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1876ref. 46697Brooklyn: The Author 1876. Paperback. Fair. Paperback. Wraps half title and last prelims loose but present. Dampstain to left edge of signatures text not affected. Fifteen leaves printed on rectos only five vignette illustrations of fable but lacking the one showing Webster at work. The Author paperback books
1972ref. 9020278Chicago: Lakeside Press 1972. Hardcover. Near fine. Bound in the publisher's original blue cloth cover and spine stamped in gilt. Black & white illustrations throughout. Lightly rubbed at the extremities. No. 70 of the Lakeside Classics. Edited by Paul M. Angle. Lakeside Press hardcover books
1987ref. USEMHEW00CTILR Press 1987. Very Good. Semyonov Moshe. Hewers of Wood and Drawers of Water: Noncitizen Arabs in the Israeli Labor Market. and Noah Lewin-Epstein. NY: ILR Press 1987. 152pp. Indexed. 8vo. Gray Cloth. Book condition: Very good. Light rubbing to extremities. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. ILR Press hardcover books
1972ref. 132742Chicago IL: The Lakeside Press 1972. First edition thus. Hardcover. 290 pages. The 70th entry in the longstanding series of books issued by the R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company as a Christmas gift for employees and friends of the press. Edited by Paul Angle. A near fine copy in blue cloth binding without dust jacket as issued. No dust jacket as issued. The Lakeside Press unknown books
1998ref. 113788Lisbon: Centro de Arte Moderna Jose de Azeredo Perdigao 1998. First edition. Softcover. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran September 3 through November 1 1998. Text in Portuguese. Includes 2 sections of color photographs/ stills from each artist. An about near fine copy in stapled wrappers with an erasure to the front panel. Uncommon with only 5 copies listed in OCLC. Centro de Arte Moderna Jose de Azeredo Perdigao unknown books
1989ref. 9009465Boston: Little Brown & Co 1989. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. The dust jacket is price clipped. Little, Brown & Co hardcover books
1994ref. 9009464Boston: Little Brown & Co 1994. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. Little, Brown & Co hardcover books
1969ref. 9003672New York: McGraw-Hill 1969. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Bound in the publisher's original black cloth with the front cover stamped in blind and the spine stamped in gilt. McGraw-Hill hardcover books
2008ref. 217051New Haven: Yale University Press 2008. Softcover. VG: The pages are bound upside down and backwards to the wraps. Clean body pages and solid binding. Contents are as follows: The European Tradition : 1. Master builders and structural artists : Structural engineers in metal ; Structural engineers in concrete -- 2. Modern master builders of thin shell concrete structures : Anton Tedesko ; Pier Luigi Nervi ; Heinz Isler -- 3. Modern Spanish masters of thin shell roof forms : Antonio Gaudí ; Eduardo Torreja -- Candela's development as a structural artist : 4. Candela in Spain 1910-1939 : Family and sports ; Education ; The civil war and exile to Mexico -- 5. Early years in Mexico : The Mexican context ; The development of a shell builder ; Early thin shell forms 1950-51 ; Publications and publicity -- Candela and the hyperbolic paraboloid -- 6. Discipline of the hyperbolic paraboloid : Candela's process of design ; Candela's process of construction ; The free edge -- 7. Cosmic rays laboratory : Design ; Analysis ; Construction ; Finished structure -- 8. Umbrellas : Form construction and analysis ; Markets and warehouses ; Umbrellas transformed -- Candela's favorite works : 9. Church of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal -- 10. Chapel Lomas de Cuernavaca -- 11. Los Manantiales Restaurant at Xochimilco -- 12. Bacardi Rum Factory -- Conclusions : Candela the structural artist ; Candela the critic ; A new art form -- Appendices : 1. Letter from Felix Candela to Anton Tedesko -- 2. "New Architecture" by Felix Candela -- 3. Visiting the works of Felix Candela. Yale University Press paperback books
1841ref. 021534New Haven CT: Published by the author 1841. First Octavo Edition. Hardcover. Light scattered foxing; stain at bottom margin of first volume not affecting text. Covers rubbed with some loss of leather and staining to first volume; binding tight and firm. Very Good. Two royal octavo 7" x 10-1/2" volumes in contemporary calf leather with gilt-lettered black morocco spine labels marbled edges and endpapers. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait. Webster's groundbreaking dictionary was originally published in New York in 1828 in a slightly larger format. Laid in is the Preface to the Revised Edition of 1847. PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 291: "Webster was an ardent nationalist and he wanted to stress the political separation from Britain by the cultivation of a separate American language. Under the influence of his friend Benjamin Franklin he turned his attention to 'a reformed mode of spelling' and although he rejected the radical phonetic innovations proposed by Franklin he went far enough to give many printed American words a distinctive appearance." Published by the author hardcover books
1998ref. 365925Boston: Little Brown and Company 1998. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 548pp. Illustrated with black and white plates maps. Very good with a slightly cocked spine and bowed boards a tiny scratch along the bottom board edge in an about near fine dust jacket with a one inch tear along the front flap fold edge wear. Little, Brown and Company hardcover books
1819ref. 24603New-York: Printed by C.S. Van Winkle 1819. 39 1 blank pp. Disbound wrapper remnants in inner margins of first and last page. Light soil Good. This pamphlet advocates in response to the Panic of 1819 "two restrictions on banks: first they may discount no 'accommodation paper' i.e. simple loans that were not self-liquidating in the course of active trade; and second that they grant no renewals of loans." The absence of such restrictions the author argues encouraged excessive speculations and brought about the depression. See Rothbard 'The Panic of 1819' page 132 1962. As evidence Aristides cites the "wild enthusiasm" which characterized resumption of commerce after the 1815 Treaty of Ghent and the resulting extensions of credit "to the utmost limit." Authorship has been variously attributed to Webster and Van Ness. Skeel doubts Webster's hand. "Among other reasons she states that the Letter does not seem to be written in his style and that she finds no allusion to it in his letters. The pamphlet has also been ascribed to William P. Van Ness another who used the pseudonym 'Aristides.'" Sabin. AI 49978 4. Sabin 102364. See Skeel page 563 note 12. Printed by C.S. Van Winkle unknown books
1828ref. 69555New York: Published by S. Converse. Printed by Hezekiah Howe. 1828. Full Description: WEBSTER Noah. An American Dictionary of the English Language: Intended to exhibit I. The origin affinities and primary signification of English words as far as they have been ascertained. II. The genuine orthography and pronunciation of words according to general usage or to just principles of analogy. III. Accurate and discriminating definitions with numerous authorities and illustrations. To which are prefixed an introductory dissertation on the origin history and connection of the languages of western Asia and of Europe and a concise grammar of the English language. In two volumes. New York: Published by S. Converse. Printed by Hezekiah Howe. 1828. First edition. Two large quarto volumes 11 5/16 x 9 inches; 287 x 230 mm. Engraved frontispiece portrait the portrait of Webster painted by S.F.B. Morse by A.B. Durand printed by J.R. Burton. Tissue guard for portrait. With the final leaf of "Additions" and "Corrections" at the end of Volume II which is often lacking. Bound by W. H. Talcott & Bro in full nineteenth-century morocco. Boards ruled in blind. Spines ruled in blind and lettered in gilt. Board edges stamped in blind. Edges speckled red. Marbled endpapers. Some mild rubbing to boards and corners. A bit of foxing and toning to frontispiece and title-page. Small dampstain to top margin of portrait leaf not touching engraving. Overall an excellent copy very clean. "'The most ambitious publication ever undertaken up to that time upon American soil.' Webster began work on his Dictionary in 1800. Along the way his produced his fat duodecimo Compendious Dictionary of the English Language New Haven 1806.and an abridgement of this for schools in 1807 and by 1813 he had learned twenty languages seven of which were Asiatic or dialects of the Assyrian to which twenty he later added Portuguese Welsh Gothic and the early dialects of English and German. He spent a year abroad in 18234-25 to perfect the work and began printing May 8 1827.Webster set a new standard for entymological investigation and for accuracy of definition 'a born definer of words'-Sir James Murray and included 70000 words as against the 58000 of any previous dictionary. There were 2500 copies printed in boards uncut or full calf.Webster wrote every word of the manuscript of the dictionary himself" Grolier 100 American. "This dictionary which almost at once became and has remained the standard English dictionary in the United States was the end-product of a stream of spelling books grammars readers and dictionaries which flowed from the pen of the industrious Noah Webster.Webster's great dictionary all the 70000 entries of which he wrote with his own hand has been reprinted and brought up to date innumerable times.the book marked a definite advance in modern lexicography as it included many non-literary terms and paid great attention to the language actually spoken. Moreover his definitions of the meaning of words were accurate and concise Sir James Murray editor of the Oxford English Dictionary called him 'a born definer of words' and have for the greater part stood the test of time superbly well" Printing and the Mind of Man. Grolier 100 American 36. Printing and the Mind of Man 291. Sabin 102335. Skeel 583. HBS 69555. $16000. Published by S. Converse. Printed by Hezekiah Howe.. unknown books
1828ref. 69678New York: Published by S. Converse. Printed by Hezekiah Howe. 1828. Full Description: WEBSTER Noah. An American Dictionary of the English Language: Intended to exhibit I. The origin affinities and primary signification of English words as far as they have been ascertained. II. The genuine orthography and pronunciation of words according to general usage or to just principles of analogy. III. Accurate and discriminating definitions with numerous authorities and illustrations. To which are prefixed an introductory dissertation on the origin history and connection of the languages of western Asia and of Europe and a concise grammar of the English language. In two volumes. New York: Published by S. Converse. Printed by Hezekiah Howe. 1828. First edition one of only 2500 copies. Two large quarto volumes 10 3/4 x 8 7/8 inches; 274 x 226 mm. Engraved frontispiece portrait the portrait of Webster painted by S.F.B. Morse by A.B. Durand printed by J.R. Burton. Tissue guard for portrait. With the final leaf of "Additions" and "Corrections" at the end of Volume II which is often lacking. Together with Rare autograph leaf from the original draft of Noah Webster's 1828 American Dictionary of the English Language. One leaf with manuscript in brown ink on recto and verso 8x 10 inches; 250 x 200 mm. This rare manuscript page from his work presents definitions from "Biped" to "Bird." Other words present include "Bipedial" "Bipetalous" "Biquadrate" "Biquintile" "Biradiated" and "Birch." This leaf from Webster's draft manuscript shows his processes of careful editing. For "Birch" he wrote out and then crossed off an entire paragraph that read in part: "This word is probably the same as bark; from the great use of birch barks among savage nations the name was transferred to the tree as was the name of beech to another species of tree." Webster substituted this deleted passage with text nearly identical to what saw print in 1828: "A genus of trees known technically under the name Betula of which there are four or five species; as the white or common birch-the dwarf birch-the Canada birch of which there are several varieties & the black birch." The Pierpont Morgan Library holds most of Webster's manuscript which runs some 450 leaves; however early on leaves from the "A" and "B" sections were separated. All leaves that ever appeared for sale came from A & B. Two volumes uniformly bound in contemporary full dark brown sheep. Spines ruled in gilt with original black and red morocco spine labels lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Edges speckled brown. Some rubbing and scuffing to boards. Corners have been renewed on each volume. Some light dampstaining to portrait leaf just barely touching the engraving. Some dampstaining to endpapers. Overall a very good set with a wonderful manuscript leaf. Each volume housed in a chemise and blue quarter morocco clamshell box. "'The most ambitious publication ever undertaken up to that time upon American soil.' Webster began work on his Dictionary in 1800. Along the way his produced his fat duodecimo Compendious Dictionary of the English Language New Haven 1806.and an abridgement of this for schools in 1807 and by 1813 he had learned twenty languages seven of which were Asiatic or dialects of the Assyrian to which twenty he later added Portuguese Welsh Gothic and the early dialects of English and German. He spent a year abroad in 18234-25 to perfect the work and began printing May 8 1827.Webster set a new standard for entymological investigation and for accuracy of definition 'a born definer of words'-Sir James Murray and included 70000 words as against the 58000 of any previous dictionary. There were 2500 copies printed in boards uncut or full calf.Webster wrote every word of the manuscript of the dictionary himself" Grolier 100 American. "This dictionary which almost at once became and has remained the standard English dictionary in the United States was the end-product of a stream of spelling books grammars readers and dictionaries which flowed from the pen of the industrious Noah Webster.Webster's great dictionary all the 70000 entries of which he wrote with his own hand has been reprinted and brought up to date innumerable times.the book marked a definite advance in modern lexicography as it included many non-literary terms and paid great attention to the language actually spoken. Moreover his definitions of the meaning of words were accurate and concise Sir James Murray editor of the Oxford English Dictionary called him 'a born definer of words' and have for the greater part stood the test of time superbly well" Printing and the Mind of Man. Grolier 100 American 36. Printing and the Mind of Man 291. Sabin 102335. Skeel 583. HBS 69678. $40000. Published by S. Converse. Printed by Hezekiah Howe.. unknown books
1963ref. 132511New York: ANTA Playhouse 1963. Draft script for the 1963 play. Copy belonging to actress Tresa Hughes with her annotations throughout. Set in the Boston area between September 1923 to August 1927. "The Advocate" opened on Broadway at the ANTA Playhouse and ran for 8 performances between October 14 and October 19 1963. Hughes was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actress for her role in the 1961 production of "The Devil's Advocate" unrelated. Red studio wrappers with credits for playwright Nash. Title page present dated August 1963 with credits for playwright Nash. 112 leaves mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold screw brads. ANTA Playhouse unknown books
1937ref. 164546Universal City: Universal Pictures 1937. Vintage publicity photograph of Noah Beery Jr. and Kay Hughes from the 1937 film. From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1 1901 Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s and went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935 where he worked well into the 1950s. Based on the 1937 short story "Night Patrol" by Kimball Herrick. Noah Beery Jr. stars as a newly discharged WWI soldier who goes into the dairy farm business and is hounded by his chief creditor banker Charles Halton and smitten by the banker's daughter Kay Hughes. 10.25 x 8 inches. Near FIne. Universal Pictures unknown books
1944ref. 164456Universal City: Universal Studios 1944. Vintage publicity photograph from the 1944 film showing actress and dancer Chinita. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1 1901. Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s and was the first still photographer to win an Academy Award. He went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures where he worked well into the 1950s. In the days leading up to their arranged marriage a bride discovers she is literally allergic to her husband-to-be. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good. Universal Studios unknown books
1952ref. 154310Los Angeles: Monogram 1952. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1952 Western film showing actress Peggie Castle. The leader of a wagon train crossing the western plains discovers that a passenger has been selling weapons to marauding Native American troops. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus overall. Pitts 4766. Monogram unknown books
1970ref. 151307N.p.: N.p. 1970. Vintage borderless black and white photograph from the 1970 film showing actors Robert Redford and Erin O'Reilly. Two motorbike riders-one a callous womanizer one a shy and unsuspecting young man-find their friendship tested by the arrival of beautiful young runaway at their racetrack. Shot on location throughout Arizona and California including at the Ascot Park Speedway and the Sonoma Raceway. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1999ref. 149053Beverly Hills CA: Imagine Entertainment 1999. Final Draft script for the 2000 television pilot originally aired on NBC on February 14. Copy belonging to costume designer Molly Maginnis warmly INSCRIBED on the title page by members of the cast and crew including screenwriter Noah Baumbach and actors Joanna Going Sabrina Grdevich Carlos Jacott Heidi Schanz and Eric Stoltz. From the collection of costume designer Molly Maginnis. An early darkly comic screenwriting effort from Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Noah Baumbach best known for "Kicking and Screaming" 1995 "The Squid and the Whale" 2005 and "Marriage Story" 2019 following a group of friends struggling to adapt to life as adults. Set and shot on location in Los Angeles. Title page integral with front wrapper noted as FINAL DRAFT dated 4/29/99 with credits for screenwriter Noah Baumbach and director Thomas Schlamme. 61 leaves with last page of text numbered 55. Xerographic duplication on yellow stock rectos only with one white revision page dated 4/23/99. Pages Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Imagine Entertainment unknown books
1801ref. 146541801. WEBSTER NOAH. The Prompter: A Commentary on Common Sayings and Subjects which are Full of Common Sense the Best Sense in the World. N.p.: Printed in the year 1801. 24mo. 86 p. A complete but rough copy lacking spine covering and rear board original front board damaged scattered dampstaining and occasional moderate browning fore-edge of D4-5 closely cropped but without loss. Neat contemporary printed book label of Elizabeth Van Liew on front pastedown and gift inscription to John P. Van Liew. A scarce early American printing of this great Webster favorite unrecorded in S&S. Skeel Noah Webster 681 records copies at MWA imperf IU and NNC. unknown books
1867ref. 17461867. SCHENCK NOAH HUNT. Epochs of Transition. An Oration Delivered before the American Whig and Cliosophic Societies of the College of New Jersey . June 26th 1866. Philadelphia 1867. 53 p. Wrappers. unknown books
1828ref. 375728New York: Published by S. Converse. Printed by Hezekiah Howe-New Haven 1828. First edition. Engraved frontispiece portrait. 962 ff. signed: A B-K including I and J1-113 in 4s 114 in 2; π2 first leaf is a blank 1-115 in 4s 116 in 2. 2 vols. Large thick 4to. Half-bound tan calf and marbled paper boards stamped in gilt on spines; front and rear boards rubbed at centers with light overall shelf wear to edges; exterior spines cracked along edges and split at top rear of vol. 1 and bottom front of vol. 2; tissue guard at frontispiece foxed with some transfer to facing pages; interiors otherwise clean. First edition. Engraved frontispiece portrait. 962 ff. signed: A B-K including I and J1-113 in 4s 114 in 2; π2 first leaf is a blank 1-115 in 4s 116 in 2. 2 vols. Large thick 4to. Webster's landmark achievement the most important American dictionary of prime importance as an early effort toward mass education eventually placing correct spelling and usage at the fingertips of the ordinary American citizen. This two-volume quarto unabridged dictionary represents the culmination of Webster's indefatigable dedication to providing his country with its first comprehensive modern dictionary. "Webster set a new standard for etymological investigation and for accuracy of definition 'a born definer of words' - Sir James Murray and included 70000 words as against the 58000 of any previous dictionary. The edition was 2500 copies and the price $20.00" Carpenter. "Webster was an ardent nationalist and he wanted to stress the political separation from England by the cultivation of a separate American language" PMM. Skeel 583; Grolier American 100 #36; PMM 291; Sabin 102335 Published by S. Converse. Printed by Hezekiah Howe-New Haven unknown books
1819ref. 1266971819. First Edition. NOAH Mordecai M. Travels in England France Spain and the Barbary States in the Years 1813-14 and 15. New-York; London: C. Kirk and Mercein; John Miller 1819. Octavo contemporary marbled boards rebacked in period style speckled calf-gilt red morocco spine label uncut. $3400.First edition of this fascinating travelogue by Mordecai Manuel Noah the most prominent Jew in America at the timeÑU.S. Consul to Tunis the first American Jew to receive an overseas diplomatic assignmentÑillustrated with engraved frontispiece portrait and four engraved plates one folding. An excellent uncut copy in contemporary marbled boards.One of the early American republic's most influential Jews Mordecai Noah 1785-1851 was a journalist editor of New York newspaper The National Advocate publisher of the New York Enquirer and a community activist. He held the position of United States Consul to Tunis in 1816 was the sheriff of New York in 1821 the Surveyor of the Port from 1829-33 and a judge of the Court of General Sessions in 1841. He is perhaps most remembered as the originator of the ambitious though never-realized Ararat Project on Grand Island near Niagara Falls in 1825Ña proposed utopian city of refuge for persecuted European Jews. ""In 1813 Noah became U.S. Consul to Tunis. The government hoped that he would be able to forge special ties with influential Jews in North Africa and entrusted him with an additional secret mission: to devise a 'means for the liberation' of 11 captive American seamen in Algiers. Noah's efforts to free American captives were mostly unsuccessful. Only two seamen were released the ransom paid was excessive and the secret agent Noah appointed Richard R. Keene turned out to have an unsavory past. Although Noah carried out his other consular duties successfully and also established ties with local Tunis Jews Secretary of State James Monroe recalled him in 1815É In the wake of the recall Noah published Correspondence and Documents 1816 in his own defense followed by Travels in England France Spain and the Barbary States 1819 his most important book. It describes his experiences abroad and contains valuable information on early 19th-century Tunisian Jewry"" ANB. The appendix includes letters from Thomas Jefferson John Adams James Madison and John Quincy Adams addressed to Noah. Rosenbach American Jewish Bibliography 205. Frontispiece and one plate ""Merchant Slave & Arab"" with expertly repaired margins not affecting image or text. Light foxing to text. A nicely refurbished uncut copy in contemporary marbled boards. hardcover books
1790ref. 371006Boston: Printed .for the author by I. Thomas and E.T. Andrews. At Faust's Statue no. 45 Newbury Street 1790. First Edition. xvi 1-414pp. 8vo. Later brown cloth inner hinge of title-page strengthened. First Edition. xvi 1-414pp. 8vo. "Early example of phonetic spelling" - Howes W203; Skeel 745; Evans 23053; Sabin 102344 Printed ...for the author, by I. Thomas and E.T. Andrews. At Faust's Statue, no. 45, Newbury Street unknown books
