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1932rif. 21435New York: Dodd Mead & Company 1932. First Edition. 12mo 19cm.; original yellow cloth upper cover and decorative spine printed in black; 6285pp.; title page vignette. A Fine vibrant copy. Western novel originally serialized in four parts as "The Giraldi Trail" in Western Story Magazine 1932. A later edition 1942 once again renamed the novel The Outlaw Trail. Dodd, Mead & Company unknown books
1996rif. 9011630New York: Random House 1996. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. Random House hardcover books
1910rif. 339351910. SCHILLER Friedrich. Works. Edited by Nathan Haskell Dole. Boston: Francis A. Nicholls & Company circa early 20th century. Ten volumes. Octavo contemporary three-quarter blue crushed morocco gilt raised bands gilt-decorated spines marbled endpapers top edges gilt uncut and partially unopened. $1000.Limited Lyceum Edition of Schillers works number 263 of only 750 sets numbered for sale in the United States with numerous full-page illustrations throughout including full-color frontispieces.Includes the poems a life of Schiller by Heinrich Düntzer and the aesthetical and philosophical essays. This set specially bound for Ernst Mahler who helped transform Kimberly Clark into one of the largest paper corporations in the world.Interiors fine. Minor wear to corners of handsome bindings. A near-fine set. hardcover books
1952rif. 007153New York: Heritage Press 1952. Fine in worn glassine and a Fine slipcase. Rafaello Busoni. Decorated cloth in slipcase. Translated from the German by Theodore Martin. Illustrated by Rafaello Busoni. A different edition than that of the Limited Editions Club. Heritage Press hardcover books
rif. 6752Leipzig Bibliographisches Institut n.d. Octavo. Half morocco and marbled paper boards lettered in gilt on the spines t.e.g. decorated endpapers. Fine. Leipzig, Bibliographisches Institut, n.d. hardcover books
1974rif. UBRULAD00acmfRandom House 1974. Very Good. Bruce Lenny. Ladies and Gentlemen: Lenny Bruce!!. Goldman Albert; Schiller Lawrence. NY: Random House 1974. 565pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good with gentle bumping and rubbing. Dust Jacket Condition: Good with bumped and lightly yellowed panels. Random House hardcover books
1955rif. 36158Leipzig: Verlage Philipp Reclam 1955. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Number 531 of 1100 copies. Signed by the author and illustrator. Bound in black cloth with gilt illustration on front cover. Wi acetate cover with title and Friedrich Schiller printed in blue. Acetate is chipped on top corners and lightly worn. Text pages are clean and bright with bit of offsetting to the endpapers and a penciled note in German on free front endpaper. Very good condition. Quarto. Unpaginated 22 pages. GERMANLANG/120722. Verlage Philipp Reclam hardcover books
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2013rif. 24910New York: Harry N. Abrams 2013. Boards. Near Fine/Near Fine. Maurice Sendak. A wonderful Association copy. INSCRIBED BY ALL 3 KEY PARTICIPANTS INCLUDING THE RENOWNED CHILDREN'S RARE BOOKSELLER JUSTIN SCHILLER TO LEGENDARY SOTHEBYS AUCTIONEER DAVID REDDEN. A very sharp copy to boot of the 1st edition of the catalogue based on the June-August 2013 exhibition at New York's Society of Illustrators. The show was curated by Justin Schiller and Dennis David and edited by Leonard Marcus the 3 figures who inscribed this copy to David Redden. Clean and Near Fine in a bright Near Fine dustjacket. Quarto hundreds of crisp color and black-and-white reproductions throughout. A major examination of the work of the great Maestro Sendak. Harry N. Abrams unknown books
1936rif. 169734Philadelphia: Macrae-Smith 1936. First Edition. First Edition. Author Frederick Faust was better known by his alternate pseudonym Max Brand. Slightly cocked faint foxing and toning to the backstrip evidence of erasure to front and rear endpapers overall Very Good or better in a Very Good dust jacket. Jacket lightly toned to the flap folds and spine with moderate wear and accompanying creasing to the extremities and five old paper tape reinforcements to the verso see image. Macrae-Smith unknown books
1984rif. 24813Oxford UK: Pergamon Press 1984. Laminate boards. Fine. A pristine copy of the 1984 1st edition in its less common hardback. Clean and Fine in its laminate pictorial boards. Octavo part of the wonderful "Pergamon Chess Openings" series. Pergamon Press unknown books
1968rif. 35971Leipzig: Hochschule für Musik 1968. Hardcover. Very Good. Quarto. Boards. 227 i pp. With numerous illustrations. Slightly worn and browned. Hochschule für Musik hardcover books
rif. 06937West Hatfield Massachusetts: Printed by Harold McGrath at The Pennyroyal Press 1985. Barry Moser's Remarkable Wonderful Wizard of Oz One of the Great Pennyroyal Press Books - Limited to 350 Copies Signed by Moser MOSER Barry illustrator. PENNYROYAL PRESS. BAUM L. Frank. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Illustrated by Barry Moser. With an Appreciation by Justin G. Schiller. West Hatfield Massachusetts: Printed by Harold McGrath at The Pennyroyal Press 1985. One of 350 numbered copies this being No. 153 signed by Barry Moser. Large quarto 12 7/8 x 11 7/8 inches; 327 x 302 mm. 6 blank 5 1 blank 1 1 blank 1 1 blank 3 1 blank 1-7 8-268 1 1 blank 1 colophon 1 blank 8 blank pp. Illustrated with sixty-two wood engravings by Barry Moser. Printed in five colors by Harold P. McGrath on Mohawk Letterpress paper in Van Dijck type. The hand composition was executed at the Press by P. Chase Twitchell with calligraphy by Yvette Rutledge of Hayward California. Bound by David Bourbeau at the Thistle Bindery in Barcham Green Dewint paper over boards the front cover embossed with the title design and lettered in gilt the rear cover similarly embossed and lettered in blind; beige cloth endpapers. A mint copy. Housed in the original beige cloth clamshell case the lower corners slightly bumped. A very fine copy in a near fine clamshell case. Moser's Wonderful Wizard of Oz is among the most imaginative productions of the Pennyroyal Press. Rather than attempting to imitate W.W. Denslow's celebrated illustrations for the 1900 first edition Moser created an entirely new visual interpretation of Baum's story through sixty-two finely worked wood engravings combining traditional book illustration with distinctly contemporary imagery and satirical allusion. Moser deliberately populated Oz with visual references to twentieth-century American life and politics. As he later explained: "Few texts lend themselves to contemporary parody as well as does the Wizard of Oz." Having previously portrayed Richard Nixon as Humpty Dumpty in his Through the Looking-Glass Moser found in Baum's story an even broader opportunity for political and cultural satire directing what he described as "humorous but none-the-less serious darts" at the Reagan administration corporate America and the Moral Majority. Among the most celebrated examples is his transformation of the Wicked Witch into Nancy Reagan. The photographs vividly demonstrate the range of Moser's conception: the familiar inhabitants of Oz are transformed into startlingly individual characters while other illustrations introduce consciously modern elements into Baum's fantastic landscape. The resulting book is not simply an illustrated edition of Baum but a distinctly 1980s reinterpretation of an American classic. Laid in is the separately published companion pamphlet: Barry Moser Forty-Seven Days to Oz: A Chronicle of the Studies for the Illustrations for The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. West Hatfield: Pennyroyal Press 1985. First edition. Octavo 9 x 6 inches; 229 x 153 mm. 32 pp. The pamphlet provides Moser's own day-by-day account of the creation of the sixty-two illustrations. As he explains in his Author's Note the text was taken directly from the day book in which he recorded the progress of his work making it an especially appropriate accompaniment to the finished volume. The completed book is an impressive example of the modern American private press at its most ambitious: Baum's great American fantasy interpreted by one of the foremost American book illustrators and wood engravers of the late twentieth century conceived illustrated printed and bound as a unified work of book art. Dwyer Pennyroyal 43. West Hatfield, Massachusetts: Printed by Harold McGrath at The Pennyroyal Press, 1985 unknown books
rif. 05834New York: Grosset & Dunlap Inc. 1973. Marilyn" Norman Mailer's Lavish Tribute to Hollywood's Most Enduring Icon Signed by Norman Mailer and Lawrence Schiller MONROE Marilyn. Marilyn a Biography by Norman Mailer. Pictures by the world's foremost photographers. New York: Grosset & Dunlap 1973. First Edition First Printing Stated. Quarto 10 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches; 267 x 235 mm. 2 signed leaf verso blank 1-270 1 1 blank pp. Photographic illustrations throughout many in full color. Publisher's padded white silk front cover with title in blind spine lettered in blank marbled endpapers. A fine copy. Housed in the publisher's black cloth clamshell case inset photograph on front panel marbled paper lining near fine. A sumptuous and visually arresting tribute to Marilyn Monroe combining Norman Mailer's speculative and highly personal meditation on Monroe's life with one of the richest assembled collections of Marilyn photography ever published. Produced on a grand scale and lavishly illustrated throughout the volume captures the mythic transformation of Norma Jeane Mortenson into perhaps the defining American cultural icon of the twentieth century. Mailer's text - part biography part cultural essay part psychological portrait - deliberately avoids the conventions of traditional biography. As Mailer himself acknowledged much of the narrative was constructed through intuition and imaginative reconstruction creating not merely a life of Monroe but an exploration of celebrity sexuality vulnerability and fame in postwar America. The extraordinary photographic content remains the book's greatest achievement. Drawn from the work of many of the twentieth century's leading photographers - including Richard Avedon Cecil Beaton Eve Arnold Philippe Halsman Bert Stern and Milton Greene - the images chronicle Monroe's evolution from studio contract player to international phenomenon. Together they form one of the most important visual archives devoted to Marilyn Monroe ever issued in book form. This signed limited issue elegantly bound and preserved in its original clamshell case is among the most desirable presentations of Mailer's celebrated Monroe volume - a striking fusion of Hollywood glamour photographic history and American literary celebrity. Bricusse's own memoir provides an interesting parallel to the world represented here. In Pure Imagination he recalls Arthur P. Jacobs formerly Marilyn Monroe's press agent who later became a close professional associate and film producer; Jacobs's What a Way to Go! had originally been conceived as a vehicle for Monroe before her death. Bricusse also worked closely with George Axelrod screenwriter of The Seven Year Itch and Bus Stop two films central to the construction of Monroe's enduring screen image. Marilyn Monroe; born Norma Jeane Mortenson 1926-1962 was an American actress model and singer. Known for playing comic "blonde bombshell" characters she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s as well as an emblem of the era's sexual revolution. She was a top-billed actress for a decade and her films grossed $200 million equivalent to $2 billion in 2024 by the time of her death in 1962. Long after her death Monroe remains a pop culture icon. In 1999 the American Film Institute ranked her as the sixth-greatest female screen legend from the Golden Age of Hollywood. Nachem Malech Mailer 1923-2007 known by his pen name Norman Kingsley Mailer was an American novelist journalist playwright and filmmaker. In a career spanning over six decades Mailer had eleven best-selling books at least one in each of the seven decades after World War II. Mailer's 1973 biography of Monroe usually designated Marilyn: A Biography was not approached as a traditional biography. Mailer read the available biographies watched Monroe's films and looked at photographs of Monroe; for the rest of it Mailer stated "I speculated." A particularly handsome copy of the deluxe signed issue uniting Norman Mailer's celebrated meditation on Marilyn Monroe with Lawrence Schiller's photographic and editorial contribution - a lavish monument to Hollywood's most enduring icon. From the collection of Leslie Bricusse. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Inc., 1973 unknown books
1826rif. 450114Stuttgart und Tübingen: In der J.G. Cotta'schen Buchhandlung 1826. Hardcover. Very Good. 18 volumes. A complete set in original turquoise paper-covered boards with contemporary paper spine labels titled in manuscript. Bookplate of the American painter Diana Heiskell on the front pastedown of Vol. 1 only. The front free endpaper of Vol. 1 is partly adhered to the facing pastedown contemporary pencil manuscript laid-in Vol. 3 small contemporary owner's name in Vols. 7 and 8. Rubbing and some wear to the edges of the boards and corners the spine labels are toned and rubbed including some that are partially illegible very good overall. Neatly housed in the original cardboard box covered with the same turquoise paper on the inside opening edges and marbled paper on the outer sides. The box measures about 15" x 5 ½" and is 4" deep in good condition with wear to the edges and some splitting along the seams. An early complete set in publisher's boards together with the exceedingly rare original box. In der J.G. Cotta'schen Buchhandlung hardcover books
2002rif. 600036New York: HarperCollins 2002. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. First edition. Soiling on boards light bumping at spine ends very good in an about near fine dust jacket with light edgewear and a small tear. HarperCollins hardcover books
2013rif. 568530New York: Abrams 2013. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Large quarto. Illustrated. Fine in fine dust jacket. Abrams hardcover books
1797rif. 1260411797. London: Printed for J. Bell 1797. 8vo 4 220 pp. Lacking front blank. Contemporary half calf gilt lettered label on backstrip skillfully rehinged; boards worn title page toned light stain in top margins but generally a sound copy with interesting marks of early provenance see below. § From the library of Lord Dunmore last royal governor of Virigina. A translation of Schiller's Cabale und Liebe by M.G. "Monk" Lewis the author of the Gothic novel The Monk published the year before. The front pastedown bears the ownership inscription of Lady Susan Thorpe dated 1797 her presentation inscription "Her gift to Lord Dunmore 1799" beneath and the Dunmore Library bookplate with shelf mark. The name "Susan" in the same hand appears again at the start of act one perhaps indicating Lady Thorpe read the part of Elizabeth Munster. Given the date of the gift it is most likely the recipient was John Murray 4th Earl of Dunmore the last royal governor of Virginia. Dunmore fled to New York after the burning of Norfolk in 1776. He was later Governor of the Bahamas but lost his post when his daughter eloped with the son of George III. By 1799 he was in retirement in England aged 69. He died in Ramsgate Kent in 1809. Lewis's advertisement for the play merits recording in full: "The following pages contain a Translation of Schiller's" Cabale und Liebe." A Play calling itself a Version of that admired Tragedy has already appeared in England but so extremely ill executed and in so mutilated a condition as to leave scarce a shadow of resemblance between the Original and the Copy. The Author has taken the liberty of omitting whole characters and scenes and in several places has thought proper to substitute his own sentiments for Schiller's; an alteration by which the Piece is very far from gaining. - Lest the present Translation should be mistaken for the former I have thought it right to change the Names both of the Characters and of the Play itself; in every other respect I have endeavoured to keep strictly to the Original: and when I offer my Translation to the Public it gives me some confidence to reflect that although this second attempt may be as bad as the first it is utterly impossible for it to be worse. M. G. LEWIS. unknown books
1900rif. 61932Leipzig und Wien: Bibliograpisches Institut 1900. 29 vols. 8vo. Uniformly bound in contemporary half brown morocco with red leather title labels. Very fine. 29 vols. 8vo. Bibliograpisches Institut unknown books
1862rif. 28136Stuttgart: Cotta'fcher Verlag 1862. 6 vols. 8vo. Bound in three quarters pebbled brown morocco over pebbled boards. Bookplates of Henry Cabot Lodge. Some rubbing to extremities else very good. 6. 6 vols. 8vo. Cotta'fcher Verlag unknown books
1837rif. 62633London: Black and Armstrong 1837. 43 outline engravings by Retzsch. 1 vols. Oblong 4to. 1/4 calf. Rubbed and worn front cover detached. 43 outline engravings by Retzsch. 1 vols. Oblong 4to. Black and Armstrong unknown books
1952rif. 232296Easton Press 1952. leather_bound. Very Good. 10x6x1. Full brown leather with gilt board design and page edges. Three raised bands to the spine. Clean has a good binding no marks or notations. Includes the Easton Press Notes from the Archives sheet and an unused Easton Press bookplate. Easton Press hardcover books
1943rif. 23161New York: The Macmillan Company. Very Good. 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. no dust jacket spine slightly turned light shelfwear to bottom edge small nick in cloth at bottom of front cover; vintage bookseller's label Kendrick Bellamy Denver on rear pastedown. Novel about a career woman a young widow who works as an account executive for a San Francisco ad agency who is sent by her boss for whom she's already set her cap on a working vacation to Baja California to check out the potential of a disused casino being refurbished and turned into a resort. While on this assignment she succumbs to the Mexican way of life falls in love with a local ranch owner and considers throwing it all over to stay down there. Then her boss shows up romantic and professional complications ensue and a hurricane helps them sort it all out. The New York Times critic faulted the book for lacking "that deep below-the-surface quality that might have given reality to her consciously contrived tale. Even the background presented with such earnest attention to detail seems never to lose the aura of travel folder literature." Kirkus Reviews on the other hand found it an "intelligently emotional women's novel" -- so like with most books the only way to find out for sure is to read it yourself. . The Macmillan Company hardcover books
1997rif. 73164New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press 1997. First edition 8vo pp. xii 178; 2 maps 17 illustrations and tables in the text; fine copy in original green cloth gilt-stamped on upper cover and spine without a dust jacket as issued. "An ethnographic study of Ngaju Dayaks rain forest dwellers of the remote interior region of Central Kalimantan Indonesian Borneo. Like many indigenous peoples throughout the world the Ngaju have recently been affected by exposure to world religions by improvements in transportation and communication by new demands on family-based production and by other factors pertaining to their growing incorporation into an expanding state system in an era of rapid political and economic change" OUP blurb. Oxford University Press unknown books
1838rif. 67015London: A. Schloss 42 Great Russell Street British Museum 1838. First Edition in English 12mo pp. 7 10-162; original blue paper-covered boards brown muslin shelfback printed paper label on spine; binding slightly skewed strip of tape on verso of title page reinforcing a fault in the paper; all else very good. Gibbons was a Cornish author apparently disposed towards Schiller. She also translated his Lyrical Ballads and also published An Easter Offering 1845 and An Itinerary of Launceston 1865. A. Schloss, 42, Great Russell Street, British Museum unknown books
