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A Midsummer Night's Dream by Shakespeare, William and Arthur Rackham [Illustrator]

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Title
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Author
Shakespeare, William and Arthur Rackham [Illustrator]
Seller
Argonaut Book Shop (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
London: William Heinemann, 1908 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Illustrator(s). Deluxe Edition. First deluxe edition. One of 1000 numbered copies signed by Rackham, this being number 340. Quarto. 11¾x9 inches 134pp. 40 full-page mounted color illustrations, each protected with a captioned tissue guard, and 30 black & white drawings. Full gilt-lettered and decorated vellum, top edges gilt, silk ties intact. Minimal foxing throughout, covers are lightly soiled. One of the most sought-after titles illustrated by Rackham, the premier British illustrator of the late 19th - early 20th century. The themes of love, magic, and fairies in the Shakespeare play lend themselves particularly well to Rackham's fanciful, fairytale style. The silk ribbon ties on this volume are still intact, which is quite scarce; most copies are found with the ties missing or hanging by a few threads. [Latimore & Haskell: p.32]. .
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The Adventures of James Collier: First Collector of the Port of San Francisco by Foreman, Grant

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Title
The Adventures of James Collier: First Collector of the Port of San Francisco
Author
Foreman, Grant
Seller
Argonaut Book Shop (United States)
Condition
Very fine
Description
Chicago: Black Cat Press, 1937 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. One of 250 copies printed and published by the Black Cat Press. 61pp. Chapter notes. Original silver-stamped blue cloth, printed paper label on front cover. A bit of rubbing to spine ends and edges, else a fine copy. Collier (1789-1873) was appointed by President Taylor as Collector of the port of San Francisco just after the Mexican War. He and his party were among the 1849 westward-bound emigrants who came into the gold fields via the southern route - across the Colorado River westward over the Colorado Desert. H.M.T. Powell, in his diary, indicates that Collier followed the mountain route out from the Carrizo Corridor, his trail leading up through a canyon, over the mountains, finally bringing him to San Diego. Well researched with extensive chapter notes. Quite scarce. [Edwards: p. 87; Rader: 1430; Rocq: 9400]..
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Genaral M.G. Vallejo and the Advent of the Americans. A Biography. by Rosenus, Alan

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Title
Genaral M.G. Vallejo and the Advent of the Americans. A Biography.
Author
Rosenus, Alan
Seller
Argonaut Book Shop (United States)
Condition
Very fine
Description
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1995 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. First edition. xv, 292pp. 29 illustrations; notes, bibliography and index. Green cloth. A mint copy in pictorial dust jacket. Winner of the Best Western Nonfiction-Biography Spur Award for 1995. Uses primary sources to chronicle the life of this influential California citizen. Now out-of-print in hardback. .
THE GOVERNMENT OF THE TONGUE. By the Author of the Whole Duty of Man, &c. The second impression

THE GOVERNMENT OF THE TONGUE. By the Author of the Whole Duty of Man, &c. The second impression by (Allestree, Richard)

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THE GOVERNMENT OF THE TONGUE. By the Author of the Whole Duty of Man, &c. The second impression
Author
(Allestree, Richard)
Seller
The Book Block (United States)
Description
Oxford at the Theatre in Oxford, 1674. Sm. 4to., black turkey morocco tooled in gilt in an all-over design with drawer-handle tools, curls and flower head tools; decorated with silver paint. The spine is divided into six compartments by five raised bands, which are also tooled in gilt (echoing the covers), with silver paint. The title is gilt lettered in the second compartment from the top. One corner and the very head of the rear joint have been skillfully repaired. Marbled endleaves. The binding is the work of the Queen's Binder A and appears to be a twin of a copy of the same title (but the later, 1675, printing), given to the British Library as part of the Henry David gift [See: No 118]. Hobson and Nixon have had much to say about the forty years following the Restoration of King Charles II to his throne in 1660, which has been called THE GOLDEN AGE OF ENGLISH BOOKBINDING. Nixon points out that there were at least four Queen's binders; viz., A, B, C and D, who all started work in 1670, and all made use of the recently introduced drawer-handle tools and volutes with pointellé outlines rather than floral volutes much used by the other binders of the period. This is a FINE EXAMPLE on a most fitting book. Allestree was a man of extensive learning, of moderate views and a fine preacher. He was generous and charitable, of “a solid and masculine kindness,” and of a temper hot, but completely under control [Encyclopædia Britannica 11th ed.]. A FINE RESTORATION BINDING BY THE QUEEN'S BINDER A
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Des differentes formes de fleurs dans les plantes de la meme espece by DARWIN, Charles

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Des differentes formes de fleurs dans les plantes de la meme espece
Author
DARWIN, Charles
Seller
Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description
Paris: C. Reinwald, 1878. FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH. Woodcut illustrations and tables in text. Original cloth; an excellent copy, uncut and unopened. First edition in French of the author’s important work on the adaptation of plants. In these investigations, Darwin crosses a “long styled” individual with another long styled flower to produce a comparatively infertile primrose, illustrating a degree of sterility within the limits of a single species comparable to that produced in the crossing of distinct species. Darwin’s work on heterostyled plants bears on one of the most difficult points in the statement of the case for evolution, the sterility of interspecific crosses and of hybrids. Darwin writes that the time involved in this research gave him more pleasure than almost any other. Freeman, 1296.
The use of the "Hollerith" tabulating & sorting machines by wholesale merchants

The use of the "Hollerith" tabulating & sorting machines by wholesale merchants by British Tabulating Machine Company, Ltd.; IBM

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Title
The use of the "Hollerith" tabulating & sorting machines by wholesale merchants
Author
British Tabulating Machine Company, Ltd.; IBM
Seller
Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description
London, 1914. First edition. [Tabulating Machine Company - C-T-R - IBM] British Tabulating Machine Company, Ltd. The use of the "Hollerith" tabulating & sorting machines by wholesale merchants. London, n.d. [ca. 1914]. Original printed self-wrappers. Light soiling. 8pp. Illustrated. 248 x 187 mm. Herman Hollerith, a clerk at the U S Census Bureau, invented the punch-card tabulator, applying for his first patent in 1884; his punched-card system reigned as the primary large-scale data-processing system until the advent of the electronic digital computer. In 1896 Hollerith formed the Tabulating Machine Company; the British branch, known as the British Tabulating Machine Company, was formed in 1907 and remained connected to its American counterpart until 1949. Hollerith remained head of the Tabulating Machine Company until 1911, when he sold it to industrialist Charles R. Flint, who renamed the company C-T-R. In 1915 Thomas J. Watson became president of the new company, and in 1924 Watson renamed the company International Business Machines (IBM). Origins of Cyberspace 374. .
Polaroids

Polaroids by Alvarez Bravo, Manuel (photographs); Colette Alvarez Urbajtel (text); Gregory Dechant (translation)

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Title
Polaroids
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Alvarez Bravo, Manuel (photographs); Colette Alvarez Urbajtel (text); Gregory Dechant (translation)
Seller
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (United States)
ISBN
9789685208376
Condition
New in publisher's shrink wrap
Description
Mexico City: Editorial RM, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. New in publisher's shrink wrap. Quarto. 93.(1)pp. consisting chiefly of color Polaroid photos. Red cloth lettered in blue, mounted color photo on front cover. A fine, as new copy. Previously unpublished Polaroid photographs by Manuel Alvarez Bravo reproduced in the original Polaroid's dimensions.
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Cemetary Records of Charleston, Charleston Co., South Carolina, 1914

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Cemetary Records of Charleston, Charleston Co., South Carolina, 1914
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Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Very Good. Cemetary Records of Charleston, Charleston Co., South Carolina, 1914. NP: NP, ND. 162pp. Small 4to. Book condition: Very good with lightly bumped and rubbed edges. Three contemporary library labels from The Prudential Insurance Company of America and the Surgeon General's Office. Neat pencil notation on front pastedown. Contemporary rubber stamp of Army Medical Library on title page. Rear endsheet slightly wrinkled. Pages are carbon copies of typescript; most sections of the data include the notation, ""Secured by Mrs. Lebby, April 1914"". Scarce.
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International Library of Technology: Retail Advertising (Parts 1-7) and Retail Advertising (Parts 8-13) Ad Illustration [2 Volumes]

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International Library of Technology: Retail Advertising (Parts 1-7) and Retail Advertising (Parts 8-13) Ad Illustration [2 Volumes]
Seller
Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
Condition
G+. Leather dry and cracking on both volumes, else in all around nice shape.
Description
Scranton, PA: International Textbook Company, 1905. Hardcover. G+. Leather dry and cracking on both volumes, else in all around nice shape.. Volume 18 & 19 of the textbook series. Octavo. Hardcover. Half bound in leather with green marbled boards and gilt titles. 154 and 136 pages respectively.
Bryan Hunt: Conversations With Nature

Bryan Hunt: Conversations With Nature

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Bryan Hunt: Conversations With Nature
Seller
Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
ISBN
9780870706721
Condition
VG (Minor wear to spine where box lifts open)
Description
New York, NY: Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1982. Softcover. VG (Minor wear to spine where box lifts open). BW pictorial cardboard box with ribbon; 2 folios, each with 12 single-sided cards; 12 color drawings, 12 bw photos. No text.
Exposicion del Libro Antiguo

Exposicion del Libro Antiguo by Amigos del Arte

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Title
Exposicion del Libro Antiguo
Author
Amigos del Arte
Seller
Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition
Wrappers worn at oversized edges, else a very good copy.
Description
Montevideo: Impresora Uruguaya, 1946. First edition. Paper wrappers. Wrappers worn at oversized edges, else a very good copy.. xxiv, 237 pp. Illus. with b/w reproductions. Sm. 8vo. 448 items listed.
1356 [Signed]

1356 [Signed] by Cornwell, Bernard

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1356 [Signed]
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Cornwell, Bernard
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Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780007331840
Description
London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2012. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 382 pages. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Black spine with white and gold lettering. Dust jacked protected in mylar cover, mild shelf wear to front and back, price uncut: "£18.99/CAN $34.99". Bound in publisher's black cloth with denting to lower corners of boards. Mild soiling to top edge of text block, no interior markings. Flat signed by author to title page. Shelved in Room C Overflow. 1405087. Special Collections.
Confirmation; The Hard Evidence of Aliens Among Us

Confirmation; The Hard Evidence of Aliens Among Us by Strieber, Whitley

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Confirmation; The Hard Evidence of Aliens Among Us
Author
Strieber, Whitley
Seller
Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780312185572
Condition
Fine
Description
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($23.95), lightly rubbed. Black paper on the boards with silver gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Strieber's attempt to present physical evidence backing up close encounter claims made in Communion. From the collection of ufologist Tom Benson.
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Your Family Tree, Pennsylvania Genealogy and History, Vol. XVII, Nos. 1,2,3,4

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Title
Your Family Tree, Pennsylvania Genealogy and History, Vol. XVII, Nos. 1,2,3,4
Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
PA: PA Genealogy, 1971. Softcover. Very Good. Paperback, Very good in wrappers. 4 booklets, address labels on back covers.

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