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1893réf. 23400New York 1893. Small broadsheet 5" x 7" printed on tan card stock single hole punch at top. Rubberstamp at head of title: 'American Engineer and Railroad Journal' a few letters partly affected by hole punch. Very Good. unknown books
1868réf. 008888Boston: J.E. Tilton and Company 1868. Book. Good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo 8vo. viii 384 pages of text. Hardcover binding; leather spine and corners with marbled paper-covered boards. Front board is detached and leather is moderately rubbed at the extremities. First and final several pages of text have a large stain on them but the vast majority of the text remains clean. Illustrated with numerous woodcuts. Previous owner's name "E. N. Badger" on front endpaper. Previous owner's bookplate affixed neatly to front endpaper. J.E. Tilton and Company Hardcover books
1876réf. 402106Philadelphia: Henry C. Lea 1876. First edition. Spine reinforced with tape library label and stamp on title/From the Collection of Allan B. Kirsner M.D. 8vo. 607 pp. Original flexible cloth. Includes: MORTON Thomas George 1835-1903. "A peculiar and painful affection of the fourth metatarso-phalangeal articulation". Pp. 37-45. First complete description of anterior metatarsalgia "Morton's disease". Garrison-Morton-Norman 4341. See Cordasco 70-2526. WARREN Jonathan Mason 1811-1867. "Operations for fissure of the hard and soft palate palatoplastie". Pp. 538-47. Warren devised the first operation for closure of complete clefts of the palate. Garrison-Morton-Norman 5745. Henry C. Lea hardcover books
1886réf. 402112Philadelphia: Lea Brothers 1886. First edition. Spine reinforced with tape library label and stamps on endleaves/From the Collection of Allan B. Kirsner M.D. 8vo. Contemporary half leather. Contains: Charles FINLAY. "Yellow fever: its transmission by means of the Culex mosquito." Pp. 395-409. Lea Brothers hardcover books
1910réf. 402041Philadelphia and New York: Lea & Febiger 1910. First edition. Binding broken; library stamps on title/From the Collection of Allan B. Kirsner M.D. 8vo. Original cloth. Includes: CUSHING Harvey Williams. "The functions of the pituitary body." Pp. 473-84. G-M-N 1161. BRILL Nathan Edwin. "An acute infectious disease of unknown origin. A clinical study based on 221 cases." Pp. 484-502. G-M-N 5382. Lea & Febiger hardcover books
1943réf. WRCLIT49022Upsala MN 1943. V:2. Small octavo folded leaflet. Very good. Edited/written by George H. Kay as a member of the American Amateur Press Association. unknown books
1935réf. WRCLIT51216Flushing NY 1935. Sixteen unnumbered issues of twenty-four published. Printed wrappers. Three wrappers a bit dusty one wrapper has small corner chip one number marked up in pencil May 1935 has portion of front wrapper clipped but otherwise generally very good to fine. Edited by Frances Frost. Published monthly beginning July 1933 then assumed bi-monthly status with the July/August 1935 and promptly folded. Contributors to these issues include Derleth Holmes Aiken Van Doren Damon Wheelwright Macleod cummings E. Scott Flaccus Quinn Friar W.T. Scott Pillin Larsson Fletcher et al. Issues wanting from this run: July & Aug. 1933; Jan. Oct. & Nov. 1934; Jan.- April 1935. unknown books
1869réf. 323251869. APPLETON'S JOURNAL. LONG BRANCH "SEA-SIDE ATTRACTIONS." A full hand-colored page from Appleton's Journal copyright 1869. The 11-inch by 16-inch page depicts a Victorian-era couple and their two children on the beach with other beach-goers and small bathing pavilions in the distance. Could be Long Branch but the location is not noted. Very Good fold down the center- as issued. $85.00. unknown books
1970réf. 29949Koln: Interfunktionen 1970. First edition. Paperback. Very Good . Paperbound quarto. 169 pp. The fifth issue of 12 published of this highly regarded European arts journal from the 1970's. Text mostly in German. Filled with monochome illustrations. This is from the edition of 1000 copies printed for issue number 5. Featuring work by Joseph Beuys Robert Smithson Lothat Baumgarten Dan Graham and much more. A most handsome very good copy. Interfunktionen paperback books
1977réf. 1310806New York: The Viking Press 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong Quarto; pp 135; VG-/G; black spine with ivory text; dust jacket has slight wear to edges; light rubbing to exterior; light toning to flaps; mylar wraps; cloth is clean; strong boards; text block has slight toning to exterior edges; writing to verso of ffep; interior clean. 1310806. FP New Rockville Stock. The Viking Press hardcover books
1924réf. 40225Munich: Bremer Presse 1924. No. 93 of 385 copies printed. Initial capitals designed by Anna Simons. 690 pp. 1 vols. Folio. Original grey boards. Spine split at joints some sunning to spine and upper board internally fine. In grey cloth drop box. No. 93 of 385 copies printed. Initial capitals designed by Anna Simons. 690 pp. 1 vols. Folio. Ransom Bremer Presse 30; A Century for the Century 14 Bremer Presse unknown books
1929réf. 314257New York: Printed for Random House by the Bremer Presse 1929. Number LXXIII of 530 copies on Zanders hand-made paper 250 done for Random House. Initial designed by Anna Simons. 86 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Parchment backed decorative paper boards. Fine in slipcase. Number LXXIII of 530 copies on Zanders hand-made paper 250 done for Random House. Initial designed by Anna Simons. 86 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Lehnacker 29 Printed for Random House [by the Bremer Presse] unknown books
1932réf. 223947Munich: Bremer Presse 1932. First edition no. 61 of 85 copies signed by Martin Bodmer on the colophon. With 9 full-page facsimiles in text. 2 34 2 pp. 1 vols. Folio. Original linen backed blue boards paper spine label. Fine in split box. First edition no. 61 of 85 copies signed by Martin Bodmer on the colophon. With 9 full-page facsimiles in text. 2 34 2 pp. 1 vols. Folio. One of 85 copies. Scarce trial specimen in preparation for a proposed edition of Goethe. Bremer Presse unknown books
1933réf. M11155Bristol et al.:: John Wright and Sons et al. 1933. 1933. 8vo. ii 183 ad 1 pp. Red cloth gilt-stamped cover and spine titles; spine a bit sunned. Near fine. John Wright and Sons, et al., 1933. hardcover books
1807réf. CAT000099Paris: Capelle et Renand 1807. First Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Good Condition. A mixed set 11 volumes published 1807-1817. Volumes 2-10 in full acid calf worn spines dry and chipped one board detached others loose volume 1 in later half vellum and volume 11 in original wraps worn and chipped. A complete run of this annual of food and drink associated poetry and song. Volume 4 with a portrait of Marc-Antoine-Madeleine Désaugiers who wrote most of the songs laid down and each volume with an engraved frontispiece. Size: 12mo duodecimo. 11-volume set complete. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking Wine & Dining; Music. Inventory No: CAT000099. Capelle et Renand hardcover books
réf. 5300CARIBBEAN TRAVEL JOURNAL. Diary. 101 pages. The Caribbean. c. 1908-9. The handwritten journal belonging to C. B. Benson of Hudson New York. The diary recounts Benson’s experience on an organized cruise group visit to Caribbean locations such as St. Thomas Puerto Rico Kingston Jamaica Caracas Venezuela Panama City Panama Port of Spain Trinidad and Martinique. Benson records his experiences in each location including his impressions of the town the locals sights he visited and local travel. He visited forts a school churches a mill a sugar plantation and Carnival celebrations. Benson took his tour during the era of colonial rule the attitudes of which infuse both his experiences and observations. Based on his mention of an earthquake in Kingston Jamaica taking place a year or two before he travelled in 1908 or 1909. “…St. Thomas where we arrived about 6 A.M. mid morning Jan 26 is one of the Virgin group and we found her framed and frescoed in the principal churches. Columbus in 1493 gave the group of 100 islands rocks and…which comprise the group. St. Thomas is 13 miles in length and 3 miles in width at its broadest. And I guess we walked the length of it speaking broadly and in the abstract at this distance.The heat of the tropical sun also takes its toll and blurs our ideas of time and distance somewhat. The town of Charlotte Amelia contains 13000 inhabitants – merchants and black babies and they are all dressed in their Sunday best to receive us properly.Thursday morning at 8 we went ashore at Porto sic Rico.Returning thro the village streets we stopped at the market place and noticed the display of fruits in baskets a couple of men seated on low stools with blacks in front of them.a native woman…was entertaining us in the middle of the road with a dance.When passing the island of Haiti.‘Do you know why we do not stop at the Island of Haiti’ ‘No’ There are cannibals there there are so many fat people aboard you would lose your wife’ At St Thomas the American council held open house and received some of us who dared to invade this solitude.An hour’s railroad ride which was made interesting by stops at every little…and station where the bare legged boy with the oil gun in hand squirted oil…bearings sic of the cars and engine. As it was before the 17 miles came to an end the rear axle of the parlor car so called because it had leather covered reclining seats caught fire. But when this happened we were nearly at the end of our journey and we were not delayed much. At the sugar plantation where we detrained we found we had some distance to walk down…to the sugar mill. As there was no path and the sticky wet ground to soil made worse by the heavy rain of the night before.A sugar mill is never a clean place.The process is somewhat intricate but way he likened to the process of brewing.The cane piled up in the yard is boiled in a number of vats then is run off with barrels and in a black and solid state in shipped to the Refineries at New York. The fiber of the cane is then hardened and dried and is fed to the furnaces to boil…cane. After return to the town San Juan we visited the shops. Walked out to the fort at the entrance of the harbor. The town is excellently policed and paved in the principal streets with telegram blocks.As this day was Thursday we concluded that every day was wash day for the native women and girls who for want of other diversions spend most of their time in this form of dissipation. Even the balconies of the main public street filled with traffic of street cars carriages and drays had their fill of wash some of which are found laying in the street having been carried down by the wind. No one had appropriated it as yet; and we did not add it to our collection of souvenirs. At the officers quarters I applied for a permit of the officer of the day to enter the fort ‘San Cristobal’ the fort commanding the entrance to the harbor.The fort was like most forts. The high tower gave a commanding view of the town and harbor. Then we visited the Governor’s Palace. In the Reception Room hanging on opposite sides facing each other are life sized oil paintings of McKinley & Cleveland. In the garden were some large palms tropical ferns a fountain &.Jan 29. early in the morning we were at Kingston in Jamaica. The channel is narrow and tortuous but well… Taking a local pilot we soon…opposite it…of three vessels one of which was the Princess Louise that was caught in the hurricane here three years ago and…the larger of the three vessels was trying to pick up the light from the light house which had been blown down. This destruction of the hurricane.After driving about a mile thru the city the destruction to the buildings & pavements made by the earthquake here a year or two ago half of the city seems to be in ruins and no attempt has been made apparently to rebuild & restore the city. Thousands of lives were lost here at that time which did immense damage to the fruits. Most of the uninhabitable part of the island belongs to the United Fruit Company a Boston Corporation who ships immense quantities of bananas from Port Antonio. Owing to recent destruction by fire of Hotel Litchfield our stop at the port of San Antonio and stay of night at the Hotel was omitted. An excursion across the island by train to Mandeville was arranged in its place.The town of Colon in its principle streets are paved with brick and appear clean. We noticed many buzzards. The air was clear and there was a delightful cool breeze blowing.We stopped at all of the stations going to Panama and noted the wonderful impressions made by the Sanitary Commission. The well ventilated and screened houses. The plan for disposal of garbage the open drainage the cleared lands…But of course the facts are here – bug and drain – all working to the mutual exclusion of some ideas to the American white employers. Therefore after a few months they must have a reaction in the States to…and detach themselves from all absorbing facts. The fighting for life against…fires. Most things are…between the white employers and the black employees. So we find the ‘White Bar’ and the ‘Black Bar’ ‘The White Employees’ ‘The Silver White Employees’ &c as signs on the cars intended to carry workmen back and forth from the works.Caracas the capital of Venezuela is about 3000 ft up but the sun in the middle of the day we found very hot.Plaza Bolivar was decorated with rows of colored electric lights. They are preparing for the Carnival season which ushers in Lent in Catholic countries. The market place had counters for dry goods highly colored handkerchiefs etc. Another section was devoted to fruits vegetables etc. We noticed some very large apricots. Mr. Bolivar apparently has done a great deal for his native town. He has given his name – while the people furnished the funds – for the largest parks a street and the coinage of the plutocrats.The Spaniard the…Hildago -in his easy subjugation of the…pleasure loving tropical savage has replaced the native of simple taste and left in his place the mongrel half-breed with all the vices of the conqueror and none of the virtues of the…Indian savage…”. The diary is in very good condition. It is mostly written in pencil but is quite legible. hardcover books
1966réf. WRCLIT70552San Francisco: City Lights Books 1966. Whole number three of four in this iteration. Pictorial wrappers. Ink gift inscription on title usual slight rubbing else very good. Edited and published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti with associate editors. The third number of this irregular anthology/periodical highlighting authors associated with the imprint as well as a wide range of native and international writers many of them early in their careers. Herein appear Beck Garson Ginsberg Plymell McClure Olson Guest Ferlinghetti McCord Shattuck Pelieu et al. According to Cook the first printing consisted of 6000 copies and an undifferentiated second printing of 5000 copies was produced in 1967. COOK 57. City Lights Books unknown books
1966réf. WRCLIT70387San Francisco: City Lights Books 1966. Whole number three of four in this iteration. Pictorial wrappers. Slight dust smudging to lower wrapper but very good or better. Edited and published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti with associate editors. The third number of this irregular anthology/periodical highlighting authors associated with the imprint as well as a wide range of native and international writers many of them early in their careers. Herein appear Beck Garson Ginsberg Plymell McClure Olson Guest Ferlinghetti McCord Shattuck Pelieu et al. According to Cook the first printing consisted of 6000 copies and an undifferentiated second printing of 5000 copies was produced in 1967. COOK 57. City Lights Books unknown books
1966réf. WRCLIT61127San Francisco: City Lights Books 1966. Whole numbers one through three of four in this iteration. Pictorial wrappers. Light edgewear and creasing to the spines some shelf smudges to edges a bit of light soiling to the white portions of the wrappers of #s 2 and 3 but very good. Edited and published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti with associate editors. The first three numbers of this irregular anthology/periodical highlighting authors associated with the imprint as well as a wide range of native and international writers many of them early in their careers. According to Cook the number of copies printed of the first number is not recorded and it was not reprinted; 6000 copies of the second were printed and it was not reprinted; 6000 copies of the third were printed and an undifferentiated second printing of 5000 copies was undertaken in 1967. COOK 39 49 & 57. City Lights Books unknown books
1819réf. SS321-001Various: Various 1918-1955. Hardcover. Very Good. For an itemized list of the items in this lot please inquire. Condition Very Good to Good. The Courier-Journal newspaper began publication in Louisville Kentucky in 1868 - the last run of the Courier-Journal newspaper was Sunday February 28 2021; the Courier-Journal Job Printing Company printing facilities closed for good on March 4th 2021. The material offered here is dated 1918 through circa 1955 and includes technical material used by apprentices and compositors working in the composition and press rooms of the Courier-Journal Job Printing Co. Included are 6 volumes of the Typographic Technical Series For Apprentices Part VI Nos. 32-40 out of series Chicago IL: Published by the Committee on Education United Typothetae of America 1918. All copies with the bookplate "Property of Courier-Journal Job Printing Co. For EMPLOYES' sic Use Only Return to Superintendent's Office" in a handsome Art Nouveau design on the front paste-down. This educational material demonstrates that the Courier-Journal Job Printing Company was unionized at least from the beginning of the twentieth-century and highlights the power and influence of typographers who were among the most educated economically mobile wage laborers in the United States and who were represented in every major urban center in the newspaper industry; the typographic unions won a 48-hour work week in 1897 and a standard wage scale throughout the newspaper industry; as an example of the power of the typographers unions in the 1930s the International Typographical Union introduced the 40-hour work week across the industry which spread to other unions and has sinse been codified across the labor sector by federal legislation; the typographers occupied an important if ambiguous place in the development of American labor history in as much as American labor was never successful in uniting all laborers together in one force but tended organize within industries. This grouping tends to focus on the tools of the trade including type specimens and catalogs of process inks issued in the 1920s and 1930s; Courier-Journal typographers left notes to themselves in these catalogs indicating material they felt needed representation in the Courier-Journal Job Printing Company's shops. Something of an outlier in this grouping is an accordion-fold volume of photographs of printing equipment available for use in the 1950s by the competing print shop The Standard Printing Company Incorporated of Louisville Kentucky. Most likely a salesman's dummy to show potential clients that The Standard Printing Company had the latest printing equipment and the most prestigious customers this undated circa 1955 without imprint accordion-fold photo-archive of printing equipment shows the most modern print shop of the 1950s. The earliest book printed by the Courier-Journal Job Printing Company was issued in 1884. An interesting article by Chris Kenning in the Louisville Courier Journal March 11 2021 gave some valuable insights into the history of the newspaper the Courier-Journal Job Printing Company and the challenges to the newspaper business and printing in general in the United States with the advent of desktop computers and the rise of the internet. While the Kenning article did not touch much on the time period 1918-1955 there are still interesting stories to tell about the printing industry in America the place of printing in the American labor movement and printing technology in the first half of the twentieth century that can be told using the materials offered here as visual aids. With the sale of the Courier-Journal to the Gannett Co. Inc in 1986 the road to the shut down of the Courier-Journal Job Printing Company was opened. Now the Courier-Journal newspaper will be printed in Indianapolis IN. The current print circulation of the paper is now under 60000 while the Courier Journal's digital journalism garners 4.5 million monthly visitors to their website. Media consolidation has been made possible with the internet's ability to distribute news on a minute-by-minute basis making regional newspapers printed on paper a redundancy. The Cincinnati Enquirer the Lexington Herald-Leader the Bowling Green Daily News are all regional newspapers that will no longer be produced locally after having been produced in Louisville by the presses of the Courier-Journal. This consolidation of the newspaper industry means the loss of 102 Louisville jobs including printing press operators mailroom and transportation jobs that have been lost to the relocation of the press work to Indianapolis. Various hardcover books
2009réf. CNJL1180Monmouthshire: The Old Stile Press 2009. Limited Edition. No binding. Fine. Lemaire Angela. No. 3 of 25 copies for sale folio size 52 pp. The story begins: "I was present during the Great Plague of 1665 It took away my life" he said. Per the artist this work originally produced by her in 1967 is "about a man who is killed by the plague in London in 1665; I have brought him to life again so that he can tell his story." The story unfolds as a series of nine eerily wonderful etchings by Angela Lemaire which were inspired by the sufferings of the plague victims. Each enclosed in a separate leaf and introduced with a quotation from scripture also dealing with suffering with each plate numbered and signed by her. Ms. Lemaire's Afterword tells the story of her inspiration for the work and the essay by Anthony Dyson discusses the making and proofing of the plates which is a story worthy on its own merits. ___DESCRIPTION: Unbound folio sheets each with letterpress printing on the first and last pages inserted between the plates the images from zinc plates with each plate signed and numbered by the artist in pencil. The eight intaglio plates images 2 through 9 are each tissue-guarded; Image 1 and the original Title page are both woodcuts. Folio size the signatures being just under 15" tall the work is unpaginated containing 52 pages excluding cuts and images; type Baskerville paper Somerset soft white satin; limited edition of 25 copies for sale plus 3 NFS this no. 3 signed by the artist on the colophon page. The unsewn sections are held loosely in a folded portfolio of smokey blue Roma paper handmade by Fabriano in Italy which is then laid into a clamshell box covered with blue cloth paper label on the front with olive green lettering lined with aubergine velvet. ___CONDITION: Signatures are fine; clean straight with no folds or edgewear. All tissue guards over the zinc etchings present. The portfolio is fine as is the clamshell box. ___POSTAGE: International customers please note that due to the size of this work additional postage may apply please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions we are here to help. The Old Stile Press unknown books
1939réf. 38801Amsterdam 1939. paperback. very good. Orgaan van de Maatschappij tot Bewordering der Bouwkunst Bond van Nederlandsche Architecten B.N.A. en het Genootschap Architectura et Amicitia. 60ste Jaargang. No. 1 - 52. 7 Jan. - 30 Dec. 1939. Illustrated. 52 vols. thin folio printed wrappers; some pp. stuck together else fine. Amsterdam 1939. One year run of this technical journal edited by H. G. J. Schelling B. T. Boeyinga et al. unknown books
1931réf. KC15863Utrecht Netherlands 1931. Paperback. Very Good. April 1931 47pp. 7.25 x 9.75. This progressive Catholic cultural and literary journal was published between 19251941 and partly responsible for introducing modernist aesthetics to Netherlands alongside well-known avant-garde journals such as De Stijl and International Review i 10. Cover design and photomontage by Piet Worm 1909-1996. Very good with light soiling to the white covers with chips and small tears with tape repair to the spine mostly to the 1" split at the head of the spine. Binding tights with light wear throughout. DUTCH LITERARY JOURNAL paperback books
1945réf. 254090France presumed: C.S.T.O. 1945. Pamphlet. 24p. profuse illustration from portrait and site photography and line maps amidst a running commentary sepia rotogravure throughout including all text and covers softbound an 11x8 inch pamphlet in plain printed stapled wraps. Rather crimped with handling spinefold abraded staples sound complete clean and unmarked within. A good good-only copy. Distributed to the occupying troops of the French Zone. Shock no pix of DeGaulle ! C.S.T.O. unknown books
1864réf. 694531864. A Curious 1864 Case Involving Murder and Insanity Editors of the Journal of Mental Science. Insanity and Crime: A Medico-Legal Commentary on the Case of George Victor Townley. London: John Churchill and Sons 1864. 47 1 pp. Octavo 8-3/4" x 5-1/2". Stab-stitched pamphlet with untrimmed edges bound into recent cloth printed paper title labels to front board and spine endpapers added. Moderate toning to text faint vertical crease through center small inkspots to a few leaves. $500. Only edition. In this unusual trial Townley was found sane and guilty of the murder of his fiancee but insane afterwards and thus incapable of execution. The discussion of this case in the interesting pamphlets examines among other related topics partial impulsive and "moral" insanity. OCLC locates 13 copies in North America 1 in a law library U.S. Supreme Court. unknown books