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FUNGUS AND CURMUDGEONLY by (BINDINGS - CLEMENTS). MEYERSON, SIMON. NATALIA D'ARBELOFF, Illustrator and Designer

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Title: FUNGUS AND CURMUDGEONLY
Author: (BINDINGS - CLEMENTS). MEYERSON, SIMON. NATALIA D'ARBELOFF, Illustrator and Designer
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description: London: NdA Press, 1980. No. 4 OF 10 COPIES SPECIALLY BOUND BY DESIGNER BOOKBINDERS, from an edition of 50 copies signed by the author and artist. 315 x 130 mm. (12 3/8 x 5"). 35, [1] pp., [4] leaves. Calligraphed text in red and black written out by Sally Johnson on a unique vellum copy, and photo-lithographed on BFK Rives paper for this edition. STRIKING MULTI-COLOR MOROCCO, INLAID IN AN ABSTRACT DESIGN, BY JEFF CLEMENTS, covers and spine with wrap-around design composed of brown, black, taupe, and citron morocco with geometric blind rules and a quadrilateral tooled in white on the upper cover, DARK GREEN MOROCCO DOUBLURES tooled with a blind geometric design, tan suede endleaves. In a custom gray cloth drop-back box with niche for the accompanying cassette tape. Patterned flyleaves, frontispiece, and six double-page etchings by Natalia d'Arbeloff. With a cassette tape recording of a reading of the play by Charles Turner and Jack LeWhite. A typed letter signed by binder Jeff Clements and a photocopied review of the Designer Bookbinders exhibit in which this binding appeared laid in. ◆In mint condition. Despite the vaguely unpleasant title, this is a notable and obviously extremely limited artist's book, offered here in a striking binding that is distinctly tall and narrow, with design elements inspired by events in the text, a dramatic dialogue between a "Shakespearean Superstar and his Understudy." According to the binder's letter to Professor John Burton, the original purchaser of the binding, "The design is very much based on the narrative itself with references to blindness as in the blind sun in white within the incised leather; the play takes place in a sewer, also evident, and the lower corner on the back cover is a hint about the mule which appears on the last pages of the play." (Perhaps these plot elements are not as compelling as "King Lear," but they certainly are curious.) Clements notes further that the binding was completed in 1981 and exhibited in a Designer Bookbinders show, and he has enclosed a copy of a review of that show, underlining the portion where the critic compares this binding to the paintings of British artists William Scott and Ben Nicholson. Clements (1934-2021) studied at the Plymouth College of Art and Design, receiving the National Diploma in Design in 1955, and continued his education in bookbinding at the Central School of Arts and Crafts. He became a fellow of Designer Bookbinders in 1957, and served as the organization's president from 1981 to 1983. Since 1988, he has been based in Amsterdam, where he operates Binderij Meridiaan with Katinka Keus. British-American artist Natalia (or Natalie) d'Abeloff is a painter, printmaker, book-artist, cartoonist and teacher, but is best known for her livres d'artiste, copies of which are held by institutions including the Rijksmuseum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Library of Congress. The present work represents an early venture into multimedia works, an area she has continued to explore in the digital age, creating a "Bloggers' Parliament" and authoring a popular web comic. Jerry Jenkins, Curator of Contemporary British Published Collections at the British Library, notes the many ways the various elements of Abeloff's books--paper, print, illustrations--and the techniques she employs give her works appeal to a number of senses on a number of levels. With "Fungus and Curmudgeonly," he was impressed by the impact of being able to follow the text while hearing actors perform the roles, noting that "this offers an aural immersion into the play along with the performance." She is a Fellow of the Society of Designer Craftsmen, and her papers are held by the V&A..

Walk Me to the Distance [Signed] by Percival Everett

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Title: Walk Me to the Distance [Signed]
Author: Percival Everett
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780899193212
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1985. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1985. First Edition with full number line. Octavo (21.5cm); publisher's cloth-backed boards in unclipped dust jacket; [8],209pp. Moderate wear to jacket and board margins with a few tiny closed tears to the former, brief finger soil to front free endpaper, else a Very Good and sound copy. Signed by the author on title page. The author's second novel, preceded only by "Suder" (1983). "Walk Me to the Distance" is Everett's contribution to the contemporary Western noir tradition following the deadly antics of Vietnam War veteran David Larson and his posse coming out of Slut's Hole, Wyoming. Everett is perhaps best known for his novel "Erasure," which was adapted into the Academy Award-winning film "American Fiction" and "James," winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize.

Nova Broadcast Chapbooks # 1 - 6 (all Published): Drive Suite, Miss Vietnam, A Book About Love & War & Death, Planet Noise, The Dead Star, and Twinpak by Jan Herman [ed.]; Ray Bremser; Wolf Vostell; Dick Higgins; Liam O'Gallagher; William Burroughs; Norman Mustill

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Title: Nova Broadcast Chapbooks # 1 - 6 (all Published): Drive Suite, Miss Vietnam, A Book About Love & War & Death, Planet Noise, The Dead Star, and Twinpak
Author: Jan Herman [ed.]; Ray Bremser; Wolf Vostell; Dick Higgins; Liam O'Gallagher; William Burroughs; Norman Mustill
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good +
Description: San Francisco: Nova Broadcast Press, 1969. Very Good +. San Francisco: Nova Broadcast Press, 1968-1969. First Editions. Side-stapled wraps (20cm); various paginations. Covers crisp with a few scuffs along spines and expected fading to title banners. Bindings sound and pages unmarked. Full run of Nova Broadcast chapbooks, edited by Jan Herman while working at City Lights as Lawrence Ferlinghetti's assistant, focusing on Beat, post-Beat, and Fluxus works. .

Cumberland Parish: Lunenberg County, Virginia 1746-1816; Vestry Book 1746-1816 [Signed] by Landon C. Bell

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Title: Cumberland Parish: Lunenberg County, Virginia 1746-1816; Vestry Book 1746-1816 [Signed]
Author: Landon C. Bell
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good +
Description: Richmond, VA: The William Byrd Press, Inc., Printers, 1930. Very Good +. Richmond, VA: The William Byrd Press, Inc., Printers, 1930. First Edition. Inscribed by Bell to Colonel Christopher B. Garnett on front free endpaper. Tall octavo. 633 pages. Fold-out map; black and white portrait. Navy cloth stamped in gilt. Light wear to extremities. Binding is sound. Pages toned but unmarked.

The Big Bite by Williams, Charles [Millar, Kenneth] [Macdonald, Ross]

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Title: The Big Bite
Author: Williams, Charles [Millar, Kenneth] [Macdonald, Ross]
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Condition: Near fine
Description: London: Cassell & Company Ltd, 1957. First U.K. Edition, First Impression. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Signed first U.K. edition of The Big Bite by Charles Williams, with an inscription to Kenneth Millar (Ross Macdonald) and his wife.. Octavo, 191pp. Black hardcover, title in silver on spine. Stated "First Published in Great Britain 1957" on copyright page, no additional printings listed. Solid text block, dust remnants to top edge. In the publisher's dust jacket, 12/6 retail price on front flap, shelf wear, light rubbing to corners, near fine condition. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "To Ken and Margaret Millar / with best regards / Charles Williams." An excellent association copy between two prolific mystery authors. Kenneth Millar, "Ken" in this copy, used numerous pseudonyms over his career, including John Macdonald, John Ross Macdonald, and Ross Macdonald. These pen names, made up of popular Millar family names, were used to help avoid confusion between Kenneth and his wife, Margaret, who was also a mystery fiction author.

Yerbas Poderosas by (Leyva Azze, José Emilio)

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Title: Yerbas Poderosas
Author: (Leyva Azze, José Emilio)
Seller: Thorn Books (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Holguin, Cuba: Cuadernos Papiro, 2018. Limited edition. Stiff card wraps. Fine. 4to. 12 leaves of handmade paper bound by hand in a thick handmade paper covers made from water hyacinth with a branch incorporated into the upper cover, and with ties made with dried stems and jute. The final leaf gives a biography of the artist. A fine copy. Each page is made from a different plant: plantain, sunflower, basil, onion, sugarcane, corn, garlic, parsley, rosemary, and tobacco. Each page is also printed letterpress, identifying the plant with local and scientific names, associated deities, spiritual powers, and then a long description of its medicinal properties and local uses. Some pages also feature collagraphs by José Emilio Leyva Azze. The text is printed on antique presses: a Merganthaler Linotype machine originally manufactured in 1900 and an 1899 Gordon and Price press using 19th century type. A stunning production. Accompanied by a ceritficate of authenticity indicating that this copy is no. 21 from a total production of 50 copies. In Spanish. .

A Garden Carried In A Pocket: Letters 1964-1968. Edited by Thomas Meyer by DAVENPORT, Guy & Jonathan WILLIAMS

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Title: A Garden Carried In A Pocket: Letters 1964-1968. Edited by Thomas Meyer
Author: DAVENPORT, Guy & Jonathan WILLIAMS
Seller: James S. Jaffe Rare Books LLC (United States)
Condition: As new. Price is net to all
Description: Haverford: Green Shade, 2004. First edition. One of 26 lettered hardbound copies signed by Davenport and Williams and Thomas Meyer, out of a total edition of 526 copies printed. Designed by The Grenfell Press & printed by Trifolio, Verona, Italy. "We are not celebrities. No one has known quite what to make of a patrician satirist and lyric poet from Highlands, North Carolina, or of an essayist and short story writer from Anderson, South Carolina." - Guy Davenport. "It is clear that G. Davenport and J. Williams write their letters in the fresh of the morning, when the Wheaties have kicked in, in GD's case, and the peanut-butter-and-mayonnaise sandwich and Coke, in JW's case." - Jonathan Williams. "Here we have two men the perfection of whose craft has been wrought through the practice of letter-writing. ... What we have here in particular is onset and blossoming, one of the most distinguished exchanges imaginable unfolding." - Thomas Meyer. As new. Price is net to all. 8vo, illustrated, original cloth, dust jacket. As new. Price is net to all.

The Medical and Surgical Register: consisting chiefly of cases in the New-York Hospital by Watts, John ; Valentine Mott; Alexander H. Stevens

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Title: The Medical and Surgical Register: consisting chiefly of cases in the New-York Hospital
Author: Watts, John ; Valentine Mott; Alexander H. Stevens
Seller: Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books (United States)
Description: New York: Collins and Co, 1818. First edition. Contemporary blue paper boards, title hand lettered on (partially defective) spine, 2 plates (foxed). "The Medical and Surgical Register, of which only two parts were issued, is the first volume of case reports published by a United States hospital, and is one of the cornerstones in the history of American medicine, as well as one of the scarcest of medical periodicals" (Heirs of Hippocrates 1850). Garrison-Morton 2942 (Mott's first ligation of the innominate artery, page 9). The second part of the Register was not issued until 1820.

RUSSKIY YAZYK V KARTINKAKH [RUSSIAN IN PICTURES] by Barannikov, I.V.; Varkovitskaja, L.A.

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Title: RUSSKIY YAZYK V KARTINKAKH [RUSSIAN IN PICTURES]
Author: Barannikov, I.V.; Varkovitskaja, L.A.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition: Very good.
Description: Moscow: Prosveshchenie, 1964. Very good.. First edition primer for non-Russian speaking children in the Soviet Union, illustrated in color on every page. 10.25'' x 8''. Original color pictorial paper boards with yellow cloth spine. Illustrated in vivid color throughout. 142 pages. Some shelfwear and rubbing, a bit of bumping to corners. Interior with faint toning, small bump to bottom corner of some leaves. Bright. Shows well.

THE WORLD OF PHINEAS T. BARNUM by Brady, Matthew

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Title: THE WORLD OF PHINEAS T. BARNUM
Author: Brady, Matthew
Seller: Black Swan Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Fine binding
Description: Time-Life Books, 1977. Hard Cover. Fine binding. A beautiful copy of a very handsome production.~Portfolio in silk-covered clamshell box;, still housed in the original shipping box. With eight photographs in folders printed from the original glass negatives of the Matthew B. Brady Gallery in the Meserve Collection; This is #27 of a limited printing of 5000 and signed by Dorothy Meserve Kunhardt, trustee of the Frederick Hill Meserve Collection on the limitation label. Fine binding.

A Streetcar Named Desire; With A Foreword by Jessica Tandy and an Introduction by the Author by Williams, Tennessee

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Title: A Streetcar Named Desire; With A Foreword by Jessica Tandy and an Introduction by the Author
Author: Williams, Tennessee
Seller: Royoung bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Orig. leather spine and decorated boards. Fine in fine slipcase
Description: New York: Limited Editions Club, 1982. Hardcover. Orig. leather spine and decorated boards. Fine in fine slipcase. Hirschfeld, Al. Unpaginated. 32.5 x 20.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 1538 of 2000, with line drawings illustrations by Al Hirschfeld, and signed at colophon by him. With LEC Monthly Letter for the tile laid-in, noting a description of the binding: " The fine aniline leather on the spine, in burgundy, complements the covering cloth, imported from Italy by Clarence House Imports of New York....the Chequered Lady pattern was hand-printed in thirteen colors." NORMAN & WICHE 532.

Alfred Corning Clark Neighborhood House Cook Book by Wills, Grace T.

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Title: Alfred Corning Clark Neighborhood House Cook Book
Author: Wills, Grace T.
Seller: Royoung bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Orig. brown cloth lettered in black. Very good
Description: New York: C.B. Darrow, 1908. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth lettered in black. Very good. 83 pages. 18 x 12.5 cm. The author was a social worker, and Clark a notable American philanthropist and patron of the arts. This work is more a chapter in philanthropy, the half title reading "Receipts for Very Economical Cookery." Its recipes, documentation of food for the underprivilaged rather than for the public. They are practical with costs noted to prepare simple, wholesome meals with no gastronomic context. The work is as much a social document than a culinary one. Light rubbing to extremities.

THE JUNGLE BOOK by Kipling, Rudyard

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Title: THE JUNGLE BOOK
Author: Kipling, Rudyard
Seller: Sumner & Stillman (United States)
Description: 1894. Decorated by J. Lockwood Kipling, C.I.E. New York: The Century Co., 1894. Original olive-green cloth decorated in gilt. First American Edition, published on the same day (May 22nd) as the English edition. Many of the illustrations are by John Lockwood Kipling, Rudyard's father. This book and THE SECOND JUNGLE BOOK, along with KIM and JUST SO STORIES, constitute Kipling's best-loved work: For there is a unique magic in the JUNGLE BOOKs from the moment the infant Mowgli enters the wolf's lair, and the moonlight is blacked out at the mouth of the cave by the great head of the tiger Shere Khan, and his roar fills it with thunder. There is magic too in the jungle, so glowingly portrayed, with its danger-haunted thickets, and the monkeys threading its frail liana ways, the enchanted land of which Mowgli is to become the master; and in the animals who are his friends and mentors -- Bagheera, the sleek and terrible panther; Baloo, the wise old bear; Hathi, the elephant; Kaa, the gigantic python who makes a nest for Mowgli in his coils; Akela, the leader of the wolf-pack; and the bandarlog, chattering outcasts of the tree tops, whose only wish is to be noticed, and who immediately abandon every task they have begun. [Birkenhead] This volume is in near-fine condition (spine cloth a little darkened, a trace of rubbing at the extremities); as with most copies we have encountered, in the binding process a leaf was glued down under the rear endpaper. Richards A77; Stewart 124.

The Territorial Slave Code Speech of Vice President Henry Wilson Argues Against the Constitutionality of Slavery 1860 by Henry Wilson

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Title: The Territorial Slave Code Speech of Vice President Henry Wilson Argues Against the Constitutionality of Slavery 1860
Author: Henry Wilson
Seller: Max Rambod Inc. (United States)
Description: 1860. Territorial Slave Code. The Honorable Henry Wilson of Massachusetts. Delivered in the Senate, January 25, 1860. Washington D.C: 1860. First edition. 40 pages 9" x 5.75" inches. Removed from a large volume. Henry Wilson was a Massachusetts senator and Vice President under Ulysses Grant. who championed the abolitionist cause. In this speech, Wilson argues against the constitutionality of slavery , for if allowed, then slaves can be brought into the territories. It is a response to Albert Gallatin Brown's speech: Protection to Slave Property in the Territories, which argued that slaves, as property, should be subject to the same protections in the territories as any other form of proprety. Wilson forcefully rejects this claim and identifies "Slave Power" as one of the great evils in the US, asserting that it "holds the National Government, in all its departments, in absolute subjugation." He gives a history of the government's conciliation's to Slave Power but ends his speech with the challenge to "save those Territories to free labor, check the reopening slave traffic, and put the National Government in harmony with a progressive Christian civilization." The spine is somewhat chipped after being removed from its larger volume, and there is minor spotting on front and back covers, but overall in very good condition.

Letter dated New York, May 16, 1816 To the Warden of the New Hampshire State prison asking for information on a stonecutter named Lewis Nason who Ross believes had been in the New Hampshire state prison. Ross asks for information because the man has swindled him out of $30,000 by Ross, Theodore

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Title: Letter dated New York, May 16, 1816 To the Warden of the New Hampshire State prison asking for information on a stonecutter named Lewis Nason who Ross believes had been in the New Hampshire state prison. Ross asks for information because the man has swindled him out of $30,000
Author: Ross, Theodore
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Description: Good condition with folds and soiling. Postally used.

[NUTRITION] A Quick Story about Instant Postum by Postum Cereal Co., Ltd.

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Title: [NUTRITION] A Quick Story about Instant Postum
Author: Postum Cereal Co., Ltd.
Seller: lizzyoung bookseller (United States)
Condition: Color illustrated glossy paper. Near fine
Description: Battle Creek, Michigan: Postum Cereal Co., Ltd., c. 1912. Pamphlet. Color illustrated glossy paper. Near fine. 13 x 8 cm. Color illustrated, folded pamphlet extolling "A BIG NEED" for the beverage - Instant Postum. Charles William Post (1854-1914) invented Postum, a cereal beverage, in 1895. Blaming various ailments on caffeinated beverages, Post heavily advertised this product and successfully scared thousands of caffeinated beverage drinkers to switch to Postum. Instant Postum was invented in 1911. Crisp, clean copy.

Passchendaele: The Untold Story by Robin Prior and Trevor Wilson

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Title: Passchendaele: The Untold Story
Author: Robin Prior and Trevor Wilson
Seller: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780300066920
Condition: Very good
Description: New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. xv, 228pp+ index. Very good hardback in a very good dustjacket.

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