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1977ref. 58273NY: Scribner's Sons 1977. First Edition the author first book. 8vo pp.86. Foredge foxed o/w a fine copy in dj. Signed by the author. Laid in is a note from Ferro to poet William Jay Smith: "Mr. Smith I am indebted to you for your kind words and gratified that you enjoyed the book with my very best wishes. Robert Ferro." Summers page 270. from Wikipedia: "Robert Ferro October 21 1941 – July 11 1988 was an American novelist whose semi-autobiographical fiction explored the uneasy integration of homosexuality and traditional American upper middle class values. He died of AIDS a few months after his partner Michael Grumley in 1988 at his father's home in Ho-Ho-Kus New Jersey age 46.35 Grumley and Ferro are buried together under the Ferro-Grumley memorial in Rockland Cemetery Sparkill New York. Following their deaths the Ferro-Grumley Foundation which manages their estate created and endowed the annual Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT fiction in conjunction with Publishing Triangle." Summers notes that Ferro was one of the original members of "The Violet Quill" which came together after the Stonewal Rebellion. l. Scribner's Sons unknown books
1889ref. 32389Boston: Roberts 1889. Second edn. 12mo pp. 375 plus 8 pages of book list. Red cloth printed in black and gilt. cover slightly worn at edges one hinge half tender o/w VG. Roberts unknown books
1988ref. 567390New York: Crown 1988. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. First edition. Spotting on cloth spine very good or better in a near fine dust jacket with light toning on the flaps and interior offsetting. Advance Review Copy with publisher's promotional material slip and author photo laid in. Blurbs by Cynthia Ozick and Anne Rice on rear panel. Crown hardcover books
1988ref. 569496New York: Crown 1988. Softcover. Near Fine. Uncorrected proof. Blue printed wrappers. Small sticker shadow on front cover slight rubbing on the spine near fine. Publisher's promotional material laid in. Crown unknown books
1985ref. 569610New York: E.P. Dutton 1985. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Very slight spotting on topedge else fine in a very good dust jacket with light edgewear and toning. E.P. Dutton hardcover books
1984ref. 467540New York: A Plume Book / New American Library 1984. Softcover. Near Fine. Reprint. Trade paperback. Interior lightly toned in pictorial wrappers with a small crease to front bottom corner and light toning. A Plume Book / New American Library unknown books
1987ref. 441604New York: Crown Publishers 1987. Hardcover. Fine. Reprint first Crown edition. Quarto. 301pp. Introduction by Doris Lessing. Pictorial blue cloth stamped in gilt with illustrated paper label mounted on front. Fine without dustwrapper. Crown Publishers hardcover books
1996ref. 403084California 1996. Hardcover. Near Fine. A Collection of 100 used concert tickets featuring punk new wave and heavy metal bands performing in California from 1983 through 1996. The tickets vary in size from 3” x 2” to 5.25” x 2.5”. All items are near fine with light soiling and a modest amount of creasing except for three torn tickets and 4 tickets stubs from use. The L.A. and Bay Area rock scene started in the late 1970s until new wave and heavy metal bands became the central focus of the 1980s. Some of the bands include: Mötley Crüe Iron Maiden Guns N’ Roses Depeche Mode Fatal Attraction Porno for Pyros Billy Idol Culture Club and others. The tickets span from Los Angeles to San Francisco and cities in between from 26 different venues some of which include The Troubadour Coconut Teaszer The Stone Trocadero Transfer The Metro Cow Palace The Palomino and Filthy McNasty Station. Many of the tickets are bright colors with printed pictures and stamped band logos showing the typographic designs of the time frame. Many bands kicked off their careers in California during this time. Mötley Crüe a popular heavy metal band formed in Los Angeles in 1981 is featured here playing at Oakland stadium on October 10 1987. The band is well known for their heavy make-up shocking clothing high-heeled boots and their abuse of drugs and alcohol. In 1985 the band transitioned to a more glam metal style influencing the heavy metal signature look. Guns N' Roses formed in 1985 in Los Angeles and is featured here playing at the Warfield Theatre on February 5 1988. They are a hard rock band that quickly gained popularity after the release of their debut album “Appetite for Destruction” which has sold over 28 million copies worldwide. The band has been labeled as the "the most dangerous band in the world" due to their rebelliousness and were credited to the rekindling of rock music during a time of dance music and glam metal. 1n 1992 Porno for Pyros formed in Los Angeles as an alternative rock group formed out of Jane’s Addiction. They are featured here playing at the Trocadero Transfer on June 19 1996. Their shows featured props extras and pyrotechnics. The band lasted through the mid-1990s and mixed the sounds of grunge and rock together. In the 1980s California became the melting pot of music genres mixing in punk rock new wave and metal. Certain venues became synonymous with the music genres and bands of that time. The Stone opened in the 1980s and was linked to the Keystone Berkeley and Keystone Palo Alto. It was large enough for a capacity of 700 sold only hard liquor at the bar and attracted an audience with bigger hair bigger shoes and makeup. It featured many local and big name artists in its day and was an important part of the Bay Area rock scene in the 1980s. The Coconut Teaszer operated from the 1980s through the mid-2000s. It hosted bands from all genres and featured a downstairs acoustic bar named “8121”. Sawdust on the dance floor and giant goblets for draft beer were some of the popular trademarks of the venue. One of the notable and peculiar policies of the venue was “no open toe shoes” which was painted on the front door. The Troubadour which is still functioning today opened in 1957. New wave and punk was the main feature for The Troubadour in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Through the 1980’s the venue became synonymous with the heavy metal genre and glam bands during that time. Today The Troubadour is revered as one of Hollywood’s most respected places to see live music. An attractive collection of brightly colored concert tickets featuring popular heavy metal and punk bands from the 1980s through the mid-1990s displaying over a decade of music in California. hardcover books
1991ref. 345590London: Collins & Brown 1991. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Photographs by John Ferro Sims. Oblong small quarto. 160pp. Light dampstain topedge of pages and front panel about very good in a very good dust jacket with internal dampstain on front panel. From the library of the artists Ben Shahn and Bernarda Bryson Shahn with an estate label designed by their son Jonathan Shahn. Collins & Brown hardcover books
1750ref. 42149London 1750. 8vo. 6 7/8 x 4 1/4 inches. 15 pp. An abridgement of the Interest of Great Britain in supplying herself with Iron circa 1747. Half red morocco and marble paper boards. Marginal notes trimmed A conflicted call for economic protectionism on the eve of industrial transformation and a snapshot of British iron trade policy in 1750 caught between timber tariffs and transatlantic competition. An important and revealing mid-eighteenth-century pamphlet addressing the British iron industry at a moment of significant economic and technological transition. This work is considered an abridged version of The Interest of Great Britain in Supplying Herself with Iron published circa 1747 and offers a pointed critique of foreign and colonial competition in iron production. The anonymous author provides a rare quantitative estimate of domestic iron output 18000 tons annually and laments the numerous challenges facing British ironmasters including the rising cost and increasing scarcity of timber then still the primary fuel used in smelting. In a notably conflicted argument the tract decries the influx of Swedish iron while expressing even greater alarm over the growth of ironworks in Britain's North American colonies viewing both as threats to the domestic market. Strikingly the pamphlet makes no mention of the use of pit coal i.e. mineral coal in iron manufacturing a technological development that would prove pivotal. This omission is particularly curious given that Lord Dudley had patented the process in 1619 and that Abraham Darby's pioneering use of coke at Coalbrookdale had been underway for over a decade by the time of this publication. The absence of such a reference suggests either a conservative industrial perspective or a lack of awareness of emergent metallurgical practices that would soon transform the industry and pave the way for Britain's dominance during the Industrial Revolution. Referenced by J.R. McCulloch in his A Select Collection of Scarce and Valuable Tracts on Commerce 1859 who found it "curious" for its data and omissions alike this tract provides not only valuable insight into 18th-century economic policy and protectionist sentiment but also a fascinating snapshot of the iron trade on the cusp of technological upheaval. ESTC T76989; Sabin 90635. McCulloch The Literature of Political Economy 1845. unknown books
1722ref. biblio10Engraved double page map 28" x 20" wide margins hand colored in outline two uncolored pictorial cartouches. Expert and nearly invisible repairs along centerfold normal aging; about near fine. Impression is bright and clean. Nicholas De Fer 1646-1720 was a highly respected and prolific French cartographer whose maps were valued for their decorative appeal. Around 1690 he was made the geographer to the Dauphin and published his first atlas. He would become geographer to other high-ranking individuals in French and Spanish society. The present map is detailed and attractive map of Asia with a cartouche showing Chinese at the upper left and Indians in the upper right. The map covers a lot of territory showing Arabia and the Persian Empire in the West and Japan in the east but goes as far south as the Isle of Borneo and Java. Part of Eastern Europe is also visible. Library missouri website. books
ref. 31261Early Pennsylvania Iron Industry – Forge Founded by Maj. Gen Arthur St. Clair. The collection contains two ledgers: Johnston Alexander Manuscript Ledger Relating to The Hermitage Furnace Grist Mill and Store in Westmoreland County 1810-1812 Folio 396 manuscript pages 20-page name index entries written neatly in ink bound in contemporary full sheep tooled in blind spine label binding worn hinges starting text in very good clean and legible condition. Johnstons' partial signature is found on the front board. A contemporary manuscript note on the front free endpaper states "Bound for Patterson & Hopkins in Pittsb." This firm was the short-lived Pittsburgh book-selling business conducted by Robert Paterson and John Hopkins which lasted from 1810 until it was dissolved on November 5 1812. The business of this company was continued thenceforth until the end of 1817 under the new firm of Robert & Joseph Patterson. While this firm mostly sold books and stationery and supplied local printshops with paper the two brothers also conducted some small-scale publishing perhaps mostly using the press owned by Silas Engles. Another contemporary manuscript note taking up most of the rear free endpaper states: "Ledger a for A. Johnston Esqr by James Nouman 1810 for Hermitage Furnace" – perhaps Nouman was the binder. The ledger contains accounts for the Hermitage Furnace as well as a grist mill and general store under the management of Alexander Johnston. St. Clair in addition to the Hermitage Furnace also operated "a mill and other property" including a blacksmith shop these were all likely the properties leased by St. Clair about 1806 to Pittsburgh capitalists. The account book contains entries for various castings produced by the furnace bar iron and tools used in production forge hammers et cetera. There are also accounts for Johnstons' own Kingston Furnace the Washington Furnace another Westmoreland County Furnace and the Youngstown Store as well as numerous individuals many of whom were likely Hermitage Furnace workers. The general store accounts may have been an early "company store" for Hermitage workers and nearby farmers. Manuscript Ledger containing Accounts for Alexander Johnston 1805-1850 Narrow folio 236 pages several inlaid items bound in contemporary sheep binding worn and shaken identified as "Ledger F" on front cover Alexander Johnstons ownership on rear cover a number of pages excised at rear the volume was used as a "herbarium" at one point there are stains from plant specimens however the entries are clean and legible. "The iron industry of Pennsylvania took root in the eighteenth century in the southeastern part of the state but as the frontier moved westward ironworks were established not far behind. Furnaces and forges quickly sprang up to supply the agricultural communities with iron products that were badly needed. The spread settlement afforded men of initiative and capital the opportunity of producing iron first for a local market and then in many cases for more distant markets. At the beginning of the nineteenth century frontier conditions still prevailed in many parts of Pennsylvania but the iron industry – at that time a combination of iron manufacture and agriculture – played an important part in the development of the economic life of the state and the nation and in bringing about the change from an agrarian to an industrial civilization. During the first part of the nineteenth century all the iron furnaces in the country were cold-blast furnaces. By the time of the Civil War however technological changes were taking place as can be seen in the use of bituminous and anthracite coal or coke as fuel in many furnaces and in the application of a hot blast instead of a coal one … The blast furnace with its casting house blast house stock house and wooden blowing cylinders or tubs operated by an overshot water wheel or steam engine was an impressive sight in its agricultural setting when in blast. Not far from the plant were the houses of the workers the "mansion house" of the ironmaster the office the stables and the smith shop. Many of these communities also included a forge where pig iron from the blast furnace was heated and hammered into the bars of commerce. … old iron furnaces were part of a busy community where families lived toiled and died …" – Arthur C. Bining. The Hermitage Furnace was the second built in Westmoreland County Pennsylvania. The furnace was built by Major General Arthur St. Clair after he returned from the governorship of Ohio circa 1802-1803. The furnace was built at The Hermitage the onetime home of St. Clair located about two miles northeast of Ligonier on the road leading to Johnstown. St. Clair built the furnace in hopes of restoring his depleted fortune. The furnace was first managed by James Hamilton a prominent Carlisle Pennsylvania lawyer named deputy attorney general of the Western District of Pennsylvania by Thomas Jefferson. Hamilton's name appears several times in the ledger. An advertisement in the November 21 1806 issue of the Farmer's Register published in Greensburg by John M. Snowden taken out by Henry Weaver & Son Greensburg merchants it reads: "Hermitage Furnace in Blast. The subscribers being appointed Agents by General Arthur St. Clair for the sale of his castings generally and for the delivery of castings and stoves for any number of tons in good terms. Samples of the castings and stoves to be seen at their store in Greensburg at any time after the 10th inst." At Hermitage Furnace they were compelled to use a small amount of coal in the blacksmith shop this was packed in sacks and shipped from a mine in Lockport on the Conemaugh River a distance of about 12 miles. This was kept up until about 1807-08 when a great flood which washed away the surface ground near Ligonier exposing the previously unknown Pittsburgh coal seam. Coal banks were opened and they used their own coal instead of Lockport coal. In 1818 when lots were advertised for sale in Ligonier the coal banks a mile or two from the proposed town were used as an inducement to prospective settlers. Shortly after 1806 General St. Clair abandoned the management of the furnace himself and leased it with his mill and some other property to some Pittsburgh investors for about $ 3000.00 per year. St. Clair's creditors were closing in on him and in 1810 the furnace was sold by the sheriff and purchased by James O'Hara. Alexander Johnston prominent iron master and sheriff justice of the peace and treasurer of Westmoreland County must have had a financial interest in the furnace. Johnston was born in Enniskillen County Fermanagh Northern Ireland July 10 1773 he emigrated to America in 1797. He married Elizabeth Freame. The couple then operated a hotel in Greensburg then removed to Pittsburgh where Johnston trained to be an iron master and after along life spent mostly in western Pennsylvania died in Kingston Westmoreland County in 1872. He began work in the iron industry in the late 18th century beginning with his own Kingston Furnace which wasn't a success. The main ledger offered here was kept beginning at the time when St. Clair sold the furnace in 1810. One of the early pages in the ledger lists the times the Hermitage Furnace "blew" "stopt" or "quit." It appears Johnston and others kept the furnace going until at least May 28 1811 when "William Bailey quit managing." The furnace seems to have remained idle following the hard times of the Embargo until 1816 when it was again put into blast by O'Hara and Skully under the management of John Henry Hopkins. Hopkins was not a successful manager and the furnace closed down in 1817 and never operated again. Boucher John N. History of Westmoreland County vol. 1 pp. 445-457 New York: The Lewis Publishing Company 1906 Harman J. Paul Stone-Stack Smelting Furnaces in Westmoreland County Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies Vol. 19 No. 2 April 1952 pp. 185-193 https://www.jstor.org/stable/277769302 books
1983ref. 567355New York: E.P. Dutton 1983. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. First edition. Slight spotting on topedge chipping at the bottom corner of front board very good in a near fine dust jacket with modest rubbing. E.P. Dutton hardcover books
1970ref. 569480Garden City New York: Doubleday & Company 1970. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. 168pp. Illustrated with black and white photographic plates. Light toning on endpapers from binder's glue near fine in a very good dust jacket with moderate edgewear slight toning and a couple tiny tears. Doubleday & Company hardcover books
1967ref. 384223Reno Nevada: Richard Morris 1967. Softcover. Near Fine. Magazine. Cover by Walt McNamara. Stapled mimeographs sheet. Near fine with a bit of wear and a bumped corner. The debut issue of this poetry anthology featured poems by Cesar Vallejo and Jose Hierro translated from the Spanish. Richard Morris) unknown books
1885ref. 8436New York: Agate Iron Ware Manufacturing Co.; Macgowan & Slipper Printers 30 Beekman Street 1885. Booklet stapled in wrappers 15.5 x 12 cm. 136 pages. Illustrated throughout. Title from cover. Date from page of medals received. Stated "Fourth Edition". There were at least three distinctly different works with this title issued by the corporate author: 1890 72 pages with the Lalance and Grosjean Manufacturing Co name; 1891 32 pages an almanac not a trade catalogue; and this one undated ~136 pages a trade catalogue. Promotional combined trade catalogue and cookbook for Agate Iron Ware Manufacturing Company manufacturers of kitchen ware. Illustrated descriptions of the wares typically two to a page face recipes. The recipes are decidedly Anglo-French not American and they lean towards more elegant fare. Illustrations include the Agate Iron Ware manufacturing plant on front wrapper verso an assortment of medals and awards and an image of a homemaker sitting in her kitchen surrounded by Agate Ware while consulting this cookbook. The front panel bears the printed promotional statement "Compliments of F. A. Walker & Co. Cornhill". In original chromolithograph wrappers decorated in a Japonisme-style. Small stain along bottom edge of text block bit of bumping to the corners. Wrappers worn at corners and with some wear to the bottom of the spine panel. Overall near very good. Agate Iron Ware Manufacturing Co.; Macgowan & Slipper, Printers, 30 Beekman Street unknown books
1983ref. 239856New York: That New Magazine 1983. Magazine. 64p. 8.5x11 inches articles reviews news ads cartoons photos very good glossy magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Cover story on Fantasia Fair in Provincetown for trans people. "La Cage Aux Folles" on Broadway A lot of AIDS warnings information calls for funding. That New Magazine unknown books
1985ref. 333558Los Angeles: Liberation Publications 1985. Magazine. 56p. includes covers 12p. Advocate West section 28p. pink section detached but present 10.5x12.5 inches articles opinion news reviews events photos listings sex ads lightly good magazine in stapled glossy pictorial wraps with newsprint guts. Also: "As Is" the moving new play about AIDS.Truman Capote interview. Who's Who Among the New Right Groups. Liberation Publications unknown books
1908ref. 15701Remscheid , Remscheider Verkehrs- und Verschönerungs-Verein o.J.. circa, 1908. mit 1 farb. Frontiispiz (Stadtansicht) nebst sehr vielen teils farb, meist monochromen fot. Abb. sowie 4 Faltkarten (Umgebungskarte, Entfernungskarte und 2 Stadtpläne) farb. iil. OHLwd,. 275 / 14 S., Gr.8° (schlankes Hochformat)
1886ref. 10422Bruxelles, Librairie Universelle De Vve J. Rozez, (1886). mit 36 teils doppelblattgroßen Chromolithographien auf Tafeln mit Seidenhemdchen. (blindgepr.) ill. OLwd., 78 S. + 26 Taf., Ganzgoldschnitt, Gr.8° quer (= 25,7 x 39,6 cm) [4 Warenabbildungen]
1989ref. 205265New York: New American Library 1989. Very Good. First edition. Very good. New American Library unknown books
1900ref. 195974PhiladelphiaPA: Winston 1900. Very Good. Reprint. Very good plus. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper cloth covers are rubbed on spine corners and edges clean text with yellowed edges and end pgs. Winston unknown books
1993ref. 156219New York: Oxford Press 1993. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Oxford Press hardcover books
1956ref. 8986ABNürnberg, Fleischmann 1956-64. Qu.-kl.8°. Illustrierte Original-Broschur. Umschläge lose 1956 und 1959/60. Vorderdeckel 1958/59 mit Einriß, unterlegt. Teils mit Stempel eines Spielwarengeschäfts. 1
1988ref. 702269NY: Crown. 1988. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Very Good in wrappers. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. Crown paperback books
