1913réf. 1258Oakland 1913. Hardcover. Very Good. Decorative cover - publ. without a dust jacket. Profusely illus. Great reference! hardcover books
réf. 10956Edwards Blake. Signed check undated preserves a business document associated with the American writer director and producer whose work ranged from Breakfast at Tiffany's and Days of Wine and Roses to the long-running Pink Panther series. Edwards developed a body of work spanning comedy drama film radio and television and his career provides an important point of entry into postwar Hollywood authorship studio production and the increasing prominence of writer-directors. He married actress Julie Andrews in 1969 and later directed her in several films including Darling Lili S.O.B. and Victor/Victoria. Edwards Blake. Signed check. Date bank amount payee and dimensions not provided. One page. The check bears Edwards's bold approval signature "Blake Edwards." Rather than a conventional publicity autograph the document preserves his name within a financial and administrative setting recording an element of the routine business activity surrounding a filmmaker who worked as writer director and producer. Edwards's direction of Breakfast at Tiffany's in 1961 and The Pink Panther in 1963 established two enduring points in his filmography while his later collaborations with Andrews joined their personal and professional lives across several decades. Signature remains bold and clearly legible; no specific defects are reported. Near fine based on the supplied description. A signed financial document connecting Edwards's autograph with the everyday administrative record of a major postwar American filmmaker. unknown books
réf. 10959Edwards Blake. Signed check undated preserves a business document associated with the American writer director and producer whose work ranged from Breakfast at Tiffany's and Days of Wine and Roses to the long-running Pink Panther series. Edwards developed a body of work spanning comedy drama film radio and television and his career provides an important point of entry into postwar Hollywood authorship studio production and the increasing prominence of writer-directors. He married actress Julie Andrews in 1969 and later directed her in several films including Darling Lili S.O.B. and Victor/Victoria. Edwards Blake. Signed check. Date bank amount payee and dimensions not provided. One page. The check bears Edwards's bold approval signature "Blake Edwards." Rather than a conventional publicity autograph the document preserves his name within a financial and administrative setting recording an element of the routine business activity surrounding a filmmaker who worked as writer director and producer. Edwards's direction of Breakfast at Tiffany's in 1961 and The Pink Panther in 1963 established two enduring points in his filmography while his later collaborations with Andrews joined their personal and professional lives across several decades. Signature remains bold and clearly legible; no specific defects are reported. Near fine based on the supplied description. A signed financial document connecting Edwards's autograph with the everyday administrative record of a major postwar American filmmaker. unknown books
réf. 12981Edwards Blake. Signed check undated preserves a business document associated with the American writer director and producer whose work ranged from Breakfast at Tiffany's and Days of Wine and Roses to the long-running Pink Panther series. Edwards developed a body of work spanning comedy drama film radio and television and his career provides an important point of entry into postwar Hollywood authorship studio production and the increasing prominence of writer-directors. He married actress Julie Andrews in 1969 and later directed her in several films including Darling Lili S.O.B. and Victor/Victoria. Edwards Blake. Signed check. Date bank amount payee and dimensions not provided. One page. The check bears Edwards's bold approval signature "Blake Edwards." Rather than a conventional publicity autograph the document preserves his name within a financial and administrative setting recording an element of the routine business activity surrounding a filmmaker who worked as writer director and producer. Edwards's direction of Breakfast at Tiffany's in 1961 and The Pink Panther in 1963 established two enduring points in his filmography while his later collaborations with Andrews joined their personal and professional lives across several decades. Signature remains bold and clearly legible; no specific defects are reported. Near fine based on the supplied description. A signed financial document connecting Edwards's autograph with the everyday administrative record of a major postwar American filmmaker. unknown books
réf. 605975not signed on 1/2 length portrait of Amanda Blake wearing a white blouse with a big smile on her face. Photograph is by Cronenweth for Columbia Pictures with their rubberstamp on the back and is on single stock 10" x 8"; very good minor signs of handling; 1950. No Binding. Very Good. unknown books
réf. 160916Typed Letter Signed Palm Springs Florida January 28 1949; to columnist Louella Parsons: ".I have wanted to talk to you about the unfortunate incident which developed over my impersion of you last year.George Hearst son of W.R.H. and I talked.he could not imagine that you.were.offended." 2 4to sheets 2 pages; with carbon of Parsons' reply. AUTOGRAPHS VERY GOOD. Signed by Authors. unknown books
réf. 501471See Description. Signed-Autograph Very Good BLAKE Arthur. Typed Letter Signed Palm Springs Florida January 28 1949; to columnist Louella Parsons: ".I have wanted to talk to you about the unfortunate incident which developed over my impression of you last year.George Hearst son of William Randolph Hearst and I talked.he could not imagine that you.were.offended." 2 4to sheets 2 pages with carbon of Parsons' reply. Signed by Authors. See Description unknown books
1971réf. 592079New York: Doubleday & Company 1971. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. 379pp. Slight edgewear else near fine in a near fine dust jacket with slight toning and edgewear. Doubleday & Company hardcover books
1971réf. 535110Garden City: Doubleday 1971. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. 382pp. Faint foxing on page edges and modest edgewear else near fine in a very good dust jacket with tiny chips and tears and modest rubbing on the rear panel. Doubleday hardcover books
1888réf. 286822Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Company 1888. Hardcover. 87p. 2p. of advertisements 5x7 inches half cloth binding on illustrated boards; twelve plates corners lightly bumped titling dimmed on cloth spine mildly toned endpapers toning ownership inscription on free end paper dated 1887 small damp stain on acknowledgement page else in very good condition. Charles H. Kerr & Company hardcover books
1972réf. 349001Hartford CT: Kalos Society - Gay Liberation Front 1972. 14p 8.5x11 inch staplebound newsletter with blue illustrated cover; creasing from folding and minor staining on back page otherwise in very good condition. Connecticut's first LGBT newspaper began in 1970 when the local branch of the Gay Liberation Front merged with the Kalos Society an advocacy group for homosexuals founded in 1968. The Griffin would later become Metroline. Kalos backed the state's first attempts at gay rights legislation in 1972 the year of this issue; in addition there are reports on other areas of local activism the lesbian film "Holding" gays and gynecologists and more. Kalos Society - Gay Liberation Front unknown books
1955réf. 83766Carnation Company 1955. Octavo 20cm; spiral binding with pictorial boards; 34-471pp; color illustrations throughout. Modest shelfwear with lower spiral missing; Very Good. Created by Mary Blake and her daughter Margie and intended for young children to learn how to cook including safety and cleanup. The cook book is from Margie's perspective with a focus on Carnation products. Recipes include Supper Cocoa Whipped Carnation Orange Pie and Cream Sauce. Illustrations include the Blake family food and place settings. 83766. Carnation Company unknown books
1977réf. 1522Boston 1977. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 133 illus. Dust jacket has closed tears. hardcover books
1946réf. 127314.1Cambridge Massachusetts: Harvard University Press 1946. Hardcover. VG. Grey illus. paper over boards; Blue-grey cloth at spine; 224 pp. plus plates; 259 bw figures. Academic journal related to civilizations of the late antique early medieval and Byzantine periods. Articles include "The Horse and Lion Tapestry at Dumbarton Oaks A Study of Coptic and Sassanian Textile Design;" "The Alexandrian Origin of the Christian Topography of Cosmos Indicopleustes;" "A Survey of The Early Christian Town of Stobi;""Monte Cassino Byzantium and the West in The Earlier Middle Ages." Harvard University Press hardcover books
1934réf. 52659Publishers Press Association 1934. BLAKE Rodney. NOTHING NEW. NY: Publishers Press Association 1934. 8vo. cloth and board in dust jacket. First Edition. Signed presentation from Blake on title page: "Edna Strasser To one of my dearest friends With love Rodney Blake. March 1945." Near fine; some sunning spine d/j. $75.00. Publishers Press Association unknown books
1934réf. 47142Publishers Press Association 1934. BLAKE Rodney. NOTHING NEW. NY: Publishers Press Association 1934. 8vo. cloth & boards in dust jacket. First Edition. Signed presentation by Blake on half-title page: "To Edna Strasser with much love. Rodney Blake. June 1953." Near fine slight browning to edges of covers; sunned spine tiny tear d/j. $75.00. Publishers Press Association unknown books
1903réf. 1028961903. London: Sotheby Wilkinson and Hodge 1903. 8vo title-page and 4 pages of text. Original printed wrappers in later cloth-backed marbled boards. § A sale of the first order of importance though only comprising 42 lots of which 23 were from the Butts collection comprising 18 original drawings 4 printed proofs and a bill from Blake to Butts. The remaining lots were from the Gilchrist collection. Bentley Blake Books 598. A scarce catalogue. unknown books
1968réf. 1232811968. Cambridge: Harvard UP 1968. 8vo 224 pages with a frontispiece and 12 plates. Original blue cloth dust-jacket. As new. § Final revised edition the best single account of Blake's manuscripts. Bentley Blake Books 93 C: "Comprehends fairly full notes some related documents such as receipts and provenances." Includes importabt notes on Blake's extant manuscripts receipts etc. unknown books
1926réf. 1232721926. London: Noel Douglas 1926. 8vo 70 pp. Original paper over boards with title on spine. Very good with spine a touch darkened and light dusting to original cream boards and slight spotting to endpapers. § Trade edition of this handsome facsimile of the very rare original edition of 1783. "The original 1783 copies were seventy-two pages in length printed in octavo by John Flaxman's aunt who owned a small print shop in the Strand and paid for by Anthony Stephen Mathew and his wife Harriet dilettantes to whom Blake had been introduced by Flaxman in early 1783. Each individual copy was hand-stitched with a grey back and a blue cover reading "POETICAL SKETCHES by W.B." It was printed without a table of contents and many pages were without half titles. Of the extant copies eleven contain corrections in Blake's handwriting. Poetical Sketches is one of only two works by Blake to be printed conventionally with typesetting; the only other extant work is The French Revolution in 1791 which was to be published by Joseph Johnson. However it never got beyond the proof copy and was thus not actually published. Even given the modest standards by which the book was published it was something of a failure. Alexander Gilchrist noted that the publication contained several obvious misreadings and numerous errors in punctuation suggesting that it was printed with little care and was not proofread by Blake thus the numerous handwritten corrections in printed copies. Gilchrist also notes that it was never mentioned in the Monthly Review even in the magazine's index of "Books noticed" which listed every book published in London each month signifying that the publication of the book had gone virtually unnoticed. Nevertheless Blake himself was proud enough of the volume that he was still giving copies to friends as late as 1808 and when he died several unstitched copies were found amongst his belongings." Bentley BB 132. unknown books
1926réf. 1087881926. London: Noel Douglas 1926. 8vo 70 pp. Original paper over boards with title on spine and clear glassine wrapper. Pages unopened. Near Fine. § Trade edition of this handsome facsimile of the very rare original edition of 1783. Bentley 132. "The original 1783 copies were seventy-two pages in length printed in octavo by John Flaxman's aunt who owned a small print shop in the Strand and paid for by Anthony Stephen Mathew and his wife Harriet dilettantes to whom Blake had been introduced by Flaxman in early 1783. Each individual copy was hand-stitched with a grey back and a blue cover reading "POETICAL SKETCHES by W.B." It was printed without a table of contents and many pages were without half titles. Of the extant copies eleven contain corrections in Blake's handwriting. Poetical Sketches is one of only two works by Blake to be printed conventionally with typesetting; the only other extant work is The French Revolution in 1791 which was to be published by Joseph Johnson. However it never got beyond the proof copy and was thus not actually published. Even given the modest standards by which the book was published it was something of a failure. Alexander Gilchrist noted that the publication contained several obvious misreadings and numerous errors in punctuation suggesting that it was printed with little care and was not proofread by Blake thus the numerous handwritten corrections in printed copies. Gilchrist also notes that it was never mentioned in the Monthly Review even in the magazine's index of "Books noticed" which listed every book published in London each month signifying that the publication of the book had gone virtually unnoticed. Nevertheless Blake himself was proud enough of the volume that he was still giving copies to friends as late as 1808 and when he died several unstitched copies were found amongst his belongings.". unknown books
1926réf. 1087901926. London: Noel Douglas 1926. 8vo 70pp. Original paper over boards with title on spine. Very good with spine a touch darkened and light dusting to original cream boards and slight spotting to endpapers. § Trade edition of this handsome facsimile of the very rare original edition of 1783. "The original 1783 copies were seventy-two pages in length printed in octavo by John Flaxman's aunt who owned a small print shop in the Strand and paid for by Anthony Stephen Mathew and his wife Harriet dilettantes to whom Blake had been introduced by Flaxman in early 1783. Each individual copy was hand-stitched with a grey back and a blue cover reading "POETICAL SKETCHES by W.B." It was printed without a table of contents and many pages were without half titles. Of the extant copies eleven contain corrections in Blake's handwriting. Poetical Sketches is one of only two works by Blake to be printed conventionally with typesetting; the only other extant work is The French Revolution in 1791 which was to be published by Joseph Johnson. However it never got beyond the proof copy and was thus not actually published. Even given the modest standards by which the book was published it was something of a failure. Alexander Gilchrist noted that the publication contained several obvious misreadings and numerous errors in punctuation suggesting that it was printed with little care and was not proofread by Blake thus the numerous handwritten corrections in printed copies. Gilchrist also notes that it was never mentioned in the Monthly Review even in the magazine's index of "Books noticed" which listed every book published in London each month signifying that the publication of the book had gone virtually unnoticed. Nevertheless Blake himself was proud enough of the volume that he was still giving copies to friends as late as 1808 and when he died several unstitched copies were found amongst his belongings." Bentley BB 132. unknown books
1927réf. 57527London: Scholartis Press 1927. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. #34 of 75cc printed on English hand made paper and signed by Jack Lindsay. 86pp. Pages slightly tanned spine sunned esle very good in Publisher's coarse cloth backed in blue. Scholartis Press hardcover books
1927réf. 1017881927. New York: Payson & Clarke 1927. 8vo 70 pp. Original paper over boards. Very good. § US trade edition. Bentley Blake Books 132B. "The original 1783 copies were seventy-two pages in length printed in octavo by John Flaxman's aunt who owned a small print shop in the Strand and paid for by Anthony Stephen Mathew and his wife Harriet dilettantes to whom Blake had been introduced by Flaxman in early 1783. Each individual copy was hand-stitched with a grey back and a blue cover reading "POETICAL SKETCHES by W.B." It was printed without a table of contents and many pages were without half titles. Of the extant copies eleven contain corrections in Blake's handwriting. Poetical Sketches is one of only two works by Blake to be printed conventionally with typesetting; the only other extant work is The French Revolution in 1791 which was to be published by Joseph Johnson. However it never got beyond the proof copy and was thus not actually published. Even given the modest standards by which the book was published it was something of a failure. Alexander Gilchrist noted that the publication contained several obvious misreadings and numerous errors in punctuation suggesting that it was printed with little care and was not proofread by Blake thus the numerous handwritten corrections in printed copies. Gilchrist also notes that it was never mentioned in the Monthly Review even in the magazine's index of "Books noticed" which listed every book published in London each month signifying that the publication of the book had gone virtually unnoticed. Nevertheless Blake himself was proud enough of the volume that he was still giving copies to friends as late as 1808 and when he died several unstitched copies were found amongst his belongings." Wikipedia. unknown books
1964réf. 8173Franklin NH: The Hillside Press 1964. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Tight bright and unmarred. Printed cloth boards frontispiece. 56x49mm. 52pp. Illus. b/w plates. Numbered limited edition this being 125 of 375. The Hillside Press hardcover books
1929réf. 1272211929. London and Toronto: Dent and New York: Dutton 1929. Small 4to 28 colour facsimile plates and 25 pages of text. Very good in original red cloth with gilt title lacking gray dust-jacket some shelf wear to lower cover and backstrip darkened internally clean. § A very good trade facsimile with a long note by Plowman. Bentley BB 39. unknown books