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1923rif. 141582Boston MA: Houghton Mifflin and Company 1923. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. 90 pages. A tight near fine copy in an about very good dust jacket that has some minor foxing and some small edge chips and tears. Uncommon in any jacket. Houghton Mifflin and Company unknown books
1896rif. 9018000New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1896. 1st. Hardcover. very good . Two volumes bound in the publisher's original burgundy cloth spines and covers stamped in gilt. Top edges gilt. Some shelfwear to cloth covers and at extremities particularly at the heads and heels. G. P. Putnam's Sons hardcover books
rif. 3824Haven Charles T. and Frank A. Belden. A HISTORY OF THE COLT REVOLVER AND OTHER ARMS MADE BY COLT'S PATENT FIRE ARMS MANUFACTURING COMPANY FROM 1936 TO 1940. With a Foreword by Stephen v. Grancsay. New York Bonanza Books 1940. Cloth. Dust jacket. Comprehensive survey of Colt firearms up to the date of publication. The book is very good; the dust jacket is chipped at the head heel and extremities the price is clipped and the front cover has been cut and repaired with tape. Still a very good copy. hardcover books
1954rif. 165674Universal City: Universal Pictures 1954. Vintage publicity photograph of singer and actress Gloria De Haven brandishing a pair of balloons in honor of the new year. Printed mimeo snipes affixed to the verso. Beginning her film career as a child actor DeHaven is perhaps best remembered today for her singing performances in comedies and film musicals in the 1940s and 1950s as in "Two Girls and a Sailor" 1944 and "Down Among the Sheltering Palms" 1952. 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. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown books
1990rif. 159515San Francisco: Club Oasis 1990. Vintage flyer produced by Club Oasis circa early 1990s advertising its weekly funk night featuring "Annie 'Fingertips' Buerhaus." The popular San Francisco LGBTQ nightclub Club Oasis first opened in 1982. Following its decline in the early 2000s the club was bought by actor writer musician director producer and choreographer D'Archy Drollinger who reopened the club as an internationally acclaimed drag show nightclub/cabaret in 2015. D'Arcy was appointed as the San Francisco Drag Laureate in 2023 the first Drag Laureate ever in the world. We were unable to locate further information on Annie "Fingertips" Buerhaus beyond their mention on other San Francisco area flyers from the early 1990s. 8.5 x 11 inches on pink paper. Near Fine with light edgewear. Club Oasis unknown books
1896rif. 134281896. PUTNAM GEORGE HAVEN. Books and their Makers During the Middle Ages. New York 1896-97. 2 vols. Cloth spines a bit dulled and just a trifle soiled endpapers browned from laid-in newspaper cuttings. First edition. A presentation copy with a warm 1896 inscription by Putnam to the leading New Jersey bookseller of the day "a worthy successor of the old-time booksellers. unknown books
1914rif. 376887Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1914. Second Impression. 247 1pp. 8vo. Cloth and baords. Second Impression. 247 1pp. 8vo. Inscribed to Earnest Elmo Calkins and with an ALS from the author congratulating Calkins on his book. Schauffler 1879-1964. was an American writer cellist and tennis player. Houghton Mifflin unknown books
1869rif. 217483New York: N. Tibbals & Co 1869. First editions. Folding map of New Haven double-page lithograph frontispiece and 2 plates. 4 141 1 pp. 1 vols. 16mo 5-5/6 x 3-3/4 in. Three quarter olive-green morocco and marbled paper boards matching endpapers. Fine copy from the library of J.B. VOORHEES of Brooklyn. First editions. Folding map of New Haven double-page lithograph frontispiece and 2 plates. 4 141 1 pp. 1 vols. 16mo 5-5/6 x 3-3/4 in. Two very scarce and important texts relating to New Haven and Yale bound together and in superb condtion. The Sturgis catalogue of the Jarves collection one of the most important and influential collectors of his day is the first book by the young architect and art critic describing the contents if the collection three years before it was acquired by Yale in 1871; it is extra-illustrated with the insertion of 2 tinted lithographed plates. N. Tibbals & Co unknown books
1962rif. 64215New York: Hillary House Publishers 1962. Reprint first published 1896-1897. 8vo. 2 volumes: xxvii 459; x 538 pp. Study of books and manuscripts in Europe during the Middle Ages. Very good. Red cloth spines dull publisher's slipcase rubbed dusty one edge cracked with old tape repair. 10582. Hillary House Publishers unknown books
1912rif. 63591NY and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1912. Second edition. 8vo. v 127 pp. Putnam served as an officer with the 176th New York Volunteers; he was captured at Cedar Creek in October 1864 and spent the rest of the war in Confederate prisons. Illustrated from photographs and paintings plates portraits. Nevins I p. 200: "Relatively mild account of Libby and officers' prison at Danville." Dornbusch I N-587. Nicholson p. 671. Very good. Original gilt-stamped blue cloth. 10017. G. P. Putnam's Sons unknown books
1908rif. 628593New York: Columbia University 1908. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Thick octavo. 223 1; 480 appendix and index 2 ads pp. Brown buckram with morocco spine label titled in gilt. Slim strip of paper removed and repaired three owner names including that of the author see below small tears at the edges of a few leaves rubbing and use on the boards about very good. The book contains several pencil notes some of which lead us to theorize that this was Bertha Haven Putnam's copy although we don't find it to be definitive. The first edition is uncommon. Columbia University hardcover books
1855rif. 552355New York: D. Appleton and Company 1855. Hardcover. Good. Home Book series. 12mo. 168pp. illustrated with a pictorial chromolithographic title page and three wood engraved plates. Publisher's purple decorative cloth stamped in blind on both covers and in gold on the spine. Covers lightly faded at the fore-edge small nick on front cover endpapers slightly soiled back hinge is split else a very good bright copy. Alice Haven was a prolific author of juvenile fiction. A scarce well-preserved copy with an attractive color lithographic title page plate. Not in Wright. D. Appleton and Company hardcover books
1871rif. 541233Trenton N.J.: Wm. T. Nicholson Printer 1871. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. 12mo. 132pp. Two lithographic plates and two albumen photographic tipped-in images of Washington one of a portrait the other of the famous painting of him crossing the Delaware. Original purple cloth gilt. Chip at the bottom of the spine and some light foxing in text else very good. Wm. T. Nicholson, Printer hardcover books
1999rif. 538481Ohio: The Ashland Poetry Press / Ashland University 1999. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Glossy wrappers. 187pp. Fine. Publisher's materials laid in. Contributions by Daniel Hoffman Russell Atkins Jim Barnes Hayden Carruth Richard Frost Alice Fulton Michael Heller X.J. Kennedy Peter Meinke Mildred J. Nash Myra Shapiro William Trowbridge Lewis Turco and many others. The Ashland Poetry Press / Ashland University unknown books
1853rif. 516894New York: D. Appleton & Company 1853. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. 12mo. 214 2 ads pp. Illustrated with pictorial chromolithographed title page of prospectors and engraved plates. Owner's early pencil name on front pastedown. slight fraying to cloth at tips and corners front fly neatly excised foxing a very good copy. Alice Bradley Haven was a prolific author of juvenile fiction. Not in Wright which does locate a number of other titles by this author. "Sam Gilman accompanies his father to California gold fields where Mr. Gilman dreams of finding instant wealth to support his family" from OCLC plot summary. D. Appleton & Company hardcover books
1859rif. 408967Greenfield Mass.: S.S. Eastman & Company Printers 1859. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 18pp. Printed yellow wrappers. A bit of soiling on the wrappers else very near fine. S.S. Eastman & Company, Printers unknown books
1990rif. 242678Garden City NY: Doubleday 1990. Softcover. Near Fine. Uncorr. Proof. Near fine in wrappers a paperback. Uncorrected proof. Spine slightly starting to fade. Doubleday unknown books
1929rif. 406287New York: Dodd Mead and Company 1929. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Green cloth gilt. Stamped name on front pastedown else very near fine without dusttwrapper. Dodd, Mead and Company hardcover books
1906rif. 392385New York: Moffat Yard & Company 1906. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Illustrated blue cloth stamped in cream. Prelude by Henry Van Dyke. Illustrated by E.W. Ashe Frederic Door Steele and Leon Guipon. Cocked with faint soiling and wear on the corners and spine ends else very good minus with previous owner gift inscription on the front free endpaper. Moffat, Yard & Company hardcover books
1931rif. 379302New York: Dodd Mead and Company 1931. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. A trifle rubbed still fine in modestly age-toned near fine price-clipped dustwrapper with tiny nicks and tears. Manly poetry broken into manly categories Men in Love Fighting and Heroism Adventure Sport Good Fellows Get Together etc. Scarce in jacket. Dodd, Mead and Company hardcover books
1940rif. 46063NY: William Morrow and Company 1940. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. xxiii 702pp index. very good hardback in a rubbed jacket that is sunned on the spine and and has a couple of external tape repairs. Slipcase present worn at edges else about very good. Signed by Haven on the half title page. William Morrow and Company hardcover books
1920rif. 408168Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1920. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Blue papercovered boards with blue cloth spine printed white label on front and spine. Spine lightly tanned edges rubbed a very good copy lacking the dustwrapper. Poet Norman Kraeft's copy with a receipt laid in bearing his name. Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover books
1962rif. 22197New York: Hillary House Publishers 1962. 2 vols. reprint of the 1896 edition pp. xxvii 1 459; x 538; near fine in original red cloth slipcase split at edges but still intact. Hillary House Publishers unknown books
1863rif. 29531New York: D. Appleton 1863. 12mo pp. 214 2 ads; extra pictorial chromolithographic title-p. 4 wood-engraved plates; some wear else a very good copy in original blindstamped brown cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine. A moralizing tale about the allure of California gold on New Englanders. D. Appleton unknown books
2026rif. 143471Ann Arbor MI: The Legacy Press 2026. softcover. 10 x 7 inches. softcover. 204 pages. A Perfect Machine narrates the emergence impact and eventual decline of the most pivotal U.S. printing press of the nineteenth century. The Adams power press successfully transitioned printers from the limited production of fine letterpress printing on hand presses to mechanized high-quality high-volume production. From the 1830s through the 1870s this machine printed the majority of American books with a top speed of about 1000 impressions an hour and flexibility for batch printing. Although prominent in book production the Adams power press also facilitated the cross-production of books and newspapers and even selected job printing. Building on the first U.S. power press of Daniel Treadwell Isaac Adams adapted innovations of his own and those of others into a new machine. He patented a double-feeder press in 1830 and an improved machine with a single feeding station in 1836 including a ground-breaking "fly" device to automate the stacking of printed sheets. In coordination with his younger brother Seth whose expertise and business acumen advanced their mutual interests Isaac designed the machines as transitions from manual to steam power. Strategic partnerships patent extensions and flexible power-sourcing enabled Adams to position his machine competitively within the U.S. printing market. Publishers and printers profited from the machines accurate registration beautiful impressions carefully calibrated movements and most of all automated stacking that lessened labor costs while presenting sheets ready for perfecting printing the second side. Patent protection blocked competitors from legally incorporating the Adams fly device into their machines. Isaac Adams relinquished his business in 1859 arguably at its market peak extracting a fair price from R. Hoe & Co. Within a few years publishers turned toward newer cylinder presses to print larger sheets of machine-made paper and illustrative wood blocks incompatible with production on an Adams power press. A Perfect Machine presents a comprehensive study of the Adams power press including an extensive bibliography a compilation of published press sizes and costs and a method for identifying works printed on the machine. This book is an essential reference for studying the transition of printing from hand presses to automated machines in the nineteenth century. The Legacy Press unknown books
