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réf. 22904The Game of the Century" is how the very first All-Star Game of July 6 1933 at Chicago's Comiskey Park is described when Babe Ruth whacked a two run home run off NFL pitcher Bill Halahan in the third inning -- and the photo of him doing so became one of the most famed baseball photos ever -- with White Sox bat boy John McBride in the background. Inscribed First Day Cover 6½" X 3½" cancelled in Chicago Illinois on 6 July 1983 and with "First Day of Issue" stamped. Fine. Single 20-cent "Babe Ruth" stamp at upper right. No decorative cachet at left; no recipient's name/address. Large bold inscription and signature in black ballpoint fills most of the entire left half: "With Best Wishes to / Paul Johnston from / the old Bat Boy of 1933 / John McBride / The Babe was quite a guy and also / the greatest athlete of this Century." Fine display piece. unknown
1915réf. 412828Boston Mass: Lincoln Eng. Co 1915. Softcover. Very Good. Quarto. Stapled illustrated wrappers printed in blue and red with halftone images. Vertical crease with a little rubbing on the crease slightly misfolded and a bit of oxidizing on the staples about very good. Scored in pencil. Program for the third game of Babe Ruth's first World Series. The Red Sox won the game 2-1 Dutch Leonard getting the win over Grover Cleveland Alexander to go up in the series two games to one. The Red Sox featuring future Hall of Famers Harry Hooper Herb Pennock Tris Speaker and Ruth eventually won the series four games to one. The series featured terrific pitching three of the five games ending with scores of 2-1 another with a score of 3-1 and the final game a comparative offensive barrage was won by the Red Sox 5-4. Ruth a pitcher at the time didn't pitch. He appeared in only Game One grounding out as a pinch hitter in the 9th inning. Although Fenway Park was home to the Red Sox the Boston games were played at Braves Field in order to take advantage of the larger newly renovated park. The program includes two team photos of the Red Sox: one an official image the other on the rear cover advertising the team in their Stag Wear brand sweaters. Both are in blue-toned ink and both images picture a cheerful Babe Ruth in the back row. Lincoln Eng. Co unknown
1915réf. 412828Boston Mass: Lincoln Eng. Co 1915. Softcover. Very Good. Quarto. Stapled illustrated wrappers printed in blue and red with halftone images. Vertical crease with a little rubbing on the crease slightly misfolded and a bit of oxidizing on the staples about very good. Scored in pencil. Program for the third game of Babe Ruth's first World Series. The Red Sox won the game 2-1 Dutch Leonard getting the win over Grover Cleveland Alexander to go up in the series two games to one. The Red Sox featuring future Hall of Famers Harry Hooper Herb Pennock Tris Speaker and Ruth eventually won the series four games to one. The series featured terrific pitching three of the five games ending with scores of 2-1 another with a score of 3-1 and the final game a comparative offensive barrage was won by the Red Sox 5-4. Ruth a pitcher at the time didn't pitch. He appeared in only Game One grounding out as a pinch hitter in the 9th inning. Although Fenway Park was home to the Red Sox the Boston games were played at Braves Field in order to take advantage of the larger newly renovated park. The program includes two team photos of the Red Sox: one an official image the other on the rear cover advertising the team in their Stag Wear brand sweaters. Both are in blue-toned ink and both images picture a cheerful Babe Ruth in the back row. Lincoln Eng. Co unknown books
1983réf. 593784Phila Pa: Faculty of La Salle College 1983. Softcover. Very Good. Periodical. Cover by Consuelo Eames Hanks. Pictorial stapled wrappers. Tiny soil spot and light rubbing on rear cover a couple small creases on wraps very good. Includes contributions by: Gloria Ruth William K. Bottorff Kate Jennings Louis Daniel Brodsky Kay Deeter John M. McNamara and William Magruder. Faculty of La Salle College unknown books
1971réf. 37857NY:: Grove Press. Very Good. 1971. Paperback. No statement of printing paperback. Light age toning about the edges else very good in illustrated stapled wraps. ; 42 pages . Grove Press, paperback books
1952réf. 264806New York: Harper and Row 1952. Later printing. 48 pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. Paper dust-jacket over cloth-covered illustrated boards. Upper corner of front inner flap clipped with price of $2.57 net on lower corner and "Harper Crest" foil sticker to front cover otherwise fine. Maurice Sendak. Later printing. 48 pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. Signed by Sendak on the front endpaper with an original drawing in black ink and dated "Feb. '69 / for Bob Wilson". Hanrahan A4 Harper and Row unknown
1952réf. 214469New York: Harper & Brothers 1952. First edition later printing with "Grr-r-r on page 23 and price of $1.50. Unpaginated. 12mo. Publisher's pictorial boards teal-green spine; faint rubbing of spine else fine in nearly fine dust jacket. First edition later printing with "Grr-r-r on page 23 and price of $1.50. Unpaginated. 12mo. Hanrahan A2 1 Harper & Brothers unknown
1955réf. 518284New York: Harper & Brothers 1955. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Illustrated in color by Maurice Sendak. 16mo. 24pp. Pictorial papercovered boards black cloth spine. Light foxing on topedge and bottom edge boards trifle foxed near fine in a lightly foxed very good or better dust jacket. A story about a little girl and Milky Way her horse. The first book illustrated in full color by Sendak who spoke highly of Krauss saying: "Ruth broke rules and invented new ones and her respect for the natural ferocity of children bloomed in to poetry that was utterly faithful to what was true in their lives". Sendak and Krauss collaborated on nine books together and inspired many to imitate their rebellious child protagonists. Harper & Brothers hardcover
1952réf. 264806New York: Harper and Row 1952. Later printing. 48 pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. Paper dust-jacket over cloth-covered illustrated boards. Upper corner of front inner flap clipped with price of $2.57 net on lower corner and "Harper Crest" foil sticker to front cover otherwise fine. Maurice Sendak. Later printing. 48 pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. Signed by Sendak on the front endpaper with an original drawing in black ink and dated "Feb. '69 / for Bob Wilson". Hanrahan A4 Harper and Row unknown books
1952réf. 214469New York: Harper & Brothers 1952. First edition later printing with "Grr-r-r on page 23 and price of $1.50. Unpaginated. 12mo. Publisher's pictorial boards teal-green spine; faint rubbing of spine else fine in nearly fine dust jacket. First edition later printing with "Grr-r-r on page 23 and price of $1.50. Unpaginated. 12mo. Hanrahan A2 1 Harper & Brothers unknown books
1955réf. 518284New York: Harper & Brothers 1955. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Illustrated in color by Maurice Sendak. 16mo. 24pp. Pictorial papercovered boards black cloth spine. Light foxing on topedge and bottom edge boards trifle foxed near fine in a lightly foxed very good or better dust jacket. A story about a little girl and Milky Way her horse. The first book illustrated in full color by Sendak who spoke highly of Krauss saying: "Ruth broke rules and invented new ones and her respect for the natural ferocity of children bloomed in to poetry that was utterly faithful to what was true in their lives". Sendak and Krauss collaborated on nine books together and inspired many to imitate their rebellious child protagonists. Harper & Brothers hardcover books
réf. 13509-University of Delaware Press 30 Nov 1994-. First edition. 269 pages with index. Cloth. Near fine in very good dustjacket. Ask to see our other Shakespeare titles. Teaching with Shakespeare. Critics in the Classroom. 0874134919 -University of Delaware Press (30 Nov 1994)- hardcover
1993réf. 402877Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books 1993. Softcover. Fine. First edition paperback orginal. Octavo. Perfectbound. Fine. An international poetry anthology about the war in Bosnia Signed by 14 contributors: Ken Smith David Constantine Ted Burford John Murphy Sally Carr Matthew Sweeney Ruth Padel John Hartley Williams Brian Patten Tom Reynolds David Wheatley Jennie Fontana and two we could not identify. Bloodaxe Books unknown
1993réf. 402877Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books 1993. Softcover. Fine. First edition paperback orginal. Octavo. Perfectbound. Fine. An international poetry anthology about the war in Bosnia Signed by 14 contributors: Ken Smith David Constantine Ted Burford John Murphy Sally Carr Matthew Sweeney Ruth Padel John Hartley Williams Brian Patten Tom Reynolds David Wheatley Jennie Fontana and two we could not identify. Bloodaxe Books unknown books
1992réf. 424636London: The Shenval Press 1992. Softcover. Fine. Magazine. Octavo. 160pp. Fine in perfectbound wrappers. British literary magazine that includes contributions from Carol Lee D.J. Taylor Richard Zimler Beatrice Garland Fergus Allen Stephen Spender John Gohorry Amanda Eason Ruth Fainlight Moniza Alvi Alice Kavounas Naomi Wallace Vernon Scannell Priest Noin Chris Wallace-Crabbe Paul Lester Merlin James Daniel Hoffman C.J. Fox Jason Wilson David Holbrook George Sims Nien-Lun Yeh Evelyn Juers Fergus Allen Oliver Reynolds Simon Carnell Herbert Lomas Ian Gregson and others. "The Novels of Frank Tuohy" by Jason Wilson "Afternoons with Lowell" by Daniel Hoffman. The Shenval Press unknown books
1986réf. stela1462Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press in cooperation with The Free Library of Philadelphia 1986. 1986. 4to. pp. 340. colour frontis. profusely illus. in b/w. biblio. index. cloth. dw. Catalogue Raisonné. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket Included. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press in cooperation with The Free Library of Philadelphia, [1986]. hardcover
1965réf. 570708Chicago: The Modern Poetry Association 1965. Softcover. Very Good. Periodical. P319-380. Pictorial red wrappers. Ex-school library stamp on the front wrapper with bottom corner creased foxing on page edges else very good. Contributions by William Staffod Jim Harrison Joel Sloman Eve Triem Ruth Whitman William Burford Lorine Niedecker Roy Basler Constance Urdang David Wagoner "A Room With a View" Hayden Carruth on Robert Lowell M.L. Rosenthal G.S. Fraser on Paul Valery and Kenneth Burke Lewis Turco "Inventing to Discover" and Marvin Bell. The Modern Poetry Association unknown books
réf. 603674New York: Gotham Book Mart. Softcover. Very Good. Publisher's advertisement. One sheet folded to make 8 pages. Horizontal mailing crease slight toning very good or better. Responses to Stephan's book Various Poems with an order form on the last page. Gotham Book Mart) unknown books
1936réf. 615315Providence Rhode Island: Smoke 1936. Softcover. Very Good. Vol. V No. 2 Summer 1936. Stapled wrappers. Wrappers soiled and worn still very good. Contains "A Postcard From the Volcano" by Wallace Stevens "An Edifice in Time" by Susanna Valentine Mitchell and more. Smoke unknown
1936réf. 615315Providence Rhode Island: Smoke 1936. Softcover. Very Good. Vol. V No. 2 Summer 1936. Stapled wrappers. Wrappers soiled and worn still very good. Contains "A Postcard From the Volcano" by Wallace Stevens "An Edifice in Time" by Susanna Valentine Mitchell and more. Smoke unknown books
réf. 2N3714Eigenverlag Stolp 1922. XXI 191 Blatt und 1 Blatt Lebenslauf sowie 12 Tafeln mit Tabellen Halbleinen-Einband quart Einband leicht berieben/ersten Seiten mit kleinen Knickspuren/Seiten teils gering fleckig. - Typoskript - unknown
1971réf. 26309Milwaukee: Views & Reviews Inc. Near Fine. 1971. Vol. 3 No. 1. Journal. a nice clean copy minor edgewear only. B&W photographs In this issue: a historical/critical discussion of the Mae West film KLONDIKE ANNIE; a survey article "The Sound Serial" by Robert M. Malcomson; historical/critical article on MEN WITHOUT LAW a 1930 Buck Jones western; a lengthy production history and critical examination of TRADER HORN 1930; Part IV of Jon Tuska's series of articles "The Art of Collecting Records" this one focusing on orchestral music; reviews of various classical music recordings and film-related books the latter including Leonard Maltin's "Movie Comedy Teams" which is slammed for its "lack of scholarship and numerous errors". . Views & Reviews, Inc. unknown books
1972réf. 596972San Francisco: Pants Press 1972. Softcover. Near Fine. Magazine. Edited by Scott Cohen. Quarto. 50pp. Printed rectos only. Near fine with light wear. Contributors include Anne Waldman Ruth Kraus Andrei Codrescu Clark Coolidge Scott Cohen and Bill Presson. Pants Press] unknown
1972réf. 596972San Francisco: Pants Press 1972. Softcover. Near Fine. Magazine. Edited by Scott Cohen. Quarto. 50pp. Printed rectos only. Near fine with light wear. Contributors include Anne Waldman Ruth Kraus Andrei Codrescu Clark Coolidge Scott Cohen and Bill Presson. Pants Press] unknown books
1958réf. 18882Boston MA: The Horn Book 1958. 1958. Very good. - Small quarto 10-3/4 inches high by 8-1/2 inches wide green cloth titled in gilt in a dust wrapper. The binding is lightly bumped with the tail of the spine slightly rubbed. The extremities of the dust jacket are lightly rubbed & the head of its spine & the tops of the folds are chipped. xvii & 299 pages. Black-and-white illustrations. Near fine in a very good dust wrapper. First edition. The contents include chapters by Lynd Ward Fritz Eichenberg and Marcia Brown as well as biographies and bibliographies of the illustrators. Boston, MA: The Horn Book, 1958. hardcover