Search Results: Titles starting with A from Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.

Kenosha, WI: Samuel Lowe Company, circa [1945].. [1945].. Good. - Oblong quarto, stapled color pictorial wraps. Lightly soiled & chipped with the bottom corners lightly creased. [12] leaves, including 4 leaves of figures & objects depicted in color to be cut out & pasted onto 8 leaves of B&W outlined shapes. The B&W leaves are darkened with 2 small pencil notations on 1 of them; there is a tiny chip out of the front edge of each of the last 2 leaves. Good.

Newark, DE: Oak Knoll Books, circa [1978].. [1978].. Very good. - 12mo, printed wraps. Unevenly faded. 38 pages. Portrait frontispiece. A very few ink marks, else very good. <p>195 Newton items are catalogued and priced.

Skokie, Illinois: The Black Cat Press, 1980.. 1980.. Fine. - Leather Miniature, 2-11/16" x 2-1/16". Full blue calf hand-bound by Bela Blau, titled in gilt on the spine with a gilt portrait vignette on the front cover. 51 pages plus the colophon. Illustrated with a title page vignette in blue, black & white by Calvin Brazelton. Fine. <p>Limited edition of 249 copies designed by N.W.F. and printed from Linotype Garamond on white Strathmore Pastelle paper.

New York: C. S. Hammond & Co., [1939]., [1939].. Very good. - A 25 inch high by 19 inch wide color folding bird's eye view map of the New York World's Fair grounds and buildings and it's surroundings, entitled "Map of the New York World's Fair and Approaches. Published by C. S. Hammond and Co. New York". The island of Manhattan is shown across the East River with New Jersey seen beyond the Hudson River. A partial list of the "World's Fair Buildings" is printed in the bottom margin. A "Rapid Transit Map of Greater New York: Showing all Subways and Elevated Lines" is pictured in color on the verso. Six color vignettes frame the transit map, each followed by a list of New York's highlights including "Points of Interest ", "Skyscrapers", "Stadiums", "Churches", "Museums", and "Beaches and Amusement Parks". The map folds into a compact 6-1/4 inch high by 4-3/4 inch wide size with a color illustration of World's Fair structures and with "Compliments of Street Railways Advertising Co." printed below.… Read More

American Book Collector, 1980.. 1980.. Very good. - Octavo, white pictorial wraps.Soiled. 65 pp. Very good.

July, 1922., 1922.. Good. - Quarto, 14 inches high by 10-3/4 inches wide. Printed self-wraps. What is offered here is the American composer Douglas Moore's original pencil manuscript for his composition "A Sad Song" with lyrics by Stephen Vincent Benet, written in Moore's hand and signed by him. The composition for Voice, Violin, Cello, and Piano is written on a signature consisting of 4 pages of music paper. Titled by the composer at top left, the score is signed by him at top right. Halfway down the second page, Moore has penciled the word "probably" in the margin followed by dots above 3 bars of music. The pages are slightly soiled with creases to the edges and corners. Good.Together with what appears to be an INK COPY of the score for Voice and Piano, with the 3-page score penned in an unknown hand and with a few pencil corrections on 2 sheets of GSNY music paper. Dated July 1922 under the composer's name at the top right of the first page, this is the Soprano's copy and is inscribed "A Sad Song… Read More

Philadelphia: Godey's Lady's Book, 1844., 1844.. Fair. THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF EDGAR ALLAN POE'S SHORT STORY "A TALE OF THE RAGGED MOUNTAINS" - Octavo, 9-3/4 inches high by 6-1/4 inches wide. Disbound, lacking the covers with but remnants of the spine. [48] text pages in all, numbered from 153 through 200, illustrated with 3 engraved plates. A poem, under the heading "Wanted, A Wife" has been cut out from page 184 with loss of text to Mary Davenant's story on the verso. Several page corners are creased and there is some occasional soiling and faint minor spots of foxing. The first appearance of Edgar Allan Poe's "A Tale of the Ragged Mountains", a story which combines mesmerism and reincarnation set near the University of Virginia where Poe had been a student in 1826-7. Poe's story is here published on pages 177 through 181 of the periodical.

New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc., 1955., 1955.. Good. - Octavo, 8-1/4 inches high by 5-1/2 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in black cloth backed with a yellow cloth spine titled in black & yellow on the spine, in a black, yellow and white printed dust wrapper. The book's covers are bumped with a small stain to the bottom of the spine. The dust jacket is slightly soiled with minor creases and tears to the edges and a chip to the tail of the jacket's spine. 336 pages, illustrated with a frontispiece and profuse textual music staves. Very good in a good dust wrapper.
First edition, first printing.

Dublin, Ireland: Abbey Theatre Co., 1922.. 1922.. Very good.. - Octavo, pictorial gray wraps with a cover illustration after a woodcut by Elinor Mary Monsell & with ads printed on the rear wrap & inside wraps. The edges of the wraps are lightly creased & slightly darkened with a tiny chip to each front edge. There is a small area of light soiling to the rear wrap. [4] page plus the wrappers. There is a light vertical crease to each page & each wrap where the program has been folded. A very good, very attractive copy. <p>The program for the Abbey Theatre's premiere production of "The Round Table" by Lennox Robinson, directed by the author. The production opened on January 31, 1922 and played for six performances, ending on February 4, 1922. Also performed was Lady Gregory's one-act comedy "The Workhouse Ward". W. B. Yeats and Lady Gregory are listed as the directors of the theatre. The program's cover illustration by Elinor Mary Monsell is a woodcut… Read More

Dublin: The Abbey Theatre, (1969).. (1969).. Very good. - Octavo, softcover bound in pictorial wrappers. The binding is bumped & lightly rubbed with some light creasing to the rear wrap. 98 & [2] pages. Illustrations in black & white and in black on a colored ground. The title page is slightly foxed & the bottom edges of the pages are a bit darkened. Very good. <p>The author was Director of the Abbey Theatre.

New York: Random House, (1936)., (1936).. Fair. - Small quarto, 8-1/2 inches high by 6-7/8 inches wide. Pictorial yellow boards illustrated in green, gray & white, in a matching pictorial dust wrapper. The edges of the covers are rubbed with wear to the corners and head and tail of the spine. The soiled dust jacket is torn & chipped with several pieces out from the edges and some repairs from the verso. The jacket's spine has mostly perished and the panels have separated. [62] unnumbered pages with color pictorial endpapers and profuse full-page color illustrations by Jean de Brunhoff followed by a "List of Words Which Can Be Found" (in the stories of Babar's adventures) in English with their French translation. The first signature (i.e. group of pages) is lightly pulled. Very good in a fair dust wrapper. An early edition with an announcement about the publication of "Zephir's Holidays" printed on the dust wrapper's rear flap.

Wakefield, RI and London: Moyer Bell 1993.. 1993.. Very good. - Octavo, softcover bound in pictorial purple, black & white wraps. The wraps are very slightly bumped & rubbed. xliii, [1] leaf, 396 & [1] pages. Illustrated with 2 black-and-white maps. The top margin of the first leaf has been excised. Very good. <p>Reprint edition.

New York: Kennedy Galleries, 1970.. 1970.. Very good. - Quarto [11 inches high by 8-1/2 inches wide], softcover bound in printed wrappers. The binding is rubbed & lightly bumped. [36] pages, including 26 pages of reproductions of works by Abraham Rattner in color and black & white. The contents are near fine. <p>Catalog for an exhibition of works-- watercolors, gouaches and mixed media--by Abraham Rattner shown at the Kennedy Galleries from February 14 to March 8, 1970. The introduction is by Allen Leeper.<p>The stamp of publisher Harry N. Abrams editorial library is on the title page.

Pittsburgh: Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute/ New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., (1983)., (1983).. Fine. - Quarto, 11 inches high by 8-1/4 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in gray cloth embossed with an abstract illustration, titled in silver on the spine. The book is laid into a color pictorial dust wrapper. 256 pages, illustrated in color and black & white. There is a minor indentation along the top edge of a few pages. Near fine.
First edition.

San Francisco: Globus Publishers, 1981., 1981.. Very good. - Octavo, 8-1/2 inches high by 6-3/8 inches wide. Softcover, printed stapled light green wraps illustrated with a map on the front cover. 61 pages, with the editors' appreciation label mounted on the verso of the front cover. Very good. "ASEEPL [Abstracts of Soviet and East European Emigre Periodical Literature] has been published since the Fall 1981. The purpose of the journal has been to familiarize specialists studying the contemporary politics, economics, art, literature, and history of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe with materials published in the pages of the emigre periodical press". [Quoted from a report on the periodical].

Ames, IA: The Iowa State University Press, (1964).. (1964).. Very good. - Octavo, black cloth, in a price-clipped dust wrapper. The covers are lightly rubbed. There are some light stains to the tail of the dust jacket spine. xv & 386 pages plus colophon. Near fine in a very good dust wrapper. <p>First edition.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Young, (1953).. (1953).. Good. SIGNED BY THE AUTHORS - Octavo, pink boards backed with a black cloth spine, titled in gilt on the spine, in a printed burgundy red dust wrapper.The covers are soiled. The dust jacket is slightly rubbed and foxed with some minor chipping to the edges. 306 pages, illustrated with 16 pages of photographs and some musical notations. The endpapers are slightly foxed and there is some occasional soiling. Good. <p>First edition. Signed by the authors Boris Goldovsky and Mary Ellis Peltz on a presentation book plate mounted on the front endpaper.

(Richmond, VA: The William Byrd Press, Inc.), (1960).. (1960).. Very good. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed red wraps & sewn with brown cord. The extremities are faded & the wraps are lightly bumped with some rippling to the bottom edge of the rear wrap. [13] pages plus colophon. Very good. <p>Limited edition, designed and produced by the William Byrd Press as a keepsake for the Institute of Early American History and Culture and friends of the press.

NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985., 1985.. Very good. - 8vo, rust cloth backed cream boards (lightly bumped & soiled; spine slightly faded with tiny stain) titled in gilt, in dw (top edges very lightly chipped; dw spine slightly faded; rear panel soiled; small, light stain to rear flap). [v], 355 & [2] pp. Very good. <p>First edition.

(NY): Scribner, (1996).. (1996).. Fine. SIGNED BY E. ANNIE PROULX - Octavo, brown cloth backed light tan boards titled in gilt, in a pictorial dust wrapper. The covers are very lightly bumped and the rear panel of the dust jacket is lightly soiled. 381 pages. Near fine. <p>First edition.<p>Signed by the author E. Annie Proulx on the title page.