Promotional Material for "Lito-Fone Signal System"
by [automobiles]
New York: Lito-Fone, 1927. Ephemera. Very Good+. Two promotional pamphlets for Lito-Fone, a signalling system to be installed by car manufacturers. Both about 8.5x11 inches; with flattened creases from folding, and some very light wrinkling at corners. (1) "Lito-Fone Signal System Speaks Every Traffic Language." Printed and illustrated in b/w, red and green, on white paper, 8pp., showing different models of the Lito-Fone system, as it appears in different cars. With a laid-in business card... Read More
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Observations: Photographs by Richard Avedon, Comments by Truman Capote
by AVEDON, Richard; CAPOTE, Truman
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Publisher's white paper-covered boards, in original acetate jacket and slipcase. An exceptionally bright copy, unusual to find this. Slipcase worn along edges, but difficult to find a copy of this easily prone to wear book in better condition.
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Observations: Photographs by Richard Avedon, Comments by Truman Capote
by Avedon, Richard; Capote, Truman
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Paper-covered boards, in acetate jacket and slipcase. Reproduces Avedon's b/w photographic portraits on nearly every page. Boards lightly rubbed and dust-soiled; small scattered chips along joints and at spine tips. Acetate dust jacket chipped and torn. In rubbed slipcase with a few spots of soiling; tape repair along top edge. An excellent reading copy -- tight, bright and internally clean.
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Richard Avedon: Portraits
by Avedon, Richard; Rosenberg, Harold (essay)
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. White cloth; dust jacket; 4to; with numerous b/w photographic portraits, some folding. Inscribed by Avedon on the FFEP. Spine tips and corners gently bumped, otherwise book is fine. Dust jacket faintly rubbed and scratched; tiny chip at top edge of rear panel; VG+ in mylar, not price-clipped.
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A Fable for Critics; or, Better, a Glance at a Few of our Literary Progenies from the Tub of Diogenes; That is, a Series of Jokes...
by A Wonderful Quiz [Lowell, J. R.]
G. P. Putnam, 1848. Hardcover. Good+. Publisher's cloth, blindstamped boards, gilt-stamped lettering and ornament on spine; small 8vo; pp. v, 80, [8] (ads), with title-page printed in red and black. Boards scuffed and a little soiled; spine tips and corners lightly bumped and chipped. Text block foxed.
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Where Am I Now -- When I Need Me?
by Axelrod, George
London: Andre Deutsch, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. From the library of Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and inscribed to him by the author on the FFEP. Fairbanks (1909-2000) was an American actor (his credits include Gunga Din) and a highly decorated naval officer of World War II.
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Logica Racional, Geometrica, e Analitica
by AZEVEDO FORTES, Manuel de (16601749)
Lisbon: Jozé Antonio Plates, 1744. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio, three parts in one volume (293 x 198mm). Pagination: [36], 151, [1]; 270; 224 pages, including half-title Logica Racional, Geometrica, e Analitica. Collation: *(3, lacking initial blank), a-h(2), A-Z(2), Aa-Pp(2), A-Z(2), Aa-Zz(2), Aaa-Yyy(2), A-Z(2), Aa-Zz(2), Aaa-Kkk(2). Engraved frontispiece portrait of the dedicatee the Infante Antonio of Portugal in three-quarter view signed by Vieira Lusitano (Portuguese engraver, 16991783); copperplate engraved chapter vignettes and historiated initials of muses, geometric and algebraic... Read More
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Ksar Akil Lebanon: A Technological and Typological Analysis of the Transitional and Early Upper Palaeolithic Levels of Ksar Akil and Abu Halka. Volume I, Levels XXV-XII, Parts i (Text) and ii (Illustrations)
by Azoury, Ingrid; Bergman, C. (ed., intro.); Copeland, L. (ed., intro.)
BAR International Series 289 (i [and] ii), 1986. Paperback. Very Good+. Printed red wraps; 2 volumes, 4to; pp. 244 (text); 469 (illustrations). Lightly rubbed at spine tips and along the edges. Ownership signature on FFEP, otherwise internally clean and unmarked.
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The Lonely Years (1925-1939)
by Babel, Isaac
New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1964. First Edition, First Printing Stated. Hardcover. Good/Very Good+. 8vo; pp. 402. Cheap paper browned throughout. Photographic plates in the middle.
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Your Royal Hostage
by [Bacall, Lauren]; Fraser, Antonia
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. Cloth; dust jacket; 8vo; pp. 195. Inscribed by the author to Lauren Bacall, "For Betty, with much love, from Antonia, 14 May 1987." (Lauren Bacall was born in the Bronx as Betty Joan Perske, and only close friends and loved ones used her real name. Antonia Fraser is the widow of Harold Pinter, who directed Bacall in Tennessee Williams's "Sweet Bird of Youth.") Spine tips and corners... Read More
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Beggarman, Thief
by [Bacall, Lauren]; Shaw, Irwin
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Fair. Cloth; dust jacket; 8vo; pp. 372. Inscribed to Lauren Bacall, "Darling Betty -- Happy everything, especially in 1978. Love, Dee," and the author has inscribed, below, "Dearest Bitty -- Ditto the above and a lot more -- Love, Irwin." (Lauren Bacall was born in the Bronx as Betty Joan Perske, and only close friends and loved ones used her real name. She and Shaw were neighbors in... Read More
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Harlot's Ghost
by [Bacall, Lauren]; Mailer, Norman
New York: Random House, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Cloth-backed paper over boards; dust jacket; 8vo; pp. 1310. Inscribed by the author to Lauren Bacall on the half-title page, "To Lauren / at long last, love / Norman / Oct '94." Book and dust jacket a little rubbed at spine tips, else fine. Lauren Bacall (born in the Bronx as Betty Joan Perske, 1924-2014) was an American actress known for her distinctive voice and sultry looks.... Read More
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Moments with Shelley, Taken thro' the Clairaudience of Shirley Carson Jenney, Psychic
by [Bacall, Lauren]; [Shelley, Perchy Bysshe and Mary]; Jenney, Shirley Carson
Culver City, California: The Highland Press, [1941]. Hardcover. Very Good+. Cloth, gilt-stamped lettering on upper board; 12mo; pp. 55, [1]. Inscribed by the author on the FFEP, "To Lauren Bacall -- with compliments and every best wish, from Shirley Carson Jenney." Shirley Carson Jenney (d. 1953), American psychic and clairaudient medium, produced several volumes which she claimed to have been communicated to her by the spirit of Percy Bysshe Shelley, including this volume and one previous, "The Great... Read More
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Out from a Life
by [Bacall, Lauren]; Finley, Michael
Healdton, Oklahoma: The Healdton Herald, 1978. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good+. Staple-bound wraps; 12mo; pp. 42. Inscribed by the author to Lauren Bacall, "To Miss Bacall -- A fellow lover of words so much more life and growth. Michael Finley." Covers a little dusty; tiny speck of soiling on rear cover; bottom corner lightly bumped. Lauren Bacall (born in the Bronx as Betty Joan Perske, 1924-2014) was an American actress known for her distinctive voice and sultry looks.... Read More
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Locoland
by [Bacall, Lauren]; Morris, Chris
Berkeley, California: Creative Arts Book Company [Donald S. Ellis], 1998. Paperback. Fine. Wraps; 8vo; pp. 146. Warmly inscribed by the author to Lauren Bacall, "To Betty, What are the odds that two such exquisitely beautiful women would raise two such talented novelists as Steve and myself? Amazing -- but it pales in comparison to the wonderful friendship you and mom have had over the years. I thank you for that. And next edition, I'm demanding a better photo... Read More
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Octoroon
by [Bacall, Lauren]; [Bogart, Humphrey]; Cooper, Raymond
Prairie City, Illinois: James A. Decker, 1947. Hardcover. Very Good+/Good+. Cloth; dust jacket; small 8vo; pp. 56. Inscribed by the author on the FFEP: "Be her reign over / Carol and Craig... / Or should she rule / supreme in a palace -- / Fortune can hold / no more in store / Than what I wish / for Lady Alice. / With love -- Raymond Cooper, 6/19/48." From the library of Lauren Bacall, purchased at auction, with... Read More
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Easter Lily, a Novel of the South Today
by [Bacall, Lauren]; Wicker, Tom
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Paper-covered boards; dust jacket; 8vo; pp. 322. Inscribed by the author on the FFEP, "For Betty Bacall, with much love and best wishes* Tom Wick, *Best wishes translates into mad, wild dreams!" (Lauren Bacall was born in the Bronx as Betty Joan Perske, and only close friends and loved ones used her real name.) Lauren Bacall (1924-2014) was an American actress known for her distinctive voice... Read More
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Les Lois des grands nombres du calcul des probabilités. La spéculation et le calcul des probabilités. Les nouvelles méthodes du calcul des probabilités. Three volumes.
by BACHELIER, LOUIS JEAN BAPTISTE ALPHONSE
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1937, 1938, 1939. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Three works, first editions, uncut in the original printed wrappers, with the stamp "Hommage de l'auteur" to the half-title of the first work, the three together in a clamshell case. This trio of works are quite scarce. Bachelier is now considered to be the first to explore mathematical finance, as well as the nature of stochastic processes such as Brownian motion. His instructor was Poincaré.
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Resuscitatio, or, Bringing into Publick Light Several Pieces of the Works, Civil, Historical, Philosophical, & Theological, Hitherto Sleeping, of the Right Honourable Francis Bacon... According to the Best Corrected Copies. Together, with His Lordships Life, by William Rawley
by Bacon, Francis
London: Printed by S. Griffin, for William Lee..., 1661. Second edition, somewhat enlarged. Hardcover. Very Good. Modern calf, gilt-stamped ornament on upper board and spine, gilt-stamped lettering in green leather spine label. Complex pagination, with quite a few misnumbered pages, but including frontispiece, section titles (see below), final advertisement leaf. Text block faintly browned; contemporary ownership signatures of Henry Lynch and Mary Lynch (who dates her signature in 1723-24) on title-page, not affecting legibility. An... Read More
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The Essays or Counsels Civil & Moral....With a Table of the Colours of Good & Evil. Whereunto is added The Wisdm of the Ancients
by BACON, Francis
London: Printed by T.N. for John Martyn, S. Mearne, and H. Herringman, 1673. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo. Bound in later full speckled calf, professional modern rebacking. Bookplate to front pastedown. Wing B-287; Gibson 23b; ESTC R15975.3). Trimmed a little tight along the top margin, but still a very handsome copy, a book begging to be handled and read.
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Bacon's Essays
by Bacon, Sir Francis
London: Macmillan, 1907. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good. Small 8vo. 3/4 contemporary dark green leather and marbled paper over boards. pp. 388. Front board holding but signs of coming loose. Paper toned as typical. A title in the Golden Treasury Series.
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Opera omnia medico-practica, et anatomica. Editio XVIII. Cui praeter dissertationes, aliosque tractatus anteactis editionibus adjunctos, item ejusdem Georgii Baglivi canones de medicina solidorum, dissertatio de progressione romani terraemotus, de systemate et usu motus solidorum in corpore animato, de vegetatione lapidum, & analogismo circulationis maris ad circulationem sanguinis accesserunt . Una cum indicibus aerisque tabulis. Nec non Joannis Dominici Santorini Opuscula 4. De structura, & motu fibrae, De nutritione animali, De haemorrhoidibus, & De catameniis
by Baglivi, Georgii
Bassani: Bassani, 1737. Hardcover. Good. Tjhick quarto. Contemporary vellum, worn with repain at top. (4), 635, (9). Engraved portrait, frontis, 7 plates. Complete. Stains and spotting. A serviceable copy.
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All Good Americans
by Bahr, Jerome (Introduction by Ernest Hemingway)
New York: Charles Scribnerís Sons, 1937. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. First Edition of this fine collection of stories, with an introduction by Hemingway. This is a first edition, inscribed by the author: "To Irving, my good and loyal friend, with much affection. Jerry Bahr." In our experience, extremely scarce to find signed. Offsetting to inside front board and to front endpaper (where book is inscribed), still a very good copy in edgeworn, spine faded DJ.... Read More
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Miss Hickory (First Edition)
by Bailey, Carolyn Sherwin; Gannett, Ruth (lithographs)
New York: The Viking Press, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. Gannett, Ruth. Red cloth over boards, illustration on upper board, orange lettering on spine, orange topstain, bright illustrated endpapers; illustrated dust jacket; pp. [123]. First edition. Dust jacket (fully intact and not price-clipped0 is slightly spine faded and with light wear, but still a very nice copy of this winner of the Newbery Medal.
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Las Mocedades de Rodrigo. The Youthful Deeds of Rodrigo the Cid. [Medieval Academy Books, Vol. 110].
by Bailey, Matthew (Editor)
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Superb copy in dust jacket.
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