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1925ref. 326925New York: Brentano's 1925. 153pp. 8vo. Blue cloth paper label & patterned boards. Very Good. 153pp. 8vo. Signed by the author on the ffep. This movie is considered the first talkie. Brentano's unknown books
1913ref. 238650New York: Privately printed 1913. First edition no. 96 of 200 copies initialed and numbered on the half-title. With frontispiece 19 plates including 2 group portraits double map of Lake George around Bolton Landing at back. 65 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original green cloth titled in gilt on upper board. Bixby bookplate of Mohican Point house on front pastedown. Fine. First edition no. 96 of 200 copies initialed and numbered on the half-title. With frontispiece 19 plates including 2 group portraits double map of Lake George around Bolton Landing at back. 65 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed on flyleaf "Mr. & Mrs. A. B. P- names partly effaced with sincere regards of Mr. & Mrs. W.K. Bixby St. L. 5/18/14" "Includes 12 pages of text on fishing for smallmouth bass lake trout and land-locked salmon. one of the few early books to contain as much material on fishing in Lake George" Heller. An important and rare book. Plum Adirondack Bibliography 568; Bruns S27; Heller 1:716 Privately printed unknown books
1650ref. 24869London 1650. 1 vols. 13" x 8 3/4. Contemporary. hand-coloring. Fine condition. 1 vols. 13" x 8 3/4 ". unknown books
1862ref. 1862SansonEXECUTIONS IN FRANCE Sept Générations d'Exécuteurs 1688-1847: Mémoires des Sanson mis en ordre rédigés et publiés par H. Sanson. Paris: Dupray de la Mahérie 1862-1863. Six volumes each complete with half-title and probably large-paper copies but IV 67/68 with partial loss in lower blank. Tall 8vo unusually clean with hardly any spotting; gilt-stamped leather spines with matching black boards. First edition of this apocryphal memoir of the Sanson family based on family diaries and correspondence by the journalist D'Olbreuse detailing all the major executions from the late 17th century thru middle 19th century. The most famous member of the family is Charles-Henri Sanson 1739–1806 who served as the chief executioner of Paris during the French Revolution. He executed thousands of people—including King Louis XVI Marie Antoinette Danton and Robespierre. He was also closely involved in testing and adopting the guillotine as a more humane method of execution. The family's tenure ended in 1847 when Charles-Henri's grandson Henri-Clément Sanson was dismissed from office and arrested after pawning the family's official guillotine to cover mounting debts and gambling losses. Tulard 1316 - Fierro 1315. Dupray de la Mahérie hardcover books
ref. 66146Original oval photograph approx. 7 x 5 in. matted. Samson is shown as an older man in 3/4 view turned slightly to his right and dressed in a suitcoat and bow tie. A very good image. Rev. Samson was born in Harvard Massachusetts in 1819 and graduated from Brown University in 1839. He completed further studies at Newton Theological Seminary and graduated from there in 1843. He served as pastor of the E Street Baptist Church in Washington D.C. from 1843-1850 and again from 1852-1859. Some brief biographies mention that he was the clergyman who married Mathew Brady and his wife Juliette Julia Handy although we have been unable to verify this. Between 1859-1871 he was President of Columbian College in the city shepherding its growth through the Civil War. He later served as President of Rutgers Female College in New York City. He was the author of several books on moral and intellectual philosophy including spiritualism and spiritual manifestations. unknown books
1981ref. 60117Clinton NJ: Amwell Press 1981. First edition 1/1000 copies signed by the author illustrator and the publisher Jim Rikhoff. 8vo. xii 304 pp. Illustrated from line drawings plates color frontispiece. Contributors to this anthology of grizzly bear hunting include Annabel Frank Hibben Jack O'Connor Elmer Keith Hornaday and Saxton Pope. Very good. Gilt-stamped decorated red bonded leather publisher's slipcase. 7261. Amwell Press unknown books
1696ref. 48399Amsterdam: Pierre Mortier 1696. Engraved broadside map 19 x 23 5/8 inches plate mark dimensions with extensive pink and green wash. Some light browning but an attractive copy. Matted glazed and framed. One of two issues of this map this one being a bit larger based on the Thornton-Morden map of circa 1685. Pictures the colony from the Santee River to the South Edisto River and well inland up the Cooper River. Physical features and names of plantation and land owners are given in English "Nouveau Londre" on the Edistow sic River being exceptions; soundings are given at river mouths in Charleston Harbor and in the ocean along some beaches. Cumming Southeast in Early Maps 121. Kendall Early Maps of Carolina 17c: "This map has a wealth of names of owners of land in Carolina. Pierre Mortier unknown books
1845ref. 13930Paris 1845. Pen ink and watercolour. Very good condition apart from some light foxing mild creasing a small tear at the right edge of the sheet and a few small brown stains at the far left side of the image. A rare example of an original watercolour design for porcelain by the Samson factory of Paris. This finished design was intended as a reference source from which the porcelain painters could work using the design as a guide for the colours and image to be transformed from paper into fine porcelain. The French porcelain manufactory of Samson & Cie. was established by "Edmé Samson b. Paris 1810; d. Paris 1891 at 7 Rue Vendôme later Rue Béranger in Paris. The intention of the firm was to reproduce ceramics from museums and private collections and it claimed that all such reproductions would be distinctly marked to avoid confusion with the originals. In 1864 the factory was moved to Montreuil by Samson's son Emile Samson 1837-1913. The range of wares included copies of 18th-century porcelain from such factories as Sèvres Chelsea Meissen and Derby Chinese export-wares especially armorial wares decorated with famille rose colours and mugs decorated with the Fitzhugh pattern Delftware Iznikware maiolica and faience." Grove Dictionary of Art. unknown books
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2012ref. USAMCAP00LWIncubation Press 2012. Very Good. Samson Art. The Captains' Airline: Pushing Back From the Brink. Bend OR: Incubation Press 2012. 419pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good. Few pages jammed at bottom in rear of book. Incubation Press paperback books
1872ref. RSAMFAL00JNScribner & Co 1872. Good. Samson George W. False Claim of Mormonism. In Scribners Monthly Illustrated Magazine Vol 3 #4 March 1872. New York: Scribner & Co 1872. 572-578pp. 8vo. Green/black printed wraps. Book condition: Good. Wraps chipped at edges and torn 1 inch at top spine. Spine rolled a bit. Text block has deckle edge that is a bit ragged. Contents otherwise good clean and relatively tight. Samson's name not attached to the article but listed as author in Contents. Scribner & Co paperback books
1939ref. 57366New York: Random House 1939. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Lightly soiled and a small faint stain to one corner very good or better lacking the dustwrapper. Basis for the 1941 Mark Dansdrich film featuring Claudette Colbert Ray Milland Brian Aherne and Binnie Barnes. Raphaelson’s first novel about the neglected wife of a busy advertising executive. Inscribed to his close friend James M. Cain and Cain’s second wife of four Elina: "for James and Elena sic with love – Raph. New York May 1939." Raphaelson as a highly successful playwright and screenwriter was one of Cain's idols. Cain spent nearly as much time writing unsuccessful plays as he did writing successful novels. They became close friends and Cain was introduced by Raphaelson into a Hollywood crowd that eventually resulted in his third marriage to actress Aileen Pringle. Raphaelson's first novel about the neglected wife of a busy advertising executive. Basis for the 1941 Mark Dansdrich film featuring Claudette Colbert Ray Milland Brian Aherne and Binnie Barnes. A very nice association. Random House hardcover books
1950ref. S8569No place:: Biological Bulletin 1950. 1950. 8vo. 331-332 pp. Single leaf; extremities a bit worn. Ownership rubber stamp of Norman Horowitz. A FINE GROUP. Gross was associated with the Rockefeller Institute New York. All of the papers bear the rubber stamp or signature of pioneer Caltech geneticist Norman Horowitz. WITH: GROSS. "Heterokaryosis Between Opposite Mating Types of Neurospora Crassa." Offprint from: American Journal of Botany vol. 39 no. 8 1952. 8vo. 574-577 pp. Printed wrappers; water stained. Full list available on request. Biological Bulletin, 1950. unknown books
1925ref. 23656New York: Brentano's 1925. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. 8vo. 153pp. blue cloth spine printed paper label decorated paper over boards. A fine copy. The dustwrapper is present. It is not clipped; there is a short closed marginal tear on the front cover and some roughness along the bottom edge of the rear cover but it is essentially near fine. The first book edition of the Jazz SInger after its short story appearance in the January 1922 Everybody's Magazine. The author expanded and dramatized the story. A special acknowledgment of the first stage production in 1925 at the Fulton Theatre starring George Jessel as Jack Robin. Basis for the Warner Brothers production starring Al Jolson billed as the first talking motion picture. . Brentano's hardcover books
ref. 05696London: S. W. Fores 1800. The Rarest Woodward of All London Is No Place To Be In The Summer WOODWARD George Moutard designer. SANSON Francis engraver. Every Body Out Of Town exemplified in six characteristic prints and illustrative labels with Every Body In Town exemplified in six characteristic prints and illustrative labels. London: S.W. Fores 1800. Second editions originally published by Woodward himself in 1794/1796. Quarto 10 1/8 x 8 3/8 in; 259 x 213 mm. Twelve hand-colored engraved plates 9 x 7 1/2 in; 297 x 192 mm two hand-colored engraved title-pages each imprinted Feb. 14 1800 and mounted on fourteen quarto sheets 133/4 x 18 1/4 in; 349 x 470 mm of various colors. Four blank leaves at rear folded blank quarto sheet inserted in rear pocket. Bound in contemporary full maroon morocco with double gilt fillets enclosing extravagantly blindstamped covers with an outer frame of floral and foliate motifs volutes curls with bacchants along lower edge an inner rolled frame and a central panel with center lozenge within an elaborately blocked medallion. Pocket to rear cover. Astonishingly bright clean and very fine. Housed in a felt-lined half maroon morocco over gray cloth clamshell case spine with five raised bands ruled and lettered in gilt in compartments. OCLC records one copy of the 1800 edition of Every Body Out of Town and only two copies of the 1800 edition of Every Body In Town in institutional holdings worldwide. Not found in the British Museum's collection of satirical prints. According to the ABPC Index the last time either title came to auction was in 1942 Every Body Out of Town 1800 and 1923 Every Body In Town 1800. These 1800 reprints are rarer than the original issues. They are also larger than the 1794-1796 first issues which measured only 7 7/8 x 6 5/8 inches 200 x 170 mm. Of George Murgatroyd Woodward 1760-1809 caricaturist and author the DNB notes that he "later known as Mustard George grew up in a Derbyshire town living with his father and to judge by the evidence of his later writings received a sound education. He took early to caricature ridiculing his neighbours in Derbyshire; a folio of these drawings dated 1781 is in the Derby Local Studies Library among a sizable collection of his prints drawings and book illustrations. His caricatures having caused something of a local stir he persuaded his father to let him seek his fortune in London. "Apart from two caricature prints dated 1785 designed by Woodward and published by him from 28 Cary Street Lincoln's Inn London it was not until 1790 that he made an impact on the London scene. Thereafter his output was copious. The British Museum catalogues list 525 examples of his work from the next twenty years published by Holland Fores Ackermann and latterly Tegg all leading printsellers. These prints designed by Woodward are etched by others-Rowlandson who was his friend and drinking companion Isaac Cruikshank Roberts and Williams. Woodward's original drawings are vigorous. and his value lay in his humorous ideas. "Woodward.might have rivalled Hogarth. Certainly his collaboration with Rowlandson constituted a lively if frivolous commentary on the social scene. Dorothy George described him as 'original prolific varied humorous and good-humoured' and few students of the subject would dispute her conclusion that his death was 'a loss to caricature' George English Political Caricature 1.174" Simon Heneage 'Woodward George Murgatroyd 1760-1809 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press 2004. Etcher and engraver Francis Sanson was active 1784-1799. Bobins IV 1365; Gordon Library BC28 BC29; Not in Abbey or Tooley. London: S. W. Fores, 1800 unknown books
ref. 04086London: S.W. Fores 1801. Three of George Moutard Woodward's Hand-Colored Prints from "Symptoms of the Shop" WOODWARD George Moutard artist SANSON Francis printmaker. Symptoms of the Shop. London: S.W. Fores 1801. First edition. Quarto 10 1/8 x 8 1/16 inches; 257 x 265 mm. Three of twelve hand colored 'Satirical' stipple engravings on wove paper drawn by Woodward and etched by Sanson numbers 7 8 and 10. Each with the plate number at the top right margin and with lithographed text at the top of the image. On each of the lower margins is "Pub. June 1st 1801 by S.W. Fores No.50 Piccadilly Prints and Drawings lent on the plan of a Library Folio's of Caricature lent out for the Evening." / Symptoms of the Shop" / "Drawn by G. Woodward Etchd by F. Sansom". Some light marginal soiling otherwise near fine. Plate #7. "After all there is nothing like the true old orthodox principles." Plate #8. "I have brought your Honor home your new suit." Plate #10. "Madam - I was once a Minister and used to negotiations." Very rare. According to OCLC there are only two complete set in libraries and institutions worldwide The Lewis Walpole Library CT. has a complete colored set Princeton NJ also has a complete set but does not mention 'colored'. Yale university has nine of the twelve colored plates missing numbers 1 7 & 8. Harvard MA has one plate. These two artists previously collaborated on Every Body in Town BC-28 Every Body Out of Town BC-29 and Pigmy Revels: All Alive in Lilliput BC-62 all published by Fores. Each plate depicts two persons engaged in humorous wordplay relating to the characteristics of a trade or calling. William Gordon. A catalogue of the Books Drawings Prints and Periodicals forming the William A. Gordon Library of British Caricature. The three images present here include: Plate 7. A man sitting in a wooden chair lifts his hand for emphasis and declares: "After all there is nothing like the true old orthodox principles." An obese clergyman in a padded armchair on the right responds: "Orthodox principles - ah my dear friend you put me in mind of old times - when I was but a simple vicar. How I used to charm my congregation - slim as a Bedles wand - & delicate as a new wash'd surplice - but since I have been raised to higher dignities I do nothing but remain in my chair; bulky & unweildy as a Folio Church Service. - oh how elegantly I used to manage my discourses - fifteen minutes to a point by the clock under the gallery - never exceeded - short praye - text - and devision - one - two - three & away - that was my method." Plate 8. A man with a parcel under his arm bows slightly and says: "I have brought your Honor home your new suit." A stout bespectacled lawyer replies: "Suit - ah - Mr. Buckram you did not know me when I practiced in the Courts - I could have shewn you suits that would have puzzled Judge Blackstone himself - none of your simple matters - brim full of Law as a brief bag - intricate as the Temple avenues -& long as Westminster Hall - Shy Clients sometimes - but it would not do with Paul Parchment - sure to have them on way or other. - Once in never out that was my motto." Plate 10. A former Minister holding his hat wearing a bag-wig and with his pocket filled with scrolls addresses a woman: "Madam - I was once a Minister and used to Negotiations I shall therefore be happy to treat with you on Matrimonial Speculation - I have ample credentials ready to ratify my powers and if you please will enter into preliminaries immediately - but let me have a sight glance at your project and be assured I will deliver to you my contre projet as soon as the definitive treaty is concluded and duly guaranteed." The woman who is short and plump looks aghast at the proposition. London: S.W. Fores, 1801 unknown books
1961ref. 605206Irvington New Jersey: Clinical Hypnosis Supplo Co 1961. Softcover. Fine. Two sales brochures one trifold pamphlet and one consisting of two quarto sheets folded and stapled to make eight pages as well as a return envelope. Each with the owner stamp and signature of noted American psychologist Henry Guze a cofounder of the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis the larger brochure folded vertically for mailing else fine. An interesting group: the larger brochure offers machines for sale with names like the Metronoma the Brain Wave Synchronizer $195! and the Professional Model Electric 3-D Optiscope with three 20-inch Hypno-Discs; the trifold brochure offers 17 books on hypnotherapy and seven on sexology. Clinical Hypnosis Supplo Co unknown books
1939ref. 596734New York: Random House 1939. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Rear hinge cracked slight rubbing on the spine near fine lacking the dust jacket. Barrett H. Clark's copy with his penciled Signature on front flyleaf. Clark was the editorial director of The Dramatists Play Service and was also an editor at Samuel French. A play adapted from the author's novel of the same name and basis for the 1941 Mark Dansdrich film featuring Claudette Colbert Ray Milland Brian Aherne and Binnie Barnes. Random House hardcover books
1934ref. 565024Evanston Illinois: Row Peterson & Company 1934. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 85 xxiv pp. Illustrated pale gray wrappers. Modest age-toning on wrappers very good. Row, Peterson & Company unknown books
1951ref. 373163New York: Random House 1951. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Tiny owner's name "Herbert Hartig" a trifle rubbed at the spine ends near fine in a very good price-clipped dustwrapper with very small chips at the spine ends and a little toning. Inscribed by the author: "For Herb Hartig with warmest good wishes - especially for 'Joley.' Samson Raphaelson. March 1980." Jessica Tandy and Beulah Bondi starred in the play that was originally directed by Hume Cronyn. Hartig was a composer and songwriter particularly for television. Random House hardcover books
1942ref. 56109New York: Dramatists Play Services 1942. Softcover. Near Fine. Revised edition. Near fine in wrappers. Dramatists Play Services unknown books
1943ref. 81394New York: 20th Century Fox 1943. Softcover. Fine. Continuity and Dialogue Script Taken from the Screen. Mimeographed sheets bradbound in blue stiff wrappers. About fine. Stamped "Received New York Legal Department Jul. 19 1943." Apparently prepared for the legal department to review and dated just one month before the film was released. The Ernst Lubitsch-directed classic highlighed by Raphaelson's witty script featured Don Ameche as a would-be sinner not quite bad enough to get into Hell on his deathbed and Gene Tierney as his long-suffering love. Both Lubitsch cinematographer Edward Cronjager and the film itself were nominated for Oscars. Very scarce. Ex-Carter Burden. 20th Century Fox unknown books
1942ref. 30958New York: Random House. Very Good with no dj. First Edition. Softcover. no dust jacket a nice clean copy with no significant wear just some uneven fading on the front cover and spine. frontispiece photo of stage setting Comedy about a snooty drama critic who is brought down to earth and taught the facts of life by a free-spirited playwright somewhat modeled after William Saroyan at least in the opinion of Brooks Atkinson in the NY Times. The original 1942 Broadway production directed by Raphaelson himself starred Alexander Knox and Nicholas Conte who changed his name to Richard Conte when he became a full-time movie actor after World War II and ran for a respectable 125 performances. Leading man Knox however was replaced just a month into the run by George Macready and again a few weeks later by Lee J. Cobb. . c.1942. Random House paperback books
1935ref. 614441New York: Samuel French 1935. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Preface by John Anderson. Open Letter by Barrett H. Clark. Fine in a very good dust jacket that is tanned and has some chipping at the spinal extremities. Two plays by the author of The Jazz Singer. Accent on Youth was the basis for three films: the first in 1935 directed by Wesley Ruggles and featuring Astrid Allwyn and Lon Chaney Jr.; Mr. Music in 1950 directed by Richard Haydn and featuring Bing Crosby Nancy Olson and Charles Coburn; and finally in 1959 as But Not for Me directed by Walter Lang and featuring Clark Gable Carroll Baker Lilli Palmer and Lee J. Cobb. Although note marked as such this was the copy of Barrett H. Clark. Barrett H. Clark was an exceptionally important figure in modern American drama: aside from authoring and translating many plays he served as the longtime literary editor for the drama publisher Samuel French as well as director of the Drama League of America. He helped guide playwrights such as Eugene O’Neill and Maxwell Anderson and encouraged American dramatists to tell real stories of working-class people using language derived from everyday life. A scarce Samuel French hardcover. Samuel French hardcover books
1713ref. 215454Amsterdam: Mortier Pieter 1713. unbound. very good. Map. Engraving with original hand outline. Image measures 14.5" x 18.75". Rare map of Paphlagonia an ancient region of northern Anatolia present-day Turkey along the southern coast of the Black Sea. Highlighting the capital city of Sinope this map depicts the region as defined by Strabo: bound by the Parthenius River in the west extending to the Hays river in the east. Sanson depicts the region comprising the Kingdom of Pontus during the rule of Mithridates IV. Neighboring historical regions of Gallatia and Bithynia et Pontus are labeled. Full original margins light scattered foxing. Based on earlier plates by Sanson. This map appeared in "Atlas Antiquus Sacer Ecclesiasticus et Profanus" published in Amsterdam by Pieter Mortier. Nicolas Sanson 1600-1667 who is considered the founder of the French school of cartography. In reaction to the prevailing trend of Dutch lavishness Sanson favored minimal details focusing rather on accurate cartography than ornament. Pierre Mortier 1661-1711 was a Dutch cartographer engraver and printseller who worked in Amsterdam. He used advanced Dutch printing methods to produce high quality editions of contemporary French maps by cartographers such as De L'Isle Sanson Jaillot de Fer and De Wit. His greatest feat was the nautical atlas "Le Neptune Francois" or "Suite de Neptune Francois" considered to contain the most beautiful examples of cartographic art. After his death his widow Amelia continued publishing in partnership with her brother-in-law David until her death in 1719. This map was published during Amelia's tenure at the firm. Mortier, Pieter unknown books
