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1957Best.-Nr. 303011957. GOLD Herbert. "Do Nice Artistic Girls." In Playboy magazine August 1957. Very Good. $45.00. unknown books
1958Best.-Nr. 304001958. GOLD Herbert. "Sleepers Awake." In Playboy Magazine September 1958. Very Good. $50.00. unknown books
1959Best.-Nr. 303851959. GOLD Herbert. "The Sender of Letters." In Playboy Magazine August 1959. Very Good crease front cover. $45.00. unknown books
1980Best.-Nr. 335696New York: Knopf 1980. hardcover. near fine/very good-. Illustrated in color and b/w. xii 337 pages. 8vo decoratively gilt white cloth owners bookplate on flyleaf pictorial d.w. edges chipped with several tears. New York: Knopf 1980. A near fine copy in a very good- dust wrapper. Knopf unknown books
1901Best.-Nr. ST20777Lodi Wisconsin: J. Steele 1901. FIRST EDITION. 232 x 155 mm. 9 1/8 x 6". 81 pp. Original green faded to brown printed paper wrappers. Housed in a fine modern caramel-colored morocco clamshell box with gilt lettering on spine. Inside front wrapper with ink signature of M. R. Skinner; occasional pencil underlining in the text. Howes S-924; Graff 3964; Streeter 3027; Wagner-Camp 244 note. Top inch of spine chipped away a little fraying to edges first three leaves with overall browning minor corner creases but QUITE AN EXCELLENT COPY of a very fragile item clean and fresh internally with the insubstantial binding entirely intact against all odds. Based on the author's diaries written between September 1850 and July 1853 this work as the introduction tells us lays out events "just as they happened" being "ludicrous solemn serious tragic inexpressibly sad but always interesting." Kurutz calls the book a "detailed and important account of mining life" and notes that Steele "provided important information on mining techniques and laws while laboring in the Coloma District and on the Yuba and Feather rivers." This account includes some fascinating stories about the many hardships and dangers experienced by the author and his associates including nearly constant fatigue and hunger dreadful weather conditions and dicey encounters with desperados dishonest miners and disgruntled frontier men of commerce. John Steele 1832-1905 was only 18 years old when he left his home in Wisconsin for the gold fields of California. After three and a half years of adventuring he returned to the Midwest where he pursued a career in teaching. Steele also volunteered for the Union army during the Civil War and spent the last 30 years of his life as a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church. The present work was privately printed by the author in a small number of copies and is as expected quite rare on the market now. Besides the present one RBH lists just two other copies sold since 1981 and as of this writing no other dealer seems to be offering one. Furthermore our copy is a remarkably well-preserved survival with its delicate wrappers and text in condition as attractive as one could hope to find. J. Steele unknown books
1991Best.-Nr. 113212New York: Prentice Hall Press 1991. Hardcover. xiii 303p. first printing very good condition in like dust jacket. AIDS content. Prentice Hall Press hardcover books
1881Best.-Nr. 45183Flumine Januario / Rio de Janeiro: Typ. Economica 1881. First complete edition. Half black morocco over marbled boards gilt spine title. A very good copy boards rubbed repaired tear and closed tear on Volume V half title and title page. xii vii 467 1 pp. 4to. Published in and taking up the entire volume of Archivos do Museu Nacional do Rio De Janeiro. Volume V. 1880 1881. Added title page: Petro nomine ac imperio primo Brasiliensis imperii perpetuo defensore . jubente Flora fluminensis a' fr. Josepho Mariano a Conceptione Vellozo Ordinis monorum collecta descripta et elaborata anno M.D. CC. XC. Ex M.S. cod. Imperialis bibliothecæ eruta nunc primo etitur. Flumine Januario A.D.M. DCCC. XXV imperii IV. José Xavier Veloso 1742-1811 born in what is now Minas Gerais Brazil was ordained in 1766 in the convent of St. Anthony in Rio de Janeiro where he studied philosophy and theology later geometry in San Paulo and finally natural history. He collected plants animals and minerals in the Rio de Janeiro area from 1783 to 1790 at which time he moved to Lisbon where he worked at the Royal Academy of Sciences while preparing Florae Fluminensis his greatest work for publication. Using the Linnaeus’ system of sexual classification of plants he prepared very highly detailed texts and 1700 prints many of them of new species. But the publication of the work was beset by problems. First sent to Venice the plates were never completed. Later the French invasion of the Iberian peninsular sent the Portuguese government then Veloso and his manuscripts into exile in Brazil where he died in 1811. In 1825 an abbreviated version of the text was published followed by the eleven volumes of the Icones in 1827 of which few copies survive. The complete text was not published until this edition in 1881. Bound with and proceeded by Archivos do Museu Nacional do Rio De Janeiro. Volume IV. 1879. Rio 1881. viii 151 1 pp vii plates. Folded color plate split at fold. Volume subtitle: Insectologia. Includes Müller Fritz: A metamorphose de um insecto diptero among other works. Rodrigues 2473. Sabin 98833n. For the shorter version of 1825 see: Barba de Moraes II p. 343. Pritzel 468. Jackson 377. Innocencio V.5 4258; V.13 p.122. Also see Nissen BBI 2046. Typ. Economica hardcover books
1859Best.-Nr. 44772Weaverville CA 1859. Very good minor creasing along edges and folds minor soiling contents clean. 1 pp. Bifolium. 5 x 8 inches. March 24th 1859. Gold Rush era letter from John Hobart to Trinity County Clerk J.A.Watson resigning from his post in Weaverville California . "I will be obliged to you to tender in my resignation as Road overseer for Rattlesnake Creek Road District to the Board of Supervisors when next they meet as I am doubtfull that circumstance will keep me in that section of the County throughout the summer." Weaverville California founded in 1850 was a Gold Rush town and once had a population of nearly 2500 Chinese goldminers. In 1855 the Weaverville Trinity Times called attention " the large and rapidly increasing number of Chinese among us.crowding themselves into every vacant spot they can find." unknown books
1854Best.-Nr. 25890Boston / Cleveland: John P. Jewett / Jewett Proctor and Worthington 1854. Paper wrappers. A clean copy without the blue wrappers. 42 pp. Pamphlet. Attributed to Samuel R. Phillips by Halkett & Laing. Attributed to George W. Bungay in Brown University Dict. Cat. of the Harris Coll. Vol. 2. LCP Afro-Americana 1795. Halkett & Laing v. 9 p. 221. John P. Jewett / Jewett, Proctor, and Worthington unknown books
1912Best.-Nr. 22953New York: Dreamers Press 1912. First edition. Light blue paper wrappers decorated in brown. Wrappers split at spine chipped at the corners small tear to front edge faint crease to wrapper end paper and title page leaves clean crisp and unmarked. A good or better copy of this scarce item. 2 28 2 p. 8 p. of plates. Illus. with b/w plates. Sm. 8vo. "The Memorie was written at Paris France in the author's twenty-third year; while studying Art at Julians." A long memoir in verse by Louis Michel Eilshemius or Elshemus 1864-1941 a unique American artist rediscovered by Marcel Duchamp in 1917 only a few years before Eilshemius gave up painting. RLIN and OCLC list only five locations for this title. Dreamers Press unknown books
1935Best.-Nr. 206117Privately Constructed: no publisher an Artists book 1935. Hardcover. VG light signs of age-toning to sheets. Tan paper spine is hand-lettered attached to green paper-covered boards. Inscribed and decorated endpaper in front hand-lettered and color-painted title-page followed by 12 hand-lettered pages inter-leaved with 10 hand-painted illustrations 9 of them being full-page. This book is a unique birthday present crafted for and presented to Juliana Force by Eirene Mungo-Park or Mungo Park in an undated inscription which reads as follows: "To Juliana Force a tribute from one of the birds the "English Robin". Provider of my utmost needs Baths and Sanctuary and feeds. God bless you dear for I would be Thin and grubly but for thee." This inscription is on the front free endpaper and is accompanied by a watercolor painted Robin with a crown of flowers perched upon a branch. The other watercolor illustrations in the book are primarily of birdfs as seen on the title-page and of birds and other beats gathered in or around an elevated circular water-bath or bird-bath in a yard. A few rudimentary human figures and other animals are present and there is a very nice end illustration exclaiming Happy Birthday with a young Shirley Temple-ish girl surrounded by a circluar frame of flowers at the end. A unique artist's book by Eirene Mungo-Park for her benefactor Juliana Force. Mungo-Park was a member of the Whitney Studio Club in the late 1920s and her works were purchased by Demuth Bluemner and others and Bluemner took inspiration from some of Mungo-Park's poetry noteably The Sonnet Series in the mid-1930s. no publisher, an Artists book hardcover books
Best.-Nr. 310485n.p.: no pub no date. Paperback. 190p. explicit line drawings price sticker on cover wear else a good first printing PBO in camp pictorial wraps. Gay pulp fiction. Rough Trade RT420. no pub paperback books
1827Best.-Nr. 177815New York: Imprint whereof is at New-York 1827. VG few foxing spots but remarkably clean and tight. No evidence of page removal between pages xxx and xxv as mentioned in research. Original boards with cloth spines and remnants of affixed paper labels. Untrimmed uncut. Volume 1: irregular pagination. 2 blanks tp copyright iii iv-xx xxv-xvii blank 29 30-263. There is ample evidence of three sheets having been excised after pp. xviii and that a sheet numbered xix/xx has been inserted and glued after these three remnants. The text from page xx to the following page xxv appears to be continuous indicating a re-working of the text from the original printed sheets for pages xix-xxiv. An 1877 book auction catalogue lists this publication which was indicated to be 2 volumes as Very Scarce having been suppressed by the author. No auction or sales records found. A copy of part 2 was sold in 1904 as an odd volume as part of aa larger lot. A 1911 auction catalogue notes the following: "2 vols. 12° boards uncut. A caustic satire on New York's Four Hundred in 1827 which led to the prosecution of its author for libel and the mutilation of all copies of the work by the removal of pp. xxi.-xxiv. of A Short Proem its most vitriolic portion." It can be noted that the copy in the American Antiquarian Society lacks 3 sheets xix-xxiv. Their copy was printed in Boston and not New York. Shoemaker R.H. Checklist of American imprints for 1820-1829 29389 Blanck J. Bibliography of American literature 11021 Wright L.H. American fiction 1774-1850 2nd ed. 1510 Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Jewish Americana 76 Singerman R. Judaica Americana 0448. Imprint whereof is at New-York hardcover books
2003Best.-Nr. 179099Oxford: Ashmolean Museum 2003. Hardcover. VG. shelf-wear to lower cover edges corners & textblock. square red boards w/ gilt printing. 254 pgs w/ bw & illustrations. gold & yellow pictorial dustjacket w/ protective plastic cover. Text in English and Japanese. Details 94 pieces; wonderful bright illustrations. Ashmolean Museum hardcover books
2016Best.-Nr. 160042Berlin: Sternberg Press 2016. Softcover. VG. Fluorescent green and illus. wraps with intentionally glued spine; 18 text pp. plus many illustrated pages. Issued in conjunction with a 2015 exhibition of installation art by German contemporary artist Olaf Holzapfel b. 1967 and Israeli sculptor Nahum Tevet b. 1946. With an essay by Galia Bar Or and many views from the exhibition. Rare. Sternberg Press paperback books
1947Best.-Nr. 101287New York: Willard Gallery 1947. Softbound. VG. Green stapled printed wraps. 16 pp. 7 bw plates. Lists 15 works each accompanied by a short or long ethereal essay. An early gallery catalogue on this artist. Willard Gallery paperback books
1906Best.-Nr. 134811Cleveland OH: Arthur H. Clark Company 1906. Hardcover. good ex-library with expected marks plus perforation stamp on half title title page and facsimile title. front hinge loose. wear to exterior including fraying to cloth at spine ends. Burgundy library buckram. 311 pp advertisements. Reprint of Palmer's Journal of Travels 1847 with new preface. Arthur H. Clark Company hardcover books
1961Best.-Nr. 129183Milano: Rizzoli Editore 1961. Hardbound. VG/VG- light wear to extremities of dj. in VG slipcase. A large weighty book. Green cloth with color pictorial glossy dustjacket all contained in a custom slipcase. Appx. 105 pp. 115 mostly color plates tipped-in to the text portion and 42 full-sheet color plates many of them folding. A most impressive book both by its content and its volumetric displacement. Text is in Italian. Transit mass would be 272 ounces. A stunning production detailing the work of Carpaccio in the Church of San Giorgio Degli Schiavoni. Rizzoli Editore hardcover books
2004Best.-Nr. 123206Ann Arbor Michigan: UMI Dissertation Services 2004. Softcover. VG. Light blue wraps; 334 pp.; 107 bw figures. A dissertation in the history of art presented at Penn toward a Doctor of Philosophy degree. UMI Dissertation Services paperback books
1976Best.-Nr. 122182Milano: Rizzoli Editore 1976. Hardbound. VG/VG in VG slipcase. A large weighty book. Red maroon cloth with color pictorial glossy dustjacket all contained in a custom slipcase. Appx. 217 pp. 138 mostly color plates tipped-in to the text portion and 50 full sheet 13.5" x 16" color plates. A most impressive book both by it's content and it volumetric displacement. Vital in the study of Caravaggio. Another version of this appears to have been printed in 1971 and this edition has a few extra illustrations at least and likely some additional or revised text. Text is in Italian. Transit mass would be 272 ounces. A stunning production. Rizzoli Editore hardcover books
1977Best.-Nr. 122184Milano: Rizzoli Editore 1977. second edition. Hardbound. VG/VG- small rip in lower rear dustjacket in VG slipcase. A large weighty book. Green cloth with color pictorial glossy dustjacket all contained in a custom slipcase. Appx. 105 pp. 115 mostly color plates tipped-in to the text portion and 34 full sheet 13.5" x 16" color plates many of them folding. A most impressive book both by its content and its volumetric displacement. Text is in Italian. Transit mass would be 272 ounces. A stunning production detailing the work of Carpaccio in the Church of San Giorgio Degli Schiavoni. Rizzoli Editore hardcover books
2009Best.-Nr. 1410346New York: Alfred A. Knopf 2009. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo 559 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine is light green with black and orange print. Dust jacket in mylar; vendor label on front panel. Price unclipped: “$26.95”. Boards quarter bound with brown cloth to spine and orange paper to boards. Signed in ink by the author on front endpaper. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column Z. 1410346. FP New Rockville Stock. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1849Best.-Nr. 2389Ashtabula Oh: January 29 1849. About very good. 1pp. on a bifolium. Previously folded. Light dampstaining and short closed tears along gutter somewhat affecting first few lines of text but not overall sense. An interesting letter from O.H. Field an aspirational field representative of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company in Ashtabula Ohio to the company secretary George R. Phelps inquiring about a policy for a group of men headed to the Gold Rush in California in January 1849. Connecticut Mutual was founded in Hartford three years prior to the composition of this letter in 1846. Fitch's missive begins with a report on his efforts to drum up interest in life insurance in his area with pamphlets and other materials sent to him by Phelps: "Yours of Oct 1 1849 with blanks pamphlets &c was not received by me until the 25th of Dec. following. I have not had any definitive applications for insurance. It was somewhat new here and the minds of the people had not been called to it. I have however distributed pamphlets and in other ways called the attention of our citizens to the subject. I think that something yet might be done. The letter goes on to describe a potential policy for a group soon leaving for the Gold Rush and requests a favorable rate in order to stimulate interest in policies from additional parties: "A company is now being formed to head out about ten men to work in the gold regions of California. The individuals who furnish the money wish to obtain an insurance for two years on the lives of the several persons who go out to secure the amount advanced. The men who propose to go are generally hardy healthy & of good habits & from 25 to 45 years of age. They expect to go by the overland route either from Independence Missouri or some more southerly route not south of Vera Cruz. Will you have the goodness to inform me by return mail if the company will take such risks -- & if so the rates of insurance as near as may be which you will charge -- whether you will insure more than the amt. actually advanced & if so how much & any other information you may think proper to give. If I receive a favorably sic reply I shall probably send you more proposals soon." A neat letter concerning the preparations and considerations necessary for a journey to California in the early days of the Gold Rush and the role and rise of early American insurance companies in the planning of such lengthy and dangerous overland travel. January 29 unknown books
1633Best.-Nr. 1409373Lugduni Batavorum Leiden: Joannis Maire 1633. Hardcover. 12mo 36 613 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in early vellum with faded illegible writing on spine. Tearing up rear hinge with a large chunk of material missing from tail of spine. Yapped edges. Edges of textblock dyed. Adhesive residue to endpapers. Bookplate to front pastedown. Light foxing scattered throughout interior. Contemporary signature to front free endpaper dated 1633. Shelved in Case 3. USTC: 1011674. Signatures in 8 and 12. Vegtius was a Roman citizen writing during the late 4th century/early fifth century. "De re militari" is his treatise on Roman military principles. It gained a renewed popularity as a manual on warfare during the Middle Ages. 1409373. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Joannis Maire hardcover books
1850Best.-Nr. List2416Great Britain 1850. Broadside measuring 9 ⅞ x 15 ⅜ inches. Some chipping and wear to edge ink number written in corner two small section of loss due to improper mounting very good overall. Coat of arms of the United Kingdom above printed text. Very Good. A scarce broadside relating to British postal rates across the Panama Route through the Chagres River which supplied mail to California and Oregon beginning in 1848 before eventually being replaced by the Overland route in 1860. The service was characterized by long delay times as steamships on either side of the isthmus were often not coordinated causing major delays in the delivery. Several different steamship companies operated privately some carrying express mail. The letters were transported by canoe or pack animal across the isthmus. Postmaster General Cave Johnson began establishing post offices in California in 1848. Johnson also oversaw the transition to the prepaid delivery system. The broadside here of which we find no other records does state that postage must be prepaid and that the route can be accessed by writing “via New York” on the letters. A scarce postal history item relating to the expansion of mail services to California. We find no other records of this institutionally or in the trade. unknown books
