2004ref. 2312006Berlin: Die Gestalten Verlag 2004. Signed Copy. Large Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 9x1x11. Signed by author. Limited edition #352 of 1250. Signed by multiple contributors. A fine hardcover in a near fine publisher sleeve with CD included in sleeve on rear endpaper. 2004 Large Hardcover. Unpaginated. A monograph collection the typographic designs and graphic art of the influential studio. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: "Ken Barber is a professional lettering artist with over 25 years of experience in the field. As principal letterer at the distinguished design studio and font foundry House Industries he creates logos and wordmarks for people products companies and brands the world over. In his dual role as typeface design director he also curates the company's coveted retail font library. His work is in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institution's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation. Ken has been honored by the New York Type Directors Club Association Typographique Internationale and Design Museum London. He has taught design at many recognized schools including Maryland Institute College of Art University of Delaware and Moore College of Art and is currently an instructor at The Cooper Union in New York City. Ken also enjoys sharing his experience with the students in his hand-lettering workshops that he regularly conducts around the globe. Ken co-authored House Industries: The Process is the Inspiration Watson-Guptill 2017 and House Industries Gestalten 2004 with Andy Cruz and Rich Roat. His forthcoming House Industries Lettering Manual Watson-Guptill will be released in the spring of 2020." ABOUT HOUSE INDUSTRIES: "House Industries is a type foundry and design studio based in Yorklyn Delaware. The company was created in the 1990s in Wilmington Delaware by co-founders Andy Cruz and Rich Roat. The company is best known for its typeface creations which have appeared on television e.g. Nickelodeon's TV Land VH1's Best Week Ever in film e.g. Mission: Impossible III and on commercial products e.g. Ann Taylor garment tag Lucky Charms logo and Green Day's Dookie album. Founders Andy Cruz and Rich Roat met at Miller Mauro Group Inc. a Wilmington Del. marketing communications agency. They briefly worked for Swfte International a Miller Mauro Group client before leaving to form Brand Design Co. Inc in 1993. Cruz and Roat formed House Industries in late 1993. Popular typefaces sold by House Industries include Neutraface a geometric sans-serif Eames Century Modern inspired by the design work of Ray and Charles Eames and Chalet a set of designs inspired by common sans-serifs such as Avant Garde Grotesque Helvetica and its adaptations from the 1960s to the 1990s and a collection of revivals of the lettering of Ed Benguiat. Its SignPainter script font is bundled with macOS. The company goes to elaborate lengths to promote its typefaces including creating chairs pillows and various other items inspired by the typefaces they sell. In one promotion they created the fictional character Rene Albert Chalet and promoted him as the creator of a new typeface Chalet. In February 2010 LAS Magazine wrote about the company's Eames Century Modern Collection a project done in collaboration with the estate of architects Charles and Ray Eames. Its first ever West Coast exhibition showcasing its history is running at Chapman University's Guggenheim Gallery from February 6 to March 9 2012. It published a book House Industries: The Process Is the Inspiration with foreword by J.J. Abrams a fan of the company's work in 2017. Founder Rich Roat died suddenly on 29 November 2017 aged 52. Die Gestalten Verlag hardcover books
2002ref. 23993Hamilton And London: BC Decker Inc. Near Fine. 2002. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 1550092227 . A Near Fine first printing of the first edition with some wear and soiling signed by author C. Barber Mueller; Evarts A. Graham: Life Lives & Times. tells the story of one of the most influential and controversial figures in American history. Mueller captures Graham's life story from his humble beginnings to his meteoric rise to become one of the most influential and powerful men of his day. With detailed descriptions of Graham's pivotal moments in history Mueller provides readers with an inside look at the man and the events that shaped his life.; 8vo; 494 pages; i-iv v-xvii 1 2-242 xix-xxxii 243-494; Signed by Author . BC Decker Inc. hardcover books
1968ref. 50694London: St. James's Place. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1968. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First edition/first printing in Near Fine condition in an alike dust-jacket; Sinister Twilight: the Fall and Rise Again of Singapore is the story of Singapore from its beginnings as a British colony in the 1800s to its transformation into a modern thriving city-state in the 21st century. Barber takes readers on a journey through Singapore's tumultuous history from the bloody independence struggle to the meteoric rise of Singapore as a global financial hub.At its heart the book is a story of people and their relationships with one another. Barber delves into the personal histories of key political figures charting their ascent to power and the forces that drove them to do what they did. He also profiles the ordinary citizens who made Singapore what it is today from the billionaires who built the city to the workers who keep it running.Sinister Twilight is a compelling and nuanced exploration of one of the world's most fascinating and enigmatic cities.; 319 pages . St. James's Place hardcover books
1849ref. 625631Boston: G.P. Reed & Co 1849. Softcover. Good. Sheet music. Folio. Single bifoium with a single-sheet-insert making six pages. Notched and worn along the fold from once being bound within an album as a result the insert remains bound within the bifolium owner name in pencil on the front cover dampstain at the top left corner of the front cover affecting throughout and scattered foxing throughout complete but just a good or better copy. For voice and piano. Plate number 412 / 1519-3. OCLC locates only two physical holdings of this piece. G.P. Reed & Co unknown books
1921ref. 39602Paris: Meynial 1921. First edition. Hardcover. g to vg. 12mo. 4 137 1pp. Original illustrated dust-jacket over decorative silk cloth. All edges gilt. Decorative endpapers. Hand-colored illustration on title page. Illustrated headpieces and decorative tailpieces. Book housed in its original illustrated cardboard slipcase. Published by Jules Meynial between 1916 and 1921 "La Guirlande des Mois" was a delightful five-issue series of almanacs embellished with striking in-text drawings and pochoir plates by George Barbier. Filled with calendars poems articles and fiction by noted cultural figures of the period they evoke a privileged world of elegant splendor. Illustrated with five in-text drawings and six splendid pochoir plates by George Barbier this fifth and last issue of "La Guirlande des Mois" contains a poem by René Boylesve Vers l'Absente and four short stories La Sphère Enchanté; La Guêpe; Madame Fleur; L'"Imbroïlle" de l'Opéra by respectively Albert Flament Gérard d'Houville René Bizet and George Barbier. This volume is complete with its 12-page 1921 calendar at rear as well as its eight Note pages left blank. Age-toning to slipcase. Dust-jacket sunned along spine with minor offsetting to covers. Binding slightly frayed at head and tail of spine. Text in French. Slipcase and dust-jacket in overall good binding in good interior in very good pochoir plates in near fine to fine condition. Protected in modern mylar. Meynial hardcover books
1959ref. M11927London:: H. K. Lewis 1959. 1959. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. vi 140 pp. Index. Gilt-stamped navy blue cloth dust-jacket; jacket head torn. Front pastedown book label. Near fine in good jacket. H. K. Lewis, 1959. hardcover books
1984ref. 626298Seattle Washington: Le Beacon Presse 1984. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. 18pp. Stapled illustrated wrappers. Covers with a few small stains and faint toning very good. Although not marked in any way this copy is from the library of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Donald Justice. Le Beacon Presse unknown books
1981ref. SS62-4004London: Folio Society 1981. Hardcover. Fine. Cloth in publisher's slipcase. With a frontispiece and 9 full-color photo-lithographic plates details from the Devonshire Hunting Tapestries. Folio Society hardcover books
1999ref. 348544New York: St. Martin's Press 1999. 310p 6.5x9.5 inch hardcover with untrimmed textblock in photo-illustrated unclipped dust jacket; in very good condition. Signed by White on title page. A biography of the novelist. Notably this copy is signed by White rather than his biographer. St. Martin's Press unknown books
1968ref. 337659Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1968. First. hardcover. fine/near fine. xiv 364 pages. 8vo. Grey pictorial cloth dust wrapper. Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1968. First Edition. Fine in near fine dust wrapper. Houghton Mifflin unknown books
1973ref. 625879New York: Simon and Schuster 1973. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. 304pp. Illustrated in black and white. Crease on title page remainder mark on bottom edge near fine in a near fine dust jacket with curling at the edges. Simon and Schuster hardcover books
1927ref. 80714New York NY.: Robert M. McBride & Company. Very Good. 1927. Hardcover. Hard-bound in green cloth with gilt stamping on the upper cover and spine. The covers and spine show light scuffing and spotted mottling to the cloth. The binding is solid. The contents are bright and clean with illustrations. . Robert M. McBride & Company hardcover books
1945ref. 55911Besançon: Syndicat des Instituteurs et Institutrices du Doubs 1945. First edition. Softcover. Good condition. Octavo. 76pp. Original string-bound tan wraps with black lettering on cover. Cover and both title pages with publisher's device. Lectures given at the Franco-Swiss Synod of Porrentruy on July 28 1945 at the Montbéliard Theatre. Dedicated to Henri Barbier's father and mother who died at Bergen-Belsen respectively Ravensbrück. These texts published stirred up controversy in the press. Some descriptions are harsh but meant to be a reminder of authentic facts and indisputable documents. They are accounts of a Buchenwald survivor who was deported in January of 1944 and survived to deliver one of the earliest and most accurate reports on the death-camp organization. Before his deportation Barbier had been a member of the Resistance in the Jura region. His surviving personal files are preserved in the Arolson Archive. Carrez a school teacher and member of the Resistance was a standard-bearer for democratic values. In this lecture he describes the tasks of the school teacher and recounts the strategies under the fierce pressure of the Vichy regime in teachers during the Nazi occupation. Text in French. Very light wear along edges of wraps with very light damp-staining of covers. Block lightly starting at the beginning of second lecture. Block age-toned. Syndicat des Instituteurs et Institutrices du Doubs unknown books
1912ref. 1091912. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. FIRST EDITION OF ALL 79 ISSUES WITH 186 HAND-COLORED PLATES by some of the most famous artists of the era. Number 884 each issue from the same set of only 1250 sets on Holland paper out of a total edition of 1279. IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS IN FINE CONDITION. "The Journal des Dames et des Modes lasted only two years the first issue appeared on 1 June 1912 and the last on 1 August 1914. This stylish periodical was issued regularly three times a month and ceased publication upon the outbreak of the First World War. With its expensive layout its society columns its poetic texts its colourful annotations and its fashion reports it represented the last brilliant refined impartial and aestheticizing impulse of a happy and optimistic society occupying the centre of the stage in the period that has aptly been called the 'belle époque'. It was essentially the testimony the history--illustrated or rather 'clothed' and narrated--of the customs ideas and ideals of a society and a period. "Every issue carefully reviewed all the current novelties of fashion and every issue carried coloured stencil prints reproducing the latest conceptions of the fashion designers." For the text "the magazine could count on the collaboration of the best known writers and littérateurs of the time" including Henri Duvernois Marcel Boulenger Paul Margueritte Jean Cocteau and many others. The artistic contributions "included the works of some outstanding artists and many promising young ones. Most frequent in his appearance and outstanding for the quality of his illustrations was Georges Barbier." Other artists included Léon Bakst Bernard Boutet de Monvel Umberto Brunelleschi H. Robert Dammy Paul Iribe Charles Martin and Fernand Siméon. Christina Nuzzi Parisian Fashion from the "Journal des Dames et des Modes". Note: all 186 plates are present numbered 1-184 with two unnumbered plates. Paris: 1912-1914. Octavo each issue loose as issued in original wrappers inserted loosely into four half-yearly plus one supplemental original large wrappers. A few plates with spots but generally exceptionally clean dampstaining to edges of five issue wrappers. A nearly immaculate set exceedingly scarce in original wrappers. unknown books
1856ref. 1447New York: George F. Tuttle Publisher 102 Nassau Street 1856. Cloth over board. Very good. INSPIRATIONAL. Cover title: Barber's Illustrated Proverbs 12mo; 252pp; brown ribbed cloth blind-stamped decorative frame around a gilt-stamped title gilt lettering and vignette on spine; pale yellow endpapers ownership on ffep; five-panel leporello frontispiece; wood-engraved illustration at the beginning of each chapter; scuffing to boards with loss at head & tail of spine and corners foxing but clean and without odors; very good. Twenty illustrations appear on the five-panel frontispiece titled "The Proverbs of Solomon King of Israel." Four of the illustrations use proverbs to warn against alcohol fitting in with the Temperance social movement that was growing in strength at this time. One surprising illustration warning against evil has a couple surrounded by roses with the woman's breast exposed. Sixty-two illustrated chapters each with a traditional not biblical proverb a description of the illustration and an explanation of the wisdom. The end of each chapter lists many other common or simple conventional truths that relate to the one highlighted. A thought-provoking look at common cultural wisdom during the 19th century. George F. Tuttle, Publisher, 102 Nassau Street unknown books
2002ref. M12900Hamilton Canada:: BC Decker 2002. 2002. Large 8vo. xviii 494 pp. Frontispiece photographs bibliography index. Original green paper-backed boards; right front cover dented. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED by author to American Association for Thoracic Surgery AATS Ben Lyton '. ALS from author to Ben laid-in 1 p. Ephemera from the AATS laid-in. Near fine. ISBN: 15500992227 Graham was an American physician and surgeon who completed revolutionary new work on surgical technique for the treatment of empyema co-developed the technique of cholecystography helped found the American Board of Surgery and co-conducted the first systematic research on the carcinogenic effects of smoking. BC Decker, (2002). hardcover books
1831ref. 25485New Haven: J.W. Barber 1831. Very Good. New Haven: J.W. Barber 1831. First Edition. 12mo 20cm.; publisher's tan cloth black gilt-lettered leather spine label; 120pp.; hand-colored map frontispiece six leaves of hand-colored plates tissue guards woodcut vignettes throughout. Corners bumped spine a bit cocked and leather label scuffed light foxing throughout textblock else a Very Good sound copy overall. Addenda cancel tipped in to p. 9 dated 1832. HOWES B125; SABIN 3323. J.W. Barber unknown books
1976ref. 185360San Francisco: Society for Individual Rights 1976. Magazine. 52p. 8.5x11 inches ads illustrated with nude photos and a drawings very good magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Cover story Love and/or Marriage. Ahhh the Seventies Stache! S.I.R. was an extremely important homophile organization in the 1960s-70s and "Vector" was the main gay magazine for the Bay Area during those years. The magazine began life as a newsletter in 1964 merely several folded and or stapled sheets with news and calendars. The late Sixties found the magazine concentrating more on local and national news of interest to gay men.The final years saw the magazine turn more to a standard gay men's magazine with photos of young men from around the Bay Area. Society for Individual Rights unknown books
1812ref. M12282Paris:: Crapart & C.L.F. Panckoucke 1812-22. 1812. Complete set of 60 volumes. 127 engraved plates list of subscribers in the index volume 10 folding charts; occasional foxing ink and water-stains. Modern quarter green spines over original marbled boards gilt-stamped black leather spine labels; re-backed. Ex-lib bookplates and ink stamps of the Norwich & Norfolk United Medical Book Society early ownership inscription of Hudson Gurney. Fine. FIRST EDITION. 19th Century French Medical Encyclopedia Possibly one of the most important encyclopedia/dictionaries of medicine ever assembled and certainly the earliest. As Diderot's encyclopedia became the model for assembling scientific knowledge this massive set brings together all that was known about medicine in the post-Napoleonic era. Included here are numerous engraved plates of surgical instruments of the period. Also illustrated are facial expressions and signs of mental abnormality many in the style of Esquirol's work. A smaller set Dictionnaire abrege des sciences medicales. . . was concurrently published however that set is only 15 volumes. In 1821-25 Panckoucke published Dictionnaire des sciences medicales Biographie medicale. . . which includes biographies of medical luminaries. Nicolas Philibert Adelon 1782-1862 and Francois Victor Merat 1780-1851 were two of the prominent contributors to this medical encyclopedia. This compendious work was not included amongst the items exhibited by the Library of Congress in their Circle of Knowledge exhibition of the history of the encyclopedia. Panckoucke 1736-1798 was involved with issuing various encyclopedias beginning with Diderot's Encyclopedie which ". . . was an immediate success: a new edition was called for even before the first had been completed. C.J. Panckoucke proposed such a new edition in 1761 and bought the rights to the first seven volumes. He approached Diderot to edit a new revised edition and when Diderot refused began to reissue the original volumes. The government intervened in 1770 and seized the three which had appeared. After the death of the last of the original proprietors in 1775 Panckoucke published a five-volume supplement to the Encyclopedie and later in 1780 a two-volume index. The complete first edition comprises Diderot's twenty-eight volumes plus Panckoucke's seven; its publication spanned the years 1751-80." Circle of Knowledge 1979 p. 8. Provenance: Hudson Gurney 1775-1864 was an antiquary and verse-writer of Norwich. He became an M.P. for Newtown in 1816 and sat in six successive parliaments. In 1835 he was high-sheriff of Norfolk and was elected fellow of the Society of Antiquaries 1819 was vice-president from 1822-46 a fellow of the Royal Society and a member of the British Archaeological Association. As such Gurney may have been the donor of this set to the Norwich & Norfolk Library. DNB Vol. VIII pp. 803-4. Circle of Knowledge 1968 1979; Wellcome II p. 465. Crapart & C.L.F. Panckoucke, 1812-22. hardcover books
1907ref. 13588THE OLD PEABODY PEW: A CHRISTMAS ROMANCE OF A COUNTRY CHURCH Houghton Mifflin And Company 1907 first edition gentle bumping to the lower fore edge corner tips else a vg copy in the publishers original pictorial and decorated binding with 6 full color full page plates by & Alice Barber Stephens. Houghton, Mifflin And Company unknown books
1908ref. 10642JULIA BRIDE in Harper's Magazine for March & April 1908 first edition some light wear and tear to the covers else solid vg copies with fine contents of stories poems essays and articles not to mention those marvelous ads. Each copy also contains a full page full color illustration by Howard Pyle as well as illustrations by Alice Barber Stephens & Elizabeth Shippen Green while the April issue has original stories by Mary Austin Marjorie Bowen Norman Duncan et.al. Harper & Brothers unknown books
1908ref. 00828TONY TOMPKINS THE LION TAMER Reilly & Britton 1908 first edition a bright vg copy in pictorial cloth in the scarce dust-wrapper which is vg with some light wear & tear & chipping. Illustrated. Reilly & Britton hardcover books
1911ref. 10011MOTHER CAREY'S CHICKENS Houghton-Mifflin 1911 first edition vg in vg pictorial dust-wrapper with some light wear and tear. Most uncommon in dust-wrapper. Illustrated both in color and black & white by Alice Barber Stephens. The source book for the twice made film. Houghton -Mifflin unknown books
1908ref. 10640THE SCABBARD in Harper's Magazine for May 1908 first edition some chipping to the spine extremities else a vg copy with fine contents of stories poems essays and articles not to mention those marvelous ads. Also contains a full page full color illustration by Howard Pyle as well as illustrations by Alice Barber Stephens et.al. Harper & Brothers unknown books
1972ref. 336937New York: Weybright and Talley 1972. First. hardcover. fine/fine. Illustrated in b/w. 284 pages. 8vo green cloth d.w. light edgewear to spine ends. New York: Weybright and Talley 1972. First American edition. Slight bumping to spine ends; otherwise a fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper. Weybright and Talley unknown books
