SIMON, S SylvanABAA
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1934ref. 94463New York: Samuel French 1934. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Fine in very good plus dustwrapper with modest overall age-toning. Uncommon. Samuel French hardcover books
1936ref. 86512New York: Samuel French 1936. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Gift Inscription from Hugh MacMullen who contributes two of the plays else fine in an attractive very good plus dustwrapper with modest tanning to the spine. Uncommon. Samuel French hardcover books
1906ref. 83820City of Washington: Beresford Pr. 1906. Softcover. Fine. Stapled printed light brown wrappers. Octavo. 20pp. including three plates. Staples oxidized tiny tear on front wrap else fine. Scarce. OCLC locates three copies. (Beresford, Pr.) unknown books
1948ref. 83852London: Burke Publishing 1948. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 272pp. Illustrated. Boards very lightly soiled corners bumped else near fine lacking the dust jacket. Ex-James Gabler. Gabler G38960. Burke Publishing hardcover books
1939ref. 84138France: The French Government 1939. Softcover. Very Good. First edition thus. 16mo. 32pp. Lightly soiled with a few cup-ring stains on the front wrap and small brown stain on spine seeping into pages chip on spine head about very good in stapled wrappers. Ex-James Gabler. Gabler G39480. (The French Government) unknown books
1966ref. 58139New York: Bonanza Books / The International Wine and Food Publishing Company 1966. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Reprint. 192pp. Fine in near fine spine faded dustjacket with some light wear to the extremities. Introduction by André Maurois. Written by the founder and President of the Wine and Food Society as a guide for amateurs. Bonanza Books / The International Wine and Food Publishing Company hardcover books
1995ref. 65223New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1995. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First American edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
1971ref. 51324New York: Samuel French 1971. Softcover. Near Fine. Some light soiling else near fine in stapled wrappers. Samuel French unknown books
1981ref. 65224New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1981. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Ex-library copy with glue shadows on the flaps and endpapers else near fine in near fine dust jacket. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
1987ref. 43649London: Simon and Schuster 1987. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Simon and Schuster hardcover books
1985ref. 65225New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1985. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Book club edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
1941ref. 74489New York: Samuel French 1941. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Reprint first published in 1937. Fine in an attractive about very good dustwrapper with a long neatly internally mended tear and other light overall wear. Samuel French hardcover books
1993ref. 65216New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1993. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First American edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
1991ref. 65222New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1991. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First American edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
1949ref. 21620New York: Farrar Straus 1949. Hardcover. Fine. First American edition. Fine lacking the dustwrapper. Advance Review Copy with slip laid in. Farrar, Straus hardcover books
1960ref. 82968London: Cresta Books 1960. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Reprint. Two small stains on the front endpapers else about fine in price-clipped very good or better dust jacket. Ex-James Gabler. Gabler G23680. Cresta Books hardcover books
1986ref. 437712New York: Random House 1986. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with fading on a small portion of the spine. A sequel to the author's autobiographical Brighton Beach Memoirs. Matthew Broderick and Penelope Ann Miller starred in both the Broadway production and the Mike Nichols-directed film. Random House hardcover books
1959ref. 452596New York: Benziger Brothers 1959. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. 235pp. Preface by Most Reverend Francis Esser. Translated by Angeline Bouchard. Gutter starting before title spine ends bumped and cocked very good in a very good dustwrapper with tears along the extremities. Benziger Brothers hardcover books
1840ref. 2217Paris: Techener 1840. First Edition. Very good. 17 x 26.5 cm. 8vo. Hardcover. 83 pp. with 5 plates of which 3 are folding. Contemporary beige quarter calf patterned brown cloth sides hinges somewhat worn gilt armorial device of the Duc d'Arenberg on both covers some foxing throughout as is true in all copies. DUC D'ARENBURG - B.H. BRESLAUER COPY OF THIS ESSENTIAL HISTORY OF THE EARLIEST PRINTERS CONTAINING VERY SIGNIFICANT DOCUMENTATION OF GUTENBERG IN STRASSBURG THE MOST IMPORTANT BEING THE FIRST REPRODUCTIONS OF DOCUMENTS GIVEN AT THE MEMORABLE TRIAL OF 1439 IN WHICH GUTENBERG HIMSELF WAS PLAINTIFF. THE DOCUMENTS ARE NOW DESTROYED AND EVERY SUBSEQUENT REPRODUCTION DEPENDS ON THE PRESENT WORK. OUR COPY CONTAINS TWO EXTRA PLATES NOT FOUND IN ORDINARY COPIES. According to Pierce Butler Laborde's work is "of permanent historical scholarly value." This sentiment is shared by Frederick Goff who described Laborde's work as "valuable for us since it contains lithographic facsimiles of several of the important passages in the testimonies of the lawsuit then extant which is the nearest thing we have to the original documents." The text of the Gutenberg lawsuit is reprinted "verbatini et literatim" along with a French translation. Also included are reproductions of the WATERMARKS of said documents. All of these precious documents were incinerated during the Prussian bombardment of Strassburg in 1870. The additional full-page plates in the present copy are stylized reproductions of the woodcuts utilized as models for the steel engravings on pp. 16 and 17. "Whereas Laborde's conclusions have in great part been superseded these excellent and faithful reproductions will always possess a high historical interest. . The work opens with a bibliographical essay on the hypotheses of previous writers and concludes with the results arrived at by the author himself. These are: That 1410 is the probable date of the discovery of printing in the Low Countries; that 1423 is that of the invention of movable types by "Lorenz Coster" at Haarlem; that 1436 is the authentic date of the first experiments of Gutenberg at Strasbourg ; and that 1452 is the certain date of the invention by Gutenberg of cast types at Mayence sic. The rest of the book is occupied by an attempt to establish these theses and there are many facsimiles of type and woodcuts." Bigmore & Wyman I 410. Laborde transcribed not without errors the texts of the lawsuit of Strassburg resident Jerge Dritzehen against Gutenberg; these were derived from six entries in different parts of three several manuscript registers in the city of Strassburg. According to Laborde the first of these were written in a volume described by later scholars as "Vol. A" which consisted of two quires each of 42 sheets or 84 leaves in total; they were covered by a sheet of parchment which had become yellow and soiled; on the recto was written "Dicta. Testium magni consilij Anno Domini M.CCC. Tricesimo noni." The paper which had turned yellow and brown on the edge measured 10 x 9 inches. The second volume "Vol. B" was bound in parchment and consisted of 24 sheets or 48 leaves of paper sewn together 43 of the leaves being written upon. According to Laborde everything connected with the 1439 Lawsuit was written by the same scribe. Laborde's three illustrations of the watermarks two different bull's head and one balance were printed in sepia; the excellent facsimiles of eleven different passages from the Lawsuit were made from lithographic tracings. All were published here for the first time. THE AUTHOR: Marquis de Laborde 1807-1869 studied at Gottingen and afterwards travelled extensively in the East. He subsequently held several diplomatic positions and was curator of the antiquities in the Louvre from 1848 to 1854 and director of the Archives of the Empire from 1856 until his death. He wrote extensively on archeology art printing and engraving. PROVENANCE: From the library of the great Belgian bibliophile Prosper-Louis duc d'Arenberg d'Arschot et de Croy 1785-1878 for whom see Jonghe d'Ardoye et al. Armorial Belge du Bibliophile 1930 p. 645 with reproduction of the armorial device. -- subsequently in the famed bibliographical library of B.H. Breslauer Bibliotheca Bibliographica Breslaueriana Christie's NY 6/27/2005 lot 1235. REFERENCES: Butler "The Gutenberg Celebration of 1940: A Survey of the Literature" in: Library Quarterly vol. 13 no. 1 p. 64. Goff Review of Otto Fuhrmann's "Gutenberg and the Strasbourg Documents of 1439" in PBSA vol. 35 no. 1 pp. 76-7. NB: Fuhrmann relied heavily on the present work and reproduced all of Laborde's illustrations and transcriptions. COMMENT: At present the only other copy on the market does not contain the two additional plates and is apparently waterstained. In terms of completeness and provenance few copies in permanent collections are superior to ours. Techener unknown books
1960ref. 30983New York: Atheneum. Near Fine in Very Good dj. First Edition. Hardcover. no significant wear to book just a touch of fading to the cloth along the top edges of the covers; the jacket is lightly tanned at the spine with a bit of wear along the top edge and some very shallow chipping at the top of the spine. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the half-title page: "For Peggy & Norman / with love / Joan / Jan. 1962." The author's first and only novel whose central figure is a millionaire who was "cranky neurotic warm possessive prejudiced and generous. He was a discriminating collector and patron of art an epicure a devotee of psychoanalysis -- as well as an almost lifelong patient. He worshipped his beautiful wife but was never able to achieve the full reciprocal relationship with her that he dreamed of. He cherished but endlessly frustrated his four daughters. He antagonized most of his fellow trustees at the New York museum to which he had given so much yet the one he annoyed the most wept at his funeral." While one can't help but wonder -- especially when an author expends and seemingly exhausts his or her talent on a single novel and then goes silent -- whether the book has autobiographical underpinnings I've been unable to uncover enough information about the author apart from what's in her rear-jacket-flap biography to determine whether or not there was a real-life father behind the fictional figure of "Saul Bettelheim" in this book. The inscribees were actor/producer/director Norman Lloyd 1914-2021 and his wife; Lloyd is probably most widely known for his late-in-life role as "Dr. Auschlander" on the "St. Elsewhere" TV series but was active in the theatre television and movies from the 1930s until the 2000s and numbered many of the Hollywood elite among his friends and colleagues. Signed by Author . 1960. Atheneum hardcover books
2024ref. 232703Severn House 2024-02-06. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 5x0x8. Hardcover First Severnhouse edition with a dust jacket. Exterior shows very little shelf wear. Interior is Clean has a good binding no marks or notations. First book in the "Holy Terror" series. Professional packaging and prompt shipping. Severn House hardcover books
1965ref. 234342University of Oklahoma Press 1965. First Edition. hardcover. Good/Good. 9x6x1. First Edition stated. Dust jacket has moderate wear good minus condition. Book has minor wear cloth boards. Has a good binding no marks or notations. Small tape stains to the endpaper top and bottom page edges. s.u. University of Oklahoma Press hardcover books
1924ref. 010835Chicago: Robert O. Ballou 1924. Book. Very Good. Cloth. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First Edition. 22 cm.; 8 9-112 pp. Printed at the Condé Nast Press in Greenwich Connecticut. Bound in original blue woven cloth boards gilt-stamped. Top edge gilt. Spine is toned with bumped edges. Foxed endpapers. Lacking scarce dust jacket. Condition: Very Good. The final installment in a trilogy of automatic writing spirit channelling books published by Otto Torney Simon following the death of his wife Anne Simon in 1916. While Otto acted as the material scribe the text centers Anne as the "surviving" intellect relaying to Otto descriptions of dying and the evolution of the human soul after death. She argues that the power of love is what will bring "celestial enlightenment" reframing a historically feminine trait as the governing force of the universe. She also focuses specifically on the evolution of the female soul describing the afterlife as free from the domestic and social constraints placed upon women. A fascinating example of automatic writing wherein a woman who would have been barred from spiritual/psychological leadership uses her living husband to transcend patriarchal structures. . Robert O. Ballou hardcover 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
1967ref. 620589New York: Random House 1967. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Light foxing on endleaves and boards very good in a very good dust jacket with a scratch on the front panel foxing and rubbing. The original New York performance featured Anthony Perkins Richard Benjamin and Connie Stevens. The Jerry Paris film featured Sandy Duncan and Tony Roberts. Random House hardcover books
