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1876réf. R69Description: Quarto 9.75" x 6.5". Text in two column Roman font. 3-892 Old Testament 1-276 pp. New Testament. The books of the Old Testament are arranged in Jewish order with Chronicles at the end. One of 950 copies. Binding: Rebacked in matching black calf with original spine laid down. Embossed cloth spine with "Holy Bible" and "Translated by Julia E. Smith" lettered in gilt to spine. All edges speckled red. Rubbed to edges with loss of small portions of relaid spine. Condition: Crisp clean and bright. Provenance: Note inked on front flyleaf reads "This Bible translated by my late wife Julia E. Smith is presented to Mrs. Susan E. Tullar by Amos A. Parker Aged Ninety Eight – Fitzwilliam N.H. June 20th 1889." Note: A remarkably well-preserved copy of the first and only Bible translated entirely by a woman. Julia E. Smith 1792–1886 of Glastonbury Connecticut used her knowledge of Latin Greek and Hebrew to render the entire Bible into English. A member of the Sandemanian sect which sought to restore the Apostolic church she dedicated eight years to her translation but did not publish it for another twenty-one years. Sampson recounts Julia's deep passion for the project: "I cannot express how greatly I enjoy the work of translating and now the real meaning of different texts would thrill through my mind till I could hardly contain myself." According to one account she became so engrossed in her work that she often failed to hear the dinner bell and had to be summoned by her sisters. Elizabeth Cady Stanton in her radical and controversial work The Woman's Bible remarked that Smith's translation would become a rarity in the next century "much sought after by bibliomaniacs to say nothing of scholars who will want it for its real value." References: Herbert 2202; Hills 1918; Rumball-Petre 201; Stanton Elizabeth Cady. The Woman's Bible. Sampson Emily. With Her Own Eyes: The Story of Julia Smith. American Publishing Company hardcover books
1800réf. 463791800. Later printing. Removed. Some browing and rubbong a few pinholes to margins else very good. pp 17-20. Uncolored engraving. Folio. 18 .5 x 12. From the sea-chart atlas "English Pilot the Fourth Book" " published in many editions from 1671 to 1803. Page 19 has image of two Auks while pages 17 and 18 have numerous smaller detailed maps and text. unknown books
1963réf. 31893Tokyo: Japan Ukiyo-E Society 1963. First edition. Illustrated paper wrappers. Chip at the head of the spine else a very good copy. 30 52 98 pp. Illus. with 6 color plates 321 b/w reproductions. Sm. 4to. Shigeo Miyao ed. Errata slip tipped in. Catalogue of 321 prints in English and Japanese. 8 pages of ads. Glossary. Japan Ukiyo-E Society unknown books
2022réf. 209217New York / New Haven: Whitney Museum of American Art / Yale University Press 2022. Hardcover. As new. Quarto. Hardcover. Illustrated card stock boards. No jacket as issued. 255 pages : illustrations chiefly color ; 29 cm. "A revealing exploration of Edward Hopper's inspired relationship to New York City through his paintings drawings prints and never-before-published archival materials This engaging book delves into the iconic relationship between Edward Hopper 1882-1967 and New York City. This comprehensive look at an essential aspect of the revered American artist's life reveals how Hopper's experience of New York's spaces sensations and architecture shaped his vision and served as a backdrop for his distillations of the urban experience. During sidewalk strolls and elevated train rides Hopper sketched the city's many windowed facades. Exterior views gave way to interior lives forging one of Hopper's defining preoccupations: the convergence of public and private. These permeable walls allowed Hopper to evoke the perplexing awareness of being alone in a crowd that is synonymous with modern urban life. Drawing on the vast resources of the Whitney Museum of American Art the largest repository of Hopper's work and the recently acquired gift of the Sanborn Hopper Archive this book features more than 300 illustrations and fresh insight from authoritative and emerging scholars"--. Whitney Museum of American Art / Yale University Press hardcover books
2016réf. 209196Chicago: The University of Chicago Press 2016. Hardcover. NF. Lightest touch of shelfwear. Quarto. Hardcover. Bound in black cloth with illustrated jacket. 285 pages 2 unnumbered folded pages of plates : illustrations some color ; 24 cm. In this book art historian Darby English explores the year 1971 when two exhibitions opened that brought modernist painting and sculpture into the burning heart of United States cultural politics: Contemporary Black Artists in America at the Whitney Museum of American Art and The DeLuxe Show a racially integrated abstract art exhibition presented in a renovated movie theater in a Houston ghetto. 1971: A Year in the Life of Color looks at many black artists' desire to gain freedom from overt racial representation as well as their efforts and those of their advocates to further that aim through public exhibition. Amid calls to define a black aesthetic these experiments with modernist art prioritized cultural interaction and instability. 'Contemporary Black Artists in America' highlighted abstraction as a stance against normative approaches while 'The DeLuxe Show' positioned abstraction in a center of urban blight. The importance of these experiments English argues came partly from color's special status as a cultural symbol and partly from investigations of color already under way in late modern art and criticism. With their supporters black modernists among them Peter Bradley Frederick Eversley Alvin Loving Raymond Saunders and Alma Thomas rose above the demand to represent or be represented compromising nothing in their appeals for interracial collaboration and above all responding with optimism rather than cynicism to the surrounding cultures preoccupation with color--Publisher's description. The University of Chicago Press hardcover books
2007réf. 203690New York: Rizzoli 2007. Hardcover. VG/VG: Exlibrary book. Stamp on top text block. Sticker and due date card on back pasted end page. A matte casebound book. There is a dust jacket with the title in black down a white spine. Pages: 7 8-205 3. Profusely illustrated with color images. "Kara Walker: Narratives of a Negress presents a comprehensive overview of Walker's work beginning with her first cut-paper wall installation Gone An Historical Romance of a Civil War as it Occurred between the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress and Her Heart 1994 through new multimedia installations that feature layers of colored projections. The 1996 series of twenty-four watercolors Brown Follies is reproduced in full as are many views of Walker's past exhibitions. Throughout the book is a selection of Walker's writings as they appear typed on index cards. These writings reveal a rarely seen side of the artist whose words are as provocative as her installations and drawings. Also included are four essays that discuss her relation to culture at large and issues of race sexuality and representation addressed in her art." Contents are as follows: Kara Walker : "The black-white relation" / Anne M. Wagner -- The art of racial profiling / Mark Reinhardt -- This is not about the past : silhouettes in the work of Kara Walker / Darby English -- The enigma of the negress Kara Walker / Michele Wallace -- Contributors -- Exhibition history and selected bibliography / compiled aby Kristina Podesva and Alison Pruchansky -- Exhibition checklist -- Directors' afterword -- Acknowledgements. Rizzoli hardcover books
2013réf. 200847Chicago: Columbia College Chicago Press 2013. Hardcover. VG. Boards ever so slightly bowed. Otherwise close to new. Beige illustrated cloth with white lettering; 84 32 unnumbered pp.; richly illustrated in color. "David Hartt's Stray Light is a film installation and a group of photographs. It consists of a video/sound track loop projected to cover one wall of an open room. The floor of the room is carpeted in an archival pattern specific to the location where the film was made. A third element fabricated from water-jet cut aluminum and acrylic stands sentinel-like across from the entrance to the room . The subject of Stray Light is a building specifically the Johnson Publishing Company Headquarters in Chicago designed by John Moutoussamy an African-American partner in the architectural firm Dubin Dubin Black." -- page 61. Columbia College Chicago Press hardcover books
2018réf. 166452Washington / Chicago: National Gallery of Art / The University of Chicago Press 2018. Paperback. VG. Color-illustrated softcover with white lettering. xv 396 pp. 467 illustrations mainly in color. Some 250 works explore three distinct periods in American history when mainstream and outlier artists intersected ushering in new paradigms based on inclusion integration and assimilation. The exhibition aligns work by such diverse artists as Charles Sheeler Christina Ramberg and Matt Mullican with both historic folk art and works by self-taught artists ranging from Horace Pippin to Janet Sobel and Joseph Yoakum. It also examines a recent influx of radically expressive work made on the margins that redefined the boundaries of the mainstream art world while challenging the very categories of "outsider" and "self-taught." Historicizing the shifting identity and role of this distinctly American version of modernism's "other" the exhibition probes assumptions about creativity artistic practice and the role of the artist in contemporary culture. The exhibition is curated by Lynne Cooke senior curator special projects in modern art National Gallery of Art.--Provided by publisher. Contents as follows: Director's foreword / Earl A. Powell III -- Lenders to the exhibition -- Acknowledgments -- Note to the reader -- Boundary trouble : navigating margin and mainstream / Lynne Cooke -- Modernism's war on terror / Darby English -- How to make a modern primitive / Richard Meyer -- Find-and-seek : Discovery narratives Americanization and other tales of genius in modern American folk art / Jennifer Jane Marshall -- Black folk art redux : a curatorial roundtable / Lynne Cooke John Beardsley Katherine Jentleson. Faheem Majeed -- Museums oh museums / Thomas J. Lax -- Affinities in abstraction : textiles otherness paintings in the 1970's / Jenni Sorkin -- Archives of femininity / Douglas Crimp -- Personal voyages / Suzanne Hudson -- Plates -- c. 1924 to 1943 : folk aesthetics refigured -- c. 1968 to 1992 : commensurables and incommensurables -- c. 1998 to 2013 : determining difference differently -- Biographies -- Checklist of the exhibition -- Index. National Gallery of Art / The University of Chicago Press paperback books
1977réf. 126184Philadelphia Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press 1977. Hardbound. VG cover and pages crisp and fresh owner's mark on free endpaper of each volume. Tan cloth on boards with embossing and burgundy cloth spine 2-volume set in tan board envelope Vol. 1: xxix 248 pp Vol. 2: 4 pp 250-531 several BW images per volume. Autobiography from age 14-22 of Isaac Mackey 1822-1855. He was from the introduction a lawyer editor historian politician musician translator inventor and diarist.Isaac Mackey not only reveals his own precocious gifts but also illuminates the years in which he wrote. University of Pennsylvania Press hardcover books
1960réf. 27156London 1960. Softcover. VG- overall wear to extremities corners bumped sticker residue on front cover cover slightly loose at spine all pages intact with illustrations and text clear. Black wraps with white lettering and illustrationbw frontisipiece 88 pp. 31 bw plate pp. Features 17th-19th century pieces from key Massachusetts New York Delaware and Maryland makers. The annotated catalogue presents 225 specific pieces and many are pictured here at the end of the book. Includes makers' biographies. Uncommon. paperback books
1900réf. 36092Boston MA: Lee and Shepard 1900. Hardcover. VG- cover loose light wear to spine edges ex-archival library copy with perforation stamp. Maroon cloth. x 218 pp. Numerous bw illus. Lee and Shepard hardcover books
1963réf. 15391New York: The Macmillan Company / Pergamon Press 1963. Boards. Near Fine. ix 76 pages. 8vo. Publishers red boards gilt. 33 figures including a large foldout chart tables. A crisp clean copy noting previous owners stamp on front endpaper. Boards. Chapters include Direct Cooling and Maximum Output A Theoretical Analysis of 'Geometric Series' of Large Turbo-Generators The New Problems of Design and Design Study of a Single Shaft 750 MW Turbo-Generator. Volume 18 in the International Series of Monographs on Electronics and Instrumentation. The Macmillan Company / Pergamon Press unknown books
1961réf. 335074Oxford: Clarendon 1961. hardcover. near fine. 17 volumes including the 5 supplements. Tall thick 4to gilt-lettered dark blue cloth. some minor edgewear and sunning at foot. Oxford: The Clarendon Press 1961. A very good solid set lacking the dust wrappers. The supplements are dated 1972 1976 1984 & 1986. "Being a Corrected Re-Issue with an Introduction Supplement and Bibliography of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles. Founded mainly on the materials collected by the Philological Society and edited by James A.H. Murray et al." Clarendon unknown books
1882réf. 1393106Epping: Alfred B. Davis 1882. Hardcover. Octavo viii 41 pages. In Fair condition. Spine is blue without print. Boards in blue cloth with gold print. Light wear to spine caps and corners. Text block has intermittent spine breaks. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk office Case #2 - New Ephemera Box #3. 1393106. FP New Rockville Stock. Alfred B. Davis hardcover books
1890réf. ST16866bCambridge: Printed by C. J. Clay & Sons at the University Press ca. 1890. 203 x 133 mm. 8 x 5 3/8". 998 pp. MOST ATTRACTIVE HAZEL BROWN CRUSHED MOROCCO GILT BY STOAKLEY LATE HAWES stamp-signed on verso of front free endpaper covers framed by gilt rules and guilloche tooling central panel with delicately tooled cornerpieces featuring grapevines on a stippled background raised bands spine compartments densely gilt with grapevine motif turn-ins with richly gilt frame leather hinges all edges gilt gutter at front flyleaf expertly reinforced with tissue. With presentation inscription on front flyleaf: "Herbert Gardner Travers / from his Godmother / A. S. Burn / August 1891"; below this the ink-inscribed record of the recipient's marriage and the births of his children. Spine gently and uniformly sunned a shade lighter two hardly noticeable small abrasions to rear cover offsetting from turn-ins to free endpapers as almost always but still a fine copy in a remarkably handsome binding with few signs of use. The appealing binding on this treasured family Bible was created in Cambridge by Vere Stoakley who took over the workshop of J. Hawes on that craftsman's death in the late 1880s; he signed his work "Stoakley Late Hawes" to acknowledge this connection. The firm specialized in academic bindings to supply scholars from the university and continued in business until the 1920s. The present binding clearly is much more elaborate and beautiful than a simple scholar's binding and this is because it was a special gift presented to a beloved godson probably for his christening. Recipient Herbert Gardner Travers 1891-1958 grew up to be a decorated World War I flying ace who was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his five aerial victories. After the Great War he worked in the airplane industry as a test pilot and flying instructor then became a commercial pilot in 1935. He returned to the Royal Air Force at the outset of World War II and was an acting squadron leader. As recorded on the flyleaf of his Bible he married Hermia Edith Margaretta Fraser in August 1919 and over the next 12 years they welcomed children Daphne 1920 Eva 1921 Elizabeth 1924 Christina 1926 and Edward 1931. Printed by C. J. Clay & Sons at the University Press unknown books
1919réf. CNBR440Ditchling Sussex: S. Dominic's Press 1919. First Edition. Wraps. Fine. Gill Eric. Twenty-fourmo size 28 pp. The Saint Dominic's Press founded by Harry Hilary Douglas Clarke Pepler flourished at Ditchling Sussex from 1916 to 1936. The first home of the Press was "a disused stable" with a hundred-year-old Stanhope hand-press which supposedly had belonged to William Morris. Pepler endeavored to do everything possible by hand believing that such would both produce the best results and also be a "more individual or 'humane'.product". He therefore "preferred the handpress to the machine handmade to machine-made paper and handset founder's type to the products of typesetting machines." N.b. quotes and information from "Three Private Presses" by Brocard Sewell. Per Taylor and Sewell "The Welfare Handbooks were a series of pamplets mainly concerned with social questions written from a Distributist and Roman Catholic standpoint." This volume contains scriptural passages pertaining to the age-old question of the relative merits of wealth vs. poverty vis-a-vis one's relationship with God. Per the title page "Being extracts from The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ as translated from the Latin Vulgate by the English College at Rheims A.D. 1582." ___DESCRIPTION: Brown wrappers printed in black string-bound with one engraving Gill's "Christ and the Money-Changers" P 152; Caslon O.F. type on Batachelor hand-made paper twenty-fourmo size 5 3/8" by 4 1/4" pagination: i-iv 1 2-24. ___CONDITION: Fine overall the wraps clean except for one small spot on the front wrap and without wear or sunning the string binding strong the interior is clean and bright and entirely free of prior owner markings; perhaps a touch of sunning around the spine and the aforementioned small spot else fine. ___CITATION: Taylor and Sewell no. A50; Eric Gill Bibliography no. 270. ___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard shipping charge does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. S. Dominic's Press unknown books
1988réf. 25538San Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press 1988. Paperback. 234p. footnotes introductions frontis very good condition first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Stories anecdotes poems. Gay Sunshine Press paperback books
1894réf. 007276Private Subscription 1894. Book. Fine. Cloth. TLS Enclosed Signed Also. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition.Included is a TLS by English. A friend of Poe. He blame Poe for stealing some of his material.Excellent Copy. Private Subscription Hardcover books
1809réf. List3525New York and likely Connecticut 1809. Three letters 1795 1795 and 1809 totalling approximately eleven pages; the larger two letters measuring approximately 7 ¾ x 12 ¼ inches and the smaller 1809 approximately 7 ¾ x 9 ½ inches. 1809 letter Near Fine; earlier letters having some damage especially at folds and margins intersecting with text very good plus. Overall excellent. Three letters from English immigrants to the United States sent to their cousin “Miss Gifford” in Duffield Derbyshire. The earliest letter from A. Bakewell describes a stroll along the Battery and compares the classes of people in the two countries: “My son Jon’s favorite walk as well as mine is the battery it is a delightful it commands a very fine view of all the ships that come up to this harbour the opposite shores of Long Island Governors Island & Staten Island which are very fertile one very small Island in the water with a number of small boats & barges which are generally sailing is extremely pleasant the Idea that sometime or other I may see the ship arrive which will contain my beloved Husband renders it peculiarly interesting to me . the more I see of this country the more I like it; the lower classes of people are much better informed & from the high price of wages enabled to live more comfortably than in England it is very uncommon to see a beggar here: one very great inconvenience is the badness of servants they are ten thousand times worse than in England . I could get some that is decent here the manner of the ladies here is much more vulgar than the women in England & they were generally very ignorant there are however some exceptions .” February 1795 The writer’s husband is William Bakewell who writes to Miss Gifford in 1809 from what is probably Tolland Connecticut which he renders as “Tolland Ford” reporting on the state of the economy and the 1807 Embargo Act: “I fear the intercourse between this country & England will be stopped for a time . during the continuation of this Embargo which has caused a total stagnation of business . I have since seen Mr Kinder a friend of my Brother’s & who for some time his home being in the country boarded with my Brother’s family in New York. He assures me that with respect to everything he observed there was as much economy as ever compatible with decency & that their table in particular was furnished in a more frugal stile than that of any Merchants he was acquainted with. . I hope to hear from you as frequently as is practicable while the communication is between the two countries for this government will I expect pass a law to stop the intercourse with both England & France until they cease to capture American vessels. . My son Thomas is gone to NYK to wind up his adventure to New Orleans. He had 5000 dollars in silver with him. In the present uncertain state of mercantile affairs it is doubtful whether Mr Kinder will like to make any further adventure.” January 1809 Lastly a 1796 letter from another cousin a sister of “A.” opens by relating her arrival to New York City during an outbreak of yellow fever: “the worst of all was as soon as we missing land which we had so often wish’d to see the Pilot came on Board & told us of the fever being so bad at N York & that every Body that could had left it. I did not know in what situation I should find my Brother & his family or whether I should find them at all but when we came to Anchor a Boy came on board & told us my Brother was at Philadelphia . my sister & Thomas was at long Island just missing the East river. . we staid a fortnight at the enormous expence of 30 Dollars a week for our family we then came to New York the sickness being rather abated we could not get a House or part of one on long Island they being all engag’d at very high prices to people who had fled from New York & for miles round there was not a room to be had. We had thought of going to Albany but there was so many people gone with goods that we suposed the Market was full my Brother was not return’d we at last took this House at a very great rent till May it being a very Healthy situation we came here the following week & have been here ever since.” The yellow fever epidemic hit New York City in 1795 and surged several times prompting the city to finally create a Board of Health in 1805. This is not the author’s only complaint about New York as compared to England: “the Country what I have seen of it is not so pleasant as England there being no hedges all posts & rail fences appears strange to us there are a many very good houses 1 2 & 3 miles round this city which are very pleasant they are built of wood & painted white which looks very pretty & might be made delightful if the inhabitants had any taste for gardening but that the Americans & Dutch have no notion of I could be very comfortable at New York if we was in a way of getting a good deal but we have been spending a great deal and getting but little indeed we have sold most of our goods but the scarcety of cash occation’d by the Fall trade being spoilt with the Fever oblig’d every body to take Bills at a longer date than is usual so that we have rec’d very little there is a vast many English here I have met with some very agreeable acquaintances which I shall be sorry to leave .” March 1796 She also comments that “there is many Blacks here some of the Merchants keep 8 or 10 of them & I believe they are the best servants”. Though New York City had been home to a large community of freed African Americans following the British Army’s 1779 Philipsburg Proclamation most of them had been resettled in Nova Scotia after the Revolutionary War. The author was more likely observing enslaved people as New York did not pass its gradual abolition law until 1799 and emancipation was not completed until 1827. Of interest to historians of immigration to early republic New York City. unknown books
1969réf. 900343Boston: Godine 1969. Limited edition of 250 numbered copies fifty of which were numbered I - L and signed by Spender. This is one of the unsigned issue. Marbled paper-covered boards cloth spine with paper label. Issued w/o dustjacket. Fine condition. Hard Cover. Limited Edition. Godine hardcover books
1998réf. 1337133Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press 1998. First Revised English-Language Edition. Softcover. Thick Octavo; VG-/paperback; 2 volumes; black spines with white text; first printing; covers show slight shelf wear to exteriors; minor wear to edges; text block exterior edges show mild shelf wear; interiors clean; illustrated; additional shipping may be necessary due to size/weight restrictions for international/expedited orders. 1337133. FP New Rockville Stock. University of Pennsylvania Press unknown books
1944réf. 619044New York: Edward B. Marks Music Corporation 1944. Softcover. Very Good. Sheet music. Quarto. Lyrics in English and Spanish. Single bifolium making four pages. Exterior lightly rubbed and light edgewear very good. For voice and piano. Plate number 12182-2. The front cover features a picture of Dinah Washington who recorded this song. Edward B. Marks Music Corporation unknown books
1727réf. 55069London: printed by John Baskett. and by the Assigns of Henry Hills decease'd 1727. Later edition. Hardcover. Very good. Three parts folio in fours 38 by 24 cm. 380 23 3 table pp; text in two columns. Additional engraved title page; main title in red and black; woodcut initials and ornaments. Contemporary two-tone paneled calf triple-ruled in gilt; spine with raised bands elaborately tooled in gilt morocco lettering piece; gilt inner dentelles; marbled endleaves; all edges gilt. Covers very lightly scuffed with mild traces of wear at extremities; upper joint just starting at top; occasional touches of mild mostly marginal foxing. A very good or better copy complete and handsomely bound. An uncommon and beautifully printed edition of the Book of Common Prayer "the first single manual of worship in a vernacular language directed to be used universally by and common to both priest and people" Carter and Muir. Despite early revisions and some major alterations following the Restoration the original simplicity of the language has been presevered the text remaining substantially unaltered since 1662. References: ESTC N67554 locates only 4 copies. Cf. Carter & Muir Printing and the Mind of Man 75 ed. 1549. Collation: pi1 a-c4 A-Aaa4 Bbb2 = 203 leaves. printed by John Baskett... and by the Assigns of Henry Hills, decease'd hardcover books
1942réf. 615721London: Oxford University Press 1942. Hardcover. Very Good. First British edition. Volume V only. Slightly cocked spine pencil notations toning on the boards and bumped corners thus very good with owner name on the front free endpaper. Oxford University Press hardcover books
1947réf. 80020Columbia M. O.: University of Missouri. Very Good. 1947. Softbound. OCLC: "Preface -- I. The western lawyer and jurist -- II. The American migration -- III. French and Spanish influences in Missouri -- IV. Courts codes and judges in territorial days -- V. The practice of law in territorial days -- VI. Courts codes and judges in early statehood -- VII. Practicing law in early statehood -- VIII. The lawyer as a community leader. Ex-library 10 1/2 x 7 1/4 inches complete in 144 bright pages. . University of Missouri paperback books
