1890ref. 60819Portland OR: Imperial View Series N.W. Cor. Third & Morrison Feb. 11 1890. Oblong boudoir-sized albumen photograph sized 7.75 x 4.5 in. mounted on 8.5 x 5.25 in. studio board gilt lettering on recto title & location in ink manuscript on verso minor rubbing very minor edgewear slight over-exposure to fore-edges still VG bright image. A very nice early birds-eye photograph shot of Portland Oregon and East Portland before the merger of the two municipalities with Albina into one City a year later. This was about the time of the unofficial opening of the Portland Heights Cable Car which ran from Irving Street near Union Station past the Vista Bridge into Washington Park with a vast trestle bridge spanning over 1000 feet along Spring. McAlpin b. 1856 first opened his studio with Frank Abell but then joined with Charles Y. Lamb the printer and photo retoucher for Abell from 1883-1887 and they operated for several years as Imperial Gallery. Imperial View Series, N.W. Cor. Third & Morrison, unknown
ref. 55-1832Mexico 1971. Mexican movie poster. 94 cm. x 69 cm. Folded with signs of use mainly on the edges. Se trata de un cartel de mostrar real de la película. Se doble con signos de uso principalmente en los bordes. Mexico, 1971. unknown
1885ref. 38440Paris 1885. First and only edition of this extremely rare booklet of Quechua Inca poems IN THE ORIGINAL LANGUAGE with Spanish translations an offprint from volume 15 of the Actes de la Société Philologique. pp. 91-107. The first poem Chimbaycela's "Cushiquillca" is translated by Luís Cordero. The second Guaman's "Rinimi llacta" is translated by the author. A brief note on the lorelei by Charles Schoebel follows and finally a letter to the Pope with the complete text in Kalispel Pend d'Oreille an Indian language of the American Northwest Latin and English. Large 8vo. Original plain wraps. ENTIRELY UNCUT. FINE AND BRIGHT. Very rare especially in such pristine condition. paperback
1953ref. 429941Beverly Hills California: B.B. Productions 1953. Softcover. Fair. Tall quarto. Unpaged mimeographed pages printed rectos only in orange bradbound mimeographed wrappers. Heavily pencil annotated script for a television episode with staining chips to the edges of the first couple of leaves a fair only copy. Shooting script and master schedule for this episode of the Hopalong Cassidy television series featuring William Gibson and Edgar Buchanan. B.B. Productions unknown
1953ref. 429941Beverly Hills California: B.B. Productions 1953. Softcover. Fair. Tall quarto. Unpaged mimeographed pages printed rectos only in orange bradbound mimeographed wrappers. Heavily pencil annotated script for a television episode with staining chips to the edges of the first couple of leaves a fair only copy. Shooting script and master schedule for this episode of the Hopalong Cassidy television series featuring William Gibson and Edgar Buchanan. B.B. Productions unknown books
1932ref. 242048Rochester NY: Printing House of Leo Hart 1932. Limited edition. Publisher's quarter vellum over Okawara paper title stamped in orange housed in publisher's slipcase. Slightly worn tips owner name in pencil ffep still fine in very good moderately rubbed slipcase with boards just starting to split. Hand-colored illustrations by Wilfred Jones. 8.5" x 6" HAND-COLORED CRACKLING Melt into the sensory pleasure of eating a roast pig in Charles Lamb's 1822 pseudo-historical account of the invention of roast pig. First published in 1822 under his pen name Elia Lamb's essay captures the tongue-in-cheek orientalism of early nineteenth century Britain as a Chinese man accidentally burns down his father's house with piglets inside only to find he has created something delicious: crackling! Leo Hart brought fine press playfulness to Lamb's tale pairing his whimsical essay with hand-colored illustrations by Wilfred Jones with a single choir of specimen pages showing alternate title page laid in. Limited to 950 copies of which this is 232 signed by the illustrator on the limitation page. Printing House of Leo Hart unknown
1932ref. 1963Rochester NY: The Printing House of Leo Hart 1932. . First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. LIMITED EDITION of 950 copies of which this is numbered 94 and SIGNED by illustrator. Very Good hardcover Illustrated by Wilfred Jones. illustrator. Original hand-made cream-coloured Japanese paper covered boards with slightly soiled vellum spine. Text printed on oriental Okawara paper. The Printing House of Leo Hart hardcover
1911ref. 019489London: Arthur L. Humphreys 1911. Hardcover. Very Good -/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 301pp.; HB green leather w/gilt & maroon; dec. binding w/raised bands; rubbed w/light wear on edge; spine sunned; front hinge cracking; some light foxing otherwise clean tight pgs. Riverre binding Part of The Royal Library Belles Lettres Series. 5x6.5 Arthur L. Humphreys hardcover
1819ref. D20006London: J. M. Godwin at the City Juvenile Library 1819. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Noted as a "New Edition" this represents the 2nd Ed. with 148 pp. Black calf over spine and corners marbled paper boards all edges marbled. Modest wear engraved additional title page spotted otherwise a very nice copy. Provenance: With the leather bookplate of Estelle Doheny. J. M. Godwin at the City Juvenile Library hardcover
1903ref. 298797London: J.M. Dent 1903. hardcover. very good. Brock C.E. Edited with a preface by William MacDonald. Frontispiece and 93 other illustrations throughout by Charles E. Brock each one skillfully hand-colored. Extra Illustrated edition with 15 additional b/w plates inserted. 317 pages. Small 8vo bound in older 3/4 green morocco over marbled boards; mostly faded to brown with dry joints starting to fail; gilt-decorated spine with raised bands; marbled endpapers uncut edges t.e.g. London: J.M. Dent 1903. Internally a near fine clean copy uncommon with colored illustrations. Volume one only of 12 complete "Essays of Elia" from the Works of Charles Lamb. J.M. Dent unknown
1906ref. 12522Boston: Bibliophile Society 1906. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Five volumes the first of which is in folio format the others in large octavo. A fine set in the publisher's textured paper over boards. An elaborate production: volume I is housed in a tissue chemise with three wax seales and a folding chemise of stiff boards which is in turn housed in a slipcase. The other four volumes are double-slipcased. The outer slicpases and most especially the slipcase to volume I all show varying degrees of wear some quite heavy with one side panel detached but present. The books and their interior contents are all in very fine condition. An ur-example of a turn-of-the-century production geared towards the gentleman's library. Bibliophile Society hardcover
1819ref. D20006London: J. M. Godwin at the City Juvenile Library 1819. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Noted as a "New Edition" this represents the 2nd Ed. with 148 pp. Black calf over spine and corners marbled paper boards all edges marbled. Modest wear engraved additional title page spotted otherwise a very nice copy. Provenance: With the leather bookplate of Estelle Doheny. J. M. Godwin at the City Juvenile Library hardcover books
1903ref. 298797London: J.M. Dent 1903. hardcover. very good. Brock C.E. Edited with a preface by William MacDonald. Frontispiece and 93 other illustrations throughout by Charles E. Brock each one skillfully hand-colored. Extra Illustrated edition with 15 additional b/w plates inserted. 317 pages. Small 8vo bound in older 3/4 green morocco over marbled boards; mostly faded to brown with dry joints starting to fail; gilt-decorated spine with raised bands; marbled endpapers uncut edges t.e.g. London: J.M. Dent 1903. Internally a near fine clean copy uncommon with colored illustrations. Volume one only of 12 complete "Essays of Elia" from the Works of Charles Lamb. J.M. Dent unknown books
1930ref. 000013984Garden City New York: Doubleday Doran & Company Inc. 1930 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Large 8vo. 6 vii-xi 6 4-368 2 pp. Black cloth with a decoration in gold on the front board gold lettering on the spine; red topstain. Price of $3.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with several double-sided plates of black and white images. Jacket design by Keith Henderson. Difficult to find in collectible condition this is a sharp copy of Lamb's informative history of the Middle Ages' pivotal military conflict. Jacket with a few chips and some toning to its reverse. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. [1930] hardcover
ref. 06254London: The Temple Press 1909. Tales From Shakespeare Illustrated by Arthur Rackham RACKHAM Arthur illustrator. LAMB Charles and Mary. Tales from Shakespeare. London: J.M. Dent & Co. 1909. First trade edition. Octavo 9 x 6 1/4 inches; 229 x 159 mm. xii 304 pp. Twelve color plates including frontispiece. Two full-page illustrations in black and white twenty chapter headings and fourteen tail-pieces. Publisher's blue cloth front cover pictorially stamped in gilt spine pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt top edge gilt pictorial endpapers printed in brown. Neat contemporary ink inscription on half-title. Spine gilt a trifle dulled covers lightly stained extremities rubbed and a little worn. A good copy only. The plays illustrated in this fine volume are: The Tempest; A Midsummer Night's Dream; The Winter's Tale; Much Ado about Nothing; As You Like It; The Two Gentlemen of Verona; The Merchant of Venice; Cymbeline; King Lear; Macbeth; All's Well that Ends Well; The Taming of the Shrew; The Comedy of Errors; Measure for Measure; Twelfth Night; or What you Will; Timon of Athens; Romeo and Juliet; Hamlet Prince of Denmark; Othello; and Pericles Prince of Tyre. Latimore and Haskell pp. 33-34. Riall p. 90. London: The Temple Press, [1909] unknown
ref. 06254London: The Temple Press 1909. Tales From Shakespeare Illustrated by Arthur Rackham RACKHAM Arthur illustrator. LAMB Charles and Mary. Tales from Shakespeare. London: J.M. Dent & Co. 1909. First trade edition. Octavo 9 x 6 1/4 inches; 229 x 159 mm. xii 304 pp. Twelve color plates including frontispiece. Two full-page illustrations in black and white twenty chapter headings and fourteen tail-pieces. Publisher's blue cloth front cover pictorially stamped in gilt spine pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt top edge gilt pictorial endpapers printed in brown. Neat contemporary ink inscription on half-title. Spine gilt a trifle dulled covers lightly stained extremities rubbed and a little worn. A good copy only. The plays illustrated in this fine volume are: The Tempest; A Midsummer Night's Dream; The Winter's Tale; Much Ado about Nothing; As You Like It; The Two Gentlemen of Verona; The Merchant of Venice; Cymbeline; King Lear; Macbeth; All's Well that Ends Well; The Taming of the Shrew; The Comedy of Errors; Measure for Measure; Twelfth Night; or What you Will; Timon of Athens; Romeo and Juliet; Hamlet Prince of Denmark; Othello; and Pericles Prince of Tyre. Latimore and Haskell pp. 33-34. Riall p. 90. London: The Temple Press, [1909] unknown books
ref. 63415E-101. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 12mo. Published by Gordon Volland Publications & The Buzza Company Minneapolis MN. 1927. 120 pgs. Illustrated in color and black and white. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in illustrated paper covered boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previous owner's name present to the dedication page. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Tom Lamb 1896-1988 was an American industrial designer and children's book illustrator and author. As an industrial designer he became known as the "Handle Man" for his innovative handle designed closely modeled on the mechanics of the human hand. After WW II he noted the inadequacy of the crutches used by wounded and disabled veterans & developed his Lamb Lim Rest crutch and later applied the related patents to cookware cutlery surgical tools luggage sports equipment & industrial equipment. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . hardcover
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