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1856ref. 29452New York: Published for the Author 1856. First Edition. Cloth. Good. First Edition. vii 2 9-45 1 pages 4 leaves of engraved notes printed by Rawdon Wright Hatch & Edson. Publisher's cloth with gilt titles on front board. Blind stamped decorations. Staining and minor dampstaining to the boards. Top 1 1/2 inches of spine cracked and starting to separate common with this title. Previous owner "B. G. Godfrey & Co 239 Marker St Philadelphia" inked on front flyleaf and penciled on the second flyleaf. Some foxing internally generally a sound copy. Cloth. Laid in is a printout from PA-Roots about Lincoln Godfrey and his father who founded B. G. Godfrey and Company "one of the large dry-goods commission houses in the country." Often found rebacked or with significant wear this is a decent copy in the original cloth. "Rawdon Wright Hatch & Edson RWH&E one of the most prominent printing and engraving firms in nineteenth-century America was the first to receive a government contract for designing and printing U.S. postage stamps. Though the firm's production was small—only two stamp Issues—its artistry set the standard for succeeding U.S. printing and engraving firms. The RWH&E issues were generally superior to the first stamps produced by other countries." Smithsonian National Postal Museum. Published for the Author unknown books
1933ref. 612045London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1933. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition possibly second state with topedge not gilt. Octavo. xvii 268pp. Blue cloth gilt. Spine sunned heavily at the tips and board edges lightly so a very good copy in a heavily spine-sunned good dust jacket with shallow loss at the spine ends modest general soil and the upper joint split but neatly and archivally reattached. Macmillan and Co., Limited hardcover books
1938ref. 12493New York: Derrydale Press 1938. Limited Edition. Cloth. Very good. Limited edition of Full Tilt by Alden Hatch and Foxhall Keene. Quarto xiii 3 170pp. Blue cloth title in gilt with gilt ruling on front cover and spine. Stated "this copy is number 367" of 950 printed on copyright page. Solid text block a touch of discoloration to bottom edge light rubbing to edges sunning to spine a very good example. Previous ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Previous bookseller's label on front pastedown endpaper. Foxhall Keene 1867-1941 excelled in a wide variety of sports including tennis polo golf race car driving and horse racing. More specifically Keene received an Olympic gold medal for polo competed in the U.S. Open for golf and was a founding member of the National Steeplechase Association for horse racing. Derrydale Press unknown books
1972ref. 48894Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press 1972. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 118pp. Lightly rubbed else a very good paperback. University of Virginia Press paperback books
1933ref. 13564Boston: Little Brown and Company. Very Good in Very Good dj. 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. nice tight copy minor soiling to top edge and fore-edge previous owner's name stamped on front pastedown otherwise unmarked; jacket moderately edgeworn some minor shallow chipping at edges and corners light dampstain on front panel a few small tears spine a little darkened. A guy on the skids -- "his money was gone and Madelaine had broken their engagement" -- teams up with a burglar to steal a yacht. Because well why not "Here is an uproarious novel of high adventure a mad tale cheerfully improbable but amusing from beginning to end; a story which has the substance and effect of the bubbles that rise from the bottom of a hollow-stemmed glass." Early novel by the author/playwright whose mostly light fiction served as the basis for several movies most memorably MY MAN GODFREY. Like most of his early work hard to find in a jacketed first. Reprinted in paperback under the title "Five Nights." . Little, Brown and Company hardcover books
1965ref. 368491965. Black and white photograph approx. 10 3/4 x 13 3/4 inches mounted on foam core; action shot of the American poet giving a lecture at a podium in front of a blackboard during the Berkeley Poetry Conference of 1965. unknown books
1965ref. 368501965. Black and white photograph approx. 10 3/4 x 13 3/4 inches mounted on foam core; action shot of the poet Robert Duncan in deep conversation with poet Robert Creeley at the Berkeley Poetry Conference of 1965. unknown books
1919ref. 4707New York: The American Historical Society 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Textblocks Fine. No DJ. First Edition. Hardcover. A detailed and respected history of Maine from the colonial period through the wars and boundary disputes statehood the Civil War and a wide variety of social economic religious and other aspects of the evolution of the state. A handsome set seldom found in such nice condition nor complete with the Biographical volumes. Light shelf/edge wear light toning to spines hint of toning to gilt else tight bright and unmarred. Halfbound black cloth spine and tips green cloth boards four raised bands gilt lettering and decorative elements marbled endpages speckled dye at textblock edges frontispieces. 4to. 306pp; 629pp 936pp; 339pp; 425pp. Illus. b/w plates. Index. The American Historical Society hardcover books
1966ref. 2529Amherst MA: Gehenna Press/University of Massachusetts Press 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good Slipcase. First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated with 19 tipped in examples of title pages and the like providing as sense of Mosher's work product. A remarkable bibliography. Overall a lovely copy of "limited limited" version of this significant volume with some charming ephemera laid in. Spine shows even toning very light toning to board fore-edge touch of light foxing on laid in prospectus and merest hint of foxing in text block inscribed by author and prior owner on ffep else tight bright and unmarred. Slipcase shows light shelf wear several small nicks at bottom edge sun touched at edges else tight and clean. Quarterbound cream linen spine blue Fabriano paper boards paper title label black and red ink lettering frontispiece. 4to. 212pp plus 1 Addenda. Illus. b/w plates. Index. Limited Edition of 500 copies 50 of which were not for sale and numbered I through L this being XXXVIII. Prospectus note from author letterpress presentation certificate from Hatch and replacement paper label all laid in. Gehenna Press/University of Massachusetts Press hardcover books
1991ref. 350570Roslyn: The Stone House Press 1991. 31p. frontispiece note from the printer rubricated initial caps #49/75 hand-numbered and signed by both the author and the artist designed Mary Ahern and printed by M. A. Gelfland by hand at The Stone House Press printed from type and woodblock on Mohawk Letterpress paper gray cloth boards over green cloth spine with gilt titles and clear mylar dust jacket in near fine condition. Essay on poetry. The Stone House Press unknown books
1979ref. TB26840Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1979. First Edition. First Printing Fine in 1/4 black cloth and light gray paper covered boards with blue metallic text stamped on the spine and the title blind embossed on the front board. A small quarto measuring 9" by 6" with tiny spots of foxing to the edges of the text block. In a near fine unclipped dust jacket with light rubbing and wear at the ends of the spine area. 295 pages including an index bibliography and chapter notes. Illustrated with a map frontispiece and a section of two map plates and plates of black and white reproductions of contemporary works of art. Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover books
1986ref. TB32740Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1986. First Edition. Near fine in 1/4 navy blue cloth and yellow paper covered boards with red text on the spine. An octavo of 8 1/4 by 5 1/2 inches with an inconsequential dampness stain at the lower edge of the front board with a minor bleed of color to the lower edges of the first two pages. In a very good price clipped dust jacket with the spine area slightly faded and a minor red stain to the lower edge of the front panel. 333 numbered pages containing an index bibliography note and text. Illustrated with a frontispiece map and a section of images from earlier works of art and black and white photographs. Houghton Mifflin Co. hardcover books
1957ref. 18998New York: Hawthorne Books 1957. First Edition First Printing. Leather bound. Near fine. The author's copy of Crown Of Glory: The Life Of Pope Pius XII by Alden Hatch. Written with Seamus Walshe and illustrated with drawings by Louis Priscilla. Octavo 251pp 5. Full red calf title stamped in gilt on the spine decorative raised bands. Stated "First Edition" on the copyright page. Illustrated endpapers. Photographic illustrations and drawings throughout. All edges gilt. Some sunning along the spine light wear at the hinges. The author's initials "A.H." in gilt on the front cover. A popular biography of Pope Pius XII published the year before his death tracing his early life as Eugenio Pacelli diplomatic service papal election in 1939 wartime pontificate and postwar role in the Roman Catholic Church. Hawthorne Books unknown books
1960ref. 19001New York: Hawthorne Books Inc 1960. First Edition First Printing. Leather bound. Very good. The first edition first printing of The De Gaulle Nobody Knows: An Intimate Biography of Charles de Gaulle by Alden Hatch. Octavo 277pp 5. Full blue morocco title stamped in gilt on spine decorative raised bands. Stated "First Edition" on the copyright page. Marbled endpapers gilt dentelles. All edges gilt. Sunning along the spine and along the top quarter of the text block. Internally clean. The author's personal copy. A contemporary biography of Charles de Gaulle published shortly after his return to power and the establishment of the French Fifth Republic tracing his military career leadership of Free France during World War II postwar political withdrawal and renewed role as president of France. Hawthorne Books, Inc unknown books
1998ref. 3370461998. Handwritten letter from Orrin Hatch to Washington Post columnist Tom Shales. Htach thanks Shales for his review of the PBS Ronald Reagan program in 1998. Orrin Grant Hatch was an American attorney and politician who served as a United States senator from Utah from 1977 to 2019. Hatch's 42-year Senate tenure made him the longest-serving Republican U.S. senator in history overtaking Ted Stevens until Chuck Grassley surpassed him in 2023. Hatch chaired the Senate Committee on Health Education Labor and Pensions from 1981 to 1987. He served as chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee from 1995 to 2001 and from 2003 to 2005. On January 3 2015 after the 114th United States Congress was sworn in he became president pro tempore of the Senate. He was chair of the Senate Finance Committee from 2015 to 2019 and led efforts to pass the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. This is a new item from the collection of Television critic Tom Shales 1944 - 2024. Shales was an incisively funny Washington Post columnist he earned the nickname Terrible Tom and had the clout to make or break shows. Shales won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 1988. During his three-decade career those in the industry considered him both a kingmaker and a high executioner in an era when network television's hold on American culture was at it's peak. Time magazine called him "brilliant thoughtful incisive and screamingly funny.also vicious infuriating cruel and unfair". His thrice-weekly Washington Post TV column 'On the Air' syndicated in 59 other newspapers. The Tom Shales collection includes letters cards and correspondence from celebrated television and entertainment legends newscasters and politicians including letters from Norman Lear David Letterman Johnny Carson Conan O'Brien Garry Shandling Fred Rogers Carol Burnett David Brinkley Dan Rather Tom Brokaw Edward Kennedy Nancy Reagan and many more. Please inquire for more information. unknown books
1986ref. 2342933Charlottesville Virginia: University of Virginia Press 1986. 5th Printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 6x1x9. Fifth printing. Faint stain on front cover. 1986 Trade Paperback. 96 pp. The restoration of the flower gardens at Monticello in 1941 sponsored by the Garden Club of Virginia was the result of Edwin Betts's scholarly research and Hazlehurst Perkins's practical gardening skills. Thomas Jefferson's Flower Garden at Monticello presents the evolution of Jefferson's ornamental gardening efforts with an analysis of the flower gardens as they were planned planted and ultimately restored. No early American gardens were as well-documented as those at Monticello which became an experimental station a botanic garden of new and unusual plants from around the world. Betts and Perkins communicate here the nature and sources of Jefferson's intelligent venture into ornamental gardening. University of Virginia Press paperback books
1946ref. 2322465Boston/New York/Chicago: Allyn and Bacon 1946. First Edition. Large Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 10x8x1. First edition. Former school library copy. Boards a bit rubbed with small spot on corner a couple minor tears along base of prelim pages. 1946 Large Hardcover. vi 704 20 pp. Includes: Introduction; The British Commonwealth of Nations; Africa; The Fringe of Europe; Western Europe; Central Europe; The Baltic Countries; Russia; The Balkans; The Near East; The Far East; Latin America; Our United States; Appendix A.; Appendix B.; Index; War Supplement; Colored Maps. Allyn and Bacon hardcover books
2002ref. 14534New York: Basic Books. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2002. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0465028675 . An unread Fine/Fine first edition/first printing. This copy is SIGNED by author and Senator Orrin Hatch directly on the title page; In this deeply personal book Senator Hatch offers his thoughts on how politics should be practiced and on his attempts to embody those principles during his long and successful tenure in the U. S. Senate. He gives behind-the-scenes insights into what really went on during the Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings and the Clinton impeachment hearings; 8vo ; Signed by Author . Basic Books hardcover books
1954ref. 46435Graz Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt 1954. Later edition. Hardcover. vg. Large quarto 11 x 8 1/4". vi 2. 696pp Vol. 1; 4 697-1504pp Vol. 2; 4 272pp Supplement at the end of second volume. Modern black cloth library binding with gold lettering to spines. In 1897 the two volumes of the main body of the Oxford Concordance to the Septuagint as it was then known were published as a set five years after the individual fascicules began to appear. The original editor Edwin Hatch had died in 1889; in 1906 his successor Henry A. Redpath completed the project by issuing a third volume that included a list of additions and errata to the main body as well as four appendices: 1 a concordance of proper names 2 a concordance of the recently discovered Hebrew text of Ben Sira 3 a concordance of the newly published Hexaplaric materials and 4 a comprehensive reverse Hebrew-to-Greek index. Unmodified reprints were issued by the Akademische Druck und Verlaganstalt Graz Austria in 1954 our copy and five times by Baker Book House between 1983 and 1991. Ex-library copy with bookplate on inside of each front cover pocket at rear and stamps at top and lower paper edges. Binding and interior in overall very good condition. Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt hardcover books
ref. 36406MOSHER HATCH Benton L. A CHECK LIST OF THE PUBLICATIONS OF THOMAS BIRD MOSHER OF PORTLAND MAINE. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press 1966. 4to. Cloth spine boards slipcase. 213 2 pages illustrations. First edition 1 of 500 copies. An annotated checklist of Mosher Press publications from 1896 to 1923. Introduction by Ray Nash. Fine. 36406. unknown books
1945ref. 140939613Albany: Albany Institute of History and Art 1945. First Edition. About Very Good. First edition. Original wraps. About Very Good with staining and separation to front wrapper at bottom staple small chip nearby; faint dampstain to fore edge of prelims and front wrap. An illustrated collection of biographies of prominent African American artists with an introduction by Alain Locke the philosophical architect of the Harlem Renaissance and the New Negro Movement. Each artist is listed with a biography and pictures of select works. Artists include Romare Bearden Eldzier Cortor Lois M. Jones and many others. Uncommon. Albany Institute of History and Art unknown books
1982ref. 417739New York: Hatch-Billops 1982. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Octavo. 56pp. Stapled illustrated wrappers. Fine. Poems by James Hatch and Victoria Sullivan with illustrations by noted African-American artist and sculptor Camille Billops who is married to Hatch. Very uncommon. OCLC locates five copies. Hatch-Billops hardcover books
1990ref. 93331Oakland: Jukebox Press 1990. Paperback. 53p. inscribed by Hatch first printing wraps with blurbs by Al Young and Barbara Christian. Political poetry African American poet. Jukebox Press paperback books
1945ref. 08410EASTWARD IN EDEN Creative Age Press 1945 first American edition vg/near fine in vg dust-wrapper with 2 tiny chips and some slight wear. A child is stolen only to reappear a year later in worse condition ----because he has left the strange place where he was taken. Creative Age Press unknown books
1928ref. 19077New York: Robert M. McBride & Company. Very Good. 1928. 2nd printing. Hardcover. no dust jacket light shelfwear slight fading to boards at top and bottom edges one-time owner's name and address in green ink on ffep color-compatible with the binding and boards. "The diary of young Martin Jones society man sportsman and soak. It is we venture to asseverate unlike any other diary you may have read! Certainly it is the most hilariously funny volume that has been launched upon an unsuspecting public these many moons. The mad chronicle of Martin's adventures in Manhattan and on Long Island -- not to mention the Pickwick Arms at Greenwich -- is sauce for the most jaded palate." Quoted from the dust jacket on another copy -- previously sold alas sorry. The first book by the author of "My Man Godfrey" and other screwball fare. . Robert M. McBride & Company hardcover books
