Search Results: Titles starting with S from Dark and Stormy Night Books

Cincinnati, Ohio: Byway Studio Press, 1903 Hard cover, 12mo (measuring 5 x 6 1/2 inches) in quarter brown linen over brown paper-covered boards, the title in gilt on an identical brown paper label applied to front board, outlined in blind. Similar pastedowns. Ghost of bookplate removal to front pastedown. Handsewn with visible stitches seen in gutter of pastedowns. Applied brown paper label to spine, now illegible. Printed on WBW watermarked paper, partially unopened with other edges untrimmed, numbered 103 on limitation page. (8) 87, (5) pp. , First (only) edition. The decorative bordered title page is hand colored with red and gold accents to the black text. Additional incidental carved vignettes appear as chapter footers and historiated caps.** This seems to be a printer or binder's dummy, based on differences seen to other copies. Ours has a gilt tooled paper label, which seems to have been rejected in the end for the use of blind tooling to the front board. Secondly, there is a partial,… Read More

Köln: Taschen , 2021 Hard cover, quarto, 95 pp., measuring 8 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches. In English. Including many fine color and black and white art reproductions from the Spanish surrealist, Dalí (1904-1989). Commentary on the life of the artist by Gilles Néret, art historian and writer active in in the Japanese museum scene, and winner of the Èlie Faure Prize in 1981 for his publications. Condition: Fine. . English Edition. Hard Cover. Fine.

Hanover, Paris, Hanover: Typis Wechelianis, apud Claudium Marnium & haeredes Joan. Aubrii.; Ex Officina Plantiniana, Apud Hadrianum Perier in Via Iacobaea, 1605 Sammelband of THREE SCARCE EARLY MEDICAL WORKS from 1605. Hardcover, 12mo (3 ¼ x 5 ¼ inches) in vellum binding, pp [24] 258 [6]; [2] 66 [4]; [12] 348 [8]. Collation: [12] A-K12, L10 [2]; A-C12; A18, B-O12, P10 [I2 misnumbered as I3]. In Latin. CONDITION: Very Good Antiquarian Condition. Binding is firm. Some light damp stains to corner of some pages, especially in the "Pharmacia". Some small chips & tears to fore-edges of a few pages, not affecting text. A few pages showing worming, generally at margins.** FIRST TITLE: "De Sanguine, Diolgi VII," Hanoviae: Typis Welcelianus, apud Claudium Marrinium & haeredes Ioan. Aubrii, 1605. Reprint. (First published 1562,) Contains seven "dialogues" on Hippocrates, the planets, the gods, blood and the "humors". The participants of the dialogue are: Joannes Fornerius IC. (Jean Fornier, unknown) Petrus… Read More

Newburyport, MA: Parker River Researchers, 1989 Hard cover, 16mo., (measuring 5 x 7 1/2 inches) in gray buckram with silver titles, 272 pp. This is the reprinted, abridged version of the 1927 Macy-Masius Publishers issue. The Rev. Samuel Sewall (1652-1730) kept a diary for more than fifty years, detailing life as a printer, minister and judge of in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. His family settled in Newbury, Massachusetts in 1661. His main claim to fame, however, was as a member of the Court of Oyer and Terminer, which in 1692 oversaw the Salem witch trials, acts of which he later came to repent. The diary is compared to that of Samuel Pepys by the editor, and is certainly filled with mention of some of the big names of the day: Governor Winthrop, Cotton Mather et al. But equally fascinating are his observations of the everyday hardships, illnesses and early death, child mortality, and spiritual struggles of his own family and those of his neighbors. " His relations with his wife and their… Read More

Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1991 Hard cover, 8vo.,143pp. Condition : Near Fine. Light foxing to endpapers. D/j Near fine with light shelf wear. Signed by author to ffep. Discussiion of the Beat Generation poets.. Signed by author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Francestown, New Hampshire: Marshall Jones Company Publishers, 1963 Hard cover, 8vo., First edition Thus of "revised edition" in blue cloth with gold design to front, title to spine. 279 pp. In unclipped dust jacket. Map endpapers of the Isles of Shoals off Kittery, Maine, home of the poet, "the lightkeeper's daughter." Condition: Very Good Plus. Ownership signature in ballpoint to ffep. Otherwise, clean bright and tight. D/j Very Good with some sunning to spine. The author is the granddaughter of the noted nineteenth century novelist and poet, Celia Thaxter (1835-1894). Included are many photographs and family reminiscences of her life around Boston, at her family's hotel on Appledore Island, and later in Europe. There are well-written sketches regarding her connections to other Boston-area literati, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, and her regular correspondents Annie Fields and John Whittier. There are 21 of her poems included, 56 illustrations or photographs, and an index. First published in… Read More

Orlando: Harcourt, Inc., 2008 Hard cover, 8vo. in dust jacket, 311pp. Edinburgh author Guthrie gives us a bloodthirsty full Scottish breakfast of serial violence in a work of not inconsiderable dark humor. Condition Fine, with a Fine dust jacket.. First U.S. edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

New York: Harold Vinal, 1926 Reprint. Hard cover, 8vo, 40pp., First Edition. Scarce volume of poetry by the author of "Scarlet Runner" (1923). The title poem is a somewhat gothic poem with references to Thoth and Kheperi, the latter being the Ancient Egyptian scarab-faced god who represented creation and the renewal of life. The other poems follow a similar theme - with title such as "Frail Hope", "Grey Moths" and "Sorcery". CONDITION: Very Good Plus in a Good dust jacket, which has split along the spine (now protected by a clear plastic cover).. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus/Good.

New York: Thomas Y Crowell Company, 1923 96pp. Inscribed by author to front free endpaper: "For Kenneth Slade Alling from Elizabeth Shaw Montgomery". Nov. 26, 1923." In publisher's green cloth binding with gilt lettering. First book of poetry by Elizabeth Shaw Montgomery, as reviewed in "Current Poetry" (1924) alongside Edna St Vincent Millay's "The Curse". Poems include "La Nuit", "Lake Within the City", "Lethe", "From the Arabic" and "Alchemy". In these works we see the beginnings of the more gothic work, such as "Scarabaeus" (1926). Condition: About Very Good with light wear to corners of covers.. Signed and inscribed by author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

New York: Heritage Press, 1935 Presumed Reprint. Hard cover, 8vo, in slipcase, red cloth, blind stamped with vignette initial "A "design top board, with additional blind stamp to spine, with titles blocked in gold. The frontispiece has a color illustration by the Chicago-trained graphic artist William Addison Dwiggins, (1880-1956) signed in pencil by the artist. After a stint at the Lakeside Press, Dwiggins continued his career in the Boston area, designing quite a few typefaces, doing commercial work, and book design for firms including the Merrymount Press. Salem, Massachusetts-born novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) penned this fictional classic of Puritan patriarchal morality at odds with the life choices of the young Hester Prynne and her adulterous love-child. She is tormented both by her community, and an elusive husband, who rather than openly reuniting with his estranged wife, becomes obsessed with identifying her lover. Originally published in 1850. [OCLC 260716.] CONDITION: Fine. in… Read More

Torino: Vedova Pomba e Figli, 1818 Hard cover, 24mo, in what seems to be a contemporary rebinding, in three quarter vellum over marbled paper-covered boards, the titles to the spine in in gilt with an onlaid morocco label with additional gilt decoration banding in imitation of raised bands, and gilt floral vignettes to the faux compartments. Page edges are stained yellow, and there is a multicolored silk ribbon bookmark. In Italian. xii, 297 pp. [3pp.] CONDITION: Very Good Plus. Slight soiling to vellum, light rubbing at corners. Some fading to the gilt ornament on the spine. (A vertical mark seen near the foot of the front joint is just a mark, not a split.)The marbled paper has minor area of rubbing on the rear board. The binding is firm, pages bright, no signs of foxing. The engraved bookplate of a Scottish gentleman is on the front pastedown. The title page seems to have been trimmed as there is a cut off signature in old ink to the top corner, with "Naples 18--" below. **This collection, meant… Read More

London: The Library Association, 1971 Hard cover, 8vo., 508pp. Historical survey of scientific publishing, with bibliography at the end. Condition: Near Fine.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine.

Paris: Gustave Havard, 1852 218pp. Wonderful illustrations by Grandville, who was an influence on John Tenniel. Stories by various authors. French text. Three-quarters leather, with wear to edges and corners.. Hard Cover. Good+.

Holbrook, NY: Bundy Art Gallery, 1963 Soft cover, 8vo., 64pp unnumbered. Condition: Near Fine. Black and white photographic reproductions of works by Roger Bolomey, Abbot Pattison, Leo Stappat, Peter Chinni, William Tarr, Bill Barrett, Dorothy Dehner, Fritz Koenig, Robert Rohm, Mel Roman, Jerald Jacquard, Richard Fishman, Robert Fisher, Helen Wilson, Alfred Brunettin, Juan Nickford, Louis Trakis, MArianna Pineda, Sondra Bernstein, Lily Ente, Albert Terris, Jason Seley, Edmond Casarella, Joseph Konzal, Bernard Rosenthal, Julius Schmidt, Ruth Vollmer, Louise Bourgeois, David Hayes, James Wines, Hank Jensen, Gabriel Kohn, Luciano Minguzzi, Anthony Padovano, Toshio Odate, Bernhard Heiliger, Francois Stahly, Elisabeth Frink, Abraham Schlemowitz, Harris Barron, Constantino Nivola, Jon Rush, Alfio Castelli, Reuben Kadish, Bernard Brenner, Dino Basaldella, Elroy G. Johnson, Robert Adams, Katharine Levisetti, Brian Shapiro, Pietro Consagra, Richard Filipowski, John Andersom and Wilfred Zogbaum.. Soft Cover. Near Fine. Read More

London: L.C.Page, 1901 393pp; 400pp. Condition: Spines slightly faded and covers have light dust-soiling.. Hard Cover. Very Good.

Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1994 287pp. Narrative of living on a boat on the Seine. Condition: About Fine in like dustjacket.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

New York: Orientalia, 1920 Soft cover, 16mo. (measuring 5 x 7 1/2 inches) in mid-blue sparkly card wrapper, sewn with a cream thread binding in a Japanese-style binding. Cased in a blue linen-covered chemise with two printed paper labels, and two ivory clasps with loop closures, unpaginated. Condition: Very Good Plus for both book and chemise. Moderate age toning shows to both exterior labels on the chemise, as well as some corner rubbing. This is more in the line of "patina" than "problem." Book shows faint sunning to top edge of wraps, mild age toning to text within, but is otherwise clean and in excellent condition. The frontispiece portrait of the Author is both signed and bears a red chop (seal). Colophon states this to be a limited edition of 500 copies, a second edition, printed Nov. 1920. First published in 1897, this work contains fifty poems, each highlighted with a decorative stylized chrysanthemum initial capital. **Author Yonejiro Noguchi (1875-1947) was the first Japanese writer to… Read More

London: Constable and Company, 1912 294pp. Association copy to British Royal Family. Finely bound by Hatchards, Picadilly and signed by them. Spine has five raised bands and gilt title. George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) was an Irish playwright and critic. Provenance: Presentation copy inscribed to: "Constance Milnes Gaskell. From Hilda. Xmas 1913). Lady Constance Harriet Stuart Milnes Gaskell (1885 - 1964) was a Woman of the Bedchamber to Queen Mary from 1937-53 and Lady-in-Waiting to Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent from 1953-60. Condition: Almost Fine, but with rubbing to spine and front hinge cracked (but firm).. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Library, 1967 Soft Cover, 58pp Exhibition catalogue. The Chester Beatty Library is located in Dublin, and includes many important Islamic and far eastern works. Condition: Near Fine with very light shelf-wear.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

London: Barnard Quaritch, 2005 Soft Cover, 8vo. Staple-bound catalog of books for the New York Book Fair. Condition: Near Fine.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine.