RANDALL JARRELL A DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY 1929-1983.
Charlottesville: Univ. Press of Virginia, [1986]. Cloth and boards. Illustrations. First edition. Edges dust speckled, but otherwise very good in somewhat darkened dust jacket.
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PRÉFECTURE DE POLICE. DOCUMENTS SUR LES FALSIFICATIONS DES MATIÈRES ALIMENTAIRES ET SUR LES TRAVAUX DU LABORATOIRE MUNICIPAL.
Paris: Imprimerie Municipale, 1882. 545,[3]pp. Quarto. Contemporary three quarter morocco and marbled boards. Illustrations. Binding extremities quite rubbed (but sound), light stain on the lower blank area of half-title, small adhesion flaw in lower margin of pp. 535/6, otherwise a very good copy. First edition. A substantial report with a....
AMERICAN BELLES.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1911. Small folio. Cloth and pictorial boards, lettered in gilt, t.e.g. Color frontis and tipped-in plates. Some small adhesion marks in gutters of last several leaves, fore- corners bruised, upper board somewhat soiled, with some rubs and adhesion marks partially obscured by the image;.....
FINE PRINT A REVIEW FOR THE ARTS OF THE BOOK.
[San Francisco]. July 1978 through January 1989. Thirty-six issues. Quarto. Printed self wrappers, typographically decorated wrappers, and pictorial wrappers. Illustrated throughout. A few unobtrusive marginal ticks or underlines, an occasional ink name, a handful of wrappers sunned at edges, a few have nicks or smudges, a few others lightly soiled...
WHO'S WHO ON THE SCREEN
New York: Ross Publishing Co., [1920]. 415,[3]pp Dark blue cloth, lettered in oprange. Heavily illustrated with photographs and portraits. Spine sunned and a bit rubbed, trace of foxing to endsheets, 1924 ownership signature on front free endsheet, heavy coated stock straining the textblock a bit, otherwise very good. First edition...
HOW TO WRITE FOR MOVING PICTURES A MANUAL OF INSTRUCTION AND INFORMATION.
New York: George H. Doran, [c. 1917]. 275pp. Cloth. Photographs. Narrow horizontal scratch to cloth, but very good in chipped and internally mended dust jacket wanting a chunk of the spine panel. Unidentified printing of the first edition (without the colophon on the title-page verso). Bertsch was associated with Vitagraph...
VOODOO-EROS ETHNOLOGICAL STUDIES IN THE SEX- LIFE OF AFRICAN ABORIGINES.
New York: Privately Printed for Subscribers, 1933. 251pp. Large octavo. Black cloth with pictorial decoration in gilt. Photographs. Very good and bright. Second edition of this translation by Mayne F. Sexton of the German text of 1910. Copy #500 of an edition of 500 numbered copies "sold by subscription to...
OF THE IMITATION OF CHRIST: FOUR BOOKS. A NEW EDITION.
London & Oxford: James Parker & Co., 1903. Small octavo. Full wine red crushed morocco, raised bands, a.e.g., by Hatchards. Margins ruled in red. Spine and extremities somewhat darkened, textblock starting to darken, but a very good copy.
SUNDAY LESSONS TO BE READ AT MORNING AND EVENING PRAYER ON THE SUNDAYS AND OTHER HOLY- DAYS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR [with:] THE NEW TESTAMENT ....
Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press by Samuel Collingwood and Co., 1830. [10],294,N4-2G6. 12mo. Full straight-grain dark plum morocco, raised bands, a.e.g. (unsigned). 1836 ownership inscription on verso of front free endsheet, a few corners creased, small rubs to raised bands; a good copy.
EVENINGS AT HOME, OR, THE JUVENILE BUDGET OPENED: CONSISTING OF A VARIETY OF MISCELLANEOUS PIECES FOR THE INSTRUCTION AND AMUSEMENT OF YOUNG PERSONS.
Philadelphia: Printed for A. Bartram, 1802. Three volumes in one (only, of 6 volumes in two). iv,330pp. Small octavo. Old calf. Joints rubbed, 2cm chip from crown of spine, some browning, light staining and foxing; an odd volume, in second hand condition. Denoted the "Second Edition" of this serial for...
GOBIERNO DEL DEPARTAMENTO DE PUEBLA. CIRCULAR. HA LLEGADO LA OCACION DE QUE SE PRUEVE EL VERDADERO PATRIOTISMO Y DE QUE SE DISTINGAN LOS FALSOS, DE LOS VERDADERAS AMIGOS DE LA INDEPENDENCIA DE LA PATRIA. LOS EXTRANGEROS QUE EN TEJAS QUIEREN FORMAR, EN TERRENO NUESTRO, UNA NACION NUEVA...[caption title and beginning of text].
Puebla, Mx. July 10, 1836. [2]pp. on a folded folio sheet, with integral blank leaf. Text in Spanish. Old folds, old dampstain in upper outer corner of first leaf and upper edge of central vertical fold. Tear in upper outer corner of first leaf, not affecting text. Contemporary ink notation...
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[ARCHIVE OF AMERICAN BICYCLE MANUFACTURERS' CATALOGUES AND ADVERTISING PAMPHLETS].
[Various places, as noted below. Late 1800s - early 1900s]. Thirty-five pamphlets, six periodical issues, and one standing desk calendar. Individual details provided below. Pamphlets all in original wrappers. Several with minor toning, occasional chipping, creasing, or small tears, calendar partially perished. The majority very good to fine. The majority...
[AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM HENRY CLAY AS SENATOR TO PUBLISHER GEORGE GETZ, EXPRESSING HOPE THAT THE PUBLIC'S SELECTION OF LEADER DOES NOT LEAD TO DISRUPTION AND ASSERTING THE NEED TO EJECT LEADERS CAUSING DAMAGE TO THE COUNTRY].
Washington, D.C. April 21, 1838. [1]p. on a quarto sheet. Old folds, minor smudging to a few words. Near fine. An elegant and humble correspondence from a potential presidential candidate regarding the current leadership situation in post- Jacksonian America. At the time he penned the current letter, Henry Clay was...
FABRICACIÓN DE VINAGRES DE VINOS, ALCOHOLES, MADERA, ACETATOS, CONSERVAS AL VINAGRE, VINAGRES MEDICINALES Y DE TOCADOR.
Madrid: Libreria de Cuesta, 1879. 77,[5]pp. Large octavo. Printed wrappers, extracted from pamphlet volume. Tables and illustrations. French bookseller's ticket on front wrapper, spine covering absent, but a very good copy. First edition, published in the series "Monografías Industriales." OCLC/Worldcat locates two copies in North America: Sutro Library and Yale.....
THE LAW OF DAMAGES.
Dublin: Printed by J. Moore, 1792. xiv,248pp., but with Preface (pp. iii-vi) bound out of sequence, after table of contents. Small octavo. Contemporary calf, gilt spine label. Extremities somewhat worn, with closed cracks to joints, moderate tanning, early ink ownership signature on half-title and endsheet, with a 19th century gift...
QUIA PAUPER AMAVI.
London: The Egoist Press, [1919]. Cloth backed boards, paper label. Lower portion of spine label rubbed and chipped, with loss of 'Quia' and some loss to 'Pauper', slight smudge/rub at fore-edge of upper board, otherwise a very good or better copy. First edition, trade issue. One of 500 copies (of...
SIDONIE. (FROMONT JEUNE ET RISLER AÎNÉ).
Boston: Estes & Lauriat, 1877. 262,[26]pp. Small octavo. Dark ochre cloth with overall spider-web motif in red and black, lettered in black and gilt. A very good to near fine copy. 8th thousand of the first American edition, translated from the French by Mary Neal Sherwood. Laid in front is...
PUNCH AND JUDY, WITH ILLUSTRATIONS ... ACCOMPANIED BY THE DIALOGUE OF THE PUPPET- SHOW, AN ACCOUNT OF ITS ORIGIN, AND OF PUPPET- PLAYS IN ENGLAND.
London: Printed for S. Prowett, 1828. 145,[1]pp. plus frontis and 23 plates. Octavo. Late 19th century 3/4 calf and cloth over boards, marbled endsheets. Binding rubbed at extremities, some tanning to margins and versos of plates, scattered foxing, front inner hinge cracking; just a good copy. Second edition. Illustrated by...
THE FALL OF ENGLAND? THE BATTLE OF DORKING: REMINISCENCES OF A VOLUNTEER, BY A CONTRIBUTOR TO "BLACKWOOD."
New York: G. P. Putnam & Sons, 1871. 66,2-5(adverts). Small octavo. Printed wrapper. Wrapper soiled and somewhat foxed, with small losses at tips and to fore-edge of lower wrapper; internally, apart from occasional foxing, very good. "Second [US] Edition" of one of the most widely known 19th century tales of...
THE DECAMERON, OR TEN DAYS ENTERTAINMENT OF BOCCACE, TRANSLATED FROM THE ITALIAN.
London: Printed for R. Dodsley, 1741. vii,[1],49,66-79,64-591,[1]pp. Octavo. Modern calf, with faux-paneled insets in darker blindstamped calf, spine stamped in gilt with a couple too many decorations. Woodcut head and tail-pieces, with title-page vignette. Upper forecorner chip from preliminary blank, occasional tanning or light foxing, two brown spots in lower.....
DYING SCENES; BEING THE LAST DAYS OF THE LIFE OF MRS. MARY OLAND TUCKER, WIFE OF REV. JOSHUA T. TUCKER, OF MISSOURI. WHO DIED AUGUST 31, 1844, AT THE AGE OF 29 YEARS. By Her Husband ....
Boston: Massachusetts Sabbath School Society, 1845. 24pp. 12mo. Quarter gilt lettered roan and marbled boards. Extremities rubbed, otherwise very good. First edition. The verso of the title bears a long "Note" about the subject dated Hannibal, MO, 1844. Inscribed on the front pastedown: "Mrs. W. Tucker from her son, J.T.T."...
CATALOGUE DE LAURENCE SCOTT & CO THE LARGEST SELLERS OF OCCULT AND SPIRITUAL BOOKS IN THE WORLD [wrapper title].
Chicago: de Laurence Scott & Co., [nd but ca. 1906 or 1907]. 64,133,[4],11pp. Octavo. Decorated printed wrappers. Illustrations, some in color, with inserts printed on different stock. 12pp insert trimmed slightly askew, affecting a few letters, wrappers a bit worn and spine ends frayed, a bit of rust at the...
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[Heavily Revised Typescript:] "LIFE AND DEATH IN RUSSIA."
Taconic, CT. [ca. 1992]. 16 1/2 pp. on rectos (and a verso) of quarto sheets (many of them paper previously used by others for other purposes on their versos, but also including an additional page of corrected typescript by Salisbury for another article). Heavily revised in pencil and ink. Very...
WOOLSEY HALL FRIDAY EVENING JANUARY 17 AT 8:30 THE GREAT NEGRO FOLK SINGER PAUL ROBESON IN A SONG RECITAL, ASSISTED BY THE YALE GLEE CLUB ... [wrapper title] with: SONG RECITAL BY THE GREAT NEGRO SINGER PAUL ROBESON ...[wrapper title].
New Haven. 1941. Two [4]pp. large octavo leaflets (24 x 15.8 cm; 24 x 15.2 cm). Portrait of Robeson on upper panel of first item above. Soft vertical crease in second item, otherwise fine. A promotional piece, along with a copy of the actual program, for Robeson's recital at Yale...
THE ESTIVATION OF TWO MAO TZU BEING AN INFORMAL AND OCCASIONALLY FRIVOLOUS ACCOUNT OF OUR VACATION IN CHINA DURING THE SUMMER OF 1934.
New York: Press of the Woolly Whale, 1935. Sq. octavo. Quarter open-sewn silk and boards, paper label. Maps and decorations throughout (by Warren Chappell). Binding a bit sunned, with modest foxing and a few small spots to endsheets and edges; very good. One of "less than 250 copies on Kawara"...