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1952réf. 443854Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica 1952. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. 379pp. Top page corners bumped spine cocked cloth soiled very good without dust jacket. Encyclopedia Britannica hardcover books
1964réf. 431964Park Forest Illinois: The Prairie School Press 1964. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Fine in price-clipped else near fine dust jacket with a small chip at and near the crown. The Prairie School Press hardcover books
1974réf. 422876Stratford Ontario: Pasdeloup Press 1974. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Drawings by Virgil Burnett. Pictorial card covers. Small abrasion on front wrapper affecting the "M" in Maurice else near fine. One of five hundred copies printed. Poetry. Pasdeloup Press unknown books
1899réf. 416436Portland Maine: Thomas B. Mosher 1899. Softcover. Very Good. Fourth edition. Narrow octavo with yapped wrappers. Pictorial cream card covers. Wrappers age-toned spine sunned a blank endpaper has a full page gift inscription very good. "Old World Series" One of 925 copies on Van Gelder paper. Thomas B. Mosher unknown books
1914réf. 412941Morristown N.J.: Jerseyman Press 1914. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Collected and edited by George S Harris English Teacher. Small octavo. 109 3pp. Green cloth gilt. Near fine probably issued without dustwrapper. Verse by high school students including five in black dialect and one about the sinking of the Titanic. Uncommon. OCLC locates seven copies. Jerseyman Press hardcover books
1899réf. 411460Portland Maine: Thomas B. Mosher 1899. Softcover. Very Good. Fourth edition. Narrow octavo with yapped wrappers. Pictorial cream card covers. Spine sunned light overall wear very good. "Old World Series" One of 925 copies on Van Gelder paper. Thomas B. Mosher unknown books
1916réf. 409780London: Jas. Truscott & Son Ltd 1916. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Introduction by Gilbert Parker 12mo. 20 2pp. Stapled printed buff wrappers. Modest overall age-toning on wrappers else near fine. Jas. Truscott & Son, Ltd unknown books
1916réf. 409840London: Jas. Truscott & Son Ltd 1916. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Introduction by Gilbert Parker 12mo. 20 2pp. Stapled printed buff wrappers. Ink number and small library stamp on front wrap else very good. Jas. Truscott & Son, Ltd unknown books
1926réf. 381843New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1926. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition. Silver gilt-stamped blue cloth. Rear hinge starting extremities a bit worn spine darkened else very good lacking the dustwrapper. Translation of an important 14th Century Chinese novel. G.P. Putnam's Sons hardcover books
1679réf. 96969London: no publisher 1679. Unbound. Very Good. First edition. Disbound. 18pp. Tiny tears modest age-toning and small stains a very good copy. ESTC R1480. (no publisher) unknown books
1787réf. 271Edinburgh: Assigns of Alexander Kincaid 1787. Very good. Two works in two volumes. Large Octavo 211 x 130 mm. Collation: BIBLE: A-4A8 complete. PSALMS: A-E8 complete. Contemporary Scottish bindings: red morocco elaborately tooled in gilt to a "Chippendale" motif smooth spines gilt; marbled endpapers a.e.g. in vol. 1 the front joint expertly repaired and tape removed from inner hinges. Preserved in a protective cloth case. INNOVATIVE AND HIGHLY UNUSUAL SCOTTISH CHIPPENDALE ROCOCO BINDINGS COMBINING CHINOISERIE AND NEOCLASSICAL ELEMENTS EXHIBITING THE INDEPENDENCE OF SCOTTISH WORK AT THIS TIME. The present example is a striking hybrid of late 18th-century decorative art in Britain the likes of which we have not encountered hitherto. Here "oriental" birds and peacocks are juxtaposed with patriotic depictions of Britannia uncharacteristically surmounted by a fleur-de-lis bold anchors columns sunbursts dripping garlands flowers sheaves of wheat and urns. Presented in the Chippendale style the present binder who is as yet unnamed introduces rococo ornaments while enclosing all of the above with an unmistakably neoclassical greek-key roll. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ROCOCO BINDINGS OF THIS QUALITY ARE RARE PARTICULARLY THOSE EXECUTED IN SCOTLAND. Rococo book arts in Scotland have been almost completely unexplored on account of the paltry number of examples with which we are able to study. Robert Adam's designs for the bindings of his "Ruins of Spalatro" 1764 is a bold statement of the neoclassical for he was justly celebrated. But we now know that Adam was not exclusively "Grecian." David Pullins' heroic archival research in Sir John Soane's Museum has shown that Adam received three previously unexamined commissions for a seemingly antithetical kind of decoration which he calls "neoclassical chinoiserie" specifically Adam's drawings for an unrealized chinoiserie looking-glass dated 1769 for Edwin Lascelles 1st Earl of Harewood. SOURCE: "Robert Adam's Neoclassical Chinoiserie" in: West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts Design History and Material Culture online. We would argue that the present bindings exhibit such a blend of Chippendale chinoiserie rococo and neoclassical. For a general note on English "Chippendale" and "Chinoiserie" bindings see G.D. Hobson "English Bindings of J.R. Abbey" p. 126. ¶ Our bindings may be linked to four others -- all greatly inferior -- which share the large "eagle" tool in common as noted by Mirjam Foot: 1. British Library Davis 253 Bible Edinburgh 1790 = Henry Davis Gift Vol. II No. 283; 2. National Library of Scotland F.4.e.9 Bible Psalms Edinburgh: Assigns of A. Kincaid 1789; 3. Washington Cathedral Library Bible Edinburgh 1789; 4. Glasgow University Library DXC 48-48A Bible Cambridge 1792 Psalms Glasgow 1793. PROVENANCE: red morocco bookplate of "MARION MALLOCH 1794" inside both volumes -- sold by us to a private collector in 2007 -- bought back by us in 2023. ¶ REFERENCES: ESTC 91765 Darlow & Moule 1319; ESTC 91766. Assigns of Alexander Kincaid unknown books
1932réf. 009960Philadelphia: The Centaur Press 1932. Book. Very Good. Cloth. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY ARTIST. Limited and Numbered Signed 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. One of 300 hand-set copies printed for the Centaur Book Shop by Burnley Weaver the Gollifox Press at Biltmore N.C. this copy unnumbered. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY ARTIST at front end page -"For V La Tour . Emlen Etting". Very Good light wear at edges spine rebacked with black cloth tape some toning at end pages. The Centaur Press hardcover books
1942réf. 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
1959réf. 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
1928réf. 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
2011réf. 225052Stackpole Books 2011-02-09. First Edition. hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x1x9. First Edition First Printing. Dust jacket and book are clean. Brown boards. Has a good binding no marks or notations. S.U. Stackpole Books hardcover books
1922réf. 11290New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1922. Second American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Second American Edition. Hardcover. Ouspensky was a Russian esotericist known for his expositions of the early work of the Greek-Armenian teacher of esoteric doctrine George Gurdjieff. He met Gurdjieff in Moscow in 1915 and was associated with the ideas and practices originating with Gurdjieff from then on. He taught ideas and methods based in the Gurdjieff system for 25 years in England. Gurdjieff proposed that there are three ways of self-development generally known in esoteric circles. These are the Way of the Fakir dealing exclusively with the physical body the Way of the Monk dealing with the emotions and the Way of the Yogi dealing with the mind. What is common about the three ways is that they demand complete seclusion from the world. According to Gurdjieff there is a Fourth Way which does not demand its followers to abandon the world. The work of self-development takes place right in the midst of ordinary life. Gurdjieff called his system a school of the Fourth Way where a person learns to work in harmony with his physical body emotions and mind. Ouspensky picked up this idea and continued his own school along this line. He made the term "Fourth Way" and its use central to his own teaching of the ideas of Gurdjieff. He greatly focused on Fourth Way schools and their existence throughout history. Revised edition with Gurdjieff and Ouspensky Centre postcard laid in. Loose but intact boards some toning foxing to rough cut edges noticeable scuffing to boards bumped corners otherwise clean and bright. Black cloth boards lettered in red and on spine xv 336pp author's preface one foldout plate at rear 24cm. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1850réf. 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
1937réf. 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
1939réf. 2222164First American edition from English sheets. Octavo. Two page preface. Dust jacket unclipped; some small chips; short tears. Very good. 96 pages. With rubber stamped bookplate of Selma & Dan Brenner. Random House hardcover books
1926réf. 2222165First American edition first printing March 1926. Octavo. Illustrated with eight full page b/w plates by John Richard Flanagan. Pictorial dust jacket with Irish country side view by Barkentin. Very good unclipped; few small nicks. 466 pages. No signatures or bookplates. BAL 2301. Filmed in 1928 by John Ford. Byrne 1889-1928 has 13 film/TV credits. His full name was Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne. The Century Co. hardcover books
1928réf. 007009Oxford: Oxford at the Clarendon Press 1928. Book. Very Good Plus. Cloth. Fifth Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fifth Edition Impression of 1928 stated. Very Good Plus prior owner name and city front end page slight spotting to cloth at top edges No jacket. Contents are clean tight and unmarked. Oxford at the Clarendon Press Hardcover books
1944réf. 2221931First edition so stated. Octavo. Original gilt stamped blue cloth. No dust jacket. Very good spine gilt dull. 192 pages. Inscribed by the author on title page: "For George from Winifred." From the library of noted film director George Cukor with his Paul Landacre bookplate. Cukor's 1932 film "A Bill of Divorcement" was based on her 1922 play. Dane aka Winifred Ashton 1888-1965. She won an Oscar in 1947. William Heinemann Ltd. hardcover books
1915réf. 2221760First edition American issue from British sheets. Octavo. Original gilt and black lettered ribbed red cloth spine age toned; corners of a few pages at end crimped. No dust jacket. Good. 297 pages. From the library of noted "Gone With The Wind" Hollywood director George Cukor with his Paul Landacre Bookplate on the front pastedown. Printed by Hazeli Watson and Viney Ld. London. Hodder and Stoughton hardcover books
1909réf. 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
