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1954ref. 56726Newport: Preservation Society of Newport County Pitt's Head Tavern 1954. First edition 4to pp. 4 vii-xviii 216 3; illustrated throughout; original green buckram gilt-stamped spine; previous owner's bookplate; near fine. Furniture including cabinets chairs beds desks tables etc. also clocks fire screens chests and bookcases all made at Newport. Preservation Society of Newport County, Pitt's Head Tavern hardcover books
1924ref. 56855Boston: printed for the subscribers by D. B. Updike at the Merrymount Press 1924. Edition limited to 750 copies 8vo pp. xv 1 296 2; gravure frontispiece; original blue cloth-backed gray paper-covered boards lettered in gilt on spine t.e.g.; very good sound copy. BAL 9069; Parks 1279; Smith-Bianchi 601. printed for the subscribers [by D. B. Updike at the Merrymount Press] hardcover books
1888ref. 56645Boston: Roberts Brothers 1888. 12mo pp. vii 4 12-272 16 ads; original blue cloth stamped in gilt and red; very good. Homespun stories about Washington County in Rhode Island. The book is dedicated to Oliver Wendell Holmes. Roberts Brothers hardcover books
1769ref. 55574Swanzey: March 15 1769. Two-page holograph document of dismissal against Rev. Ezra Carpenter folio approx. 12" x 15" previous folds browned small holes at folds; very good and legible. Ezra Carpenter 1698-1785 a son of Nathaniel and Mary Preston Carpenter his third wife was born March 20 1698 in Rehoboth Massachusetts and graduated from Harvard College in 1720. He was married in 1723 to Elizabeth daughter of Rev. Thomas Greenwood of Rehoboth. Their children were: Elizabeth Elijah Theodosia Greenwood Preston Olive Content married John Kilburn and Rachel. He died at Walpole New Hampshire August 26 1785 in his eighty-eighth year. He entered the Christian ministry and was ordained at Hull Massachusetts November 24 1725 at a wage "rarely more than half enough to support a family." He was dismissed from the pastorate in Hull November 23 1746. November 1752 found him preaching at Lower Ashuelot or Swanzey New Hampshire which had been burned by the Indians four years before. The town of Upper Ashuelot or Keene engaged him in 1753 to preach at an annual compensation of £50 6 s. and firewood. Keene and Swanzey then formed a single church to which he was installed October 4 1753. Written by the council of churches this document concerns his pastorate in Swanzey: "We the pastors & Delegates from the Several Churches applied to by the pastor of the Church of Christ in Swanzey being convened in council at Swanzey . after earnestly imploring the Divine Direction & assistance & reading the results of former councils & other papers necessary to give us light with regard to the separation of the Rev. Mr. Ezra Carpenter as desired to ret. by our letters missive.we come to the following results.viz." They write that although Rev. Carpenter has been a good minister "We lament the unhappy differences & irresponsible & groundless jealousies mutually subsisting between the Rev Mr Carpenter.and people of Swanzey which we apprehend have been a great means of protracting & preventing the termination of their differences and controversies." They conclude with entreaties of mercy for the reverend and for treating him "as a brother" and to consider his infirmities due to his age he was then 71. The document is signed by "Thos Fessendon moderator Samuel Hedge Micah Lawrence Samll Ashley Willm Smeed and Nathl Stevens". A note at the bottom is dated March 16 1769 and states that Carpenter was then present at the house of "Dea Jona Hammond" where the declaration of dismissal was read. Sibley's Harvard Graduates notes that concerning Carpenter's first dismissal from Hull: "Carpenter patiently endured poverty for twenty years only to be overthrown in the end by New Lights who charged that he did not preach the doctrine of grace. Itinerant zealots who invaded the town inflamed the New Lights in the congregation into bringing some fifteen charges of errors of doctrine against him." Apparently similar forces were at work in this his second dismissal. Ezra Carpenter was also chaplain of New Hampshire state troops at Crown Point. March 15 unknown books
1831ref. 53625Philadelphia: Geo. W. Carpenter's Chemical Warehouse 1831. First edition 12mo pp. xii 226 2; bound with as issued: On the Mineralogy of Chester County drop title pp. 19 1; original cloth-backed paper-covered boards boards spotted cloth frayed along the joints printed paper label on spine largely perished; a good copy. American Imprints 6423 and 6424. Geo. W. Carpenter's Chemical Warehouse hardcover books
1859ref. 43703Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea 1859. 8vo. pp. xxiv 33-902 32 pub ads; 2 plates and numerous wood engraving within text front hinge cracked extremities lightly worn small section of spine label peeled away else very good in contemporary full calf with black morocco label lettered in gilt with gilt-ruled raised bands. Blanchard and Lea hardcover books
1900ref. 34251Akron Ohio: Saalfield Publishing Company 1900. First edition tall 8vo pp. vi 7-625; title page printed in red and black frontispiece and full-page illustrations within the pagination many other illustrations in the text; previous owner's pressure stamp at top of title page; corners a bit rubbed else a very good copy in original blue cloth with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Saalfield Publishing Company hardcover books
1881ref. 30762St. Louis 1881. First separate edition 8vo pp. 22; withdrawn stamp on title-p. otherwise very good in original drab printed wrappers. Inscribed "From the author Highland NY" at the top of the front wrapper. "Reprinted with the kind permission of Mr. Hinton Rowan Helper from his volume entitled "The Three Americas Railway" a collection of letters prize essays and other material advocating railway communication with South America" from the title-p. unknown books
1986ref. 22727Cambridge: Harvard University Library 1986. First edition 8vo pp. xii 216; illustrated; fine in original taupe cloth gilt. Harvard University Library hardcover books
1957ref. 36955Austin: University of Texas Press 1957. Hardcover. Very good. xxii 119pp. Very good hardback in a price clipped and lightly rubbed jacket. University of Texas Press hardcover books
1976ref. 25943New York: Simon and Schuster. Very Good in Very Good dj. c.1976. First Edition. Hardcover. price-clipped moderate wear to book at extremities; jacket a little faded and soiled along spine and adjacet edges of both panels a bit of wear along top edge including a couple of small closed tears and very shallow paper loss at top of spine. B&W photographs INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the colophon page: "For Ann and Del / My special 'Dear Hearts' / whose friendship I / treasure. / Blessings and love / Meta Wilde / March 1 1980." The author's "full story of her romance with William Faulkner which began when she was a script girl for Howard Hawks and Faulkner came to Hollywood to work on the scenario for THE ROAD TO GLORY and continued over the next thirty years whenever time and chance gave the lovers an opportunity." Wilde went on to become one of Hollywood's legendary script supervisors working well into the 1980s sometimes under the name Meta Rebner with an impressive string of credits including TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD THE GRADUATE IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT SHAMPOO and TERMS OF ENDEARMENT. The inscribees of this copy were director Delbert Mann and his wife; Ms. Wilde had worked for Mann on the 1960 film THE DARK AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS. Signed by Author . Simon and Schuster hardcover books
1934ref. 27532Savannah: Review Printing Company 1934. Hardcover. Very good. Number 202 of an unspecified edition signed by the author. Souvenir Edition First Book Printed on Newsprint Made From Georgia Pine Pulp. Boards lightly rubbed else a very good copy. Review Printing Company hardcover books
1985ref. 700939Berkeley CA: North Point Press. 1985. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Very Good in wrappers. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. North Point Press paperback books
1989ref. 4973San Francisco CA: Scottwall 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in Fine DJ. Ownership signature on front pastedown else tight bright and unmarred. DJ is bright and clean. Teal cloth boards gilt lettering beige endpages frontispiece. 4to. 158pp. Illus. color and b/w plates. Index. "Here in the words of fifty eyewitnesses and in seventy color photographs is the Fair in all its shimmering beauty and excitement." from the flap. From the library of noted architect and writer on architecture J. Sadler. Sadler was prone to marginalia and laying in clippings and ephemera related to a given books subject. The presence of marginal notes or marks will be noted above and are absent if not so noted. A very handsome copy. Scottwall hardcover books
1935ref. 37446Paris: Jean Charpentier 1935. First edition. Cloth. Very good slight rubbing of spine. 57 pp. Illus. with 45 b/w plates. 4to. Lot nos. 26-124. Knoedler 1399. Jean Charpentier hardcover books
1927ref. 290448Washington.: Government Printing Office. 1927. Red cloth silver titles. . Very good titles a little faded pencil name to ffep. 26x18 cm. . weight: 1.9 lb. Government Printing Office. hardcover books
1979ref. 19002Missoula: Calliopea Press 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Limited first edition. Small hardbound quarto housing ten separate laid in sheets. Each sheet contains a poem by Ernst and a color illustration by Carpenter. Contents are in fine condition. Printed hard folio is lightly worn. Limited to 315 copies; however we could find no other example even in WorldCat. Calliopea Press hardcover books
ref. 29688Other: Other. Very Good. Hardcover. Albany 1914. 128 pages hardbound very good condition. . Other hardcover books
1982ref. 105090New York: Dodd Mead & Co 1982. Hardbound. VG in a poor dustjacket but inscribed by the author. Black cloth with dark color-illustrated dustjacket. xii 332 pp. 8 color and 295 bw plates in addition to 40 photographs of marks and marks of 313 flatware patterns. A classic reference on the largest maker of sterling silverware in the world. Profusely illustrated with some color but mostly crisp black and white photographs. Dodd, Mead & Co hardcover books
ref. 005324Paris: Mercure de France 1939. Orginal Wraps. Very Good/No Dust Jacket as Issued. Later Printing. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 217 pp. Uncut. Excellent eclectic anthology of lines from lyric poetry from Ronsard to Radiguet Marot to Moreas. Paris: Mercure de France, 1939 unknown books
ref. 272402Bowie: T. H. Carpenter. unbound. very good. by noted Texas photographer Thomas H. Carpenter whose imprint appears on the mount. The image depicts a shoulder-up studio image of a young man set into a photographic floral-wreath background. Bowie Texas n.d. circa 1892. Very good Thomas H. Carpenter's first gallery was opened in New Orleans in 1865. By 1876 he operated out of Sherman Texas and advertised that he sold affordable custom portraits. In 1892 the Texas Gazette newspaper listed Carpenter as a photographer in Bowie Texas. T. H. Carpenter unknown books
1951ref. 255475Lynchburg VA: Brown Morrison Inc 1951. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Previous owner name; this is a year calendar for students bound as a book; the calendar has metal spiral binds on spine and is bound in hardcover embossed cloth with raised lettering; paper note pad attached inside front board; binding slightly soiled. Very Good binding. Brown Morrison, Inc unknown books
1938ref. 185369Paris: Carpenter's Gallery 1938. Softcover. G heavy foxing to covers pages have price notations. Slight yellowing. bind is starting to separate. Cardboard wraps. 54 pages 55 plates. Text in French. Translated: "Modern paintings; watercolours pastels and drawings: Sale in Paris Galerie Jean Charpentier June 17 1938." Works by: J.B. Carpeaux M. Cassatt J.B.C. Corot H. Daumier E. Degas E. Delacroix M. Denis Fantin Latour A. Guillaumin J.B. Jongkind C. Monet B. Morisot C. Pissarro P. Puvis de Chavannes A. Renoir. From Toulouse Lautrec E. Vuillard. Carpenter's Gallery unknown books
1960ref. SFK519-005Los Angeles CA: The Rounce & Coffin Club 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. FIRST EDITION of this volume commemorating the work of William Cheney a printer who worked in Dawson's Book Shop. 8vo. 9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches. 6 xi 62 pp. Half-title title page in red and black inks foreword by H. Richard Archer titled "William M. Cheney" monochrome photographs of Cheney throughout; text clean unmarked. Quarter black cloth over olive green boards spine titled in gilt in original white paper dust jacket titled in black on spine of jacket in archival mylar olive green endpapers; binding square and tight very light soiling and toning with small chips at extremities of jacket. Bookplate of Jackson Burke on front pastedown. Muir Dawson's copy: notation in Muir Dawson's hand "With the 5 errata slips printed by Cheney" but these errata slips are no longer present. SFK519-005. Very Good. The volume includes H. Richard Archer's foreword originally published in the Book Club of California Quarterly News Letter Summer 1957 Vol. XXII pp. 62-5. In the foreword Archer says that Cheney's “contribution to the private press movement of the mid-twentieth century may be slight but his position in it is assured." PROVENANCE: Bookplate on the front pastedown of type and book designer Jackson Burke 1908-1975 who designed several type faces and acted as the Director of Typographic Development at Mergenthaler Linotype from 1949-1963. The provenance in a lineage of California typophiles indicates Cheney's significant impact on private press printing in California and beyond. The Rounce & Coffin Club hardcover books
1966ref. 49233New York: Delacorte Press. Very Good. 1966. Hardcover. New York: Delacorte Press 1966. First Printing. The Great Explorers Series. Previous owner signed otherwise a Near Fine copy in a Near Fine DJ. . Delacorte Press hardcover books
