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1938ref. 220252New York: Doubleday Doran & Co./Crime Club 1938. Douglas Sewell investigates the murder of a friend who had been poisoned with arsenic. First U.S. edition British title "Not to be Taken." Bumped and rubbed with wear and fraying at the edges. Rear hinge cracked front a bit loose. British title written in ink on the title page. Date in pencil on the front end paper. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. Doubleday, Doran & Co./Crime Club Hardcover
1803ref. 2353260New-Haven Connecticut: For Increase Cooke & Co 1803. First American Edition. Full-Leather. Fair/No Jacket. First American edition from the fourth London edition. Lacks front board spine and rear board rubbed and drying two light spots on fore edge ink name and date on front endpaper brief pencil notes on rear endpaper. 1803 Full-Leather. xiii 2 16-388 2 pp. Complete in one volume. 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 For Increase Cooke & Co hardcover
1933ref. 210140Garden City NY: Doubleday Doran & Co./Crime Club 1933. Roger Sheringham attends a party at which a thoroughly disagreeable woman apparently commits suicide. His poking around raises suspicions of murder and he becomes the prime suspect. Early reprint. With a four page biography of Sheringham preceding the first chapter. Ex-library with a stamp to the upper edge of the text block and scuffs to the lower spine where a sticker was apparently removed. Bumped and rubbed with wear and fraying at the edges. Hinges have been reglued front end paper removed. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. Ex-Library. Doubleday, Doran & Co./Crime Club Hardcover
1998ref. 52602Alameda CA: Ankh Press 1998. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 26cm.; Purple illustrated wraps; 50pp.; small faint corner bend light rubbing. Near Fine. Sphinx takes its characters and the reader on a whirlwind tour of history as it was and as it might be if a ruthless and brilliant man went back in time and shaped reality to suit himself. The players in this fantasy include Darrel the successful young Black lawyer Shanae his African-American supermodel fiancee Bill the good old boy who goes from wino to politico to human sacrifice on the wheel of time Heather the icy blonde prosecuting attorney whose penchant for domination finds a vent in the New Reality of Los Angeles 2000 where slavery has made a comeback in a big way and Antoine the fierce Creole aristocrat who steals an alien artifact of great power and uses it to fulfill his lust for control for wealth and most of all for Shanae. from the publisher. Ankh Press unknown
1925ref. 220329New York: Grosset & Dunlap 1925. A man is found shot in his library with the doors and windows locked from the inside and a suicide note. Adey 159. Undated early reprint of the first Roger Sheringham mystery originally published anonymously by Jenkins in 1925. Blue boards with bright red print lightly bumped with a touch of rubbing at the tips. Rear hinge just slightly loose previous owner's name Helen Read on the front end paper. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Grosset & Dunlap Hardcover
1929ref. 13361Garden City: Doubleday Doran / The Crime Club 1929. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very good . Octavo 299pp. A very good or better copy in the publisher's black cloth titled in red. Spine cocked some light soiling to the boards else a sound clean copy lacking the dust jacket. Facsimile dust jacket provided. Doubleday Doran / The Crime Club hardcover
1929ref. 28548New York: Doubleday Crime Club 1929. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. First American Edition. A very good or better copy showing moderate use of this Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone title. "When Joan Bendix makes a bet with her husband for a box of chocolates no one imagines that winning will cost her her life. The seven she eats poison her & the two her husband eats nearly kill him. The Sheringham Crime Circle finds the unusual case baffling." MLC 5 Dagger rating. Doubleday Crime Club unknown
1931ref. 220478Garden City NY: Doubleday Doran & Co./Crime Club 1931. Roger Sheringham investigates what at first appears to be a hunting accident. Berkeley Cox edges away from the plot focused whodunit to examining the motivation of the murderer. First U.S. edition. Bumped with rubbing at the corners short tears to the spine heel and 1/4" loss to the spine head. Binding cracked at page 16. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Doubleday, Doran & Co./Crime Club Hardcover
1937ref. 47140London:: Hodder and Stoughton 1937. First edition. publisher's blue cloth. Tiny ink note at top of pastedown and tick marks to the list of novels by Anthony Berkely opposite the title page; cocked; extremities of spine frayed; cloth soiled bumped and rubbed at edges. . 8vo. Hodder and Stoughton, hardcover
1803ref. 2353260New-Haven Connecticut: For Increase Cooke & Co 1803. First American Edition. Full-Leather. Fair/No Jacket. First American edition from the fourth London edition. Lacks front board spine and rear board rubbed and drying two light spots on fore edge ink name and date on front endpaper brief pencil notes on rear endpaper. 1803 Full-Leather. xiii 2 16-388 2 pp. Complete in one volume. 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 For Increase Cooke & Co hardcover books
1998ref. 52602Alameda CA: Ankh Press 1998. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 26cm.; Purple illustrated wraps; 50pp.; small faint corner bend light rubbing. Near Fine. Sphinx takes its characters and the reader on a whirlwind tour of history as it was and as it might be if a ruthless and brilliant man went back in time and shaped reality to suit himself. The players in this fantasy include Darrel the successful young Black lawyer Shanae his African-American supermodel fiancee Bill the good old boy who goes from wino to politico to human sacrifice on the wheel of time Heather the icy blonde prosecuting attorney whose penchant for domination finds a vent in the New Reality of Los Angeles 2000 where slavery has made a comeback in a big way and Antoine the fierce Creole aristocrat who steals an alien artifact of great power and uses it to fulfill his lust for control for wealth and most of all for Shanae. from the publisher. Ankh Press unknown books
ref. 18-4839Berkeley CA: Collected Visions Inc. 1980. . 4to. 8 pp. Soft stapled black and white wraps. Very good with marginal toning along stapled spine. 20 Black and white plates. Brochure created to advertise photographs by Ruth Bernhard available for purchase at the Collected Visions Incorporated in Berkeley CA in 1980. Includes mailer as insert. Scarce.From the Collection of the Art Historian Peter Selz. Berkeley, CA: Collected Visions Inc., 1980. paperback
ref. 12-0245Berkeley Calif.: Big Game Week Committee University of California 1971. Poster measuring 16 x 10 inches. Some pin-holes small tears else very good. Berkeley, Calif.: Big Game Week Committee, University of California, 1971. unknown
1986ref. 30504Little Brown & Company 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good DJ. First edition signed on the front blank by Breathed very good oversized hardcover shows light soil at page edges and a three inch or so soil streak extending up from near the bottom edge of rear endpaper which can be seen at reverse of same though not as strong along with some other mild trace wear in very good dust jacket price at flap that shows shelf wear that includes some scratches and toning to inner flaps. 224 pages illustrated in black & white and color.Still an attractive copy of this collection from the world of Bloom County Babylon. Signed. Little, Brown & Company hardcover
2009ref. 041269U.S.A.: Philomel Books 2009. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. 1ST. Outstanding Copy - Signed By The Author On The Title Page. A First Edition First Printing. Book Is In Fine Condition. Boards Are Clean Not Bumped. Fore Edges Are Clean. Interior Is Clean And Legible. Not Remaindered. Dust Jacket Is In Fine Condition. Not Chipped Or Crinkled. Not Price Clipped. Dust Jacket Is Covered By Mylar Brodart. Thanks And Enjoy. Philomel Books Hardcover
1979ref. 50947Texas: Sterling Swift Publ. Good with no dust jacket. 1979. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. SIGNED by author/cartoonist Breathed on title page good in illustrated covers; considerable creasing to covers rubbing to spine former collector inscription on title page else unmarked copy in stiff covers; first printing with no later indications ; 91 pages; Signed by Author . Sterling Swift Publ. paperback
ref. 2020-K261PCI. Hardcover. Very Good. Book is almost like new with clean and unmarked pages. PCI hardcover
ref. 75-7165Berkeley CA: University Art Museum University of California Berkeley 1968. 8vo. Hard Cover ca.150 pp. B&W and Color Plates. Cover Design of Green Metallic Embossing on Black Cloth is by Hundertwasser and Bruce Montgomery. Very good Ex Library. No Dust JacketProvenance: From the library of the San Francisco Gallerist Pasquale Iannetti. Berkeley, CA: University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, 1968 hardcover
ref. 18-7129Berkeley CA: University Art Gallery 1965. . Exhibition catalogue. 12mo. 27 pp. Soft stapled orange and black illustrated wraps. Very good with marginal sunning along spine. Black and white plates. Includes an introduction by Herschel Browning Chipp. Includes works by John Baxter Sidney Gordon Ralph M. Johnson Karl Kasten Glenn Wessels Fred Reichman Richard Nelson Wayne Thiebaud Tony Delap et al. Catalogue created on occasion of exhibition “Paintings by U.C. Artists: Berkeley and Davis” from July 13 through August 31 1965 at the University Art Gallery at the University of California Berkeley. Scarce.From the Collection of the Art Historian Peter Selz. Berkeley, CA: University Art Gallery, 1965. paperback
1966ref. 11933Harvard University Press 1966. Second Printing of the Third Edi. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good Dust Jacket. This Two Volume Set with dust jackets is clean solid and in great shape! These are hardcover books with a total of about 600 pages including many illustrations. The bindings are strong with all pages firmly attached. The pages are clean with no soiling writing or tears. The title pages show 1966 as the published date and the copyright page states Second Printing of the Third Edition. These are definitely Not former library books. The dust jackets are also in great shape with just a hint of edgewear and some very light soiling No Chips. I have placed the DJs in fresh mylar jackets and this Two Volume Set looks and feels great! We always ship in a sturdy cardboard box! Harvard University Press hardcover
1947ref. 607202609New York: American Institute of Graphic Arts 1947. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket that has a couple of chips. 8vo. 156 pp. Forty four illustrations of type-pages and types printed in black and orange. With a Gathering of Essays by Stanley Morison Gregg Anderson T.M. Cleland M.A. de Wolfe Howe George Parker Winship Rudolph Ruzicka David T. Pottinger Carl P. Rollins and a Gallery of Merrymount Title-pages and Types. Notes on the press and its work by D. B.Updike with a gathering of essays and a gallery of Merrymount Title-pages and types. American Institute of Graphic Arts hardcover
1970ref. 144148N.p.: N.p. 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. With occasional manuscript annotations in blue ink throughout. Adapted for the screen from Alan Morris' 1970 novel "The Tale Of The Lazy Dog." A ragtag group consisting of an Irish journalist a French woman married to a man in the CIA a mercenary pilot and a shameless adventurer are amuck in the war torn region of Laos Cambodia and Vietnam attempting to extort one and a half billion dollars. Set in Laos Cambodia and Vietnam. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present noted as with credits for screenwriter Dursley Berkeley and novelist Alan Williams. 112 with last page of text numbered 114. Mechanical duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1970ref. 144148N.p.: N.p. 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. With occasional manuscript annotations in blue ink throughout. Adapted for the screen from Alan Morris' 1970 novel "The Tale Of The Lazy Dog." A ragtag group consisting of an Irish journalist a French woman married to a man in the CIA a mercenary pilot and a shameless adventurer are amuck in the war torn region of Laos Cambodia and Vietnam attempting to extort one and a half billion dollars. Set in Laos Cambodia and Vietnam. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present noted as with credits for screenwriter Dursley Berkeley and novelist Alan Williams. 112 with last page of text numbered 114. Mechanical duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
ref. 75-5403Columbia SC: Matthew J. Bruccoli 1999. 4to. Hard cover. 358 pp. Very good. Signed by Matthew J. Bruccoli Columbia, SC: Matthew J. Bruccoli, 1999 hardcover
ref. 63-0860Berkeley CA: Oyez 1974. Broadside. 11" x 17" Black Ink On Beige Paper Good with creasing tape abrasions to corners faint staining. Photograph. Scarce. Berkeley, CA: [Oyez], 1974. unknown
