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1989ref. 33432London: W H Allen. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1989. 1st UK Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 1852271418 . A bright first British edition/first printing in Near Fine condition in Very Good dust-jacket with light edgewear; Establishment Wives is a book about the marriages of four women who have all married into powerful families. The book follows their lives from their early days in college through their marriages and the challenges and opportunities that come with them.; 8vo; 240 pages; FSA . W H Allen hardcover books
1982ref. 32636New York: Basic Books Inc. Publishers. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1982. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 046503201x . A lovely first edition/first printing in Very Good condition with cocked spine and minor foxing to page edges in alike dust-jacket with light edgewear. SIGNED by author Daniel Jeremy Silver on the front free endpaper; The images in this book are of Moses but they are not traditional religious images. They are images of Moses that are drawn from the Bible. The book is a collection of these images and it is a beautiful book to look at.; 8vo; 335 pages; FSA ; Signed by Author . Basic Books, Inc. Publishers hardcover books
2007ref. 13311New York: Touchstone. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2007. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 1416537945 . A stunning first edition/first printing in Very Fine condition in alike dust jacket SIGNED by author Mitch Silver and dated directly on the title page; First time novelist Mitch Silver turns the tables on James Bond's creator Ian Fleming with this historical mystery and tale of espionage spanning the decades following WWII ; 8vo; Signed by Author . Touchstone hardcover books
1996ref. 20174New York: Simon & Schuster. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1996. First Edition; First Printing. 1/4 Cloth. 0684811308 . A handsome first edition/first printing in Fine condition in about Fine dust-jacket. Gilt-stamped black cloth with light blue paper-covered boards; In this well-written and engaging book Silver takes readers on an entertaining and educational journey through the world of risk. He covers a broad spectrum of topics from gambling to business to science. Silver's clear writing and engaging style make this book a perfect introduction to the fascinating world of risk.; 8vo; FSA . Simon & Schuster hardcover books
1996ref. 20188New York: Simon & Schuster. Good in Near Fine dust jacket. 1996. First Edition; First Printing. 1/4 Cloth. 0684811308 . First edition/first printing in Good condition mainly due for stains to fore-edges boards in Near Fine dust-jacket with some minor rubbing. SIGNED and dated 4/20/96 by author Jim Silver directly on the title page; Silver's book Assumption of Risk is an excellent guide for individuals who want to understand the basics of risk-taking. The book is divided into three sections: risk analysis risk management and risk tolerance. The first section covers the basics of risk analysis and provides a step-by-step guide for measuring risk. The second section covers risk management and provides advice on how to identify and reduce risk. The final section covers risk tolerance and provides guidelines on how to determine when risk is too great. This book is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the basics of risk-taking.; 8vo; FSA ; Signed by Author . Simon & Schuster hardcover books
1999ref. 20196New York: Simon & Schuster. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1999. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0684842890 . A nice first edition/first printing in Fine condition in alike gently rubbed dust-jacket. SIGNED by author Jim Silver directly on the title page; When a group of scientists are killed while investigating a strange anomaly in the Nevada desert the FBI sends in veteran agent Harry Bosch to find the killer. Working together with his partner Jerry Edgar Bosch begins to piece together the evidence that points to a serial killer who is targeting scientists. As the investigation unfolds Bosch realizes that the killer is targeting him as well.; 8vo; Signed by Author . Simon & Schuster hardcover books
1936ref. 88491Pittsburgh 1936. Hardcover. Good. several color paint samples approximately 200 pages with pagination ranging from 2 to 929 -- apparently a selection of material on some basis that is unknown to us from a much larger amount of consecutively-numbered pages issued by PPG. Original brown flexible boards. 28cm. Mostly modest adheasion on many leaves some loss of text. Spotting on first and last leaves. Cover title: Structural Inspection and Maintenance System. hardcover books
1967ref. 46824NP: Hamilton Lithographers 1967. Limited edition First edition. Hardcover. Near fine condition. Inscribed "To Sybil and Bob with my very best wishes Alfred 1967" with extensive full-page doodle. 102/200. Elephant Folio 20 1/2 x 14 1/4". 5 leaves text 27 plates. Original brown leatherette housed in matching paper-covered light brown slipcase with gilt lettering on spine. Title page printed in brown to transparent parchment. Original b/w photograph of artist 7 5/8 x 6" on dedication page. "The weeds I drew for this book I picked at random. Each one held unique mysteries for me and each one differed dramatically in shape and structure from the other. "Burn them! Tear them out! Destroy them!"-This is the reaction of most people to the mere sight of weeds. What I think and feel about wild plants I hope I have been able to convey through the way I have drawn them." Artist. Silver elaborates on the process of the contemporary architect to arrive at the form of his buildings and Saul Levine on "Nature seen through the telephoto lens of a mind familiar with the miracle of fertile structure found in such profusion during the height of summer" seeing the "remarkable efficiency of nature's construction." Beautifully produced book printed to heavy card stock yellow for the text and cream featuring the original lithographs. Light cracking at joints of binding and two inch chip at tail of spine. Else in fine condition. Hamilton Lithographers hardcover books
ref. 41041Freren: Luca Verlag 1982. Limited edition. Hardcover. g to vg. 1/100. Folio 12 x 9 1/2". 110 2pp. Original full brown cloth with white lettering to spine. Limitation page hand-numbered No. 37/100. Book housed in its matching publisher's slipcase with b/w photographic reproduction pasted onto front cover. Completed in 1936 in Palestine where Swiss Avant-Garde portrait photographer Helmar Lerski had immigrated in 1932 "Metamorphosis through Light" is a stunning 'tour de force' in which Lerski carried his talent to extremes. With the help of up to 16 mirrors and filters he directed the natural light of the sun in constant new variations and refractions onto his model the Bernese-born at the time out-of-work draughtsman and light athlete Leo Uschatz. Thus he achieved in a series of over 140 close-ups "hundreds of different faces including that of a hero a prophet a peasant a dying soldier an old woman and a monk from one single original face" Siegfried Kracauer in "Theory of Film" Oxford University Press 1960 p. 162. According to Lerski these pictures were intended to provide proof "that the lens does not have to be objective that the photographer can with the help of light work freely characterize freely according to his inner face." Laid in at rear inside a white envelope is a splendid silver gelatin print 10 3/4 x 8 1/2" produced by German photographer André Gelpke from Helmar Lerski's original plate. The print depicts a close-up portrait of Leo Uschatz not featured in the book. The verso has been hand-captioned numbered and signed by Gelpke. One of 100 copies of which this is No. 37. Minor shelf wear and sporadic fraying along edges of slipcase. Head of spine slightly bumped not affecting pages throughout. Text in German and English. Slipcase in overall good binding in good to very good interior and silver gelating print in very good condition. About the author: Helmar Lerski 1871-1956 was born in Strasburg then part of the German empire as Israel Schmuklerski. His parents were Jewish immigrants of Polish origin. In 1876 the family moved to Zurich Switzerland where they obtained Swiss citizenship. Lerski moved to New York in 1893 at the age of twenty-two to work as an actor changing his name in 1896. He spent several years with a German theatre company in Chicago and Milwaukee where he met his first wife a photographer. In 1911 Lerski began to experiment with photography by adapting dramatic stage lighting techniques to portrait photographs of fellow actors. In 1912 Lerski was encouraged to pursue a career in photography by Rudolph Dührkoop who had come to St. Louis to demonstrate his photographic techniques. In 1914/15 he taught German language and literature at the University of Texas in Austin. In 1915 after more than twenty years in America Lerski moved to Berlin and after showing his portraits was asked to become a cameraman at the UFA studios where he worked as a cameraman and expert for special effects for many films including Fritz Lang's movie Metropolis 1927. Lang wanted to insert the actors into shots of miniatures of skyscrapers and other buildings so Lerski used specially made mirrors to create the illusion of actors interacting with huge realistic-looking sets. With fascism on the rise Lerski immigrated to Palestine where he worked as a director and cameraman for documentary films. After the war Lerski moved back to Zurich where he spent the rest of his life. Luca Verlag hardcover books
1936ref. 348826n.p. 1936. Four-panel brochure announcing the annual event with portrait of "Chief Silver Tongue." Some tears and a chip at the top edge. "Chief Silver Tongue" was Oscar Norton a California-born Native American entertainer. Though trained as a lawyer he became famous as the star of the Stand Rock Indian Ceremonial. unknown books
1806ref. ST20974London: R. Ackermann 1808-10 paper watermarked 1806 and 1807. FIRST EDITION. 340 x 280 mm. 13 1/2 x 11". Three volumes. VERY HANDSOME MOTTLED CALF HEAVILY AND ELEGANTLY GILT BY RIVIERE & SON stamp-signed on verso of front free endpaper covers with lovely floral roll frame oblique floral sprays at corners raised bands spines richly gilt in compartments with central floral spray within a lozenge of small tools flower duo at corners one red morocco label one green morocco label with volume number on onlaid red morocco medallion enclosed by a gilt sunburst turn-ins with gilt floral roll marbled endpapers all edges gilt rear joint of volume III neatly repaired small recent repairs to joints elsewhere. Woodcut title pages 104 COLORED AQUATINT PLATES after Rowlandson and Pugin. Faintly embossed library stamp of "H_____ Library Collection" presumably private to title pages. A Large Paper Copy. Abbey Scenery 212; Tooley 7. Joints and extremities slightly rubbed but the bindings still splendid despite their signs of use and looking magnificent on the shelf. Offsetting from plates onto facing page as usual with this book about a fourth of the plates with significant transfer another fourth with none or almost none the remaining half with something in between but the plates with lovely rich coloring and with no offsetting of the text onto plate images and the text printed within spacious margins very fresh and unsoiled. Deemed by Abbey "a colour-plate book of great importance" Ackermann's pictorial tour of London is offered here in elegant bindings by an important English workshop. According to Tooley this is "one of the great colour-plate books" that "should form the corner stone of any collection of books on this subject. The plates by Rowlandson and Pugin present an unrivalled picture of London in early 19th century" and are consequently "of historic value as many of the buildings no longer exist." DNB calls "Microcosm" "an acknowledged masterpiece" the success of which led to Ackermann's volumes on Westminster Abbey and the colleges at Oxford Cambridge and Winchester a series considered "among the most beautiful illustrated books of the first half of the nineteenth century." Artist Thomas Rowlandson 1756-1827 is remembered for his caricatures and humorous illustrations but he made his name illustrating the travel books with views he would later satirize in his "Doctor Syntax" volumes. According to DNB publisher Rudolph Ackermann "kept Rowlandson in almost continuous employment producing drawings for the fine colour-plate books for which his firm the Repository of Arts at 101 Strand became famous. . . . Augustus Pugin was brought in to draw the architecture" for the present work while Rowlandson supplied the figures. Our binder Riviere is one of the foremost names in the field partly because the firm did consistently fine work and partly because it was so long in business. Robert Riviere began as a bookseller and binder in Bath in 1829 then set up shop as a binder in London in 1840; in 1881 he took his grandson Percival Calkin into partnership at which time the firm became known as Riviere & Son and the bindery continued to do business until 1939. The present set is an excellent example of the firm's work and the bindings along with the richness of the plates and the capacious margins here make this an especially appealing copy. The early watermark dates of 1806 and 1807 are a further attractive feature as they suggest strong coloring on plate surfaces that have not suffered significant degradation. R. Ackermann unknown books
ref. 38019Providence RI: Silver Bullet Gallery 1983. Near Fine. Providence RI: Silver Bullet Gallery 1983. First Edition Limited to 100 copies. Elephant folio 54cm; original blue cloth clamshell box portfolio front cover lettered in silver foil; contents loose as issued including bifolium title page with introductory text and table of contents and twelve 12 original mounted photographs some in color but chiefly halftone. Light wear and dust-soil to clamshell box contents in Fine condition. Portfolio of photographs by artists chiefly associated with the Rhode Island School of Design RISD. Signed by contributors Bill Aron Barnaby Evans and Arno Minkkinen in margin of their photographs. A beautiful collection of late 20th century photography. No examples separately catalogued in OCLC as of August 2026. Silver Bullet Gallery unknown books
1934ref. List28131New York City: ACME Newspictures 1934. Photograph measuring 8 ⅛ x 6 ¼ inches. With caption date stamp manuscript and later sticker verso. With cracking across image not affecting visibility; very good plus. A press photo of the cabin at Matchless Mine in Leadville Colorado where the body of Baby Doe Tabor was found. Tabor had lived destitute in the mining shack for nearly three decades and had frozen to death after a heavy snowstorm. Her life before that however had been legendary. Tabor born Elizabeth McCourt 1854-1935 grew up in poverty but came to be one of the wealthiest women in the mining West known for her looks and expensive dress. Her second husband was "Silver King" Horace Tabor a prospector businessman and politician who was nearly thirty years her senior. The couple lived in luxury in Denver from their marriage in 1883 until 1893 when the repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act collapsed the silver market and caused the Panic of 1893 and their fortune was lost. Horace Tabor died a few years later and Baby shortly moved into the shack at Matchless Mine which had previously belonged to her husband. The rise and fall of the Tabors inspired the 1932 movie Silver Dollar and 1956 opera The Ballad of Baby Doe. ACME Newspictures unknown books
1989ref. 141141Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1989. Draft script for the 1990 film. A comedy-drama about third year medical students and the various personal and professional tensions in the teaching hospital where they work. Shot on location in the Los Angeles County/USC Medical Center in California. Orange titled wrappers dated May 9 1989. Title page present dated June 20 1989 with credits for screenwriter Jeb Stuart. 138 leaves with last page of text numbered 116. Xerographic duplication rectos only with revision pages throughout dated variously between May 12 and June 20 1989. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1992ref. 5737San Diego: Academic Press 1992. First edition. Very Good. 29 cm; xxix 327 pages chiefly illustrations. Bound in original boards. Slight abrasion at lower corner owner's stamp on endleaves else fine. Academic Press hardcover books
ref. 21142SILVER Rollo G. THE AMERICAN PRINTER 1787-1825. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia 1967. 4to. Cloth. xiii 190 pages. First edition. With a printed Christmas card from Mr. and Mrs. Silver laid-in. Very good. unknown books
ref. 12966SILVER ART SERVICE EX-LIBRIS. N.P.: The Author 1932. 8vo. Cloth spine boards. 95 1 pages. First edition. Number 224 of a Deluxe Edition with one tipped-in bookplate and introduction and bookplates by Louis J. Silver. Printer's card on title page underlining on two leaves some coverwear hinges cracked. unknown books
1888ref. 211950New York: Funk & Wagnalls 1888. paperback. fine. 87p. square 16mo pictorial wrappers. N.Y.: Funk & Wagnalls 1888. Temperance songs with words & music. Scarce. Funk & Wagnalls unknown books
2005ref. 108992St. Paul:: Llewellyn Publications. Near Fine. 2005. Paperback. Tenth printing paperback. Previous owner's name on verso of front cover else fine in illustrated wraps. . 0738703192 . Llewellyn Publications, paperback books
1910ref. 3446S.l. 1910. Good. 168 x 115 mm photograph bowed and slightly crinkled. Lovely romantic photograph of a young woman wearing a white shirt and broach holding a long branch which she dangles into the water; her gaze is drawn to the other side of the river her expression seemingly wistful. We have been unable to identify the subject of this remarkable vintage photograph. From the Dorothy Sloan collection of Women in the West. unknown books
1825ref. ST20491London: R. Ackermann 1825. FIRST EDITION. 236 x 144 mm. 9 1/4 x 5 3/4". vii 1 84 pp. STRIKING DARK GREEN MOROCCO VERY ELABORATELY GILT BY CUNEO stamp-signed on lower front turn-in for Mildred B. Davey named stamped on upper front turn-in covers with geometric Art Deco frame smooth spine in compartments with triangle ornaments gilt lettering git-ruled turn-ins marbled endpapers. Housed in matching green morocco-backed clamshell box lined with fleece. Engraved map and 24 FINE DELICATELY HAND-COLORED PLATES inlaid on heavy stock as issued; original tissue guards. Verso of front free endpaper with engraved bookplate of Mildred Davey and red morocco ex-libris of Paul Edward Chevalier; front flyleaf with 19th century ink owner inscription of William Mitchell. A Large Paper Copy. Abbey Travel 210; Tooley 245; S. T. Prideaux "Aquatint Engraving: A Chapter in the History of Book Illustration" p. 229. See Peter Thorold "The British in France: Visitors and Residents since the Revolution" p. 64. A very small ink spot just intruding on very bottom edge of a handful of leaves a few vague spots of foxing to map isolated faint offsetting from illustrations but A VERY FINE COPY in all other ways--the text clean fresh and bright the plates immaculate the margins spacious the binding lustrous and sparkling. This is a lovely copy of a work with plates Prideaux considers "among the most beautiful to be found in aquatint engraving" and it comes in a handsome binding commissioned by Mildred Benson Davey and later owned by Paul Chevalier. Issued by a publisher known for his lavishly illustrated travelogues the volume takes us on a journey through the scenic French Pyrenees escorted by Englishman Joseph Hardy who adds his insights on the local population and government gives recommendations on the best mineral baths and describes in word and image the breathtaking scenery. The views are small measuring approximately 90 x 70 mm. but as Abbey notes "part of their charm is certainly in their small size." Sarah Prideaux praised their composition: "The ground is exceedingly fine and there is no line whatever. The colouring is most delicate and all the twenty-four illustrations are exquisite." We can only be impressed by the achievement of the colorist; the detail is cleanly executed the colors are luminescent and the images do not disappoint even under magnification. Thorold notes that this work was "a great success" and was later translated into French. Our copy was bound in a bold modern design at the Chicago workshop founded by in 1926 by John Cuneo 1884-1977. Cuneo hired fine British craftsmen like the Englishman Leonard Mounteney to create bibliophile-quality bindings for American collectors. After apprenticing at the bindery of G. & J. Abbott in Nottingham and studying ornamental design at the Battersea Polytechnic Mounteney worked as an exhibition finisher for Riviere before emigrating to Chicago where he initially worked with Alfred de Sauty at the R. R. Donnelley bindery before joining Cuneo's hand bindery. The present binding was a commission for Mildred Benson Davey 1890-1953 daughter of the founder of Benson & Rixon men’s clothiers. Cuneo also bound books for Chicago retail magnate Marshall Fields. Later our binding was appreciated by distinguished connoisseur Paul Chevalier whose library of beautiful volumes was uniformly characterized by outstanding workmanship and superb condition. The sale of his books in 1990 represented one of the best collections of 20th century bindings brought to auction in the past half century. Laid in is Christie's slip from Chevalier's 9 November sale where this appeared as lot 23 selling for $935. R. Ackermann unknown books
1900ref. CJW1901Boston: J. B. Millet Company 1900. No. 306 OF 500 COPIES. 256 x 181 mm. 10 x 7 1/8". Two volumes. Very attractive contemporary olive green morocco covers with gilt border incorporating an elaborate cornerpiece design of a butterfly; raised bands expertly rebacked preserving original backstrips spines gilt in compartments with lacy frames enclosing a large central butterfly gilt turn-ins marbled endpapers leather hinges all edges gilt. With more than 400 photographic illustrations and 62 ACTUAL ENTOMOLOGICAL TRANSFERS FROM LIFE all but one of the latter with original tissue guards. Bennett p. 33; McGrath p. 177; Nissen ZBI 1079; Reese "Nineteenth Century American Color Plate Books" 107. Spines faintly sunned two leaves with minor thumbing one corner crease otherwise AN EXTREMELY FINE SET the very appealing bindings quite lustrous and entirely sound and the text and plates clean fresh and bright with virtually no signs of use. This is a collection of butterfly and moth illustrations printed by direct transfer from the insects the creation of a leading innovator in the display of lepidoteral specimens. Sherman Foote Denton 1854-1937 came from a family of amateur naturalists who managed to turn their favorite pastime into a global business. Denton patented a butterfly mount that captured a specimen on a white plaster tablet where it could be pressed under glass avoiding the mess smell and eventual degradation of butterflies and moths mounted on paper using pins. The present publication presents a collection of specimens in a far more portable form that still preserves the color and detail of the insects' wings. The author collected by his own count more than 50000 specimens to produce the color plates for this limited edition. He explained his process: "The colored plates or Nature Prints used in the work are direct transfers from the insects themselves; that is to say the scales of the wings of the insects are transferred to the paper while the bodies are printed from engraving and afterward colored by hand." Since each specimen could be used only once it was necessary to obtain 500 perfect specimens of each species pictured. The effort and expense prevented larger runs of such publications and Reese observes that "new methods of printing color often too difficult to be practical were sometimes undertaken by enthusiasts.". J. B. Millet Company unknown books
2004ref. 371985New York: Dramatists Play Service 2004. Softcover. Fine. Acting edition. Wrappers. Fine. Dramatists Play Service unknown books
ref. 167124N.p.: N.p. 1971. Vintage script for the 1971 Broadway play. Working copy belonging to actor Ted Schwartz who served as the replacement for the roles of Ernie and the interviewer and as the understudy for the lead role of Lenny Bruce. Script annotated on every page in at least two hands indicating shared use by multiple performers-a common practice in theatrical circles. In 1969 Julian Barry was hired by Columbia Pictures to write an original screenplay about the life of Lenny Bruce. The prospects for the project were dulled significantly by the commercial success of "Love Story" which had created a temporary demand for romantic films which "Lenny" certainly was not. Barry suggested to theatre director Tom O'Horgan fresh off his success with the musical "Hair" that his screenplay be redone as a play. The play starring Cliff Gorman premiered at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre in New York City on May 10 1971 running for 469 performances and earning a Best Actor Tony Award for Gorman. Barry would go on to readapt the play for the 1974 film directed by Mike Nichols and starring Dustin Hoffman receiving an Academy Award nomination in the process. Maroon titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers. Title page present undated with credit for Barry noted as copy No. 96 in manuscript ink. 71 leaves with last page of text numbered 2-30. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with old cello tape along the spine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1979ref. 162738Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1979. Revised Final Draft script for the pilot episode of the 1979-1980 television series. Originally aired on March 24 1979 on CBS. Based on the classic 1976 film starring Walter Matthau about an alcoholic former minor-league baseball player who becomes the coach of an unsuccessful youth baseball team. The series ran for two seasons. Self wrappers. Title page present dated February 14 1979 noted as REV. FINAL DRAFT with credits for screenwriters Bob Brunner and Arthur Silver. 40 leaves with last page of text numbered 36. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus lightly toned on the edges bound with two gold brads. Paramount Pictures unknown books
