Bartlett, John

Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature. Signed by John Bartlett

Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, 1892. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Rare Presentation Copy of the ninth edition and the last edited by Bartlett himself, this copy is warmly inscribed: "Mary D. Flagg / With the / sincere regard of / John Bartlett". In a handsome contemporary full crushed morocco leather binding. Spine ornately gilt, five raised bands, each compartment with fine gilt devices & decorations; boards with gilt rules and devices in the corners, gilt patterned inner dentelles. Text block clean, tight & sound. Minimal rubs. 8vo. 1158 pp. A bright, clean & lovely example of this American Classic seldom encountered inscribed. .

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Book number: 33550

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Bass, Rick

Winter. Notes from Montana. Signed

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. First Edition Signed by Rick Bass on the half-title page. 8vo. 162 pp. A fine copy in 1/4 beige cloth over camel paper covered boards, copper titles to the spine, in a fine pictorial dustwrapper. A classic celebration of winter in northwest Montana's Yaak valley. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 32795

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Baum, L. Frank

Little Wizard of Oz. [Wizard of Oz, Signed by Cast: Judy Garland [Dorothy], Bert Lahr [the Cowardly Lion], Ray Bolger [Scarecrow], [the "Wicked Witch", Margaret Hamilton Not Present] But Billie Burke [Glinda - Everyone's Favourite Witch] and Her Signature Is Rarely Encountered, Jack Haley [the Tin Man ] and [the Wizard Himself] Frank Morgan, Aka John R. Neill Present As Well. ]

Chicago, Reilly & Britton, 1914. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed By The Major Cast Members. First edition First state, 8vo. yellow cloth, decorated endpapers, pages bulking at 1st state, 1" on better grade paper stock vs 1 1/4" on cheaper, thicker paper stock. Color plates throughout. A very good attractive copy, showing general light use [some professional archival repair & evidence of some early more primitive retouching to the covers]. This very prized copy is autographed on the Cowardly Lions Half-Title page by Judy Garland [Dorothy], Bert Lahr [The Cowardly Lion], Ray Bolger [Scarecrow], [the "Wicked Witch", Margaret Hamilton not present] but Billie Burke [Glinda - everyone's favourite Witch] is & her signature is rarely encountered, Jack Haley [The Tin Man ] & [The Wizard himself] Frank Morgan, aka John R. Neill present as well. A wonderful and very special example of a Children's Classic. In a custom collector's clamshell case. .

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Book number: 33691

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BAUM, L. Frank

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz [Collector's Custom Clamshell Case Only - Not a Book]

Chicago, George M. Hill Co, 1900. 1st Edition Clamshell Collector's Case. No Binding. 1st Edition Clamshell Collector's Case. No Binding. First Edition Clamshell Case. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum Collector's Clamshell Case. Chicago 1900.[Book Date]. Superb Custom Fitted Modern Collector's Clamshell Bookcase [Not A Book] HAND-CRAFTED by our conservation team, each box is Gilt-stamped at the spine. This handsome case is finished in rich black Nuba® with a 'sculpted design of the lion [after the book's distinct illustrated wrapper] on the side. Velour finished interior with green cloth sides. This case fits the edition dimensions of: spine 3,8 cm. x height 22,1 cm x width 17,2 cm. Every TBCL case can be finished in a selection of fine leathers & cloths or Nuba® or a combination of both. Nuba® is a fine, supple & durable covering with a neutral ph that has the feel of velvety soft Italian Nubuck leather. This clamshell is perfectly sized to accommodate your first edition. A Handsome Collector's Custom Case for an important Book. Generally over 100 in-stock titles. Custom Craft available upon request. Book definitely NOT included. .

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Book number: 32943

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Beagle, Peter S.

A Fine and Private Place. Signed

New York, Viking, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. First Edition of Beagle's now classic first book, a marvelous work of magic realism, written seven years before Marquez's, One Hundred Years of Solitude, made the form commonly popular in world literature. Signed by Beagle on the front endpaper and embellished with a drawing of the face of a cat in the letter 'P'. A near fine copy in 1/4 green cloth over patterned paper covered boards, green titles to the spine, (previous owner's tiny, discreet name and date on the ffe.), in a bright, pictorial dustwrapper designed by George Salter showing light overall use. 8vo. 272 pp. .

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Book number: 32923

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Beaton, Cecil

Als August 9th C. 1977 (Beaton Mentions in the Letter He Received His Cbe About 5 Years Ago in His Letter Which Would Make It Approx. 1972)

Kensington, Cecil Beaton, 1977. First Edition. First Edition. Signed by Author. August 9th on his 8 Pelham Place, Kensington printed blue letterhead. 8vo. 3 pages in dark blue fountain pen. Addressed: "Darling Anita". (Very likely Anita Loos, an American Actress, with whom Beaton had a long friendship with. The letter starts about his CBE & he muses about being honoured and then writes "that will be it". He goes on to say" " I don't know why [Malet?] gave me the Knighthood. Anyway it has brought me a nice letter & news from you & that's important" Beaton goes on to talk about the countryside, Cornwall, mentions Scotland, Cumberland & that he's leaving for Germany & then Turkey. "..This should be another first". Plans for the fall are vague, mostly due to Alan Lerner, but I may come over for M(y) F(air) Lady Preim(eyer) a lot to tell you - but have to be a long session..I hear such good news of Natasha. What wonderful friendships she does inspire. You have been such an angel to her. With blessings to Gladys .. you from always Mr Cecil Beaton."A very chatty letter in fine condition, signed Cecil Beaton." Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton, CBE [1904 - 1980]. A colourful English fashion & portrait photographer, diarist, painter, interior designer & an Academy Award-winning stage & costume designer for films & the theatre. He was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1970. In the 1920s Beaton became a staff photographer for Vanity Fair and Vogue magazines. He won many awards between 1955 and 1970 during his outstanding career and in 1972 was knighted by Queen Elizabeth for recording the fighting for the British Ministry of Information during World War II. He is well known for his portrait of the 3 year-old blitz victim Eileen Dunne (1940) in a hospital bed in the north of England. Some of the famous celebrities he photographed over the years: Mick Jagger, Marilyn Munroe, Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Grace Kelly and Ingrid Bergman. Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr.Rudolf Nureyev and the British Royal Family including the Queen's Coronation Day in 1953. Beaton won Academy Awards for Best Costume designs for GIGI and My Fair Lady as well as the Academy Award for Best Art Direction in My Fair Lady. As well, he won Tony Awards for Best Costume design for My Fair Lady, Quadrille, Saratoga and Coco to name but a few. .

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Book number: 33092

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Beattie, Ann

Spectacles. Signed

New York, Workman Publishing, 1985. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). From TBCL's Children's Bookcase. First Edition Inscribed by the author on the title-page flourished with a drawing of spectacles. A fine copy in the publisher's gray cloth, copper titles to the spine in a striking pictorial dustwrapper. Colour illustrations throughout. Square 8vo. 37 pp. A charming tale by this New Yorker writer. /Dust Jacket Included.

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Book number: 20140

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Behan, Brendan

Brendan Behan's Island. An Irish Sketch-Book. Drawings by Paul Hogarth

New York, Bernard Geis Associates, 1962. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. First Edition Signed by Brendan Behan and Paul Hogarth to the title page. A fine copy in brown cloth, gilt titles to the spine in a near fine pictorial dustwrapper, showing a touch of use. 8vo. 192 pp. A charming and witty tour of Ireland by one of her finest authors. /Dust Jacket Included.

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Book number: 27160

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Bell, Vanessa

Autograph Letter Signed (Als)

London, Vanessa Bell, 1938. First Edition. First Edition. Signed by Author. One sheet of stationery, measuring 7 by 9 inches, writing on the recto. Autograph letter signed by artist Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf's sister, sending a prospectus for the art school at which she was teaching. The letter, on stationery from her London studio of 8 Fitzroy Street, reads in full: "Museum 5596. February 12, 1938. Dear Sir, I enclose a short prospectus of the school in which I teach. The address given is No 12 Fitzroy street, but it is moving in the course of the next week or two to larger premises in the Euston Road, about 5 minutes off. I shall be glad to give any further information if you may care to make an appointment with Mr. Claude Rogers who can give full details. Yours very truly Vanessa Bell." The school Bell refers to was at the time known as The School of Drawing and Painting, started in 1937 at 12 Fitzroy before moving in 1938 to 316 Euston Road; although it closed shortly after in 1939 with the outbreak of World War II, its influence was considerable enough that for a time "Euston Road School" was used as a sort of shorthand to describe artists whose work moved "away from modernist styles to a more straightforward naturalism" (Chilvers, Glaves-Smith, Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art, 220). Expected fold lines. Fine condition. .

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Book number: 33079

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Bell, Quentin

Glazed Ceramic Bowl - Designed by Quentin Bell

London, Fulham Pottery and Laura Ashley, 1986. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. A glazed Bowl sold exclusively in limited numbers by Laura Ashley in 1986 painted in beautiful pinks, yellows and blue glazes in the Bloomsbury palette style. Virginia Woolf's nephew Quentin Bell, was her official biographer. .

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Book number: 33310

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Bell, Vanessa

Notes on Virginia's Childhood. A Memoir

New York: Frank Hallman. 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Number 214 of 300 Numbered copies, printed by Andrew Hoyem in San Francisco. 8vo. Unpaginated. Edited by Richard J. Schaubeck, Jr. Fine in gray cloth, purple titles to the upper cover. No dustwrapper, as issued. Read to the Memoir Club in 1949, Vanessa Bell recalled how her sister was "not very old when speech became the deadliest weapon as used by her", and described the misery she felt as a child when Woolf gave her the nickname "The Saint". Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine .

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Book number: 32751

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Bell, Quentin

Techniques of Terracotta. Signed

London: Chatto & Windus/The Hogarth Press, (1985). First Edition. Original Wraps. First Edition. Original Wraps. Signed by Author. First Edition Signed by Quentin Bell on the half-title page. A fine copy in the publisher's pictorial stiff card wrappers published simultaneously with the cloth issue, portraying a design by Quentin Bell. Black and white illustrations by Julian Bell. A superbly informative look at potting and sculpting by the son of Vanessa Bell and nephew of Virginia Woolf. 8vo. 112 pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine .

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Book number: 32761

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(Bell, Vanessa). Bell, Quentin. Garnett, Angelica

Vanessa Bell's Family Album

London: Jill Norman & Hobhouse Ltd, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. A fine copy in black cloth, silver titles to the spine in a near fine pictorial dustwrapper portraying a stunning photograph of a seated Vanessa Bell. Small 4to. 144 pp. Introduction by Quentin Bell. With notes by Angelica Garnett. Revealing and unique camera portraits of the Bloomsbury Group and private family photographs at Charleston and abroad, snapped by the very private Vanessa Bell. A truly stunning photographic memoir recalling Vanessa and Clive Bell, Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Duncan Grant, Roger Fry, Dora Carrington, John Maynard Keynes, Lytton Strachey, Gerald Brenan, E.M. Forster, David Garnett et al. A fascinating portrait. Size: Small 4to. Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 32808

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(Bell, Vanessa). Bell, Quentin. Garnett, Angelica

Vanessa Bell's Family Album. - Signed

London, Jill Norman & Hobhouse Ltd, 1981. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Signed on the fly leaf by the editors by Quintin Bell, Anne Olivier Bell, Nigel Nicolson, Deborah Gage and Angelica Garnett. First Edition. A near fine copy in black cloth, silver titles to the spine in a near fine pictorial dustwrapper portraying a stunning photograph of a seated Vanessa Bell. Small 4to. 144 pp. Introduction by Quentin Bell. With notes by Angelica Bell Garnett. Revealing and unique camera portraits of the Bloomsbury Group and private family photographs at Charleston and abroad, snapped by the very private Vanessa Bell. A truly stunning photographic memoir recalling Vanessa and Clive Bell, Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Duncan Grant, Roger Fry, Dora Carrington, John Maynard Keynes, Lytton Strachey, Gerald Brenan, E.M. Forster, David Garnett et al. A fascinating portrait. .

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Book number: 33149

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Berryman, John

Homage to Mistress Bradstreet

New York, Farrar Straus Cudahy (1956), 1956. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Ben Shahn. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. A fine fresh copy in the publisher's original pictorial cloth boards in like pictorial dustwrapper. 8vo. 59 pp. A truly outstanding copy of the poet's richly allusive and moving inquiry into the personal and spiritual life of the Colonial poet, Anne Bradstreet, written in 1948-53 & published in 1956, stylistically marking a major breakthrough for Berryman. Stefanik A7.1a. Excellent. Ill.: Ben Shahn. /Dust Jacket Included.

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Book number: 31504

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Keywords: LITERATURE/ POETRY/ AMERICAN POETS/ FIRST EDITION/ RANDALL JARRELL/. Electronic List TBCL A Poetry Beat