Echoes from the Garret
Buffalo, New York: D.T. Stiles, 1861. F. 136 pages + errata slip tipped onto final pastedown; bound in contemporary publishers' cloth, gilt spine titles; some edge, tips wear to covers; good condition.
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1912 Signed handwritten note by Noted American Graphic Artist Charles Dana Gibson
A handwritten note, interestingly written from Carnegie Hall and dated May 2 1912 and with a artists' palette-style "Dana" in the signature; evidently the addressee had asked Gibson about using an image he'd drawn; to a Mr. Abbott, and describing the process for using the art, fees & copyright notice;.....
Elizabethan Interiors
New York: F. Greenfield. Large folio edition, approximately 16 1/2" x 10" size; 45 pages of text and tissue-guarded black and white plates, each page printed one side only; copy number 145 of an issue of 500 of this third edition; author's presentation inscription on front endpaper "Compliments of the.....
Letters Written By the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to His Son, Philip Stanhope, Esq; Late Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Dresden: Together with Several other Pieces on Various Subjects.
London: J. Dodsley, 1774. F. In two volumes; vii + 568 + 606 pages; frontispiece portrait engraving by Vitalba after the painting by Hoare; "Published by Mrs. Eugenia Stanhope, from the originals now in her possession."; Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chsterfield (1694-1773) British statesman, wit and letter-writer, formed.....
Original Artwork Illustrations for Pyotr Dudochkin Which is the Best Place? (1976) and Who Sings with What? By Vitali Bianki
No Place Listed: No Publisher, 1976. (48) pages; illustrations in pencil and color crayon of these two Russian children's stories; each prefaced by a blank page with the title in pencil and the author of the tale; finely-accomplished pencil work and a good understanding of the story-line in the artwork;.....
Journal Officiel De La Republique Francais Lundi 24 Avril 1871
Paris France: Journal Officiel, 1871. Newsheet No. 114, newspaper format, printed two sides; French and especially Paris news, with reportage on the international scene as well, during this short-lived (March 18-May 28 1871) very politically and historically influential period in France; noticing various decrees, bailiffs appointed notaries, practical concerns regarding.....
The Birth-Place of Sa-go-ye-wat-ha, or the Indian Red Jacket. The Great Orator of the Senecas. With A Few Incidents of His Life.
Waterloo New York: Waterloo Library and Historical Society, 1884. 22 page pamphlet; with black and white line woodcut portraits of George S. Conover and Fred H. Furniss; beneath both portraits in pencil a contemporary hand has written an Indian name and clan, Furniss being Turtle Clan Seneca and Conover Wolf.....
Suspense a Napoleonic Novel
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1925. F. 274 pages; presentation gift inscription in pencil from Florence Doubleday, dated 1925 on front endpaper (Florence Van Wyck Doubleday (2nd wife of Conrad publisher F.N.Doubleday); (From the dustjacket information): "...Conrad's last novel, a romance of the Mediterranean in the days of Napoleon";.....
The Cook's Oracle: Containing Receipts for Plain Cookery, on the Most Economical Plan for Private Families; Also the Art of Composing the Most Simple and Most Highly Finished Broths, Gravies, Soups, Sauces, Stove Sauces, and Flavouring Essences...
London, England: Printed for Robert Cadell, et al, 1831. A New Edition. Leather. xxiii + 514 + (1) page double-column poem,"Farewell to the Reader" + (8) pages of Caddell's publisher's announcements. With the half title & a useful index; the author's Preface to the seventh edition adds the line-title &.....
The Pioneers; or, the Sources of the Susquehanna, a Descriptive Tale
New York: D. Appleton, 1873. 199 pages; illustrated title page, accompanied by a full-page black and white plate by F.O.C. Darley, engraved by Morse, and with more Darley plates within; originally produced by Cooper in 1823, one of his first efforts and the first of what became the group of.....
La Ultima Cena Film Cubano En Colores Direccion: Tomas Gutierrez Alea Con: Nelson Villagra Screenprinted Poster
Cuba: Instituto Cubano del Arte y la Industria Cinematográficos (ICAIC), 1977. F. Poster in colors, for La Ultima Cena (The Last Supper) 1976 Tomas Gutierrez Alea film. A77 printed in bottom left corner;. Approx. 20" x 30" size; strongly-printed screened image of candelabra, color bleed-through on reverse; some edge-creasing and.....
C. 1919 Large-Format Photograph of the Curtiss Factory, Garden City Long Island
Garden City Long Island New Yo: Curtiss-Wright Aeroplane & Motor Corporation. Large photograph of this aeronautical manufacturing facility in Garden City Long Island; with the identification in the photo at bottom right; approx. 16" x 19 1/2" size overall, with 3/4" approx. margins on sides and top, about twice that.....
King, Queen, Knave
London: Grayson & Grayson, 1934. F. 286 pages; signed by the author on the title page; playing-card figure dustjacket art by Chesney; "First Published" on copyright page; From the dustjacket information: "...represents an entertaining commentary upon the danger of match-making..sympathetic study of whimsical and lovable human nature."; dustjacket with some.....
Observations Generales Sur Les Maladies Des Climats Chauds, Leurs Causes, Leur Traitement, at Les Moyens De Les Prevenir...
A Paris: Chez Pierre-Francois Didot Le Jeune, Libraire Imprimeur De Monsieur, Quais Des Augustins, 1785. First Edition. Leather. xvi + 256 pages, with the half-title; French text. Medical climatology & physiological researches concerning tropical climates, especially in the Caribbean, by Jean-Barthelemy Dazille (circa 1733 - 1812) French marine medical surgeon.....
Le Colonel Chabert Edition Illustree De Dix Eaux-Fortes Originales et Un Frontispiece Graves Par Fernand Hertenberger
Paris and London: Le Livre Du Bibliophile Georges Briffaut, Editeur, 1929. 113 pages, some unopened; Limited edition No. 272 "Trois cent quatre-vingt-quinze exemplaires sur Velin d'Arches, Contenant L'Etat Definitif des Eaux-Fortes"; title page printed in red and black, nice decorative red & black initial ornamentation; Imprime par Coulouma, Maitre Imprimeur.....
Fetes De Venus. Inspirations De Catulle. & Conjectures Sur L'Auteur De La Veillee De Venus... Par M. De Cayrol & Sur La Fete Appelee La Veillee De Venus. De Cayrol & Lysis, Poeme & La Veille De Venus, Hymn Chantee Par Les Jeunes Romaines
France. A group of 5 early French poetry pamphlet publications, bound in one volume; The complete titles & publication details follow: Fetes de Venus. Inspirations de Catulle. A Paris, Chez Pelicier, Libraire, Place du Palais-Royal. 1825, 20 pages; Conjectures sur L'Auteur de la Veillee de Venus et Sur L'Epoque a......
F. Bettex Naturstudium Og Kristendom Autoriseret Oversaettelse Efter Orginalens 10. Oplag Ved M. Wolff. Bound in Full Leather with a Natural History Motif
Kobenhavn: Det Schonbergske Forlag, 1905. F. 261 pages; Danish text throughout; original printed orange paper wraps bound-in; approx. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" size; in full polished fine-grain caramel-brown morocco leather; gilt cover titles surrounded by a laurel wreath, back cover with gilt illustration of a crab, claws extended; gilt.....
1923 - 1957 Collection of over 50 individual Inscribed & Signed Publications of Danish Humorist Playwright Author Carl Erik Soya.
Denmark: Various, 1935. F. 'Soya' (Carl Erik Martin Soya) (1896 - 1983) Danish author, epicure, playwright and social-satire moralist. "…Soya's works are a mixture of primitiveness with refinement, uncertainty & intransigence with forbearance, courage with compassion… A Rabelais-like character comedian and fabulant who is constantly haunted by a misanthropy akin.....
Annals of the English Stage from Thomas Betterton to Edmund Kean
London: John C. Nimmo, 1888. In three volumes, 436 + 414 + 428 pages + publishers' catalogue at back of Volume III; each volume separately indexed; "Edited and Revised by Robert W. Lowe with Fifty Copperplate Portraits and Eighty Wood Engravings"; handsomely rebound by Lamb & Buck Bindery in burgundy.....
Rosinante to the Road Again
New York: George H. Doran, 1922. F. 245 pages, mostly unopened; Spanish novelistic travel literature by Dos Passos, before the Civil War, with political commentary and literary musings; "...Richly colored scenes, quiet interludes at wayside inns, mountain and valley, old towns rich in story...alert observation of the new currents in.....
A Slice of Wry
Isla Vista California: Turkey Press, 1981. F. (42) pages; Copy No. "B" of 26 copies half-bound and lettered A-Z, signed by the author and including a hand-colored drawing by Doug Edge; printed in red & black type throughout; Additionally warmly inscribed and signed by the poet on the copyright page.....
1950-1960 Group of Catalogues, Photographs and Postcards Illustrating & Promoting the African Carving, Sculptures Curios & Novelties Business of Edward Konigsberger of Kisumu-Kenya-East Africa
Kisumu Kenya East Africa: Edward Konigsberger, 1950. F. Group of material which describes the African artifact and souvenir business of this company, based in Kenya; including: June, 1956 "Konigs" catalog, 12 pages, black and white illustrated throughout, heads & plaques in ebony, masks, drummers, women, busts, head carvings, nudes, old.....
Original Film and Audio Recording of the Television Show Person - To - Person Jan. 23, 1959 CBS-TV Edward R. Murrow Interview of Genevieve (Ginette Marguerite Auger)
New York: CBS Television, 1959. Comprising two items: 1. A 16 mm film of the show, in the original metal canister labeled "Positive Release Print Program Person to Person CBS Television Film Service Operations...Serial Number 59 01 23 Genevieve" and also with some Air France labeling; evidently the film had.....
Collection of Paul Engle Poetry Books and Broadsides Including: The Word of Love A Book of Poems, Book and Child, Arden-America, A Name, An Old Palestinian Donkey, Three Poems, Why Poetry, For the Iowa Dead Most Items Signed Inscribed By Paul Engle
New York: Random House et al, 1951. Collection of items by Paul Engle including: The World of Love, Random House NY 1951 39 pages, First Printing stated on copyright page, inscribed "For Frank and Bill, with words of love from all of us Paul Engle Iowa City 1951", dustjacket with.....
Ouevres Politiques De Machiavel Le Prince Les Discours Sur Tite Live Traduction Revue et Corrigee
Paris, France. Garnier Freres, Libraires-Editeurs, 1853. Later Edition. Leather. 480 pages. A 19th century French translation of the Niccolo Machiavelli classic of political philosophy and a discussion of the content. Previous owner small book-number ticket on front endpaper. Volume approx. 4 3/4" x 7" size; Bound in marbled paper covered.....