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1836réf. 28038New Haven and Hartford: Published and Sold by John W. Barber and A. Willard 1836. Very Good. New Haven and Hartford: Published and Sold by John W. Barber and A. Willard 1836. First Edition. Octavo; full contemporary gilt-tooled calf gilt spine lacking label all edges marbled marbled endpapers; 560pp.; hand-colored folding map; six plates; numerous in-text illustrations. Boards worn and scuffed with chipping to extremities split at top of spine heavier rubbing and surface fractures to spine and front board bowed towards fore-edge binding otherwise sound. Map toned with a few splits along folds else intact and sound. Ownership inscriptions of Joseph H. Clayton to endpapers along with his inscription presenting the volume to the Library of Harmony Lodge. Clayton is also listed in the subscriber list at rear with residence listed as New Haven. Very Good copy of a scarce local history uncommon with the hand-colored map. . Published and Sold by John W. Barber and A. Willard unknown books
1754réf. 14538London: Printed for the Proprietors and sold by James Hodges at the Looking-Glass facing St. Magnus Church London-Bridge 1754. Hardcover. fair. Lg. folio. 680pp. Contemporary calf encased in clear plastic by previous owner. Front board split along spine but still attached to plastic. Raised bands. Age wearing throughout binding. Chipping to head and tail of spine and front corners. Scuffing rubbing staining and discoloration to boards and spine. Hinges starting. No endpapers. Usual age browning to pages not affecting text or plates. Minor rippling to pages. Lightly foxed throughout. Ferdinando Warner 1703-1768 was a celebrated Irish preacher historian and multifarious author. Illustrated with three full page engravings. Originally this edition was published with four plates. Most likely the one missing here is the frontispiece. Binding in poor interior in very good condition. Printed for the Proprietors, and sold by James Hodges, at the Looking-Glass, facing St. Magnus Church, London-Bridge hardcover books
1949réf. WALTER-FILM007249Warner Brothers. No binding. Fine. Los Angeles: Warner Brothers 1949. Collection of twenty-one 8 x 10" 20 x 25 cm black-and-white glossy silver gelatin photos. National Screen Service embossed on most ink stamps on verso overall fine. Many of Ayn Rand's most dramatic story moments from this adaptation of her novel The Fountainhead are captured in this group of scene and publicity photos including the principal stars Gary Cooper Patricia Neal and Raymond Massey. Photos coded: 707-12 19 22 36 37 62 64 69 89 100 114 634 678 684 688 907 932 937 939 949 and one of Patricia Neal and Raymond Massey in the office for which the number is not visible. Warner Brothers books
1923réf. NF418713 GOLF MAGAZINES FROM 1923 THRU 1928 being 2 issues of THE AMERICAN GOLFER 1 issue of GOLF ILLUSTRATED & 10 issues GOLFERS MAGAZINE Centurion Publishers Incorporated Golf Illustrated Inc. & Golfers Magazine respectively first editions some soiling and wear and tear but overall vg issues with just about fine contents most being in color pictorial wraps. Contributions by: Walter Hagen Gene Sarazen Francis Ouimet Ring Lardner Chester G. Horton Chick Evans James Warner Bellah James Montgomery Flagg et.al. with marvelous photographs of just about anyone you can name during this era of golfing history as well as photos of famous places courses & holes not to mention those marvelous advertisements. Centurion Publishers Incorporated, Golf Illustrated, Inc. & Golfers Magazine paperback books
réf. 602719"Warner Oland" in black fountain pen on 1/2 length portrait wearing a sport coat with sweater. Photograph is on heavy stock; 5 1/4" x 9 3/4"; very good fresh; no date but circa 1932. Signed and inscribed: "Sincerely Warner Oland." Warner Oland 1897-1938 born Johan Verner Ölund October 3 1879 Nyby Vasterbottens Ian Sweden; died August 6 1938 Stockholm Sweden; the screen's most prolific Caucasian delineator of Asian characters this Swedish actor earned immortality as Earl Derr Biggers' famous Hawaiian-Chinese detective Charlie Chan. Signed by Authors. F. Soft cover. paperback books
réf. 8443Hartford: American Publishing Company 1874. Hardcover. 8vo full sheep. 574 2 pp. Frontis. 1 folding plate numerous illus. Small early owner's ticket affixed to upper left corner of front paste-down. CONDITION: Very good moderately rubbed nick to upper right corner of title label at spine; a pleasing copy. First edition of Twain's first novel whose title forever branded the post-Civil War era and its greed here bound in full publisher's sheep in a very nice state of preservation. BAL describes a "genuine title page" dated 1873 but copies are found with title pages dated both 1873 and 1874 with the text in both early and late states. Moreover it is known that when the book was issued at Christmas in 1873 that the first sixty copies bound which were sent to reviewers were in wrappers and had title pages dated 1874. Additionally Charles Dudley Warner inscribed a copy to his mother on December 24th 1873 that has an 1874 title-page. The present example dated 1874 has all the textual first issue points except for the repetition of lines pp. 352-353 beginning "Let him keep it." which are here in the corrected state. REFERENCES: BAL 3357. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1874 unknown books
1932réf. 25080701London: William Jackson Books Ltd Books 1-4 and Joiner & Steele Ltd. Books 5-12 Printed at the Chiswick Press 1932. Hardcover. Near fine. Garnett R.A.; Austen John; Gibbings Robert; Papé Frank C.; Odle Alan; Garwood Tirzah; Hilder Rowland; Kermode William; Grant Duncan; Moon P.V.; Leighton Clare; Wolfe Edward. Each volume one of 550 copies quarto size approx. 650 total pages each volume signed by the author. The "Furnival Books" were a series of shorter works from young authors some of whom would go on to be considered the best of their day. The brainchild of bookseller and publisher A. W. Steele he published these limited edition copies under two imprints but the entire series of twelve books were all printed by the Chiswick Press between 1930 and 1932. One of the great bonuses of this series are the frontispiece illustrations several by some of my own favourite artists: John Austen Robert Gibbings Frank Papé and Clare Leighton. Particulars on the twelve books are as follows: 1 Powys T.F.; Warner Sylvia Townsend Foreword; Garnett R.A. Woodcut "The Key of the Field" 1930 no. 12 39 pp.; 2 Bates H.E.; Garnett Edward Foreword; Austen John Line Engraving "The Hessian Prisoner: 1930 no. 477 42 pp.; 3 Coppard A.E.; Gibbings Robert Woodcut "The Man From Kilsheelan" 1930 no. 180 38 pp.; 4 Davies Rhys; O'Flaherty Liam Foreword; Papé Frank C. Illustration "The Stars The World and The Women"1930 no. 135 53 pp.; 5 Hanley James; Aldington Richard Foreword; Odle Alan Frontispiece "The Last Voyage" 1931 no. 232 73 pp.; 6 Strong L.A.G.; Coppard A.E. Foreword; Garwood Tirzah Frontispiece "The Big Man" 1931 no. 267 45 pp.; 7 Manhood H.A.; Williamson Henry Foreword; Hilder Rowland Frontispiece "Little Peter the Great" 1931 no. 368 95 pp.; 8 Warner Sylvia Townsend; Powys T.F. Foreword; Kermode William Frontispiece "A Moral Ending" also containing "A Parting Gift" and "How to Succeed in Life" 1931 no. 468 47 pp.; 9 Garnett David; Bates H.E. Foreword; Grant Duncan Frontis "A Terrible Day" 1932 no. 148 37 pp.; 10 O'Flaherty Liam; Davies Rhys Foreword; Moon P.V. Frontis "The Wild Swan" also containing "It Was the Devil's Work" and "Unclean" 1932 no. 121 60 pp.; 11 Benson Stella; West Geoffrey Foreword; Leighton Clare Frontis "Christmas Formula" also containing "Tchotl" and "A Dream" 1932 no. 419 67 pp.; and 12 Collier John; Sitwell Osbert Foreword; Wolfe Edward Frontis "Green Thoughts" 1932 no. 45 56 pp. ___DESCRIPTION: The volumes all of a uniform design with each bound in a different colour of cloth each with the title in gilt on both the front board and the spine the author in gilt towards the bottom of the front board year of publication in gilt at the tail of the spine top edges gilt the limitation pages found before the half-titles each signed by the author each volume with a frontispiece by different artists; binding quarto size 10 1/8" by 6 3/8" pagination as set forth above. ___CONDITION: The set near fine overall the boards on most volumes clean vol. 2 with a thin line on the back board which appears to be some sort of residue vol. 9 with small spot of soil on the front board and vol. 12 with what appears to be offsetting from the glue the corners on most volumes straight and unrubbed but a few volumes lightly bumped and with minimal rubbing strong square text blocks with solid hinges the interiors clean and bright and the set entirely free of prior owner markings; several volumes with sunning to the boards and most volumes with the spines sunned. Still overall a lovely set a few condition issues to the bindings the interiors fine we noted several signatures unopened. ___POSTAGE: Please note that the combined size and weight of this set will necessitate additional postage please inquire for details; International customers also please note that any taxes duty or tariffs charged by your country will of necessity be your responsibility. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. William Jackson (Books) Ltd (Books 1-4) [and] Joiner & Steele, Ltd. (Books 5-12) [Printed at the Chiswick Press] hardcover books
1877réf. 886Vernon Township Richland County Ohio 1877. Folio. 310 x 200 mm. 13 x 8 inches. Manuscript in ink. 500 pp. missing the first 3 pages. Contemporary calf well worn spine separating. Paper stock a bit brown with age; final 30 pages and lower board damaged by water. With faults a legible and useful history of Vernon Ohio. Valuable compilation of early records for the town of Vernon Ohio which was organized March 9 1825 out of the north half of Sandusky and was at this time six miles square. The population in 1840 was about one thousand. After 1845 Vernon became part of Crawford County and is well watered by the tributaries of the Sandusky River. This 'clerk's book' contains records of indenture cattle ear marks election results and an alphabetized census of "white male persons subject to perform military duties" taken in 1844. In addition there are local ordinances testimonials and depositions on town issues records of road condition and expenditures to maintain them land conveyances surety bonds and trustee services and miscellaneous town financial business as recorded by the town clerk. In addition to the records of town business and there are recorded a number of indentures from local women binding their sons to local farmers to learn the business of running a farm. In March of 1841 Mary Ann Nicolin is recorded as making an indenture for her son John the Baptist Nicolin age seven with Thomas Roe for four years. The contract outlines the terms of the indenture and mentoring that John the Baptist Nicolin will receive from Mr. Roe. Another example is an indenture between Barbara Brown and Peter Bauer binding her son age seven to Bauer until he reaches the age eighteen. One can only guess what the situation was that compelled Mrs. Brown to apprentice her boy for eleven years to local farmer to learn the trade of farming. John Warner and George Keller were town clerks both coming from York County Pennsylvania in 1837 as did several of the other early settlers to Vernon. Names of dozens of other early settlers who populated Crawford County are found in these records with information on their lively hoods and positions in society. "This section of country presents the evidence of real prosperity. It is inhabited largely by industrious energetic and hardy people who came from Pennsylvania Maryland and other Middle States." 886 . unknown books
réf. 1389623New York: Arno Press 1972 - 1977. Facsimile Editions. Hardcover. Octavos fifty-five Volumes. In Good condition. Black spines with red lettering. Half bound in black cloth with red cloth boards. Boards show light plus bumping to edges fading and discoloration to some spines cocking to boards white discoloration to edges and light shelf wear overall. Textblocks have minimal age toning occasional instances of foxing to edges and sparse pencil annotations to text. 20 Books in 55 Volumes. Including: St. Margaret's Cave Netley Abbey The Monk Of Udolpho Priory Of St. Bernard Count St. Blanchard The Abbey Of St. Asaph The Abbess The Abbot Of Montserrat The Fatal Revenge The Wild Irish Boy Barozzi The Bravo Of Venice Grasville Abbey The Romance Of The Forest The Recess The Albigenses Gaston De Blondeville Manfroné The Castles Of Athlin And Dunbayne and Nocturnal Visit. 1389623. Special Collections - Downstairs. Arno Press hardcover books
1845réf. 55313Philadelphia: V. F & M. F. Harrison no. 27 South Eighth Street 1845. Bust-length mezzotint portrait approx. 22½" x 16½" overall; image size: 12" x 9¾" taken from a daguerreotype; lightly foxed several short creases and breaks in the margins; all else very good. Includes a facsimile of his signature. "Copies were sold in Providence by Abraham Stillwell a local bookseller. Stillwell began advertising the sale of the likeness of Dorr beginning with the June 20 1842 issue of the Providence Daily Express. Stillwell's ad read 'GOV. DORR Just published and for sale at No. 1 Market square a Portrait of Thomas W. Dorr elected Governor of the State of Rhode Island under the People's Constitution'." Phillips Memorial Library Providence College. AAS only in OCLC. V. F & M. F. Harrison, no. 27 South Eighth Street unknown books
1935réf. 159381935. Film and Entertainment Traven B. "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre." New York. 1935. This is the copy used by Warner Brothers Story Department for making the 1948 film adaptation of the story about the corrupting influence of greed. with "WB 1122" Warner Bros written in white ink near the base of the spine. "IMPORTANT! RETURN Story Dept." stamped on the front free end page. Black boards and binding with book title engraved on cover and gilded stamp of title and author name on spine. The film starring Humphrey Bogart won three Academy Awards. First American Edition Second printing. An important piece of Hollywood history. "WB 1122" Warner Bros written in white ink near the base of the spine. "IMPORTANT! RETURN Story Dept." stamped on the front free end page. This book was used for John Huston's 1948 film adaptation which became one of Warner Bros' most enduring classic films. Penciled in the upper left hand corner of the front free end page are the names of two Hollywood executives Henry Blanke who produced the film and Vincent Sherman who directed the film. The names were written when they checked out the book from the vault and upon return the name and date was crossed out. Henry Blanke was one of the film's producers and Vincent Sherman directed the film. Near fine condition. No dustjacket. This book represents the starting point in the chain of events that turned this outstanding novel into one of the most important movies of Hollywood's Golden Age. Director John Huston first read the novel by B. Traven in 1935 and had always thought the material would make a great movie with his father in the main role. Based on a 19th-century ballad by a German poet Traven's book reminded Huston of his own adventures in the Mexican cavalry. B. Traven was the pen name of a presumably novelist whose real name nationality date and place of birth and details of biography are all still subject to dispute. One of the few certainties about Traven's life is that he lived for years in Mexico where the majority of his fiction is also set including The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. unknown books
1918réf. 374343New York: Warner M. Van Norden 1918. First Edition. Illustrated. 148pp. Small handbill by Norden tipped to the rear pastedown. 1 vols. 8vo. Publisher's grey cloth lettered in red staining wear at board edges. Staining. First Edition. Illustrated. 148pp. Small handbill by Norden tipped to the rear pastedown. 1 vols. 8vo. A very rare early twentieth-century illustrated directory of Chinese businessmen in New York with detailed biographical information. Preceding the directory is a section on Chinese farmers in America; the final section of the book comprises "Glimpses of China" as photographed by the author Warner M. Van Norden. Warner M. Van Norden unknown books
réf. 5239Madison Wisconsin: J. J. Stoner Publisher; Chas. Shober & Co Prop's Chicago Litho'g Co. 1876. Tinted lithograph 34.125 x 21.875" plus margins. A large and quite impressive bird's eye view of Portland Maine as it appeared after a decade of rebuilding following the great fire of 1866. This fine richly detailed view of Portland depicts the city-viewed from an elevated eastern vantage point-as a lively prosperous place with a busy harbor an active waterfront crowded with wharves and ships numerous factories with smoke spilling out of their smokestacks trains coming and going and many fine commercial public and private buildings. A key in the title margin identifies some 118 buildings and wharves many of them along the waterfront including the Eagle Sugar Refining Company Portland Star Match Co. Works the Grand Trunk Rail Road Depot Portland Co.'s Machine Shops and others. The Portland & Ogdensburg Rail Road and the Maine Central Rail Road serve the western end of the waterfront while the Grand Trunk Rail Road and the Portland & Rochester Rail Road serve the eastern end. Beyond the city proper the Back Cove and other more sparsely developed areas can be seen against a distant mountainous backdrop. The railroads stretch across this landscape disappearing into the distance. Bird's eye view publisher Joseph John Stoner 1829-1917 a native of Highspire Pennsylvania was apprenticed to a chair-ornamenter in Harrisburg before migrating to Cincinnati where he worked as a map and book agent in the 1860's. By 1865 Stoner had resettled in Madison Wisconsin eventually becoming a sales agent for city view artist Albert Ruger with whom he formed a partnership Ruger & Stoner in 1869. Stoner worked both in partnership with Ruger and independently into the 1890s publishing at least 314 views with his imprint on them and likely a good many lacking his imprint as well making him one of the most prolific town and city view publishers of the 19th century. Charles Shober ca 1920-1906 was born in Germany immigrated to America and is known to have been working as a lithographer with Charles Reen in Philadelphia by 1856. The two moved to Chicago in 1857 and established the firm of Reen & Shober but soon thereafter Shober entered into partnership with August Roth. The company operating as Charles Shober and later Charles Shober & Co. produced some of the finest lithography in Chicago specializing in advertising posters and sheet-music covers until their building was destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Afterwards Shober and Edward Carqueville assumed management of the rebuilt Chicago Lithographic Company operating as Chicago Lithographing Company Shober & Company Proprietors until 1877 when the firm became known as Shober & Carqueville. Specializing in advertising posters and trade cards the company also became one of the leading producers of circus and theatrical posters in the country and was the largest lithographic firm in Chicago for the last quarter of the nineteenth century. A splendid view of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "City by the Sea." CONDITION: Very good. REFERENCES: Reps 1238; Podmaniczky Christine B. and Earle G. Shettleworth Jr. Through a Bird's Eye: Nineteenth Century Views of Maine Rockland ME 1981 p. 41. Madison, Wisconsin: J. J. Stoner, Publisher; Chas. Shober & Co Prop's Chicago Litho'g Co., 1876 unknown books
1954réf. 55808New York: Simon and Schuster 1954. First edition. Very good. Lavishly inscribed association copy with multiple drawings from the surrealist master - signed to movie studio mogul Jack Warner and his wife. Jack Warner 1892-1978 was the legendary co-founder and CEO of Warner Bros. Studios which produced such classic films as THE JAZZ SINGER 1927 the first feature-length "talkie" LITTLE CAESAR and PUBLIC ENEMY 1931 THE MALTESE FALCON 1941 CASABLANCA 1943 A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE 1951 THE SEARCHERS 1956 MY FAIR LADY 1964 and WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF 1966 as well as innumerable other iconic films. By the time Dalí inscribed this copy in 1954 the two had already known each other for at least a decade. In 1944 Dalí had come to Hollywood to work on the Hitchcock film SPELLBOUND for which the artist contributed a pioneering dream sequence. By 1945 Warner had commissioned Dalí to paint portraits of both Warner and his wife Ann with Dalí actually living with the couple while he completed the works Sperling and Millner 269. This unconventional arrangement in fact led to a now-famous meeting between Dalí and Walt Disney an encounter that resulted in "a lifelong friendship between the man behind the mouse and the painter of melted clocks" Jukareddy. At a dinner party hosted by Warner Dalí and Disney were introduced and hit it off so well they began a collaboration that would eventually result in the production of "Destino" a six-and-a-half-minute surrealist animated film: "Dalí and Disney immediately connected and an overjoyed Dalí accepted Disney's proposal to collaborate on a surrealist animated short. Over the next eight months they created more than 200 storyboard sketches" ibid. A work of myth-making and fame-enhancement as much as anything Dalí's whimsical MUSTACHE finds him and his mustache answering questions "Your mustache looks so rigid - how does it react to the winds of public opinion" with playful responses "She bends" all accompanied by surrealist photographs and photo collages. A close and important association between these two titans with among the most elaborate and exuberant Dalí inscriptions we've seen. Original black-and-white pictorial boards. No jacket as issued. 126 pages. Illustrated throughout with photos of Dalí by Philippe Halsman. Preface by Dalí with a "Postface" by Halsman plus publisher's notes "on how some of the photographs were made." Inscribed in year of publication by Dalí to Jack Warner and his wife Ann across the front pastedown and endpaper: "Pur sic a pun / Prince des Gouts Felines / Jack / ei / Anunshka / L'amour de sur tout / Dalí / Gala / 1954. Roughly: "Purr for the Prince of Feline Tastes Jack and Ann Love above all." Dali has added numerous figures including a crown a shooting star a drawing of two figures dancing in a desert plus three scurrying ants and a moon playing a trumpet overhead. Chipping to head of spine with top centimeter or so of spine beginning to separate but holding. Some toning to endpapers and some starting at gutter before title-page. Housed in a custom clamshell box. Simon and Schuster unknown books
1874réf. 7227London: George Routledge and Sons 1874. First UK edition. Fine. Finely bound by Zaehnsdorf in full brown morocco with double gilt rules on the boards and spine compartments. Top edges gilt marbled end papers. A Fine copy complete with all half-titles. Clean and fresh throughout. A few leaves in volume 3 a little bent at the lower margin. Otherwise an exceptional copy inside and out. "The Gilded Age a period of gross materialism and blatant political corruption in US history during the 1870s gave rise to important novels of social and political criticism. The period takes its name from the earliest of these The Gilded Age written by Mark Twain in collaboration with Charles Dudley Warner. The novel gives a vivid and accurate description of Washington DC and is peopled with caricatures of many leading figures of the day including greedy industrialists and corrupt politicians" Britannica. Among these notable "robber barons" were recognizably John D. Rockefeller Andrew Carnegie Cornelius Vanderbilt and J.P. Morgan. Fine. George Routledge and Sons unknown books
