ref. 141347New York: Vincent FitzGerald 1987. Japanese style binding in purple and green Japanese cloth matching fold-over case. FitzGerald & Co. Vincent. 9 x 12 inches. Japanese style binding in purple and green Japanese cloth matching fold-over case. 40 pages. Interpreted by Susan Weil and Marjorie Van Dyke. Privately printed by Vincent FitzGerald in an edition of 65 copies signed by Susan Weil and Marjorie Van Dyke of which this is one of 50 copies available for sale. A fine copy in fine clamshell box. Text and titling printed by Daniel Keleher and Bruce Chandler at Wild Carrot Letterpress in typefaces created by Dan Carr & Julia Ferrarie at the Golgonooza Letter Foundry and printed on Moulin du Gue Japanese papers. Calligraphy by Jerry Kelly. With 62 etchings by Marjorie Van Dyke assisted by Maria Luisa Rojo at The Printmaking Workshop employing over 150 plates original watercolors collage and hand cutting printed on Moulin de Gue paper and Japanese papers. The texts of the forty epiphanies are printed in full and those selected for interpretation are assigned thematic divisions: "Planes" "Death" "Dreams" and "Games" with Weil undertaking the first two sections and Van Dyke the latter two. The thematic sectional titles to the divisions of the illustrative matter are keyed numerically to the relevant epiphanies in the text. Lithography by Rhae Burden and Collage creation by Zahra Partovi. Bound loose in hand-made box by David Bourbeau at his Thistle Bindery covered with Japanese hand-made silk with an incised line of Japanese tea paper showing a profile of Joyce. This book covering death word games / puns how a person dreams while sleeping and planes is considered a high-spot of Vincent FitzGerald & Company. Vincent FitzGerald unknown books
1975ref. 554266Paris: Marcel Blancheteau Thomas-Scheler and Denise Weil 1975. Softcover. Near Fine. Dealer catalog. Text in French. Forward by Charles Dollfus. Unpaginated. Illustrated from black-and-white photographs with a color frontispiece. Printed wrappers. Near fine with an institution stamp on the inside of the rear wrapper. Marcel Blancheteau, Thomas-Scheler and Denise Weil unknown books
1976ref. 589259Knotting: The Sceptre Press 1976. Softcover. Fine. First edition. 16mo. 5pp. Stapled wrappers. Fine. This is one of 150 numbered copies. The Sceptre Press unknown books
1969ref. 592499New York: Exposition Press 1969. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 155pp. Fine in modestly rubbed else about fine price-clipped dust jacket. Analysis by an international trader published by a vanity press publisher. Exposition Press hardcover books
1973ref. 528601Rushden Northamptonshire: Sceptre Press 1973. Unbound. Fine. First edition. Single sheet folded once to make four pages. Fine. One of 150 numbered copies. Sceptre Press unknown books
1923ref. 47739San Francisco: The Book Club of California 1923. Limited edition. Hardcover. g to vg. 295/400 with nine original letters and three original scores tipped in at rear 7 x 9" with textual annotations; two original photographs of Oscar Weil tipped in on front endpaper 7 1/2 X 4 3/4" and recto of frontispiece 5 1/2 x 4 1/2". Original brown quarter cloth over light brown textured boards red label with gilt lettering and decorative decor pasted to brown debossed frame on cover; gilt lettering on white paper label on spine gilt ruled. Frontispiece silver print 4 1/4 x 3 1/4" by Dorothea Lange after a painting by Olga M. Ackerman with gilt ruling and decor; tissue guard. Title page with red woodcut designed by H. von Schmidt. Red titles and marginalia enlarged initials in red and blue. Printed by the Grabhorn Press San Francisco. The original letters appear to address "Mein lieber Doctor" from 1914 through 1920 one of them not dated altogether 21 pages. A payment note on printed Bush Street letterhead and a magazine clipping "The Late Oscar Weil" by A. Pupil dated April 17 1921. Educated as a musician Oscar Weil 1839–1921 enrolled as a private in the Union Army at the beginning of the American Civil War and retired as a major at the end of the war. Injuries incurred during the war prevented him from pursuing his career as a violinist. Weil turned to composing and wrote music critiques for the Argonaut after settling in San Francisco. The book contains the Oscar Weil Memoir letters to Oscar Weil his contributions to the Argonaut to "The Occident" at the University of California including "The Mundwyler Collection of chamber Music at the University of California" a contribution to the San Francisco Call on the paintings of Francis McConas an informal talk before the Music Section of the Delphian Club in Alameda and words spoken at his funeral by Stewart W. Young. Compositions of Oscar Weil are listed in a separate chapter at rear. Binding with light wear along edges light bumps at corners and lightly sunned spine. Papers uncut at bottom and foredge. Binding in overall good interior in very good condition. The Book Club of California hardcover books
1967ref. 47476Jerusalem: n.p. Sifriyah le-mahshevet Yiśraʼel 1967. Reprint. Hardcover. g to near fine. Octavo. 104pp. 2. White cloth over tan paper boards with black lettering on the front cover and the spine. Modern reprint of the original 1852 Frankfurt edition of Solomon ben Labi's Hebrew translation of Abraham ben David ha-Levi's aka. Abraham ibn Daud aka RABad ca. 1110-1180 philosophical work ha-Emunah ha-Ramah. The original work written in Arabic in Mediaeval Spain as Al-akidah al-Rafiyah The Sublime Faith was Ha-Levi's attempt to integrate Aristotelianism into Jewish thought. This edition contains only the Hebrew translation found in the 1852 edition and does not include the German translation by Simson Weil however there is a reproduction on the original German title page in gothic script at the opposite end of the book block. Published as part of the series Sifriyah le-mahshevet Yiśraʼel. Text in Hebrew. Binding with light rubbing to extremities. Bottom of front cover abraded. Ex-library copy with bookplates and ink stamps on the interior covers and title pages. Binding in good interior in near fine condition overall. Hebrew title: ספר ×”××ž×•× ×” הרמה :” ”×”×ž×‘×™× הסכמה בין ×¤×™×œ×•×¡×•×¤×™× והדת. n.p. [Sifriyah le-mahshevet Yiśraʼel] hardcover books
1868ref. 23269Paris: Ladrange 1868. First edition. Hardcover. vg. 8vo. 237 pp. Original 3/4 cloth over paper-covered boards. Religion and Medieval philosophy 14th century. French philosopher exegete mathematician and physician Lévi-Ben-Gerson writes on nature and destiny of the heart dreams devination and prophecy the science of God celestial substances creation and miracles Aristotle the Bible astronomy metaphysics. Cloth along spine missing. 1st 3 pages detached including half title/title page and chipped at edges very slight age toning throughout interior. Text in French. Binding in good interior in overall very good condition. Ladrange hardcover books
1913ref. 10919Berlin: Neufeld & Henius Verlag 1913. First edition. Hardcover. fair. 4to. 4 volumes. Embossed decorated tan cloth with illustrated spine. Age wearing throughout. Minor staining and discoloration to front and back cover. Color frontispiece. Ex-Libris to endpaper. "Thousand Nights and One Night" also known as "The Arabian Nights" are a collection of ancient middle east stories of uncertain date and authorship. The characters of Aladdin Ali Baba and Sindbad the Sailor have become part of western folklore. The volumes are illustrated with color and b/w plates by Fernad Schultz-Wettel. Ex-Library. Text in German gothic script. Book in good binding in fair condition. Neufeld & Henius Verlag hardcover books
1809ref. 20105Frankfurt: Baurhoffer 1809. Hardcover. fair. 2 volumes in one with two title pages. 8vo. 148 pp. 150 pp. Followed by a double-page leaf of errata from both volumes. 3/4 leather over marbled boards. Printed on high quality cotton rag. First volume printed on green background. 2-volume work titled "fragments from the Talmud and the Rabbis". Age wear and staining to binding with marble rubbed off edges worn and spine missing. Binding still tight. Staining to endpapers with book plate torn out at inside of front board. Very minor browning sporadic foxing. Interior otherwise very clean. Text in German. Binding in poor interior in very good condition. Baurhoffer hardcover books
1923ref. 8627San Francisco: The Book Club of California 1923. Limited ed. Hardcover. vg. 4to. 120 pp. 4 pp. at rear listing Oscar Weil's musical compositions. Black cloth spine over brown boards. Pages untrimmed. Frontispiece color. One of 400 numbered copies. Corners bumped. Light wear to head and tail of spine. Otherwise in very good condition. The Book Club of California hardcover books
1995ref. 467826New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1995. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Later printing. Octavo. 309 1pp. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with some bumps to top edge. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1980ref. 597735Notting Bedford: Martin Booth 1980. Softcover. Fine. First edition. 16mo. Stitched wrappers. Fine. One of 125 numbered copies. Martin Booth unknown books
1975ref. 28762n.p.: Published By the Artist. Very Good. c.1975. First Edition. Hardcover. no dust jacket as issued; plastic comb-bound pages inside cloth-covered boards moderate soiling to covers mostly the rear some age-toning to page edges. pen and ink drawings SIGNED and dated 1976 by the author/artist on the verso of the title page. "Designed and published by the artist" in an edition of 1250 copies this seems to be the only book-format collection of the work of this St. Louis-born artist 1945- . It consists of about 80 drawings mostly whimsical human figures of great diversity printed on both sides of the heavy-stock pages with no accompanying test of any kind. The artist still active has worked in numerous media including lithography silk screen etching monotype offset lithography computer graphics film and digital photography and acrylic painting. Signed by Author . Published By the Artist hardcover books
1985ref. 105397NY:: Atheneum. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1985. Hardcover. 0689311060 . Illustrated by the author. Stated first edition. Previous owner's name on front paste-down else very good in a very good a few short closed edge tears on rear panel age toning previous owner's name on front flap dust jacket. . Atheneum, hardcover books
1985ref. 032234Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1985. The uncorrected proof copy of the revised edition. Unmarked but from the library of Peter Matthiessen. Spotting to covers; foxing to edges; very good in wrappers. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. Houghton Mifflin paperback books
2018ref. 277175Berkeley: She Writes Press 2018. Paperback. 367p. very good first edition trade paperback original in pictorial wraps. Memoir by the editor and publisher of Trivia Journal. She Writes Press paperback books
1948ref. 298817New York: The Dial Press 1948. Hardcover. xxxiv 490p. tables corners bumped else very good condition in an unclipped and edgeworn dj. JWB stands for Jewish Welfare Board. The Dial Press hardcover books
1985ref. 294515N. Amherst MA: Trivia 1985. Magazine. 96p. wraps 5.5x8.5 inches very good condition. Feminist journal. Articles include "Against the Male Flood: Censorship Pornography and Equality" by Andrea Dworkin "The View from Over the Hill: Notes on Ageism Between Lesbians" and more. Trivia unknown books
1989ref. 272842N. Amherst MA: Trivia 1989. Magazine. 112p. wraps 5.5 x 8.5 inches wraps lightly worn sticker on front wrapper else in very good condition. Feminist journal with some lesbian content. Trivia unknown books
1968ref. 247888Washington: National Coal Policy Conference Inc 1968. Pamphlet. 23p. 5.5x8.5 inches illus. beginning to tone else very good in original stapled wraps. A lecture sponsored by the National Parks Association. Only 1 found in OCLC as of 2/20222. National Coal Policy Conference, Inc unknown books
1984ref. 249493N. Amherst MA: Trivia 1984. 96p. wraps 5.5 x 8.5 inches wraps lightly worn and soiled else very good condition. Feminist journal with some lesbian content. Trivia unknown books
1984ref. 249492N. Amherst MA: Trivia 1984. 96p. wraps 5.5 x 8.5 inches wraps lightly worn and soiled else very good condition. Feminist journal with some lesbian content. Trivia unknown books
1983ref. 249494N. Amherst MA: Trivia 1983. 96p. wraps 5.5 x 8.5 inches wraps lightly worn and soiled else very good condition. Feminist journal with some lesbian content. Trivia unknown books
1967ref. 97207Washington: Self-published 1967. Pamphlet. 23p. 5.5x8.5 inches illustrations beginning to tone along edges else very good in original stapled wraps. A lecture sponsored by the National Parks Association. Only 1 found in OCLC as of 2/2022. Self-published unknown books