1936rif. 47466N.pl: The Norwood Press 1936. Hardcover. xiv 559p. first edition frontis. portrait of Wentworth rubberstamp on front pastedown endpaper else very good condition in an unclipped and edgeworn dust jacket. Wentworth was a life long socialist and pacifist. The Norwood Press hardcover books
1950rif. 71603n.p.: America Korea Foundation 1950. 10" x 7" pp. 10; mimeographed text in Korean stapled in paper wrappers; paper toned near fine. Boester appears to have had a long career in supporting the victims of world conflicts. She served as welfare officer at the UNRRA Displaced Person's Camp in Austria after WWII and later facilitated international adoptions as Far East representative of the International Social Service USA both in Korea and China. Not in OCLC. America Korea Foundation unknown books
1910rif. 9032502New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons/Knickerbocker 1910. Hardcover. Very Good. Designed with decorations by Margaret Armstrong illustrated by Townsend. Bound in publisher's original green textured cloth with spine and cover stamped in beautiful illustrated gilt. Illustrated endpapers. Includes eight color plates and beautiful illustrated title page and text margins. Text block is fine. Book is gorgeous but has rubbing at corners head and heel through cloth. 5 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches. 340 pages. G.P. Putnam's Sons/Knickerbocker hardcover books
1928rif. 175582New York: Macmillan & Co 1928. Hardcover. VG/VG- dust jacket is soiled and has some edge tears. Green cloth boards with gilt stamped insignia and spine lettering. Brown paper dust jacket with navy lettering. xii 327 pp. BW illustrations plans portraits facsimiles. Contents: Early Life and Architecture Novels- To Illness Illness Novels and Italy Between Town and Country. Macmillan & Co hardcover books
1927rif. 30639London: The Nonesuch Press 1927. First edition 12mo pp. 6 136 4; decorative title-page printed in black and ocher decorative headpieces throughout; some offsetting to endpapers otherwise a very good clean copy enhanced by the presence of the fragile printed dust jacket with browned spine panel the ends chipped away about 1/2" a handful of small chips out along edges and light creasing to the bottom of the front panel. "The story of the strange friendship and stranger rivalry of an English gentleman and a Negro singer. A hectic story in fact with a saxophone accompaniment." dust jacket. Dreyfus 39. The Nonesuch Press unknown books
1981rif. 68668NY:: Holiday House. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1981. Hardcover. 0823404250 . Stated first edition. Fine in an about fine dust jacket. . Holiday House, hardcover books
1990rif. 54482New York: Florence Anthony Enterprises Inc 1990. First Edition. Quarto 27.5cm; photo-illustrated wrappers stapled; 80pp; illus. Light wear to extremities some mild wrinkling to lower rear corners due to moisture; Near Fine. Debut issue of this short-lived sports entertainment magazine established by African American author editor and publicity consultant Florence Anthony. Contents include feature articles on Darryl Strawberry Magic Johnson Deion Sanders Butch Lewis Michael Spinks George Foreman and others. OCLC notes a single holding for any issues LC. Florence Anthony Enterprises, Inc unknown books
1986rif. 574704New York: Warner 1986. Softcover. Very Good. Uncorrected proof of Warner edition. Introduction by William Styron. 16mo. 176pp. Printed pink wrappers. Small sticker shadow on front cover light soiling toning on the spine and rear wrap very good. Contains an epilogue by co-author Tedd Thomey commenting on Florence Aadland's life death and her imprisonment. Addland details the sexual relationship her daughter Beverly had with actor Errol Flynn 33 years her senior that began when Beverly was 15. Basis for the one-woman Broadway show starring Tracey Ullman as Florence. First published by Lancer in 1961. Warner unknown books
rif. 47954Springville UT: Art City Publishing Company / Daughters of the Utah Pioneers of Sanpete County Utah 1947. Hardcover. Very good . 233pp. Quarto 27 cm Green hardcover with gilt stamped titles and a gilt stamped vignette on the front cover. The rear board is just a little splayed. Charming history of this central Utah county. Art City Publishing Company / Daughters of the Utah Pioneers of Sanpete County, Utah 1947 hardcover books
1914rif. 601887New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1914. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Fine in about very good dustwrapper with moderate tears chips and creases. Hero returns to London after an absence of ten years is betrayed by his lost love tries to get her back. Very scarce in jacket. G.P. Putnam's Sons hardcover books
rif. 501416See Description. Signed-Autograph Very Good BATES Florence. Autograph Sentiment boldly penned in blue ink on an album leaf ca. 1948: "To Eddie / with love / Florence Bates." 12mo with Autograph Sentiment of actor Ray Barros on verso. Signed by Authors. See Description unknown books
1989rif. 210686Paris: Vie du Rail 1989. Hardcover. VG. Quarto. Charcoal cloth with white stamped titles in illustrated jacket. 175 pages : color illustrations ; 33 cm. Vie du Rail hardcover books
1883rif. 93327New York 1883. Paperback. Very Good. 16p. Softcover in an original wrapper. 21 cm. Minor cover soil. Minor corner chipping. Penciled name and a five digit number in red ink at top of front cover. Printed slip bound in: "The co-partnership heretofore existing between MISS FLORENCE E. CORY and MISS FLORENCE A. DENSMORE under the firm name of "THE WOMEN'S INSTITUTE OF TECHNICAL DESIGN" is dissolved dating from June 28th 1882. paperback books
1899rif. 2344354London: H.S. Nichols Ltd 1899. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. First edition one of 500 copies. Boards lightly soiled bookplate of Alexander Cochrane on each front endpaper. 1899 Hard Cover. Complete in three volumes. xlviii 337 3; vii 1 348; viii 356 pp. 8vo. Translated with an introduction and notes by J.H. Freese. Includes frontispieces of Madame d'Epinay Jean Jacques Rousseau and Le Baron de Grimm. Madame d'Epinay "was a French writer a saloniste and woman of fashion known on account of her liaisons with Friedrich Melchior Baron von Grimm and Jean-Jacques Rousseau who gives unflattering reports of her in his Confessions as well as her acquaintanceship with Denis Diderot Jean le Rond d'Alembert Baron d'Holbach and other French men of letters during the Enlightenment. She was also one of many women referenced in Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex as an example of noble expansion of women's rights during the 18th century." - Wikipedia H.S. Nichols Ltd hardcover books
1898rif. 609214London: Chappell & Co 1898. Softcover. Very Good. Unknown edition. Folio. Three nested bifolia making 12 pages. Notched and worn along the fold from once being bound within an album composer's name stamp and a price stamp on the front cover and soiling to the exterior still a complete and very good copy. For voice and piano with pedal marks. Plate number 20664. The lyrics for this song come from Doyle's novel The White Company. The front cover states "Dedicated to and sung by Mr. Kenneryley Rumford. Chappell & Co unknown books
1990rif. 244869Cambridge MA: The Harvard University Museum of Fine Arts Boston Cyprus Expedition 1990. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Illustrated; Blue cloth binding with gilt lettering. A very nice copy. Very Good binding. The Harvard University Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Cyprus Expedition unknown books
1908rif. 9474Boston MA: Purity Publishing Company 1908. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. "The lessons dealing with purity self-control and the birth problem are arranged for children from six to ten years of age." preface Uncommon generally scarce in as handsome condition as found here. Light shelf/edge wear focused at head and tail else tight bright and unmarred. Green cloth boards gilt lettering and decorative elements. 12mo. 120pp. Illus. b/w plates. Purity Publishing Company hardcover books
1941rif. 50777Dublin: The Cuala Press 1941. First edition limited to 500 numbered copies. Copy #226. Edited by Clifford Bax. Set in Caslon type and printed by Esther Ryan and Maire Gill. Paper-covered boards with quarter cloth spine and printed label. Corner shelfwear paper cover on rear board with three inch shallow crease and two small tears where it has lifted from the cloth spine beginning toning on front board topedge spine label with edgewear and cloth spine lightly rubbed. Lacks glassine dustwrapper. Tight clean copy in Very Good condition. First Edition. Hardcovers. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The Cuala Press Hardcover books
1920rif. 151014N.p.: N.p. 1920. Vintage borderless linen-backed photograph of actress Florence Vidor and an unknown male actor circa 1920s. Texas-born actress Vidor began her career through the urging of her husband noted director King Vidor. She signed with Vitagraph Studios in 1916 and appeared in her breakthrough role as Mimi in "A Tale of Two Cities" that same year. She also starred in several films with her husband's production company including "The Other Half" 1919 "The Family Honor" 1920 and "Real Adventure" 1922. As with many of her contemporaries she found the transition to sound film difficult and after appearing in one talkie "Chinatown Nights" 1929 she retired from film altogether. 6.75 x 8.75 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1994rif. 285024New York: Harper 1994. hardcover. very good/near fine. Black & white photographic illustrations. 451 pages 1/4 black cloth blue boards bound upside down. Nw York: Harper Collins 1994. First Edition. Light foxing on page edges and small remainder mark on top edge else near fine. Harper unknown books
1950rif. 529023New York: King's Crown Press / Columbia University 1950. Hardcover. Good. First edition. xii 278pp. Pen underlining and marginalia light stains on front board spine and edges sunned a good only copy lacking the dust jacket. Advance Review Copy with publisher's slip tipped in onto front pastedown. King's Crown Press / Columbia University hardcover books
1981rif. 50511New York: Holiday House 1981. First printing. Fine in fine jacket. First edition of this adorably macabre picture book for older readers featuring a boy whose imagination is stimulated by reading lots of comic books. 6'' x 7''. Original green pictorial cloth stamped in black. In original unclipped $7.95 green pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated by Gorey with full-page black-and-white images facing each page of text. 64 pages. Light offsetting to gutters of endpapers. Else crisp and clean. Holiday House unknown books
1961rif. 35624Zürich: Verlag Jüdische Buch-Gemeinde 1961. First edition. Softcover. vg. Dedicated to Dr. W. Weinberg by author on title page. Octavo. 48 2pp. Original pictorial wrappers with brown and beige lettering on cover and spine. Contributions to history and folklore of Jews in Switzerland volume 7. Treatise of Jews in the cities in the middle ages the Jewish villages in Aargau the Jews as Swiss citizens and the emancipation of Jews in Switzerland. Includes chronological summary of the history of Jews in Switzerland until 1939. Text in German. Wrappers with light wear along edges and small crease in lower right corner of cover. Spine with small chips. Wrappers in overall good interior in very good condition. Verlag Jüdische Buch-Gemeinde unknown books
1923rif. 011329London: Gresham Publishing Company 1923 1923 per British Library. Red cloth pictorially stamped in blind spine titled in gilt gilt stamp of Hillhead High School of Glasgow to upper cover; bookplate removed from FFEP otherwise a nice clean copy of a scarce book. A selection of fairy stories illustrated with partial-page b&w artwork by various artists a color frontis by Mary Peart one plate by Arthur A Dixon and two color plates by Florence Harrison. . First Edition. Pictorial Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Florence Harrison Arthur A Dixon and Mary A Peart. 8vo. Gresham Publishing Company hardcover books
1984rif. 001356Holiday House 1984. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 6x6x0. Gorey Edward. Signed by Authors. First edition stated teal cloth with black illustration matching the dust jacket; oblong 6 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches unnumbered pages black and with illustrations alternating with text signed by the author and inscribed to previous owner on title page; previous owner's stamp in front endpaper faint smudges to front cover of dust jacket. Third book in the trilogy featuring Treehorn a clever but repeatedly ignored little boy who just wants to be noticed by his parents. Holiday House hardcover books
