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1928réf. 527853East Aurora NY: The Roycrofters / Wm. H. Wise & Co. New York - Sole Distributors 1928. Unbound. Very Good. Original shellac 10" 78 rpm record. "Sing We and Chant It" composed by Thomas Morley. "The Turtle Dove" arranged by R. Vaughan Williams. Some rubbing and light scratches to both sides still very good lacking the case and sleeve. Originally issued as part of a 12 record set numbered 151 to 162 released by Roycroft along with the booklet Word Book of the English Singers' Music which provided information about each song. These are some of the first American recordings of what is now referred to as Early Music which is largely meant to represent European music of the 15th and 16th centuries though it can be expanded to include some Baroque era music but if you hit Bach you've gone too far. The English Singers first arrived in America in 1925 and caused a bit of a sensation as this old music was brand new to American audiences. Though their approach to Early Music would be criticized later due to advancements in our understanding of how the pieces are to be performed their efforts and the fruit they've produced are one of the reasons we have Early Music as a concept today. Complete sets are hard to come by and no one set is fully complete as issued because there were at least four alternate "B-Sides" issued No. 155 No. 156 No. 158 and No. 161. Combine this with the fact that Roycroft was a very small label that was only in operation for a few years and it's easy to understand why these records are so difficult to collect. This is evident in the handful of descriptions/holdings found in OCLC and Discogs with only the website 78 Discography having documented what appears to be a complete list of titles. Roycroft was founded by Elbert Hubbard in 1895 in East Auroa New York and was part of the Arts and Crafts movement. Not just a business Roycroft was a reformist community of artists and craftsmen whose work had a meaningful influence on American architecture and design. In addition to the workshops the Roycroft Campus also housed a press where many books were published including Hubbard's own book Little Journeys and partner publications such as The Buffalo Magazine for Arts. The record label was a very small part of the business and was only in operation from 1927 to 1930. The English Singers recordings may be the most well known of the Roycroft records. An uncommon and interesting piece of both American recording and Early Music history. The Roycrofters / Wm. H. Wise & Co. New York - Sole Distributors unknown books
1919réf. 325426New York: The Sunrise Turn 1919. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Woodcuts by Eric Gill. Printed decorated blue wrappers. Tiny tears to the slightly yapped edges a nice very good copy. One of 500 copies. Speyer's first book preceding by two years her first book of original verse. The Sunrise Turn unknown books
1930réf. 109591London: J.M. Dent and Sons Limited 1930. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Near fine with some light offsetting on the end papers. J.M. Dent and Sons, Limited hardcover books
1941réf. 295470Garden City: Doubleday Doran 1941. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Owner's name on the front fly else fine in a price-clipped near fine dustwrapper with some rubbing. A collection of swing stories featuring Ding-Dong Williams which were the basis for the 1946 William A. Berke film Ding Dong Williams featuring Glenn Vernon as Ding-Dong a genius with the clarinet who has to have others write what he composes because he doesn't know musical notation. Blurbs by Count Basie Duke Ellington Benny Goodman Tommy Dorsey Paul Whiteman Guy Lombardo and Rudy Vallee. Doubleday, Doran hardcover books
1947réf. 297772Cambridge; Chicago: Harvard College Library; The Newbery Library 1947. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Fine binding. Quarto; in the publisher’s grey cloth with titling lettered in gilt to the spine; ix 3 32 pages followed by the colophon; in the publisher’s glassine wrapper and moderately worn black slipcase; there is a very slight musty odor.~~From the colophon: “Printed in an edition of three hundred and sixty copies on wove paper and forty copies on India paper for the United States of America.”. Fine binding. Harvard College Library; The Newbery Library unknown books
1967réf. 559393New York: Meredith Press 1967. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First edition. 177pp. Very good with owner name on the front free endpaper and spotting on the page edges in a good only dust jacket with a large chip on the rear panel cerasing and toning. Meredith Press hardcover books
1926réf. 455386New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1926. Hardcover. Near Fine. Octavo. 464pp. Newly translated into English by John Addington Symonds. Illustrated with a mezzotint portrait and sixteen reproductions of Cellini's works. Publisher's b lack maroon cloth decorated and titled in gilt. Old lending library marks on front endpapers rear hinge tender spine lettering dull overall very good. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
1872réf. AG20003ENGLISH AND CHINESE LESSONS 中文英语教程 New York: American Tract Society 1872. 8vo 188pp; publisher's green pebbled cloth. This book is designed for the Chinese to learn English 纽约：1872年美国Tract Society（éžç›ˆåˆ©ï¼‰å‡ºç‰ˆç¤¾å‡ºç‰ˆï¼Œæ˜¯ä¸€æœ¬ä¸å›½äººå¦ä¹ 英文的教程，14×19cm，共188页。 American Tract Society hardcover books
1879réf. 2221937First American edition. Octavo. 3/4 gilt stamped red calf over marbled boards spine with raised bands and gilt stamped devices within gilt ruled compartments covers ruled in gilt marbled endpapers. Very good. 240 pages. Bookplate of Raymond. Roberts Brothers hardcover books
1887réf. 2221945First edition. Octavo. 3/4 gilt stamped red calf over marbled boards spine with raised bands and gilt stamped devices within gilt rule compartments covers ruled in gilt marbled endpapers. Very good slight foxing; light rubbing. 260 pages. No signatures. Sadleir 1303. Heraldic bookplate of Raymond. Printed by the Chiswick Press/C. Whittingham and Co. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington hardcover books
1956réf. 9481Rangoon Burma: The Society 1956. Octavo 23 x 14.5 cm. 2 263 pages. Advertisements. Stated Second Edition enlarged following the original issue of 1954. Edition statement from the foreword. A substantial missionary cookbook with 654 recipes many attributed. An additional 120 recipes appear in this second edition. Includes interesting short sections on cereals fruits and vegetables available in Rangoon markets and a practical nutrition guide titled "How Shall We Feed Our Babies" The recipes are a mixture of American dishes with a good number of global dishes including some from Armenia China quite a few Holland India again quite a few Indonesia Japan Italy Turkey and more; a far more international collection that one expects in a missionary cookbook. Dishes indicated as Burmese include Balachaung Buffadoo Duck Candied Pumpkin Chicken Kaukswe Cocoanut Blancmange Dohl Dohl Lthoke Fish Hilsa Curry Mok-si-kyo Nga-boung-doke Sa-nwin-ma-kin Seaweed Kyauk-Kyaw and more. The Chairwoman of the cookbook's Editorial Committee Mary Brewster Hollander calls out a few special contributors to the book including Allen Bloodworth of Mason Texas - then living in Burma who supplies his recipe for Texas Barbecue and the local Daw Thei Chone the "white-haired Burmese gentlewoman who could at once describe every step and ingredient of her unique preserved ginger. She's famous all over Burma for her wonderful ginger." The Chairwoman also indicates that all profits from the book "will be used for Community Service Projects." The advertisements imply Rangoon was quite a developed city at the time of publication. Previous owner's small name sticker to front and rear paste-downs; very light soiling internally. Previous owner's bookplate to front paste-down. In black and red printed textured cloth with an illustration of a Burmese woman cooking with a wok. Near very good. Scarce. OCLC locates one copy of this second edition National Library of Sweden and four copies of the 1954 first edition. [The Society] hardcover books
1934réf. 289973New York New York: HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS 1934. Softcover. Good. Fourth edition. Almost very good with the spine missing pieces in wrappers. HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS unknown books
1598réf. ST20689London: Printed by Thomas Wight and Bonham Norton 1598. FIRST PUBLISHED EDITION and First Edition under this Title. 192 x 139 mm. 7 5/8 x 5 1/2". 8 p.l. 154 162-65 159-67 1 blank 6 leaves. Errors in pagination but text complete. Late 19th century dark brown calf covers tooled in blind with plain rules and fleur-de-lys roll raised bands spine panels with small blind-stamped ornament black morocco label marbled endpapers neat repairs to ends of both joints. Front pastedown with engraved armorial bookplate of Godfrey Wentworth Woolley Park. Beale T-413; Mellon/Podeschi 15; Schwerdt II 7; STC 17291; ESTC S111993. Extremities slightly rubbed boards a little chafed in spots text lightly pressed but not washed a bit of browning to edges and occasional minor marginal foxing or traces of corner creases but quite an excellent copy the text clean and still fresh throughout and the perfectly suitable binding with no significant wear. This is a pleasing country gentleman's copy of the first published treatise on the laws governing English forests. Our author the fittingly named woodsman John Manwood d. 1610 served as gamekeeper of Waltham Forest as well as a justice of the New Forest. DNB tells us that he was possibly a barrister at Lincoln's Inn which would explain his interest in and knowledge of the law. Manwood tells us in the dedicatory epistle that he composed the present work in response to the precarious state of forest preservation stating that "so many do daily so contemptuously commit such heynous spoiles and trespasses" against the country's woodlands but "verie little or nothing as yet is extant concerning the Lawes of the Forrest" to help manage such behaviors. Our copy comes from the first published edition following only the 1592 pamphlet entitled "A Brefe Collection of the Lawes of the Forest" issued for private circulation and now extraordinarily rare. According to DNB the present treatise is "the only substantial work on the subject ever to reach the press" making it an enduringly useful source for those interested in the topics contained which include laws about hunting and perambulation in forests. It remained the standard work on the subject until the 19th century and Schwerdt writes that it has been "invaluable to students and lovers of ancient sport." Our copy is from the library of Yorkshire landowner Godfrey Wentworth 1773-1834 who served as High Sheriff of Yorkshire from 1796-97 and in the House of Commons from 1806-08. He probably had no need for a later printing of the work. Printed by Thomas Wight and Bonham Norton unknown books
1831réf. 2221818First edition. 6 1/4" x 4". Engraved frontispiece vignette on title page three full page plates and tail-piece are by Robert Cruishank. Full later brown morocco a.e.g. by Riviere front wrapper lacking; original yellow printed rear wrapper bound in. No dust jacket. Fine fresh clean copy. 36 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Edward Moxon hardcover books
1950réf. 306823First edition. Thin octavo. Dust jacket unclipped; tiny tear. Very good-fine. 99 pages. Signed on the half title page by 10 cast members including Laurence Olivier March 2 1950 Denholm Elliott Heather Stannard Micheline Patton Fred Johnson George Relph Brenda de Banzie; signed by Christopher Fry on the facing leaf. Together with an original 8 page 1950 program for the play at London's St. James Theatre. Provenance: from the collection of author Roy Moseley. Oxford University Press hardcover books
1944réf. 616766New York: Broadcast Music 1944. Softcover. Near Fine. Sheet music. Quarto. Single bifolium with a single-sheet-insert making six pages. Remnants of a price sticker on the front cover corners lightly bumped light toning very good. For voice and piano. Plate imprint "Hymn Of etc. 3." The back cover features a wartime ad "Buy war bonds and stamps for victory." In a New York Times article announcing the release of this new anthem Louis Untermeyer is quoted as saying of the English translation "The lines should not be judged as poetry by themselves. They are an attempt to adhere as closely as possible to the meaning of the original Russian bearing in mind that the first requirement of all song lyrics is that the words should be simple and easily singable to the music." OCLC locates nine holdings and it appears to be equally uncommon in the trade. Broadcast Music unknown books
1926réf. 73258New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1926. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Fine in an attractive near fine dustwrapper with some overall age-toning a scuff on the spine and a few tiny nicks and tears. Translation of an important 14th Century Chinese novel. An attractive copy. G.P. Putnam's Sons hardcover books
1989réf. 900646NY: W.W.Norton 1989. First US edition first prnt. Beginning foxing on the opedge. Unread copy in Near Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Hardcovers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Wilson's fifth non-fiction book. The image is of the book described and not a stock photo. W.W.Norton hardcover books
1958réf. 215644New York: Longmans Green and Co 1958. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. 594pp. Spine ends and corners lightly bumped very good lacking the dust jacket. Longmans, Green and Co hardcover books
1964réf. 112752Park Forest IL: The Prairie School Press 1964. cloth dust jacket. 8vo. cloth dust jacket. x 69 pages. First edition. Blurbs by Reuel Denney Peter Viereck. Author's first book of verse. Bump on the lower edge of the rear cover price-clipped black dust jacket. The Prairie School Press unknown books
1964réf. 112753Park Forest IL: The Prairie School Press 1964. cloth dust jacket. 8vo. cloth dust jacket. x 69 pages. First edition. Blurbs by Reuel Denney Peter Viereck. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Author's first book of verse. Rubbed price-clipped black dust jacket with a short closed tear. The Prairie School Press unknown books
1952réf. 102220Columbia SC: n.p. 1952. stiff paper wrappers. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. vi 129 pages. Catalogue from the Special Collections in the McKissick Memorial Library at the University of South Carolina. Contains 717 entries and an index. Covers soiled and faded near extremities top corner creased. Pages slightly soiled. With the signature of a previous owner at the top of the title page in ink. n.p. unknown books
réf. 39481Philadelphia: Printed by C. Sherman 5605. 8vo 5 volumes. 8 7/8 x 5 1/2 inches. Hebrew and English text on facing pages. Each volume inscribed at the head of the English-language title "To my beloved wife from her affectionate husband" the first volume with a later family annotation. Contemporary purple morocco spine in six compartments with raised bands lettered in gilt in the second and fourth repeating gilt decoration in others marbled edges marbled endpapers. Provenance: Solomon Nunes Carvalho each cover stamped in gilt Rare large-paper association copy of the first Jewish translation of the Pentateuch into English. More than any other person of his time Isaac Leeser 1806-1868 envisioned the development of a major center of Jewish culture and religious activity in the United States. He single-handedly provided American Jews with many of the basic religious texts institutions and conceptual tools they needed to construct the cultural foundation of what would later emerge as the largest Jewish community in the history of the Jewish people. Printed in 1845 this edition of the Pentateuch in five volumes included a vocalized Hebrew text of each of the Five Books of Moses together with an English translation and notes as well as the haftarot prophetic readings. Leeser actually began working on The Law of God in 1838. Among the factors involved in his decision to begin systematically working on a translation was the recent opening of Rebecca Gratz's Sunday School which met for the first time in March 1838 in Philadelphia and was desperately in need of appropriate study material. Students were compelled to use the King James Bible for want of a Jewish alternative. Religiously objectionable passages in other texts provided by Protestant organizations were either pasted over or torn out by Gratz's staff. Leeser who supported the Sunday School and was its chief academic resource person felt compelled to find more suitable texts for the students. The impetus for Leeser throughout was always his desire to provide the Jews of America with an English text of the Bible that was produced by one of their own and was not tainted by conversionist motivations. This copy with provenance to Solomon Nunes Carvalho who was a noted American painter photographer writer and inventor best known for traveling with John C. Fremont on his fifth expedition through Kansas Colorado and Utah. He published an account of that journey titled "Incidents of Travel and Adventure in the Far West; with Colonel Fremont's Last Expedition" 1860 and was considered a pioneer in travel photography. Isaac Leeser the hazzan of Congregation K.K. Mikveh Israel married Carvalho and his wife Sarah Miriam Solis on October 15 1845 in Philadelphia where Carvalho's father had a workshop. Rosenbach 569; Singerman 884; Goldman 7; Lance J. Sussman "Another Look at Isaac Leeser and the First Jewish Translation of the Bible in the United States" Modern Judaism Vol. 5 No. 2 Gershom Scholem Memorial Issue. May 1985 pp. 159-190. Printed by C. Sherman unknown books
1651réf. 1006702 volumes 4to however one volume is slightly larger than the other modern calf and boards printed in black leter and Roman types 2 1369-1417 & 2 1677-1689 pp. Last leaf in both volumes moderately worn and some repairs to one of those leafs pages in both volumes creased in the middle library plate on both front pastedowns early owners inscrpition on back of last leaf in one volume normal aging and browning; otherwise very good. This is a scarce item that was probably removed from a larger work however the sjubect is the same. Basically these acts focus on the seizure of lands during the English Civil War following the execution of Charles I in 1649 and just before the installation of Oliver Cromwell as Lord Protector in 1653. The text is primarily lists of nobility who remained loyal to the crown and whose lands were forfeited to the commonwealth for "treasons against the parliament and the people of England." John Field, hardcover books
2017réf. 232038New York: Here Media 2017. Magazine. 112p. 8x10.75 inches articles reviews interviews fashion film stage art music very good glossy magazine in pictorial wraps. Gay Pride coverage and a look back at Queer Cinema. Here Media unknown books
