FAIRVIEW COUNTRY CLUB Twentieth Anniversary Year Book
by (Elmsford NY) (Golf) (Tuckahoe)
Elmsford NY: Fairview Country Club, 1929. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Ownership copy of George Harris, President of the club from 1918 - 1920 with his holograph on pastedown. 8vo, quarter orange cloth over oraneg and silver paper covered boars, title pastedown front. 95 pages. Lots of photos of the Westchester County club, whihc was incorporated in 1904 from what was the Tuckahoe Gold Course, plus some pics of the original Decker Farm on which the course was... Read More
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Spring Silkworms and Other Stories
by Mao Tun
Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Book is near fine, Dustjacket is partitioned at spine with loss of the spine and chipping about edges.
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Drawings By Soviet Children
by Tupitsin, IK
Moscow: Foreign languages Publishing House, 1957. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. printed in USSR, very scarce, toning endpapers, jacket slightly rubbed, with small piece missing top spine.
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ARCHIVE OF FOUR ITEMS BY WWI GERMAN PILOT ERNST UDET FROM COLLECTION OF AMERICAM FILM DIRECTOR TAY GARNETT
by Udet, Ernst. (Garnett, Tay)
Berlin: Im Verlah Ullstein, 1937. Hardcover. Very Good/VG+. Udet, Ernst (1896-1941). (Garnett, Tay). Mein Fliegerleben (My Life as a Pilot). Berlin: Im Verlag Ullstein, 1937. Inscribed copy to American film director (and fellow pilot) Tay Garnett (1894 - 1977). Spanning nearly 60 years, Garnett's scriptwriting and directing career moved from the silents to the heyday of the Hollywood motion picture studio to television; of the hundreds of projects he either wrote or directed, he is best known for... Read More
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APPROACHING THE SHADOW
by Uelsmann, Jerry N.
Tuscon AZ: Nazarelli Press, 2000. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. SIGNED AND ALSO WARMLY INSCRIBED in 2004 on the title page by photographer Uelsmann. Near fine cloth covers.
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Compendio de Historia de Mexico
by Ugarte, Jose Bravo
Mexico: Editorial Jus, 1946. First Edition. Full Marbleized Leather. Near Fine -. Full marbelized leather, natural color, 4 raised bands, red leather label. Light rubbing to spine edges, right edge front cover. Binding tight, text clean, pages lightly toned. Spanish text, 286 pages. Previous owner signature and inscription.
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Allen Tate: Orphan of the South
by Underwood, Thomas A.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine.
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The Manual of the Seventh Regiment, National Guard, S. N. Y.
by (Union Army, Civil War)
New York: Seventh Regiment Board of Officers, 1868. First Edition. Pebbled Cloth. VG/No Dj. Gilt emblem stamped on pub brown pebbeled cloth front cover, blind-stamped rulings, beveled edges. Some wear at top of spine. Some spotting to cloth rear cover. Signed in pencil by previous owner, a descendant of one of the members of the Second "B" Company. A few pages have guardsmen's names checked off, or the word "dead" lightly penciled next to them. A very interesting... Read More
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THE TIGER'S FAMILY ALBUM PUBLISHED ON THE OCCASSION OF THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDING OF THE PRINCETON TIGER 1882 -1932
by (Princeton University)
Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 1932. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Subtitle: A COMPENDIUM OF A HALF CENTURY OF PRINCETON WIT AND HUMOR, IF ANY, IN PROSE, PICTURE AND POETRY. Limited to 1000 copies, 4to, black tight-weave linen, gilt titles in scarce pictorial dustjacket, which is moderately worn, book and internals almost as new. The humor annual was ultimately disbanded in 1961, after a brief aborted efforts by a student editorto transform it into a publication of serious... Read More
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Galimatias anti-critique des tableaux du salon, ou, La cause des meilleurs peintres et sculpteurs
by unknown
Neufchatel, 1781. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Good. Pamphlet, covers missing, lightly stained around edges, 39 pages. Critical discussion by an unidentified observer - pehaps an exhibiting artist - whose tone is that of a mock 'counter-critic' ("galimatia" = "gibberish"), or in any case, someone arguing against the prevalent reviews and opinion of the Paris salon of 1781. OCLC lists only 5 libraries worldwide with this publication.
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The Work of Bruce Rogers: Jack of All Trades: Master of One
by Updike, D. B., McCutcheon, John T., Rogers, Bruce
New York: Oxford University Press, 1939. First Edition. Blue Cloth. Good+/Good. Dj with some water discoloration near spine and lower edge of front and rear panels. Priceclipped. Some water discoloration on front pastedown, near binding, and on the top edge of all pages. Does not affect text. No previous owner signatures or inscriptions. Good reference or reading copy.
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THREE SIXTEEN (HARVARD COLLEGE YEARBOOK 1952)
by (Updike, John). (Arlen, Michael) (The Harvard Lampoon)
Cambridge MA: Harvard University, 1952. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Harvard College Yeartook for 1952, large 4to, crimson boards stamped in gilt, unpaginated. Aside from the fact that all are white men, the issue is most notable for its section on the Harvard Lampoon, which has a photo of its staff which includes authors John Updike (C'54) and Michael Arlen (C'52).
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Life and Religious Opinions and Experience of Madame De La Mothe Guyon together with Some Account of the Personal History and Religious Opinions Fenelon, Archbishop of Cambray (2 volumes)
by Upham, Thomas C.
NY: Harper& Brothers, 1849. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Early printing, 1849 after the first of 1846. Beautifully preserved pair in typical mid-19thC cloth binding - dark green polished cloth, elaborately blind-stamped covers with gilt to spine. Tiny nicks at spine head.
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THE POETRY QUARTOS
by Vachel Lindsay, Robert Frost, Conrad Aiken, William Rose Benet, Witter Bynner, "H.D.', Theodore Dreiser, Alfred Kreymborg, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Genevieve Taggard, Louis Untermeyer, Elinor Wylie
Silvermine CT: Random House, 1929. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. Paul Johnson. 12 pamphlets each with a new poem in its first appearance by leading poets and authors of the day. Books are fine, in yellow printed wrapper, which is missing spine and flap, in moderately worn decorated box, designed by Paul Johnson, which is tape-repaired along bottom edge.
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JACQUES LOUIS DAVID AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
by Valentiner, W. R.
NY: Frederic Fairchild Sherman, 1929. 1st Edition Limited. Hardcover. Near Fine. Only 160 copies, privately printed. 4to, blue cloth over printed boards, 61 pages, illustrated with b&w frontispiece and 27 figures. Inscribed to artist Robert Osborn and his wife Eloide who started the traveling exhibition program at MOMA "To Eloide and Robert Osborn with best wishes William Valentiner April 10,1944". German-born Valentiner founded two art journals, Art in America (along with Frederic Fairchild Sherman, publisher of this book)... Read More
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MISS TWISTY ADVENTURES IN THE COUNTRY
by Valira, Irene B.
New York - Paris: privately printed, 1948. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Irene A. Bashkiroff-Valira was an emigre from the Russian Revolution who fled to Paris and then found her way to Manhattan. From there she ended up with a farm in Litchfield County, Connecticut; from her experiences there she composed this hilarious "story in illustrations" of the international sophisticate coping with rural life. Camp, really. Large 4to, pictorial covers, in uncommon dustjacket.
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Escale Satolas: Rhone-Alpes A Grande Vitesse
by Valls, Santiago Calatrava
Glenat, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
by Van Doren, Carl. (Marjorie Torre Chanslor)
NY: Viking, 1938. First Edition Limited. Hardcover. Near Fine. The 1939 recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, and presentation copy from author Van Doren to his daughter's step mother-in-law, Marjorie Torre Chanslor, illustrator and writer of children's books, and two mystery novels for adults published under the name Torrey Bevans. (Marjorie's first husband was Thomas Murray Bevans, whose son Thomas Torre Bevans - by previous marriage - became husband to Margaret Van Doren, of one of three... Read More
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The Mayfield Deer
by Van Doren, Mark
New York: Henry Holt, 1941. First Edition. Cloth. Fine -/Near Fine. Landek, Armin. very small piece missing bottom of dw spine, spine a bit darkened, else fine, no previous owner markings, not price clipped.
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Spring Birth and Other Poems
by Van Doren, Mark
NY: Henry Holt, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good +. Inscribed and signed by Mark Van Doren, dated 3/12/53, to Columbia University colleagues and friends Russell Potter and his wife Dean "with warm regards." Potter was the director of Columbia's Institure of Arts and Sciences.
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BROWNING'S LINEAGE
by Van Dyke, Henry
(Princeton): original holograph 0. No Binding. Very Good. Holographed version of the two-stanza, 14-line poem "Browning's Lineage" in Van Dyke's hand and signed by him. On notepaper measuring 5" x 8" in black in, signed by Van Dyke (1852 - 1933) at the bottom of the sheet, with the sheet labeled "Dr. Henry van Dyke Princeton NJ February" in a different hand in different pen and ink. The poem differs from the printed version that was published in... Read More
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History of French Literature (3 volumes)
by Van Laun, Henri
London: Chatto & Windus, 1883. First Edition. Half Leather. Near Fine +/No Dustjacket. Spectacular Zaehnsdorf bindings of very dark navy blue, with gilt titles along the spine. Remainder of boards as well as endpapers are marbled. Light rubbing of spine edges. Corners range from fine to slightly bumped and worn. Gilt top edge. Text clean and pages in excellent condition, the slightest of slightly yellowed, which can only be expected for books of their age. All in all... Read More
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The Violent Man
by van Vogt, A. E.
NY: Farrar Straus & Cudahy, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Near fine copy with toned pages as is seen with this title (high acid paper stock). Clean copy - no names, inscriptions or bookplates. Unclipped dw.
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LONG ISLAND COLONIAL PATENTS, ANCESTRY OF GOVERNOR DONGAN, HOURS WITH OLD ENGRAVINGS, GLEANINGS FROM OLD ENGRAVINGS, and SELECT PATENTS OF TOWNS AND MANORS (5 titles)
by Van Wyck, Frederick
Boston: A. A. Beauchamp, 1935. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 5 titles, printed 1935-1938, by native Gothamite and historian hobbyist Frederick Van Wyck (1853 - 1938?), author of "Recollection of an Old New Yorker" (NY: Liveright, 1932). Each title focus on some aspect of New England or New York colonial history, printed in uniform format, illustrated, each limited to 150 copies for private distribution, each copy inscribed by Van Wyck to the same owner on the ffe, each... Read More
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LOT OF FOUR EPISODES OF STAR TREK DEEP SPACE 9 SEASON 1
by various
LA: Paramount Pictures Corporation, 1992, 1992. Soft cover. Fine. 1) Fields, Peter Allan (story by). Fontana, Dorothy C and Peter Allan Fields (teleplay by). "DAX" .Copy of final draft dated November 17, 1992 for the first season of DEEP SPACE NINE. 2) Behr, Ira Steven.(written by). Lynch, Paul (directed by). "BABEL" Copy of final draft dated October 7, 1992 for the first season of DEEP SPACE NINE. 3) Sanford, George and Michael Pillar (story by). Piller, Michael (teleplay... Read More
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