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Lexington, KY: CreateSpace Publishing. Fine. 2016. Softcover. Poems, hymns, and chants celebrating Pagan views of life, earth, and nature. Fifty-three works are grouped under these Chapters: Samhain, Yule, Imbolic, Ostara, Beltane, Midsummer, Lughnasadh, Mabon, Goddess and God, and Various. Author signed "Lorelei" in green ink on the title page. The author lives in Maine and had been a practicing Pagan for 25 years at the time of publication. 78 pp including blanks. A perfect bound softcover in orange, illustrated covers. Clean,; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 78 pages; Signed by Author .

New York, NY: Harrison of Paris. Near Fine. c.1934. Booklet. The lightest, short crease at the tail fore corner and at the spine head.; Monroe Wheeler and Barbara Harrison Westcott founded Harrison of Paris in 1930. They issued 12 publications from their Paris press before moving to New York, NY and issuing their final book: Hacienda : A Story of Mexico. Page 1 is a prospectus for the publication of Hacienda : A Story of Mexico, by Katherine Anne Porter. Page 4 lists the authors and titles of 12 of the press' publications through 1934. This publication is a single leaf, folded once into 8 1/2" x 5 1/2". 4 pages, printed only on pages 1 and 4. Set in a serif font and printed on pale buff, watermarked, Strathmore Highway bond rag paper. In clean, about Near Fine condition.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 4 pages .

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1893. First American Edition. Hardcover. Overall wear to spine with bumped ends and residue from removal of a library label, wear to corners and edges, small remanant of a laid down library pocket on the rear endpaper, and "Withdrawn" stamps to front pastedown and head of text block.; Eyre Crowe's account of William Makepeace Thackeray's 1892-1893 travels in the US. Crowe, a skilled British painter, served as Thackeray's secretary for the trip and recorded their journeys in both text and drawings. The result was a view of US life as rendered by a truly fascinated Englishman. Crowe recorded the proceedings of Congress, hospitality in the Southern states, slave markets, Boston, sledding, Baltimore, Thackeray's lectures, and all manner of daily doings. As a painter his topic matter tilted heavily toward social realism, and he maintained this approach in documenting the American life he observed. Crowe… Leer más

New York, NY: William H. Wise. Fine. 1929. Reprint. Broadside. Some leaves have slight binding perforations at the left edge.; Twelve of Elbert Hubbard's mottos, or "epigrams," as he would sometimes call them. Each motto printed in an Arts and Crafts style: text within a graphic frame with decorative borders, some styled after similar borders by William Morris' Kelmscott Press. Most have decorative capitals, are printed in black and red text, and the Roycroft cross-and-orb device is below the text. The mottos are thus: 1. I wish to be simple, honest, frank - natural, clean in mind and body, unaffected - ready to say "I do not know," if so it be - to meet all men on an absolute equality - to face any obstacle and meet any difficulty unabashed and unafraid - to cultivate the hospitable mind and the receptive heart. 2. The Mintage Of Wisdom Is To Know That Rest Is Rust And That Real Life Is In Love, Laughter And Work. 3. If You Want Work Well Done, Select A Busy… Leer más

Tavares, FL: SPS Publications. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1997. Softcover. Faintest scuffing to covers from shelving. ; Sourced from personal correspondence, records, and interviews with those involved with Roycroft, this is a biography of both Elbert and Alice Hubbard. Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) founded The Roycroft Shops, based on his version of the European Arts and Crafts movement. Roycroft ultimately became an artisan community based on hand crafts and publishing, with Elbert writing and lecturing to capitalize the business. Hubbard's second wife Alice Hubbard (1861-1915) was profoundly influential in Elbert's pursuits, wrote books that Roycroft published, and directed and managed much of the business of Roycroft. This book covers both positives and negatives in the Hubbard's mutually-supportive relationship, as they lived and worked together before their deaths in the 1915 sinking of the S. S. Lusitania. Foreword by Elbert "Bert" Hubbard II, son of Elbert… Leer más

New York: Harper & Brothers. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1924. Hardcover. Ex-library with evidence of a label removed from the spine, ink stamps to head of text block and front pastedown. Spine ends bumped and somewhat worn, tail corners bumped, joints rubbed. Spine and the head edge of front cover sunned. Small dark spot to front cover. Lacks the dust jacket.; The personal correspondence and journals of Anne Thackeray Ritchie, daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray. Provides a very revealing first-person account of her father's turbulent home and married life and the unusual circumstances of his children being raised by his own parents. The letters of both Anne and William show the workings of their daily lives, writing processes, and social and world views. Frontispiece of John Singer Sargent's pencil drawing of Anne Thackeray Ritchie. Includes previously unpublished line drawings by both Anne and William, the latter's drawings accompanying facsimiles of his… Leer más

Hollywood: Marcel Rodd. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1947. Hardcover. The spine is sun-lightened and the gilt title is very pale. Rear cover has a tiny, light mark or two and two faint scratches. Tiny mark to front endpaper. Creases to corner of the half title. Lacks the dust jacket.; Charles Baudelaire was a poet, translator, and critic in 19th century France. He was known for his "prose poetry" and dark, sometimes controversial subject matter. His works were often judged as obscene and their publication suppressed. His journals, excerpted in this book, reveal a often lost, questioning man with contempt for others and for himself. The Translator's Preface by Christopher Isherwood is apt, describing Baudelaire's life of vice, absinthe, opium, debt to the point of financial ruin, contempt for ethics, instability, anger, madness, and brilliance as an author. Isherwood's friend W. H. Auden provides the Introduction which takes a high-level view of the philosophies… Leer más

New York: New York University Press. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1971. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. University library withdrawal stamp in ink on the front pastedown, library withdrawal stamp in ink to the head edge of the text block. Evidence of removal of a label at the upper left of front cover. Spine tail a bit rubbed. Lacks the dust jacket.; Thackeray's humorous farce that satirizes relationships and proper society: as applicable today, as then. This novel was never fully developed or completed, but ends at a logical point in the story. Includes the Author's brief explanation of why the work was left unfinished. Each chapter begins with an engraved cut illustration that functions as a dropped capital and incorporates the appropriate alphabetic letter. Various engraved cuts throughout. Text reproduced as-typeset in the 1879 edition by Smith, Elder & Co., London. Printed by The Scolar Press, Ltd., Menston, Yorkshire, England on laid, watermarked, Abby Mill paper.… Leer más

No Place Stated: Sufi George Books. Fine with no dust jacket. N.D.. Limited Signed Edition. Broadside. The author George Arthur Lareau is the self-proclaimed "Last Surviving Boston Beatnik Poet" and has produced various broadsides, books of poetry, and non-fiction works since the early 60s. This early poem, circa 1963, is the basis of a later book by the same title, compiling various writings by Lareau. The poem is letterpress printed as an 8 1/2" x 11" broadside on a sheet of stiff, "parchment" paper. The serif font text is framed by a printed scroll. This is the first copy of the broadside, copy 1 of a limited edition of 100, and letterpress printed by the author. I'll let the author explain. "It was during my last year of college,1963, that I became a letterpress printer. My first endeavor was "The Thropenny Poets Series." This was one poem on a 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 sheet and it sold for three cents a copy. I published several of my poems this… Leer más

Lunenburg, Vermont: The Stinehour Press. Fine with no dust jacket. 1963. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Letters written from France and England in 1960, these describe John R. Nash's encounters and visits with engravers, book printers, and job printers in their own establishments. They form an engaging essay with sufficient detail to interest those who appreciate private press work and the personalities behind that. Nash was the former graphic arts Professor and long-time mentor of Rocky Stinehour. Has Nash's 6 ink line drawings of the people and equipment in their shops. This book is a 1963 Christmas keepsake for friends of the Press. Bound in stiff, orange, laid paper wraps. Printed fully justified in an unspecified Monotype face. This is a clean, crisp Fine copy. ; Ink line drawings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 27 [1] pages .

Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1971. Softcover. Covers somewhat fanned and front corners thumbed.; Sixty-seven concise statements, or manifestos, by architects, groups, and collectives explaining their philosophies about architectural design and its purpose in human society. Most of these are definite and strongly stated by Henry van de Veld, Frank Lloyd Wright, Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier, Erich Mendelsohn, Hannes Meyer, Theo van Doesburg, Oskar Schlemmer, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius, El Lissitzky, R. Buckminster Fuller, and a host of other lesser known but influential, modernist architects during 1903 to 1963. Taken together, these form a subjective history of the explosion of diverse modernist styles and the personalities that conceived them. Selected and edited by Elrich Conrads, an influential German critic of architecture and urban planning. Essential for the devotee of modernism or architect wanting to know the thoughts that shaped… Leer más

New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers. Very Good+. 1996. Second Revised Edition. Paperback. Noticeable bow to text block.; The book follows five boys as they grow and strive in Roxbury, Massachusetts in the racial and political turmoil of the late 60s and early 70s. In socially and physically decaying environments they developed different styles of coping with adversity. Despite some commonalities, they grew to be very different adults, and the Epilogue by Bernard E. Bruce traces the path from boy to man for each of the five. The Foreword is by Richard Majors, Research Fellow at Michigan State University. The author was an instructor in Sociology at The George Washington University. The President Emeritus of the publisher sums the book thus: "Pathways to Manhood is a major piece of work. It stands alongside the efforts of a very few sociologists - like Whyte and Liebow - who have taken the time and effort to study what is perhaps a core issue in American life, and to do so, straight, no chaser as… Leer más

No Place Stated: The Viking Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1928. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Hardcover. All extremities lightly bumped and a bump to the edge of the spine. Spine slightly darkened. Slightly shaken. Lacks the dust jacket. ; Volpone; Or, the Fox, first presented in 1605, is Ben Jonson's dark satire of high society, abuse of privilege, and the greed of Volpone's parasitic acquaintances who desire his worldly fortune. This is Jonson's drama rewritten into a different version for the stage by Stefan Zweig, the Austrian novelist and playwright. Ruth Langer translated this version from the German. In this "cleaned up" adaptation some of the lust and lechery has been removed, the dwarf, hermaphrodite, and eunuch have been written out of the story, and a courtesan has been written in. The cover, pastedown, and endpaper pattern; frontispiece; and initial letter were all drawn by Aubrey Beardsley and previously appeared in The Bodley Head edition.… Leer más

Redondo Beach, CA: 2.13.61. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1985. Second Printing. Softcover. Light crease at the spine, from head to tail. Very slightly thumbed.; Quasi-beat, brief musings and blurtings out, taken from the author's notes and journals. Henry Rollins, lead singer of innovative punk bands Black Flag and Rollins Band, writes off-center, dramatic, drastic, profane, and often extreme thoughts that are hopefully fiction. Written in all capitals, because that's just how he is. One of the tamer examples: "THE WORLD CAN BE SUCH A COLD AND LONELY / PLACE. THIS IS SOMETHING THAT EVERYBODY / KNOWS. SO COLD AND DARK THAT SOMETIMES I / THINK I'M GOING TO DISAPPEAR AND GO / SPINNING DOWN THE DRAIN. DOWN TO SOME / COLD SEWER. SELF-DESTRUCTION BECOMES A / STRAIGHT LINE. STRIKING BACK AT A WORLD / THAT DOES NOT EVEN KNOW YOUR NAME. YOU / CAN'T HURT IT, IT CAN ONLY HURT YOU BACK." / "1-85 OAKVILLE, CANADA" Rollin's own book and record publishing… Leer más

San Diego, CA: Green Tiger Press. Fine with no dust jacket. 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Coco's story for children, about a fiddler's son who shows townspeople how music is heard by the heart. Essentially a folk tale, but written contemporarily, well-illustrated with monochrome linoleum block plates, and formatted as if it were verse. Eugene Bradley Coco is a children's author and known for his adaptation of Disney's Peter Pan. The first book illustrated by Robert Sabuda, whose life-like, yet stylized linoleum block illustrations are an artistic departure from his usual paper engineered pop-up books. In a deep, forest green cloth over boards and printed in Raleigh Demi-Bold type on fine, stiff paper. Unpaginated. No dust jacket, as-issued. In absolutely clean, defect-free, Fine condition.; Linoleum block; Thin Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 22 pages .

San Antonio, TX: Naylor Company. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1975. Limited/Numbered Signed Edition. Hardcover. Dust jacket is sunned on the spine with lettering still contrasting well, slightly sun-darkened fore and head edges, a tiny nick to the front and several to the head edge of the back.; Both a history and genealogy, this book starts with the 1670 emigration of William Fitzhugh, from England to Virginia. The various branches of the Fitzhugh family are followed through the next 3 centuries, recounting activities, migration in the Southern United States, births, deaths, and marriages, some connecting quite remotely to the families of Patrick Henry and Robert E. Lee. The account comes full-circle with Henry Fitzhugh emigrating from Texas to England. Signed and numbered on the title page, this is copy 127 of a "limited edition," with the limitation unstated. Additionally, the front endpaper is author signed and inscribed to her grandson. Four monochrome photographs. Bound… Leer más

New York: Private Printing. Fine with no dust jacket. 1976. Limited Signed Edition. Softcover. The artist's abstract and quite varied series of 43 drawings of flags, all printed monochrome on the recto of pages. Kingsley Parker has been exhibiting and represented by galleries since the mid-1970s and has a work in the collection of the Museum Of Modern Art in New York, NY. The artist is quite active with new works. Signed in ink "K. Parker/1976 ©" in the front matter where Parker explains his motivation for drawing the series of abstract flags. Copy 158 of a limited edition of 600, numbered in the colophon. Approximately 44 pages, unpaginated. Printed on fine, machine-made paper in brown wraps. The title and a flag drawing are framed on the front cover. In absolutely clean, Fine condition. ; Drawings; Square 24mo 5" - 6" tall; 44 pages; Signed by Artist .

Oxford: Oxford University Press. Fine with no dust jacket. 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Lacks the dust jacket. ; This book is primarily about the starts and stops, political manipulation and change, financial travails, cancellations, disappointment, and ultimate success in building an English facility and battery of radio telescopes that revolutionized astronomy. It's a complete story with sufficient technical detail embedded in it. The pinnacle was the 250-foot dish radio telescope and the MERLIN network of radio telescopes. The author Sir Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell, OBE (1913-2012) was a physicist, radio astronomer, and first director of Jodrell Bank Observatory. Lovell believed that the physics of radar could be applied to distant celestial bodies. Proven correct, his theories translated into the design of revolutionary methods and radio telescopes still in use today. Illustrated with monochrome photographs and graphs. Extensively indexed. Light blue, laid pastedowns and… Leer más

Cleveland: Fine Editions Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1946. Hardcover. The spine is sunned, but gilt lettering is strong and attractive. Nick at center of rear hinge. Wear and small spot to the edge of the spine head. 3/8" stray red ink mark at the head corner and tiny bump to the tail corner of the front cover. Slight offsetting to front endpaper. ; This classic work of American literature recounts the life of Hester Prynne in the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 1600s. Hester and a lover she refuses to name conceive a daughter, without being married, and Hester winds her way through a story of sin, guilt, societal recrimination, dignity, and redemption while raising her daughter Pearl. The scarlet letter is the letter "A,", in red, that she is forced to wear to brand her as an adulterer. One of the first mass-produced books in the United States, it remains a powerful statement about society, religion, and dignity. With an insightful Introduction of the work… Leer más

No Place Stated: No Publisher Listed.. Fine with no dust jacket. N.D.. Softcover. Bastain's concise account of Admiral David G. Farragut's naval foray up the Mississippi river in 1862 to attack Vicksburg during the American Civil War. The battle itself is detailed, including the ship maneuvers of both sides. The movement up the Mississippi was successful due to piloting skill, extremely good luck, or likely a mix of both. The Mississippi delta and river offered little opportunity for deep-drafted naval vessels to navigate the200 miles inland to Vicksburg. Two full-page maps. The cover has a map of Vicksburg and the adjacent Mississippi river, July 5, 1862. The author worked with the Army Corps of Engineers for 5 years on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and is a retired civil and hydraulic engineer with relevant interests in the water and storm-related history of the South and the Civil War. The author has published over 50 technical papers and the books Grant's Canal: The… Leer más