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Richard Yarde's The Savoy Ballroom

Richard Yarde's The Savoy Ballroom by Yarde, Richard; Alexander Eliot, text, and M. S. Campbell, intro

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Seller: James Cummins Bookseller
Title
Richard Yarde's The Savoy Ballroom
Author
Yarde, Richard; Alexander Eliot, text, and M. S. Campbell, intro
Seller
James Cummins Bookseller (United States)
Condition
In publisher's quarter-leather clamshell box, with attractive Art Deco design on spine, slight fading and rubbing on spine, else
Description
[Massachusetts]: Savoy Associates, 1986. First edition, signed; limited to 400 copies. Designed by Barry Moser. Unsewn folio sheets printed in red and black type,illustrated with 14 color plates, each signed in pencil; with an extra suite of 14 signed color plates; [viii], 104 pp. Portfolio (40 by 31 cm). In publisher's quarter-leather clamshell box, with attractive Art Deco design on spine, slight fading and rubbing on spine, else fine. Moser, Barry. First edition, signed; limited to 400 copies. Designed by Barry Moser. Unsewn folio sheets printed in red and black type,illustrated with 14 color plates, each signed in pencil; with an extra suite of 14 signed color plates; [viii], 104 pp. Portfolio (40 by 31 cm). African-American artist Richard Yarde (1939-2011) is considered one of the most accomplished American watercolorists of his generation. His work is found in numerous public collections, including MoMA, Studio Museum of Harlem, Smithsonian Institution, and the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), among others. When discussing his watercolor studies of musicians and dancers at the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem, Yarde stated: "The Savoy became a source of creativity, joy, and strength to me, which I want to share and honor." Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, in 1982, presented a travelling exhibition "Savoy: An Installation by Richard Yarde," which was also shown in San Diego, Baltimore, and The Studio Museum, Harlem.
Paradossi per pratticare la prospettiva, senza saperla, fiori, per facilitare l'intelligenza, frutti, per non operare alla cieca. Cognitioni necessarie a Pittori, Scultori, Architetti, ed a qualunque si diletta del Disegno

Paradossi per pratticare la prospettiva, senza saperla, fiori, per facilitare l'intelligenza, frutti, per non operare alla cieca. Cognitioni necessarie a Pittori, Scultori, Architetti, ed a qualunque si diletta del Disegno by TROILI, Guido

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Title
Paradossi per pratticare la prospettiva, senza saperla, fiori, per facilitare l'intelligenza, frutti, per non operare alla cieca. Cognitioni necessarie a Pittori, Scultori, Architetti, ed a qualunque si diletta del Disegno
Author
TROILI, Guido
Seller
Martayan Lan, Inc. (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
First edition and much scarcer than the second edition of 1683. "Troili, a pupil of the quadratura painter Michelangelo Colonna, became scene painter for the Farnese theater at Parma. Ferdinando Bibiena saw his work there (probably after the artist's death) and absorbed its influence. This original edition of Troili's exceptionally handsome book on perspective is one of the real milestones in the history of theatrical scenery: it describes the conscious use of visual deception, the creation of greater �depth' by means of oblique positioning of the wings, as common practice twenty years before Pozzo" (Breman in Architectural Theory and Practice III-B-24).The third section treats shadows and fortifications. "Libro molto letto e stimato" (Schlosser-Magnino, p. 620). * Riccardi II.561; Cicognara 866 (mention of 1683 second ed.); Fowler, p. 277-278; J. Baltrusaitis, Anamorfosi, pp. 19, 21 and 23; Piantanida, Autori Italiani Del �600, 4424.
Switch on the Night

Switch on the Night by Bradbury, Ray

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Title
Switch on the Night
Author
Bradbury, Ray
Seller
Bookbid Rare Books (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
Pantheon Books, 1955. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A fine first edition in a fine dust jacket, signed by Bradbury on the title page. Original price of $2.50 on front flap of the dust jacket. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase.
Player Piano

Player Piano by Vonnegut, Kurt

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Seller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA
Title
Player Piano
Author
Vonnegut, Kurt
Seller
B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
London: Macmillan & Co., 1953 First UK edition, first printing. With laid-in bookplate signed by Vonnegut. Publisher's red cloth, with light toning to spine ends, a few tiny bumps to edges of rear board, a hint of soiling to spine ends, bottoms of boards, and edges of endpapers, and light foxing to text block edges; about very good clipped dust jacket, with light fading to spine, light soiling to panels and spine, front flap stamped with "Macmillan's Overseas Library," light wear to edges and spine ends, light foxing to jacket verso, tape reinforcement along upper and lower margins of jacket verso, and some splitting to top portion of rear flap fold. Overall, a pleasing copy. Vonnegut's first book Player Piano is a dystopian novel set ten years after World War III, in the fictional town of Ilium, New York. In this town, society is largely run by self-automating machines, and the population is divided into managers and engineers on one side of the river, and the "Homestead" - a camp for people displaced by technology - on the other. The story's protagonist, Dr. Paul Proteus, is a manager at Ilium Works, who becomes increasingly rebellious to the system. For this novel, Vonnegut drew on his personal experience working as a technical writer at General Electric shortly after the close of World War II. In a 1973 interview, Vonnegut said that he "cheerfully ripped off the plot of Brave New World, whose plot had been cheerfully ripped off from Yevgeny Zamyatin's We.". Signed by Author. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Dust Jacket Included.
Writings

Writings by Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Title
Writings
Author
Whittier, John Greenleaf
Seller
Royoung bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Condition
Three quarter brown morocco, marbled boards and matching endpapers. Teg. Fine. 9 Vols
Description
Cambridge: Houghton, Mifflin & Co, 1894. Hardcover. Three quarter brown morocco, marbled boards and matching endpapers. Teg. Fine. 9 Vols. 22.5 x 15.5 cm. Large Paper Edition, copy 125 of 400, containing the Writings (7 volumes), and Samuel T. Pickard's, Life and Letters (2 volumes) with the bookplates of C.L. Huntley. Whittier was perhaps best known for his Anti-Slavery position early in the 19th century, and as a founding member of the "Anti-Slavery Society," in 1833. He was also strongly supportive of women writers: Sara Orne Jewett, Alice Cary, Celia Thaxter and others; Jewel dedicated one of her books to him. Elegant binding, raised bands, spine labels richly gilt with large floral motif at center, miniscule rubbing to a few corners.
[Large Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album Recording the Lives and Travels of the Owners of a Colorado Ranch]

[Large Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album Recording the Lives and Travels of the Owners of a Colorado Ranch] by [Western Photographica]

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Title
[Large Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album Recording the Lives and Travels of the Owners of a Colorado Ranch]
Author
[Western Photographica]
Seller
The Joe Fay Company LLC (United States)
Condition
Very good plus.
Description
[Various locations in Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming, and Utah, 1935. Very good plus.. Seventy-four leaves, illustrated with 485 photographs and picture postcards, between 2 x 3 inches and 4.75 x 6.75 inches, occasionally annotated in manuscript in white pencil. Oblong folio. Contemporary black textured cloth, string tied. Small stain near right edge of front cover. Internally very clean and well organized. A voluminous collection of photographs picturing the lives and travels of Pat and Marge Williams, centered on their ranch in Colorado. The images capture the landscape and buildings on the ranch, both exterior and interior, as well as the livestock, grain fields, and more. Several photographs capture farming activities including the harvesting of the alfalfa crop and the threshing of the wheat. The album also includes photos of the area around the ranch and within Colorado, in places such as North Park, Estes Park, Cheyenne Plains, Grand Lake, and Fort Collins, with images of Long's Peak, Mary's Lake, Spanish Peaks, Big Fish Lake, White River, Trapper's Lake, and others. The album also features locations visited by the compiler in the American West and Southwest, with informative photos of Taos Mountain, Cimarron Canyon, Kit Carson's house, the pueblos and ruins in Taos and Puye, House Rock Valley, Bryce Canyon, Zion Canyon, and other sites in New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming, and Utah. Some of the original photographs and postcards feature Native American subjects, such as Native American women in Taos, "Victoriano Sisneras and Wife" in Puye, and Navajo rug weavers at work in Arizona. Other interesting images depict a "Hopi Watch Tower" in the Grand Canyon, the Mojave Desert, "Old Fort Bridger" in Wyoming, "Dinosaur tracks near Tuba City," and the Colorado River Bridge at Lee's Ferry. The final eighteen leaves, encompassing about ninety-six photos and postcards (mostly the latter) record numerous scenes in various locations in Mexico. A far-reaching collection of vernacular images and pictorial postcards capturing numerous locations in the American West and Southwest during the mid-1930s.
Imago [Signed]

Imago [Signed] by Octavia E. Butler

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Title
Imago [Signed]
Author
Octavia E. Butler
Seller
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780446514729
Condition
Very Good -
Description
New York: Warner Books / Warner Communications Company, 1989. Very Good -/Very Good. New York: Warner Books / Warner Communications Company, 1989. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards in glossy unclipped pictorial dust jacket; [8],264pp. Ex-library with usual markings including jacket spine label and bar code on rear jacket panel, old glue and paper residue to endpapers, light wear and wrinkling to jacket margins, brief spotting to textblock edges; overall Good to Very Good, still a bright and sound example. Signed by the author on title page. The third and final volume in the Xenogenesis (later called Lilith's Brood) trilogy.
Pembrokeshire

Pembrokeshire by Thomas Lloyd et al.

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Pembrokeshire
Author
Thomas Lloyd et al.
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Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780300101782
Condition
Very Good +
Description
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994. Very Good +/Very Good. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994. First Edition. Thick, narrow octavo; publisher's leatherette in photo-illustrated dust jacket; 549pp.; thirty-two (32) leaves of photographic illus. printed on rectos and versos, many in color, maps throughout text. Minor wear to jacket extremiites from handling, brief bubbling to rear jacket panel lamination, corners tapped, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. Forms part of the Buildings of Wales series.
Murder by an Aristocrat

Murder by an Aristocrat by Eberhart, Mignon G.

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Title
Murder by an Aristocrat
Author
Eberhart, Mignon G.
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Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Garden City: Crime Club / Doubleday Doran, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very Good in an about Very Good jacket, unclipped ($2.00), rubbed at the edges, toned at the back panel, a bit of loss at the head and foot of the spine. Black buckram, bumped at the corners, with orange panels on the spine and front board. Bound with an orange top stain, reading wear, and a forward lean, clean internally. A Nurse Keate mystery, adapted into the 1936 Frank McDonald film starring Lyle Talbot, Marguerite Churchill, and Claire Dodd.
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Scheme of the Exercises, at the Publick Commencement of Yale College, September 13th, 1815. by PERCIVAL, James Gates.)

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Scheme of the Exercises, at the Publick Commencement of Yale College, September 13th, 1815.
Author
PERCIVAL, James Gates.)
Seller
Savoy Books (United States)
Description
Book. [New Haven:] Hudson & Woodward, printers, [1815]. Broadside, 11 3/4 x 7 1/2. Text within ornamental border. Lightly browned, a little residue from album mounting on verso; folded. Rare program for Percival's Yale commencement. His name appears twice: giving an oration "On the comparative value of Scientifick and Military reputation"; and participating in a dialogue on "The Effects of Jealousy and Revenge." Not in Imprints; not in BAL Percival-ana; OCLC, Brown copy only..
Sermons on the Mosaic Account of the Creation; The Serpent's Temptation to Our First Parents, and on their Exclusion From the Garden of Eden

Sermons on the Mosaic Account of the Creation; The Serpent's Temptation to Our First Parents, and on their Exclusion From the Garden of Eden by West, Stephen

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Sermons on the Mosaic Account of the Creation; The Serpent's Temptation to Our First Parents, and on their Exclusion From the Garden of Eden
Author
West, Stephen
Seller
The Kelmscott Bookshop (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Stockbridge (MA): Herald Office, 1809. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. Vg in wraps/contemporary paper spine/60 pp./text brown-spotted in places but vg for age Religion. REL111131.
The Economies of Eastern Europe Under Gorbachev's Influence, Colloquium 23-25th March 1988

The Economies of Eastern Europe Under Gorbachev's Influence, Colloquium 23-25th March 1988 by Weichhardt, Reiner [editor]

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Title
The Economies of Eastern Europe Under Gorbachev's Influence, Colloquium 23-25th March 1988
Author
Weichhardt, Reiner [editor]
Seller
The Kelmscott Bookshop (United States)
ISBN
9789284500390
Condition
Near Fine in Wraps
Description
Brussels: NATO, 1989. Paperback. Near Fine in Wraps. Paperback. SCARCE. In both English and French. 8vo. Black paper wrappers with white title to front wrapper and to spine. Slight edge wear to exterior. Pristine interior. 345 pages. Eastern Europe. EEUR/090211.
LITERATURE] [POETRY] GIRL OF THE FOREST

LITERATURE] [POETRY] GIRL OF THE FOREST by Martha Ruffell

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Title
LITERATURE] [POETRY] GIRL OF THE FOREST
Author
Martha Ruffell
Seller
Black Swan Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition
Good binding
Description
Southampton, 1856. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good binding. A collection of poetry, privately printed for the author, a Martha Ruffel of Lyndhurst, Hampshire. Martha appears to be an inconsequential English lady, who serves as a voice for the commons on their fears surrounding the Crimean War as well as reminiscences of everyday village life. 48 pp. Textblock has been reglued by a conservator; scattered staining to the text. Red silk moire covered flexible boards, with an illustration of a girl stamped in gilt on the front cover. Uncommon, we locate no copies on OCLC. Good binding.
THE CORRESPONDENCE OF THE LATE JOHN WILKES, WITH HIS FRIENDS : PRINTED FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS IN WHICH ARE INTRODUCED MEMOIRS OF HIS LIFE, BY JOHN ALMON : IN FIVE VOLUMES (BURT FRANKLIN RESEARCH AND SOURCE WORKS SERIES, 436) (SELECTED ESSAYS IN HISTORY, ECONOMICS, & SOCIAL SCIENCE, 116) [5 volumes]

THE CORRESPONDENCE OF THE LATE JOHN WILKES, WITH HIS FRIENDS : PRINTED FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS IN WHICH ARE INTRODUCED MEMOIRS OF HIS LIFE, BY JOHN ALMON : IN FIVE VOLUMES (BURT FRANKLIN RESEARCH AND SOURCE WORKS SERIES, 436) (SELECTED ESSAYS IN HISTORY, ECONOMICS, & SOCIAL SCIENCE, 116) [5 volumes] by Wilkes, John, 1725-1797

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THE CORRESPONDENCE OF THE LATE JOHN WILKES, WITH HIS FRIENDS : PRINTED FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS IN WHICH ARE INTRODUCED MEMOIRS OF HIS LIFE, BY JOHN ALMON : IN FIVE VOLUMES (BURT FRANKLIN RESEARCH AND SOURCE WORKS SERIES, 436) (SELECTED ESSAYS IN HISTORY, ECONOMICS, & SOCIAL SCIENCE, 116) [5 volumes]
Author
Wilkes, John, 1725-1797
Seller
Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
New York: Burt Franklin, 1970. Reprint. Hardcover. Octavo, Five volumes (xx, 271 pages ; iii, 235 pages ; iv, 300 pages ; 344 pages ; iv, 296 pages). In Good plus condition. Spines are brown with gold print. Boards in brown cloth. Slight wear to spine caps and corners. Illustrated: b&w frontispiece portrait in first volume, facsimile plates (2 folded). Originally published 1804-05. [Oversized book(s). Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers, please inquire for rates]. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area, Multi-Volume Area (ND-MV). 1376193. FP New Rockville Stock.
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Second Chance: Tales of Two Generations - 1st Edition/1st Printing by Auchincloss, Louis

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Second Chance: Tales of Two Generations - 1st Edition/1st Printing
Author
Auchincloss, Louis
Seller
Books Tell You Why, Inc. (United States)
Condition
Near Fine in Fine dust jacket
Description
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1970. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. An edge and shelfworn first Printing of the First Edition in Near Fine condition in a Fine dust-jacket; Second Chance: Tales of Two Generations is a collection of short stories about two generations of a family. The stories explore the relationships between the characters and how their experiences have shaped them.; 8vo; 262 pages .
The Battle of Okinawa The Typhoon of Steel and Bombs

The Battle of Okinawa The Typhoon of Steel and Bombs by [World War II] [Okinawa] Oka, Masahine

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Title
The Battle of Okinawa The Typhoon of Steel and Bombs
Author
[World War II] [Okinawa] Oka, Masahine
Seller
Americana Books ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
Tokyo: Kume Publishing Company, 1988. Later printing. Paperback. Very good. Tall soft cover. xii, 264 pages. Illustrated. Spine lightly faded. Light shelf wear to the paperback.

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