New York, NY: Newsboy, 1890. Autograph. Not Bound. Autograph, "...identical. With thanks Faithfully yrs Wilson Barrett" British actor & playwright (real name William Henry Barrett) (1846 - 1904) "...an astute manager and entrepreneur who appreciated the value of publicity, which many of his fellow managers saw as vulgar and self-aggrandizing.....
Orient, L.I. Published By Augustus Griffin, 1857. First Edition. Hard Cover. 312 pages; with a lengthy list of subscribers at back. The original edition, with the portrait frontispiece of the author. Including material regarding the First Settlers of Southold (the first thirteen families) & Orient L.I., and a useful index-like.....
Lugduni Batavorum: Hackium, Boutesteyn, Vivie, Vander AA, & Lucthmans, 1696. F. Two volumes bound in one of this first collected edition of Giraldi's works; (20) + 772 + (26) + 928 + (30) pages Index Rerum et Verborum + (1) page Catalogus Amicorum Lilii, Quorum Meminit in epistola Direptionis Urbanae...;.....
Garden City Long Island New York: Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1968. Gahan Wilson. First Edition. Hard Cover. 124 pages; signed and with a small golf-related drawing by Gahan Wilson on the front endpaper. Approx. 8" size, square format; illustrated dustjacket over hardcover boards; some edge, tips wear, closed edge-tears to.....
Leipzig Und Wien: Thyrsos Verlag, 1923. F. Portfolio of 25 mounted and matted facsimile reproductions of etchings by Hans Meid (1883-1957) German painter and illustrator, via his superb printmaking techniques, often able to convey the subtleties of impressionism via his work; Limited edition No. 475 of 475 printed; with etchings.....
Pencil inscribed above the art of a group of partying soldiers in part-uniforms; and titled and signed below by the artist; Black and white etching in a blocky, cubist-futurist mode; no date but circa 1950s; given to James "From Here to Eternity" Jones by the artist; image 4" x 4.....
New York, NY: Regan Books an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2000. First Edition. Hard Cover. (8) + 289 + (1) page of acknowledgements at back. Signed by Tony Hawk on the front endpaper; with a color photograph "Richie & Tony Hawk 3-20-2001" laid-in. Illustrated with a color photo section and.....
Sag Harbor, New York: John H. Hunt, 1897. First Edition. Hard Cover. (9) + 344 + (1) errata + 10 page Index of names; with a portrait frontispiece engraving of Hedges printed on heavy paper stock and another illustration in the text. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper.....
Allentown, Pennsylvania: T.H. Diehl, 1892. Second Edition. Revised and Abridged. Hard Cover. 58 pages; frontispiece portrait of the Rev. U.P. Heilman, a small woodcut on the title page & another illustration within. Contents "...contains short prayers - mostly in rhymes - for the use of children..." A 'prize book,' "Presented.....
London: Private Circulation Only, 1876. F. xiii + 324 pages; tissue-guarded photographic portrait plate of the author tipped-on as frontispiece, other black and white illustrations in the text; old bookseller description tipped-on at front, noting this as a large paper copy; "For Private Circulation Only" noted on title page; (from.....
New York: 1953. A group of 5 artworks which are the original black and white pen and ink illustrations for the Viking Press book, "Superliner S.S. United States"; on 3 boards; each item separately mounted; on back of all three boards are the printed Viking Press paper markers, each with.....
1919. 2 original artworks by this Ash Can School Painter, block printer, illustrator, lithographer, sculptor and teacher; Hendrik (Henry) J. Glintenkamp (1887-1946) studied with Henri, member American Artists Congress, exhibited at the Armory Show in 1913, work at New York Public Library, Musuem of Modern Art, NYU, Syracuse Museum of.....
New York, NY: Ivison & Phinney, 1857. Second Edition. Hard Cover. 400 + (8) pages of publishers' announcements at back; the printed endpapers at front and back also with book advertisements. Contents with the author's presentations on the study of the mind, anthropology, empirical psychology, in four 'Divisions": of the.....
Two typed manuscripts: "Chien Shiung Wu: The Woman Who Gave Us a Left-Handed God" by Himilce Novas to which the author has added a "Note to the editor: This chapter is based on research and a personal interview with Dr. Wu on December 4, 1972. H.N."; the first page indicates.....
A Vienne & A Strasbourg: Chez Les Freres Gay Imprimeus-Libraires et al, 1784. Premiere Edition. Leather. Four eighteenth century publications; all French texts, bound in one volume. All regarding the plague, especially in Russia & Europe, as below: De Mertens, Charles. Traite de la Peste, Contenant L'Histoire de Celle qui.....
London, England: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809. First Edition. Leather. xx + 289 pages; errata slip at back; with the half-title. Illustrated with 10 copper-engraved plates, accompanying various articles. The Preface describes the "...nature and objects of this Institution, and the claims which it possesses to professional.....
France: L'Institut des Sciences, Lettres et Arts, 1806. Extracted from Original Volume. Soft Cover. (71 -134) pages; extracted from the Memoires de l'Institut des Sciences, Lettres et Arts; French text. Set out in six 'memoires'; with a folding plate; Rumford's researches regarding experiments in heat. Sir Benjamin, Count Rumford in.....
London, England: John Churchill, 1838. First Edition. Hard Cover. xlvii + 154 pages; title page printed in red & black. Including the Expositions: Medical Topography of London; On Scrofula; On the Preservation of the Health of Children; On the Disorders of Old Age; and On the Efficacy of Cathartic Medicines.....
Liege, Belgium: Bulletins de l'Academie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, 1873. Offprint Edition. Soft Cover. 33 pages; French text. The author has inscribed and signed on the title page, "A Monsieur le professeur Hirn hommage a l'autor Folie" to Gustave-Adolphe Hirn (1815 - 1890) French.....
Tubingae: Jo. Georgii Cotta, 1801. F. (4) + 146 pages; Latin text throughout; Karl Christoph Hofacker (1749-1793) Faculty of Law professor of some note at the Lutheran Tubingen Germany University; this essentially a dictionary or index of Latin legal terms; OCLC notes one copy, held at Huntington Library Ca.; previous.....
Berlin, Germany: S. Fontane & Co., 1923. F. Limited edition, Number 74 of 1000; this being one of 200 very nicely done, printed on Holland van Gelder paper with hand--colored decorations and illustrations; being the play recounting the Resurrection of Jesus Christ; with 3 tipped-on colored illustrations, artwork of Albrecht.....
Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1862. F. 80 + 39 pages; "Astraea..." being published in 1850, "...Delivered Before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Yale College, August 14, 1850"; Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) prolific American essayist, poet and long-time teacher, lecturer of anatomy at Harvard. (DAB), here stating in "Border Lines".....
Kjobenhavn: J.H. Schubothes Boghandling, 1835. 338 pages; title page with ornamental surround; the last 16 pages comprise the "Fortegnelsee over dei Dongeriget Norge vildvorende Troe earter og Bustvaerter" of Hr. Blytt; Danish text, in fraktur; the main text being plant classification & scientific work of Jens Wilken Hornemann (1770 -.....
Chicago: Herbert S. Stone & Company, 1900. F. 157 pages; translated by William Archer; one of the series of the The Green Tree Library books by this publisher, designed by Henry McCarter, giving the list of additional titles as the frontispiece; small book, approximately 4 1/4" x 7"; printed by.....
Islip Long Island New York: Town of Islip, Long Island New York, 1931. Collection includes: 1. Section I Bay Shore - Islip Including all of School District No. 2 and that portion of School District No. 1 East of Brightwaters...Dec. 1931 and adopted by the town 1932 (with) tipped-on newspaper.....
