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1880ref. S9851Halle a.S.:: R. Nietschmann 1880. 1880. 8vo. 30 1 pp. Self-wraps; paper browned disbound. Good. R. Nietschmann, 1880. paperback books
1734ref. 1409656Amsterdam: Janssons à Waesberge 1734. First French Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 14 227 7 pages plus frontispiece and plates iii-xvi xviii-xxii xxiv-xxvi xxviii 24 total. In Very Good minus condition. In plum leather quarter binding with marbled paper boards; spine with gilt fillets ant titling. Mild shelf wear to boards with some rubbing along edges of leather elements and shallow chipping to the head of the spine. Text block shows light wear along edges. Lightly age toned and sparsely foxed throughout. Faint stain on front endpaper with some other scattered faint stains throughout. Shelved in Room A. 1409656. Special Collections - Upstairs. Janssons à Waesberge hardcover books
1903ref. 1410032Wien Vienna: Verlag Von Josef Šafář 1903. First Edition. Loose folio. Folio xvi pages plus 6 chromolithograph plates. In Good plus condition. Quarter-bound in black cloth with paper boards with text to front and rear cover. Boards have minor fraying to spine ends bumping to corners chipping to edges and significant scuffing throughout. Textblock has cracking and tears to spine a previous owner's signature to the interior front board a stain to the title page light age toning and scuffing throughout. Plates have light age toning contemporary creasing slight tears to creases on plates 2-6 impacting text on plates 3 and 4. Text in German Italian English and French. Shelved in Room F Elephant. 1410032. Special Collections - Upstairs. Verlag Von Josef Šafář unknown books
1856ref. 339213Edinburgh: A. & C. Black 1856. unbound. Bartholomew J. Map. Lithograph with original hand coloring. Image measures 21 1/4" x 16 1/2". This lovely map of North America was published in Black's General Atlas of North America in 1856. The map is labeled in great detail showing rivers towns mountains and coastal features. The map is in good condition. Scattered foxing and toning along original fold line. Adam Black 1784-1874 was a Scottish publisher and politician who with his brother Charles founded the A & C Black publishing company. Together they published a wide range of materials including atlases medical books and the 7th 8th and 9th editions of the Encyclopedia Britannica. A. & C. Black unknown books
1998ref. 623476Roseville Minnesota: Atlas Games 1998. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Quarto. 160pp. Illustrated. Final leaf stands proud and has some wear along the foredge otherwise fine glossy wrappers. Atlas Games unknown books
1946ref. 615198Chicago: Negro Digest Publishing Company 1946. Softcover. Very Good. Vol. IV No. 11. Small octavo. 98pp. Stapled wrappers. Wrappers with rubbing and wear very good or a bit better. A single issue from this important and influential digest which was the foundation of the Johnson Publishing empire. In addition to excerpting articles by and about African-Americans from other publications there was also much original content written expressly for the magazine. This issue prints "Sidney Hillman's Last Message to Negroes"; a roundtable discussing the question "Is Labor or Business Fairer To The Negro"; "The Rape of Justice" by Adam Clayton Powell Jr. condensed from Everybody's Digest; "How I Beat Jim Crow" by Chatwood Hall pen name of African-American journalist Homer Smith Jr.; "Iron Men of Baseball" an article on the Negro league by George C. Morse; "My Father Had 16 Wives" by Okechukwu Ikejian condensed from Magazine Digest; "Jim Crow on the Band Stand" by African-American band leader Phil Moore; "African Beauty Parlor" by Ernest Henry Shrenzel condensed from Fascination; "He Lost 10000 Years" by Allen Rankin about African-American artist Bill Traylor condensed from Colliers; "How I Discovered Marian Anderson" by Sol Hurok with Ruth Goode condensed from their book Impresario; and a condensation from the book Trumpet to the World by Mark Harris among other material. Early issues are uncommon. Negro Digest Publishing Company unknown books
1841ref. 616088Philadelphia: Thomas Wardle 1841. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition by this publisher complete in one volume. Tall octavo. 493pp. Preliminary frontispiece and decorative title. Printed in two columns. Publisher's brown cloth stamped in blind and in gilt on the spine. Two early ink owner names a faint dampstain on first and last few leaves corners bumped and a small scrape on front board. A nice example of relatively early American publisher's book binding. Thomas Wardle hardcover books
1965ref. 617444New York: Simon and Schuster 1965. Hardcover. Good/Good. First American edition. Slightly cocked spine and staining on the bottom board edge thus good only in a good only dust jacket with some staining short tears and creasing. Simon and Schuster hardcover books
1900ref. 6211561900. Hardcover. Very Good. Sheet music album. Folio. Approximately 110 pages. Quarter red morocco marbled paper boards with gilt bands along the spine creating six compartments with "Musique Americane" in gilt and marbled endpapers. Many of the pieces have been trimmed along the top and bottom to fit within the album though no music has been affected many pieces have music shop stamps and/or an owner stamp of Jean Haviland and some scattered soiling overall very good or better. All pieces for piano many include a vocal part with lyrics. Contains 16 songs including "The Stars and Stripes Forever Marche Americaine" by John Philip Sousa "I Want Yer Ma Honey: An Ethiopian Oddity" by Fay Templeton "Creole Love Song" by Edgar Belmont Smith "Les Cadets" by John Philip Sousa "The Mosquitoes Parade: A Jersey Review" by Howard Whitney and "The Belle of New York: Valse" by Gustave Kerker. A complete list of song titles and authors is available upon request. hardcover books
1925ref. 622845New York: William Wood and Company 1925. Hardcover. Very Good. Fourth edition. Small quarto. xvi 663pp. Blue-green cloth stamped in blind and gilt. Owner name of a noted American psychologist on the front fly. Binding with just a bit of loss to the cloth nearly all of it at the joints some darkening in the gutters from the binder's glue and a small light stain on the foredge an otherwise bright very good copy. William Wood and Company hardcover books
1907ref. 610304New York: Review of Reviews 1907. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. One volume of a six volume set. Translated into English by numerous contributors. 12mo. Black-and-white frontispiece. Tan clothcovered boards stamped in brown with gilt on the spine. About fine. Review of Reviews hardcover books
2008ref. 583740Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 2008. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. 293pp. Wrappers. Margins slightly age-toned near fine. Contributions by Patricia Brieschke Rich Cohen Bernard Cooper Atul Gawande Albert Goldbarth Emily R. Grosholz Jonathan Lethem Ariel Levy Ricky Moody David Sedaris John Updike and more. Houghton Mifflin Company unknown books
1929ref. 582840New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith 1929. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Introduction by Mrs. Oliver Harriman. Fine in attractive very good plus dust wrapper with art by Pat Keely with modest chipping mostly at the top of the rear panel. Interesting cookbook with some stress on regional fare. Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith hardcover books
1990ref. 589580New York: The New York Review of Books 1990. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Mass market paperback. Illustrated by David Levine. 131pp. A few pages with a small stain at bottom bottom edge with a light splash mark wrappers lightly worn very good. Prints A Conversation in Prague by Philip Roth; other contributions by Adam Michnik Vaclav Havel Timothy Garton Ash Elena Bonner Gordon A. Craig and Fritz Stern. The New York Review of Books unknown books
1976ref. 77298Santee CA: Surree Limited 1976. Paperback. 183p.ads very good first printing PBO in camp pictorial wraps. Gay pulp fiction. HIS69171. Surree Limited paperback books
1908ref. 554398New York: Review of Reviews 1908. Hardcover. Near Fine. Later printing. One volume of a six volume set. Translated into English by numerous contributors. 12mo. Black-and-white frontispiece. Tan clothcovered boards stamped in brown with gilt on the spine. Near fine with foxing to the endpapers and the edges lacking the dust jacket if issued. Review of Reviews hardcover books
1957ref. 540332New York: Voyages Press 1957. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Limited edition. Introduction by George N. Shuster. Edited by Clark Mills. Frontispiece by Eugene Delacroix. Small address label on front pastedown else fine in a very good age-toned dust jacket with spine tanned and ends chipped. This is number 26 out of fifty Signed copies by Clark Mills. Contains poems by Adam Mickiewicz translated "in versions by" Louise Bogan Donald Davie Babette Deutsch Jean Garrigue Daniel Hoffman Arthur Gregor Robert Hillyer George Reavey Charles Tomlinson and more. Voyages Press hardcover books
2001ref. 547561New York: Viking 2001. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. 384pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Fine in an about fine dust jacket with some rubbing. Viking hardcover books
1994ref. 531536Oxford: Blackwell 1994. Softcover. Fine. Reprint. Tall octavo. xvi 302pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Blackwell unknown books
1954ref. 438309Melbourne: Penguin Books 1954. Softcover. Very Good. Later printing. Mass market paperback. 247pp. Illustrated. Pages age-toned wrappers worn spine cocked very good. A Pelican Book A67. Penguin Books unknown books
1961ref. 504577Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press 1961. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Edited by Ruth I. Mahood with the assistance of Robert A. Weinstein. Introduction by Beaumont Newhall. Quarto. 127pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Foxing on the page edges and a bit on the first and last few pages very good in a gently rubbed very good dust jacket with modest edgewear including a few small tears and some foxing on the interior. "The photographs are reproduced from contemporary contact prints made from Vroman's original 6 1/2 x 8 1/2" glass negatives. The book contains 104 reproductions of these prints of which 92 are full page. The Ward Ritchie Press hardcover books
1982ref. 466304Farmingdale New York: The Author 1982. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Small quarto. 272pp. Illustrated in color from drawings by the author. Textured cloth over padded boards titled in gilt. Topedge faintly foxed cover a bit rubbed small faint stain on foredge about near fine. According a website dedicated to his work Schoenbrod 1903-1996 was a specialty jeweler-turned-artist when "a breakdown lead to a breakthrough." It seems he worked mostly in bas-relief drawings and watercolor and wrote extensively in an attempt to help enlighten humanity. A 1982 article on Schoenbrod in the San Francisco Chronicle is called: An Artist Who is Trying to Picture God: Electroshock Therapy Gave Him a Vision of the Absolute. A work and an artist seemingly worthy of more study. OCLC locates a single copy Yale. The Author hardcover books
1912ref. 458701London: Constable & Co. Ltd 1912. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Arranged by Douglas Sladen. 12mo. xxxii 320pp. Illustrated with photographic plates. Bound in contemporary tree calf gilt edges and turn-ins gilt spine with raised bands and leather titling label marbled endpapers gilt top. The binding is signed on the bottom edge of front free endpaper verso: "Bound by Riviere & Son for the Army & Navy". Boards are a little splayed joints are rubbed the tail of spine is bumped with shallow loss and small tear to the bottom of back joint light toning to the text pages very good. An attractive fine binding by Riviere & Son. Constable & Co. Ltd hardcover books
1979ref. 452904New York: New York University Press 1979. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Thick octavo. 531pp. Fine in about fine dustwrapper with a touch of rubbing. New York University Press hardcover books
2005ref. 448354Los Angeles and Santa Fe: Michael Dawson Gallery and Andrew Smith Gallery Inc 2005. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Quarto. 79 1pp. Illustrated. Photographically illustrated wrappers. Fine. Michael Dawson Gallery [and] Andrew Smith Gallery, Inc unknown books