Lardner, Foster. (1873-1934). Actor and amateur magician. Member of the National Conjurers' Association Ring No. 2 in Rhode Island.

Autograph Note to His Daughter Signed by Actor and Magician Foster Lardner. Together with a Mailing Envelope.

West Barrington, RI: June 19, 1932. 1932. - 13 words filling half of a sheet of his personalized 7-1/4 inch high by 8-1/2 inch wide letterhead with his Rhode Island address printed at the top. Signed "Daddy". The top right corner is creased. Folded 3 times for mailing. Together with his personalized mailing envelope addressed in his hand to "Sylvia Foster Lardner" but with no street address [the note probably accompanied a gift]. The envelope has been roughly opened down its left side. The letter is in very good condition.

Foster Lardner writes to his daughter Sylvia Foster Lardner Page [1913-1997]: "With love from Mother & Daddy -- We are very proud of you Dear".

An actor and amateur magician, Foster Lardner [1873-1934] was taught magic by Al Baker. For twenty years he was the head of the Keith organization in and around Providence, Rhode Island. He was also a member of the National Conjurers' Association Ring No. 2 in Rhode Island. He was manager of the Albee Theatre in Providence and stage manager for the SAM Carnival of Magic [1931] which featured Cardini, Jarrow and Hardeen. During World War I he gave frequent magical entertainments for soldiers in hospitals and later gave shows in the children's hospital in Providence. Very good .

Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.Professional seller

Book number: 95658

Catalogue: Magic

Keywords: MAGIC; ACTOR; MAGICIAN; AUTOGRAPH NOTE TO HIS DAUGHTER SIGNED BY ACTOR AND MAGICIAN FOSTER LARDNER; SYLVIA FOSTER LARDNER PAGE; ANS; A.N.S.; SIGNATURE; AUTOGRAPH; AL BAKER; KEITH ORGANIZATION; ALBEE THEATRE, PROVIDENCE, RI; 1931 SAM, CARNIVAL OF MAGIC; NA

Rhode Kellermann Wawrowsky Architects

Architektur Fur Den Handel: Kaufhauser, Einkaufszentren, Galerien. Geschichte Und Gegenwartige Tendenzen. Miteinem Werkbericht Der Architekten Rkw, Rhode Kellermann Wawrowsky + Partner

Berlin: Birkhauser Verlag, 1996. 4to. 333 pp. Hard Cover. With Dust Jacket. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. Text in German. Very Good, minor rubs and tear to the dust jacket. *Heavy book, shipping may cost extra. .

Wittenborn Art BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 71-5250

Rhode Kellermann Wawrowsky Architects

Architektur Fur Handel/Architecture for the Retail Trade: Kaufhauser, Einkaufszentren, Galerien. Geschichte Und Gegenwartige Tendenzen. Miteinem Werkbericht Der Architekten Rkw, Rhode Kellermann Wawrowsky + Partner

Basel/Boston/Berlein: Birkhauser Verlag, 1996. Folio. 333 pp. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. Color and black and white plates throughout. Text in German and English. Very Good, light rubs to dusk jacket. *Heavy book, shipping may cost extra. .

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Book number: 71-5811

Rhode Kellermann Wawrowsky Architects

Architektur 1950-2000/Architecture

Germany: Gerd Hatje, 1998. Folio. 391 pp. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. Color and black and white plates throughout. Text in German and English. Very Good, light rubs and dents to dusk jacket. *Heavy book, shipping may cost extra. .

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Book number: 71-5812

Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design

Americana from the Daphne Farago Collection Sep. 27 - Nov. 17, 1985

Providence: Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 1985. 4to. Soft Cover [ ca. 100 pp.] Very Good, B&W and Color Plates. Minor Abrasion to Corner of Spine.

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Book number: 75-4341

Catalogue: Books

Rhode Island. General Assembly. [Bowen, Henry]

June, 1836. At the General Assembly of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Begun and Holden by Adjournment at Newport, Within and for Said State, on the Third Monday in June, in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty Six, and of Independence the Sixtieth

[Providence], [Printed by William Simons, Jr.], 1836. Stitched self wrappers. 112 pp. 8vo. Signed in ink by Henry Bowen as "Sec'ry," on the rear under "True copy-witness." Henry Bowen (1785-1867?), son of Jabez Bowen Jr, was R.I. Secretary of State from 1819 to 1849. William Simons, Jr. was appointed state printer during the May, 1836 session of the General Assembly. Noted on the front cover: "Town Clerk Glocester." Rare. Not in American Imprints or Sabin. OCLC locates only one copy of this document, at the American Antiquarian Society, but without any notation of a signature (OCLC: 83805212). A very good, uncut [unopened] and untrimmed copy, signed on front and rear wrappers, edges worn, light dampstain on lower fore-margin, contents lightly soiled.

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Book number: 43732

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: , Americana, Law, Rhode Island , 1, Rhode Island, Book Law

[Rhode Island Local History]. Bull, Jireh [d. 1684]

A PRELIMINARY REPORT On The EXCAVATIONS At The HOUSE Of JIREH BULL on Tower Hill in Rhode Island.; Issued at the General Court of the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, by its Governor, Henry Clinton Dexter, Esquire and the Council of the Society December 31, 1917

Providence: Printed for the Society by E. A. Johnson & Company, 1917. 1st Printing. Pamphlet with red paper covers printed in black. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. 16 pp. Photographic frontispiece. Map, p. 8. Pamphlet accompanied by a black vinyl 3-ring notebook containing 24 ~ 8" x 10" b/w captioned photos of the excavation site. 8vo. 11-1/4" x 9-5/8". Pamphlet with general wear & soiling, period poi to top right of front cover. Small damp spot at interior base of text block. A VG copy. Notebook - VG+. Photos, clear sharp, VG+ - Nr Fine. "The Jireh Bull Blockhouse (RI-926, also known as the Jireh Bull Garrison House or Jireh Bull Block House) is an historic archaeological site on Middlebridge Road in South Kingstown, Rhode Island. In 1657 a blockhouse was built on the site by Jireh Bull, son of Rhode Island Governor Henry Bull. The stone garrison house was burned by the Native Americans in King Philip's War on December 15, 1675, and fifteen of its defenders were massacred. The site was acquired by the Rhode Island Historical Society in 1925. The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983." [Wiki].

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Book number: 49804

Catalogue: Americana

[Rhode-Island Society for the Encouragement of Domestic Industry]. Clift, William

Transactions of the Rhode-Island Society for the Encouragement of Domestic Industry, in the Year 1854

Providence, Knowles, Anthony & Co. Printers, 1855. First edition. Stitched paper wrappers. xvi, 135 pp. 8vo. Includes: ""The Agricultural Wealth of Rhode Island and the Duties it imposes upon her Citizens. An Address before the Rhode-Island Society for the Encouragement of Domestic Industry, and the Rhode-Island Horticultural Society, at their Fifth Industrial Exhibition in Providence; Delivered September 14, 1854, by Rev. William Clift, Stonington, Ct." with a separate title page. Provides great detail on agricultural and industrial activity in Rhode Island was well as reviews of technology and agricultural methods. Some biographies. William Clift (1817-1890), Amherst graduate, pastor of the Stonington Congregational church, rote much on agriculture and "was a bold and valiant enemy of rum and tobacco." Sabin 70736n. A very good copy with small chips and creases to front wrapper, spine worn, contents bright.

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Book number: 38667

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Newspapers & Periodicals, , Americana, Commerce, Newspapers & Periodicals, Rhode Island , Industries Rhode Island Periodicals  Industrial arts Industries Agriculture , Pamphlet

(CONNECTICUT, RHODE ISLAND -- Map)

Rand, Mcnally & Co. S' New Business Atlas Map of Connecticut & Rhode Island

N.p. Rand, McNally & Co, 1888. 20 3/4" X 14¼" (image 19½" X 12¼"). Printed coloring. Very good. Faintly age toned, with a few small edge tears, but overall attractive. Printed text on verso. Handsome copy of this atlas map. .

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Book number: 28035

Catalogue: Maps

Keywords: RHODE ISLAND, CONNECTICUT

Rhode Island School of Design

Show: Rhode Island School of Design Mfa Graphic Design Exhibition. May 17- June 1, 2013

Providence, RI:Rhode Island School of Design, 2013. 4to. [circa 70 pp.] Hard Cover, Very Good, Some Creasing at Corners. Color Plates. From the Collection of the Art Historian Peter Selz (1919-2019). .

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Book number: 69-3150

Catalogue: Books

Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design

Small Works: Selections from the Richard Brown Baker Collection of Contemporary Art April 5 - May 6, 1973

Providence, Rhode Island: Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design, 1973. Oblong 4to. Softcover. 123pp. Mostly B&W Plates. Very Good, slight splaying of fore-edge. Provenance: Richard Diebenkorn Foundation. .

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Book number: 69-5016

Catalogue: Books

Bulletin of Rhode Island School of Design

The World between the Ox and the Swine: Dada Drawings by Hans Richter

Providence, RI: Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design. 1971. 4to. 56 pp. Soft Covers. Very Good. B/W Plates. From the Collection of the Art Historian Peter Selz (1919-2019). .

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Book number: 17-3833

Catalogue: Books

Prof. Dietrich Neumann Professor für Architekturgeschichte Brown University in Providence Rhode Island

Filmarchitektur

, Prestel Verlag Gmbh + Co., 2002. 224, , Hardcover. Zustand: 2. Ausstellungskataloge Deutsches Architekturmuseum Frankfurt Deutsches Filmmuseum Frankfurt a. M. Museen Kulissen Filmarchitekten Traumarchitekturen Batman Filmarchitekten deutscher Film Ein Panorama der Grosstaten und unbeschränkten Möglichkeiten der Filmarchitektur und ihrer berühmtesten Vertreter, beginnend mit den grossen Stars unter den Filmarchitekten in der Weimarer Zeit, dem Export der Errungenschaften des deutschen Films in die USA bis hin zu den modernen Traumarchitekturen von Filmen wie „Batman" oder „Blade Runner". Über den Autor Dietrich Neumann ist Professor für Architekturgeschichte an der Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Sehr ausführlich mit vielen interessanten Originalbriefen der beteiligten Architekten und grossartigen Bildern. Doch vorsicht Es ist ein geschichtliches Werk mit Schwerpunkt auf Werken der Weimarer Republik, und kein Blick hinter die Kulissen aktuellerer Werke! Filmarchitektur von Metropolis bis Blade Runner Dietrich Neumann Prestel Verlag GmbH + Co. ISBN: 3791316567. Gewicht/weight: 2000 gr.

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Book number: BN5464

Keywords: Ausstellungskataloge Deutsches Architekturmuseum Frankfurt Deutsches Filmmuseum Frankfurt a. M. Museen Kulissen Filmarchitekten Traumarchitekturen Batman Filmarchitekten deutscher Film Ein Panorama der Grosstaten und unbeschränkten Möglichkeiten der Filma

Drake, Raymond L. & Rhode, Robert T.

Classic American steamrollers: 1871 - 1935 photo archive.

U.S.A: Iconografix,U. S. 2001. First Edition. Softcover. Clean and tightly bound landscape format paperback original, glossy pictorial covers, no inscriptions, spine slightly faded, appears little used. 128 pages, many illustrations in the text. Very Good.

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Book number: 65703

Catalogue: Transport:: Road

Keywords: Road construction Steam Engines

Rhode Island Adjutant General

Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Rhode Island, for the Year 1865

Providence, Providence Press Co. Printers to the State, 1866. First edition. Cloth. 36, 829 pp. 8vo. "The second part of the report for 1865 contains the Official Register of Rhode Island Officers and Soldiers who served in the United States Army and Navy, from 1861 to 1866. Published by order of the General Assembly, January session, 1866," (Sabin). Includes Regimental histories. Uncommon. Sabin 70541. Front joint split at lower edge, extremities worn else very good solid copy with the bookplate of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Commandery of the State of Illinois on front pastedown, shelf sticker on foot of backstrip, offsetting on title.

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Book number: 31776

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: , Americana, Civil War Era, Americana, 19th c., Civil War, Rhode Island, Regiments, Regimental Histories, Militia,