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New York: Boni & Liveright,1926. Publisher's dark blue cloth, without rare dustwrapper. Gilt to spine is dulled; slightly shelf-cocked; very good. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "To Joseph Moore from Heywood Broun." Broun was a newspaperman and author noted for being a member of The Algonquin Round Table alongside other Manhattan writers, critics, and clever types such as Robert Benchley, Alexander Woollcott and Dorothy Parker.

Los Angeles: Grant Dahlstrom & Saul Marks, 1967. 131, [1]pp. Tall 8vo. Reddish cloth-back spine and patterned boards. Illustrated with a portrait of the honoree and various engraved decorations. Near fine copy. First edition, limited to 800 copies. Inscribed on the half-title: "To Lew and Sally Feldman, with warm regards Jake and Jo Zeitlin."

[Hershey, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, 1941]. [5], 6-18, [2]pp. 10¾ x 8½ inches. Pictorial self-wrappers. Half tone illustrations; advertisements. Light soiling to wrappers; Very Good. Championship Rodeo program featuring radio and cowboy Western film star Gene Autry-"The Singing Cowboy." The touring rodeo exhibition featured all manner of horse and trick riding events plus a performance by the United States Indian Band, under the direction of Young Chief Oneida, and by Autry himself, "stellar luminary of all Western picture stars and radio singers," who showed his skill in working his movie horses "Champion" and "Champion, Jr." The 1941 edition of Championship Rodeo will be second to none. Besides the wild cow milking contest and the pushball game, both added thrillers, we will have the champions of all the West competing in the bronc riding, calf roping, steer riding, and steer wrestling contests. (p6) With a title page vignette by celebrated cowboy author and illustrator, Will James. Scarce.

[America. 1902]. [2], 43, [1]pp. 4to. Black cloth with gilt titling on upper cover. Printed on rectos only. Ownership inscription of Lillie R. Semple; bookplate of Helen Semple. Clipping from the Baltimore Sun ("Maryland Heraldry"; 1905) mounted on rear endpaper. Both hinges tight, each with hairline cracks; Very Good. Very rare. Genealogy of seven branches of the Tyson Family, 1683 Quaker emigrants from England via Germany to William Penn's Province of Pennsylvania. The Tysons came over with Daniel Pastorius and first settled in Germantown, near Philadelphia, later moving into Maryland in the 18th century. Related family names include Amos, Perin, Randall, Hopkins, Mitchell, Janney, Knight, and Crownover. Includes an 8-page general account of the family.

Chicago: Central Electric Company, [1917]. 1405pp. + [10] color plates. Thick 4to. Original blue cloth with yellow titling. Numerous illustrations, appearing on virtually every page. Some wear and staining to binding and with some very small looses or separations along joints; a few weakened hinges, yet a remarkable copy whose fragile pulp paper leaves are clean and fresh. Electrical supply trade catalog from the Central Electric Company whose offices and showrooms were located in Chicago. Extremely well illustrated with their inventory of electrical switches, transformers, sockets, lamps, lighting fixtures, insulated wires and cables (including "Okonite" brand products), conduits, plugs, insulators, fuses, battery motors, electrical railway supplies, etc. etc.-over 1400 pages. (Additionally, ten color plates.) OCLC 29305354, [5], Center for Res Libr, McLean Cnty Hist Soc Libr, Harvard (Baker), Henry Ford, U. Oregon.

London: Printed for, and sold by, J. Clarke in Duck-Lane: sold also by S. Birt in Ave-Mary-Lane, and T. Longman in Pater-noster-Row, 1737. [xii], [2], 2-76, [5, (1, blank)] pages. Collated. Fourth Edition. Eighteenth-century calf with ruled lines and modest border ornamentations to both boards. Without endsheets; title-page with the early name of Jonathan Powell. Early eighteenth-century treatise of the care of horses written, in fact, by William Burdon and not Henry Bracken, here seen as Blacken.) The work proved quite popular and was reprinted many times throughot the eighteenth century in both England and America. ESTC N18170.

[Germany, c. 1934-1937]. [29]ll., interleaved with glassine. 9½ x 7 inches. Photo Album. Quarter brown cloth and paper boards; spine gilt-titled "Meine Photos." 234 photographs; from 2½ x 2¼ inches to 5 x 6½ inches. 13 contact prints, 1 x 1½ inches, laid in. Joints starting at head and tail of spine; some photos loose; very good. Personal photograph album of German film sound engineer, Erich Lange, documenting 1930s movie productions in which he participated.¹ About 100 photographs clearly show film sets or productions; the other 130 depict Lange and others at leisure or views in various German locales.² Most notable are 16 striking photographs for director Richard Eichberg's 1937 epic erotic adventure fantasy, Das Indische Grabmal (The Indian Tomb). The movie was filmed on location in India and Germany. Over 50,000 feet of film was shot. Erich Lange engineered the sound. These 16 images show the German portion of the film's production, in Jofa studios, with elaborate palatial sets and the… Leer más

[Philadelphia, 1885]. [1]p. Broadside. 19 x 10¼ inches. Cream-colored wove paper. Very good. The Germania Theater in Philadelphia was founded in 1877 by Gottlob Hammer and Heinrich Oberkirsch. The theater served a thriving German-speaking community until 1895 - a remarkable 17-year run. Almost daily, the Germania Theater presented German-language theatrical entertainment by a resident troop of players. They staged comic and dramatic plays, operettas, musical concerts and farces. This 1885 playbill broadside lists Gottlob Hammer as director and Heinrich Oberkirsch as music director (Kapellmeister). They are joined here by director of plays (Regisseur) Alexander Kost to mount a production of the musical farce Eine Leichte Person by Emil Pohl and with music by A. Conradi. Comic actor Alexander Kost had joined the Germania Theater cast in 1878. From 1882 to 1885 he directed their productions. Here, with Eine Leichte Person and its song and dance numbers, Kost directs the popular actress Mrs. Marie… Leer más

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co.,1930 Octavo. Frontispiece, 264 pages + 5 additional plates. Publisher's cloth, without scarce dustwrapper. Spine lettering dulled; light foxing to some plates; very good. New and Enlarged Edition that adds three stories. Inscribed an signed by the author to Julia Sully.

Accra, Ghana: The Orientation to Ghana Committee, (1969). xi, 150, [4 (index)]pp. 7¼ x 5¼ inches. Hardbound with traditional, wax block printed decorative textile. Illustrations by Willis Bell and photographs by Meshack Asare. One leaf irregularly foliated (i.e. 142/147), skipping pages 143-146. About near fine. Illustrated guidebook to the African nation of Ghana, prepared for the expatriate, English-speaking community there. Includes a shopping guide to the capital and largest city, Accra, a merchant directory, and maps. Includes helpful chapters on the country's government and courts, "Health Hints," "Income Taxation," "Role of Ghanaian Women in Society," music, theatre, etiquette, "Funeral Rites," "Juju," and cuisine (with recipes). Helpful information is provided on domestic help, clothing, and postal and telephone rates. There are maps for the cities of Accra and Tema, a map of the campus of the University of Ghana, and a language and dialect map of the country.  Beautifully bound in… Leer más

London: Jonathan Cape, (1936). 293, [2], [8, (ads)]pp. Neat name in pencil on front endpaper. Publisher's pumpkin-colored cloth binding with green lettering; without the rare dustwrapper. Binding soil; overall, very good. First Edition. Inscribed by the author, Geoffrey Basil Maiden, under his pseudonymous name and dated in the year of publication: "To Mr. B.G.K. Allsop with gratitude and thanks from 'James Curtis' June 1936." A novel of petty crime and the gritty life of the down-and-out in London's underworld during the 1930s. The protagonist is the Gilt Kid, a young, and already unrepentant, career burglar. The book is noted for its authentic slang and depiction of London's West End. Purportedly, Curtis did his homework when writing The Gilt Kid by visiting area clubs and dives, listening and watching. Allsop was a real estate agent of Allsop & Co. who developed Soho Square for businesses in the late 1920 and "flats for literary people and artists" -perhaps Curtis was a tenant.

Brough, East Yorkshire [England]: Wrecking Ball Press, 2001. 90pp. Sm. 8vo. Softcover. A near fine copy of the first U.K. edition.

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, (1950). 40pp. 8vo. Hardcover. Very good in lightly worn dust wrapper. First edition of this collection of poetry published just before and in the same year as Peake's Gormenghast (1950).

[Pennsylvania. Mid-19th c.]. 3¾ x 4 inches. Printed textile, pinked edges. Small rents forming. [With:] Small manuscript note, 5½ x 3¾ inches. The Lord's Prayer is printed here within a heart placed within a decorative printed border. An embossed sheet of note paper describes the gifting of the silk heart from a paramour: "To Edith - / May Angels attend thee, / May their wings, fan every / Shadow from thy brow, / For none but bright, and holy things / Should wait on one so good as thou. Valentine. Feb 14th."

[Likely San Francisco: np, (1916)]. 32pp. 6 x 3¼ inches. Chromolithographic illustrated wrappers. Illustrations. Brief handling and light soil to wrappers; Near Fine. Scarce 1916 California-printed capsule history of gold and silver coins-with an emphasis on American coins-by numismatic publisher Farran Zerbe. In 1915, Zerbe founded the Pacific Coast Numismatic Society in San Francisco. In the same year, he oversaw the official coin medal department of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. Zerbe aslso served as president of the American Numismatic Association. Gold metallic ink illustrates the wrappers and ten American gold coins and tokens. Examples include the $50 Gold "California Slug" and the Brasher Doubloon, as well as privately issued or Territorial gold coins issued in Colorado and Utah. Other historic currency are illustrated by line drawings. The text describes the design, mintage, rarity, and current market value of various American gold and silver coins. OCLC: NYPL and… Leer más

New York City: Published by the Poets' Guild, 1922. First edition. 57 pages. Tall 12mo. Publisher's paper-covered boards; printed paper labels on cover and spine. Some rubbing at extremities; short separation at top of upper joint; lacking front free endpaper; good with tight hinges. Dedicated to the author's daughter, Hannah Hempstead Branch. The author was a native of New London, Connecticut and also wrote children's stories, The Kantor Girls, The Old Hempstead House, Home of Eighth Generations and The Manner of Life of Nancy Hempstead.

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1928. 288pp. Small 8vo. Publisher's black cloth and red spine lettering, without the rare dustwrapper. Crown of spine has small loss that touches on the top of "H". An otherwise near fine and lovely copy. The author's first novel and "one of the most absorbing, atmospheric and mind-boggling slices of fantasy ever committed to print. Part dream-like expressionist melodrama, part creepy horror, part eerie evocation of the magical city of Prague and its shadow-haunted ghetto, The Golem occupies a singular niche in fantastika." (The Guardian)

New York: Johnathan Cape & Harrison Smith, New York, ("First Published in America 1930"). 8vo. Portrait frontispiece and plates throughout. Publisher's dark maroon cloth without dustwrapper. Spine darkened; light wear to binding's extremities; personal bookplate removed from front pastedown. A good solid copy. An early printing of this First World War autobiographical classic.

New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1934, 88p. + [1, (colophon)]. First trade edition. Cloth backed octavo, without publisher's dustwrapper. Illustrated with five full-page illustrations from woodcuts by J. J. Lankes. Printed by the Golden Hind Press in Madison, New Jersey. Trifle binding wear with light soil, outermost corner tips with wear; a very good clean copy. First published by Scribner's under the title "Hard Wood," a short novel set at the outset of the American Civil War; a story of murder and revenge. Burnett's Dark Command (1938) also recounted an episode occurring during the American Civil War. Burnett was best known for his novels Iron Man and his books-into-film crime classic, Little Caesar.

[Philadelphia, 1882?]. Single sheet measuring 91/4 x 11 3/4 inches, folded once, to form [4]pp. Full-page wood engraved illustration signed "Ledger Print Phila." Performance date over printed in red. Perimeter chips, separating along fold line, browning. A rare four-page circular for Grizzly Adams, a western frontier-themed play: "No Shooting or Yelling Indians, But a Truthfully Depicted Idyl of American Life on the Borders of Civilization." A full page wood engraving depicts Grizzly Adams' appearance in the first act and gives a synopsis of the play. James "Grizzly" Adams (1812-1860) was a celebrated California mountain man and trainer of grizzly bears. The circular doubles as a promotional piece for gargling oil liniment, a patent medicine, made by Merchant's Gargling Oil Company.