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rif. 501506Original pencil drawing a caricature entitled "The Bulging Ray" by James Montgomery Flagg signed "JMF" in lower right corner. Approximately 3 1/2" x 4 1/2" on verso of a souvenir photograph request from the Stork Club in New York City. books
1915rif. 6043471915. "J. Montgomery Flagg" in black fountain pen ink on his Thirty-three West Sixty-seventh Street letterhead March 25 1915. 8 1/2" x 11"; 2 separate leaves recto only. Fine. To Nichols who seems to be writing an article about becoming an illustrator: A long inspirational letter on becoming an artist and illustrator. Flagg thinks it unethical to talk about the "big" money to be made because it "incites the Kike and the trickster. . .and fills boarding houses and art schools with incompetents. . .Don't look upon illustration as a trade! . .It. . .takes more that the desire and determination and industry to become a good artist. . .it takes talent!". No Binding. Fine/No Jacket. unknown
1915rif. 6043471915. "J. Montgomery Flagg" in black fountain pen ink on his Thirty-three West Sixty-seventh Street letterhead March 25 1915. 8 1/2" x 11"; 2 separate leaves recto only. Fine. To Nichols who seems to be writing an article about becoming an illustrator: A long inspirational letter on becoming an artist and illustrator. Flagg thinks it unethical to talk about the "big" money to be made because it "incites the Kike and the trickster. . .and fills boarding houses and art schools with incompetents. . .Don't look upon illustration as a trade! . .It. . .takes more that the desire and determination and industry to become a good artist. . .it takes talent!". No Binding. Fine/No Jacket. unknown books
1936rif. 140948510Santiago Lima Pittsburgh et al.: No publisher 1936. Good. Archive of correspondence ephemera and newspaper clippings from the collection of Mal T. Melchades Thomas Montgomery. Overall Good condition with some soiling staining and toning. Born in Pennsylvania in 1878 Montgomery became a railroad traffic expert and worked in Pittsburgh Mexico Argentina Chile and Puerto Rico. This collection dates mainly from the late 1920s and early 1930s and includes the following: -1928 scrapbook mottled and stained on the front board containing Chilean newspaper clippings relating to transit. Also tipped in is a carbon copy of a letter to Senor Montgomery noting that an "unfair" complaint printed in a Lima newspaper had been instigated by an army officer annoyed that his stop wasn't more conveniently located. Other articles are more complimentary; one scrapbook entry heaps praise upon Montgomery for his skillful management of the challenges of running buses through a densely populated city with narrow streets. - 6 small leatherette notebooks dated 1923-1932 including 4 pocket diaries and 2 booklets filled with ruled or graph paper. Entries are minimal and consist mainly of names addresses and appointments. The 1932 diary was issued by the Westinghouse International Electric Company and features Spanish-language information about the company and a foldout map of South America. Moderate to heavy wear to notebooks; one lacking covers. - 2 group photographs in which Montgomery appears. The larger creased and somewhat stained is annotated in red ink and features two ambassadors as well as "yours truly." - 24 pieces of ephemera from South America including bus and tram ticket books annotated business cards and a pamphlet about the influence of communism on Chile. - Correspondence and memoranda. Includes a study of a proposed bus service between Santiago and San Bernardo an opinion piece on scheduling a proposal for Green Bus Lines in Queens and an analysis of service improvements in Argentina. The last notes at the end that "the men are impossible in Tucaman but the manner in which they are controlled is the cause of most of the trouble." Workers were discharged before an investigation then recalled when exonerated with a mea culpa from the Manager -- a manner of proceeding not likely to inspire respect. An interesting collection that sheds light on the challenges of transportation planning in the Americas. [No publisher] unknown
2002rif. 51677Easton Press. 2002. Hardcover. Fine. Complete set of 8 volumes. Easton Press full green leather bindings with decorated spines and covers and all edges gilt. The set is in fine condition. A beautiful publication.; 0 pages . Easton Press hardcover
1916rif. 170525002Toronto: McClelland Goodchild & Stewart 1916. First Edition. Very Good. First edition. Blue cloth printed in black. Very Good. Spine toned cloth lightly soiled and with a water spot to the rear cover light wear to spine ends. Gilt stamping to front cover has almost all but tarnished to black as is very common with this title. Top edge of page block shows a stain foxing and a patch of wear. Previous owner initials in ink and small bookseller ticket to front free end paper. Pages foxed heavily throughout. The first of Canadian-born author L. M. Montgomery's books to be published by a Canadian publisher. The poem "The Watchman" was recited at the author's funeral. McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart unknown
1916rif. 170525002Toronto: McClelland Goodchild & Stewart 1916. First Edition. Very Good. First edition. Blue cloth printed in black. Very Good. Spine toned cloth lightly soiled and with a water spot to the rear cover light wear to spine ends. Gilt stamping to front cover has almost all but tarnished to black as is very common with this title. Top edge of page block shows a stain foxing and a patch of wear. Previous owner initials in ink and small bookseller ticket to front free end paper. Pages foxed heavily throughout. The first of Canadian-born author L. M. Montgomery's books to be published by a Canadian publisher. The poem "The Watchman" was recited at the author's funeral. McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart unknown books
1936rif. 140948510Santiago Lima Pittsburgh et al.: No publisher 1936. Good. Archive of correspondence ephemera and newspaper clippings from the collection of Mal T. Melchades Thomas Montgomery. Overall Good condition with some soiling staining and toning. Born in Pennsylvania in 1878 Montgomery became a railroad traffic expert and worked in Pittsburgh Mexico Argentina Chile and Puerto Rico. This collection dates mainly from the late 1920s and early 1930s and includes the following: -1928 scrapbook mottled and stained on the front board containing Chilean newspaper clippings relating to transit. Also tipped in is a carbon copy of a letter to Senor Montgomery noting that an "unfair" complaint printed in a Lima newspaper had been instigated by an army officer annoyed that his stop wasn't more conveniently located. Other articles are more complimentary; one scrapbook entry heaps praise upon Montgomery for his skillful management of the challenges of running buses through a densely populated city with narrow streets. - 6 small leatherette notebooks dated 1923-1932 including 4 pocket diaries and 2 booklets filled with ruled or graph paper. Entries are minimal and consist mainly of names addresses and appointments. The 1932 diary was issued by the Westinghouse International Electric Company and features Spanish-language information about the company and a foldout map of South America. Moderate to heavy wear to notebooks; one lacking covers. - 2 group photographs in which Montgomery appears. The larger creased and somewhat stained is annotated in red ink and features two ambassadors as well as "yours truly." - 24 pieces of ephemera from South America including bus and tram ticket books annotated business cards and a pamphlet about the influence of communism on Chile. - Correspondence and memoranda. Includes a study of a proposed bus service between Santiago and San Bernardo an opinion piece on scheduling a proposal for Green Bus Lines in Queens and an analysis of service improvements in Argentina. The last notes at the end that "the men are impossible in Tucaman but the manner in which they are controlled is the cause of most of the trouble." Workers were discharged before an investigation then recalled when exonerated with a mea culpa from the Manager -- a manner of proceeding not likely to inspire respect. An interesting collection that sheds light on the challenges of transportation planning in the Americas. [No publisher] unknown books
rif. 54097in the Name. of the Councell of State appointed by Authoritie of Parliament" to 'Gentlemen' the Commissioners of the Navy saying "the Councell is informed that some of the Shipps taken on to be employed in the Fleet of this Commonwealth" five in number "are still remaining in the River of Thames" and desiring the Commissioners to furnish them "with all things necessary. and that they bee hastened into the Downes. the service of the publique admitting of noe delay" signed also by 'Gualter Frost Assistant to the Clerke of the Councel' papered seal of the Council of State bearing the Commonwealth arms St George's Cross and the Irish Harp 1 side 11¾" x 8" address and summary on conjugate leaf Whitehall 5th July light narrow vertical crease towards left margin without loss lacks one panel blank of conjugate leaf The Council of State of 41 members 9 to make a quorum was set up on 13th February 1648/1649 after the King's execution to direct the Navy and the Militia to put down Royalists and reduce Ireland and to deal with foreign states. The President of the Council served for a month at most. unknown
rif. 2234London Printing and Publishing Company Limited. First Edition. Very Good . LONDON 1858-1861 First Edition. 3 volumes in 8 divisions in the original cloth parts. With 117 engraved plates 2 double-page maps 3 engraved title pages and 3 frontispieces. Minimal foxing throughout. A clean and tight set with just the spines a bit dulled. Rare in the original 8 parts and in this condition. A very nice set. London Printing and Publishing Company Limited unknown
1946rif. 894T2Germany: Printing and Stationery Service British Army of the Rhine 1946. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 9" by 6". Not Stated. A smart first edition of the author's account from the preparations for the invasion of North-West Europe signed by the author. First edition. Signed by the author to the front endpaper dated June 1946. Illustrated with a colour map frontispiece forty-five maps many of which are folding and three folding diagrams. Collated complete. The author's account of activity from his relinquishing of the command of the Eighth Army and returning to England to take over 21 Army Group in preparation for the invasion of North-West Europe to the Battle of the Rhine and the surrender. Written by Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein a senior British Army officer who served in the First World War the Irish War of Independence and the Second World War. Previously held in the library of Sir Robert Francis Mudie a British civil servant and a member of the British Indian Civil Service during the British Raj. He was the last British and colonial Governor of Sind and served as the first Governor of West Punjab in the Dominion of Pakistan. In the original red cloth binding. Externally smart with light rubbing to the extremities and fading to the spine. The odd small mark to the boards. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light spotting to the extremities. A singular worm hole from the title page to the seventh page. Author's inscription to the front endpaper. Previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown. Very Good Printing and Stationery Service British Army of the Rhine hardcover
2017rif. __149877573XTaylor & Francis 2017. Hardcover. New. 1645 pages. 11.25x9.00x3.00 inches. Taylor & Francis hardcover
1809rif. 181771London: for R. Bowyer by T. Bensley 1809. Slave-trade abolition as a triumph of the liberal nation and empire First edition published to celebrate the 1807 abolition of the slave trade within the British Empire comprising three long poems: Montgomery's "The West Indies" Grahame's "Africa Delivered" and Benger's "A Poem Occasioned by the Abolition of the Slave Trade". "James Montgomery James Grahame and E. Benger rejoiced in slave-trade abolition as a triumph of the liberal nation and empire in Poems on the Abolition of the Slave Trade 1809. The book was intended to 'popularly commemorate' the 'illustrious act of the British Legislature' as the printer's advertisement announced. The abolition bill had 'vindicated our religion and our laws'. Not only was it evidence of 'the dignity of the British Empire' but it had also 'extended its influence to the. universal interest of mankind'. Dedicated to the 'Society for Bettering the Condition of the Natives of Africa' the compilation of poems celebrated the spread of Britannia's liberty to desperate Africa. The book stressed how civilized Britannia had saved heathen Africa by ending the slave trade venerating an Anglo-American pantheon of white abolitionists and downplaying the continued horrors of West Indian plantation slavery. Indeed the compilation celebrated the end of the trade as if it were the end of slavery itself" Gibbs p. 95. The engravings after paintings by Smirke include now well-known images. Smirke had made his reputation with his Shakespearean illustrations - in contemporary sales his art was out-priced only by Reynolds - but George III refused to accept him as keeper of the Royal Academy in 1804 on account of his democratic principles. Montgomery's poem was subsequently published separately and proved hugely popular. Quarto 288 x 227 mm pp. 14 ii 141 1. Engraved title by A. Raimbach after R. Smirke 3 engraved medallion portraits of abolitionists Sharp Clarkson and Wilberforce by W. Worthington after models by Catherine Andras and 9 engraved plates by E. Scriven and Worthington after Smirke one of which used as frontispiece. Contemporary half calf rebacked with red morocco label marbled sides. Slight wear to edges a little light toning and foxing. A very good copy. Sabin 50145. Jenna M. Gibbs Performing the Temple of Liberty: Slavery Theater and Popular Culture in London and Philadelphia 1760-1850 2014. unknown
1924rif. 47988Dublin. 1924. Loose as issued. 2 issues. Large folio. 448 x 288 mm. Printed text recto and verso in English and German in columns throughout large monochrome woodcut illustration by Cecil Salkeld to each issue. The rare short-lived and suppressed Irish literary periodical 'TO-MORROW' with the first appearance of Yeats' 'Leda and the Swan'.Edited by Cecil Salkeld and Henry Stuart 'TO-MORROW' despite its optimistic and future-looking title and the solicitation for content and subscription announcements saw only two issues in 1924 for August and September. The editors had however secured contributions a poem 'TO-MORROW' saw the first publication of 'Leda and the Swan' and an anonymous editorial from Nobel Laureate W. B. Yeats Liam O'Flaherty and Lennox Robinson as well as many others see below and aimed to publish a forum for new Irish poetry and prose that was inclusive and expansive. Unfortunately 'TO-MORROW' was also controversial and was suppressed despite the support of Yeats and others; not only did 'TO-MORROW' fail to invigorate Irish art and bring about a free Irish Renaissance it helped usher in a climate of further repression supression and censorship.The first issue included prose works such as O'Flaherty's 'A Red Petticoat' Robinson's 'The Madonna of Slieve Dun' Salkeld's 'The Principles of Painting' Margaret Barrington's 'Colour' and L. K. Emery's manifesto-like 'A Primitive'. Yeats' 'Leda and the Swan' led the poetry section that also included work by Charlotte Arthur F. R. Higgins Joseph Campbell and R. N. D. Wilson. A sonnet in German by O. F. Fleck was also published.The second issue was in similar format a mixture of prose and poetry opening with Arthur Symons' appreciation of Honoré Daumier featuring the conclusion of Salkeld's 'The Principles of Painting' as well as 'The Poplar Road' by Iseult Stuart H. Stuart's 'In the Hour Before Dawn' 'The Garden' by Sachka and 'The Tendencies of the Younger Irish Poetry' by L. K. Emery. Poetry included further contributions from Charlotte Arthur R. N. D. Wilson and F. R. Higgins as well as a poem by Blanaid Salkeld. O. F. FLeck contributed another poem 'An P'. Each issue included a large woodcut by Cecil Salkeld.'In August 1924 a small literary magazine To-Morrow went on sale in Dublin. As its title implies the magazine's editors Francis Stuart and Cecil Salkeld were buoyed with optimism. They hoped for a new cultural movement in the arts that would parallel its development and in turn influence the newly founded Irish Free State.' Bernard McKenna.'My dream is a wild paper of the young which will make enemies everywhere and suffer suppression I hope a number of times with the logical assertion with all fitting deductions of the immortality of the soul.' Yeats writing to Olivia Shakespeare.'TO-MORROW' is necessarily fragile and the present copy has been folded in half with ensuing wear. The first issue does have small areas of discolouration and slight separation along the fold but is otherwise good; the second issue is in good condition.see Bernard McKenna's 'Yeats 'Leda' and the Aesthetics of To-Morrow: 'The Immortality of the Soul' in Vol. 13 No. 2 of the 'New Hibernia Review' 2009. unknown
1920rif. feb1235721920. First Finnish Edition of Anne of Green Gables Annan nuoruusvuodet Used. For more details please contact me Werner Soderstrom hardcover
1937rif. 12969INSCRIBED ORIGINAL PENCIL AND WATER COLOR SKETCH OF FRIEND AND FELLOW ARTIST JOHN LA GATTA measuring 8.5 inches by 11 inches depicting La Gatta holding up a drawing of his naked model with a full rear end view. Humorously INSCRIBED by Flagg to him thusly "Signor Giovanni La Gatta ~ That is not such a comic Strip -No from his friend Jim Flagg." Along with a printed photo of an illustration of La Gatta by Flagg A marvelous associational item between two famous illustrators. N. p. unknown
1937rif. 12969INSCRIBED ORIGINAL PENCIL AND WATER COLOR SKETCH OF FRIEND AND FELLOW ARTIST JOHN LA GATTA measuring 8.5 inches by 11 inches depicting La Gatta holding up a drawing of his naked model with a full rear end view. Humorously INSCRIBED by Flagg to him thusly "Signor Giovanni La Gatta ~ That is not such a comic Strip -No from his friend Jim Flagg." Along with a printed photo of an illustration of La Gatta by Flagg A marvelous associational item between two famous illustrators. N. p. unknown books
1895rif. 376555New York: G.P. Putnam's 1895. Hildegarde edition. 12mo. Original green cloth stamped in gilt to spine and upper cover. Interior a touch toned else Fine. Hildegarde edition. 12mo. Inscribed on the front free endpaper with a drawing of the recipient: "To Marion Robert Canby "from her friend underlined Howard Pyle portrait of a winged Miss Canby flying high in the clouds "As Fly ye Winds of Heaven so "will your Friends Thoughts follow you afar" ____ May 16 1906 G.P. Putnam's unknown
1895rif. 376555New York: G.P. Putnam's 1895. Hildegarde edition. 12mo. Original green cloth stamped in gilt to spine and upper cover. Interior a touch toned else Fine. Hildegarde edition. 12mo. Inscribed on the front free endpaper with a drawing of the recipient: "To Marion Robert Canby "from her friend underlined Howard Pyle portrait of a winged Miss Canby flying high in the clouds "As Fly ye Winds of Heaven so "will your Friends Thoughts follow you afar" ____ May 16 1906 G.P. Putnam's unknown books
rif. 18740London: The Arcadia Press 1971. Limited Edition. Full leather. Near fine. The deluxe limited edition of El Alamein to the River Sangro signed by Field Marshall Montgomery of Alamein. Bound by Zaehnsdorf of London. Quarto xiii 421pp 1. Black morocco raised bands title in gilt on spine gilt facsimile signature and coat of arms on cover. Gilt dentelles all gilt edges marbled endpapers. Light rubbing and shelf wear to boards internally fine. Complete with color frontispiece portrait maps photographs and facsimiles. Housed in a black cloth slipcase. From a signed limited edition of 265 copies this one numbered "out of series." A beautiful binding by Zaehnsdorf with the signature of Field Marshall Montgomery on the title page. This volume from The Arcadia Press was issued to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Battle of Alamein along with the similarly bound History of Warfare by Montgomery 1969. The Arcadia Press unknown
rif. 18740London: The Arcadia Press 1971. Limited Edition. Full leather. Near fine. The deluxe limited edition of El Alamein to the River Sangro signed by Field Marshall Montgomery of Alamein. Bound by Zaehnsdorf of London. Quarto xiii 421pp 1. Black morocco raised bands title in gilt on spine gilt facsimile signature and coat of arms on cover. Gilt dentelles all gilt edges marbled endpapers. Light rubbing and shelf wear to boards internally fine. Complete with color frontispiece portrait maps photographs and facsimiles. Housed in a black cloth slipcase. From a signed limited edition of 265 copies this one numbered "out of series." A beautiful binding by Zaehnsdorf with the signature of Field Marshall Montgomery on the title page. This volume from The Arcadia Press was issued to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Battle of Alamein along with the similarly bound History of Warfare by Montgomery 1969. The Arcadia Press unknown books
rif. 1843Signed limited edition No. 9 of 265 printed copies 251-265 not for sale. Bound in full black Morocco leather covered boards all edges gilt three raised band and gilt decoration on spine two coats of arms and facsimile signature of Montgomery all in gilt on front board inside edges of boards outlined with gilt decoration marbled end papers. Signed by Montgomery on title page. Published to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the El Alamein battle. Housed in black slipcase with felt liner. Near in near fine slip case. The Arcadia Press
1937rif. 161417N.p.: N.p. 1937. Final script for the 1937 film. Specially bound copy belonging to uncredited screenwriter Jerry Wald with his name in gilt on the front board and his annotations in manuscript ink on the cast page noting the names of actors. Jerry Wald is best remembered for his long and successful association with Warner Brothers as both a screenwriter and producer of a number of notable films including "Mildred Pierce" 1945 "Humoresque" 1946 "Key Largo" 1948 and "Flamingo Road" 1949. In the 1950s he moved to Twentieth Century-Fox and was the producer there for "An Affair to Remember" 1957 "Peyton Place" 1957 and "Sons and Lovers" 1960. A beautiful secretary finds herself the subject of unwanted attention from her bosses and decides to make herself look as ugly as possible in order to be treated with respect. Marion Davies' last movie before retiring from the screen. Bound in full red leather with gilt titles on the spine and front board. Distribution page present dated 1/19/37 stamped copy No. 104 with receipt removed. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Lawrence Riley Earl Baldwin Lillie Hayward and Jerry Wald. 139 leaves with last page of text numbered 136. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine binding Very Good plus. N.p. unknown
1937rif. 161417N.p.: N.p. 1937. Final script for the 1937 film. Specially bound copy belonging to uncredited screenwriter Jerry Wald with his name in gilt on the front board and his annotations in manuscript ink on the cast page noting the names of actors. Jerry Wald is best remembered for his long and successful association with Warner Brothers as both a screenwriter and producer of a number of notable films including "Mildred Pierce" 1945 "Humoresque" 1946 "Key Largo" 1948 and "Flamingo Road" 1949. In the 1950s he moved to Twentieth Century-Fox and was the producer there for "An Affair to Remember" 1957 "Peyton Place" 1957 and "Sons and Lovers" 1960. A beautiful secretary finds herself the subject of unwanted attention from her bosses and decides to make herself look as ugly as possible in order to be treated with respect. Marion Davies' last movie before retiring from the screen. Bound in full red leather with gilt titles on the spine and front board. Distribution page present dated 1/19/37 stamped copy No. 104 with receipt removed. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Lawrence Riley Earl Baldwin Lillie Hayward and Jerry Wald. 139 leaves with last page of text numbered 136. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine binding Very Good plus. N.p. unknown books
1944rif. 1228381944. First Edition. Signed. MONTGOMERY OF ALAMEIN Bernard. Poems from the Desert. Verses by Members of the Eighth Army. London: George G. Harrap 1944. Octavo original half navy morocco uncut original cardboard slipcase. $1850.Signed limited first edition of this collection of 27 poems written by members of the Eighth Army while in the Western Desert in 1942-43 number 53 of only 110 copies signed by General Bernard Montgomery who has written the Foreword with etched frontispiece by Stephen Gooden.Twenty-six of the poems gathered here were the winning entries taken from 403 poems submitted to a competition organized by the Eighth Army's newspaper Crusader; poems had to be written in the Western Desert to be considered. The twenty-seventh poem ""has a unique history. Written on a scrap of paper it fluttered into the hands of a soldier sheltering in a slit trench during the battle of El Ahgeila."" As the renowned commander of the Eighth Army Montgomery of Alamein writes in his foreword ""It is not too fanciful to see in the poems that follow something of the greatness of mind and spirit with which this valiant Army has been fired and to which so many of its finest achievements can be attributed."" With original cardboard slipcase. A few spots of foxing to endpapers and cloth boards. A near-fine signed copy. hardcover
