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1977réf. 12041Carbondale IL: Illinois State Historical Society 1977. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Hard Cover. Signed. Near Fine in a Near Fine pink marbled dustjacket. Minor fading to spine of dust jacket. Signed by both authors on the front flyleaf. American Biographical History. BIO1/1282. Illinois State Historical Society unknown books
réf. 24680New York c. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine. Willy Pogany. Clean well-preserved copy of this early lovely Willy Pogany-illustrated edition of The Rubaiyat with its 12 lavish full-page tipped-in color plates complementing Omar Khayyam's immortal text here translated into English by Edward FitzGerald. Circa 1920. Tight and Near Fine in its russet cloth with bright gilt-titling and device along the front panel and spine. Also includes a solid crisp example of the publisher's scarce original dark-green box which shows very light wear and scuffing along the edges but has protected the book itself very well. unknown books
1962réf. 21887New York: Tower Publications 1962. Original wraps. Near Fine. A gorgeous copy of the 1964 1st printing. Bright crisp and very tight. Almost as new. Small former owner stamp at the bottom of the title page. Pocketbook Midwood F227. "Even befor she got on the staff Eve knew she would be taking more than dictation. Tower Publications unknown books
réf. 06417London: John C. Nimmo 1885. The English Dramatists on Large Paper A Finely Bound Brian Frost Set of the Great Elizabethan and Jacobean Playwrights ENGLISH DRAMATISTS. The English Dramatists Edited by A. H. Bullen. London: John C. Nimmo 1885-1888. Large-paper issue one of only 120 numbered copies printed on laid paper. Sixteen octavo volumes 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 222 x 140 mm. Title-pages printed in red and black throughout with etched portrait frontispiece of Thomas Middleton in the first volume. Comprising: Thomas Middleton 1580-1627. 8 volumes. 1885; Christopher Marlowe 1564-1593. 3 volumes. 1885; John Marston 1576-1634. 3 volumes. 1887 and George Peele 1556-1596. 2 volumes. 1888. Handsomely bound circa 1960 by Brian Frost in three-quarter green morocco over green cloth boards ruled in blind spines with five raised bands decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments marbled endpapers top edges gilt. Spines a little faded otherwise a fine and elegant set. An important scholarly edition devoted to the principal non-Shakespearean dramatists of the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage. Under the editorship of A. H. Bullen - one of the foremost literary scholars of his generation - these volumes helped restore serious attention to the extraordinary richness and diversity of Renaissance English drama beyond Shakespeare himself. The centerpiece of the collection is the extensive edition of Thomas Middleton whose darkly satirical and psychologically acute plays have increasingly come to be regarded among the greatest achievements of the Jacobean theater. Included alongside Middleton are the complete dramatic works of Christopher Marlowe Shakespeare's brilliant predecessor whose Doctor Faustus Tamburlaine and Edward II transformed English tragedy; John Marston master of fierce satire and decadent comedy; and George Peele among the earliest and most lyrical dramatists of the Elizabethan stage. Printed in a strictly limited large-paper issue of only 120 sets and attractively rebound by the noted Bath binder Brian Frost the present set offers both scholarly importance and considerable shelf appeal - a distinguished collection of the great voices of the English Renaissance theater. London: John C. Nimmo, 1885 unknown books
réf. 06244Paris: Printed by P. Didot Sen. and sold by W. Edwards and Sons Halifax 1791. A Superb Early Edwards of Halifax Vellum Binding with an Edwards Fore-Edge Painting FORE-EDGE PAINTING. EDWARDS OF HALIFAX binder and artist. BIBLE IN ENGLISH. The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church according to the use of the Church of England: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David. Paris: Printed by P. Didot Sen. and sold by W. Edwards and Sons Halifax 1791. Twelvemo 5 5/8 x 3 3/8 inches; 143 x 86 mm. ii title-page verso blank xxii preface & table 408 pp. With a fine contemporary fore-edge painting by Edwards of Halifax. The scene is St. Martin's Church Canterbury and shows the single figure of a cemetery worker seated on the ground and behind him a row of grave stones Full contemporary vellum covers bordered in dark blue with Greek key pattern enclosing a decorative gilt border. Smooth spine elaborately decorated in gilt with dark blue stained spine labels lettered in gilt. Gilt decorated board edges and turn-ins pink marbled endpapers all edges gilt. A wonderful example of an Edwards of Halifax ' Fore-Edge' painting on a book originally bound and sold by Edwards of Halifax. Neat ink gift inscription on second front blank "Eliz. Buckle. / April 2 1818." Provenance: Elizabeth Buckle; Tony Hattersley. Tony Hattersley was a renowned English antiquarian bookseller who retired to a giant granite mansion hidden up the valley behind Whitby Dracula's landing place. His books were sold by Bonham's in two parts. Part 1 11/09/07. Paris: Printed by P. Didot Sen. and sold by W. Edwards and Sons, Halifax, 1791 unknown books
1929réf. 23537London: The Haymarket Press 1929. Limited edition. Hardcover. Very good. Illustrated with four color plates by W Russell Flint. Thin 4to. 47pp. One of 100 copies; this is number 8. Limp vellum spine and upper board with title in gilt. General light soil to the vellum and ties else a very good copy. The extra suite of plates has been mounted on blank pages leaving a small adhesive discoloration on the margin of the plates and on the supporting page. . The Haymarket Press hardcover books
réf. 23542Kentfield CA: The Allen Press 1970. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. Tall 4to. 56 leaves unnumbered. Finely printed by hand by Lewis and Dorothy Allen ion all-rag handmade Umbria paper made in Italy. Printed damp on an 1846 Columbian handpress. Decorative page heading in Hebrew with sentences from the first chapter of Genesis. Asian green endshets and guards for the illustratioms. Bound in Fortuna cloth in an Iranian design hand blocked in Venice. 24 illustrations engraved by Blair Hughes-Stanton. Title in green and brown woodcuts printed in brown; green and orange used for highlights in the text. The endsheets are lightly faded from the adhesive else this is a fine copy housed in the original slipcase. One of 140 copies. Allen Press Bibliography No. 35. . The Allen Press hardcover books
réf. 04269Oxford: Printed at the University Press by S. Collingwood and Co. 1839. A Fine Mid-Nineteenth Century Book of Common Prayer BIBLE IN ENGLISH. The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church According to the Use of the United Church of England and Ireland: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David pointed as they are to be sung or said in churches; and the form and manner of making ordaining and consecrating of bishops priests and deacons. Oxford: Printed at the University Press by S. Collingwood and Co. 1839. Sixteenmo 3 1/2 x 2 inches; 89 x 51 mm. Unpaginated. Contemporary full purple morocco covers decoratively bordered in gilt and blind spine with four raised bands decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments decorative gilt board edges and turn-ins yellow coated end-papers all edges gilt. Neat early ink inscription on front blank. A fine example. Oxford: Printed at the University Press, by S. Collingwood and Co..., 1839 unknown books
1611réf. 17388London: Robert Barker 1611. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Folio. The First and Second Books of Kings complete in 36 leaves. The first page is the final page of the previous book 2 Samuel; on the reverse begins 'The First Booke of the Kings commonly called The third Booke of the Kings'. 36pp. followed by 'The Second Booke of the Kings commonly called The fourth Booke of the Kings' 35pp. The final page ends II Kings and begins I Chronicles. Printed in black letter woodcut initials. Recent binding of quarter calf gilt titles Cockerell marbled paper boards. Some remargining no loss and old stains else a very good copy in a fine binding The binder's notes itemize the steps in rebinding including leaf disinfectant for the stains. Darlow & Moule 240. Robert Barker hardcover books
1818réf. 17093Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd 1818. Hardcover. Very good. 12mo. 108pp. Publishers original drab brown cloth; upper board blocked in gilt with title within a floral design. Ink name on front pastedown. Cloth soiled binding lightly shaken gilt rubbed else a very good copy. The date of publication is taken from the Advertisement page 4. This seems to be the first Oliver and Boyd printing of a hieroglyphic Bible and the second Edinburgh printing after the Doig and Sterling edition of 1814. The accepted publicaton date for this Bible is 1818; three other known copies are known to have been issued either in quarter leather and marbled paper boards or in printed card covers. Our copy is in what is clearly publisher's cloth with gilt blocked on the upper board. This combination is unknown before 1826. It is likely then that the textblock while printed earlier was bound after 1826. Exceedingly scarce. Protected in a custom clamshell box. Oliver & Boyd hardcover books
1958réf. 622838New York: Longmans Green and Co 1958. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition with an erratum slip tipped-on to the front pastedown. Octavo. xiv 594pp. Owner name and stamp of a noted American psychologist on the front fly; he has also laid down a contemporary review of the book on the rear fly. Otherwise fine in a toned very good dust jacket with some edge nicking. Defines over 13000 terms. Longmans, Green and Co hardcover books
1973réf. 618820London: Sheed and Ward 1973. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First Sheed and Ward edition. Introduction by Nevill Coghill. Bottom corners bumped near fine in a near fine dust jacket with creases at the bottom corners and a slightly toned spine. Sheed and Ward hardcover books
réf. 558540New York: Vintage Books no date. Softcover. Very Good. Later printing. 12mo. Printed wrappers. Gentle rubbing on the wraps a small crease at the bottom corner of the front wrap a faint stain on the rear wrap very good. Vintage Books unknown books
1937réf. 558803New York: W. W. Norton & Co Inc 1937. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 320pp. Ownership stamp and signature of noted American psychologist and the front flap of the jacket both on the front fly else near fine lacking the dust jacket. W. W. Norton & Co Inc hardcover books
1976réf. 538153Victoria B.C. Canada: nyat Press 1976. Unbound. Very Good. Vol. I # 1. Octavo. 91 5 pp. Stapled wrappers with foredge untrimmed. Both staples neatly removed thus disbound modest wear very good. A Zen-themed magazine with contributions by Lawrence Ferlinghetti D.T. Suzuki Pablo Neruda and many others. ??nyat? Press unknown books
1955réf. 468295New York: W.W. Norton & Company 1955. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Revised edition. Octavo. 592pp. Ownership signature of a noted American psychologist on the front fly else fine in slightly spine-sunned near fine dust jacket. W.W. Norton & Company hardcover books
1931réf. 468139New York: Harms 1931. Softcover. Good. Sheet music 8686-7. Quarto wrappers. 10pp. Spine starting to split crease on front wrapper faint dampstain in gutters good only. "Heywood Broun in association with Milton Raison Presents Shoot the Works. Harms unknown books
1961réf. 468135New York: M. Witmark & Sons 1961. Softcover. Fine. Sheet music 21735-2. Quarto bi-fold sheet. 4pp. Fine. M. Witmark & Sons unknown books
1923réf. 524009New York: Chappell-Harms Inc 1923. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Quarto. Two nested bifoliums making eight pages. Owner name stamp and "with publisher's compliments" stamp on the front cover edgewear including a chip at the bottom of the front cover and toning very good or better. For voice and piano. Plate number 28219. The owner stamp is that of prolific American composer and pianist Fay Foster who took first place in the American Composers Competition of 1913. Paul Laurence Dunbar is an important African American literary figure remembered in part for writing the lyrics for the landmark musical In Dahomey which according to historian Gerald Bordman was "the first full-length musical written and played by blacks to be performed at a major Broadway house." OCLC locates five holdings. Chappell-Harms, Inc unknown books
1931réf. 505560New York: Edward B. Marks Music Co 1931. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Cover illustration by Manning. Quarto. Lyrics in Spanish and English. Single bifolium with a single sheet insert making six pages. Light edgewear and toning some foxing to the back cover else near fine. For voice and piano. Plate number 9772-3. Features a sample of "Poor Kid" by L. Wolfe Gilbert and Jesse Greer as well as one-measure samples of five other Gilbert songs. J. Rosamond Johnson was an African American composer and singer best known for the song "Lift Every Voice and Sing" which he wrote with his brother James Weldon Johnson. There are a few different versions of this tune some with the subtitle "Rambling Rose of the Wildwood" but this version has the most striking cover we've seen. Edward B. Marks Music Co unknown books
1930réf. 437303New York: Three Sirens Press 1930. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. 194pp. First and fifth versions. Drawings by Edmund J. Sullivan. Brownish-red cloth with gilt-stamped spine. Owner name on front pastedown page 191 creased spine tanned very good lacking the dustwrapper. Three Sirens Press hardcover books
1860réf. 165691860. J. B. Remarks on the Obstacles to the More General Employment of Women and on the Means of Removing Them 1860. First edition of a pamphlet advocating expanded employment opportunities for British women and identifying discriminatory hiring practices opposition from male workers and limited occupational choices as causes of female poverty. Published through the English Woman's Journal a periodical closely associated with the Langham Place circle of women's rights reformers the pamphlet appeared during an organized campaign to open professions and skilled occupations previously reserved for men. Its author directly challenges workplace resistance to female labor: "Women however cannot be employed in England in this manner because of the jealousy of their fellow workmen. If a master were to employ women in any part of the business the whole of his workmen would strike at once." The passage identifies threatened industrial action by male employees as a practical obstacle to women's economic advancement even when employers were willing to hire them. J. B. Remarks on the Obstacles to the More General Employment of Women and on the Means of Removing Them. London: Published at the Office of the English Woman's Journal Company Limited 1860. First edition. 16 pages. Original paper wrappers measuring 8¼ x 5¼ inches. Reprinted from the English Woman's Journal the pamphlet examines barriers preventing women from obtaining sufficient paid employment and proposes measures to expand their opportunities. The author connects occupational exclusion with increasing demands upon public and private charitable institutions: "Workhouses were found to be overcrowded with able-bodies females while charities were besieged with women praying to be provided either with employment or bread." These observations link women's unemployment directly to poverty relief while the discussion of male workers' resistance identifies the exclusionary practices that prevented women from entering better-paid occupations. The pamphlet was published shortly after the establishment of the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women in 1859 an organization associated with Jessie Boucherett Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon and other members of the Langham Place circle. The Society sought to expand women's access to commercial clerical and skilled employment through vocational training and direct engagement with employers. The pamphlet's discussion of workplace opposition and overcrowded workhouses provides contemporary evidence of the economic conditions these reformers sought to address preceding later campaigns for women's property rights and equal access to professions. Stain to upper left edge of front wrapper toning to final page and light pencil markings in margins. Very good condition. unknown books
1961réf. 446018New York: G. Schirmer Inc 1961. Softcover. Fine. First English translation edition. 24pp. Text in English and Italian. Fine in stapled wrappers. G. Schirmer, Inc unknown books
1918réf. 443110London: Macmillan 1918. Hardcover. Very Good. Reprint. 111pp. Navy three-quarter cloth with blue cloth boards and gilt decorations and titles with all guilt edges. Measuring 4.5" x 6". Small chips on the spine ends and bumped corners with a cracked hinge very good. Macmillan hardcover books
1937réf. 443766New York: International Publishers 1937. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. 34pp. Foxing on page edges and endpapers spine ends and corners fraying very good in a good only edgeworn dust jacket with internal tape repair. International Publishers hardcover books
