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1984ref. 41489NY: Oxford University Press 1984. First US edition. 586 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with two short tears. Promotional flyer laid in. NY: Oxford University Press, unknown books
1978ref. 37926Newcastle: Blue Oak Press 1978. First trade paperback printing. 105 pp. Two light stains to fron cover inked notes to recto of last leaf; in all very good in printed wrappers. INSCRIBED by Everson on the half-title page “For Sylvia Smith / Best wishes / Bill Everson / May 24 79 / Newcastle.” Newcastle: Blue Oak Press paperback books
2002ref. 37897Berkeley: Etherdome 2002. First edition. 40 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers. TLS from the publisher poet Elizabeth Robinson laid in. Berkeley: Etherdome, unknown books
1988ref. 19328Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1988. First edition. x 246 pp w/index. Fine in near fine dust jacket with a smudge to the front flap and some light tanning to spine. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, unknown books
1979ref. 19318Newcastle: Blue Oak Press 1979. First edition. Near fine in wrappers. INSCRIBED by Bill Hotchkiss. Newcastle: Blue Oak Press unknown books
1930ref. 28434Philadelphia: John C. Winston. 1930. Hardcover. Very good with dulled spine lettering owner's inscription decoration pasted to front board. Color illustrations. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 282 pp . John C. Winston hardcover books
1907ref. 26228Boston: American Gymnasia Company. 1907. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A near fine copy illustrated with diagrams and photographs of various dances to do around a May-Pole. Very charming.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 56 pp . American Gymnasia Company hardcover books
1946ref. 22600Paris: Editions Galatea. 1946. Softcover. 3 volumes 2 of which are extra suites one in black and one in red. No 19 of 20 copies with two extra suites and two original drawings from an edition of 220 illustrated by Rene Demeurisse. Fine in wraps and glassine with a little spine darkening and mild wear to glassines. In board chemise 4" 10 cm thick in slipcase that shows some soiling and staining. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall . Editions Galatea paperback books
1873ref. 22135Milwaukee: J. H. Yewdale & Sons. Very Good. 1873. First Edition; First Printing. Paperback. Wraps soiled and creased with string ring in upper left corner for hanging; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 31 pp . J. H. Yewdale & Sons paperback books
2014ref. 31444Brussels: Dependence 2014. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. 11 1/2" square paperbound volume. Unpaginated. With text by peter Wachtler. A very good copy of this uncommon artist book. Dependence paperback books
1976ref. 265277New York: Michael Giammetta 1976. Magazine. 72p. including covers 5.5x8.5 inches illustrated with photos and ads lightly-worn first edition booklet in stapled pictorial wraps. Guide to gay entertainment in NYC and on Fire Island including plays bars baths etc. As mentioned in the 5th episode of "The Deuce" on HBO. Cover photo of Jon Michael & Rod Toddy snogging from "Mondo Nexus" "The Unexpurgated Lotman" by old friend of yours truly. A lengthypiece replete with great photos on the life and career of favorite singer/dancer/novelist Carpenter. Reviews of "No Man's Land" by Pinter with Richardson and Gielgud and of the SM film "Maitresse Michael Giammetta unknown books
1892ref. 316964London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co. New York: Macmillan & Co 1892. First edition. Illus. 363pp. 8vo. Bound in modern polished three quarters green calf and marbled boards. Fine. First edition. Illus. 363pp. 8vo. Carpenter a gay icon was drawn to Hinduiasm andd tarveled to India nad Ceylon in 1890. His account of the travel was published herein The book's spiritual explorations would subsequently influence the Russian author Peter Ouspensky who discusses it extensively in his own book Tertium Organum 1912. Swan Sonnenschein & Co. New York: Macmillan & Co unknown books
1897ref. 313895Manchester: The Labour Press 1897. First edition. 192 pp. 8vo. Original green cloth stamped in gilt and black. Hinges cracked some minor wear to board extremities scattered light foxing contemporary ownership signature to f.f.e.p. First edition. 192 pp. 8vo. An anthology of writings on "the changes going on in the social and industrial situation . the Land Question the questions of Trade-Unionism Co-operation Parliamentary Action Education Art Literature and the Status of Women together with the general positionsof Socialism and Anarchism have all been dealt with in some degree" preface. Contributors includ Alfred Russell Wallace Tom Mann H. Russell Smart William Morris H.S. Salt Enid Stacy Grant Allen Margaret McMillan Bernard Shaw and Edward Carpenter. The Labour Press unknown books
1830ref. 304041London: Printed and Published by William Carpenter 1830. First editions. Decorated head pieces. 1 vols. 4to. Disbound. First editions. Decorated head pieces. 1 vols. 4to. Stamp Duty Challenged. RARE. From 1830 to 1831 Carpenter published an unstamped series called "The Political Letters" challenging the stamp duty law as to whether any publication containing news was subject to duty. Carpenter did not feel that these should be subject to the duty. He was prosecuted and imprisoned from where he edited the "Political Magazine." The pamphlets contained are: 1. " A Report on the Trail of William Carpeter 12 pp. 2.An Expostulatory Letter to the Commissioners of Stamps." 16 pp 21 October 1830; 3. A Monitory Letter to ther People of England. 16pp. with an ad for Queen Mab.October 29 1830 4. "A Letter to the Aristocracy of England. " 24 pp 6 Nov. 1830; 5 A Second Letter to the Duke of Wellington.16pp 6. Facts and Observations connected to the Present Times. 16pp. November 18 1830 7. A Letter to Earl Gray.November 25 1830 8."A Letter to Lord Althorpe" 16 pp. 4 Dec. 1830 9. "A Second Letter to Lord Althorpe" 16 pp. 7 Dec. 1830 10. "A Political Miscellany on National Debt" 16 pp. 9 Dec. 1830 11 "A Political Compendium on Reform" 16 pp. 18 Dec. 1830 12 "A Political Digest" 16 pp. 23 Dec. 1830 13. A Supplement to Carpenter's Political Compendium. 8 pp. 14. "A Letter to the Right Hon. Wilmot Horton" 16 pp. 31 Dec. 1830 15. "A Political Mirror" 16 pp. 7 Jan. 1831 16.; "A Political Chronicle" 16 pp. 13 Jan 1831 17. ; "A Political Herald" 21 Jan 1831 18. A Political Register January 28 1831. 16 pp. 19. A Political Letter. Feburary 4 1831. 16 pp. 20. Another Political Letter Feburary 12 1831. 16 pp. 21. A Letter to the Rightr Hon. The Chancellotr of the Exchequer. 16 pp. 22. A Political Monitor Friday May 6 1831. 16 pp. 23. A Political Censor. Saturday May 14 1831. 16 pp. At an early age he began working for a bookseller in Finsbury first as an errand boy and then as an apprentice. In 1830 he issued a series of Political Letters with which he attempted to defy the stamp duty on newspapers but in May 1831 he was tried and convicted of evading the law and was imprisoned. While in prison he edited a political magazine which was republished as Carpenter's Monthly Political Magazine in 1832. NCBEL 3:1818 Printed and Published by William Carpenter unknown books
1970ref. 302268Garden City new York: Doubleday & Co 1970. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Burgundy cloth. Fine copy in dust jacket. Housed in a cloth slipcase with wraparound cloth chemise. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed by Lady Bird. Inscribed on the half-title by Lady Bird Johnson whose Press Secretary was Liz Carpenter "For Jane Engelhard With love - Lady Bird January 20 '70". Mill/16/6 Doubleday & Co unknown books
1937ref. 254583East Aurora NY: Done into this book by the Roycrofters 1937. First edition. Frontispiece map and 10 photographic ililustrations. 34 1 pp. 1 vols. 12mo 17x13 cm 6-3â„4 x5-1â„4 inches. Original brown grained leatherette. Fine in black cloth drop box with white paper label. First edition. Frontispiece map and 10 photographic ililustrations. 34 1 pp. 1 vols. 12mo 17x13 cm 6-3â„4 x5-1â„4 inches. Robert Ruliph Morgan Carpenter's account of his 1936 safari to Kenya where he hunted rhino buffalo oryx waterbuck lion and antelope with Donald Ker of Ker & Downey as Professional Hunter. Czech p. 32 "a very small quantity" Done into this book by the Roycrofters unknown books
1938ref. 56453N.p.: Privately Printed 1938. First edition. Preface by Captain Robert A. Bartlett pp. VII-X. Frontispiece of author and goat killed in Endicott Arms Alaska 23 other full-page photos. xiii 180 pp. 1 vols. Small 4to. Original blue cloth with brown gilt-lettered label on upper cover. Fine copy. First edition. Preface by Captain Robert A. Bartlett pp. VII-X. Frontispiece of author and goat killed in Endicott Arms Alaska 23 other full-page photos. xiii 180 pp. 1 vols. Small 4to. The author Ruly Carpenter was a gentleman sportsman from Wilmington and owner of the Philadelphia Phillies. There is much on Wyoming including Chapters II IV & X as well as Alaska. Chapters include: I. Southeastern Alaska 1933; II. Expedition to Wyoming for Pronghorn Antelope and Wapiti for the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 1934; III. Southeastern Alaska Again 1935; IV. A Second Expedition Into Pronghorn Antelope Country 1935; V. Hunting the Mountain Lion in Arizona 1936; VI. Hunting in Kenya Colony East Africa 1936; VII. A Cruise to Andros Island 1937; VIII. Northern British Columbia. "The Cassiar" 1937; IX. Jaguar Hunting in Sinaloa Mexico 1938; X. Wyoming for Big Horn 1938. Biscotti p. 75; Czech Africa p. 56 Privately Printed unknown books
1845ref. M11448Philadelphia:: Lea & Blanchard 1845. 1845. Large 12mo. 232 x 163 mm xxiii 25-643 32 ads. pp. 2 engraved plates 189 woodcut illus. index; some spotting. Original full brown calf gilt-stamped black leather spine label; two burn marks on lower edge of upper cover affecting the first few leaves also joints rubbed spine darkened headcap chipped. Bookplate of Charles Mayo Goss. Generally very good. Provenance: Dr. Charles Mayo Goss who at 78 was appointed Distinguished Professor of Anatomy at the University of South Alabama at Mobile was the editor over a period of 26 years of the last five American editions of Gray's Anatomy: the 25th in 1948 26th in 1954 27th Centennial in 1959 28th in 1966 and 29th in 1973 all published by Lea and Febiger of Philadelphia. Cordasco 40-0185; Wellcome II p. 304. Lea & Blanchard, 1845. hardcover books
ref. 29858WRIGHT MASON Grant Carpenter. FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT TO 1910 THE FIRST GOLD AGE. New York: Reinhold 1958. 4to. Cloth. x ii 228 pages. First edition. With a Foreward by Henry-Russell Hitchcock Mason discusses the formation of Wright's architecture through 1910. Spine and upper edge of front board sunn else very good. unknown books
ref. 11254CHARPENTIER Jarl. DIE SUPARNASAGE UNTERSUCHUNGEN ZUR ALTINDISCHEN LITERATUR UND SAGENGESCHICHTE. Uppsala: Akademiska Bokhandeln 1920. 8vo. Cloth. 399 pages. First edition German translations and notes on this sacred Indian text with an ALS tipped from Charpentier to Dr. Coomaraswamy May 20 1931 thanking him ``for all t valuable & interesting offprints you have so kindly sent me.'' Ananda Coomaraswamy's copy. Occasional notes in pencil else very good. unknown books
1939ref. 4604New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Published with the Cooperation of the National Collection of Heads and Horns of the New York Zoological Society and American Museum of Natural History 1939. First edition. Illustrated. xxii ii 533pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original cloth. Fine. First edition. Illustrated. xxii ii 533pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Charles Scribner's Sons. Published with the Cooperation of the National Collection of Heads and Horns of the New York Zoological unknown books
1830ref. 24113London: Printed and Published by William Carpenter 1830. First editions. Decorated head pieces. 1 vols. 4to. Eleven pamphlets plus the Supplement bound in contemporary green sheep-backed marbled boards. Spine defective edges rubbed some light spotting or browning of leaves else very good copies of these. First editions. Decorated head pieces. 1 vols. 4to. Stamp Duty Challenged. RARE. From 1830 to 1831 Carpenter published an unstamped series called "The Political Letters" challenging the stamp duty law as to whether any publication containing news was subject to duty. Carpenter did not feel that these should be subject to the duty. He was prosecuted and imprisoned from where he edited the "Political Magazine." The pamphlets contained are "An Expostulatory Letter to the Commissioners of Stamps." 16 pp 21 October 1830; "A Letter to the Aristocracy of England" 24 pp 6 Nov. 1830; "A Letter to Lord Althorpe" 16 pp. 4 Dec. 1830; "A Second Letter to Lord Althorpe" 16 pp. 7 Dec. 1830; "A Political Miscllany on National Debt" 16 pp. 9 Dec. 1830; "A Political Compendium on Reform" 16 pp. with an 8 page supplement printed at the Published of the Office of the Political Letters 18 Dec. 1830; "A Political Digest" 16 pp. 23 Dec. 1830; "A Letter to the Right Hon. Wilmot Horton" 16 pp. 31 Dec. 1830; "A Political Mirror" 16 pp. 7 Jan. 1831; "A Political Chronicle" 16 pp. 13 Jan 1831; "A Political Herald" 21 Jan 1831. NCBEL 3:1818 Printed and Published by William Carpenter unknown books
1875ref. 31440London: 56 Regents Park Road 1875. 2 pages. 1 vols. 8vo. On a stub attached to a larger colored sheet some discoloration of larger sheet folds else very good. 2 pages. 1 vols. 8vo. Writing to Youmans that he is sending the last corrected revise of his lecture as asking for the earliest insertion into the magazine continuing that he will be giving his lecture on Human Automatism at Belfast on the 27th "which wil be rather supplemental to thatn an repetition of my Glasgow lecture. If it is well reported as I expect it will be in one of the Belfast papers would a revised Report be of any value to you" Carpenter was noted for his research in botany microscopy zoology and physiology and was a co-leader of the research team in 1868-70 on the deep sea scientific expedition aboard the "Lightning" and "Challenger." Youmans was the founder of "Popular Science Monthly' and planned the "International Scientific Series" he was a noted lecturer on science and author of several works. Provenance: From the autograph collection of W. P. Webster 56 Regents Park Road unknown books
1812ref. M9053New York:: printed by C. S. Van Winkle 1812. 1812. Small 8vo. 11 pp. Later quarter red cloth; early minor ink notation and rubber stamp on title institutional bookplate. Very good. First edition. Pamphlet showing lists of members theses and dissertations relating to the society. printed by C. S. Van Winkle, 1812. hardcover books
1977ref. 193630Houghton Mifflin 1977-06-01. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition with full number line! Dust jacket and book are clean binding is good pages are bright and crisp with no marks or notations. Dust jacket has minor scuffing and wear the price is clipped; jacket is now wrapped in a clear protective sleeve. HB HS Houghton Mifflin hardcover books
