SIMON, John BABAA
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1982ref. 164741Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1982. Softcover. Very Good. Uncorrected proof. Yellow printed wrappers. Very good with page edges foxed. John B. Simon directs an educational program call the "DOME Project" to give inner city kids of New York a fighting chance against the usual stereotypical expectations. Houghton Mifflin Company unknown books
1811ref. 208194Harrisburg 1811. unbound. 13.5 x 16 inches partly printed Harrisburg August 3 1811. Document signed by the Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania -- a military commission to Samuel Anderson appointing him Captain of the Light Infantry Company. Signed by Snyder in the upper left wide margin with a remnant of the wax seal. Natural folds; foxing and chipping. Good condition. unknown books
1946ref. 7921Philadelphia/New York: J. B. Lippincott Company. Very Good in Good dj. First Edition. Hardcover. price-clipped solid copy some wear board exposed at bottom rear corner; jacket wrinkled/creased along top edge of front panel some paper loss at corners and spine ends. Satirical novel set against the backdrop of the Russian ballet; the fourth and last in the authors' series about the wacky misadventures of the Vladimir Stroganoff ballet company. Sergei Diaghilev features throughout the story alongside the fictional characters. Originally published in England in 1945 as "Six Curtains for Stroganova." . c.1946. J. B. Lippincott Company hardcover books
1995ref. 73120Seoul: The Sejong Institute 1995. First edition 8vo pp. xvi 437 1; publisher's blue paper wrappers; indent on a couple leaves from an old paperclip else fine. The Sejong Institute unknown books
1772ref. 1417006England: John Boydell 1772. Engraving on paper. The print reproduces Hogarth's monumental painting The Good Samaritan made for the staircase of St. Bartholomew's Hospital London. Sheet measures 25 × 19 in. In Very Good condition. Age toning throughout with scattered foxing and brown spotting primarily to the margins. Edge wear including loss to upper left margin. Sheet is backed with cardboard and protected with clear plastic wrap. For shipping the work will be carefully rolled and securely packaged. 1417006. Special Collections - Upstairs. John Boydell unknown books
1863ref. 70902Leipzig und Heidelberg: C. F. Winter'sche Verlagshandlung 1863. 8vo pp. vi 2 132; contemporary black paper-covered boards red calf label on spine; light rubbing but generally very good sound and clean. Simon Karsten 1802-1864 was a Dutch classical philologist. A graduate from the University of Utrecht he subsequently received a professorship for classical literature and rhetoric at the grammar school there and later was appointed professor of literature at the University of Utrecht. This book on Horace's life and poetry was published in the last year of his life. Not in Mills College Check List; Riedel-Horatiana kappa-70. C. F. Winter'sche Verlagshandlung unknown books
1930ref. 72078Berlen & Leipzig: Walter de Gruyter & Co 1930. 8vo pp. 2 72; printed paper wrappers; fine. A comparative word list of Tibetan and Middle Chinese. Walter de Gruyter & Co unknown books
2005ref. 68531Aberystwyth: School of Art University of Wales 2005. First edition oblong 4to pp. 127 1; 61 color and black & white illustrations and a map; many from contemporary sources; one corner bumped else near fine in original pictorial wrappers. There was no hard-cover version of this book. After Everest and K2 it's the highest peak in the Himalayas. School of Art, University of Wales unknown 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
1978ref. 65043New York: Poetry Project 1978. Folio pp. 90 10; occasional illustration; original pictorial wrappers by Rochelle Kraut side-stapled; fine. From the library of Allan Kornblum poet fine press printer and publisher who founded Coffee House Press. Issue no. 7 was the last published of the 4 3 2 Review. Contributions by Herman Melville Alice Notley Paul Violi Lewis Warsh Ted Berrigan John Godfrey Allan and Cinda Kornblum Jim Hanson John Ashbury and many others. To our knowledge this is the only 'zine' to which Herman Melville contributed albeit unwittingly. Poetry Project unknown books
1945ref. 62613London: Faber and Faber 1945. First edition 8vo pp. xi 1 137 1; samples and specimens throughout some in color 1 folding; 13-page glossary at the back; fine copy of a standard text in a slightly chipped price-clipped jacket. From the library of Kim Merker. Printed at the Curwen Press. Faber and Faber unknown books
1962ref. 62673Muscatine Iowa: privately printed 1962. First edition 8vo pp. 8 11-53 1; maps portraits genealogical tree; fine copy in original blue cloth stamped in gilt on spine in a near fine glassine dust jacket. From the library of Kim Merker. Cheever 131. privately printed unknown books
1973ref. 59605Strasbourg: Universite des Sciences Humaines de Strasbourg 1973. Large 8vo pp. 6 256; blue paper wrappers backed in cloth; near fine errata slip laid in; with articles from D. Mettas J. P. Goudailler Anatoly S. Liberman M. Petursson A. Bothorel et al. Universite des Sciences Humaines de Strasbourg unknown books
1987ref. 55881Minneapolis: Coffee House Press 1987. Edition limited to 400 copies signed by the author and artist 7½" x 4½" pp. 23 1; fine copy in blue printed wrappers; 8 woodcut illustrations by Toby Gordon one of which is repeated on the front cover. Designed by Allan Kornblum handset by Margery Cantor printed by Kent Aldrich. Coffee House Press unknown books
1738ref. 56251Dublin: reprinted by and for George Faulkner 1738. 8vo pp. xiv 310; contemporary calf boards; 19th-century rebacking; leather scuffed around board edges; head of title page clipped and mended; otherwise very good. A fictional story about an Italian man who discovers a mythical paradise called Mezzoramia in the African desert. The author Simon Berington 1680-1755 was a Catholic priest. The title page states that the text was copied from a manuscript in St. Mark's Library in Venice but this is a fictional account; the text was initially written in English and first published in London in 1737 and received a number of reprints. reprinted by, and for George Faulkner unknown books
2011ref. 171288New Haven: Yale Center for British Art 2011. Hardcover. VG/VG. Black cloth boards with silver stamped lettering. Glossy color-illustrated dust jacket with black and white lettering. 312 pp. Color illustrations. Catalogue of an exhibition from October 27 to February 12 2012. The 18th-century painter Johan Zoffany was an astute observer of the many social circles in which he functioned as an artist. This catalogue investigates his sharp wit shrewd political appraisal and perceptive social commentary - all achieved while presenting his subjects as delightful and sophisticated members of polite society. Yale Center for British Art hardcover books
1927ref. 53355London: The Fleuron Ltd 1927. First trade edition designed and printed at the Curwen Press pp. 68 14 ads; 4 text illustrations; very good in original drab wrappers printed in black red and green. The Fleuron, Ltd unknown books
1928ref. 51596London & New York: Peter Davies Ltd. and Harper & Brothers 1928. Special edition on hand-made paper limited to 300 copies this no. 74; folio pp. xix 1 83; 122 facsimile plates plus one inserted page from the edition de luxe of Zola's Nana by Emile Zola with an original etching by Chas. Laborde printed prior to the book's publication many of the plates illustrated or printed in color; original white buckram smooth gilt-ruled spine with title in two compartments; small stain on spine spine a bit dull boards a little toned some offsetting on plates; very good. Printed at the Curwen Press. Peter Davies, Ltd., and Harper & Brothers unknown books
1945ref. 51529London: Faber and Faber 1945. First edition 8vo pp. xi 1 137 1; samples and specimens throughout some in color 13-page glossary at the back; fine copy of a standard text in a slightly chipped price-clipped jacket. Faber and Faber unknown books
1927ref. 51422London: The Fleuron Ltd 1927. First trade edition designed and printed at the Curwen Press pp. 68 14 ads; 4 text illustrations; very good in original drab wrappers printed in black red and green; light chipping to extremities housed in a later clamshell box. The Fleuron, Ltd 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
1632ref. 43039Londini: Ioyce Norton & Richardum Whittaker 1632. First edition small 8vo pp. 16 493; woodcut printer's device on title page head pieces and initials; text in double columns; contemporary full dark brown calf unadorned spine; shallow loss along top 3/4 title page fore edge affecting two words; title page rebacked and laid down; occasional contemporary manuscript notes in margins as well as extensive scribbling to p. 493 and verso; over all a good sound copy. See Wing P1067 and Vancil p. 189 for later editions. Ioyce Norton & Richardum Whittaker unknown books
1967ref. 41907Tokyo: Nan' Un Do 1967. Reprint edition 8vo pp. 381; original cloth in tan dust jacket printed in blue; jacket spine a bit faded edges lightly shelf worn; Tokyo bookseller's ticket mounted to front pastedown else very good. Reprint of the Halle 1908 reprint of the London 1640 edition. Reprint Series of Books Relating to the English Language Vol. 7. Explanatory notes in Japanese. 12 copies in OCLC all in Japanese institutions. Nan' Un Do unknown books
1956ref. 16429London: Faber and Faber 1956. First edition 8vo pp. xiii 3 156; portrait frontis & illus. throughout; fine copy in the jacket. Illustrated with typographical examples letters and the works of various artists of the inter-war period. Simon was the editor of The Fleuron and was long associated with the Curwen Press. Faber and Faber unknown books
1985ref. 19874Secaucus NJ: Chartwell Books 1985. First edition 4to pp. 160; illustrated throughout; fine in original cloth and jacket. Contains a glossary bibliography and list of manufacturers. Chartwell Books unknown books
