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London: John Russell Smith, 1859 One of 250 copies. An excellent facsimile of Schreiber I, the first edition of the most popular and best known of block book texts, published in the Netherlands around 1466-70. There are nine known complete or partially complete copies of this edition. . Publisher's brown morocco over marbled boards. . Tall folio. Spine, corners, board edges rubbed, intermittent light foxing. A good, sound copy. Block books or xylographica were for a long time believed to precede printing from moveable type, invented by Gutenberg in the 1450s. Their crude appearance and the style of the woodcuts suggest an earlier date. But Allan H. Stevenson, writing in the 1960s, concluded from a study of the watermarks, that nearly all of them date from the 1460s or later. He did, however, establish the date for the earliest one, the Netherlandish Apocalypse as c. 1451-52. The latest block books, according to Stevenson, can be dated up to around 1530. (See "The Problem of Blockbooks" in…
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Biblia Pauperum. Reproduced in facsimile from one of the copies in the British Museum, with an historical and bibliographical introduction, by J. Ph. Berjeau.
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One of the Family
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New York: Norton, 1992 Clothbacked boards. Octavo. Ownership signature on front free endpaper. Otherwise fine in fine d.j. By the daughter of Sheilah Graham and A.J. Ayer.
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The Tragedy of a Widow's Third
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Boston: Irving P. Fox, 1898 First edition. The Tragedy of a Widow's Third critiques unequal inheritance laws that left women, like the protagonist of the novel, impoverished after the deaths of their loved ones. The "widow's third" of the title refers to the portion of a couple's wealth left to a widow after a husband's death in the state of Massachusetts. The wealth accrued by a married woman was also often legally counted as her husband's, which could result in her own property being stripped from her after his death. Other parts of the United States (mostly states and territories in the west including Arizona, California, and Colorado) guaranteed a widow half of the couple's wealth, but it wasn't until 1902 that an equal guardianship bill passed in Massachusetts. The bill was introduced by George Howard Fall, the husband of Anna Christy Fall (1855 – 1930).. Publisher's red cloth with printed paper spine label. Twelvemo. With three plates (including frontispiece) by Vesper L. George. Some wear and…
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Selections from his Poetry and Prose. With an introduction, biographical & critical, by Eric Partridge
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London: Fanfrolico Press, 1927 First edition. The press's scarce fourth book. One of 155 copies printed at the Curwen Press. Signed by Partridge. Quarter vellum over brown paper boards, gilt spine. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Octavo. Photogravure portrait, and etching of Landor's birthplace. Some fading to top of front board. Otherwise a beautiful copy, tight and clean. Landor (1781-1869) was the youngest brother of Walter Savage Landor. He wrote five tragedies, of which one, Count Arezzi (1822), sold brilliantly while it was mistaken for Byron's work. Partridge remarks in his prefatory note: "That so fine a writer as Robert Landor should have fallen into an almost complete neglect is inexplicable on literary grounds…Of men who, since 1700 (and I might add since 1600), have published their work only to attract little immediate notice and to become very rapidly forgotten, I know of none that can approach in merit, whether it be in prose or verse, this younger brother of Walter Savage Landor."
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Naturalism and Subjectivism
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Springfield, Ill.: Charles C. Thomas Publisher, [1959] First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Ink signature. Very good in very good d.j.
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Kurt Weill: A Life in Pictures and Documents. Designed by Bernard Schleifer
by Farneth, David, with Elmar Juchem and Dave Stein
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Woodstock, NY: Overook Press, [2000] First edition. Clothbacked boards. Quarto. With 838 photographs and documents, 67 fgull-color photographs. Fine in fine d.j.
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On the Construction of Life Tables, illustrated by a New Life Table of the Healthy Districts of England. Read April 7, 1859." In: The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 1859, pp. 837-878.
by Farr, William
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The first printing of Farr's preliminary report describing the use of the Scheutz calculator to prepare life tables, published five years before his English Life Tables (1864, see Garrison & Morton 1700.1), and representing the very earliest application of computers to medical statistics. The table was one of the greatest achievements of William Farr, the Scheutzes and, of course, Charles Babbage, who was inspirational in this project. Modern boards. . The extracted paper, with the original title-page to the volume bound in. Quarto. . Pencil numerals on verso of the title, otherwise fine.
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The Stinehour Press: A Bibliographical Checklist of the First Thirty Years. With an introduction by Roderick Stinehour
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Lunenburg, Vermont: Meriden-Stinehour Press, [1988] First edition, one of 1,200 copies printed. This copy signed by Roderick Stinehour. Blue cloth, stamped in silver. Large octavo. Numerous facsimile pages, some with color. Indexed. Fine in fine d.j.
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Set of 137 fashion design sketches
by [Fashion ]. Saunders, Vivian
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[n.p.:] 1955-57 Stored in a contemporary accordion-fold card paper portfolio hand-labeled "Sketches of Accepted Designs.". 137 sheets of hand-drawn sketches (sixty-two on 9" x 11 " sheets, 75 on 5 " x 8 " sheets). Most with handwritten design descriptions, notes, and accompanying fabric swatches pinned or taped onto the sheets. Also with price lists, inventories, and printed ads for the Candy Jr. brand (ads correspond with designs made by Saunders that are included in the present set). Portfolio somewhat worn and creased. Enclosed are eight contemporary manila folders, organized by season (Holiday 1955, Fall 1956, Spring 1957, etc.), all hand-labeled in pencil. Some designs signed "V. Saunders" or "Vivian Saunders." Some toning and creasing to leaves. A few fabric swatches detached from leaves. Overall, a very good set of striking original sketches of 1950s-era fashion designs for young women. Most of the sketches are for party dresses and evening gowns made for young women in their early teens to…
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Mayday. Introduction by Carvel Collins
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Notre Dame: university of Notre Dame Press, [1976] First trade edition. Cloth. Small octavo. Fine in fine d.j.
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An Interpretation and Critique of Wittgenstein's Tractatus
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Copenhagen: Munksgaard, 1967 First edition. Boards. Octavo. Ex-library copy, with stain where label has been removed from lower spine, and call number on back pastedown. Rubberstamp on front pastedown. Still a good, tight copy of a scarce title.
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Broadside Ballads of the Restoration Period from the Jersey Collection Known as the Oserley Park Ballads
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London: John Lane the Bodley Head Limited, 1930 First edition, limited to 750 copies. Quarter linen over decorative cloth boards, gilt spine lettering. Folio. Corners lightly bumped, minor soiling. A very good, clean copy. Of the 93 broadside ballads in the collection printed in this volume, 28 are unique, another 31 very rare, and the remainder are confined to two, or at most three, other collections. They give a vivid picture of the popular social life of the Restoration period, comprising warnings to the transgressor, dying speeches, amusing love encounters, and many other topics treated with the broad and outspoken humour and pathos characteristic of the times."
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Women's Suffrage: A Short History of a Great Movement. By...[the] President of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies.
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London: T.C. & E. Jack, [1912] First edition. Date from publisher's stamp (1/12).. Publisher's olive-green cloth stamped in black. Binding is clean and attractive. . Small octavo. With a list of other important suffrage texts, including works by John Stuart Mill, Sylvia Pankhurst, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman (p. 90). A very good or better copy of a suffrage memoir by the leader of the constitutional women's suffrage movement in Britain. Millicent Garrett Fawcett, LL.D. (1847 – 1929), was one of the most important figures in the women's suffrage movement both in Britain and across the world. She supported a wide variety of causes including equal education, equal pay, ending the exploitation of working women, and creating legislation against child marriage and sex trafficking. Early in her career, Fawcett founded Newnham College, a women's college at Cambridge, and supported early bids to open Cambridge degrees to women. She was also a supporter of adult education who served as a governor of…
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Tales in Political Economy
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London: Macmillan, 1874 First edition of this collection of fable-like short stories illustrating economic principles. In the preface, Fawcett credits Harriet Martineau for "the idea, which she made so popular thirty years ago, of hiding the powder, Political Economy, in the raspberry jam of a story.". Octavo. With a text diagram. Millicent Garrett Fawcett, LL.D. (1847 – 1929), was one of the most important figures in the women's suffrage movement both in Britain and across the world. She supported a wide variety of causes including equal education, equal pay, ending the exploitation of working women, and creating legislation against child marriage and sex trafficking. Early in her career, Fawcett founded Newnham College, a women's college at Cambridge, and supported early bids to open Cambridge degrees to women. She was also a supporter of adult education who served as a governor of Bedford College, a teacher training school; in 1899, the University of St. Andrews awarded her an honorary LL.D.…
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Water Dogs
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Seattle: Street of Crocodiles, 1992 One of a lettered edition of 26 copies. This copy is marked "proof copy. Faux emerald water serpent skin (paper) with paper label on front cover, accordion-style binding. . Small quarto. Five color woodcut illustrations. Illustrated, printed, and bound by the author. The linoleum blocks were printed on a Vandercook 4 and the text was printed on a C&P platen press. The paper used is Rives BFK. Corners slightly rubbed. Signed by the author on the colophon. A fine copy. Jules Remedios Faye (b. 1958) is an American author, editor, letterpress printmaker, bookbinder, teacher, and creator of artists' books. With husband Christopher Stern, now deceased, she established Stern & Faye Printers, a letterpress print shop and hand bookbindery located in Mt Vernon, WA. Faye teaches, curates and participates in bookarts exhibits and events throughout the Skagit Valley and Puget Sound area.
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Poems. Introduction by Edward Dahlberg
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New York: Dynamo, 1936 First trade edition of the author's second book. Wrappers. Octavo. Fine.
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Der Neue Emil oder von der Erziehung nach bewährten Grundsätzen
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Erlangen: verlegts Wolfgang Walther, 1768 First edition. Contemporary sprinkled boards, edges stained red. . Octavo. Minor rubbing to extremities, a little browning to title-page, but a fine, clean copy. This is not a Rousseauean sequel to Emile, as the title might suggest, but a novel and a handbook for modern pedagogues, which ran into several editions. Feder added another book with the same title in 1774, but this work is complete in itself, as intended. In the preface he expresses the view that "Rousseau's Emil does not deserve to be burnt, but to be cauterized and moulded into a new work." Johann Georg Heinrich Feder (1740-1821) was a professor at the University of Göttingen. Along with Christoph Meiners, he was a leading light in the anti-Kantian school known as the Popularphilosophen, which emerged in Göttingen in the late 1780s and was responsible for the Philosophische Bibliothek, which ran from 1788 to 1791 and was the most prominent source in Germany for foreign and especially British…
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C'etait hier a Strasbourg de 1851 a 1944 en 218 photographies. Preface de Monsieur R.C. Weiss
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Saint-Die: Editions Le Chardon, 1987 First edition. One of 3,000 copies. Cloth. Large octavo. Black and white photographic reproductions throughout. Fine in lightly soiled, very good+ d.j.
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The Revival of Realism
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Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1946 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Former owner's rubberstamp. Very good in partially discolored d.j.
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Indice General Alfabetico de las Cosas Notables que Contienen Todas las Obras del muy Ilustre Señor D. Fr. Benito Geronimo Feijoo, inclusas las Dedicatorias, Aprobaciones, y Prologos, y tambien los dos tomos de la Demonstracion Critico-Apologetica, que en defensa del Theatro Critico escribiò el Rmo. P.M.D. Fr. Martin Sarmiento.
by [Feijoo, Benito Jerónimo]. Santos, Joseph
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Madrid: Por Don Antonio de Sancha, 1774 First edition of the general index to the works of Father Benito Jerónimo Feijoo Montenegro (1675-1764), called the Spanish Addison, and to the additional published works of Father Martin Sarmiento (1659-1772), the Benedictine scholar and private librarian who assisted Feijóo in the writing of his books. Feijóo, author of Teatro critico (1726-1739) and Cartas erudias (1742-1760), attacked the ignorance and superstition of his countrymen. Though the immediate response to Feijóo's work was outrage, his services to the cause of knowledge were ultimately honored in his lifetime. . Contemporary tree calf, gilt spine with red morocco label. . Small quarto. Woodcut title-page vignette. Former owner's small embossed stamp on title-page. Front free endpaper a little worn. Generally a near fine copy.
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