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1914rif. 548772New York: The Knickerbocker Press 1914. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 148pp. Frontispiece and 10 plates. Blue cloth binding titled in gilt. Partially unopened with just a hint of foxing and a few small nicks at the bottom edge of the front board and the foot of the spine very good. Inscribed by the author: "To Mrs. Emerson Compliments of Emma Langdon Roche." Roche born into a prominent Mobile Alabama family wrote this book the first to be based on interviews with Cudjoe Lewis also known as Kazoola a survivor of the Middle Passage as a captive on the last known slave ship Clotilda which a group of Americans used to illegally import slaves into Alabama in 1860 from present day Benin more than a half century after the suspension of the Atlantic slave trade. This book includes a photograph of Lewis and his wife Abache as well as drawings of Cudjo Abache and other survivors. This book was used by later researchers and writers as a resource about the residents of Africatown on the outskirts of Mobile and the history of the Clotilde. Zora Neale Hurston then a student of anthropology interviewed Cudjo Lewis and other Africans in Alabama as part of her research. She published an article in 1927 "Cudjo's Own Story of the Last African Slaver" purportedly based on her interviews with Lewis but later thought to be mostly derivative of Roche's text in Historic Sketches of the South. Exceptionally scarce source material and rarely found signed. The Knickerbocker Press hardcover books
1968rif. 551712Buenos Aires: Emecé Editores 1968. Unbound. Near Fine. First edition. Illustrated by E. Castells Capurro. Folio measuring 10¼" x 14". 64pp. of gathered but unbound signatures and a 31-plate unbound "Suite de Láminas" in printed chemise all laid into a larger printed chemise. The interior material is fine and the outer chemise is near fine with light soil and wear including a tiny tear. One of 500 numbered copies printed on on Witcel blanco of 1531 total. Emecé Editores unknown books
1966rif. 467864New York: Basic Books Inc 1966. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Small quarto. 289pp. Illustrated in black and white. Bookplate and owner signature of a noted American psychologist on the front fly. Front fly a bit rippled from the bookplate else fine in a trifle worn fine dust jacket. Basic Books, Inc hardcover books
1943rif. 463100Philadelphia: Reprinted from Clinics Vol. I No. 6 1943. Softcover. Near Fine. Octavo. 16pp. P. 1598-1611. Stapled self-wrappers. Stamp and signature of a noted American psychologist on the front wrap and the title inked along the spine else fine. Reprinted from Clinics, Vol. I, No. 6 unknown books
1965rif. 171321965. African American Education 2 original press photographs related to integrating Little Rock Central High School and the University of Alabama. n.d. 1957 1965. Silver gelatin print photographs 8 x 10". Both images include original typed press captions printed in image margins. Little Rock photo shows NAACP leaders including Daisy Bates reacting to positive court news. Original press caption in part: "Negro Leaders Happy with Court Decision - Mrs. Daisy Bates left president of Arkansas chapter of the NAACP and Clarence Laws field secretary seem to be well satisfied with the ruling handed down today by the Supreme Court in which Little Rock's Central High School shall carry on immediate integration. The school is scheduled to open next Monday." Bates was an important figure in integrating schools and she hand-selected student called the Little Rock Nine who first integrated Central HS in 1957. Vivian Malone Jones was the first Black student to graduate from University of Alabama on May 30 1965. In the photograph she wears graduation cap and gown and smiles confidently at the viewer. Original press caption printed along right edge of image in part: "Vivian Malone is shown in her cap and gown that she will wear at the University of Alabama graduation May 30." Malone was one of the first two African American students at the University in 1963. Malone earned her first bachelor's degree at Alabama A&M a historically black university but the school lost its accreditation after she graduated. To get an accredited degree Malone applied to the University of Alabama's School of Commerce and Business Administration and won a lawsuit over the segregationist admission policies. Then-governor George Wallace turned this event into a national event when he blocked the judge's ruling and declared his famous slogan "Segregation Now Segregation Forever." National Guard troops were brought in to ensure Malone could attend the University. Little Rock photo has light creases along top edge and bottom right corner not affecting image. Both in very good condition. unknown books
1885rif. 140841885. Dome of the Rock interior nineteenth century records the exposed Foundation Stone at the center of one of Jerusalem's principal sacred monuments. Completed in 691-692 CE under the Umayyad caliph Abd al-Malik the Dome of the Rock stands on the Haram al-Sharif or Temple Mount a site central to Islamic and Jewish sacred traditions and also closely connected with Christian biblical history. The photograph preserves the relationship between the Rock itself and the architectural enclosure constructed around it more than a millennium earlier. Albumen print measuring 11" x 8.5" unmounted. The Foundation Stone occupies the foreground while columns arches and the decorated interior rise behind it. The surrounding colonnades are faced with marble in their lower sections with mosaic ornament above allowing the photograph to record both the irregular natural surface of the Rock and the elaborate architectural treatment of its enclosure. Jewish tradition associates the Temple Mount with the First and Second Temples and identifies the Rock with the site of the Holy of Holies; the Second Temple was destroyed by Roman forces under Titus in 70 CE. Islamic tradition connects the Rock with Muhammad's Night Journey and ascent to heaven while traditions associated with Abraham's attempted sacrifice also attach sacred meaning to the site. The Dome of the Rock occupies the Haram al-Sharif alongside the Al-Aqsa Mosque and other religious and educational buildings. Nineteenth century photographs of its interior recorded spaces that were considerably less accessible to many Western travelers than Jerusalem's exterior monuments while the albumen process circulated such views through the expanding photographic market for images of the Holy Land. Very good condition. A detailed nineteenth century interior view centered on the Foundation Stone and the marble and mosaic architectural decoration surrounding it. unknown books
1954rif. 446063London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd 1954. Softcover. Very Good. Marked proof. 12mo. 314pp. Plain wrappers with paper cover label. Spine cocked light general soiling and wear very good. "Kindly Return This Marked Proof" and a date October 6 1954 stamped on the half-title. Over 40 corrections have been recommended in the text in several colors of ink: pink the table of contents and prior blue fountain pen mostly typographical errors and justification issues and several in black ink. In at least four cases the annotations in black request alterations to the text. Admittedly none of the changes are major rewrites-usually a rearrangement of words-but it raises the likelihood that these were done in the author's hand. Variable Winds at Jalma was published in the United States in 1954 by Little Brown and in London the following year. De la Roche 1879-1961 would have been 75 at the time. Variable Winds at Jalna is book 15 of de la Roche's popular 16-volume The Whiteoak Chronicles. Macmillan & Co. Ltd unknown books
1921rif. 441127New York: Cosmopolitan 1921. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Illustrated by Dean Cornwell. Fine in fine dustwrapper with wraparound art by Dean Cornwell. Hubin listed mystery subtitled on the jacket "A Novel of Youth and Mystery." A young woman comes to the whirlpool that is New York City encounters a mystery. Basis for the 1922 silent film of the same name directed by Tom Terriss and featuring Alma Rubens Eileen Huban and Harrison Ford not that one. A beautiful copy. Cosmopolitan hardcover books
1972rif. 111257New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1972. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. 167pp. Near fine with a previous owner name on the front free endpaper in a very good dust jacket with an abrasion on the front panel and tape repairs. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
1962rif. 385571New York: Sheed and Ward 1962. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good in edgeworn and lightly soiled wrappers with owners name stamped on half title page tape on bottom of spine and some small surface tears on front cover and spine ends. Sheed and Ward unknown books
1968rif. 385789New York: Weybright and Talley 1968. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. First American edition. Near fine in a good or better edgeworn and lightly soiled dust jacket with faded spine and a few closed tears and tape repair on inside the top of spine. Weybright and Talley hardcover books
1998rif. 311051New York: Anchor Books 1998. Softcover. Fine. Bound galley. Fine in wraps. Signed by the author. Although not marked in any way this copy is from the distinguished modern first edition collection of Bruce Kahn. Anchor Books unknown books
1997rif. 311902New York: Anchor Books 1997. Softcover. Fine. Bound galley. Fine in illustrated wraps. Signed by author. Publisher's promotional material laid in. Although not marked in any way this copy is from the distinguished modern first edition collection of Bruce Kahn. Anchor Books unknown books
1925rif. 278997New York: Greenberg 1925. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Reprint. Near fine in very good dustwrapper with modest loss at the spine ends and a few tears. Villainous gentleman found dead on a yacht off Palm Beach. Greenberg hardcover books
1966rif. 98826London: Gerald Duckworth and Co. Ltd 1966. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a single tear on the front spine fold and with drawing by Duncan Grant. Gerald Duckworth and Co. Ltd hardcover books
1972rif. 73327New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1972. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a couple of tiny tears. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
1813rif. S14157Paris :: H. Perroneau 1813. 1813. Title : Extrait des Annales de Chimie fevrier 1813. 8vo. 4 115 1 pp. Half-title 2 folding engraved plates. Modern navy-blue cloth no embellishments!. Fine. Rare. 121 "The same year 1811 Berard's experiments with Francois-Etienne de La Roche won the prize 1812 of the First Class of the University Paris Academy of Science for determining the specific heat of gases using a copper calorimeter." / Francois-Etienne de La Roche or Delaroche was a Genevan physician naturalist chemist botanist and ichthyologist. "De La Roche became infected with typhus bacteria and died in 1813 only just aged 32 during the same epidemic that his father also succumbed to." / Jacques Etienne Berard was a French naturalist chemist and physicist. He was the first professor of toxicology at Montpellier. He was a pioneer in chemical engineering including pharmaceuticals and was managing director of La Paille the manufacturing site that had been founded by Chaptal in 1782. H. Perroneau, 1813. hardcover books
1802rif. 262991Baltimore: Printed for Thomas Andrews & Butler. W. Pechin & S. Sower 1802. First American edition of the author's first published work. iv 7-172; 155 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Bound to style in quarter brown calf and marbled boards preserving contemporary red morocco spine label. Foxing throughout very good. First American edition of the author's first published work. iv 7-172; 155 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Garside Raven & Schowerling: 1789:64 mentioning this edition and another in NY in 1802 ; Loeber and Loeber pp. 1134 Location: NUC InND Loeber coll; Block p. 200; Summers p. 163 first edition; Printed for Thomas, Andrews & Butler. W. Pechin & S. Sower unknown books
1832rif. 265137London: De La Rue Cornish & Rock 1832. 22 original drawings numerous plates some hand-colored pasted-in on variously colored leaves some with embossed frames by De La Rue & Co London manuscript verses throughout. 57 ll. Square 8vo. Contemporary dark purple morocco covers embossed in blind with large die of a rococo frame design surrounding a central diamond gilt-ruled border spine embossed in blind by a die with a cathedral design titled in gilt and signed by the binder "De La Rue Cornish & Rock" on the spine a.e.g. pink moire pastedowns. Very slight rubbing to binding edges light dampstaining to a few leaves endpapers evidently removed. 22 original drawings numerous plates some hand-colored pasted-in on variously colored leaves some with embossed frames by De La Rue & Co London manuscript verses throughout. 57 ll. Square 8vo. A commonplace book of particular interest for its embossed binding manufactured by De La Rue Cornish and Rock. From 1829 through 1832 Thomas de la Rue 1793-1866 partnered with Samuel Cornish and William Rock to manufacture cards embossed papers and playing cards. "De La Rue produced a number of fine albums annuals etc stamped on the back and sides with very finely executed blind imprints ." Ramsden. The De La Rue company still in operation is now one of the world's largest printers of commercial notes and paper. For binding cf. Maggs 1212 II no 241; Ramsden London Bookbinders p. 59 De La Rue, Cornish & Rock] unknown books
1957rif. 173039Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1957. Five vintage hand-tinted British front-of-house cards from the 1957 film. Based on Ernest Hemingway's 1929 semi-autobiographical novel about an American soldier stationed in Italy whose romance with a Red Cross nurse becomes his only joy amidst the horrors of war. The second film adaptation of Hemingway's novel and the final film produced by David O. Selznick. Set in Italy and Switzerland shot on location in Italy. 8 x 10 inches. About Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
2023rif. 13879New York: Grand Central Publishing 2023. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good /Very good . First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Leslie Jones in ink at front endpaper. Stated First Printing. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". xvii 268pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers corners and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in black paper over boards with spine lettered in yellow. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. A very presentable signed first edition of this hilarious memoir by comic icon Leslie Jones. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Hey you guys it's Leslie. I'm excited to share my story with you. Now I'm gonna be honest: Some of the details might be vague because a btch is fifty-five and she's smoked a ton of weed. But while bits might be a touch hazy I can promise you the underlying truth is REAL. Whether I'm talking about my childhood growing up in the South my early stand-up days driving from gig to gig through the darkest parts of our country and praying I wouldn't get murdered what Chris Rock told Lorne Michaels that time I wanted to shoot Whoopi Goldberg on SNL and yeah I'll tell you all about Ghostbusters and the nudes and Supermarket Sweep and The Daily Show . . . I'm sharing it all in these pages. It's not easy being a woman in comedy especially when you're a tall-ss Black woman with a trumpet voice. I have to fight so that no one takes me for granted and no one takes advantage. These are the stories that explain why. Cue the Law & Order theme.Publisher. Grand Central Publishing hardcover books
1918rif. 11866New York: George H. Doran Company 1918. Very Good. New York: George H. Doran Company 1918. Later printing without publisher's colophon to copyright page. Octavo. 312 pp. Apricot cloth stamped in black. Pictorial endpapers. Lacks dust jacket. Light edgewear to boards with some spotting and smudging. Binding is sound. Pages unmarked. George H. Doran Company unknown books
1964rif. 140685Cannes France: N.p. 1964. Original souvenir programs and film credits material showcasing some of the films from the 1964 Cannes Film Festival. It was this festival the seventeenth one to be held that the award name was changed from the Palme d'Or to the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film the name used until 1974 when it returned to its former title. French and English language. Films represented in the collection include George Roy Hill's "The World of Henry Orient" Gianfranco Mingozzi's "I mali mestieri" 1963 documentary of the city of Palermo Gyula Macskassy and Gyorgy Varnai's "1 2 3." Hungarian short film on mathematics Nobuko Shibuya's Grand Prix award winning "The Price of Victory" Japanese volleyball documentary Glauber Rocha's "Black God White Devil" a Brazilian Western. Also included is a credit sheet detailing a special showing of "Naissance du Cinema" a documentary about Louis Lumiere held in the Grand Hall at the festival presented on the centennial of Lumiere's birth. Programs and credit sheets housed in a "Henry Orient" promotional folder. Near Fine overall. N.p. unknown books
1798rif. 70527Paris: de l'Imprimerie de P. Didot l'Aine 1798. 16mo pp. 4 xxv 1 115 1; vignette title page; contemporary green morocco elaborate gilt rules on covers smooth gilt-decorated spine laid out in 6 compartments gilt-lettered direct in 1 a.e.g.; old gift inscription on title page else a very good sound and clean copy. Memorial bookplate of Caroline Furness Jayne. Not in Mills College Check List or Riedel-Horatiana. OCLC locates no copies in the U.S. de l'Imprimerie de P. Didot l'Aine unknown books
1956rif. 71352Roma: Instituto Italiano oer Il Medio ed Estremo Oriente 1956. First edition small 4to pp. ix 3 194 plus 82 plates 2 folding each with a descriptive leaf of text; 5 folding maps printed in color in rear cover pocket; one corner bumped else fine in original gray printed boards. The Amne Machin range runs in the general northwest-to-southeast direction in eastern Qinghai Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture and the adjacent areas of the Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture and the southwestern corner of Gansu's Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. Rock Honorary Research Associate Far Eastern and Russian Institute University of Washington is one of the great explorers of the last half of the 20th century. He "was first sent to China in the early 1920s by the United States Department of Agriculture U.S.D.A. to collect seeds of a tree that later were used in the treatment of leprosy. His explorations resulted in the introduction of conifers rhododendrons 493 species potentilla and primula to the U.S. Nonetheless biographer Hubert Rhodes wrote in 1956 that Rock's collection process - collecting all plants not just searching for exotics - had important implications and opened possibilities for reforestation in North America's severest northern climates. Rock also introduced blight-resistant chestnuts. He deposited a sizable collection of birds and mammals at the U.S. National Museum the Arnold Arboretum and Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology. During his later years botanizing back in Hawaii in the 1950s Rock noted ominously that many native species he had collected earlier in his career had vanished completely . His efforts in linguistics are widely recognized; he spent years collecting and translating 8000 volumes of original Naxi literature including their religious tracts" Hunt Botanical Institute website. Instituto Italiano oer Il Medio ed Estremo Oriente unknown books
