26th Annual 1979 Newport Jazz Festival Program

[New York], (1980). First Edition. Softcover. Illustrated program (8-1/2" x 11") with pictorial cover for the festival held then in New York City and Saratoga. Articles by Ishmael Reed, Leonard Feather, Stanley Crouch, Gary Giddins, and others. Cover art by Leroy Neiman. Near Fine .

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Book number: 020627

Catalogue: Jazz

Keywords: African-American Music, Black Music, Jazz, Leroy Neiman Jazz Ephemera Music African-American Music

American Indian Legends

Los Angeles, Limited Editions Club, 1968. Hardcover. Nearly square octavo (8-1/4" x 9-1/4") bound in natural wood veneer over boards with an undyed fawnskin leather spine. Selected, edited, and with an introduction by Allan A. MacFarlan. With 37 illustrations by Everett Gee Jackson, 27 of them printed in either three or four colors. Copy #1087 of 1500 numbered copies SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Ill.: Everett Gee Jackson. Spine sunned, as often the case with this title, and a little rubbed; a few nicks to the veneer. Very Good in a Very Good slipcase .

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Book number: 015934

Catalogue: Limited Editions Club

Keywords: Signed, Everett Gee Jackson, Illustrated Books, Fine Press, LEC, Native Americans Everett Gee Jackson Signed Americana Illustrated Books Native Americans

American Indian Legends

Los Angeles, Limited Editions Club, 1968. Hardcover. Nearly square octavo (8-1/4" x 9-1/4") bound in natural wood veneer over boards with an undyed fawnskin leather spine. Selected, edited, and with an introduction by Allan A. MacFarlan. With 37 illustrations by Everett Gee Jackson, 27 of them printed in either three or four colors. Copy #887 of 1500 numbered copies SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Ill.: Everett Gee Jackson. Spine sunned, as often the case with this title, and here to an even white. Very Good in a Near Fine slipcase with some sunning .

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Book number: 018666

Catalogue: Limited Editions Club

Keywords: Signed, Everett Gee Jackson, Illustrated Books, Fine Press, LEC, Native Americans Everett Gee Jackson Signed Americana Illustrated Books Native Americans

American Indian Legends

Los Angeles, Limited Editions Club, 1968. Hardcover. Nearly square octavo (8-1/4" x 9-1/4") bound in natural wood veneer over boards with an undyed fawnskin leather spine. Selected, edited, and with an introduction by Allan A. MacFarlan. With 37 illustrations by Everett Gee Jackson, 27 of them printed in either three or four colors. Copy #842 of 1500 numbered copies SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Ill.: Everett Gee Jackson. Spine sunned and rubbed. Very Good, lacking the slipcase .

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Book number: 018828

Catalogue: Limited Editions Club

Keywords: Signed, Everett Gee Jackson, Illustrated Books, Fine Press, LEC, Native Americans Everett Gee Jackson Signed Americana Illustrated Books Native Americans

The Annals of Sporting and Fancy Gazette; a Magazine, Entirely Appropriated to Sporting Subjects and Fancy Pursuits; Containing Every Thing Worthy of Remark on Hunting, Shooting, Coursing, Racing, Fishing, Cocking, Pugilism, Wrestling, Singlestick, Pedestrianism, Cricket, Billiards, Rowing, Sailing, Etc. Etc. Accompanied with Striking Representations of the Various Subjects

London, Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1822-1828. First Edition. Hardcover. Complete in 13 octavo (5-1/4" x 8-1/2") volumes bound in later polished calf leather with gilt rules and heavily gilt-decorated spines with five raised bands and contrasting gilt-lettered morocco spine labels, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Without the rare June, 1828 issue, as usual. Illustrated with a large folding map and 153 plates, some folding, of which 65 are hand-colored, as well as numerous woodcut illustrations within the text, by artists such as Alken, Cruikshank, Roberts, Sutherland, Berenger, Landseer, and others. A comprehensive view of the life and habits of those who lived in the English countryside, often seen as a companion work to Ackermann's REPOSITORY OF THE ARTS, which chronicled the taste and fashions of sophisticated metropolitan life. Tooley 64. Occasional light foxing or staining but contents generally clean. Attractive bookplate of Edward Motley Weld on the front pastedowns of all volumes. Three covers detached, rubbing to the raised bands. Very Good .

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Book number: 019231

Catalogue: Hand-Colored Plates

Keywords: Sets, 19th Century, Cricket, Newspapers, Boxing, Sports, Horse Racing, Fine Bindings, Hand-Colored Plates, Illustrated Books Hand-Colored Plates Sports Horse Racing Illustrated Books

Aubrey Schwartz. A Retrospective

(Binghamton, NY), Binghamton University Art Museum, 1997. First Edition. Softcover. Stapled wraps, 8-1/2" x 11": 36 pages. Contents consist primarily of black-and-white and color reproductions of the artist's work. Laid in is a four-page brochure for the artist's reception. Ill.: Aubrey Schwartz. Near Fine .

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Book number: 019408

Catalogue: Modern Art

Keywords: Modern Art, Aubrey Schwartz Aubrey Schwartz Art Exhibits American Art Modern Art Aubrey Schwartz

The Ballads of Robin Hood

Cambridge, Limited Editions Club, 1977. Hardcover. Tall octavo (6-7/8" x 10-3/4") bound with a green buckram spine stamped in gold with a design created by David Gentleman who has also drawn a design of foliage printed on the paper covering the boards; 232 pages. Edited with an introduction by Jim Lees. Designed by John Dreyfus and printed at the Cambridge University Press under the direction of Harry Myers. Illustrated by Gentleman with 55 miniature line drawings accompanying the text and 8 full-page plates reproduced as auto-lithographs in 8 printings at the Curwen Studio in London. Copy #457 of 1600 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in. Ill.: David Gentleman. Fine in a Near Fine slipcase with minor soiling .

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Book number: 016150

Catalogue: Limited Editions Club

Keywords: Signed, Legends, Fine Press, LEC, Color Plate Books David Gentleman Signed Illustrated Books Literature: English John Dreyfus

The Best American Short Stories 1985

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1985. First Edition. Softcover. Uncorrected Proof in orange wraps. Selected from U.S. and Canadian Magazines by Gail Godwin with Shannon Ravenel. SIGNED on the title page by one contributor, Sharon Sheehe Stark, and by Charles Baxter who is not a contributor. Fine .

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Book number: 019552

Catalogue: Signed

Keywords: Signed, Anthology, Modern Firsts, Modern First Editions, Short Stories, Uncorrected Proof Signed Modern First Editions Uncorrected Proof Literature: American

The Book of Ballads

New York, Limited Editions Club, 1967. Hardcover. Tall octavo (6-3/4" x 10-3/4") bound in quarter blue buckram and decorated boards, 240 pages. A collection of 87 classic ballads from all over the world, but primarily from England and America, selected and edited by MacEdward Leach. Illustrated with 36 hand-colored woodcuts by Fritz Kredel. Copy #1087 of 1500 numbered copies SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in. Ill.: Fritz Kredel. Fine in lightly worn glassine and a Fine slipcase .

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Book number: 001233

Catalogue: Limited Editions Club

Keywords: Signed, Fritz Kredel, Limited Editions, Poetry, Ballads, Color Plate Books, Fine Press Fritz Kredel Signed Illustrated Books Hand-colored Literature: English

Book of Common Prayer

Boston, Printed for The Commission (by D. B. Updike at The Merrymount Press), 1928 (1930). First Edition. Hardcover. Thick folio (9-3/4" x 13-3/4") in publisher's oxblood pigskin leather stamped in black, top edge gilt; xli, 611 pages. Beautifully printed in black and red on English hand-made rag paper by D. B. Updike in an edition of 500 copies of which only 250 were for sale at the cost of one hundred and fifty dollars in 1930. Updike's magnum opus and one of the most beautifully designed American books of the twentieth century. Printed for the Joint Commission on the Revision and Enrichment of THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER and financed by the banker J.P.Morgan, Updike was well-suited to printing the work being a staunch Episcopalian and familiar with the text; it took two years to produce. This copy was presented to the Archbishop of Nova Scotia with a partly hand-written printed sheet laid in. A title notorious for wear and weak hinges, this is a tight, Near Fine copy with light edgewear and minor marks to the spine and front cover For Updike it was the culmination of everything he believed in and understood, and every facet of his personality and sensibility was called upon to produce this masterpiece of print and spirit" (A CENTURY FOR THE CENTURY 25); PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 173.

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Book number: 021423

Catalogue: Fine Printing

Keywords: Fine Printing, Fine Press, Fine Bindings, Religion, Episcopal Religion, D. B. Updike Fine Printing Fine Press Fine Bindings Religion

(LAWRENCE, D. H.; SINCLAIR, Upton; et. al.)

The Bookman. A Revue of Life and Letters

(New York), (The Bookman), August 1928. First Edition. Softcover. Printed wraps. Contributions include a short story by D. H. Lawrence ("Things, A Story"), 2 chapters from Upton Sinclair's BOSTON, an article on poetry in George Bernard Shaw, and an article on popular magazines titled "Wood-Pulp Literature." Housed in a cloth slipcase. Close to Fine in a Near Fine slipcase .

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Book number: 020552

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

Keywords: Modern First Editions, Modern Firsts, Short Stories, D. H. Lawrence, George Bernard Shaw Literature: English D. H. Lawrence George Bernard Shaw Modern First Editions

The British Apollo, or, Curious Amusements for the Ingenious to Which Are Added the Most Material Occurrences Foreign and Domestick. Performed by a Society of Gentlemen

London, J. Mayo, 1708. First Edition. Hardcover. Folio (8" x 12-1/2") bound in 19th century half brown leather with leather corners and marbled boards; [2], [516], 14 pages. The first volume of this scarce periodical containing a title page, 117 four-page issues, 12 supernumerary numbers, and an extensive index covering the period of 13 February 1708 to 25 March 1709. Without the two 12-page quarterly issues. The periodical would stop publication in 1711. Edited by Aaron Hill and Marshall Smith, with probable contributions from John Gay, John Arbuthnot, and Samuel Garth, among others. Contains questions from readers and answers from contributors on miscellaneous topics including theology, science, mathematics, natural history, medicine, music, customs, manners, etc. with foreign news, news of war, shipping, advertisements, and much poetry, often ribald. Contemporary manuscript notation on verso of title page by former owner titled "The Disparity" about Sampson signed "Thomas Mellin his own Book." On two blanks at the rear is manuscript music titled "A Song By Mr. H[enry] Purcell," which is his well-known composition "What Can We Poor Females Do" written in 1694. There is also a small sheet of paper laid in with a manuscript statement in an early hand about the volume's contents. Bookplate of Isaac John Greenwood on the front pastedown. Old, mostly rather faint dampstain at bottom of many pages; binding rather worn but intact with a one-inch chip at the head of the spine. About Very Good .

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Book number: 021464

Catalogue: Periodicals

Keywords: 18th Century Literature, Periodicals, Music, 18th Century Science, Theology, Poetry, Natural History, Early Newspapers 18th Century Periodicals Poetry Early Newspapers Music

Catalogue of the Books on Bibliography, Typography and Engraving, in the New-York State Library

Albany, Charles Van Benthuysen, 1858. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo in contemporary 1/2 black morocco leather with morocco tips; 143 pages. Scarce early American catalogue on the subject. Rubbed. Contents clean .

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Book number: 002086

Catalogue: Printing

Keywords: Books on Books, Printing, Bibliography, Typography Engraving Bibliography Americana Typography

The Charlemagne Tower Collection of American Colonial Laws

[Philadelphia], The Historical Society of Pennsylvania [J. B. Lippincott Company], 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. Pebbled black cloth. Quarto; 298 pages. Contains a biography of Tower as well as a detailed catalog of American Laws. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Tower on the front endpaper and scarce as such: "To/D. Mc N. Stauffer Esqre/with the compliments of/Charlemagne Tower [?]/9 January 1891./Philadelphia." With the recipient's (David McNeely Stauffer) bookplate on the front pastedown. Uncut and largely unopened. Near Fine David McNeely Stauffer (1845-1913) was an American civil engineer, editor, artist, and collector. He worked for several railroads including the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad until 1876 when he went into private practice. He wrote scholarly articles and edited the Engineering News. In addition to collecting autographs and illustrations, he designed book plates and did pen and ink drawings.

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Book number: 019917

Catalogue: Signed

Keywords: Signed, Law, Bibliography, Books on Books, Legal, Book Collecting, Books on Books Signed Law Book Collecting Books on Books

The Collection of the Garden Ltd. Magnificent Books and Manuscripts

New York, Sotheby's, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. Includes 308 lots, every item with color or B&W photographic illustrations, many full-page. List of sale results is loosely inserted. A magnificent collection that brought magnificent prices. Near Fine .

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Book number: 008860

Catalogue: Auctions

Keywords: Auctions, Books on Books Reference Books on Books Auctions Bibliography