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1937Best.-Nr. 2221930First American edition first printing so stated. Octavo. Dust jacket corners clipped but with $2.50 price. Very good. 265 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Scarce in dust jacket. Translated and illustrated by Lauren Ford. The Macmillan Company hardcover books
1914Best.-Nr. 2221924First edition so stated September 1914. Octavo. Illustrated with four b/w plates by Henry S. Watson. Original green pictorial cloth with baseball scene in red and cream. No dust jacket. Very good. 349 pages 1 page of ads for The Wellworth College Series. Includes chapters: "How to Play Baseball" "Batters Only" "He Wanted to Pitch" "The Underhand Throw." Early signature of Will Hansgen Rock Island Ill.; small bookseller bookplate on rear pastedown. Little, Brown, and Company hardcover books
1901Best.-Nr. 2221728First edition. Octavo. Original green cloth with emblematic design of Indian headdresses and chest plate stamped in gold white and red. Dust jacket unclipped; small chips and tears with design that replicates the pictorial cloth. Rare in jacket. Very good. 416 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Naylor 1860-1945 physician poet novelist. The Saalfield Publishing Company hardcover books
1904Best.-Nr. 2221758Second edition so stated on half title page. Octavo. Illustrated with seven full page color plates one is unlisted and appears at end of text. Original green pictorial cloth stamped in red and black with design of two cards. No dust jacket. Very good tight fresh copy. 312 pages 5 page of ads. J. B. Lippincott Company hardcover books
1952Best.-Nr. 2221772SIGNED COPY First printing so stated. Octavo. Dust jacket price clipped; short tear; few small chips designed by Peter Oldenburg. Very good. 183 pages. Signed by Goyen on front free endpaper. Author's second book: 8 short stories. Random House hardcover books
1973Best.-Nr. 2221799First edition. Octavo. Original navy blue cloth stamped in gilt and grey. Dust jacket unclipped designed by Muriel Nasser. Fine. 342 pages. Signed and inscribed by the author on front free endpaper: "Thank you for your help - Possession of this book does not obligate you to read it!! Best - Robert Anderson May 24 1980." Random House hardcover books
1957Best.-Nr. 2221676"Sterling and Gladys" 1 page June 7 1957 on his Morristown N. J. letterhead to broadcast executive Carl Haverlin transmitting his manuscript of "The Mark Twain Broadcast." 10 1/2" x 7 1/4". Very good. Together with the 7 page typed manuscript signed in full June 5 1957. 11" x 8 1/2". Very good. North 1906-1974 was an American author his book "Rascal" won the 1964 Newbery Medal. His novel "So Dear to My Heart" 1948 was filmed by Disney starring Burl Ives Bobby Driscoll and Beulah Bondi. unknown books
1907Best.-Nr. 2221710First edition. Octavo. Original stiff stapled white wrappers stamped in black. Text with red and black underlining. This copy belonged to the actor who had the role of Fletcher. Good light wearing and soiling; few tears. 20 pages. Printed by the Press of B. Frank Brown Co. Peoria Illinois. Privately Printed paperback books
1921Best.-Nr. 2221716First edition so stated. Octavo. Nine page introduction by Gelett Burgess. Grey's article appears at pages 80-83. Original gilt blue cloth. Dust jacket unclipped. Fine. 288 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Other contributors include Mary Austin Rex Beach Robert W. Chambers Edna Ferber Hamlin Garland Rupert Hughes Sinclair Lewis Opie Read Ernest Thompson Seton Booth Tarkington Owen Wister Harold Bell Wright et.al. Russo & Sullivan page 169 - Tarkington's poem "Tree." The Authors' League of America by Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover books
1976Best.-Nr. 2221581Uncorrected Proof copy. Octavo. Original stiff blue wrappers. No dust jacket. Fine. 200 pages. Dory Previn's copy. Signed and inscribed on half title page by Previn: "Again to George - with regards Dory Previn." Previn 1925-2012 lyricist and poet Academy Awards nominee; Emmy winner. Macmillan Publishing Company paperback books
1924Best.-Nr. 5771SIGNED BY RITCHER VERY GOOD. HINDS hardcover books
1948Best.-Nr. 500593"Theodore Sturgeon" New York July 20 1948. 4to. 1 page. To William Targ of the World Publishing Company: ".I should like to go on record with the following: Science-fiction is always a starting thing when first encountered. The hesitation of your Cleveland office is in this light eminently understandable. I want to stress two things: first the youth of today differs markedly from that which reveled in PEEWEE HARRIS and the TOM SWIFT books but their sense of realism and sky's-the-limit fantasy are being developed by the juvenile novel's chief competitors -- the movies and the comics. My second point is that in writing I am by no means limited to science-fiction. I have sold in many fields. I would greatly appreciate it if you would let me know when your Cleveland office is sure they want to kill the JET JACKSON project altogether; it may have market possibilities in some other house." unknown books
1954Best.-Nr. 301918First edition. Octavo. Dust jacket designed by H. Lawrence Hoffman unclipped; rubbed at extremities; foxing spots on back panel. Very good. No signatures or bookplates. Advance copy for review with publisher's slip lair in loose with publication date of June 8 1954 original price $2.50. Author's first mystery. The Macmillan Company hardcover books
1794Best.-Nr. 754Orléans France: L. P. Couret 1794. Small quarto. Bifolium 4 pp. 3/4-inch of loss at upper corner with no loss to text. Soft early horizontal fold. Very minor foxing. Very good. The 1794 French Revolutionary decree transferring the former royal collections of scientific technological and artistic objects to newly designated state inventories naming the commissioners of each to form the new "commission temporaire des Arts." Forty-three commissioners and twelve categories of objects are named offering an informative view of cultural authority and material taxonomy at the height of the Revolution. Almost immediately upon the overthrow of the French monarchy in 1792 members of the National Convention embarked upon the urgent and staggering task of protecting the massive royal collections and reorganizing them according to Republican and Enlightenment ideals. Within months the famous Jardin du Roi and Cabinet d'Histoire Naturelle were newly established as the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle and on August 10 1793 the anniversary of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette's imprisonment the Louvre palace opened for the first time as a public museum. The following February Pluviôse II the National Convention decreed in this document that a temporary commission of arts be established to "inventory and reunite in suitable depositories the books instruments machines and other objects of science and arts proper to the public instruction" and assigned forty-three leading scientists engineers artists and craftsmen to the task. Among the commissioners inventorying the collections of natural history botany zoology and mineralogy are the great naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and the veteran gardener of the Jardin du Roi André Thouin. Other particularly notable names listed include the anatomist Honoré Fragonard the famous watchmaker Antide Janvier assigned to "instruments of physics astronomy and others" the important Parisian printer Barrois and the painter and landscape architect Hubert Robert here simply "Hubert" who had narrowly escaped the guillotine a few months earlier. Additional categories of objects to be inventoried include maps paintings and sculptures machines of war antiquities and medals maps chemical laboratories musical instruments "ancient foreign or the most rare in their perfection among the known and modern" and various others. The present copy of the decree is a departmental printing containing a printed acknowledgment of the decree by the authorities of the department of Loiret in its capital Orléans signed 25 days after the decree was issued on 13 Ventôse of the second year of the Republic March 3 1794. OCLC lists three copies. Scarce. L. P. Couret books
1957Best.-Nr. 2221684"Alice Toklas" 1 page Paris Oct 18 1957 to Anita Loos. 8 1/4" x 5 1/4". Fine. Together with a typed transcription. Toklas express great pleasure at seeing Loos again and thanks her for her recommendation of a spa treatment at Acqui. In part: ".The doctor recommended ten baths during twelve days.I am very grateful to you. It would be lovely to think you would return to Paris in my time. Toklas 1877-1967 companion of writer Gertrude Stein who wrote about their life together in "What is Remembered" and was the subject of Stein's "Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas." Loos 1891-1981 American humorous writer; best known for her novel "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" 1925; worked for various Hollywood studios as a writer and script consultant; film career from 1912: "My Baby" 1912; "The Telephone Girl and the Lady" 1913; "The Lady in Black" 1913; "San Francisco" 1936; "Saratoga" 1937; "The Women" 1939; "Another Thin Man" 1939; "Strange Cargo" 1940; "Susan and God" 1940; "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" 1945; "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" 1953; "Gigi" 1958. books
1791Best.-Nr. 5476Paris: Firmin Didot 1791. Later Printing. Contemporary somewhat later three-quarter leather. A good copy; joint and backstrip scuffed; some wear to the corners; internally occ. light spotting but very good; untrimmed. Folio. 2 leaves 4 513 pp.; note - 4 page intro. bound after p. 12 of text. Schweiger states: ' . correct und gut gedruckt .' This however is the first and last good thing he mentions about the printing. This printing of Vergil was long in the making and intended to supersede the Baskerville edition in beauty. Although a handome book Wroth Schweiger Brunet etc. all feel the typeface and selection of format is not a success. It is one of a hundred copies produced and is signed and numbered for the publisher on the verso of the last leaf. Schweiger Latin II2 1180; Brunet V 1293; see Wroth p. 221. Firmin Didot hardcover books
1956Best.-Nr. 5906New Haven: William Kent 1956. First Edition. Original paper wrappers. Good with some tide marks to the wrapper and first leaf. 4to. There are b&w illus. throughout of his sculpture; unpaginated. A self published catalog limited to 100 copies. The reproduction of the illus. for the text was from aluminum plates the entire printing process is explained by Kent. The illustrations are accompanied by text Kent's and other illustrations taken from sixteenth and seventeenth century books on natural history. An unusual self-issued catalog. William Kent unknown books
1912Best.-Nr. 6272Frankfurt: Leo Hamburger 1912. First Edition. Contemporary cloth backed bds. A good copy internally; bdg. is waterstained and spine abraded. Large 8vo.13 photolithographic plates. An important sale of Carolingen coins. This is one of 40 copies of the sale catalog that was issued with illustrations. The catalog is priced throughout and has a manuscript index. Sale entries also contain what appear to be notes on each purchaser. An excellent reference. One of 40 copies with the illustrations. Leo Hamburger hardcover books
2002Best.-Nr. 2334223Paris: Histoire & Collections 2002. Magazine. Near Fine. An exceptional copy. 2002 Magazine. 82 pp. A French-language magazine for hobbyists of tank miniatures with English captions. Histoire & Collections unknown books
1960Best.-Nr. 76527Paris & New York 1960. Hardcover. Very Good. illustrations many color followed by three leaves for expressions of interest unpaged. Printed on one side. Ribbed gray portfolio binder. Pages held in by a plastic sleeve clamp along spine. 28 cm. Minor edge-wear and browning. No Jacket. 41 paintings illustrated and offered - mostly half page illustrations; a few full-page. hardcover books
1901Best.-Nr. 15208DUST JACKET; PUBLISHER'S BROWN BOX; RARE THUS 'HOLIDAY EDITION' VERY GOOD-FINE BRIGHT AND FRESH COPY. HOUGHTON MIFFLIN hardcover books
1970Best.-Nr. 6872Eton: For the Provost and Fellows 1970. Original edition. Very Good. 23 cm; 81 pages. Blue printed wraps. Discolored along spine edge. Else fine. For the Provost and Fellows paperback books
Best.-Nr. 10145PAINTING IN PARIS FROM AMERICAN COLLECTIONS. New York: Museum of Modern Art 1930. 4to. Cloth spine boards. 92 pages. Second edition. An exhibition catalogue featuring the paintings of Braque Chagall Dugy Picasso Utrillo and others. Ex-library copy with appropriate markings light cover wear. unknown books
1990Best.-Nr. 47660Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum Of Art 1990. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Near fine in wrappers. Philadelphia Museum Of Art unknown books
1911Best.-Nr. 226771Second edition so stated; "June 3 1911". Octavo. Frontispiece and 25 b/w photographs by the author; 1 b/w drawing. Original tan cloth gilt stamped spine pictorial upper cover in gilt light blue and white with design of a sand storm blowing across the prairie spine lettering faded; medium foxing to edges of text uncut and partly unopened. Very good tight copy. 314 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Printed by the Vail Company. A.C. McClurg & Co. hardcover books
