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Humourist, The by CRUIKSHANK, George

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Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc.

Title: Humourist, The
Author: CRUIKSHANK, George
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Description: London: Printed and Published by J. Robins & Co., 1819. With the Very Rare First Issue of Volume I CRUIKSHANK, George, illustrator. The Humourist: A Collection of Entertaining Tales, Anecdoes, Repartees, Witty Sayings, Epigrams, Bon Mots, Jeu d'esprits, &c. Carefully selected. London: Printed and Published by J. Robins & Co., [n.d., 1819 (Volume I); 1819 (Volumes II-III); 1820 (Volume IV)]. First edition, with the very rare first issue of Volume I (bound from the parts, with the printed title bearing "Vol. I" but no date, and p. 44 headed "Dr Johnson"). Four small octavo volumes (6 1/8 x 3 7/8 inches; 156 x 99 mm.). 226, [2]; 230, [2]; 222, [2]; 226, [2] pp. Forty hand-colored etched plates after Cruikshank, including four frontispieces and four vignette titles. Early twentieth-century full crushed rose morocco by Rivière & Son, covers with multi gilt borders and decorative corner pieces, spines lettered and decoratively tooled in gilt in compartments, gilt board edges and turn-ins, all edges rough gilt, dark blue coated endpapers. An excellent copy. With the engraved bookplate of The Library at Carolands on each pastedown. "It had long been held that the first volume only was issued in parts, in green paper printed wrappers, with either a type ornament border or the grotesque woodcut that is found on the boards of the volume, but recently a Part 13 of Vol. 2 came into the possession of Mr. F.J. Callcott who has kindly lent it to me for reproduction. It is therefore clear that the first two volumes were certainly first issued in parts and probably all four, and Douglas was incorrect in his assumption. A complete set of even the ten parts comprising the first volume is unknown in the original wrappers. The first issue should be therefore bound from the parts, is never genuinely found in the original boards, and should have the words "Vol. 1," on the printed title, but no date. The first issue of the volume in the printed boards has the date 1819 upon the printed title, but not the words "Vol. 1." The second issue has both the date 1819 and the words "Vol. 1" on the printed title. There are ten coloured etchings, including the engraved title, to each volume, all dated and with the imprint of J. Robins & Co., except the vignette titles, plate 7 of Vol. 2, and plate 4 of Vol. 3 which do not have the date, although with the imprint; this is a "point" of the first issue as in later issues, several plates are without imprint or date. Vol. 1 was reissued in 1822, so dated on the title, the dates running 1822, 1819, 1819, 1820. There are differences in the letterpress of this reissue. Notably at p. 44, where in the first issue the tale is "Dr. Johnson," while in the 1822 reissue it is "Epitaph on a Dyer." (Cohn). The Humourist "gave Cruikshank his first sustained opportunity to devise illustrations; Blanchard Jerrold calls it 'his first remarkable separate work.' Robins issued forty six-penny parts...with a colored etching in each, during 1819 and 1820...The vignette title page for volume 4 shows a grotesque dandy holding a cocked hat, grinning at the audience from a stage whose proscenium arch is decorated with swagged curtains and comic masks. The illustrations preserve that sense of theater: each scene takes place within a frame surmounted by emblematic props aspiring to a pedimental shape and supported by a base on which the title is inscribed, along with additional scenes and props" (Patten, George Cruikshank's Life, Times, and Art, I, p. 190). The first issue of Volume I is very rare; sets nearly always appear with it from the later re-issue (title-page dated "1822"). Cohn 419.

Poste Restante by STROMHOLM, Christer

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Seller: Harper's Books

Title: Poste Restante
Author: STROMHOLM, Christer
Seller: Harper's Books (United States)
Condition: Tiniest of bumps at the spine, else near fine in a near fine jacket, lightly rubbed at the rear panel. Housed in a custom clamsh
Description: Stockholm: P.A. Norstedt & Soners Forlag, 1967. Tiniest of bumps at the spine, else near fine in a near fine jacket, lightly rubbed at the rear panel. Housed in a custom clamshell box.. First Edition. Square quarto. An amazing assortment juxtaposed images, effectively tying together all the photographic motifs of the time as Europe emerged completely from the postwar era and ushered in the sixties. Like Ed van der Elsken, Stromholm was an inveterate traveler; the title of this book is an ode to his peripateticism. Unlike Van der Elsken's Sweet Life, however, Stromholm presents a darker and less optimistic view the world. (Parr / Badger, v1, 251).

The first night of my wedding, or little Boney no match for an arch Dutchess. Hand-colored etching by Rowlandson, Thomas

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Seller: Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc.

Title: The first night of my wedding, or little Boney no match for an arch Dutchess. Hand-colored etching
Author: Rowlandson, Thomas
Seller: Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description: London: Thomas Tegg, 1810. [Rowlandson, Thomas (1757-1827).] The first night of my wedding. Or little Boney no match for an arch dutchess. Hand-colored etching. London: Thos. Tegg, 25 April 1810. 325 x 238 mm. Small tear in one corner not affecting image, light dust-soiling but very good. Bawdy hand-colored etching by one of England's best-known Regency-era caricaturists, lampooning Napoleon's second marriage, at the age of 41, to 19-year-old Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma. The image shows the couple sprawled on a bed after a clearly unsuccessful attempt to consummate their union: Napoleon clutches his head, saying "Mort de ma vie I must, I must brush off to Compiegne [one of his residences], and order seperate [sic] beds," while the saucy Marie Louise, one foot on a "Portable Water Closet," declaims, "Still says sly Old Hodge says he, Great talkers 'as the least, d'ye see, Well well there's one hope left, I shall quickly carry him to his Journey's end." A table next to the bed holds a bowl of "Cock Broth" and a jar of "Cantharides" (Spanish fly). A small caption below the bed reads "The vain endeavour The little Emperor done over." In this version of the print Marie Louise's breasts are painted over with a "chemise" in white and gray; in other versions her breasts are bare. .

The Cod Head [Limited Edition, Signed] by WILLIAMS, William Carlos

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Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books

Title: The Cod Head [Limited Edition, Signed]
Author: WILLIAMS, William Carlos
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: San Francisco: Harvest Press, 1932. First, Limited Edition. One of 125 copies. Slim octavo (25.5cm); jade green printed sheets, stapled into hand-made grayish-green paper wrappers, with title label mounted to upper front cover; [8]pp. Signed by Williams on lower margin of p.6, with one word struck through in the same color ink (presumably in his hand). Very faint crease to upper right corner of front flap, else a fresh, very Near Fine copy. "The poem was first published in Contempo, a semimonthly "literary newspaper," April 1, 1932. It appeared in a slightly different version in Contact, a magazine edited by WCW, May, 1932" (WALLACE A14). 88069.

The Silver Eagle by Burnett, W.R.

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Seller: ReadInk

Title: The Silver Eagle
Author: Burnett, W.R.
Seller: ReadInk (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: Lincoln MacVeagh/The Dial Press. Near Fine. 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket, but encased in a nice-looking facsimile reproduction of the original first edition jacket; see 2nd scanned image posted with this listing) [no significant wear apart from some rubbing to silver spine lettering at base of spine (title and author are bright and unblemished), light age-toning to edge of text block, attractive vintage bookseller's label (Satyr Book Shop, Hollywood and Los Angeles) on rear pastedown, one-time owner's embossed stamp on half-title and rear endpaper (see Notes)]. Burnett's fourth published novel, by far the most obscure and hard-to-find of his early books -- and a classic example of how a work by a notable and successful author (and Burnett had become notable and successful right away, with the publication of his first book, "Little Caesar," in 1929) can fade into obscurity for no other apparent reason than because nobody ever made a movie out of it. (It's the only one of Burnett's first six novels that's never been filmed.) I've seen the book referred to as a "follow-up" to "Little Caesar," but that's only true in the sense that it's also set in Chicago (and in fact on the original dust jacket it's heralded as "A Chicago Novel"). It's not even really a gangster novel, although the underworld does play a part in the narrative, which is primarily about a successful restaurant/club owner, a self-made man with ambitions to rise in the society world. But if you were a successful restaurant/club owner in Chicago in that era, you'd inevitably find yourself rubbing shoulders with the town's rougher elements, and between its somewhat low-born protagonist and some of the characters he gets involved with, there's a pretty decent quotient of hard-boiled, tough-guy talk to keep things snappy. The milieu is also evoked by the book's dedication -- "To the Wilson and Oak Gang, 1915-1918" -- although the significance of such a "gang" (if it was) has so far eluded my research. This copy is from the library of one-time MGM producer-writer Carey Wilson, with his embossed ownership stamp on the half-title page and the rear endpaper. NOTE again that the dust jacket on this book is a FACSIMILE, and that its presence has not been factored into our pricing. .

March Oct. 14 / Denounce Nixon / Support the 7 Points [screenprint poster]

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Title: March Oct. 14 / Denounce Nixon / Support the 7 Points [screenprint poster]
Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description: n.p., 1972. 15x22 inch poster, faint creases from rolling, otherwise very good. The Seven Points reference is to the peace plan put forward by the Provisional Revolutionary Government in South Vietnam.

State laws of special value to women: January 1, 1951

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Title: State laws of special value to women: January 1, 1951
Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description: Washington DC: Dept. of Labor, Women's Bureau, 1951. Unpaginated, mimeographed 8.5x11 inch sheets stapled at upper left, rubberstamp of the ILWU library on cover, staple rusted, rear wrap lightly toned along edges else good condition. State by state breakdown of labor laws, inheritance, rights of widows, and other legal issues relevant to women.

History of Early Ukrainian Printing 1491-1600 by Wynar, Lubomyr R.

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Title: History of Early Ukrainian Printing 1491-1600
Author: Wynar, Lubomyr R.
Seller: Hackenberg Booksellers ABAA (United States)
Description: Denver: University of Denver Graduate School of Librarianship, 1962. [vi] 96 leaves with facing blanks, 11 b/w facsimile illustrations, binder's half-cloth with original stiff printed wrappers, with substantive bibliography, ex libris with withdrawal stamps. The rear wrapper has two columns of inked names (with no apparent relationship to the book). (Studies in librariship, vol. 1, no. 2).

CURIOSITIES OF HISTORY: BOSTON SEPTEMBER SEVENTEENTH, 1630-1880 by WHEILDON, William

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Title: CURIOSITIES OF HISTORY: BOSTON SEPTEMBER SEVENTEENTH, 1630-1880
Author: WHEILDON, William
Seller: Charles Agvent, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Light wear to spine tips; front free endpaper detached. Near Fine
Description: Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1880. First Edition. Hardcover. Light wear to spine tips; front free endpaper detached. Near Fine. Green cloth, lettered in gilt; 143 pages. Illustrated with a map of Dorchester and a folding facsimile of the first issue of Boston's first newspaper.

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Erik Satie 'Et tout cela m'est advenu par la faute de la Musique' by [SATIE]. Myers, Rollo H.

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Title: Erik Satie 'Et tout cela m'est advenu par la faute de la Musique'
Author: [SATIE]. Myers, Rollo H.
Seller: J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
ISBN: 9780486219035
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Dover, 1968. Softcover. Very Good. Octavo. Wrappers. 150 pp. Occasional illustrations. Inscription to front endpaper. Wrappers worn.

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