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1976ref. 91467Boston: Stone Soup Poetry 1976. First edition. 44 pp. Very good plus in stapled wrappers. Contributions by Deemer Snyder McClure MacAdams Creeley Upton and many others. Stone Soup Chapbook Series #10. Boston: Stone Soup Poetry unknown books
1980ref. 5183Scarsdale NY 1980. Cards. Illustrated wraps red shoe lace. Very good. Unpaginated. 14 x 21.5 cm. A wonderful example of community participation. Illustrated by the children with recipes attributed to the community. paperback books
1898ref. acs1308New York: Printed for The Naval History Society by the De Vinne Press M DCCCCXVIII 1898. Number 678 of a Limited Edition of twelve hundred printed for The Naval History Society. Two volume set. Octavo hardcover gilt lettering top edge gilt uncut 440 pp 492 pp. Fine in poor slipcovers. Printed for The Naval History Society by the De Vinne Press, M DCCCCXVIII [1898]. Number 678 of a Limited Edition of twelve hu hardcover books
ref. acs1142The Kensal Press 1983. Octavo red cloth hardcover gilt lettering 187 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: Some saints are pious some picturesque some powerful. But none has cast a more profound or enduring spell over men’s imagination than St. George. His story combines mystery -- the mystery of his provenance -- and adventure -- the adventure of his legend. It touches the history of the innumerable peoples and professions who have adopted St. George as their patron all over the world -- people as diverse as the English and the Russians professions as various as peasants and knights. The folklore literature and art of most of the world’s major cultures are steeped in and sometimes saturated by the image and allure of the saint. With equal surety Sir David Scott Fox traverses all these fields deftly elegantly objectively. He takes us on a detective quest for the ‘real’ St. George showing that the saint doesn’t just belong to the world of fairytale. The legend is traced in all its elusive variety the iconography explained in all its glittering diversity. St. George’s roles in so many national and social myths are unfolded with enthralling expertise. More than a study of the shadowy saint Sir David Scott Fox’s book is the biography of a substantial legend. hardcover books
1891ref. 7927London: Chatto & Windus 1891. First edition. Fine. Original publisher's primary blue cloth gilt there are examples of remainder bindings extant octavo. Edges untrimmed 32 pp. publisher's ads at rear mostly uncut pictorial bookplate of Herbert & Sarita Ward to front pastedown. Fore-edge foxed otherwise a Fine copy with outstanding provenance. An extraordinary association copy of a noted rarity a sharp critique of the "Scramble for Africa". The copy of Herbert Ward sculptor writer and member of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition. He was directly under the command of Major Edmund Barttlelot at the rear column having been appointed by Stanley as a lieutenant. The infamous column features heavily in Fox Bourne's work with the entirety of chapter five dedicated to the topic. Ward and his work My Life with Stanley's Rear Guard are quoted extensively and Fox Bourne clearly makes an example of Ward's illegal and immoral behaviour. A particularly disturbing example is the case of the execution of Burgari who was initially charged with stealing food from Ward before attempting to flee. Two officers Troup and Jameson wanted the punishment to be downgraded but Ward along with Bonny and Barttlelot voted for the death penalty. Fox Bourne became secretary of the Aborigines Protection Society in 1889. He edited its journal Aborigines' Friend and lobbied for the rights of indigenous peoples and especially advocated for those in Africa. He stated that indigenous people had fundamental rights to their land their rites and their institutions. He later published Civilisation in Congo Land A Story of International Wrong-Doing in 1903 focusing on the horrendous treatment of the indigenous population by the Belgian government. Fine. Chatto & Windus unknown books
1978ref. 86505Missoula: Calliopea Press 1978. First trade edition. Twenty-seven 12 1/2 x 9 1/2 inch sheets housed in a printed paper portfolio with a ribbon tie. All elements fine. Twenty-three poems by Fox each with a different illustrator. One of 500 sets printed on Canson Mi-Teintes French mould-made paper. Missoula: Calliopea Press, unknown books
2000ref. 84707Sherman Oaks: Frieda C. Fox Foundation 2000. First edition. 187 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Presents two poems by Taylor “Out of Time” and “Deficits.” Dated Xmas 00 and INSCRIBED by Taylor “for Joanie - / a better / 01 / for sure. / Kent.” Sherman Oaks: Frieda C. Fox Foundation, unknown books
1701ref. 6399London: T. Ilive 1701. Early English editions. Bound together with: The Most Pleasant and Delightful History of Reynard the Fox. The Second Part. Containing Much Matter of Pleasure and Content. Written For the Delight of young Men Pleasure of the Aged and Profit of all. To which is added many Excellent Morals. London: Printed by A.M. and R.R. for Edward Brewster 1681. And: The Shifts of Reynardine The Son of Reynard the Fox Or a Pleasant History of His Life and Death. Full of Variety &c. And may fitly be applied to the Late Times. Now Published for the Reformation of Mens Manners. London: Printed by T.J. for Edward Brewster and Thomas Passenger 1684. Three parts in one small quarto volume 7 5/16 x 5 9/16 inches; 186 x 141 mm. 156 2 table of contents 2 publisher's advertisements; 111 1 publisher's advertisements; 8 160 pp. Mostly black letter with titles and side notes in roman letter. Sixty-two woodcuts in the first part printed from thirty-nine blocks and fifteen woodcuts in the second part five repeated all repeats from the first part. Most cuts signed "E.B." Edward Brewster. Woodcut on C1 recto Part I printed upside down. Some browning occasional light damp staining and soiling. Part I with tiny puncture marks in the lower blank margin through gathering I just touching one letter in the imprint on the title-page six small holes in I3 and one tiny hole in I4 causing loss of a couple of letters. Part III with paper flaw in the upper blank corner of A3 and A4 tiny tear 1/4 inch in the lower blank margin of F4 and paper flaw in the lower blank corner of I2 none affecting text. Contemporary sprinkled sheep. Covers ruled and decoratively tooled in blind spine decoratively tooled in gilt in compartments with two red morocco gilt lettering labels. Some expert restoration to joints and corners. Armorial bookplate of Gloucester on front free endpaper. Bookplate of Hugh Cecil Lowther 5th Earl of Lonsdale 1857-1944 on front pastedown his sale 12 July 1937 lot 445. An excellent copy. Housed in a felt-lined quarter brown morocco clamshell case spine with five raised bands decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments. Reynard the Fox "hero of several medieval European cycles of versified animal tales that satirize contemporary human society. Though Reynard is sly amoral cowardly and self-seeking he is still a sympathetic hero whose cunning is a necessity for survival. He symbolizes the triumph of craft over brute strength usually personified by Isengrim the greedy and dull-witted wolf. . The main literary tradition of Reynard the Fox descends from the extant French 'branches' of the Roman de Renart about 30 in number nearly 40000 lines of verse. The facetious portrayal of rustic life the camel as a papal legate speaking broken French the animals riding on horses and recounting elaborate dreams all suggest the atmosphere of 13th-century France" Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature. There is some variation in chapter number within the early editions: From "Caxton's first edition 1481 to Thomas Gaultier's only edition 1550 the story is divided into 43 chapters" while the anonymous edition 1560-1585 has 58 chapters Varty. By the 17th century when the text is titled The Most Delectable History of Reynard the Fox it appears with only 25 chapters and maintains its image cycle. Early 17th century editions also maintained this "picture cycle" through Edward Brewster's 1662 edition but at this point the Wynkyn de Worde blocks were extremely worn and new set was created Varty. Forty images were used for his second edition 1671 and all contain his initials EB. "He published further illustrated editions in 1676 1681 1694 and 1701. in 1672 he grafted new life onto the old story with A Continuation Or Second Part of the Most Pleasant and Delightful History of Reynard the Fox" Varty for which he eventually created an additional 15 illustrations. In 1684 he would produce an additional sequel following the adventures of Reynard's son Reynardine. Brunet IV cols. 1228-1229. Lowndes p. 2076. Varty Appendix Three: "A Short-Title List of All Extant Illustrated Histories of Reynard the Fox from Wynkyn de Worde c. 1495 to A. Soulby c. 1800 which are kept in United Kingdom libraries based on H. Menke Bibliotheca Reinardiana" 24 18 and 21. Wing S3512 Part II and S3436 Part III. T. Ilive unknown books
1986ref. 85710Erie: Kangaroo Court 1986. First edition. 32 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 150 of 212 copies. Kangaroo Court #5. Erie: Kangaroo Court unknown books
1977ref. 82739NY & London: The Smith 1977. First editions. Three trade paperback novels issued together in publisher’s slipcase. All elements fine. Review slip. The three novellas are THE INVISIBLES by Hugh Fox TEAK by Robert Reinhold and THE SAME THING HAPPENING OVER & OVER by Leonard Chabrowe. NY & London: The Smith, paperback books
1989ref. 7348New York: Abrams 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Signed by Laurent de Brunhoff on the second front endpaper. Fine in a Near Fine jacket unclipped no price some pulling to the laminate on the back panel. Yellow cloth with red ink lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound clean internally. A collaborative effort between Weber and Laurent to provide not only a history of Babar but also an account of the techinques Jean and Laurent used when illustrating. Abrams hardcover books
1960ref. 78302London: Cassell 1960. First edition. 89 pp w/discography. Scuff to crown else near fine in glossy illustrated boards. No dust jacket as issued. Kings of Jazz 7. London: Cassell hardcover books
1992ref. 78980Philadelphia: Goldie Paley Gallery 1992. First edition. Small 4to. 46 pp w/biography & selected bibliography. Sunning along spine else near fine in illustrated wrappers. Philadelphia: Goldie Paley Gallery unknown books
1969ref. 7158Somerviller: Abyss Publications 1969. Paperback. Near Fine. Second Printing limited to 300 copies. With a TLS from Fox on his personal letterhead. Near Fine. Wraps toned and soiled at the spine and edges. Square and firmly bound with two staples clean internally. An early printing of the first critical study on Bukowski. Abyss Publications paperback books
2009ref. 73634London Ontario: Crossing Chaos 2009. First edition. 16mo. 290 pp. Very good plus in illustrated wrappers. Dated 2010 and INSCRIBED by Fox with a brief holograph note laid in. London (Ontario): Crossing Chaos unknown books
2006ref. 71034Emeryville: Shoemaker & Hoard 2006. First edition. 264 pp w/index. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. [Emeryville]: Shoemaker & Hoard unknown books
1989ref. 66825Boston: G.K. Hall 1989. First edition. xxxi 549 pp w/author & subject index. Very near fine in boards. No dust jacket as issued. Boston: G.K. Hall hardcover books
1977ref. 7357fdBoston: Division of Research Graduate School of Business Administration Harvard University 1977. Fifth printing. Inscribed “To Major General Andrew S. Andy Low / With very best / wishes for your continuing / success in program management” and signed by the author. Octavo cloth hardcover xv 484 pp. Fine in a slightly chipped dust jacket. Division of Research, Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University, (1977). Fifth printing. hardcover books
1808ref. 1082671808. London: Printed for William Miller by W. Bulmer and Co. 1808. 4to. xl 293 pp. v cli engraved frontisportrait. Rebacked full diced calf gilt rules dentelles marbled edges and endpapers backstrip with raised bands stamped in blind and gilt. Corners and edges of boards are rubbed and chipped minor foxing to endpapers and flyleaves otherwise internally bright: very good. § First edition. Charles James Fox 1749-1806 politician and member of the Whig party began work on A History of the Early Part of the Reign of James the Second in 1799 it was researched in London and Paris and members of his large group of friends known as Foxites were recruited to assist in the work. The work was never completed and was published posthumously dealing only with the events of 1685. Referenced by Lowndes II p. 827. unknown books
1970ref. 62367np: np 1970. First edition. 41 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Contributions by Bertolino De Loach Gildzen Higgins Malone and many others. (np): (np) unknown books
1975ref. 60255Takoma Park: Aleph 1975. 93 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Cover art by Nancy Norman. Work by Jack Foley John Jacob and many others. Takoma Park: Aleph unknown books
1929ref. ess2948New York: The P. F. Volland Company 1929. Octavo red pebbled cloth hardcover gilt letters and decorations 80 pp. Poor: the spine and edges of this volume are badly damaged; the interior however is bright clean and tight with lovely full-color illustrations. The P. F. Volland Company, 1929. hardcover books
1972ref. 57418Ann Arbor: Cat’s Pajamas Press 1972. First edition numbered issue. 4to. 14 pp. Near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Cover art by Gary Elder. One of 25 numbered copies. Ann Arbor: Cat’s Pajamas Press, unknown books
1973ref. 55172np: Oberon Press 1973. First edition. 62 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket that is lightly rubbed. Two poetry collections one after the other. Book designed and printed at the Coach House Press. (np): Oberon Press unknown books
1991ref. 53778Albuquerque: Zerx Press 1991. First edition. 49 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. One of 100 copies. Entire inside back cover filled with an als from publisher Mark Weber to Marvin Malone regarding this edition. Albuquerque: Zerx Press unknown books
