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2015réf. 1379124Monterey: Larkspur Press 2015. Hardcover. Octavo 58 pages. In Very Good condition with Very Good dust jacket. White spine with black text. Dust jacket is protected by mylar covering and has mild shelf wear. Textblock clean. Shelved Poetry. 1379124. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Larkspur Press hardcover books
1982réf. 28363Salisbury Wiltshire: Michael Russell 1982. Near Fine/Very Good. Salisbury Wiltshire: Michael Russell 1982. First Edition Limited to 150 signed copies of which this is no. 28. Slim 12mo; publisher's green cloth pictorial paste-on to upper cover in original glassine dust jacket; 48pp.; woodcut frontispiece illus. throughout. A hint of shelf wear glassine a bit wrinkled else a Fine example. Signed by Pritchett and Theroux on limitation page. Michael Russell unknown books
1845réf. 007972London: Printed for Thomas Tegg 1845. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. New Edition. Tall 8vo. Very Good in contemporary half pebbled brown morocco over marbled boards spine with five raised bands and lettered in gilt marbled end papers the bookplate of noted Celtic language and folklore scholar Edgar M. Slotkin front paste down along with a small bookseller's label. Prior owner name top edge verso front end page. Boards rubbed at edges binding solid contents quite clean and unmarked. A scholar's copy. Printed for Thomas Tegg Hardcover books
réf. 4011Newark. N.J.:: The Library Printed by the Baker Printing Co. . Not illustrated; 23 pp. 8vo gray stiff wrappers front printed. OCLC shows 2 copies at the Newark Public Library.Page 4 contains a short quotation vy Edward Fairbrother Strange Keeper of Woodwork at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London; expert on Japanese and Chinese Art and author of Japanese Illustration; a History of the Arts of Wood-Cutting and Colour Printing in Japan. Pages 5–12 describes the process used and a brief history of the art; pages 13–19 contain a list of the prints; pages 20–23 has a list of books on the subject. [Newark. N.J.:: The Library, Printed by the Baker Printing Co.], ,. unknown books
1829réf. List3693Philadelphia 1829. Folio 2 pp. Tear to title page some chips to margins with loss good condition overall. An early Philadelphia theatrical music imprint by I. T. Norton credited on the sheet as “I. T. Norton R.A.M. Composer & Director of the Music to the Chestnut St. Theatre.” Norton served as musical director at the Second Chestnut Street Theatre during the late 1820s a period when the house mounted a mixture of melodrama burletta opera excerpts and popular entertainments requiring resident musical supervision and arrangement. Theatre directors of music routinely composed incidental numbers glees and topical songs for stage performance and subsequent publication bridging the repertory of live performance and domestic music-making. Mister Punchinello! draws upon the well-known Punch and Judy puppet tradition. The text is lyrically straightforward built around the repeated refrain “Oh mamma I must be married to Mister Punchinello” suggesting a number intended for accessible vocal delivery rather than elaborate dramatic structure. The R.A.M. designation appended to Norton’s name—presented without elaboration on the imprint—appears as a professional credential typical of early nineteenth-century music publishing though he very well may have never attended the Royal Academy of Music. A representative survival from the intersection of Philadelphia theatre culture and early American sheet music production. OCLC locates about a dozen copies across multiple entries. unknown books
réf. 001420London: Dean and Son. First edition presumed. Paper on boards. Fair. N.d. circa 1850s. Folio 13.5 by 10 inches. Not paginated 33 leaves including title page with printing on only one side per leaf. Wonderful hand-colored illustrations by unnamed artists but many with the qualiy of Tenniel. Some form part of a loose story narrative and others are part of a looser verse bond. Particularly appealing are the feline illustrations which come in several places most notably part of "The Cat Party". The leaves do not appear to have been bound in a proper order as this particular narrative moves in reverse. It is all somewhat chaotic yet charmingly so. Also a stand-out is the imagery of the "London Toy Warehouse". While some of the animal imagery is straightforward and pedestrian this is more than dominated by that which is humorous unexpected and inspired. The book was surely intended both to instruct and amuse and it is this twin objective that underlies its dual tone. The boards which are covered by illustrated paper pasted on are soiled and chewed up in the corners and the edges are rough. There are a fair number of closed tears inside near the front that were less than deftly repaired with tape some of which remains. Some soilage throughout. Still most of the imagery remains bright and appealing. Dean and Son unknown books
1923réf. 1401458Soho: The Nonesuch Press 1923. Limited reprint edition #260 of 725. Hardcover. Tall narrow thin octavo 52 pages. In Very Good condition. In gold hardcovers with white spine and gilt text. Moderate shelf wear to boards. Rubbing wear and light bumping along edges. Text block is lightly age toned throughout with untrimmed edges. Shelved in Case #0. 1401458. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Nonesuch Press hardcover books
1926réf. 175197Paris: Collection des Arts 1926. Limited this being Number 212 of 365 copies. Paperback. VG. Printed cream wraps with remnants sof glassine jacket. 80 pp. with 11 full-page ttissue guarded color plates and 18 additional color illustrations within the text as well as 4 bw illustrations. Text is in French. One of 300 copies printed of De Rives Paper. Collection des Arts paperback books
1971réf. 1391357Santa Cruz CA: Kayak Books Inc 1971. First Paperback Edition First Printing. Softcover. Octavo 55 pages. In Good condition. Tan spine with red lettering. Covers have mild shelving wear moderate bending wear along the tail fore corners mild water damage along the front fore edge and moderate age-toning throughout. Textblock has mild water damage along the fore edges from the front end-page to page 20 light soiling throughout mild wear along the edges and moderate age-toning throughout. Signed flat by Philip Levine on the title page. NOTE: Shelved in Room Z. 1391357. Special Collections - Downstairs. Kayak Books, Inc unknown books
1952réf. 88790Mexico: Ediciones Amigos del Café París 1952. Softcover. Octavo 24cm; beige paper wrappers; upper and lower edges untrimmed; 317pp; black-and-white illustrations. Some pages of text unopened. Modest shelf-wear with soil to wrappers and edges of textblock and trace peeling to spine titling; Very Good. Fiction work examines social history of the Mezquital Valley region in Mexico. 88790. Ediciones Amigos del Café París unknown books
1929réf. 88417Paris: Librairie Hachette 1929. Reprint originally published in 1872. Octavo 27cm; red cloth-covered boards with titling and decorations stamped in gilt and black on spine and front cover and decoration blind stamped to rear cover; gilt topstain; iv12-2042pp; black-and-white vignettes to frontispiece and throughout. Text in French. La Grande Librairie sticker to lower rear pastedown. Lightly spine-faded with light oxidation to spine titling slight spine lean shelf-wear and faint tanning to page margins; Very Good. "From the 1870s on JV's work tended to repeat itself in gradually darkening hues though he never lost the sense of the fundamental usableness of science and technology a sense vital to 20-century sf science fiction where - as with JV - usableness tends to serve as its own justification" see Clute & Nicholls The Encycopedia of Science Fiction p.1277. CLUTE & NICHOLLS p. 1277. 88417. Librairie Hachette unknown books
réf. 88418Paris: Librairie Hachette n.d. Reprint originally published in 1869. Octavo 27cm; red cloth-covered boards with titling and decorations stamped in gilt and black on spine and front cover and decoration blind stamped to rear cover; gilt topstain; iv12-180pp; black-and-white illustrations to frontispiece and throughout. Text in French. Lightly spine-faded with light oxidation to spine titling small chips to gilt of front cover titling slight spine lean shelf-wear faint tanning to page margins and hinge starting at half-title page and pp.172-173; Good. Sequel to De la Terre à la Lune 1865 both written during Verne's prime and heavily altered with later translations and cuts. CLUTE & NICHOLLS p. 1277. 88418. Librairie Hachette unknown books
1969réf. 009593San Francisco: Kayak Press 1969. Book. Very Good Plus. Pictorial Printed Wrappers. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SIGNED BY AUTHOR at front end page. His 2nd book. Printed in an edition of 1000 copies. Very Good Plus bottom corner crease rear wrapper spine and half of rear wrapper evenly browned. Kayak Press Paperback books
1805réf. 1317131London; Edinburgh: William Miller; The Letter Press by James Ballantyne 1805. Hardcover. Quarto iii 197 pages; VG; bound in period blind and gilt calf newly rebacked with brown leather paneled spine with a black label and gilt lettering; marbled text block and endpapers; mild rubbing and wear to boards; bookplate of the Countess of Beauchamp on the ffep; ownership stamp on sfep; with 4 engraved plates and an engraved headpiece vignette; wide margins. Shelved Room A Oversize. The History of Rasselas Prince of Abissinia originally titled The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale though often abbreviated to Rasselas is an apologue about happiness by Samuel Johnson. Early readers considered Rasselas to be a work of philosophical and practical importance and critics often remark on the difficulty of classifying it as a novel.1 Johnson was a staunch opponent of slavery revered by abolitionists and Rasselas became a name adopted by emancipated slaves. wikipedia. 1317131. Special Collections. William Miller; The Letter Press by James Ballantyne hardcover books
1900réf. D9232c. 1900. Hardcover. Very Good. Mottled cloth; oblong 170 x 140 mm; contains 50 photographs mounted direct to the recto and verso of black leaves. Most are silver prints plus a platinum a large image of breaking waves and a cyanotype; average size about 4 x 2.75 inches with some a bit smaller or larger. Backstrip torn; a few leaves detached. Taken by or related to an artist who appears to have specialized in architectural ornamentation. Includes snapshots depicting figures and buildings from different vantage points views of the studio including a close-up of drawings pinned to the wall a besmocked artist in front of an easel scenes of family a besmocked artist in front of an easel. And kittens! Plus a cyanotype of a classroom. hardcover books
1989réf. 327176San Francisco: North Point Press 1989. 56p. illustrated signed by Berry on the title page first trade edition hardcover bound in decorative boards and green quarter-cloth slight toning to top quarter of the boards otherwise in very good condition. Originally published in a limited edition of 150 copies by the Press of Appletree Alley. North Point Press unknown books
1964réf. 240569Iowa City: Printed for the author at The Stone Wall Press 1964. Hardcover. 20p. 8x5 inches landscape layout preface woodcuts tissue guards rubricated title page #169/250 limited first edition thus in sewn blue boards and gilt. Printed for the author at The Stone Wall Press hardcover books
1925réf. 34365Bale: Heufeld & Henius 1925. Limited. hardcover. very good. Illustrated with 48 handsomely printed color plates mounted on heavy art paper protected with numbered tissue guards. No text other than title and list of plates. Slim folio original 1/2 blue calf over patterned boards with ornate gilt-decorated spine. Bale: Heufeld & Henius no date circa 1925. A very good copy of this unusual book. One of 260 numbered copies. Heufeld & Henius unknown books
1843réf. 47974Leipzig: Verlagsbuchhandlung von J. J. Weber 1843. First edition. Hardcover. poor to vg. Quarto. 40 leaves 38 hand-colored plates some of them with tissue guards including frontispiece. Bound in three-quarter brown leather over marbled boards. Double-framed half-title. Frontispiece. Double-framed half-title and illustrated title page with black double frame. Collection of plates by the celebrated and decorated French military painter and printmaker Hippolyte Bellangé. His work was included into the 1855 Exposition Universelle a major event in France exhibiting agricultural and industrial products and the fine arts. All plates signed Bellangé in plates. OCLC lists only one copy with this title in the University and City Library of Cologne. This OCLC listing refers to an 1844 publication by the publisher J. J. Weber a volume with 364 pages and fifty original drawings of all types of military corps and uniforms of the French Republic and the Empire by Hippolyte Bellangé. Our copy with the original title page is dated 1843 and contains thirty-eight lithographs on the subject without any text but the captions in the double-framed pages. The collection contains images of generals officers and soldiers from different corps of the French army from 1795 to 1814 with many of the plates not dated. Conceivably this copy was a limited pre-publication bound by the publisher in 1843 during preparations for the 1844 copy. The indication of this being a limited edition is typed only onto a label glued to the front free endpaper. In addition our copy contains an oval paper label with handwriting pasted to the front cover as well as two strips with imagery of French soldiers lined up printed in color glued to top and bottom of the cover. The copy contains four additional color printed strips of soldiers one glued to the inside front cover two to the front free endpaper and one to the half-title. The number of soldiers depicted on each strip varies. The oval paper label on the front cover contains the name Adolf Brougier and the year 1877 in calligraphy and the title in English in a different handwriting. The front free endpaper also contains a paper label with typed title subtitle and publisher's information glued in between the two printed strips. Publisher's information on this label ends with "Limited" but no printed indication of limitation. The Ex Libris on the inside front cover is from Robert Florey the French-American film director screenwriter and actor. Laid in a cutout lithograph of a cavalry officer 7 x 5" cut with black printed borders partially visible. Text in German. Wear along edges small chips and scuffing with spine missing except two narrow leather strips at head and tail. Some sporadic foxing hardly effecting lithographs small closed tears and rubbing throughout. Some penciled numbers in margins outside of lithograph borders. Starting at two places with one plate loose held only with tan paper tape at top. Some of the plates reinforced with tape at gutter. Binding in poor plates in very good condition. Adolf Brougier. Painter etcher. Born in Stuttgart Germany in 1870. Brougier studied art in France and Germany. He exhibited portraits and landscapes in Los Angeles for ten years before his death in Santa Barbara CA on March 11 1926. Exh: Curtis Gallery LA 1924; Holland & Garrison Gallery LA 1924. Ben; AAW; SCA; DR; AAA 1926; LA Times 3-12-1926 obit. Verlagsbuchhandlung von J. J. Weber hardcover books
réf. B196190-1Genève 1979. 115 1pp. 1 double-page color lithograph. 204 catalogue illus. 4 text figs. 4to. Wraps. Genève, 1979. paperback books
1958réf. 263089New York: Thomas Yoseloff Inc 1958. Signed. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. #23 of 100 copies Signed by Robert Graves and illustrator James Metcalf. The dustjacket presents nicely with small chip at the top of the spine and two small chips at the top of the rear panel. There is modest loss to the bottom of the spine and a piece at the bottom has been reattached from the verso using heat-set tissue. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket. Thomas Yoseloff, Inc unknown books
1893réf. 40313Paris: Damascène Morgand 1893. First edition no. 571 of 550 copies on Papier Vergé of a Total Edition of 600. 675 pp. 1 vols. Thick 8vo. Bound in three quarter green morocco and marbled boards t.e.g. Fine. First edition no. 571 of 550 copies on Papier Vergé of a Total Edition of 600. 675 pp. 1 vols. Thick 8vo. Damascène Morgand unknown books
1996réf. 1378311New York: Random House 1996. First American Edition. Hardcover. Quarto 83 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine black with red and white lettering. Dust jacket protected in mylar covering. Minor shelf wear. Scuffing to rear cover. Textblock clean. Features full-page photographs throughout. Shelved in Case 11. 1378311. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Random House hardcover books
1912réf. 292504Richmond: Clarence E. Weaver; W. C. Hill Print. Co 1912. Original Wrappers. Good binding. Issued in the Spring of 1912 this tourist guidebook has photographic illustrations throughout accompanied with explanatory text. 48 pp. plus 2 ads. Rebound in burgundy cloth with the printed wrappers bound in. Illustrations throughout. Because of the protection of the later binding the wrappers are quite bright.~With the bookplate of Claude Monteiro of Richmond descendant of Confederate surgeon Aristides Monteiro.~~This guidebook is local item for us. Having said that this is but the second copy we have had. Uncommon with but a single copy found on OCLC. Good binding. Clarence E. Weaver; W. C. Hill Print. Co unknown books
réf. 009824England 1808: Alnwick Printed By W. Davison Book. Very Good Plus. Hardcover. Later Edition. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 1 preliminary leaf illustrated title page ix-xxvi pages 1 leaf 29-198 pages 1 leaf including plates frontispiece. Bound in contemporary pebbled calf covers with central floral decoratios in gilt surrounded by decoratibve gilt border and two rules back gilt marbled end papers all edges gilt. Very Good Plus back gilt dulled and sunned light wear at spine ends and corners. Some of the illustrations toward the back are thought to be by Bewick. Alnwick, Printed By W. Davison Hardcover books
