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réf. 38557Framed in mahogany and matted. A fine model beautifully framed and matted. Framed size: 8 1/2 x 22 1/2 inches; image size: 5 1/2 x 19 inches. Laser cut relief. Manufactured by RC Models San Pedro California. The S.S. Norway began life in 1960 as the SS France built by Chantiers de l'Atlantique; later purchased and refitted by the Norwegian Cruise Line she was decommissioned in 2004 and scrapped in 2008. unknown books
1993réf. 140195Moskva: Bol'shaya Rossiyskaya entsiklopediya/ Great Russian Enclyclopedia 1993. Hardcover. VG clean and tight with museum ex-lib. book plate inside front cover; light rubbing to covers. Black cloth with gold lettering and decoration; 862 pp.; no illustrations. Text in Russian. Each entry has extensive narrative text. Entries arranged according to the Russian alphabet obviously!. This is the first of two volumes published beginning in 1993. The material herein is based on research and writings of eminent Russian theologians prior to the Russian Revolution. A scarce and valuable reference manual. Please note a three-volume set of the same material also was published at the same time. This is a single volume not the entire set. Bol'shaya Rossiyskaya entsiklopediya/ Great Russian Enclyclopedia hardcover books
1953réf. 234931953. Postwar Pacific shipwreck salvage photo archive depicting named crewmen and firsthand recovery work aboard the wrecked steam-powered Liberty ship SS Quartette at Pearl and Hermes Atoll 1952-1953. Photos record the salvage-crew point of view: men are identified by name operations are captioned in plain working language and the broken ship is recorded from alongside above and within the wreck itself. The wreck is described "The deck torn like paper by the storm." The archive preserves the world of postwar maritime recovery where wartime-built cargo vessels still carried American trade across remote Pacific routes and salvage depended on small boats improvised rigging and dangerous work on unstable steel. Photo archive of 24 silver gelatin photographs mounted to album leaves each approximately 4 x 5 inches Pearl and Hermes Atoll and open Pacific waters circa 1952-1953. Captions identify the subject as "The wreck of the SS Quartette" and name specific operations including "Running the gape in the mud between bow and center sections" "Up goes the compressor" "Returning one of the generators to the ship" and "The work goes on all day and at night they rig lights." The ship appears split into bow center and fantail sections with captions marking "No. 1 hole from sea ward" "Looking down no. 2 hole" "The fantail and center section" "The bow from the boat" and "The deck torn like paper by the storm." Named men include Lt. Hill Capt. Tiernan Chappell Amos Burnett DeArcy Hughes Kirby Snow Grassnickel Gator and Ashburn; several pose or work near life rings lettered "S.S. Quartette Wilmington Del." Crews haul a compressor by boom move generators lower men into workboats stand on torn deck plating and work beside open holds twisted railings broken ladders and hull sections still taking heavy surf. Liberty ships were built quickly during World War II to keep Allied supply lines moving and hundreds remained in postwar service carrying commercial cargo across routes that still depended on wartime hulls crews and equipment. The Quartette ran aground at Pearl and Hermes Atoll in December 1952 after navigational error placed her on the reef; salvage efforts recovered what could be removed before storms and surf destroyed the ship further and forced abandonment. Album leaves with edge chipping cracking and corner wear; photographs with light fading surface wear and minor creasing; overall in good condition. The archive offers close documentation of Pacific salvage work before the wreck became a submerged maritime site within what is now PapahÄnaumokuÄkea Marine National Monument. unknown books
1886réf. 140948210New York: Thomas Y. Crowell 1886. First Thus. Very Good. Second edition in the English language by a matter of days of the novel What is to Be Done First edition of this translation. ix 462 pp. Bound in publisher's olive cloth stamped in gilt. Very Good with moderate rubbing and soiling to covers toning and dust-soiling to textblock edges and light foxing to edges endpapers and prelims. Previous owner label to front free endpaper overopened with stitches showing at p. 203. Line Ettlinger & Gladstone p. 16 Chernyshevskii 1. The Russian novel written by Chernyshevsky in prison and published in 1863 that changed the course of human history. The author's rejection of moderate reform and vision of a socialist utopia inspired generations of revolutionaries including Lenin Kropotkin Rosa Luxemburg and Emma Goldman. Thomas Y. Crowell unknown books
1953réf. 470210Nashville: A.M.E. Sunday School Union Press 1953. Softcover. Near Fine. Second edition revised and enlarged. Foreword by Bishop George Wilbur Baber. 12mo. 68pp. Yellow wrappers printed in green. Faint soiling on the wrappers else a near fine. A beginner’s guide to the A.M.E. Church. Text includes historical highlights basic beliefs guide to church membership and local and general church organization. OCLC locates a single copy of this edition. OCLC also locates two later editions. (A.M.E. Sunday School Union Press unknown books
1930réf. 172754New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1930. First Edition. First Edition. The fifth Philo Vance mystery basis for the 1936 film starring Wilfred Hyde-White as Vance. Rear board lightly rubbed with narrow bands of offsetting to the endpapers else Very Good plus in a Very Good dust jacket with publisher's fully intact purple wraparound band. Jacket spine panel toned with fraying at the extremities and spine ends. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
1911réf. 259144N.p. London 1911. With two full page watercolor heraldic drawings in first volume: Arms Crest and Badge of Clarence Moore; Armorial Bearings of Edwin Carleton Swift; both signed Archibald G.B. Russell Lancaster Herald College of Arms London. Manuscript on paper 28 lines in a fine cursive hand in black ink with occasional red initials within red rules. 160; 253 pp. 2 vols. Folio. Full red morocco gilt upper boards titled in gilt spines with raised bands dentelles gilt marbled endsheets a.e.g. Some inoffensive traces of damp along lower portion of boards of Moore volume occasional superficial scuffs otherwise fine. Internally immaculate. With two full page watercolor heraldic drawings in first volume: Arms Crest and Badge of Clarence Moore; Armorial Bearings of Edwin Carleton Swift; both signed Archibald G.B. Russell Lancaster Herald College of Arms London. Manuscript on paper 28 lines in a fine cursive hand in black ink with occasional red initials within red rules. 160; 253 pp. 2 vols. Folio. Monumental genealogical manuscript volumes recording the descent of Clarence Moore of Washington D.C. who died aboard the S.S. Titanic in April 1912 and his second wife Mabille daughter of Edwin Carleton Swift of Prides Crossing Massachusetts. They were married in 1900 and had four sons: Edwin Swift Moore born 1901 died in childhood 1907; Jasper Moore born 1905; Clarence Moore born 1910; and Lloyd Moore born 29 November 1912. In addition to the detailed genealogical reports the volumes include extenisve extracts from historical documents and records in England Pennsylvania Massachusetts and Maryland. The Swift Genealogy William Swyft of Sandwitch and some of his descendants 1637-1887 includes 1296 entries and concludes with a family tree for Mabille Florence Swift. The researches for Moore were conducted by "Hester Dorsey Richardson and Albert Levin Richardson experts in Original Research of Baltimore Maryland". The Moore pedigree is updated through 1926 noting that Mabille married again in 1915 to Aksel de Wichfeld of Maribe Denmark. Clarence Moore 1865-1912 a banker and sportsman of Washington. D.C. and M.F.H. of the Loudoun Hunt and the Chevy Chase Hunt had travelled to England to buy a pack of hounds and sailed for home on the Titanic. Survivors reported Moore's heroic conduct. He lowered women and children into the lifeboats and refused to take a place in the boats. A beautiful and imposing genealogy. unknown books
1930réf. 013566New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1930. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. 328pp.plus 6 pages of ads in rear. Beautiful First Edition with Scribners "A" and seal on the copyright page. This is the true first issue with a single date 1930 on the copyright page. Bound in black cloth with titles and borders in yellow on front board and spine. Square tight and clean throughout with no foxing or page toning. Some fairly minor wear to bottom edges. Spine ends a bit soft. A tiny blemish or two to cloth but still uncommonly well-preserved. Equally attractive unclipped dust-jacket $2.00 has the very scarce wrap-around band which is split in two places but otherwise fine and very difficult to find in any condition. Light wear to top edge and rubbing to spine panel. Fresh and bright with no chipping creases or tears. A gorgeous collectable copy. Hubin p. 405. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
1864réf. 42241Boston 1864. Three printed broadside certifications completed in manuscript each about 8" x 13" and signed by Prize Commissioner John Lovell each attesting to his examination of three witnesses in the case of the CSS Georgia "a vessel taken as prize and brought into the port of Boston." Each witness is examined "upon the Standing Interrogatories established by this Court." Attached to each certification is a "true copy" of each witness's answers to those interrogatories signed and attested. Each document attached with a green ribbon at top margin. Very Good. The depositions include those of Frith B. Atkinson a crew member aboard the USS Niagara 6 pp.; E. McElmell who claims a share in the prize 3 pp.; and William Richardson from Liverpool who was aboard the prize "Georgia" when it was taken 10 pp. with folio manuscript document folded to 4pp each page 8-1/2" x 13-1/4" comprising testimony of a Liverpool Broker for the sale of ships. He discusses his examination of the Georgia "then lying in the Birkenhead docks." The CSS Georgia was originally built as a fast merchantman named 'Japan'. The Confederate States purchased it in 1863 at Dumbarton Scotland. The ship was outfitted with guns and commissioned as the CSS Georgia under the command of William Lewis Maury. She captured nine prizes but was sold in June 1864 to a Liverpool merchant in spite of protests from the United States Minister to Great Britain. The ship returned to sea in August 1864 and was captured by the US Navy frigate Niagara off Portugal. She was then sent to Boston and sold as a lawful prize. unknown books
1935réf. 17479New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1935. First Edition First Printing. Cloth. Near fine/very good. The first edition first printing of The Garden Murder Case: A Philo Vance Story signed by S.S. Van Dine. Octavo 2 332pp 10pp ads. Publisher's black cloth title stamped in gilt. The first printing with the "Scribner's A" on the copyright page. Faint wear to black cloth light scuff mark on front cover along fore-edge. Solid text block internally clean. In the publisher's first state dust jacket $2.00 on the front flap two closed tears with archival tissue reinforcement to verso notable wear along bottom edge of front panel wear at tips a very good example. This copy is signed on the front free endpaper by S.S. Dine. The Garden Murder Case was first published in 1935 by Charles Scribner's Sons in New York. The novel was serialized in American Magazine beginning in February 1935 just before its book release. A British edition was issued the same year by Cassell and Company in London. The book was the ninth in the Philo Vance series and was one of the later entries before the character's popularity declined. A film adaptation by MGM starring Edmund Lowe as Vance was released in 1936. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
1928réf. 1095801928. Signed. WRIGHT Willard Huntington VAN DINE S.S. The Benson Murder Case. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1928. Octavo contemporary three-quarter green crushed morocco elaborately gilt-decorated spine raised bands decorative endpapers top edge gilt. $1400.Third edition of the first Philo Vance novel by legendary critic and editor Willard Wright under the pseudonym of S.S.Van Dine a Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone mystery a splendid presentation copy inscribed by him to his close friend ""To Norbert L. Lederer. In memory of Hopatcong and the Uberbrettl movementÑthe place and the subject which resulted in our friendship. S.S. Van Dine New York.""Lederer the recipient of this distinctive copy was a close friend of Wright who published his Philo Vance series under the pseudonym of S.S. Van Dine. When Wright was ordered to take a break from overwork Lederer stepped in and told his friend to instead ""devote his life to writing crime novels"" Sanchez Jose Raul Capablanca 276. Lederer offered Wright access to his ""vast collection of detective fiction.É Wright then read all of the authors of crime fiction old and newÉ and decided he could do better"" Backer Mystery Movie Series 5-6. As Wright began working on Benson Murder Case the first Philo Vance novel he asked Lederer a member of the prestigious Manhattan Chess Club to arrange a meeting with Alexander Alekhine who became the Fourth World Champion of Chess in 1927. Wright used that meeting to gain background for Philo Vance's talent for solving chess-related murders. In 1933 New Yorker magazine reported that Lederer ""gave S. S.Van Dine the chess and mathematical dope for The Bishop Murder Case.""When Wright began ""crafting his influential theory of detective fiction he drafted several story outlines and submitted three to Maxwell Perkins at Scribner's promptly receiving a contract."" Benson Murder Case launched ""what Haycraft has called the ""Golden AgeÉ Van Dine's place in the history of the American detective story is secure and important"" Reilly 1415. ""Philo Vance was an American cousin to Lord Peter Wimsey and forefather of many later detectives"" Hardy BFI Companion to Crime 137. At his death Wright was ""the best known American writer of the detective story since PoeÉ His name will endure among the immortals of the literature"" Haycraft 168. Preceded by the 1926 first and 1927 second editions. With page of publisher's advertisement at rear. Reilly 1414. Hubin 414. Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone. See Barzun & Taylor 3268. From the library of Norbert L. Lederer with his bookplate. The ""berbrettl movement"" of Wright's inscription highlights a type of literary cabaret popular in Berlin at the turn of the century; ""hopatcong"" likely refers to an area not far from New York City. The two men shared a keen interest in chess and Lake Hopatcong was the center for major chess tournaments in the 1920s including one in 1926 won by the chess champion defeated by Alekhine in 1927. A suspect in The 'Canary' Murder Case the second Philo Vance novel complains of getting ticketed for speeding while ""driving down to Hopatcong.""Text fine lightest edge-wear faint toning to spine. An about-fine presentation copy. hardcover books
1887réf. 417304Fitchburg Mass. 1887. Unbound. Very Good. Approximately 9" x 14.5". Old folds with neat professional reinforcement on the verso small chips and tears in the margins mostly at the corners a sound and very good example. Interesting political broadside from a little-known and relatively short-lived progressive party that was interested in printing money in order to buy land for poor people between the towns of Fitchburg and Leominster in order to make it a single city. The dating of the broadside is a little confusing: dated in 1885 but then mentions meetings in 1886 and 1887 the one in 1887 seemingly anticipates a meeting in October of 1887. One statement notes: "Our party point and plan is to improve strengthen and build up the government and remove the burden of taxes from the people and ever stand ready to receive any good move come before them and have women a chance to vote." OCLC locates no copies. unknown books
1934réf. 83668New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1934. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. A very good copy with some smudging and light staining in a supplied but sympathetic very good price-clipped dust jacket with slight internal stains. Inscribed by the author: "To Dr. Hugh Stott Taylor With great appreciation for his gracious assistance and with warm personal regards. S.S. Van Dine." The English-born Taylor was a chemist who spent much of his life at Princeton and who in World War II played a prominent role in the American scientific effort directing a number of research projects and contributing to the development of the atomic bomb with his discovery of the most effective catalyst for producing heavy water. He was knighted by both the Queen and the Pope in the same month. A Chair in chemistry is named for him at Princeton. The inscription would seem to indicate that Taylor provided advice to Van Dine about the novel or at least to Willard Huntington Wright as Van Dine was a pseudonym. A Philo Vance novel filmed in 1935 with Paul Lukas as Vance starring opposite Rosalind Russell in one of her earliest roles. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
1933réf. 140948928New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1933. First edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition first printing. Signed by S.S. Van Dine on the title page inscribed to the former owner. xii ii 311 1 6; ads pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth stamped in crimson with map endpapers. Near Fine. Quite sharp with light edge wear and a bit of faint soiling to cloth In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with minor creasing at spine ends light chipping at corners and perforated letters spelling out "UNCo. at front flap; possible review copy. A Philo Vance whodunit with a plot revolving around mythological dragons. The basis for the 1934 film starring Warren William and Margaret Lindsay; uncommon signed. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
1930réf. 180811003New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First edition. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to Julian Johnson head story editor for 20th Century Fox studios in the 1930s: "To Hildegarde and Julian Affectionately from signed S.S. Van Dine alias Willard." xii 328 5 versos only ads pp. Black cloth lettered in yellow. Very Good with slight crease to prelims edge rubbing in Good unclipped dust jacket with some chips tiny edge tears and dulling to spine panel. A whodunit that inspired a now-lost 1936 British film starring Wilfrid Hyde-White rather than the popular William Powell as Philo Vance. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
1933réf. 143325New York: Random House 1933. marbled paper-covered boards over black gilt-stamped morocco slipcase. Jeffers Robinson. small 4to. marbled paper-covered boards over black gilt-stamped morocco slipcase. 262 pages. First edition limited to 487 numbered copies of which this is the large paper presentation issue one of only five such designated copies #15 signed by both Jeffers at the end of his introductory essay "Remembered Verses" on page xvi and Alberts on the front free endpaper See Broomfield Bi1c2. Marginally rubbed at the head and toe of the spine else a fine copy in a near fine slipcase. Alberts bibliography was long considered the standard work on Jeffers until Broomfields His Place for Story: Robinson Jeffers: A Descriptive Bibliography was published by Oak Knoll Press in 2015. This copy carries holograph ink and pencil notes and emendations to the various entries. Broomfields bibliography would ultimately correct many of the errors made by Alberts in this earlier work. Random House unknown books
