Barbusse, Henri.

Chains. Translated from the French by Stephen Haden Guest. [Two Volumes in One Edition].

New York: International Publishers, (1925). (1925). - Octavo, 7-3/4 inches high by 5-3/8 inches wide. Green cloth titled in orange on the front cover and the spine. The corners are bumped and the rear cover is slightly stained. There is wear to the head of the darkened spine. 302 & [1] pages. The text block is cracked opposite the half-title. Good. Good .

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Book number: 97322

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: LITERATURE; FRENCH NOVEL; HENRI BABUSSE; CHAINS; TWENTIETH CENTURY; 20TH CENTURY; TRANSLATED BY STEPHEN HADEN GUEST; FRENCH AUTHORS; FICTION.

[Bard, John & Margaret]. [Bard College].

A Collection of 29 Original Cyanotype Photographs of St. Stephen's College Later to Become Bard College Together with 14 Original Pamphlets, Brochures & Other Original Ephemeral Publications, Including 3 Related to the Ritual "Burying of the Algebra".

Annandale, NY: 1890 through 1896. [1890's], [1890's]. Annandale, NY: 1890 through 1896. [1890's], [1890's]. Good. - A collection of original photographs and original brochures and ephemeral publications relating to St. Stephen's College of Annandale, NY, which was founded by John & Margaret Bard and was later to become Bard College, of Annandale-on-the-Hudson. Included are 30 original photographs including 29 cyanotypes, 13 of which depict college buildings, the remaining 17 being portraits and scenery, including the campus, Zabriskies Falls, and interiors. The cyan-tinged images range from 4 inches high by 3-1/4 inches wide to 9 inches high by 6-1/2 inches wide with a variety of sizes in between. One of the images is an exception, being sienna-toned and not, in fact, a cyanotype. The photographs are in various condition, some are fine while others are creased or lightly stained with one portrait having several tears to the edges. Also included in this collection are 14 ephemeral publications and brochures relating to St. Stephen's College with programs and flyers for events, including 3 relating to the ritual burying of the algebra by incoming freshmen. The items were all apparently once removed from a scrapbook and thus the condition varies. A few have stains while several have remnants of paper or glue on the versos. Following is a list of the images represented by the photographs: 1) The entrance to Potter Hall (part of Stone Row) with a horse-drawn cart. 2) An unidentified image which looks like a dormitory building. 3) Chapel of Holy Innocents and St. Margaret's Well with the Stone Row dormitories in the background 4) Chapel of Holy Innocents & St. Margaret's Well (1890) [Part of Stone Row in the background]. 5) Bard Hall (1891). [There are glue or chemical stains to the edges of this photo]. 6) An unidentified image. [This is a small photo with creasing & stains]. 7) Aspinwall Hall. 8) Interior of the Chapel of Holy Innocents, Christmas 1890. (There is a light corner stain). 9) Chapel of Holy Innocents, 1891. (There is a light corner stain). 10) Interior of the Chapel of Holy Innocents (decorated at Christmas). 11) Chapel of Holy Innocents. 12) Landscape in snow, with the Chapel of Holy Innocents & St. Margaret's Well. (There is creasing to this photo, mainly at the edges). 13) "Stone Row" dormitories (1893), with the Chapel of Holy Innocents & St. Margaret's Well in the foreground. 14) Interior of a dorm room with 2 students. 15) A staged photo of 2 students in wedding attire, one is in drag. 16) Three Class of 1894 students. (This photo has a crease along the center). 17 through 22) Six different photos of Zabriskies Falls. (One, a small sepia-toned photo has a crease along the edge, another has minor creases and a third has a light stain). 23) Large group of students in front of the Chapel of Holy Innocents. 24) Three students. (There is creasing to this photo). 25) A view of the campus. 26) Photo of the Class of 1897. (This photo is quite dark). 27) Interior of a room with 2 students. 28) A group of 13 students (June 1893). 29) A view from the campus showing the Catskills & Hudson River. 30) A portrait of the President of the College, Robert B Fairbairn. The ephemera related to St. Stephen's College consists of: 1) A 4-page "St. Stephen's College Glee Club" program bound in cream wraps titled in red with a silk cord. The program is dated "March '93" in ink at the bottom of the cover. 2) A 2-page "St. Stephen's College" brochure. The top edge of the second page is trimmed without loss of text. 3) A 4-page St. Stephen's College "Field Day / June 20, 1893" brochure with penciled notes indicating the winners. 4) The 4-page "Thirty-Fourth Commencement" program. Dated June 21, 1894. 5) "The St. Stephen's College Messenger" issue dated April 1896. 6) A broadside of the St. Stephen's College schedule and rules. The broadside is stained. 7) A small card with the program for the "Eulexian Society Reunion Supper" (a literary society), dated June 21, 1893. 8) An announcement printed on mourning stationery regretting that "The Class of Ninety-six" could not invite the recipient to "the burying of its Algebra on account of the secrecy of the burial". Together with the original mourning envelope. 9) A 3-page program for the "Laying of the Corner-stone" of the Hoffman Library dated June 22, 1893. Construction of the library began in 1893 and was completed in 1895. 10) A humorous description of the death and burial of algebra in 1894 and it's subsequent exhumation by the class of 1897. The 4-page announcement is printed on light gray card stock shaped as a tombstone. The original mourning envelope is present. 11) A 4-page program with class statistics entitled "Class Day S. Stephen's College. June 15, 1892". In addition to age, height and weight, the statistics include favorite drink ("brandy", "rain water", "blood" etc), favorite study ("himself", "women", "how to do nothing", etc)), favorite amusement "sleeping", scrapping", "being sick", etc), and others. 12) The 4-page "Thirty-Third Annual Commencement" program dated June 22, 1893 with profuse penciled notes. 13) Unused 4-page "St. Stephen's College" letterhead. 14) The 1894 "Funeral" program for algebra printed in red on buff card stock in the shape of a coffin. Purple mourning lines frame the edges of the 4 pages of card stock which is bound at the top with red cotton ribbon. The tradition behind the burial of the algebra was sort of a light hazing ritual performed by freshmen students. Thirty days after arriving at Bard, the freshmen were to steal an algebra book which they were to then sign and bury with several bottles of wine. Then, the night before commencement the students now seniors, would dig it up and consume the wine, raising a toast to their graduating class. The ritual is described as follows in a 1930 issue of the Lyre Tree, a student newspaper: "There is a tradition of long standing at St. Stephen's that within 30 days after the close of the first semester the Freshman class shall, with all the ritual and solemnity due to the occasion, secretly inter an algebra, autographed by each member of the class and with it a certain quantity of wine. To be legal, every Freshman must be at the grave during the burial. At the end of the four years, the algebra is exhumed and burned on a funeral pyre, during the Class Day exercises. Toasts are drunk to the college and to the outgoing and incoming Senior class." "St. Stephen's College was established as a Training College for the Ministry, and as such it was requested to make an annual report to the Convention of the Diocese of New York. The object was the supervision of the young men who had devoted themselves to the ministry of the Church. It was afterwards opened to any who would not disturb the general purpose for which it was originally instituted." [Quoted from "The Thirty-First Annual Catalogue of St. Stephen's College, Annandale, N.Y. 1892-93". The land now owned by Bard College was once composed of several country estates, Blithewood, Bartlett, Sands, Cruger's Island, and Ward Manor/Almont among them. John & Margaret Bard purchased a part of the Blithewood estate in 1853. Renaming the property as Annandale, they established a parish school the following year. They then began building the Chapel of the Innocents next to Bard Hall in 1857 and the following year donated the unfinished Chapel and surrounding acreage to New York's Episcopal diocese which had promised financial support to grow the school into a theological college. St. Stephen's College was thus founded in 1860. In honor of its founder, the school changed its name to Bard College in 1934. Ten years later, in 1944, Bard became a co-educational school, welcoming female students and faculty. Good .

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Book number: 36700

Catalogue: Education

Keywords: EDUCATION; PHOTOGRAPHY; COLLEGES; SCHOOLS; AMERICANA; HISTORY; NEW YORK STATE; ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS; ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE; CYANOTYPE; JOHN BARD; MARGARET BARD; BARD COLLEGE; COLLECTION; PAMPHLETS; BROCHURES; EPHEMERA; BURYING OF THE ALGEBRA; PORTRAIT

Bard, William (1778-1853),

A Letter, to David E. Evans, Esquire, of Batavia, on Life Insurance; from William Bard, President of the New York Life Insurance and Trust Co. December 1st, 1832,

New York: Print of William Van Norden, 1832. 1832. New York: Print of William Van Norden, 1832. 1832. Very good. - Small octavo [6-1/2 inches high by 4-1/4 inches wide], softcover, printed self-wraps. Disbound, removed in the distant past from a larger collection of pamphlets. 17 & [3] pages. Illustrated with 3 full-page tables. There is a small stain to the title with offsetting to the following leaf. Very good.

First edition.

Bard was a pioneer in life insurance and his company was the first to make it a specialty. In this pamphlet, he replied to public suspicion and current criticism of insurance and predicted a rapid development for it.

Scarce. Very good .

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Book number: 13180

Catalogue: Economics

Keywords: ECONOMICS; LIFE INSURANCE; WILLIAM BARD; NEW YORK LIFE INSURANCE AND TRUST; PAMPHLET; A LETTER, TO DAVID E. EVANS, ESQUIRE, OF BATAVIA, ON LIFE INSURANCE; NINETEENTH CENTURY; 19TH CENTURY; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION.

Bardi, P. M

Profile of the New Brazilian Art / P.M. Bardi, Director of the Museum of Art, Sao Paolo

[Rio de Janeiro]: Livraria Kosmos Editura, (1970). (1970). [Rio de Janeiro]: Livraria Kosmos Editura, (1970). (1970). Good. - Quarto [11-3/4 inches high by 9-1/2 inches wide], cloth, in a dust wrapper. There is dampstaining to the tail of the spine & the adjacent corners of the covers. The front cover is lightly spotted with a small area of white staining to its bottom edge. The dust jacket is lightly soiled. There is a crease to the front panel with a tear to its bottom edge & a small area of the surface rubbed away. The bottom edge of the dust jacket is stained internally. 160 pages. Profusely illustrated in color & black & white. The publisher's labels are on the title page & on its verso. There is occasional spotting & staining & small areas of the bottom inner corners of pages 158 & 159 have been rubbed away. Good. Good .

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Book number: 11881

Catalogue: Art

Keywords: ART; BRAZILIAN; TWENTIETH CENTURY ART; 20TH CENTURY ART; PROFILE OF THE NEW BRAZILIAN ART; P. M. BARDI; INDIAN ART; POPULAR ART; CRAFTS; PAINTING; GRAPHIC ART; DESIGN; ARCHITECTURE.

(Crabbe, George). Bareham, T.; and Gatrell, S

A Bibliography of George Crabbe

Folkestone, U.K.: Wm. Dawson & Sons Ltd. / Hamden, CT: Achon Books, (1978). (1978). Folkestone, U.K.: Wm. Dawson & Sons Ltd. / Hamden, CT: Achon Books, (1978). (1978). Fine. - Octavo, light gray cloth titled in gilt. A bit soiled. vii & 194 pp. Near fine.

First edition. Fine .

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Book number: 6599

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: BOOKS-ON-BOOKS; REFERENCE; ART OF THE BOOK; BIBLIOGRAPHY; (Literature). (Poetry). A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF GEORGE CRABBE. (Crabbe, George). Bareham, T.; and Gatrell, S.

Barfod, Pie; Bornemann, Claus; Petersen, Hjalmar; editors

Bogen Om Gronland: Kalatdlit-Nunanik Atuagkiak

Kobenhavn [Denmark]: Politikens Forlag, 1968. 1968. Kobenhavn [Denmark]: Politikens Forlag, 1968. 1968. Good. - Small octavo, pictorial paper covered boards. The binding is lightly bumped and the spine is a bit darkened with a stain to the tail. 383 & [1] pages. Numerous black-and-white illustrations & maps. The page edges are darkened. Good.

Second edition.

A handbook on Greenland. The text is in Danish. Good .

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Book number: 30740

Catalogue: Travel & History

Keywords: TRAVEL & HISTORY; REFERENCE; HANDBOOK; GREENLAND; BOGEN OM GRONLAND: Kalatdlit-nunanik atuagkiak; PIE BARFOD; CLAUS BORNEMANN; HJALMAR PETERSEN; MAPS; ILLUSTRATIONS.

Barfod, Pie; Nielsen, Lone; Nielsen, Johan.

Gronlaendere I Danmark 1971-72 Kalatdlit Danmarkime.

(Copenhagen): Samfundsvidenskaberne, (1974). (1974). - Octavo, softcover bound in pictorial tan wrappers. The outer & inner corners of the wraps and the head & tail of the spine are creased. 589 pages. Illustrated with tables. There is some light soiling to the edges of the book. A number of top & bottom page corners are creased. Good.

Bilingual edition in Danish and Greenlandic. The book is a sociological study of Greenlanders in Denmark. Good .

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Book number: 35916

Catalogue: Sociology

Keywords: SOCIOLOGY; DENMARK; GREENLAND; STUDY OF GREENLANDERS IN DENMARK; BILINGUAL DANISH-GREENLANDIC EDITION; GRONLAENDERE I DANMARK 1971-72 KALATDLIT DANMARKIME; PIE BARFOD; LONE NIELSEN; JOHAN NIELSEN.

(Baril, Celine). McAlear, Donna; Falk, Lorne

Barcelone: A Project by / Un Projet de / Celine Baril. Curator/Conservatrice Donna Mcalear. Contributing Writer/Critique Invite Lorne Falk

(Calgary, Alberta: The Nickle Art Museum, The University of Calgary, 1989). 1989). (Calgary, Alberta: The Nickle Art Museum, The University of Calgary, 1989). 1989). Fine. - Octavo, soft covers bound in stiff paper brown wraps wirh a vignette stamped in gilt on the front wrap. 95 pages plus colophon. Black-and-white illustrations. Near fine.

Published on the occasion of a touring Canadian exhibition of a multimedia project. The text is printed in French and English. Fine .

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Book number: 10223

Catalogue: Art

Keywords: ART; CONCEPTUAL ART; MULTIMEDIA; CANADIAN; FRENCH CANADIAN; CELINE BARIL; DONNA MCALEAR; LORNE FALK; EXHIBITION; ILLUSTRATIONS; BARCELONE; BARCELONA; NICKLE ART MUSEUM.

De Barins, M. le Comte

Galerie Des Enfans Celebres, Ou Histoire Des Jeunes Gens Qui Se Sont Illustres Par Leurs Vertus, Leurs Talens, Leur Esprit, Leur Genie, Etc. , Depuis le Quinzieme Siecle Jusqu'a Nos Jours

Paris: Imprimerie de Mme. Huzard, 1836. 1836. Paris: Imprimerie de Mme. Huzard, 1836. 1836. Very good. Illustrated with 4 Engraved Portraits - 12mo, full green calf (bumped, rubbed, scuffed; leather slightly chipped at corners); titled & decorated in gilt on spine with blind-stamped decorations within central panel and outer floral decorated frame in gilt on covers; marbled edges (rubbed). 240 pages (a very few minor stains; browning to last few leaves; tiny piece out from corner of one plate and small piece out from bottom edge of one leaf). Illustrated with 4 engraved portraits, each above a small vignette depicting a scene from the life of the pictured child. A very good copy of this delightful and unusual book.

Very scarce.

Biographies of individuals who came into prominence as children. Includes Kang-Hi, who ascended to the throne of China at the age of 8, Marie Stuart, Louis XIV, Sylvine d'Aubencourt, Napoleon II, Don Carlos, Torquato Tasso, etc. Very good .

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Book number: 8282

Catalogue: Children's & Illustrated

Keywords: CHILDREN; ILLUSTRATED; BIOGRAPHY; HISTORY; KINGS; RULERS; YOUTHS; MARY STUART; KANG-HI; LOUIS XIV; SYLVINE D'AUBENCOURT; NAPOLEON II; SON CARLOS; TORQUATO TASSO; ENGRAVED PORTRAITS; PLATES; ENGRAVINGS; ILLUSTRATIONS.

Barker, Carol

King Midas and the Golden Touch

London and NY: Franklin Watts Limited, 1972. 1972. London and NY: Franklin Watts Limited, 1972. 1972. Good. - Oblong 4to, color pictorial cloth (bumped; small stain to bottom edge of front cover; small scotch tape stain on top edge of each cover) titled in pink & black, in color pictorial dw (head & tail of dw spine reinforced with cloth tape internally). 48 & [5] pp. (small scotch tape stains to top & bottom edges of front & rear endpapers with light paper-clip mark to front endpaper). Profusely illustrated in color by the author. Ex-library with small typed label on tail of dw spine & small stamp on rear endpaper. Good.

The Greek myth of King Midas whose touch turned everything to gold retold by Barker and richly illustrated in gilt and full color. Good .

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Book number: 987

Catalogue: Children's & Illustrated

Keywords: CHILDREN'S; ILLUSTRATED; MYTH; GREEK MYTH; KING MIDAS; MIDAS TOUCH; ILLUSTRATOR; CAROL BARKER.

(Barker, Carol). Mahy, Margaret

Pillycock's Shop

NY: Franklin Watts, Inc. 1969. 1969. NY: Franklin Watts, Inc. 1969. 1969. Very good. - 4to, color pictorial cloth titled in black on spine & front cover, in color pictorial dw (lightly chipped & creased; tear to rear panel). [30] pp. (front endpaper slightly creased with short tear). Profusely illustrated in B&W & color by Carol Barker. Very good in good dw.

New Zealand writer Margaret Mahy's tale of a young boy who enters a tiny, mysterious shop where you can only buy one thing and where you must buy it before sundown because then the shop goes away. The illustrations are from detailed, highly decorative drawings by British artist-writer Carol Barker. Very good .

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Book number: 985

Catalogue: Children's & Illustrated

Keywords: CHILDREN'S; ILLUSTRATED; SHOP; MAGIC SHOP; AUTHOR; NEW ZEALAND; MARGARET MAHY; ILLUSTRATOR; BRITISH; CAROL BARKER.

Barker, Elsa.

Poem Signed by Elsa Barker, "One of These Little Ones".

New York: Moods Publishing, (1910). (1910). New York: Moods Publishing, (1910). (1910). Very good. - Octavo, 8 inches high by 6-1/4 inches wide. Unbound sheet removed from a book featuring the poem ""One of These Little Ones" and signed by the poet Elsa Barker. The pages [13-16] were removed in the past from the limited edition book "The Younger Choir" published in 1910. The poem is published across two pages and signed at the end of the poem below the author's printed name. On the versos of the pages are an unsigned poem by Barker, "When I am Dead" and a poem by Herbert Bashford, "The Fall of the Fir". The inner edges of the leaves are rough. There is a very light stain to the upper inner corner of the leaves. A very good boldly autographed poem. Elsa Barker (1869-1954) was an American writer who was interested in the occult. She wrote 3 books which she claimed were messages from a dead man. She said that the books were produced through automatic writing. The books were: "Letters from a Living Dead Man" (1914), "War Letters from the Living Dead Man" (1915), and "Last Letters from the Living Dead Man" (1919). Very good .

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Book number: 98610

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: LITERATURE; POETRY; POEM SIGNED BY ELSA BARKER; ONE OF THESE LITTLE ONES; SIGNATURE; AUTOGRAPH; THE YOUNGER CHOIR; AMERICAN WRITER; OCCULT; METAPHYSICS; AUTOMATIC WRITING; WHEN I AM DEAD; THE FALL OF THE FIR; HERBERT BASHFORD; MOODS PUBLISHING; 20TH CENTU

Barley, Nigel; editor

The Golden Sword: Stamford Raffles and the East

(London): British Museum Press, (1999). (1999). (London): British Museum Press, (1999). (1999). Fine. - Small quarto [9-5/8 inches high by 7-3/8 inches wide], softcover bound in pictorial wrappers. The wraps are very slightly bumped. 96 pages. Illustrated in black & white and color. Near fine.

Published to accompany an exhibition shown at the British Museum from December 1998 to April 1999. A British Museum color picture postcard of a shadow puppet is laid in.

Sir Stamford Raffles [1781-1826] was the founder of Singapore. He is less well known nowadays as a remarkable scholar and collector and as a researcher into all aspects of Malaysian and Javan civilization, languages and natural and cultural history. The essays in this book explore his achievements in those fields. Fine .

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Book number: 21812

Catalogue: Art

Keywords: ART; INDONESIAN; JAVAN; CULTURE; COLLECTOR; SCHOLAR; RESEARCHER; THE GOLDEN SWORD: STAMFORD RAFFLES AND THE EAST; NIGEL BARLEY; ESSAYS; EXHIBITION; BRITISH MUSEUM; ILLUSTRATIONS.

(Barnes, Djuna). Messerli, Douglas

Djuna Barnes: A Bibliography

[NY]: David Lewis, 1975. 1975. [NY]: David Lewis, 1975. 1975. Very good. - Octavo, navy blue cloth titled in gilt. Slightly bumped, soiled & faded. xx & 131 pp. Very good.

Limited edition of 500 copies. Very good .

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Book number: 6660

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: LITERATURE; BIBLIOGRAPHY; REFERENCE; AUTHOR; WOMAN AUTHOR; DJUNA BARNES; DOUGLAS MESSERLI; LIMITED EDITION. (Literature). (Bibliography). DJUNA BARNES: A BIBLIOGRAPHY. (Barnes, Djuna). Messerli, Douglas.

Barnes, Melvin

Murder in Print: A Guide to Two Centuries of Crime Fiction

(London): Barn Owl Books, (1986). (1986). (London): Barn Owl Books, (1986). (1986). Fine. - Octavo, blue cloth titled in silver, in dw. 244 pp. Near fine.

First edition. Fine .

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Book number: 6169

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: LITERATURE; CRIME FICTION; MURDER; REFERENCE; MELVIN BARNES; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION. (Literature). (Crime Fiction). MURDER IN PRINT: A Guide to Two Centuries of Crime Fiction. Barnes, Melvin.