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1978ref. 28549New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1978. First edition; 8vo; pp. xviii 2 565; numerous illustrations in the text; very good in good jacket with tears no loss and wrinkles on extremities. Co-edited by Herbert E. Klingelhofer and Kenneth W. Rendell. Sponsored by The Manuscript Society. Inscribed by Ken Rendell and contributor Diana Rendell "for 'the girls of Chicago' with best wishes 12/20/78." A comprehensive work valuable to any collector. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
1940ref. 18101New York: The Grolier Club 1940. Edition limited to 1000 copies printed by The Pynson Printers this 1 of 150 copies for the Grolier Club signed by Updike in pencil on the colophon; 8vo pp. 47 7; vignette title-page and 3 vignettes in text; fine in orig. brown cloth over beige paper-covered boards lettered in gilt on spine. 850 copies were also printed for the A.I.G.A. which were bound in wrappers and not signed. Addresses given at the Grolier Club at the opening of an exhibition on Updike and the Merrymount Press with a check-list of Updike's writings. The Grolier Club unknown books
1934ref. 27787Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1934. First edition limited to 500 copies 8vo x & 280pp. 13 plates; spine ends just beginning to fray otherwise near fine in orig. brown linen stamped in gilt on spine. Standard work on the Merrymount Press. Harvard University Press unknown books
ref. 234464Houghton Mifflin Company 1943. 50th Anniversary. hardcover. Good/Good. 6x0x9. Berkeley Williams Jr. Later printing. Dust jacket and book are in good condition with minor wear. Dust jacket has a small spot stain at the top front edge view in photo. Blue cloth boards. Has a good binding. Name is written on the front free endpaper no other marks or notations. Foxed top page edge. Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover books
1937ref. 89362Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1937. cloth later cloth slipcase. 8vo. cloth later cloth slipcase. xl 292; xx 326 pages. Two volumes. Second edition Appleton p.69. Ownership inscription in ink on the front free endpapers. Lacking the dust jackets. Spines lightly faded else a near fine set in near fine slipcase. Profusely illustrated. An essential reference book for anyone interested in the history of printing and development of type faces. Harvard University Press unknown books
ref. 37077Iowa City: The Prairie Press n.d. self paper wrappers which unfolds to a small 4to. Prairie Press. 12mo. self paper wrappers which unfolds to a small 4to. broadside printing of Updike's comments on typography. With use of red and blue. The Prairie Press unknown books
1981ref. 008649Berkeley CA: Doug Minkler 1981. Poster. Near Fine. Poster. First Printing. 24" h x 18" W. "Celebration & Rally - Music by Orquestra Sabrosita - Attend the Rent Board Public Hearing -City Hall Stop the General Rent Hike for 1982. For more information call the Berkeley Tenants Union - 843-6601". "c D. Minkler" in an inverted triangle printed in black at the bottom right. BTU house logo printed in black at the bottom left. Screenprint peach and black color image on stiff beige paper. Near Fine small corner creases. Forty years later and due to a global pandemic a strikingly current protest poster. Well suited for framing will be shipped loosely rolled in sturdy mailing tube. Doug Minkler unknown books
1713ref. 140947370London: Henry Clements 1713. First Edition Third Edition. First edition first printing of George Berkeley's work of philosophy. x 166 vi 44 pp. Octavo bound in full contemporary mottled calf laced in boards. Blindstamped ruled borders red morocco title label to spine all edges speckled red. Bound together with the third edition of another work by Berkeley also published by Henry Clements in 1713: Passive Obedience Or the Christian Doctrine Of Not Resisting the Supreme Power Proved and Vindicated upon the Principles of the Law of Nature. In a Discourse Deliver'd at the College-Chapel. Very Good with moderate wear to boards cracking to leather at extremities minimal chipping at head and tail of spine and rounded and bumped corners. Joints repaired leather coated with preservative. Previous owner names have been torn from free endpapers cut more carefully from upper margins of first two leaves. Several 18th century ink markings and inscription "Owner / 1720" remain on the endpapers. The two books are printed on different paper stock. Three Dialogues is slightly tanned with scattered foxing to margins; Passive Obedience is heavily toned. Both books collated complete. From the library of William A. Strutz with his small bookplate to the front pastedown. George Berkeley 1685 - 1753 was an Anglo-Irish philosopher and clergyman who advocated the view that objects cannot exist without being perceived. He wrote Three Dialogues in order to expand on the ideas expressed in his most notable work A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge. Passive Obedience is a call to obey established authorities God above all. That a third edition was published just one year after the first is testament to the intensity of Enlightenment debates about the relationships between individuals and church and state. Henry Clements unknown books
1985ref. 2353025Lexington: Stephen Greene Press 1985. Large Hardcover. Very Good. 7x1x5. Light edge wear. 1985 Large Hardcover. 448 pp. A compilation of writings by dozens of leaders in holistic health covering every imaginable field - from body and breathwork to herbal medicine shamanism and integrative medicine. Stephen Greene Press hardcover books
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
1931ref. 2351723Garden City New York: The Crime Club Inc. / Doubleday Doran & Company Inc 1931. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. First American edition. Lacks jacket. Spine leans forward slightly otherwise an excellent copy. Binding tight pages clean bright and unmarked. 1931 Hard Cover. 273 pp. 8vo. The ransacked flat and the garroted body meant a simple burglary to Scotland Yard. but the Yard overlooked the innocent bit of rope that Roger Sheringham found. The seventh Roger Sheringham mystery novel by popular British crime writer Anthony Berkeley Cox who wrote as Anthony Berkeley Francis Iles and A. Monmouth Platts. The Roger Sheringham stories were Berkeley's most popular mysteries though he also wrote quite a few stand-alones. The Crime Club, Inc. / Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc 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
2002ref. 56982West New York NJ: Mark Batty Publisher. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2002. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 097156874x . A handsome first Edition/First Printing in Fine condition in an equally unblemished dust-jacket; The Well-Made Book is a compilation of essays and lectures written by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Updike and the editor William W. Peterson. The book is divided into four sections: "The Writer" "The Reader" "The Work of Making a Book" and "The Business of Books." In "The Writer" Updike discusses the importance of being a good writer and the techniques that he has used to achieve success. In "The Reader" he discusses the importance of reading and how it can transform a person. In "The Work of Making a Book" he discusses the process of book making and the importance of having a good editor. In "The Business of Books" he discusses the different aspects of the book business and the importance of bookselling.; 8vo; 383 pages . Mark Batty, Publisher hardcover books
2002ref. 55512West New York NJ: Mark Batty Publisher. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2002. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 097156874x . A Fine first edition/first printing in an equally handsome dust-jacket; The Well-Made Book is a collection of essays and lectures by celebrated authors and thinkers including David Foster Wallace J.D. Salinger and William Updike. Edited by William W. Peterson the book is a unique and illuminating exploration of the craft of writing from conception to publication.; 8vo; 383 pages . Mark Batty, Publisher hardcover books
2002ref. 55510West New York NJ: Mark Batty Publisher. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2002. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 097156874x . A Fine first edition/first printing in an equally handsome dust-jacket; In this book prominent authors and scholars offer essays and lectures on the craft of writing. Topics include sentence structure plot character development and more. This book is a valuable resource for anyone interested in improving their writing skills.; 8vo; 383 pages . Mark Batty, Publisher hardcover books
2008ref. 14623London: Vintage Books. Fine. 2008. Limited/Numbered Edition. Softcover. 0099526999 . Only 1000 copies of this Limited/Numbered edition libretto were published. This copy is in Very Fine condition and is SIGNED by author Ian McEwan and composer Michael Berkeley directly on the title page; Charles Frieth is a composer conductor and prodigious womanizer. As he is preparing for a performance of one of his early works and the world premiere of Demonic Aubade he is awakened to the chaos and turmoil in his life. As he struggles to regain control a terrible trajedy begins to unfold. This libretto for Michael Berkeley's opera was commissioned by Music Theatre Wales and received its first performance on May 31st 2008 at Theatr Brycheiniog; Small 8vo ; Signed by All Authors . Vintage Books paperback books
1891ref. 92699New York: The Berkeley Lyceum 1891. Very Good. Modest-sized broadsheet flyer. 24 cm. Text printed in red on both sides. Two horizontal creases. List of 30 "patronesses" printed on other side. The first patroness listed is Mrs. Valentine G. Hall who was the grandmother of Eleanor Roosevelt whom little Eleanor went to live after her mother's death. We were unable find information about a "Summer Home for Colored Women and Children" other than an online reference identifying it as organized in 1890. The Berkeley Lyceum unknown books
1978ref. 84948New York: Charles Scribners's Sons 1978. 1st ed. Paperback. Near Fine/Very Good. illustrations index xviii 565p. Original cloth. dj. 24cm. Two errata sheets laid in. Charles Scribners's Sons paperback books
1903ref. 83708New York: James Pott & Co 1903. 1st ed. Hardcover. Near Fine. frontis photos xii 292p. Original decorated red cloth. 19cm. Tabard Inn Library label on endpaper. No Jacket. James Pott & Co hardcover books
1990ref. M4556Philadelphia: Saunders 1910; Birmingham:: Classics of Surgery Library 1990. 1990. 25 cm. 379 pp. Illus. index. Full navy blue gilt-stamped cowhide a.e.g. Fine. Bookplate. Special edition. "Moynihan greatly advanced our knowledge of duodenal ulcer. He developed the concept of the so-called ulcer sequence pain-food-ease and he stressed the well-ordered sequence of symptoms. More than any other he established treatment of duodenal ulcer on a sound basis." See: Garrison and Morton 3535. Classics of Surgery Library, 1990. unknown books
ref. 34444BERKELEY Edmund and Dorothy Smith Berkeley. THE REVEREND JOHN CLAYTON A PARSON WITH A SCIENTIFIC MIND HIS WRITINGS AND OTHER RELATED PAPERS. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia 1965. 8vo. Cloth. xv xlviii 170 pages. First edition. Definitive collection of the writings and letters of the noted seventeenth century Virginia clergyman and local botanist and scientist. Very good. unknown books
ref. 36495MERRYMOUNT UPDIKE Daniel Berkeley and others. NOTES ON THE MERRYMOUNT PRESS & ITS WORK. San francisco: Alan Wofsy 1975. 8vo. Cloth. First edition. "With bibliographical list of books printed at the press 1893-1933" by Julian Pearce Smith; "to which has been added a supplementary bibliography of books printed at the press 1934-1949" by Daniel Berkeley Bianchi. Limited to five hundred copies. Fine. 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
2008ref. 41936London: Vintage Books 2008. First edition limited issue of 1000 numbered copies signed by McEwan and Berkeley on the title page. Copy #329. Printed label affixed to half-title page as issued. Perfect-bound illustrated card wraps with French-fold flaps. Fine condition. McEwan's libretto for Berkeley's opera which was first performed on May 31 2008. Signed by Author & Composer. Soft Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition. Vintage Books paperback books
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
