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1934ref. 22982London: Constable & Co 1934. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good . A pleasing copy of the 1934 1st edition. Solid and Near Fine in a crisp price-clipped VG dustjacket with light creasing at the flaps and very mild toning to the spine. Part of Constable's Wine Library which was edited by this title's author the great Andre Simon. Constable & Co unknown books
1934ref. 22987London: Constable and Co 1934. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good . A sharp very presentable copy of the 1934 1st edition. Solid and Near Fine in a crisp price-clipped VG dustjacket with light chipping and one tiny closed tear along the spine crown and one tiny chip the size of a pinhead and mild soiling to the rear panel. Part of Constable's Wine Library which was edited by this title's author the great Andre L. Simon. Constable and Co unknown books
1952ref. 20890New York: Wilfred Funk Inc 1952. Boards. Near Fine/Near Fine. Simon Lissim. A very sharp copy of the 1952 1st edition of this uncommon collection of art instruction. Clean and Near Fine in a crisp Near Fine dustjacket. Octavo 83 figures supplementing Lissim's text. Wilfred Funk, Inc unknown books
1971ref. 18666New York University Press 1971. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR SIMON TREFMAN in pencil on the front free endpaper. A solid copy to boot of the 1971 1st edition. Clean and Near Fine in a crisp VG dustjacket with minor scuffing and rubbing to the panels and several very small closed tears along their edges. A number of full-page illustrations mostly capturing Foote in performance complementing the scholarly text. New York University Press unknown books
2010ref. 11236Andover. Massachusetts and New Haven: Addison Gallery of American Art and Yale University Press 2010. 1st. Hardcover. As new/as new. A pristine copy of the catalogue based on the November 2010-February 2011 exhibition at Andover's Addison Gallery of American Art. Tight and Fine in a bright Fine dustjacket. Tall quarto vivid color and crisp black-and-white illustrations thruout. Addison Gallery of American Art and Yale University Press hardcover books
1968ref. 10364New York: Meredith Press 1968. 1st. Cloth. Collectible; Fine/Very Good. INSCRIBED BY NORMA SIMON IN YEAR-OF-PUBLICATION on the front free endpaper. A solid copy to boot of the 1968 stated 1st edition. Clean and Near Fine in a bright price-intact VG dustjacket with light spotting at the front panel. Octavo illustrated by Tom Eaglin. Signed by Author. Meredith Press unknown books
1997ref. 7173Cambridge University Press 1997. 1st. Cloth. Collectible; Fine/Fine. The 1997 1st edition. Solid and Near Fine with very light wear along the inner hinges in a bright Near Fine dustjacket. Octavo 366 pgs. Part of the "Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought" series. Cambridge University Press unknown books
1996ref. 6975Oxford England: Oxford University Press 1996. 1st. Cloth. Collectible; Fine/Fine. A very sharp copy of the 1996 1st edition. Tight and Fine in a bright Near Fine dustjacket. Octavo 406 pgs. Part of the wonderful "Oxford Classical Monographs" series. Oxford University Press unknown books
1958ref. 6123London: Cassell & Company Ltd 1958. 1st. cloth. Collectible; Fine/Fine. SIGNED BY BOTH THE CHAIRMAN AND VICE CHAIRMAN OF CASSELL AT THE TIME OF PUBLICATION on the front free endpaper. A very sharp copy to boot of the 1958 1st edition. Clean and Near Fine in a bright price-intact Near Fine dustjacket. Octavo 299 pgs. Cassell & Company, Ltd unknown books
2021ref. 234519Baen 2021-09-07. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 6x0x9. Hardcover First edition with a dust jacket. Jacket has a small tear on the back top corner. Book appears unused. Clean has a good binding no marks or notations. Baen hardcover books
2024ref. 234520Baen 2024-05-07. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x1x9. Hardcover first edition with a dust jacket. Book appears unused. Clean has a good binding no marks or notations. Prompt shipping. Baen hardcover books
1704ref. 41629London: Printed for the Author in the Old Palace Westminster; and Sold by W. Rogers and H. Rhodes in Fleet Street; E. Harris and B. Barker in Westminster-Hall 1704. Oblong 4to. 8 x 10 inches. First edition. I-IV A4 B-M4 I-IV. 56 ff. 1-112. 112 pp. 56 copper engraved plates 50 each with 12 cyphers; 6 other engraved plates with text in French and English. Coronets Frontispiece Title English Advertisement French Advertisement 50 Leaves of Cyphers. Frontispiece reads: "A book of cyphers composed by Col. Parsons. Imprimatur Carlisle. E. M. 1703." Priced bound at 12 shillings. 18 leaves with extensive contemporary ink manuscript penmanship editions on versos. Bound to style in quarter 18th-century morocco over 18th-century marble paper boards Extensively annotated first edition Parsons's enigmatic cypher book draws on heraldy cryptography and typography and led a craze for monogrammatic systems of which many imitators followed. "Such cyphers were extremely popular on both sides of the Atlantic during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. For inspiration in preparing clients' personal designs engravers typically relied on guides by designers such as William Parsons's New Book of Cyphers." - DDW Parsons's New Book of Cyphers was at the forefront of a publishing craze for cyphers in the 1700s; it was the fourth such book to be printed and dozens of nearly identical ones followed. Samuel Sympson released books with the exact same title as the present in 1739 and 1750. Phillip Barraud meanwhile had the good taste in 1782 to change Parsons's title by one word to "A New Book of Single Cyphers." Cyphers were used to create heraldic devices and monogrammatic signatures to embroider on clothing use as trademarks or store signs or to incorporate into bookplates as many book collectors have and continue to do. Cyphers differ from monograms in that the individual aspects of a cypher system can be exchanged without affecting the overall system; the letterforms in monograms must be redesigned each time. The cypher system with its internal algorithmic rules and capacity for change can easily encrypt secret messages and has done so from mysterious medieval codices like the Voynich Manuscript to the communiques of British generals during the American Revolution to the blockchain and "crypto" today. Cyphers were so faddish in the 1700s that people kept albums full of printed cyphers they had collected from their family friends and celebrities of the period. Cyphers in other words were treated something like autographs something like business cards something like keepsakes and they were devices people and their families identified with strongly. The 600 engraved cyphers across 56 plates in this first edition of Parson's book each show how to interlink two separate letters within Parsons's larger system of encipherment. Parsons gives instructions in both French and English on how to use them to compose longer texts. Parsons comments severely in his preliminary "Advertisement" preface that the earlier works on the subject contained only half the required number of cyphers necessary to complete their alphabets. By extrapolating from Parsons's text and his supplied two-letter cypher building-blocks one could create cyphers of any length that would maintain a consistent coherent design and be able to be deciphered if one knew the system. This book of cyphers seems oriented toward a striving merchant class not an aristocracy born into their family's symbols from the beginning of their lives. Anyone with access to pen and paper could make a cypher of their initials using this book. This interpretation is bolstered by the early-19th century ink manuscript editions found in the book. Numerous pages of repetitive handwriting exercises express upright moral sentiments: "By a commendable deportment we gain reputation." "Compassionate men never prove extortioners." "A flattering companion is a dangerous enemy." "Brave spirits promote the public good." These didactic lines were copied out of Fisher's The American Instructor: or Young Man's Best Companion . . . How to Qualify Any Person for Business without the Help of a Master. More manuscript editions present includes numerous pages of budgetary ledgers for a construction worker or carpenter an architectural sketch calligraphic practice lyrics from a song called "Mr. Clark and His Bacon" by G. Colman and two poems: "The Essex Spark" and "The Model." Parsons was the younger son of a baronet and attended Christ Church Oxford. He entered the army in 1682 and took part in the Glorious Revolution in 1688. Afterward he turned to publishing especially popular works of learning. His translation of Guillaume Marcel's Tablettes chronologiques chronological tables listing the dates of Kings Popes and Emperors ran through many editions. Parsons helped produce a new set of globes but none survive. For the present work Parsons commissioned Michel Tauvel an engraver in the Strand to work on his cypher designs in 1698. Permission to print the complete work was finally given in 1703. The finished book engraved throughout includes a fine frontispiece engraved by Simon Gribelin to Parsons's design and a title-page and text leaves by Joseph Nutting. Parsons's own cipher is visible in the bottom left-hand corner of each leaf. Berlin Katalog 5315. Collins "The Modern Monogram" Print Magazine 08.06.19. DDW "No. 14 Waiter" in American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago p.59. ESTC T116152. Francis Edwards Catalog No.800. Hale Treasures from Lord Fairhaven's Library at Anglesey Abbey cat.8 pp.58-9. O'Donoghue "Nutting Joseph" in DNB 18885-1900 Vol.41. Printed for the Author, in the Old Palace Westminster; and Sold by W. Rogers and H. Rhodes in Fleet Street; E. Harris and B. Bar unknown books
1993ref. 351151Bradford on Avon England 1993. 24p. including covers light staining on page 7 otherwise very good condition staplebound zine. Satirical anarcho-punk antifascist zine from the UK. Lots of comix including Arnie the Anarchist Chumbawamba interview includes small 'history lesson' on May '68. unknown books
1979ref. 615848Chicago: Playboy Enterprises Inc 1979. Softcover. Near Fine. Vol. 26 No. 2. Small quarto. Stapled wrappers. Wraps with a bit of wear and soil near fine overall. Includes an interview with Neil Simon as well as contributions by Arthur C. Clarke Richard Liebmann-Smith John Sack and others. Playboy Enterprises, Inc unknown books
1979ref. 617843New York: Harper & Row 1979. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. First edition. 346pp. Slight fading on the board edges else near fine with errata slip laid in in a fine price-clipped dust jacket. Harper & Row hardcover books
1978ref. 619301Brooklyn N.Y.: Hanging Loose Press 1978. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Pictorial wrappers. Creases on last few leaves and rear cover light foxing on page edges very good. Poet and scholar Daniel Hoffman's copy with a subscription renewal letter addressed to him from Aldebaran Review laid in. Also laid in is an Autograph Letter Signed from Simon to Hoffman on California Poets in the Schools letterhead where he mentions completing a science-fiction narrative poem and "going thru the throes of middlesence." Inscribed by Simon to Hoffman: "For Daniel Hoffman from whom I learned more than I thought at the time. John Oliver Simon March 10 1979. Hanging Loose Press unknown books
1996ref. 1409320Norwalk CT: Easton Press 1996. Collector's Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 6 241 pages. In Near Fine condition. Bound in dark blue genuine leather with gilt decoration; spine paneled with gilt titling on black title boxes; text block edges gilt with silk moiré endpapers and bound-in ribbon bookmark. Negligible shelf and edge wear to boards. Text block edges show very light scuffing and wear. Interior clean. Shelved in Room X. This is one of twelve volumes of the scarce 1996 Easton Press Greatest Short Stories set. 1409320. Special Collections - Downstairs. Easton Press hardcover books
1996ref. 1409321Norwalk CT: Easton Press 1996. Collector's Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 8 411 pages plus frontispiece. In Near Fine condition. Bound in burgundy genuine leather with gilt decoration; spine paneled with gilt titling on black title boxes; text block edges gilt with silk moiré endpapers and bound-in ribbon bookmark. Negligible shelf and edge wear to boards. Text block edges show very light scuffing and wear. Interior clean. Shelved in Room X. This is one of twelve volumes of the scarce 1996 Easton Press Greatest Short Stories set. 1409321. Special Collections - Downstairs. Easton Press hardcover books
1996ref. 1409322Norwalk CT: Easton Press 1996. Collector's Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 8 204 pages plus frontispiece. In Near Fine condition. Bound in blue genuine leather with gilt decoration; spine paneled with gilt titling on black title boxes; text block edges gilt with silk moiré endpapers and bound-in ribbon bookmark. Negligible shelf and edge wear to boards. Text block edges show very light scuffing and wear. Interior clean. Shelved in Room X. This is one of twelve volumes of the scarce 1996 Easton Press Greatest Short Stories set. 1409322. Special Collections - Downstairs. Easton Press hardcover books
1996ref. 1409325Norwalk CT: Easton Press 1996. Collector's Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 8 252 pages plus frontispiece. In Near Fine condition. Bound in dark green genuine leather with gilt decoration; spine paneled with gilt titling on black title boxes; text block edges gilt with silk moiré endpapers and bound-in ribbon bookmark. Negligible shelf and edge wear to boards. Text block edges show very light scuffing and wear. Interior clean. Shelved in Room X. This is one of twelve volumes of the scarce 1996 Easton Press Greatest Short Stories set. 1409325. Special Collections - Downstairs. Easton Press hardcover books
1996ref. 1409329Norwalk CT: Easton Press 1996. Collector's Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 8 283 pages plus frontispiece. In Near Fine condition. Bound in dark orange genuine leather with gilt decoration; spine paneled with gilt titling on black title boxes; text block edges gilt with silk moiré endpapers and bound-in ribbon bookmark. Negligible shelf and edge wear to boards. Text block edges show very light scuffing and wear. Interior clean. Shelved in Room X. This is one of twelve volumes of the scarce 1996 Easton Press Greatest Short Stories set. 1409329. Special Collections - Downstairs. Easton Press hardcover books
1996ref. 1409332Norwalk CT: Easton Press 1996. Collector's Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 171 pages plus frontispiece. In Near Fine condition. Bound in brown genuine leather with gilt decoration. Paneled spine with gilt titling on black title boxes. Textblock has silk moire end papers a satin ribbon bookmark and gilt edges. Boards and textblock have light shelf wear. Shelved in Room X. This is one of twelve volumes of the scarce 1996 Easton Press Greatest Short Stories set. 1409332. Special Collections - Downstairs. Easton Press hardcover books
1999ref. 622439New York: HarperCollins 1999. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. 255pp. Slightly cocked spine a remainder mark on the bottom page edges and foxing on the page edges thus very good in a fine dust jacket. HarperCollins hardcover books
1995ref. 609169New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1995. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. First edition. Tall octavo. xi 652pp. Illustrated. Page edges lightly foxed and binding a touch loose but sound very good or better in a lightly worn near fine dust jacket with light internal foxing. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1989ref. 610573London: Clive Holloway Books 1989. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First English edition. Quarto. 143pp. Spine ends and corners bumped near fine in near fine dust jacket with edges lightly rubbed. Inscribed by the author on the half-title. Clive Holloway Books hardcover books
