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1844Best.-Nr. 56249Boston 1844. First Edition. First printing. Octavo 24cm. Printed pink paper wrappers; 32pp; wood engraving of Fairchild on front cover and final page. Untrimmed rubbed with marginal chips covers detached minor foxing: Good only. Fairchild a Congregationalist minister was tried for seducing Rhoda Davidson a domestic worker in his employ. This pamphlet reports on his trial by an Ecclesiastical Council in which he was convicted; later he was tried in a Boston municipal court and acquitted. The entire scandal was widely reported on in the New England press. unknown books
1964Best.-Nr. 9013350New York: Grove Press 1964. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. The dust jacket is price clipped. Grove Press hardcover books
1969Best.-Nr. 9014499University Alabama: University of Alabama Press 1969. 1st. Hardcover. Fine condition / Near fine condition dust jacket. The dust jacket has minor wear to the extremities. University of Alabama Press hardcover books
1964Best.-Nr. 9007143Montrouge France: Gallimard 1964. 1st. paperback. Fine Condition. Number 25 of 26 copies. Bound in the publisher's original vellum wrappers with the front cover and spine stamped in black and red. Unopened. Text is in French. Gallimard paperback books
1997Best.-Nr. UENGOLI00acmfSimon & Schuster 1997. Very Good. English Todd. The Olives Table. Sampson Sally. NY: Simon & Schuster 1997. 367pp. 4to. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good with gentle bumping. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with gentle bumping. Simon & Schuster hardcover books
1972Best.-Nr. ULAOTAO00jknVintage Books c1972. Very Good. . Tao Te Ching. English Jane; Feng Gia-Fu. New York: Vintage Books c1972. Illustrated. Bibliography. 4to. Paperback. Book condition: . Vintage Books paperback books
1942Best.-Nr. 600572Norfolk: New Directions 1942. Softcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Stapled unprinted wrappers in a printed dust jacket. Wraps and endleaves toned lower corner bumped about near fine in a price-clipped price in dollars remains about near fine dust jacket with light toning a few faint stains a bump and a chip in the lower corner. New Directions unknown books
1959Best.-Nr. 596184New York: Vantage Press 1959. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Forewords by John N. Rosen and O. Spurgeon English. Octavo. 104pp. Owner stamp and signature of a noted American psychologist on the front fly and binding a trifle worn else fine in modestly rubbed near fine dust jacket. Brody was a longtime professor of psychiatry at Temple University. John N. Rosen is quoted on the jacket: "From my point of view Dr. Brody's work constitutes a turning point in the presentation of this subject. ." Although Rosen was respected in his time the story of his practice is a tragic one. Here is a lengthy quote from a review of Edward Dolinick's Madness on the Couch written by Joanne Sitarski and published in The Harvard Crimson: "John Rosen a psychiatrist from Philadelphia did not beat around the bush when he treated his patients. Looking into their eyes he told neurotic patients they were 'crazy' accused schizophrenics of 'lying' and threatened to 'kill' any patient who acted 'abnormal.' His methodology was drastic brutal and surprisingly well admired by his peers. He was awarded a faculty position at Temple University Medical School and the Man of the Year award from the American Academy of Psychotherapy. From the 1950s to the late 1970s Rosen was psychiatry's Superman; he soared to the peak of his profession with the claim that he could cure any psychosis. But like all superheroes Rosen too was make-believe. In 1983 he was forced to surrender his medical license. Rosen faced 67 violations of the Pennsylvania Medical Practices Act that ranged from curing schizophrenics who had never had schizophrenia to sequestering patients in dungeons and cells extending his definition of 'drastic' to a new level of inhumane." A vanity-published apologia for the work of a discredited psychologist known for his brutal tactics. Vantage Press hardcover books
1928Best.-Nr. 596323New York: Henry Holt and Company 1928. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Small octavo. viii 236pp. Owner stamp and signature of a noted American psychologist on the front fly binding with moderate wear and soil endleaves a bit tanned very good and sound. Henry Holt and Company hardcover books
1850Best.-Nr. 17142Philadelphia: Fisher and Brother n.d. ca. 1850 Later edition. First published by Truman Smith and Co. in 1834. Later editions of the present work are often misdated as 1834 because of the copyright date on the verso of the title- page but Ruth E. Adomeit gives a date range of 1850 to 1875 for these later editions Three Centuries of Thumb Bibles A80. The physical properties of this particular copy indicate that it was published the earlier end of the range around 1850. . Publisher's purple cloth with gilt-titled spine and design of a child's head blindstamped on lower board. . Miniature book 17/8" x 21/8". . With a woodcut frontispiece title-page vignette and twenty-seven full-page illustrations all printed in black. Engravings by Alexander Anderson 1775 – 1870. Binding slightly loose. Some light foxing. A very good copy. The present work is a simplified rendition of the Bible for a child audience. We could not locate any information about the "Lady of Cincinnati" who authored the work. Fisher and Brother, hardcover books
1937Best.-Nr. 2222088First American edition. Octavo. Original blue cloth stamped in black. No foxing. Very good unclipped; minor edge rubbing. 231 pages. No signatures. Small bookseller ticket. Barzun Catalogue of Crime #2408. Dodd, Mead & Company hardcover books
1959Best.-Nr. 2222109Ninth printing March 1959. Octavo. Dust jacket unclipped; short tear; nicks designed by William Belcher. Very good. 640 pages 6 pages of ads for other Doyle works. Bookplate of E. Raymond Lake. Printed by Butler & Tanner Ltd. Frome and London. First issued in 1929 - The various later editions have different dust jacket designs ads and printers. John Murray hardcover books
1919Best.-Nr. 2222114First edition. Octavo. Pictorial dust jacket unclipped; short tears; small chips. Very good. 404 pages 6 pages of ads.Enclosed in green 1/2 morocco slipcase the spine faded to brown.Small label of New York dealer House of Books Ltd. on rear pastedown. William Heinemann hardcover books
1917Best.-Nr. 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
1909Best.-Nr. 001416New York and London: Hodder and Stoughton 1909. Full Vellum. Very Good. N.d 1909 the first of Dulac's versions of the Rubaiyat. Limited edition No. 1 of 200 intended for the U.S. market. With 20 tipped-in plates. Folio 32 by 25 cm 12.5 by 10 inches. Interior tight and generally clean. Browning of page edges which were cut unevenly. Browning of card stock leaves upon which plated tipped onto. Vellum has film of soilage all about and gilt lettering mostly faded on spine less so on board decoration. Note that the American limited run was NOT signed by Dulac. Hodder and Stoughton unknown books
1549Best.-Nr. U91The newe Testament of the last translacion. By Wylliam Tyndall with the prologes and annotacions in the mergent declaryng many harde places conteyned in the texte also in the later ende foloweth the Epistles of the olde Testament. Description Title page printed in red and black 1549 with an architectural design with two supporting figures and below under an arch a recumbent figure writing. The title page is contemporary and perhaps supplied from another copy. The prelims include an Almanak Calendar and Tyndale's address to the reader. Text in single column black letter with 35 lines to the full column. The text closely follows the 1534 edition of William Tyndale. References subject headings and notes in the margins. Woodcut initials before each chapter. Tyndale's prologues before Matthew and each of the Epistles including his long introduction to Romans. Ends on dated colophon 1548. Collation unsigned4 -unsigned1-3 with authentic title page A6-A6 B-Z8-B-C6 lacking all text before Matthew 15 Aa-Nn8. 271 of 292 leaves. Prelims and all missing text supplied in color facsimile. Binding Rebound in period-style black calf. Covers with a diaper framework design within a rectangular frame. Spine with four raised bands and elaborate blind tooling to compartments. Endpapers renewed. Condition Lacking prelims and all text up to Matthew 15 except title page; Rr7 repaired to upper corner with a few missing words replaced in facsimile; Cc7 lower corner repaired; minor spotting and staining with slight damp-staining at the rear; a few small wormholes; a clean text with some early marginalia in places far better than typically seen of Tyndale New Testaments from the period. Provenance Bookplate of Bristol Baptist College Library to front pastedown with their shelf mark x.9.1 and identification 89b on front free endpaper. An inserted letter in a nineteenth century hand from Francis Fry attempting to identify the edition and inquiring of available copies at the library that match his description; accompanied by Christopher Anderson's response that no such copies exist. Anderson is the author of Annals of the English Bible. On a blank endpaper facing the title page an early inscription claims "Coverdale's Testament" yet this is corrected below in Fry's hand. "A Gifford" of the Baptist College Bristol Particular Baptist minister antiquarian book collector and librarian at the British Museum to headline of D1. Scarcity ESTC records only six institutional copies with only one in North America. RBH records only one copy at auction Ryrie sale also lacking many leaves. Note A rare and early Tyndale New Testament. Most of the copies from the forty editions of Tyndale's New Testament are from the final three printed editions. Heavily suppressed by Mary and produced from much smaller print runs. A true rare and collectible gem. References Herbert 77; ESTC S90918; Fry's No. 18. William Tylle hardcover books
1560Best.-Nr. V15The Bible and Holy Scriptures Conteyned in The Olde and Newe Testament. Translated According to the Ebrew and Greke and conferred with the best Translations in divers Languages. With Moste Profitable Annotations… Summary The first edition of the Geneva Bible. Unrivaled for three generations the Geneva translation produced by Marian exiles showed a distinct advance on its predecessors: Roman type portable size verse divisions marginal study notes and explanatory woodcuts. Its phrases find an echo in Scripture quotations from Shakespeare to Bunyan. Description General title page 1560 and prelims in facsimile. Text in two column Roman type ruled in red throughout. Two double-page maps are present 'The description of the holie land and other places mencioned in the foure Evangelistes'; 'The description of the countreis and places mencioned in the Actes of the Apostles' with the other three maps in facsimile. The font and woodcuts are both larger than the editions later printed in England. Apocrypha present as issued. New Testament title page 1560 with the woodcut of the crossing of the Red Sea. Concludes with the Two Tables and The Order of the Yeres. Bound with the first edition of the newly authorized 1650 Scottish Metrical Psalter: The Psalmes of David in Meeter printed by Evan Tyler in Edinburgh with title page 1650. First chapter woodcut initials throughout. Collation 4-1-4 general title and prelims in facsimile a-z4 A-Z4 Aa-Zz4 &6 Aaa-Zzz4 Aaaa-Zzzz4 Aaaaa-Bbbbb4 Aa-Zz4 -Tt1 Romans 8:1-9:33 in facsimile Aaa-Lll4. Binding Attractive brown calf featuring an 18th-century Scottish wheel design. Covers bordered with gilt fillets and centered with a large circular gilt wheel composed of radiating floral and foliate tools around a central rosette. Rebacked in matching calf with four raised bands blind tooling to compartments and the words "Holy Bible" and "1560" lettered in gilt. Endpapers renewed. Corners slightly bumped. Condition First three leaves of Genesis strengthened to edges with loss to a few sidenotes of last two leaves; trimmed with headlines occasionally cropped; occasional soiling and staining; Ddd-Lll some repairs to lower corner infrequently costing a few letters of sidenotes. NT title page lightly stained to fore-edge; upper corner repair to final few leaves of Tables. Provenance Contemporary ownership inscriptions "Deme Alesone Sandelandes" repeated on the New Testament title-page and verso of the double-page map in John 20. This Bible's first owner is likely Dame Alison Sandilands d. 1584 Lady Ormiston a member of the prominent Sandilands family of Calder and wife of John Cockburn of Ormiston one of the early supporters of the Scottish Reformation. The Ormiston household stood close to the circle of John Knox: Knox served as tutor to Alison's son Alexander Cockburn while the Protestant martyr George Wishart was sheltered at Ormiston shortly before his arrest in 1546. Alison herself participated in the circulation and preservation of Reformation writings and Henry Balnaves's Confession of Faith was dedicated to her when published in 1584. Later 17th-century family records to verso of The Order of the Yeres include births in 1672 and 1676 the ownership inscription of Mary Hill and a record of the death of her father Charles Hill on 22 October 1691." Note First edition of the Geneva Bible the most important and widely read English Bible for more than a century. Produced by English Protestant exiles who had fled Marian persecution for Geneva it was the first complete English Bible translated directly from the original biblical languages and the first English Bible printed in roman type and with verse divisions. Designed as a portable and readable Bible for everyday devotion and study its title page departed from the elaborate woodcut designs of earlier English Bibles such as the Coverdale Matthew's and Great Bibles instead featuring a modest image of the Israelites trapped at the Red Sea. Hemmed in by the sea mountains and the pursuing Egyptian army the Israelites turn to God for deliverance a scene that invites readers to see a parallel between Israel's bondage and the plight of the persecuted English church in exile awaiting God's deliverance and the opportunity to return home. The Geneva Bible quickly became the Bible of the English Protestant household and retained its popular preeminence until its gradual suppression and displacement following the introduction of the King James Version in 1611. Bound with the first edition of the newly translated metrical Psalter authorized by the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland containing the enduring Scottish version of Psalm 23 beginning "The Lord's my shepherd I'll not want." References Herbert 107; USTC 450496; Luborsky 2108; PMM 83 Bible; ESTC R39597 Psalter. Rouland Hall hardcover books
1800Best.-Nr. D6751circa 1800. Hardcover. Very Good. Full red morocco arms of George III stamped in gilt on boards lettering "Standing Orders" and ornament stamped in gilt on spine a.e.g. inside gilt dentelles; 8vo 5x7 inches; approx. pp. 200 entries beautifully handwritten in ink with numbered subject headings in the margins and an index at rear. Scuffing along joints and edges of boards; joints tender. Recorded by one or two scribes addressing parliamentary procedures in the 17th and 18th centuries. hardcover books
1894Best.-Nr. 2349Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company by the Riverside Press Cambridge Mass 1894. POETRY ILLUSTRATED. 8vo 8 ½" x 6 5/8"; 58 French-fold plates; glazed gray cloth over beveled board gilt and black stamped decoration to front decorated title on spine; gilt top edge; peach eps printed with a floral and fruit design in navy; 26 French-fold glazed plates printed with 52 illustrations in black & white half-tone; light scuff to corners else fine. A beautiful translation of Khayyám's quatrains numbered and presented within Aesthetic-style illustrations by Elihu Vedder. The fifty-two full-page illustrations are followed by twenty-three pages of the quatrains without illustrations and also by notes from Edward Fitzgerald on their meanings. The illustrator Elihu Vedder 1836-1923 was an American who trained in New York City Paris and Italy. The Pre-Raphaelites English and Irish mystics and the Italian Renaissance influenced his work. His mural decoration can be seen in the hallway of the Reading Room in the Library of Congress. WIKI Omar Khayyám 1048-1131 A.D. was a Persian poet and polymath of the Seljuk Empire. He was learned in mathematics philosophy astronomy sciences and religion. Houghton Mifflin and Company, by the Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass unknown books
Best.-Nr. 60744Hichliffe writes to thank the Duke his kind words in his behalf especailly "in the distracted and perilous state of this Country nothing but very important reasons od a publick nature can justify ." He ends by saying that he hopes to dine wth the Duke on the 28th . signed "John Peterborough". Very good condition. unknown books
Best.-Nr. 60752This is a chatty letter noting that they will get together next Saturday. It includes the long transcription of an "horrortorio original about Calderon entitied "The Fiend" Storey was a prolific painter who specialized in historical genre paintings the typical subject matter of the St. John's Wood Clique and portraits.In his later career Storey continued to paint but also worked on books publishing two of his own.Finally in February 1914 at age 80 Storey became Professor of Perspective at the Royal Academy and was elected a full Academician that May. unknown books
1904Best.-Nr. 538381Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1904. Softcover. Good. Pictorial card covers with cloth tape spine. 156pp. Poet Daniel Hoffman's copy with his name penned on front fly with his penned underlining on first few pages another owner name crossed-out on front fly corners worn and curled good only. Houghton Mifflin Company unknown books
1907Best.-Nr. 1354New York: G. Ricordi & Co. 12 West 45th Street 1907. wraps. Near fine. 8vo; 64pp; stiff grey pictorial wrapper; 2 staple binding; rear wrapper advertisement for Knabe pianos with pictorial portraits of opera artists; light age-toning; near fine. English translation and text of the opera Madama Butterfly. G. Ricordi & Co., 12 West 45th Street unknown books
1912Best.-Nr. 1355New York: Boosey & Hawkes Inc 1912. Wraps. Very good . 8vo; 134 3pp 1 publisher's ads; stiff grey pictorial wrapper; rear wrapper advertisement for Knabe pianos with pictorial portraits of opera artists; light glue burns to spine and front wrapper light chipping of head and tail of spine; very good plus. English translation and text of the opera Der Rosenkavalier The Rose-Bearer. Boosey & Hawkes, Inc unknown books
1932Best.-Nr. 1109New York: Edward B. Marks Music Co 1932. Ephemera no binding. Very good. Gonzalo ROIG music. 11 3/4" x 9 1/8"; 5 1pp; color pictorial front wrapper; ad for Radio's 4 Big Hits on rear wrapper; 5/8" split at top of fold; very good. Featured by Les Brown and His Orchestra. Edward B. Marks Music Co unknown books
