1970Best.-Nr. 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
1999Best.-Nr. 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
1833Best.-Nr. 2749New York: Huntington and Savage 1833. Leather bound. Fair. Leather bound. 5 3/8" X 4 3/8". vi 341pp plus one leaf of testimonials. Original leatherbound boards with black gilt-stamped title label to spine. Heavy wear to binding with boards exposed at extremities and edges of spine heavy scattered rubbing and chipping. Spine mostly disintegrated with title label present but peeling away. Warping to boards. Lean to spine. Hinges cracking mostly detached. Previous owner's name to front pastedown and the half of rear free endpaper present. Dampstain to pages 321 through to the end. Age toning to pages. Dictionary in triple column. 5 3/8" X 4 3/8". vi 341pp plus one leaf of testimonials. Original leatherbound boards with black gilt-stamped title label to spine. Heavy wear to binding with boards exposed at extremities and edges of spine heavy scattered rubbing and chipping. Spine mostly disintegrated with title label present but peeling away. Warping to boards. Lean to spine. Hinges cracking mostly detached. Previous owner's name to front pastedown and the half of rear free endpaper present. Dampstain to pages 321 through to the end. Age toning to pages. Dictionary in triple column. Huntington and Savage unknown books
1832Best.-Nr. 34082London: published by Black Young and Young foreign booksellers to the King 1832. First English edition used by Webster as a template for his 1841 octavo "reprinted by E.H. Barker Esq. of Thetford Norfolk from a copy communicated by the author and containing many manuscript corrections and additions: with an appendix by the editor"; 2 volumes 4to; pp. viii i-civ plus unpaginated lexicon in triple column; 2 and unpaginated lexicon; the publisher's advertisements noted by Skeel have not been preserved in this copy. A good sound copy in mid-19th-century half calf over marbled boards rubbed and scuffed top of one spine with small chip; good and sound. One of the scarcest of the early editions of Webster. Of note is the inclusion of Joseph Worcester's "Synopsis of Words pronounced by different Orthoepists" extracted from the American edition of 1829 which was edited by Worcester and published prior to the rift that developed between the two lexicographers. As to the text of the lexicon itself Skeel notes that it "was reworked by the English editor and was not merely a reprinting." Vancil p. 260; Skeel 589A. published by Black, Young, and Young, foreign booksellers to the King unknown books
1908Best.-Nr. 70989New York Cincinnati & Chicago: American Book Company n.d. 1908. 12mo pp. 174 1 ads for Webster's New International and the Third Collegiate which wasn't published until 1916; 10 wood-engravings illustrating fables frontispiece testimonial; small rust stain from paperclip on front endpaper and flyleaf nibbles at the top fore-edge of the lower board otherwise a near fine copy in original blue pictorial boards red cloth shelfback. One of the last iterations of one of the most influential of American books. American Book Company, n.d. unknown books
1880Best.-Nr. 67219New York: D. Appleton & Co 1880. Revised edition 12mo pp. 174; original blue printed paper-covered boards worn one page marked the rest clean and sound Japanese ownership stamps on title page and lower pastedown good. "The cheapest the best and the most extensively used spelling book ever published." This was not an exaggeration. Webster's spelling book went through dozens of editions was produced in millions of copies and was exported to multiple countries. Japanese editions contemporary with this copy existed but from the ownership marks it looks like in this case a Japanese student got their hands on an American edition. D. Appleton & Co unknown books
1817Best.-Nr. 64586Hartford: printed by George Goodwin & Sons 1817. Second and last edition of Webster's School Dictionary first published in 1807 published here with an expanded Preface and a larger vocabulary and omitting the chronological table square 12mo pp. v 1 366 contemporary calf rebacked black morocco label on spine; dampstaining mostly to last few leaves margins of flyleaves and corner of title page repaired some pencil scribbling in preliminaries a good sound copy of a scarce book. American Imprints 42857; Skeel 579. printed by George Goodwin & Sons unknown books
1789Best.-Nr. 64400Boston: printed for the author by Isaiah Thomas & Co 1789. First edition 8vo pp. 410 full orig. sheep neatly rebacked old spine laid down preserving the original red morocco label; extremities worn else a very good sound copy. A seminal work dedicated to Benjamin Franklin in which Webster puts forth for the first time the spirit of an American as opposed to a British English and particularly its orthography the reform of which grew out of his correspondence with Franklin. Evans 22259; Skeel 651. printed for the author by Isaiah Thomas & Co unknown books
1936Best.-Nr. 63482Toluca Mexico: Talleres gráficos de la Escuela industrial de artes y oficios 1936. 8vo 19 3 leaves; original pictorial red wrappers worn and with a hole not affecting any letterpress on the back wrapper; text toned; good or better. With an inscription from the poet dated November 1936. Noé de la Flor Casanova 1904-1986 was a Mexican lawyer cantautor writer poet and politician who served for four years as Governor of Tabasco from 1943-46 before being removed from office following a scandal. Mexico National Library Berkeley Santa Barbara SUNY Trinity Texas Missouri Pittsburgh and Northwestern State University in Louisiana in OCLC. [Talleres gráficos de la Escuela industrial de artes y oficios] unknown books
1794Best.-Nr. 61022Hartford: Hudson & Goodwin 1794. 12mo pp. 252; front cover perished back cover loosening; textblock a bit toned and lightly dampstained but textually complete. Webster's Reader was first published in 1785. After but two editions the title was changed to An American Selection Phila. 1787. Other 18th-century printings appeared in Albany Hartford Newport Boston and New York. Skeel notes: After this edition Hudson and Goodwin dropped "Connecticut" in their title but continued the numbering. They also discontinued dating their printings which makes placement difficult." Skeel 468; Evans 28039. Hudson & Goodwin unknown books
1821Best.-Nr. 60035Boston: published by Joseph T. Buckingham; and Cambridge: Hilliard & Metcalf 1821. 2 volumes 8vo containing 24 issues for the first two years each separately paginated; contemporary and likely original quarter sheep over marbled boards red morocco label on gilt-paneled spines; ex-Pepperell Public Library with their rubberstamps on the endpaper and front flyleaf of volume I small pressure stamps on the title pages and with old stickers on spines. Issue X with gathering '4' in duplicate and wanting gathering '3'. All else very good and sound. Bound in at the back of the second volume is: A Catalogue of the Officers and Members of the Massachusetts Peace Society Including Nine Branches or Auxiliaries March 1 1819. Cambridge: Hilliard & Metcalf 1819 pp. 12 3 1; includes Constitution of the Massachusetts Peace Society second count American Imprints 48638; A Catalogue of the Officers and Members of the Massachusetts Peace Society including Thirteen Branches or Auxiliaries March 1 1820. Cambridge: Hilliard & Metcalf 1819 pp. 15 1; American Imprints 2176; Address delivered at the Fifth Anniversary of the Massachusetts Peace Society December 25th 1820 by the Hon. Josiah Quincy Cambridge: Hilliard and Metcalf 1821 pp. 32; American Imprints 6529; Fifth Annual Report of the Massachusetts Peace Society drop title pp. 8; American Imprints 2178; Sixth Annual Report of the Massachusetts Peace Society drop title pp. 8; American Imprints 9430; Bogue David. Appendix to No. 4 vol. II of the Friend of Peace drop title pp. 8; not found in American Imprints; A Solemn Review of the Custom of War Showing that War is the Effect of Popular Delusion and Proposing a Remedy. By Philo Pacificus i.e. Noah Worcester . Fifth edition Cambridge; printed by Hilliard and Metcalf. Sold by Wells & Lilly No. 97 Court-Street Boston 1816 pp. 32; American Imprints 39872. Worcester 1758-1837 was a fifer in the Revolution and later a clergyman who "came to regard war whether offensive or defensive as unjustifiable" see DAB. A pioneer of the American peace movement in December 1814 he published A Solemn Review of the Custom of War under the pen-name Philo Pacificus "still considered one of the best pieces of anti-war literature ever committed to print and as relevant today as then. In 1815 he founded the Massachusetts Peace Society serving as its secretary until 1828. From 1819 to 1828 he tirelessly edited The Friend of Peace a quarterly periodical of the Society as well as wrote most of its content. In 1828 the Massachusetts Peace Society merged with the newly formed American Peace Society" Wikipedia. Among the contributors besides Worcester himself are Thomas Jefferson and John Jay each contributing letters Thomas Paine and extracts from William Penn and Benjamin Franklin etc. Hilliard & Metcalf unknown books
1819Best.-Nr. 60046Albany: Websters and Skinners 1819. 12mo pp. 168; 8 woodcuts illustrating 8 fables; contemporary home-made calf binding with blind geometric details naively executed and with a few holes in the skin; nibbling to textblock corner resulting in loss of last word on 3 leaves and again on bottom edge with loss of type on 7 leaves tidestain on top edge with the ownership signature of Samuel Kinnes many times on endpapers with the warning "steal not this book for fear of shame for hear sic you see the owner's name." Kinnes dates his purchase of the book twice as 1818. Skeel 176. Websters and Skinners unknown books
1807Best.-Nr. 60047New Haven: Brisban & Brannan 1807. First edition 12mo pp. 250 original full calf gilt-paneled spine; light dampstaining to the upper gutter; all else very good and sound. Of this small grammar Webster wrote in an 1805 letter to the American publisher Mathew Carey: "I am compiling a Grammar upon what appear to be the true idioms & fundamental principles of the Language--which I hope to have ready for the press within a year." Webster's goal was to lay out the principles of American English based on its own structure thereby discarding previous grammatical systems which served British English. In it he has developed "the real structure and idiom of our language. I have left Lowth and Johnson and mounted to the original writers as far back as the first Saxon laws and annals. The result is that many of the principles of grammar as taught in Lowth formerly and now in Murray whose book is nothing but Lowth's altered and enlarged prove to be totally false; and I affirm that those grammars now taught introduce more errors than they correct" letter from Webster to Joel Barlow Nov. 12 1807. Although this title was not as successful as his series of spellers and readers Webster considered it one of his two most important works. Twenty years later in a letter to Lemuel Shattuck Nov. 18 1829 Webster writes: "My Philosophical and Practical Grammar was first published in 1807 and a second edition in 1822. This work has been but little used; but except for my quarto dictionary I consider it as altogether the most valuable work I have ever published." Skeel 433; Sabin 102375; American Imprints 14192. Brisban & Brannan unknown books
1792Best.-Nr. 58418Hartford: Hudson & Goodwin 1792. 12mo pp. 3-131 pp.1 2 & 132 pastedowns; original sheep-backed blue paper-covered wooden boards; leather rubbed; covers soiled; rear board split vertically internally reinforced in the margins with surgical tape not obscuring any lettering; pages toned and lightly soiled. Contemporary inscription on front pastedown: "Reumah Chase hear Book stele not this Book for feair of shame for hear you se the oners name. Reumah Chase Hear Book 1802." Evans 25002; Skeel 417. Hudson & Goodwin unknown books
1810Best.-Nr. 57390Concord: printed by George Hough 1810. 8vo pp. 177 3; contemporary marbled wrappers; front flyleaf with tape repair spine partially perished text toned; otherwise good and sound. With a separately printed copyright slip pasted to the verso of the title page. "For some time he had been making a thorough study of the doctrine of the Trinity and in 1810 he published Bible News . setting forth conclusions which were essentially Unitarian. The Hopkinton Association of Ministers to which he belonged passed a vote condemning the book" DAB. American Imprints 22088. printed by George Hough unknown books
1821Best.-Nr. 57146Boston: West & Richardson; Joseph T. Buckingham; & Cambridge: Hilliard & Metcalf 1821. Ten issues in all 8vo the first two issues with some worming; all else generally very good in original printed blue wrappers. Worcester 1758-1837 was a fifer in the Revolution and later a clergyman who "came to regard war whether offensive or defensive as unjustifiable" see DAB. A pioneer of the American peace movement in December 1814 he published A Solemn Review of the Custom of War under the pen-name Philo Pacificus "still considered one of the best pieces of anti-war literature ever committed to print and as relevant today as then. In 1815 he founded the Massachusetts Peace Society serving as its secretary until 1828. From 1819 to 1828 he tirelessly edited The Friend of Peace a quarterly periodical of the Society as well as wrote most of its content. In 1828 the Massachusetts Peace Society merged with the newly formed American Peace Society" Wikipedia. Among the contributors besides Worcester himself are Thomas Jefferson and John Jay each contributing letters William Cowper a poem "Pity for Poor Africans"; and extracts from William Penn and Benjamin Franklin etc. Most inside front wrappers and the back wrappers are generally advertising Worcester's text books geographies spellers gazetteers etc. as well as other books published by West & Richardson Joseph T. Buckingham and Cummings & Hilliard. Present in this gathering are: Vol. VIII - XII Boston 1817-1818; Vol. II nos. 3-5 Cambridge 1819; Vol. II no. 12 an Vol. III no. 1 Cambridge 1821. Several of the issues bear the ownership signature of the deacon and sawyer Eleazar Spofford for whom see Wikitree.com. Hilliard & Metcalf unknown books
1839Best.-Nr. 50059New Haven: S. Babcock 1839. First edition small 8vo pp. viii 9-248; full contemporary sheep rebacked; good sound copy with an important presentation "To Professor Silliman with the author's regards." A tear through the presentation has been skillfully mended and as the inscription is written in red pencil it is a bit faint. With Silliman's bookplate on the front pastedown and the subsequent bookplate of Henry McIntosh. In a quarter brown morocco clamshell box. Silliman was perhaps the best-known scientific man in America in the first half of the 19th century a highly respected professor of chemistry and natural history at Yale and a long-time friend of Webster's. Like Webster he was an editor a compiler of textbooks and a prominent Connecticut citizen and Yale alumnus. Skeel 574. S. Babcock unknown books
1809Best.-Nr. 50149New York: published by subscription.and sold at the Theological and Classical Bookstore of Williams and Whiting.J. Seymour printer 1809. First edition 8vo pp. 23 1; without a title page as issued; original blue printed wrappers; one short tear and a small piece missing from the corner of the front wrapper; all else very good. "In 1808 Webster and Judge Thomas Dawes of Boston one of his wife's brothers-in-law discussed religion in their correspondence. Webster on December 20 1808 wrote a detailed letter summarizing his religious experiences and beliefs; Dawes acknowledged it on February 6 1809 expressing rather liberal views and on February 23 Webster wrote a long answer which became the present text.The compiler believes this printing to have been the first separate edition" Skeel. It was also published in the Panoplist and the Missionary Magazine United edited by Jedidiah Morse. The verso of the front wrapper and both sides of the back wrapper contain a brief summary of the firm Williams & Whiting and publisher's advertisements. Skeel 706. published by subscription...and sold at the Theological and Classical Bookstore of Williams and Whiting...J. Seymour, printer unknown books
1803Best.-Nr. 43744New Haven: Joel Walter 1803. A new edition "improved and enlarged" 12mo pp. iv 2 137; disbound remnants of calf spine still present; last leaf detached but present; pages quite browned and frayed along edges else mostly very good and sound. Skeel 683: "Of the original contents No. VI 'The Grace of God in Dollars' and the Conclusion have been omitted.The essays from p. 75 to the end are new under the heading 'Additional Numbers Written and First Published in 1803.' Joel Walter unknown books
1815Best.-Nr. 43750New-York: E. Duyckinck 1815. Small 12mo pp. 108; disbound; pages uniformly browned some dampstaining throughout else very good and sound. Skeel 692. E. Duyckinck unknown books
1799Best.-Nr. 43749N.p.: Printed for and sold by the book-sellers 1799. Small 12mo pp. vi 72; disbound; mostly fine. Evans 36688; Skeel 678. Printed for, and sold by the book-sellers unknown books
1802Best.-Nr. 43743Philadelphia: Joseph Charless 1802. 12mo pp. 80; disbound with remnants of sheep spine; edges frayed tear to F5 affecting text without loss of meaning else very good and sound. Skeel 682. Joseph Charless unknown books
1929Best.-Nr. 44406Cleveland: Commercial Bookbinding Co. 1929. Miniature book approx. 51 x 38 mm. pp. 799; original grey limp embossed cloth all edges red gilt original silver paper slipcase box; binding a bit loose else very good and sound. On title page: "Employing Bookbinders of America. 10th Annual Convention." Western Reserve and Virginia only in OCLC as of January 2014. [Commercial Bookbinding Co.] unknown books
1851Best.-Nr. 44461New York: Huntington & Savage and Mason & Law 1851. Square 12mo pp. viii 9-320; text in triple column within wavy single-line border; original full calf maroon gilt-lettered morocco spine label; scuffing front joint cracked pages a bit browned else textblock about fine. At head of title: "Containing 10000 more words than Walker's Dictionary". Adverts printed on pp. i-ii. Vancil p. 262. Huntington & Savage, and Mason & Law unknown books
1848Best.-Nr. 44550Springfield: George and Charles Merriam 1848. First edition of the first Merriam-Webster dictionary; thick 4to pp. lxxxiv 1367; engraved frontispiece portrait after Samuel F.B. Morse; full original sheep black morocco spine label mostly perished; the whole quite scuffed and rubbed preliminaries foxed modern 1950s manuscript list of birthdays on rear endpapers; texblock very good and sound. Contemporary ownership inscriptions of Mrs. H. Booth on front free endpaper and frontispiece verso. Vancil p. 262. George and Charles Merriam unknown books
