hands-on approach Lowrie takes are apparent. Meticulously corrected in type and in pencil with extensive portions excised or changed the typescript has also been cut apart and pasted back together throughout. The result is mispagination and the creation of a very new version of the original story. Autograph Poem Unsigned 4 pages undated Tied with blue string at the header. Pages measuring 6.75 x 10.25 inches and cut unevenly. A largely fair copy with one correction to the final line. Lowrie here tackles the themes of war violence and pacifism asserting women's place within them. "If I had been a pacifist 2000 years ago I grant you I'd have been unique and ready for a show. For in those old bloody days men really did in truth Demand an eye for a lost eye and for a tooth a tooth.One thousand years ago indeed the world had changed in part; Men's fights were then adjusted - sometimes - by words in court.Now I've been watching how things change And how the old's reversed; I always like to look ahead instead of last be first." References to war and technology including cars suggest that the present poem post-dates WWI. Typed Playscript Unsigned for The Flower Garden 8 pages undated Unbound but with two contemporary straightpins at the upper right corner. On legal paper measuring 8.5 x 12 inches. Annotated throughout in pencil with stage directions casting notes and revised lines. A play in one act it does appear that the play was performed and the present manuscript was used in its unfolding. The rear page is annotated heavily with the names of various players almost all women. Further research could definitely be conducted on those names and on the potential performance. Research opportunities abound for scholars including but not limited to American community theater performances the history of publication in women's magazines the connection between literature and women's activism themes in a pacifist suffragist's writing methods of composition and annotation and the work of Sarah Lowrie herself. unknown books
Best.-Nr. 6863232mo-folio almost all one page. One of the poems incorporates the names of members of the 17th Congress another is a game or riddle and a third by a 9-year old girl summarizes in verse the history of the crusades she had been reading. Varying wear but all seem to be quite readable. For the lot of 24 manuscript poems unknown books
1769Best.-Nr. 1728061769. JAPANESE MILITARY MANUSCRIPTS. Ushikubo Kageharu Castle Map. By Ushikubo Kageharu reworked by Yoshida Gizaemon. 2 ff and folded map. 27 x 20 cm folded with a foldout 27 x 600 cm wrappers housed in a new chitsu case. ca. 1769-1777. AND Kohyakujou-zu. Unpaginated illustrated throughout in black and white. 28 x 40 cm stab bound in wrappers. AND Chinjyou-zukishu. Unpaginated illustrated throughout in colour. 27 x 19.5 cm stab bound in wrappers. N.p.; n.d. An extraordinary group of detailed eighteenth century maps and plans depicting castles and related Paraphernalia". Ushikubo Kageharu Castle Map shows the layout of a castle and an attack route. Kohyakujou-zu 100 diagrams of an unknown castle. Oblong binding has been folded in half. Chinjyou-zukishu contains information on battle maps and castle secrets from the Warring States Period as well as flags banners and horse banners used in battle. Contains two intact volvelles. unknown books
1915Best.-Nr. 199807London: Printed by Order of the Trustees of the British Museum 1915. Hardcover. Good Boards have edgewear/scuffing/smudging; signature of former owner ifc; cloth ties are worn and frayed; textblock edges are toned and foxed; interior is toned with some scuffing/smudging/foxing. Dark and light-green folio boards with black lettering; dark green cloth closures; 9 pp.; 15 leaves of plates. [Printed by Order of the Trustees of the British Museum] hardcover books
1944Best.-Nr. 190370not identified: British Museum 1944. Hardcover. VG- light scuffing and soiling to portfolios missing plates 14 and 15. Tan paper portfolio with green cloth spine green cloth ribbon closure; 12 pp of text 13 leaves of bw and color plates. Text pages contain an introductory essay and descriptions of all plates. This is the 5th volume only of a six volume set. 16x11x1" British Museum hardcover books
1884Best.-Nr. 1574Habana 1884. Good plus. 2496 i.e. 498pp. Quarto. Contemporary calf gilt a.e.g.; rebacked with original spine laid down. Corners repaired with later black buckram; boards scuffed spine chipped. Hinges cracked repaired with later cloth and renewed endpapers. Minor scattered foxing and toning to text. Accomplished in a neat highly legible hand. A very attractive manuscript translation into Spanish of Pierre Larousse's well-known work on eminent and historical personages Fleurs Historiques des Dames et des Gens du Monde in a contemporary Cuban gilt goatskin binding. The manuscript connects three figures in the upper social echelons of Cuban society. José Fernandez Pellon the scribe of this volume is recorded as the Grand Master of Cuba's freemasons lodge the Gran Logia Unida de Colón y la Isla de Cuba. The translator Aurelio Almeida helped to found the organization in 1875 and at this time served as the Lodge Secretary. The initials E.D. gilt at the foot of the spine and the dedicatory inscription "A Eugenia Desvernine" refer to Eugenia Desvernine y Galdós b. 1865 daughter of the famous Cuban pianist Pablo Desvernine and Carolina Galdós y Echániz. She was also the niece of Benito Pérez Galdós the Spanish realist novelist who some authorities consider only second in stature to Cervantes. A contemporary social register remarks that Eugenia was one of the most beautiful women in Cuba perhaps an inspiration for the painstaking production of this manuscript. The original work by Larousse was a loose collection of religious parables classical myths biographies of ancient and modern historical figures. The title of the manuscript advises that is an extract and in the brief introduction Almeida explains his selection process writing that "He suprimido algunos artículos sobre cosas muy sabidas de la historia sagrada; y otros sobre la de Francia que mencionan frases ó personas casi ninca citadas ó citades solamente por las escritores francesas." He also notes several alterations and additions more relevant to Spanish history saying "En Cambio he agregado algunos artículos sobre historia de España que no están en el original y he tomado unos pocos de otra obra del mismo Mr. Larousse y de libros diversos." The result is an original amalgam of biographies historical episodes and religious parables. Interestingly we find no recorded printed editions of Larousse's work in Spanish so that the present manuscript is also an entirely original work of translation. A fascinating product of the cultural interests and mores of Cuban high society near the end of the Spanish colonial period. unknown books
Best.-Nr. B262140-2Poona Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute 1952. xxvi 2 498pp. Sm. 4to. Orig. boards 1/4 cloth. Poona (Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute), 1952. hardcover books
Best.-Nr. B262143-2Poona Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute 1940. xxxii 4 530pp. Sm. 4to. Boards 1/4 cloth. Poona (Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute), 1940. hardcover books
Best.-Nr. B262142-2Poona Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute 1948. xx 4 280pp. Sm. 4to. Boards 1/4 cloth. Poona (Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute), 1948. hardcover books
Best.-Nr. B262145-2Poona Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute 1935. xxi 3 390pp. Sm. 4to. Boards 1/4 cloth. Poona (Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute), 1935. hardcover books
Best.-Nr. B262141-2Poona Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute 1954. xviii 2 298pp. Sm. 4to. Boards 1/4 cloth. Poona (Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute), 1954. hardcover books
Best.-Nr. B262144-2Poona Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute 1936. xxii 2 363 1 24pp. Sm. 4to. Boards 1/4 cloth. Poona (Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute), 1936. hardcover books
2009Best.-Nr. 560856Mill Valley California: Stuart Bennett 2009. Softcover. Fine. Catalogue. 48pp. Illustrated in both color and black-and-white. Printed wrappers. Fine. Stuart Bennett unknown books
1825Best.-Nr. B18561Paris: Briere 1825. First Edition. Hardback. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. 8vo. pp 432. In the series 'Manuscrits de l'ancienne Abbaye de Saint Julien Brioude. Partie. 1. Soundly rebound in grained green cloth with black leather spine label lettered gilt. Some slight rubbing some slight foxing to text; very good. Briere, hardcover
1905Best.-Nr. C31947London: His Majestys Stationery Office By Mackie & Co. 1905. First Edition. Hardback. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Small 4tos. pp lxxii 336; 337-758 x; xvii 271 viii. Attractively bound in half chestnut brown leather over tan cloth boards lettered gilt at the spines with five raised bands. Two volumes in three published between 1905-1909. Armorial bookplate of Charles John Perceval 9th Earl of Egmont on the front pastedown of each volume. Very slight foxing to preliminaries otherwise very good. His Majestys Stationery Office By Mackie & Co., hardcover
1935Best.-Nr. 78807Le Donjon: l'auteur c. 1935-1940. Large 4to 27x21 cm. Portfolio contemporary half cloth with cornerpieces covers decorated paper rubbed with tie-ribbons. Textleaves loosely inserted secured by split-pins. - Première partie: Le Donjon avant la Révolution. 47 leaves. "Souvenirs de jeunesse 4 leaves & Le Donjon dès ses origines jusqu'à la Révolution.43 numbered leaves 4bis & 4ter - 45 2 in manuscript. - Deuxième partie: Le Donjon pendant la Révolution. 192 numbered leaves 1 bis leaf. With corrections in handwriting and enlarged with slips of paper pasted in. On letter-paper "Syndicat de la presse . des boissons" with watermark 'The Best Paper for Type Writing'. - A real working copy with imperfections. - Pierre Audin was a 'Marchand de vin' and 'Conseiller général de 1919 à 1940 ancien adjoint du maire du 10e arrondissement de Paris et maire de Loddes'. - This typescript/manuscript has never been published. - Unique source for the history of Le Donjon Allier. l'auteur hardcover
1885Best.-Nr. 78800St. Germain des Fossés: Société Coöperative de Consommation des employés P.L.M. 1885-1888. 3 vols. Folio 35 x 20 resp.22 cm. Contemporary boards. With 2 extensive titles written by hand and 1 title pre-printed. Exercise books with squared paper with the names written in alphabetical order in vol. 1 on 28 leaves vol.2 on 20 leaves and in vol. 3 on 20 leaves. The remaining leaves blank. Interesting bookkeeping with the names in nice elegant handwriting of the employees of the important railway company P.L.M. or "Compagnie des chemins de fer de Paris-Lyon-Méditerannée. St. Germain-des-Fossés is an important junction in Departement Allier between Vichy and Moulins - Covers soiled and partly damaged; dark brown spots on the paper tears dog's ears and further traces of using daily the 'Comptes courant'. Société Coöperative de Consommation des employés P.L.M. hardcover
1869Best.-Nr. 78805Different places: Etudes des notaires 1869-1913. 13 vols. Folio 30x20 cm. Partly with wrappers. Each vol. between 4 and 16 pp. Folts in the middle as usual and other small imperfections. Ventes de terrains et fermes/maisons dans l'Allier. Good legible handwriting. - Added 3 smaller documents "Conservation des hypothèques à Moulins 1847 1850 and 1869. Etudes des notaires unknown
