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Octon, France: Verdigris Press, 2006. Limited Edition. Folio. Fine. Rothchild, Judith. Number 9 of 30 copies, folio size, 21 pp., signed by Marie Rouanet and Judith Rothchild, all text in French. Magie Blanche (White Magic) is a feast for the senses, an invitation to share twenty years of epicurean delight at the restaurant "Le Mimosa," in Languedoc, a place of tangible emotion, as translated in this book through a series of engravings and original texts. Judith Rothchild's eleven mezzotints elevate the subjects in their technical achievement. The sumptuous plates enclose, in circles or squares, the commonplace subjects: olives, cheese, langoustines, wine bottles, and mushrooms, frozen in velvety black shadow and dappled light. The colophon calls this the "fruit of a collaboration between creators of diverse origins, sharing a deep love of Languedoc." Marie Rouanet's original French text is a poetic response to Rothchild's mezzotints, and to the soulful history of the restaurant created by Bridget…
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Magie Blanche
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Mark Twain's Raft Passage; From Life on the Mississippi
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[Mill Valley, California]: Sunflower Press, 1986. Limited Edition. Leather bound. Near fine. Adams, Maryline Poole. One of 75 copies (this one of an unspecified number of deluxe copies), miniature book, 43 pp., signed by Carol Cunningham. Per the introduction to this charming miniature book, the "so-called 'Raft Passage' " appeared in various early editions of "Huckleberry Finn" as well as in "Life on the Mississippi" in 1883. "It represents the boisterous Halloween fun and the bully and braggart, stock situations and characters of the frontier humor...familiar to Twain's youth." Note that per the colophon, "[a] portion of the original story has been deleted." With four illustrations by Maryline Poole Adams, of the Poole Press (Berkeley, Calif.); this book designed, printed and bound by Carol Cunningham of the Sunflower Press, and is signed by her at the colophon. The book also includes two U.S. postage stamps, one of Samuel Clemens and the second of the steamship the "Louisiana", each mounted and…
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A Masque of Love
by Wood, Charles Erskine Scott; [O'Kane, Helen Marguerite] (Decorations)
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Chicago [New Rochelle, New York]: Walter M. Hill [Printed at The Elston Press], 1904. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very good +. [O'Kane, Helen Marguerite]. One of 500 copies, octavo size, 89 pp., inscribed by Charles Erskine Scott Wood twice, with MSS errata list. The first published work of literature by Charles Erskine Scott Wood (1852-1944), this copy inscribed twice by him; the first inscription to Albert Field Ehrgoth ("To My dear boy") is dated June 30, 1917; Albert, the son of Sara Bard Field, was killed in an automobile accident in 1918. Wood subsequently inscribed the book to "My darling daughter Kay" (Katherine, the daughter of Sara Bard Field, who would become a professor at Mills College) thus: "No copy of my book I could give would be so valuable as this one I gave to our beautiful winged Albert", dated July 20, 1920. Wood was a fascinating man; a self-proclaimed anarchist, he would become a prominent attorney in Portland, Oregon, where he became known for defending labor…
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Match In A Bottle (With prospectus, origional order form, and selected additional leaves)
by Knapp, Tracey; Gohde, Kurt (Artist)
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North Andover, Massachusetts: Kat Ran Press, 1997. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Gohde, Kurt. Quarto size, 39 pp., signed by Tracey Knapp and Kurt Gohde. The first book published by the Kat Ran Press, an impressive debut volume. The illustrations were created by Kurt Gohde by means of using fire as a drawing medium - the natural pairing for this book of poetry dedicated to fire and its flames. Mr. Gohde uses highly imaginative techniques to create the path of smoke, using "techniques as varied as simply scaring the page with a single match", "to lighting lines of gun powder that had been carefully laid down on the page". Note that each of the eight images in the book "were each recreated over one hundred times. These are not prints, photographs, or offset reproductions. THEY ARE ORIGINAL DRAWINGS". (n.b., above quotes from the book's prospectus.) Our volume is no. 34 of 50 copies (there were another 15 copies NFS), with the 12-page prospectus and original order form loosely laid in; it also…
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Maud Humphrey's Mother Goose
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New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +. Humphrey, Maud. First printing, quarto size, [46] pp. A collection of the nursery rhymes of Mother Goose, including classic children's verses such as "Jack and Jill", "Little Miss Muffett", and "Little Bo Peep", this volume is lusciously illustrated by American watercolourist Maud Humphrey (1868-1940); a very successful commercial illustrator, Humphrey was the mother of famed actor Humphrey Bogart, whom she would use as a model when he was a child. Throughout her career, Humphrey illustrated numerous books, calendars, and greeting cards, earning over $50,000 a year, a considerable sum at the time. Her sweet depictions of children perfectly capture the playfulness and charm of Mother Goose; each verse has its own colour illustration, with the text printed in calligraphic lettering. The beautiful, soft colours and contours of the illustrations create a unique reading of these beloved nursery rhymes. ___DESCRIPTION:…
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Memoir of the Rev. John Russell [Association Copy - Inscribed by Edward VII of England]; and His Out-of-Door Life
by Davies, E.W.L.; Baird, N.H.J. (Illustrations)
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London: Chatto & Windus, 1902. Limited Edition. Leather bound. Very good +. Baird, N.H.J.. One of 75 copies on Japanese Vellum with hand-coloured illustrations by N.H.J. Baird, octavo size, 367 pp., in a Zaehnsdorf binding, inscribed by "Edward R" [Edward VII of England]. Edward Albert, King Edward VII of England (1841-1910), eldest son of Queen Victoria, reigned as monarch for only nine years, after having been the heir to the throne for almost sixty years. As his mother held tightly to the power, Edward "was largely excluded from political influence and came to personify the fashionable, leisured elite" (n.b., quote from Wiki). Although his time as King of Great Britain (and Ireland, and Emperor of India) was short, his name personified the Edwardian era, which ushered in many changes, both technological as well as societal. During his time as a "prince playboy" he would have participated in that most English of country sports, hunting; in fact, he "ordered all the clocks at Sandringham to run…
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Memoirs of an Infantry Officer
by Sassoon, Siegfried; Hogarth, Paul (Illustrations)
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New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1981. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Hogarth, Paul. No. 447 of 2000, quarto size, 245 pp., signed by Paul Hogarth, with slipcase. Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967), a poet and decorated soldier, is best known for his poetry describing his experiences in the trenches during World War I and for criticising the patriotism and nationalism of those who, in Sassoon's view, were responsible for the war. "Memoirs of an Infantry Officer" is a fictionalised account of Sassoon's life during and after World War I, through which he advocates an anti-war stance. This publication by the Limited Editions Club is illustrated by English artist Paul Hogarth (1917-2001), whose watercolours show the disoriented and desperate state of the characters in scenes of war and violence; in 2014, Hogarth's illlustrations for this book were exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. ___DESCRIPTION: Full natural linen, illustration of a trumpet by Paul Hogarth stamped in black on…
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Men Without Art
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Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1987. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. One of 176 deluxe hardcover copies, octavo size, 325 pp. Percy Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957), an artist as well as an author, is known as the developer of "Vorticism" (so named by Ezra Pound), a style of geometric abstraction. He would eventually turn more and more to writing, and "is now regarded as a major British artist and writer of the twentieth century" (n.b., quote from Wiki). ___DESCRIPTION: Teal cloth shelfback over paper boards, the front board with a reproduction of an illustration by Lewis, paper spine label, orange endpapers, coloured title page; octavo size (9 1/4" by 6 1/4"), pagination: [1-4] 5-325; this no. 144 of 176 deluxe hardcover copies (total hardbound edition 476). With original opaque acetate publisher's jacket. ___CONDITION: Volume fine overall, with clean boards, straight corners without rubbing, a strong, square text block with solid hinges, the interior is clean and bright, and entirely…
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The Metropolitan Magazine, July to December, 1838, American Edition, Vol. VI
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New York: Jemima M. Lewer, 1838. Hardcover. Very Good. Quarto size, 399 pp., from the library of Edwin Grabhorn. American Edition noted on title page; its London parent, "The Metropolitan: A monthly journal of literature, science, and the fine arts" was a London monthly journal established by Thomas Campbell in 1831 and continued, under various editors, until 1850. This volume, which contains July to December, 1838, is one of three we acquired all of which have a vintage bookseller's ticket on the front pastedown for the Alta California Bookstore, in Albany California, and printed below their name is the notation "From the Library of ED GRABHORN at the Grabhorn Press". ___DESCRIPTION: Half marbled boards with black leather, gilt lettering and rules on the spine, light brown endpapers. This volume contains the issues of July to December, 1838. Volume title page is followed by the title page/Table of Contents for December, 1838 (apparently inserted out of order), followed by the Index to Volume VI,…
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The Microscope; Theory and Practice
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London: R. & J. Beck, Ltd, 1938. Hardcover. Near fine. Octavo size, 264 pp. Richard and Joseph Beck were founders of R and J Beck (est. 1843), the firm which manufactured and sold optical instruments such as microscopes and, later, cameras. They were nephews of the famed Joseph Jackson Lister (1786-1869) who developed the achromatic lenses for use in microscopes which, for the first time, allowed resolution detailed enough to adequately reveal plant and animal cell structure. Conrad Beck, presumably part of the family (we could find little information on him online), published several books intended to instruct the average person on their use. This book is the third (per the Preface) by this author on the topic of the microscope, this containing "the information given in the writer's two previous books...with a considerable amount of fresh matter." Mr. Beck has geared this book towards the user of the microscopic instrument, rather than the designer of such. He explains "it is the endeavor of…
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Midnight Revels
by Desch, John Michael; Kraemer, Xavier (Illustrator)
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San Francisco: Sunset Press, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Kraemer, Xavier. Octavo size, 85 pp., signed by Xavier Kraemer. A delightful fairy story told in poem form, of a dream wherein dolls come alive and dance and celebrate - until the dawn when the "dream" ends - the dream that the little girl "still thinks 'tis true and wasn't a dream". Both the author and illustrator are somewhat elusive; we were unable to find much information on the author. The illustrator, Xavier Kraemer, was born in Alsace-Lorraine on Jan. 22, 1872; by 1916 Kraemer had a home in Alameda and a studio in San Francisco. He died in Alameda, CA on July 21, 1956 (info from "Artists in California 1786-1940" by Edan Hughes). ___DESCRIPTION: Sky blue cloth boards with navy blue lettering and a small vignette of a doll reading a book astride a clock face, decorative endpapers of the dolls and fairies in the story frolicking, signature of illustrator on the dedication page ("Dedicated to Dreamers"), title…
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The Mill Book [Association Copy]
by Johnston, Priscilla; Seal, Ronald and Pepler, David (Artists)
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Hammersmith and Ditchling: Douglas Pepler, Hampshire House, 1916. First Edition. Leather bound. Very good +. Gill, Eric. Inscribed by H. D. C. Pepler. Association copy inscribed by Hilary Douglas Clark Pepler to one "C. R. C.": "A book made by children (except the binding) and presented with love by one child (the printer) to another (the poet) 28 years later | H. D. C. P. to C. R. C. 19.1.44" First edition rebound in a custom leather binding with gilt double-rule borders joined at the outer corners by a cluster of gilt stars, raised bands, top edge gilt; given the inscription, we surmise the binding was commissioned by Pepler. Includes 10 wood engravings, two by Priscilla Johnston and the remainder by Ronald Seal. Priscilla Johnston was the daughter of typographer and calligrapher Edward Johnston, who lived in Ditchling from 1912 until his death in 1944, and whose earlier teachings influenced Eric Gill, among many others; Priscilla was five years old when she wrote this book. ___DESCRIPTION:…
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Miniature Woodcuts by Fiodor Konstantinov
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(Leningrad): (Aurora Art Publishers), 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Konstantinov, Fiodor. Miniature book, [116] pp. Unable to find much information online, we turn to the book's introduction for information about this superb woodcut Russian artist, Fiodor (or Fyodor) Konstantinov (or Konstantinoy). Born in 1910, Konstantinov began his career in the 1930s, having studied under the Soviet engraver Vladimir Favorsky. Konstantinov "contributed woodcuts for editions of Shakespeare and Chaucer, Charles de Coster and Mark Twain, Krylov and Tiutchev, Pushkin, Lermontov and Dostoyevsky, Yesenin and Zablotsky". Apparently at an exhibit in London at which Konstantinov's cuts of "Chaucer" were displayed, the inimitable Lynd Ward said of Konstantinov that he was "an extremely gifted and subtle artist of international range....whole talent and outlook had mingled to produce a truly creative personality." Note that apparently this work was originally issued as one of three volumes in a slipcase,…
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Miniature Books
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Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1968. Limited Edition. Full Vellum. Near fine. One of 400 copies, unnumbered, miniature size, 113 pp., with prospectus. The last book designed by Bruce Rogers, printed by Grabhorn-Hoyem and therefore the only miniature book done by one of the Grabhorns. According to the bibliography, "[t]he uncorrected page proofs reached Mr. Rogers on the day of his death. For twelve years the galleys gathered dust until Carroll T. Harris generously turned them over to the printers..." This miniature book is all about miniature books and is a miniature one can actually read - a thoughtful treatise by Harry Koopman (1860-1937), a highly-regarded bookman who served as Brown University's librarian from 1893 to 1930, and an author and poet in his own right. ___DESCRIPTION: Full white vellum, navy blue decorations at the joints, navy blue lettering on the spine, miniature prior owner bookplate with Hebrew lettering, some red lettering on the title and copyright pages, a red initial…
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Misalliance, The Dark Lady of the Sonnets, and Fanny's First Play. With a Treatise on Parents and Children
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London: Constable and Company Ltd, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good +. Signed by Shaw on bookplate, with a TLS, duodecimo size, 358 pp., with two pieces of ephemera from the publisher. George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was apparently in correspondence with the noted bookplate collector Charles Dexter Allen (1865-1926) - at least, the hints scattered within this book seems to indicate such. The story begins on the front pastedown, which has the signature of "G. Bernard Shaw" with the date below of 14th July 1913, on an Ex-Libris with the printed message: "This Book belongs to Charles Dexter Allen". Given that the date on the Ex-Libris is earlier than the publication date of the book, one can only assume that Mr. Allen sent out these bookplates to prominent personages to obtain their autograph, which he would keep and then, eventually, place within one of their books. The story continues on the front free endpaper, with two slips tipped-in. The first a short clipping…
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Modern Medicine; A Few Highlights on Diagnosis Treatment and the Specialties
by Don Tworry (pseudonym for Hadden, David)
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Eugene, Oregon: Printed by John Henry Nash, University of Oregon, 1939. First Edition. Wraps. Very good +. Quarto size, 25 pp., inscribed by David Hadden. An uncommon book of verse by David Hadden, one printed late in the career of the eminent typographer and printer John Henry Nash (1871-1947); this volume contains humorous poems regarding several branches of medicine, a comedic take on the experiences of both doctors and patients. ___DESCRIPTION: Light blue paper wraps, black lettering inside floral and ruled borders on the front wrap, fore- and bottom edges uncut, title page with floral decoration in black, floral headpieces in black throughout; quarto size (10.75" by 8"), pagination: [i-ii] iii [iv] 1-21, inscribed by David Hadden on the verso of the last page, with the date "June 11 / 39". ___CONDITION: Volume is almost near fine, with clean wraps, the sewn binding strong, the interior is clean and bright, and entirely free of prior owner markings; the wraps are sunned with a spot or two of…
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Modern Polo
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London: Hurst & Blackett Ltd, n.d.. Sixth Edition. Cloth. Near fine/good +. Revised and Largely Rewritten", octavo size, 509 pp. A complete primer on the sport of polo, from horse selection and maintenance to on-field strategies, this volume will provided all of the information necessary to become a participant in the sport of polo. Over 172 illustrations of horses, techniques and equipment are interspersed throughout the text. ___DESCRIPTION: Bound in red cloth with a blind-debossed ruled border to the front board, title in gilt on the front board, gilt lettering on the spine, frontispiece reproduction of a photograph of "H.R.H. The Prince of Wales on 'Alouette'.", replete with black-and-white reproductions of photographs and with line drawings throughout; octavo size (8 3/4" by 6"), pagination: [i-vi] vii-xvi, [1] 2-492. In grey dust jacket with navy blue lettering and ruled borders, short bio of author on the front panel, original price of "21/- net" on the spine, publisher's ads on the back…
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Molecular Spectroscopy: Modern Research
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New York and London: Academic Press, 1972. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Octavo size, 435 pp. Contains reviews of then-current advances in several phases of research in high-resolution molecular spectroscopy, with particular emphasis on electronic, infrared, and microwave studies of molecular species in gas phase and in matrices (from dust jacket flap). ***Professor K. Narahari Rao (1921- 2000) led in the development of improved methods of studying infrared spectra at higher and higher resolution. These methods were applied to the determination of molecular constants, studies of intra-molecule interactions, and observations of transitions normally considered to be unavailable for study. These research activities resulted in over 300 publications, including six books and six major review articles. Professor C. Weldon Mathews is serving as Emeritus Professor at Ohio State University, specializing in Molecular Structure and Spectroscopy, and Fourier Transform Spectroscopy. ___DESCRIPTION: Green cloth…
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Molecular Spectroscopy: Modern Research, Volume II
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New York, San Francisco, London: Academic Press, 1976. Hardcover. Near Fine. Octavo size, 293 pp. Second volume published by this author in the area of Molecular Spectroscopy; per the Preface, "this volume offers reviews of new experimental and theoretical developments in molecular spectroscopy and is intended to serve as a useful resource to researchers in this subject." Chapter headings include: An Introduction to the Least-Squares Fitting of Spectroscopic Data; Microwave Spectra; The Renner-Teller Effect, Intensities from Infrared Spectra; and Special Topics. Professor K. Narahari Rao (1921- 2000) led in the development of improved methods of studying infrared spectra at higher and higher resolution. These methods were applied to the determination of molecular constants, studies of intra-molecule interactions, and observations of transitions normally considered to be unavailable for study. These research activities resulted in over 300 publications, including six books and six major review…
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Mon Frere Yves
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n.p.: Calmann-Levy, 1936. Hardcover. Near Fine. Dufour, D'Emilien. Quarto size, 289 pp., all text in French. Pierre Loti, the pseudonym of Julien Viaud (1850-1923) was educated to be a naval officer, gradually rising in his profession until attaining the rank of captain in 1906. His life at sea, among seafaring men, inspired this and many of his other stories. Contemporary critic Edmund Gosse said of Loti: "At his best [he] was unquestionably the finest descriptive writer of the day" (n.b., above information from Wiki). Mon Frere Yves is perhaps Pierre Loti's best-known work, a semi-autobiographical novel describing the friendship between French naval officer Pierre Loti and a hard drinking Breton sailor, Yves Kermadec, during the 1870s and 80s - the descriptions of Breton seafaring life, on board ship and on shore, set the tone for his later masterpiece An Iceland Fisherman (1886). Originally published in wraps, this volume has been bound as a hardcover book, with the front wrapper serving as a…
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