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1883ref. 118143London: Chapman and Hall 1883. First edition of this highspot of African literature. Octavo 2 volumes bound in three quarters contemporary morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands top edge gilt marbled endpapers. Published under the pseudonym 'Ralph Iron' the entire printing of this first edition has been estimated to be about 300 copies and most were destined to libraries. From the library of British-born South African financier mining magnate and politician Sir Lionel Phillips with his bookplates to the pastedowns. Lionel and Florence Phillips left South Africa a major legacy through their art collections. Florence campaigned for the founding of the Johannesburg Art Gallery and arranged its first collections including her lace collection while Lionel donated seven oils and a Rodin sculpture. Rare and with desirable provenance. The Story of an African Farm published in 1883 under the pseudonym Ralph Iron was South African author Olive Schreiner's first published novel. It was an immediate success and has become recognized as one of the first feminist novels. In writing the first great South African novel Schreiner drew on childhood memories of life on the isolated African veld to fashion a powerful indictment of the rigid Boer and English social conventions of her day. It was greeted by both praise and condemnation for its feminist views on women's status and on marriage and for its unorthodox critique of dishonesty and hypocrisy in the doctrines and practices of "respectable" Christian church people. Chapman and Hall hardcover books
1978ref. 148341London: Lord Grade 1978. Draft script for the 1978 film here under the working title "Titoli di Testa." Copy belonging to script supervisor Franca Invernizzi with her extensive holograph annotations on nearly every page and many page versos regarding camera shots takes timing and dialogue. Bound in after the script is an annotated list of scenes and several handwritten pages of Invernizzi's notes. Text in Italian. In 1920s Sicily a capitalist and a socialist vie for the affections of a grief-stricken woman whose husband was killed by a fascist mafioso. The follow-up to director Lina Wertmuller's Oscar-nominated 1976 film "Seven Beauties" and a lyrical formidable film in its own right. Set and shot on location in Sicily. Script: Black faux-leather untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for director Lina Wertmuller. 326 leaves with last page of text numbered 301. Xerographic duplication rectos only with white undated revision pages throughout. Pages Very Good with some revision pages lightly worn and toned to the edges wrapper Very Good lightly edgeworn with several tape repairs to the spine with perfect binding. List of scenes: 10 leaves with last page numbered 10. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with light edgewear. Lord Grade unknown books
1987ref. USCHSTO00TMCrown 1987. Very Good. Schreiner Olive. The Story of an African Farm. Lessing introduction Doris; Iron pseudonym Ralph. New York: Crown 1987. 301pp. Illustrated. 4to. Book condition: Very good with light bumping and rubbing. Slightly soft hinges. Crown unknown books
2004ref. UIROIRO00EFBerkley 2004. Very Good. Iron Chef. Iron Chef: The Official Book. Hoketsu translator Kaoru. New York: Berkley 2004. 312pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with gently rubbed edges. Berkley paperback books
1883ref. 30040London: Chapman and Hall 1883. First edition of this highspot of African literature. Octavo original olive cloth 2 volumes. Published under the pseudonym 'Ralph Iron'. The entire printing of this first edition has been estimated to be about 300 copies. and most were destined to libraries. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Rare especially in the original cloth. The Story of an African Farm published in 1883 under the pseudonym Ralph Iron was South African author Olive Schreiner's first published novel. It was an immediate success and has become recognized as one of the first feminist novels. In writing the first great South African novel Schreiner drew on childhood memories of life on the isolated African veld to fashion a powerful indictment of the rigid Boer and English social conventions of her day. It was greeted by both praise and condemnation for its feminist views on women's status and on marriage and for its unorthodox critique of dishonesty and hypocrisy in the doctrines and practices of "respectable" Christian church people. Chapman and Hall hardcover books
2005ref. UMEACON00MELDa Capo Press 2005. Very Good. Mead-Ferro Muffy. Confessions of a Slacker Wife. Cambridge MA: Da Capo Press 2005. 214pp. 12mo. Paperback with flaps. Book condition: Very good with lightly bumped edges and faint soiling to covers. Da Capo Press paperback books
1995ref. 143670Chicago IL: Museum of Contemporary Art 1995. First edition. Softcover. 96 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran June 24 through August 20 1995 in Chicago and then traveled to Paris Helsinki and London for additional dates. Text in English and French by Jean-Francois Chevrier and Briony Fer. Includes numerous color images by Wall. A tight near fine copy in French style wrappers with a small sticker abrasion to the bottom corner of the rear cover. Museum of Contemporary Art unknown books
1997ref. 50973London: Routledge 1997. First English Language Edition. Octavo. Pictorial card wrappers; xiii 402pp. Mild foxing to top edge of textblock minimal hinge creasing to spine else a tight clean near-new copy. Trivial external wear. Near Fine. Routledge unknown books
1890ref. 32067East Berlin CT: Berlin Iron Bridge Co ca. 1890s. Large broadside 31.75x47cm.; previous mail folds as issued very slightly postally used on verso else a Very Good or Near Fine example. Advertisement issued by the Berlin Iron Bridge Company depicting their "Patent" municipal signboards including information on production materials and a price guide. Text includes extracts from pertinent New England and mid-Atlantic state laws regarding guide boards. Presumably issued sometime after 1888 the laws in Vermont having been approved November 2nd of that year. As of today many of bridges built by the Company can be found on the National Register of Historic Places. One copy catalogued in OCLC as of November 2016 at the Connecticut Historical Society. Berlin Iron Bridge Co unknown books
1869ref. 33020Galveston 1869. Single sheet folded to 7-5/8" x 12-1/4" with the transfer agreement and signatures of twenty-six transferors on page 1 transferring their stock to John Sealy. Page 2 is the manuscript document signed by Sealy transferring those shares to Thomas W. Peirce. Pages 3-4 are blank. On lined paper. Each Receipt is oblong 3-3/4" x 7-1/2" printed and completed in manuscript each including a 2 cent Revenue Stamp with picture of George Washington. Very Good. The Brazos Iron Bridge Company was organized in 1867. Its mission was to construct a railway bridge across the Brazos River. The bridge completed in July 1869 was purchased by the Buffalo Bayou Brazos and Colorado Railway later known as the Galveston Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway Company. When the dust settled on the various transactions among the shareholders John Sealy owned a one-eighth interest in the Railway Company. Sealy's biography appears in the Handbook of Texas. unknown books
1837ref. 30091St. Louis 1837. 36pp folding plate frontis full-page map. Institutional rubberstamps at base of title page verso. Original printed wrappers light rubberstamp discard stamp on front wrapper. Otherwise Very Good. "Missouri Imprints Inventory No. 197 cites only one copy. This tract is probably the first description of Iron mines west of the Mississippi. The Iron Mountains were located in St. Francis and Madison Counties. A proposal is made to make iron rails for a railroad from the mountains to the Mississippi" Decker. AII MO 197 1. 37 Decker 214. Not in Eberstadt Soliday Graff. OCLC indicates a number of institutional copies. unknown books
1885ref. 27883Boston: Forbes Lith. Mfg. Co. Boston & New York 1885. Business card 3" x 5" printed on white card stock on both sides using several different typesettings. Front of card has detailed engraving of the Phenix Iron Foundry buildings with people and carriages along the streets surrounding the foundry and water and ships in the background. Quite clean. Very attractive Near Fine. The Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company moved to Chelsea Mass. in the early 1880s. This business card was probably engraved and printed within the several years preceding that move. The Phenix Iron Company was established in 1830 and incorporated as a stock company in 1832. The foundry produced some of the earliest American textile-printing machines including the first American-made calico printing machine. Forbes Lith. Mfg. Co., Boston & New York unknown books
1952ref. 000059. 1952. Fine. Architecture & Landscape Design Trade catalogue with 32 pages of Victorian style fountains most incorporating children and/or animals. OCLC dates it 1952 and locates only one copy. . Wrappers. Fine. 8vo. . Paperback books
1876ref. 25449Portsmouth Ohio: Jas. W. Newman Printer Times Office 1876. 4" x 6.25". 15 1 pp with folding "Diagram List" and manufacturer's Note tipped in after title leaf. Original printed yellow wrappers rear wrap printed in red ink light wear stitched. Folding plate illustrates the patterns available to cut for customers partly printed in red ink. The final page notes that the company was 'built in 1871' and lists the officers: L.C. Robinson Vice-President; G.W. Weyer Secretary; and M.H. Ball Treasurer. Minor wear Very Good. Burgess Steel and Iron Works was named for Charles Burgess the general superintendent and director a native of England who immigrated to the United States in the mid-1860's. Company products were considered superior and won the highest premiums wherever exhibited. Not in Winterthur Romaine Eberstadt Decker. Not located on OCLC. Jas. W. Newman, Printer, Times Office unknown books
1856ref. 11228Philadelphia 1856. 4pp folded sheet original printed self wrappers with wrapper title. Light edge wear Very Good. The Statement says the Company can "not be surpassed by any similar one in the state with its facilities for getting coal agricultural produce and the means of sending their productions to the best markets." Its property 2000 acres of land is located in "Clinton county on Fishing and Bald Eagle creeks three miles from Lock Haven." It will manufacture iron lime mineral paint water cement and fire-brick. 383 NUC 0580427 2 locs. records the 1854 Act of Incorporation and By-Laws. FIRST EDITION. Not in Sabin Eberstadt Decker NUC. unknown books
1849ref. 18614Albany: Published for the Convention 1849. 58 2 pp. Disbound with narrow band of wrapper remnant else Very Good. A call by industrialists for protection to the Iron Industry with Erastus Corning and other prominent representatives of the manufacturing interests participating. As the result of the current system's relaxed trade barriers "the poorest qualities of iron are largely introduced to the great injury of the country in place of the more useful and better qualities these being more highly priced." FIRST EDITION. Sabin 35099. Not in Eberstadt Decker. Published for the Convention unknown books
1927ref. 7274St. Louis MO: Wrought Iron Range Company 1927. Octavo 22 x 16 cm. 211 4 pages. Later edition of this combined cookbook and trade catalogue which changed slightly with each change in stove models. The Model "AC" is the most recent stove depicted here in a two page color spread pages 12-13 and thus the date of 1927. Includes recipes for breakfast beverages bread dinner salads puddings and household hints. Prior to and following the recipes is a variety of promotional information about the Wrought Iron Range Company. Illustrated product lists for stoves and accessories company history features about prizes and awards an illustration of their exhibit at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition as well as references for businesses currently using their products. The silver-decorated black card-stock boards are a bit rubbed and faded; text block a bit shaken otherwise near very good. Wrought Iron Range Company hardcover books
1841ref. 754Pittsburgh 1841. About very good. 48pp. Large folio. Contemporary half reverse-calf and blue paper boards. Wear to corners and spine ends boards soiled. Leaves reinforced at gutter margin with tape some light soiling. In a clear and legible hand. This ledger records the register and pay information for approximately thirty-five men who worked at the Birmingham Iron Works from 1836 to 1841. The "Register of Hands That Work by the Ton" records each man's name his wage days worked how much tonnage and his job description. The Iron Works supported an engineer a blacksmith a watchman refiners heaters carters rollers puddlers bricklayers and some men simply described as laborers. The number of employees varies from year to year ranging from thirty to forty-five or so with many men listed as steady employees year after year. Also tucked in the front of the volume is a slim gathering of sheets labeled in manuscript as "Balance of Property Debts Goods & Chattels of the firm of Hoge & Hartman Iron Manufacturers Pittsburgh Jany. 2nd 1840." This lists receivables and debts for that company which was one of several iron works in the area by 1840. Located south of the Allegheny near 16th Street the Birmingham Iron Works was founded in 1836. It had twenty single puddling furnaces five heating furnaces and produced bar iron rounds hoops bands and other forms of iron. There works were active from 1836 to 1871 and averaged 9000 tons of production per year. This ledger therefore encompasses the first years of its operation and is an early record not only for the company but for the region in terms of iron production which would eventually lead to the steel boom that made Pittsburgh prosperous -- and Andrew Carnegie insanely wealthy. An excellent source for the labor history of the steel industry in Pittsburgh. unknown books
1926ref. 3022St. Louis MO: Wrought Iron Range Co 1926. Octavo 168 pages. Illustrated. Combination cookbook and trade catalogue. Includes descriptions of the company's kitchen appliances testimonials as to their effectiveness list of references and 65 pages of recipes. The company was established in variations of this cookbook were published by the company from the late 19th century. Some pulling at hinges otherwise very good. Additional brochure laid-in. Not in Brown or Cagle. Wrought Iron Range Co unknown books
1702ref. 6200Paris: Chez l'Auteur 1702. First printing. Map folio sheet 12.75"x9" 23x33cm. Copperplate engraving. Significant early map of this area locating the mouth of the Mississippi correctly as taken from the information reported by M. La Salle. The right edge includes all of Florida and most of Cuba; the left cuts off most of Baja California. Santa Fe New Mexico is shown at the top the bottom cuts off at the Isthmus of Panama. Attractive cartouche showing two Indians in full regalia. Hand-colored probably contemporaneously. Fine copy. Chez l'Auteur unknown books
1880ref. WRCAM55682St. Louis: Jno. McKittrick & Co. 1880. Broadside 21 x 6 1/2 inches. Old center horizontal fold small chip to left edge slight wrinkling. Very good. Matted and shrinkwrapped. An attractive broadside promotional for the St. Louis Iron Mountain & Southern Railway with a large engraving in the center depicting the route from St. Louis through Arkansas and into Texas beneath a train wheel bearing wings about which the motto "Bound for the happy lands" appears all in the center of a circle of stars. A schedule of ticket costs for various routes is included as well as a pitch directed at homesteaders regarding the purchase of government lands. The names of three land agents are listed at bottom - one in Missouri one in Illinois and one in Arkansas. The railway touts their "large grant of lands from the United States Government embracing all varieties of soil and timber adapted to Farming Fruit Growing and Grazing purposes.Immigrants can locate on railroad land in well improved neighborhoods having Roads Mills Churches and Schools and peopled by honest and industrious citizens who will give a cordial welcome to all good people coming among them." Only six copies in OCLC spread over four records located at Yale SMU Michigan the University of Texas at Arlington Truman State and the University of Missouri at St. Louis. OCLC 22160865 166641127 702349761 761878887. Jno. McKittrick & Co. unknown books
1856ref. WRCAM27974Nueva-York: Imprenta de Hallet 1856. 40pp. in Spanish. Original printed wrappers. Rear wrapper detached front wrapper separated four inches down from head of spine. Slight wear to extremities. Very good. The prospectus for an American mining and land company on the Pacific coast of Mexico. Imprenta de Hallet unknown books
1701ref. 23030Paris: Nicolas De Fer 1701. First Edition. Very Good. Ginville Vincent de. Ginville Vincent de. First Edition. Paper size 42.5 cm x 28.5 cm. Plate mark 34 x 22.5 cm. Marked "sculpsit Vincent de Ginville" lower left. Paper clip mark just to the plate mark upper margin '109' inked upper right corner some marginal chipping to the paper marginal old pencil price lower right. A few unobtrusive spots inside the plate marks. Copperplate engraving with later hand color. From Nicolas De Fer's Atlas Curieux. Highlights locations of Indian villages found by La Salle during his explorations of the coastal areas of the United States. LOC online We see the Gulf of Mexico Cap de la Floride and many inland village names. A nice map showing some early history of the southern United States. Nicolas De Fer unknown books
1939ref. 32564Tokyo: Direction Generale du Tourisme Chemins de fer du Government Japonais 1939. Later printing. Paper wrappers. A very good copy. vi 154 10 pp. Illus. with 38 b/w photos and 1 map. 12mo. Tourist guide. Text in French. Direction Generale du Tourisme Chemins de fer du Government Japonais unknown books
1715ref. 019811Paris. Very Good. 1715. Map. Lovely engraved map depicting Mexico City in the early 18th century. Map is on a 10 ¾" x 15 ¾" sheet that was taken from Nicolas de Fer's "L'Atlas Curieux" of 1715; no content on verso. Date of map was printed in upper margin along with the sheet number "125" and title; content in French. Hand-coloring is still bright. Map has very light toning to edges but is otherwise clean. This detailed map depicts Mexico City when it was surrounded by water and was linked to the mainland by the famous causeways originally designed by the Aztecs. Also pictured are aqueducts and farms and about 50 locations have been numbered on the map but the key is not present likely printed on another page in the Atlas. A beautiful map. . unknown books
