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1732rif. 116744London: Printed for James John and Paul Knapton 1732. Second edition of Tindal's translation of Paul de Rapin's monumental history of England. Folio Volume I. bound in full contemporary calf illustrated with engraved folding maps and genealogical charts headpieces tailpieces and initials. In good condition. French historian Paul de Rapin's History of England as an influential exposition of the Whig view of history on both sides of the English Channel. Initially published in French all volumes of his work were translated to English in a total of 14 volumes from 1727 by the Reverend Nicolas Tindal who added large numbers of informative notes throughout the volumes which were illustrated with engravings maps and genealogical tables of great quality. Printed for James, John, and Paul Knapton unknown books
1971rif. 115039Garden City New York: Doubleday & Co. Inc 1971. Signed limited edition of this anthology of the Russian poet's essays with English adaptations by James Dickey Geoffrey Dutton Lawrence Ferlinghetti Anthony Kahn and John Updike among others. Octavo original cloth. One of 250 numbered copies signed by Yevtushenko this is number 113. Near fine in the original slip case. Soviet and Russian poet director and actor Yevgeny Yevtushenko published over one hundred novels screenplays and collections of poems throughout his prolific career. Judith Colp of The Washington Times has described Yevtushenko as "his country's most controversial modern poet a man whose reputation is poised between courageous behind-the-scenes reformer and failed dissident." Doubleday & Co., Inc hardcover books
1763rif. 6390Cambridge: John Baskerville 1763. Very Good/Printing a grand bible had been Baskerville's cherished ambition but the royal privilege belonged exclusively to Oxford and Cambridge Universities. Consequently Baskerville applied and was elected printer to the University of Cambridge. An innovator a micromanager a workaholic and an exacting perfectionist he threw everything into the bible project. He invented a stiffer blacker ink for it designed the types and the page layout and demanded smoother paper than was generally available. Ultimately he emptied his own bank accounts and borrowed money when the support of subscribers failed. Indeed he was not able to sell the entire edition of 1250 copies and ended up remaindering more than a third of the press run for pence on the guinea to his enormous personal disappointment and financial pain. The book remains a landmark in the history of English printing "one of the most beautiful books printed in the world" according to the bibliographer Frognall Dibdin a sentiment frequently echoed in Great Britain. This copy with the third longest list of subscribers ending with York. . Imperial folio 50 cm; 573 leaves. Text in double columns. In straight-grain blue morocco with gold-tooled border. Rebacked with original gold-tooled spine laid down. All edges gilt. Later reinforcements to joints and hinges. Light foxing on first and last leaves. Old bookplate on pastedown. Extra shipping charges will apply. References: Gaskell "John Baskerville a Bibliography" 26; Rothschild 2640; Darlow & Moule 857. John Baskerville unknown books
2017rif. UENGMOO00fpAvalon Travel 2017. Fine. English Erin. Moon Rocky Mountain National Park. Berkeley CA: Avalon Travel 2017. 311pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 12mo. Paperback. Book condition: Near fine. Inscribed by author on first page. Avalon Travel paperback books
1937rif. 147541N.p.: N.p. 1937. Draft script for the 1937 film. With the name of character Mary Field and actor Suzanne Kaaren uncredited in the final film added to the cast list in holograph pencil and with a few minor holograph pencil emendations throughout. Screenplay divided into eight alphabetical Sequences A through H. A melancholic romantic comedy by Ernst Lubitsch about a love triangle between Lady Maria Barker Marlene Dietrich her husband the British diplomat Sir Frederich Barker Herbert Marshall and the charming traveler Anthony Halton Melvyn Douglas set throughout Europe with an oncoming war looming. Set in London Paris and Vienna. In a custom quarter leather clamshell box. Untitled self wrappers. 175 leaves with last page of text numbered H-19. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with white revision pages throughout dated variously between 1/28/37 and 2-1-37. Pages Very Good plus some front leaves with light soiling wrapper Very Good lightly soiled dampstaining separating at the spine side stapled with three staples. N.p. unknown books
1944rif. 146004Hollywood: Republic Productions 1944. Shooting script for the 1944 film. Single holograph pencil notation to the front wrapper. A physician researching life-after-death is possessed by the spirit of an executed murderer who uses the doctor's body to exact vengeance on those involved in his death. A Jekyll-and-Hyde-style supernatural horror B-movie unusual for Republic Productions who were better known for their Western pictures. Tan partial titled wrapper noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT on the front wrapper noted as production No. 1463 dated October 3 1944 with credits for screenwriter John K. Butler. Title page integral to the first page of text dated October 3 1944. 82 leaves with last page of text numbered 80. Mimeographed rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated 10/14/44. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with splashes to the front wrapper bound with two gold brads. Republic Productions unknown books
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1965rif. UINGMAM00AFStanford University Press 1965. Very Good. Ingles Lloyd G. Mammals of the Pacific States: California Oregon Washington. Stanford California: Stanford University Press 1965. 506pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good with first page price clipped. Lightly bumped extremities and faded spine. Small split in foot of rear joint. Stanford University Press hardcover books
1984rif. UENGINF00LNWPraeger 1984. Very Good. English John A. On Infantry. New York: Praeger 1984. 264pp. Indexed. Illustrated. Bibliography. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with a brief pencil notation on blank final page. Praeger paperback books
1964rif. 155291Park Forest IL: The Prairie School Press 1964. First edition. Hardcover. 69 pages. English's first book of poems. A very good copy with some foxing to the page edges in a very good price clipped dust jacket that has some rubbing and wear. Signed and inscribed by Helen W. D. English on the front free endpaper to poet Linda Pastan and with a letter from English presenting this book to Pastan as she was the winner of the Maurce English Poetry Award. An interesting copy. The Prairie School Press unknown books
1978rif. UGRAARC00DCThe Israel Museum 1978. Very Good. Grafman R. English Translator and Editor. Architecture in the Hanukkah Lamp. Landau Exhibition Curator Suzanne. Jerusalem: The Israel Museum 1978. 4to. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with gentle bumping. Cover is slightly yellowed along edges from light exposure. The Israel Museum paperback books
1955rif. 128288Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1955. Draft script for the 1955 film. A crew of Air Force soldiers are called in for a difficult bombing mission on the border of Manchuria and North Korea and while the mission is successful in the end it takes a hefty toll on the group. White untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Gries. 155 leaves mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1917rif. RGORSHI00LAWAlfred A. Knopf 1917. Good. Gorky Maxim. The Shield. Andreyev Leonid; Sologub Fydor; Walling foreword William English; Yarmolinsky translator A. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1917. 1st edition. 209pp. 12mo. Yellow cloth with cobalt lettering. Book condition: Good with lighlty bumped corners lighlty smudged extremities synagogue library envelope & slip adhered to rear pastedown and synagogue library stamps on title page and top edge of textblock. Ex-Synagogue library copy. Rare. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1989rif. UEHRFOR00NJAnchor Books 1989. Very Good. Ehrenreich Barbara. For Her Own Good : 150 Years of the Experts' Advice to Women. English Deirdre. New York: Anchor Books 1989. 369pp. Indexed. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good. Light rubbing to extremities. Anchor Books paperback books
1972rif. 133021San Diego CA: Legend Films 1972. Draft British script for the 1973 film. Alec Guinness plays here against type imbuing his Adolf Hitler with an introverted solemnity. Set almost entirely inside Hitler's Berlin bunker the film chronicles the dying days of the Third Reich as the Allied armies close in on Berlin. Guinness' Hitler is an enclosed depressive who sinks slowly into madness depression and ultimately suicide as his 1000-Year Reich collapses around him. A co-production between Italy and the UK made by Ennio De Concini better known for his many exploitation films of the 1970s. Blue titled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present dated 10th July 1972 with credits for screenwriter-director De Concini screenwriters Fusco and Reinhardt and English adaptation writer Moffat. 128 leaves roneograph on eye-rest green stock. Pages about Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two silver brads. Legend Films unknown books
1818rif. 23922London: Published by J. Hatchard and Williams and Co. 1818 1818. First edition first issue without the author's name on the title-page. OCLC records about 16 copies of the two issues combined; not found in Block or Garside Raven & Schöwerling. Binding rubbed; some light foxing and faint stains; very good copy. 12mo contemporary calf rebacked gilt rules and lettering. An uncommon and unusual novel written in the form of a memoir of seven days that two men the narrator and his guide Mr. Grey spend roaming the streets of London in search of answers about the morality and sanity of the world. They report on Londoners from all walks of life in their visits to banks the Stock Exchange coffee-houses Covent Garden St. James's "on a court-day" an auction house the Scientific Institute the British Museum and a "chapel for frail females" among many other places. The narrator and Mr. Grey discuss a multitude of subjects including fiction religion cruelty to animals and prostitution. And among the many conversations they record is one between a bookseller an author and two reviewers. Each evening they return to their inn to discuss that day's events and their conclusions about the moral madness of the world its follies and vices. The Insane World was apparently sufficiently popular that its author Thomas Williams 1755-1839 put his name on the title-page of a reissue in which there are also two pages inserted of excerpts from reviews. Modern bookplate of Mary Kenny on the front free endpaper. London: Published by J. Hatchard and Williams and Co., 1818 unknown books
1908rif. 2222160First American edition from British sheets. Large thick octavo. Titles in red and black. Illustrated. Original red cloth t.e.g. uncut. No dust jacket. Good spines faded; wear at head and foot of spines; partial tear to joint of Vol. II; few stains. 465 pages; 482 pages. 2 volumes. From the library of noted "Gone With The Wind" Hollywood director George Cukor with his Paul Landacre Bookplate on the front pastedown. Printed by T. & A. Constable Edinburgh. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
rif. 4557LAWRENCE HYDE FIRST EARL OF ROCHESTER 1641-1711. Rochester was named a Lord of the Treasury in 1679. In 1681 he was elevated from Viscount Hyde of Kenilworth to Earl of Rochester. He had friction with King James II and was dismissed from the Treasury in December 1686 with a substantial pension. ROBERT HOWARD 1626-1698. An English Restoration dramatist Howard is best remembered for The Indian Queen and The Committee as well as his ongoing literary feud with John Dryden. During the English Revolution Howard sided with the Royalists at the Battle of Newbury and was imprisoned. After the Restoration he was elected to Parliament and made auditor of the Exchequer. DS. 1pg. 8 ½” x 8 ½”. May 15 1686. Whitehall Treasury Chambers. A document signed “Rochester”. It was written to Robert Howard the auditor of the Exchequer: “At my hearty Commendation By Virtue of his Majesty’s Letters Patents authorizing the payment of the yearly Sallarys sic to the Judges These are to pray and require you to make and pass Debentures for payment of such Summes of moneye sic as are and shall from time to time be due to Richard Hearn Serjeant at Law and one of the Barons of his Majesty’s Court of Exchequer upon his Sallary of One thousand pounds per annum according to the direction of the said Letters Patents and let sic the same be satisfied out of any his Majesty’s Treasure now or hereafter being and remaining in the receipt of the Exchequer not appropriated to particular uses by Act of Parliament For which this shall be your Warrant. Treasury Chamber the 15th day of May 1686. Rochester”. The document is addressed “To my very Loving friend Sr Rob’t Howard Auditor of his Majesty’s Records of Exchequer.” This document concerns the creation of some of the first exchequer bills of credit which was England’s first attempts at paper currency. Obviously it was cumbersome to pay people since lengthy documents such as this example had to be written out and signed by an official. The first bank to permanently use banknotes was the Bank of England in 1695. The currency promised to pay the bearer the value of the note on demand. The next year the Bank of Scotland followed suit. The document has chipping to the margins and three tape stains to the edges and is in very good condition. The manuscript comes with numerous articles about the Scottish economist John Law who first introduced paper money in France and lecture notes from what seems to be an economics professor who used this document in his or her classes. unknown books
1976rif. 40587San Francisco: Agenda Publishing Company 1976. First Edition. Octavo 21cm.; original cream pictorial staplebound wrappers; 95pp.; photographic illus. Light soil to wrappers and a few internal pages else Very Good or better. Collection of essays which originally appeared in the Socialist Revolution later the Socialist Review including Fernbach's "Toward a Marxist Theory of Gay Liberation. Agenda Publishing Company unknown books
1912rif. 28241New York: Macmillan 1912. First Edition. Octavo. Red textured cloth; 452ppads. Solid straight copy; endpapers lightly soiled and creased; Very Good. Macmillan unknown books
1973rif. 134228London: Martin Brian & O'Keeffe 1973. Octavo 142 pp. boards. First edition. The author's fourth book and first collection of short fiction. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #134228 Martin Brian & O'Keeffe unknown books
1939rif. 112672London: Published for the English Association by the Oxford University Press 1939. Octavo original cloth. First edition first printing. Thirteen stories by Stella Benson John Galsworthy Richard Hughes M. R. James and others whose chosen stories "are intended to be characteristic of their writers and representative of the modern short story technique. They have also been chosen with a view to their use in Schools." - Preface. A clean bright very good copy. #112672 Published for the English Association by the Oxford University Press unknown books
rif. 37121Single leaf 8" x 13" completely in ink manuscript on blue paper. Old folds a few pinholes along folds affecting six to eight letters. Else Very Good. "DEAR SIR I HOLD A COMMISSION FROM YOUR EXCELLENCY AS BEAT COMMANDANT BEARING DATE OF FEB. 14TH 64. I HAVE FILLED THE DUTIES IMPOSED UPON ME BY SAID COMMISSION TO THE BEST OF MY ABILITY AND WHEN YOUR EXCELLENCY CALLED OUT THE MILITIA LAST AUGUST I VOLUNTEERED IN A COMPANY OF CAVALRY AND WAS ELECT 2D LIEUT AND IN THAT CAPACITY HAVE SERVED YOUR EXCELLENCY FAITHFULLY TO THIS TIME AND AM WILLING TO CONTINUE TO DO SO AT THE SAME TIME I THINK IT JUST THAT I SHOULD HAVE THE SAME RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES THAT OTHER BEAT COMMANDANTS HAS AND FOR THIS REASON I PRESUME TO WRITE YOUR EXCELLENCY THIS LETTER. "LAST YEAR I GAVE BOND FOR THE DELIVERY TO THE CONFEDERATE GOVT OF FIFTEEN HUNDRED POUNDS OF BACON & FIFTEEN HUNDRED POUNDS OF BEEF. I THEREFORE ASK YOUR EXCELLENCY TO GRANT ME A CERTIFICATE OF EXEMPTION FROM ENROLLMENT IN THE CONFEDERATE ARMY. I MAKE THIS REQUEST OF YOUR EXCELLENCY BECAUSE I THINK I HAVE SERVED YOU FAITHFULLY AS ONE OF YOUR OFFICERS AND HONESTLY THINK I AM ENTITLED TO THE SAME RIGHTS AS OTHER OFFICERS IN THIS COUNTY. I BELIEVE YOUR EXCELLENCY WOULD UPON INQUIRY THAT I AM THE ONLY BEAT COMMANDANT IN THIS COUNTY THAT IS DOING SERVICE IN THE FIELD. MY RANK AS BEAT COMMANDANT IS THAT OF 2D LIEUT. HOPING TO HEAR FROM YOUR EXCELLENCY SOON I SUBSCRIBE MYSELF YOUR EXCELLENCY'S OBT. SERVANT. JONATHAN ENGLISH. 2D LIEUT. WATTS RANGERS." The author was Jonathan Q. English 1831-1865 a farmer from Monroe County Alabama. He was 2nd Lieutenant of the mounted Alabama Infantry Company known as the English Independent Cavalry or Watts' Rangers which had been formed by his cousin Capt. Thomas C. English 1819-1884 a brother-in-law of Gen. George McClellan. Less than seven weeks after writing this Letter English died near his home during the Battle of Eliska near the Baldwin/Monroe County line. Very few of the Company's men survived the Battle; but his cousin Thomas survived and was promoted to Major. At the time of his death Jonathan had a wife and four young children. unknown books
1979rif. 2311359New York: Grosset & Dunlap 1979. Abridged. Large Softcover. Very Good. Front wrapper creased. 1979 Large Softcover. 95 pp. Abridged. A commonsense guide to raising a happy dog while keeping its owner happy too. Includes the following essential information: choosing the right breed to suit your personality; understanding the signals your puppy gives you; techniques to handle city dogs and their country cousins; housebreaking your pet to suit your schedule; crimes and punishments--how to discipline your dog; fundamentals of obedience--heeling staying and basic turns to make your pet the Fred Astaire of dogs. Grosset & Dunlap paperback books
rif. 16398The Case of William Ball. Official Brutality on the Increase. London: Men's Political Union for Women's Enfranchisement 1912. 1 page. 11 x 8 ¾ in. Flyer publicizes the inhumane treatment suffered by a man jailed for supporting the women's suffrage movement. Like many suffrage activists jailed at this time William Ball protested his imprisonment though hunger strike and the document details the forced feeding isolation and physical and mental torture sustained by a man jailed for just over a month before he was declared "insane." The documents calls for those "who care about freedom" to stand with the Men's Political Union oppose the atrocious government and fight to "secure the full and equal citizenship for the women of our country." Printed in green and purple ink referencing the official colors for many suffrage groups this handbill shows the solidarity and support that many men had for women's rights. Handling dents especially along right and bottom edges. Loss to bottom left corner. Some light scattered stains. Very good. unknown books
