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Poem by BISHOP, Elizabeth

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Seller: James S. Jaffe Rare Books LLC
Title
Poem
Author
BISHOP, Elizabeth
Seller
James S. Jaffe Rare Books LLC (United States)
Condition
Housed in a custom green cloth clamshell box with a black morocco spine label
Description
New York: The Phoenix Book Shop, 1973. First edition, one of the author's copies from the lettered issue. Copy "L" (presumably chosen for "Loren") of 26 lettered copies (out of a total edition of 126) signed by Bishop on the colophon. This copy bears Bishop's presentation inscription: "For Loren MacIver & Lloyd Frankenberg - love, Elizabeth Bishop" on the title-page. Laid in is an exceptionally interesting TLS from Bishop to MacIver and Frankenberg concerning the publication of Poem: "I've always disliked ‘pretty little books' like this - However, Bill Ferguson, the printer, is a friend of mine here & he wanted to do it for some time & so I finally gave in. (The Phoenix Book Shop man is quite another type...) And since they have just arrived, or were here when I got back - I'm sending you one of my copies with a real, EXTRA signature - whee! You can sell it for a small sum if need be sometime - Love, Elizabeth". The artist Loren MacIver was a longtime friend and correspondent of Bishop's and contributed the dust jacket design for Bishop's second collection, Poems North & South - A Cold Spring, in 1955. Their friendship dates from as early as 1938, at which time Bishop was writing to Marianne Moore from MacIver's Provincetown summer home. The poet and literary critic Lloyd Frankenberg, who married MacIver in 1929, wrote critical studies of Bishop 1946 and 1949 which are among the earliest appraisals of Bishop's work. A superb association copy. Important association copies of Bishop's books are rare; this is one of the very few we have seen or handled. Housed in a custom green cloth clamshell box with a black morocco spine label. Oblong small 8vo, original string-tied unprinted stiff wrappers, marbled outer wrapper, printed paper label. Housed in a custom green cloth clamshell box with a black morocco spine label.
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COMMUNICATION FROM HIS HONOR THE MAYOR, TRANSMITTING THE OPINION OF JUSTICE ROOSEVELT, GIVEN ON THE 9TH JULY, 1859, ON SETTING ASIDE THE JUDGMENT AND ALL SUBSEQUENT PROCEEDINGS IN THE WEST WASHINGTON MARKET CASE. DOCUMENT NO by New York City

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COMMUNICATION FROM HIS HONOR THE MAYOR, TRANSMITTING THE OPINION OF JUSTICE ROOSEVELT, GIVEN ON THE 9TH JULY, 1859, ON SETTING ASIDE THE JUDGMENT AND ALL SUBSEQUENT PROCEEDINGS IN THE WEST WASHINGTON MARKET CASE. DOCUMENT NO
Author
New York City
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David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC (United States)
Description
1859. 6. New York: 1859. Original printed wrappers, stitched, 29pp. Foxed, Good+. A dispute over a lease granted by the State of New York's Land Office Commission to James B. Taylor "of the entire land, known as West Washington Market, with the piers adjoining the same." Taylor immediately sought the eviction of 186 tenants "who occupied stands for market purposes on the land." The City of New York intervened, claiming that it had rightful ownership and possession of the land, and sought the termination of all proceedings against the tenants. The State's entitlement to ownership was, as Judge Roosevelt says here, "not very satisfactorily explained in the papers before the Court." Accordingly, he calls the State's purported lease to Taylor void. FIRST EDITION. Not in Sabin or NUC.
SOUND AN ALARM: ABRIDGED. ADDRESSED TO THE SERIOUS CONSIDERATION OF ALL THE INHABITANTS OF GREAT BRITAIN, FROM THE LEAST TO THE GREATEST; BY WAY OF APPENDIX TO "REFORM OR RUIN.

SOUND AN ALARM: ABRIDGED. ADDRESSED TO THE SERIOUS CONSIDERATION OF ALL THE INHABITANTS OF GREAT BRITAIN, FROM THE LEAST TO THE GREATEST; BY WAY OF APPENDIX TO "REFORM OR RUIN. by [Burwell, John]

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SOUND AN ALARM: ABRIDGED. ADDRESSED TO THE SERIOUS CONSIDERATION OF ALL THE INHABITANTS OF GREAT BRITAIN, FROM THE LEAST TO THE GREATEST; BY WAY OF APPENDIX TO "REFORM OR RUIN.
Author
[Burwell, John]
Seller
David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC (United States)
Description
London: J. Wright, 1798. 16mo, contemporary plain wraps [moderately worn], stitched. 24pp, Good+. The French have "commenced the mad career in which they are engaged, with the settled design of destroying all Religion and all Governments in the world." NUC records two other issues, neither of them 'abridged.' Not in Kress or Sabin. 70 NUC 0707684 and -5 [ref.].
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DEATH-DISK by TWAIN, Mark

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DEATH-DISK
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TWAIN, Mark
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The Bookpress, Ltd. (United States)
Description
TWAIN, Mark. DEATH-DISK. New York: Werner, 1913. 8vo. Self-wrappers. (7) pages. First separate editio Originally appeared in A Double Barrelled Detective Story (Leipzig: 1902) and here issued separately. Fine.
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EARLY LITHOGRAPHED BOOKS, A STUDY OF THE DESIGN AND PRODUCTION OF IMPR by TWYMAN, Michael

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EARLY LITHOGRAPHED BOOKS, A STUDY OF THE DESIGN AND PRODUCTION OF IMPR
Author
TWYMAN, Michael
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The Bookpress, Ltd. (United States)
Description
TWYMAN, Michael. EARLY LITHOGRAPHED BOOKS. Williamsburg: The Bookpress Ltd., 1990. 4to. Cloth. 371 pages. First edition A major book features a bibliographic catalogue of over four hundred and twen early lithographed books, the first such checklist. Twyman also writes a historical perspective of lithography. Glasine cover torn, else fine, at publication price.
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CONSERVATION IN THE LIBRARY: A HANDBOOK OF USE AND CARE OF TRADITIONAL by SWARTZBURG, Susan Garretson

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CONSERVATION IN THE LIBRARY: A HANDBOOK OF USE AND CARE OF TRADITIONAL
Author
SWARTZBURG, Susan Garretson
Seller
The Bookpress, Ltd. (United States)
Description
SWARTZBURG, Susan Garretson. CONSERVATION IN THE LIBRARY: A HANDBOOK OF USE CARE OF TRADITIONAL AND NONTRADITIONAL MATERIALS. Westport: Greenwood Press, (1983). 8vo. Cloth. 280 pages. First edition. This comprehensive book deals with treating books, documents, maps, works of on paper, photographs, slides, microforms, films, videotapes, and sound recordings. Illustrated. Very good.
The Echo

The Echo

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Title
The Echo
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James Cummins Bookseller (United States)
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Contemporary half crimson pebbled morocco and marbled with the label of boards, with the binder's label of A.L. Harrison, Binder
Description
(New York): Printed at the Porcupine Press by Pasquin Petronius, 1807. Engraved Frontispiece Title-page engraved & 7 otherplates, including one called "The Negro Ball" showing black musicians and dancers at a black ball. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary half crimson pebbled morocco and marbled with the label of boards, with the binder's label of A.L. Harrison, Binder, 70 State Street, Albany. Staining on the head of pp. 35-43 affecting plate. Engraved Frontispiece Title-page engraved & 7 otherplates, including one called "The Negro Ball" showing black musicians and dancers at a black ball. 1 vols. 8vo. Authors are Alsop, Dwight, Cogswell, Hopkins & Trumbull. Incomplete at the end (328 pp.). Sabin 21778; BAL 1315
The AESOP for CHILDREN

The AESOP for CHILDREN by Pictures by Milo Winter

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Title
The AESOP for CHILDREN
Author
Pictures by Milo Winter
Seller
Dale Steffey Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Chicago: Rand McNally & Co., 1919. Book. Very Good. Cloth. 1st Edition. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Very Good, light soiling to cloth, small corner bumps, bumped bottom edge of spine, 1" closed tear at top of p. 11-12, internally clean and lovely and free of any writing. Gilt lettering at spine, color paste-on illustration on front cover, illustrated end pages, 112 pages. Contains 146 Fables, with 12 full page illustrations and smaller illustrations in text on every page, all by Milo Winter. A handsome copy !.
Home; A Play

Home; A Play by Storey, David

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Home; A Play
Author
Storey, David
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Dale Steffey Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780224005159
Condition
Fine
Description
London: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1970. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. First Edition, 1970, Jonathan Cape, London. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket, spine lightly faded, slight soiling. Storey's uncommon 4th play..
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Thirty Years a Detective. A Thorough and Comprehensive Expose of Criminal Practices of All Grades and Classes. Containing Numerous Episodes of Personal Experience in the Detection of Criminals and Covering a Period of Thirty Years’ Active Detective life by Pinkerton, Allan

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Thirty Years a Detective. A Thorough and Comprehensive Expose of Criminal Practices of All Grades and Classes. Containing Numerous Episodes of Personal Experience in the Detection of Criminals and Covering a Period of Thirty Years’ Active Detective life
Author
Pinkerton, Allan
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ZH BOOKS (United States)
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New York: G.W. Carleton & Co., Publishers, 1884. Hardcover. First edition, sold only by subscription; 8 x 5 1/2; pp. 616; embossed pebbled brown cloth over boards; title and decorations in gilt and black; rubbed spots and fraying to tips of spine and corners; illustrated with 24 steel engraved plates, including frontis (plates numbered according to illustrations' index and corresponding facing page with plate 280 erroneously numbered 279) and vignettes at beginning of each chapter; hinges strong; signatures slightly shaken (still firmly attached); overall very good-. The wondrous story of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency and its founder Allan Pinkerton (1819 - 1884). Born in Scotland, he emigrated to the US in 1842 and by 1849 was appointed as the first detective of Chicago. In the early 1850s he established his detective agency with the trademark insignia of a wide open eye with the caption "We never sleep" (a gilded image of which illustrates the front board of the current book). He was credited with inventing several investigative techniques, still used today, including "shadowing" of suspects and undercover surveillance. He was also remembered for his involvement in the Abolitionist Movement with his house in Dundee, Illinois being a stop on the Underground Railroad.
Great Airports: Kennedy International

Great Airports: Kennedy International by Arend, Geoffrey [Nixon, Richard]

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Great Airports: Kennedy International
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Arend, Geoffrey [Nixon, Richard]
Seller
The First Edition Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
New York: Air Cargo News, Inc, 1981. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Very good. Inscribed to President Richard Nixon, first edition of Great Airports: Kennedy International by Geoffrey Arend.. Quarto, 200pp. Black cloth, title in silver on spine and front cover. No additional printings noted. Slight bow to covers, otherwise solid text block. Lightly rubbed corners, dust remnants to edges. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper with his personal note card laid in. Reads: "3/18/87 for President Nixon - with admiration and all good wishes - Respectfully, Geoffrey Arend." It is unclear if President Nixon received this book or if it was deaccessioned from his personal library.
Henry VIII and His Six Wives (Original British poster for the 1972 film)

Henry VIII and His Six Wives (Original British poster for the 1972 film) by Waris Hussein (director); Ian Thorne (screenwriter); Keith Mitchell, Donald Pleasence, Charlotte Rampling, Jane Asher (starring)

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Henry VIII and His Six Wives (Original British poster for the 1972 film)
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Waris Hussein (director); Ian Thorne (screenwriter); Keith Mitchell, Donald Pleasence, Charlotte Rampling, Jane Asher (starring)
Seller
Royal Books (United States)
Description
London: Anglo-EMI, 1972. Original British quad poster for the 1972 UK film. Printed in England by Lonsdale & Bartholomew. Film adaptation of the 1970 six-part television miniseries, "The Six Wives of Henry VIII." King Henry VIII (Mitchell) reminisces about his past marriages and their demise. Henry's wives were Catherine Parr (Barbara Leigh-Hunt), Catherine Howard (Lynne Frederick), Anne of Cleves (Jenny Bos), Jane Seymour (Asher), Anne Boleyn (Rampling), and Catherine of Aragon (Frances Cuka). Shot on location in Spain and Turkey. 30 x 40 inches, folded as issued. Light fold stress, else Near Fine. Scarce.
Benjamin Tompson 1642 - 1714, First Native-Born Poet of America: His Poems. Collected with an Introduction of Howard Judson Hall

Benjamin Tompson 1642 - 1714, First Native-Born Poet of America: His Poems. Collected with an Introduction of Howard Judson Hall by Benjamin Tompson; Howard Judson Hall [intro.]

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Benjamin Tompson 1642 - 1714, First Native-Born Poet of America: His Poems. Collected with an Introduction of Howard Judson Hall
Author
Benjamin Tompson; Howard Judson Hall [intro.]
Seller
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press Cambridge, 1924. Very Good. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press Cambridge, 1924. Limited Edition of 400 copies, this being #277. Octavo. 164, [4] pp. Black cloth over blue-gray paper covered boards with paper title label to spine. Housed in publisher's slipcase. Light shelfwear to boards and binding is sound. Previous owners' inscription and stamp to front pastedown, but pages otherwise unmarked. Mild wear with brief exposure to corners of slipase, minor scuffing, else stable and sound. Overall a Very Good copy of a scarce title.
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Lehrbuch der Pathologischen Mykologie; Vorlesungen fur arzte und Studierende. Mit 73 grosstentheils nach eigenen Praparaten des Verfassers ausgefuhrten Original-Abbildungen im Text, davon 24 in Farbendruck. by BAUMGARTEN, Paul Clemens (1848-1928).

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Lehrbuch der Pathologischen Mykologie; Vorlesungen fur arzte und Studierende. Mit 73 grosstentheils nach eigenen Praparaten des Verfassers ausgefuhrten Original-Abbildungen im Text, davon 24 in Farbendruck.
Author
BAUMGARTEN, Paul Clemens (1848-1928).
Seller
Jeff Weber Rare Books (Switzerland)
Description
Braunschweig:: Harald Bruhn, 1888., 1888. First edition. Dedicated to Dr. Hay. 8vo. [2], IX, 618, 24 pp. Pages 29-34 with slight damage to upper corner (no text loss). Early half black calf, black cloth; joints cracked, spine ends worn, rubbed. Ownership signature of Worval[?] Harvey Purce, MD, 31 Washington Street, Chicago, Illinois. Very good. Important textbook on pathological mycology written by Baumgarten, a prominent German pathologist. The book, begun in 1886, was "was a well-regarded, exhaustive study of bacteriology, in which its botanical, chemical, and pathological aspects are discussed in the form of lectures." An expanded second edition was issued in 1890. The author studied at the university of Leipzig under Christian Wilhelm Braune (1831-1892) and Ernst Leberecht Wagner (1829-1888), where eventually he took his medical degree in 1873. He furthered his education under Ernst Neumann (1834-1918) at the University of Konigsberg. In 1882 Baumgarten described the tuberculosis bacillus, the same year as did Robert Koch. :: British Medical Journal, March 1, 1890, pp. 486-7.
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Ueber Gleichgewichtslagen schwimmender Korper und Schwerpunktsflachen. Inaugural-Dissertation . . . by WERNICKE, F. Alexander.

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Ueber Gleichgewichtslagen schwimmender Korper und Schwerpunktsflachen. Inaugural-Dissertation . . .
Author
WERNICKE, F. Alexander.
Seller
Jeff Weber Rare Books (Switzerland)
Description
Berlin:: Gustav Schade, [1879]., 1879. 8vo. 56, (2) pp. Self-wraps; browned throughout, but acceptable. Very good. Dedicated to Adolf Wernicke.
Frank Capra: The Tenth Annual American Film Institute Life Achievement Award, March 4, 1982 [event program/tribute book]

Frank Capra: The Tenth Annual American Film Institute Life Achievement Award, March 4, 1982 [event program/tribute book] by {Capra, Frank} [The American Film Institute] (McBride, Joseph, ed.)

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Frank Capra: The Tenth Annual American Film Institute Life Achievement Award, March 4, 1982 [event program/tribute book]
Author
{Capra, Frank} [The American Film Institute] (McBride, Joseph, ed.)
Seller
ReadInk (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
[Washington DC]: The American Film Institute. Near Fine. 1982. Stapled wraps. [a small amount of wear along the spine, otherwise nice and fresh, just about as new]. (B&W photographs) Nicely-done program/tribute book, largely photographic, from Capra's Life Achievement Award dinner; includes filmography. It's interesting to note that the tribute book's editor (also the co-author of the tribute itself) was Joseph McBride, who some years later published a highly critical biography of Capra. NOTE that this would appear to be the "public" version of the program, with Capra pictured on the front cover, that was produced for sale and/or distribution to AFI members; the program distributed at the dinner itself, following the pattern of earlier years, had a silver-on-silver cover featuring only the AFI logo). Nonetheless, along with most of these programs prior to 1986 -- the first time a specifically-labeled "AFI Souvenir Edition" was produced in large quantities -- this one is fairly scarce.] .
The Grand Fleet.

The Grand Fleet. by Brown, David K.

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The Grand Fleet.
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Brown, David K.
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Ten Pound Island Book Co. (United States)
Description
London: Caxton Publishing Group, (2003). " Warship design and development 1906-1922'. V G in dj. Postage at cost.. 29 cm. 208 pp. b/w photographs, frontispiece, drawings, plans and ills.

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