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1955ref. 111651Boston: Allyn and Bacon 1955. Hardcover. Near Fine. Later edition. 12mo. With a photographic frontispiece plate. Publisher's salmon colored cloth with a pictorial design stamped in blue and black. Light rubbing to the boards an attractive near fine copy. Allyn and Bacon hardcover books
2004ref. 216001Florence Italy: Gli Ori and by D.A.P. / Distributed Art Publishers Inc 2004. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. 279 pages. Features an introductory interview of Sonfist by Robert Rosenblum. Essays by Wolfgang Becker Jonathan Carpenter Lawrence Alloway Michael Danoff John Grande and Uwe Ruth. Includes numerous color and black and white illustrations. A clean very near fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket. Signed and inscribed by Sonfist on the front free endpaper to a long time New York Times art critic and editor Grace Glueck. Gli Ori and by D.A.P. / Distributed Art Publishers Inc unknown books
1954ref. 182650Newport: Preservation Society of Newport County 1954. Hardcover. G ex-library stamping on spine blind emboss flyleaf library pocket back leaf. Spine shows some wear and back cover is scratched. Pages are clean and tight. Green cloth covers gilt lettering on spine. 216 pp illustrations. "This book I believe faithfully depicts the consummate skill and superlative craftsmanship of Newport cabinetmakers silversmiths and painters and is the forerunner of other volumes which will portray other aspects of this truly American culture." -- Foreword. Contents: V.1 Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Newport's era of prosperity -- The Newport cabinet and chair makers -- Furniture illustrations -- The Newport limners and engravers -- Paintings -- Engravings -- The Newport Silversmiths -- Silver illustrations -- The 1774 census -- Supplementary illustrations -- Notes to "The Newport cabinet and chair makers" -- Notes to "The Newport limners and engravers" -- List of subscribers. Preservation Society of Newport County hardcover books
1934ref. 41286Savannah GA: Review Printing Co 1934. Oblong 4to. 43 pp. printed double-page Chinese style. Original cloth-backed printed boards; paper browned else very good. First edition "souvenir edition" #35 of an unspecified limited edition. An alphabet book of Georgia history told in rhyme it is the "first book printed on newsprint made from Georgia Pine Pulp; cover printed on paper made from Georgia cypress." OCLC locates 12 copies but only three outside Georgia Library of Congress Brown Virginia. Review Printing Co unknown books
1970ref. 87512New York: Outerbridge & Dienstfrey / Ballantine 1970. First Edition. First printing. Small quarto 21cm x 23cm; gray paper-covered boards hardcover; dustjacket; 157pp unpaginated; illus. Fine in the fragile printed mylar dustwrapper complete but slightly rubbed and scratched; Very Good. Somewhat uncommon cloth edition of this experimental pastiche of Carpenter's aphoristic writings and Heyman's documentary photographs. Heyman b. 1930 is perhaps best known as Margaret Mead's long-time collaborator and co-author with her of the books Family and World Enough. Carpenter was a pioneer in the field of visual anthropology and a frequent collaborator with Marshall McLuhan to whose work the current volume clearly owes a debt. An easy book to find in softcover but the cloth edition is elusive especially in the absurdly fragile mylar dustwrapper. Outerbridge & Dienstfrey / Ballantine unknown books
1964ref. 624924University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press 1964. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Quarto. 434pp. Owner's signature and stamp of a noted American psychologist on the front fly else fine in slightly spine-toned very good or better dust jacket. The Pennsylvania State University Press hardcover books
1912ref. 434360Philadelphia: Printed for Private Circulation by J.B. Lippincott Company 1912. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Quarto. 319 1pp. Illustrated Original green cloth gilt. Slight wear at the corners about fine. Genealogy of a Philadelphia family. A very nice copy. Printed for Private Circulation by J.B. Lippincott Company hardcover books
1960ref. 005825San Francisco: Roxburghe and Zamorano Clubs. Printed by Saul Marks of the Plantin Press 1960. Second Edition. Wraps. Fine. 12mo. 17 by 11 cm. 9 pp. Described as "a fictitious correspondence between E. de Fumier and M. Cambronne" the text is actually a learned discussion of the word "shit". With a publisher's slip inserted and surviving. Roxburghe and Zamorano Clubs. Printed by Saul Marks of the Plantin Press unknown books
2003ref. 307895San Francisco: Pomegranate 2003. hardcover. fine/very good. Betye Saar. With color images throughout. 116 pages. Tall narrow 4to brown cloth d.w. San Francisco: Pomegranate 2003. A fine copy in a very good dust wrapper spine evenly sunned and a bit scuffed. Pomegranate unknown books
1942ref. 503467AUTOGRAPH SENTIMENT: "With warmest greetings Yours always.May 26th '42" probably clipped from closing of an ALS. 2 1/2" x 7 /12". books
2002ref. 005234New York: Harcourt 2002. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. 370pp. Beautiful Stated First Edition First Printing with full letter sequence. Bound in quarter blue cloth over gray paper-covered boards with titles in silver on spine. Square tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Equally attractive unclipped dust-jacket $26.00 is fresh and bright with no creasing chipping toning or tears. Protected with an archival-quality mylar cover. Signed by Carpenter on the title page. A very attractive collectable copy at a great price. Harcourt hardcover books
2002ref. 14291Orlando: Harcourt Inc. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2002. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0151004676 . An attractive first printing of the first edition in alike dustjacket minute traces of edge wear. Signed by astronaut and author Scott Carpenter directly on title page; Coming from a family of early Colorado pioneers astronaut Scott Carpenter grew up with a vibrant frontier tradition of exploration. He went on to become one of seven Project Mercury astronauts to take part in America's burgeoning space program in the 1960s. Here he writes of the pioneering science training and biomedicine of early space flight and tells the heart-stopping tale of his famous spaceflight aboard Aurora 7. Carpenter also shares a family story of tenderness and fortitude. Raised by his grandparents in Boulder Colorado while his mother lay sick for years with tuberculosis Carpenter witnessed bravery love sacrifice and endurance that prepared him for life as a Navy pilot during two wars service to country as a Mercury astronaut and finally as a pioneering underwater explorer. Written with his daughter Kris Stoever For Spacious Skies tells a wonderful American family story filled with never-before-told insider tales from the earliest days of NASA and for the first time ever Carpenter's own account of his controversial flight and splashdown; 8vo; Signed by One Author . Harcourt, Inc. hardcover books
1903ref. 54380New York: D. Appleton & Co 1903. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Front hinge neatly repaired corners slightly bumped else a near fine copy. Ownership signature of Samuel Wright the uncle of co-author Kauffman. Kauffman's second mystery after Jarvis of Harvard Carpenter's first and the only collaboration between these two authors. D. Appleton & Co 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
1980ref. 629342New York: George Braziller 1980. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Illustrated from photographs of the writers by Mike Bunn. Pages with light tanning near fine in a very good dust jacket with light edgewear and slight interior foxing. Signed by contributor Seamus Heaney on front fly. New work by 44 Irish writers including Samuel Beckett Heaney Denis Johnston Neil Jordan Brendan Kennelly Thomas Kinsella Michael Longley Paul Muldoon Seán Ó Faoláin Frank Ormsby Tom Paulin James Plunkett and more. George Braziller hardcover books
1938ref. 432614No place: The Author 1938. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Preface by Captain Robert A. Bartlett. Spine a bit toned else near fine. Issued without dustwrapper. Copy number 204 of 400 numbered copies Signed by the author. The Author hardcover 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 in from Charpentier to Dr. Coomaraswamy May 20 1931 thanking him ``for all the valuable & interesting offprints you have so kindly sent me.'' Ananda Coomaraswamy's copy. Occasional notes in pencil else very good. unknown books
1945ref. 6043161945. at the end in blue fountain pen ink by Maurice Carpenter. ca. 1945. 7" x 8 3/4"; 5 leaves including title page. Two deletions and two corrections in the Carpenter's hand. Fine. See #109 in the Lehman/Parker edition of Sitwell's "Selected Letters" for an example of her intimate correspondence with Carpenter. Sitwell was god mother to Carpenter's son. This poem in tribute to Dame Edith comprises of 72 lines. Carpenter co-edited with Jack Lindsay & Honor Arundel "New Lyrical Ballads" London 1945; "His Gentle Exercise and Other Poems" was published in 1950 as No. 8 in the "Key Poets" series - joining Dame Edith's "Poor Men's Music" which was No. 1 in the series. No Binding. Fine/No Jacket. unknown books
2002ref. 017098Harcourt Inc 2002. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Presentation By Author. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fine Copy In Like Jacket Without Wear.First Edition/First Printing.$26.00 On Flap. Rare Presentation Copy."To Edith Gamble With Gratitude Scott Carpenter" Additionally Presented By The Owner. Beautiful Copy. Harcourt, Inc Hardcover books
2002ref. 014242Harcourt Inc 2002. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First Edition/First Printing Signed by Both Author's Beautiful Copy. Harcourt Inc Hardcover books
1970ref. 44079New York: Outerbridge & Dienstfrey / Ballantine 1970. First Edition. First printing. Small quarto 21cm x 23cm; gray paper-covered boards hardcover; dustjacket; 157pp unpaginated; illus. Fine in the original printed mylar dustwrapper which shows some light rubbing and surface scratches still Very Good or better and rarely seen. Somewhat uncommon cloth edition of this experimental pastiche of Carpenter's aphoristic writings and Heyman's documentary photographs. Heyman b. 1930 is perhaps best known as Margaret Mead's long-time collaborator and co-author with her of the books Family and World Enough. Carpenter was a pioneer in the field of visual anthropology and a frequent collaborator with Marshall McLuhan to whose work the current volume clearly owes a debt. An easy book to find in softcover but the cloth edition is elusive especially in the absurdly fragile mylar dustwrapper. Outerbridge & Dienstfrey / Ballantine unknown books
1912ref. 551360New York and London: Mitchell Kennerley 1912. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. Red cloth gilt. Top edge gilt. Several very small spots on the front board and topedge rubbed else near fine. Mitchell Kennerley hardcover books
1926ref. 553743New York: Samuel French 1926. Softcover. Good. First edition. 110pp. Tan printed wrappers. Some pages unopened illustrated glossy along with corresponding pages lightly foxed front wrapper detached with yapped edges nicked good only. Being Barrett H. Clark's copy with his initials penned on the front wrapper. Clark of the Samuel French Company was a highly influential author critic and publisher of plays and drama. A significant association. Samuel French unknown books
1933ref. 306212New York: Doubleday 1933. hardcover. very good. I. Bilibine. 8 illustrations in color and 8 in black & white by I. Bilibine. 8vo blue cloth with red lettering top edge red. New York: Doubleday 1923. Spine lightly sunned and rubbed at extremes still a very good copy. Doubleday unknown books
1981ref. 11732Boston MA: Houghton Mifflin Company 1981. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good Dustjacket. First American Edition. Hardcover. Inscription on half-title from Carpenter to Oliver Sacks. Wystan Hugh Auden 1907-1973 biography. From the library of Dr. Oliver Sacks the renowned neurologist author and educator. He was in his life celebrated for his contributions to the understanding of the human brain and his ability to communicate complex scientific concepts to a broader audience. In doing so he highlighted the profound impact of neurological disorders on human identity and experience. His library is a reflection of this remarkable polymath's questing mind. Chipping and toning to upper/inner flap dj closed tears to dj scuffing to edges else tight bright and unmarred. Black cloth with gilt titling. 8vo. 495pp. Illus. b/w plates. Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover books
