The Vico Collaboration. Giambattista Vico, philosopher; Dennis Letbetter, photographer; Jack W. Stauffacher, printer
by (Stauffacher, Jack) ; Dennis Letbetter
San Francisco: The Greenwood Press, 2003. First edition. Letbetter, Dennis;. Inspired by Vico's Principi di una scienza nuova, Stauffacher and Letbetter produced this pair of portfolios: Stauffacher's “Vico Wooden Letters,” a suite of ten prints, issued in an edition of twenty, was made using an assortment of sixty-six 19th-century wooden letters, given to the press by The Williams Printing Company in 1966, that had been used to print public posters. Printed in black, red, blue, and yellow, on French... Read More
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American Campaigns. In two volumes
by Steele, Matthew Forney
Washington: Byron S. Adams, 1909. First edition. Two volumes, viii, 731;xii, 311 maps. Green buckram,very good, War Dept. Document No, 324.
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The Friendly Arctic. The story of five years in the Polar Regions
by Stefansson, Vilhjalmur
New York: Macmillan, 1922. First American edition. Blue cloth, very good, bright copy.
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Sweet Thursday
by Steinbeck, John
New York: Viking, 1954. First edition. Yellow cloth, fine copy in lightly used, price-clipped dust jacket.
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Why Steinbeck wrote The Grapes of Wrath. Did Shakespeare Translate the Decameron, by Carter Meredith. Mr. Grahame, Mr. Roosevelt, and I, by A.A. Milne
by (Steinbeck,John) Jackson, Joseph Henry; Milne, A.A.
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1940. First edition. Wrappers, nice.
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The Moon is Down
by Steinbeck, John
New York: Viking, 1942. First edition. Blue cloth. Slight lean, a very good copy in lightly worn dust jacket. First printing, with the large period on p. 112, and with no indication of printer on the copyright page.
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The passport
by Saul Steinberg
New York: Harper, 1954. First edition. [244] p. (chiefly illus. (part col.)) 32 cm.; DJ with slight edge wear.
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Word
by Steir, Pat
Oakland: Crown Point Press, 1980. First edition. 5-3/4 in. x 6 in. Boards, fine. Five drypoints with aquatints and (in number 5) hand coloring. One of ten copies, signed at the colophon and initialed on each page. While the prints were executed in 1977, and dated as such, the book was not published until 1980. Pat Steir's quiet, early works - word/image prints inspired by the randomness of John Cage's musical compositions both in design and subtlety - challenged... Read More
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Le Petit Silence Illustré.; Issues: Nos. 3/4—7
by Sternberg, Jacques . (Editor)
Paris: La Balance, 8212. Original wrappers, mimeographed, 28 x 11 cm. Excellent condition. Verging on a fantasy-science fiction fanzine, most of the contents is of that genre . Eight issues in total were published, the first two in 1955, the last in 1958. The original issues 1 and 2 have long been considered unprocurable. Reissues of 1/2, 3/4, and 5/6 were produced, in 1957, with some augmentation; all ours are originals.
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Je t'aime, je t'aime. Scénario et dialogues du film d'Alain Resnais
by Sternberg, Jacques
Paris: Eric Losfeld, 1969. . Wrappers, 220 pp. extensively illustrated. Fine.
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Island Nights' Entertainments
by Stevenson, R. L.
London: Cassell, London: Cassell, 1893. Original blue-grey gilt decorated cloth, a very good bright copy. First London edition, the New York (Scribner's) edition precedes by six days, first issue, with ink price correction on p. [ii]. 16 page inserted publisher's catalogue, dated 3.93.
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Harmonium
by Stevens, Wallace
New York: Knopf, 1923. First edition. Blue cloth, yellow spine label, a fine copy of Stevens's first book, in fine dust jacket. First edition, third binding, one of 715 copies bound in 1926. Although the same dust jacket was used on all three binding issues, the jacket as well as the sheets was trimmed slightly for this third issue. Edelstein A1.a. Connolly, One Hundred Modern Books, 46.
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Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind
by Stewart, Dugald
London: Cadell. Davies, 1821. Two volumes, calf; light rubbing to joints; very good., Second edition, corrected, of the first volume, third edition of the second volume.
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The Mystery of the Sea
by Stoker, Bram
London: William Heinemann, 1902. First British edition, the American precedes by a few months. Original dark blue cloth, blocked in light green and gold with the design of a full moon among clouds, endpapers cracking (front repaired), very good. Inscribed "J.S. Ragland Phillips from Bram Stoker 17.7.02". Ragland Phillips (1850-1919) was the editor of the Yorkshire Post (1903-1919), and a close friend of Stoker, who frequently stayed with him, at his home "Balmoral", in Hedingley, Leeds. It was to... Read More
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Emergency Mouse; [with] Inspector Mouse; The Tale of Admiral Mouse; Quasimodo Mouse.; Illustrated by Ralph Steadman ("Admiral Mouse" illustrated by Tony Ross)
by Stone, Bernard; Steadman, Ralph
London: Andersen, 1984. First editions. Steadman,Ralph. Four volumes. Each inscribed by Stone. Pictorial boards, fine.
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WUSA. [A Hall of Mirrors]. Screenplay by Robert Stone
by Stone, Robert
1969. Final draft screenplay by Stone dated January 20, 1969. Stone's first screenplay, based on his 1967 first novel. The title page has been changed in pencil to show the revised title, some character names also seem to have been later changed. Mimeographed on greenish tinted paper, 176 leaves. Brad-bound in Paramount Pictures' printed cover, with cut-out title window; title written in black marker on the spine. Directed by Stuart Rosenberg, WUSA starred Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Perkins,... Read More
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
by Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Boston: John P. Jewett & Co.; Cleveland: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, 1852. First edition. 8vo, two volumes, original brown cloth, the ends of the spines slightly worn, occasional spots in the text; a very good copy, cover gilt bright, the text is quite fresh with only some very minor stains in volume 2. Tipped-in is a fine two-page autograph letter signed from Stowe to a Prof. Clare, concerning the lyrics to the songs in Stowe's novel "Dred". B.A.L. 19343;... Read More
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Elizabeth and Essex
by Strachey, Lytton
London: Chatto & Windus, 1928. First edition. Cloth backed boards, one corner worn, very good, not issued in printed jacket. Copy 940 of 1060, all signed, designed by W.A. Dwiggins. 1000 of these copies were for America and had the U.S. publisher's name on the spine, this would be one of the sixty for Britain with Chatto & Windus on the spine. Bookplate of "Effemar
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The Doctrine of Eternal Misery Reconcileable with the Infinite Benevolence of God and a Truth Plainly Asserted in the Christian Scriptures
by Strong, Nathan
Hartford: Printed by Hudson and Goodwin, 1796. First edition. Original sheep, with leather label, rubbed, front hinge cracked but cords holding, light browning. A graduate of Yale College, Strong was Pastor of the North Presbyterian Church in Hartford, and editor of the Hartford Selection, a popular and influential hymnal. Evans 31246.
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Autograph letter signed. Ithaca, N.Y., January 19, 1917
by Strunk, William; [White, E.B.]
Three pages. Addressed to a student "Chère Elève," probably Charlotte Holmes Crawford (Cornell 1906). Strunk discusses a length a story his correspondent sent him, ("A Daughter of Nish," by Crawford; it appeared in the January "Collier's"). The final paragraph is war news from France. Strunk taught a course at Cornell called English Usage and Style. E.B. White would enroll at Cornell in the fall of 1917, where he soon made friends with Strunk. Many years later White would revise... Read More
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The Symphony Story [Unfaithfully Yours]. Screenplay by Preston Sturges
by Sturges, Preston
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1948. Mimeographed sheets, 159 pages. Brad-fastened in covers stamped with the working title and the date, January 15, 1948; blue revised pages dated 1/19/1948. Copy number "16": stamped on cover and first page, distribution receipt removed. Covers show some use. The original screenplay for Sturges's first film for Fox. This classic dark comedy starred Rex Harrison in a character partly modeled on Sir Thomas Beecham. The copy of cinematographer Victor Milner, with his signature and... Read More
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A la niche, les glapisseurs de dieu!
by (Surrealism) Adolphe Acker, Sarane Alexandrian, Maurice Baskine, Jean-Louis Bédouin, Hans Bellmer, Jean Bergstrasser, Roger Bergstrasser, Maurice Blanchard, Joë Bousquet, Francis Bouvet, Victor Brauner, André Breton, Jean Brun, Pierre Cuvillier, Pierre
[Paris]: Éditions surréalistes, 1948. First edition. 13 p. 17 cm. Wrappers, fine. One of 30 numbered copies on Marais paper. Fine. An anti-clerical tract, signed (in type) by Adolphe Acker, Sarane Alexandrian, Maurice Baskine, Jean-Louis Bédouin, Hans Bellmer, Jean Bergstrasser, Roger Bergstrasser, Maurice Blanchard, Joë Bousquet, Francis Bouvet, Victor Brauner, André Breton, Jean Brun, Pierre Cuvillier, Pierre Demarne, Charles Duits, Jean Ferry, André Frédérique, Guy Gillequin, Arthur Harfaux, Jindrich Heisler, Georges Henein, Maurice Henry, Jacques Hérold, Véra Hérold, Marcel... Read More
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Letters of Roger Fry
by Sutton, Denys (ed.)
New York: Random House, 1972. First American edition. Two volumes, bound in dark brown leatherette, gathering of black-and-white plates in each volume. Gift inscription to front endpaper of both volumes, minute spotting to top edge of one volume, else a nearly fine, clean and crisp set. Dust jackets worn at top edges and lightly spotted to interiors, very good.
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Bibliographical Catalogue of the First Loan Exhibition of Books and Manuscripts held by The First Edition Club 1922
by Symons, A.J.A. (ed.)
London: Privately printed for The First Edition Club, 1922. First edition. Cloth backed boards, edges rubbed. Very good. H.V. Marrot's copy, with a considerable number of his annotations. Marrot was lender of several items to the exhibition.
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Mounted albumen print. Arizona Garden "Hotel del Monte," Monterey
by Taber, I.W.
San Francisco: I.W. Taber. Taber, I.W.. 7-3/4 x 9-3/4 in. Fine view of the cactus garden.
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