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HYPERION by (BINDINGS - HAMPSTEAD BINDERY). LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH

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Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts

Title: HYPERION
Author: (BINDINGS - HAMPSTEAD BINDERY). LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description: London: David Bogue, 1853. FIRST EDITION. 205 x 135 mm. (8 x 5 1/4"). xii, [2], 304 pp. ANIMATED CREAM-COLORED MOROCCO, INLAID AND GILT, BY THE HAMPSTEAD BINDERY (stamp-signed on front turn-in), covers with inlaid crimson morocco arabesque at center tooled with gilt circles and stippling surrounded by swirling gilt vines with inlaid green morocco flowers, smooth spine tooled with similar vines and with inlaid red morocco title banner, VELLUM DOUBLURES and endleaves framed with gilt tendrils that extend two inlaid green morocco flowers onto the doublures, all edges gilt. With nearly one hundred engravings on wood, from drawings by Birket Foster. Rear doublure with small gilt stamp of a coronet surrounded by a collar containing the word "Londonderry." Spine slightly and evenly darkened, a breath of rubbing to extremities, but A FINE COPY, clean, fresh, and bright inside and out. Longfellow's earliest literary success appears here in an elegant binding from Frank Karslake's Hampstead Bindery, almost certainly done during the bindery's earliest days, when it employed arguably the most talented artisans who would ever work there. It is a beautiful example of a vigorously decorated binding--with its splashes of green and red supported by swirling gilt--but one that is presented with reassuring control and echoed in a much quieter smooth spine. Karslake opened the bindery near his Charing Cross Road bookshop in January of 1898, with high hopes and a strong staff, but the workshop's life was short. The original personnel comprised Alfred de Sauty as chief designer; P. A. Savoldelli, Thomas E. Carey, and Thomas Harrison as finishers; Samuel Tout and Sylvester Byrnes as forwarders; and a Miss Rogers as the sewer. Hampstead acted as an adjunct to the Guild of Women Binders, which Karslake organized later in 1898; he often assigned the (male) professionals at the Hampstead workshop to execute the designs of the Guild's members. He also set up a workroom for the Guild at Hampstead, with training to be provided by the bindery staff, then issued catalogues and staged exhibitions featuring productions from both workshops. Workers at Hampstead began to go elsewhere, perhaps (as Tidcombe speculates) because they had been irritated to have the responsibility for training the women added to their duties, or were upset over having their own craftsmanship attributed to the women's Guild. By 1901, only Savoldelli remained from the original staff; by 1902 even Karslake's son Harold had quit; the bindery was soon shuttered after that. The present binding's charming and unusual design is almost certainly the work of de Sauty (1870-1949), who began his career as a finisher for the esteemed Riviere firm. In addition to creating designs for the Hampstead Bindery, he taught at the London County Council School of Arts and Crafts. He later emigrated, becoming manager of the Extra Bindery at R. R. Donnelley Co. and at Cuneo Bindery in Chicago, and gaining recognition as one of the most accomplished binders at work in the first third of the 20th century. As suggested by the present example, he had a refined imagination for design, in addition to being a binder of enormous technical skill. First published in 1839, the novel "Hyperion" chronicles a young man's wanderings through Europe after being rejected by the woman he loved (a state that happened to coincide with events in the author's own life). It struck a chord with readers--many of whom used it as a kind of guidebook for their own European travels--and advanced Longfellow's writing career. His first book of poetry was published the same year and firmly established his reputation. The gilt stamp on the rear doublure is almost certainly the mark of a previous owner; the coronet suggests that owner may have been the (7th?) Marquess of Londonderry..

You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (Three original photographs from the 1939 film) by W.C. Fields, Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy, Eddie Anderson (starring); George Marshall, Edward F. Cline (directors); Geroge Marion Jr. Richard Mack, Everett Freeman (screenwriters); Ray Jones (photographer)

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Title: You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (Three original photographs from the 1939 film)
Author: W.C. Fields, Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy, Eddie Anderson (starring); George Marshall, Edward F. Cline (directors); Geroge Marion Jr. Richard Mack, Everett Freeman (screenwriters); Ray Jones (photographer)
Seller: Royal Books (United States)
Description: Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1939. Three vintage reference photographs from the 1939 film, two of W.C. Fields with Edgar Bergan and Charlie McCarthy, and one of Fields with Eddie "Rochester" Anderson. Two of the photographs with a Universal Studios stamp crediting photographer Ray Jones, two photographs with mimeo snipes, and two with an additional stamp, all on the verso. From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1, 1901, Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s, and went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935, where he worked well into the 1950s. W.C. Fields is the owner of a shady circus constantly on the run from the law and creditors, and clearly not paying his performers who are intent on getting their due. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine overall, one photograph with four cello tape remnants in the top and bottom margins.

Waterloo Must Go Forward (Original investment prospectus for downtown Waterloo, Iowa, circa 1956) by [Waterloo, Iowa]

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Seller: Royal Books

Title: Waterloo Must Go Forward (Original investment prospectus for downtown Waterloo, Iowa, circa 1956)
Author: [Waterloo, Iowa]
Seller: Royal Books (United States)
Description: Waterloo, IA: Downtown Waterloo, Inc, 1956. Vintage seven-page promotional investment prospectus from Downtown Waterloo, Inc., a local non-profit consortium of local Iowa business owners, seeking investors for a campaign to modernize the city's downtown business district during the automobile boom of the 1950s, circa 1956. The seven pages of the prospectus includes: An introduction promoting "Centrally located and easily accessible" "Down Town Parking." A Downtown Waterloo Inc. common stock offering ($100 a share), listing all of the non-profit's officers and directors. A page listing downtown businesses above a page of a map of the area with the locations of the aforementioned businesses labeled numerically. Three two-page spreads illustrating the "Before ..." and "After ..." of proposed remodeling to include overhead parking, with photographs of the area on the top pages and illustrated architectural proposals on the following pages. (The areas illustrated include two opposing views of the intersection of West Fourth Street and Jefferson Street and one of the intersection of Commercial Street and West Fifth Street.) A reprint of "Let's Keep Business in Downtown Waterloo," a two page ad from the Sunday, January 29, 1956 Waterloo Sunday Courier, proposing overhead parking, public restrooms, public lockers, and a bridge connecting the east and west sides of Commercial Street between West Fourth Street and West Park Ave, with a large diagram of the proposed parking in the area. And a page illustrating and describing a double-spiral "Parkit" overhead parking design by Moline Architect M. R. Beckstrom. 9.5 x 14 inches, side-stapled, with card wrappers. Very Good plus, with faint toning to the wrappers.

Entry in an Unknown Hand by Wright, Franz

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Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA

Title: Entry in an Unknown Hand
Author: Wright, Franz
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1989. First edition. Fine. First edition, cloth issue. 60, [4] pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with spine lettered in gilt; no dust jacket as issued. Trivial rubbing to covers else Fine. The exceedingly scarce hardcover issue of an early collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet. Carnegie Mellon U. Press did not issue many of these alongside the much more common paperback issue.

Poetry and the Social by Wieners, John

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Title: Poetry and the Social
Author: Wieners, John
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: Candia, NH: John LeBow, 1997. Signed by John Wieners underneath his printed name. Copy #3 of 100. 9 3/4" x 16 3/4" broadside, single-sided. Near Fine, bright and attractive.

Verlangen nach Jesu! Wo ist Jesus mein Verlangen by (Broadside)

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Title: Verlangen nach Jesu! Wo ist Jesus mein Verlangen
Author: (Broadside)
Seller: De Simone Company, Booksellers (United States)
Description: N.p., 1820. 4to. 290 x 200 mm., [11 ½ x 8 inches]. Printed in two columns in German. Decorative typographical border. Paper stock browned with age, some foxing and staining; tear near top of margin at printed border without loss, expert tissue repairs. The lyrics of this anonymously printed hymn is attributed to Ludaemilie Elisabeth Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (1640-72), the author of over 60 hymns and songs. It is the tale of a person who, after atoning for his sins finds Jesus and eternal life. Wo is Jesus mein Verlangen was extremely popular and printed at least "sixty-two times" in Germany but rarely printed in America. The hymn was put to music by Bach in his Cantata 32 Liebster Jesu, mein Verlangen. Not located in OCLC and not cited in either the Library Company Catalogue or the American Antiquarian Society. A copy appears to be in the collections at Franklin and Marshall, Broadside Hymn H242. No reference appears in either Yoder or Earnest. Herman Wellenreuther, Citizens in a Strange Land, p. 146. Hymnary.org/text/wo_is_jesus_ mein_verlangen.

Illustrated 1898 Catalogue and Price List of McNab & Harlin Manufacturing Co. (56 and 60 John Street, New York)

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Title: Illustrated 1898 Catalogue and Price List of McNab & Harlin Manufacturing Co. (56 and 60 John Street, New York)
Seller: Appledore Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good +
Description: New York: McNab & Harlin Manufacturing Co, 1898. Cloth. Very Good +. Wonderful turn-of-the-century (1898) illustrated catalogue and price list for McNab & Harlin Manufacturing Company of New York. Filled with hundreds and hundreds of steel engravings (from cast iron fittings and wrought iron nipples to street washers and lawn hydrants), including detailed price lists and descriptions of items. A sharp, well-preserved copy to boot: Tight and VG+ in its wine-red cloth, with bright gilt-titling along the front panel and spine. Very light soiling along the fore-edges, just a touch of scuffing at the panels. Dense quarto, excellent look at the equipment and tools which helped to make New York function amidst its dramatic population spikes of the late 1800s.

CRUZ DEL SUR POSTER; with comemorative coin by artist Ricardo Benamin that he gave out at the Bienal

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Title: CRUZ DEL SUR POSTER; with comemorative coin by artist Ricardo Benamin that he gave out at the Bienal
Seller: Beverly Karno Books LLC (United States)
Description: Caracas, Venezuela, 1997. Caracas, Venezuela, 1997, multi-color poster for the Primera Bienal Iberoamericana, Lima. 65x45cms. Ricardo Benaím is a renowned Venezuelan contemporary artist, born in Caracas, known for his conceptual works in painting, sculpture, engraving, and assemblage, often incorporating maps, organic materials, and social commentary on Latin America's environment and territory, with studies in Caracas, Paris, and New York (Pratt Institute). He's celebrated for exploring themes of destruction, utopia, and geographical identity, using unique techniques like inlaid maps and wax seals, and his work is held in major collections and exhibited globally. • Origin: Caracas, Venezuela. • Education: Instituto de Diseño Fundación Neumann (Caracas), Atelier 63 (Paris), Pratt Institute (New York). • Mediums: Painting, sculpture, engraving, drawing, assemblage (paper, organic materials, metal, glass). • Themes: Latin American territory, social/ecological issues, post-industrial world, utopian concepts. • Style: Conceptual, often uses maps, found objects, printmaking techniques. • Recognition: Exhibited worldwide, work in collections like the Smithsonian. In essence, Ricardo Benaím is a significant Venezuelan artist whose work reflects deep engagement with his homeland's landscape and complex socio-ecological realities through innovative mixed-media art. RICARDO BENAIM - Arts of the AmericasBorn in Caracas, Venezuela, Ricardo Benaim finished his studies at the Instituto de Diseño Fundación Neumann in Caracas in 1972. E... OAS.org Ricardo Benaim - Biography - GalleryOnline1949. Works. View works. Pianos. Born in 1949 in Caracas, Venezuela, Richardo Benaim received his BA in Graphic Design in Caracas. GalleryOnline Tierra | Ricardo Benaim - RoGalleryAbout The Artist: Ricardo Benaim. Chronology 1949 Born in Caracas, Venezuela. Education 1972 BA, Institute of Graphic Design, Fund... RoGallery.

EL CIELO ANTERIOR.; Poemas: Susana Negri. Dibujos..

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Title: EL CIELO ANTERIOR.; Poemas: Susana Negri. Dibujos..
Seller: Beverly Karno Books LLC (United States)
ISBN: 9789879967829
Description: Buenos Aires: Ediciones Arte & Antiguedades, 1995. b/w illus., bios., fldg. pict. wrps. Illustrated book by Argentine born artist.

Barefoot in the Park by Simon, Neil

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Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books

Title: Barefoot in the Park
Author: Simon, Neil
Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: New York: Random House, 1969. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo.,143pp. Sharp Stated First Printing of Simon's breakout play. Bound in quarter black cloth over blue paper-covered boards with titles in gilt on spine. Random House logo blind-stamped on front board. Square, tight and clean throughout with just a touch of wear at the spine ends and tips but quite minor. Very attractive clipped dust-jacket has some mild soiling and rubbing. Spine mildly toning. Still bright with no chipping, creases or tears. A very pretty collectable copy and at a great price.

WILL OF SYLVANUS BROWN by [Brown, Sylvanus]

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Title: WILL OF SYLVANUS BROWN
Author: [Brown, Sylvanus]
Seller: David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC (United States)
Description: [Haverhill, MA, 1870. Broadside, 8.75" x 19.25", printed in three columns, laid down on paper. Age toned, untrimmed, light scattered spotting. Old horizontal folds, affecting legibility of portions of a few lines of text. Signed in type and dated at the end, March 22, 1870. Good. This is the will of Sylvanus Brown of Windham, New Hampshire, formerly of Derry. In addition to leaving property to family and friends, he left Derry a substantial sum of money, to be "kept under bonds with good sureties" and to be used for the town's interests, including the purchase of flannel for the destitute people of the town, in "picking the small stones from the public highways," and towards the purchasing of "good native nuts and cider, to be kept in the care of said boards, in good condition, and impartialy offered as cheer at the next Bi-Centennial Celebration" in 1919. Brown was the author of 'The Rejected Poem of A.D. 1869', a copy of which is at the website of the University of New Hampshire Library. The poem's introduction states that the poem is to be "conserved for use at the Bicentennial on Derry Common, A.D. 1919" and mentions the distribution of the nuts and cider. Not located on OCLC as of February 2017.

Georgia Blood A Reprint of "The Early History of Jackson County, Georgia by Wilson, G.J.N.; Bicknell, Peggy (edited and published by)

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Title: Georgia Blood A Reprint of "The Early History of Jackson County, Georgia
Author: Wilson, G.J.N.; Bicknell, Peggy (edited and published by)
Seller: Americana Books ABAA (United States)
Condition: Fair
Description: Decatur: J & J Graphics Decatur, Ga, 1977. Reprint. Hardcover. Fair. Octavo. 343 pages. 2 frontispiece illustrations. 2 Illustrations. Red binding with title on spine. Ex-library copy with numbers on the spine, removed label from the rear end sheet, and stamp on the title page. Interior contents are clean. A fair to good reference or reading copy. This is a reprint of the "Early History of Jackson County, Georgia" by GJN Wilson. Contents cover the first settlers 1784; formation and boundaries to the present time; records of the Talasee Colony; struggles of the Colonies of Yamacutah, Groaning Rock, Fort Yargo, Stonethrow and Thomocoggan. Editor includes a brief chapter on Dr. Crawford W. Long whose discovery and development of anesthesia occurred in Jackson County.

Steam Packets on the Chesapeake. by Brown, Alexander Crosby.

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Title: Steam Packets on the Chesapeake.
Author: Brown, Alexander Crosby.
Seller: Ten Pound Island Book Co. (United States)
Condition: A history of the Old Bay Line since 1840. First ed. VG, chipped dj.
Description: Cambridge, MD: Cornell Maritime Press, 1961. A history of the Old Bay Line since 1840. First ed. VG, chipped dj.. 23.5 cm., 192 pp. b/w plates.

Crescent Rivers: Waterways of Florida’s Big Bend. by Bertolaet, Todd.

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Title: Crescent Rivers: Waterways of Florida’s Big Bend.
Author: Bertolaet, Todd.
Seller: Lighthouse Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: Gainesville: University Press of Florida, (!998). First Edition. Oblong quarto, blue cloth & boards (hardcover), gilt letters, xvi, 64 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: The Big Bend is a crescent-shaped coastline where the peninsula of Florida merges with the underbelly of the southeastern states. From Tampa Bay to the Ochlockonee River, the land meets the sea in an ecologically abundant system of swamps, salt marshes, and wet cabbage-palm forrests. For more than a decade, Todd Bertolaet has hiked, paddled, and waded through the region to capture these panoramic images that convey its botanical richness, primoridial environs, and changing waterways.

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