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Bovisms by Wood, Lawson; H. M. Bateman; Peter Fraser; W. Heath Robinson; George Morrow; Bert Thomas; Alfred Keefe; and Reginald Askell -- writers and/or illustrators credited on cover. Also piece by Frank Bury; A. A. Thomson; Ashley Sterne; and "V

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Title: Bovisms
Author: Wood, Lawson; H. M. Bateman; Peter Fraser; W. Heath Robinson; George Morrow; Bert Thomas; Alfred Keefe; and Reginald Askell -- writers and/or illustrators credited on cover. Also piece by Frank Bury; A. A. Thomson; Ashley Sterne; and "V
Seller: White Fox Rare Books and Antiques (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: London: Bovis Ltd, 1950. First Edition. Portfolio, light card stock. With flaps. Plates loose within. Near Fine. Lawson Wood; H. M. Bateman; Peter Fraser; W. Heath Robinson; George Morrow; Bert Thomas; and Alfred Leete.. Quirky, funny send-up of many aspects of home renovation by a stellar line-up of literary and visual humorists. Published by a major London contractor or construction firm, surely as a promotional tool. The firm, Bovis Ltd., was acquired and absorbed by P&O in 1974 and is now under yet another corporate umbrella but the underlying business itself, as opposed to its corporate ownership or organization, remains a significant player in its industry. In any case, for a private enterprise to afford the services of the talent involved in this promotion, it really had a robust war chest, for W. Heath Robinson and Lawson Wood, to name just two of the contributors, were immensely popular illustrators. As a promotion, Bovis goes the offbeat or unusual route of poking fun, albeit perhaps gentle fun, at its own industry and itself. Anyone who has engaged contractors, or even just standard tradespeople such as plumbers and electricians, will nod their head in recognition of the inevitable missteps and blunders committed by these professionals. N.d., 1950. 4to. 28 by 21 cm. 17 loose leaves. Unpaginated. Printing on one side of each. Title leaf. Six leaves following primarily textual, with a small vignette drawing or two at their base. Then ten leaves dominated by illustration(s) with captioning at their base, and sometimes by drawings if they are arranged as comic strips with multiple cells. Also some text on inside back of portfolio. Scarce, with only copies reflected on OCLC First Search at V&A, National Library of Scotland and Dartmouth. One OCLC entry indicates there are 18 leaves, while we are representing there are just 17. We believe that they are counting the portfolio as a leaf, which after all, has content, but as of this date, we aren't 100 percent certain. We would note, though, that our number seems also likelier, as the odds are against a company arranging for 11 illustrated plates or 7 text pages, as opposed to 10 and 6, respectively. The portfolio shows considerable wear, with a number of small tears, creases and the like. Its internal folds have also been repaired non-professionally with scotch tape. The portfolio, though, is still completely functional for its purpose. The leaves within are completely clean and we would say close to Like New condition. Overall, we thus would grade this very rare collection of home renovation humor as Near Fine.

[Photo album including 1939-40 World's Fair content.] Photographs

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Title: [Photo album including 1939-40 World's Fair content.] Photographs
Seller: James Arsenault & Company (United States)
Description: [New York, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and other locales, 3 Sept. 1936-23 Nov. 1940.]. Oblong 12mo (7.4" x 11.5"), blind-stamped brown marbled paper on boards. 200 b&w photos in three sizes (2.75" x 1.75", 3" x 2.5", and 3" x 4.5"), plus one 8.5" x 5.75" sepia-toned portrait; with manuscript white paper labels on black album paper. CONDITION: Very good, images clean with varied tonality, a few images overexposed or blurry as is common for snapshots, album leaves partially perished at edges. A photo album compiled by an unidentified young couple documenting their vacations between 1936 and 1940, including a substantial number of photos of the 1939-40 New York World's Fair. The 1939-40 New York World's Fair opened on April 30th, 1939 in Flushing Meadow, Queens. The first exposition to have a futuristic theme ("World of Tomorrow"), it hosted exhibits by sixty countries, the League of Nations, thirty-three U.S. states, several federal agencies, and the City of New York. By the time the fair closed on October 26th, 1940, over forty-four million people had visited the fair. Seventy-four photos in this album depict the World's Fair and its buildings and landscapes in both 1939 and 1940, indicating that the couple visited at least twice. Images picture the buildings/pavilions of the League of Nations, Westinghouse, Corning Glass Works, and the modernist sculptures Trylon and Perisphere, as well as pavilions for individual nations including Poland, France, Japan, Russia, Italy, and America. Other highlights of the fair pictured here include Trains on Parade, the City of Light (presented by Consolidated Edison), man-made lightning, a view of the inside of the Perisphere, fountains, sculptures, elevated views of the fair, and the French ocean liner SS Normandie (the most powerful steam turbo-electric-propelled passenger ship ever built, crossing the Atlantic in a record 4.14 days). One image shows a group of Polish children wearing traditional Polish clothing, and several show the unidentified couple posing at the fair. A few evocative shots capture the fair at night, and a number of images reveal the house where the couple stayed during the fair. A series of photos document a visit to West Point, New York on August 14th, 1938, including images of statues, an armed cadet, the West Point campus, and cadets engaged in drills on the school's training grounds. Between 1936 and 1940 the couple visited the Mohawk Trail in Massachusetts (included here are a shot of a confined bear on the Trail, and a couple of shots show the couple posing next to a statue of a Native American man); Forest Park, Massachusetts; Hubbard Park, Connecticut; Bronx Park, New York (several images of caged animals in the zoo); Benson's Wild Animal Farm, New Hampshire, and Highland Lake, Winstead, Rhode Island. The album concludes with several shots taken on Thanksgiving Day in 1940-a little less than a month after the World's Fair ended. An appealing album with considerable documentation of the 1939-40 New York World's Fair.

Brothers and Keepers [Signed] by John Edgar Wideman

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Title: Brothers and Keepers [Signed]
Author: John Edgar Wideman
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780030617546
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1984. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1984. First Edition, stated, with full numberline. Octavo (23.5cm); photo-illustrated dust jacket with $15.95 price intact; copper boards with black cloth spine and copper lettering; [x],243pp. Jacket a bit shelfworn, with rubbing at spine ends and a few stray scuffs to surface. Boards nudged at head and tail. Thumbprint to fore-edge of textblock. Pages lightly toning; faint pencil erasure at top corner of front free endpaper, else interior unmarked. Binding sound. Wideman's memoir exploring the diverging paths of himself, a writer and academic, and his brother, whose involvement in a botched robbery resulted in a lifetime prison sentence.

G.E. Lessing's Theology: A Reinterpretation. A Study of the Problematic Nature of the Enlightenment by Leonard P. Wessel

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Title: G.E. Lessing's Theology: A Reinterpretation. A Study of the Problematic Nature of the Enlightenment
Author: Leonard P. Wessel
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9789027978011
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Hague: Mouton, 1977. Very Good/Very Good -. The Hague: Mouton, 1977. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in blue pictorial dust jacket; 283pp. General wear to jacket extremities including a few short closed tears, corners tapped, slightly later ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good and sound.

Rice Combo: relevant issues & community events; vol. 1, #3, Sept. 2000

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Title: Rice Combo: relevant issues & community events; vol. 1, #3, Sept. 2000
Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description: San Francisco: Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center, 2000. Magazine. 16p., includes covers, 7x8.5 inches, interview, articles, resources, ads, calendar of events, photos, illustrations, very good digest size magazine in stapled pictorial white wraps.

Lucien Aigner by AIGNER, Lucien and A.D. Coleman

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Title: Lucien Aigner
Author: AIGNER, Lucien and A.D. Coleman
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780933642003
Description: New York: The International Center for Photography, 1979. First edition. Softcover. 127 pages. Features an essay by A. D. Coleman as well an autobiographical essay by Aigner. Includes numerous black and white images, chronology, list of previous exhibitions and a bibliography. A near fine copy in photo-illustrated wrappers with some slight toning to the edges.

AN ESSAY ON MORALS by WYLIE, Philip

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Title: AN ESSAY ON MORALS
Author: WYLIE, Philip
Seller: Second Life Books Inc (United States)
Description: NY: Rinehart, 1947. First Edition. 8vo, pp. xvi, 204. Some light moisture staining at top of leaves, o/w VG. An "attempt to disclose a science of philosophy.

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