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1923ref. 31840Nuremberg: J. Bulka 1923. First edition. Hardcover. g. 4to. 816pp. 2 85pp. 1. Quarter brown cloth over brown paper boards with black lettering and design on spine. Top edge red. Hebrew and German title-pages. Machsor Vitry by R. Simcha of Vitry a student of the 11th century Jewish scholar R. Shlomo Yitzhaki. Includes a collection of piyut poems. Text in Hebrew. Wear to spine; tail of spine split but still holding. Edges and corners rubbed. Overall in good condition. J. Bulka hardcover books
1916ref. 27228no place : International Marine Engineering 1916. first collected edition. Wraps. Very Good. first collected edition. 48 pages. 9 x 12 inches. Self wrappers stapled. Minor wear and soiling to the front and rear pages. Generally clean internally. Nicely illustrated. Wraps. This work gathers together for the first time a series of articles originally published by Simon Lake in International Marine Engineering from July 1915 to April 1916. It does a good job of identifying the state of the art at the time and is surprisingly hard to find. Worldcat shows several copies only. Each section is headed "Modern Submarines in War and Peace" Subtitles identify the section number and topic. The nine parts are listed here: I Present status of the submarine and its future possibilities -- early submarines and lessons applied to modern development -- II. Development of the submarine beginning with 1893 -- principles of construction and operation -- III. Early development of the submarine in Germany France and Italy -- modifications of original inventions -- IV. Motive power of submarines for surface work -- the heavy oil diesel type engine -- periscopes -- V. Construction and installation of storage batteries -- tactics of the submarine in warfare -- the invisible weapon -- VI. Coast defense and cruising or "fleet" submarines -Value of so called "amphibious" submarines for defense purposes -- VII. Under-ice navigation with a submarine -- experiments and tests with the protector in 1903 -- VIII. Application of the submarine to commercial enterprises -- cargo carrying submarines -- sea bottom exploration and wreck salvage -- IX. Submarines for the recovery of shellfish -- future development of the submarine and its use in warfare. Simon Lake was a productive engineer with over 200 patents to his name and played an important role in early submersibles. He competed with John Philip Holland for early military submarine contracts in the United States. He eventually founded the Lake Torpedo Boat company out of Bridgeport Connecticut which did successfully supply the US Navy with submarines. While not a household name Lake contributed greatly to the introduction of the submarine as a primary tool in the US Navy's arsenal. International Marine Engineering unknown books
1947ref. 140806N.p.: N.p. 1947. Vintage borderless press photograph of American actress Linda Darnell with French actress Simone Simon during a visit to France by former in 1947. With the AGIP agency stamp of photographer Robert Cohen and a French-language mimeo snipe on the verso. 6 x 5.25 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1958ref. 167075Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1958. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1958 film noir showing a decidedly sultry Susan Hayward. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. A dramatization of the trial and execution of Barbara Graham a petty criminal and prostitute who was convicted of murdering an elderly woman. Nominated for six Academy Awards winning one for Best Actress for Susan Hayward. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus lightly toned on the left margin of the recto. Grant US. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Selby US. Spicer US. Twilight Time. United Artists unknown books
1845ref. 1968London: Sydenham Society 1845. First English Edition. Original publisher's cloth. Very good. 8vo There are three litho. plates. The most prominent work on the chemistry of physiology of the day; most of vol. I is given over to the study of blood chemistry. Hirsch V 277. Sydenham Society hardcover books
1975ref. 352000New York: Random House 1975. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. A little foxing on the endpapers else fine in fine price-clipped dustwrapper. Signed by the author. The original New York performance was directed by Michael Bennett and featured Vincent Gardinia. Random House hardcover books
1966ref. 50821New York: Random House 1966. First edition. Near fine in near fine jacket. First printing of the famous Broadway play about two mismatched roommates the basis for the 1968 film and 1970s television series. Neat uptight well-meaning Felix moves in with his friend Oscar a messy careless bon vivant. Despite their inevitable conflicts both men come to realize that they have learned from the other. This edition includes photographic illustrations of the original cast in the play with Walter Matthau as Oscar Madison and Art Carney as Felix Unger before other actors took on those roles in the fall of 1965. A a major fixture in the American popular consciousness of the 1960s and '70s. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original quarter green cloth brown synthetic grained leather boards publisher's device blind-stamped onto front board gilt-lettered spine. In original magenta and orange unclipped $3.95 dust jacket. Red topstain fore-edge machine deckle. Black-and-white photographic frontispiece and two photo illustrations in text. 10 116 pages. Some rubbing to extremities of jacket. Touches to spine tips. Minor scratch to front panel. Book has mild shelfwear. Overall bright and sharp. Random House unknown books
1788ref. 33060Hartford: Hudson and Goodwin 1788. 32pp. Disbound and lacking the half title. Good. Reverend Trumbull an orderly and considerate man "nominated the preacher at his funeral and directed what neighbouring ministers should be desired to attend on that occasion; and who should insert in the public papers the account of his death: he also desired some of his particular friends and leading members of his church to take care that his funeral was conducted with propriety and christian decency. He also ordered the joiner to prepare him a decent but plain unornamented coffin." The Reverend's "nephew was Connecticut's Governor Jonathan Trumbull the only colonial governor to support the war for independence. Gov. Trumbull's son was the artist John Trumbull whose paintings of the Revolutionary War including the signing of the Declaration of Independence are on view in the Rotunda of the United States Capitol building." Trumbull also owned a few slaves. "Rev. John Trumbull" Waterbury's Slave Owners Fortune's Story Website of the Mattatuck Historical Society accessed February 4 2019. Evans 21574. Trumbull 1568. Hudson and Goodwin unknown books
1968ref. 009739Berkeley: NOH Directions Press/ Undermine Press & Aldebaran Review 1968. Book. Very Good. Pictorial Printed Wrappers. SIGNED BY Contributors. Limited and Numbered Signed 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. "An Undermine Press - Aldebaran Review Book."/ "500 copies of which 50 are numbered and signed by many of the poets"--Page 4 Copy # 37/50 SIGNED BY 18 Contributors - John Oliver Simon Paul Xavier Joel Waldman David Melnick Richard Krech Patricia Parker John Thomson Harvey Bialy Alta John Grube Hillary Ayer Fowler Michael Makowsky John O. Adams Charlie Bordin Paul Mariah Pete Winslow Lowell Levant and Michael Upton. 70 pages with sepia photographs and contributions by 40 poets. Very Good the toned with widely scattered spots of toning throughout. NOH Directions Press/ Undermine Press & Aldebaran Review Paperback books
2011ref. 66115Leiden & Boston: Brill 2011. First edition 8vo pp. xxii 411 1; 35 color facsimiles on plates at the back tables throughout the text; fine copy in original pictorial laminate boards. Issued as no. 98 in the publisher's Sinica Leidensia series. Brill unknown books
1977ref. 008521Random House 1977. Book. Fine. Cloth. Signed by Authors. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine copy in like jacket without wear.$7.95 on flap . First Edition Stated. Signed by the Author on the Title-page. Scarce Signed. Beautiful Copy. Random House Hardcover books
1815ref. 299403New York: Printed for the Author by Sherman & Pudney 1815. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Disbound. 176pp. Foxing on title page else very good or better. Bishop Henry Treadwell Onderdonk's copy with his ownership signature twice one of which is dated in 1816. Onderdonk was one of the most controversial figures in Episcopal history with his suspension by the Church for improper conduct with women but fueled at least in part for his supposed sympathy to Roman Catholicism still being debated to this day. Printed for the Author by Sherman & Pudney hardcover books
1791ref. 2340939Newburyport Massachusetts: Blunt & March; John Mycall; Blunt and Robinson; William Barrett 1791. Full-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. Boards rubbed pencil name and date 'Phebe Newman Newburyport Sept. ' on front endpaper endpaper edges discolored lightly foxed throughout. 1791 Full-Leather. 38; 37; 120; 44; 25; 39; 34; 54; 32 pp. 4to. Nine sermons by various American ministers printed 1791-1796 in Newburyport Massachusetts mainly dealing with the establishment of faith as it relates to the raising of a family but also including several parables/lessons based on Bible stories. Includes: A Plain and Serious Address to the Master of a Family on the Important Subject of Family Religion.; Family Exercises; or The Godly Parents' Assistant; Being an Attempt to Render Family Religion Entertaining as Well as Profitable and Instructive by a Series of Subjects Peculiarly Adapted to the Use of Families.; Thoughts on the Atonement of Christ with an Address to Young Ministers and Students in Divinity: Containing a Vindication of the Doctrines of Imputed Sin from Adam and Righteousness from Christ. and an Examination of the New Divinity on Those Points; A Humble Enquiry into the Nature of Covenanting with God.; A Sermon Delivered at The Third Parish in Newbury July 24 1794; Occasioned by the Sudden Death of Eight Persons Belonging to the Society Who Were Drowned in the River Merrimack on the Nineteenth of the Same Month.; A Discourse Delivered Nov. 23 1794. The First Sabbath After His Ordination.; A Sermon Delivered to the Third Parish in Newbury August 18 1793. On the Parable of the Prodigal.; Two Sermons Delivered at the First Parish in Methuen August 21 1791. Occasioned by His Dismission from That People.; Samson a Type of Christ. Being a Sermon Preached in London July 28 1691 at a Morning-Lecture Upon Judges xiv. 5. On These Words When Went Samson Down and His Father and Mother to Timnath and Came to the Vineyard of Timnath: And Behold a Young Lion Roared Against Him. Blunt & March; John Mycall; Blunt and Robinson; William Barrett hardcover books
1859ref. 297950London: Longman 1859. hardcover. very good. Edited by Major-General Edward Sabine. Frontispiece portrait and one folding map. 609 pages 24 pages of advertisements. Thick 8vo original burgundy cloth gold lettering and canon vignette on spine and front cover extremes of spine repaired. London: Longman 1859. Scarce. Very good. Early ownership name on fly-leaf and half title. Longman unknown books
ref. 648823 silk-screened images of potatoes hand-tinted & tipped-in. 14 unnumbered leaves. Folio 430 x 310 mm. orig. pink paper wrappers & yellow band with watercolored title stitched. London: The Everyday Press 2018. A charming illustrated recipe book by the chef Jeremy Lee and British artist Simon Popper; produced in an edition of 75. Recipes include: pommes sarladaises potato soup Cullen skink champ and “Janson’s Temptation.” The silk-screened potato images were copied from 19th-century engravings of potatoes. Printed by Lesley Sharp. As new. unknown books
1927ref. 366946London & Paris: Maggs Brothers 1927. First edition one of 250 numbered copies. Illustrated. xviii 237 3. Printed by Walter Lewis. 1 vols. 4to. Black cloth and boards uncut. Fine. Bookplate of William Wreden. First edition one of 250 numbered copies. Illustrated. xviii 237 3. Printed by Walter Lewis. 1 vols. 4to. Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf with a play on The Merry Wives of Windsor: to Sir Hugh Walpole from André Simon ".you love 'books' and so do I; would you desire better sympathy" Falstaff reformed but not bettered. Maggs Brothers unknown books
1966ref. 23893New York: Random House. Near Fine in Very Good dj. c.1966. 1st Edition see note. Hardcover. a very nice copy tight and clean with just a touch of wear at the spine ends; jacket a little rubbed on the front panel very light wear to extremities tiny closed tear at upper left of front panel. B&W photographs One of the great musicals of the 1960s adapted from Federico Fellini's film "Nights of Cabiria." It was a triumph for choreographer Bob Fosse on the stage but a little less so in his 1969 screen adaptation which substituted Shirley MacLaine for Gwen Verdon. NOTE: Although there is no "first printing" or "first edition" statement in this copy of the book I believe it to be such and to therefore constitute an exception to the usual Random House practice for their published plays. The printed price $3.95 is present on the front jacket flap along with the printing code 10/66 at the bottom corner of the flap. In addition this was part of a collection in which nearly all the published plays were review copies with publisher's slips to document the fact; although there is no slip present in this copy I believe it to also be a review copy. If someone can show me evidence of a copy that states "first printing" however I will happily stand corrected. . Random House hardcover books
1950ref. 5249421950. Unbound. Very Good. Gelatin silver print. Measuring approximately 10¼" x 13". Print lightly rippled light foxing on verso edges nicked from a poor framing job about very good. Inscribed by Shaw to Saxe Commins his editor at Random House: "To Saxe with friendship gratitude and admiration. Irwin." Commins was a senior editor at Random House from 1933 to 1958 publishing Irwin Shaw William Faulkner Eugene O'Neill Budd Schulberg and many others. The photographer Richard L. Simon cofounder of the publishing house Simon & Schuster was a friend and colleague of both men; a nice association. Simon is not credited on the photograph but a a similar portrait of Shaw wearing the same clothes and credited to Simon was published by Random House in 1950. unknown books
1743ref. 373946London: Printed for J. Walthoe D. Midwinter J. and J. Bonwicke et al. 1743. Hardcover. Good. Folio. 12 544pp. woodcut title vignette and engraved headpiece vignettes the book of Ecclesiastes has a separate title page. Contemporary full calf. Ex-library copy with perforated stamp on the title page and first text page. Boards are worn and detached lacking the rear free endpaper else a good bright copy. ESTC T133106. Printed for J. Walthoe, D. Midwinter, J. and J. Bonwicke, [et al.] hardcover books
1900ref. 372178Philadelphia 1900. 1 page On Slater letterhead. Blank verso has paper residue where once mounted paper is quite tanned along left margin with creasing few short tears and small chips in blank margins else a good copy. 1 page On Slater letterhead. Dr. Simon Green Atkins the son of former slaves founded the Slater Industrial and State Normal School in 1892 in Winston-Salem North Carolina. The school became Winston-Salem Teacher's College in 1925 and it was the first African-American institute in America to offer degrees in elementary education. Reading in part: "Dear Friend- I hope we may see you and some of your friends at the meeting to which you will find and sic invitation enclosed not present. Our students will also appear in Association Hall Germantown the following evening.Your kindly interest in our cause will be greatlyt appreciated. unknown books
1792ref. 370436Venice: Presso Giacomo Carcani 1792. Quarta Edizione. 174 2pp. 8vo. old pasteboard uncut; moderate wear some foxing. Quarta Edizione. 174 2pp. 8vo. Wellcome V page 279 Presso Giacomo Carcani unknown books
1770ref. 262898Lausanne: Francois Grasset 1770. First. paperback. very good. xiv 212 4 pages. Small 8vo contemporary marbled wrappers with manuscript spine label paper on spine is mostly missing but still firmly sewn; pages quite clean. Lausanne: Francois Grasset 1770. First Edition. Very good. First published in the spring of 1770 this book of advice to "people of fashion" particularly women had such an immediate vogue that many pirated editions soon followed. -- Norman 2083; Blake 452. Francois Grasset unknown books
ref. 40182Oblong folio 229 x 298 mm. Sewn. i title 28 pp. Notated in blank ink on 12-stave rastrum-ruled paper with watermark of a bunch of grapes and name PARITDON. Scored for soprano accompanied by obbligato violin first and second violins solo flute oboes solo bassoon horns violas and cellos. The final page of music in a different hand is the working out of a three-voice canon; each voice is notated on its own stave labeled "1" "2" and "3" with a treble clef indicated for the uppermost stave but more likely soprano clef". The text is "mort'e l'amabile mia solitaria canora passera canora passera" on the uppermost stave and "Deh compiangetela in voci flebili" on the lower two staves. The canon appears to be a modified version of a piece by Padre Martini 1736-1784 "No. 1 Canone á 3 all'Unisno." published in "Cinquantadue canoni" in Venice in ca. 1785. With occasional well-concealed copyist cancellations. With small oval handstamp of the Glasgow Society of Musicians and "141" in contemporary manuscript to lower inner corner of title; "30" in contemporary manuscript to upper center of title. Title slightly soiled; occasional staining primarily to blank outer and lower margins of music. Drawn from the opera "Le due giornate di Parigi" to a libretto by Foppa after J.N. Bouilly's Les deux journées first performed in Milan at La Scala on 18 August 1801 featuring celebrated castrato Girolamo Crescentini 1762-1846. Mayr a German composer teacher and writer on music "was a leading figure in the development of opera seria in the last decade of the 18th century and the first two decades of the 19th." Scott L. Balthazar in Grove Music Online Crescentini was an Italian soprano castrato and composer. "After his studies in Bologna under Lorenzo Gibelli he made his début in 1776 in Fano in female roles then in Pisa 1777 and Rome 1778-9. In 1781 he played for the first time the role of primo uomo in Treviso. He sang in Naples 1787-9 and in the most important Italian theatres in London 1785 and from 1798 to 1803 in Lisbon where he was also manager of the Teatro de S Carlos. He sang in the first performances of Catone in Utica by Paisiello 1789 Naples Amleto by Andreozzi 1792 Padua and Gli Orazi ed i Curiazi by Cimarosa 1796 Venice. In 1805 he was in Vienna and from 1806 to 1812 in Paris at Napoleon I's court as singing teacher to the royal family. When he returned to Italy he was appointed singing teacher at the Bologna Conservatory and from 1825 at the Real Collegio di Musica Naples. His style can be placed in the general return to patetico at the end of the 18th century and his ornamentation was never immoderate. Stendhal said that no composer could have written the infinitely small nuances that formed the perfection of Crescentini's singing in his aria 'Ombra adorata aspetta' inserted into Zingarelli's Giulietta e Romeo. Isabella Colbran was among his pupils. Besides his operatic arias he composed didactic and vocal chamber works which were famous throughout the 19th century. His vocalizzi were reprinted by Ricordi and Lucca up to the last decade of the century and were used extensively by singing teachers in conservatories throughout Italy. He was a member of the Accademia di S Cecilia Rome and the Accademia Filarmonica of Bologna." Nicola Lucarelli in Grove Music Online. unknown books
1800ref. 40332France 1800. Oblong quarto 211 x 290 mm. Sewn. i title i blank 24 i blank pp. Notated on 11-stave rastrum-ruled paper. Watermark of a bunch of grapes countermark "Bouchet." Scored for soprano and alto voices Lodoviska and Boleslao accompanied by strings oboes clarinets bassoons horns and trumpets preceded by a recitative accompanied by strings. With small oval handstamp of the Glasgow Society of Musicians in dark purple ink to lower inner corner of title with "136" in manuscript in red ink above stamp; "36" in contemporary manuscript to upper margin of title. Slightly worn and soiled; small stains to blank lower margins of first two and final five leaves. We have not located a contemporary published full score. La Lodoiska in three acts with a libretto by Francesco Gonella was first performed at the Teatro Le Fenice in Venice on 26 January 1796 and in a revised version in two acts in Milan at the Teatro alla Scala on 16 December 1799. Mayr a German composer teacher and writer on music "was a leading figure in the development of opera seria in the last decade of the 18th century and the first two decades of the 19th. . His first major success Lodoiska is a 'Polish opera' in the tradition of Cherubini's Lodoïska 1791 and Faniska 1806. . Despite their concurrence on the broad outlines of the action the two versions present significant differences. . Mayr provided numerous replacement arias and duets and expanded the finales of what had been Acts 1 and 2. He added a connecting scene to bridge the original Acts 2 and 3 while eliminating from the original Act 3 several scenes. . The Biblioteca Civica in Bergamo has a third incomplete version of Lodoiska without recitatives partly in Mayr's hand which appears to be an opera semiseria and which is not closely related to the other two versions." Scott L. Balthazar in Grove Music Online. unknown books
1727ref. 45318London: J. Walthoe and 18 others 1727. Second Simon edition folio pp. 12 540; engraved vignettes throughout woodcut printer's device initials and head- and tail-pieces; text printed in double column; contemporary blind-tooled panelled calf recently rebacked in calf top edge of rear cover also re-bound in calf spine in 7 compartments stamped in red and gilt; boards scuffed and scratched with some shallow loss of leather along edges both covers ring-stained; off-setting to preliminaries else a very good copy. ESTC T144011. J. Walthoe [and 18 others] unknown books
