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THE WRITINGS OF BRET HARTE [with] MERWIN, HENRY CHILDS. THE LIFE OF BRET HARTE

THE WRITINGS OF BRET HARTE [with] MERWIN, HENRY CHILDS. THE LIFE OF BRET HARTE by (BINDINGS - RIVERSIDE PRESS BINDERY). HARTE, BRET

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Title
THE WRITINGS OF BRET HARTE [with] MERWIN, HENRY CHILDS. THE LIFE OF BRET HARTE
Author
(BINDINGS - RIVERSIDE PRESS BINDERY). HARTE, BRET
Seller
Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1896-1914. No. 59 of 350 COPIES of the Autograph Edition, SIGNED in the first volume BY THE AUTHOR and dated September 1896. 221 x 146 mm. (8 5/8 x 5 3/4"). 21 volumes.. HANDSOME DARK BROWN CRUSHED MOROCCO, GILT, FROM THE BINDERY OF THE RIVERSIDE PRESS (stamp-signed on verso of front free endpaper), covers with gilt fillet frame and large floral wreath at center, raised bands, spines gilt in compartments with Tudor rose centerpiece, gilt lettering, LIGHT GREEN MOROCCO DOUBLURES with pretty gilt frame, green watered silk endleaves, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed, three volumes UNOPENED. Writings with title page vignettes and 134 PLATES, including 20 color frontispieces, portrait of the author, and 113 photogravure plates printed on India paper and mounted on heavy stock, at least one plate in each volume SIGNED in pencil by the artists, who include Frederic Remington, Charles Russell, M. J. Burns, Seymour M. Stone, Frederick McCormick, and Alice Barber Stephens; "Life" with frontispiece portrait and 16 plates. BAL 7384; BAL 7408. A touch of sunning to spines, but A SUPERB SET inside and out, with only the most trivial imperfections. Offered here in an expansive deluxe edition in sumptuous bindings, this is a collection of works by a premier chronicler of the American West and the California Gold Rush, a writer whose vivid and romantic depictions did much to contribute to the region's allure. According to Day, "Harte's West is one of picturesque melodrama, sentimentality amidst the sordid, a boisterous flotsam-and-jetsam society set against spectacular scenery. . . . His pervasive technique was contrast, physically among the bizarre admixture of humanity in contemporary California, and morally within individuals (favorite Harte subjects are gamblers and harlots with hearts of gold and blasphemous miners who would weep copious tears over Little Nell)." Harte was part of a vibrant San Francisco literary scene that included Mark Twain and Ambrose Bierce, and was also close to Ralph Waldo Emerson, James Russell Lowell, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Our set is enhanced with illustrations by some of the leading artists of the West, including Frederic Remington and Charles Russell, who bring Harte's colorful characters, dramatic Western panoramas, and rowdy scenes to life. Our set was extravagantly bound at the Riverside Press bindery, and its yards of beautifully gilt crushed morocco make a striking appearance on the shelf. The "Writings" were issued in 19 volumes in 1896, followed by a 20th volume in 1903 and then Merwin's "Life" of Harte in 1914; not surprisingly, the set is frequently seen incomplete, without the two subsequent volumes that are present here..
32 titles (see below)

32 titles (see below) by CHEAP REPOSITORY For Moral and Religious Publications.

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32 titles (see below)
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CHEAP REPOSITORY For Moral and Religious Publications.
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BATTLEDORE LTD (United States)
Description
CHEAP REPOSITORY For Moral and Religious Publications. London: S Hazard for J Marshall, circa 1795. 12mo, [xxiv] including 22 pages of Subscriber's names + History of Tom White the Postilion, Way to Plenty, Two Shoemaker, Shepherd of Salisbury-Plain (two parts), Book of Martyrs, Two Soldiers, Plague in London 1665, Execution of Maclean (Gentleman Highwayman), Divine Songs by Isaac Watts, Life of William Baker, Lancashire Collier Girl, Beggerly Boy, Good Mother's Legacy, Daniel in the Lion's Den, Noah's Flood, Hints to all Ranks of People, Harvest Home, Two Wealthy Farmers (two parts), Laborer's in the Vineyard, Sorrowful Sam, the Guinea and the Shilling, True Book in Verse, Wonderful Escape from Shipwreck, Husbandry Moralized, Babay story of a good Negro Woman, Murders, Religious Advantages of the Inhabitants of Great Britain, Happy Waterman, Sorrows of Yamba, Carpenter, each separately paginated from 8pp to 32pp and mostly front woodcut; original leather-backed marbled boards (heavily rubbed, small spine defects). RARE COLLECTION from the first year of Cheap Repository chapbook tracts, many authored anonymously by Hannah More.
ASSEMBLAGE, ENVIRONMENTS & HAPPENINGS

ASSEMBLAGE, ENVIRONMENTS & HAPPENINGS by Kaprow, Allan; [Vostell, Wolf]; [Brecht, George]

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ASSEMBLAGE, ENVIRONMENTS & HAPPENINGS
Author
Kaprow, Allan; [Vostell, Wolf]; [Brecht, George]
Seller
Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition
Very good.
Description
New York: Abrams, 1966. Very good.. Inscribed first edition of this founding document of performance and environmental art - the first such work by a major publisher, Abrams. A founding document of performance and environmental art, and the first by a major publisher, Kaprow's ASSEMBLAGE, ENVIRONMENTS & HAPPENINGS was originally planned as an official Fluxus publication (see CODEX p. 288), but eventually evolved into this broader book. Artists covered include Robert Rauschenberg, Claes Oldenburg, Red Grooms, and George Segal, with contributions from Wolf Vostell, George Brecht, Kaprow and others. The recipient is almost certainly photojournalist Paul Berg, whose photos are included in this volume and fall roughly where Kaprow suggests they should (though there is no such plate 164). Berg photographed and covered Kaprow's happening "Push and Pull" for the ST. LOUIS POST DISPATCH in 1963. The uncommon hardcover issue of this important resource, it is scarce signed, especially with any kind of association. 12'' x 12''. Original brown burlap covered boards. Lacking original clear vinyl jacket. Black endpapers. 341, [3] pages. Inscribed by Kaprow to early preliminary: "For Paul on / his birthday - / A nostalgic / time in which / you played a / part (see pl. / 164 somewhere / deep inside!) / - in friendship / Allan K." Sunning to lower edges, spine faded. Else clean and sound throughout.
Knicks-Knacks

Knicks-Knacks by Cuppy, Hazlitt Alva

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Knicks-Knacks
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Cuppy, Hazlitt Alva
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McBride Rare Books (United States)
Condition
Very good.
Description
Indianapolis: McCormick & Co, 1892. Very good.. 47pp. plus frontispiece portrait. 12mo. Original cream printed wrappers. Wrappers lightly soiled, contents clean. Institutional ink and perforation stamp on title page. Poetry written by this Indiana author while at Heidelberg University in Germany. Cuppy went on to be an author and editor, working at the Chicago University Press among other establishments. Most notably herein, section two of the work is "In Dialect," with six poems featured in a rural Hoosier dialect, most of which seem to discuss the seasonal weather. One piece, titled "Winter" reads: "'Long this winter, I hain't been doin' much / But jes piddle' round, chop wood an' feed. / I made Tom Markham's boy a krutch, / An' a sled for Marg'ret Reed. / I've done my chores around the house, / Mended up my geers, sharpened my tools, / Fixed traps to ketch a rat er mouse, / An' sheared my naber's mules." We locate five copies in OCLC -- Brown University, Library of Congress, Yale, Indiana State Library, and Indiana Historical Society.
The Long Now

The Long Now by Barth, Uta (Photographs); Russel Ferguson; Holly Myers; Jonathan Crary (Texts)

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Title
The Long Now
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Barth, Uta (Photographs); Russel Ferguson; Holly Myers; Jonathan Crary (Texts)
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Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (United States)
ISBN
9780980024241
Condition
New in publisher's shrink wrap
Description
New York: Gregory R. Miller & Co, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. New in publisher's shrink wrap. Quarto. 384pp. Original boards photo-illustrated in color with white lettering on cover and spine. Illustrated throughout with color photographs, including several gatefolds. Uta Barth's photographs are represented in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum, the Guggenheim, Whitney Museum, among others. This publication is illustrated with more than three hundred color reproductions of Barth's challenging photographs of ordinary places, often blurred with one element rendered sharply. A comprehensive overview of Barth's work.
Un homme coupé en tranches. Avec dix-huit eaux-fortes gravées par l'auteur

Un homme coupé en tranches. Avec dix-huit eaux-fortes gravées par l'auteur by Bruller, Jean

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Un homme coupé en tranches. Avec dix-huit eaux-fortes gravées par l'auteur
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Bruller, Jean
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John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller (United States)
Description
1929. Paul Hartmann, 1929. 4to, 86 pp., illustrated with 18 original etchings by Jean Bruller, hand-colored. Original printed wrappers over stiff card. Moderately foxed, backstrip paper with splits, binding cracked, but complete and with the bold illustrations still bright. § Copy number XXXIII of XXXV copies on Madagascar paper for La Librairie Champion, with an original sketch in ink and pencil on the front free endpaper, signed by Jean Bruller. The sketch is of a serious-looking man in a tophat and is labeled "Le directeur des Pompesfunebres." An early work by the writer, illustrator, and French resistance fighter, Jean Bruller (1902-1991).
A narrative of facts, interesting, mysterious, and extraordinary: as connected with a short history of two servants, named James Harper Peart, and Ann Thomas: detailing the particulars of a robbery in Great Bedford Street

A narrative of facts, interesting, mysterious, and extraordinary: as connected with a short history of two servants, named James Harper Peart, and Ann Thomas: detailing the particulars of a robbery in Great Bedford Street by Page, J.

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A narrative of facts, interesting, mysterious, and extraordinary: as connected with a short history of two servants, named James Harper Peart, and Ann Thomas: detailing the particulars of a robbery in Great Bedford Street
Author
Page, J.
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De Wolfe and Wood (United States)
Description
Bath: Printed and Published by Mary Meyler, 1833. 44 of 48 pp. Fair in paper wraps, worn and stained. A single copy is located at Princeton University. This is described as 48 pp., but the text ends cleanly at page 44. Likely missing an afterword or a publisher's catalog.
An Island Called Moreau - 1st Edition/1st Printing
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An Island Called Moreau - 1st Edition/1st Printing by Aldiss, Brian W. and Harry Harrison [editors]

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An Island Called Moreau - 1st Edition/1st Printing
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Aldiss, Brian W. and Harry Harrison [editors]
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Books Tell You Why, Inc. (United States)
ISBN
9780671254537
Condition
Fine in Fine dust jacket
Description
New York: Simon and Schuster. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1981. First Edition; First Printing. 1/4 Cloth. 0671254537 . A Fine first Edition/First Printing in an equally Fine dust-jacket; The story follows the journey of Dr. Moreau, a scientist who has discovered a way to change animals into creatures that are half-human, half-animal. The novel follows Moreau's attempt to bring these creatures to the outside world, and the consequences of his experiments.; 8vo; 173 pages; Price? ? ? .
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LIVING TRADITIONS: INTERIORS BY MATTHEW PATRICK SMYTH by Smyth, Matthew Patrick

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LIVING TRADITIONS: INTERIORS BY MATTHEW PATRICK SMYTH
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Smyth, Matthew Patrick
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Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB (United States)
Condition
As New
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NY: The Monacelli Press, 2011. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New/Near Fine. As new copy signed on the half title by Matthew Smyth, who's been on Elle Decor's A-list of international designers for the last nine years.
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STUDIES IN DESIGN by Dresser, Christopher

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STUDIES IN DESIGN
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Dresser, Christopher
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Green Gate Farm Antiquarian Books (United States)
Description
(Layton, Utah): Gibbs Smith, (2002). A quarto bound in red cloth, comprising a handsome reprint of this classic work's First Edition of 1874. Forty pages of text precede 60 full-page color plates that faithfully reproduce Dr. Dresser's superb designs.
Bettie Page in Danger! #4

Bettie Page in Danger! #4

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Bettie Page in Danger! #4
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Battle Creek: SHH Productions, 2012. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. Near fine in publisher's bag with 3-D glasses.

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