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
2008ref. UCARGRE01hcTen Speed 2008. Very Good. Carpenter Hugh. The Great Wings Book. Sandison Teri. Berkeley: Ten Speed 2008. 135pp. Indexed. Illustrated. Glossary. Narrow 4to. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with light bumping. Ten Speed paperback books
2004ref. RCARFOR00araNew American Library 2004. Very Good. Carpenter Scott. For Spacious Skies: The Uncommon Journey of a Mercury Astronaut. Stoever Kris. New York: New American Library 2004. 371pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with light rubbing and bumping. Signed by Carpenter to previous owner on title page. New American Library paperback books
1979ref. UONEEUG01acmfTwayne Publishers 1979. Good. O'Neill Eugene. Eugene O'Neill. Carpenter Frederic I. Boston: Twayne Publishers 1979. 192pp. Indexed. Bibliography. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Good with yellowed edges. Pocket in rear endsheet. Twayne Publishers hardcover books
1960ref. 013476Grabhorn Press 1960. "An exhibit of representative examples from the collections of members of the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco held in the Palace of the Legion of Honor on the occasion of the joint meeting of the Zamorano Club of Los Angeles and Roxburghe Club of San Francisco September 17-18 1960". 123 listings on 49pp. . First Edition. Cream Wrappers. Light edge and Corner Wear/No Jacket. Small Octavo. Grabhorn Press Paperback books
ref. 001963Peoria IL G.C. Lippard 1932. Black textured paper lettered in gilt. All edges red. Fine. Several full-page illustrations. Place for baby pictures family history mother's notes. (Peoria, IL) (G.C. Lippard) (1932). unknown books
1943ref. 173274Boston: Little Brown 1943. First Edition. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper: "To Rosejeanne / who has had a finger in this brew from its very beginning with love / Margaret Carpenter Richardson." With the author's additional annotations to the copyright page noting "Author's Copy" and epigraph two exclamation points. Basis for the 1944 film noir directed by Jacques Tourneur and starring George Brent and Hedy Lamarr. Hint of fray to the crown and corners page edges lightly toned overall about Near Fine in a bright Near Fine dust jacket with light rubbing and a few small bruises to the spine and rear panel and a nick to the bottom right corner of the front panel. Scarce in jacket. The Dark Page I: 1940-1949 p. 52. Little, Brown unknown books
1925ref. 144453Oxford: Oxford University Press 1925. Hardcover. A. Parker's Books Offering antique books vintage books and rare books for over 43 years View our other listings: A.Parker's Books A Naturalist in East Africa: Being notes made in Uganda ex-German and Portuguese East Africa G.D. Hale Carpenter Oxford: Clarendon Press 1925 8vo. 6 by 8 3/4 inches 187 pp. eight plates and small fold-out map. Numerous b/w photographs. Spine sunned head and heel lightly rubbed. Owner plate to front pastedown. PH F3 V. Oxford University Press hardcover books
1978ref. 167925Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1978. Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1978 film including one showing actress Faye Dunaway talking with director Irvin Kershner on the set. A fashion photographer suddenly becomes clairvoyant witnessing serial murders from the perspective of the killer. John Carpenter's first major studio film with many elements drawn from Italian giallo adapted from a screenplay co-written by Carpenter and David Zelag Goodman. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1958ref. 212735New York: Reinhold Publishing Corporation 1958. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 228 pages. Features a foreword by Henry-Russell Hitchcock and text by Grant Carpenter Manson. Includes numerous black and white images and some architectural drawings. A near fine copy in red cloth cloth boards with some slight sunning to the spine and the former owner signature of author and museum curator Thomas Garver to the verso of the front free endpaper. No dust jacket. A very nice copy with an interesting provenance. Reinhold Publishing Corporation unknown books
2012ref. 11180New York: Modern Library 2012. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Edited by Teresa Carpenter. Fourth Printing. Fine in a Fine jacket unclipped $26.00. Quarter white cloth with beige paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound clean internally. A selection of journal entries for each day of the year drawn from four hundred years of writing. Modern Library hardcover books
1956ref. 152181Burbank CA: National Broadcasting Company NBC 1956. Draft script for the 48th episode of season six of the 1950-1957 television series originally aired on September 6 1956 on NBC. Copy belonging to actor Johnny Crawford with his name in manuscript pencil to the title page and his manuscript annotations throughout. A woman must make a difficult decision when the exposure of her husband's criminal activities threatens to drive the family out of town and into hiding. Brown titled wrappers. Title page present dated August 15 1956 with credits for screenwriter Thomas Patrick Cullinan. 110 leaves with last page of text numbered III - 40. Mimeograph duplication on eye-rest green stock rectos only with yellow revision pages throughout dated 8/28/56. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. National Broadcasting Company [NBC] unknown books
2002ref. 174612Minneapolis MN: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts 2002. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. 256 pages. Essays by Elizabeth Carpenter and Joseph Ruzicka. Includes numerous color and black and white illustrations. A fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket. Signed by Dine on the half title page in marker. Uncommon thus. The Minneapolis Institute of Arts unknown books
1965ref. 175974np: np 1965. First edition. Softcover. Includes 9 loose sheets. Text in English and French. One sheet features a short essay by Denys Chevalier one sheet includes a chronology and another a llist of previous exhibitions. The other six sheets include a total of 17 black and white illustrations and information about them. All sheets in close to near fine condition with a few small spots and in a near fine folded cardstock sheet with some minor wear and it features a black and white image of Charpentier. Uncommon with only 5 copies listed in OCLC. np unknown books
1956ref. 171239Boston MA: Bookbuilders Workshop 1956. First edition. Softcover. Number 87 of only 100 copies that were designed hand-set and printed by Arnold Paul Sable. Printed on Flemish Book paper and with Deepdenand Lydian sans-serif types. A collection of 14 poems by Carpenter. A near fine copy in string-tied wrappers with some very minor wear. An attractive and nicely printed book. Uncommon with only 6 copies listed in OCLC and no copies currently in commerce as of July 2020. Bookbuilders Workshop unknown books
2006ref. 143084Cincinnati OH: Cincinnati Art Museum 2006. First edition. Softcover. 119 pages. Includes numerous color illustrations. A very good copy in wrappers with a small edge tear to the top of the rear panel and some other slight wear. Uncommon. Cincinnati Art Museum unknown books
1855ref. 5190Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea 1855. Hardcover. Brown embossed boards. Very good. 178 pages. 20 x 13 cm. Carpenter attempts to give abstinence a physiological and scientific foundation rather than relying solely on moral persuasion. A medical contribution to the nineteenth-century temperance debate first published in 1850 following Carpenter's award of a hundred-guinea essay prize. Interior clean and crisp. Previous owner's book plate on interior of front cover. Covers rubbed at corners. Blanchard and Lea hardcover books
1988ref. 53520London: Secker & Warburg 1988. First printing. Near fine in near fine jacket. First UK edition of this story of a survivalist's attempt to build an ark - à la Noah but with people - by at the time "Japan's foremost living novelist." 8.5'' x 5.25''. Original dark blue cloth silver lettered spine. In original unclipped £11.95 color pictorial jacket designed by Peter Dyer. Lavender endpapers. 4 342 pages. Jacket with trace edgewear. Book with light toning to leaves else crisp and clean. Secker & Warburg unknown books
1910ref. 50469Washington DC: Carnegie Institution of Washington 1910. Publication no. 123. Ex-library with bookplate tipped to inside front wrapper the library card tucked into an envelope tipped to inside bottom wrapper and "Date Due" lined card facing the library card. Original printed wrappers. Large chip on top left corner of top wrapper as well as a few tears and more samall chips. Bottom wrapper slightly soiled. Good/-. 102pp. Text illustrations. Tables. 32 figs. Carnegie Institution of Washington unknown books
1860ref. 50276London 1860. London 30 June 1860. Bifolium. 4pp. 180 x 111 mm. A few pin-holes but fine otherwise. From English physiologist and naturalist William B. Carpenter who "helped shape the modern life sciences in Britain Oxford DNB through both his writings and his work as a teacher and administrator at what is now the University of London. Carpenter performed valuable researches in marine zoology and was directly influential in persuading the British Admiralty to sponsor the Challenger expedition the first major scientific study of the deep oceans. Carpenter is also recognized as one of the founders of the modern theory of the adaptive unconscious-he observed that the human perceptual system and the mechanism of human thought operates almost completely outside of conscious awareness. Carpenter's correspondent was the police magistrate and author John Paget. "I cannot let Mrs. Carpenter be the only one to express our hearty appreciation of the kind feeling on the part of Mrs. Paget and yourself by which the beautiful gift which we had the pleasure of receiving from you yesterday has been prompted as well as our admiration of the combined elegance and utility of the gift itself. Since its arrival Mrs. Carpenter has for the first time informed me that she had been taken into your counsels in the matter; and I am very glad that without any intention of her own your gift should have taken a form that so appropriately made her a participator in it. For her interest in Guy and her constant solicitude for his welfare have been as I need scarcely tell you in no degree inferior to my own. It gives us both great pleasure to have so substantial an expression of the satisfaction felt by Mrs. Paget and yourself in what we have endeavoured to do for him; and we trust with her that the influences and associations of early years may be pleasantly and usefully kept up on both sides by the continued friendship of our boys as they advance in life. With kindest wishes for the welfare and happiness of Mrs. Paget yourself and your family believe me Dear Mr. Paget always yours most sincerely William B. Carpenter." . unknown books
1859ref. 50277Holy Island Scotland 1859. Bifolium. 4pp. 183 x 114 mm. A few pin-holes small marginal tear but very good. From English physiologist and naturalist William B. Carpenter who "helped shape the modern life sciences in Britain Oxford DNB through both his writings and his work as a teacher and administrator at what is now the University of London. Carpenter performed valuable researches in marine zoology and was directly influential in persuading the British Admiralty to sponsor the Challenger expedition the first major scientific study of the deep oceans. Carpenter is also recognized as one of the founders of the modern theory of the adaptive unconscious--he observed that the human perceptual system and the mechanism of human thought operates almost completely outside of conscious awareness. Carpenter's correspondent was the wife of police magistrate and author John Paget. On the death of his mother-in-law: I feel sure that you will be sadly interested in learning that we received two days ago the unexpected intelligence of the death of Mrs. Powell which took place quite suddely on the night of the 30th. She had been failing for some time and seemed to suffer much from disappointment in regard to the affair of the pension having a great wish to be independent of the assistance of her friends and strongly desiring that her father's service to the nation should be acknowledged . . . There was not the least indication of suffering quite the contrary . . . So that I quite believe that she must have passed from the unconsciousness of sleep into that of death. For her and for all those who were interested for her I am satisfied that this will be felt the most desirable termination . . . . unknown books
1937ref. 264741East 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. 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. This book was given out on New Years Day at the "DuPont Calling" party. Czech p. 32 "a very small quantity" Done into this book by the Roycrofters unknown books
1852ref. 255002London: George Routledge & Co 1852. Second Edition. Hand-colored frontispiece black and whilte illustrations in text. 1 vols. 16mo. Half contemporary green morocco and marbled boards title-page with small repair signed by Oliver Rogers. Second Edition. Hand-colored frontispiece black and whilte illustrations in text. 1 vols. 16mo. A reissue of Bogue's edition of 1848 with new title page and colored frontispiece of flies. Westwood & Satchell p. 50 George Routledge & Co unknown books
1937ref. 352498East 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. Publisher's brown faux leather over thin boards lettered in gilt patterned glassine dust wrapper. Fine copy. First edition. Frontispiece map and 10 photographic ililustrations. 34 1 pp. 1 vols. 12mo 17x13 cm 6-3â„4 x5-1â„4 inches. Czech p. 32 "a very small quantity" Done into this book by the Roycrofters unknown books
1805ref. 4040Charleston South Carolina: Printed at the Office of the Charleston Courier 1805. First Edition. Fair. 8vo. 3-127 INCOMPLETE: lacking half-title title-page here in facsimile and pp. 93-127 paperstock browned throughout p. 5 stained and a little soiled. Recent sympathetic wrappers title written in ink on upper cover. Described in 1893 as "One of the rarest of American trials" Catalogue of the Extraordinary Collection of Law Trials made by the late Edmund B. Wynn no. 1275. Whereas our copy is significantly incomplete we invite all haters to find another but please be patient because no copy complete or otherwise has appeared at auction since 1963. McDade explains that this is "an unusual case at Goosecreek South Carolina in which the wife's lover murdered her husband outside the house and put the body in bed with the wife who attempted to conceal the crime. He was convicted and hanged. She with Southern consideration for womankind was acquitted" but nonetheless she was scorned shamed and humiliated for violating her marriage vow. But the trial was of national significance because "the Nettles-Cannon Trial gives a preliminary glimpse of the scope of state efforts to transform the criminal justice system in the first decades after the ramification of the Constitution and suggests some of the reasons those efforts remained incomplete" Dale p. 23. "The trial of Joshua Nettles and Elizabeth Cannon 1805 who presumably conspired to kill Cannon's husband serves as an example to show how key actors in the process from the detection of a crime to the actual trial were ordinary members of the community how legal arguments had little impact on the outcome of the trial how jurors judged the law rather than the facts or how Nettles did not appeal his eventual conviction. The state and the people in this period cooperated in order to achieve justice." Birte Christ 2012 review of Elizabeth Dale's "Criminal Justice in the United States 1789-1939" online at H-Soz-Kult. Dale discusses the significance of the trial on pp. 23-30. Finally: "The S.C. Carpenter reports on these two cases may be the earliest surviving records of full trial proceedings in South Carolina." W. Lewis Burke "A History of the Opening Statement From Barristers to Corporate Lawyers: A Case Study of South Carolina" in: American Journal of Legal History 1993 vol. XXXVII p. 38. This trial was featured in the 2014-2015 exhibition of "Murder and Women in 19th-Century America Trial Accounts in the Yale Law Library." COMMENT: This copy contains the complete transcripts of the witness testimonies and cross-examinations and all the arguments of the DEFENSE pleaded by the lawyers of Joshua Nettles and Elizabeth Cannon. It does not contain "The Defense Being Gone Through The Attorney-General Rose in reply and said: May it please your Honor" etc. The Attorney-General's text continues through pp. 93-114; following it is "The Judge's Charge" pp. 115-124 and an unrelated account of the execution of Richard Dennis Jun. which was appended to this edition because "it came too late to be published with the trial of Dennis and is therefore according to promise published with that of Nettles" pp. 125-127. CENSUS OF COPIES ON THE MARKET SINCE 1885: 1. Goodspeed's 1963 Catalogue 511 apparently it had appeared in Goodspeed's 1940 and 1943 catalogues. Prior to that we located the following copies at auction all of which took place 106 years ago or more: 2. John C. Brady Esq. copy sold at Henkels 19 Oct. 1917 lot 380; 3. Maj. Edward Willis copy sold at Henkels 29 Oct. 1914 lot 527; 4. Hon. Samuel C. Cobb copy sold at Anderson Galleries 30 March 1906 lot 560; 5. John H.V. Arnold Esq. copy sold at Bangs 23 April 1900 lot 1362; 6. Edmund B. Wynn copy sold at Bangs 7 Feb. 1893 lot 1275; 7. W. Elliot Woodward's 74th Sale: Trials and Criminal Biography sold at Bangs 19 April 1885 lot 1130. Sabin 11005. McDade Annals of Murder no. 715. Printed at the Office of the Charleston Courier unknown books
