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LITTLE MACHINERY by LIDDELL, MARY - 1926

by LIDDELL, MARY

LITTLE MACHINERY by LIDDELL, MARY - 1926

LITTLE MACHINERY

by LIDDELL, MARY

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AMERICAN FUTURIST CHILDREN'S BOOK

Black cloth spine and color pictorial boards in orange, white and black. Orange endpapers decorated with industrial cogs. Small, closed repaired tear on front endpaper. Remarkable copy of an exceedingly rare book. (A facsimile was printed in 2009 and is widely held institutionally.)
With 62 pages; text and illustrations in sharp primary colors on facing pages tell the story of a little boy robot who grew up out of pieces of a wrecked steam engine, an old trolley car and a broken automobile. He has constructed himself out of the wreckage of technology: drill, saws, wheel, pliers, chisel, hammers, etc.Higonnet, Margaret, "Modernism and Childhood: Violence and Renovation" in The Comparatist, Volume 33 (May 2009), University of North Carolina Press. discusses the brilliantly experimental design of three Modernist children's books: El Lissitzky, Suprematist Story of Two Squares, l922; Kurt Schwitters, Die Scheuche (The Scarecrow), 1925; and Mary Liddell, Little Machinery, 1926. "(Liddell's) text plays with punning fonts, typographic layout, a linear frame through which her protagonist's energies pass, and explosive interactions between text and images that seem inspired by Lissitzky's experiments with visual codes for force…. Energetic diagonals invoke the speed and energy of (the boy's) work, while images of his materials spill laterally from one page to the next, into the text. Electric sparks speed across the page in jagged lines, and zigzag cuts by Little Machinery's hyperactive saw run across the gutter into the text. Typography and images are tightly interconnected. Letters are composed of nails, assimilating the work of writing to the work of building… In spite of their stylistic differences, and in spite of conspicuously distinct politics, each of these books exploits the visual energy of layout on the page to support an idealizing message centered on the utopian child."
A copy is held at Princeton, Cotsen Library 21251
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  • Publisher Doubleday Page & Co.
  • Place of Publication New York
  • Date Published 1926
  • Size Square 8vo
  • Keywords Children's books, illustrated books
  • Size Square 8vo
I, Too, Sing America: The African-American Book of Days

I, Too, Sing America: The African-American Book of Days

by Hunt, Mary; Woods, Paula L.; Liddell, Felix H

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I, Too, Sing America: The African-American Book of Days

I, Too, Sing America: The African-American Book of Days

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Basin Region: Washoe People
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Basin Region: Washoe People

by Mary Null Boule; Illustrator-Daniel Liddell

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Computer-Aided Techniques for the Design of Multilayer Filters,
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Computer-Aided Techniques for the Design of Multilayer Filters,

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Plateau Tribes: Nez Perce People
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Plateau Tribes: Nez Perce People

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The Hon. George Gray, 4th, of Philadelphia, His Ancestors & Descendants / by Mary Stanley...
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The Hon. George Gray, 4th, of Philadelphia, His Ancestors & Descendants / by Mary Stanley Field Liddell.

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British Association for Local History pamphlets (BALH)

by Paget, Mary / Norrington, Valerie / Gray, Vic & Liddell, Bill / Munby, Lionel / Murphy, Michael

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Published by Phillimore, Chichester for the British Association for Local History, 1988 to1991, 6 pamphlets bound together. Red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, no dustwrapper. 10.5ins x 7.25ins. No's 1-5 in the Local Historian at Work series. 1) Running a Local History society - the experience of Charlton Kings, Gloucestershire by Mary Paget, 16pp plus covers. 2) Recording the Present by Valerie Norrington, 16pp plus covers. 3) Running a Local History Fair by Vic Gray and Bill Liddell, 16pp plus covers. 4) How much is that worth? by Lionel Munby, 46pp plus covers. 5) Newspapers and Local history by Michael Murphy, 24pp plus covers. Plus no 1 in Learning Local history series, Reading Tudor and Stuart Handwriting by Lionel Munby,16pp plus covers. Number 4 has four errors corrected in red ink by Lionel Munby. His signature is on the front pastedown. VG.
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The Hon. George Gray, 4th of Philadelphia His Ancestors & Descendants

The Hon. George Gray, 4th of Philadelphia His Ancestors & Descendants: Privately printed.

by Liddell, Mary Stanley Field

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Ann Arbor: Lithoprinted by Edwards Brothers, Inc, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Octavo. xxxiv, [1], 226 pages. Illustrated. Blue cloth hardcover with title on the front cover. Cloth is split and frayed along the outer joints. Covers loose but holding. Front and rear end papers toned brown. Several pages have light pencil notes and a few have ink notes in the margins and text. Loose ephemera related to the book laid inside the rear cover. An old 1935 newspaper clipping from Chester, PA regarding the death of George Gray Leiper pasted down on the rear end sheet. Inscribed by the author on the right front flyleaf. Previous owner inscription written beneath the authors inscription. 100 copies privately printed. 8 copies located in OCLC.
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Revaluations : Studies in Biography. OXFORD : 1931.

by ABERCROMBIE, Lascelles (1881-1938), CHESTERTON, G.K. [ Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 - 1936; A.C. Ward; Stephen Gwynn; Lord David Cecil; Edward Marjoribanks; James Laver; G.D.H. Cole; Naomi Mitchison; T.E. Welby; Captain Liddell Hart. [ Mary Queen of Sco

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Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1931. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo. [ Mary Queen of Scots; Oliver Goldsmith; Charles James Fox; Tennyson; W.E. Gladstone; George Frederick Watts; William Morris; Elizabeth Garrett Anderson; Walter Pater; Ferdinand Foch.]. FIRST EDITION. OXFORD : 1931. Hardback. A series of addresses delivered at the City Literary Institute during the Lent term 1931. cf. Introduction. Original dark-red cloth; gilt lettered spine and cover. No owner name or internal owner markings. Tight, bright and clean. NEAR FINE. (xi), 246, (i) pages. A nice copy of a scarce book. CONTENTS: Introduction, by A.C. Ward.--Mary Queen of Scots, by G.K. Chesterton.--Oliver Goldsmith, by Stephen Gwynn.--Charles James Fox, by Lord David Cecil.--Tennyson, by Lascelles Abercrombie.--W.E. Gladstone, by Edward Marjoribanks.--George Frederick Watts, by James Laver.--William Morris, by G.D.H. Cole.--Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, by Naomi Mitchison.--Walter Pater, by T.E. Welby.--Ferdinand Foch, by… Read More
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Revaluations : Studies in Biography. OXFORD : 1931. HARDBACK in JACKET.

by ABERCROMBIE, Lascelles (1881-1938), CHESTERTON, G.K. [ Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 - 1936; A.C. Ward; Stephen Gwynn; Lord David Cecil; Edward Marjoribanks; James Laver; G.D.H. Cole; Naomi Mitchison; T.E. Welby; Captain Liddell Hart. [ Mary Queen of Sco

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