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1954rif. 16119THE SECOND GALAXY READER OF SCIENCE FICTION Crown 1954 first edition fine in like full color pictorial dust-wrapper with some light wear and tear. Contains original contributions by the following Galaxy Magazine authors: Isaac Asimov Fritz Leiber John D. MacDonald Clifford Simak Theodore Sturgeon John Wyndham Robert Heinlein Clifford Simak James Schmitz Richard Matheson Walter M. Miller Jr. Kurt Vonnegut et.al. Crown unknown books
1954rif. 16121YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVELS 1954 Fell 1954 first edition fine in like pictorial dust-wrapper with the slightest of wear. Contributions Murray Leinster Frank M. Robinson Kendal Foster Crossen H. L. Gold & Philip K. Dick. Fell unknown books
1953rif. 15526TYPED LETTER SIGNED dated February 4th 1953 on Galaxy Publishing Stationery to fellow science fiction writer as well as publisher of the fanzine The Big "O"; co-founding member of The Elves Leprechauns Gnomes and Little Men's Chowder & Marching Society; and co-chair of the 12th World Science Fiction Convention in San Francisco in 1954 Les Cole one page about 300 words with some tape staining to the verso which has lightly bled to the recto critiquing his latest offering making historical observations and lastly asking him to read his own story THE OLD DIE RICH in the March issue of Galaxy et.al. N. p. unknown books
1954rif. 14443YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVELS 1954 Fell 1954 first edition fine in near fine color pictorial dust-wrapper with some slight wear. Contributions by H. L. Gold & Robert Krepps "The Enormous Room" Kendell Foster Crossen "Assignment in Aldebaran" Frank M. Robinson "The Oceans Are Wide" Murray Leinster "The Sentimentalists" and Philip K. Dick "Second Variety." This last contribution is Dick's first appearance in a hard-cover book and filmed in 1995 as SCREAMERS. At the time humorously but now chauvinistically INSCRIBED by co-editor Ditky thusly: "For David who resolved his problem by marrying her! All the luck in the world from his friend Ted Ditky. Fell unknown books
1930rif. 11201JEWS WITHOUT MONEY Boni & Liveright 1930 first edition second printing near fine in vg William Siegel illustrated dust-wrapper with some light wear and tear and chipping with woodcuts by Howard Simon. An autobiographical novel of Jewish culture in the lower east side of New York soon after the turn of the century. Considered by some the prototype for the American proletarian novel. Gold an ardent communist published in 'The Masses' and 'The Liberator' which he later edited as well as 'The New Masses' where he was a founding editor. This copy INSCRIBED with a full page inscription by the author dated at time of publication to Harry Hansen famous journalist editor literary critic and historian one month after the first printing. Very scarce thus. Highly praised by H. L. Mencken Samuel Ornitz William Soskin Upton Sinclair John Dos Passos & Lewis Gannett. Contrary to what you may have heard this title is not a fantasy novel. Boni & Liveright unknown books
1919rif. 00326ONE ISSUE Curtis Publishing 1919 first edition white lettering flaking from spine and front cover else just about fine. In actuality this is one issue of a 1919 Saturday Evening Post put in book form. It bears contributions by: G. Chester W. Irwin O.R. Cohen et.al. and perhaps most notably contains a frontispiece which marks Norman Rockwells first magazine cover to appear in book form. Curtis Publishing unknown books
1958rif. 07524PLAYBOY MAGAZINE for September 1958 first edition stains to the upper center margins else vg in wraps. Contributions by Michael Shaara Philip Wylie Herbert Gold et.al. HMH Publishing Company / PLAYBOY paperback books
1952rif. 07298FANTASTIC Ziff Davis Publishing Company Summer 1952 Volume 1 #1 tiny chip missing from the base of the spine short closed tear to the lower right corner of the rear cover else fine in full color pictorial wraps. Contains original contributions by Walter Miller Ray Bradbury Isaac Asimov H. L. Gold Raymond Chandler third appearance Virgil Finlay Ed Valigursky et.al. Ziff Davis Publishing Company paperback books
1841rif. 07744FIRST ISSUES PUNCH OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI The Punch Office 1841 first edition covers a bit bowed and wavy wear to 3 of the 4 fore edge corner tips the spine extremities and upper edge of the boards along 2 inches from the spine moisture stain evident on about 1/3 of the leaves soiling to the covers else a good copy bound in the publishers original decorative blind stamped blue cloth with gold-gilt pictorial stamping to the front cover. The first issuance of this historic magazine being Volume The First July to December 1841. Profusely illustrated. The Punch Office hardcover books
1959rif. 07528PLAYBOY MAGAZINE for August 1959 first edition vg in wraps. Contributions by Robert L. Green Jules Feiffer Ken Purdy Ralph Ginzburg Herbert Gold et.al. HMH Publishing Company / PLAYBOY paperback books
1931rif. 09540SHYLOCK DIES TONIGHT" in Illustrated Detective Magazine for November 1931 Tow-er first edition fine in wraps. This issue also contains the third installment of "THE HOLLY-WOOD BRIDAL-NIGHT MURDER" by Cohen and other works of fiction with various true detective stories as well. This ever so slick production illustrated with photos is among the scarcest of all mystery/detective magazines. So uncommon are they that often the fiction and essays within were never printed anywhere else let alone in book form. In fine condition they are rare. Tower paperback books
1973rif. 00444WRITERS IN REVOLT: THE ANVIL ANTHOLOGY L. Hill 1973 first edition fine in dust-wrapper. Contributions by: Algren Caldust-wrapper ell Conroy Corey Derleth Farrell Feinberg Gold Joffe L. Hughes Mamet Stuart Vogel Brinnin W.C. Williams Patchen Shapiro et.al. L. Hill unknown books
1931rif. 08253THE EGYPTIAN NECKLACE" in Illustrated Detective Magazine for September 1931 Tow-er first edition fine in wraps. This issue also contains the first part of "THE HOLLYWOOD BRIDAL-NIGHT MURDER" by Cohen THE HECKBY HILL MURDER by Butler and other works of fiction with various true detective stories as well. This ever so slick production illustrated with photos is among the scarcest of all mystery/detective magazines. So uncommon are they that often the fiction and essays within were never printed anywhere else let alone in book form. In fine condition they are rare. Tower paperback books
1962rif. 04040THE AGE OF HAPPY PROBLEMS Dial 1962 first edition fine in like dust-wrapper. Dial Press unknown books
1932rif. 09542THE DETECTIVE WHO LOST HIMSELF" in Illustrated Detective Magazine for January 1932 Tower first edition fine in wraps. This issue also contains the final installment of "THE HOLLYWOOD BRIDAL-NIGHT MURDER" by Cohen the complete novel TOO MANY MURDERS by Holden "THE HOUSE ON SHIVERING SAND" by Fletcher and other works of fiction with various true detective stories as well. This ever so slick production illustrated with photos is among the scarcest of all mystery/detective magazines. So uncommon are they that often the fiction and essays within were never printed anywhere else let alone in book form. In fine condition they are rare. Tower paperback books
1954rif. NF0077LOOKING FORWARD International Publishers 1954 first edition vg in wraps. Works in progress by: Aptheker Finkelstein Allen Trachtenberg Foner Foster Gold Johnson Le Sueur Maltz North Perlo Selsam Sillen Shields Wells Wilkerson & Fast with drawings by Rockwell Kent et.al. International Publishers 1954 paperback books
1992rif. 12838E. J. GOLD'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY AND BEYOND THE UNKNOWN Sirius Science Fiction 1992 first edition as new without dust-wrapper as issued. Of 125 copies this is 1/20 of the deluxe edition with an original SIGNED serigraph by E.J. Gold acting as frontispiece. Illustrated. Collects stories by Fred Pohl Robert Sheckley Damon Knight & Daniel Galouye. Quite scarce. This copy SIGNED by Pohl at his contribution. Rare thus. Sirius Science Fiction 1992 unknown books
1950rif. 10669GALAXY SCIENCE FICTION October 1950 first edition Volume 1 #1 5 leaves chipped at the lower fore edge corner tips else vg in full color pictorial wraps. Contributions by Clifford Simak Theodore Sturgeon Richard Matheson Fritz Leiber Fredric Brown Isaac Asimov et.al. Galaxy Magazine paperback books
1954rif. 623115New York: Farlag Matones 1954. Hardcover. Very Good. Third edition. With a bibliography compiled by Yefim Ishurin. Octavo. 248pp. Text in Yiddish; bound and paginated in the Yiddish Style. Tiny note inked on front fly spine and edges tanned a bit of light wear and soil a nice very good or better copy. Farlag Matones hardcover books
1987rif. 1404845New York: Doubleday 1987. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo 270 pages. In Very Good minus condition lacking the issued dust jacket. Bound in full red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Boards have bumping to spine ends and fore corners and denting to top edges. Textblock has minor adhesive wear to the verso of the bookplate uneven age toning impacting some signatures throughout red ink speckling to the bottom fore edges and light shelving wear to edges. Signed flat by George Bush on a bookplate on the front free end page. Shelved in Case 1 1/2. 1404845. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Doubleday hardcover books
1820rif. 1381642London: J. Johnston 1820. Third Edition. Hardcover. Quarto iv 2 319 pages. With 20 hand-colored engraved plates including frontispiece and title page. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in full mottled calf with gilt ornamentation to boards board edges turn ins and spine; green leather labels bearing gilt titling to spine. Light plus bumping and rubbing to corners of boards and light plus rubbing to joints; splits starting at joints. Spine labels sunned almost to brown. All text block edges gilt and still bright. Text block lightly age toned. Pencil annotations to first and second front free endpapers. Moderate offsetting to blank sheets inserted opposite plates. EH Consignment. 1381642. Special Collections - Downstairs. J. Johnston hardcover books
1954rif. 624028Urbana Illinois: Accent 1954. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 80pp. Stapled printed wrappers. Toning at extremities of wrappers very good or better Contains contributions by Herbert Gold Howard Moss James B. Hall Melvin Backman "Major Themes in Faulkner" and others. Accent unknown books
rif. 773260 double-page two have flaps & several single-page illus. using brush & washes of many colors. 30; 31.5; 31 folding leaves. Three vols. Large 8vo 308 x 210 mm. orig. decorated semi-stiff boards manuscript titles on upper covers new stitching. Japan: Author's Prefaces dated 1699 & 1709; Postfaces by Nobutomo Ban dated 1813 & 1841. A most interesting and attractively illustrated manuscript. In the late 17th century the brother of Kotaku Hosoi Chimei d. ca. 1697 a samurai in service to the Koriyama fiefdom visited the Nara area and was saddened by the disrepair of the many mausoleums tombs and tumuli of former emperors. Chimei began a survey of grave sites and his work came to the notice of the shogun Tsunayoshi Tokugawa 1646-1709 who in 1697 ordered a series of fences to be built around these sites in Yamato no kuni including Nara Kyoto Osaka Hyogo and other areas. These fences - pictured in many of our manuscript's illustrations - were designed to protect the sites from further ruin and robbings. Upon Chimei's death his brother Kotaku 1658-1735 calligrapher and Confucian scholar took over the survey which is contained in the first two volumes of our manuscript. At the beginning of the first volume is a list of all the mausoleums recorded by the Hosoi brothers with the names of the emperors and the locations arranged not chronologically but by region. Also included are descriptions of the grave sites and the existing structures. Each volume includes an attractive series of double-page brush and color-wash illustrations of the 35 actual sites. In the second volume two of the illustrations contain flaps under which are shown the interiors of the stone burial chambers. Measurements are given along with details of ownership. Most notable is a fine double-page illustration of the famous Takamatsuzuka circular tomb. The third volume is an addendum written by Nobutomo Ban 1773-1846 Confucian scholar of kokugaku the study of Japanese history and samurai retainer who was famous for the quality of his historical research especially in archeology and religious studies. In this volume there are 25 fine double-page illustrations in brush and color wash and some black & white diagrams of more mausoleums tombs and tumuli mostly outside of Yamato no kuni including the former provinces of Ise Sado Harima Satsuma Osumi Kawachi and others. Ban's explanatory text accompanies the illustrations. In the first two volumes Ban has added further notes in red ink regarding other archeologists' researches and reports from local governments. Fine copy preserved in a chitsu. Some worming occasionally touching a character or illustration. ⧠Edgren Catalogue of the Nordenskiöld Collection 1980 490. The Imperial Household Agency Library Shoryobu owns a rather similar manuscript. unknown books
1981rif. 169747Oxford: Robert G Sawers Publishing / The Ashmolean Museum 1981. Softcover. VG- Cover shows tanning and wear. Owner's writing on first page otherwise clean and tight. Off-white and color-illustrated wraps off-white spine with black lettering. 96 pp. bw illustrations few in color. "A loan exhibition of Mino shards from Toki City at the Ashmolean Museum Oxvord Feburary 1981 and the Groninger Museum Groningen April 1981." Robert G Sawers Publishing / The Ashmolean Museum paperback books
1786rif. 21241London Chelsea: William Watts 1786. First Edition. Framed and matted. John Claude Nates or Nattes. The print visible is 16 by 21 cm. The pictorial part of the print: 12.5 by 18 cm. The frame: 35 by 40 cm. The frame is a somewhat elaborate production with an outer band of blond painted wood which rises to a narrower more tradition gilt molded piece. The matting is an off-white fabric with a narrow inner gilt piece. The print is browned and foxed with the picture itself consequently darkened a bit. The hand-coloring was done with considerable care but the color application was done with a light touch we are speaking of the amount of coloring not the palette used. The result is muted but pleasingly so and we do think the color teases out some detail and actually adds to the illusion of dimensionality. The matting has a light dampstain. The frame itself has some minor surface loss. We think the frame is worth preserving and as to the outer part of it having an issue albeit a minor one we would recommend just painting over this part and with gilt leaf it will look far better than this frame ever looked. William Watts unknown books
