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Description: 5 v. illus. 20 cm. Includes Illustrations. previous owner's name. minor pencil lining most pages pretty nice for the age of the book. loose pages No remainder mark. sixth reader. CB 61 Fair. No dust jacket. Highlighting/underlining. Signed by previous owner.
Seller: 2Vbooks, Derwood, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$6.42 + shipping
Condition: Good
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Seller: siop lyfrau'r hen bost, Blaenau Ffestiniog, United Kingdom
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Condition: Very Good
Description: paperback, 163 pages, page edges spotted, name to flyleaf, otherwise very good. We are a real bookshop with real books situated in and shipping from the United Kingdom. Shelf 236.
Seller: Carmarthenshire Rare Books, Carmarthen, United Kingdom
Price: US$7.70 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: Image shows actual book for sale. Book Condition: Poor; heavily worn cover; a little shaken to binding but secure. Soft Cover William Lewis 1925 History Wales
Seller: Sonnets And Symphonies, Bristol, United Kingdom
Price: US$9.92 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Halbleinen, original verstärkte Ecken, 1.-5. Tsd., 128 S., z.B. David, Goliath, Äthiopier, Stein der Weisen, Millionär und Scheuerfrau (Putzfrau), Prophet; enthält vom Übersetzer Hayek die fünfseitige "Parabel vom weisen Safed", Oak Park, bei Chicago, IL; Deckel beschabt, Text vollständig; innen sauber, keine Eintragungen oder Markierungen, Ebd. fest; sofort lieferbar.
Seller: Bildungsbuch, Flensburg, Germany
Locy, William Albert. The story of biology. Garden City Pub. Co, 1925.
Price: US$11.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
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Seller: Basement Seller 101, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
. Catalogue of Works By William De Morgan. Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1925.
Price: US$11.55 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Some minor wear to cover but overall in very good condition.
Seller: Holt Art Books, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Price: US$12.20 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Red cloth, title a little rubbed on the spine, slight damp discolouration in places on the front and a bit more on the back, the jacket is rubbed on the spine with chipping and creasing along the top edge with a little loss from the corners and the top and base of the spine. Contains 8 full-page plates in colour and 72 black and white illustrations.
Seller: Ryde Bookshop Ltd, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
William Carlos Williams. In the American Grain. Albert & Charles Boni, 1925.
Price: US$13.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: General shelf/age wear. No jacket. Pages clean.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$15.08 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Early volume of The Surgical Clinics of North America. Contains numerous articles "from the clinic of. . ." various Mayo Clinic physicians, including Drs.William J. Mayo, Charles H. Mayo, E. Starr Judd, Bennett R. Parker, Harry D. Morse, Donald C. Balfour, Melvin S. Henderson, William C. MacCarty, Henry W. Meyerding, Gordon B. New, Walter E. Sistrunk, James C. Masson, John DeJ. Pemberton, Frank C. Mann, Alfred W. Adson, Stuart W. Harrington, Arthur G. Plankers, Verne C. Hunt, William P. Herbst, Hermon C. Bumpus Jr., Albert J. Scholl, Louis A. Buie, Harold I. Lillie, Carl M. Anderson, Waltman Walters, Jesse L. Bollman, John F. Gipner, and John S. Lundy. Well illustrated. Light age-marks on top edges of endpapers and title page.
Seller: UHR Books, Hollis Center, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$15.08 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Early volume of The Surgical Clinics of North America. Contains numerous articles "from the clinic of. . ." various Chicago area physicians, including Drs. Arthur Dean Bevan, Albert J. Ochsner, Erwin R. Schmidt, Carl Beck, J. Rawson Pennington, Frederick B. Moorehead, Kaethe W. Dewey, David C. Straus, Daniel N. Eisendrath, Alfred A. Strauss, Leon Bloch, Joseph C. Friedman, Walter W. Hamburger, Hugh McKenna, Maurice A. Bernstein, Golder Lewis McWhorter, Ralph Boerne Bettman, Gatewood, Edmunc Andrews, Philip Lewin, Frederick Christopher, Raymond W. McNealy, Julius V. Spivack, Karl A. Meyer, William A. Brams, Edwin M. Miller, Ralph C. Brown and J. P. Greenhill. Well illustrated.
Seller: UHR Books, Hollis Center, ME, U.S.A.
Knudson, Albert C. Present tendencies in religious thought. New York Abingdon Press 1925., 1925.
Price: US$17.00 + shipping
Description: VG in green cloth. Front edge marred by mail hole. (Mendenhall lectures ; 9th, 1924) First printed in 1924. Reprint edition. Binding is Hardback.
Seller: Alec R. Allenson, Inc., Westville, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$17.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good condition in wraps, light shelfwear ex-Sinclair
Seller: Abracadabra Books 50% Off Sale!, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$19.25 + shipping
Description: Hard back binding in rebound in plain ivory cream cloth covers. 8vo. 8½'' x 6¼''. Contains 65 printed pages of text with full-page colour and small monochrome illustrations throughout. A couple of small surface marks of the pale cloth to the front cover and in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. LITERATURE 1900-1925
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: QUITE NICE GOOD COND .STILL VERY STURDY BINDING WITH PLIABLE, USEABLE PAGES, NAME INNER COVER "FRANCES CONOVER.3222 SANTA CRUZ WAY.SACRAMENTO, CALIF.".BOOK OPENS WITH FULL L PAGE PHOTOS OF JOHNE. BROWN; LOREN G. JONES & MRS LOREN G. JONES. ; BLACK COVER TITLES ON LIGHT BROWN PAPER OVER CLOTH COVERS.TRIPPLE SPINE STAPLED.; Sheet Music; 165 Songs pages; Index.
Seller: WONDERFUL BOOKS BY MAIL, Durham-CA, CA, U.S.A.
King, William. English Porcelain Figures of the XVIII Century. The Medici Society, London, 1925.
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Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Hardcover. 9 7/8" X 7 3/4". xi, 15pp, 7 tissue-guarded color plates, 72 monochrome plates. Very heavy wear to dust jacket, with only 2 1/2" of spine present, edgewear, small tears to extremities, sunning, dust soiling, and scattered rubbing. Pictorial label to dust jacket in very nice condition. Red cloth over boards, with upper board and spine lettered in gilt. Moderate edgewear to binding, with bumping to extremities. Rear hinge a touch tender. Binding remains sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A quite lovely copy in worn dust jacket of this guide to 18th Century English porcelain figures by William King of the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Seller: Underground Books, ABAA, Carrollton, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original copy, lightly aged; Textblock is clean and tight, staples are sound and secure. Toning to the edges of binding, minor creasing to corners. Topics include: The Conifers or "Evergreens" of Colorado; Early Mail Service in Colorado; Report of the President; Primitive Coloradoans; An Appreciation of William G. Evans; Joseph W. Bowles; The Story of a Colorado Pioneer; Editorials; 64p. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Clausen Books, RMABA, Colorado Springs, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First printing. 317 numbered pages including index. A few leaves have small corner creases. Otherwise a fine, unmarked copy in a square, tight binding. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Banjo Booksellers, IOBA, Andover, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$22.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Spine worn and taped, with "Ralph L. Carr" ink-stamped at the top of the front cover; This would be Colorado Governor Ralph Carr; Textblock very tight and clean, Included in this copy are the following articles: The Conifers or "Evergreens" of Colorado by Ellsworth Bethel; Early Mail Service to Colorado, 1858-60 by L.R. Hafen; Primitive Coloradoans by J. A. Jeaneon; An Appreciation of William G. Evans by A.J. Fynn;j Joseph W. Bowles by Albert B. Sanford;The Story of a Colorado Pioneer; and editorials. 64p. Size: 8vo - Over 7 3/4" -9 3/4 " Tall
Seller: Clausen Books, RMABA, Colorado Springs, CO, U.S.A.
Thoma, Ludwig.. Agricola. Bauerngeschichten. (21.-23.Tsd).. München, Albert Langen, 1925., 1925.
Price: US$22.04 + shipping
Description: 164 S., 2 Bl. Anzeigen. Mit sehr zahlreichen lithogr. Textillustrationen von Adolf Hölzel und Bruno Paul. Kl.4to (22 x 18 cm). Senffarbener OLwd mit Ganzdeckel-Holzschnitt in 3 Farben von Bruno Paul. Spätere Auflage des Erstlingswerkes von Thoma (1897). Mit prächtiger Deckelillustration von Bruno Paul im Stil (der Farbholzschnitte) von William Nicholson bzw. Emil Orlik .- Vorsätze mit Anflug von Stockflecken, Stempel auf Schmutztitel, sonst bemerkenswert frisches Exemplar dieser wunderschön illustrierten Ausgabe! - (auch die ähnliche Ausgabe von 1910 ist lieferbar).
Seller: Fontane-Antiquariat Dr. H. Scheffers, Berlin Schöneberg, BLN, Germany
Price: US$23.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1925 used hardcover copy, some wear to covers, tanning to pages,minor markings, fast shipping
Seller: RUSH HOUR BUSINESS, worcester, MA, U.S.A.
Fischer, M. D. , Albert. Tissue Culture. William Heinemann Ltd, London, U.K., 1925.
Price: US$23.70 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Library stamps and stickers to inner cover, spine and first couple of pages. Spine split along the join, has been previously taped up and is holding fine. Spine starting to split from text block. Heavy shelf wear. Text bold and bright.
Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OXON, United Kingdom
William Carlos Williams. In the American grain. Albert and Charles Boni, 1925.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1st ed. 235 pages. Hardcover. Top edge of spine shelf worn. Clean, unmarked pages. Ships daily.
Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: cover lightly worn with penciled name on upper front corner; binding worn but attached; textblock very clean; 64pp including the following articles: "The Conifers of Colorado" by Ellsworth Bethel, "Early Mail Service to Colorado" by L. R. Hafen, "Report of the President" by E. M. Ammons, "Primitive Coloradoans" by J A Jeancon, "Appreciation of William G Evans" by A J Fynn, "Joseph W Bowles" by Albert B Sanford, "The Story of a Colorado Pioneer" by Evelyn Bradley Size: 8vo - Over 7 3/4" -9 3/4 " Tall
Seller: Clausen Books, RMABA, Colorado Springs, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: stapled brown wraps; p65-126, clean, unmarked pages; items by/about: William L. & Irene Finley (Return of the Wapiti (Elk), with laid in Color Full Page illus); Albert A. Hansen (Hepatica flower); Ernst Keil (winter birds); Albert Payson Terhune (The Collie); Arthur N. & Eleanor Pack(Forest Primeval); Richard W. Westwood (Turtles); Edward A. Preble (Penguins); Charles Fitzhugh Talman (Clouds, Weather);ben Hur Lampman (The Silver Pilgrim, Steelhead Trout, conclusion); Guy E. Mitchell (Date trees);C.R. Aschemeier (gaboon, West African buffalo); ); Etc Size: 4 vo
Seller: Dorley House Books, Inc., Hagerstown, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: stapled brown wraps; pp. 193-1256, clean, unmarked pages; items by/about: Albert Payson Terhune (The Airdale Terrier); Rosamond Norman (Spider's captive); Ben Hur Lampman (Fish Called Eulachon); Katherine G Bryant (Ovis Poli); A. Brooker Klugh (Sparrows song); W.W. Frost (Cottony Spiders); Hharold McCracken (Alaskan Brown Bear w/full Page Color illus); EA. Andrews (Ants); W. Lwon Dawson (Gulls of Mono); Edward lA. Preble (Fur Seals of Pribilof islands); E. Comancho (Wa-Ra-Be); William L. Hall (reforestation Inn Arkansas); T.J. Malone (Minnehaha Falls); Etc Size: 4 vo
Seller: Dorley House Books, Inc., Hagerstown, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 18 pp. Saddle-stitched catalogue for an exhibition at the Winnipeg Gallery of Art from May 11 to June 13, 1925 (hand-written note on the front cover indicates that the exhibition was held over to July 4th). Booklet is edgeworn (including minor tears) and slightly stained by water, which also rusted the staples at spine. "The trustees of the National Gallery of Canada have arranged this exhibition as part of its policy of doing everything possible to promote the interchange of the art of the British Empire. At the British Empire Exhibition last year the value of such exhibitions was clearly seen. Modern Canadian art, which was practically unknown in England achieved greatly deserved success and was declared by the critics to be one of the most individual and interesting movements seen in recent years. A picture was purchased by the National Gallery of British Art and on the close of the Wembley Exhibition the Canadian section was specially invited to tour some of the largest provincial cities in England and Scotland. The present exhibition is as typical of British painting today as it was possible to make it and a considerable number of the pictures were included in the British section at Wembley. The exhibition has been shown in Ottawa, Montreal and Toronto." - Foreword. Artists exhibited include Anna Airy, Maxwell Armfield, Claire Atwood, Archibald Barnes, Alan Beeton, Robert Anning Bell, S. J. Lamorna Birch, Oswald Birley, Gerald L. Brockhurst, Arnesby Brown, Maya Arnesby Brown, Gregory Brown, Sir D. Y. Cameron, George Clausen, Philip Connard, E. A. Cox, Edward J. Detmold, Alice Fanner, W. Russell Flint, Kenneth Keith Forbes, Eric George, Charles M. Gere, W. G. de Glehn, James A. Grant, E. Granger-Taylor, Maurice Greiffenhagen, Oliver Hall, Alfred Hartley, Harold Harvey, Dorothy W. Hawksley, George Henry, Sir Charles J. Homes, Beatrice How, Cecil A. Hunt, David Jagger, Augustus E. John, Gerald F. Kelly, Eric H. Kennington, Harold Knight, Laura Knight, George W. Lambert, Percy Lancaster, Sir John Lavery, Sydney Lee, W. L. Lee-Hankey, Ambrose McEvoy, Harry Morley, David Muirhead, A. J. Munnings, John Nash, Paul Nash, Phillip Naviasky, C. R. W. Nevinson, Bertram Nicholls, William Nicholson, Julius Olsson, Sir William Orpen, Alfred Palmer, Glyn Philpot, Dod Procter, Ernest Procter, James Pryde, Gerald Spencer Pryse, Leonard Richmond, H. Davis Richter, Charles Ricketts, William Rothenstein, Henry Rushbury, Walter W. Russell, Albert Rutherston, John Singer Sargent, Randolph Schwabe, Dorethea Sharp, Charles Shannon, Walter Sickert, Charles W. Simpson, Charles Sims, D. Murray Smith, Howard Somerville, Harold Speed, Arthur Streeton, Annie L. Swynnerton, Algernon Talmage, Fred Taylor, Leon Underwood, A. van Anrooy, Harry Watson, George Spencer Watson, W. E. Webster, Madeline Wells, Norman Wilkinson, Alfred A. Wolmark, and Anna K. Zinkeisen. Price list for all paintings is included on the last page.
Seller: L. Lam Books, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Price: US$27.50 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Original Photograph, Image 9" X 6 7/8". Inscribed By The Subject. Photographer's Logo At Lower Left. , And His Stamp On Verso. Albert Witzel (1879-1929) Moved To Los Angeles, Where He Opened His Studio At 811 S. Hill St. He Was Soon Recognized As One Of Los Angeles’ Top Society Photographers, With Many Of His Images Appearing In The Los Angeles Times, Starting In 1912. He Began Reaching Out To Theatrical Entertainers In Need Of Carefully Crafted Portraits To Lure Customers. Around The Same Time, Moving Picture Companies Migrated To Los Angeles To Film In The Ever-Present Sunshine, Away From Motion Picture Trust Interference. These Companies Had Recently Introduced The Practice Of Promoting The Stars Of Their Films, Helping To Create Brand Awareness Among Consumers, Who Flocked To Movies Starring Their Favorites. Witzel’S Theatrical Clients Promoted His Talents To Their Movie-Making Friends, Who Quickly Began Hiring Him To Take Their Portraits. Film Companies Employed His Services Too. The Balboa Film Co. Hired Him In 1913-1914 To Shoot Portraits Of Their Star Stable, Quickly Followed By Companies Like Triangle-Ince.Witzel’S Photograph Of Viola Barry From Balboa Films “The Sea Wolf” Was The First Movie Star Portrait To Appear In The Los Angeles Times, 1913. His Images Often Employed Rembrandt Lighting And Offered Moody Shadows And Sheen. Witzel’S Work Began Running Regularly In The Times In 1915, And Film Fan Magazines Like Photoplay And Motion Picture Regularly Published His Work As Well. Witzel Expanded His Work With Studios, Occasionally Shooting Freelance Images Of Sennett Bathing Beauties In 1916 That Were Published In Magazines And Newspapers, And Working On Assignment For Fox Studios In 1917, Photographing Theda Bara In A Series Of Somewhat Soft Pictorialist Images For Her Iconic Films, “Cleopatra,” “Salome,” And Madame Du Barry.” In Order To Handle The Increased Workload, Witzel Added New Studios And Employed Retouchers Like Photographer William Mortensen And Extra Photographers Like Otto Schellenberg, W. F. Seely, George Cannons, And Max Munn Autrey To Shoot Portraits. Autrey Eventually Became Head Of Witzel’S Hollywood Studio At 6324 Hollywood Blvd. From 1922-1924. Their Work Became More Intense And Exotic, Emphasizing A Glamorous Star Look. The Witzel Studio Downtown Also Handled One Of The More Infamous Special Photo Shoots In Silent Film History. Harold Lloyd Posed In The Studio With A “Fake” Bomb That Turned Out To Be Real, Losing His Right Thumb And Forefinger. The Comedian Performed All Of His Action Stunts, Including Hanging Off A Downtown Building, With Only Three Fingers On His Right Hand. N 1923, Witzel Was Forced Out Of His Lease At 828 S. Hill St. By The May Co., New Owners Of The Original Hamburger’S Department Store, Who Wanted To Make Additions To Their Building. The Firm Opened A New Studio At 1007 W. 7Th St., Run By His Brother Charles, To Go Along With One At 536 S. Broadway. This Studio Occupied The Entire Second Floor And The Lobby Of The Recently Constructed Building, With New Up-To-Date Equipment In What The Times Called The “Largest Photography Studio In The West.” The Witzel Hollywood Studio Remained Its Most Attractive, With The South Broadway Studio The Most Modern. During The Mid-1920S, However, Studios Began Establishing Their Own Portrait Galleries To Maintain A Firm Hand And Established Look With The Requirement For An Ever Increasing Production Of Prints. Spurr Left To Establish His Own Studio, Schellenberg Ended Up At Universal, Cannons Went To Sennett, And Autrey Departed To Found Fox’S Portrait Department. Witzel And His Staff Of Photographers Focused More On Special Shoots For Newspapers And Magazines, Like The Peggy Hamilton Fashion Features For The Los Angeles Times, And Other Select Sections.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Grutze, Albert L. (Editor). A Selection of Wills. Title and Trust Company, Portland, OR, 1925.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Softcover book published by the Title Company, provides examples of wills taken from public records, mostly famous people, Theodore Rooselvelt, Wilson, Harding, William Clark, Bernard Daly, David P. Thompson, Henry W. Corbett, John C. Ainsworth, Simeon Reed, Henry Weinhard, and others, primarily northwesterners and Portlanders. 21 wills. Pretty interesting book. 80 pages. I found 2 or 3 crayon marks, some wear on the covers, still a fairly clean scarce book.
Seller: Kingship Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Original Photograph, Image 9" X 6 7/8". Inscribed By The Subject. Photographer's Logo At Lower Left. , And His Stamp On Verso. Albert Witzel (1879-1929 Moved To Los Angeles, Where He Opened His Studio At 811 S. Hill St. He Was Soon Recognized Recognized As One Of Los Angeles’ Top Society Photographers, With Many Of His Images Appearing In The Los Angeles Times, Starting In 1912. He Began Reaching Out To Theatrical Entertainers In Need Of Carefully Crafted Portraits To Lure Customers. Around The Same Time, Moving Picture Companies Migrated To Los Angeles To Film In The Ever-Present Sunshine, Away From Motion Picture Trust Interference. These Companies Had Recently Introduced The Practice Of Promoting The Stars Of Their Films, Helping To Create Brand Awareness Among Consumers, Who Flocked To Movies Starring Their Favorites. Witzel’S Theatrical Clients Promoted His Talents To Their Moviemaking Friends, Who Quickly Began Hiring Him To Take Their Portraits. Film Companies Employed His Services Too. The Balboa Film Co. Hired Him In 1913-1914 To Shoot Portraits Of Their Star Stable, Quickly Followed By Companies Like Triangle-Ince. Witzel’S Photograph Of Viola Barry From Balboa Films “The Sea Wolf” Was The First Movie Star Portrait To Appear In The Los Angeles Times, 1913. His Images Often Employed Rembrandt Lighting And Offered Moody Shadows And Sheen. Witzel’S Work Began Running Regularly In The Times In 1915, And Film Fan Magazines Like Photoplay And Motion Picture Regularly Published His Work As Well. Witzel Expanded His Work With Studios, Occasionally Shooting Freelance Images Of Sennett Bathing Beauties In 1916 That Were Published In Magazines And Newspapers, And Working On Assignment For Fox Studios In 1917, Photographing Theda Bara In A Series Of Somewhat Soft Pictorialist Images For Her Iconic Films, “Cleopatra,” “Salome,” And Madame Du Barry.” In Order To Handle The Increased Workload, Witzel Added New Studios And Employed Retouchers Like Photographer William Mortensen And Extra Photographers Like Otto Schellenberg, W. F. Seely, George Cannons, And Max Munn Autrey To Shoot Portraits. Autrey Eventually Became Head Of Witzel’S Hollywood Studio At 6324 Hollywood Blvd. From 1922-1924. Their Work Became More Intense And Exotic, Emphasizing A Glamorous Star Look. The Witzel Studio Downtown Also Handled One Of The More Infamous Special Photo Shoots In Silent Film History. Harold Lloyd Posed In The Studio With A “Fake” Bomb That Turned Out To Be Real, Losing His Right Thumb And Forefinger. The Comedian Performed All Of His Action Stunts, Including Hanging Off A Downtown Building, With Only Three Fingers On His Right Hand. N 1923, Witzel Was Forced Out Of His Lease At 828 S. Hill St. By The May Co., New Owners Of The Original Hamburger’S Department Store, Who Wanted To Make Additions To Their Building. The Firm Opened A New Studio At 1007 W. 7Th St., Run By His Brother Charles, To Go Along With One At 536 S. Broadway. This Studio Occupied The Entire Second Floor And The Lobby Of The Recently Constructed Building, With New Up-To-Date Equipment In What The Times Called The “Largest Photography Studio In The West.” The Witzel Hollywood Studio Remained Its Most Attractive, With The South Broadway Studio The Most Modern. During The Mid-1920S, However, Studios Began Establishing Their Own Portrait Galleries To Maintain A Firm Hand And Established Look With The Requirement For An Ever Increasing Production Of Prints. Spurr Left To Establish His Own Studio, Schellenberg Ended Up At Universal, Cannons Went To Sennett, And Autrey Departed To Found Fox’S Portrait Department. Witzel And His Staff Of Photographers Focused More On Special Shoots For Newspapers And Magazines, Like The Peggy Hamilton Fashion Features For The Los Angeles Times, And Other Select Sections.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
HEARN, Lafcadio.. Occidental Gleanings. Volume 2 only.. London, William Heinemann 1925., 1925.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Hardcover. Original navy-blue cloth, spine lettered and lined in gilt. Some light foxing on edges and prelims, a little normal offsetting on endpapers, o/w fine. Sketches and essays now first collected by Albert Mordell. Missing the first volume of the set, but obviously all articles are complete within this volume.
Seller: Larsen Books, Exeter, NSW, Australia
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Frontis: Albert Howe. Illustrated. Contains inter alia: ""A Maker of Hampton" by J. E. Davis; "Dorothy Hall" by Margaret J. Washington; "Hampton The Beautiful" by Emma Lewis; "A Christian Philosopher" by James Hardy Dillard; "He-Faces-The-Morning" by William J. Harsha; "Africa's Claims And Needs" by Orishatukeh Faduma. 199-240pp.
Seller: Du Bois Book Center, Englewood, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$37.86 + shipping
Description: saying that they "have heard no more of Miss Hayes. in support of her absurd claims. Wells' advice about insolence and its art would scarcely seem acceptable to you, and I wonder if W himself has ever really acted on it. I have read some most appreciative notices of your new book. Alas, I cannot go with Frampton and Sutro on their cruise. I have done what one should never do - that is, sell the serial rights of an unwritten novel; and the beastly thing is now appearing month by month in a magazine while I go grinding on with it and feeling feverishly anxious but quite unable to finish it", 2 sides 4to., 1 Albert Court, Kensington Gore, 15th April
Seller: Sophie Dupre ABA ILAB PADA, Calne, United Kingdom
Price: US$38.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Vii, 765, xvi pages. With plates, diagrams, tables & illustrations. Original wrappers bound in. With library stamps & labels. Slight wear & slight soiling to spine, covers & corners. Occasional spot of foxing. ; Ex-Library; Quarto; SERIES A. VOL. CVII Minutes of Meetings, December 1, 4, 1924 ; January 15, 22, 29, February 5, 12, 19, 26, and March 5, 12, 19, 26, 1925.No. A 741.-January 1, 1925.Ñ Address of the President, Sir Charles S. Sherrington, at the Anniversary Meeting, December 1, 1924 Ñ On the Total Reflexion of Light. By Sir Arthur Schuster, For. Sec. R. S Ñ The Structure of the Spectrum of Ionised Nitrogen. By A. Fowler, F. R. S. , Yarrow Research Professor of the Royal Society, Imperial College, South Kensington. (Plate 1) Ñ Spheroidal Wave-Functions. By J. W. Nicholson, M. A. , D. Sc. , F. R. S. , Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford Ñ Thermionic Effects caused by Vapours of Alkali Metals. By Irving Langmuir and ? . H. Kingdon, of the Research Laboratory, General Electric Company, Schenectady, N. Y. Communicated by Prof. Sir E. Rutherford, F. R. S Ñ 1 : 2 : 3-Triamino propane and its Complex Metallic Compounds. By Frederick George Mann, Ph. D. , and Sir William Jackson Pope, F. R. S Ñ The Union of Hydrogen and Oxygen in Presence of Silver and Gold. By D. L. Chapman, M. A. , F. R. S. , Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford ; J. E. Ramsbottom, D. Sc. , Ph. D. , Superintendent Chemical Department, Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough ; and C. G. Trotman, B. A. , Jesus College, Oxford Ñ The General Law of Electrical Conduction in Dielectrics. By Spencer W. Richardson, M. A. , D. Sc. , F. Inst. P. Communicated by Sir William Bragg, K. B. E. , F. R. S Ñ Recent Developments in Tensile Testing. By J. V. Howard, D. Sc. , and S. L. Smith, D. Sc. , A. C. G. I. Communicated by W. E. Dalby, F. R. S Ñ The Effect of Superposed Alternating Current on the Polarisable Primary Cell Zinc-Sulphuric Acid-Carbon. Part I. -Low-Frequency Current. By A. J. Allmand, D. Sc. , and V. S. Puri, M. Sc. , Ph. D. Communicated by Prof. S. Smiles, F. R. S Ñ The Spark-Spectra of Indium and Gallium in the Extreme Ultra-Violet Region. By Mollie Weinberg, M. A. , M. Sc. , Physical Laboratory, University of Toronto. Communicated by Prof. J. C. McLennan, F. R. S. (Plate 2) Ñ On the Atomic Fields of Helium and Neon. By J. E. Jones, D. Sc. , 1851 Exhibition Senior Research Student, Trinity College, Cambridge. Communicated by Prof. S. Chapman, F. R. S. No. A 742.-February 2, 1925.Ñ Experiments on the Distortion of Single-Crystal Test-Pieces of Aluminium. By H. C. H. Carpenter, F. R. S. , Professor of Metallurgy, Imperial College of Science and Technology, and Miss C. F. Elam, M. A. , Armourers+ and Brasiers+ Company Research Fellow. (Plate 3) Ñ On the Thirteen Semi-regular Solids of Archimedes, and on their Development by the Transformation of certain Plane Configurations. By D+Arcy Wentworth Thompson, F. R. S. Ñ On the Formation of Water Waves by Wind. By Harold Jeffreys, M. A. , D. Sc. , Fellow and Lecturer of St. John+s College, Cambridge. Communicated by Prof. G. I. Taylor, F. R. S. (Plates 4 and 5) Ñ The Thermal and Electrical Conductivities of some Pure Metals. By F. H. Schofield, B. A. , B. Sc. Communicated by Sir Joseph Petavel, F. R. S. Ñ The Colours Due to Thin Films on Metals. By Ulick R. Evans. Communicated by C. T. Heycock, F. R. S. Ñ On the Quantum Dynamics of Degenerate Systems. By A. M. Mosharrafa, D. Sc. , Ph. D. Communicated by Prof. 0. W. Richardson, F. R. S. Ñ On the Effect of Temperature on the Anomalous Reflection of Silver. By M. De SÄlincourt, Scholar of Brasenose College, Oxford. Communicated by Prof. F. A. Lindemann, F. R. S. Ñ The Catalytic Activity of Copper. Part V. -The Comparison of the Rates of Dehydrogenation of Various Alcohols. By W. G. Palmer, Fellow of St. John+s College, Cambridge, and F. H. Constable, Strathcona Research Student, St. John+s College, Cambridge. Communicated by Sir William Pope, F. R. S. Ñ The Catalytic Action of Copper. Part VI. -An Explanation of the Reproducibility of the Catalyst, and of the Periodic Change in its Activity, together with some Experiments on the Activation of the Catalyst by Alternate Oxidation and Reduction. By F. H. Constable, Strathcona Research Student of St. John's College, Cambridge. Communicated by Sir William Pope, F. R. S. Ñ The Catalytic Action of Copper. Part VII. -A Study of the Effect of Pressure on the Rate of Dehydrogenation of Alcohols. By F. H. Constable, Strathcona Research Student of St. John+s College, Cambridge. Communicated by Sir William Pope, F. R. S. Ñ A Centrifugal Method of Making Small Pots of Electrically Fused Refractory Materials. By Fred. S. Tritton. Communicated by Dr. W. Rosenhain, F. R. S. Ñ On the Precise Measurement of the Critical Potentials of Gases. By E. G. Dymond, B. A. , St. John+s College, Cambridge. Communicated by Prof. Sir E. Rutherford, F. R. S. Ñ On the Determination of Resistance in Terms of Mutual Inductance. By Albert Campbell, B. A. Communicated by F. E. Smith, F. R. S Ñ The Absorption of X-Rays. By E. C. Stoner, B. A. , Lecturer in Physics at Leeds University, and L. H. Martin, M. Sc. , 1851 Exhibition Scholar (Melb. ) , Trinity College, Cambridge. Communicated by Prof. Sir E. Rutherford, F. R. S Ñ Ionisation by Alpha-particles in Monatomic and Diatomic Gases. By R. W. Gurney, B. A. , Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Communicated by Prof. Sir E. Rutherford, F. R. S Ñ The Stopping-Power of Gases for Alpha-particles of Different Velocities. By R. W. Gurney, B. A. , Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Communicated by Prof. Sir E. Rutherford, F. R. S Ñ The Ejection of Protons from Nitrogen Nuclei, Photographed by the Wilson Method. By P. M. S. Blackett, Moseley Research Student of the Royal Society and Fellow of King+s College, Cambridge. Communicated by Prof. Sir E. Rutherford, F. R. S. (Plates 6 and 7) Ñ The Apparent Tripling of Certain Lines in Arc Spectra. By T. Royds, D. Sc. , Director, Kodaikanal Observatory. Commun
Seller: Literary Cat Books, Machynlleth, Powys, WALES, United Kingdom
Williams, William Carlos. In the American Grain. Albert & Charles Boni, Berkeley, 1925.
Price: US$42.90 + shipping
Description: 8vo, 235 pp. Covers dull, with fraying at head and heel of spine and corners, front hinge cracked and rear starting, page edges dusty, previous owner name and ink stamp, pages tanned.
Seller: Anthology Booksellers, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$44.59 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1925. and one No Date., (c. 1930's). . Rowling and Sons., and The Victoria and Albert Museum., (Department of Ceramics). Softcover. GOOD Two exhibition catalogues, one from the Victoria and Albert Museum., and one from Old Battersea House. These are now mostly sold as "print on demand" editions. 8x5 36pp., and 7x5. 35pp. 15 b/w photos in the Victoria and Albert Edition.
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
Price: US$44.91 + shipping
Description: See Hardie's entry in the Oxford DNB. 11.5 x 9 cm card. Printed with penny stamp in red; no illustration. In fair condition, discoloured and a little worn. Addressed by Hardie to 'C. H. Whitby | 82, Crofton Park | Yeovil.' (Whitby is the author of a handful of books of reglious poetry.) Whitby would appear to be offering for sale, or at least asking for advice about, an impression of Palmer's celebrated engraving 'The Bellman'. Hardie begins his reply: 'As long as there is sufficient margin of paper outside the plate-mark, the actual size of the sheet on which a Palmer etching was printed does not matter.' The museum has 'proofs of the Bellman, but not one of the actual issue made by the Fine Art Socy. in 1879'. He cannot see why 'the value of the print' should be affected by the trimming of the paper.
Seller: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: January, June and October, 1925. 3 issues of year two of this iconoclastic classic of American literature in the 20s and 30s. Original green wraps with ads in rear. January issue rubbed at edges, else good; June wraps are bright and vg; October front wrap is creased and chipped with waterstain to corner of ads. Front edges lightly foxed. The magazine was founded as the brainchild of H. L. Mencken and drama critic George Jean Nathan. The magazine featured writing by some of the most important writers in the United States through the 1920s and 1930s. From 1924 through 1933, Mencken provided what he promised: elegantly irreverent observations of America, aimed at what he called "Americans realistically", those of sophisticated skepticism of enough that was popular and much that threatened to be. The magazine published writing by Conrad Aiken, Sherwood Anderson, James Branch Cabell, W. J. Cash, Lincoln Ross Colcord, Thomas Craven, Clarence Darrow, W. E. B. Du Bois, John Fante, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Albert Halper, Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson, Sinclair Lewis, George Schuyler, Meridel LeSueur, Edgar Lee Masters, Albert Jay Nock, Eugene O'Neill, Carl Sandburg, and William Saroyan. Nathan provided theater criticism, and Mencken wrote the "Editorial Notes" and "The Library", the last being book reviews and social critique, placed at the back of each volume.
Seller: Book House in Dinkytown, IOBA, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: Printed wraps. Includes a listing of the works by American artists, including biographies and owners' names. Includes works by Dorothy Visju Anderson, George A. Baker, James H. Beard, frederick Benda, Ralph Albert Blakelock, George H. Bogert, Nicholas R. Brewer, George M. Bruestle, E. Irving Couse, Bruce Crane, Charles W. Dahlgreen, Elliott Daingerfield, Julien Dupre, Gerald A. Frank, A.Z. Franke, Max Kaufmann, William Robinson Leigh, Josephine M. Lewis, George H. McCord, J. Francis Murphy, George A. Newman, Ivan G. Olinsky, Hanson D. Puthuff, Adolf Schreyer, Warren Sheppard, A. Sorkau, James Swinnerton, Joseph Tomanek, Paul Desire Trouillebert, L. Van Der Tonge. 46 works in all. No illustrations. VG, art library blind stamp on front cover
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
Albert Oschmann-William. Kosmologische Studie. reinhardt 1925, 1925.
Price: US$49.59 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: oln etwas stockfleckig, sonst gut, 180 seiten und 5 tafeln
Seller: suspiratio - online bücherstube, Basel, Switzerland
Price: US$59.22 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 2 vols, pp.xlii, 275 pages + pp.ix, 289 pages, hardbacks (publisher s dark blue cloth, the spines lettered in gilt), very good ex-library copies
Seller: G. & J. CHESTERS, TAMWORTH, United Kingdom
King, William. ENGLISH PORCELAIN FIGURES OF THE XVIII CENTURY. The Medici Society, London, 1925.
Price: US$66.92 + shipping
Description: Selected and described with an introduction by William King, of the Victoria and Albert Museum. Pp. xii+16(last blank), 80 plates (8 coloured, with lettered guards, including the frontispiece), bibliography; cr. 4to; gilt lettered blue cloth, a trifle flecked, edges lightly rubbed and bruised, small scar to bottom edge of lower board near spine; t.e.g.; dust wrapper, with large coloured pictorial onlay on front panel, slightly soiled and foxed, edges and backstrip lightly rubbed and chipped; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, outer leaves and edges lightly foxed; Medici Society, London, 1925. First edition.
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Price: US$70.43 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Etat d'usage. Thèse n° 12. | Visuel de la couverture disponible sur demande | Vendeur professionnel avec envoi sous pli à bulles philatélique ! french
Seller: LiBooks, Carling, France
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: ix, [3], 298 p. Includes: illustrations, index. The author, who was eighty years old when Volume I was published, continued to write new sketchs at a rate of approximately 1 per quarter of the year. This volume contains the sketch of 11 men and one woman. Good. No dust jacket. Cover has some wear and soiling. Some erasure residue on the dedicationcontents page.
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
TULLY, Jim. Beggars of Life: A Hobo Autobiography. Albert and Charles Boni, New York, 1925.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Later printing. Gilt-stamped blue cloth. Minor stains on a few pages, spine cocked with lettering faded, modest edgewear, a good copy lacking the scarce dustwrapper. Basis for the 1928 William A. Wellman film featuring Wallace Beery, Louise Brooks, and Richard Arlen. The author's most sought after book.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: NO INTERNATIONAL OR PRIORITY MAIL ORDERS PLEASE. Complete two volume set. Simulated brown pictorial leather, stamped gilt lettering, all edges gilt, 913 pp (continuous pagination) , profusely illustrated with in-text drawings and plates, 7 ¼ x 10 ¼ inches. Very good. Both have corners bumped, rubbed along edges of boards and textblock, approximately ¼ inch fraying at head and foot of spine, whiff of tobacco, a half-dozen or so paperclip(? ) marks between them. In addition, volume I has a 3x5 inch adjoining area of whitish discoloration on rear endpapers, possibly from a now vanished laid-in piece of note paper; volume II has a 1 inch tear at head and foot and adjoining crease line along its entire length, otherwise both are tight, clean, paper crisp, unmarked; probably never really read. Masons; Freemasons; Masonic; history; reference
Seller: Frost Pocket Farm - IOBA, Fleetville, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, Two volumes: [i-iv] v-xlii [xliii-xliv] 1-275 [276: blank]; [i-iv] v-ix [x-xii] 1-289 [290-292: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], title pages printed in red and black, original blue cloth, spine panels lettered and ruled in gold, front and rear panels ruled in blind, top edges plain, fore and bottom edges rough trimmed. First edition, British issue. Previously uncollected early articles and sketches first published in literary papers in Cincinnati (the CINCINNATI ENQUIRER and the CINCINNATI COMMERCIAL) and New Orleans (the DAILY CITY ITEM and the TIMES-DEMOCRAT) between 1872 and 1886 during Hearn's American days, and three other publications for which he wrote in the 1880s. BAL 7990. A fine copy. (#164092)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: , Eldridge, Seba, 1885-. The organization of life. A revaluation of evidence relative to the primary factors in the activity and evolution of living organisms, including a factorial analysis of human behavior and experience. With an introduction by H.S. Jennings. New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1925, xv, 470pp., good but worn red cloth, spine a bit faded, front hinge a little bit creaky, binding opens easily to page 303, otherwise good copy, previous owner's name: Samuel Skulsky. INSCRIBED at length on front endpaper to Dear Margaret, and SIGNED Seba, December 8, 1925, thanking her and Albert for what "you have been to me.". Includes a substantial chapter on vitalistic theories, including Bergson and Driesch. - Seba Eldridge (male) spent most of his career first at Columbia (Ph.D., 1925 under John Dewey, also studied with Franklin Giddings and William F. Ogburn), from 1921 at the University of Kansas. His interests were the contributions of sociology to questions of citizenship, community, and social reform. Some material can be found in Harry Perlstadt, "Applied Sociology as Translational Research.".
Seller: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, U.S.A.
Mencken, H. L. edited by. The American Mercury A Monthly Review [7 issues 1927]. Knopf, 1925.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: January, May-September and December, 1927. 7 (of 12) issues of year four of this iconoclastic classic of American literature in the 20s and 30s. Original green wraps with ads in front and rear. Some wear to spines at head and heel, chip at front edge of September spine. All wraps are bright and clean. SOLD AS A LOT. December issue feature "Our White Folks by George Schuyler, Schuyler contributed ten articles to the American Mercury during Mencken's tenure as editor, all dealing with Black issues, and all notable for Schuyler's wit and incisive analysis. Because of his close association with Mencken, as well as their compatible ideologies and sharp use of satire, Schuyler during this period was often referred to as "the Black Mencken." The magazine was founded as the brainchild of H. L. Mencken and drama critic George Jean Nathan. The magazine featured writing by some of the most important writers in the United States through the 1920s and 1930s. From 1924 through 1933, Mencken provided what he promised: elegantly irreverent observations of America, aimed at what he called "Americans realistically", those of sophisticated skepticism of enough that was popular and much that threatened to be. The magazine published writing by Conrad Aiken, Sherwood Anderson, James Branch Cabell, W. J. Cash, Lincoln Ross Colcord, Thomas Craven, Clarence Darrow, W. E. B. Du Bois, John Fante, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Albert Halper, Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson, Sinclair Lewis, George Schuyler, Meridel LeSueur, Edgar Lee Masters, Albert Jay Nock, Eugene O'Neill, Carl Sandburg, and William Saroyan. Nathan provided theater criticism, and Mencken wrote the "Editorial Notes" and "The Library", the last being book reviews and social critique, placed at the back of each volume.
Seller: Book House in Dinkytown, IOBA, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Williams, William Carlos. In the American Grain. Albert & Charles Boni, New York, 1925.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: ii + 235 pp, previous owner's rubber stamp on rear pastedown, 24 texts - essays and stories. Binding tight and square, pages clean, unmarked, and minimal aging, black cloth covered boards, rubbed spine ltters with light exterinal wear to the spine cloth head and tail, stained black top-edge. In glassine wrapper. Size: Octavo
Seller: West Side Book Shop, ABAA, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
Williams, William Carlos. In the American Grain. Albert & Charles Boni, New York, 1925.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, 235pp; black cloth. Williams's first commercially published book. Williams recalled: "The Bonis made a beautiful book of it, for which I shall be forever grateful, but, as far as marketing it, they did next to nothing . . .In no time at all the thing was remaindered and I began to pick up copies wherever I could . . . Stieglitz found the book somewhere and wrote enthusiastically to me about it. He even said it had given him the name, An American Place, when he moved to the new site for his gallery on Madison Avenue. . .Martha Graham. . . wrote me saying she could not have gone on with her choreographic projects without it. This was extremely moving." Wallace A9a. Small nick affecting a few pages, evidently from a production flaw in the printing process; a bit rubbed and with the spine stamping dulled somewhat, still a good or better copy, albeit without jacket.
Seller: Locus Solus Rare Books (ABAA, ILAB), Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$142.64 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Resultats des Campagnes Scientifiques accomplies sur son yacht par Albert Ier, Prince Souverain de Monaco, Fascicule LXIX; first edition; 2 volumes, folio, 408 (text) pp., 127 plates; rebound in red buckram, the cover of the plates volume is stained at the spine and upper margins, else very good; naturalist William Beebe's copy, with his book plate to the front paste down. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request.
Seller: Zubal-Books, Since 1961, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$149.79 + shipping
Description: two volume set, some pages uncut, octavo, blue buckram boards with gilt lettering and rule to spine, blind rule to boards, blind-stamped device to rear boards, (I) xlii + 275pp (II) ix + 289pp, VG (pencil markings to eps, tanning esp. to eps, occasional foxing esp. to prelims and page edges, light bruising to head and tail of spine), lacks d/w
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
WILLIAMS, William Carlos. In the American Grain. Albert & Charles Boni, New York, 1925.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Octavo. 235pp. Small Brentano's ticket on rear blank, binding lightly rubbed and possibly touched up with black ink in a couple of tiny areas, still a handsome, near fine copy, lacking the dust jacket. The interior is fine.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.31 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Two volumes, complete set, in decorative stamped and gilt brown cloth hard covers. Dated 1924-5. All edges gilt; masonic motif embossed endpapers. Portrait frontispieces. Moderate rubbing and flecking to gilt edges. Otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. Very neat -- a sound and handsome set. Illustrated -- numerous plates. Record/registration pages at rear of Vol II are all unmarked. viii,455;[455-]913pp. Publisher's "Encyclopedia Questionnaire" sheet laid in, folded. Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall
Seller: CARDINAL BOOKS ~~ ABAC/ILAB, London -- Birr, ON, Canada
Price: US$153.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Two very scarce volumes of the the Works of William Shakespeare in Swedish. Handsomely bound in a half calf binding. Very scarce. Volume one includes A Midsomer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, and Twelve Night. This volume includes some of Shakespeare's most loved comedies. Volume Two includes Richard The Second, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, and Macbeth. This volume includes some of Shakespeare's most successful tragedies. The works of Shakespeare in Swedish were published by Albert Bonniers Forlog who published other notable works of literature in Swedish. Handsomely bound in a half calf binding. Externally very smart. Rubbing to the head and tail of the spine resulting in loss. Rubbing to the boards. Internally firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean. Ink inscription to the first leaf. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
WILLIAMS, William Carlos. In the American Grain. Albert & Charles Boni, New York, 1925.
Price: US$165.00 + shipping
Description: First printing. Octavo (23.5cm). Black textured cloth-covered boards, titled in gilt on spine; black top-stain; 235pp. Spine gilt slightly dulled, as usual; hint of rubbing at crown, a few faint surface scratches to front board; still a very well-preserved copy, tight and straight, with deep topstain and text fresh and unmarked. A pretty copy, lacking the scarce dustwrapper. WALLACE A9.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
WILLIAMS, William Carlos. In the American grain. Albert & Charles Boni, New York, 1925.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: Black cloth, lightly worn. Ownership inscription to fly-leaf. First edition, first issue, of this collection of essays, mostly historical in nature. Titles include Red Eric, Sir Walter Raleigh and Jacataqua. "In these studies I have sought to rename the things seen, now lost in a chaos of borrowed titles, many of them inappropriate, under which the true character lies hid." Wallace, A9.
Seller: B & L Rootenberg Rare Books, ABAA, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$190.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Brown leatherette cloth bindings, blind embossed decoration, gilt embossed medallion on front panel and gilt stamped title on spine covers. Stamped border decoration on front covers in green and red depicting masonic symbols. Gold end papers with Masonic logos. A very clean, tight and impressive set with no marks or inscriptions. Heavy/oversize set will require additional postage. PayPal accepted.
Seller: Diamond Island Books, Gorham, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$220.00 + shipping
Description: Two octavo volumes (22.75cm); cobalt blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spines; xliv,275,[1]; xii,289,[3]pp. Decorative bookplate of Felix Matton to both pastedowns, moderate offsetting to front endpapers, with faint dustiness to upper text edges, and a few small rubbed spots to boards; an attractive, Near Fine set. Collection of Hearn's uncollected writings. The American edition, published by Dodd, Mead, precedes by roughly one month. BAL 7990.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Ford, Ford Maddox. No More Parades. Albert and Charles Boni, NY, 1925.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: 309 pgs. Black cloth binding, edges sunned. Top was stained red, now faded. Minor wear at foot of spine. No internal marks. One of the best books to come out of the World War I catastrophe. No jacket. Tiny bookseller label on front paste-down (Williams, Old South Meeting House, Boston). Attributed as 1st ed., using McBride: dated only on CP, no later printings shown. Very good condition (no dust jacket).
Seller: Old Book Surfer, Cambridge, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$295.00 + shipping
Description: 12mo (7.25" x 5"), printed wrappers. 48 pp. CONDITION: Very good, sunning to lower wrapper, creasing to a few pages. A revised and expanded edition of this scarce anti-Spiritualist Christian tract which offers a critical window into the early twentieth century occult revival and argues that the practice of spirit-communication in Spiritualism is real but part of a grand diabolical plot. Consisting of extensive biblical quotations paired with anonymous testimonies and selections from nineteenth century newspapers, spiritualists, and critics of spiritualism, this work provides a history of the movement from the Fox Sisters to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's tenure as the President of the Spiritualists's National Union, providing a purported account of one of the group's meetings. In addition to referencing obeah (or African magic) and linking spirit mediumship to demonic possession and insanity, the author connects Spiritualism to ancient spirit cults and cites Rev. B. T. Roberts's assertion that the practice is one of the secrets used to tempt Eve in Genesis: "Ye shall not surely die." The table of contents identifies the work's nine arguments as to why spiritualism should be "avoided and condemned": 1. Because it has been strictly forbidden by God Himself; 2. Because Spiritualism substitutes faith in demons for faith in the living God; 3. Because it supersedes the authority of God's Word by a pretended new revelation; 4. Because of its daring denial of the Deity of Jesus Christ; 5. Because it blasphemously dishonors the Holy Spirit; 6. Because of the disastrous consequences it often entails, even in this life, on those who indulge in it; 7. Because of the fearfully pernicious character of its doctrines; 8. Because, as Spiritualists themselves admit, deceiving spirits exist by millions; 9. Because of the awful consequences denounced against it in the world to come. Born in England, Dr. Albert Sims was a Bible scholar and evangelist based in Toronto, Canada, who also wrote in support of temperance and against tobacco. Other works by Sims include The Sin of Tobacco Smoking and Chewing (1878); Bible Salvation and Popular Religion Contrasted (1884); Shining lights, or, Sketches of eminent saints of different ages, nations and churches. (ca. 1889); Honey from the Rock of Ages (1890); Valuable Bank Notes, or, God's immutable promises, searched, tested, and found true (ca. 1902), and Startling signs of great world changes soon to take place (ca. 1918). Based in Chicago, William B. Rose was a minister who published hymnals and Bible study materials from at least 1909 to 1924. Other works Rose published include Voices of Praise, with William B. Olmstead, David S. Warner et al. (1909) and Inspirational Songs for Sun day School, Social Worship, Missionary and Evangelistic Work, with N. W. Fink and J. B. Lutz (1924). OCLC records three copies of this title, but not this W. B. Rose edition.
Seller: James Arsenault & Company, ABAA, Arrowsic, ME, U.S.A.
Tully, Jim.. BEGGARS OF LIFE.. ALBERT & CHARLES BONI., NY, 1925.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. NSCRIBED by Jim Tully & dated by him in 1925 on front end-paper. A very good copy in blue cloth, lacking the rare jacket. (Traces of mild damping at top edge & along edges of rear cover. Inscribee's bookplate on front paste-down with collateral off-setting to end-paper) Solid copy of the author's most famous work. Basis for director William Wellman's1928 film adaptation starring Louise Brooks.
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Williams, William Carlos. The American Grain. Albert and Charles Boni, New York, 1925.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo. Original dark gray cloth, lacking dust jacket. Cloth on front and back boards is rubbed; hinges tender. A good copy only, but signed "W.C. Williams" at the top of the front flyleaf. Apparently this copy was Williams' own; acquired through the family of a neighbor and close friend of the poet's.
Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.
WILLIAMS, William Carlos. IN THE AMERICAN GRAIN. Albert & Charles Boni, New York, 1925.
Price: US$1062.50 + shipping
Description: A collection of prose pieces that was the poet's first publication by a commercial press. Wallace A9. SIGNED in red ink in his later hand on the front endpaper. Spine gilt dull; several small ink splashes on bulked fore-edge of text. Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper as usual
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
SHEPARD, Ralph E.. [Manuscript]: [Key] to a Knowledge of Nature. , 1925.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo. 116 typewritten pages, illustrated with five full-page photographic illustrations (three in color) with applied typed captions. Carbon typescript in photographically illustrated papercovered boards. Hand-drawn title page with a picture of a key in the title. Undated but we estimate circa 1925. Some modest erosion and splitting to the paper on the spine of the homemade binding, internally near fine. Inscribed on the front pastedown: "For David E. Sweet from Uncle Ralph Shepard, Author and Publisher." Typed note from the author laid in indicating the painstaking methods that he used to create this volume, and noting that the original of the work ". was used for some time in the nature study class of the school he attended in St. Petersburg, Florida." The book is dedicated in type: "The boy for whom it was first written, and to whom it is Dedicated. Albert Spencer of Florida." In the preface the author states that his belief is that nature is founded on the life of Jesus Christ, and notes that in places he has plagiarized from the Bible, Billy Sunday, William Jennings Bryant, John Burroughs, Neltj Blanchan, Charles Darwin, Joyce Kilmer, Gene Stratton Porter, and others. We could find out little about the author, but Albert Spencer of St. Petersburg appears to have been born in 1915. An attempt to explain nature with details and interesting photographic illustrations. Considering the do-it-yourself typing, binding, and illustrations, presumably no more than a handful were created; and possibly unique.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Giles, William [edited by]. The Original Colour Print Magazine. London SPW Ltd. 1925, 1925.
Price: US$1691.03 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited to 500 copies. [41-] 80, [1] pp. Folio. Original brown wrappers, dark brown letters to the cover, stitched binding slightly loose, small tears and wear to the edges of covers, one inch tear to the top joint, a few minor tidemarks, slight dust soiling. Edges untrimmed. Slight foxing to the leaves as usually happening to thick leaves, unmarked. Numerous B&W woodcut prints, absolutely complete with five original tipped in lithographs. Very rare and scarce. Very good condition. Copy #43 of 500. The Original Colour Print Magazine was founded for the development of the Original Colour Print including bookplates, the correlated Arts of Heraldry, calligraphy, and design. It was first issued in June 1924 and once a year in 1925 and 1926. The original lithographs in this magazine are as follows: 1. Summer; A Water-colour Print from eight Woodblocks, by Walter J. Phillips, A.R.Can.A. (signed)/ 2. Into the Sea; Woodcut on Cherry Wood by Claude Flight/ 3. The Bookplate of George Hubbard, F.S.A., F.R.I.B.A. By A. J. Downey; Engraved in pure line on copper/ 4. Brocade From Lucca, 14th Century, in the Victoria and Albert Museum. Printed in water-colours from three relief-etched zinc plates by W. Giles/ 5. Early Armorial; Printed in water-colours from three relief-etched plates by W. Giles.
Seller: Aquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC, Calgary, AB, Canada
NEVINSON, C. R. W. (subject).. Contemporary British Artists.. London: Ernest Benn, Ltd, 1925, 1925.
Price: US$1924.90 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Frank Harris, from one bad boy to another, both with charming wifes [corrected to "wives", with superscript initials], C. R. W. Nevinson, 1931". An excellent association, this is the very copy referred to in the last interview Harris ever gave. Like other prominent artists of his generation, Christopher Richard William Nevinson (1889-1946) was deeply influenced by the experience of the First World War, and his war art earned him a reputation as one of Britain's foremost artists in the Futurist style. He was known for his boasting and exaggerated war stories, and his reputation faltered somewhat after the war, exacerbated by his temperamental and depressive personality. This work explores his work from 1909 up to the time of publication and features plates of works in a number of formats and styles. Frank Harris (1856-1931) was an Irish-American writer, particularly noted for his somewhat lurid autobiography, My Life and Loves (1922-27). He was a well-known and infamous character amongst Anglo-American high society, "generally remembered as being a self-promoting and vulgar man of great talent and energy but with dubious taste" (ODNB). This title is part of the Contemporary British Artists series edited by Albert Rutherston, featuring artists including William Orpen, Stanley Spencer, and Paul Nash. Quarto. Original blue cloth-backed grey boards, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Frontispiece self-portrait and 35 monochrome plates at rear. Spine rubbed and bumped, minor wear to corners, edges foxed, offsetting to endpapers, a very good copy with clean plates in like dust jacket, spine toned with minor puncture and a few faint water marks, ends chipped, a couples of short closed tears, extremities creased and nicked. Presenting well, still bright and sharp.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
LECOURT, Henri.. La Cuisine Chinoise.. Pékin: Albert Nachbaur, 1925, 1925.
Price: US$4812.25 + shipping
Description: First edition, one of 40 copies on papier Honan, this copy out of series, of the first work written in French on Chinese cuisine. A further 10 copies were issued on papier Coréen, and 500 copies released as the trade issue on papier pelure Chinois, with the pagination errors from this earlier printing corrected. A scarce and important work in beautiful condition. This in-depth study of Chinese cuisine was written by a master French chef, Henri Lecourt, who was was "head of the French post at Tianjin and a member of the Order of the Cloud of Jade Green" (Shurtleff & Aoyagi, p. 432). He was married to a Chinese chef with whom he conducted the research for this pioneering work, and was a learned connoisseur of both French and Chinese cooking. The work includes a chapter on smoking vegetables, which spices to use and what to replace them with if unavailable, and many recipes using tofu. It also includes detailed accounts on the origins of the recipes, and on table manners and dining etiquette. The publisher notes that "In the enormous bibliography devoted to cooking, one would seek in vain, written in European language a document on Chinese gastronomy. We must therefore praise Mr. Lecourt, one of our compatriots residing in China for many years, knowing Chinese and Chinese inside out, for having filled this gap". The work was distinct in its praise for Chinese cuisine, contradicting the scarce reviews which are known up to this time, almost all of which were overwhelmingly negative and couched in racist and imperialist viewpoints. The first gourmet Chinese restaurants to open in Paris were Chung Fat Lung (1920-1939), rue des Carmes and Wan Hua (1921-1940), street of the medical school, whose clientele was made up of diplomats, wealthy Americans, and Japanese teachers, in contrast to the restaurants opening in the Latin Quarter in the following years and catering to Chinese students in the area. It was a further 20 years until the first comparable book on Chinese cooking in the English language, How to Cook and Eat in Chinese by Buwei Yang Chao (1945), was published. William Shurtleff & Akiko Aoyagi, History of Soybeans and Soyfoods in France (1665-2015), 2015. Quarto. Unopened in the original richly decorated paper wrappers, the inscription on the pediment reading "Tong tch'ou sou ming" [the one who commands the eastern kitchen]. With the glassine wrapper. A near-fine copy of this incredibly fragile publication, in the notably well-preserved glassine wrapper.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom