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1921Best.-Nr. 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
1959Best.-Nr. 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
1984Best.-Nr. 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
1981Best.-Nr. 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
1999Best.-Nr. 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
1968Best.-Nr. 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
1973Best.-Nr. 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
1927Best.-Nr. 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
1945Best.-Nr. 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
1912Best.-Nr. 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
1856Best.-Nr. 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
2002Best.-Nr. 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
1831Best.-Nr. 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
1976Best.-Nr. 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
1812Best.-Nr. 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
1907Best.-Nr. 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
1908Best.-Nr. 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
1908Best.-Nr. 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
1911Best.-Nr. 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
1908Best.-Nr. 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
1972Best.-Nr. 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
1961Best.-Nr. 1412665London: Victor Gollancz Ltd 1961. First UK Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo 475 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Spine is pink with black lettering. Dust jacket is protected with a mylar covering price cut. Bumping and chipping to head and tail of dust jacket spine. Bumping and chipping to corners of dust jacket. Rubbing to dust jacket. Bumping to head and tail of spine. Cocking to spine. Bumping to corners. Mild age-toning to text block throughout. Mild sinking to spine. Shelved in Memoirs. 1412665. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Victor Gollancz, Ltd hardcover books
2004Best.-Nr. 114546New York: Paula Wiseman/Simon & Schuster 2004. Hardcover. 32p. children's book by the pro football stars about their youth illus. with Root's color paintings 9x12 inches first printing dj. Paula Wiseman/Simon & Schuster hardcover books
1994Best.-Nr. 22854New York: Lee & Low Books 1994. 32p. profusely illus. children's book first printing very good hardcover in dj. African American author and illustrator. Lee & Low Books unknown books
1841Best.-Nr. 200904Dorr Howland & Co 1841. Hardcover. Acceptable. First edition from 1841 missing map. Front board is loose. Brown leather boards are very rubbed and scratched with bumped frayed corners. Leather on spine is peeled raw and gilded lettering is partially worn away. Spine ends are chipped and soiled. Despite loose front board binding is still good. Page edges have extensive dark staining pitting and soiling. First two pages have irregularly chipped edges and some small torn holes. Pastedowns have scribbled marks and dark spot stains. Pages are clean and unmarked with toning and age-related spots. LO S.U. Dorr, Howland & Co hardcover books
