AGRICOLA, Georgius

De Re Metallica. Libri XII. Quibus Officia, Instrumenta, Machinae, Ac Omnia Denique Ad Metallicam Spectantia...

Basil, Ludovici Regis, 1621. Third Latin Edition. Hardcover. Folio (8" x 12-1/2") bound in library buckram; irregularly paginated: [10], 502, [58] pages. Illustrated with 270 woodcuts, many full and half page, some signed with the monogram "RMD," and generally attributed to Hans Rudolf Manuel Deutsch (fl.1525-1572) or, less commonly, Blasius Weffring. Previously published in 1556 and 1561, this edition seems scarcer than either of the previous. PRINTING & THE MIND OF MAN 79: "The first systematic treatise on mining and metallurgy and one of the first technological books of modern times." Herbert Hoover, who first translated this book into English, described this title in his autobiography as "the first important attempt to assemble systematically in print the world-knowledge on mining, metallurgy, and industrial chemistry. It was the great textbook of those industries for two centuries and had dominated thought and practice all that time. In many mining regions and camps, including the Spanish South America, it was chained to the church altar and translated by the priest to the miners between religious services." The book combines a profound technical and financial knowledge of mining with an underlying interest in the health and daily routine of mine workers. The woodcut impressions are strong and dark. Complete but for the two fold-out diagrams lacking. As customary with this title, there is browning throughout, occasionally heavy. Small piece of title page repaired with no loss of text or illustration; ink names of David Stuart dated 1771 and Joseph Robertson dated 1830 on title page. Library bookplate on front pastedown and small ink number on the title page illustration; no other library markings except for numbers on the spine. An important and richly illustrated title. Very Good in a serviceable binding .

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Book number: 014924

Catalogue: Early Printed Books

Keywords: Illustrated Books, Early Printed Books, Metallurgy, Science, Woodcuts, Mining, 17th Century Illustrated Books, PMM, Printing and the Mind of Man Early Printed Books Metallurgy Science 17th Century Illustrated Books

AIKEN, Conrad

Autograph Letter Signed (Als)

25 June 1917. Letter. An early four-page handwritten letter on one 6-1/4" x 9-7/8" sheet of paper folded into fours to American poet Orrick Johns, explaining his comparison of Johns to Edwin Arlington Robinson and responding to a comparison of his 1916 book of poetry, THE JIG OF FORSLIN: A SYMPHONY, to the writing of Charles Baudelaire. In part: "I was delighted to get your letter.. As to that echo of Robinson, perhaps I should have been more just if I had said similarity instead of echo: though even so I did not mean to put too much emphasis on the idea. In two or three of your things I felt something of Robinson's trick of veiled reference, inuendo, coupled with terseness of rhythm: certainly, nothing to worry about! I quite agree with you in your feeling about him. I admire rather than like him. I imagine that if I were drunk I should call him a Missing Puritan. You are the third person to link Forslin with Baudelaire. I don't know whether to be provoked or not, because all I know of Baudelaire is hearsay. I ve never read him-- not a solitary thing. So he is what I imagine him to be,-- a decadent for decadence s sake,-- there, I am provoked! Because I don't think I belong in that class. The decadent stream in FORSLIN is put there merely as one part of a rather complex pattern, on the assumption (certainty?) that it is an important element in the unrealistic life of homo sapiens.-- I've got three books, some antedating FORSLIN, some contemporaneous with it, some subsequent, which I expect to get out during the next two years, in the hope of destroying any idea that I am a seeker for the merely phosphorescent. I am glad to know that you may come east. If you do, and get to Boston or anywhere near it, for heaven's sake let me know. Intelligent people are rare now in Boston. Lightly creased and toned. About Fine .

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Book number: 020952

Catalogue: Signed

Keywords: Signed, Modern First Editions, Modern Firsts, Modern Poetry, Conrad Aiken Signed Modern First Editions Autograph Letters Literature: American

ALARCON, Don Pedro Antonio de

The Three-Cornered Hat

New York, Limited Editions Club, 1959. Hardcover. Quarto (7-1/2" x 11-1/4") bound in cloth-backed boards covered in colorful Granada Tiles fabric. Color illustrations by Roger Duvoisin. Translated by Martin Armstrong, introduction by Gerald Brenan. Printed at the Plantin Press, Los Angeles. Copy #1087 of 1500 numbered copies SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in. Ill.: Roger Duvoisin. Fine in a Fine slipcase .

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Book number: 000704

Catalogue: Limited Editions Club

Keywords: Signed, Spanish Literature, Literature Roger Duvoisin Signed Illustrated Books Spanish Literature Fine Press

ALARCON, Don Pedro Antonio de

The Three-Cornered Hat

New York, Limited Editions Club, 1959. Hardcover. Quarto (7-1/2" x 11-1/4") bound in cloth-backed boards covered in colorful Granada Tiles fabric. Color illustrations by Roger Duvoisin. Translated by Martin Armstrong, introduction by Gerald Brenan. Printed at the Plantin Press, Los Angeles. Copy #39 of 1500 numbered copies SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Ill.: Roger Duvoisin. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Fine in a lightly soiled, Near Fine slipcase .

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Book number: 017777

Catalogue: Limited Editions Club

Keywords: Signed, Spanish Literature, Literature Roger Duvoisin Signed Illustrated Books Spanish Literature Fine Press

ALBEE, Edward; ASHBERY, John; CADMUS, Paul; CAPOTE, Truman; et. al

Autograph Guest Book for the Banfer Gallery, Inc

1967 - 1968. hardcover. Autograph Guest Book (10" x 7-5/8") in gilt-lettered red cloth maintained 1967-1968 by the Banfer Gallery, Inc. in New York City and containing autographs on 95 pages including Edward Albee, John Ashbery, Paul Cadmus (5 times), Truman Capote, Jean Charlot, Adolf Dehn, Michael Frank, Stephen Holden, Alice Neel, Charles Rain (2 times), Ned Rorem, and many others. Near Fine .

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Book number: 019782

Catalogue: Signed

Keywords: Signed, Modern Firsts, Modern Art, Autograph Album, Modern First Editions, Autographs Autographs Modern First Editions Modern Art Literature: American

ALBEE, Edward

A Delicate Balance

New York, Atheneum, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Pulitzer Prize winner SIGNED at a later date by the author. About Fine in a Fine dustwrapper .

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Book number: 007943

Catalogue: Signed

Keywords: Signed, Plays, Pulitzer Prize, Edward Albee, Theater, Modern Firsts, Drama, Modern First Editions Signed Pulitzer Prize Modern First Editions Literature: American

ALCORN, Alfred

The Pull of the Earth

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1985. First Edition. Softcover. Uncorrected Proof in light green printed wraps of the author's first book, with promotional material laid in. Small sticker residue on front cover, otherwise Fine .

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Book number: 017133

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

Keywords: 20th Century American Literature, Modern Firsts Modern First Editions First Book Literature: American Uncorrected Proof

ALCOTT, Louisa May

Autograph Manuscript (Am): Two Pages from Jack and Jill: A Village Story

no date [1880]. Manuscript. Two 7-5/8" x 9-3/4" pages of AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT on two lined sheets of paper consisting of @300 words completely in Alcott's hand. In part: "'Jill goes wherever Jack does & he lets her. He's such a good-natured chap he can't say No.' 'To a girl,' shyly added one of the boys who had wished to borrow the red sled & been politely refused because Jill wanted it. 'He's the nicest boy in the world for he never gets mad,' said the timid young lady recalling the many times Jack had shielded her from the terrors which beset her path to school in the shape of cows, dogs, & boys who made faces & called her 'Fraid cat.'" Much more. Minor soiling, Near Fine. Housed in a Fine custom-made blue half-morocco slipcase with raised bands and gilt lettering on the spine .

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Book number: 016226

Catalogue: Manuscript

Keywords: Autograph Manuscript, Women's Literature, 19th Century American Literature, 19th Century Literature, Children's Literature Autograph Manuscript 19th Century American Literature Children's Literature Literature: American

ALDINGTON, Richard

Images (1910-1915)

[London], The Poetry Bookshop, [1915]. First Edition. Softcover. Pictorial wraps featuring a hand-colored block print by John Nash. Aldington's first book, a landmark of the Imagist Movement, this copy SIGNED by the poet on the verso of the cover and dated 1917. Light soiling. Near Fine for this fragile piece .

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Book number: 019814

Catalogue: Signed

Keywords: Signed, First Book, First Books, Modern First Editions, Modern Firsts, Imagism, Modern Poetry, John Nash Signed Modern First Editions Modern Poetry Literature: English

(HUXLEY, Aldous and SAYERS, Dorothy)

Oxford Poetry 1918

Oxford, B. H. Blackwell, 1918. First Edition. Wraps. Blue wraps with a printed label. Very early appearances by Aldous Huxley and Dorothy Sayers. Owner name dated 1919 on the half-title page. Minor staining and wear to wraps. Very Good .

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Book number: 006394

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

Keywords: Dorothy Sayers, Bloomsbury, Aldous Huxley, Oxford Poetry, Modern First Editions, Modern Poetry, Modern Firsts Modern First Editions Modern Poetry Anthology Literature: English

COGNIAUX, Celestin Alfred and GOOSSENS, Alphonse

Dictionnaire Iconographique Des Orchid Es

Brussels, F. Havermans, 1897-1907. First Edition. Softcover. Collection of original parts (7-1/4" x 5-1/2") housed in publisher's purple cloth folders with gilt lettering and ribbon ties along with a small pamphlet containing a table of plates: DICTIONNAIRE ICONOGRAPHIQUE DES ORCHIDEES. TABLE DES PLANCHES. Bruxelles: Vandievot, [1902]. Apparently complete work with approximately 824 fine chromolithographed plates of orchids, including a few folding, with accompanying descriptive text. Goossens, perhaps the greatest of all orchid painters, illustrated this rarest of all serially-published orchid iconographies with only 250 examples published. NISSEN BBI 2236n. A total of 17 volumes, plus index, with the larger genera of the orchid gathered in individual volumes and the remaining in two large compilation sections. The final volume comprises 61 supplementary text parts. Issued in an edition of only 250 copies. Also included is the wrapper-bound index volume. Library labels on spines and penciled numbering on title leaves but no library marking to contents. Plates overall very good to fine, a few of the folding plates splitting along the crease, some plates with small adhesion spots from opposing leaves. Very Good or better and quite scarce .

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Book number: 021673

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: Orchids, Chromolithographs, Floral, Botanical, Illustrated Books, Flowers, Gardening Botanicals Orchids Illustrated Books Flowers

ALGREN, Nelson

A Walk on the Wild Side

New York, Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, (1956). First Edition. Hardcover. A superb Association Copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author filling the front endpaper to noted bookman and journalist Van Allen Bradley: "For Van,/Whose thoughtful/criticism has afforded/me real footing,/from a little book/about Chicago to/the present, and/in hope any books/I'm lucky enough to/do in the future will/deserve that same/consideration./Sincerely,/Nelson/Algren/May 21 56." Algren met Bradley when he interviewed Algren for a profile for the CHICAGO DAILY NEWS in 1952. Bradley had previously praised Algren's CHICAGO: CITY ON THE MAKE as a work of genius, which Algren references in his inscription. A film was made of this book in 1962 starring Jane Fonda with a script by John Fante. Minor bump at heel of spine. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper .

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Book number: 020769

Catalogue: Signed

Keywords: Signed, Association Copy, Modern First Editions, Inscribed, Modern Firsts, Movie Fiction, Van Allen Bradley, Chicago Signed Modern First Editions Association Copy Literature: American

ALLEN, Hervey

Anthony Adverse

Mt. Vernon, Limited Editions Club, 1937. Hardcover. Three octavo (6-1/2" x 10") volumes bound in orange linen with "The Artist's Note Upon the Lithographs" laid in. This important historical romance is here published a few years after its first publication with a new introduction by the author. Copy #1377 of 1500 numbered copies illustrated with 9 striking lithographs drawn on the stone by Edward Wilson and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Ill.: Edward Wilson. Spines just a trifle dull. About Fine in an about Fine slipcase .

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Book number: 003888

Catalogue: Limited Editions Club

Keywords: Lithographs, Signed, Illustrated Books, Limited Editions Club, Modern First Editions, Color Plates, Modern Firsts, Edward Wilson Edward Wilson Signed Illustrated Books Limited Editions Club Literature: American

ALLEN, Hervey

Anthony Adverse

Mt. Vernon, Limited Editions Club, 1937. Hardcover. Three octavo (6-1/2" x 10") volumes bound in orange linen. This important historical romance is here published a few years after its first publication with a new introduction by the author. Copy #540 of 1500 numbered copies illustrated with 9 striking lithographs drawn on the stone by Edward Wilson and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Ill.: Edward Wilson. Spines somewhat darkened. Near Fine in an intact, Very Good slipcase .

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Book number: 018407

Catalogue: Limited Editions Club

Keywords: Lithographs, Signed, Illustrated Books, Limited Editions Club, Modern First Editions, Color Plates, Modern Firsts, Edward Wilson Edward Wilson Signed Illustrated Books Limited Editions Club Literature: American

ALLEN, Hervey

Anthony Adverse

Mt. Vernon, Limited Editions Club, 1937. Hardcover. Three octavo (6-1/2" x 10") volumes bound in orange linen. This important historical romance is here published a few years after its first publication with a new introduction by the author. Copy #473 of 1500 numbered copies illustrated with 9 striking lithographs drawn on the stone by Edward Wilson and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Ill.: Edward Wilson. Spines a little faded. Near Fine in a Good slipcase with neatly repaired split at the top edge .

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Book number: 021133

Catalogue: Limited Editions Club

Keywords: Lithographs, Signed, Illustrated Books, Limited Editions Club, Modern First Editions, Color Plates, Modern Firsts, Edward Wilson Edward Wilson Signed Illustrated Books Limited Editions Club Literature: American