An informal talk by Elmer Adler at the University of Kansas, April 17, 1953, First Annual Public Lecture on Books & Bibliography
by Adler, Elmer
Los Angeles: Plantin Press, 1953. Hardcover. Near Fine. Cloth-backed paper over boards, printed spine label; 16mo; pp. [46].
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Early-19th Century Adoption Certificate
by [adoption]
New York, 1825. Ephemera. Very Good+. Partially printed document with handwritten entries, appointing Elizabeth Lounsbury the legal guardian of Winden N. Lounsbury, witnessed by Ebenezer Mix. Flattened creases from folding; foxing.
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The Windmill Jigsaw Puzzle, FREE with every can of Cocomalt -- Beautiful! Colorful! Unusual! Latest Picture Puzzle
by [promotional advertisement]
Hoboken, N. J.: R. B. Davis Co., 1933. Ephemera. Near Fine. Envelope (175 x 260 mm) illustrated and printed in red and blue, containing a full-color jigsaw puzzle (approx. 70 pieces). Complete! No pieces pieces missing, in fine condition -- assembled, an image of a windmill alongside a brook, with 3 sailboats ashore. Envelope a little dust-soiled, and lightly chipped along the edges, but nonetheless nicely preserved, featuring ads for Cocomalt, which is delicious hot... Read More
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Mid-19th Century Broadside Advertisement for Bailey's Self-Centering and Self-Releasing Turning Lathe
by [advertising]
Lockport, Niagara Co., New York, mid-19th century. Ephemera. Very Good+. Single leaf, printed and illustrated on the recto only (328x197mm). Printed in a variety of types, including one of the ugliest types this cataloguer has ever seen -- really, wow -- buy it to impress people at parties. Flattened creases from folding; a little age-toning.
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Merchants Record and Show Window, An Illustrated Monthly for Merchants, Displaymen, Advertising Men, Volume LXXX, Number Four, April 1937
by [Advertising]
Chicago: Nickerson & Collins Company, 1937. Paperback. Near Fine. Staple-bound pictorial wraps. With ads and illustrations in b/w throughout. Some light rubbing along spine and edges, otherwise fine. Cover designed by Ray W. Parks.
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Tragédies DEschyle
by AESCHYLUS
Paris: Saillant & Nyon, 1770. Hardcover. Very Good. Contemporary vellum. Early ownership signatures to front pastedown. Bookplate at the rear of Louis V. Vedoux.
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Les fables d’Esope Phirigien, avec celles de Philelphe. Traduction nouvelle, enrichie de discours moraux & historiques & de quatrains à la fin de chaque discours. On a joint à cette nouvelle traduction les fables diverses de gabrias, d’avienus & les contes d’Esope…
by AESOP -- BELLEGARDE, Jean-Baptiste Morvan de (1648-1734) – BUSCH, Georg Paul (illus., d. 1756)
Amsterdam: Pierre Mortier, 1708. Hardcover. Very Good+. 2 volumes (152 x 95mm). Vol. I: 297pp., [7] table; Vol. II: 287pp., [4] index. Both volumes with the identical engraved frontispiece depicting the traditional theme of Aesop ruling the animals. The moralizing tales are extensively illustrated with copper- plate engravings by Georg Paul Busch. Volume I contains the life of Aesop by Planudes, and the beginning of Aesop’s Fables and Volume II continues with Aesop’s Fables and includes the Fables... Read More
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Some of Aesop's Fables, with Modern Instances Shewn in Designs by Randolph Caldecott
by Aesop; Caldecott, Randolph (designs); Caldecott, Alfred (trans.); Cooper, J. D. (engravings)
London: Macmillan and Co., 1883. Hardcover. Good. Original pictorially stamped cloth; illustrated throughout. Cloth frayed or chipped at corners, spine tips, and here and there along joints; crack in the gutter at pp. 40-41, with binding just a bit shaken. Still, a good reading copy, with charming illustrations and details.
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DIAMOND NECKLACE AFFAIR: Bound volume containing 23 pamphlets
by [French History - Sammelband - Diamond Necklace Affair]
Paris, 1786. Hardcover. Good. 4to, 249x195 mm, contemporary tree sheep, recased, endpapers renewed, front joint chipped and repaired at top. 23 pamphlets bound together. Condition of contents generally very good or better through the first 14 pamphlets. Last nine with marginal dampstaining and occasional traces of mold. Overall, an impressive sammelband of historical importance. The publications relate to the scandal at the court of Louis XVI in which the self-styled Comtesse de Valois manipulated the Cardinal de Rohan... Read More
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AFRIKA. Cape Town and South-West Africa, 1931.
by [Africa]
1931. Very Good. Stab binding, bound with grey ribbon, patterned cloth over boards (13” x 9.25”) with handwritten titles on front board; contains 19 grey heavy cardstock leaves, each featuring numerous b/w photographs (more than 150 in all, average size is 3” x 4.25”) affixed to rectos and versos with photo-corners, most of them labeled by hand, in German (with some English). Boards a little rubbed and scuffed, else fine. A lovely young African woman, wearing... Read More
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The Morning Watch
by Agee, James
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1951. First American Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. Original cloth; dust jacket. Nice copy of the book in dust-jacked (with original price of $2.25 intact). DJ rear panel is a couple of small chips, but overall a nice example.
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A Death in the Family
by AGEE, JAMES
New York: McDowell, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Publisher's cloth, in edgworn dust jacket.
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Belaia staia: stikhotvoreniia [White Flock, Verses]
by Ahkmatova, Anna Andreevna; (pseudonym of Anna Andreevna Gorenko, wife of Gumilev)
Peterburg: Petropolis / Alkonost, 1923. Fourth augmented edition. Paperback. Very Good. Original wraps; pp. 141. Covers torn, heavily chipped along the edges, soiled; faint spots on first leaf, otherwise nice, bright text block. An excellent reading copy, or candidate for rebinding.
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Belaia staia, stikhotvoreniia [White Flock, Verses]
by Ahkmatova, Anna Andreevna (pseudonym of Anna Andreevna Gorenko, wife of Gumilev)
Peterburg: Petropolis / Alkonost, 1923. Fourth augmented edition. Paperback. Very Good+. Original wraps; pp. 142. Covers lightly creased along the edges; ownership signature on front cover. Internally nice and clean.
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The Jig of Forslin
by Aiken, Conrad
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. Original cloth in attractive pictorial dustwrapper. A nice clean copy of this early Aiken book of poetry. The DJ is lightly edgworn and nicked, better than usual, with colors still bright.
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The Soldier
by Aiken, Conrad
Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Nice copy in lightly worn DJ.
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Blue Voyage
by Aiken, Conrad
London: Gerald Howe, 1927. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. Original green cloth, lacking DJ. Nice copy.
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Jack Sheppard: A Romance
by Ainsworth, W. Harrison; Cruikshank, George (illustrator)
London: Bentley's Miscellany, 1839. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo. 19th century 3/4 red morocco gilt and red patterned cloth. Bound by Hnery Young & Sons Liverpool. First Edition, extracted from the original parts. Cruikshank plates in first state. Cohn 13. Spotting to blank bound in endleaves. Overall, a very nice copy.
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The Tower of London. An Historical Romance. (Two Volumes in One, Complete)
by Ainsworth, W. Harrison
London: Chapman and Hall, 1850. Hardcover. Very Good. Half morocco and marbled paper, gilt-stamped lettering in black leather spine label. Spine sunned; corners bumped; boards lightly rubbed; tidy ownership signature on title-pages. A very nice reading copy.
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The Miser's Daughter: a Tale. With illustrations by George Cruikshank.
by Ainsworth, William Harrison; Cruikshank, George (illus.)
London: Cunningham and Mortimer, 1842. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. First issue as originally published in Ainsworth's magazine. 8vo. Bound in later 3/4 red morocco and red cloth. A lightly worn, solid copy.
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The Tower of London, A Historical Romance
by Ainsworth, William Harrison; Cruikshank, George (illus.)
London: Richard Bentley, 1840. Hardcover. Very Good+. Bound by Wallis & Lloyd. Gilt-ruled calf, gilt-stamped ornament direct in spine compartments (5 raised bands), gilt-stamped lettering in red leather spine label, a.e.g.; 8vo; pp. xvi, 439, with 53 wood engravings in text, plus 40 plates. Spine dry, bottom spine compartment split and pulling away. Otherwise a lovely copy. Sadleir, 31; Wolff, 76a.
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The Miser's Daughter. 3 vols.
by AINSWORTH, William Harrison; CRUIKSHANK, George (illus.)
London: Cunningham & Mortimer, 1843 and 1842. Hardcover. Very Good+. Three Volume Set. Illustrated by George Cruikshank. 19th century brown tree calf, spines attractivrely gilt. A mixed set as vol. 1 is a stated second edition (1843), vols. 2 & 3 are first editions. Some plates with typical spotting, but overall, a very nice set indeed. Bookplates of Sydney Hyde.
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Silhouettes d’Avions. Illustrated manuscript on paper, in French [With:] French World War I Colonel’s Ledger, an autograph note (c. 1899-1904) and transcribed letters of 1914 from a certain E. Henry while stationed in Lorraine
by WORLD WAR I EPHEMERA -- AIRCRAFT
[France], early 20th century. WWI ephemera -- aircraft. Silhouettes d'Avions, Illustrated manuscript on paper, in French. [France: c. 1915-1925]. 16 leaves, pocket-sized: (135 x100mm). 15 hand- colored illustrations depicting three views of planes; two in profile and one bird’s eye view, all are labeled for early French, English, and German aircraft models. Original paper wrappers titled Silhouettes d’Avions, with later tape reinforcing hinge; (somewhat brittle, leaves loose but present). This skillful manuscript, perhaps created by... Read More
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Account of Observations of the Transit of Venus, 1874, December 8, Made Under the Authority of the British Government: And of the Reduction of the Observations
by Airy, Sir George Biddell
Printed for Her Majesty's Stationery Office, Under the Authority of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, 1881. Hardcover. Very Good. Cloth; 4to; pp. viii, [2], 512, [2], 21 (appendix), plus 17 plates and laid-in errata slip. Spine sunned, chipped; cloth split along front joint; boards bumped along the edges. Contemporary ownership signature on title-p.; some faint foxing to first and last few leaves; small chips and closed tears along edges of errata slip. Uncommon.... Read More
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Des Aischylos Werke (Erster und Zweiter Theil)
by Aischylos; [Aeschylus]; Droysen, Johann Gustav (trans.)
Berlin: Finke, 1832. Hardcover. Very Good. Cloth-backed paper over boards (unlettered spine); two volumes bound in one, 8vo; pp. [4], xix, [1], 247; vii, [1], 338. Boards scuffed; spine tips and corners quite chipped; but internally quite decent; toning as usual.
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