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THE NORTH by BECKETT, Samuel

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Title: THE NORTH
Author: BECKETT, Samuel
Seller: Charles Agvent, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: London: Enitharmon Press, 1972. First Edition. wraps. Fine. Avigdor Arikha. Folio (11-3/4" x 15") in wraps, loosely housed as issued in a paper folder, cloth chemise, and slipcase. Text printed by Will and Sebastian Carter on paper made by J. Barcham Green. Of a total of 137 numbered copies illustrated with 3 original etchings by Avigdor Arikha, each signed in pencil by the artist, this is copy #121 and is one of only 12 "Ad personam" copies. Rather than being signed on the colophon page as with the regular copies, this is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front of the folder: "for Herbert Myron/from his friend/Sam. Beckett/Paris May/1973." The text of THE NORTH comprises the penultimate paragraph of THE LOST ONES with minor variants from the full edition in English. Herbert Myron, a professor of French at Boston University, was a friend who had a lengthy correspondence with Beckett. Myron introduced Beckett to Lawrence Harvey who wrote SAMUEL BECKETT: POET AND CRITIC, focusing on Beckett's least known writings.

Bonne double bierre by [Wallpaper advertising broadside - Beer; Paulot & Carré]

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Title: Bonne double bierre
Author: [Wallpaper advertising broadside - Beer; Paulot & Carré]
Seller: Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink (United States)
Description: [París, France: Paulot & Carré, 1828. Wallpaper broadside (45 x 51 cm.), with seven-color woodcut (black, orange, green, blue, white, gray, and brown). Printed on a brown paper coated with a pale blue pigment. The text states, "Bonne double bierre", and the scene depicts four soldiers in uniform being waited on by a woman. She pours a seated soldier a drink while another stands with his hand draped around her shoulder. Two more soldiers share a smoke, appearing to have had a few drinks already. Only the woman is clearly not enjoying herself. There are no identifying marks or labels on the broadside or on the matte, but the stated publisher and date, and the attribution to the printers Paulot & Carré, are inferred by comparison with a print of the same series in the collection of the Museé du Papier Peint, in Rexheim, France. That print, with the same text, background color, print colors and rough size, depicts two women and a child, seated under an arbor with a military officer, enjoying a drink. Two exhibitions at Rixheim included that print; three similar prints were included in the groundbreaking exhibition by wallpaper collector and manufacturer Félix Follot, Papiers peints, à l'exposition universelle internationales de 1900 à Paris. Three similar prints were shown at the Exposition (notice 156 "Deux affiches illustrées imprimées chez Paulot et Carré (1828-1830) (Bière, Cidre)" and notice 158 "Affiche illustrée 'Bonne double bierre'" (1828). The two scenes described here were issued interchangeably with a number of texts, including "Bonne Double Bierre", "Petite Biere", "Biere, Cidre", and "Eau de Vie de Cognac". Unevenly cut, with wide margins; affixed to modern matte with two small cloth hinges; one small cloth repair to verso. Some rubbing to surface of print and a bit of color loss to the face of one character, and general light creasing. Still, near very good. Rare. [Félix Follot. Papiers peints, à l'exposition universelle internationales de 1900 à Paris. (Saint-Cloud: Imp. Belin Frères, 1900), no. 156 & 158 (prints from the same series); Françoise Teynac, Pierre Nolot, Jean-Denis Vivien. Le Monde du Papier Peint. (Paris, Berger-Levrault, 1981), page 137; Sotheby. Papiers peints anciens, collection de la maison Follot, catalogue de vente, 7 et 8 février 1982. (Monte-Carlo: Sotheby, 1982), no. 12].

THE ADVENTURES OF GIL BLAS OF SANTILLANA by (BINDINGS - WELCHER). LE SAGE, ALAIN RENÉ

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Title: THE ADVENTURES OF GIL BLAS OF SANTILLANA
Author: (BINDINGS - WELCHER). LE SAGE, ALAIN RENÉ
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description: London: Printed for Richard Phillips, 1807. 203 x 121 mm. (8 x 4 3/4"). Four volumes. Translated by Martin Smart. EXTREMELY PLEASING CONTEMPORARY DEEP BLUE STRAIGHT-GRAIN MOROCCO, HANDSOMELY GILT, BY SAMUEL WELCHER (with his ticket on verso of front endpaper), covers bordered in gilt with triple rules and framed with wide palmette roll, inside of which is a rule with small ring and floral tools at corners; raised bands, spines ornately gilt in lobed compartments featuring stippled ground, quatrefoil centerpiece with delicate foliate sprays at sides and fleurons at ends, turn-ins gilt with single rule and fleuron and ring tools at corners, all edges gilt. WITH 160 ENGRAVINGS, comprised of 100 copperplates by Warner, Tomlinson, and others, and EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with 60 plates by Conrad Martin Metz. Front pastedowns with armorial bookplate of H. Holland Edwards, Pennant Ereithlyn, North Wales (see below). Lowndes II, 1343; Graesse IV, 174. Front joints just a little flaked, backstrips slightly sunned, covers with minor variation in color, several plates a little foxed (generally only in margins and more frequently on added plates), one leaf with light ink stain in lower margin, light dampstain in margin at head of one plate, isolated very minor marginal soiling, but A VERY PLEASING SET, the decorative bindings very well preserved, and internally clean, fresh, and bright. Staggemeier and Welcher were in partnership in London from about 1799 to 1810, and their bindings are normally found signed with both of their names, rather than with one name or the other, as in the present case. Like Kalthoeber and other immigrant German members of their trade, the two came to England to satisfy the fashionable need among gentry and nobility for elegant bindings, and "in their heyday Staggemeier and Welcher were one of the most prolific workshops producing 'extra' quality work in London." (Maggs Catalogue 1212) They were known for bindings with typically tasteful and often elaborate gilt decoration, and they were among the very best at producing these highly finished volumes. Howe gives evidence that at various times Staggemeier and Welcher worked together and separately at 11 and 12 Villiers Street. The assumption is that even when they were in partnership, each of the binders did at least some work of his own, but bindings signed by one of them are much scarcer than those signed by both. The illustrations in our volume are a source of interest in that the 60 by Metz depict scenes from the text that are also shown in corresponding plates by the other artists, though with a style that is dramatically different. In the engravings by Metz, there are settings with larger, more prominent figures whose dimpled knees and large round faces lend an air of comic farce to the scenes. This is perhaps more in keeping with the picaresque quality of the novel than the refined, cool, and professional engravings of the other artists, who have produced rather small figures that seem to be dwarfed by oversized settings. Le Sage (1668-1747) began his literary career translating Spanish works and thus came to appreciate the form, pioneered in Spain, of the picaresque novel, recounting the adventures of a likable rogue and satirizing the foibles of the times. In middle age, he turned to creating his own theatrical works and novels, and his acknowledged masterpiece is "Gil Blas." The story is set in Spain, and the feckless hero suffers many adventures and essays several careers (physician, courtier) before he learns compassion and achieves tranquility in a countrified life. Our owner is the distinguished collector Howel Holland Edwards (1764-1842) of Pennant Ereithlyn, North Wales. Son of Edward Edwards of Caerhwm, Carnarvonshire, he matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, in 1782, attaining his B.A. in 1786, and his M.A. in 1789. To his alma mater, he donated some of his choicest finds, including manuscripts by Isaac Newton. For some time the Duke of Marlborough retained him as both his chaplain and librarian. In 1803, Edwards was made Prebendary of Westminster Abbey, and when he died in 1842 he was buried in the abbey..

Frank and Fearless by ALGER, Horation

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Title: Frank and Fearless
Author: ALGER, Horation
Seller: Argosy Book Store (United States)
Condition: very good(+)
Description: Philadelphia: Coates, 1897. First. hardcover. very good(+). Illustrated. 8vo, tan cloth stamped in gilt & black. Philadelphia: Coates, 1897. First Edition. Earliest printing, according to Gardner, with slate colored end-papers and the date on title. The book is very slightly skewed, but otherwise uncommonly bright and solid.

Frank Hunter's Peril by ALGER, Horatio

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Title: Frank Hunter's Peril
Author: ALGER, Horatio
Seller: Argosy Book Store (United States)
Condition: very good(+)
Description: Philadelphia: Coates, 1896. First. hardcover. very good(+). Illustrated. 8vo tan cloth stamped in gilt & black; slate end-papers. Philadelphia: Coates, (1896). First Edition First book appearance, the story having been serialized in New York Weekly the previous year. The book is slightly skewed with a touch of wear to the top of the spine, but uncommonly clean and solid.

Engraved Portrait by "Hobbedeboody by Adams, Jack

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Title: Engraved Portrait by "Hobbedeboody
Author: Adams, Jack
Seller: Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description: 1663. Adams, Jack (1625-?). Magnifico smokentissimo custardissimo astrologissimo cunningmanissimo rabbinissimo viro Iacko Adams de Clarkenwell Greeno hanc lovelissiman sui picturam. Engraved portrait. N.p., n.d. (1663 or later). Mounted. 130 x 76 mm. (engraving); 146 x 93 mm. (mount). Very good. Comic portrait of British astrologer Jack Adams, the "Cunning Man of Clerkenwell Green," captioned in dog-Latin and signed "Hobbedeboody pinxit et scratchabat." John Timbs, who reproduced this engraving in his English Eccentrics and Eccentricities (1875), gave the following brief biography of Adams: "Among the celebrities of Clerkenwell Green was Jack Adams, whose nativity was calculated by Partridge, who affirmed that he was born on the 3rd of December, 1625, and that he was so great a natural, or simpleton, as to be obliged to wear long coats, besides other marks of stupidity. . . . "Jack Adams was a conjurer and professor of the celestial sciences; he was (says Granger's Supplement) 'a blind buzzard, who pretended to have the eyes of an eagle. He was chiefly employed in horary questions, relative to love and marriage, and knew, upon proper occasions, how to soothe and flatter the expectations of those who consulted him, as a man might have much better fortune from him for five guineas than for the same number of shillings . . . He assumed the character of a learned and cunning man; but was no otherwise cunning than as he knew how to overreach those credulous mortals who were as willing to be cheated as he was to cheat them, and who relied implicitly upon his art.' . . . "In an old print we have Jack Adams in a fantastic dress, with a tobacco-pipe in his girdle, standing at a table on which lies a horn-book and Poor Robin's Almanack. On one shelf is a row of books, and on another several boys' playthings, particularly tops, marbles, and a small drum. Before him is a man genteelly dressed, presenting five pieces; from his mouth proceeds a label, inscribed, 'Is she a princess?' This is meant for Carleton, who married the pretended German princess. Behind him is a ragged, slatternly woman, who also has a label in her mouth, with these words: 'Sir, can you tell my fortune?'" (Timbs, pp. 131-132). "The pretended German princess" refers to British criminal Mary Carleton, who assumed false identities in order to marry and defraud a number of men. She first came to public notice in 1663 when she was arrested and tried for impersonating a German princess in order to marry John Carleton, the brother-in-law of a tavern owner. .

Engraved Portrait by J. Thomson after S. Drummond. Published for the European Magazine by Accum, Fredrick

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Title: Engraved Portrait by J. Thomson after S. Drummond. Published for the European Magazine
Author: Accum, Fredrick
Seller: Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description: London: J. Asperne, 1820. Margins: 215x130 mm. Discoloration around edges, slight foxing, remains of mounting on reverse of print, small tear in left hand margin.

The Golliwogg's Desert Island by Florence K. Upton (Bertha Upton)

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Title: The Golliwogg's Desert Island
Author: Florence K. Upton (Bertha Upton)
Seller: Appledore Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1902. Hardcover. Very Good. Florence K. Upton. The 1st edition of this early installment in the legendary "Golliwogg" series, c. 1902. Wonderfully illustrated in rich color by Florence K. Upton, verses by her mother Bertha Upton. An oblong quarto, solid and VG in its pictorial boards, with light soiling to the panels. The binding is very firm, the color illustrations are uniformly clean and bright. A handsome, very presentable copy.

TERRY WINTERS/ SHADOWGRAPHS (with) SPOOKY ACTION AT A DISTANCE by SALLY TALLMAN by Winters, Terry (wood engravings). Tallman, Sally (story by)

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Title: TERRY WINTERS/ SHADOWGRAPHS (with) SPOOKY ACTION AT A DISTANCE by SALLY TALLMAN
Author: Winters, Terry (wood engravings). Tallman, Sally (story by)
Seller: Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: NY: Two Palms Pess, 2002. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. Portfolio of reproductions of 12 wood engravings, 13 loose sheets with Winter's images on the left side of the sheet and Tallman's writings on the right. Some rubbing to title page, else near fine.

The Happy End by Williams, Ben Ames; Roberts, Kenneth (Foreward by)

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Title: The Happy End
Author: Williams, Ben Ames; Roberts, Kenneth (Foreward by)
Seller: Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB (United States)
Condition: Near Fine +
Description: New York: The Derrydale Press, 1939. Limited. Cloth. Near Fine +. Ettinger, Churchill. 561 of 1,250 copies. Beige spine and teal boards. Edges and corners sharp. B&w illustrations throughout. Text clean, binding tight.

Baedeker's United States. by Baedeker, Karl.

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Title: Baedeker's United States.
Author: Baedeker, Karl.
Seller: Nicholas D. Riccio Rare Books & Prints (United States)
Description: 16mo (4 1/4" x 6 1/2"), red cloth, gilt title on top cover and spine, illustrated with maps, 516 pp. Binding a little faded, very slight extremity wear, rear map of U.S. detached, back hinge a little weak, some aging and a little browning, rear endpaper browned and brittle, normal aging overall; otherwise about very good. Karl Baedeker (1801-1959) was born in Essen, and attended Heidelberg University. His family was involved in the publishing and bookselling business, and around 1828 he entered the travel guide business. Baedeker created a different kind of travel book that opened up tourism for a new class of travelers, by guiding the tourist to the principal attractions in a country or area. This information was often edited by Baedeker himself, and sons would take over and expand the business after his death. This edition provides considerable information and many maps and plans of parts of the United States. Includes maps of the New York City, San Francisco, Northern Florida, Southern California, the Catskill Mountains, and Boston, and general map of the United States. ODB. $200

Autograph Letter Signed, 2 pages on one 8vo, Boston, 1863 by PEIRCE, BENJAMIN

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Title: Autograph Letter Signed, 2 pages on one 8vo, Boston, 1863
Author: PEIRCE, BENJAMIN
Seller: Schulson Autographs (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good. He writes to his sister about personal news noting he went for some photographs. He signs, "B. Peirce.

Photographien 1928-1955. Herausgegeben von Marianne Stockebrand by Albers, Josef

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Title: Photographien 1928-1955. Herausgegeben von Marianne Stockebrand
Author: Albers, Josef
Seller: Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description: Munchen: Scirmer/Mosel, 1992 First (and only) edition. Boards. Quarto. With frontispiece, eighty-one black and white duotones, and fourteen black and white text illustrations. Fine in fine dust jacket.

Attention by White, A.R

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Title: Attention
Author: White, A.R
Seller: Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description: Oxford: Basil blackwell, 1964 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Near fine in partially faded, very good d.j.

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China in Revolution: The Road to 1911 by Liu, Heung Shing

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Title: China in Revolution: The Road to 1911
Author: Liu, Heung Shing
Seller: Brattle Book Shop (United States)
ISBN: 9789888139507
Condition: LikeNew
Description: Aberdeen, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press [2011]. Hardcover. First printing. 13" x 9". 415pp. Numerous large b&w photographic illustrations. Black publisher's boards with gold gilt titles on front board and spine, photographic DJ. Very light shelf wear to top edge, otherwise Near Fine in like DJ. ISBN 9789888139507 . LikeNew. Hardcover .

THE 1ST JAPAN ART FESTIVAL by (ASHIDA, Chikako)

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Title: THE 1ST JAPAN ART FESTIVAL
Author: (ASHIDA, Chikako)
Seller: The Bookpress, Ltd. (United States)
Description: (ASHIDA, Chikako). THE 1ST JAPAN ART FESTIVAL. (Tokyo: Japan Art Festival Association, 1966). 8vo. Wrappers. 143, (1) pages First edition. Featuring painting, sculpture, and more from 20th-century Japanese artists. Fine.

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