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Uncle Tom's Cabin by CRUIKSHANK George STOWE Harriet Beecher

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Seller: Bauman Rare Books
Title
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Author
CRUIKSHANK George STOWE Harriet Beecher
Seller
Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description
1852. STOWE, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin. With Twenty-seven Illustrations on Wood by George Cruikshank. London: John Cassell, 1852. Thirteen parts. Octavo, original pale yellow wrappers, bound by string; housed in a custom chemise and solander box. $8100.Second English edition (published the same year as the Boston first edition) of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s galvanizing novel of slavery, the first to feature illustrations by celebrated artist George Cruikshank, in the very fragile original thirteen issues.""The social impact of Uncle Tom's Cabin on the United States was greater than that of any book before or since"" (PMM 332). Harriet Beecher Stowe's controversial novel proved immediately successful upon its publication in book form, and publishers in England, aware of the nation's large and vocal anti-slavery contingent, quickly issued their own editions (14 English editions appeared in 1852 alone). This edition, with frontispiece, title page vignette and 27 full-page wood engravings after George Cruikshank, is frequently referred to as the first English edition; however, BAL asserts that the C.H. Clarke edition was advertised as being available in April 1852, while the first part of Cassell's edition was not available until October 1852. As noted in the Cruikshank bibliography, the edition in parts was printed ""in yellow paper printed wrappers of very poor quality, and hence difficult to get in a good state"" (Cohn, George Cruikshank: A Catalogue Raissoné, 777). See: BAL 19518, Note; Grolier English 100 91; Grolier American 100 61. Cohn 777. Fragile wrappers fresh and clean with virtually no wear. Very rare in such outstanding condition.
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby by Dickens, Charles

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Seller: Whitmore Rare Books
Title
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Author
Dickens, Charles
Seller
Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
London: Chapman and Hall, 1839. First edition. Near Fine. A handsome, Near Fine copy. Bound in publisher's full maroon morocco gilt, all edges gilt, yellow endpapers. While copies of this work in the publisher's deluxe binding usually appear in a green morocco, this example is in a much scarcer maroon morocco in much the same style. Complete with the frontisportrait (in the first state) and thirty-nine plates. Minor rubbing to extremities. The usual spotting to plates, but cleaner than is usually seen. A scarce and attractive survival in the scarce publisher's maroon morocco. "Dickens' third novel has always been a favourite with the general public. Indeed, it was the book's huge sales that enabled Dickens to give up parliamentary reporting and become a full-time writer...The theatricality of the novel attracted new and more appreciative critical attention [and it] demonstrates the inextricable link between public and private" (Bannerjee). A satire tackling the injustices faced by both women and men within the Victorian class system that relied so heavily the social status of the patriarch, the novel follows Nicholas Nickleby as he seeks to support his mother and sister after his father's death. When Nicholas' father dies after losing all of the family's money, it is up to the young man to emerge as the new and more morally sound patriarch. Dashing and likable, Nicholas ultimately prevails, dodging shady characters along the way and securing a respectable life in Devonshire for his extended family. Smith, Part I: 5. Near Fine.
Five Photographs by Diane Arbus [Artforum May, 1971]

Five Photographs by Diane Arbus [Artforum May, 1971] by ARBUS, DIANE

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Seller: The Manhattan Rare Book Company
Title
Five Photographs by Diane Arbus [Artforum May, 1971]
Author
ARBUS, DIANE
Seller
The Manhattan Rare Book Company (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
New York: Charles Cowles, 1971. First edition. Original wrappers, custom box. Very Good. THE GROUNDBREAKING APPEARANCE OF DIANE ARBUS'S PHOTOGRAPH'S IN ARTFORUM. By 1971, "an appreciation of [Arbus's] photography was building in the art world at large... The most gratifying acknowledgement of her as an artist came not from a museum but from a magazine. Through Henry Geldzahler, the contemporary-art curator at the Metropolitan Museum, Arbus arranged a meeting with Philip Leider. The founding editor of Artforum, an influential monthly art magazine that championed modernism, Leider regarded the sculptor and land artist Robert Smithson as the most significant artist of the day. He had never featured a photographer in his pages. He didn't believe photography mixed with painting and sculpture; he wasn't even convinced that it was an art form. But he agreed to meet Geldzahler in Arbus's apartment and look at the pictures in her portfolio. "Even though he was very aware of Arbus by reputation, he didn't know her work well. The box of ten photographs astounded him. He wanted to reproduce all of the pictures in his magazine. Arbus offered him stacks of other photographs, which he looked through as she chatted with Geldzahler. A central tenet of modernism, as formulated most forcefully by the critic Clement Greenberg, is that a painter or sculptor should respect and exploit the capacities and limitations of the form in which he works. Since a canvas is flat, for example, a painter mustn't resort to trickery that would suggest otherwise. He should emphasize the flatness. Studying Arbus's pictures, Leider concluded 'that Diane's work accomplished for photography what we demanded be accomplished, under the needs of Modernism, for all arts: it owed nothing to any other art. What it had to offer could only be provided by photography.' He committed himself to publishing her work. He ended up not being able to use all ten of the photographs, but he did take six, giving each a full page. Indeed, for one of them-the pro-war demonstrator in the straw boater-he went a step further. He placed it on the cover. To jump from never including a photographer to assigning one the most prominent place in the magazine was a huge leap. The showcase for Arbus in the May 1971 issue of Artforum marked a key moment in the recognition of photography as more than a handmaiden or stepsister of art. Fully fledged, photography had flown the nest. It was a grown-up art form, with Arbus clearly a leader" (Arthur Lubow, Diane Arbus: Portrait of a Photographer). With Arbus's "poetic and gnomic" text-five short standalone paragraphs-introducing her work (ibid.). Tragically, Arbus would commit suicide only two months later, in July 1971. "Five Photographs by Diane Arbus". IN: Artforum, May 1971, Volume IX, No. 9. Quarto (10.5x10.5 inches); custom cloth box. Light rubbing to wrapper covers; text fine. An outstanding copy of a critically important issue that has become difficult to find in collectible condition.
A Man Transfers His Dividend Payment From The South Sea Company Two Years After That Company Hit The Peak Of Its Famous Bubble

A Man Transfers His Dividend Payment From The South Sea Company Two Years After That Company Hit The Peak Of Its Famous Bubble by SOUTH SEA BUBBLE

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Title
A Man Transfers His Dividend Payment From The South Sea Company Two Years After That Company Hit The Peak Of Its Famous Bubble
Author
SOUTH SEA BUBBLE
Seller
Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc. (United States)
Description
(THE SOUTH SEA COMPANY). The South Sea Company was a British venture established in 1711 to trade with South American colonies. Its publicly-traded stock became the subject of a massive bubble in 1720. Shares traded for 1050 British Pounds in June of that year, up from a mere 128 in January, but then fell back to the 100 range by the end of the year. Companies and private individuals alike were financially devastated when the bubble burst, and many of the companys key figures were eventually prosecuted for various sorts of corruption.ADS. 1pg. 6 x 7 . July 28, 1722. N.p. An autograph document signed Tho. Macro and written in the same hand. Mr. Macro transfers his dividend payment from South Sea Company stock to John Creichton of London: Sr please to pay my Dividend of mid Summer cost for all my stock in the South Sea Company to Dr. John Creichton being 633:6:8 and this shall be yr dischange from yr unknown humble sert Tho. Macro. Macro received this dividend about two years after the South Sea Company reached its highest price and over one year after the bubble had fully collapsed. The document is in very good condition with a few small holes and a small piece removed from the bottom edge of the paper. The address leaf is on the verso. A memory of one of the financial markets great stock bubbles.
Unknown Family traveling by Ship to Europe with their Automobile

Unknown Family traveling by Ship to Europe with their Automobile by Unknown Family traveling by Ship to Europe

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Title
Unknown Family traveling by Ship to Europe with their Automobile
Author
Unknown Family traveling by Ship to Europe
Seller
The Bookpress, Ltd. (United States)
Description
(AUTOMOBILE TRAVEL - PHOTOGRAPHIC ALBUM - EUROPE) Unknown Family traveling b Ship to Europe with their Automobile. (N.P.: circa 1920s?). Oblong 8vo. (7 1/2 x 10 inches). Black boards. (16) st cardstock pages, each with two mounted photographs, attached envelope in back with loose photographs. Rare example of early 20th century automobile travel photographic album of an unidentified family (probably British) travels to Europe first by ship then b car. Photographs clearly show as much of the car (being loaded on to and unloaded from ship) and is featured in the travel pictures. The scenery and architectural monuments seem to be either France or Germany. With a total of photographs (5 x 3 inches) mounted and 19 small photographs (2 3/4 x 1 3/4 inches).
Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club: a quarterly journal of ornithology.

Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club: a quarterly journal of ornithology. by Allen, J.A.; Spencer F. Baird; Elliott Coues.

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Title
Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club: a quarterly journal of ornithology.
Author
Allen, J.A.; Spencer F. Baird; Elliott Coues.
Seller
Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Cambridge: The Nuttall Ornithological Club, 1876. First edition. Very Good. 25 cm; 100 pages and hand-colored frontispiece plate by Robert Ridgeway. Original wraps and indices bound in at end. In blue buckram. With articles by the great ornithologists of the later 19th century: Brewer, Brewster, Ridgway, Henshaw, Coues, Allen, Cooper, and on and on.
International Night Life: The Magazine of Night Club Activities: Volume One, Number One

International Night Life: The Magazine of Night Club Activities: Volume One, Number One

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International Night Life: The Magazine of Night Club Activities: Volume One, Number One
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Sanctuary Books (United States)
Condition
Very Good+
Description
Philadelphia: Great Eastern Associates, n.d. (c. 1950?). Paperback. Very Good+. Staple-bound color illustrated wraps; 4to; pp. [16], with ads and illustrations in b/w and full-color. Covers a little rubbed along the edges; small spot of soiling at top margin of front cover. Includes 8 full-page color engravings from paintings of the women featured in the revue at the International Casino; a program of the BRAVO revue; and more.
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The Poems Of Alfred, Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Lord. Illustrated by Reynolds Stone

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Title
The Poems Of Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Author
Tennyson, Alfred Lord. Illustrated by Reynolds Stone
Seller
James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.) (United States)
Condition
Fine condition / Fine condition dust jacket
Description
Limited Editions Club. Fine condition / Fine condition dust jacket. Introduction by John D. Rosenberg. Illustrated with wood engravings by Reynolds Stone. Designed by John Dreyfus. Printed at the University Printing House in Cambridge. One of 2000 numbered copies signed by the artist. Bound in quarter leather with cloth over boards. Title is stamped in black and gold on the spine with a black portrait medallion of the poet on the front cover. Monthly LEC letter is laid in. Book is fine in a fine slipcase.
Die Schriftgiesser Bartholomäus Voskens in Hamburg und Reinhard Voskens in Frankfurt a. M.

Die Schriftgiesser Bartholomäus Voskens in Hamburg und Reinhard Voskens in Frankfurt a. M. by Gustav Mori (1872-1950)

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Title
Die Schriftgiesser Bartholomäus Voskens in Hamburg und Reinhard Voskens in Frankfurt a. M.
Author
Gustav Mori (1872-1950)
Seller
John Howell for Books (United States)
Condition
Good
Description
Frankfurt am Main: Gustav Mori, no date [but 1923]. 4to. 11 3/8 x 9 inches. Unpaginated. [ii], 6 pp. 2 plates (loose from the stubs originally mounted upon); text clean, unmarked, paper lightly toned. Cloth spine, cloth tips, patterned paper over boards, printed paper label on front cover; binding square, rubbed. Two bookplates on the front paste-down: "Graphische Fachbücherei Heinrich Jost, Frankfurt A. M" and "Bibliothek der Bauerschen Giesserei, Frankfurt A M." SCARCE. CH818-922c. Good. LIMITED EDITION of 150 copies, this is number 6, printed in Alte Schwabacher Wertschrift type. "Voskens is a celebrated name in the history of Dutch type founding. The first members of the family of Whom we have knowledge were two brothers, Bartholomeus and Reinhard Voskens, natives of Rotterdam, who on May 21, 1641, formed a partnership "to produce punches, matrices and the equipment essential to a typefoundry, which they proposed to establish.'". McMurtrie, The Inland Printer, October 1924, p. 59. This volume is dedicated to the participants at the 28th Annual General Meeting of the Association of German Type Foundries and in particular Benjamin Krebs. Gustav Mori was born at Frankfurt am Main; he was a German type designer who was the head of head of the department at the type foundry Stempel from 1908 until his retirement. As a collector, he owned more than 200 original typeface samples from various German type foundries from the 15th to the 20th century. Mori's collection of title pages, printer's devices, initials and specialist literature was donated to a museum he founded in 1940, but most of it was destroyed during World War II. The remainder was given to the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz. Mori was awarded the Goethe Plaque by the City of Frankfurt in 1947. Worldcat shows 13 library holdings.
An Exhibition of Paintings by Setsuko

An Exhibition of Paintings by Setsuko by SETSUKO

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Title
An Exhibition of Paintings by Setsuko
Author
SETSUKO
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Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
London and Tokyo, Japan: The Lefevre Gallery and The Seibu Department Stores, Ltd, 1989. First edition. Softcover. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran October 5-27, 1989 in London and November 18-19, 1989 in Tokyo. Text in English and Japanese. Features a foreword by Denys Sutton. Includes numerous color illustrations and a checklist. A near fine copy in wrappers.
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By The Beautiful Sea by ABRAHAMS, William

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Title
By The Beautiful Sea
Author
ABRAHAMS, William
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Houle Rare Books & Autographs (United States)
Description
New York, The Dial Press, 1947.. First edition. 8vo. Dust jacket designed by Arthur Hawkins (unclipped; short tears; few nicks). Text browning due to paper quality. Very good. 224 pages.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.
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Popol Vuh: The Definitive Edition of the Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life and the Glories of Gods and Kings by Tedlock, Dennis

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Popol Vuh: The Definitive Edition of the Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life and the Glories of Gods and Kings
Author
Tedlock, Dennis
Seller
Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Simon and Schuster, 1985. Very Good. Tedlock, Dennis. Popol Vuh: The Definitive Edition of the Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life and the Glories of Gods and Kings. NY: Simon and Schuster, 1985. 380pp. Illustrated. Bibliography. Glossary. 8vo. Yellow 1/4 cloth. Book condition: Very good with bumped spine ends.. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with rubbed edges..
A PLAYDATE WITH DEATH

A PLAYDATE WITH DEATH by WALDMAN, Ayelet

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A PLAYDATE WITH DEATH
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WALDMAN, Ayelet
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Antic Hay Books (United States)
Description
Berkley Prime Crime, 2002. WALDMAN, Ayelet. A PLAYDATE WITH DEATH. NY: Berkley Prime Crime, [2002]. 8vo., boards in dust jacket; 229 pages. First Edition, first printing. Signed presentation by Waldman on title page. Fine in fine d/j. $10.00.

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