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THE SCARLET LETTER. A ROMANCE. LITERALLY REPRINTED FROM THE FIRST EDITION by (BINDINGS - A. LAUNDER FOR BRADSTREET'S). HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL

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Title: THE SCARLET LETTER. A ROMANCE. LITERALLY REPRINTED FROM THE FIRST EDITION
Author: (BINDINGS - A. LAUNDER FOR BRADSTREET'S). HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description: New York: Privately Printed, 1904. UNIQUE EDITION, ONE OF 125 COPIES on Japan Imperial paper (and one on vellum). 265 x 180 mm. (10 1/2 x 7"). 6 p.l., 333 pp. SUPERB CONTEMPORARY BLACK CRUSHED MOROCCO, INLAID AND GILT, BY BRADSTREET'S, FINISHED BY ALFRED WILLIAM LAUNDER (stamp-signed in gilt: Bradstreet's on front doublure, A. Launder on rear doublure), covers with inlaid Art Nouveau-style frame in taupe and ivory crushed morocco, the former semé with gilt dots, central panel of upper cover with large initial "A" formed by inlaid scarlet morocco acanthus leaves, that of lower cover with the final line of the book "ON A FIELD SABLE THE LETTER A GULES" tooled in gilt majuscules, the bold, flourished "A" inlaid in scarlet morocco; raised bands, spine compartments similarly framed, one compartment with inlaid scarlet morocco "A" tooled with gilt circlets, gilt titling, SPLENDID RED MOROCCO DOUBLURES bordered by inlaid ivory morocco swag-and-trefoil frame, central panel semé with rows of tiny floral sprigs, inlaid ivory morocco oval centerpiece with collar of inlaid ivory morocco lace, leather hinges, ivory watered silk endleaves, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Original printed paper wrapper bound in. Housed in the original dark brown morocco pull-off case lined with maroon calf. With 15 color plates by A. Robaudi and C. Graham, each in a second black & white state, all with original tissue guards. A Large Paper Copy. Front flyleaf with morocco bookplate of Henry William Poor. Catalogue of the Library of Henry W. Poor . . . sold . . . 1908. New York: [Douglas Taylor & Co.] (1908), Lot 614 (this copy). AN IMMACULATE COPY. This is a memorable volume comprising a luxurious illustrated edition of a great American classic in a binding by a leading American artisan, and from an outstanding private library. Alfred William Launder was born in England and trained in his craft by his father. He then worked in the Mansell bindery before emigrating to New York in the late 19th century, where he first worked at the firm his brother operated with fellow emigré James MacDonald. Finding the pressures of a busy commercial firm less congenial than a small hand bindery, he accepted a job as finisher at Bradstreet's, which bound rare books and manuscripts for collectors including J. Pierpont Morgan and Henry W. Poor. In 1929, Launder became the first bookbinder to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he rebound and restored rare volumes in the museum's Thomas J. Watson Library. An article on the Met's website by Museum Librarian Mindell Dubansky pays tribute to Launder as "one of the finest binders in New York" and someone who had "achieved the highest level in his trade. As a finisher, he was exclusively responsible for the design and decoration of bindings [at the Museum], including the decorative leather onlays, inlays, and gold tooling." For this volume, he designed inlays as flamboyant as the "A" Hawthorne's defiant heroine Hester Prynne embroidered on her bodices. And the condition here manifests the belief expressed in the binding manual Launder created for the Met: "A well-bound book mocks at Time." Former owner Henry William Poor (1844-1915) was a financier and publisher whose firm was a forerunner of Standard and Poor's. He was a patron of the arts as well as a bibliophile whose collection was noted for its holdings in illuminated manuscripts, early printing, fine bindings, private press books, and American imprints. Unfortunate investments led to Poor's financial ruin, causing his impressive library to be sold at auction in 1908-09. His sales at Anderson Galleries brought in more than $200,000, a record at the time for an American collection. This volume was lot 164, praised in the sale catalogue, with the resounding emphasis engendered by majuscules, as "AN EXCEEDINGLY HANDSOME COPY.".

Les Étoiles by [Fine Binding - Meunier, Charles] Grandville, J.J., (illustrator); Joseph Mery

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Title: Les Étoiles
Author: [Fine Binding - Meunier, Charles] Grandville, J.J., (illustrator); Joseph Mery
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Description: Paris & Leipzig: G. De Gonet & Chez Charles Twietmeyer, 1849. First edition. Two parts in one quarto volume (11 x 7 3/8 inches; 280 x 187 mm.). [4], xvi, 252; [4], 186, [2] pp. With added hand-colored wood-engraved vignette title in each part, hand-colored engraved portrait of Grandville by Ch. Geoffroy, and twelve hand-colored engraved plates (eleven in the first part, one in the second part) by Ch. Geoffroy after Grandville, all with original tissue-guards. Handsomely bound by Charles Meunier, stamp-signed in black on front turn-in "Ch. Meunier. 1905". Full blue morocco, covers decoratively rued in gilt with gray morocco inlaid borders enclosing an elaborate design of inlaid gray, cream and green inlaid flowers with decorative gilt stems. Spine with four raised bands, decoratively inlaid in various colored morocco's, decorated and lettered in gilt in compartments. Decorative gilt board-edges, gilt ruled turn-ins with inlaid gay morocco borders, gray-green marbled endpapers, top edge trimmed, others uncut. Original printed paper wrappers and spine bound in at end. Unidentified bookplate "Nec Tu Semper Eris" (You will not always be) on verso of front flyleaf. Housed in the original blue leather edged, patterned paper board slipcase. A wonderful copy of this lovely book, with exquisite plates after Grandville. This posthumously published work (Grandville died on March 17, 1847) was originally issued in fifty parts, the first part appearing in September 1849. "The compositions of this 'last fairy-tale,' brilliantly engraved on steel by Charles Geoffroy and delicately colored, form a fitting memorial to Grandville...The pattern which he follows is similar to that of Les fleurs animées. Nearly every plate has its beautiful lady, clad in white and adorned with stars, looming in the sky, with varied scenes of earthly life below her. These designs, Grandville's tranquil refuge from the turmoil that beset his mind, are as charming as they are mysterious. Also included in the volume are an unsigned essay, which remains the most considerable source of biographical information about Grandville, and a fine portrait of him by Geoffroy (I, xvi) with a border of his creations, animals paying him tribute as well as his flower- and star-ladies" (Ray). The talented Charles Meunier (1865-1940) was first apprenticed to a book binder at the eleven years old. After training with Marius-Michel, he began his own binder in 1885, where he sought to be innovative and nontraditional. "... Drawing on traditional and modern techniques and forms of decoration, Meuniere mixed classical punches... with newly fashionable incised and modeled leather panels. His output was prodigious; by 1897 he had produced roughly six hundred bindings" (Art Nouveau and Art Deco Bookbinding). Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book, 200. Vicaire V, col. 770. Grandville. Dessins Originaux, p. 398.

Fairies and Chimneys by [Fine Binding - Pattinson, Alice]; Rose Fyleman

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Title: Fairies and Chimneys
Author: [Fine Binding - Pattinson, Alice]; Rose Fyleman
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: London: Methuen & Co, 1919. Fourth edition. Fine. A fine copy. Sixteenmo (6 9/16 x 4 inches; 166 x 102 mm.). 45, [1, imprint] pp. Bound by Alice Pattinson ca. 1919 in full crushed brown morocco (stamp-signed in gilt "AP" on rear turn-in). Covers with matching designs on front and rear, featuring a geometrical gilt pattern with four groups of twelve leaves inlaid in green morocco with a central inlaid red morocco flower. Front cover decoratively lettered in gilt, spines in with five raised bands, ruled in gilt and decorated with gilt dots, gilt-ruled turn-ins, pinkish cream liners and end-leaves, all edges gilt. Rose Amy Fyleman (1877-1957) was an incredibly prolific English writer and poet, whose work focused on age-appropriate stories for children. She is best known her fairy subjects, which "avoided the darkness and the evil that many of the Celtic and Germanic fairy stories contain" (Dictionary of Literary Biography). An example of which is presented here: this lovely little book (first published in 1918) contains twenty-five sweet poems about fairies. A very nice example of Alice Pattinson's fine work. Pattinson was a talented bookbinder active in the late-19th century. She trained with famous the binder Douglas Cockerell and alongside Katharine Adams and Florence Paget was involved with binding the Ashendene Press "Song of Songs" (1902). She ran a collaborative enterprise "all her later bindings were forwarded by her partner Else Hoffman, and finished by George Fisher, who at the time was one of the finest finishers in England. Fisher attended Douglas Cockerell's evening classes at the Central School, and Cockerell introduced him to Pattinson just after he had finished his apprenticeship with Rivière's. Pattinson made no secret of employing Fisher, although frequently her bindings were illustrated in catalogues and journals with no mention at all of who did the different parts of the work. Her bindings are signed with the monogram of her initials, similar to that of Annie Power, and are usually dated" (Tidcombe). Fine.

The Nam (Signed Limited Edition) by BANNER, Fiona

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Title: The Nam (Signed Limited Edition)
Author: BANNER, Fiona
Seller: Harper's Books (United States)
Condition: Negligible crimping at the spine heel and a touch of shelf wear, very close to fine in laminated boards as issued. A very nice c
Description: London: Frith Street Books, 1997. Negligible crimping at the spine heel and a touch of shelf wear, very close to fine in laminated boards as issued. A very nice copy, signed, of the rare hardcover edition, usually encountered in suboptimal condition.. First Edition. Thick quarto. The issue in hard cover, limited to 100 copies, of 1000 total. SIGNED by Fiona Banner and dated in the year of publication. An artwork in the guise of a book. The author offers her interpretation of the plots of six Vietnam War films in a running dialogue: Full Metal Jacket, The Deer Hunter, Apocalypse Now, Born on the Fourth of July, Hamburger Hill, and Platoon.

People's Yellow Pages by (COUNTER-CULTURE)

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Title: People's Yellow Pages
Author: (COUNTER-CULTURE)
Seller: BATTLEDORE LTD (United States)
Description: (Counter-Culture)People's Yellow Pages.Cambridge, MA: Vocations for Social Change, November 1971.Sparsely but appropriately illustrated throughout.Large 4to., [ii]125 pp.; self-wrappers, overall light staining but complete. Ink annotation in outer margin of front cover.Second edition (revised, updated)Apparently the FIRST putting together of a "People's Yellow Pages" by a group that describes itself as "anti-profit": an alphabetical inventory detailing many groups, legal services, support organizations, and everything else one would be needing to know about coming out of the various movements from the late 1960s. Topics include abortion, assassination, bio-rhythm, coffee houses, communes, draft counseling, drugs, ecology, food cooperatives, group therapy and child care, help crisis, liberation struggles, mental health, nonviolence, political science, prisons, radicals, resistance, sensitivity training, spirituality, tenant's rights, war crimes, welfare, &c. OCLC locates one copy only (Emory Univ) of this specific printing, but later editions were issued through 1973.

Gunter Blum: Akt by Blum, Gunter; Wortmann, Rainer (Text); Ernst, Heiko (Text)

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Title: Gunter Blum: Akt
Author: Blum, Gunter; Wortmann, Rainer (Text); Ernst, Heiko (Text)
Seller: Underground Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9783894660581
Condition: Good +
Description: Heidelberg: Edition Braus, 1993. Hardcover. Good +/good. Hardcover. 13 5/8" X 9 5/8". 141pp. Text in German. Moderate edgewear to pictorial dust jacket, with small tears to extremities, bumping, and dust spotting. Gray cloth over boards with spine lettered in blind. Bumping to extremities of binding and slight lean to spine. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A presentable copy of this collection of erotic photographs by the German fine art photographer Gunter Blum (1949-1997), best known for his erotic photography of nude women.

In Defence of War by Biggar, Nigel

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Title: In Defence of War
Author: Biggar, Nigel
Seller: Underground Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780199672615
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". xi, 361pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in black cloth over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Very gentle bump to head of spine. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Pacifism is popular. Many hold that war is unnecessary, since peaceful means of resolving conflict are always available, if only we had the will to look for them. Or they believe that war is wicked, essentially involving hatred of the enemy and carelessness of human life. Or they posit the absolute right of innocent individuals not to be deliberately killed, making it impossible to justify war in practice. Peace, however, is not simple. Peace for some can leave others at peace to perpetrate mass atrocity. What was peace for the West in 1994 was not peace for the Tutsis of Rwanda. Therefore, against the virus of wishful thinking, anti-military caricature, and the domination of moral deliberation by rights-talk In Defence of War asserts that belligerency can be morally justified, even though tragic and morally flawed. Recovering the Christian tradition of reflection running from Augustine to Grotius, this book affirms aggressive war in punishment of grave injustice. Morally realistic in adhering to universal moral principles, it recognises that morality can trump legality, justifying military intervention even in transgression of positive international law-as in the case of Kosovo. Less cynical and more empirically realistic about human nature than Hobbes, it holds that nations desire to be morally virtuous and right, and not only to be safe and fat. And aspiring to practical realism, it argues that love and the doctrine of double effect can survive combat; and that the constraints of proportionality, while real, are nevertheless sufficiently permissive to encompass Britain's belligerency in 1914-18. Finally, in a painstaking analysis of the Iraq invasion of 2003, In Defence of War culminates in an account of how the various criteria of just war should be thought together. It also concludes that, all things considered, the invasion was justified. (Publisher).

Second or Sheeprock Canon of Weber River. April 6th at 1 P.M. View Looking East by Egloffstein, Frederick W. von

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Title: Second or Sheeprock Canon of Weber River. April 6th at 1 P.M. View Looking East
Author: Egloffstein, Frederick W. von
Seller: Tschanz Rare Books (United States)
Description: [Washington, DC]: [A.O.P. Nicholson, Printer], 1855. Engraving [15 cm x 22.5 cm] on a sheet [30 cm x 38 cm] that shows light overall foxing. This image taken from Beckwith's (after Gunnison's death) Central Pacific survey of the Pacific Railroad Survey. Engraved by C. Schumann.

Hope of Earth. by Anthony, Piers.

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Title: Hope of Earth.
Author: Anthony, Piers.
Seller: Lighthouse Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: New York: A Tom Doherty Associates Book, TOR, 1997. First Edition. Signed by the Author. Octavo, gold boards (hardcover), 416 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: ...In the first two volumes, Isle of Woman and Shame of Man, Anthony showed us the triumphs and tragedies of two remarkable families, each reborn again and again in some of the most turbulent eras of human history. Now, with Hope of Earth, Anthony adds a new dimension to that story, exploring the ancient origins of our humanity, the traits which make us what we are -- war, passion, love, and art. In a stirring, captivating saga that ranges from our ancient beginnings in Africa’s Great Rift Valley to the windswent Andes a century from now, Hope of Earth tells the inspiring story of a group of heroic men and women, bound by ties of passion, honor, and bold, who struggle to transcend our violent past to make a new and shining future.

Oeuvres Completes. by Beranger, P. J. de.

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Title: Oeuvres Completes.
Author: Beranger, P. J. de.
Seller: Ten Pound Island Book Co. (United States)
Condition: Handsome 2 vol.set in marbled boards and Moroccan spine . Minor foxing. Otherwise V G.
Description: Paris: Perrotin, 1847. Handsome 2 vol.set in half morocco over marbled boards. Minor foxing. Otherwise V G.. 2 vols. 23.5 cm. Vol 1 XL pp. 411 pp. Vol 2 401 pp. 52 b/w engravings and frontispieces. Multi volume set. Postage at cost.

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