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1898ref. 53408Waco TX: Herz Brothers 1898-99. First Edition. Two volumes; octavo 20.5cm.; publisher's blue-green cloth boards decorated in blind titled in gilt on spines and front covers; 464463pp.; photographic portrait frontis. bound in first volume. Light external wear but a clean tight and unmarked set Very Good or better. Volume 1 dated 1898 on title page; Volume 2 dated 1899 on title page. The writings of journalist William Cowper Brann 1855-1898 editor and owner of the Waco Texas newspaper "The Iconoclast." The notorious Brann was one of America's first succesful "attack journalists" launching vicious broadsides against everything from harlotry to Baptism to New York society often conflating the three. He once famously stated: "I have nothing against Baptists -- I just don't think they were held under long enough." The present anthology of his writings was issued shortly after Brann's assassination in 1898 at the hands of a perhaps unsurprisingly irate Baptist. Herz Brothers unknown books
1965ref. 7371Falls Village Connecticut: The Herb Grower Press 1965. Duodecimo 17.5 x 10.5 cm. 48 1 27 1 pages. Bibliographical references. ~ Facsimile of the 1675 edition published in London by T.R. & N.T. for B. Tooke; with a supplementary "appendix". FIRST EDITION THUS limited to 250 numbered copies this is number 26 of 250. Originally published in London 1666 "printed by J. Grismond for John Crook at the Ship in St. Pauls Church-yard". The original contains a preface by John Evelyn 1620-1706 "Philocepos". It is believed Evelyn compiled the text based on "matter" given to him by Rose. This facsimile contains an appendix by Robert H. Jeffers on the life of John Rose. Rose 1619-1677 was gardener to King Charles II. by Robert H. Jeffers. The original work was later appended to the text of the English edition of Nicolas de Bonnefons The French Gardener 1669. Late ownership inscription to foot of free front endpaper otherwise fine in publisher's paper-covered boards printed and titled in red and gold. OCLC locates eleven copies of this facsimile edition; Gabler G34730 incorrectly stating 1966 as the publication date. The Herb Grower Press hardcover books
1985ref. 52201NY: Aperture 1985. First edition. Smith W. Eugene. Folio 240 pp. numerous text and full-page b&w photo-illustrations. A fine as new copy in dust jacket sealed in the publisher's shrink-wrap. Published to accompany a major retrospective exhibition. Aperture unknown books
2006ref. 9008545Minneapolis MN: Minneapolis Institute Of Art 2006. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. Bound in the publisher's original illustrated boards. Minneapolis Institute Of Art hardcover books
1990ref. 22537NY: Holiday House. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1990. Hardcover. 0823408183 . Illustrated by John and Alexandra Wallner. Book club edition. Very good in a very good dust jacket. . Holiday House hardcover books
1980ref. 23245n.p.: Westvaco 1980. Privately Published Limited Edition. Cloth. A very good copy. No slipcase. Illus. with b/w etchings and drawings. Twenty-four poets from Bradstreet to Riley accompanied by excellent reproductions of b/w drawings from "United States Illustrated" ed. by Charles Dana c.1850. Westvaco hardcover books
1805ref. WRCAM49517New York: G. & R. Waite 1805. 4100pp. Contemporary calf gilt leather label. Minor edge wear. Contemporary ink notations on front flyleaf light foxing. Very good. Second American edition condensed from the first American edition published in Baltimore in 1803. This edition presents eight biographies of various important American and British figures of the American Revolutionary period including Lord Nelson Cornwallis Bushrod Washington and Edward Jenner the discoverer of the vaccine for smallpox. Scarce with only five copies located on OCLC. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 9222. SABIN 66511. OCLC 24492244. G. & R. Waite hardcover books
1917ref. L0651xiv2-345-34 ad pages with illustrations from photographs including frontispiece portrait of Jack London with facsimile signature. Octavo 8 1/4" x 4 2/4" bound in original publisher's blue cloth lettered & decorated in gilt. Inscribed. First Edition. Written by Jack London's wife. Visits to Hawaii in 1907 and again in 1915 to 1916 right before his early death in 1916. This copy is inscribed by Charmian London on the front free endpaper; "Dear Jessie: - Here's the yarn at last: and I know you'll read it for the love story it is. Lovingly Charmain Gen Ellen May 31 1918." This copy is from the library of Becky London and is signed by her on the half title page. Condition: Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper. Some wear and soiling to boards rubbing at extremities a few corners slightly bumped; scattered foxing throughoutbrowning at page edges else very good. Macmillan Company hardcover books
1915ref. L02594875 ad pages with 20 photo plates including frontispiece. Small octavo 7 1/2" x 5 3/4" issued in light blue cloth decorated and lettered in gilt. inscribed by Charmain on front end paper. First Edition. Charmian Kittredge London November 27 1871-January 14 1955 was Jack London's second wife. After divorcing Bess Maddern London in 1904 London married Charmian Kittredge the following year. Biographer Russ Kingman called Charmian "Jack's soul-mate always at his side and a perfect match." She was the author of several books about her life with Jack London: The Log of the Snark Our Hawaii and The Book of Jack London. The last is considered by scholars to be an important but flawed source of biographical information on London: Clarice Stasz calls it "an uneven account that omits Jack's illegitimacy yet has surprisingly frank information nonetheless concerning his personality." Their relationship became the subject of a book Clarice Stasz' American Dreamers. The couple had no children who survived them. One died soon after being born and another pregnancy ended in a miscarriage. Shortly after the death of Jack London Charmian had an affair with Harry Houdini. A PBS source cites an Houdini biographer saying: Most of the evidence of their affair convincingly reconstructed by Houdini biographer Kenneth Silverman comes from brief entries in Charmian's diaries. They saw each other over several weeks early in 1918 while Charmian was living in New York where Houdini was starring in the patriotic World War I extravaganza "Cheer Up." Charmian wrote that after they saw each other a few times Houdini made a "declaration" that "rather shakes me up." They became intimate a short time later. She wrote that one visit by Houdini had "stirred me to the deep" and that he apparently felt the same declaring "I'm mad about you" and "I give all of myself to you." Throughout she refers to him alternately as "Magic" her "Magic Man" or "Magic Lover." As intense as it apparently was their attachment did not last long. Charmian the "New Woman" whose marriage to London had included open sexual experimentation never stopped seeing other men. Condition: Inscription to front end paper. Edge wear length paraphrasing to back end paper corners bumped else a very good copy lacking jacket. Macmillan Company hardcover books
1995ref. 31467New York: Carol Publishing Group 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Hardbound octavo in dustwrapper. 190 pp. Illustrated with some black and white photographs. A biography of the Hollywood icon. Very good condition in dustwrapper. This copy has been INSCRIBED by the author to fellow journalist Al Aronowitz. Carol Publishing Group hardcover books
1960ref. A33112New York: Reynal & Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1960. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. SIGNED EDITION. This copy has been signed by Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. The book and its contents are in mostly clean bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. This copy has been signed on the front endpaper by the subject Felix Frankfurter. The dust jacket has several small edge nicks and beginning chips along with some lightish spots of rubbing to the spine ends and front cover. "Felix Frankfurter November 15 1882 February 22 1965 was a jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Frankfurter was born in Vienna and immigrated to New York at the age of 12. He graduated from Harvard Law School and was active politically helping to found the American Civil Liberties Union. He was a friend and adviser of President Franklin D. Roosevelt who appointed him to the Supreme Court in 1939. Frankfurter served on the Supreme Court for 23 years and was a noted advocate of judicial restraint in the judgments of the Court." This book was "the only commercially published oral history conducted with a Supreme Court justice." . Reynal & Company hardcover books
1941ref. 32466Worcester Massachussetts: American Antiquarian Society 1941. First Separate Edition. Near fine in original saddle-stitched blue printed wrappers. Octavo. 6.5 x 9.75 in. 22 pp. Scarce. American Antiquarian Society unknown books
1986ref. 32415New York: William Morrow 1986. First Edition First Printing. Near fine in original quarter-cloth and very good dust jacket. A few unnecessary internal mends to verso of jacket. Octavo. 6.5 x 9.375 in. 800 pp. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Biography. Signed by David Garrow on title page. Uncommon signed. William Morrow hardcover books
1907ref. 32423Mrs. Kate S. McDonald 1907. First Edition. Very good in original green cloth titles in gilt. With supplied handmade dust jacket. Octavo.6.5 x 9.25 in. 499 pp. Illustrated with black & white photographic plates. Tipped-in signature of editor B.C. Washington pictured opposite p. 176; tipped-in signature of Major General Thomas L. Rosser pictured opposite p. 196; bookplate of Richard D. Steuart journalist who wrote for the Baltimore News-Post under the pen name Carroll Dulaney—all affixed to front pastedown. Howes M-87; ITC 119; CWB I 125. Mrs. Kate S. McDonald hardcover books
1897ref. 32456Philadelphia: MacCalla & Company 1897. First Edition. Paperback. Very good in original printed wrappers. Octavo. 5.875 x 9.125 in. 120 pp. Illustrated with ten plates including reproductions of black & white photographs charts and figures. Eminent archaeologist and ethnologist Matthew Stirling's copy with his ownership signature on first page. MacCalla & Company paperback books
1939ref. 32389New York: Harcourt Brace & Company 1939. First Trade Edition. Near fine in original blue cloth titled in gilt on spine. Octavo. 7 x 9.5 in. xxxi 660; xii 655; xiii 673; xii 515 pp. With black & white illustrations throughtout; each volume with photographic frontis. Inscribed at half-title to legendary record producer Jack Kapp: "Jack Kapp / as between fellow Americans / working in sound-recorded / Americana—also as between / old-time Chicagoans familiar / with the dust of West Madison / street / Carl Sandburg." Jack Kapp president of Decca Records 1934-1949 produced everything from Bing Crosby and the Boswell Sisters to the hugely successful original cast recording of Oklahoma! in 1943. Harcourt, Brace & Company hardcover books
2001ref. 32348New York: Simon & Schuster 2001. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Fine in fine pictorial dust jacket. Octavo. 6.5 x 9.5 in. 751 pp. Winner of Pulitzer Prize for Biography. Signed by McCullough on title page. Simon & Schuster hardcover books
1944ref. 32352Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in original vellum-backed marbled boards with gilt-lettered morocco spine label in original blue slipcase. Small quarto. 7.25 x 10.25 in. 10 pp. Printed beautifully with large calligraphic typeface title printed in red capitals in red and blue pages ruled in red. Limited edition numbered 61 of 100 copies. Inscribed by FDR to Jonathan Daniels on front free endpaper. Daniels son of Josephus Daniels was FDR's administrative assistant and served as his press secretary in the month before the president died. (U.S. Government Printing Office) hardcover books
2011ref. 17448Asheville NC: The Captain's Bookshelf 2011. First Limited Edition. As new in tan textured Japanese silk cloth lettered in black on the spine and housed in a textured black Japanese silk cloth slipcase adorned with a photograph of the mountains near Abiquiu New Mexico by Dobree Adams mounted on the front panel. Octavo. xxviii 497 pp. With eight pages of black and white illustrations and nineteen maps. One of 52 specially-bound and numbered copies. The first 12 copies of this limited edition have been reserved for the author Algonquin Books Morgan's trade publisher and The Captain's Bookshelf and are not offered for sale. Signed by Morgan. A handsome companion to Morgan's earlier non fiction title Boone also made into a limited edition by The Captain's Bookshelf. The Captain's Bookshelf hardcover books
2007ref. 12654Asheville NC: The Captain's Bookshelf 2007. First Limited Edition. Hardcover. As new in tan textured Japanese silk cloth lettered in black on the spine and housed in a textured black Japanese silk cloth slipcase adorned with a reproduction of the mountains of the Cumberland Plateau at dawn by Dobree Adams mounted on the front panel. Octavo. 6 x 9.25 in. xxii; 538 pages. With a few black-and-white illustrations and five maps. One of 100 specially-bound and numbered copies. The first 30 copies of this limited edition have been reserved for the author Algonquin Books Boone's trade publisher and The Captain's Bookshelf and are not offered for sale. Since its October publication Boone has been enjoying enormous critical success with extended glowing reviews in The Washington Post The New York Review of Books and The New York Times Book Review. Signed by Morgan. The Captain's Bookshelf hardcover books
1924ref. 2604Harper & Brothers New York and London 1924 Octavo bound in original slate gray cloth with gilt titles 294 pp. including index. Top edge stained yellow. Stated first edition in the RARE ORIGINAL DUST WRAPPER. Offsetting from old moisture damage evidenced by a white residue mark running the width of the rear cover approximately one inch from the top edge. The damage mirrors a stain on the wrapper's rear panel and spine. The stain while noticeable is less detracting than one might expect not affecting the spine of the book itself that is otherwise fine and bright. There is other minor soiling and wear to the dust wrapper but it is unfaded and complete lettered in navy blue against a pale turquoise ground. '"Price $4.00" is printed on the inner flap along with a list of Harper publications on psychology and psychoanalysis. The back flap and rear panel also serve as advertisements for current Harper publications. The front cover of the dust wrapper however is fully dedicated to the promotion of Houdini ".He dissects with an especially keen scalpel he does not wield it as one determined to destroy but rather a seeker after truth. Although he has the utmost respect for the honest belief of any person he is the relentless enemy of deliberate fraud and the account of his adventures in the investigation and detection of it forms a valuable chapter in the crusade for the truth." Thus the wrapper is indeed a marvelous historical document in its own right. Not just a mere ornamental cover for a book it stands as a publisher's clever harnessing of the public's endless fascination with the magician and man who was the Great Houdini. Harper & Brothers hardcover books
1992ref. 40958NY:: Schirmer Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1992. Hardcover. 0028713591 . First American printing. Phone number on front paste-down else very good in a very good dust jacket. . Schirmer Books, hardcover books
1993ref. 31144New York: Alfred Knopf 1993. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Quarter cloth over boards. Stated first American edition of this comprehensive 728 pp biography of Genet. Illustrated with some black and white photographs. A very good copy in price-intact dustwrapper. Wrapper has a short tear near the spine crown. This copy has been briefly INSCRIBED by White on the title page. The book includes a chronology by Albert Dichy. Alfred Knopf hardcover books
1987ref. 1045Chicago: Review Pr. 1987. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Intro. by Allan Temko. Square 4to. Mostly illus. in color. Presentation copy by Harry & wife Kitty author. Review Pr. hardcover books
1947ref. 25240London: Cassell & Co. Ltd 1947. First edition. Cloth. Very Good /very good . Handsome first UK edition. 358 pp including six full-page illustrations. Clean and unmarked a lovely collectible copy in pale blue cloth binding in lightly toned but otherwise gorgeous unclipped illustrated dustwrapper. A biography of the author of Alice In Wonderland. Cassell & Co. Ltd unknown books
