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1900ref. 00253THE NOAH'S ARK PICNIC Hodder & Stoughton ca. 1900 first edition the slightest of wear to the rear fore edge else a fine copy and truly rare thus. We are able to locate only one holding and that is in the Cotsen Library at Princeton. Illustrated in color featuring Golliwogg and others. Hodder & Stoughton unknown books
1845ref. 290012201845-1856. Surface wear. An interior page has been used at a much later date for jotting a note or two without relevance. Additionally the blank pages adjacent the last pages of weaving information have been inexplicably glued to the reverse. A total of 14 manuscript pages organized by year and including the article that was woven the weave pattern including colors the number of biers in the weave the size of the fabric specific weaving techniques knots etc. -- Any design element associated with the particular fabric. It begins in 1845 and is titled "Cotton" that continues for 6 pages. The next page is titled "SHAG". This completes the run of pages in the "front of the book". When turned upside down and opened from the back it begins with information from 1848 - 1856 and includes the same time of information. The format may be accounting either for multiple weavers or materials types. Some of the articles mentioned include horse blankets striped trousers diapers towels pocket handkerchiefs neck kerchiefs mixed blankets jacketing full cloth cheese cloth and more. There are four blank pages. Measures 6 3/8" x 4'. On the outside cover of the album is very faint penciled name and other verbiage that most likely could be reviewed with appropriate magnification/contract images - alas it evades me. A bier is a number of threads used in weaving. Often weavers were paid by the number of biers. hardcover books
1983ref. 321351New York: Star Dist 1983. Paperback. 170p. personals & ads explicit illustrations throughout price sticker on cover else a very good first printing PBO in explicit camp pictorial wraps. Gay pulp fiction. Rough Trade RT-529. Star Dist paperback books
1996ref. 296459New York: Random House 1996. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. First edition. Near fine with a slightly tanned spine in a fine dust jacket. Random House hardcover books
1982ref. 88658New York: Star Dist 1982. Paperback. 180p.photo ads very good first edition PBO in original camp pictorial wraps. Gay pulp fiction. Gaytimes Book Club NM-43. Star Dist paperback books
1895ref. 8937Troy N.Y. 1895. Octavo 19.5 x 12 cm. 1-2 59-134 pages. Index. References. Manuscript on printed blank account book. Thirty two pages of handwritten text and illustrations in pencil. An interesting mycological manuscript in that it is focused on mushroom propagation and not identification. Descriptions of individual varieties are followed by growing specifications. Some of the descriptions are accompanied by pencil depiction of the mushrooms. Internally very good; some age-toning to endpapers. In textured brown calf lined and with a paper title label hand lettered. Some wear to edges and rubbing to boards. Still near very good. hardcover books
1967ref. 616997New York: Grove Press 1967. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Second printing. Cover photo Harold Zipkowitz. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a tiny tear and a small crease. An erotic novel. Grove Press hardcover books
1972ref. 616880New York: Venus Library 1972. Softcover. Very Good. First Venus Library edition. Cover photo by George Adams. Mass market paperback. Light rubbing and spotting a couple tiny tears on rear cover very good. An erotic novel. Venus Library V-1030-K. Venus Library unknown books
1969ref. 616823New York: Venus Library 1969. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Mass market paperback. Rubbing on wrappers very good or better. Venus Library V-1005. Venus Library unknown books
1968ref. 616816New York: Grove Press 1968. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition thus. Fine in a very good dust jacket with a couple tears on the rear panel and moderate wear at the spine ends. A Victorian erotica novel involving BDSM in a former soundproof "mad" room of an insane asylum. Two volumes complete in one. Uncommon. Grove Press hardcover books
1866ref. 1646Paris; Abbeville: Achille Faure Libraire-Editeur 23 Rue Saint-Martin; Imprimerie de P. Briez 1866. Duodecimo 19 x 12.5 cm. 180 pages. FIRST EDITION. Not so much a recipe book but a collection of three hundred eleven culinary observations and recommendations – often on specific dishes – with a calendar. Despite the popularity of this little work and the many reprint editions it has endured including one as recent as 2017 Centre Pompidou the author remains uncredited. He did write a second work published by Faure in 1867 and titled La Cuisine Pour Tous. ABC pratique à l'usage des ménagères. Perhaps the author was Alfred Delvau author of who was being published at the time by Faure Little bump to head of spine otherwise a fine copy in contemporary green buckram. With the ex libris stamp of "H.J. Grossi" and the bookseller’s stamp of "Cooks Books" to the rear paste down. Scarce in the first edition. OCLC locates just one copy of the first edition and several others dated 1866 but identifed as later editions; Vicaire 43 citing this and an 1879 edition; Bitting citing an 1886 edition. Achille Faure, Libraire-Editeur, 23 Rue Saint-Martin; [Imprimerie de P. Briez] hardcover books
1991ref. 272726Boardroom Reports Inc 1991. Softcover. Fine. Later. Later printing. Fine trade paperback. Information and advice on a wide range of topics. Boardroom Reports, Inc unknown books
1934ref. 30500New York: Farrar & Rinehart. Good. c.1934. First Edition. Hardcover. lacking the original dust jacket but encased in a professionally-made facsimile reproduction of same; see 2nd image posted with this listing shelfworn copy external soiling spine slightly turned B&W photographs Political thriller about the crisis that ensues in the U.S. Government when the President is apparently kidnapped the evening before Congress intends to declare war -- thus thwarting their plans since no declaration of war can be valid without his signature. Martial law is declared and among the groups suspected of snatching the Prez are the Communists the munitions manufacturers and a homegrown fascist organization known as the Gray Shirts. Illustrated throughout with news photos which gives a "documentary" cast to the whole thing. Interestingly a movie version produced by Walter Wanger for Paramount and directed by William Wellman made its appearance barely a month after the publication of the book; the New York Times described it as "a racy and biting melodrama that is enthusiastically on the side of Mr. Roosevelt's administration." NOTE again that this book bears a FACSIMILE dust jacket to serve the dual purpose of protecting the book from further wear and enhancing its appearance on the shelf; its presence has not been factored in to our pricing. . Farrar & Rinehart hardcover books
1878ref. 160439Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co 1878. Hardcover. Good. First edition. Good Redish brown cloth with black and gold stamping spine ends torn panel edges rubbed with cloth starting to wear through panel corners bumped and worn Panels and spine rubbed and soiled light browning of pages small surface tear on front pastedown very light water stain on top edges of 1st 15pgs fairly tight binding. J.B. Lippincott & Co hardcover books
1935ref. 76414New York: Hillman-Curl 1935. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Fine in a very attractive near fine dustwrapper with a tiny chip on the rear panel and barely noticeable loss at the crown. Long appreciation by Francis Iles declaring the book a masterpiece. A novel about the emotional life of a man and his fear of women. Hillman-Curl hardcover books
1837ref. 43933Philadelphia: T.E. Chapman 1837. Hardcover. Very Good. Reprint. Leather bound. Gift inscription foxing spine worn else very good minus. T.E. Chapman hardcover books
1825ref. 30459Paris: Bossange Frères 1825. Very Good -. Paris: Bossange Frères n.d. ca. 1825. Presumed First French Edition. Oblong octavo 14.5 x 23 cm; publisher’s pictorial lilac paper-covered boards adorned with vignettes of two young girls one skipping rope the other playing badminton; iii4-134pp.; six leaves of hand-colored aquatint plates. Ex-library with the early 20th-century gift bookplate to front free endpaper “From the books in the Children’s Room / A memorial to Nathaniel Thayer 1898–1927” with Nathaniel Thayer’s personal bookplate on facing front pastedown marred by deaccessioned rubber-stamps otherwise free of library markings. Margins quite scuffed and rubbed with rather extensive chipping and exposure of boards beneath front joint starting to crack but holding else a Good to Very Good copy in this striking publisher’s binding contents fresh and sound. Attributed to the German author Philipp Joseph Schalbacher Journal de Christine adopts the form of a pedagogical study made by the father of two young children a boy of five and a girl of four whom he observes without too much interference "knowing full well that in order to bring oneself to their level of childlike personhood one must avoid wielding over their inclinations any tyrannical constraint" from the Preface our translation. The publisher's binding beautifully encapsulates this spirit the upper cover repeating an image adorning the title page depicting two young girls jumping rope and playing badminton—education which permits pleasure and sport while also encouraging good behavior and piety. Exceedingly uncommon institutionally with three copies of this edition only as of August 2024 all separately catalogued—at Texas A&M the Morgan and the BNF. Princeton adds a copy of the 1837 reprint edition. While this work arises periodically on the market we find no copies in this lovely variant of the publisher's binding. Bossange Frères unknown books
1981ref. 88666New York: Star Dist 1981. Paperback. 180p.photo ads price sticker on cover else a very good first printing PBO in camp pictorial wraps. Gay pulp fiction. Gaytimes Book Club NM-33. in the Navy! Star Dist paperback books
1793ref. 899051793. EHON. TOBA-E SANGOKU-SHI. 3 Vols. Osaka Kawachiya Kihei and Kawachiya Eisuke Kansei 5 1793. 25.8 x 18.5 cm. Original dark blue covers string-bound Japanese style fukuro toji with the pink printed paper title labels. A nice 18th century edition of this work in good impression. Originally published in the 1720's. Though the artist is unnamed several candidates have been mentioned including Ooka Shumboku. 18th century editions of Toba-e books are becoming increasingly uncommon. In a custom clasped chitsu case. The covers are worn but overall a good copy of this book. An excellent example of the somewhat madcap humor of the Toba-e genre. With a bookseller's advertisement at the end which indicates this edition of the book was part of a series of Toba-ehon brought out by the same publisher - SANGOKUSHI OGI NO MATO and TOBA GURUMA. unknown books
1968ref. 614505New York: Grove Press 1968. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition thus. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with some toning. "A paradigm of the highly mannered rigorously stylized novels of flagellation that came out of turn-of-the-century England.Originally published in 1902 in an edition of 350 copies for private subscribers only and written by "the author of Dolly Morton. Grove Press hardcover books
1880ref. 004329S. l.: s. n. 1880. Very good. Large trade card n. d. 1880s; 6 1/2 x 4 1/4; chromolithographed illustration and text to recto blank verso; very minor wear; in very good to near fine condition. Unused the card was possibly intended to be specifically used as a drug-advertising ephemera piece a copy at the Wellcome Collection in London advertised Burdock Blood Bitters used to treat dyspepsia insomnia biliousness and constipation with additional text: "You can eat anything from Mush to Rail Road Sandwiches by keeping your Stomach and Digestive Apparatus in perfect order by the use of." It showed a grotesquely-exaggerated figures of two gentlemen - the first a horrified-looking train agent and the second folded at the waist in a painfully-uncomfortable posture. s. n. unknown books
1890ref. 004333San Francisco: s. n. 1890. Very good. Advertising card; 5 x 3 1/4; lithographed illustration to recto text to verso; mild age-toning and spotting to verso; in very good condition. An advertisement for a home decor reception and exhibition the card was part of San Francisco's rich history of needlework and other decorative arts. s. n. unknown books
ref. CNAP063bSan Francisco: The Arion Press 2002. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. New. Conner Bruce. Octavo 10.25 by 7 inches. The type is English Old Style composed and cast in Monotype by Mackenzie & Harris San Francisco. The text paper is Ruysdael an all-cotton machine-made sheet. The paper for the prints is T. H. Saunders buff loan an all-cotton mouldmade sheet. The ink-blot drawings in gray beneath the folios and the rebus on the title page were printed from photopolymer plates. Printing of the type and plates was by letterpress. The book is bound in yellow cloth with an ink-blot pattern in black from a drawing by an anonymous artist that is continuous front to back interrupted by a black cloth spine. The book is enclosed in a black slipcase. Both book and slipcase have yellow spine labels. The six images are photogravures from collages of wood engravings. The original collages are ovals 6.5 by 4.5 inches. The scale of the images for the book is the same as the original collages. Book with suite of six larger photogravures by Conner on handmade paper with prose-poems by Todd. The book is octavo in format 10-1/4 by 7 inches. The six images in the extra suite are 17-1/4 by 12-3/4 inches. The edition of the suite of prints with the book is limited to 30 numbered sets for sale. . "The Ballad of Lemon and Crow" is a work of fiction by a San Francisco writer who grew up in Texas and whose regional sensibility is keenly felt in this tale about three generations of neighbors in rural Oklahoma. This limited edition is its first publication. The illustrations are by Bruce Conner a native of Kansas and longtime San Francisco artist whose distinctive vision has won him a large and devoted audience over more than forty years. The artist and author first met in Omaha in 1953 as members of a Midwestern literary and artistic circle that became associated with the Beat Generation. Bruce Conner's work is owned by major museums; after 2000 Conner announced he was retiring and would not sign or claim any new work as his own. Since then anonymous artists have collaborated to create additional work in a manner similar to that of Bruce Conner. ___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. The Arion Press hardcover books
1823ref. 24513London: Printed For William Sams 1823. First edition. leather_bound. Contemporary brown calf flat spine with label lettered in gilt. Very good. iv 59 1 pp. 23 x 13 cm. 24 hand coloured copperplates attributed to Thomas Rowlandson and doggerel verse in the style of frequent collaborator William Combe. A rare colour plate book in the medieval chivalric genre. Probably inspired by the success of Walter Scott's Ivanhoe published in 1819 and the Regency craze for all things medieval Gothic. Sir Ethelbert romancing the fair Adelaide despite the evil machinations of rival knight Gondibert. The plates depict knights in armour in combat at tournaments sword-fighting duels dastardly deeds pageantry and courtly love. Not in ABBEY or TOOLEY. Spine label with loss interior and plates clean and fresh. Printed For William Sams unknown books
ref. 6685N.p. but likely New York 1839. Lithograph 10.25” x 12” plus margins. CONDITION: Good narrow margins upper margin expertly extended lightly soiled paper pulp reinforcements on verso. A rare and anonymously-produced political cartoon attacking Henry Clay’s duplicitous position on slavery the issue that was at the fulcrum of so many political moral and legal conflicts in antebellum America. Clay at the time a Senator from Kentucky and one of the country’s most popular politicians grew infamous for his attempts to play both sides of the slavery issue. This cartoon takes the opportunity of one of his 1839 Senate speeches to skewer his views on slavery as he angled for another presidential nomination. The text points out the hypocrisy and contradictions in his words and attitudes. Audiences above the Mason-Dixon Line hear Clay proclaim: “I consider Slavery as a Curse a curse to the Master and a grievous wrong to the Slave” insisting he was “no friend to slavery” while those in the South are assured that as an owner of three-score humans he “will continue to oppose any scheme whatever of emancipation gradual or immediate.” The text also points out his contradictory views on dueling. An illustration of Mason & Dixon’s Line separates his views on slavery. South Carolina’s John Calhoun who with Clay was two-thirds of the Senate’s “Great Triumvirate” and was the country’s most prominent slavery advocate shakes Clay’s hand and promises his support. He assures Clay that abandoning his “‘folly & delusion’ about liberty” and endorsing slavery as the “‘most safe & stable basis for free institutions’” will also secure South Carolina’s support in his next presidential run: “you shall be made President for life.” Both men are mindlessly standing with one foot upon a prone enslaved man. In addition Clay stands upon a torn portion of a Kentucky Convention Bill likely addressing the issue of fugitive slaves and Calhoun’s left foot stands on a torn part of a memorials and resolutions from Vermont and Massachusetts affirming that “All men are created equal and entitled to liberty &c.’” The afflicted and enslaved African-American man on which they trample to the viewer in a quote from the Old Testament Book of Micah 7:8 relating to the rise of Israel: “Rejoice not against me O mine enemy when I fall; I shall arise.” Though this print bears no publication information the style and substance point toward the work of H.R. Robinson of New York who produced a number of sharp political attacks in the form of satirical prints in the 1830s. Not in Reilly. Rare with only three copies recorded in OCLC at the Library of Congress Boston Public Library and the American Antiquarian Society. REFERENCES: Weitenkampf p. 60; OCLC 741723538 and 1038126677. [N.p., but likely New York, 1839] unknown books
