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1985Best.-Nr. 64999New York & London: Garland Publishing Inc 1985. 8vo pp. x 2 227 1; full green cloth; ex-library with spine label stamps and card pocket else very good. From the library of Allan Kornblum poet fine press printer and publisher who founded Coffee House Press. Garland Publishing Inc unknown books
1951Best.-Nr. 61543Cummington Mass. 1951. Edition limited to 170 copies this out-of-series and unsigned but see below printed at the Cummington Press October 1951 to March 1952 by Wightman Williams "who cut the woodblocks and Harry Duncan who set the type" 4to pp. xxviii; printed in red blue and black; original full parchment gilt lettering on spine; publisher's slipcase; with an extra suite of 3 woodcuts and a title page in folder. One of the woodcuts in the extra suite is torn but without loss. From the library of Kim Merker mentee of Harry Duncan. The first 12 of the edition numbered I-XII were issued on Umbria paper with hand-colored illustrations. Such is the case here even though this copy is unnumbered. This manuscript 209 lines of blank verse described as item no. vii in the Keynes bibliography of Blake. "Translation probably by Hayley of the opening lines of Tasso's Le sette giornate del mondo creato . Blake was merely the amanuensis" Bentley Blake Bibliography 1964 p. 48. This is the last book printed at Cummington. Richmond 52. unknown books
1959Best.-Nr. 62083Iowa City: The Roberta Press June 1959. Edition limited to 90 copies handset in Arrighi Italic type "printed on Okawara and Venezia papers with covers of Omi by N.R.K. at the Typographic Laboratory in the School of Journalism State University of Iowa." 8vo pp. 4; mounted etching printed in sepia on title page; original purple wrappers with the printed label "For Megan Hall Merker" on the upper cover. From the library of Kim Merker. A student project for a class in typography by Harry Duncan Spring 1959. N.R.K. is Nancy Read Kimmell a love interest of Duncan's. Amherst Georgia and the University of New England only in OCLC. The Roberta Press, June unknown books
1964Best.-Nr. 62135Northampton Mass: Gehenna Press 1964. Edition limited to 500 copies this no. 254 16mo pp. 16; fine in original marbled wrappers; From the library of Kim Merker. The text is Blake's letter to Thomas Butts dated January 10 1802. Baskin 37. Gehenna Press unknown books
1834Best.-Nr. 59712New York: published by Peter Hill no. 94 Broadway 1834. Large 8vo in 4s approx. 10¼" x 6½" pp. 6 960; alphabetical text in double column; engraved oval frontispiece portrait of George Washington and 22 lithographs by Pendleton of notable American architecture; contemporary quarter diced russia over marbled boards; boards worn neatly rebacked with old spine laid down; internally clean and the binding remains sound. Early owner's ownership signature on two flyleaves and recto of the frontispiece. Originally published in monthly parts beginning in 1832 of which no copies in OCLC this is the first book edition. Among the buildings represented are City Hall Augusta Georgia; Columbia College; the Deaf and Dumb Asylum Philadelphia; Mount Auburn Cemetery; Andover Theological Seminary; Mount Vernon; the Arcade in Providence; Kenyon College; Dartmouth College; the Capitol of Pennsylvania at Harrisburg; Yale College and State House; The White House State House in Boston and City Hall in New York among others. That six of the nine records in OCLC are for individual plates suggests that this was a book often broken up for the lithographs. OCLC locates a total of only 7 copies: Yale Boston Athenaeum Boston Public Harvard Lehigh Houston and the University of Edinburgh. Not noted in Walsh Anglo-American General Encyclopedias. Not in the Arents Collection of Books in Parts. American Imprints 23440; Sabin 5782. published by Peter Hill, no. 94 Broadway unknown books
Best.-Nr. 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
Best.-Nr. 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
Best.-Nr. 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
1862Best.-Nr. 55195Providence: A. Crawford Greene steam book and job printer 1862. First edition 8vo pp. 38 2; self-wrappers stitched as issued; very good. Blake 1809-1879 is buried in Bristol R.I. Not in Bartlett. Sabin 5786. A. Crawford Greene, steam book and job printer unknown books
1927Best.-Nr. 86607Cambridge: Fogg Museum of Art 1927. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 20p. tied booklet containing text plus 30 unbound plates 5 in color. Original flapped cloth portfolio with cloth ties. Folio. Fading and wrinkling on cloth ties. Copy No. 192 of an edition limited to 500 numbered copies. Prefatory Note by Chester N. Greenough. Introductory Essay by Geoffrey Keynes. Fogg Museum of Art hardcover books
1927Best.-Nr. 86608Cambridge: Fogg Museum of Art 1927. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 20p. tied booklet containing text plus 30 unbound plates 5 in color. Original flapped cloth portfolio with cloth ties. Folio. Moderate cover soil. Fading and wrinkling on cloth ties. Former owner's red ownership stamp on title-page and faintly on portfolio cover. Copy No. 191 of an edition limited to 500 numbered copies. Prefatory Note by Chester N. Greenough. Introductory Essay by Geoffrey Keynes. Fogg Museum of Art hardcover books
1973Best.-Nr. 44242London: Andre Deutsch 1973. First edition 8vo pp. 187; of The Language Library series edited by Eric Partridge and Simeon Potter; a fine copy in original brown cloth with gilt-lettered spine mustard dust jacket. Andre Deutsch unknown books
1868Best.-Nr. 1052531868. London: Pickering 1868. Small 8vo xiv 112 pp. and 8 pp. of ads at the front. Original cloth red printed paper backstrip label darkened some pencil annotations in the text. A very good copy. Ink signature at front of Wm. C. Pritchard. § New edition taken largely from the 1866 edition with some slight changes including an expanded preface and two more poems. Although a typographic issue of the Songs had appeared in 1839 and Gilchrist and Rossetti had included them in the 1863 biography neither of those versions were faithful to Blake's original text with Rossetti in particular standing accused of efforts at "improvement". The editor of this edition Richard Herne Shepherd gives for the first time in accessible form the exact text of Blake's idiosyncratic engraved publications of 1789 and 1794 only twenty-two complete copies of each of which survive though omitting lines from "Mary" and from "Auguries of Innocence" which contained the word "whore". The additional poems two of them previously unpublished are printed from Blake's original manuscripts. Bentley Blake Books 335 B. unknown books
1967Best.-Nr. 38966New York: Orion Press 1967. 8vo unpaginated; 55 color facsimiles with printed poem on facing page text printed in black and brown; original blue cloth gilt spine in matching pictorial slip case; book spine and gilt toned slip case a bit soiled; previous owner's ink signature on front free endpaper else a very good copy. Introduction and commentary by Geoffrey Keynes. Laid in article about Blake from Vogue October 1982. Orion Press unknown books
1897Best.-Nr. 65076London: Macmillan 1897. 1st ed. Hardcover. Good. index viii 230p. Blue cloth. 18cm. Numerous small spots on cover. Bookplate. Scattered light pencil markings. Text lightly browned. No Jacket. Macmillan hardcover books
1979Best.-Nr. 28167Bethesda: U.S. Department of Health Education and Welfare 1979. First edition 4to pp. 6 501; fine in original grey cloth spine stamped in gilt and black. Approx. 25000 items. U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare unknown books
1928Best.-Nr. 29976London & New York: Victor Gollancz and Payson and Clarke Ltd 1928. Edition limited to 1700 copies this copy no. 672; slim 4to pp. 18 printed on rectos only; original black cloth lettered in gilt on spine faded and rubbed at extremities. Reproduced from a copy in the British Museum. Victor Gollancz [and] Payson and Clarke Ltd unknown books
1922Best.-Nr. 89590Oxford: Humphrey Milford / Oxford University Press 1922. First Limited Edition. No. 8 of 650 numbered copies. This a presentation copy from the Duke & Duchess of Hamilton to "Mr. & Mrs. Alington" inscribed on half-title: "For Mr. & Mrs. Alington / with grateful thanks for the loving care given to Malcolm & David / from the Duke & Duchess of Hamilton" dated 1926. Also with the later undated ownership signature of prominent Scottish poet and Blake scholar Ruthven Todd. Folio ca. 20" x 15"; original maroon cloth with gilt spine and cover titles; 215pp text 64 unnumbered leaves of plates printed both sides six in color. Contents complete and fine; mild external wear and soil still a handsome Near Fine copy in the publisher's binding. These designs by Blake never published were originally in the possession Blake's close friend the artist John Flaxman 1755-1826; in 1828 Flaxman's estate was sold by Christie's at which time the drawings made their way into the trade then eventually into the library of Hamilton Palace. Through a happy accident the drawings were not dispersed with the palace library in 1882 and remained undiscovered until the estate's tragic dismantling in 1922. In conjunction with the Duke and Duchess Grierson commissioned the reproductions and saw the current work into print adding a keenly perceptive essay on the drawings' history and their place in the evolution of Blake's technique. Though not certain the presentation to "Mr. and Mrs. Alington" is almost certainly to Charles Alington founder of the Labrador Retriever Club in 1920 of which the Duchess was a charter member a champion breeder and an expert on field trials and judging. The Duchess Hamilton was herself a major figure in the field trial world winning the premier championship in 1909 with her Labrador bitch Dungavel Phoebe. She was also a major force for animal welfare co-founding in 1906 the Animal Defence and Anti-Vivisection Society. A distinguished copy of a work that appears infrequently in commerce. We note no other presentation copies in the auction record; the Todd provenance is a very nice addition indeed. Humphrey Milford / Oxford University Press unknown books
1964Best.-Nr. 89683London: Trianon Press 1964. First Limited Edition. No. 451 of 525 signed copies. Quarto. Quarto morocco over marbled paper-covered boards in matching slipcase; 103 pp; 32 plates in color. Touch of wear to slipcase but a lovely Near Fine copy. Trianon Press unknown books
1973Best.-Nr. 89682London: Trianon Press 1973. First Thus. Limited edition facsimile. Copy no.30 of 750 numbered copies of a total edition of 808. Quarto. Quarter blue morocco over marbled paper-covered boards. Single small spot of abrasion at base of spine else a Fine copy in the publisher's slipcase. A typically fine production of the press produced under the supervision of Arnold Fawcus. The original publisher's prospectus is laid in. Trianon Press unknown books
1946Best.-Nr. 90012Paris: La Jeune Parque 1946. First Thus. One of 2000 copies on Velin de Lana this copy unnumbered; presumably one of a few hors-commerce author's copies. Inscribed on second flyleaf: "à Son Excellence Monsieur Duff Cooper / ce message d'amité franco-britannique en respectueux et fidèles souvenirs." Octavo 25cm. Morocco-backed marbled boards; marbled endpapers; top edge gilt; 2 preliminary leaves; 14 115 19pp; illus; includes engraved extra-title frontispiece and 10 wood-engraved text illustrations by Jean-Vital Prost based on original designs by Blake. Spine leather minutely rubbed on raised bands gentle rubbing to bottom board edges else a very fresh Near Fine copy. Includes two brief essays on Blake by Daniel-Rops. With Cooper's handsome engraved rococco bookplate to front pastedown designed by Rex Whistler. Text in French. Lovely bibliophile edition of this modern French translation published immediately after the Second World War. The inscription to Cooper who had been appointed British Ambassador to France immediately after the fall of the Vichy government expresses "a message of Franco-British friendship." Perhaps this was intended as something of a peace offering as Daniel-Rops a prominent conservative Catholic intellectual had initially supported the conservative social direction of Pétain's "Revolution Nationale" and the Vichy régime - though as the war went on he became if not a critic of then at least no longer an apologist for Nazi collaborationism. Cooper who had been Churchill's Minister of Information at the beginning of the War and among the British Conservative Party's most steadfast anti-Fascists would have known something of Daniel-Rops' political pedigree perhaps lending an extra shade of meaning to the author's inscription. An interesting and distinguished copy of a beautifully-produced book with the fabulous Whistler bookplate. La Jeune Parque unknown books
2005Best.-Nr. 90196London: Folio Society 2005. First Thus. Three Volumes; 1 octavo 23cm 2 folio 43cm. Limited to 1000 copies of which this is #668. Housed in a tailor made blue cloth clamshell case. Bound in dark blue half morocco over decorated cloth boards titled and embellished in silver gilt. Tall and clean strong and very handsome very light wear to extremities; internally clean and fresh lavishly produced in full color facsimile; in a very good strong example of the mammoth clamshell case with some bumping and soiling along the lower edges and some dustyness in places. A very good set indeed. Folio Society unknown books
1970Best.-Nr. 1272001970. New York: Dover 1970. Large 8vo xiv 184 pp. illustrations. Original pictorial wrappers with some shelf wear edges somewhat sunned spotting to text block edge. § A combination though not complete of the 1927 and 1956 editions of the drawings from Nonesuch. Bentley Blake Books 405. unknown books
Best.-Nr. 127127Princeton: The William Blake Trust / Princeton University Press1995. Large 4to 231 pp including 57 pages of illustrations. Original cloth pictorial dust-jacket. § The sixth volume in this series of Blake's illuminated books edited overall by David Bindman. The hard-bound edition has been long out of print. unknown books
1932Best.-Nr. 1272231932. London and Toronto: Dent and New York: Dutton 1932. Small 4to 11 color plates and 25 pages of text. Original beige cloth gilt some shelf wear and scuffing internally very good. § A very good trade facsimile with a long note by Murry. Bentley Blake Books 214. unknown books
