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1875Best.-Nr. 48055Chicago: Chicago Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Co 1875. Good. Chicago: Chicago Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Co. ca. 1875. Small pictorial broadside flyer. 16.5x33cm printed in black. Stock worn toned and chipped with a few instances of soiling extensive splitting along old folds with tape repair to verso. Good only. Promotional broadside for the Chicago Rock Island & Pacific Railroad that operated from roughly 1850-1970 largely in the Midwest. Features a paper-cut illustration that was created on the occasion of the first trip made by steam-powered passenger cars in New York in 1831 before the company's incorporation. This broadside however was not issued until several decades later. The extensive railway inspired the tune "Rock Island Line" covered by country crooners Johnny Cash and Lead Belly. No separately cataloged copies in OCLC as of May 2026. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Co unknown books
1878Best.-Nr. 1392St. Louis. 1878. A fine guide to Texas in this period listing resources by county. Without the folding map which is usually lacking. 282pp. Illus. Frontis. Original gilt cloth. Some edge wear else good. Lacks the map. HOWES R389. MORRISON 3073. hardcover books
1900Best.-Nr. 54627Seattle; Skagway. ca. 1900. Alaska circa 1900 A collection of photographs taken by Seattle photographer Frank La Roche. La Roche 1853–1934 a Philadelphia native transplanted to the Northwest established a photography studio in Seattle in 1889. He undertook many trips to Alaska documenting the Klondike Gold Rush at length from 1897 to 1899. This group contains images of Juneau Sitka Fort Wrangell here spelled Wrangle and Taku Glacier. Two images are of Chilkat Tlingit Indians and one photo of the Seymour Rapids in British Columbia is also included. Each is numbered and captioned in manuscript or in print within the negative. Exemplary images from this noted landscape photographer of Alaska and the West. Overall very good. unknown books
1890Best.-Nr. List3882Charlestown Massachusetts 1890. Double-sided printed cardstock measuring 5 ¾ x 3 ¼ inches. Some small stains and manuscript pencil markings. Excellent. A card advertising Martin J. Roche's Steamship Office and Catholic Book Store in the Charlestown neighborhood of Boston likely from the early 1890s. Roche was a steamship agent in Boston from about 1885 on advertising steamship travel especially from Ireland in Catholic newspapers like the Sacred Heart Review in which he also authored a recurring column titled "Our Irish Letter."1 The card notes that Roche is also an "Agent for 'S.H. Review'." Newspaper advertisements indicate that he opened the Catholic bookstore aspect of his business in about 1891; the card advertises "Irish Song Books Histories and Story Books of all kinds; also Prayer Books Rosaries Scapulars Statues etc. at the lowest prices". At the time-subsequent to the wave of Irish immigration during the famine-most Irish immigrants were young unmarried women. Many settled in the Boston area. 1 The Sacred Heart Review 1 no. 14 April 6 1895 21. . unknown books
2012Best.-Nr. 3910First Edition/First Printing with the complete number line; A Near Fine book in a Fine dust jacket with only slight foxing to the top exterior text block else as new and unread. A lovely copy of this biography of Jim Croce written by his widow and singing partner Ingrid Croce with a forward by Arlo Guthrie; a scarce title in the first printing. Not remaindered not price-clipped not ex-library; in a protective Mylar cover and will ship securely wrapped in a sturdy box. Da Capo Press hardcover books
Best.-Nr. 35577TRADE CATALOGUE ROCK ISLAND COMPANY. CHILDREN'S CARRIAGES. Rock Island Illinois: 1885. 8vo. Publisher's wrappers. 62 pages. First edition. The thirteenth annual catalogue by this company. Illustrated with price list laid-in. The red covers are printed in gold. Some chipping and wear to spine. unknown books
Best.-Nr. 140949360Guildford UK: Genesis Publications 2013. First edition. First edition trade issue. Signed by Lou Reed and Mick Rock on title page; copy #453 of 2000 total. One of the few early copies in the non-deluxe issue comprising copies numbered 351-2000 and not having a laid-in print to get Reed's signature before he passed away. Unpaginated. Folio. Bound in publisher's black leather with gilt white green and red stamping; vinyl picture disc laid in pocket at rear. Fine with just a hint of rubbing to gilt Near Mint album in a Fine slipcase housed in publisher's cardboard mailing box. Complete as issued. The heyday of the former Velvet Underground frontman's solo period in photographs. Showcases several of Lou's album covers beginning with Transformer one of the most iconic images of modern music. The book also features unseen outtakes studio sessions spontaneous shots and friends including Andy Warhol Mick Jagger Iggy Pop and David Bowie. Genesis Publications unknown books
1924Best.-Nr. 2729Paris: Imprimerie Croutzet et Depost 1924. First edition. Original wrappers. Very Good. FIRST EDITION of Roche's surreal dadaist roman à clef exposing the misogynistic world of the French avant-garde. With annotations likely in Roche's hand. Like too many women artists of the early twentieth century French writer and artist Juliette Roche 1884 - 1980 has been long overshadowed by her male contemporaries. Roche came of age amidst leading artistic and literary salons of early 20th century Paris. She studied at Académie Ranson then considered the absolute best art school in Paris and was an early adopter of Cubism. However she is most closely associated with Dadaism. Despite Dada being a movement of absolute rebellion it harbored the normalized misogyny of the early twentieth century. Roche's most explicit critique of this discrepancy of rebellion vs repression can be found in La Minéralisation de Dudley Craving Mac Adam her groundbreaking novella. Part satire and part Dada nonsense the thinly veiled roman à clef is a prime example of the daring poetic style that Roche developed while living in New York during World War I. Having watched artistic vanguards come and go in Paris' salons and exhibitions Roche observed the New York City hijinks of Francis Picabia French 1879 - 1953 and Marcel Duchamp 1887 - 1968 with a level of detachment that alluded their American peers. She had close access to Picabia perhaps too close: in 1917 he and his wife Gabrielle Buffet-Picabia moved into an apartment directly beneath one Roche shared with her husband Albert Gleizes a French artist and philosopher who helped popularize Cubism on the Upper West Side. While Roche admired Picabia's iconoclasm she was disturbed by the misogyny she saw in works like his manometres where woman as 'la machine' was at best a manipulable object at worst the butt of a private joke. If taking Roche's ambivalence towards and her neighborly proximity to Picabia into consideration the novella could be inspired in part by an age-old story: pure contempt of one's neighbor. The novella is an indirect indictment of certain illicit behaviors Roche found annoying and dangerous. She synthesizes her fellow expatriates' personalities and physical traits to create the decadent Mac'Adam and the men he encounters on the day of his demise. Picabia becomes Mac'Adam. Swiss writer and boxer Arthur Craven 1887 - 1918 lends his name to the protagonist while becoming Lloyd Willow. Juliette Roche herself appears as Juliette Granite a play on words since roche means rock in French. Roche spins the narrative in poetic and surreal fragments at turns absurd and others told in a stream-of-consciousness style. La Minéralisation moves beyond conventional storytelling to allow readers into the minds of her characters through rich interior monologues revealing in each case her estimation of the particular model's idiosyncrasies. Roche seemed to find the antics of the all-male world of the Dadaists to be too limited and they're wickedly satirized among these pages. Written in ink on the first page is "Publié dans 'La Vie des Lettres' en 1921 / New York 1918" and there are a few words written on page 20 in the same hand. It appears to be Roche's handwriting from the few samples we've seen but we can't guarantee it. Paris: Imprimerie Croutzet et Depost 1924. Thin octavo 33pp terminal blank original printed wrappers stapled as issued; custom box. Small tear and split at top of spine; a near-fine extremely well-preserved copy. EXCEEDINGLY RARE: We can find records of no other copies that have been on the market. References: Burke Carolyn "Recollecting Dada: Juliette Roche." Women in Dada: Essays on Sex Gender and Identity edited by Naomi Sawelson-Gorse MIT Press 1998 557. Imprimerie Croutzet et Depost unknown books
1933Best.-Nr. 13309THE MASTER OF JALNA Little Brown 1933 first edition very slight spotting to the front cover more so to the rear some browning to the fore edge of the last 4 signatures else a near fine copy in like full color pictorial dust-wrapper with some slight wear to the head of the dust-wrapper spine. Little, Brown unknown books
1916Best.-Nr. 08016LOOT Bobbs-Merrill 1916 first edition a tight bright vg copy. Illustrated. The authors first book. Bobbs Merrill unknown books
1913Best.-Nr. NF2638ATLAS OF CANADA Minister of the Interior 1913 first edition a couple of modest non-stick tape repairs else vg in wraps as issued. Profusely illustrated with black & white photos on virtually every page along with 11 multi-colored maps nine of which are double page--- Minister of the Interior paperback books
1881Best.-Nr. 265597Providence: Providence Press Company Printers 1881. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. A relatively attractive copy of this regimental history. Bud Robertson in the Military Aspects--Soldier's Life section of Nevin's bibliography considers is "short on military matters but long on personal incidents" and "one of the better sources fro 1862-1863 campaigning around Washington and Norfolk Va." Nevins I 168. With some foxing to the preliminary only pages. And old fashioned homemade private library pocket to the rear endpapers. .This copy is pretty bright and tight. It is from the library of Civil War historian James I. "Bud" Robertson and has his bookplate on the front pastedown on top of an earlier bookplate presumably from the private library. Nevins I 168. Very Good binding. Providence Press Company, Printers unknown books
1916Best.-Nr. 623768Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill 1916. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Illustrated by M. Leone Bracker. Foxing on a few pages toned spine with lettering mostly rubbed off very good lacking the dust jacket. Hardboiled gangster novel that was the basis for the 1919 William C. Dowlan silent film. In Hubin. Bobbs-Merrill hardcover books
2019Best.-Nr. 258686Los Angeles: Metrosource Publishing 2019. Magazine. 68p. 8x10.75 inches articles reviews interviews books movies music travel fashion ads very good glossy magazine in pictorial wraps. marcos Martinez on Why America needs Black Pride Celebrations. Interview with the first Out gay Presidential candidate a fellow Hoosier! Travel reporting from Australia NY LA Portugal Spain & France. Metrosource Publishing unknown books
2023Best.-Nr. 1380507Rock Island: Rock Island Auction Company 2023. Softcover. Quarto oblong Three volumes in box. In Very Good condition. Box is plain brown cardboard in Very Good condition. Spine is brown without print. Covers are illustrated black print. Price: $175". Illustrated: color. CONTENTS: Vol. 1 The Greg Lampe Collection 480 pages - Vol. 2. The Norman Blank Collection 480 pages - Vol. 3. The Mac McCroskie Collection 398 pages. Oversized books. Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers please inquire for rates. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk office Case #1. 1380507. FP New Rockville Stock. Rock Island Auction Company unknown books
1969Best.-Nr. 149199New York: Arlington House 1969. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Very good in very good dust jacket. Book is lightly rubbed at spine ends and corners soiled foredges. Dustwrapper is rubbed at spine ends and corners cover soiled. Arlington House hardcover books
1972Best.-Nr. 119634London: Hutchinson University Library 1972. Softcover. Good. First paperback. Good in wrappers. Has bumped corners and spine ends writing inked on 1/2 title page bookplate also text edges are smudged. Hutchinson University Library unknown books
1937Best.-Nr. 156874MA: Little Brown & Co 1937. Very Good. Later. Very good minus Browning stamp on end paper. Cover rubbed some stain fraying on spine. Little, Brown & Co unknown books
1969Best.-Nr. 221966New York: Arlington House 1969. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Later. Very good in good dust jacket. Dustwrapper worn at edges and tips. Arlington House hardcover books
1944Best.-Nr. 267549Boston: Little Brown 1944. Hardcover. Very Good. Very good hardcover with similar dust jacket. Writing on front endpaper. Text clean. Minor spine lean. Spine ends lightly bumped. Dustwrapper price clipped. Small nick on bottom edge on rear dust jacket. Small tear on bottom edge on front dust jacket. Little, Brown hardcover books
1992Best.-Nr. 217184New York: NY Univ 1992. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First American edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Like new. NY Univ hardcover books
1972Best.-Nr. 148178New York: Arlington House 1972. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Very good in very good dust jacket. Book is lightly rubbed at spine ends and corners top foredge lightly soiled. Dustwrapper is lightly rubbed at spine ends and corners white portion soiled. Arlington House hardcover books
1984Best.-Nr. 178020New York: New York University Press 1984. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good in wrappers. Book spine lightly browned. New York University Press unknown books
1986Best.-Nr. 120104New York: William Morrow And Co 1986. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Later. Near fine in very good dust jacket. Book and dust jacket lightly rubbed at spine ends and corners dust jacket lightly worn and soiled sticker on front. William Morrow And Co hardcover books
1963Best.-Nr. 201936New York: Macmillan 1963. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Very good in an about Very good dust jacket. Inscribed. Dustwrapper rubbed with some tearing and light soiling. Macmillan hardcover books
