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AARDVARK BOOKS/EZRA TISHMAN BOOK APPRAISALS
- March Exit Stage Left List *New*
- March Lion List (March 2024) *New*
Featured item:
Mitchell, Samuel Augustus
MITCHELL'S NATIONAL MAP OF THE UNITED STATES; (Leather, with Brass Clasp and Two Foldout Maps)
Philadelphia, PA: Samuel Augustus Mitchell, 1843. First Edition. Leather-bound. 12mo. (7 1/4 in. x 4 1/2 in.) Rich dark-brown leather, double ruled in blind, brightly lettered and ornamented in gilt. Rays of the sun in an arch above the lettering to front board; this repeated to rear board with the addition of an eagle, with wings outspread holding an American shield in its beak, grasping an olive branch with his right talon, and a brace of arrows in its left. All this above ta cloud-construct with a large banner ("E. Pluribus Unum" above and "United States" below. Recent conservator's touch-up to previously lightly rubbed extremities.
Two lovely colored mounted folding MAPS in clean, bright condition.
The first map (34 1/2 in. x 25 1/2 in, and bordered in lovely rose and yellow) is entitled: "A CONCISE VIEW OF THE NUMBER, RESOURCES, AND INDUSTRY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, IN THE YEAR 1840: Comprising the Different Classes of the Inhabitants, Population of the Principal Cities and Towns, THE CHIEF AGRICULTURAL, MINERAL, AND MANUFACTURED PRODUCTS, EXPORTS AND IMPORTS OF EACH SEPARATE STATE; The most important Canals and Rail-Roads, the Lengths of the Principal Rivers, and the Heights of the Principal Mountains in the United States". The format is a large central chart of statistics, surrounded by 32 separate 3 1/2 in. x 3 in. mini-maps in yellow, green, rose and black, depicting Vicinities of various U.S. cities or states. The larger central chart (16 1/2 in. x 16 in.) includes statistics on Aggregate of the Different Classes (Men, Women, White, Colored, Number of Slaves); Several very short tears along folds.
The second fold-out map is a bright, multicolored map of the (then) entire United States, the title of which is: "Mitchell's National Map of the American Republic Or United States of North America (Together with Maps of The Vicinities of Thirty-Two of the Principal Cities and Towns in The Nation), Clearly intended as the overall title to the entire two-map leather-housed, brass-clasped endeavor, including the first map described above. A lovely copy of this beautiful cartographic endeavor, drawn by H. Young and engraved by J.H. Brightly, with classy gilt designs to both front and rear boards. Near Fine.
Offered by Aardvark Books and found in "March Lion List."
Featured item:
BARNUM, P. T. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS).
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Bridgeport, CT, 30 January 1877. A two-page letter on the front and verso of a 5-1/8" x 8" sheet with a blue ink stamp of Barnum addressed to an unknown recipient regarding employment and SIGNED as "P. T. Barnum."
In part: "You are declining the American tour…. My respected father-in-law is I fear rather too timid. My son-in-law … filled the position of traveling Treasurer 4 or 5 years without inquiry, and hundreds are doing the same every year. We think it is a most healthy calling. It is lively, busy & exciting, but not sickening nor killing. My partners would only have allowed $25 per week & I should have paid the other $15 from my own pocket for the sake of having you see if the business would suit you, and also see if an opening could be made for you whereby you could gain an independence. The disappointment to me is not at all serious on my account—more so on yours. But it is all for the best no doubt. I still think I shall have a permanent place of amusement in New York City, where you can have a situation & a chance to own an interest which will be sure to be valuable. We will talk it up when we meet.”
Scattered toning and soiling,
Offered by Charles Agvent and found in "African-Americana, Magic/Circus, Etc."
ANTIPODEAN BOOKS, MAPS, PRINTS
- E-list #44 ~ W.W.I., Americana, Australia, Photographs, Maps, Ephemera
- E-list #43 ~ Antipodean Books at the Brooklyn Virtual Book Fair
- Recent Acquisitions & Highlights in Americana (March 2024) *New*
- Maps & Views, February 2024 *New*
- French World War I Print Portfolios, Drawings, Photographs, Periodicals & Livres d'artistes: Electronic List 145 *New*
- Travel Literature: Electronic List 144 *New*
Featured item:
(12), 171, (1)pp., 15 engraved plates (9 folding). Text figs. Title-page vignette. Lrg. 8vo. Contemporary calf, newly rebacked. Henry Maundrell was the Levant Company's chaplain of Aleppo from 1696 to 1701. This work contains the first description of Baalbek by an Englishman. Oxford (Printed at the Theatre, for A. Peisley...and W. Meadows), 1740.
Offered by Ars Libri Ltd. and found in "Travel Literature."
- EVOLVING HISTORY of IDEAS (New York Book Fair) *New*
- Catalog 24: LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN – THE MAN and HIS THOUGHT *New*
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19th Century Decorated Paper Bindings, Decorated Cloth Bindings and Historic Works New York Book & Ephemera Fair Catalog
Featured item:
ANON [Attrib: Albertus Magnus]
Mexico : Unknown, n.d. [c.1950's]. Octavo. 19cm. Publisher's decorated card wraps. 144pp. Strong and bright, with some light wear to extremities and spine ends, dramatic sunning to the rear panel where another book has cast a pale "shadow" whilst the rest of the panel has toned to tan, nevertheless a very good attractive copy. Internally clean, Libreria Latina of 253 Broadway, Los Angeles, label to half title. Paper stock cheap and browned but strong.
It promises the secrets of Albert the Great, "never published until today", along with instruction in cartomancy and use of "The Spanish Deck", but is also packed to the gills with charms and protections against a variety of maleflictions, curses, and troubles of the heart and mind. The role of these esoteric and ephemeral pamphlets is a complex one, touching upon the ability to claim wisdom and knowledge to oneself in an environment that isn't overly eager to teach you, and where knowledge is quite definitely power; access to treatments and remedies that might not be the ones everyone else has access to, but they are yours; and also possibly the manifestation of hope that advancement can be learned from alternative sources than the ones denied you by mainstream society. Much like lottery tickets, self help courses in hypnotism, and online Amazon reselling schemes, these little books offer a slim chance at survival and success that is vital to communities denied access to pathways of improvement open to others.
Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books and found in "Mesmerism, Hypnotism, and Trance."
W. C. BAKER RARE BOOKS & EPHEMERA
- Cuba
- Americana Misc. mostly 19th century pamphlets (January 2024)
- Highlights from ARLIS 2024 *New*
- Performing Arts and Film *New*
- Timm Ulrichs, a German pioneer of concrete poetry, computer art, and copy art *New*
- eList 197: Women *New*
- eList 196: Latin America *New*
- eList 194: Periodicals- Inaugural Issues (1895-1989) *New*
- eList 193: Medicine *New*
- Catalog 263: African-Americana *New*
- eList 192: Dedication Copies *New*
Featured item:
Dr. Martin Luther KING and Rev. Ralph ABERNATHY
Birmingham in 1963: Mass Meeting, 16th Street Baptist Church
[Birmingham, Alabama]: Rev. C.H. Oliver 1963. Original 33½ rpm vinyl record album. Off-white outer sleeve printed in black with six paragraphs of liner notes by Rev. C.H. Oliver on rear. The album itself has a red label printed in silver on both sides crediting Oliver for the recording and listing a code (“BIRM-1963 A/B”) on each side. Outer sleeve with some corner creasing, some edgewear including a touch of splitting at the topedge and small scrape at the lower right front corner from a removed price sticker, about very good with the record fine and bright; the inner sleeve is new and supplied.
Oliver recorded this mass meeting at the 16th Street Baptist Church on May 3, 1963, the second day of the historic Children’s Crusade. What began with children being arrested for staging a school walk-out was quickly escalated by police the next day through the use of fire hoses and police dogs. The result were unforgettable images and video of police cruelty that galvanized national support for the Civil Rights Movement and allowed President Kennedy to mobilize the National Guard. This recording captures the raw emotional responses of Dr. King and Rev. Abernathy as they addressed parishioners on what proved to be the most substantial day of the Birmingham Campaign, as Oliver explains in the liner notes: “There were nightly mass meetings for some 75 days straight, attended by hundreds and sometimes thousands of people, many coming from all parts of the country. Of all the meetings, none reached the height of enthusiasm as did the one on this recording. Had it not been for one tape recorder in operation, a great moment in history would have passed without posterity having the benefit of hearing it as is was.” While later editions were made, this first pressing is exceedingly rare, with OCLC locating just two copies of this historical recording.
Offered by Between the Covers Rare Books and found in "Catalog 263: African-Americana."
- New York Book Fair 2024 *New*
- Periodicals *New*
Featured item:
Burdick, Eugene [and] Wheeler, Harvey
Fail–Safe; in The Saturday Evening Post
New York: The Saturday Evening Post, 1962. 3 vols. The 1st appearance anywhere, serialized in 3 issues of The Post for October 13 – October 27. Original wrappers, very good. A cold war thriller in which millions die.
The American novel cannot be separated from the American insight, and that insight tolerates a raucous inefficiency in order to accommodate among its protections a recognition that one persuasion, more than any other, is responsible for the slaughter of individuals on the altar of historical ideals. The belief that somewhere, in the past or in the future, in divine revelation or in the mind of an individual, in the pronouncements of history or science or politics, or in the evil heart of a mad person or in the simple heart of an uncorrupted good person, there is a lasting formula, an ultimate answer, a perfect solution.
Offered by Biblioctopus and found in "E-list: Periodicals."
- Speculative Fiction Writer Octavia Butler: A Reading Guide (Blog)
- Caldecott Winning Illustrators Series: Kevin Henkes (Blog)
- Brattlecast #175: The A. Lincoln Story (Podcast)
- Brattlecast #174: Maps of Old Boston (Podcast)
- New York Book Fair 2024 *New*
- 40% Off Select Chapbooks *New*
- 2024 Florida Book Fair *New*
- 2024 Florida Book Fair: Miniature Books *New*
Featured item:
London: E. Wallis, (c. 1830). Small octavo. 48ff. Illustrated with twelve sets of seven hand-colored full-page engravings. Blow books operate by tabs incised into their edges, so that the magician can hold his thumb to one tab and show a single set of images, with the conceit that those images comprise the entire volume. The magician then changes tabs or opens the book in the other direction—often after an audience member has blown on it, hence the title of the genre—and a different set of illustrations "magically" arise. Included among the images are a woman selling broadsheets, a parrot, a Highland infantryman, a mounted lancer, a steam-ship, a ballet dancer, and a man with a performing bear. Marginal soiling to first four leaves, otherwise near fine and bright in original patterned teal cloth, housed in original matching slipcase, titled in gilt on upper panel. Slipcase has two small abraded spots and light shelfwear.
Offered by Bromer Booksellers and found in "New York Book Fair 2024."
- New York Book Fair 2024 *New*
- e-List #73: Architecture *New*
- e-List #72: Asian American Literature *New*
- e-List #71: Christianity *New*
ANDREW CAHAN, BOOKSELLER, LTD.
Featured item:
[BRASSAÏ]. Morand, Paul, text. PARIS DE NUIT.
Photographs by Brassaï. Paris: Édition “Arts et Métiers Graphiques, [1933]. First edition. Small 4to., [12] pp. text, plus 62 full-page b&w photogravure plates. Photo-illustrated stiff wrappers, spiral bound. A few shallow creases to the wrappers; otherwise, a near fine copy. Housed in a clamshell box of black linen with title label on the upper cover and spine.
“Brassai’s nocturnal vision of Paris is so well known, and his book Paris de Nuit has been so influential - Paris de Nuit is also a ravishing book object in a purely physical sense. The printing represents arguably the most luscious gravure ever seen, the blacks being so rich and deep that after handling the book one expects to find sooty deposits all over one’s fingers.” Parr and Badger, Volume 1, p. 134.
Offered by Andrew Cahan, Bookseller and found in "E-list 66: Gilded Lilies."
- E-List 25: Highlights at the 64th New York International Antiquarian Book Fair *New*
- E-List 24: February Miscellany *New*
Featured item:
Edward Ruscha and Lawrence Weiner
Hard Light
Hollywood, CA: Heavy Industry Publications, 1978. First Edition. 12mo; publisher's photo-illustrated card wraps; unpaginated; chiefly halftone photographic illus. throughout. Publisher's promotional card included. Slight curling towards fore-edge of wrappers and promotional card, binding otherwise sound and pages unmarked. A Near Fine copy of this scarce photo-novel, featuring Shelley Chamberlain, Suzanne Chandler, and Susan Haller.
Offered by Capitol Hill Books and found in "E-List 24."
- From the library of John Henry Nash -- list available on request from info@carpediemfinebooks.com...
- New Arrivals
- Inhabited by Winston (January 2022)
- Winston for Your Walls
- New York Book Fair 2024 *New*
- R. David Parson’s collection of rare books on the discovery of America *New*
- Flora & Fauna *New*
- The Emerald Isle *New*
- Fantastic and Otherworldly Fiction *New*
- New Arrivals *New*
- Paris, City of Light *New*
Featured item:
(Fashion) Luza, Reynaldo.
Paris: Au Printemps, 1932-33.
1 vols. Image 11-1/2 x 8 inches, matted to 17-1/2 x 14 inches. Color Printed Brochure by Fashion Artist Reynaldo Luza.
Reynaldo Luza (1893-1978), pre-eminent fashion artist, was born in Lima, Peru. He began training as an architect at the University of Louvain, Belgium, but returned to Peru at the outbreak of World War I, where he changed his studies from architecture to art. In 1918 he came to the United States, where he earned his living by contributing drawings to several fashion publications, principally VOGUE, HARPERS BAZAAR, and VANITY FAIR. In 1921 he joined HARPERS BAZAAR as the principal fashion artist, a position he was to hold for 27 years. He divided his time between New York, Paris and London, working closely with all of the leading fashion designers of the times--Poiret, Patou, Lelong, Paquin, Douillet, Doucet, Cheruit, Worth, Drecoll, Callot Soeurs, Redfern, Martial et Amand, Premet, Reboux, Chanel, Vionnet, Molyneaux, Schiaparelli, Hartnell, Steibel, and Balenciaga, among others.
In 1940 Luza made New York his principal base, where, over the next few years, he continued his activities at Harpers as well as creating fabric and furniture designs, and the costumes for the movie “The Bridge of San Luis Rey”. Among other distinctions, he received several honorary appointments from the government of Peru, including that of Artistic Director of the Paris Exposition of 1938 and the New York World's Fair of 1939-40; he also did the interior design of the new Lima airport.
In 1950 Luza returned to Peru, where he began a second career as a portrait painter, exhibiting his work over the next few years in Paris, New York, and Washington, D.C.
Offered by James Cummins Bookseller and found in "Paris, City of Light."
- THE LUNAR VOYAGE FROM THE 17th CENTURY TO THE PRESENT -- In conjunction with the RBMS and the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing -- Offered jointly with John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller
- Popular Fiction 1814-1939: Selections from the Anthony Tino Collection -- Offered jointly with John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller
- E-list: Photographic Archives, Latin-Americana, African-Americana, Lincoln Conspirators, American Indian History, and More -- Joint catalog with Auger Down Books
DE SIMONE COMPANY, BOOKSELLERS
- New Arrivals (April 8, 2024) *New*
- Shaker Books, Ephemera and Photography
- Catalog #88, Medical Books from the Fifteenth to the Twentieth Centuries -- This catalog is print-only. To request a copy, contact MedBks@aol.com...
- List 107: Modern First Editions *New*
- List 106: Some Interesting Associations *New*
- List 105: New Arrivals in Moderns First Editions *New*
- Howard-Clark Archive Prospectus *New*
- List 104: Science-Fiction, Etc. *New*
Featured item:
In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas [Bibliographically Significant "Skycrapers" Copy]
McMurtry, Larry
Notes: A rare copy of the first edition of this legendary literary rarity, the first printing of Larry McMurtry's first book of essays. The book is well-known among book collectors as the "skycrapers" printing, because of that typo on line 12 of page 105. This copy has page 105 (specifically the sheet with pages 105 to 108) in BOTH issues, with skyscrapers spelled correctly and incorrectly.
However, this copy does not have the other errors, like "in in" on page 56, line 2; or the line beginning "Mr. Brammer" duplicated in paragraph two of page 134. A year after the publication of this book, Deborah Detering Pannill, a University of Texas at Austin student, wrote a thorough term paper on Encino Press and interviewed the publisher, Bill Wittliff. After the errors in McMurtry's book were discovered, "at first Wittliff thought he could salvage some of those printed but finally they decided to destroy the edition and reprint it.”
What Wittliff meant by "salvage" was not clear until this copy came to light. Only part of the edition had been bound when the errors were discovered. This copy proves that Wittliff attempted to salvage the book by reprinting the pages with errors and replacing them in the unbound copies. In the case of this copy, the corrected sheet was laid on top of the incorrect "skycrapers" text, causing pages 105 to 108 to be duplicated.
McMurtry's first collection of essays, covering Texas history, Texas writers, cowboys, and as a coda to The Last Picture Show, sex in Archer City, Texas has been popular with collectors since its first publication. This is (so far) the only known copy with the famous "skycrapers" page in both issues.
Estimates of the number of surviving copies of the "skycrapers" first printing vary, with typical numbers given as 10–20. The book is not that rare. Realistically, the number of copies is probably two or three times that many. Even so, for a book distributed to the public (as opposed to a limited edition destined for collectors), 50 copies is vanishingly small print run in a state as large as Texas. Probably the scarcest of all McMurtry books.
Your cataloguer has published an essay and bibliography of this book on his Substack.
Edition + Condition: First edition (first printing with the "skycrapers" error). A near fine copy in a very good, first issue dust jacket (with "wtih" in paragraph five, line three of the front flap). The jacket has light shelfwear and a crease along the front flap edge. The book is signed by McMurtry on the front free endpaper. A previously unrecorded and perhaps unique variant of the first printing, in above average condition for this book.
Publication: Austin, TX: Encino Press, 1968.
Offered by Downtown Brown Books and found in "List 106: Some Interesting Associations."
- New York Book Fair 2024 *New*
- Collections & Archives (New York Book Fair) *New*
- Albums (New York Book Fair) *New*
EDITIO ALTERA RARE BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS
- New York Book Fair 2024 (Revised) *New*
- The Century of Women
- Comic collection of William "Gatz" Hjortsberg -- Details available upon request from info@elkriverbooks.com...
- Highlights from the ABAA Virtual Book Fair
- March 2024 *New*
- February 2024
RODGER FRIEDMAN RARE BOOK STUDIO
- Science Fiction Archives *New*
- The Seventeenth Century *New*
- OCCASIONAL LIST 22: A Miscellany: Original Art Work; Small Archive of Major English Watercolourist; Interesting Theatrical Pieces; Manuscript Material, Etc., Etc. -- available on request from fgrare@fgrarebooks.com...
- Has the following lists available: California, Texas, Kansas, Missouri, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Oregon, Louisiana, Colorado, Ohio and New York. Will email to interested parties. Contact info@ginsbook.com to request...
Featured item:
Daniel DeFoe
The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner.
London: Ward, Lock, and Tyler, 1868.
Binding designed by John Leighton. Brown cloth over beveled boards, elaborate gilt designs to front panel and spine; all edges gilt; brown clay-coated endpapers, 7-1/4” tall, 312 pp. Engraved frontispiece and over a hundred engraved illustrations within the text; printed by the Dalziel Brothers, one of the most influential wood engraving companies of Victorian England. Light wear to corners and spine ends, gilt bright and cloth is clean.
A fun and beautiful edition of this classic, the front cover features cameo portraits surrounding a central ship image, interspersed with vines. John Leighton was one of England’s foremost book designers and helped pioneer the pictorial ornamentation style.
Offered by Scott Givens and found in "Publishers' Bindings" (item #7).
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THOMAS A. GOLDWASSER RARE BOOKS
- Catalogue 30 Books before 1501 *New*
- Three English Books Before 1700 *New*
- Early Modern English Books *New*
- 18 Early Jesuit Books *New*
- Fascicule 52 *New*
- Ten 500 Year Olds *New*
- Mormon List 86 *New*
- Mormon List 85
DAVID A. HAMILTON AMERICANA BOOKS
- New York Book Fair 2024 *New*
- March Selections *New*
- February Selections *New*
- Americana *New*
- Natural History *New*
- Voyages and Travels *New*
- Architecture and Landscape, Colour Plate and Illustrated, Modern Illustrated *New*
- Maps and Atlases *New*
- Audubon *New*
JONATHAN A. HILL, BOOKSELLER, INC.
- New York Book Fair: Asian *New*
- New York Book Fair: Western *New*
- Auction Catalogues *New*
- Korean Books *New*
- Asian Recent Acquisitions *New*
- Japanese Mycology List *New*
- Visual Poetry *New*
Featured item:
[SUIGETSU, Kan’o (pen-name SUIGETSU SHONIN)].
Manuscript on paper, entitled on first leaf “Sakikusa ko” [“Thoughts about the Reishi Mushroom”].
Two full-page richly hand-colored paintings of the mushroom. 24 folding leaves. 8vo (278 x 197 mm.), orig. decorated wrappers, new stitching. [Japan]: copied after 1850.
A near-contemporary manuscript copy of Suigetsu’s Sakikusa ko, published in 1850; this is an early account of the lingzhi or reishi mushroom.
Offered by Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller and found in "Japanese Mycology."
Featured item:
1950s THEATER and FILM MAKE-UP and LIGHTING EPHEMERA COLLECTION
9.5" x 12.75" notebook with photos and ephemera on lighting and make-up for the theater and films. It includes ten 4"x 5" snapshots with eight snaps of a woman in different stages of make-up, six duplicate brochures of "Makeup for the theater," bags with an illustration of a woman putting on lipstick, hand-drawn illustrations, a typewritten report "an introduction to motion picture lighting" by Norman G Dyhrenfurth, who was a Swiss American mountaineer and filmmaker. He was the leader of the successful American Mount Everest expedition of 1963. There is also a bill to Gil Haimsohn, who was a known Hollywood Sound Editor and a Clairol Hair-coloring workbook.
Offered by House of Mirth Photos and found in "Spring 2024."
Featured item:
1953. Ace Books. New York, NY. Paperback. 1st Edition/ 1st Printing. Very Good. Cover Art by Al Rossi. This is a mass market paperback book (PBO). Ace Double Book number D-15, priced at 35cents. The book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. There is light rubbing and edge wear to the spine ends, corners and spine joints. The text pages are clean, with noticeable generalized toning. This is William Burroughs first published book and was published with the encouragement of Allen Ginsberg who not only had regular correspondence with Burroughs throughout the writing but handed the book over to Ace books to help it get published.
"Ace Books renamed the book from Junk to Junkie, possibly because Junk implied the book itself was poor quality, and added the subtitle Confessions of an Unredeemed Drug Addict. Ace took advantage of Burroughs' provocative subject by creating a 'lurid' book cover, but also censored the book's language, removed certain passages, and added editors' notes and disclaimers. To avoid the perception that his company endorsed drug use, Wyn chose to bundle Junkie with a reprint of Narcotics Agent, a 1941 book by Maurice Helbrant chronicling his work in the Federal Bureau of Narcotics. " (from Wikipedia)
Offered by S. Howlett-West Books and found in "Pulp Fiction and Unusual Science Fiction Paperbacks."
- New York Book Fair 2024 *New*
- Rainer Maria Rilke *New*
Featured item:
THE LAND OF OPPORTUNITY: Michigan Farm and Fruit Lands
St. Helen, Michigan: St. Helen Development Co., 1909 Promotional piece describing the investment opportunities in St. Helen, located in Roscommon County in Northern Michigan. “The land itself is varied in character, some being sandy loam, this being classed by experts as the finest fruit land in the state.” Beans, corn, oats, rye, and apples are some of the crops well suited to the region. The St. Helen Development Company sold more than 80,000 acres of land and helped to build more than 30 miles of roads and over 80 miles of fencing. Pamphlet (8” x 9” folded to 4” x 9”), consisting of 16 panels, folded vertically (as issued) and bound with two staples. Includes 32 photographic illustrations, including a “contemplative” birdseye view of St. Helen across the middle spread, and a map of Michigan on the rear with St. Helen called out.
Offered by johnson rare books & archives and found in "Land of Opportunity Booster Literature."
JOHN W. KNOTT, JR., BOOKSELLER
- New Arrivals (Newsletter) *New*
- Final Holiday List & Season's Greetings
- Catalog #74: 100 Rare Books -- with an emphasis on history and military affairs. Please request from mail@kubikbooks.com...
MICHAEL LAIRD RARE BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS
- Recent Acquisitions: English & American Law, 1684–1965 (April 2, 2024) *New*
- Recent Acquisitions: English, American & Continental Law, 1493–1982 (March 26, 2024) *New*
- Items on Display at the NY International Antiquarian Book Fair, April 4-7, 2024 *New*
- Recent Acquisitions: English, American & Continental Law, 1642–1944 (March 12, 2024) *New*
- Preview of Catalogue 108: Continental Law, 15th to 20th Centuries *New*
- Influences on the American Founders (February 27, 2024) *New*
- Recent Acquisitions: English American & Continental Law, 1564-1932 (February 20, 2024) *New*
DAVID M. LESSER, FINE ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS
- Almanacs *New*
- New York Book Fair 2024 *New*
- Howes Items, Part Two, Illustrated Catalog *New*
- Humor *New*
LIBER ANTIQUUS, EARLY PRINTED BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS
- September Illustrated and Children's New Arrivals
- Fitzgerald's Rubaiyat and Related Persian Expressions
J. & J. LUBRANO MUSIC ANTIQUARIANS
STUART LUTZ HISTORIC DOCUMENTS
- New York Book Fair 2024 *New*
- Punk and Punk Adjacent *New*
- List of 77 Mark Twain First Editions and Ephemera available by request from info@macdonnellrarebooks.com (specify elist or paper copy).
MAIN STREET FINE BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS
- The Original Riot Grrrls-Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton in The Revolution (plus zines, pinbacks, etc) *New*
- Catalog 22: Punk, New Wave, Third Wave Feminist Zines
- Illustrated Catalog on Carlos Merida (1891–1984) -- Mexican painter, sculptor, writer and graphic designer -- available by request from mmbooks@comcast.net
- Latin America
MARTAYAN LAN RARE BOOKS & MAPS
- A Selection of 22 Broadsides, Separately Published Prints, Maps and Pamphlets, 1568-1872 *New*
- Bibliography Week Showcase
- e-catalog #99: Books from the Collection of Cameron Allan
- Children’s Dance Theater Archive of Carla Blank and Jody Roberts -- Offered jointly with Kate Mitas, Bookseller. Details available on request from maser@detritus.com...
- New York Books Fair 2024 *New*
- List 52, Women *New*
- List 51: This Just In *New*
BRUCE MCKITTRICK RARE BOOKS, INC.
- New York Book Fair 2024 *New*
- SLAM e-Salon printemps *New*
- ABAA Winter Virtual Book Fair *New*
- Seven Books You Weren't Thinking About When You Woke Up This Morning *New*
Featured item:
Mascall, Leonard.
A book of the Art and maner, howe to plante and graffe all sortes of trees.
London, H. Bynneman for J. Wight [1572].
4to (183 x 133 mm.). [xxiv], 90 [10]p. Black Letter type (roman for dedication and section headings, scattered italic), historiated woodcut initials (one of a man plowing), FULL PAGE WOODCUT OF TEN GRAFTING INSTRUMENTS with letterpress captions, SIX TEXT WOODCUTS showing, i.a., grafts, plants and seeds (one repeated), title woodcut of a man grafting (repeated from the text).
Blue paper wrappers, blue morocco backed blue paper chemise (signed Devauchelle, misdated “1569” on the spine) with a blue paper slipcase.
SECOND EDITION of English naturalist Leonard Mascall’s first publication. It is “a major landmark in the development of British arboriculture… the first readily available text on…the care of trees to be published in the English language…. He is an undoubted champion of the professional gardener and arborist…Mascall…displays an awareness of basic arboriculture that is far in advance of other British texts from the sixteenth century” (Johnston).
Emphasizing both practical experience and familiarity with local conditions, Mascall details the planting, cultivating, propagating, grafting and transplanting of trees and vines of all sorts, including pear, fig, peach, apricot, damson, apple, medlar, quince, cherry, mulberry, gooseberry, chestnut, almond, grape and hop. He illustrates the necessary tools — pruning knives, saws, chisels, a mallet and hammer with file — and the most effective grafting methods. He takes up how to improve fruit flavor, prevent infestations of ants, caterpillars, snails and worms and HOW TO MAKE WINES AND CIDERS. Knowledgeable, accomplished and enterprising, Mascall drew on the work of French Benedictine horticulturist David Brossard and unidentified German and/or Dutch sources. He served as kitchen clerk to the Archbishop of Canterbury.
This edition is dated after the final line on C3v. Our copy contains two quires (A, N) from the first edition and an apparently unknown setting of type in the outer forme of quire D (the inner forme is from the first edition.
A good copy (minor ink smudges, title soiled and with two short tears — one blank margin brusquely repaired), scattered contemporary annotations, contemporary inscription of Thomas Johnson on the title (trimmed), slightly later signature of Edward G(u)ardiner on the final verso. My thanks to Dr. Aaron Pratt and Mr. Stephen Tabor for their insights.
Offered by Bruce McKittrick Rare Books and found in "Seven Books You Weren't Thinking About This Morning."
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St. Louis: Trade Promotion Bureau, National Shoe & Leather Finders' Assn., (n. d.), circa 1930. 14 x 11 inches. Broadsides. Heavy white cardstock printed in multiple colors, with each broadside having a different background color and a white border. Light bumping and wear, with loss to lower corner of one broadside, mostly affecting border only; light dampstaining to some borders; dampstaining and soiling to verso of first broadside in the series ("Monday"); light scattered soiling. Good.
Presumably a complete set of these promotional posters, which urge readers to "Watch Your Step" on every day of the week except Sunday. Each accompanying illustration shows a different reason why readers should have their shoes "re-built": to prevent accidents caused by faulty shoe soles; to keep one's feet dry when stepping in puddles; to look fashionable, presentable and reliable; and to prevent injury when stepping on sharp objects.
During the Great Depression -- when we speculate these posters were produced -- thousands of unemployed workers from other sectors of the economy went into the shoe repair business, likely because the cost of entry was low and the need for reliable footwear was constant. However, given their lack of training, the overall quality of shoe repairs plummeted. At the same time, the National Leather & Shoe Finders' Association (NLSFA) found that nearly 75% of Americans opted to replace, rather than repair, their shoes. Faced with this twin calamity, the NLSFA embarked on an ambitious program to identify major areas the shoe repair industry needed to focus on, redecorate existing places of business so they looked more professional, form a guild to ensure quality and consistency throughout the industry, and promote quality and workmanship through advertising and displays. Although the guild eventually fizzled out in the 1940s, the NLSFA remained the premier organization of the industry, and still exists today as the Shoe Service Institute of America. (https://www.ssia.info/awards/history/)
Not located in OCLC or other online resources.
Offered by Kate Mitas, Bookseller and found in "E-list No. 21."
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Lisbon: Academia das Ciências, 1979. Folio (42 x 27.8 cm.), publisher’s illustrated boards in original gilt-stamped slipcase. Book in very good to fine condition. Slipcase a bit soiled, but solid, and still in very good condition. 25 pp. [pp. 1-2 blank], (1), 44 [i.e., 40 ll.—leaves 1-5 numbered as pp. 1-10, followed by leaves numbered 11-44; some pages and leaves misnumbered), (1 l. blank), profusely illustrated in color.
FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this excellent facsimile of a most valuable manuscript of the Portuguese discoveries, the original of which is housed in the library of the Academia das Ciências de Lisboa. The facsimile of the manuscript is preceded by an introduction by Luís de Albuquerque, in which he provides a useful list of all related manuscripts, followed by a comparison of the information provided about each fleet in this manuscript and in the Livro de Lisuarte de Abreu, the only similar work known. Pages 15-25 contain a transcription of all text in the manuscript, organized, as is the manuscript itself, chronologically by the years of the fleets. The main text contains color representations of the ships that made up the various fleets, often with the names of the captains. Several of the fleets stopped in Brazil on the outward voyage, beginning with that of Pedro Alvares Cabral in 1500, making this a crucial document for the early history of that country.
Offered by Richard C. Ramer, Old & Rare Books and found in "Special List 506: Shipwrecks."
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RAGING BULL (Feb 1, 1979) Revised draft lm script + 2 draft analyses
--Martin Scorsese
[New York]: 1979. Vintage original lm script, 11 x 8 1⁄2" (28 x 22 cm.), 101 pp. Lacks blank front wrapper, brad bound, small tear to left middle of title page, overall very good+ or better.
[sold with:]
Two analyses of earlier drafts of the script done by a staff member at the Chartoff-Winkler production company, one 10 pp. dated 7/11/78 and one 7 pp. dated 11/14/78.
A very interesting copy of this script, containing 4 pp. of holograph notes most likely in the hand of Nicholas Colasanto, who played maa boss Tommy Como. In these pages he both writes out his lines and makes notes about them. The verso of one of the analyses has a page of MS notes in another, unknown hand. The script is dated 2-1-79 and this draft is noted as by “M.S.” (Martin Scorsese) and “R.D.N.” (Robert De Niro).
Raging Bull is now considered one of the crowning achievements of director Martin Scorsese and the actor most associated with him, Robert De Niro. In addition to Academy Award nominations for Best Picture and Best Director, it won two: Best Actor (De Niro) and Best Editing (Thelma Schoonmaker).
Although this is essentially the movie’s shooting script, there are still major differences between what is on the page and the completed lm. For example, the title sequence of the MS/RDN screenplay opens with “Stone Cold Dead in the Market” by Louis Jordan on the soundtrack, and “CLOSE-UPS of a fighter’s body,” intercut with the titles, only at the end of which “WE CATCH A GLIMPSE of young JAKE LAMOTTA.”
Compare this to the movie’s actual title sequence—the iconic long-shot black-and-white image of De Niro as LaMotta alone in the ring, practicing his boxing moves in slow motion, while on the soundtrack we hear the lyrical Intermezzo from Cavalleria rusticana by Pietro Mascagni. However, Jake’s monologue has been completely rewritten. It’s funnier. Only its closing line remains the same, “That’s Entertainment!” So it goes throughout the remainder of the screenplay and film. The structure remains the same. The essential content of each scene remains the same. But the dialogue, frequently profane, may differ, due to the fact that the actors—particularly De Niro as Jake,and Joe Pesci as Jake’s brother, Joey—were encouraged by Scorsese to improvise during shooting, taking off from what was written on the page.
Forty years after it was written, Raging Bull is still cinema’s denitive analysis of toxic masculinity.
Offered by Walter Reuben, Inc and found in "Catalog 53."
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Leipzig, Germany. Illustrite Zeitung (Illustrated Newspaper), Circa 1845. Disbound.
This wood engraving clipped from an unidentified edition of the Illustrite Zeitung (Illustrated Newspaper), known colloquially as the ‘Leipziger,’ is undated, but information on the reverse indicates that it was published by J. J. Weber of Leipzig, Germany. It is titled, Quarantine und Marinehosital fur Einwanderer auf Staten Island, Newyorf (Quarantine Station and Marine Hospital for Immigrants at Staten Island, New York). It is in nice shape with some light toning.
It can be dated as locations of the buildings and dock exactly as shown almost identically match those shown on a map of the grounds, “Marine Hospital Ground, Staten Island . . . made by John Ewein. Dated March 1845 . . . City Surveyor.” The large building in the foreground is “[St. Nicholas] Hospital.” The center building on the hill is the “Yellow Fever Hospital.” The building to the far right is the “Small Pox Hospital.” The small buildings on the “Wharf” and “Pier” are a “Shed” and “Store House.”
Between 1795 and 1798, Yellow Fever killed thousands in New York City, spurring passage of a quarantine law that funded the construction of the New York Marine Hospital on this site. At its peak, the hospital could house 1,500 patients and was treating more than 8,000 per year. Before landing at New York, all vessels were boarded by inspectors, and if they found any trace of disease, everyone was unloaded at the Quarantine. First-class passengers spent their quarantine at the St. Nicholas while lower-class passengers were held in shanties not visible in the wood engraving.
There was considerable local opposition to the hospital, both from land developers who wished to use the grounds for projects and locals who blamed outbreaks of disease on the passengers under quarantine. The tension escalated and in 1856, a local health board prohibited anyone, including staff, from exiting the building by land. On the first of September 1858, the same board passed a resolution declaring the facility to be ”a pest and a nuisance of the most odious character, bringing death and desolation to the very doors of the people [who must abate] this abominable nuisance without delay.” That night a giant mob attacked the hospital, and after evacuating patients and staff from the buildings, burned most of the complex to the ground. The following night, they burned the rest. When later brought to trial, the mob leaders were acquitted, the jury deciding that they had acted in self-defense.
In his semi-autobiographical novel, Redbun: His First Voyage, Herman Mehlville recounts a typical chaotic scene as ships were searched and inspected by health officials and later expresses relief when upon returning to New York harbor as his ship passed the Staten Island complex, apparently unnoticed by port officials, and escaped inspection.
(For more information, see Stephenson’s “"The Quarantine War: the Burning of the New York Marine Hospital in 1858" in the Jan-Feb 2004 issue of Public Health Reports, available online.)
Uncommon. Wood engravings of the Staten Island hospital from illustrated magazines and auctions occasionally appear at auction. The majority are post-attack illustrations showing the ruins or replacement buildings.
Offered by Kurt A. Santfleben, LLC. and found in "Catalog 24-2."
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Baskin, Leonard
Northampton: Gehenna Press, 1974. Baskin, Leonard. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong folio. 28.7 x 37 cm. One of 50 copies. The 65 individual sheets, signed woodcuts and linoleum cuts by Baskin printed in black, blue, red and green ink on semi-transparent paper, interleaved with heavier stock. The images varying in size, all with full margins printed one to a leaf on Troya paper, and printed from the blocks by Harold McGrath, Signed by Baskin in pencil on last leaf. One of fifty sets created. An unknown number were bound; many, like this set, remained in loose sheets. The images, which range in size from roughly one inch up to 8 inches. They consist primarily of illustrations, bookplates, pressmarks, and ephemera used in earlier works. BRIDWELL 77. Laid-in, the Gehenna Press illustrated announcement on light green stock describing the publication. Baskin founded the Gehenna Press whilst at Yale in 1942, and printed prolifically for the rest of his life, notably during his years teaching at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, from 1953 to 1974. A great admirer of William Blake, Baskin illustrated and printed many of his own works in addition to collaborative projects. Orig. navy portfolio housed in folding box, striped front cover and back cover matching navy colored portfolio. Fine.
Offered by Roy Young Bookseller Inc. and found in "March 2024."
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ST. VINCENT DE PAUL (1581-1660)
Regulae seu constitutiones communes congregationis Missionis
Paris: 1658. The first edition of the rules of the Congregation of the Mission, the religious society founded by St. Vincent de Paul. Founded in 1625, the society was concerned especially with charitable works and expanded rapidly in Europe and abroad. The edition offered here is the only one published during the saint's lifetime and includes an exhortation by Vincent to this followers. There are several variants of this first edition, some have a different engraved portrait of Vincent, others have a different spelling on the title-page, and still others include an errata sheet at the end (this one does not). 12mo (12 x 6.5cm), [iv], 112pp., [ii]. Engraved title-page, engraved portrait, and engraved plate of Christ. Bound in contemporary calf, some wear to spine.
Offered by Zinos Books and found in "New Arrivals."
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