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Adventures of Doctor Comicus or The Frolicks of Fortune by COMBE, William, after; RIVIÈRE & SON

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Title: Adventures of Doctor Comicus or The Frolicks of Fortune
Author: COMBE, William, after; RIVIÈRE & SON
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Description: London: Printed for B. Blake, 1815. The First Dr. Syntax Imitation In a Superb Inlaid Binding by Rivière & Son [COMBE, William, after]. [RIVIÈRE & Son, Binders]. The Adventures of Doctor Comicus or The Frolicks of Fortune. A Comic Satirical Poem for the Squeamish & The Queer. In Twelve Cantos, by a Modern Syntax. London: Printed for B. Blake, n.d. [1815]. First edition. Octavo (8 13/16 x 5 1/4 in; 224 x 132 mm). [2], 269, [1] pp. Fifteen hand-colored aquatint plates, including frontispiece and extra engraved title. Bound c. 1925 by Rivière & Son (stamp-signed) in full antelope brown crushed morocco with gilt fillets surrounding an elaborately gilt frame enclosing a reproduced portrait of Dr. Comicus from the extra titlepage comprised of multi-colored calf onlays. Spine compartments reiterate gilt decoration to boards. Broad turn-ins with gilt rules and corner-pieces. Moire silk endpapers. Expertly and almost invisibly rebacked with the original spine laid down. A very attractive example. A clever and now uncommon parodic offshoot of the hugely successful Doctor Syntax series, consciously modeled on William Combe's verse and Rowlandson's visual idiom. Although neither Rowlandson nor Combe were directly involved, the book trades knowingly on their fame, adopting the familiar cantos, mock-heroic tone, and episodic structure that had made Doctor Syntax a publishing sensation in the previous decade. Doctor Comicus follows its hapless protagonist through a sequence of misadventures and social embarrassments, using broad humor, caricature, and topical satire to skewer manners, pretensions, and eccentricities of Regency life. The hand-colored plates - spirited, energetic, and intentionally Rowlandsonian - form an essential part of the joke, reinforcing the book's role as both homage and spoof. "This is the first of many imitations of Dr. Syntax" (Tooley). The success of Dr. Syntax "produced a host of parodies and spurious imitations. Among them the best perhaps is the Tour of Dr. Syntax through London...Others were Dr. Comicus, or the Frolics of Fortune, in 1815, with fifteen plates [reprinted in 1820 with only twelve plates]...It looks as if Com-icus were a pun on Combe's name, to add insult to injury" (Hardie). Abbey, Life 254. Tooley 431. Prideaux, p. 334. Hardie, p. 317.

A Survey of a World by Zussman, Na'ama

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Title: A Survey of a World
Author: Zussman, Na'ama
Seller: The Kelmscott Bookshop (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Washington DC: Na'ama Zussman, 2015. Hardcover. Fine. Hardcover. Number 7 of 12 copies. A beautifully conceived and produced book from Na'ama Zussman, a powerful new book artist originally from Israel. She describes her book: "A Survey of a World scrutinizes interactions between map and territory, along with memory and reality, whether of the surveyor herself - the creator of this artist's book - or of other people. It surveys and seeks to capture the doubt in the role of the surveyor, and the inevitable immersion in this role. A Survey of a World portrays the endeavour of grasping the moment ahead of the impression of the territory, when doubt turns into representation." Na'ama's exquisite images are interwoven with her evocative text as she ponders interactions, memory, and reality. Bound in brown Cialux book cloth, with a goatskin leather spine. The images throughout the book were created through the screen printing process and are done on lovely Thai Kozo paper. The text is composed in Meta Capitals and Constantia. The book is housed in a surveyor's bag made out of grey cashmere, with a leather string. The colophon is in a pocket on the back of the bag. 7 1/4 x 9 3/4 inches. Unpaginated. ARTISTS/081915.

Principe Acoustique nouveau et universal de la Theorie Musicale, ou Musique Explique by Morel, A-J

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Title: Principe Acoustique nouveau et universal de la Theorie Musicale, ou Musique Explique
Author: Morel, A-J
Seller: Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition: A very good copy.
Description: Paris: Bachelier, 1816. First Edition.. 19th cent. half leather.. A very good copy.. 8vo. There are 12 fldg. eng. plates of music. Morel's book is an analysis of music beginning with the production of sounds and the combination of sounds, audition, speech, etc. through problems of composition, and harmony.

JEAN SEBERG (1957) Photo by United Artists

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Title: JEAN SEBERG (1957) Photo
Author: United Artists
Seller: Walterfilm, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: United Artists. No binding. Near Fine. [Hollywood]: United Artists, 1957. Vintage original 10 x 8" (25 x 20 cm.) black-and-white print still photo, small mended tear in lower margin, near fine. Stamp on back of Dell Publishing library. An unusual, smiling portrait of a nineteen-year old Jean Seberg at the dawn of her career as she was preparing to appear in Otto Preminger's SAINT JOAN.

An Updated Abstract from ERB's Working Notebook by Bowman, Brad

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Title: An Updated Abstract from ERB's Working Notebook
Author: Bowman, Brad
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: [n.p.]: [n.p.], [n.d.]. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Near Fine. Spiral-bound with purple covers, unevenly toned. Firmly bound, clean internally. Bowman's list of Burrough's stories sorted into chronological tables drawn from the work of Heins and Porges. For Burroughs novels that combine multiple stories, Bowman provides the order in which the stories appear in the novel. A seemingly scarce Burroughs bibliographic work with only one institutional holding at the University of Louisville. From the collection of Joan Bledig.

Other People's Daughters by Wembridge, Eleanor Rowland

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Title: Other People's Daughters
Author: Wembridge, Eleanor Rowland
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Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj
Description: Boston/New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. Near Fine in Very Good dj. 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. [a nice clean copy, light shelfwear, slight age-toning to top of text block; jacket lightly toned at spine, small chip at bottom right corner of rear panel, a couple of tiny chips along top edge "Seventeen Studies from Life," the stories of "those drifting girls of the big cities who pass by day from one temporary job to another, by night from movie to dance hall, seeking joy and the fulfillment of their youth." The author (1882-1944), who received her undergraduate and graduate degrees from Radcliffe College (Ph.D. 1905), taught psychology at Mr. Holyoke College and Reed College, and served with the American Red Cross in New York during World War I. After the war, she worked for a time supervising military aides in the U.S. Surgeon General's office in Washington, D.C., before moving to Cleveland in 1922 to take a position as a psychologist at the Bedford Reformatory for Women. It was the latter position, which she apparently still held when this book was published, that brought her into contact with the various wayward young ladies whose lives and problems she depicts herein "with the most consummate skill and delicate art." (And she's not a bad storyteller -- in fact, quite a few of these "Studies from Life" read like grim little short stories of stunted and difficult lives, of girls who either "went bad" or never had much of a chance in life to begin with due to their social or economic circumstances.) Mrs. Wembridge also served for many years as referee of the Juvenile Court of Cuyahoga County (Ohio), and in addition to a number of other books in the same field (some with charming titles such as "Life Among the Lowbrows" and "Social Adjustment of Moron Girls"), she also wrote plays and published numerous articles in both popular magazines and scientific journals. .

The History of Motion Pictures. Translated and edited by Iris Barry by Bardèche, Maurice ; and Robert Brasillach

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Title: The History of Motion Pictures. Translated and edited by Iris Barry
Author: Bardèche, Maurice ; and Robert Brasillach
Seller: Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books (United States)
Description: New York: Norton, 1938. First edition. Red cloth, fine, in slightly faded dust jacket.

HUDSON RIVER HOUSES. EDWIN WHITEFIELD'S THE HUDSON RIVER AND RAIL ROAD by WHITEFIELD, Edwin

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Title: HUDSON RIVER HOUSES. EDWIN WHITEFIELD'S THE HUDSON RIVER AND RAIL ROAD
Author: WHITEFIELD, Edwin
Seller: The Bookpress, Ltd. (United States)
Description: WHITEFIELD, Edwin. HUDSON RIVER HOUSES. (Croton-on-Hudson:) North River Press, (1981.) Square 4to. cloth, dust jacke x, 86 pages. First edition. Photographic reproduction of Edwin Whitefield's 1850-1852 manuscript Hudwon sketchbook showing many houses from Manhattan to Fishkill. Dust jacket chipp else very good.

Locomotive Engineer's Album: The Saga of Steam Engines in America. by ABDILL, George B.

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Title: Locomotive Engineer's Album: The Saga of Steam Engines in America.
Author: ABDILL, George B.
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Description: NY: Bonanza. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1965. Hardcover. Fifth in the Old Railroad series. Black and white illustration throughout. Reprint edition. About fine in a near fine (three tiny closed edge tears, vertical crease on rear flap) dust jacket. .

South Coast Pleasure Steamers. by Thornton, E.C.B.

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Title: South Coast Pleasure Steamers.
Author: Thornton, E.C.B.
Seller: Ten Pound Island Book Co. (United States)
Condition: Photos and detailed lists of vessel stats. VG in dj.
Description: Prescot, Lancashire, UK: T. Stephenson & Sons, 1969. Photos and detailed lists of vessel stats. VG in dj.. 21.5 cm., 180 pp. b/w plates.

Labor Heroines: Ten Women Who Led The Struggle by [WOMEN] MAUPIN, Joyce

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Title: Labor Heroines: Ten Women Who Led The Struggle
Author: [WOMEN] MAUPIN, Joyce
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: Berkeley: Union WAGE Educational Committee, 1975. Slim octavo (21.5cm); printed wrappers, stapled; 31,[2]pp; illus. A Fine copy. Collection of brief biographical sketches of ten female labor leaders: Sarah Bagley, Augusta Lewis, Kate Mullaney, Leonora Barry, Hanna O'Day, Clara Lemlich, Rose Schneiderman, Mother Jones, Agnes Nestor, and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. With illustrations by Anne Garson.

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