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Yoko at Indica [Unfinished Paintings and Objects]

Yoko at Indica [Unfinished Paintings and Objects] by ONO, YOKO

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Title
Yoko at Indica [Unfinished Paintings and Objects]
Author
ONO, YOKO
Seller
The Manhattan Rare Book Company (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
London: Indica Gallery, 1966. First edition. Very Good. The exhibition catalog for Yoko Ono’s transformative one-woman show at London’s Indica Gallery. Famous for the place where she and John Lennon first met. A REMARKABLE SURVIVAL: THE ONLY COPY WE CAN LOCATE WITH ALL THE PHOTOGRAPHS AND SLIPS INTACT. The “Yoko at Indica” catalog is an interactive work of performance art, much like her actual exhibit, held in November 1966. There are eight leaves of black and white images of the exhibits printed on gummed paper, with three images to a page, perforated so each of the 24 images can be removed and pasted onto a half-page slip with the correct caption. The slips were created by splitting the text pages horizontally – the caption slips are on the top, while the bottom slips, moving independently of the top slips, contain vintage Ono sayings, instructions, and “imaginations”, as well as a somewhat humorous sales/price list, a bio (“gave birth to a grapefruit / collected snails, clouds, garbage cans”) and an artist’s statement (“People went on cutting the parts they do not like of me finally there was only the stone remained of me that was in me but they were still not satisfied and wanted to know what it’s like in the stone”). Some of the pieces exhibited (and illustrated in the catalog) include her famous white chess set (Play It by Trust), Painting To Be Stepped On, Painting To Hammer A Nail, and significantly, Apple, and Ceiling Painting. “Apple” was the piece that first got John Lennon’s attention when he visited the gallery before the opening at the request of the gallery co-owner John Dunbar. The exhibit – an apple on a pedestal – was supposed to decay over the run of the show as a commentary on the cycle of life, impermanence, and deterioration, but Lennon walked up to the apple and started eating it. He then discovered “Ceiling Painting”, where a ladder was placed under a magnifying glass attached to the ceiling. If the visitor – in this case Lennon – climbed the ladder and used the magnifying class, they could view the tiny painting on the ceiling, simply the word “yes”. Lennon was impressed, much more so than with the apple. As he later explained: “Well, all the so-called avant-garde art at the time and everything that was supposedly interesting was all negative, this smash-the-piano-with-a-hammer, break-the-sculpture boring negative crap. It was all anti-, anti-, anti-. Anti-art, anti-establishment. And just that ‘yes’ made me stay in a gallery full of apples and nails instead of just walking out saying, ‘I’m not gonna buy any of this crap.’” (quoted in Sheff, 62). Although their relationship didn't begin immediately, the impression each made on the other at the Indica Gallery set the stage for the future. Interestingly, the catalog notes “production by Anthony Cox.” Cox was Ono’s husband at the time, and soon to be in a very contentious relationship with Lennon and Ono over the dissolution of their marriage and the custody of their daughter Kyoko. The catalog is often overshadowed by the fact that it marks the place where Ono and Lennon first met, but that does a disservice to the remarkable nature of the catalog itself. With its innovative format and provocative Ono quotes, the catalog is an interactive work of art, inviting the reader to fully participate in the exhibit through the catalog. It is a natural sequel to Ono’s groundbreaking Grapefruit from 1964, and a monument of the Fluxus movement. London: Indica Gallery, 1966. Size: 5.5x11 in. (14x28 cm). Composed of illustrated card stock wrappers, complete with 8 thin sheets with 3 photographs per sheet (perforated but still all held together) and gummed adhesive on back (but not sticky, thank goodness) for a total of 24 images; 12 interior text sheets split along the horizontal with the top sheets designed for the 24 images (front and back of each sheet) and the bottom with Ono’s text. Housed in custom box. Some light rubbing to covers, a few sheets with just a hint of adhesive offset. An absolutely remarkable survival in such beautiful and complete original condition. References: Sheff, David. Yoko: A Biography, 2025.
Ueber die Bestimmung des Inhaltes eines Polyëders (1865). WITH: Theorie der elementaren Verwandtschaft (1863) [The Möbius Strip]

Ueber die Bestimmung des Inhaltes eines Polyëders (1865). WITH: Theorie der elementaren Verwandtschaft (1863) [The Möbius Strip] by MÖBIUS, AUGUST FERDINAND

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Ueber die Bestimmung des Inhaltes eines Polyëders (1865). WITH: Theorie der elementaren Verwandtschaft (1863) [The Möbius Strip]
Author
MÖBIUS, AUGUST FERDINAND
Seller
The Manhattan Rare Book Company (United States)
Description
Leipzig: Hirzel, 1865. First edition. Original wrappers. FIRST EDITIONS (JOURNAL ISSUES IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS) OF TWO LANDMARK PAPERS IN THE EARLY HISTORY OF TOPOLOGY, IN WHICH IN WHICH, AMONG OTHER THINGS, MÖBIUS DESCRIBED THE MÖBIUS STRIP, DEFINED THE TOPOLOGICAL CONCEPTS NOW KNOWN AS GENUS AND ORIENTABILITY, AND SHOWED THAT ALL CLOSED ORIENTABLE SURFACES OF A PARTICULAR GENUS ARE TOPOLOGICALLY EQUIVALENT TO EACH OTHER. The two papers offered here contain three key discoveries that pioneered the branch of mathematics known as topology. 1. The Möbius Strip. "Möbius first described the 'Möbius band' in a paper presented to the Paris Academy in 1861 as an entry to a competition on the theme 'Improve in some important point the geometric theory of polyhedra.' Möbius's paper, written in bad French and containing many new ideas, was not understood by the jury, and like the other papers submitted to the competition, was not awarded the prize. The content of this paper was later published by Möbius in [the two articles offered here]." (Kolmogorov, Andrei N. and Adolf-Andrei P. Yushkevich, Mathematics in the 19th Century: Geometry, Analytic Function Theory (vol. 2) (1996), at 101.) Möbius's notebooks make it clear that he discovered the Möbius strip in 1858, and as noted above he first described it in his unpublished submission to the Paris Academy in 1861. However, he did not publish the discovery until the 1865 paper listed here. Although the Möbius strip will forever bear his name, the mathematician Johann Listing beat him to the actual discovery (two months before Möbius), and to the publication of the discovery. "Working independently, Listing first 'encountered' the surface in July 1858 and published his findings in 1861. However, Möbius seems to have taken the concept a bit farther than Listing by more closely exploring the concept of orientability as it relates to Möbius-like surfaces." (Clifford A. Pickover, The Möbius Strip: Dr. August Möbius's Marvelous Band in Mathematics, Games, Literature, Art, Technology, and Cosmology (2007), at 28-29.) "It is an accident of history that Möbius's name is remembered because of a topological party-piece. But it was typical that Möbius should notice a simple fact that anyone could have done in the previous two thousand years - and typical that nobody did, apart from the simultaneous and independent discovery by Listing." (Ian Stewart, "Möbius's Modern Legacy," in John Fauvel, et al., eds, Möbius and His Band: Mathematics and Astronomy in Nineteenth-Century German (1993).) "[T]he Möbius strip is the ultimate metaphor for something simple, yet profound - something anyone could have discussed centuries prior to its discovery, but didn't. The Möbius strip is a metaphor for magic and mystery, and a perpetual icon that stimulates us to dream new dreams and look for depths even in seemingly shallow waters." (Pickover, op. cit., at 197.) 2. Classification of surfaces. In the 1863 paper, Möbius discussed the classification of closed orientable surfaces in terms of what is now known in topology as their "genus," and showed that any two surfaces of the same genus have "elementaren Verwandtschaften" ("elementary relationships") to each other. (Roughly, "genus" refers to the number of holes in a surface; thus, a spherical surface has a genus of zero and a toroidal surface (donut shape) has a genus of one - as, for that matter, does a coffee cup (the handle is the "hole").) Möbius' theory of "elementary relationships" was the origin of the modern concept of "homeomorphism" - a fundamental idea in topology. Two surfaces are said to be homeomorphic if one can be converted to each other by any strictly continuous process of stretching or bending, avoiding discontinuous processes such as tearing the surface or punching a hole in it. (Imagine pressing a dimple into a donut made of clay, and then enlarging the dimple and shrinking the hole so as to create a coffee cup.) "The classification of compact surfaces was 'known,' in some sense, by the end of the nineteenth century. Möbius and Jordan offered proofs ... in the 1860s. Möbius's paper is quite interesting; in fact, he used a Morse-theoretic approach .... The main interest in Jordan's attempt is in showing how the work of an outstanding mathematician can appear nonsensical a century later." (Morris W. Hirsch, Differential Topology (1997), at 188.) 3. Orientability. In the 1865 paper, Möbius defined the concept of the orientability of a surface in terms of whether the surface can be covered with polygons such as triangles, with each polygon assigned a direction of rotation (clockwise or counterclockwise around the vertices) such that the direction of rotation is the same for any two adjacent polygons. (An equivalent idea would be to assign arrows pointing perpendicular to the surface to each small region of the surface, such that adjacent arrows point in the same direction.) He identified the Möbius strip as an example of a non-orientable surface. (Try making a Möbius strip and decorating it with arrows in the way suggested above. It can't be done - at some point on the strip arrows pointing in opposite directions will meet.) "In fact, Möbius did rather more [in his 1865 paper] than just give a description of the [Möbius] band. His major contribution was to explain how to describe one-sidedness in a way which is independent of intuitive notions. Indeed, his idea was so fundamental that mathematicians still use it as a definition of non-orientability." (Fauvel, at 108.) IN: Berichte der Königlichen Sächsischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig 17 (1865), pp. 31-68 and ibid., 15 (1863), pp. 18-57. Leipzig: Hirzel, 1864; 1866. Octavo, original wrappers. 1865/1866 issue with crease to back wrapper, a little soiling and occasional light foxing; 1863/1864 issue fine. Text largely unopened. Outstanding copies. EXTREMELY RARE IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS. Note: A custom box is available for an additional $250.
Evenings at Haddon Hall, A Series of Romantic Tales of the Olden Time

Evenings at Haddon Hall, A Series of Romantic Tales of the Olden Time by [Fore-Edge Painting] Currie, Miss C.B. (artist); Catherine Ball

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Evenings at Haddon Hall, A Series of Romantic Tales of the Olden Time
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[Fore-Edge Painting] Currie, Miss C.B. (artist); Catherine Ball
Seller
Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Description
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1848. First edition. Octavo (8 5/8 x 5 5/8 inches; 219 x 143 mm.). [viii], [1]-453, [1, blank] pp. Engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette title-page and twenty-four fine engraved plated by George Cattermole. Bound ca. 1910 by Rivière & Son in full maroon straight-grain morocco, covers elaborately bordered in gilt and blind, spine with five raised bands, elaborately tooled in gilt and blind, and lettered in gilt in compartments. Gilt-ruled board edges, gilt decorated turn-ins, pink endpapers, all edges gilt. A very fine example with the remains of the bookplate of Frederick S. Peck and an old bookseller's descriptions on front paste-down. Housed in a felt-lined burgundy cloth clamshell case, spine with leather label, lettered in gilt. Fore-edge painting by Miss C.B. Currie depicting Haddon Hall. Together with a letter of authenticity from Jeff Weber and the original receipted invoice to Randall Moscovitz dated September 5, 2012. Featuring a delicate fore-edge painting by Miss C.B. Currie "showing the dignity and grandeur of Haddon Hall... flanked by towering trees and beautiful greensward. Horses are being led to their stable by a groom and a mounted horseman can be seen in the middle distance talking to two young ladies" (Weber). The artist Miss C.B. Currie [Caroline Billin Curry] (1849-1940) was one of the most beloved book painters of the 20th century, who spent the majority of her career working for Henry Sotheran Booksellers, in London. "She became famous for her miniature paintings applied to two art forms. First on ivory, mounted on Rivière bindings and named by her employer as "Cosway" bindings. Later she expanded her work into the art of painting on the fanned edge of a book -- called a fore-edge painting. Most of these paintings were signed and numbered by the artist. Whereas fore-edge painting history is replete with unknown artists, Currie is a notable exception... In the book world, the name Miss C.B. Currie is widely recognized, yet her personal life and real name remained guarded and unknown until now. It turns out her name was, in fact, partly a pseudonym. Though her work is highly prized, there is no known published biography. Her correct full name was recently discovered to be Caroline Billin Curry. During her entire artistic career Curry used the slightly altered version of her name "Currie". Her true full name is not to be found in any published record of her work from Sotheran's" (Weber). Although unsigned, expert Jeff Weber firmly attributes the painting on this book to Miss C.B. Currie based on style and binding. He explains "... though unsigned, and as such this is the only known book without a Currie signature but bears all the signs of having been painted by her. It is on the Rivière binding, it lacks the usual "colophon" leaf seen with nearly all other Currie paintings. Currie painted both fore-edge paintings and Cosway miniatures on ivory, both in bindings commissioned and bound for Sotheran's by Rivière and Son. There are Currie paintings on ivory that are datable to pre-1910 and yet they are not signed. Peck was an active book buyer during this same period (his home and library was built in 1905), raising the likelihood that he bought a Currie fore-edge prior to her signing them" (Weber). Provenance: Frederick S. Peck - Parke-Bernet Galleries, November 14-15, 1944, lot 114; G.J. Guthrie Nicholson, Parke-Bernet Galleries, November 8-9, 1948, lot 231; Jeff Weber Rare Books - sold to Randall Moscovitz, September 5th, 2012. Frederick S. Peck (1868-1947), born in Providence Rhode Island, became a Legislator, and lived in Barrington, R.I. His papers are located at the Rhode Island Historical Society. Weber, Annotated Dictionary of Fore-Edge Painting, 306.
The Man With the Golden Gun

The Man With the Golden Gun by Fleming, Ian

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Title
The Man With the Golden Gun
Author
Fleming, Ian
Seller
Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. First edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First impression, second state binding without the gilt gun to the upper board. A nearly Fine copy in like dust jacket. Book with a bit of foxing to the top-edge of the text block, otherwise a lovely example overall. Published a year after Ian Fleming's death, The Man with the Golden Gun is the final James Bond novel written by its original creator. Fleming's health rapidly decreased while writing the book and though he finished a draft of the novel in 1964, he never fully re-worked it. After Fleming's death, the novel was published in the United Kingdom and then serialized in The Daily Express and Playboy. Ironically, in this novel, Bond is presumed dead before returning to London. He's been brainwashed by the Soviet Union and attempts to assassinate "M." After regaining his senses, Bond is sent to the Caribbean to assassinate Francisco Scaramanga, known as "the Man with the Golden Gun.". Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.
Orlando Furioso

Orlando Furioso by ARIOSTO, Lodovico

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Title
Orlando Furioso
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ARIOSTO, Lodovico
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Heritage Book Shop, LLC (United States)
Description
London: Printed by G. Miller for J. Parker, 1634. HARRINGTON, John. . Orlando Furioso. in English Heroical Verse by Sir John Harrington of Bath Knight. Now thirdly revised and amended with the Addition of the Author's Epigrams. London: Printed by G. Miller for J. Parker, 1634. Full Description: ARIOSTO, Lodovico. HARRINGTON, John, [translator]. Orlando Furioso in English Heroical Verse by Sir John Harrington of Bath Knight. Now thirdly revised and amended with the Addition of the Author's Epigrams. London: Printed by G. Miller for J. Parker, 1634. Third edition of Harrington's 1591 translation which was the first English edition and remained the only English translation of many years. This third edition is further expanded by the addition of the "Author's Epigrams." Two works in one small folio in sixes (10 5/8 x 7 1/4 inches; 270 x 185 mm). [16], [1, Ads], [1, plate], 423, [9, table], [1, Title], [1, blank], [43], [1, blank] pp. With engraved title-page for the first work and 46 full-page engravings , included in the pagination accompanying each Canto. Separate title-page for "Epigrams" with an engraved vignette. Epigrams have a separate title but continuous register. Elaborate engraved head and tail pieces and initials. Contemporary full calf, rebacked to style. Spine with red morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. Spine stamped in gilt. All edges speckled red. Newer endpapers Fore-edge margins are trimmed close, a few times just touching printed marginal notes. Closed tear to bottom margin of S1, barley touching a few letters. T6 with a tear to fore-edge margin, with a bit of loss to marginal note. Some various dampstains and other soiling throughout. Some minor occasional offsetting from plates. Overall a very good copy. "Lodovico Ariosto represented the sentiments, the passions, and the vices and virtues of 16th-century Italians in his epic poem, L'Orlando Furioso (The Crazy Orlando). This Renaissance classic, based on romances popular at the time, furnished the framework for the chivalric narrative in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene. Orlando Furioso is a tale of knights, dames, and courtesies when the Moors invaded France to avenge the death of their king's father. In the story Orlando (Roland), Charlemagne's nephew and most famous knight, falls madly in love with Angelica, who is also pursued by many other Christian and Moorish knights. She flees these attentions only to bestow her love in the end on a poor man without rank. Ariosto's view of life, reflected throughout the poem, is one of ironic disillusionment-love is madness. John Harington (1561-1612) was a witty courtier and godson of Queen Elizabeth. (He is also the acknowledged inventor of the flush toilet.) According to lore, Harington first translated the racy tale of Jocundo from Canto XXVIII and circulated it among the ladies of the Court. The Queen feigned to be shocked by some passages and reprimanded her godson for endangering the morals of her maids of honor. Elizabeth sentenced Harington to stay away from the Court until he had translated the whole of Ariosto's poem. Harington completed the translation by 1591. Harington's Orlando Furioso is one of the major translations of the age, freely executed but faithful to the spirit and style of the original. At 33,000 lines in length and nearly 6,000 lines shorter than the original, the translation is seldom exactly what Ariosto wrote, shorter in places and expanded elsewhere-with moral truisms added. Each of the forty-six cantos of the poem is preceded by a full-page illustration (including the especially risqué one for Canto XXVIII). All are copied strictly or with slight variation from the plates used by Girolamo Porro in a Venice edition printed in 1584. The engravings are unsigned, purportedly the work of several engravers, including possibly Jodocus Hondius. (Clark Library, UCLA Chrzanowski 1607a : Regarding the 1607 Second edition). STC 748. Pforzheimer 447. HBS 69070. $3,000.
Onze Vogels in Huis en Tuin, Beschreven en Afgebeeld

Onze Vogels in Huis en Tuin, Beschreven en Afgebeeld by Keulemans, J. G.

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Onze Vogels in Huis en Tuin, Beschreven en Afgebeeld
Author
Keulemans, J. G.
Seller
Thorn Books (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
Leiden: P. W. M. Trap, 1876. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. 4to. Unpaginated. Green pinhead cloth blocked in blind and gilt. With 58 (of 60) full page highly detail hand colored illustrations of birds, and enhanced with gum arabic, followed by letterpress text in Dutch describing them. Textblock loose in binding, some page edges rough, lightly worn but the plates are mostly in near fine to fine condition and bright though a few of them have some very light foxing. 3de Deel (volume 3) of 3 only. .
[Manuscript] Golden Wedding celebration - Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Hilton Scribner, Inglehurst, Yonkers-on-Hudson ... 1906

[Manuscript] Golden Wedding celebration - Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Hilton Scribner, Inglehurst, Yonkers-on-Hudson ... 1906 by Scribner, G H

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[Manuscript] Golden Wedding celebration - Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Hilton Scribner, Inglehurst, Yonkers-on-Hudson ... 1906
Author
Scribner, G H
Seller
Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition
A very good copy with a brown spot on the rear cover appx. 1.5 inches in diameter.
Description
Yonkers [ NY ]: Not published, 1906. Unique.. Contemporary (1907) three quarter morocco; signed binding.. A very good copy with a brown spot on the rear cover appx. 1.5 inches in diameter.. Large 4to,196 leaves. There are watercolors and photographs to accompany the manuscript. Gilbert H Scribner was the Sect'y. of State for New York, wealthy, and part of the social blue book. In 1906 he and his wife, Sarah Woodbury Pettingill, celebrated their golden anniversary. This volume is a compilation of the event ephemera, i.e., the scores of cards, greetings, and sentiments of the occasion. It is an elaborate example of period book production. The binding was commissioned and executed by Ralph Randolph Adams; it bears his studio stamp on the inside front cover with the date 1907. The illustrations accompanying the text are original watercolors - with one particularly fetching rendering of the Hudson River looking south from the residence at Inglehurst. In additon to the full page watercolors there are a series of photographs of the life of the couple. The major portion of the 'text' is made up of mounted ALs's that were sent to the couple for their celebration. The narrative portion of the chronicle is all calligraphy.
Analyse du jeu des échecs: avec une nouvelle notation abrégée, et quarante-deux planches où se trouve figurée la situation du jeu pour les renvois et les fins de partie. Nouvelle Édition. A laquelle on a joint la figure et la marche des différentes pièce

Analyse du jeu des échecs: avec une nouvelle notation abrégée, et quarante-deux planches où se trouve figurée la situation du jeu pour les renvois et les fins de partie. Nouvelle Édition. A laquelle on a joint la figure et la marche des différentes pièce by Philidor, A[ndre] D[anican] (1726-1795)

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Analyse du jeu des échecs: avec une nouvelle notation abrégée, et quarante-deux planches où se trouve figurée la situation du jeu pour les renvois et les fins de partie. Nouvelle Édition. A laquelle on a joint la figure et la marche des différentes pièce
Author
Philidor, A[ndre] D[anican] (1726-1795)
Seller
The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
150 pages with 42 color imprints in green, black and red and one wood cult illustrations of chess piece. Small octavo (7" x 4 1/2") bound in quarter leather with raised spine bands and gilt lettering to spine. (Hagedorn: 6; Bibliotheca van der Linde-Niemeijeriana:457) Later edition of Philidor's work first published in 1749.Fiske noted that the paper, typography and general appearance of the work prove to have been printed in Europe and probably Belgium. But despite its spurious imprint, Hagedorn felt that it required inclusion in his bibliography of Chess in America to 1859. He goes on to suggest that the problems of its pedigree have yet to be solved. America had at that time achieved no fame in the chess world that would make a book from the United States attractive to foreign players. It does not seem to be based on any known American work. He suggest that the answer might be found in the publishing records of early nineteenth century Belgium.In 1736 at the age of 10, Francois-Andre was exposed to chess by the musicians who played chess during spells of inactivity. Cards were forbidden to pass the time, so chess was played. He learned the game by watching the band members play. He later visited the Cafe de la Regence in Paris and spent much of his time playing chess there. In 1737, at the age of 11, his first music composition, a religious piece, was played before King Louis XV. He left the Chapel Royal choir in 1740 when his voice changed. In 1740 he went to Paris where he earned a living by copying music and giving music lessons. In 1741 Philidor was being instructed by M. de Kermur, Sire de Legal (1702-1792), the leading French chess player. Legal initially gave Philidor rook odds. For the next three years Kermur taught Philidor until Philidor was too strong for his teacher. By 1750 Philidor was considered the strongest player in France, England, and the Netherlands. The French Ambassador, the Duke of Mirepoix, invited Philidor for his weekly chess dinners. In 1751 Philidor left England for Prussia, playing before King Frederick (Frederick the Great) at Potsdam. He then visited Berlin where he played 3 blindfold games simultaneously, winning them all. He then returned to England. In November 1754 he returned to France after being gone for 9 years. He started composing music again. He did not return to England until 1772. He applied unsuccessfully for the post of court composer at Versailles. A rumor had started that nobody could be a chess master and compose good music, so his church music was not really his own. His church music was not accepted by the French royalty because Philidor added an Italian influence to it, so he turned to comedy opera. In 1755 he beat Legal in a chess match at the Cafe de la Regence. On February 13, 1760, at age 33, he married Angelique Richer (1736-1809). He had 5 sons and 2 daughters with her. Condition:Some rubbing to extremities, some light foxing, gift inscription on front end paper else a very attractive copy.
Heavy Weather

Heavy Weather by Pelham Grenville "P G" Wodehouse (1881-1975)

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Heavy Weather
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Pelham Grenville "P G" Wodehouse (1881-1975)
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The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
314 pages. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's black cloth with red lettering to spine and front cover in pictorial jacket. (First's January 2003 pg 45) First American edition limited to 12,000 copies.Heavy Weather is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United States on July 28, 1933 by Little, Brown and Company, Boston, and in the United Kingdom on August 10, 1933 by Herbert Jenkins, London. It had been serialized in the Saturday Evening Post from 27 May to 15 July 1933. It is part of the Blandings Castle series of tales, the fourth full-length novel to be set there, and forms a direct sequel to Summer Lightning (1929), with many of the same characters remaining at the castle from the previous story. It also features the re-appearance by Lord Tilbury, who had previously appeared in Bill the Conqueror (1924) and Sam the Sudden (1925).Condition:Previous owner's name on front end paper verso. Jacket with the number .25 under the unclipped price of $2.00, edges professionally restored by Octavaye Studios. else a very good copy in about a near fine but scarce jacket.
First [Second] West Coast Computer Faire: A conference & exposition on personal & home computing. Conference proceedings. 2 vols

First [Second] West Coast Computer Faire: A conference & exposition on personal & home computing. Conference proceedings. 2 vols by Warren, Jim C.

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First [Second] West Coast Computer Faire: A conference & exposition on personal & home computing. Conference proceedings. 2 vols
Author
Warren, Jim C.
Seller
Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description
San Francisco / San Jose, 1977. [16], 334, [2]; 505, [7]pp. 277 x 212 mm. Vol. 1 in library buckram, original wrappers bound in; Vol. 2 in original printed wrappers. Proceedings of "the first West Coast computer faire" and of the second "faire" a year later.
Autograph letter signed to Latimer Clark

Autograph letter signed to Latimer Clark by Weaver, Henry

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Autograph letter signed to Latimer Clark
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Weaver, Henry
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Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
1868. Very Good. Weaver, Henry. A.L.s. to Latimer Clark. London, September 23, 1868. 4pp. 203 x 127 mm. Small holes punched in top margin, remains of mounting present. Provenance: Latimer Clark. Regarding Charles Vincent Walker's appointment as an "examiner," presumably of telegraph lines. Weaver had been appointed secretary of the Electric and International Telegraph Company on January 1, 1864. The subject of his letter, Charles Vincent Walker, had been involved in telegraphy since the 1840s. Origins of Cyberspace 210. .
Platoon Leader's Personal Response Notebook

Platoon Leader's Personal Response Notebook

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Title
Platoon Leader's Personal Response Notebook
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Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
[No place - Saigon?]: 3rd Marine Division, 1967. Softcover. Near Fine. Second edition (5000 copies). The first edition was issued in a run of 2500 copies by the 1st Marine Division, also in 1967. Quarto. 63pp. Illustrated, maps, charts, brief glossary. Modest age-toning on the wrapper, near fine. Interesting and relatively informal practical guide to platoon leaders in Vietnam. Very scarce. *OCLC* locates three copies of this edition, and a single copy of the first edition.
EYRIE [SIGNED]

EYRIE [SIGNED] by Winton, Tim

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EYRIE [SIGNED]
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Winton, Tim
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Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9781926428536
Description
Melbourne, AUS: Tuskar Rock Press, 2013. First Edition, First Printing, Limited Edition, #XXIV/XXX. Hardcover. Octavo, 424 pages. In Near Fine condition. Tan cloth slipcase with dark red velvet interior. Blood red leather spine with gilted lettering and publisher's symbol. Boards are wrapped in publisher's blood red leather. Signed by Tim Winton on publisher's limitation page, limited edition, #XXIV/XXX. JW consignment. Shelved Case 7. 1382233. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
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POWER IN THE CITY: DECISION MAKING IN SAN FRANCISCO by Wirt, Frederick M.

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POWER IN THE CITY: DECISION MAKING IN SAN FRANCISCO
Author
Wirt, Frederick M.
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Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780520036406
Description
Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1978. First Paperback Edition, Second Printing. Softcover. Octavo, viii, xi, 417 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Paperback binding. Spine off-white with red and gray lettering. Covers have slight plus wear including faint age toning and light soiling. Text block has slight plus wear including mild foxing to the edges and slight wear to the front hinge. Illustrated. First paperback edition, second printing. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex, Column AA. 1410465. FP New Rockville Stock.
The Marigold Cook Book: A Practical and Useful Collection of Southern Recipes

The Marigold Cook Book: A Practical and Useful Collection of Southern Recipes by Baldwin, Mary; Hinds, Evelyn

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The Marigold Cook Book: A Practical and Useful Collection of Southern Recipes
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Baldwin, Mary; Hinds, Evelyn
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Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink (United States)
Description
New York; Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company; Country Life Press, 1938. Large, comb-bound octavo (23.5 x 17 cm.), [6], 126 pages. Thumb indexed. FIRST EDITION. The cookbook of The Marigold, a popular Niagara Falls restaurant, issued in the year the restaurant underwent its first expansion. Recipes range from Dixie Cake to Dixie Bread to Dumplings. Despite its Western New York State origins, this is a Southern recipe collection. While owned and managed by Mary Baldwin, a white woman, the kitchen was operated by African-Americans, some of whom Baldwin brought up from the South. Baldwin also profited from her African-American employees by using an image of Ellen Robinson on dishware and on this cookbook without permission. Robinson took Baldwin to court over the misuse of her image, but did not prevail. The Marigold was in operation until 1956. There was also a Marigold Restaurant in New Orleans, opened in 1933. Internally clean and sound. In stiff paper-covered boards, bearing a "Mammy" illustration with title. Some mild abrasion to corners, otherwise very good. Inscribed in ink on the half-title, "gift to Ruth M. Holmes, from Marigold Owner" in the hand of the recipient, a serious collector of cookbooks. An additional pencil annotation on the front paste-down records the address of the Marigold company.
Aunt Matilda's Selected Receipts and Useful Information

Aunt Matilda's Selected Receipts and Useful Information by ["Aunt Matilda"; I.L. Cragin & Co. (Philadelphia, Penn)]

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Aunt Matilda's Selected Receipts and Useful Information
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["Aunt Matilda"; I.L. Cragin & Co. (Philadelphia, Penn)]
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Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink (United States)
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Philadelphia, Penn: I. L. Cragin & Co, 1890. Cord-bound booklet, stapled in wrappers (11.5 x 7.8 cm.), 31, [1] pages. Advertisements. FIRST EDITION. A promotional cookbook for Dobbins' electric soap, manufactured by I.L. Cragin & Co. The recipes alternate with testimonials for the laundry soap. The company used 'electric' in the title in order to capitalize on people's fascination with electricity at that time. The soap itself was formulated with a very alkaline base, which actually gave it a bit of a 'sting' which reminded people even more of electricity. This booklet starts off with several pages of advertisement for Dobbins Electric Soap, emphasizing how the soap is so strong, one doesn't need to be rough with one's clothes to clean them. The booklet spends the rest of its pages alternating between Aunt Matilda's recipes and testimonials from customers who have used the soap. Some of the recipes included are: Pea Soup, Pepperpot, Broiled Salmon, Roast Duck, Chicken Croquettes, Lobster Salad, and Lemon Pie. It is unclear if the title of the booklet was meant as a play on words or a spelling mistake, after all it is full of recipes and 'receipts' from Dobbins' Electric Soap's customers in the form of testimonials. On the inside front cover, I. L. Cragin states if you buy fifteen bars of their soap, and mail in the wrappers as proof, they will send you a dollars worth of "first class sheet music for free!" Also there is an advertisement for J.Silver & Son of New Ipswich, N.H., a grocery and general store. The advertisement states that if you buy seven bars of soap from them you can get seven "beautiful Shakespeare cards". Very good, in publisher's black-titled yellow-ish cream colored wrappers. [OCLC locates ten copies].
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Miniature Playing Cards from the Mid-Nineteenth Century

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Miniature Playing Cards from the Mid-Nineteenth Century
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White Fox Rare Books and Antiques (United States)
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A full deck of 52 cards from the Civil War Era. No box.
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Bingley's Practical Introduction to Botany; Illustrated by References Under Each Definition to Plants of Easy Access, and by Numerous Figures; Comprising Also a Glossary of Botanic Terms

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Bingley's Practical Introduction to Botany; Illustrated by References Under Each Definition to Plants of Easy Access, and by Numerous Figures; Comprising Also a Glossary of Botanic Terms
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White Fox Rare Books and Antiques (United States)
Condition
Good
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London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1827. Second edition. Quarter Morocco. Good. 8vo. 104 pp. With 9 hand-colored plates, including the frontis. Foxing of last few text pages, and some scattered elsewhere. Plates gathered in back have light soiling, but mostly offsetting. Dampstain on boards, mostly on upper front. Spine is somewhat dry. Still an attractive, side pocket sized botanical.
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ROYAL PALACE, PRIZED VIEW OF THE GARDEN. PL. 27 by ARNOUT, J

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ROYAL PALACE, PRIZED VIEW OF THE GARDEN. PL. 27
Author
ARNOUT, J
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L'Estampe Originale (United States)
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Lithograph from Views of Paris. c. 1840. Lithographs with hand-coloring. With stamp of publishers Goupil & Cie. editeurs. Image: 6¾ x 10¾. Margins: 11 x 16¾.
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An Astronomical Diary. Or, Almanack For The year Of Our Lord Christ, 1763. Being The Third Year After Leap Year… by Ames, Nathaniel

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An Astronomical Diary. Or, Almanack For The year Of Our Lord Christ, 1763. Being The Third Year After Leap Year…
Author
Ames, Nathaniel
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Nicholas D. Riccio Rare Books & Prints (United States)
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Pamphlet, 24 pp. Some discoloration to title page, and some staining throughout. Expected almanac wear, with chips and folded corners. Signatures are loose. Some notations on title page. Almanac contains a 2 ½ page chronology of the events of the 'French & Indian War’. Also, includes some population projections for New England, which shows the population reaching 4,000,000 by 1835. Evans 9053 Drake 3135 O’Neal 89
A Pathography in Twelve Parts: The Nixon Saga

A Pathography in Twelve Parts: The Nixon Saga by ZEPEZAUER, Mark

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A Pathography in Twelve Parts: The Nixon Saga
Author
ZEPEZAUER, Mark
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Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description
Santa Cruz: Press of Time, 1989. First Edition. Oblong Quarto (24cm x 31.5cm). Dark blue cloth boards (hardcover); [30pp]; illus. Near Fine copy; slight shelf wear to corner tips, else clean and tight. An imaginative and critical re-examination of Richard Nixon's biography. Text and illustrations by Mark Zepezauer. Number 143 of 400 copies. Signed by the author.
Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia: Selections from His Writings [Inscribed by the Editor]

Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia: Selections from His Writings [Inscribed by the Editor] by [ZAMBIA] KAUNDA, Kenneth; Thomas Patrick Melady (ed.)

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Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia: Selections from His Writings [Inscribed by the Editor]
Author
[ZAMBIA] KAUNDA, Kenneth; Thomas Patrick Melady (ed.)
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Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
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New York: Frederick A. Praeger for the Africa Service Institute of New York, 1964. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (22cm). Pale yellow-green cloth in white dust jacket; [xiv],254pp. Inscribed by the editor. A tight, straight copy, lightly sunned at spine, discoloration to front joint, minor discoloration to front endpapers, else clean and firm: Very Good. Jacket lightly rubbed and spine-sunned with minor external soil, foxing to verso: Very Good. Kenneth Kaunda (1924-2021) was at the head of Zambia's struggle for independence from British rule. He became the first President of independent Zambia in 1964, the year this book was published. The work includes excerpts from his autobiography, first published as Zambia Shall Be Free, as well as major addresses of the early 1960s. This copy was inscribed in 1964 to J. Wayne Fredericks, the US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, from 1961-67, by the editor Thomas Melady: "To Wayne who did very much to bring the Zambian people to the dignity of a free state." [62113].
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Memoirs of the Life and Times of the most Reverend Father in God, Dr. Thomas Tennison, Late Archbishop of Canterbury.

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Memoirs of the Life and Times of the most Reverend Father in God, Dr. Thomas Tennison, Late Archbishop of Canterbury.
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Savoy Books (United States)
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London: for J. Roberts Book. [1716?]. 8vo, in 4's, disbound. Pp. 130. Lacks A1, a blank or half-title. Dusty, lightly browned; a very good copy. First edition. Archbishop Tenison was a founder of the Society for The Propagation of the Gospel and was greatly interested in the church in the American colonies. See DNB. OCLC locates the NYPL copy only..
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Archaeological Investigations on the Yucatan Peninsula by Andrews IV, E. Wyllys

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Archaeological Investigations on the Yucatan Peninsula
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Andrews IV, E. Wyllys
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Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (United States)
Condition
vg
Description
New Orleans: Middle American Research Institute, Tulane University, 1975. First edition. Softcover. vg. 4to. 245pp. Green printed wraps. Illustrated with color and black and white reproductions of charts, photographs, and maps. Minor wear to wraps. Overall very good condition.
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Florentine Codex: Book 10 - The People: In Thirteen Parts: Part XI by Anderson, Arthur J.O. & Dibble, Charles E. (Translators.)

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Florentine Codex: Book 10 - The People: In Thirteen Parts: Part XI
Author
Anderson, Arthur J.O. & Dibble, Charles E. (Translators.)
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Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (United States)
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vg.
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Santa Fe, N.M.: University of Utah, 1961. Limited edition. Hardcover. vg.. Quarto. 197pp; 197 ill. 1/1000 unnumbered. Salmon cloth with maroon lettering to cover and spine. Endpapers signed by owner Alfred C. Glassell Jr. . Text in English and Aztec. Including - The People, Medicine, Cities. "The Florentine Codex is one of three well-known manuscripts planned by Fray Bernardino de Sahagun to describe the civilization of the Aztecs. The term Florentine Codex used in this Temporary Preface means Sahagun's Historia in the famed manuscript of the Lauretian Library, Florence, Italy. If, when the total project is completed, the translators have produced a work sufficiently accurate to convey reliably the meaning of the Aztec, and thus be of use to the historian and ethnologist, they will have sufficiently accomplished their purpose" (translators). Light shelf-wear to boards, lightly bumped at corners and ends of spine, interior very lightly sunned at margins, not affecting images. In overall very good condition.
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Kama Kala; Some Notes on the Philosophical Basis of Hindu Erotic Sculpture by Anand, Mulk Raj

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Kama Kala; Some Notes on the Philosophical Basis of Hindu Erotic Sculpture
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Anand, Mulk Raj
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Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (United States)
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vg
Description
Geneva: Nagel Publishers, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. vg. Folio. 45pp. of text followed by 58pp. of plates. Gilt decorated gray cloth in original dj. Slipcase. Minor scuffing to dj. Two tiny tears to upper edge of dj. Some discoloration to slipcase. A look at "Erotic Indian Art" concentrating on sculpture. Illustrated with b/w plates some of which are fold-outs, and 3 tipped-in color plates. In very good condition.
The Trashing of America [Inscribed by Plymell and Levine]

The Trashing of America [Inscribed by Plymell and Levine] by Charles Plymell; Les Levine [cover art]

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The Trashing of America [Inscribed by Plymell and Levine]
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Charles Plymell; Les Levine [cover art]
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Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
New York: Kulchur Foundation, 1975. Very Good. New York: Kulchur Foundation, 1975. First Edition. Signed by Plymell and Levine with personalized inscriptions at title page and Levine's reading "Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them and then you destroy yourself. Les Levine." Quarto; 122pp. + photographs; illustrated wraps with edges stained green. Light wear to edges and scrape to front; binding sound and pages unmarked; Very Good and scarce signed by both.
The Girl from Hollywood

The Girl from Hollywood by Burroughs, Edgar Rice

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The Girl from Hollywood
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Burroughs, Edgar Rice
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Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Good
Description
New York: The Macaulay Company, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Frontispiece by P.J. Monahan. Seemingly a variant of Zeuschner 170 but with woven red cloth instead of the fine grain as called for. Good, lacking the jacket. Red cloth with black ink lettering on the spine and front board. Square, bound with some reading wear, former owner's stamp on the bottom edge of the text block, different owner's signature on the front endpaper, a tear through half of the title and half-title pages, clean otherwise. One of the few works of general fiction written by the creator of Tarzan, "a novel of debauched life in [Hollywood]." From the collection of Joan Bledig.
The Chronicles of John Carter: Edgar Rice Burroughs' A Princess of Mars Screenplay 3rd Revised Draft March 12, 1990

The Chronicles of John Carter: Edgar Rice Burroughs' A Princess of Mars Screenplay 3rd Revised Draft March 12, 1990 by [Burroughs, Edgar Rice] Rossio, Terry; Elliott, Ted

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The Chronicles of John Carter: Edgar Rice Burroughs' A Princess of Mars Screenplay 3rd Revised Draft March 12, 1990
Author
[Burroughs, Edgar Rice] Rossio, Terry; Elliott, Ted
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Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
[n.p.]: [n.p.], 1990. Paperback. Near Fine. t.p., [1]-126. Near Fine. Glossy front cover, a few scuffs and stains near the staples, with copy paper otherwise. Bound with a slight skew, clean internally. The 3rd revised draft of this unproduced screenplay based on the first novel in the Barsoom series. From the collection of Joan Bledig.
Tarzan and the Foreign Legion

Tarzan and the Foreign Legion by Burroughs, Edgar Rice

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Tarzan and the Foreign Legion
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Burroughs, Edgar Rice
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Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
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Fair
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Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair/Fair. Frontispiece by John Coleman Burroughs. Fair in a Fair jacket, unclipped (no price), tape and paper repairs at the flaps, some tape at the edges, rubbed and with some chips. Blue cloth, tidemarks on the boards, with red ink lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, moisture damage at the top edge and toward the fore-edge of the text block. The twenty-second Tarzan novel.
Dictionary of American History [Six Volumes]

Dictionary of American History [Six Volumes] by Adams, James Truslow, ed. [Nevins, Allan]

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Dictionary of American History [Six Volumes]
Author
Adams, James Truslow, ed. [Nevins, Allan]
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Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition
A very good set, top edge dusty, some rubbing and blind stamp to title on volume 1, a few rear leaves roughly opened on index.
Description
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. First edition. Blue cloth with gilt titles. A very good set, top edge dusty, some rubbing and blind stamp to title on volume 1, a few rear leaves roughly opened on index.. xi, 444; 430; 432; 512; 515; 258 pp. Sm. 4to. R.V. Coleman, ed. Signed by Allan Nevins, one of the advisors, on the third volume. Allan Nevins would later title his biography of Adams: "James Truslow Adams: Historian of the American Dream". Provenance: Samuel Flagg Bemis (Yale historian and two time Pulitzer Prize winner), his blind stamp on title page of volume 1.
Jerusalem: A Geographic Overview

Jerusalem: A Geographic Overview by Central Intelligence Agency

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Jerusalem: A Geographic Overview
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Central Intelligence Agency
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Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
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A near fine copy.
Description
Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1990. A near fine copy.. 1 folded leaf with 8 11x8 inch panels print one side. Illus. with 6 color maps and 4 color photos.
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Liturgika Dlia Ukrains'kikh Katolits'kikh Shkil (In 2 vol.) [Vol. I - Sviati Rechi; Vol. II - Sviati Bogosluzhbi] by Solovii, M. M. and Skwarok, J.

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Liturgika Dlia Ukrains'kikh Katolits'kikh Shkil (In 2 vol.) [Vol. I - Sviati Rechi; Vol. II - Sviati Bogosluzhbi]
Author
Solovii, M. M. and Skwarok, J.
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ZH BOOKS (United States)
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Toronto: OO. Vasiliian, 1959. Soft cover. First edition (in Ukrainian and English); 6 ½†x 9 ½†; vol. I pp. [4], 7-87, [1] including text to last page, vol. II pp. [3], 6-128 including text to last page; original pictorial wraps – orange vol. I, green vol. II; vol. I with a small closed cut to tail of spine and a few slight crease lines to front cover; vol. II with minor wear, near fine; illustrated from photographs; in Ukrainian and English on facing pages.
Sunshine Year Book

Sunshine Year Book by Compilers - International Sunshine Society

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Sunshine Year Book
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Compilers - International Sunshine Society
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Eclectibles (United States)
Description
Los Angeles: Los Angeles Branch of the Sunshine Society, 1908. An unpaginated 8" x 5" booklet. Copyright 1908. Lulu A. Crawford. Cover depicts California Poppies with inset of sun rising over the mountains. The title page reads "Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on. "Twas not given for you alone--Pass it on. Let it travel down the years, Let it wipe another's tear, 'Til in heaven and the deed appers--Pass it on. The content is daily inspirations by an array of authors including Ruskin, Robert Louis Stevenson, Milton, Kingsley, Sarah f. Adams and many more. Cynthia May Westover Alden, nee Cynthia May Westover (1862-1931) American social worker and journalist whose energies in the latter half of her life focused on securing the welfare of blind infants and children. She married John Alden, later editor of the Brooklyn Eagle, in 1896, and about that time she began sending Christmas cards to shut-ins. A group of fellow journalists then organized themselves as the Sunshine Society to carry on and enlarge the scope of the practice. Alden spread the word through her Recorder column and continued her involvement when she moved to the New York Tribune in 1897 and to the Ladies Home Journal in 1899. The International Sunshine Society, incorporated in 1900, was headed by Alden for the rest of her life. In 1902 the society established a sanatorium in Bensonhurst for blind children (in 1917 it became Harbor Hospital), and in 1905 a nursery and a kindergarten for blind children were established in Brooklyn. In 1910 the Sunshine Arthur Home for blind babies was established in Summit, New Jersey, and over a period of years the society's efforts led to legislation providing care for blind infants and children in 18 states. Alden's other books include Women's Ways of Earning Money (1904) and The Baby Blind (1915). By the time of her death the International Sunshine Society had 500 local branches in 38 states as well as branches in 8 foreign nations. (excerpts from Encyclopaedia Britannica).
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Geschichte und Bibliographie der Astronomischen Literatur in Deutschland zur zeit der Renaissance. by ZINNER, Ernst.

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Geschichte und Bibliographie der Astronomischen Literatur in Deutschland zur zeit der Renaissance.
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ZINNER, Ernst.
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Jeff Weber Rare Books (Switzerland)
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Leipzig:: Karl W. Hiersemann, 1941., 1941. FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo. 452 pp. Index; pencil markings on front and back endpapers, light foxing on front endpapers and title. Gilt-stamped maroon cloth; rubbed, several areas gnawed or improperly worn, with some kozo repairs. Good.
Histoire de la Nation Suisse. Traduite de l'Allemand . . . par Ch. Monnard. Aarau: H.R. Sauerlander, Geneve: J.J. Paschoud,

Histoire de la Nation Suisse. Traduite de l'Allemand . . . par Ch. Monnard. Aarau: H.R. Sauerlander, Geneve: J.J. Paschoud, by ZSCHOKKE, Henri [Johann Heinrich Daniel] (1771-1848).

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Histoire de la Nation Suisse. Traduite de l'Allemand . . . par Ch. Monnard. Aarau: H.R. Sauerlander, Geneve: J.J. Paschoud,
Author
ZSCHOKKE, Henri [Johann Heinrich Daniel] (1771-1848).
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Jeff Weber Rare Books (Switzerland)
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Paris :: Même Maison de Commerce, 1823., 1823. 8vo. 391, [1] pp. Original quarter calf, marbled boards; rubbed, some wear to spine head, corners worn. Inscriptions and name-stamp of Victor Cuenod, Gottingen, and Auguste Cuenod (1868-1954) – his signature on page 1 (endleaves, corner), Vevey. Heavily foxed. Good. Translated from the German, Des Schweizerlandes Geschichte fur das Schweizervolk, which was issued in 1822. A chronological history of Switzerland and the folk from this region. This work begins from the time before Christ and continues through the beginning of the 19th century. / Johann Heinrich Daniel Zschokke was a German, later Swiss, author and reformer. Most of his life was spent, and most of his reputation earned, in Switzerland. He had an extensive civil service career, and wrote histories, fiction and other works which were widely known.
Renaissance Fables: Aesopic Prose.
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Renaissance Fables: Aesopic Prose. by ALBERTI, Leon Battista, et al.

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Renaissance Fables: Aesopic Prose.
Author
ALBERTI, Leon Battista, et al.
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Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
ISBN
9780866983037
Condition
Fine in Fine dust jacket
Description
Tempe:: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies,. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2004. Hardcover. 0866983031 . Translated with an introduction and notes by David Marsh. First edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. .
Reading the Wind: The Literature of the Vietnam War: An Interpretative Critique.
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Reading the Wind: The Literature of the Vietnam War: An Interpretative Critique. by LOMPERIS, Timothy J.

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Reading the Wind: The Literature of the Vietnam War: An Interpretative Critique.
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LOMPERIS, Timothy J.
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Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
ISBN
9780822307051
Condition
Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Description
Durham:: Duke University Press,. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1987. Hardcover. 0822307057 . With a bibliographic commentary by John Clark Pratt. First edition. Light foxing on top edge, else very good in a very good dust jacket. .
Young socialist: volume 10, number 3 (74), February-March 1967

Young socialist: volume 10, number 3 (74), February-March 1967 by Young Socialist Alliance

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Young socialist: volume 10, number 3 (74), February-March 1967
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Young Socialist Alliance
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Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description
New York: Young Socialist Alliance, 1967. Magazine. 23p., wraps, 8.25x11 inches, illus., lightly worn, a few small stains, else very good condition. Multiple articles on the Vietnam war.
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The Web

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The Web
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Near Fine
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Ithaca: American Indian Program. 1990. August 1990. Newsletter published by the Cornell University Indigenous Communication Resource Center. This issue features, among other stories, an article about Olympic champion Billy Mills visiting Cornell. Edge-sunned; near fine in stapled wrappers. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine.
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Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament : The Books of the Chronicles

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Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament : The Books of the Chronicles
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Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
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T. & T. Clark, 1872. Good. . Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament : The Books of the Chronicles. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1872. 516pp. 8vo. Book condition: Good. The spine and edges of the covers are very subtly faded. There is a 1/4 inch loss from the cloth at the head of the spine. There is a 1 inch split in the cloth at the foot of the spine. The edges of the rear endsheet are lightly moisture stained. The pages at the begining and at the end of the text are foxed. The majority of the pages are very clean and bright. The text block is cracked at p. 272.

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