Search Results: Authors starting with S from Old Bookshelf

New York: Privately Published, 1917. Sixth Printing . Flexible Boards. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 97pp. Blue flexible baords, gilt lettering. Very light wear, endpapers partially darkened, text is clean, owner's stamp on front pastedown. An early publication of this title.

Paris: Calmann-Levy. Soft cover. Good. 334p. No date, circa 1909, sans date, couverture souple. Yellow wraps. Soiling, spotting and light chipping to cover, text is clean. Biographies of Berlioz, LIszt, Gounod, Massé, and Rubinstein,and essays on music related subjects. Text in French.

Garden City, New Y Ork: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1966. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 391pp. Inscribed and SIGNED by author on half-title page. Black cloth, tan spine backing. Faint spotting to spine, small abrasion to rear endpaper, text is clean and binding is tight, and book is overall sound.

Kobenhavn: Jespersen Og Pios, 1930. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Kurt Wiese. 202pp. Text in Danish. Half leather, 5 raised bands, gilt lettering to spine, top edges gilt. In text black and white illustrations by Kurt Wiese, foreward by John Galsworthy. Moderate wear to covers, owner's name and date on front free endpaper, text is clean.

Rutherford, New Jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson College Press, 1954. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 163pp. Grey cloth. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Author on front free endpaper. Spine darkened, cover and contents clean and sound.

Boston: Sampson, Davenport, & Co., 1885. Hardcover. Good. 182p, folding map. Brown cloth, gilt spine lettering. Fading mainly to spine, text is yellowed, staining to margins of first 7 leaves, folding map has several clean tears along folds, some extending beyond folds. Map is otherwise quite fresh looking. Binding is tight, owner's name and date (1885) on front free endpaper.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1923. First Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Maud and Miska Petersham. 218pp. Blue cloth, yellow lettering and decoration, inscribed and SIGNED by author on front free endpaper. Light wear to cover, contents lightly age-toned, spots in a few scattered margins. Black and white illustrations throughout by Maud and Miska Petersham.

Denver: Leary & Getz, 1849. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. vi, 196 and vi, 154 pp, approx. 50pp ads at rear. Two volumes bound as one. Red blind stamped cloth, gilt lettering and decoration to spine, engraved frontispiece. Covers worn and soiled, spine faded but readable, contents age-toned and only occasionally foxed, some staining to endpapers, some internal separation, no loose pages.

New York: Kirk & Mercein, 1817. First Edition . Hardcover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 301 +xvi pp appendix. Original publisher's green printed boards. Front board has been reinforced with hinge tape, covers edge chipped and darkened, contents age-toned, dampstaining to some margins, occasional pencil notes in margins, frontispiece to free endpaper.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Cmpany, 1943. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Don Freeman. 291pp. Rust color cloth. Bookis clean and sound, one corner bumped, owner's bookplate on front free endpaper, endpapers lightly toned. Dust jacket is not clipped, but has no price; very early edition, but may not be a first due to lack of price. Dust jacket has tears and chips along edges, and is darkened along spine and folds.

New York: Amphoto, 1960. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 119pp. Binding is sound , top edges and spine slightly darkened, contents are clean.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1927. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 640, 619pp. Black cloth, gilt lettering and decoration. Very light wear to extremities, contents age- toned (mainly endpapers), bindings are tight. Volume I is INSCRIBED AND SIGNED to E.T.I. Thygesen. Laid-in are also 2 letters addressed to Mr.Thygesen, also SIGNED by Sawyer. One of the letters includes a personal handwritten postcript to Mr. Thygesen, and a list of page references in the 2 volumes for Mr. Thygesen to look-up. A warm asscociation copy with 2 interesting associated letters. One of the letters is partially darkened (but clearly readable) by offsetting of a newpaper clipping which is also laid-in.

Paris: Editions Richard-Masse, 1971. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good/Very Good. Pablo Picasso. 182pp. Card stock wraps, card stock dust jacket with pictorial pasteon. (Broché avec jacquette.) 25 Picasso illustrations (hors-texte). An edition of 1207 examples, one thousand numbered 1-1,000 and two hundred marked H.C., this book marked H.C. Both book and dust jacket are in very good condition, very slight fading to jacket spine.

New York: A.S. Barnes and Company, 1950. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 219pp. Green cloth. Very sound condition, mild toning to endpapers. Dust jacket has chipping and tearing along edges, 1 1/2 inch fragment missing from foot of spine, now covered in clear jacket. Major League baseball stars of the 1940s and 50s relate their memories of their greatest games; Joe Domaggio, Bob Feller Jackie Robinson, Stan Musial, Warren Spahn and more.+

New York: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1946. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 44pp. No date but circa 1950. Stapled wraps. Age toned but otherwise sound. Catalog of kitchen implements with 1950s pricing. Original Hammacher Schlemmer mail-in order form is included.

New York: James T. White & Co., 1922. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 100pp. Light green boards. Covers are faded, light wear to spine ends, binding is tight and text is clean, some foxing to preliminary pages. Front free endpaper is boldly SIGNED : "Your friend- F.S. Schlesinger, May 1922". Books signed by Frederick Schlesinger are uncommon. This is the original first edition, NOT a recent reprint.

Tel Aviv: United Artists Ltd., 1968. Second Edition . Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Portfolio of 12 reproductions of the artist's paintings, 4 in color and 8 in black and white, text in English and Hebrew. Prints and text are all in sound condition, slight staple rust in text folder, and some slight chipping to top of front and back cover

Garden City, NY: Row, Peterson and Company, 1965. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 467pp. Blue cloth. Book is in clean and sound condition. Dust jacket is price-clipped, lightly scuffed and foxed along fold and top edge. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS on front free endpaper. Good copy.

Boston: Boston Theatrical Publishing Company Musical, 1897. Soft cover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 12pp. Printed wraps. Light wear and light scuffing to covers, interior is clean, slight center crease. Programme for the week of December 27, 1897 for Francis Wilson and Company under the management of Ariel Barney, producing the comic opera in 3 acts entitled "Half a King". Many fascinating ads including a full page ad featuring Charles River Lots for 10 cents per foot.

New York: Cooper Union Woman's Art School, 1930. Soft cover. Fair. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 35pp. String tied paper wraps. Cover torn along spine, light soil, dampstaining to some margins, staple rust. Student art, photos, fellow students' good wishes and signatures on a number of students' bios.