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1994réf. 173819London/Berlin/New York NY: Academy Editions/ Ernst & Sohn/St. Martin's Press 1994. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine illustrated dj 264 pp profusely illustrated in color. This lavishly illustrated book devotes itself to Wright's formidable contribution to the medium and features a number of powerful two-dimensional graphic designs and a number of three-dimensional units. Stained glass in the USA as well as the technical aspects of glass making are discussed. The majority of his work in glass was concentrated into the first decade of the 20th century when Wright abandoned old-fashioned stained glass windows and began experimenting with light screens of concrete developing into wood fretwork and glass block and tubing. Academy Editions/ Ernst & Sohn/St. Martin's Press hardcover books
2017réf. 168491Berlin: Distanz Verlag 2017. Hardcover. New in shrinkwrap. Brown boards with illustration and black stamped lettering. 111 pp. 44 color illustrations. Catalogue of an exhibition held at Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen March 31 - September 24 2017. Distanz Verlag hardcover books
2010réf. 129953Portsmouth New Hampshire: Northeast Auctions by Ronald Bourgeault LLC 2010. Softcover. VG. Color pictorial wraps; 126 pp.; 300 color figures. From the sale held Octover 30 2010 in Portsmouth New Hampshire; 330 lots listed with annotations 145 of which are from the collection of Thomas A. Gray. Northeast Auctions by Ronald Bourgeault, LLC paperback books
1958réf. 620442New York: Farrar Strauss and Cudahy 1958. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Early reprint. Small stamp of a religious order cheap paper of the text is toned faint dampstain at upper corner of the text thusa about very good in modestly spine-faded else near fine dust jacket. Signed by the author. Account of the Roman Catholic humanitarian and bestselling author Thomas Dooley establishing a hospital in Laos five miles from the border with Red China. Dooley had also done humanitarian work in Vietnam in the early 1950s where his two stated purposes were to fight disease and Communism. Reportedly upon his death he was considered for Sainthood in the Catholic Church. Farrar, Strauss and Cudahy hardcover books
1903réf. 80071Columbus Ohio: Academy of Science. Very Good. 1903. Softbound. 9 x 6 inches bound in original pictorial wrapper lacking rear wrapper in terrific condition. Complete in 96 pages - illustrated - and foldout map bound in . . Academy of Science paperback books
réf. 40013Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press 2003. Hardcover. 9.25"x6.5" xxv 605pp. Tan cloth over boards gold text on spine. Dust jacket is brown with tan illustrations on front and back brown text. Slight bumping to edge of spine and dust jacket still Very Good. ISBN: 0807127795 . Very Good. Hardcover . Louisiana State University Press 2003 hardcover books
1927réf. 26732New York: Pacific & Atlantic Photos Inc 1927. First Edition. Photograph. Near Fine. First Edition. An unframed press photograph 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches with the original paper description affixed to rear. Pacific & Atlantic Photos Inc. credit instructions stamped on rear. Some minor offsetting of ink apparently from paper description on lower 3/4 inch of the image. Tonality very nice. Glossy finish shows a few minor imperfections including a little of the usual glue "moisture waving". Would present nicely framed. "watermark" does not appear in the actual photo. Photograph. "Fifty years ago in a little laboratory in Menlo Park NJ Thomas Alva Edison Electrical Wizard Invented the primitive Talking Machine. One August 12th with a replica of that same machine at his side Mr. Edison uttered over the modern rival of his own invention - the Radio - the first words ever reproduced on his phonograph 'Mary had a little lamb etc'. Photo shows Mr. Edison left and Governor Moore of New Jersey on the Lawn of the Edison Estate before they spoke over the radio examining a model of the first talking machine." "FM#1 8-13-27" at end of paper description. "August 15 1927" stamped on the back of the photograph in the same color ink as the credit instructions from P&A. Photo. Pacific & Atlantic Photos Inc unknown books
1963réf. 324940Boston: D. C. Heath and Company 1963. hardcover. very good-. Illustrated in black and white. xxi 964 pages. Thick 8vo red cloth with gold lettering spotted dust soiled. Boston: D. C. Heath and Company 1963. A very good- copy. D. C. Heath and Company unknown books
1984réf. 244602Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Press 1984. hardcover. fine/fine. Photographic illustrations in black & white. 289 pages. 8vo navy cloth dust wrapper. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Press 1984. A fine copy. Louisiana State Press unknown books
2002réf. 52554NY: Barnes & Noble 2002. First printing. Horizontal small 8vo pp. 447. Chronology lists of plates index. Paper wraps. With several hundred illustrations most in color. Owner's name on half-title. Edges and cover slightly soiled cover lilttle scuffed at edges o/w a VG tight copy. Fairly heavy. Barnes & Noble unknown books
1894réf. 32518NY: Harper 1894. First Edition. Small 8vo pp. 285. Includes index. Illustrated with maps and drawings. Brown cloth stamped in black and gilt. Ends of spine worn corners bumped but in all a VG copy. BAL 10894. Quite interesting. The history of the city and a tour arund New York in the late 19th century. At the time of publication there were still pockets of small wooden houses here and there remnants of Manhattan's rural years tucked in among the high-rising apartments and business buildings. Several drawings of these old houses included; New York's history was still highly visible in the 1890s. Harper unknown books
1986réf. 451476New York: Basic Books 1986. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Tall octavo. Tiny owner's name front fly else fine in slightly spine-sunned near fine dust jacket. Basic Books hardcover books
1979réf. 542346London: Coracle Press 1979. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. 16mo. Cloth with printed paper label. Fine. One of 500 numbered copies. Coracle Press hardcover books
1901réf. 394902New York: Harper & Brothers 1901. Hardcover. Very Good. Later printing. Decorative blue cloth stamped in black and orange gilt-stamped spine title. Illustrated. Spine darkened and cocked modest edgewear very good copy. Harper & Brothers hardcover books
1901réf. 394899New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1901. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Gilt stamped green cloth. Illustrated by Lucius Hitchcock. Mary Spalding Wheeler's decorative bookplate on front pastedown very good or better copy. "The Wrath of the Zuyder Zee" "A Duluth Tragedy" "The Death-Fires of Les Martigues" "A Sea Upcast. Harper & Brothers Publishers hardcover books
réf. 390224Softcover. Near Fine. A small of archive of material related to the filming and premiere of the film Edison the Man. As follows: 1. SLOANE Madeleine Edison. Inventor's Daughter on Location. Orange New Jersey: From The Bulletin - The Woman's Club of the Oranges. March 1940. Offprint. Quarto. One leaf folded to make four pages. Some foxing on the outer pages else very good or better. Offprint that contains the text of a long letter by the inventor's daughter about Hollywood and the MGM studio where they were making the film Edison the Man including an account of a visit to Louis B. Mayer's office a meeting with the costume designer Adrian a visit with make-up artist Jack Dawn and lunch at the Commissary with quaintly dressed ladies from Pride and Prejudice surrounded by Spencer Tracy Maureen O'Sullivan and Laurence Stallings. Sloane spent a good deal of time on the set of the Edison film and gives an account of the filming including Hedy Lamarr getting soaked while filming and that she ".had lost a great deal of glamour!" Sloane also gives an account of how the film was made and about the MGM sets. OCLC locates no copies of the offprint. 2. One page Typed Letter Signed from New Jersey Governor Harold G. Hoffman to Madeleine Edison Sloane dated 13 March 1940 thanking her for her offprint Inventor's Daughter on Location saying ".I got a big 'kick' in observing that you do not write at all like one of those 'Llewellyn Park stuffed shirts' to whom I refer once in a while." 3. One page Typed Letter Signed from the London correspondent of The Times Louis E. Hendricks to John Sloane dated 21 March 1940 thanking him for his wife's offprint Inventor's Daughter on Location saying "Will you tell her for me how greatly I enjoyed it even though it was written by a non-union journalist. ." 4. Two page Typed Letter Signed from MGM Publicist Howard Herty to Madeleine Edison Sloane dated 3 April 1940 thanking her for a gift and reporting on a visit to MGM by her father Thomas A. Edison and a luncheon given to him by Louis B. Mayer with singing performances by Mickey Rooney who had played Edison in that year's film Young Tom Edison and Judy Garland and begging Sloane to use her influence to have him attend the Orange New Jersey premiere of Edison the Man. One smudged area on the letter very good. 5. One page Typed Letter Signed from John W. Considine Jr. producer of Edison the Man to Madeleine Edison Sloane dated 8 April 1940 thanking her for a gift of a photograph of her parents reporting on a visit to the studio by her brother and reporting on the preview of the film a huge success "We have shortened the picture considerably and are going to preview it tonight after which we may decide to make a few retakes. In order to make Spencer Tracy available for the world premiere of Edison the Man in the Oranges our executives have postponed the general release date of the picture." 6. N.E.L.A. Bulletin. Lights: Golden Jubilee Number. Vol. XVI No. 9. New York: National Electric Light Association 1929. Quarto. Stapled wrappers. Copy number 179 of 200 copies on special paper. On the title page designated as "Concerning Mr. Edison" the issue devoted to him. Light wear near fine. Includes statements on Edison by Jane Addams Walter P. Chrysler General Pershing Henry Ford John D. Rockefeller Jr. and many others. A nice little collection of material connecting Edison's daughter to the creation of the two films about her father. unknown books
1979réf. 569633New York: W.W. Norton & Company 1979. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Edited by Thomas A. Gullason. Illustrated with two black and white maps by Michael Tulysewski. Trade paperback. xiii 258pp. Light foxing on page edges spine crease very good. Inscribed by Gullason to fellow author and critic Malcolm Cowley on the title page. A Norton Critical Edition. W.W. Norton & Company unknown books
1979réf. 503589Frankfort KY: Truck/ Gnomon 1979. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Gathered by Thomas A. Clark David Wilk and Jonathan Greene. Edited by Jonathan Greene. Bottom edge remaindered spine sunned page edges foxed very good only. Signed on the title page: "J.W. Col." Issued as "Truck 21". Limited to 750 copies. Truck/ Gnomon unknown books
2001réf. 528117Princeton New Jersey: Princeton University Press 2001. Softcover. Near Fine. Second printing. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Trade paperback. 447pp. Spine ends and corners lightly bumped near fine. Princeton University Press unknown books
1958réf. 400285New York: Farrar Strauss and Cudahy 1958. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Reprint. Slight age-toning on the boards small new bookstore label else near fine in good or better dust jacket with a chip on the front panel and some splashmarks on the spine. Full-page Inscription by the author: "To the Kingston Trio with best wishes from Dooley and a thunder of thanks from high valley. Tom Dooley." Envelope laid in from a hotel in his home town of St. Louis also Signed by Dooley. Account of the Roman Catholic humanitarian and bestselling author Thomas Dooley establishing a hospital in Laos five miles from the border with Red China. Dooley had also done humanitarian work in Vietnam in the early 1950s where his two stated purposed were to fight disease and Communism. Reportedly upon his death he was considered for Sainthood in the Catholic Church. To those too young to recall the Kingston Trio had a huge #1 hit in 1958 the same year as this book with the traditional American song Tom Dooley based on the true story of a North Carolina man who reputedly murdered his true love and was hung. The real Tom Dooley died of cancer in 1961 at the time he was one of the best-known people in the world but has since fallen into obscurity. A curious and amusing association. Farrar, Strauss and Cudahy hardcover books
1980réf. 340957Los Angeles: Amber Crest Books 1980. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First edition. Dampstain on foredge of a few pages near rear of book very good or better in a rubbed and dampstained good dust jacket. Amber Crest Books hardcover books
1960réf. 213120PA: Lea & Febiger 1960. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good. Hardcover lightly rubbed at spine ends and corners spine lightly browned bookplate cover edges lightly worn minor stamping. Lea & Febiger hardcover books
1969réf. 47931NY:: Kraus Reprint Co. . Near Fine. 1969. Hardcover. Illustrations and a fold-out map. A reprint of the 1920 Philip Lee Warner edition. Near fine in green cloth. No dust jacket. . Kraus Reprint Co. , hardcover books
1864réf. 340831Washington DC: M’Gill & Witherow Printers 1864. Pamphlet. 16 pages. Unbound folded octavo format. Leaves untrimmed. Minor age toning overall Very Good. Insists on the need for a national bankruptcy law to reconcile the varying laws that existed at the state level. Jenckes was a Republican congressperson from Rhode Island who is chiefly remembered for his work in establishing the Department of Justice. M’Gill & Witherow, Printers unknown books
1958réf. 164653New York: Farrar Strauss And Cudahy 1958. Very Good. Very good minus Signed. Minor yellowing of cover/ bumps and rubs to edges and corners. Farrar, Strauss And Cudahy unknown books