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ref. 5880Scarce autograph letter signed 2pp by Daniel Berkeley Updike 1860-1941 Boston book designer and printer possibly to Thomas Niles a partner in the famed press of Roberts Brothers. Written on Updike personal stationary with printed header ìD.B. Updike Decorative Printing and Book-Making 6 Beacon St. Bostonî and dated Aug 29 1893 ìDear Mr. Miles: Will you kindly send a list of books published by you by ìH.H.î to Mrs. Harold Brown Bellevue Avenue Newport R. I. with the portion of the catalogs in which they seem marked or turned down. And truly much obliged D. B. Updike.î Letters by Updike are quite scarce. D. B. Updike 1860-1941 was an American printer and historian of typography. He obtained his first book-related job as a temporary volunteer in the library of the Providence Athenaeum. In 1880 he was offered a job as an errand boy at Houghton Mifflin and Company of Boston where he worked at the firm for twelve years moving up to the advertising department where he prepared copy. In his last two years with the firm he was transferred to the Riverside Press at Cambridge Mass. where he learned about the mechanics of printing and displayed an aptitude for designing books. Upon leaving Houghton Mifflin in 1893 Updike founded the Merrymount Press. unknown books
1923ref. 7326Berkeley California: James J. Gillick & Co. Publishers 1923. Octavo 20 x 13.5 cm. iv 240 pages. Various tables at end. Blank leaves at end of each section not used. Evident FIRST EDITION. The Priscilla Club of the First Congregational Church of Berkeley had been founded in April of 1921 by our editor Mrs. Joseph F. Furtado. A notice to that effect with a list of officers appears on page ii. There are no local advertisements included but there is a list of individuals and businesses that had contributed to the Church Building Fund in relation to the book. Many of the recipes are attributed. Narrow tideline throughout the text block; some light soiling. In publisher's decorated white oil clothwith an image of a young woman seated with a mixing bowl in her lap and whisk in her hand. Some rubbing to extremities and light soil otherwise very good. Ownership inscription "Mrs. L.T. Sprague Xmas 1923" to free front endpaper. Handwritten recipe "Crisco's Pie Crust" laid-in. OCLC locates eighteen copies; not in Brown. James J. Gillick & Co., Publishers hardcover books
1929ref. 421417Garden City: Doubleday Doran & Company 1929. Hardcover. Fine/Fair. First American edition. Fine in a poor stained and chipped but reasonably intact internally tape repaired dustwrapper. Doubleday, Doran & Company hardcover books
1950ref. 117672Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1950. Revised Final script for the 1951 film. Script belonging to an unknown crew member with their manuscriptic pencil annotation on the verso of some pages. An American soldier in occupied Japan after the conclusion of World War II joins his former love in putting on performances for the troops in an attempt to win her back. Red titled wrappers noted as Revised Final on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 5 and production No. 314 dated April 18 1950. Title page present dated April 18 1950 noted as Revised Final with credits for screenwriters Albert E. Lewin and Burt Styler. 134 leaves with last page of text numbered 123. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good bound internally with three gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1732ref. 369350London: Printed for J. Tonson in the Strand 1732. Hardcover. Fair. Second edition. Two volumes. Octavos. Volume two includes: "An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision" with a separate title page. Illustrated with engraved title vignettes woodcut headpieces and tailpieces including one signed tailpiece in volume one. Contemporary calf over boards edges stained red. "G: Berkeley" written in ink on front free endpaper of Vol. 1. Ex-library with bookplates and paper shelf label on spines boards are worn and detached the lower right corner of the title page in Vol. 1 is torn away effecting the final two numerals of the letterpress date and the corner of the double-ruled letterpress border; small three-digit number stamp on the bottom margin of the first Contents page in each volume else a good only sound set with scattered foxing. Both text blocks are suitable for rebinding. A classic philosophical work written when Berkeley was resident in America. ESTC T86055. Printed for J. Tonson in the Strand hardcover books
1940ref. 156285Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1940. Vintage publicity photograph from the 1940 film showing actors Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland bursting through a large drum. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. A high school drummer convinces the principal to put on a dance to raise money for a dance orchestra aided by his girlfriend. The second film in MGM's "Backyard Musical" series following "Babes in Arms" 1939 and preceding "Babes on Broadway" 1941 and "Girl Crazy" 1943. Set in Chicago. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus lightly creased and age toned. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1970ref. 35425Berkeley: Berkeley Political Poster Workshop 1970. Original illustrated poster silkscreened in black on white repurposed computer listing paper with perforated tractor strips measuring ca.38cm x 56cm 15" x 22". A Fine copy / A. A simple powerful anti-war image by an uncredited Berkeley student. The image is reproduced from a 1968 AP photograph of the bodies of US Marines on Hill 689 in Khe Sanh South Vietnam. The poster "is an indirect invocation of the political order in the United States and for those who remember a reminder that both Lyndon Johnson in 1964 and Richard Nixon in 1968 won the presidency with promises of peace - which were then contradicted by their actions." Benson Thomas W. Posters for Peace: Visual Rhetoric and Civic Action. One of some 600 designs created by Berkeley student members of the Political Poster Workshop in 1970; on average fewer than 100 copies of each design were printed for distribution on and around campus. Not individually listed in OCLC though we note copies held at Yale and Penn State. WILLIAMS 28. Berkeley Political Poster Workshop unknown books
1970ref. 55917Berkeley: Berkeley Political Poster Workshop 1970. Original illustrated poster silkscreened in black and burnt orange on repurposed computer listing paper with perforated tractor strips measuring 38cm x 56cm 15" x 22". Thin strip of toning a few tiny splits; Near Fine. Among the most striking designs created by Berkeley student members of the Political Poster Workshop in 1970 depicting a young Vietnamese boy carrying his baby brother on his back. On average fewer than 100 copies of each design were printed for distribution on and around campus. This variant not in WILLIAMS 4973: Berkeley Protest Posters 1970 - see p.118. Berkeley Political Poster Workshop unknown books
ref. 83078Berkeley: Political Poster Workshop 1970. Original silkscreen in red printed on white poster paper measuring 77.74cm x 58.5cm 29" x 23". Short repaired tear in left margin; hand-inked date 7/2/70 at upper right else Near Fine. Unlike the majority of BPPW posters this one is not printed on repurposed computer paper but rather on higher-quality poster paper in a larger than usual format. One of some 600 designs created by Berkeley student members of the Political Poster Workshop a student anti-war graphics collective over the course of the 1970 academic year; on average fewer than a few hundred copies of each design were printed for distribution on and around campus. Not in Williams. unknown books
1903ref. 5696Berkeley California: The Church; Printed by thePress of Standard Publishing Company 1903. Octavo 23.25 x 14 cm. iv 171 i pages. Advertisements. Index. Evident first edition but subsequent to an 1884 publication with different subtitle author statement and publisher. A generous church cookbook with seven hundred recipes; noteworthy among them: Squash Muffins Celery Root and Hearts of Artichoke Mussel Bordelaise Clam Patties Spanish Meat Pie Coffee Fruit Cake Lemon Cocoanut Cake Cookies with Sherry Monterey Pudding Gooseberry Pudding Pineapple Blanc-Mange Strawberry Mousse. ~ Congregationalists answered the call from President Daniel Coit Gilman 1831-1908 of the University of California to build a hall and organize a fellowship of moral vision within reach of the campus community. The “local church” emphasis of Congregationalist governance had already attracted the largest Protestant presence in San Francisco. After ten years of planning members of Berkeley First Congregational were called to new quarters by a recently cast bell on 30 September 1884 at the corner of Durant Avenue and Dana Street. Thus the early version of The Berkeley Cook Book subtitled A Collection of Choice and Tested Recipes celebrated the dedication of the 1884 church while its younger sibling of 1903 would have appeared in time to honor the building’s twentieth anniversary. ~ In another twenty years they would move again to a grander brick complex on Channing Way still only a few city blocks from campus designed by the Bay Area architect Horace Gardner Simpson. It served successive generations for ninety years but in September 2016 was gutted by fire and the building’s fate is undetermined as of this writing. ~ Clean and bright. Lightly wear at fore-corners and spine. Stapled in olive wrappers titled in brown. Very good. OCLC locates three copies also four copies of The Berkeley Cook Book: A Collection of Choice and Tested Recipes by the Ladies of Berkeley Oakland: Pacific Press 1884; Cook page 27; Brown 57 with different pagination; not in Cagle. [The Church; Printed by the]Press of Standard Publishing Company unknown books
1972ref. 232591972. Prison and IncarcerationSocial activism Prison reform organizing conference broadside. Attica and San Quentin prison organizing stand at the center of this January 1972 Berkeley conference broadside which opens with a Brecht quote "Slave who is it that shall free you.all of us or none" and declares that "no one in America today is more a slave than the inmates in American prisons." The text ties prison struggle to "class and racial oppression" names the murders at Attica and San Quentin and frames the prison system as a site of beatings drugs "behavior modification" and brain surgery schemes. The conference was held just a few months after the 1971 Attica uprising during which prisoners revolted against inhumane treatment and racial discrimination in a violent struggle that left 39 dead. The conference roster grounds the prison rights moment Bay Area Black liberation featuring figures including Afeni Shakur Fay Stender and former Soledad Prison chief psychiatrist Frank Rundle. "Slave Who Is It Shall Free You . . . All of Us or None." The Struggle Inside. Prison Action Conference. Berkeley 1972. Single-sheet broadside 8.5 x 11 inches for a prison action conference scheduled for January 28-30 in Pauley Ballroom UC Berkeley printed on both sides. Recto features two halftone prison photographs and a dense typed manifesto arguing that prisoner demands had moved "from traditional demands for food and shelter to demands for civil and religious rights and finally to a general challenge to the prison system and the society which fosters it." It announces the conference as "a forum for self education and exploration of potential action to assist the prison movement" with key speakers Afeni Shakur a defendant in the Panther 21 trial Fay Stender a Berkeley attorney with years of prison movement experience and Frank Rundle former chief psychiatrist at Soledad Prison. Verso gives the full three-day program: Friday evening remarks by Stender and Shakur; Saturday sessions on "Medical Repression in Prisons" "Adult Authority and Indeterminate Sentencing" "Economics of Prisons" "Juvenile Reformatories and Detention" and "Prisoners Demands"; and Sunday sessions on "Women in Prison" "Defense of Political Prisoners" "Military Prisons" "Prison-Community Communications" "Prisoners Organizations" "County Jails and Pre-trial Detention" plus a closing "Panel Discussion on Racism." The broadside illustrates the actions and intentions of the Berkeley prison movement at a time when prison rebellion legal defense anti-racist analysis and ex-prisoner testimony were being brought before public audiences in the aftermath of the Attica Uprising. Afeni Shakur's appearance links the handbill to the political world of the Black Panther movement while the inclusion of sessions on women in prison political prisoners juvenile detention county jails and medical repression demonstrate the intersectional goals of the movement and the broadening of post-Attica activism from outrage over one massacre to a larger indictment of prison administration and criminal punishment. Some light staining; otherwise very good condition. A Bay Area prison movement piece that preserves both the rhetoric and the working program of organizing against U.S. imprisonment in the immediate aftermath of the 1971 Attica Uprising. unknown books
1947ref. 140202Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1947. Final Draft script for the 1948 film. Copy belonging to Robert Arthur who play Ken McLaughlin with his name on the front wrapper in manuscript pencil. A mare has been lured away by a wild stallion angering the mare's owner Beaver Greenway a horse owner with a drinking problem. Meanwhile Ken McLaughlin Arthur returns home with a new horse who has developed altitude sickness. Based on the third book in Mary O'Hara's "My Friend Flicka" trilogy. Nominated for one Academy Award. Set in Wyoming shot on location in Wyoming Utah and Ohio USA. Blue titled wrappers noted as Final on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 84 and production No. 133 dated April 7 1947. Distribution page present with receipt removed. Title page present dated April 7 1947 noted as Final Script with credits for screenwriter Martin Berkeley. 129 leaves with last page of text numbered 127. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Very Good with dampstaining at the edges of a few leaves wrapper Very Good with some dampstaining on the front and rear wrappers. Bound internally with three gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1939ref. 419795New York: Doubleday Doran & Company for The Crime Club 1939. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First American edition. Owner's small bookplate on front pastedown binders glue offsetting on endpapers and pastedowns very good in an about very good foxed and edgeworn dustwrapper with internal tape repair on chipped top spine end. A mystery novel especially scarce in jacket. Doubleday, Doran & Company for The Crime Club hardcover books
1891ref. 29399London / New York: Hildesheimer & Faulkner / Geo. C. Whitney 1891. Very good plus. Striking chromolithographed shape book of the classic nursery rhyme with cover image of a realistic late Victorian shoe. 6.25'' x 8.25'' approx. Original thread-bound stiff paper wrappers. Illustrated by Berkeley with lovely chromolithographs. 14 pages. A couple creases and nicks to wrappers. Light foxing to leaves. Marvelously intact. Hildesheimer & Faulkner / Geo. C. Whitney unknown books
1732ref. 26337London: J. Tonson 1732. 2 vols. 8vo pp. 14 356; 8 218; engraved vignette title-pp.; bound with as issued An Essay towards a New Theory of Vision pp. 12 215-351; several woodcuts in the text; full contemporary calf double gilt rules on covers unlettered spines in 6 compartments volume designations in 1; some moderate chipping and cracking of the spines but all in all a good and reasonably sound set. Rothschild 372 citing the first edition of the same year: "Alciphron was written in America where Berkeley had gone to await funds which never came for his projected College in the Bermudas. J. Tonson unknown books
1958ref. 15574New York: John Wiley and Sons Inc 1958. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Sixth Printing. Signed by Berkeley on the front endpaper. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket unclipped no price a few short tears and shallow chips. Beige cloth with black ink lettering and rules on the spine and boards. Square and firmly bound foxed at the top edge clean internally. Berkeley's general audience work about early computers and artificial intelligence. John Wiley and Sons Inc hardcover books
1925ref. 01079JUGGED JOURNALISM Herbert Jenkins 1925 first edition 5 leaves missing a small chip at the fore edge margin nowhere near the text t.p.e.'s a bit age toned else a very bright vg/near fine copy in the publishers original green cloth in a vg dust-wrapper with some light wear and tear and soil and professional reinforcement to the inner rear dust-wrapper spine hinge. Illustrated by George Barrow. Many of these humorous essays were first published in Punch the year previously. Three titles were published of Anthony Berkeley in 1925; this one another under the pseudonym of A.B. Cox entitled BRENDA ENTERTAINS and THE LAYTON COURT MYSTERY which was released anonymously. Herbert Jenkins hardcover books
1732ref. 2329641London: Printed for J. Tonson in the Strand 1732. Second Edition. Full-Leather. Good/No Jacket. Second edition. Neatly rebacked with new gilt titles original boards and endsheets retained. Discolored 2 inch declivity on front board boards rubbed with corners exposed first volume lacks leaf A4 ink owner stamps on front endpapers William Harris Mar 1944 light stain to marginal edges of first gathering in volume two front and end matter lightly foxed rear free endpaper of first volume loosening. 1732 Full-Leather. 356; 351 pp. Alciphron is a Christian apologetic in answer to the 'minute philosophers' of Berkeley's day who sought to minimize the the dignity of man. Berkeley is known as an advocate of subjective idealism which he called immaterialism which states that objects do not exist unless they are perceived. "A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge 1710 is the classic exposition of his philosophy of immaterialism as an antidote to infidelity prefaced with an influential essay in the philosophy of language; part two was later lost in manuscript with other papers in Italy." - Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Perhaps his most well-known work is Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous in which two characters representing himself and John Locke discuss various philosophical questions. Berkeley was a fellow at Trinity College and in the 1720s turned his attention to the project of opening St. Paul's College in Bermuda though skepticism about the chances of success in this endeavor caused the funding to come into question. "To prevent a threatening decline in private support Berkeley sailed for Newport Rhode Island with a small advance party on 6 September 1728; this included Smibert who painted several well-known portraits of Berkeley and of his party before settling for life in Boston. The journey was hazardous and protracted. They made an unscheduled landfall on the Virginia coast about the turn of the year and were officially received at Williamsburg before reaching Rhode Island on 23 January 1729. By the spring Berkeley had bought a farm of 96 acres at Middletown 'with two fine groves and winding rivulet upon it' Works 8.194 whose produce would support the college. He employed slaves and was apparently indifferent to the institution of slavery provided that it was humane seeing the moral need rather as one of conversion and baptism. He built a new house Whitehall which is now maintained as a historic site although the adjoining farmland has given way to urban development. Berkeley often preached at Newport Rhode Island in the winter and in remoter outposts in the summer. The strongest and longest friendship he established among New England churchmen was with Samuel Johnson 1696 - 1772 of Stratford Connecticut a refugee from Calvinism who later became first president of King's College New York later Columbia University and lent support to Berkeley's philosophy through his Elementa philosophica 1752 and other writings. Throughout his career Berkeley had little time for dissenters although he abhorred the use of violence against them. The religious tolerance characteristic of Rhode Island induced a degree of ecumenicism in his social practice that was not always maintained in the pulpit. Reports of growing infidelity in English society to which he was always liable to give credence were fuelled by the continuing bad faith of the government in failing to lodge the funds he considered legally his. This was a factor in his writing Alciphron a set of dialogues located notionally in England but drawing much of the landscape description from Rhode Island which was to sell well and stimulate controversy after his return. In this theist and immaterialist combine their defences against a medley of intellectual trends derived primarily but not exclusively from Locke Bernard Mandeville and the third earl of Shaftesbury that Berkeley regarded as obstructive to religion. The work includes Berkeley's second foray into moral philosophy." - Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Printed for J. Tonson in the Strand hardcover books
1800ref. 25312Philadelphia: Way & Groff 1800. First edition. 34pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Disbound and resewn. Apart from some staining a very good copy. First edition. 34pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The author argues that the class of medicines commonly known as 'sedatives' are actually stimulants. He considers the likes of digitalis opium nitre and saccharum. Scarce: OCLC locates 5 copies. Evans 36942 Way & Groff unknown books
1865ref. 32925London: Hurst and Blackett 1865. hardcover. near fine. Colored frontispiece portraits completely extra-illustrated with about 40 mezzotints lithographs steel engravings of landscapes portraits and sporting subjects a few in color. 2 vols. 8vo red 1/2 morocco. London 1865. Near Fine. Memoirs of the eminent 19th century sportsman and gallant. Hurst and Blackett unknown books
1941ref. 151538Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1941. Vintage borderless double weight publicity photograph from the 1941 film showing actors Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland dancing the hoe-down. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. A would-be Broadway singer plans a benefit show to send orphaned children to summer camp but secretly means to use the production to get ahead in his own career. The third film in MGM's "Backyard Musical" series following "Babes in Arms" 1939 and Strike Up the Band" 1940 and preceding "Girl Crazy" 1943. Set in New York. 7.75 x 11 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1940ref. 151539Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1940. Vintage double weight publicity photograph from the 1940 film showing actors Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland dancing the conga on a large drum. With a mimeo snipe and an advisory council stamp dated JUL 8 1940 to the verso. A high school drummer convinces the principal to put on a dance to raise money for a dance orchestra aided by his girlfriend. The second film in MGM's "Backyard Musical" series following "Babes in Arms" 1939 and preceding "Babes on Broadway" 1941 and "Girl Crazy" 1943. Set in Chicago. 8 x 10 inches. Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1931ref. 140946706London: Mundanus Ltd / Victor Gollancz Publisher 1931. First edition. First edition first printing preceding the cloth issue. 288 pp. Bound in publisher's yellow wraps. About Very Good spine creased and toned small tear along spine edge at foot contents and wraps toned with age corners a little bumped. An uncommon British mystery that is often cited as one of the best examples of the inverted detective story in which the murderer's identity is revealed in the first line "It was not until several weeks after he had decided to murder his wife that Dr. Bickleigh took any active steps in the matter. Mundanus Ltd / Victor Gollancz Publisher unknown books
1750ref. JC14358London: Printed for J. Whiston. R. Dodsley. and W. Russel. / W. Innys and C. Hitch. and C. Davis. / W. Innys C. Davis C. Hitch W. Bowyer. / M. Cooper 1750 et al see below. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Contemporary calf handsomely rebacked with gilt-stamped lettering in red leather spine label in second compartment 5 raised bands; four works bound together in one volume 8vo; TIME 1750 First Edition pp. xxvii 1 130 2 ads; SIRIS 1747 London reprint of the Dublin edition pp. 174 1 contents; QUERIST 1750 First Edition pp. 4 83 1; MORALS 1751 First Edition pp. 30. Boards scratched and scuffed. Contemporary handwritten notes on FFEP listing the volume's contents; contermporary ownership signature on title-page of TIME and QUERIST; contemporary marginalia in QUERIST. Otherwise an excellent clean copy nice and tight text block just a bit tanned and brittle along the edges more pronounced on first and last few leaves. Printed for J. Whiston... R. Dodsley... and W. Russel... / W. Innys, and C. Hitch... and C. Davis... / W. Innys, C. Davis, C. Hi hardcover books
1938ref. 166802Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1938. Final script for the 1938 film musical. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the front wrapper. The fifth and final film in Warner Brothers' series of successful and gorgeously choreographed "Gold Digger" films. Dance sequences directed by Busby Berkeley. Set in Paris shot on location in Paris and New York. Blue titled wrappers with Warner Brothers Stenographic Department stamp on the bottom edge of the front wrapper noted as FINAL. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page integral with the distribution page dated 1/4/38 noted as FINAL and PART I. 141 leaves with last page of text numbered 139. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown books
