ANDERSON, Sherwood

Winesburg, Ohio

New York, Limited Editions Club, 1978. Hardcover. Quarto (9-3/4" x 12") bound in quarter green cowhide leather over brown cloth stamped in gilt, 202 pages. Designed by Harry Rich and printed by letterpress at the Stinehour Press. Introduction by Malcolm Cowley. Illustrated with drawings by Ben F. Stahl. Copy #333 of 1600 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in. Ill.: Ben Stahl. Fine in glassine and a Very Good, intact slipcase with a number of small areas where the paper has peeled off .

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Book number: 016876

Catalogue: Limited Editions Club

Keywords: Signed, Fine Press, LEC, Ben Stahl, Modern Firsts Ben Stahl Signed Illustrated Books Modern First Editions Short Stories

ANDERSON, Sherwood

Winesburg, Ohio

New York, Limited Editions Club, 1978. Hardcover. Quarto (9-3/4" x 12") bound in quarter green cowhide leather over brown cloth stamped in gilt, 202 pages. Designed by Harry Rich and printed by letterpress at the Stinehour Press. Introduction by Malcolm Cowley. Illustrated with drawings by Ben F. Stahl. Copy #887 of 1600 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in. Ill.: Ben Stahl. Fine in a Near Fine slipcase with some sunning .

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Book number: 018580

Catalogue: Limited Editions Club

Keywords: Signed, Fine Press, LEC, Ben Stahl, Modern Firsts Ben Stahl Signed Illustrated Books Modern First Editions Short Stories

ANDERSON, Sherwood

Winesburg, Ohio

New York (New York), B. W. Huebsch (Collector's Reprints, Inc.), 1919 (1947) [1985]. Facsimile Edition. Hardcover. Faithful facsimile of the first edition. Crease to about first 40 pages; slight foxing to bulked fore-edges of text. Near FIne in a Fine dustwrapper .

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Book number: 020810

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

Keywords: Sherwood Anderson, Facsimile Edition, Modern First Editions, Short Stories Facsimile Edition Modern First Editions Literature: American Short Stories

ANDERSON, Sherwood

Winesburg, Ohio

New York, Limited Editions Club, 1978. Hardcover. Quarto (9-3/4" x 12") bound in quarter green cowhide leather over brown cloth stamped in gilt, 202 pages. Designed by Harry Rich and printed by letterpress at the Stinehour Press. Introduction by Malcolm Cowley. Illustrated with drawings by Ben F. Stahl. Copy #959 of 1600 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Ill.: Ben Stahl. Fine in glassine and a Near Fine slipcase with light scratches and sunning .

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Book number: 005420

Catalogue: Limited Editions Club

Keywords: Signed, Illustrated Books, Limited Editions Club, Modern First Editions, Fine Press, LEC, Ben Stahl, Modern Firsts, Short Stories Ben Stahl Signed Illustrated Books Modern First Editions Limited Editions Club

MICHAUX, Francois Andre and NUTTALL, Thomas

The North American Sylva; or, a Description of the Forest Trees of the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia...

Philadelphia, W. M. Rutter & Co. 1871. Later Edition. Hardcover. Six quarto (6-3/4" x 10-3/4") volumes bound in publisher's brown half-morocco leather with matching corners and marbled boards. Illustrated with 277 beautiful hand-colored plates, comprised of 156 hand-colored copperplate engravings in the three Michaux volumes and 121 hand-colored lithographs in the three Nuttall volumes. The lithographs in the Nuttall volumes are numbered through 121, but the numbering skips plates 30 and 31 (also skipped in text), and two plates each are numbered "5" and "10," as issued. The most important work on American trees prior to 1900. Michaux's work was first published in 1817-19 with the plates engraved by Redoute and his associate, Bessa, and those plates are used in this edition. Nuttall's work first appeared in 1842-49 supplementing that of Michaux covering trees in the Rocky Mountains, the territory of Oregon, California, and other areas of the U.S. and employing the more advanced technique of lithography instead of engraving. One of the classics of American natural history. BENNETT, page 76; SABIN 48695: "It is no exaggeration to remark that it is the most complete work of its kind, and is a production of unrivalled interest and beauty. Ex-Library but with minimal markings: labels and stamps on spine, blindstamp and small ink number to title pages; frontispiece portrait of Michaux trimmed and pasted on the front pastedown of the third volume. Plates generally clean with light foxing to maybe 10% of them, mostly in the Michaux volumes. Bindings firm with the two Nuttall volumes having clear tape over the spines. Overall Very Good .

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Book number: 021656

Catalogue: Hand-colored

Keywords: Hand-colored, Illustrated Books, Canada, Trees, Americana, Thomas Nuttall, Francois Michaux, Botanical Hand-colored Americana Illustrated Books Botanical

ANDREWS, Henry C

The Botanist's Repository, for New, and Rare Plants. Containing Coloured Figures of Such Plants, As Have Not Hitherto Appeared in Any Similar Publication...

London, T. Bensley for the author, 1797-1815. First Edition. Hardcover. Twelve large quarto volumes (8-1/2" x 10-1/2") volumes consisting of volumes 1-6 bound in full green morocco leather gilt with all edges gilt and volumes 5-10 in half brown morocco with marbled boards and matching morocco corners, gilt-lettered spines; marbled endpapers. A complete 10-volume set made up from two different incomplete sets resulting in duplicate volumes of 5 and 6 resulting in a total of 12 volumes. Illustrated with 664 plates with 64 folding/double, in the complete set, plus 144 plates with 4 folding/double bringing the grand total to 808 hand-colored plates with 68 folding/double. Duplicate text for plate 291 with no text for plate 290. Started as a rival to Curtis's THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE, this magazine featured more new plants than its rival and larger and generally better quality plates. It also differed in making a contribution of lasting importance to the literature of botany and horticulture by providing records and means of identification of a great diversity of beautiful and interesting plants, many of them new to science. The text of the fifth volume is by John Kennedy (the author's father-in-law), the sixth volume by A. H. Haworth, and the last four volumes by George Jackson. DUNTHORNE 8: "A fine and interesting work of distinct individuality and character"; GREAT FLOWER BOOKS, page 83; NISSEN 2382; PRITZEL 474. Truly magnificent hand-colored plates and quite scarce. Fairly large copy in comparison to others sold in the recent past. Occasional minor foxing, toning, or off-setting; some light pencil notes/corrections to some leaves. In all, rather clean and attractive examples of these volumes with the plates generally bright and vivid with offsetting to text. Rubbing and light scuffs to bindings. Near Fine A beautifully illustrated and important horticulture title providing records and means of identification of a great diversity of beautiful and interesting plants, many of them from Australia and South Africa and many new to science.

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Book number: 021670

Catalogue: Hand-Colored Plates

Keywords: Hand-Colored Plates, Gardening, Horticulture, Botany, Illustrated Books, Botanical, Sets, Australia, South Africa, Natural History Hand-Colored Plates Botanical Horticulture Illustrated Books

ANDREWS, Benny [O'CONNOR, Flannery]

Six Etchings for Everything That Rises Must Converge

(New York), (Limited Editions Club), (2005). First Edition. Original Art. Folio (19-1/2" x 25-1/2") consisting of 6 color etchings and 2 letterpress text pages: a title page and a colophon page. There were 300 copies of O'Connor's book illustrated by Benny Andrews and published by the Limited Editions Club but only 75 copies of the portfolio of numbered and SIGNED color etchings printed at the press of Peter Pettengill on cream BFK Rives paper. This is copy #4 of 60 (there were also 15 Proofs), with each etching numbered and SIGNED by the artist. Ill.: Benny Andrews. Fine in a Fine velvet-lined red cloth clamshell box with a gilt-lettered leather label on the front .

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Book number: 018688

Catalogue: Limited Editions Club

Keywords: Signed, African-American Literature, Etchings, LEC, Modern Firsts, Modern First Editions, Benny Andrews, Literature: American, Southern Literature Benny Andrews Signed African-American Art Original Art Illustrated Books

ANESAKI, Masaharu

Art, Life, and Nature in Japan

Boston, Marshall Jones Company, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed boards. Illustrated with photographs. Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper .

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Book number: 020178

Catalogue: Japan

Keywords: Travel, Japan, Illustrated Books Japan Nonfiction Travel Illustrated Books

ANGLE, Paul M. (editor)

The Lincoln Reader

New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED by Angle on the front endpaper: "To Joe De Caro/with the best wishes/of Paul M. Angle/April 11, 1947." In addition, laid in is a TYPED LETTER SIGNED by Angle telling the recipient to send him this book to be signed. Near Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper with light wear .

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Book number: 020867

Catalogue: Signed

Keywords: Signed, Inscribed, Abraham Lincoln, Civil War, Americana, Presidents Signed Literature: American Presidents Abraham Lincoln

ANONYMOUS

Phantasmagoria. Or the Developement of Magical Deception

London, Tegg and Castleman, [1803]. First Edition. Hardcover. Modern calf-backed orange paper boards (4-1/8" x 7"); 72 pages. Frontispiece engraving by I. Taylor after a design by W. M. Craig. Scarce Gothic fiction employing Phantasmagoria, developed in the late eighteenth century from the earlier magic lantern: illusionistic exhibitions and public entertainments in which "specters" were produced through the use of a magic lantern. One should not underestimate the horror felt by those whose vision, not trained by photography or the cinema, revealed to them spiritual entities that one could seemingly touch. According to an article by Terry Castle [CRITICAL INQUIRY 15.1 (Autumn 1988): page 39], “A number of literary works of the period contain episodes in which magic lanterns are used to deceive credulous would-be ghost-seers. Friedrich Schiller's fragment DER GEISTERSEHER (1789), translated into English as THE GHOST-SEER; OR, THE APPARITIONIST (1795), is the best known of such works. See also the anonymous Gothic tale PHANTASMAGORIA: OR, THE DEVELOPMENT OF MAGICAL DECEPTION (London, 1803)." Scarce early horror fiction. Pages toned with scattered soiling and foxing, pencil notes on endpapers; binding Fine .

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Book number: 021561

Catalogue: Horror

Keywords: Horror, Magic, Gothic Fiction, Magic Lanterns, Film Incunabula, Supernatural, Ghosts, Phantasmagoria, 19th Century British Literature, 19th Century Literature Horror Gothic Fiction 19th Century British Literature Literature: English

ANONYMOUS

The Secret History of the Most Renowned Q. Elizabeth and the E. Of Essex, by a Person of Quality

London, J. Darby, 1725. Hardcover. Duodecimo (3-1/4" x 5-1/2") in a lovely, unsigned binding of full dark green morocco leather with gilt floral decorative devices with small white morocco onlays, the spine with five raised bands, gilt lettering and decorations, gilt dentelles, scarlet silk endpapers and doublures, all edges gilt; 119, [1] pages. Wood-engraved frontispiece. A translation of the anonymous French text LE COMTE D'ESSEX HISTOIRE ANGLOISE, printed in Paris in 1678, and first published in English in 1680. This edition of a sensational account of Elizabeth's love life seems to be just as scarce. Margins shaved not affecting text. Trivial wear. About Fine .

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Book number: 019172

Catalogue: Fine Bindings

Keywords: 18th Century, England, English Royalty, English History, Fine Bindings English History Fine Bindings England 18th Century

ANTHONY, Susan B

Autograph Quotation Signed (Aqs) Regarding Perfect Equality of Rights

Autograph. Exceptional SIGNED quotation by Anthony on the verso of a fragment of an invitation completely in her hand on a 5-1/2" x 3-1/4" piece of paper. In full: "Perfect equality of rights for/women-- is the demand of/Yours respectfully/Susan B. Anthony/Rochester, N.Y./Jan. 1, 1898." Would make an outstanding presentation framed with a portrait. Near Fine .

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Book number: 021122

Catalogue: Autographs

Keywords: Autographs, Women's Suffrage, Rare, Women's Rights, Signature, Autograph Quote, Susan B. Anthony, Feminism Signed Feminism Women's Rights Women's Suffrage

ANTHONY, Susan B

Hand-Addressed Envelope to Her Sister

Autograph. An envelope (6" x 3-1/4") with a lengthy printed statement by The Citizens' Suffrage Association. Although not signed by her, it is addressed in the hand of Susan B. Anthony to her younger sister: "Miss Mary S. Anthony/Rochester -- N. Y./U. S. America." On the side of the envelope is written "Zurich/Apr 23rd 83," likely in one of the sisters' hands. Fine Mary Stafford Anthony was a suffrage activist in her own right. Her interest in women's rights, in fact, preceded that of her sister. On August 2, 1848, she attended the Adjourned Convention in Rochester of the First Woman's Rights Convention and, together with her father and mother, signed the Declaration of Sentiments. She was instrumental in establishing the Women's Political Club (later renamed the Political Equality Club) in the 1880s. In 1893, she was elected corresponding secretary for the New York State Woman Suffrage Association, and in 1904 when the International Woman Suffrage Alliance was formed, Susan B. Anthony was declared its first member and Miss Mary Anthony was unanimously declared its second.

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Book number: 016106

Catalogue: Autographs

Keywords: Rare, Women's Rights, Signature, Susan B. Anthony Feminism Signed Women's Rights Women's Suffrage

ANTHONY, Susan B. & HARPER, Ida Husted

History of Woman Suffrage. Volume IV

New York, Susan B. Anthony, (1902). First Edition. Hardcover. The fourth volume, eventually complete in six volumes, in publisher's purple cloth. Illustrated with copperplate and photogravure engravings. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Anthony on her birthday, filling the front free endpaper: "Mrs Mariana Wright Chapman/Brooklyn -- New York --/This Huge Volume is presented/to you in recognition of the/kindly and valuable services rendered/Mrs. Harper in the preparation of the/New York Chapter -- and all your/good works for the good Cause/we so dearly love -- by/Your affectionate friend & coworker/Susan B. Anthony/17 Madison St./Rochester -- N. Y./1820 -- Feb. 15 -- 1903. Owner name in ink at the top of the front pastedown. Professionally rebacked retaining the original spine. Near Fine and an important Association copy Mariana Wright Chapman was a prominent New York Quaker suffragist who was President of the Women's Suffrage Association of Brooklyn and later President of the New York State Suffrage Association, Anthony's home state. As a charter member of the New York League for Political Education, she was instrumental in founding the Friends Equal Rights Association. Chapman corresponded frequently with the leaders of the Suffrage movement.

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Book number: 019587

Catalogue: Signed

Keywords: Signed, Women, Women's Liberation, Women's Literature, Women's Rights, Feminist Literature, Feminism, Inscribed, Association Copy, Suffrage Movement Signed Women's Rights Feminist Literature Suffrage Movement

(ANTHONY, Susan B.) HARPER, Ida Husted

The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many from Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years. A Story of the Evolution of the Status of Woman

Indianapolis & Kansas City, The Bowen-Merrill Co. 1899 & 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. The first two volumes of three, with the last not published until 1908, two years after Anthony's death. Original full brown-burgundy morocco leather with a gilt medallion profile portrait of Anthony on the front panel of each volume, recently and sympathetically rebacked with similar color morocco leather; all edges gilt. Illustrated with frontispiece portraits of Anthony and other plates and facsimiles. Each volume is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by this principal leader of the woman suffrage movement in the United States on the front endpapers to another well-known suffragist. In the first volume, Anthony has written: "Yes indeed, Mrs. Julia L. Langdon Barber/I will write your name upon this/fly-leaf together with my own for/the benefit of the grand-daughter -- when/she is grown up to appreciate the worth/of each--/Julia L. Langdon Barber--/Belmont -- Washington, D. C.--/Susan B. Anthony -- Rochester N.Y./May 22, 1901--." Anthony has also INSCRIBED the second volume: "Julia L. Langdon Barber--/Belmont -- Washington, D. C.--/Susan B. Anthony/17 Madison Street -- Rochester N.Y." Books inscribed by this great American have become quite scarce. Fine copies with a fine association Julia L. Langdon was a prominent suffragist in Washington as well as one of the city's premier hostesses of the Golden Age. She married Amzi Lorenzo Barber in 1871; she was the daughter of a prominent N.Y. land developer, and her husband, who had been in charge of the normal department at Howard University, tried his own hand at developments in Washington. He developed the highly restricted Le Droit Park neighborhood just off Florida Avenue, and was soon to be the owner of Barber Asphalt Company; he became known as the "Asphalt King," and by the 1880s his firm was the world's largest supplier of asphalt. Barber was to later buy the infant Locomobile enterprise from Francis and Freelan Stanley in 1898; by 1900, over 1600 cars were sold, but the car's indifferent sales in future years eventually stripped Barber of much of his personal wealth. In 1880 the Barbers bought 120 acres along Florida Avenue between 13th and 14th Streets, where their lavish Queen Anne home, "Belmont," was built (It was torn down in 1915 after the deaths of Amzi and Julia Barber to make way for the Clifton Terrace development.). Julia L. Langdon Barber was a Life Member of the National American Women Suffrage Association and a longtime friend of Anthony; after the 1902 National American Convention held at the First Presbyterian Church in Washington, Anthony spent the following week at the Barber home. In the third volume of Harper's book, she is cited, along with Mrs. John Henderson and Anthony, in the incorporation in 1900 of the Standing Fund to help with the work of enfranchising women. Barber was also a friend of Mark Twain, whom she met on the steamship "Quaker City" in 1867 during the trip which Twain chronicled in THE INNOCENTS ABROAD. Barber had taken a leading part in various public movements and was an ardent suffragist and a leading member of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. She was long the terror of cruelly inclined drivers in Washington. She often took her stand on top of the high tower of Belmont which overlooks a wide range of the city and watched for horses which were being treated cruelly. She always kept an automobile at her door and frequently hurried in it to aid of the suffering horses. She appeared in police court a number of times against men who mistreated animals.

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Book number: 016095

Catalogue: Signed

Keywords: Signed, Feminist Literature, Women, History, Americana, Susan B. Anthony, Women's Suffrage, Association Copy Women's Rights Inscribed Women's Liberation Feminism