[Moliere 1622 - 1673]

PLAYS By MOLIERE. Modern Library #78

New York: Random House, 1950. Ca 1957. Red cloth binding with gilt title lettering to front board and spine. Black top edge stained. Dust jacket. [2], 364 pp. 7" x 5". Slight lean, some shelf wear otherwise a VG+ copy in a VG+ jacket.

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Book number: 21366.1.

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Abbey, Henry [1842 - 1911]

The CITY OF SUCCESS And OTHER POEMS

New York: D. Appleton & Co, 1884. 1st edition. Red cloth binding with gilt spamped spine and leaf design on upper board. TEG. 142 pp. 8vo. 21cm x 15.5cm. VG (spine faded/ extremities rubbed/ panels soiled/ sticker remnants at spine panel and rear ep). Presentation copy. Signed at fep.

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Book number: 21382

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Abbott, Thomas Eastoe

A SOLDIER'S FRIEND; or, Memorials of Brunswick; A Poem,; Sacred to the Memory of His Royal Highness Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, Commander-in-Chief of All His Majesty's Forces

Hull: Printed and Sold by I Wilson, Lowgate . 1828. 1st Edition. Maroon muslin spine over marbled paper boards, printed paper title label to spine. xv, [1 (Errata)], 72, [2] pp. Untrimmed. Frontispiece engraving. 8vo. 8-1/2" x 5-3/8". General wear to binding with cloth fraying along front joint. Label chipped, mostly obliterated. Soiling to eps, with the front paste-down haveing a Brattle price of $150. An About VG copy.

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Book number: 47780

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Abercrombie, John [1780 - 1844]

The PHILOSOPHY Of The MORAL FEELINGS. Harper's Family Library No. LVIII

New York: J. & J. Harper, 82 Cliff - Street, 1833. 1st edition thus, i.e. by this publisher. Linen cloth binding with printed black lettering. 210 pp of text, followed by adverts. 12mo, bound in 6s. 4" x 6 5/16". VG (spine sltly darkened/some wear at spine ends/text quite clean).

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Book number: 19137

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Ablett, Joseph - Compiler. Hunt, Leigh [1784 - 1859]; Landor, Walter Savage [1775 - 1864] - Contributors

LITERARY HOURS; by Various Friends

Liverpool: Printed by George Smith, 1837. 1st Edition (NCBEL III, 1212 [Landor]). Original publisher's brown embossed cloth binding with printed paper title label to spine. TEG. Pale pink eps. v, [1], [3] - 232 pp. Lithographic portrait frontis. 8vo. 8" x 5". General wear. Foxing. A VG copy. Somewhat uncommon literary compilation, termed a "garland of posies" by Ablett.

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Book number: 47802.1

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Adams, Ansel; Ferris, Melton; Lange, Dorothea; Louie, Ernest; Morgan, Barbara; Newhall, Beaumont ; Newhall, Nancy; Warren, Dody; White, Minor - Founders

APERTURE MAGAZINE. Complete Run, Issue #1 - #227 (Summer 2017)

San Francisco: , 1952. 1st Printing. Original paper covers. Divers paginations. Illustrated from photographs. Divers sizes. The first 14 volumes are housed in two custom grey cloth clamshell cases. The condition of the earlier issues show varying degrees of wear, from Good - VG+, overall a solid VG. The later issues, from the last couple decades tend toward VG+ to Fine. "The magazine was founded in 1952 by a consortium of photographers and proponents of photography: Ansel Adams, Melton Ferris, Dorothea Lange, Ernest Louie, Barbara Morgan, Beaumont Newhall, Nancy Newhall, Dody Warren, and Minor White. It was the first journal since Alfred Stieglitz’s Camera Work to explore photography as a fine art. The journal’s mission, as stated in its inaugural issue: Aperture has been originated to communicate with serious photographers and creative people everywhere, whether professional, amateur or student.. Aperture is intended to be a mature journal in which photographers can talk straight to each other, discuss the problems that face photography as profession and art, share their experiences, comment on what goes on, descry the new potentials. We, who have founded this journal, invite others to use Aperture as a common ground for the advancement of photography. Minor White was appointed by the founders to be the editor of the magazine, which was at first published out of San Francisco. The magazine's dimensions were initially modest (9 3/8 by 6 ¼ inches), and in its first two decades the photographs discussed and published in its pages were exclusively black and white (the preferred mode of most art photographers of the era). Many early issues were loosely organized around thematic concepts (such as â€oeThe Creative Approachâ€� [vol. 2, no. 2, 1953], â€oeThe Controversial ‘Family of Man’â€� [vol. 3, no. 2, 1955], and â€oeSubstance and Spirit of Architectural Photographyâ€� [vol. 6, no. 4, 1958]), or were monographic publications (the first of these was vol. 6, no. 1, 1958, on Edward Weston). In 1953 the editorial offices moved to Rochester, New York. (White joined the staff of the George Eastman House, and in 1955 began teaching at the Rochester Institute of Technology) White was assisted with the magazine’s editorial and production tasks by Peter C. Bunnell. From the outset, the magazine was appreciated by its readers as â€oea much needed forum for serious photographers.â€� In 1962, vol. 10, no. 4, a monograph on photographer Frederick Sommer, was the first of many issues to be published also as a trade book." [Wiki] Here offered, then, is a complete run of this important & influential magazine, an absolutely essential work documenting the evolution of photography as an artform in the later half of the 20th Century, beginning of the 21st. Please note, this collection of Apertures, in its entire, is of considerable weight [100+ lbs], and the postage charge assessed on purchase will reflect this physical aspect.

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Book number: 45626

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Adams, Henry [1838 - 1918]

LETTERS To A NIECE And PRAYER To The VIRGIN Of CHARTRES.; With a Niece's Memories by Mabel La Farge

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1920. 1st edition (BAL 43). Blue cloth binding with gilt lettering. [8], 134 pp. 8vo. VG (spine dull/shelfwear/bpt). Bpt of Arthur A. Milhaupt Jr [designed by Rockwell Kent].

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Book number: 22042

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[Addison, Joseph. 1672 - 1719]

The ADDISONIAN MISCELLANY: Being a Selection of Valuable Pieces from Those Justly Celebrated and Classic Works, the Spectator, Tatler, and Guardian. To Which is Prefixed, the LIFE of JOSEPH ADDISON, Esq

Boston: Printed for Joseph Bumstead, 1801. 1st edition (American Imprints 16). Modern full speckled calf, executed in a period style (by Byzantium). Modern eps. viii, [9] - 321, [3] pp. 'Table of Contents' last 2 pp. 12mo, in 6s. 6-3/4" x 4-1/4". Binding - Fine (bpt [Dover Public Library]). Text block - VG+ (early pos/staining to 2 preliminary blanks/occasional browning, etc/few small library call marks in margin of p. iii).

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[Addison, Joseph. 1672 - 1719]. Tickell, Mr. [Thomas. 1685 - 1740] - Contributor/Editor

MISCELLANEOUS WORKS, in Verse and Prose, of the Late Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq. In Three Volumes.; Consisting of Such as were never before Printed in Twelves. With some Account of the Life and Writings of the Author, By Mr. Tickell

London: Printed for Jacob Tonson in the Strand, 1726. 1st edition (NCBEL II, 1099). Period full calf with raised spine bands, gilt embellishments. Maroon leather title labels in second compartment. Red speckled edges. 3 volumes: [6], xxxv, [1 (blank)], 267, [11]; 321, [3 (blank); 328 pp. Content - V. 1. Poems on Several Occasions. Rosamond, An Opera; V. 2. Cato, a Tragedy. Poemata. The Drummer; or, the Haunted-house, a Comedy. The Late Tryal and Conviction of Count Tariff. The Whig-examiner; V. 3. Dialogues upon the Usefulness of Ancient Medals. The Present State of the War, and the Necessity of an Augmentation, Considered. Of the Christian Religion. T.p. with printer's ornament. Head- tailpieces. V. 3 illustrated with divers medals. 12mo. 6-3/4" x 4". General binding wear, with some scuffing to extremities & wear to spine ends. Chip to v. 1 spine label. Armorial bookplate of Peter Hancocke Esq in v. 2 & 3; that of William Fowler in v. 1 [over Hancocke?]. Overall, Abt VG - VG.

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Book number: 45373

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Addison, Joseph [1672 - 1719]; Steele, Richard; Budgell, Eustace. Thackeray, William Makepeace - Contributor

The SIR ROGER De COVERLY PAPERS. From the Spectator, London: 1711 - 1712.; With Some Prefatory Notes by W. M. Thackeray

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1945. 1st edition thus (Newman & Wiche 172). # 304 / 1500 cc. SIGNED by Ross. Printed glazed chintz puffed binding. TEG. Red cloth slipcase with gilt stamped title to spine panel. xxviii, 198, [2] pp. Illustrations Drawn for this Edition by Gordon Ross. 8vo. Spine light sun-tanned, modest wear, a VG+ copy in a similar slipcase.

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Book number: 50543

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[John Nash]. Addison, Joseph [1672 - 1719]

The VISION Of MIRZAH

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1917. Limited Edition, No. 27 of 300 copies printed by John Nash. Tan cloth-backed pale blue paper-covered boards, tan title label to spine printed in black. [4, blank], v, [3], 11, [3], [4, blank] pp. Frontis is a portrait of Addison by Dan Sweeney. 10-1/8" x 7-5/8". Title label rubbed; faint spotting to boards; faint toning to board edges and page block. Interior clean and bright. Leaves unopened. VG.

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Book number: 43427

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Ade, George [1866 - 1944]

BREAKING Into SOCIETY

New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1904. First Edition (Russo, pp 61 - 63; Smith A-87). Original publisher's grey linen cloth binding with pale green & white stamping. 208 pp. Illustrated. 8vo. 6-3/4" x 4-3/8". General wear, cocked. Prior owner inscription, with shillouette affixed to ffep. Overall, Very Good.

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Book number: 46356

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Ade, George [1866 - 1944]. Luders, Gustav - Composer. Marion, George - Stage Manager

The SHO-GUN. An Original Comic Opera in Two Acts

New York: M. Witmark & Sons, 1904. 1st edition (Russo, p. 64-67). ASSOCIATION COPY, with the SIGNATURE of the stage manager George Marion to the ffep, as well as the tipped-in wrapper cover. Specially bound in flexible maroon leather with gilt stamped title lettering to spine. AEG. Floral patterned-paper eps. 154 pp. 10-7/8" x 8-1/2". Rubs to binding extremities. Original trade publication front wrapper affixed to front paste-down. A solid VG copy. Ade "was an American writer, syndicated newspaper columnist, and playwright who gained national notoriety at the turn of the 20th century with his 'Stories of the Streets and of the Town', a column that used street language and slang to describe daily life in Chicago, and a column of his fables in slang, which were humorous stories that featured vernacular speech and the liberal use of capitalization in his characters' dialog. After Ade's newspaper columns went into syndication in 1900, he began writing plays. His first play produced for the Broadway stage was The Sultan of Sulu, a comic opera about the American military's efforts to assimilate natives of the Philippines into American culture. Written in 1901 with composer Nathaniel D. Mann and lyricist Alfred George Whathall, it was produced on Broadway in 1902. His other works for Broadway include Peggy from Paris (1903), a musical comedy; The County Chairman (1903), a piece about small-town politics; The Sho-Gun (1904), a musical set in Korea; and The College Widow (1904), a comedy about college life and American collegiate football. Sho-Gun was one of 3 plays (The College Widow, The Sho-Gun, and The County Chairman) Ade had appearing simultaneously on Broadway in 1904." [Wiki].

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Book number: 33318

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Ade, George [1866-1944]

TRUE BILLS

New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1904. First Edition (Russo, p. 67; Smith A-96). Publisher's line-colored buckram with black stamping. Dull red topstain. Yellow dust jacket printed in black. viii, 154 pp. Illustrated. 12mo. 6-3/4" x 4-3/8". Book square & tight, VG+. Jacket surprisingly nice for a specimen from 1904.. backstrip slightly darkened, the odd edge chip or two, and an unobtrusive stain in the upper right of the front panel. A quite respectable VG example. Ade "was an American writer, syndicated newspaper columnist, and playwright who gained national notoriety at the turn of the 20th century with his "Stories of the Streets and of the Town", a column that used street language and slang to describe daily life in Chicago, and a column of his fables in slang, which were humorous stories that featured vernacular speech and the liberal use of capitalization in his characters' dialog. Ade's fables in slang gained him wealth and fame as an American humorist, as well as earning him the nickname of the "Aesop of Indiana". His notable early books include Artie (1896); Pink Marsh (1897); Fables in Slang (1900), the first in a series of books; and In Babel (1903), a collection of his short stories.. Ade also wrote scripts and had some of his fables and plays adapted into motion pictures. During the first quarter of the 20th century, Ade, along with Booth Tarkington, Meredith Nicholson, and James Whitcomb Riley helped to create a Golden Age of literature in Indiana." [Wiki] Here offered is a volume of more fables, 23 more to be exact, all of which are they're first appearance in book form. And while this Ade title is not particularly elusive, but in jacket.. oh, decidely so!.

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Book number: 50579

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[Adler, Hermann. 1839 - 1911] - Attributed to. Colenso, John William [1814 - 1883]

A JEWISH REPLY To DR. COLENSO'S CRITICISM On The PENTATEUCH.; Issued by the Jewish Association for the Diffusion of Religious Knowledge

London: Trübner & Co. 60, Paternoster Row, 1865. 1st Edition. Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine. ix, [3], [11] - 147, [1] pp. 8vo. Average wear. Backstrip sunned, with some modest wear at spine ends. Pencil pos to ffep. A VG copy.

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Book number: 48061

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