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1859Best.-Nr. 23449Edward Moxon Dover St.London 1859. HARDBACK NODustJAcket 1859 1st edition VG-/VG- NO JACKET AS-IS with Verso Title page Blank Original OLive Green embossed Decorated Cloth TitleD on Spine in Gold Gilt Cover light Rub wear & Tiny DInGs CORNErs Spine Cover Darkened 261 pgs Tiny Tears & Chips ExtremItIEs Spine & along Edge Tears with eight pages of adverts at front First Edition Octavo Interior nice Light FoX few Pencil Marks Slight LEAN. First Edition. Hard Cover. Edward Moxon, Dover St.,London hardcover
1969Best.-Nr. 29936HBDJ Dec 1969 Stated FIRST PRINTING. . #125/500 COPIES NF/VG 4 3/4 X 7 3/4 IN. PLAIN Fox White DJ WITH RED LETTERING with Chips edges Book is in overall outstanding condition EXCEPT DJ WITH tiny CHIPS WEAR EXTREMITIES . #125 IS IN RED INK one of 500 copies printed on special paper and was specially bound. A presentation page is included for the author's signature and numbering of the copy. ORANGE Cloth cvr binding with Gold Gilt Titles and spine are very tight. Book NEAR PRISTINE AND IN AS PRINTED CONDITION. There are no writings notes folded pages and marks at all in this book. The condition shows the Dust Jacket missing a small piece on front; rear dust jacket shows wear; book cover has minor shelf wear. Otherwise excellent condition Lettering on the front of the book and the spine are as brilliant as when the book was originally printed in December 1969. 39 pgs Cheval Books, Hollywood, California, Printed on Special Paper hardcover
1719Best.-Nr. 62577Erie PA: Erie Litho & Printing Co. March 17 1923. Large double atlas folio dual-sided broadside printed on newsprint sized 9.25 x 42 in. photo & woodcut engraving illustrations recto & verso toning to paper some chipping & edgewear paper repairs to closed tears still a G- copy. First edition thus of this advertising broadside for Erickson’s “J.W. Johnson’s Old Reliable Virginia Minstrels World’s best colored show. . . “ which touts their supposed 15 year history and appear to have either been reformed from the “Alabama Minstrels” show which played throughout the West and Midwest from 1905-1914 or simply taken over some of their acts. The contortionist fire king Hi Henry Hunt who appears in this broadside regularly performed with the “Alabama Minstrels” from 1905-1913. The silver voiced tenor A.J. McFarland and Grace Arniot Royal Entertainer depicted on the broadside also appear to have been African-American rather than black face performers. The name appears to have been drawn from the 19th-Century original “Virginia Minstrels” or the “Melodious Ethiopian Band” which featured Billy Whitlokc Dick Pelham Frank Brower and Dan Emmett performing in New York’s Bowery Amphitheater in 1843 and launched the minstrelsy form of entertainment. Emmett is perhaps best remembered as the author of “Dixie” which ironically would become the Confederate States unofficial anthem. Assorted versions dating 1920-1924 with different content & sizing appear in 6 libraries Harvard DLC 3 versions Middle Tenn. State Lib. of VA; See: Dr. Karl Koenig The History & Music of the Minstrels Rue Basin Source for Historical Jazz 2024. Erie Litho & Printing Co., unknown
1957Best.-Nr. 24904London England: Ward Lock and Co. Printed in GB By Billings & Sons 1957. HBDJ UNDATED 1957 VG in VG- DW. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good- AS-IS. Small Brown cloth cvr light small stain on front board TITLED in Black on Spine foxing to page outer edges. DW not price clipped. Very slight edgewear to DW now protected in clear mylar Protective removable cover. Light Scuff DJ & tiny chips Tears Extremities 190 pages. NO ADS in Back Interior nice tight clean light FOX Wear Although the book is undated the rear flap of the dustjacket bears the date 5/4/57. The first in the famous Doctor Nikola series. A Wonderful Tale of Dr. Nikola's adventures in trying to learn Occult Chinese Secrets. Featuring Doctor Nikola a occult adventurer who seeks immortality. The diabolical doctor a precursor to Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu is considered by some to be the first fictional super villain. Adventure novel The first of four novels to feature Doctor Nikola the occult adventurer who seeks immortality. Guy Boothby's Nikola series one of the more successful was gritty and atmospheric; Victorian crime with a dark edge. Hard Cover. London, England: Ward, Lock and Co. Printed in GB By Billings & Sons hardcover
Best.-Nr. 99651890-1896. Green printed paper wraps 40pp. used 8vo contents detached and loose but complete. First page headed "Programme" followed by "1 Puss in Boots" with brief narrative with dialogue of nine slides 2.5 pp. Also "Weal Pies" just title - just one slide Jack the Giant Killer with narrative then 7 titles reflecting single slide subject including "Football Player" "Policeman and Cook" etc "The Bottle" 19 slides with narrative "The Arctic Expedition" 6 slides from No.1 'The ship is now frozen in the Arctic Ocean' to no.6 'An adventure with a polar bear and they are too young to kill it". Further individual slides followed by 13 for "Gulliver's Travels" followed by further individual slides concluding with one entitled "Good Night". This programme totals 14 pp. The following Programme is dated 29 Jan. 1890 and comprises a list of 42 subjects in two columns including "Arctic Expedition" but with several differences from the first programme. Perhaps part of the second programme title "Views in the Polar Regions" 6 slides described including one of inhabitants dresssed for the cold unloading a ship and landing cargo". One description "party of explorers travelling on the ice" has a line through it and the word "Funeral" added in red ink- I can offer no explanation. This is followed by a sequence of descriptions of slides with titles like "Salt Mines""Graham's Island" "Geyser" "Aurora". Other "Programmes" follow dating 1890 to 1896 some edited with ticks or crossings out including same or similar titles lengthy description of the 9 slides that make up "Red Riding Hood". Several programmes have a total number of slides and/or timing e.g. "60 Pictures occupying 1 hour". At the other end of the Notebook there is a "List of Slides" titles with numbers grand total with further technical information about shows "118 Pictures 1 hymn 1 Song Drawing slide . . . 12 ft fron Lens to Sheet 3 ft from Lens to Floor Long side of sheet across. Lantern 3.3 from floor Articles underlined Lantern slides Smoked Glass Sheet and Frame . . .items needed . . .Whistle Wedges . . ." Although presumably an amateur the show-man was obviously professional and thorough in his preparations as this manuscript reveals. The subjects also strongly indicate public taste and Arctic Exploraration seems to be a dominant interest at the time. [1890-1896] paperback
1903Best.-Nr. BK0104Jacksonville Illinois: E. L. Young 1903. Original silver gelatin photograph of a Native American dancer in elaborate performance dress mounted on the studio card of E. L. Young. The sitter is shown in an animated pose before what appears to be a temporary canvas or exhibition structure holding dance implements and wearing ankle ornaments. Mount approximately 4 ¼ x 6 inches photograph 3 x 4 inches. Pencil identification of Young's Jacksonville studio to verso. Excellent. A photograph of an Indigenous American dancer likely made during the appearance of a traveling Wild West or related exhibition company in Jacksonville. Although the sitter has not been identified the Jacksonville location and apparent temporary showground setting suggest that the image records a performer from a traveling show rather than a western ethnographic portrait. In fact Pawnee Bill's Wild West appeared in the city in 1903;1 Pawnee Bill's company was among the largest touring Wild West groups of the period and employed Native performers as a major component of its program. We find no other examples and scant record of the photographer E.L. Young though a surviving cabinet card dated 1900 was offered online at the time of writing. 1 "PAWNEE BILL" Jacksonville Journal Courier October 16 1903 7. . E. L. Young unknown
1931Best.-Nr. 26546The Modern Library New York 1931 HBDJ 1931. First Modern Library Edition STATED. NF/NF- AS-IS Cloth CVR OF MAROON WITH GOLD GILT RUNNER onfront Tilted on Spine. Book Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine-. 16mo 4 1/2 X 6 3/4 IN. Back bk states complete list of 190 Bks Unmarked tight clean DJ spine slightly faded one or two hardly visable chips # 190. 16mo DJ Protected in Clear Mylar Light scuff soil Back DJ 190 pgs Tiny end chips spine DJ Roger Mifflin moves through the New England countryside of 1915 making bookselling seem one of the world's highest callings. This is a great classic on books and book collecting Probably the most famous bookselling novel to be written. First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The Modern Library, New York hardcover
Best.-Nr. UT49-12/10/22-KNIFair. Signed by Bob Goldsack. Trade paperback. Has spine split but still OK for reading. paperback
1912Best.-Nr. List38127Chicago Illinois: Will Rossiter 1912. 16 pp songbook measuring 10 x 13 ½ inches in paper wraps. Wraps worn especially at edges with wrinkling and several large folds; very good minus. Contents toned with some wrinkling folds and spots of rubbing with one larger tear; very good minus. Overall very good minus. A novelty songbook for the combined Wild West shows of Buffalo Bill and Pawnee Bill Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Pawnee Bill's Great Far East also called the "Two Bills Show." The alternate title on the back cover is Buffalo Bill's and Pawnee Bill's Big Minstrels Song and Joke Book. The inside cover contains "Cracker-Jack Conundrums" a collection of two-line jokes and the back has "A Dictionary of Dreams and Their Meanings." The songbook's cover illustration shows a caricature of a Native American chief on horseback with an inset portrait of "Buffalo Bill" Cody and "Pawnee Bill." Born Gordon Lillie in Bloomington Illinois Pawnee Bill got his start in Wild West shows working as Buffalo Bill's Pawnee interpreter. He launched his own show in 1888 with his wife May Manning which expanded to include the "eastern" element mentioned in this songbook's title with Mexican cowboys such as the popular "Mexican Joe" Jose Barrera and Pawnee performers alongside Japanese and Arab acts. We find no copies of the songbook on OCLC. Will Rossiter unknown
Best.-Nr. 167954N.p.: N.p. 1990. Archive of approximately 570 vernacular color photographs of the Chicago Auto Show housed in two generic photograph albums with plastic overlays covering every year from 1979 through 1990 lacking 1981. The first photograph album a blue 3-ring binder of 58 leaves with a "Chicago Auto Show Pictures" label on the front board contains approximately 320 photographs housed on the rectos and versos of the leaves and has ink annotations on the verso of the front board noting the years 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 and "David Hasslehoff" a guest at the 1983 Chicago Auto Show. The vast majority of photographs in this album are 5 x 3.5 inch photographs with approximately 40 3.5 x 3.5 inch photographs. The second photograph album a green 3-ring binder of approximately 53 leaves with a "Chicago Auto Show Pictures" label on the front board contains approximately 250 photographs housed on the rectos and versos of the leaves and has ink annotations on the verso of the front board noting the years 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 and "William Perry The Refrigerator" a guest at the 1986 Chicago Auto Show. The vast majority of photographs in this album are 5 x 3.5 inches with eleven 4.25 x 3.5 inch photographs. A sizable photographic archive documenting eleven years of a devoted fan's annual trips to the Chicago Auto Show throughout the 1980s. The majority of the photographs depict the displayed vehicles with their attending female models and performers as well as the lavish booths and fashions of the 1980s. A documentation of a transitional decade for the US automobile as the behemoths of the late 1970s evolved into the more compact and fuel-efficient Japanese-influenced models emergent by 1990. The Chicago Auto Show was begun in 1901 by bicycle show promoter Samuel Miles and quickly rose to prominence often regarded as the "National Auto Show" by the early 1930s. World War II curtailed the production of motor vehicles for consumers and as a result the Chicago Auto Show was not held between 1941 and 1949. In 1961 the Chicago Auto Show was moved from the International Amphitheatre to its current location at McCormick Place. It is currently the largest auto show in the United States. Photograph Albums 11.5 x 11 inches. Albums and photographs all Near Fine. N.p. unknown
2007Best.-Nr. 88912Museum. New. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- . 32 pp. ; 25 color illustrations. -- with a bonus offer-- . 2007. 091847180X . Museum paperback