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Beyond Caring (Signed) by GRAHAM, Paul

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Title: Beyond Caring (Signed)
Author: GRAHAM, Paul
Seller: Harper's Books (United States)
Condition: A sharp copy in photo-illustrated wrappers; save for some scuffing to lower edge of textblock, near fine.
Description: London: Grey Editions, 1986. A sharp copy in photo-illustrated wrappers; save for some scuffing to lower edge of textblock, near fine.. First Edition. Oblong quarto. SIGNED by Graham to half-title page. Graham's second book, with photographs of government waiting rooms, corridors, and cubicles capturing the bleakness of the British welfare system. (Parr / Badger, v2, 300).

Elements of the art of assaying metals in two parts by CRAMER, John Andrew

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Title: Elements of the art of assaying metals in two parts
Author: CRAMER, John Andrew
Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description: London: Tho. Woodward, 1741. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. With 6 folding engraved plates of laboratory apparatus. Contemporary calf, rebacked; interior excellent. A beautiful copy. First edition in English, greatly enlarged from the first edition printed in Latin in 1739. One of the first of it’s kind, this treatise contains the entire art of theoretical and practical assaying. The illustrations and descriptions of instruments and apparatus are considered exceptionally accurate. In addition, Cramer here first describes the use of the blowpipe in smelting small amounts of substances and in analyzing them. Of particular interest is the prefixed list of the chief English authors who have written on minerals and metals. The preface includes references to Agricola, Ercker and Stahl. Cramer (1710-77), according to Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie and to Partington, was the best assayer of his time, and is “justly reckoned among the best writers on the subject” (Baumer). He was appointed director of the Brunswick Mining and Metallurgy Administration in the Harz mountains. In 1738-39 he traveled throughout England in order to learn more about assaying, and gave lectures in London.

Analysis of the Hunting Field, The by ALKEN, Henry; SURTEES, Robert S.

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Title: Analysis of the Hunting Field, The
Author: ALKEN, Henry; SURTEES, Robert S.
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Description: London: Published by Rudolph Ackermann, 1846. It was, perhaps, the best hunting season of modern times" (Preface) [ALKEN, Henry, illustrator]. [SURTEES, Robert Smith]. The Analysis of the Hunting Field, Being a Series of Sketches of the Principal Characters That Compose One. The Whole Forming a Slight Souvenir of the Season 1845-6. With Numerous Illustrations, by H. Alken. London: Published by Rudolph Ackermann, 1846. First edition, mixed issue, with the earliest state of plates 4 & 5 (dated Nov. 9th) but with the Preface dated 1847. Large octavo (9 3/4 x 6 inches; 246 x 152 mm). [8], 326, [4, publisher's catalogue] pp. Seven hand-colored aquatint plates by J. Harris after H. Alken, including frontispiece and pictorial title, forty-three woodcuts. Some light, mainly marginal spotting throughout. Publisher's green ribbed cloth, covers decoratively bordered in blind, front cover pictorially stamped in gilt, rear cover similarly stamped in blind, spine decoratively stamped in gilt, yellow coated endpapers, all edges gilt. Top of spine and inner hinges repaired, lower joint worn, spine sunned. Engraved 'sporting' bookplate of Van Santvoord Merle-Smith on front paste-down. A good copy. "This work first appeared in Bell's Life and the first edition in book form... at 31s. 6d... There are two issues. First issue in green cloth with both titles and the preface dated 1846. Second issue in red cloth, with the preface dated occasionally 1846 but usually 1847... There are early states of some of the plates with imprint dated Nov. 9th not Nov. 19th" (Tooley). The Plates: 1. Frontispiece - The Meet. 2. Engraved title. 3. Getting Away. 4. Full Cry. 5. The Check. 6. The Leap. 7. Whoo-hoo-o-o-p. Robert Smith Surtees (1805-1864) was an English editor, novelist and sporting writer. Thackeray envied him his powers of observation, while William Morris considered him 'a master of life' and ranked him with Dickens. In The Analysis of the Hunting Field, Surtees offers wry, fatherly advice in this satiric romp through the key archetypes of the fox hunt. As Lord Denham says in his introduction, "this should be required reading for anyone connected with hunting. From the right sort of Master to the wrong sort, from the hunting nobleman to the whip and from the blacksmith to the braggart with horses to sell we find the people 'pon the 'orses are much the same as today." "More people are flattered into virtue than were ever bullied out of vice" (Surtees, Analysis of the Hunting Field). Bobins IV, 1320; Podeschi 177; Schwerdt II p.232; Siltzer, p. 73; Tooley 470.

Lán ê kiù-tsú Iâ-sơ Ki-tok ê sin iok. Tsoân su

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Title: Lán ê kiù-tsú Iâ-sơ Ki-tok ê sin iok. Tsoân su
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (United States)
Description: Siōng-hai [i.e., Shanghai]: Tiong Hoa Sèng-Keng Hōe [China Bible House], 1950. Small 8vo, pp. [4], 462; printed on thin paper; previous owner's stamp on front pastedown; original green cloth blindstamped title on upper cover, title in gilt on spine; very good, sound, and clean. The romanized Amoy (Amoy Hokkien) New Testament, first published in 1947. The vernacular is spoken in the city of Xiamen and the surrounding metropolitan area, in the southern part of Fujian Province. One copy only in OCLC: National Library of Taiwan. Of the 1947 edition, also just one copy in OCLC, and also in Taiwan.

A coups de Baïonnette. Collection de La Baïonnette. Volume 6: (October-December, 1916)

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Title: A coups de Baïonnette. Collection de La Baïonnette. Volume 6: (October-December, 1916)
Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Paris, 1916. Hardcover. Very Good. Magazine. L’édition française illustrée. Thirteen consecutive weekly issues of *La Baïonnette* in one volume, with original wrappers bound in. Nos. 66-78 (October-December, 1916). Quarto. Illustrated with “300 Dessins en couleurs et en noir”. Publisher’s quarter red cloth and color pictorial paper-covered boards, spine lettered in black. The margins have been slightly trimmed, as issued in one bound volume. Spine is moderately rubbed, light wear at the edges of the boards and corner tips, one leaf (pp. 732-33) is torn with loss at one corner (about 2 ½” x 5”), else very good or better. A satirical French magazine, aimed at German society during World War I. Profusely illustrated throughout, including full-page and double-page illustrations in color and black-and-white. Laid in is a publisher’s printed broadside (announcing delayed publication). A bright, attractive copy.

Murder Without Make-up by Benjamin, Edla

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Title: Murder Without Make-up
Author: Benjamin, Edla
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Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj
Description: New York: Random House. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj. (c.1940). First Edition. Hardcover. [a nice clean book, light shelfwear, spine just a bit turned; jacket moderately faded along spine, otherwise colorful and attractive with minor wear only]. Quite uncommon murder mystery about a killing that occurs on opening night of a Broadway play and "involves, before its solution, the most important figures in the whole production -- the rich producer, equally famous in New York and Hollywood, the titled and fabulously clever author, the beautiful star herself, and all the lesser members of the cast and backstage crew." According to the jacket blurb, the author came "from a family that has been prominently associated with the New York stage for years," and that her book benefits from "her obvious familiarity with her subject, coupled with a rare talent for crisp, pungent dialogue." True enough on the family connection: her mother was the noted theatrical set and costume designer (and lover of Thomas Wolfe) Aline Bernstein, who designed dozens of stage productions between 1916 and 1951. This was the second of Edla's two mystery novels; the other, "A Well-born Corpse," had been published the year before. (The jacket illustration by Alajalov had previously been used on the cover of the February 10, 1940 issue of The New Yorker.) .

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La musique et le rite sacré et profane. Actes du XIIIe Congrès de la Société Internationale de Musicologie, Strasbourg, 29 aout-3 septembre 1982

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Title: La musique et le rite sacré et profane. Actes du XIIIe Congrès de la Société Internationale de Musicologie, Strasbourg, 29 aout-3 septembre 1982
Seller: Hackenberg Booksellers ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9782868201072
Description: Strasbourg: Association des Publications près les Universités de Strasbourg, 1986. 2 vols. (489; 795p.), music, b/w illus., original stiff printed wrappers. Contains 109 scholarly paper in French, German, English, Italian and Spanish. Contents: v. 1, Tables rondes présentées et réunies par Marc Honegger et Christian Meyer. v. 2, Communications libres réunies par Marc Honegger et Paul Prevost.

Happier for His Presence. San Francisco and Robert Louis Stevenson by Issler, Anne Roller

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Title: Happier for His Presence. San Francisco and Robert Louis Stevenson
Author: Issler, Anne Roller
Seller: Argonaut Book Shop (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1949 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First edition. Presentation inscription, signed by the author: "For Sarah Hammond Kelly, Second National Vice-President, League of American Pen Women, and fellow member of the Sonoma County Branch. With the best wishes of the author. Anne Roller Issler. June 25, 1949." Octavo. 8½x5¼ inches. Pp. xviii, [5], 178. Plates and illustrations; bibliography, index. Tan cloth lettered in brown on spine. Slight rubbing to outer joints. A fine, clean copy with slightly rubbed and worn pictorial dust jacket. Becoming somewhat scarce. A revealing biography based upon original source material. The author comes up with some new psychological sidelights on the man and the people who surrounded him. Particularly interesting are several letters from Fanny's husband that throw new light on Sam Osbourne's character. Osbourne later remarried and shortly after disappeared..

The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America. by Ward, Nathaniel. [Thomas de la Guard].

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Title: The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America.
Author: Ward, Nathaniel. [Thomas de la Guard].
Seller: Ten Pound Island Book Co. (United States)
Condition: Deftly manipulating the cobbler trope, Ward offers to
Description: Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1843. Deftly manipulating the cobbler trope, Ward offers to "help mend his native country... both in the upper-leather and sole." Nathaniel Ward was born in England but emigrated to Massachusetts in 1634 after having been reprimanded by the Bishop of London. Already in his 60s, he served for two years as the first minister in Ipswich. After the English Civil War Ward returned to England, where he died in 1652. His eccentric and essentially conservative "Simple Cobler" was first published in England in 1647 under the alias Theodore de la Guard. It was reprinted in Boston in 1713. This edition was published edited by David Pulsifer who used "One of the earlier editions and that of 1713... in preparing the present edition... the author made several additions... which will be found in this now issued." Antiquarian and Ipswich native Pulsifer has inscribed this copy to his friend Augustus Dodge Rogers on the front blank. On the paste down is the bookplate of William Crowninshield Endicott Jr. a president of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Bound as issued in blind stamped cloth with gold spine lettering. Scattered interior foxing, particularly on early pages. Front joint and spine ends rubbed.. 19.5 cm. vi, (4), 96 pp.

Graded Songs for Day Schools, No. 1 by Blackman, O.

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Title: Graded Songs for Day Schools, No. 1
Author: Blackman, O.
Seller: Underground Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: Cincinnati: John Church & Co, 1866. Enlarged Edition. Staplebound wraps. Good. Enlarged Edition. Staplebound wraps. 6 1/4" X 4 7/8". 31pp. Moderate to heavy wear to orange printed wraps, with soiing, inked mark, edgewear, and tears to head and tail of spine. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A worn but charming copy of this collection of songs for schoolchildren.

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