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ref. 8379no location No publisher No date. In French. Decorated front cover. Music and words with color illustrations. Good condition but for mended front hinge and sun fading at edges. Normal browning of edges of pages. no location, No publisher, No date unknown books
2019ref. UANOWAR01fpTwelve 2019. Fine. Anonymous. A Warning. New York: Twelve 2019. 259pp. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. Twelve hardcover books
1995ref. UANONIG00drpWordsworth 1995. Very Good. Anonymous. A Night in a Morrish Harem. Hertforshire UK: Wordsworth 1995. 126pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with rubbing and bumping. Wordsworth paperback books
1995ref. UANOSUB00drpWordsworth 1995. Very Good. Anonymous. Suburban Souls. Hertfordshire: Wordsworth 1995. 483pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with gently rubbed edges. Wordsworth paperback books
1996ref. UANOPRI00fpRandom House c1996. Very Good. Anonymous. Primary Colors : a Novel of Politics. New York: Random House c1996. 366pp. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good. Light fading on edges. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Light creasing on covers. Random House hardcover books
1968ref. 178235New York: Grove Press 1968. First edition thus. Hardcover. Originally published in England in either the late 1890s or early 1900s this is the first time it was published in the U.S. A sexually based novel that involves BDSM. An about very good copy with a bookplate to the front free endpaper and some spotting to the boards in a very good dust jacket that has some minor wear. Seemingly uncommon. Grove Press unknown books
1996ref. UANOPRI00CGMRandom House c1996. Fine. Anonymous. Primary Colors : a Novel of Politics. New York: Random House c1996. 366pp. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Near fine with lightly bumped edges. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Random House hardcover books
1803ref. 16091London: Richard Phillips 71 St. Pauls Church Yard 1803. Engraving. Printed on wove paper. In excellent condition with the exception of two skillfully mended tears on the top margin outside the platemark. Top left corner has been expertly in-filled. Small mended tear on left margin outside platemark. Three tiny mended tears on bottom edge of sheet. A charming view of the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris published by Richard Phillips the infamous Jacobite printseller. Towards the middle of the eighteenth century a trend developed amongst English and European artists and printmakers which sought to visually record their country's natural beauties. Sparked by a sense of national confidence and patriotism artists and printmakers began to publish topographical prints of important sights and architectural attractions. In addition to being a visual record of the countryside they were meant to encourage public recognition of national treasures. These topographical prints were aimed at English and foreign tourists who desired a memento of their travels or at those vicarious tourists who collected topographical prints instead of traveling. Published in both English and French this charming view is a superb example of the popular topographical prints which Phillips sold in great quantity in his London shop. A true jack-of-all-trades Sir Richard Phillips 1767 - 1840 was one of the most fascinating men of his day. Born in London to a Leicestershire family his original name was Philip Richard. He began his career as hosier but in 1790 established himself as a publisher and bookseller in Leicester. In 1792 he founded the "Leicester Herald" which he used as a platform for his radical beliefs. An ardent Jacobite Phillip's shop became a depot for radical literature of the revolutionary period. In 1795 he was imprisoned for selling Paines' "Rights of Man" but he continued to edit the Leicester Herald throughout his imprisonment. After his release he set up his business in London where he established the infamous "Monthly" magazine. In 1807 he became a sheriff of the City of London and was knighted in 1808. His publications included a vast number of elementary class books and cheap manuals as well as fine art prints and maps. Dictionary of National Biography. Richard Phillips, 71 St. Pauls Church Yard unknown books
1952ref. 41749New York: Random House 1952. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good minus in wrappers. A foreword by John Steinbeck. Random House unknown books
1971ref. 167483New York: Bee-Line Book Beeline 1971. First Edition. First Edition a paperback original. Scarce. Very Good condition. An very presentable copy toning at the edges of the wrapper and pages stain to top left corner of the front wrapper mildest fray at the top right corner. Bee-Line Book [Beeline] unknown books
1969ref. 44411City of Industry CA: Collectors Publications 1969. First Edition. Very good. Erotic sleaze pulp collecting two lurid stories of a women's prison and debauched girls' boarding school respectively. With the publisher's usual numerous and varied advertisements for erotica erotic devices ethnic joke books and several scholarly works on JFK. Wraps. Mass market paperback. Blue and white printed wraps. Light edgewear and spine creasing; foxing to fore-edge. Very good. 160 pages plus 32 pages of ads. Collectors Publications unknown books
1970ref. 42874Berkeley: np 1970. First Edition. Very good. Published anonymously by Ken Knabb and others including Isaac Cronin under the name Council for the Eruption of the Marvelous. Throughout 1970 the group produced this and several pamphlets; the present work is illustrated throughout with drawings and typographically laid out like poetry. "We see subversion as a sort of phenomenological scalpel cutting through the surface of the spectacle of the commodity & bringing to light all the most subtle presuppositions on which the society is based." OCLC finds only one copy. Wraps. 8vo. Saddle-stapled pictorial wraps. Very good. Moderate toning touches of soil and handling wear to wraps. Interior clean throughout though lightly creased throughout. 16pp. np unknown books
1976ref. 42873New England: np 1976. Very good . Five short essays on various topics showing a strong situationist influence. Includes remarks on Bay Area activists psychiatry and several diaristic passages. Not in OCLC or Ford. Wraps. 8vo. Self-wraps. Very good plus. Mild handling wear and surface creases. Several corrections in felt-tip pen. "Additions and Corrections" slip laid in. 28pp. np unknown books
ref. 43982n.p.: n.p. 1970. Near fine. Enigmatic and disquieting collection of six short stories and one 90-page novella neatly and distinctively handwritten and illustrated in brown ink. The material veers in tone from the parodic to the surreal to the philosophically melancholic; the style incorporates a recondite vocabulary "the pyral tarantism of being in the world" and a single consistent insistent voice alternating long unpunctuated Joycean streams of frantic consciousness with brief and airless sentence fragments. A perpetual undercurrent of violent sexuality surfaces as much in the settings and scenery as in the events: a car crash; a game of human chess; a blazing furnace; a slaughterhouse. The table of contents gives titles for each work but no author's name; the bookplate with initials "A. J." offer the only clue to the item's creator or owner. The authorial narration steps out of its queasy dreamtime now and then to comment on itself "It would appear that this is the whim of the authors" or to focus on a concrete and precisely dated image: "Week-end Traffic" catalogs automobile makes and models in obsessive parodic almost Ballardian detail - a 1931 Alfa-Romeo; a '28 Lombard a Triumph Scorpion - and characters offer each other Passing Cloud cigarettes. But for the most part settings are as hard to place as the book itself. Character names are almost but not quite real: Nish Rogoze Valetta Fedor Shad. Illustrated with line drawings in brown pen presumably also by the writer with occasional accents in black and brief captions taken from the scenes they illustrate. The execution is skilled but careful often quoting other artwork as in the illustration to the final story "Communication" whose subject is the Breughel painting Dulle Griet; we see a copy of Brueghel's scene through the latticework of a window. Other illustrations appear to be carefully composed from copies or multiple tracings giving something of the effect of a Max Ernst collage - particularly the images of a horse-headed woman and a lion-headed man perhaps an intentional quotation from Une Semaine de Bonte. A Piranesi-esque interior gives way to a crowned woman in 20th century corset and garter belt: the Queen. Although a precise date cannot be given this book bears the stamp of a London bindery which operated as Bailey Bros. until a name-change in the 1970s and references in the text place its composition after the 1930s; we estimate the date of production to be circa the late 1960s to early 1970s - though its private library feel perhaps hints at a possible earlier creation. Bizarre and unsettling yet also the product of an original voice. In short: a singular artist's book of unique vision. Original red morocco with raised bands and decorative gilt stamping to spine. Top edge gilt. Black and gold patterned endpapers. 205 pages. Bookplate taped to ffep; brown geometric design with designer initials ACW at lower right and "Ex Libris AJ". Gilt stamping to lower edge of back cover below paste-down: "BOUND BY BAILEY BROS. LTD." Slight chipping to leather at inside rear hinge. Light edgewear and rubbing. n.p. unknown books
1933ref. 43257New York: The Macaulay Company 1933. Second printing. Very good in a good jacket. Sensational novel of two OB-GYN doctors and their patients. Despite the book's "completely frank medical vocabulary" and use of a "simple and easily understandable glossary" a contemporary review in the Journal of the American Medical Association summed up the work thus: "The book is neither fish nor fowl neither fiction nor science neither essay nor poetry. It is just an attempt to capitalize the public's morbid interest in obstetrics gynecology and abortions." Hardcover. 8vo. Dark brown cloth with maroon titles and illustration stamped to front board and spine. In original pictorial dust jacket. A very good copy in a good DJ. 1.25" tall chip to jacket front panel. Some creasing and chipping to top and bottom of jacket especially at spine; price clipped. Boards a bit rubbed with a thin layer of soil. Front hinge repaired. Clean throughout. 307pp. The Macaulay Company unknown books
1955ref. 41459New York: The Heritage Press 1955. First Edition. thus. Very good . A beautifully illustrated Heritage Press copy uncommon with original newsletter and member bill. 635pp. Hardcover. 4to. Maroon and beige woven cloth maroon lettering to spine title illustration to front. In maroon publisher's slipcase with original Sanglass newsletter and Member's bill for the title with envelope laid-in. Spine cloth age toned outer page edge moderately foxed. Binding sound interior contents clean slipcase with light shelf wear else near fine. The Heritage Press unknown books
1960ref. 43382np 1960. Very good. An extraordinary and unique handmade artist's book elaborately assembled by an anonymous artist. A kinky but lighthearted celebration of female flagellantism the book appropriates quintessentially 1960s fashion models and recontextualizes them in dozens of original collages so that they are weilding whips switches and various similar tools. Paired with self-referential and irreverant texts as well as black-and-white hand-penned drawings presumably by the assembler of bondage spankings and other S&M-themed scenes the book humorously imagines Mod Girls as doms - a perhaps intentional visual pun. The collages many spanning across page spreads and including one fold-out exhibit a strikingly skillful and stylish retraint suggesting an ambition and audience beyond the merely pruriently personal. An outsider book of rare sophistication and wit: the Swinging Sixties meets Dada. Yeah baby. 6.5'' x 9.25''. Likely commercial scrapbook but possibly ad-hoc collages boards. Containing 66 pages plus covers and one fold-out all mounted both recto and verso with color collages consisting mainly of magazine models with occasional textual elements in German many typed. Spine appears perished. But otherwise sound and apparently complete. Very good. Housed in custom Talas archival clamshell box. unknown books
1920ref. 2282Springfield Mass: McLoughlin Bros 1920. E. NISTER W. FOSTER Louis WAIN. JUVENILE SHAPE BOOK ILLUSTRATED RHYMING VERSE. Folio die-cut in the shape of a cat 13 3/8" x 8 7/8"; 8pp; glazed chromolithographed stiff die-cut wrapper in the shape of a cat with a top hat and umbrella on the front title in red "270"; rear wrapper has pictorial scene of a rock in water with trees; three staple binding; black line illustrations with orange accents illustrate some of the verse; 4 pages of chromolithographic illustrations with verse; old internal repair of folded spine bottom staple has let go of the gathering; spotting on front and rear wrapper; very good. OCLC locates 5 copies 4 in the U.S. and one in Canada. Dating of the book based on the OCLC cataloging and the purchase of McLoughlin Bros. publishing by the Milton Bradley Company of Springfield Mass. One of the black line illustrations is signed "E. Nister" for Ernest Nister the other is signed "W. Foster." The line drawings and the color pictorials are in the style of Louis Wain but are not signed. Common in this time for companies to "borrow" the illustrations without permission or credit. McLoughlin Bros unknown books
1875ref. 2233New York: McLoughlin Bros 1875. JUVENILE ABECEDARIAN RHYMING VERSE ILLUSTRATED. Small 4to; 12pp; stiff yellow pictorial wrapper with the title printed in red on the front and a color vignette of a woman sewing while a young child looks on with an open ABC book; ownership in pencil on front above the border; rear wrapper features publisher's ad for "New Picture Books for Little Children" including "Big Picture Series-31 Kinds." "Uncle Ned's Picture Books." "Gilt Cover Picture Books." "Golden Light Series." and "Half-Hours with the Bible."; publisher's string binding; alphabet letters printed in red and accompanied by color pictorials; numbered lessons with one-syllable words are found on alternate pages; 3" split from bottom at spine fold; very good plus. OCLC locates only 6 copies. A wonderful child's ABC book with a colorful pictorial front cover. Lively color illustrations accompany each boldly printed letter and many are accompanied by rhymes. In typical Victorian fashion many of the rhymes are quirky and would raise eyebrows in a children's book today. "C. Curious croaking carrion Crow / The tailor shot at with his cross-bow." "T. This a trim and turban'd TURK / More fond of smoking than of work." The moral lessons so frequently found in Victorian children's books are also represented. "E. Earnest ELLEN will excel / For she learns her lessons well." "I. IGNORANCE and IDLENESS / Bring poor Isaac to distress." The lessons included in this book are numbered II through XI skipping the number I. Preceding the lessons the alphabet is pictured in capital letters and in lowercase letters or minuscules. The lessons feature two three- and four-letter words to teach both spelling and pronunciation. McLoughlin Bros unknown books
1838ref. 2154Northampton Massachusetts: John Metcalf 1838. BARBER. CHAPBOOK JUVENILE RELIGION RELIGIOCENTRISM ETHNOCENTRISM. John Warner BARBER woodcut. Cover title: Hymns for Children Northampton: J.H. Butler No date 1838-1850. 24mo 5 1/4" x 3"; 24pp; yellow wrappers with a decorative border surrounding the lettering and a vignette of 3 children with a dog and cart on the front the rear features a vignette of a man and young boy in a dooryard; publisher's string binding; woodcut fp titled "Going to Church" and signed "Barber"; vignette of three children kneeling in prayer on the title page; alphabets and numbers inside a border on verso of title page; small woodcut illustrations throughout; light wear and hand soiling light foxing throughout; very good. OCLC does not locate copies with Butler's wrapper. Sixteen unnumbered rhyming hymns without musical notation follow the page of printed alphabets and numbers. These appear to be poems not to be sung but to be read as prayers at the day's beginning or end. Most have common sentiments of thanksgiving requests for blessing and protection and a desire to do good and please God. Two point to the religiocentrism and ethnocentrism of mid-19th century America. In "A Child's Hymn of Praise" the verses read: I thank the goodness and the grace Which on my birth have smil'd And made me in these Christian days A free and happy child. I was not born as thousands are Where God was never known; And taught to pray a useless prayer To blocks of wood and stone. I was not born a little slave To labor in the sun And wish I were but in the grave And all my labor done! I was not born without a home Or in some broken shed; A gypsy baby taught to roam And steal my daily bread. My God I thank thee who has plann'd A better lot for me And plac'd me in this happy land And where I hear of thee. The first two stanzas of "God every where" read: God made the world-in every land His love and power abound; All are protected by his hand As well as Christian ground. The Indian hut and English cot Alike in his care must own; Though savage nations know him not But worship wood and stone. Published or reissued by J.H. Jonathan Hunt Butler along with the Metcalf imprint between 1838 and Butler's move to Philadelphia in 1850. John Metcalf unknown books
1864ref. 2164Philadelphia and Baltimore: Fisher & Brother 1864. JUVENILE ILLUSTRATED. C.W. Murray Washington D.C. electrotype. Spine series title: Treasury of Gems 48mo 3 7/8" x 3 ¼"; 144pp; gilt stamped maroon cloth over board gilt stamped fillet encloses a decorative swirl of leaves and flowers surrounding the title on the front rear board is blind stamped; gilt stamped lettering on spine; all edges gilt; pale pink eps; wood-engraved fp 8 additional illustrated plates; lightly sunned light wear to head of spine; very good plus. OCLC locates only 2 copies one at Univ. Southern Florida and one at Emory Univ. Library. The story of a boy named Ulrich who is the caregiver of his ill foster mother. The story traces the hardship of his life as his mother dies and leaves him to fend for himself. The story has a happy ending with the boy reuniting with his loving grandfather. There are moral lessons learned along the way. Fisher & Brother unknown books
1860ref. 2159Edinburgh and London: William Oliphant and Co.; Hamilton Adams and Co 1860. JUVENILE RELIGION. Edinburgh: William Oliphant and Co.; and London: Hamilton Adams and Co. Murray and Gibb Printers Edinburgh. First edition thus 16mo 6 7/16" x 4 7/16"; 95 1pp 2 3-16pp of publisher's ads; ornate blind-stamped design on maroon cloth over board gilt letters on front and spine; glazed yellow endpapers; engraved fp with tissue guard historiated first letter head and tail-pieces; illustrated rear publisher's ads; spine lightly sunned a few light fingerprints and scattered foxing; very good plus. OCLC locates one copy at Cambridge Univ. with these publishers. This appears to be the first edition with these two listed publishers. In addition to the two moralistic and religious stories "Order and Disorder" and "A Sabbath in the Country" Bible verses are inserted to impress the reader with a sense of doing what is morally and socially correct. William Oliphant and Co.; Hamilton, Adams, and Co unknown books
1966ref. 54319Racine WI: Whitman Publishing Company 1966. First printing. Near fine. Original complete and unpunched mid-'60s fashion paper doll book featuring mod pattern stencils and brightly colored paisley and polka-dotted paper "fabric" and trimmings from which the young designer can create a unique look. 13'' x 10''. Original stapled color pictorial wrappers with storage pockets inside both covers. 2 heavyweight leaves with doll and perforated garment and accessory outlines; 12 leaves of patterned fabric and accessories printed in color on thinner paper. Minor edgewear and bumping to wrappers. Bright. (Whitman Publishing Company) unknown books
1878ref. 2032Glasgow: John S. Marr & Sons 194 Buchanan St 1878. JUVENILE. 24mo 5 15/16" x 4 1/8"; 64pp 16pp publisher's ads; decoratively embossed maroon cloth over board chromolithograph pictorial onlay to front board blind-stamped decoration to rear; yellow glazed eps; color fp; title page has decorative font; head and tail-pieces; light hand-wear to boards; near fine. OCLC locates one copy at the British Library. A lovely little book with a story about children in everyday activities all with moralistic and religious overtures. John S. Marr & Sons, 194 Buchanan St unknown books
1819ref. 2041Boston: Printed and sold by Lincoln & Edmunds No. 53 Cornhill 1819. JUVENILE RELIGIOUS CHAPBOOK. 24mo 5" x 2 ¾"; 16pp final numbered page is rear of wrapper; front of imprinted wrapper woodcut vignette of 4 children standing before a seated woman and the Old Testament words "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy."; rear wrapper is numbered page 16 with a rhyming hymn and the word "Finis" in fancy ornament; publisher's string binding; small ornaments and decorations in text; age toned paper chipping of spine fold a few small ink stains; very good minus. Welch 1052.2. The contents include hymns from Watt's a poem and portions of an address to Sabbath School children and their parents given by the Rev. Dr. Dana to the "public meeting of the Sabbath Schools under the patronage of the Newburyport Sabbath School and Tract Society." Also included are excerpts from the address of Mr. Sharp from the General Meeting of the Sunday Schools of the three Baptist Societies in Boston in 1817. Printed and sold by Lincoln & Edmunds, No. 53 Cornhill unknown books
