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1951réf. 861821951. Blake George Editor. The Trials of Patrick Carraher. London: William Hodge and Company Limited 1951. Octavo. xiii 278 pp. Illustrated with fold-out map. Original publisher's red cloth with gilt stamped spine. Moderate shelfwear spine faded. Blindstamp to front free endpaper. Red and black ink title page. Internally clean. A very good copy. $35. The "Glasgow Hard Man." A compelling installment in the Notable British Trials series documenting the dual murder trials of Patrick Carraher. After narrowly escaping a murder conviction in 1938 for culpable homicide Carraher's luck ran out in 1946 when a second fatal stabbing led him to the gallows. unknown books
réf. WELLER9798217298976New. New book. unknown books
1982réf. 212250New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1982. First U.S. edition and first printing. Hardcover. 88 pages. A later book from the author of the classics "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and "James and the Giant Peach" and numerous other books. Features illustrations by Quentin Blake. A near fine copy in paper covered boards with a cloth spine with a small former owner signature to the front free endpaper and in a near fine dust jacket with some edge tears and other light wear. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1981réf. 212249New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1981. First U.S. edition and first printing. Hardcover. 76 pages. A later book from the author of the classics "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and "James and the Giant Peach" and numerous other books. Features illustrations by Quentin Blake. A very good plus copy in paper covered boards with a cloth spine with some minor wear to the internal front hinge and in a very good price clipped dust jacket with some light wear. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1971réf. 212417Garden City NY: Doubleday & Company Inc. and Paris Review Editions 1971. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 382 pages. Review copy with laid in slip and promotional letter. An interesting book that is a collection of letters from Blake who despite being a well educated man and an accomplished piano player spent much of his adult life in prison. Some of the letters in the book first appeared in The Paris Review and it was George Plimpton who championed Blake and brought the book to Doubleday to be published. A clean and tight very near fine copy in two tone cloth boards and in a very near fine dust jacket. A nicer than usual copy. Doubleday & Company, Inc. and Paris Review Editions unknown books
2005réf. 213444Tucson AZ: Nazraeli Press 2005. First edition. Hardcover. One of only 1500 copies. Features text by Robert Blake. An interesting collection of 61 color photographs of the intersection between animals and the farmers who rai se and use them. A very near fine copy in black cloth binding with color plate inset into the front cover. No dust jacket as issued. A beautifully printed book. Nazraeli Press unknown books
1936réf. 70872NY: Harper and Brothers 1936. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. First Edition. Foxing to prelims previous owner's ink name and date on front free endpaper two glue stains and red crayon circle on rear endpaper extremities just lightly worn else very good in publisher's blue cloth. The author's second novel featuring the return of detective Nigel Strangeways published in the UK as 'Thou Shell of Death'. Harper and Brothers hardcover books
2024réf. 210078Berlin: Hatje Cantz Verlag 2024. Hardcover. 396 pages. Text in German. Features contributions by David Bindman Esther Cahdwick Sarah Haggarty Joseph Leo Koerner Julia Kersting Cecilia Muratori Jan Steinke Andreas Stolzenburg William Vaughan James Vigus and Peter Nils Doren. Includes numerous illustrations. A fine copy in illustrated boards. No dust jacket as issued. As new and still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. Please note that this is a heavy book and will require extra shipping. Hatje Cantz Verlag unknown books
1981réf. 164050London: Jonathan Cape 1981. First UK Edition preceding all others. Roald Dahl's eleventh novel about a young boy who concocts a medicine to help cheer his cantankerous grandmother. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Rear flap faintly foxed with spine lightly faded. Jonathan Cape unknown books
2005réf. 204940Tucson AZ: Nazraeli Press 2005. First edition. Hardcover. One of only 1500 copies. Features text by Robert Blake. An interesting collection of 61 color photographs of the intersection between animals and the farmers who raise and use them. A very near fine copy in black cloth binding with color plate affixed to the front board. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by Sanguinetti on a label affixed to the title page. A beautifully printed book. Nazraeli Press unknown books
2007réf. 205041New York: CRG Gallery 2007. First edition. Hardcover. Features an essay by Nayland Blake. Includes twenty illustrations a checklist and a list of previous exhibitions. A near fine copy in boards with some very minor wear. No dust jacket as issued. Signed and inscribed by Hodges on the title page to two prominent Chicago art collectors. Uncommon signed. CRG Gallery unknown books
2008réf. 199607Syracuse NY: Light Work - Robert B. Menschel Media Center 2008. First edition. Softcover. 48 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran April 1 through July 18 2008. Brief essay by Andy Grundberg and with curator's commentary by Hannah Frieser. Includes numerous color images. A near fine copy in wrappers. Light Work - Robert B. Menschel Media Center unknown books
2007réf. 201696New York: CRG Gallery 2007. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 33 pages. Features an essay by Nayland Blake. Includes numerous color illustrations checklist and list of previous exhibitions. A clean near fine copy in boards with some very slight tapping to the bottom front corners. No dust jacket as issued. CRG Gallery unknown books
1936réf. 772721936. McKelvey Blake. American Prisons: A Study in American Social History Prior to 1915. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press 1936. xiv 242 pp. Series: Patterson Smith reprint series in criminology law enforcement and social problems publication no. 17. Hardcover light shelfwear bookplate of Ruth and Gil Geis to front pastedown. $30. unknown books
1970réf. 775261970. Blake John Ballard. Safeguarding the Public: Historical Aspects of Medicinal Drug Control. Baltimore: John Hopkins Press 1970. xi 200 pp. Hardcover in lightly worn dust jacket. $25. Contents: European Backgrounds; Scientific Backgrounds; Private Professional Controls; Federal Regulation. unknown books
1817réf. 745791817. 2 titles in 1. 2 titles in 1. High-Stakes 1817 Irish Scandal: A Scarce Pair of "Crim. Con." Pamphlets Defended by Distinguished Anglo-Irish Barrister Phillips Trial. Blake Martin Joseph Defendant. Crim. Con. A Full Faithful & Impartial Report of that Curious Extraordinary and Interesting Trial with Speeches of Counsel and Judge's Charge In the Case Wherein Mark Browne Esq. Was Plaintiff and Martin Jos. Blake Esq. Defendant In an Action of Damages for Crim. Con. With the Plaintiff's Wife. Tried in the Court of Common Pleas Dublin On the 9th and 10th Days of July 1817 Before the Right Honorable Lord Norbury and a Special Jury of the City of Dublin; Damages laid at 30000. Dublin: Printed by J. Charles 1817. 48 pp. Bound with Phillips Charles 1787-1859. The Speech of Charles Phillips Esq. In the Case of Brown Versus Blake for Adultery; Delivered Before Lord Norbury and a Special Jury on the 9th July 1817. Dublin: Printed at the Hibernia Press Office For John Cumming 1817. 31 pp. Octavo 8" x 5"; 20.3 x 12.7cm. Two titles bound together. Stab-stitched pamphlet in later plain wrappers. Two vertical fold lines to front wrapper. Moderate toning to interior light foxing in places early library stamps to head of page 3 of Crim. Con. verso of title page head of page 7 and verso of final leaf of Speech. A very good copy of two scarce Irish legal pieces. $450. Crim. Con.: First edition; Speech: only edition. A second edition of Crim. Con. was published shortly after in 1817. Although it was a typical adultery trial Browne v. Blake attracted a fair amount of attention because of the high-stakes damages sought 30000 and the fact that Blake's lawyer was Charles Phillips: a leading Anglo-Irish barrister. Phillips was renowned for his oratory and expertise with adultery cases. Phillips successfully secured a defense verdict. Both titles are scarce. OCLC locates 5 copies of Crim. Con. all first editions 1 in a North American law library LA County and no copies of Speech. Crim. Con.: British Museum Catalogue Compact Edition 3:582. unknown books
2014réf. 188528London and San Francisco CA: Henry Sotheran Limited in conjunction with John Windle Antiquearian Bookseller 2014. First edition. Softcover. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran October 17 through November 7 2014. Includes 91 items related to William Blake. A fine copy in wrappers. Henry Sotheran Limited in conjunction with John Windle Antiquearian Bookseller unknown books
1940réf. 8042San Francisco: The Colt Press 1940. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. One of 500 copies. Small quarto. 9 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches.4 115pp. Frontis portrait. Half linen over batik boards paper spine label. Bookplate on inner cover. Offsetting to front free endpaper as usual. Edges of cover slightly faded else a near fine copy. In 1938 Jane Grabhorn in partnership with W. M. Roth and Jane Swinerton set up The Colt Press. With the advent of the War the partnership was dissolved and from 1941 all Colt Press books while designed by Jane were printed by the Grabhorn Press. We believe this title to be the last published and printed by the "original" Colt Press. The frontispiece portrait of Omai is from the painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds. "The Polynesian Omai was a great success in London - he seemed to embody Jean Jacques Rousseau's concept of the 'noble savage' much in vogue at the time of Omai's arrival in England. For two years Omai was the darling of society" Hill. Hill Pacific Voyages new version: 301. The Colt Press hardcover books
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1813réf. 018448London: J. Johnson 1813. Second Edition. Hardcover. Occasional light small stain but very clean overall. Near Fine with minor wear. Two quarto 8-1/2" x 10-1/2" volumes bound in early calf-backed marbled boards with calf corners contrasting gilt-lettered morocco spine labels marbled endpapers top edges gilt rebacked. A graphic account of the slave rebellion in Dutch Guiana 1772- 1777 illustrated with 81 engravings including 3 folding maps after drawings by the author by William Blake 13 with an additional 3 attributed to him Bartolozzi Benedetti Barlow and others. Sabin 91075 called this "one of the richest contemporary accounts of a plantation society in the Americas." According to the DNB Stedman's narrative is "one of the most vivid indictments of slavery that have been penned." Stedman also depicts the social and natural history of the area in detail and many of the engravings illuminate his writings on these subjects. Blake's work among the finest that he did for hire are primarily powerful portraits of slaves. J. Johnson hardcover books
1995réf. 120996Syracuse NY: Light Work 1995. First edition. Softcover. Text by Jeffrey Hoone and numerous others. Includes color and black and white images by Blake Fitch Barry Anderson KayLynn Deveney Lisa M. Robinson Philip Zimmermann Kerry Skarbakka Binh Danh Beatrix Reinhardt Don Gregorio Anton Yee Ling Tang Abigail Hadeed Laura Heyman Thilde Jensen and Rishi Singhal. A fine copy in wrappers. Light Work unknown books
1973réf. 016228Cambridge: Limited Editions Club 1973. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine slipcase. William Blake. Quarto 6-1/2" x 10-5/8" bound in quarter black morocco leather and mulberry-color linen boards with the front board embossed with a portrait of Blake 340 pages. Selected edited and introduced by Aileen Ward; designed by John Dreyfus. Illustrated with twelve designs engraved and colored by Blake for the original editions of his poems faithfully reproduced from the originals. Of an edition of 1500 copies printed and bound at the University Printing House this copy belonged to the publisher of the Club during most of the 1970s Gordon Carroll and is lettered "G. C." rather than numbered and bears the Club's blindstamp stating it is one of 15 presentation copies. Issued unsigned. Monthly Letter laid in. Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1928réf. 009416New York: MacMillan 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a moderately soiled still Very Good dustwrapper. Selected and illustrated by Pamela Bianco. Small chips at head of spine and minor edgewear. MacMillan hardcover books
1789réf. 545361789. London 1789. First edition. London 1789. First edition. Essays Calling for the Abolition of Tithes Reduction of the Public Debt and Other Matters Blake Francis Sir 1738-1818. Political Tracts: Consisting of I. A Proposal for the Liquidation of the National Debt; An Explanation of the Proposal; An Appendix Containing a Narrative of Proceedings Thereon at Various Public Meetings; II. The Efficacy of a Sinking Fund of One Million Per Annum; the Propriety of an Actual Payment of the Public Debt; The True Policy of Great Britain; The Conclusion; III. The Abolition of Tithes and the Reform of the Church Revenue; The Doctrine of Prescription Considered; a Narrative of Proceeding at a County Meeting Held at Morpeth December 22 1784 Respecting the Payment of Tithes; A Letter to the Freeholders of the County of Northumberland On the Same Subject; The Conclusion. London: Printed for J. Debrett 1789. iv 13 14-355 1 pp. Includes one-page publisher list. Octavo 8" x 5". Original paper boards hand-lettered title to spine untrimmed edges. Light soiling moderate edgewear spine heavily abraded front board detached. Toning and light foxing to text. Gift inscription from the author's son Francis Blake Jr. dated 1876 to front free endpaper interior otherwise clean. $450. First edition. Blake a member of Lincoln's Inn was a political reformer who called for the abolition of tithes and later repeal of the Corn Laws. Political Tracts collects his principal essays which were composed between 1786 and 1787. This title was re-issued the following year with some additions and a somewhat different collation but with the same publication date on the title page. Francis Blake Jr. was a notable inventor and photographer. OCLC locates 5 copies all of the later 1789 edition. English Short-Title Catalogue N39972. unknown books
1922réf. 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
