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1903réf. 88414Boston: Little Brown & Co 1903. First Edition. First printing. Octavo 19.5cm. Publisher's burgundy pictorial cloth; gilt spine titles; 3924pp; frontispiece and four unnumbered leaves of plates. Mild external rubbing with a touch of fraying to cloth at crown; faint old erasure to front free endpaper; text clean tight and unmarked. A solidly Very Good copy. A struggle between a ruthless capitalist father and his progressive-minded son in a New England mill town. When the father's trust conspires to blow up the son's competing and union-led mill the millworkers bravely come to the lad's rescue. The old bastard gets it in the end. HANNA 3832. BLAKE p.227: "Mostly drivel. Little, Brown & Co unknown books
1981réf. 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
2005réf. 48629New York: HarperCollins Publishers 2005. Fine in fine dust jacket. Inscribed first printing of this delightful collection of the many different kinds of Christmas trees with promotional Christmas card. Wendell Minor is perhaps best known for his book cover art which has adorned Pulitzer Prize Newbery Honor and Newbery Medal-winning titles. In his picture books he flexes his illustration muscles beautifully visualizing stories from American history and everyday life. 11'' x 8.5''. Original color pictorial boards. Original unclipped $16.00 color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color. 32 pages. Inscribed by Wendell and Florence Minor to half-title page "Merry Christmas!" dated 2005. Christmas card with art from the book envelope and promotional card loosely laid in. Tight. HarperCollins Publishers unknown books
1908réf. 38770London: Longmans Green & Co 1908. First printing. Very good plus. First edition of this beautifully illustrated Edwardian fantasy of an "unsophisticated little boy" who sets out to rescue a Princess on orders from a fairy. 9.75'' x 10''. Original red cloth spine with pictorial boards. Decorative endpapers. Illustrated throughout with full-page chromolithographs and additional line drawings in-text. Unpaginated. Some rubbing and wear to boards. Light soil to interior. Longmans, Green & Co unknown books
1990réf. 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
1910réf. 44643n.p.: n.p. 1910. Very good. Original draft entirely written out by hand of the sequel to the international sensation THE ROSARY. While Florence Barclay was working on this manuscript she was in the midst of a life-changing experience: her romance novel THE ROSARY had just become one of the biggest blockbuster novels of the Edwardian era. It was not only a runaway bestseller for years on end but also parodied by PUNCH made into at least five films and described by the Queen of England herself as her favorite book of the year. According to Rachel Anderson it was "said to have been read and wept over by every housemaid in the British Isles." THE MISTRESS OF SHENSTONE was something of its sequel featuring characters first introduced in THE ROSARY. THE MISTRESS OF SHENSTONE is an exquisite romance between a widow and the man who accidentally killed her husband: like THE ROSARY it combines a moving arc of emotional development with an alluring charisma between the main characters. When Barclay arrived in the United States for a book tour of SHENSTONE she was greeted as a celebrity much in the way that Charles Dickens had been on his first trip to the country. In addition to photographers and journalists she was met right off the boat by a crush of fans holding welcome banners. This experience was so unlike what was expected for English authors in the period that her daughter makes special remark upon it in her biography of the author: "To English readers it may seem a surprising outburst and very different to anything that can be imagined as taking place in England by way of reception accorded to a private individual" 220. In 1921 SHENSTONE also became the first of Barclay's books before THE ROSARY to be turned into a film. This manuscript offers a window into the writing process of a famous romance author at the height of her power. In addition to the entire base text in Barclay's hand essentially every page is revised in the same hand in some cases extensively. Common editorial markings include crossed out words and sentences some replaced with new text additions to punctuation and rearranged phrases. It is illuminating to compare the manuscript itself with the details of Barclay's writing as described in her daughter's book LIFE OF FLORENCE L. BARCLAY 1921. In seeking to champion her mother as an author for "ordinary readers" her daughter asserts that Barclay "had no eye to the literary connoisseur the seeker after mere artistic effect" 242. Yet many of the revisions made by Barclay in this draft suggest that she cared much more about the art of her work than the biography claims. Altered words often reflect the author's stylistic refinements seeking a more accurate or elevated word in place of the original e.g. "empty" changed to "desolate". Other changes show a focused eye for paring down. For instance "she poured out the doctor's tea" and "passed it across the folding tea table between them" has been changed simply to "handed it to him." These decisions reflect more than a desire to "supply them her readers with that they wanted" 242: they show an author spending hours refining her craft. A manuscript offering the opportunity to research further into the working process of a major popular romance writer - a topic that has thus far been rarely recorded or studied. 9'' x 6.75''. 386 individual lines sheets thread-bound by hand with pink ribbon filled out in pencil on rectos only. Text begins with Chapter I "On the terrace of Shenstone" and ends with the phrase sentence of the final chapter "Mrs. Jim Airth" in larger script an effect reproduced in the printed final. Editorial markings throughout. Housed in later waxed canvas wrapper with two printed labels "The Mistress of Shenstone" and one handwritten annotation "1st M S of Mistress of Shenstone." Provenance: by descent from author's family. n.p. unknown books
1897réf. 29161London: George Routledge & Sons Limited 1897. Very good plus. First edition of this beautifully illustrated collection of simply rhyming verses about the everyday life of little children at the turn of the century - quite scarce in this condition. 9.25'' x 8''. Original cloth spine paper pictorial boards. Illustrated throughout cw: depiction of golliwog doll. 62 2 pages. A bit of rubbing and light soil to boards hinges starting to crack but still firm. George Routledge & Sons, Limited unknown books
1981réf. 20066New York: Holiday House 1981. First printing. Fine in about-fine jacket. Signed 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. Signed by Gorey on the title page crossing out his own name. Slight sunning to jacket spine. Holiday House unknown books
1920réf. 19634London: Joseph Johnson 1920. Very good. Terrific large-format Peter Pan imitation in which two children grow wings and have an adventure with fairies. 11'' x 8.25''. Original cloth-backed color pictorial boards. Pictorial endpapers. Illustrated by Anderson with 12 full-page color plates and line illustrations throughout. Unpaginated. Some rubbing to boards subtly infilled one dark spot to rear board. Interior with light foxing and toning. Bright. Joseph Johnson unknown books
1907réf. 17839London & New York: Blackie & Caldwell 1907. Near fine. First edition American issue printed on dark green paper that contrasts vividly with the tipped-in color plates in Harrison's distinctive style. Given the clear Pre-Raphaelite characteristics in her work it is unsurprising to note that she was the first woman to be a commercial illustrator for the work of Christina Rossetti - indeed it was in part due to the success of RHYME OF A RUN that the Glaswegian publisher Blackie asked her to take on a major project. One of Harrison's particular touches is the heavy black outlines around characters giving her Art Nouveau-influenced illustrations an effect not unlike stained glass. It is thanks to the work of book collector Mary Rosalind Jacobs that Florence Harrison was identified only in the 21st century as the Australian-born Florence Susan Harrison not the English artist Emma Florence Harrison. A beautiful copy of Harrison's second book scarce in the American issue and in this condition. 9'' x 11.25''. Original green pictorial cloth gilt. Green patterned endpapers. Printed on heavy dark green paper. Illustrated by Harrison with elaborately ornamented title page lettered in red 21 tipped-in color plates 10 full-page black-and-white designs and many black-and-white vignettes. A bit of the creasing to some plates as in virtually all copies due to a finishing fault with the publisher. Faint spotting to rear board and very minor rubbing to extremities. Blackie & Caldwell unknown books
1947réf. 16351New York: Capitol Publishing Company 1947. Near fine. Charming mid-century Santa novelty featuring the classic Victorian poem in the form of a Santa Claus shape book - with a beard made of real cotton. 11.25'' x 9.75''. Original spiral-bound color pictorial boards die-cut in the shape of Santa on a sleigh. Illustrated in color by Florence Kent. 24 pages including boards on card stock of varying thickness. Minor edgewear and soil. Capitol Publishing Company unknown books
1926réf. 4516Boston: Little Brown & Co 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Very Good in a Good jacket unclipped $2.00 generally rubbed and toned a few creases and closed tears tidemark at the back panel. Black buckram bumped at the bottom corners with light blue ink lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a green top stain clean internally. A mystery novel centering on the disappearance of a poet and a bookshop owner after a reading in a Massachusetts college town. Little, Brown & Co hardcover books
1936réf. 654761936. 1936 Pardon for an African-American Issued by the Governor of Texas Texas. Murphy Florence. Conditional Pardon for Florence Murphy from a Conviction of Assault to Rape. Austin December 18 1936. 14-1/2" x 9" blue-backed legal-sized sheet headed "Proclamation by the Governor of the State of Texas. Signed by Governor James V. Allred and Secretary of State B.P. Matocha state seal affixed. Negligible wear rust marks from staples and paper clips. $350. Murphy an African-American was convicted of assault to rape in 1933. His pardon which notes the several appeals for clemency sent on Murphy's behalf refers specifically to a letter from District Attorney H.H. Wellborn "who states he was never satisfied about this negro's case that since his conviction certain things have come to light which leave him in doubt as to this negro's guilt that if he is guilty he has been punished sufficiently and that some of the best white citizens of his county are of the same opinion he is. unknown books
1984réf. 584111984. Cohen Jerome A.; Timothy A. Gelatt; Florence M.L. Li translators. The Criminal Law and the Criminal Procedure Law of The People's Republic of China. Beijing: Foreign Langues Press 1984. ii 298 pp. Paperback. Light wear small old price tag affixed on upper front cover a very good copy. $15. Represents the first complete set of English translations of China's two basic laws on criminal law and procedure enacted in 1979 which are fundamental to an understanding of China's socialist legal system. Contains an English-Chinese and Chinese-English Legal Glossary at pages 252 to 298. unknown books
1990réf. 217400San Francisco CA: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 1990. First edition. Softcover. 158 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran December 13 1990 through February 10 1991 at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and then traveled to 3 other locations for additional dates. Features a foreword and acknowledgments by John R. Lane and an essay by Diana C. Du Pont. Includes 64 black and white plates and 85 black and white figures chronology bibliography and a checklist. A near fine copy in French style wrappers with some bumping to the base of the spine. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art unknown books
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1997réf. URUBCLE00drpScribner 1997. Very Good. Rubenfeld Florence. Clement Greenberg: A Life. NY: Scribner 1997. 336pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good with bumped foot of spine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. In DJ protector. Scribner hardcover books
1993réf. UHOWNOM01fpHarper Perennial 1993. Very Good. Howe Florence. No More Masks! an Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Women Poets. New York NY: Harper Perennial 1993. 488pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good. Pages lightly toned. Harper Perennial paperback books
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1938réf. 107884Boston:: Little Brown and Company. Very Good. 1938. Hardcover. Newbery Honor Book. Stated first edition "Published September 1938." Age toning to cloth covered boards else very good in gray cloth with blue lettering and design. No dust jacket. Text is clean and binding is sound.; 139 pages . Little, Brown and Company, hardcover books
1948réf. 1407921New York: The Macmillan Company 1948. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo x 241 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Spine red black green and white with white lettering. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering price cut but stamped with "$3.00." Rubbing and moderate tearing along edges of dust jacket. Aging with light scuffing and soiling to dust jacket. Bound in publisher's green cloth boards with red stamping to front board and spine. General shelf wear with mild visible rubbing at head and tail of spine and at corners of boards. Textblock clean. With a black-and-white photo of the author laid in. Shelved in Case 8 1/2. 1407921. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Macmillan Company hardcover books
réf. UPIESTO00acmfDeseret News Press. Good. Pierce Florence. The Story of the Book of Mormon. SLC: Deseret News Press ND. 446pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Good with bumped and yellowed edges. Deseret News Press hardcover books
1987réf. UFLOKIT00fpCollector Books 1987. Very Good. Florence Gene. Kitchen Glassware of the Depression Years. Paducah Kentucky: Collector Books 1987. Third edition. 223pp. Illustrated. 4to. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good. Light rubbing to extremities. Collector Books hardcover books
1979réf. 209180Boston MA: Houghton Mifflin and Company 1979. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 49 pages. Ai's second book of poems which was the 1978 Lamont Poetry Selection. A very good plus copy in paper covered boards with a cloth spine with some very faint foxing and in a near fine dust jacket. Houghton Mifflin and Company unknown books
1966réf. UHAYETC00sndInternational Society for General Semantics 1966. Very Good. Hayakawa S.I. ETC.: A Review of General Semantics. Volume Twenty-Three Number Three: September 1966. Sulzer Edward S.; Pemberton William H.; Khatchadourian Haig; Crane Maurice A.; Stocking Florence Yeo. San Francisco: International Society for General Semantics 1966. 416pp. Illustrated. 12mo. Green wraps. Book condition: Very good with slightly rubbed edges and price blocked out on front cover. International Society for General Semantics paperback books
