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1986Best.-Nr. 006048New York: Knopf 1986 Pictorial boards remainder mark else fine; matching dust jacket. Beautifully illustrated edition of the fairy tale. In slip case with original cassette tape of the tale as read by Cher. Tape not tested. First Thus. Very Good/Fine. Illus. by Robert Van Nutt. Oblong 4to. Knopf hardcover books
1950Best.-Nr. 000576New York: Limited Editions Club 1950 41 pgs. #1283/1500. Signed By Edmund Dulac. Maroon cloth with inlaid brass cockerel lt. oxidization prev. owner's name lt. fox near gutter of front ep Maroon chemise with stamped cockerel design sp. faded. Maroon slipcase with fading at edges and wear to bottom flap. Illustrated and decorated by Dulac his first work for the Limited Edition Club. First Limited Edition. Very Good. Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1988Best.-Nr. 003806Boston: Little Brown and Company 1988 Orange boards with color pastedown; color illustrated dust jacket with a slightly darkened spine. A selection of rhymes from the Opie Collection of Children's Literature at Oxford. Illustrated by some of the most well-known artists of children's books such as Sendak Helen Oxenbury Michael Foreman etc. First Printing. Fine/Near Fine. Square 8vo. Little Brown and Company hardcover books
1973Best.-Nr. 011569New York: Farrar Strauss Giroux 1973 Blue cloth with a whisper of sunning to edges; color pictorial dust jacket with mild wear to extremities 1/4" tear to rear panel price-clipped award seal present. Re-telling of an old Cornish play that was performed at Christmas time. Brilliantly pictured by Zemach in color throughout. Caldecott Medal. This copy signed by Margot Zemach on the half-title page. Second Printing. Cloth Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Margot Zemach. 4to. Farrar Strauss Giroux hardcover books
1894Best.-Nr. 010101New York: The Century Co. 1894. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. x 239 pp.; beige cloth pictorially stamped in gold orange & green; frontis. & 22 illustrations reproducing George Wharton Edwards' drawings after the author's photographs. Very Good spine darkened slight soiling to boards interior clean tight and unmarked. SCARCE. The Century Co. Hardcover books
1898Best.-Nr. 010120Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin 1898. Book. Very Good Plus. Decorative Cloth. Later Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Very Good Plus in original brown cloth lettered in gilt and blindstamped with red decorations black end papers professionally restored small rubs to cloth at corners scattered marginal stamps of a hand with pointing finger no other markings clean and tight. xv 1 379 pages 12 illustrations. Originally published 1884 title page date of 1898. Houghton Mifflin Hardcover books
1869Best.-Nr. 007788Melbourne Australia: George Robertson 1869. Book. Near Fine. Morocco. New Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New Edition containing prefaces to First and Second Editions xliii 255 pp with six full page color illustrations and numerous black and white illustrations. Master Tyll Owlglass is the Anglicized name for the German jokester Till Eulenspiegel. Finely bound in lovely Art Deco brown morocco with vertical sets of double gilt rules five raised bands with gilt lettering decorative end pages all edges gilt wide inner dentelles with double gilt rules. Likely an early 20th c. California binding. Bearing the small leather bookplate of Alfred Sutro General Counsel of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company of which organization he had been a director since 1940 and noted bibliophile whose leadership as President of the Book Club of California was indtrumental in its growth. Near Fine original cloth covers bound in front and rear moderate toning to end pages and first few pages two small rubs to morocco at rear joint prior owner name half-title page. George Robertson Hardcover books
1939Best.-Nr. 006603Goteborg Sweden: Dr. Walter Kaudern Gothenburg Ethnographical Museum 1939. Book. Very Good. Printed Wrappers. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front wrapper - "To G. Herzog with the compliments of A. Metraux". A wonderful folklore Association Copy Alfred Metraux published landmark studies of South American Indians Haitian Voodoo and Easter Island. As a human rights leader he participated in the framing of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights and was a permanent member of UNESCO's Department of Social Science. George Herzog was a noted anthropologist linguist and ethnomusicologist who studied under Franz Boas at Columbia University and later assembled the Archives of Folk and Primitive Music at Columbia University. Reprinted without changes of paging from "Ethnological Studies 9 1939 the book is Very Good light soiling and edge wear to wrappers. 127 pp. Stamped Herzog Collection at first page. SIGNED works by Metraux are RARE. Dr. Walter Kaudern, Gothenburg Ethnographical Museum Paperback books
1937Best.-Nr. 006611Lincoln Nebraska: University of Nebraska 1937. Book. Good. Printed Wrappers. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A notable folklore Association Copy SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page - "To Stith Thompson - "Hop skip down the wilderness" BA Botkin 6/30/37". Botkin is best remembered for his "A Treasury of American Folklore" and for his government positions at the Federal Writers' Project Joint Committee on Folk Arts of the Works Progress Administration and as chief editor of the Writers' Unit of the Library of Congress Project. Stith Thompson is best known for his work on the classification of motifs in folk tales. His six-volume "Motif-Index of Folk-Literature "1955-1958 is considered the international key to traditional material. The book is Good only mostly because of wrappers- old tape mends at spine 1/3 approx. of rear wrapper torn and missing label taped at spine and stamped "Folklore Institute Reading Collection" title page. Contents are clean tight and unmarked. A SCARCE thesis and 1st book for this noted folklorist. University of Nebraska Paperback books
1902Best.-Nr. 010795Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press Cambridge 1902. Book. Very Good. Decorative Cloth. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Later printing uncommon institutional / educational issue. Featuring the Riverside Press title-page layout and omitting publisher advertisements. 19 cm. 6 259 pp. In publisher's original olive-green cloth. Very Good. Light shelf wear to spine ends and corners. Issued as part of Houghton Mifflin's push into the progressive education movement printed on heavier-duty stock for bulk distribution to classrooms and public libraries. Uncommon for copies to survive in this condition. . Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press Cambridge Hardcover books
1975Best.-Nr. 011555New York: Alfred A Knopf 1975 73 pgs. Hard cover with cloth spine sunning to board edges else fine; color illustrated dust jacket with a few edge tears and creasing light rubbing original price intact $4.95. Celebrated author and writing teacher John Gardner's first book for a juvenile audience; four fairy tales the title story plus The Tailor and the Giant The Miller's Mule and The Last Piece of Light. Illustrated in b&w by Charles Shields. . First Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Charles Shields. 8vo. Alfred A Knopf hardcover books
1970Best.-Nr. 010581Princeton New Jersey: Princeton University Press 1970. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First Edition. Second printing stated. Original French by Mircea Eliade. Rust cloth covered boards with black cloth spine wrap and gilt lettering to the spine. Bollingen Series LXXVI. Near Fine in a Very Good price clipped dust jacket designed by Paul Rand. Dust jacket has a small price sticker showing P.U.P. $12.50 next to the clipped area. Top page edges dyed gray. Scattered underlining in ink throughout. Dust jacket has an old wraparound tape repair to top of spine; light rubbing and chipping to edges; and lightly sunned spine. Princeton University Press Hardcover books
1922Best.-Nr. 010626Boston : Richard G. Badger: The Gorham Press 1922. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. 2nd Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Second Edition 1922 the First published 1916. Black cloth covered boards with blind stamped decorative front and rear. Gilt lettering to the spine. Illustrated with 14 black and white plates most with multiple figures. Frontispiece. Mostly uncut pages. Top edge gilt. Near Fine in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket. Slight toning under the jacket flaps. Dust jacket lightly toned spine; 1/8" chip across spine top; small chip to spine bottom. SCARCE in dust jacket. Richard G. Badger: The Gorham Press Hardcover books
1940Best.-Nr. 010655Chicago: The Norman Press 1940. Book. Fine. Hardcover. SIGNED BY PUBLISHER. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHER Norman W. Forgue at first blank rear end page and Uncommon Thus. First Edition. Gold speckled red paper covered boards with gilt title frame and blue lettering to the front. Fine no jacket as issued. Norman W. Forgue was an American bookmaker typographe printer and founder of several private presses including At the Sign of the Gargoyle The Black Cat Press The Norman Press and Normandie House. . The Norman Press Hardcover books
1933Best.-Nr. 010534New York : Macmillan and Co 1933. Book. Illus. by Yeats Jack. Very Good. Cloth. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First Edition. First published August 1933. Green cloth covered boards with black lettering to the front and spine. This copy is Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Spine sunned end papers are toned at hinges and edges of paste downs. Dust jacket a bit darkened at spine. Spine ends are chipped. Edges and tips have small chips and creases. Front flap has the numeral 2 in ink at bottom corner and stamped price of $2.25. Uncommon in dust jacket and in such nice condition. . Macmillan and Co, Hardcover books
1931Best.-Nr. 010369Indianapolis Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company 1931. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Near Fine early prior owner gift inscription at first blank in a Very Good dust jacket small chips at spine ends and light edge wear spine a shade sunned. 357 pages photographic end papers original orange cloth lettered in red. Blockson 9809. A book remebered now more for the attempt than for the execution of telling the true story of slavery. . The Bobbs-Merrill Company Hardcover books
1917Best.-Nr. 009853New York: G. P Putnam's Sons 1917. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xxviii 341 ps. oroginal blue gloth with gilt lettering top edge gilt. Very Good gilt at spine dulled front hinge cracked yet holding nicely 3 pages of Introduction with top corner creases. Originally from the collection of Anne F. Oberndorfer her signature in pencil front end page. Anne Shaw Faulkner Oberndorfer 1877-1948 a prominent Chicago music educator and a frequent contributor to Better Homes & Gardens The Ladies' Home Journal and Child Life magazines during the 1920s. Later from the collection of noted music professor John Planer of Manchester University his bookplate front paste down. G. P Putnam's Sons Hardcover books
1970Best.-Nr. 009855Cardiff: University of Wales Press 1970. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. One of Griffiths two most important works. "This is the first modern commentary on Plutarch's De Iside et Osiride to be accompanied by a new recension of the greek text and also the first to be undertaken by a classical scholar who is at the same time an Egyptologist." front flap. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket tiny tear at top edge of spine faint staicker shadow rear panel. University of Wales Press Hardcover books
1947Best.-Nr. 009948Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press 1947. Book. Very Good. Cloth. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Association Copy SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR at front end page-" To my colleague and friend James W. Marchand with greetings Clair Hayden Bell 28th March 1960". Four volumes in original red cloth Very Good no jackets spines slight sunning spine lean Marchand's name stamp front end page with laid in photocopy of a review of the book published in The Journal of English and Germanic Philology Vol. I No. 4 October 1951. Bell's monumental study of Meistergesang one of the most characteristic forms assumed by German literature in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. With presentation inscription to the noted medieval scholar linguist and polyglot James W Marchand. A wonderful scholarly Association Copy. University of California Press Hardcover books
1864Best.-Nr. 009973London and Cambridge: Macmillan & Co. 1864. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. lvi 190 pages. In original brick cloth gilt lettering back Near Fine faint name in ink front end page tiny rubs to corners the small bookseller's ticket of Gustav E. Stechert of New York verso front end paper. SCARCE and important edition and study of the Stanzaic or Harleian Le Morte Arthur. Collectible copies uncommon in current market. Macmillan & Co. Hardcover books
1927Best.-Nr. 009657Garden City N.Y.: Doubleday Page and Co. 1927. Book. Near Fine. Decorative Cloth. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Trade Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Presentation Copy SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR at dedication page in blue ink -"And now Margaret here's another of those books so gaily planned." CJF" . Tipped in at rear end page is the author's original manuscript in black ink of his recording of the songs Doo Me Ama and The Female Smuggler which is printed in facsimile in the book at page 4 where Finger states at bottom page 3 and top of p. 4 "Such notes as I made were made furtively and as this book aims to set forth things correctly by way of showing how I made my notes in places where blank paper was scarce here is a facsimile." And indeed the music for those two songs was written on the back of a letter 6' x 7 3/4" with ragged edges dated 10 Mars. March '90 1890 presumably sent to Finger by an unknown writer which includes part of the lyrics for the French folksong Les Trois Hussards. Additionally laid in is a publisher's 3 1/4' x 5 1/2' advertising card for the book The Incredible Marquis : Alexander Dumas by Herbert Goodman. In 1889 at age twenty Finger began to travel extensively visiting first Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia. In Chapter One at ps. 15-20 he starts the book with his description of recording these two songs - "Aboard the three-master "The Fairy Queen" .Bill Curzon who was a sailor of the old school sang a song called Doo Me Ama a ballad with a faint Rabelaisian flavour about it ". Bound in black cloth with gilt lettering and decorations front cover and spine Near Fine small rubs at corners in a Very Good dust jacket spine sunned small chips at edges. A remarkable Presentation Copy of the First Trade Edition. While Finger is best remembered for his 1925 Newberry Medal Winner "Tales From Silver Lands" his contributions to folklore were also considerable and he numbered Carl Sandburg among his friends and supporters. . Doubleday, Page and Co. Hardcover books
1959Best.-Nr. 008263Sacramento California: Folk Music Society of Sacramento 1959. Journal. Fine as Issued. Stapled Wrappers. First Printing. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. RARE. Nineteen separate issues - Vol. 1 Nos. 911; Vol.2 Nos. 2-5 7 11 12; Vol.3 Nos. 2 5-8; Vol. 4 Nos. 1-3 5 6. Spanning the period September 1959 through September 1962. Mimeograph newsletters each one or two pages if two pages then stapled top left. Size 8 1/2" w x 14" h. Fine as Issued. Folk Music Society of Sacramento Paperback books
1971Best.-Nr. 008264Berkeley CA: Arhoolie Records Inc. 1971. Newspaper. Very Good. Newsprint. First Printing. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. SCARCE. Promotional newspaper from Arhoolie Records Inc. founded by Chris Strachwitz and his business partner Tom Diamant in 1960. one of the iconic early publishers of folk music blues and jazz. 20 pp. with numerous articles on recent and upcoming record publications and other company and music industry news. illustrated with numerous black and white photographs Graphic Design: Wayne Pope. Very Good center fold as issued interior pages uniformly age toned tears bottom edge at corner in margin closed small tear rear cover. Arhoolie Records, Inc. unknown books
1963Best.-Nr. 008266Berkeley CA: Arhoolie Record Inc. 1963. Newspaper. Very Good. Newsprint. First Printing. 14 3/4 ' h X11 1/2" h. RARE. Early publication from the founder of Arhoolie Records. Details Strachwitz's account of his travels across the US in the summer of 1962 in search of blues music and musicians to record in addition to news on recent Arhoolie releases. 8 pp newspaper. Very Good uniformly browned a few small chips 1" horiz. tear at fold edge across all pages center fold as mailed with recipient's name and address Frank A. Hoffmann noted folklorist at Indiana University. Arhoolie Record, Inc. unknown books
Best.-Nr. 008268New York: Corydon Publications Inc. Book. Fine. Soft cover. First Printing. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. No Date circa early 1970s. 20 pp. in stapled wrappers. Fine as issued. Loaded with classified advertisements for swingingers with black and white nude photographs numerous ads for sex-related items. Named the Pioneer Swinger in honor of Eddie Abel of "the Corydn Insider" fame. Intended for swingers in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area and members of the Jet Set Club founded in Dallas in 1971. SCARCE. Corydon Publications, Inc. Paperback books
