Panzer, 27th Regiment, Original Art, October 23, 1943
4 leaves in folio, dedicated in gratitude to the officers of Panzer, Regiment 27. This item not only has a wonderful water color of panzers in battle formation but is signed by nine (presumably of those who survived as late as October 23, 1943). It is by Count Thilo von Werthern-Beichlingern Graf (1914-1986) and Princess Walpurgis von Stolberg-Wernigerode (1821-1992). The water color measures 8" x 11 1/2". Background: The Panzer-Regiment 27 was formed on October 18, 1941 and proceeded against... Read More
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Theatre Advertising Handout: Hoot Gibson: The Fighting Parson (1933)
The 1933 tells the story of a cowboy who has to pose as a preacher long before Clint Eastwood's Thunderbolt and Lightfoot or Pale Rider. A very fine copy.
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(Prospectus) Allgemeine, Wohlfeile Volks-Bilderbibel Oder die Ganze Heilige Schrift des Alten und Neuen Testaments
Leipzig: Baumgartner, 1852. 4 page bifolium issue of a German prospectus (OCLC reports only two German libraries have a copy of the issued Bible). An early German prospectus with the text of Matthew 17 but an engraving of Delilah holding a sleeping Sampson in her lap while another woman cuts his hair, with awaiting Philistine waiting for the deed to be done. A small engraving shows Samson knocking apart the pillars for their temple and killing the multitude on... Read More
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St. Louis: A City in Decay" in Forum Magazine (November 1939); Also "California's 'Grapes of Wrath'.
New York: Forum Magazine, 1939. Quarto. This article shows why St. Louis was already in decay though at the time it was the eighth largest city in the country. There is a reason its Art Museum never flourished, and its director was fortunate to escape to the prestigious Art Institute of Chicago. It is understandable that T.S. Eliot and Tennessee Williams both flourished once they left the intellectual sterility of the city. This article traces the roots of that... Read More
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43rd Infantry Division: Pictorial Review of Training
Atlanta, GA: Albert Love, 1952. Quarto. 250 pages. The 43rd was disbanded in November 1945 but as the Korean War began in was reinstated in 1950. The men were trained for combat in just 28 weeks. By February, 1951, 3400 men left for combat duty in Korea. One of the most profusely illustrated with photographs of the intense training with a history of the Division with emphasis on its role in Europe in World War I and II. A... Read More
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Births, Marriages and Deaths
Royal College of Art: The Lion and Unicorn Press, 1954. Limited Edition. Quarto. No pagination. Limited to 100 copies. The present copy is number 7. Inscription from Arthur Houghton for Robin Darwin, a British artist and Rector of the Royal College of Art and son of the British artist golf writer Bernard Darwin and his wife the engraver Elinor Monsell. This book was a technical exercise to enable those students taking part, the illustrators, the typographers, the designers, and... Read More
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(Angling in Wales) A Collection of Ephemeral Fishing Items, 190-?
This collection dates from the first decade of the 20th century and includes (1) Autographed 1 page letter (April 26, 1909), on the letterhead of the Shute Letterhead from the agent (undecipherable) to: C.H. Cumberland regarding fishing tickets. (2) Letterhead of The Dovey Club, Dolguog, Machyalleth, March 1908, which references (3) Fishing License on letterhead of the Dovey, Mawddach & Glaslyn Fishing District, April 16, 1908 [2 pages]; (4) an undated Durham Ranger fly which dominated Victorian... Read More
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Arroyo Craftsman (October 1909) No. 1
Los Angeles: Arroyo Guild, 1990. Octavo. 67 pages, 16 pages of ads. Facsimile. One of the highlights of George Whartons James work was this issue which brought together some of the finest designers and artisans of Southern California. Besides his article "Collecting Indian Baskets" and "Hanson Puthuff" is his editorial on the vision and work of the Arroyo Guild. The article on the Arroyo House (Robert F. Train and Robert Edmond Williams, architects) that graced Santa Barbara. A fine... Read More
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Costumes Militaires; Catalogue Des Principales Suites De Costumes Militaries Francais Parues Tant En France Qu'a L'estranger Depuis Le Re'gne De Louis XV Justqu'a nos Jours et Des Suites De Costumes Militaire E'trangers Parues En France
Paris: Henri Vivien, 1900. Limited Edition. Large Octavo. Limited to only 45 copies. Produced by a member of La Sabretache, a French society of military history studies. Hand-colored title page, regular title page, hand colored frontispiece and three other hand-colored plates. The catalogue lists every plate in order as they appear in French military costume books. Many editions have only three colored plates. The plates here are:Tambour-Major des Gardes Suisses sous Louis XVI; [2] Hoffman, timbalier de la Musique... Read More
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Photograph of Chris O. Brown Inscribed to Al Gelimore, October 18, 1915
John Considine helped to make vaudeville a major part of American cities. When Chris O. Brown arrived from Chicago, he became a vital part of the Sullivan-Considine syndicate which he managed. He oversaw the New York operation (see Robert Grau, The Businessman in the Amusement World, 1910, p. 142 which notes his beginnings and has a picture of him). He managed the Sullivan and Considine business from 1911 to his death in 1957. A very scarce photograph of a... Read More
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Wild Harvest - The Animal Art of Bob Kuhn
Np.(1997): Sporting Classics and Wildlife Art Magazine. First Edition. Oblong Quarto. 168pp., illustrated with 133 color plates and 36 black and white illustrations. Laid in is a large sized ExLibris of the artist's bookplate made for this title signed by Kuhun and included within 4800 first editions. Additinally signed and inscribed by the author on the half-title. According to Kuhn, this he considered his best work. Bob Kuhn is the peeminent animal painter of the contemporary era. What is... Read More
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Winter Brothers (signed By the author)
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Jovanovich, 1980. First Edition. Octavo. Inscribed by the author: "Best wishes through all the seasons of life" signed by Ivan Doig. 246 pages Albert Andre. Laid in is announcement that the signing is at The Bookworm (Sequim, Washington), from 1:00-3:00 PM. The store owners, John and Liz Dieffenbach operated the bookshop from 1975 to 1988 and the author had become one of their best friends over the years. The story of the author's discovery... Read More
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Ocean Grove; Photo-Gravures
New York: Adolph Wittemann, 1895. Oblong 12mo. 12 leaves, similar in size but different from the copy by the same publisher at Columbia University. That copy was also a photomechanical reproduction but had different images. The community had become the center for Methodist who wanted a religious resort. In 1894 Lillagore built a huge auditorium seating 10,000 who filled it in 1895 when The Messiah was performed. Among the unique images are those of those along the beach viewing... Read More
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Souvenir of Flagstaff and Coconino County, Arizona
[Flagstaff, Arizona, 1918]: Arizona Illustrated Book Company. Oblong Octavo. 74 unnumbered pages (though lightly done so in pencil). Souvenir of Flagstaff and Coconino County, Arizona. Besides the photos of Flagstaff (including the Babbitt-Polson shop), there are several of Williams, Arizona including the special Red Cross Nursing Station set up to help boys wounded in World War I. Copies at Yale, Princeton, DeGoyler, and many AZ libraries. string bound pictorial wrappers, some wear along the edges. A very good copy.... Read More
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Poor Old Sir Robin, MDCCLXXX. The Second, or Latter Part, Containing an Everlasting Prognostication for the Year of Our Lord Christ 1780. No. 118
London: Stationers' Company, 1780. First Edition. 12mo. 15pp. An almanac, composed on a variety of subjects, both ancient and modern, for the reader's enjoyment, with prose, poetry, contemplation and comedy. In light brown wraps (small closed tear and 1/4" chip). An example of this scarce little pamphlet is found only in Univ. Kansas, and U.C. Santa Barbara. Bound in orange paper backed in tan cloth, bound without preliminaries.
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La Pleiade e Il Rinascimento Italiano
Rome: Accademia Nationale Dei Lincei, 1977. First Edition. Quarto. 91 pp. Italian text. Italian-French conversation, the pleiad and the Italian Renaissance. A near fine copy bound in tan stiff paper wraps lettered in black. small barcode label to rear wrap.
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Southern battlefieds" a List of Battlefields on and Near the Lines of the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railwayand Western & Atlantic Railway
Nashville, TN: Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway. First Edition. Stapled Wrap. Very Good/No Dust Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 8vo., 48pp. A fascinating travel brocheure encouraging travel in the south, with emphasis on Civil War battles and the monuments of the (mostly Union) units that persihed. National Cemetaries and monuments. Engraved scenes of the battles, maps and rail lines, as well as Cemetary lisings. The interior is clean and tight; the outer... Read More
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Typographer: Dedicated to the Memory of Frederic W. Goudy 1865-1947. Typographer, Volume XX, Spring 1960
Rochester, NY: Rochester Institute of Technology, 1960. First Edition. Stapled Wrap. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket as Issued. Charles E. Pont. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 51pp. Personal trbutes. Examples of type. Essay by Frederic Goudy. In pale grey paper wraps, with black letters and blue type device. ex-lib.
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DIE VOLKERRECHTSWIRDRIGE FUHRUNG DES BELGISCHEN VOLKSKRIEGS
Venetiss: [Berlin: Government Publication, 1915]. Quarto. 328 pp. Map of an overview of Belgiumwith red and blue lines, Black and white map at the end of the book of Louvain. Since the outbreak of world war one, a wild national struggle against the German troops broke out in Belgium, which respresnets a flagrant violation of international law and has had the most serious consequences for the Belgium country and Volt. This battle was dominated by the most violent passions... Read More
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Photograph of Brig. General Lewis A. Grant and His men, Medal of Honor Award, for His Assault at Salem Chrurch, Virginia, May 3, 1863
Photograph measures 9" x 7" on mounted cardboard. All ten men identified by rank and last name. He was a well known lawyer in Vermont when he enlisted with the 5th Vermont Infantry, which he led through the Battle of Fredericksburg and he assumed command of the famed Vermont Brigade where he displayed "Personal Gallantry ... in the management of his brigade and in leading it in the assault in which he was wounded at Salem Church." Upon his... Read More
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Hawker Commemorative First Day Cover Signed By Sir Thomas Sopwith
Boldly Signed by Tom Sopwith just after his 91st birthday. A fine first day cover produced in 1979 by Australia's Royal Air Force Museum as part of their test pilot series. It commemorates not only the great Australian aviation pioneer whose exploits as early as 1910 were evidence of how far early aeroplanes could fly but he also became the major aircraft manufacture with Harry Hawker which became famous in World War I.
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The Reesor Gathering; The Early Settlers the Mennonites
nd/np. Small Octavo. 2 pages. none recorded in OCLC. Preface page has a pastedown picture of Peter Reesor and notes: Born, December 25, 1775, Died, November 16, 1854. As Mennonites their family history shows persecution during the Revolutionary War and even afterward. They grew and prospered in Markham township where he was known as "the Solon of the community". Sting bound in tan paper wraps, split at spne down to first hole of string. lower... Read More
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Agenda seu Obsequiale, simulaebenedictionale, iuxtaritum et normam ecclesiae et Episcopatus Constantiensis
[Sebaldus Mayer, Dilingae], 1570. Quarto. Title in red; fleuron, rule, and date in black, text printed in red and black throughout, with musical staves printed in red; Finely printed on heavy paper. iii, A-Z4, a-o3, = 147 leaves. Quite scarce liturgical text with many musical notations. WorldCat lists only one copy of this edition, at the Zentral- und Hochschulbibliothek Luzern StandortSempacherstrasse in Lucerne, Switzerland. Karl Young noted also that there were copies at the British Library and the Quarr... Read More
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Handwritten Check from Black Canon [sic] (Black Canyon) , Arizona Territory , April 12, 1895
1895. Printed on paper as check to A.C.M.I. [Arizona Co-Operative Mercantile Institution] from R.C. Kinder in the amount of $4.55 to Joe L-? in Black Canyon, Arizona Territory. While perfectly legal, checks in Arizona Territory in the 1880's and 1890's were usually on printed bank stock. Joseph Fish had been instrumental in establishing the bank for Mormon families but it had been a difficult process. The tiny Mormon community in the... Read More
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Photograph of Winnie Ruth Judd at Her Trial; with Photograph of Detectives Examing remains in Trunks
Wire Photo of Winnie Ruth Judd measuring approximately 6" x 8" shows her twisting her handkerchief while she listens to testimony during her trial for murder (February 1932). Smudges on outside border. Wire photo of the detectives examining the trunk she traveled with on the train with the body parts measuring approximately 10" x 8" (October 1931).
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