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1950réf. 114810Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press 1950. cloth. 4to. cloth. xi 203 pages. Second edition. This cloth bound variant is much scarcer than the paper bound version. Univ. of Michigan Press unknown books
réf. WALTER-FILM007424Warner Brothers. No binding. Fine. Los Angeles: Warner Brothers 1933. Vintage original 8 x 10" 20 x 25 cm black-and-white glossy silver gelatin photo. Information written on verso fine. Henry Clive 1883-1960 was an Australian-born magician actor graphic artist and illustrator who created illustrations for The American Weekly and cover series which were posed for by screen celebrities. Wikipedia Clive paints a pin-up vision of popular early talkie star Alice White. Warner Brothers unknown books
réf. WALTER-FILM007416Warner Brothers. No binding. About Fine. Los Angeles: Warner Brothers 1969. Set of two vintage original 8 x 10" 20 x 25 cm black-and-white glossy photos. Tape remnant and pencil notation on front of one portrait. Overall about fine. Rudi Gernreich 1922-1985 was an Austrian-born American fashion designer whose avant-garde clothing designs are generally regarded as the most innovative and dynamic fashion of the 1960s. He purposefully used fashion design as a social statement to advance sexual freedom producing clothes that followed the natural form of the female body freeing them from the constraints of high fashion. He was a founding member of and financially supported the early activities of the Mattachine Society which was a very early gay rights organization. He consciously pushed the boundaries of acceptable fashion and used his designs as an opportunity to comment on social issues and to expand society's perception of what was acceptable. Wikipedia Gernreich is photographed with a model wearing his creation for the 1969 Warner Brothers film 2000 Years Later. The second photo is from approximately the same period. Warner Brothers unknown books
1966réf. 614477New York: The Viking Press 1966. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First American edition. Fine in a very good dust jacket with toning and short tears. The Viking Press hardcover 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
1985réf. 36600Boston: Tyler Offset Workshop 1985. Very Good. Boston: Tyler Offset Workshop 1985. First Edition. Large slim folio 40.5cm; publisher's white pictorial staple bound card wrappers; 40pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Some toning to wrapper and textblock margins else Very Good and sound. Collaboration between two video artists on the ongoing Troubles of Northern Ireland. Tyler Offset Workshop unknown books
1876réf. 15300Hartford: American Publishing Company 1876. Frontispiece wood engraving “The wooden man 6000 years old title vignette woodcut head- and tailpieces. Red pictorial cloth in black and gold rebacked with the original spine laid down; text is toned but clean. Bookplate of the Ladies’ Christian Union. First edition published simultaneously in Hartford by the American Publishing Company of Warner’s account of his travels down the Nile and around Egypt. This work includes detailed stories about his exploration of mosques visits to the Pharaoh tombs and interactions with local Egyptians and their culture. Through interpreters Warner spoke with everyone he could to soak up as much of the Egyptian life as possible while he traveled around what was at the time considered an unknown part of the world to many Americans. Warner 1829-1900 was an American novelist a friend of Mark Twain with whom he co-authored The gilded age. American Publishing Company unknown books
1929réf. 613112New York: The Viking Press 1929. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition. Quarter cloth and lavender paper-covered boards. Ex-library with stamps on front fly and title page soiling on boards toned spine very good lacking the dust jacket. Library card laid in. The Viking Press hardcover books
1852réf. 012757NY: Cornish Lamport 1852. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Elaborate blind stamped brown cloth front and back gilt spine titles. Double 2-tone chromo forntispieces with tissue guard. 240 pages. Edges and covers moderately worn. Intermittent foxing. Solid binding. Cornish Lamport hardcover 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
1975réf. WALTER-FILM004050"NEWS AND FEATURE SERVICES" Vintage original press kit USA. Sidney Poitier actor director Bill Cosby Ossie Davis Jimmie Walker; Warner Brothers. Printed folder with 13 loose 8 x 10" 20 x 25 cm. photos with some a little smaller and about 20 press releases for a total of at least 40 pp. of descriptive text. A few notes in ink on front cover near fine. In the previous year the same team made the comedy Uptown Saturday Night which was very successful and they followed that up with this sequel. Poitier who had directed that film also served as director on this sequel. As is most often the case with press kits of the 1970s this is a very scarce piece and the OCLC records no known copies of it. Warner Brothers books
1963réf. 612397New York: The Macmillan Company 1963. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. First edition. 274pp. A few pencil notes in the text else near fine in good only dust jacket with a significant chip on the rear panel. "A critical assessment of American efforts to stem Southeast Asia's slide into chaos and Communism. The Macmillan Company hardcover books
1968réf. 587263New York: Genesis : Grasp 1968. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Small octavo. 49pp. Illustrated. Wrappers with light wear and the front cover a bit foxed topedge with a tiny stain and first two leaves with a corner crease very good or better. Inaugural issue of this literary magazine that prints a manifesto and contributions from Richard Meyers Thomas Merton David Giannini Jim Jowers George Wagner William Leo Coakley Richard Eberhart and Yuki Hartman. Richard Meyer would later reinvent himself as Richard Hell; according to an article in The New Yorker he typeset some of the issues himself on a Varityper machine. Genesis : Grasp unknown books
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
1974réf. 544841Rushden Northamptonshire: Sceptre Press 1974. Unbound. Fine. First edition. Octavo. 4pp. Card wrappers. Fine. One of 100 numbered copies. Sceptre Press unknown books
1988réf. 609419White Plains New York: Peter Pauper Press 1988. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Later printing. Slim small octavo. 63pp. Fine in price-clipped and very lightly worn near fine dust jacket. Peter Pauper Press hardcover books
1889réf. 8066Rochester N.Y.: H.H. Warner & Co. Stecher Lith Co 1889. Octavo-sized booklet stapled in wrappers 22 x cm. 51 1 pages. Illustrated. Index. Title and publication information from wrapper. FIRST EDITION of the eleventh annual almanac advertising Warner’s patent medicines with the standard elements – ephemeris glowing testimonials illustrated advertisements for the various cures including Warner’s Kidney & Liver Safe Cure Log Cabin Sarsaparilla Benton’s Hair Grower. The cooking recipes themselves an advertisement for Warner’s Safe Cook Book run along the pages as footers. Some advertisements printed on colored paper; small wire loop for hanging in the kitchen. The "Compliments of." box on the rear panel indicates "A.L. Treworgy Surry Me." In a handsome chromolithograph paper wrapper. Small 1/2 cm. stain on front wrapper panel otherwise near fine. OCLC locates six copies; Hoolihan Atwater Collection S-1419. H.H. Warner & Co. Stecher Lith Co unknown books
1979réf. 588284Barry South Wales: Department of Arts and Languages The Polytechnic of Wales 1979. Softcover. Very Good. Vol. III No. 1. Small quarto. 117pp. Illustrated from a few black and white photographs. Stapled pictorial wrappers. Spine ends and corners bumpers wraps rubbed and lightly soiled with a small red ink mark on the front cover very good. Includes an interview with Margaret Atwood as well as contributions by John Digby Tony Curtis Ruth Bidgood Val Warner Anne Stevenson Philip Cosker Joyce Herbert and others. Department of Arts and Languages, The Polytechnic of Wales unknown books
1964réf. 592511Sydney London etc.: Angus and Robertson 1964. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First revised edition originally published in 1963. Octavo. 327pp. A little offsetting on the endpapers from the jacket flaps corners a trifgle bumped near fine in near fine dust jacket with a little rubbing. "A critical assessment of American efforts to stem Southeast Asia's slide into chaos and Communism." This edition with approximately 50 more pages than the first edition. Angus and Robertson hardcover books
1981réf. 579963Drayton Somerset: Martin Booth 1981. Softcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Slim small octavo. 12pp. Stapled wrappers. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a sunned spine. Numbered 58 of 110 copies. Martin Booth unknown books
1978réf. 559980Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1978. Softcover. Fine. First edition wrappered issue. Octavo. 78pp. Illustrated with black and white plates. Fine in wrappers. A play. Issued as Oxford Theatre Texts 5. Colin Smythe unknown books
1987réf. 544598New York: Penguin 1987. Softcover. Near Fine. Reprint. Drawings by Consuelo Hanks. Introduction by John Barth. 304pp. Trade paperback. Margins slightly toned faint crease on rear wrap near fine. An excellent book of natural history: a humanist's look at the Atlantic Blue Crab and the people and commerce which have grown up around its uses. A deservedly popular book and reprinted many times. Penguin unknown books
1969réf. 446467New York: Arno Press and The New York Times 1969. Hardcover. Fine. Facsimile edition. Octavo. 32pp. Folding plate. Beige decorated boards. Fine. Arno Press and The New York Times hardcover books
1947réf. 2304New Haven: Yale University Press 1947. Hardcover. xvi 245p. tables previous owner's name penned on free front endpaper else very good condition. No dust jacket. Yankee city series vol. 4. Yale University Press hardcover books
1954réf. 21089New Haven: Yale University Press 1954. Hardcover. xii 318p. later printing - first published in 1954 previous owner's name on front blank end paper otherwise very good condition in a shelf worn dj. Yankee city series vol. 3. Yale University Press hardcover books
