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1588ref. 6821CBFlorenz, Filippo Giunti, 1588. Kl.-4°. (4) Bl., 186 S., (9) Bl. Mit Holzschnitt-Portrait, 2 versch. Holzschnittdruckermarken und zahlr. Holzschnitt-Initialen. Flexibler Pergamentband der Zeit mit 2 Schliessbändern (2 Seiten ausgerissen), handschr. Rückentitel und Papierrückenschild.
1914ref. 606026Chicago: Historical Feature Film Company 1914. Unbound. Near Fine. Film program. Octavo folded once to make 4pp. Illustrated from two black and white photographs. Two old horizontal folds a couple of thin stains on the front panel a bit of rubbing about near fine. A program for the film Money Talks in Darktown starring Florence McLain Frank Montgomery Bert Murphy and Jimmie Marshall. The Historical Feature Film Company was a White-owned production studio in Chicago producing films with largely Black casts but which still incorporated all of the racial stereotypes of the period. The company is largely credited with being established in 1915 though this program is for a film releasing on November 30 1914. Following poor public reception to their early films the company changed their name to the Ebony Film Corporation in 1917 in an attempt to appeal to the Black audience and hired Luther J. Pollard a young Black entrepreneur who was given the title of president and general manager. The company officially shut down just a couple of years later. Very scarce. Historical Feature Film Company unknown
1914ref. 606026Chicago: Historical Feature Film Company 1914. Unbound. Near Fine. Film program. Octavo folded once to make 4pp. Illustrated from two black and white photographs. Two old horizontal folds a couple of thin stains on the front panel a bit of rubbing about near fine. A program for the film Money Talks in Darktown starring Florence McLain Frank Montgomery Bert Murphy and Jimmie Marshall. The Historical Feature Film Company was a White-owned production studio in Chicago producing films with largely Black casts but which still incorporated all of the racial stereotypes of the period. The company is largely credited with being established in 1915 though this program is for a film releasing on November 30 1914. Following poor public reception to their early films the company changed their name to the Ebony Film Corporation in 1917 in an attempt to appeal to the Black audience and hired Luther J. Pollard a young Black entrepreneur who was given the title of president and general manager. The company officially shut down just a couple of years later. Very scarce. Historical Feature Film Company unknown books
1905ref. 105876NY:: Funk & Wagnalls Company. Very Good. 1905. Hardcover. From the personal library of Hale Lamont-Havers stage actress author and amateur criminologist with her name on the front free endpaper. Illustrated with fifteen duotone plates. First edition "Autograph Edition" as stated on the title page. SIGNED by the author below her photograph on the frontispiece. Octavo bound in dark blue cloth with gilt lettering top edge gilt. Edge worn at the spine ends fading to the lettering along the spine another previous owner's name on front free endpaper gift inscription dated Christmas 1904 on half-title page brief marginal markings on a couple of pages presumably those of Lamont-Havers else very good. No dust jacket. ; 394 pages; Signed by Author . Funk & Wagnalls Company, hardcover
1905ref. 105876NY:: Funk & Wagnalls Company. Very Good. 1905. Hardcover. From the personal library of Hale Lamont-Havers stage actress author and amateur criminologist with her name on the front free endpaper. Illustrated with fifteen duotone plates. First edition "Autograph Edition" as stated on the title page. SIGNED by the author below her photograph on the frontispiece. Octavo bound in dark blue cloth with gilt lettering top edge gilt. Edge worn at the spine ends fading to the lettering along the spine another previous owner's name on front free endpaper gift inscription dated Christmas 1904 on half-title page brief marginal markings on a couple of pages presumably those of Lamont-Havers else very good. No dust jacket. ; 394 pages; Signed by Author . Funk & Wagnalls Company, hardcover books
ref. 3517jHarrison. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. Undated but the yellow front pastedowns have advertisements dated 1860. "The right of translation is reserved" stated on the copyright page. 79 pages complete in original pebbled boards with gold gilt to the front. With only 1 signature Joseph Davies from the period of publication. In remarkable condition for its age - appears very little used with no annotations in the text. Soundly bound and well-preserved! JK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Harrison paperback
1908ref. 6752London: Longmans Green and Company 1908. First Edition First Printing. First Edition First Printing. Squarish quarto. 10.0 x 9 7/8 inches. 68 pp. Original color pictorial glossy paper covered boards with original maroon cloth spine decorated endpapers. With 32 superb full-page color illustrations illustrated color title and line drawings throughout all by Florence K. Upton the illustrator of the Golliwogg Series. This is a wonderful fantasy of an "unsophisticated little boy" who embarks on a journey to rescues a Princess with the help and direction of a fairy. It is one of the scarest of all the books illustrated by Florence Upton and seldom found in presentable condition. This copy with slight rubbing to cover corners rubbed hinges in tact slight toning to title near fine and internally clean and bright. Longmans, Green and Company unknown
1908ref. 6752London: Longmans Green and Company 1908. First Edition First Printing. First Edition First Printing. Squarish quarto. 10.0 x 9 7/8 inches. 68 pp. Original color pictorial glossy paper covered boards with original maroon cloth spine decorated endpapers. With 32 superb full-page color illustrations illustrated color title and line drawings throughout all by Florence K. Upton the illustrator of the Golliwogg Series. This is a wonderful fantasy of an "unsophisticated little boy" who embarks on a journey to rescues a Princess with the help and direction of a fairy. It is one of the scarest of all the books illustrated by Florence Upton and seldom found in presentable condition. This copy with slight rubbing to cover corners rubbed hinges in tact slight toning to title near fine and internally clean and bright. Longmans, Green and Company unknown books
1933ref. 0001509SPRINGFIELD BARREN PLAINS TENNESSEE. Good. 1933. On offer is a very interesting manuscript diary handwritten by Florence E. Hughes who lived in or near Springfield Tennessee in 1933. We believe Florence was an African American woman though this is not stated categorically in the book there seems little doubt given the clues some activities etc. Florence was born on July 4th 1867. She married Walter S. Hughes in 1890 and had three children with rather interesting names; Golden R. Pearl M. and Jewel A. She talks of "traveling" to Springfield and living closer to Barren Plains which she writes about it as if it were home. Prolific but rather illiterate Florence details life and quite a few deaths from the area talks of barn dances tobacco growing shows coming into town a "Negro" trial that was held on their front lawn and much more for a full diary. Her husband was a blacksmith by trade and Florence designed several gravestones for her family and some local folks providing a very broad knowledge base of doings in the town. Here are some snippets: 1933 "January 1st Mary Olive Highsmith Jones will have her funeral at the Baptist Church here today. She died at her home in Murfreesboro Tenn. on Friday and brought here to her mother and father's Mr. and Mrs. P.M. Highsmith on Saturday and kept her there until today. Buried her in Springfield. A large crowd attended church. I was sick in bed and could not go so I was so sorry. Great deal of sickness here this winter." "January 3rd I am up today but not well. Mr. Morris is clearing the old brick house. Is moving everything he has today at the new house near Mt. Penson Church. We have lost a real neighbor and friend. Floral Park wishes them the best of wishes. Hope to have them come back. I mailed Ruby a pk this morning. I received a new year book from her. Mr. Clinard is moving to the Sommer's house today. I have been up all day. Charley Johnson was arrested this morning and carried to jail selling whiskey." "January 11th V. Strange and wife are moving near Guthrie Ky today. Sure wish them well and like to have them back some day. 3 o'clock still raining. I made a design for Bro Zoa and sister Ida's grave. Will carry them to the cemetery soon. This is the third one I have made for their grave in Springfield Tenn Annie sick a bed." "January 20th & 21st I spent the day at the club house. Had a real nice dinner and large crowd. Mrs. Lillie Holman gave me a clipping from the Nashville Banner in behalf of Ed. He sure has all honors a man could have. Nothing too good can be said of him. Oh why did he have to go. Some day we will understand. Oh what a man he was .I received several papers from Ia in Houston Tex giving the articles of bro Ed funeral and burial. It was wonderful to read. To see and know how his country honored him " "February 10th Captain Charles A. Lindberg is getting some more trouble about his baby. Kidnapers are demanding $500000 or they will take his baby ." "March 8th Somewhat warmer today. They are going to carry Mr. Joe Gown's remains out to Mr. Pink Gown's this morning from Henry and Bill. They went over to Nashville last night after he died and brought him to town. I sent flowers over town to Annie Taylor for her mother's grave her birthday tomorrow. The club are going to send eats to Mr. Gown this eve. Rev. F. E. Alford of Cedar Hill got run over by a car this morning and got his hip broken and they carried him to Nashville Hospital but died the same day. Did not live but little. A fine man gone." "April 21st .Elizabeth Holman taken supper here tonight. Stayed over for the Negro play that is on tonight at the High School building. Club meeting this eve. Mrs. Smith was still in the hospital not able to come. The jury sent King to the pen for 21 years." "May 6th A large crowd was in town to see the large whale. Idella and myself went to Springfield this eve was guest of Aunt Lucy Gorham. I also called on Mr. Lowery fishery. Purchased me two mated fan tailed fish also snails and tad poles ." "June 1st E. T. and Nancy have a girl baby. Washed for Annie today. Real warm. Daniel Garrett of Houston Tex left for his home this morning. He spent several days with his mother Mrs. Viola Garrett. Mrs. Dan Holland Mrs. Mollie Barbee Mrs. Barbee Holman Mrs. Estelle Corbin were guests at Floral Park this eve. Mrs. Laura Scott Cantrell died in Nashville today. Henry and Bill undertaker went for her remains and carried them to George Robert Scott where she will remain until tomorrow's burial 2 P.M." "August 14th Show came to Barren Plains for a week. It is real good. Viola and Hettie spent the night here. Idella and I went to the show. Mrs. Emma Benson stayed here with Viola while we were gone. The show is over in the lot in front of the house. Only 3 in the show. Mr. and Mrs. O'Brian and daughter ""August 21st & 22nd Had a real good show tonight. This is their last one. I did not go. Set on front porch and could hear real good .Had large crowd at show. The darky's had some trouble and 2 spent the night in jail. Robert Garrett and wife from Mich. are here for a few days Had the darky's trial here in front yard. Fined them $7.50 each. The show left in this morning. Hope things will be quiet once more .Quite a crowd here at the trial. Sheriff A. L. Jett was here and Mr. Moor. Mrs. Harvey Powell was here and Mr. and Mrs. O'Brian the show people." "September 24th Preaching this morning and night. Truck load drove in Springfield to Tabernacle to hear a 13 year old girl preach. She is a missionary from China. She sure was fine. The meeting at the M.E. Church closed last night. They had a large crowd. Hope things will get quiet for awhile ." "November 6th Mr. and Mrs. Clenelan Mason has a baby girl. Mr. and Mrs. Gary Jackson has a baby girl. Hettie Lee is with Dora Lee. Cleve Baker buried their little girl at the Edward Cemetery today. March has gone to town as this is first Monday several spent the day in Springfield. Making flowers for our little cemetery." "December 13th One year ago today Bro Ed. Passed away at his home in Washington D.C. Buster went to see Dr. Dye this morning about his feet they are giving him some trouble .They begun the work at the High School today digging out the basement and filling in the front. Will do some painting too. Buster working at the oil well tonight. Short of one hand ." Historians genealogists and researchers of the area will be delighted by the number of names are mentioned: Farrar Ollie Hughes Morris Charley Holland Viola McNeil Mollie Barber Randall Powell Jack Dean Dr. Charley Tanner Jim Chinnard Laura Pook Bob Trogdon Sam Moon Martha Alexander Pantha Hollingsworth Dr. Dye Bud Powell Charles Highsmith Bob Bell Olive Garrett C. Baggett Orndorff Earl West and more. The diary measures about 5" x 7 ½" and the cover is rather worn but overall G.; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall; KEYWORDS: GRAVESTONES NEGRO TRIAL TENNESSEE FLORENCE E. HUGHES SPRINGFIELD BARREN PLAINS BLACKSMITH DEPRESSION DEPRESSION ERA HEADSTONES TOMBSTONES NEGROES NEGRO SMITHY AFRICAN AMERICANS TRIALS WOMEN STUDIES GENDER STUDIES SOCIAL STUDIES WRITER HOLOGRAPH SIGNED PERSONAL MEMOIR HANDWRITTEN HAND WRITTEN AUTOGRAPH AUTOGRAPHS BRITISH ENGLAND ENGLISH SIGNED LETTERS DOCUMENT DOCUMENTS MANUSCRIPT MANUSCRIPTS WRITERS WRITER AUTHOR HOLOGRAPH TRAVEL PERSONAL ANTIQUITÉ CONTRAT VÉLIN DOCUMENT MANUSCRIT PAPIER ANTIKE BRIEF PERGAMENT DOKUMENT MANUSKRIPT PAPIER OGGETTO D'ANTIQUARIATO ATTO VELINA DOCUMENTO MANOSCRITTO CARTA ANTIGÜEDAD HECHO VITELA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITO PAPEL . unknown
ref. Z1-B-015-00799General Books LLC. Used - Like New. Used - Like New. Book is new and unread but may have minor shelf wear. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less usually same day. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry. General Books LLC unknown
ref. Z1-M-013-01642General Books LLC. Used - Like New. Used - Like New. Book is new and unread but may have minor shelf wear. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less usually same day. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry. General Books LLC unknown
1925ref. 059684Boston / New York: Houghton Mifflin Company 1925. First American Edition Printing Unknown. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 464 Pp. Folding Map At End. Red Cloth Colored Boards. First American Edition Later Printing 1925 Using Sheets Printed In Great Britain. Some Wear Spine Lettering Quite Clear But Not Bright No Marks Fraying At Tips And Along Bottom Edges Of Boards. Black Silhouette Bookplate Of Ayscough In Robes Feeding Her Pekingese Hand Titled "Yo Fei And His Missus" Inscribed "To Mrs. Low With Love A Well-Acquainted American's Observations In China; It Would Be Hard To Find Any Comparable Early Twentieth Century English-Language Observations Of China Or America By A Chinese Writer. Florence Wheelock Ayscough Macnair 1875 -1942 Was A Sinologist Writer And Translator Of Chinese Literature Born In Shanghai China To Canadian Father Thomas Reed Wheelock And American Mother Edith H. Clarke. Ayscough Moved To The United States Aged Nine And Attended Shaw School In Brookline Where She Met Amy Lowell The American Poet. The Two Were Lifelong Friends. Ayscough's Family Returned To Live In China When She Was In Her Early Twenties. Ayscough Was A Lecturer On Chinese Art And Literature And Was The Author Of Eight Books On Chinese History Culture Literary Criticism And Translation. She Traveled As A Lecturer To Cities Including London Paris Berlin And New York. Ayscough Accepted A Permanent Lecturing Post At The University Of Chicago In 1938 Where She Lectured On Chinese Literature And Continued Her Translation Work And Documenting The History And Culture Of China. She Was Honorary Librarian Of The North China Branch Royal Asiatic Society In Shanghai For Fifteen Years. She Collected Modern Chinese Paintings Including Work By Xu Gu. Her Efforts Introduced This Chinese Art Form To The American Public. Her Writings Included Translations Of Classical Poetry And Essays On Chinese Art History And Philosophy. She Work Also Attempted To Correct Previous Inaccurate Attempts To Translate The Cultures Of Ancient And Contemporary China For Example Perspectives Of China As A Stagnant Culture. In Addition To Countering Negative Stereotypes With Positive Reevaluations She Also Sought To Correct Misinformation. For Example Her Review Of The 1931 Novel The Good Earth By American Writer Pearl Buck Ayscough Praised The Choice Of Contemporary Chinese Peasantry As The Subject But Criticized The Accuracy. Ayscough Had A Strong Influence On The Work Of Amy Lowell Being The Source Of Lowell's Interest In Asian Culture And Chinese Poetry; Ayscough Introduced Lowell To Chinese Paintings And Poetry In 1917. On A Visit To America She Brought With Her Chinese Word Pictures That She Translated Into English Which Lowell Turned Into Rhymed Poetry. Her First Book Fir-Flower Tablets With Amy Lowell Was A Translation Of Poems From The Chinese. A Chinese Mirror Published In 1925 Was An Analysis Of The Structure Of Chinese Society And Government In Particular The Symbolism Of The Beijing Imperial Palaces. She Published Tu Fu The Autobiography Of A Chinese Poet In 1929; Her Translations Of The Poems Of Tu Fu With A Biography Constructed Using His Poetry. In 1934 She Published Travels Of A Chinese Poet. These Two Works Contributed To The Introduction Of Tu Fu To The British Public. Ayscough Wrote Two Books Intended For Younger Readers; The Autobiography Of A Chinese Dog An Account Of Shanghai From The Perspective Of Her Pekingese Dog Yo-Fei And Fire-Cracker Land. Her Final Work Chinese Women Yesterday And To-Day Published In 1937 Examined Contemporary Chinese Women Leaders As Successors Of A Long Line Of Capable Though Secluded Chinese Women. Ayscough Also Contributed Articles To The Encyclopaedia Sinica. After Her Death Ayscough's Correspondence With Her Friend The Poet Amy Lowell Was Compiled And Published By Her Husband Professor Harley Farnsworth Macnair. The Following Year He Published A Biography Of His Wife Titled The Incomparable Lady. He Donated Her Collection Of 1292 Chinese-Language Books To The Library Of Congress. Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover
1634ref. 19923In Firenza, Gio : Batista Landini, 1634 ; in 4°, vélin de l’époque, titre manuscrit au dos ; [16], 284, [4] pp. ; (signatures : †, ††, A-Z, Aa-Nn4).
1801ref. 17641Genève, Paschoud, 1801 ; in-8, broché ; XIV, (1) f. (avec étiquette de titre), 327 pp. , 1 planche dépliante gravée sur cuivre.
1928ref. 21253571928. London: Macmillan and Co. 1928. and: HARDY Florence Emily; Thomas HARDY. The Later Years of Thomas Hardy 1892-1928. London: Macmillan and Co. 1930. Two volumes 8vo. Publisher's olive-green cloth lettered in gilt to spine front board blocked in gold with TH monogram top-edges gilt in the dust-jackets both priced 18/- net to front flaps; vol I: pp. xii 327 1; 14 plates of which 6 photogravure portraits with tissue guards including portrait frontispiece tipped-in facsimile letter between pp. 68-69; vol II: pp. xi 1 286 2 advertisements; 12 plates of which 3 photogravure portraits with tissue guards including portrait frontispiece; vol I: lightly bumped to upper outer corners small tear to cloth c. 5 mm at lower edge of spine wrapper with light edgewear; vol II: some light spotting to fore-edge and endpapers wrapper with light edgewear; a near fine set in like wrappers; inscribed in black ink to Howard Bliss by Florence Hardy to front free endpaper of vol I see below.First editions of the posthumously published Life of Hardy the authorship credited to Hardy's second wife Florence but an autobiography in all but name; the first volume is inscribed by Florence Hardy to the distinguished Hardy collector and family friend Howard Bliss; notably scarce in inscribed state.In the preface to these two substantial volumes Florence Hardy explains that her husband long resisted the idea of a biography that he lacked 'sufficient admiration for himself' to write one. Disturbed by the appearance of inaccurate accounts of his life however he eventually agreed that the facts of his career should be recorded contributing chapter plans personal recollections and material drawn from his notebooks diaries and correspondence.Though attributed to Florence Emily Hardy 'ever since the essential facts of its authorship first became known in 1940 it has been customary to speak of it as an autobiography' Millgate. The Life which traverses the author's life from Dorset childhood to the controversies of later years and crucially the growth of a great novelist and poet was it seems almost entirely Hardy's own work. 'Written in strictest privacy' Millgate explains:The sheets of Hardy's MS were slipped under the blotting paper whenever anyone came to the study and then typed up by Florence in three copies a ribbon copy and two carbons. Hardy would revise and correct the third of these copies and then pass it to his wife for her to transfer the changes into copy two and subsequently when his final approval had been given to them into the ribbon copy destined for the printer - which thus showed no visible trace of his participation. Hardy granted Florence permission to add or cut whatever she saw fit prior to publication so it is reasonable to assume that the Life is to some degree shaped by her perspective as a widow and by her stewardship of Hardy's life and legacy - not least his haunted and indeed haunting preoccupation with his first wife Emma Gifford. Owing to the extraordinary series of poems Hardy wrote in Emma's memory Florence has tended to be overshadowed. There was a thirty-nine-year age gap between them but recently discovered letters make it clear that she was very much in love with Hardy. 'Although he is much older than myself' she wrote in February 1914 'it is a genuine love match - on my part at least for I suppose I ought not to speak for him. At any rate I know I have for a husband one of the kindest most humane men in the world.' In a letter of 1932 four years after Hardy's death she thanks the same correspondent for his 'kind words of sympathy about my great loss. It was such a wonderful thing to live in close association with that great mind & that noble personality. After having lived 14 years with such a companion it is little wonder that I feel intolerably lonely - & find the world very empty.' Early Life was published 2 November 1928 Later Years following on 29 April 1930 both in editions of 3000 copies.Provenance: Volume I inscribed 'for Howard Bliss with kind regards from Florence E Hardy. January 12th 1929.' Bliss 1804-1977 younger brother of the composer Sir Arthur Bliss was a friend of the Hardys and also a great collector of the author's books manuscripts and related materials. One of the 'four men who have assembled Hardy collections of remarkable extent and quality' acknowledged in Richard Purdy's Hardy bibliography his own letters to and from the Hardys are now held in various archives including the Hardy Archive in Dorset. Much of his collection is now held in the Berg Collection at the New York Public Library.Laid into Early Life is an L-shaped piece of lined paper with Bliss's notes in ink and pencil to both sides. The notes in black ink to one side refer to the holograph manuscript of Hardy's 1873 novel A Pair of Blue Eyes which Bliss owned now in the Berg Collection. Headed 'p. 31 of MS.' Bliss has transcribed the quatrain from Shelley's 'Lines': 'When the Lamp is Shattered' quoted by Elfride in Chapter 3 of the novel. To the bottom left he has written 'send proofs of this number for Mr Thos Hardy care of John Gifford By Kirland House nr. Bodmin'. The quotation it seems is from a marginal note in Hardy's MS. Millgate cites the same note in his 1982 Hardy biography his source being Bliss' manuscript in the Berg. The 'proofs' mentioned are those of the first instalment of A Pair of Blue Eyes serialised in Tinsley's Magazine. Beside the Shelley quotation is a further quatrain from the song 'The Banks of Allan Water' sang by Bathsheba in Chapter 23 of Far from the Madding Crowd.Another reference to the Blue Eyes MS appears overleaf: 'P. 7 of MS. There is however something more than the love respect of his biographer to prompt this reticence not to describe his face feature by feature' from Chapter 1. In the published version 'love' and 'respect' are reversed and it is unclear whether the concluding parenthesis is Bliss' own precis or an earlier variant in the MS. The remainder of the page consists of pencilled notes headed 'Reprinted from ""The Western Morning News"" Thursday March 15. 1928' followed by notes from an article printed in that issue pp. 5 8 10 in which an unnamed correspondent gives an account of a visit to the Rectory of St Juliot Church where Hardy was living when he wrote A Pair of Blue Eyes and where he met Emma Gifford sister-in-law to the rector at the time who later became the first Mrs Hardy see pp. 96-105 in Early Life. The correspondent is shown by the incumbent rector 'three of the most treasured possessions of the Church': two sketches and a single photograph of the church the sketches by Hardy and the photograph signed by him. Bliss has transcribed the details of each in a numbered list. The Berg collection contains numerous sketches watercolours and photographs of the church and its environs by Hardy and Emma all from Bliss but these three items - which he may have been intent upon acquiring hence the note - are not listed. Laid into the same volume is a small newspaper cutting concerning Helen Paterson Hardy's favourite illustrator for whom he confessed in a letter to Edmund Gosse he harboured 'quite romantical' feelings.Purdy pp. 262-67 268-73. See Millgate Thomas Hardy: A Biography 1982; Guide to the Thomas Hardy collection of papers 1870-1964 bulk 1870-1928 The New York Public Library Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature online. hardcover
ref. 1612London: Longmans Green and Company. 1908. First edition first printing. First edition first printing. Original paper-covered pictorial boards in dustwrapper. The book is in superb near fine condition with just light spotting to the board edges. The contents are in lovely clean and bright condition with no tears or creases and no inscriptions or stamps. Complete with original printed dustwrapper. The wrapper is chipped to the spine resulting in loss of some text to the top and the bottom. Both the front and rear panels are complete with just light chipping and some soiling rubbing and small closed tears to the extremities. The wrapper is printed to both the front and the rear panels. Scarce in the dustwrapper. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers. London: Longmans, Green and Company. 1908 hardcover
1860ref. 41976London: Harrison 1860. First edition second issue. 8vo. 79 1 pp. Publisher's black pebbled cloth with gilt lettering to the upper board. Later signature to title page. Neatly rebacked with a near matching cloth else very good. Nightingale's second published work an immense success that sold 15000 copies in a couple of months. ".an incomparable treatise but. more than that; it is an alphabet of household hygiene. Dealing as it does with the basic principles of nursing it has never dated and the principles are as valid today as when first formulated." Bishop & Goldie pp. 15-18. First published the same year. The second issue includes the "Right of Translation" note to the title page absent from the first issue. The advertisements to the endpapers feature Burke's Peerage and Baronetage for 1860 on the front pastedown and the "Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian" appears as the last item on Harrison's list to the rear. This copy also accords with all of the issue points of the early issues recorded by the bibliographers apart from the final one the last chapter headline reads "Conclusion". This point however features less consistently than the others. London: Harrison unknown
1907ref. 23324London John Long Haymarket 1907. HARDBACK NODUSTJACKET 1907 Stated 1st Edition 1st Printing NF-/VG- AS-IS NOJACKET RED Cloth decorated with Black Yellow of Man Standing with Amber Eyes & Hat & coat Small Dings edges Cover Lettered in Gold Gilt Spine Sunned Rubbed Interior FoXing Stains light Rub Wear 319 pages with 36 page catalogue and list of authors to rear Small Tears Edges Spine & Tears Base Publishers original red cloth blocked with a pictorial design in black and yellow. Cloth lightly marked and rubbed; split to cloth at spine edge of lower cover; head and tail of spine bumped and cloth worn; remains of label untidily removed to upper edge of front pastedown; inner hinges cracked; light foxing to page. First Edition. Hard Cover. London John Long, Haymarket , hardcover
1928ref. 133223N.p.: N.p. 1928. Two vintage oversize photographs from the first stage production of "The Front Page" in 1928 showing two different trio shots of the reporters who grace the majority of the play. The first photo a double weight 8 x 10 by Florence Vandamm with her blindstamped name on the recto shows Lee Tracy later played by Rosalind Russell onscreen Osgood Perkins and Frances Fuller. The second a oversize 11 x 14 uncredited but by White Studios in New York City shows the star Walter Baldwin later played by Cary Grant onscreen Osgood Perkins and Lee Tracy. Both photographs with numerous annotations and stamps on the verso. Excessively rare photographs from the first staging of the play that made Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur famous. The play would be published the same year in book form by Covici-Friede and was the basis for three films: The Front Page" in 1931 with Adolphe Menjou and Pat O'Brien "The Front Page" in 1974 with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau and most famously the classic screwball comedy "His Girl Friday" with Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell in 1940. N.p. unknown
1928ref. 133223N.p.: N.p. 1928. Two vintage oversize photographs from the first stage production of "The Front Page" in 1928 showing two different trio shots of the reporters who grace the majority of the play. The first photo a double weight 8 x 10 by Florence Vandamm with her blindstamped name on the recto shows Lee Tracy later played by Rosalind Russell onscreen Osgood Perkins and Frances Fuller. The second a oversize 11 x 14 uncredited but by White Studios in New York City shows the star Walter Baldwin later played by Cary Grant onscreen Osgood Perkins and Lee Tracy. Both photographs with numerous annotations and stamps on the verso. Excessively rare photographs from the first staging of the play that made Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur famous. The play would be published the same year in book form by Covici-Friede and was the basis for three films: The Front Page" in 1931 with Adolphe Menjou and Pat O'Brien "The Front Page" in 1974 with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau and most famously the classic screwball comedy "His Girl Friday" with Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell in 1940. N.p. unknown books
ref. 013719NY: Knoll Associates Inc. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1962 catalog of the Knoll International Collection with over 100 photographs supplemented with detailed drawings and specifications for Knoll furniture for residences and offices. Over 150 pages excluding tab sheets. Many of the pages have multiple images so there are likely 600 images of different items. Vinyl covered multi-clasp silver ring binder measures approx 12x10x2". Catalog is organized into 8 categories: 1 Low seating 2 Chairs 3 Bedroom Furniture 4 Cabinets 5 Benches and Tables 6 Desks 7 Accessories 8 Textiles. Also included is a collection of 12 leather samples mounted on stiff paper with specs on verso each approx 3' square. Solid copy tabs are worn evidence of use by a practicing architect. Catalog features the work of famous designers including Florence Knoll Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Isami Noguchi and Eero Saarinen furniture and Anni Albers textiles. The graphics for the catalog are by Herbert Matter and photography by Robert Damora Scott Hyde Yuichi Idaka and Herbert Matter. Also includes later sheets for furniture in the later 50-57 Series which includes a chair designed by Marcel Breuer. Knoll Associates, Inc hardcover
ref. 013719NY: Knoll Associates Inc. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1962 catalog of the Knoll International Collection with over 100 photographs supplemented with detailed drawings and specifications for Knoll furniture for residences and offices. Over 150 pages excluding tab sheets. Many of the pages have multiple images so there are likely 600 images of different items. Vinyl covered multi-clasp silver ring binder measures approx 12x10x2". Catalog is organized into 8 categories: 1 Low seating 2 Chairs 3 Bedroom Furniture 4 Cabinets 5 Benches and Tables 6 Desks 7 Accessories 8 Textiles. Also included is a collection of 12 leather samples mounted on stiff paper with specs on verso each approx 3' square. Solid copy tabs are worn evidence of use by a practicing architect. Catalog features the work of famous designers including Florence Knoll Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Isami Noguchi and Eero Saarinen furniture and Anni Albers textiles. The graphics for the catalog are by Herbert Matter and photography by Robert Damora Scott Hyde Yuichi Idaka and Herbert Matter. Also includes later sheets for furniture in the later 50-57 Series which includes a chair designed by Marcel Breuer. Knoll Associates, Inc hardcover books
1951ref. 4205811951. Softcover. Near Fine. Quarto measuring 10" x 11". Spiral bound green leatherette album with "photographs" stamped in white on the front cover. Contains 149 sepia-toned or black and white gelatin silver photographs measuring between 1" x 1" and 10" x 16" with captions. Detached but present front cover thus very good with near fine photographs. A photo album kept by a Wisconsin nurse Florence Jacksi beginning in 1949. Early pages show Florence on a trip to Washington D.C. for a Safety Patrol trip where she was the nurse on duty. One photo is captioned "100 men and a girl." Newspaper clippings from before the trip show her examining boys to see if they were healthy enough for the trip. A large portion of the middle of the album is from a road trip Florence and her friend Suzy went on in September of 1949. These photos are well captioned with long journal style entries written about each stop on their trip. It begins "Suzy and I off to the great Northwoods - for vacation - relaxation - and no routine and to view the beautiful vistas this time of the year - and not least - to see my relatives." Florence discusses the women's travels in detail including car conversations and various stops along the way. Many of the entries are humorous and talk about her terrible directional skills getting lost and "needing new glasses." After struggling with her luggage at a hotel she writes "we are surely 2 women who were not designed by nature for a suitcase existence." They spent their travels visiting the Great Lakes region forests and fishing areas of the North Woods. The trip portion of the album ends with a section of expenses which reads "expenses -hardly" and lists travel budgets for the journey. The album ends with a collection of family photographs from the late 1940s and early 1950s which include Christmas cards portraits and candids. Florence is seen working in the hospital at parties and on trips with friends. A nice collection of photographs detailing a woman's life and career in Wisconsin in the late 1940s with detailed captions. unknown
1951ref. 4205811951. Softcover. Near Fine. Quarto measuring 10" x 11". Spiral bound green leatherette album with "photographs" stamped in white on the front cover. Contains 149 sepia-toned or black and white gelatin silver photographs measuring between 1" x 1" and 10" x 16" with captions. Detached but present front cover thus very good with near fine photographs. A photo album kept by a Wisconsin nurse Florence Jacksi beginning in 1949. Early pages show Florence on a trip to Washington D.C. for a Safety Patrol trip where she was the nurse on duty. One photo is captioned "100 men and a girl." Newspaper clippings from before the trip show her examining boys to see if they were healthy enough for the trip. A large portion of the middle of the album is from a road trip Florence and her friend Suzy went on in September of 1949. These photos are well captioned with long journal style entries written about each stop on their trip. It begins "Suzy and I off to the great Northwoods - for vacation - relaxation - and no routine and to view the beautiful vistas this time of the year - and not least - to see my relatives." Florence discusses the women's travels in detail including car conversations and various stops along the way. Many of the entries are humorous and talk about her terrible directional skills getting lost and "needing new glasses." After struggling with her luggage at a hotel she writes "we are surely 2 women who were not designed by nature for a suitcase existence." They spent their travels visiting the Great Lakes region forests and fishing areas of the North Woods. The trip portion of the album ends with a section of expenses which reads "expenses -hardly" and lists travel budgets for the journey. The album ends with a collection of family photographs from the late 1940s and early 1950s which include Christmas cards portraits and candids. Florence is seen working in the hospital at parties and on trips with friends. A nice collection of photographs detailing a woman's life and career in Wisconsin in the late 1940s with detailed captions. unknown books
1896ref. 6353San Francisco: William Doxey 1896. 18 1/2 x 11 1/4 in. Magnificent and large graphic poster by Florence Lundborg 1871-1949 who was an American illustrator poster artist and painter known for her book illustrations and wartime paintings. She was a member with Gelett Burgess of the San Francisco group "Les Jeunes who published The Lark in the 1890's and Lundborg designed some of the covers.This large-format three-color woodcut poster by Florence Lundborg 1871-1949 advertising the noted Turn-of-the- CenturyBay area literary journal features Robin Hood blowing a hunting horn over a field of green. Right vertical margin trimmed close old folds thumbtack holes mounted on linen and matted. Very good. Very scarce. [William Doxey] unknown
