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1990ref. 187529London: Science Museum Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Features an introduction by John Ward and text by Rollin Buckman. A collection of black and white images by an early British photographer. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Science Museum, Her Majesty's Stationery Office unknown books
1974ref. 158144N.p.: N.p. 1974. Six vintage borderless reference photographs and two contact sheets from the 1974 French sexploitation film. Contact sheets with twelve images each. While housesitting for her cousin a young girl is kidnapped by a vengeful sadomasochistic sex cult. An early adult film by noted French director Jean Rollin. Jean Michel Rollin Roth Le Gentil more commonly known as Jean Rollin had gained notoriety and some scandal with his early French vampire films "Le Viol du Vampire" 1968 "La Vampier Nue" 1970 "Le Frisson des Vampires" 1970 and "Requiem pour un Vampire" 1971. When beginning production on his first non-vampire film "La Rose de Fer" 1973 he found himself in need of funding and began making adult sex films which he continued to direct under a variety of pseudonyms through the mid-1980s. Contact sheets 9.5 x 7.25 inches. Three photographs 7 x 5 inches three photographs 9.5 x 7 inches. Generally Very Good plus to Good with some moderate fading and edgewear. Bier 1669. Hinds 196. N.p. unknown books
1974ref. 149588N.p.: Nordia Films 1974. Five vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1974 erotic horror film. A young woman watching over her cousin's house is mistakenly kidnapped by a crazed sex cult. Jean Michel Rollin Roth Le Gentil more commonly known as Jean Rollin had gained notoriety and some scandal with his early French vampire films "Le Viol du Vampire" 1968 "La Vampier Nue" 1970 "Le Frisson des Vampires" 1970 and "Requiem pour un Vampire" 1971. When beginning production on his first non-vampire film "La Rose de Fer" 1973 he found himself in need of funding and began making adult sex films which he continued to direct under a variety of pseudonyms through the mid-1980s. 5 x 7 inches. Very Good plus. Bier 1669. Hinds 196. Nordia Films unknown books
1973ref. 151355N.p.: N.p. 1973. Vintage oversize photograph from the 1973 film. With an annotation of the film's French title in blue manuscript ink on the verso. Two young women enter what they believe to be an abandoned country house and find themselves confronted by a gang of thieves. French director Jean Michel Rollin Roth Le Gentil better known as Jean Rollin gained notoriety and some scandal with his early erotically charged vampire films "Le Viol du Vampire" 1968 "La Vampier Nue" 1970 "Le Frisson des Vampires" 1970 and "Requiem pour un Vampire" 1971. When beginning work on his first non-vampire film "La Rose de Fer" 1973 he found himself in need of funding and began directing films outside his existing contract under the pseudonym Michel Gentil. The first of these was "Schoolgirl Hitchhikers" "Jeunes Filles Impudiques" 1973 followed by "Le Sourire Vertical" 1973 and "Tout le Monde il en a Deux" 1974. 9.25 x 12 inches. Near Fine. Hinds 194. N.p. unknown books
1979ref. 149713N.p.: N.p. 1979. Archive of 16 vintage borderless matte-finish reference photographs from the 1979 French hardcore film. Jean Michel Rollin Roth Le Gentil more commonly known as Jean Rollin had gained notoriety and some scandal with his early French vampire films "Le Viol du Vampire" 1968 "La Vampire Nue" 1970 "Le Frisson des Vampires" 1970 and "Requiem pour un Vampire" 1971. When beginning production on his first non-vampire film "La Rose de Fer" 1973 he found himself in need of funding and began making pornographic films which he continued to direct under a variety of pseudonyms through the mid-1980s. All photos 5 x 7 inches. Near Fine overall. Bier 746. Hinds 226. N.p. unknown books
1973ref. 146894N.p.: N.p. 1973. Seven vintage vernacular color photographs from the 1973 film five featuring actress Gilda Arancio being tortured by kidnappers. One shot shown shows Arancio and Joëlle Coeur on their initial hike in the woods and the final shot shows Coeur late in the film where she is experiencing what could be described as Stockholm Syndrome. A homemade set that is possibly unique and if not certainly issued in very small quantities for internal use. Numerical annotation "800" on the verso of each photo in red manuscript ink. One photo with brief credits for the film likely made later in black manuscript ink. Two young women enter what they believe to be an abandoned country house and find themselves confronted by a gang of thieves. French director Jean Michel Rollin Roth Le Gentil better known as Jean Rollin gained notoriety and some scandal with his early erotically charged vampire films "Le Viol du Vampire" 1968 "La Vampier Nue" 1970 "Le Frisson des Vampires" 1970 and "Requiem pour un Vampire" 1971. When beginning work on his first non-vampire film "La Rose de Fer" 1973 he found himself in need of funding and began directing films outside his existing contract under the pseudonym Michel Gentil. The first of these was "Schoolgirl Hitchhikers" "Jeunes Filles Impudiques" 1973 followed by "Le Sourire Vertical" 1973 and "Tout le Monde il en a Deux" 1974. Photographs Kodacolor on Kodak stock each with thin white borders. 3.5 x 3.5 inches. Near Fine. Hinds 194. N.p. unknown books
1976ref. 146900N.p.: Films du Berry 1976. Four vintage borderless studio still photographs and one contact sheet from the 1976 film. Two larger gloss finish photographs and two smaller matte finish photographs and contact sheet containing eleven images. Jean Michel Rollin Roth Le Gentil more commonly known as Jean Rollin had gained notoriety and some scandal with his early French vampire films "Le Viol du Vampire" 1968 "La Vampier Nue" 1970 "Le Frisson des Vampires" 1970 and "Requiem pour un Vampire" 1971. When beginning production on his first non-vampire film "La Rose de Fer" 1973 he found himself in need of funding and began making adult sex films which he continued to direct under a variety of pseudonyms through the mid-1980s. Two photographs 7 x 9.5 inches two photographs 5 x 7 inches Contact Sheet 7 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. Hinds 222. Films du Berry unknown books
1839ref. 366272London: Printed for Longman and Co. 1839. A New and Improved Edition. Illustrated with Engravings of the Egyptian Antiquities &c and a Complete set of Maps of Ancient Geography. Portrait of Rollin and Engarved title page 3 folding maps one other map 10 other plates. 6 vols. 4to. Bound in full polished tan calf heavily gilt spine marbled edges. A New and Improved Edition. Illustrated with Engravings of the Egyptian Antiquities &c and a Complete set of Maps of Ancient Geography. Portrait of Rollin and Engarved title page 3 folding maps one other map 10 other plates. 6 vols. 4to. Printed for Longman and Co. unknown books
1817ref. 314563London: Printed for F. C. And J. Rivington; J. Nunn; J. Cuthell; Lackington etc. 1817. The Thirteenth edition Revised corrected and illustratted with a set of maps. Illustrated folding maps. 8 vols. Half contemporary brown calf gilt spine and marbled boards all edges marbled. Very Good. The Thirteenth edition Revised corrected and illustratted with a set of maps. Illustrated folding maps. 8 vols. Printed for F. C. And J. Rivington; J. Nunn; J. Cuthell; Lackington etc. unknown books
1755ref. 233640Paris: Les Frères Estienne 1755. Nouvelle edition. 38 cxiv 502 8; 2 640 4 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Bound in full contemprary red morocco gilt spine contrasting spine labels a.e.g. Fine. Eighteenth-century bookplate of Charles Smith with his signature dated 1767 on title of each volume. Nouvelle edition. 38 cxiv 502 8; 2 640 4 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Charles Rollin January 30 1661-December 14 1741 was a French historian and educationist. He was born at Paris. He was the son of a cutler and at the age of twenty-two was made a master in the Collège du Plessis. In 1694 he was rector of the University of Paris rendering great service among other things by reviving the study of Greek. He held that post for two years instead of one and in 1699 was appointed principal of the Collège de Beauvais. Rollin held Jansenist principles and even went so far as to defend the miracles supposed to be worked at the tomb of François de Paris commonly known as Deacon Paris. Unfortunately his religious opinions deprived him of his appointments and disqualified him for the rectorship to which in 1719 he had been re-elected. It is said that the same reason prevented his election to the Académie française though he was a member of the Academie des Inscriptions. Shortly before his death he protested publicly against the acceptance of the bull Unigenitus. Rollin's literary work dates chiefly from the later years of his life when he had been forbidden to teach. His once famous Ancient History Paris 1730-38 and the less generally read Roman History which followed it were avowed compilations uncritical and somewhat inaccurate. But they instructed and interested generation after generation almost to the present day. A more important work was his Traité des études Paris 1726-31. It contains a summary of what was even then a reformed and innovative system of education advocating a more frequent and extensive use of the vulgar tongue and discarding the medieval traditions that had lingered in France. Brunet IV 1360 for 1740 ed. Les Frères Estienne unknown books
1803ref. 239894Edinburgh: Printed by Mundell & Son for J. Fairbairn etc. 1803. Twelfth edition. Frontispiece and illustrations some folding throughout. 8 vols. 8vo. Full contemporary mottled tree calf black and red title labels spines a little dry else fine handsome set. Twelfth edition. Frontispiece and illustrations some folding throughout. 8 vols. 8vo. First published between 1730-1738. Rollin's famous history was written during his retirement. Printed by Mundell & Son, for J. Fairbairn, etc. unknown books
1981ref. 5714San Francisco: The Book Club of California 1981. Hardcover. Fine. Limited to 650 copies printed by Peter Koch at The Black Stone Press. Compiled and edited by David Farmer and Rennard Strickland. 114pp. Illustrated with photographs. Cloth-backed boards gilt-lettered spine. A very fine copy. Includes a 35 page biographical sketch of Ridge's life a chronology of his life and notes. The Book Club of California hardcover books
1981ref. 543025San Francisco: The Book Club of California 1981. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Octavo. 114pp. Illustrated from photographs. Cloth and decorative papercovered boards. Fine in about fine dust jacket with a tiny bit of sunning and tiny faint stain on the spine. One of 650 copies printed. The Book Club of California hardcover books
2004ref. 533264Maryknoll New York: Orbis 2004. Softcover. Fine. Sixth printing. xv 197pp. Illustrated in black and white with maps. Fine in wrappers. Orbis unknown books
1825ref. 457075New-York: William Borradaile 1825. Hardcover. Fair. From the latest London edition. Translated from the French. Volume 4 only. Octavo. With a folded engraved frontispiece map and engraved title page preceding the letterpress title page. Bound in contemporary mottled calf both boards are hand tooled in gold and in blind elaborate gilt spine marbled endpapers edges stained light yellow. The map is damaged bottom half torn away else good only with scattered foxing rubbing and modest scuffing to the boards. William Borradaile hardcover books
1928ref. 403354New York New York: HAROLD VINAL 1928. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good with rubbing and wear at the corners lacking the original glassine dustwrapper. This is number 23 of 447 copies. Poetry. HAROLD VINAL hardcover books
1905ref. 321922New York: Title Guarantee and Trust Co 1905. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Tied printed blue wrappers. 10pp. Slight sunning at the extremities else very near fine. Title Guarantee and Trust Co unknown books
1928ref. 290036New York New York: HAROLD VINAL 1928. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First edition. Very good with wear at the corners in a good only tattered and chipped original glassine dustwrapper. An unnumbered copy of 447 copies printed. Poetry. HAROLD VINAL hardcover books
1736ref. 4434Paris: Chez la Veuve Estienne 1736. Nouvelle edition. Very good. 12mo. Complete set of 4 volumes some age toning to the text. Bound in contemporary French mottled calf five raised bands on spine red morocco lettering pieces in the second and third compartments edges stained red marbled pastedowns and endpapers. Some lower fore-corners bumped and scraped headcap of vol. 4 chipped overall in EXCELLENT CONDITION. BEAUTIFUL COPY OF ROLLIN'S IMPORTANT WORK ON THE TEACHING AND STUDY OF "BELLE LETTRES" A CLASSIC OF 18TH-CENTURY PEDAGOGY PRINTED BY MARIE-ANNE GUYARD ESTIENNE WIDOW OF JACQUES ESTIENNE THE ELDER. SHE ACHIEVED GREAT SUCCESS IN LATER YEARS THROUGH HER INDUSTRY AND BUSINESS ACUMEN. Marie-Anne Guyard a.k.a. Guiard was the daughter of a wine-merchant. In 1714 after the death of her first husband Charles-Francois Pochard metal merchant she married the successful printer-publisher Jacques Estienne. Upon his death in 1731 she continued the press and publishing operations located on the rue Saint-Jacques "a la Vertu". The present 4-volume set of Rollin's teaching and study guide was followed two years later by a 16-volume set of Rollin's "Histoire romaine" 1738-1748. From 1743 onward she worked in partnership with her eldest son Jacques the Younger to whom she sold 1/3 of the business for 110000 livres according to IRHT -- a colossal sum in those days. They were joined in 1750 by her second son Robert to whom she also sold 1/3 of the business for the same amount. According to a contemporary report by 1752 she was "a very rich woman for whom M. Rollin made a fortune on account of all the works of his that she printed. Abbe Antoine Pluche also contributed. She has just bequeathed and sold her business to her son and to Bauche's son." Marie-Anne Estienne died on May 13 1753 leaving her children a large estate. As stated above her two sons became printer-publishers; two of her four daughters married printer-publishers one married a bourgeois merchant and one married Daniel Coffin conseiller du Roi. Included herein are two priced lists of "Livres nouvellement imprimes" by her the first in vol. I 5 pages the second in vol. IV 2 pages and we learn that the published price of the present edition -- unbound -- was 10 livres. OUR SET IS IN MUSEUM QUALITY CONDITION AND IS SUITABLE FOR EXHIBITION AND STUDY. See: Romeo Arbour Dictionnaire des femmes libraires en France 1470-1870 p. 219 and the CNRS IRHT Insitut de recherche et d'histoire des textes website. Chez la Veuve Estienne unknown books
1999ref. 44009Chadron NE: Boundaries Publishing Co. 1999. First Edition. Paperback. Very good. Signed by author on title page. Octavo 23 cm pp. 232. Illustrated wraps. Numerous maps and black and white photos throughout. Light reading wear else fine. Boundaries Publishing Co. paperback books
2008ref. 15379Vancouver British Columbia: Heavenly Monkey 2008. Anniversary Edition. Hardcover. Very good . Anniversary Edition. Hardcover. This anniversary edition limited to 50 numbered copies reissues the proto-origin of Heavenly Monkey press publisher Rollin Milroy's first letterpress book: El Autobus Azul an essay introduction to a sample of handmade papers from a 1998 vacation to Costa Rica. "All ten copies sold in a week and it has remained one ofthe most requested and least seen of my books." This anniversary edition limited to 50 numbered copies was set as in the original and printed from polymer plates by David Clifford at Black Stone Press; each copy includes 4 tipped-in paper samples from the original sheets plus a linocut Milroy created for the 1998 edition but never used here adorning both frontispiece and front cover. Edition limited to 50 numbered copies of which this is 34. 2 7/8" X 2 1/4". Bound in printed paper over boards with an "autobus azul" to upper board and spine lettered in kind. This copy retains the publishers' protective paper label with pencilled "34." Faint whiff of cigar smoke else fine. Heavenly Monkey hardcover books
2010ref. 15375Vancouver British Columbia: Heavenly Monkey 2010. Limited Edition First Edition. Hardcover. Very good /very good . Limited Edition First Edition. Hardcover. A celebration marking a decade of Heavenly Monkey this illustrated bibliography limited to 26 lettered copies gathers together brief commentaries on the 32 titles issued by the press in its first 10 years along with a dedicated section for the three books issued from 1998-1999 under Heavenly Monkey's predecessor imprint A Lone Press concluding with tipped-in pages from 6 Heavenly Monkey titles spanning the decade: Francesco Griffo da Bologna 1999; The "Innsmouth Look" 2003; The Garden of Good & Evil 2004; A Letter from T.E. Lawrence 2005; The Girl with the Mask of a Crow 2005; and Iskandariya 2007. Edition limited to 26 lettered copies with sample leaves bound in of which this is P. 12 5/8" X 8 1/2". 40 pages unpaginated. Bound in black Japanese cloth over boards with printed title labels by Adele Shaak to upper board and spine additionally wrapped in a protective paper jacket simply embossed with the title to front and subtitle to rear with "P/26" pencilled to front and spine. Top edges trimmed and cut others untrimmed as issued. Stray fibers to cloth and some faint creasing to jacket else fine. Heavenly Monkey hardcover books
1981ref. 73045San Francisco: The Book Club of California 1981. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. 650cc. 114pp. Publisher's decorative boards with cloth spine and plain paper jacket. The Book Club of California hardcover books
1792ref. 6046Venice: Francesco Sansoni 1792-94. Very Good. Octavo 21 cm; 22 volumes. Half-titles present. Engraved portrait frontispiece Woodcut headpieces initials and tail-pieces. 21 copper engraved plates most of them folded including maps plans and images of monuments. Shoulder notes. In remarkable woodblock-printed Remondini decorated paper composed of green ovals and pink-brown six-pointed stars Filippetto in "Remondini: un editore del settecento" #50 and illustration p. 128. Untrimmed unsophisticated copy in desirable paper binding. Francesco Sansoni unknown books
1827ref. 5202Boston: Samuel Walker 1827. A new and improved ed. illustrated with engravings of the Egyptian antiquities &c. and a complete set of maps of ancient geography. Good. 28 cm; 2 volumes.li 624 14; 630 12 and 25 engraved plates and maps. Bound in recent cloth. Pages generally toned with some moderate to heavy foxing scattered throughout more heavily on plates and adjacent leaves. Yet text is unmarked and entire. Bookplate of travel author Charles Fish Howell 1868-1943. Samuel Walker hardcover books
