Open House at The Players ... Double barrelled Barrymore!!! Lionel, starring in Henry Irving's: The Bells. John, staring in Sea Scenes from: Moby-Dick
New York: The Players, 1965. Broadside invitation, 17 x 9.25 in.; illustrated by O. G. Estes; shallow tears at folds, else very good. A double-header invitation for a Buffet Dinner at The Players, NY to members, followed by showings of The Bells, and Moby-Dick, "A presentation of John Griggs' Bijou-Dream Theater." John Griggs' collection of early films would become... Read More
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Imprimeries clandestines. Le point: revue artistique et littéraires, XXXI, mars, 1945
Lanzac: Le Point, Souillac, 1945. Small, slim 4to, pp. 48, 16; black and white photographic illustrations throughout; stiff white wrappers laid into similar wrappers, toning, else fine. A moving homage to those who risked their lives printing banned books and pamphlets in Nazi-occupied France. No. 31 of the literary journal Le Point. Literary pieces bound at the end include... Read More
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Uncle Sam's navy
Philadelphia: Historical Publishing Co., April 5 - June 21, 1898. Original 12 weekly parts, issued as volume 4 in the publisher's Historical Fine Art Series; oblong folio, illustrated throughout largely from photographs, and mostly full-page; original printed tan and terracotta wrappers; a few small nicks at the extremities, but near fine and unusual thus.
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Vietnamese realities
Saigon: publisher not identified, 1969. 4to, pp. [14], [21]-196, [8]; 4 color plates including a color map and a color plate of the Vietnam flag, printed music, photographically illustrated throughout, a number full-page; original printed wrappers, spine sunned, else near fine. Translated by Jane Pratt. Prepared for distribution by the Vietnam Embassy. With a 6-page bibliography at the back.... Read More
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Mr. Tambourine Man: seven poems of Bob Dylan for voice and piano. Music by John Corigliano, lyrics by Bob Dylan
Milwaukee: G. Schirmer, 2003. First edition, small folio, pp. [6], 58; slightly faded along the edges else fine in original printed wrappers. "This work was commissioned for Sylvia McNair by the Carnegie Hall Corporation. The world premiere was given at Carnegie Hall, New York City on March 15, 2000 by Sylvia McNair, soprano, and Martin Katz, piano.
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The library of Dr. Gottfried Koehler with additions, comprising Americana, Illinois and the west, Chicagoana, American first editions and autograph material
Chicago: Chicago Book & Art Auctions, Inc, 1931. 8vo, pp. 50, [2]; yellow printed wrappers, old fold, light soiling to wrapper, short closed tear to one leaf, very good. Sale No. 11 October 6th, 1931.
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Manuscript resolution not to admit officers appointed by John Temple, Esq. (1732-1798) by Rhode Island colonial officials
N.p., n.d. [Rhode Island, 1760. Single sheet approx. 7½" x 6", 16 lines in ink; slightly browned, very good. John Temple, a British Imperial official, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1732, the son of Robert Temple, a colonial entrepreneur, and Mehitable Nelson. He grew up on the family "Ten Hills" estate near Boston; but spent much of his... Read More
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The wagon-boy; or trust in providence
New York: published by J. S. Redfield, [137 Nassau Street], n.d., 1845. 32mo, approx. 3½" x 2¼", vignette title page, 5 wood-engraved illustrations (4 full-page); original orange printed wrappers; spine half-way cracked; all else very good. Back wrapper contains Redfield advertisements. Issued as Second Series, no. 9 in their Toy Books series. Wood engravings signed by William Howland and... Read More
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![彙集雅俗通十五音 / Lūi-chi̍p Ngée-sio̍k-thong Si̍p-ngó͘-im [Fujian rhyming dictionary of 15 tones]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/162/415/1603415162.0.m.jpg)
彙集雅俗通十五音 / Lūi-chi̍p Ngée-sio̍k-thong Si̍p-ngó͘-im [Fujian rhyming dictionary of 15 tones]
[Shanghai]: Hui Wen Tang, 1912. Later edition, 8 vols., 6 x 4 in.; text in Chinese; printed paper wrappers; wrapper of first volume separated and third volume perished, paper toned, good. A study of southern Fujianese (Hokkien) phonology, originally compiled in 1818 and first published in 1869. It is based on the dialect spoken in Zhangzhou. Of this particular... Read More
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A new canting dictionary: comprehending all the terms, ancient and modern, used in the several tribes of gypsies, beggars, shoplifters, highwaymen, foot-pads, and all other clans of cheats and villains. Interspersed with proverbs, phrases, figurative speeches, &c... To which is added a complete collection of songs in the canting dialect
London: printed; and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, 1725. First edition of the second separately-printed dictionary of slang, 12mo, pp. [156]; later full speckled brown calf, a.e.g.; joints rubbed and tender. Largely based on the earlier A new dictionary of the terms ancient and modern of the canting crew, (London, 1699) by "B.E.", this work is... Read More
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Eighth year-book of the Saint Paul Institute. 1915-1916. With some account of its inception and scope
St. Paul: [St. Paul Institute, 1916. 8vo, pp. vi, 156; full tan cloth; splatter of ink staining on upper cover, text clean and sound, very good. The institute was founded to "promote among all classes of people the knowledge and enlightenment which are essential to right living and good citizenship. It will seek to accomplish this purpose through lectures,... Read More
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Typographica, number five. A specimen of the types & borders cast by Frederic & Bertha Goudy at the Village Letter Foundry, Marlborough-on-Hudson, N.Y.
New York: Continental Typefounders Association, 1927. Folio, pp. 32; original green printed wrappers, edges show some shelf wear, interior fine; each page provides samples of the various types from the Foundry; a list of the new sizes of Village and other types laid in along with the prospectus for this number, the fifth of only 6 published.
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Constitution, By-laws, Sailing Regulations, etc. of the Warwick Yacht Club of Providence, R.I.
Providence: J.A. and R.A. Reid, printers, 1876. 15.2 cm., pp. 41, [1]; double-page color lithograph plate of club flags and private pennants; original blue cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover; some childish scribble in pencil on a few pages (mostly erased), otherwise a very good copy. Contains lists of officers, members and yachts, plus An Act to Incorporate... Read More
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Seventy-five years, or the joys and sorrows of publishing and selling books at Duttons from 1852 to 1927. Compiled from a variety of original sources and lavishly illustrated with prints and engravings depicting the growth of Duttons... and showing views of the establishments of their many correspondents in foreign lands
[New York]: Duttons, 1927. First edition limited to 500 copies, this one of 350 numbered and signed "Henry C. Smith, Secy.", 8vo, pp. [6], 120; hand-colored folding frontispiece after watercolor showing "The Old Corner Book Store, Boston, 1853," 26 plates included in pagination, and a few facsimiles and illustrations in the text; a very good copy in original brown... Read More
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Friendship's offering; and winter's wreath: a Christmas and New Year's present, for mdcccxxxvi
London: Smith, Elder and Co., Cornhill, 1836. 12mo, pp. xii, 384; engraved presentation plate and frontispiece, and 9 engraved plates; publisher's elaborately embossed full black morocco, gilt lyre central on both covers, gilt decorated spine, a.e.g.; minor rubbing; very good. Includes several contributions by William Henry Harrison. Faxon 1341.
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DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF MATERIALS relating to the history of Great Britain and Ireland, to the end of the reign of Henry VII. By Thomas Duffus Hardy
London: Longman, [et. al.], 1865. 2 (of 3) volumes in 3, royal 8vo; ex-library copy with usual markings, pages slightly browned, hinges slightly cracked in vol. II, extremities and spines rubbed, small cracks in tops of spines, loss of about 2 inches of bottom corner of lower cover of vol. I part 2, else good in contemporary quarter brown... Read More
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A Life of Ralph Kettel reprinted from Aubrey's Brief Lives as edited by Oliver Lawson Dick, Secker & Warburg, London, 1950
Pasadena: Grant Dahlstrom, 1961. 8vo, pp. [12]; original printed wrappers; fine. Printed for presentation to members of the Grolier Club and of the Zamorano Club by Dahlstrom.
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A style for the year 2001. Sixtieth-Anniversary issue of Shinkenchiku
Tokyo: Shinkenchiku, 1985. 4to, pp. 13, [1], 252, 10, [2]; text in English and Japanese; a showcase of 104 entries from an international group of architects imagining a city in 2001, illustrated in color; cover lightly toned, else fine.
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![殷代青銅文化の研究 / In-dai seidō bunka no kenkyū [= Studies on the An-Yang bronze culture]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/008/907/1547907008.0.m.jpg)
殷代青銅文化の研究 / In-dai seidō bunka no kenkyū [= Studies on the An-Yang bronze culture]
Kyoto: Kyoto University, 1953. Large 8vo, pp. [4], 261, xi, [4]; color frontispiece, 29 plates including 8 folding, one folding map; text in Japanese with an English table of contents; errata slip tipped in; original green buckram, gilt title on spine; light bumping, text clean and bright, near fine. With chapters on dating bone inscriptions, a chronology of the... Read More
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Звучат голоса отечественных филологов / Zvuchat golosa otechestvennykh filologov
Moscow: Languages of Slavic Culture, 2009. 8vo, pp. 240; text in Russian; 8 pages of illustrations; printed boards; fine. Accompanied by audio CD. Inscribed by one of the contributors, R. F. Kasatkina on half title. A collection of transcribed recordings of the Russian language by outstanding Russian philologists of the 20th century. The first book in the "Unforgotten Voices... Read More
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Japan: A history in books
[Tokyo]: [Executive Committee of the Frankfurt Bookfair "Japan Year, 1990. First edition, tall 4to, pp. 159; facsimile illustrations (many in color); Features significant Japanese books from a span of eras --Ancient Japan, Classical to Middle ages, Meiji, Taisho, Showa through contemporary times. A fine copy in original stiff purple wrappers, in purple dust jacket printed in black.
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Los lectores, personajes de literatura que reflejan la condicion humana de sus crisis a su gloria
N.p., n.d. [Mexico, ca. 2000?]. Edition of 5, this apparently copy no. 1. 8vo, consisting of a bifoliate outer wrapper, with 5 bifolia within, each with 2 full-page woodcuts, numbered, signed, and captioned in pencil - a name I cannot make out.
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Alchymyst 3. Notes toward a socialist anarchism
[Santa Cruz], 1975. Staple bound mimeo newsletter, 11" x 8.5", pp. [8]; printed paper self-wrappers; fine. With an excerpt from Paul Goodman's People or personnel, an article on direct action, and a declaration of secession from the United States. Produced "by two people" at Merrill College UCSC. Rare, no copies of any issue in OCLC.
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![中學英語 [Chuugaku eigo] The middle school English](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/486/760/799760486.0.m.jpg)
中學英語 [Chuugaku eigo] The middle school English
Tokyo and Osaka: Houbunkan, 1903. 25 issues, complete, bound in two volumes; portraits of famous Westerners in each issue, green cloth, volume one with upper hinge split and spine separated, contents partially disbound, second volume with initial gathering loose, hinges split, but otherwise sound. A back section, likely a form, has been neatly excised from each issue. Externally, fair... Read More
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![尋常小學地理書附圖 [Jinjō shōgaku chirisho fuzu] =An illustrated atlas for elementary school children](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/691/904/668904691.0.m.jpg)
尋常小學地理書附圖 [Jinjō shōgaku chirisho fuzu] =An illustrated atlas for elementary school children
Tokyo: Monbusho, 1929. Text entirely in Japanese; oblong 8vo (8¾ x 11¼ inches); 12 leaves (4 folding), each leaf with printed color maps on one side, and sepia-printed maps on the other; original green pictorial wrappers backed in brown cloth; some spotting, else very good.
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