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N.p.: Mimeograph typescript, 1934. 27 cm; [2], 169, [1], pages, dedication leaf, and original pencil and chalk title leaf with portrait of a grinning Mephistopheles, by Michel Fingesten (Michl Finkelstein), signed in pencil, protected by glassine leaf. Dedication "für HANS ARNOLD geschreiben, Weihnachten 1934," signed in ink by Grete Scholz. Text mimeographed typescript on Crown Van Gelder. Bound in half vellum over buckram cloth-covered boards, with buckram endleaves. Title stamped in gilt letters on vellum panel of top board. Upper board somewhat bowed, but book is effectively pristine. The successful German-Jewish banker Hans Arnold made his home in Berlin a salon for artists, musicians, and intellectuals (the structure now houses the American Academy in Berlin). As a patron of the arts, Arnhold merited this hand-made gift, dedicated for Christmas 1934, of a Goethe's Faust, one of an unspecified (but certainly tiny) number of mimeographed copies printed on Crown Van Gelder watermarked…
Read More The Assault on Stony Point, by General Anthony Wayne, July 16, 1779. by Dawson, Henry D - 1863: Prepared for the New York Historical Society, and read at its regular monthly meeting, April 1, 1862.
by Dawson, Henry D
The Assault on Stony Point, by General Anthony Wayne, July 16, 1779.: Prepared for the New York Historical Society, and read at its regular monthly meeting, April 1, 1862.
by Dawson, Henry D
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Morrisania, 1863. First edition, #36 of 250 copies, signed with initials.. Very Good. Octavo (27 cm); viii, 156 pages, folding hand-colored map, 28 engraved plates, and 23 facsimile letters, folded. Title and series title in red and black. In original half morocco over marbled boards, spine titled and decorated in gilt. Marbled endleaves. Binding rubbed at extremities. Frontispiece portrait offset onto title page. Occasional offsetting of plates onto facing pages. Otherwise clean, sound, and apparently never read. Sabin 18930; Howes D-152.
Series title: Gleanings from the Harvest Field of American History, part XL.
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- Keywords Battle of Stony Point Hudson Valley American Revolution Revolutionary War George Washington
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Faust. Der Tragödie erster Teil.
by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von.
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The Golden Ass. Translated by William Adlington, MDLXVI.
by Apuleius, Lucius.
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New York: Chiswick Press; Privately Printed for the Scott-Thaw Company, 1904. #110 of 220 copies, signed by the publisher.. Very Good. Folio (36 cm); 359 pages. Woodcut architectural title page and portrait frontispiece by Dutch artist W[illem] L[eendert] Bruckman (1866-1928). Woodcut initials; title and headings printed in red throughout. Printed on substantial laid paper manufactured by hand in the mills of Arnold & Foster and bearing the Chiswick Press watermark. Bound in original brick-red boards, with restored tan buckram spine; original paper title labels printed in red (the publisher included an "extra" title label folded into each copy of the book, and the "extra" label was applied to the restored spine). Title label on upper board dusty. Cloth a bit worn along edges and at corners. Some very slight toning near upper margin and along edges of text block. Numbered and signed "Scott-Thaw" on justification page.
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Reineke Fuchs in 12 Gesängen.
by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang; Kurt Steinel.
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Offenbach: Kumm Verlag, 1962. 133 pages, and 20 lithograph plates by Kurt Steinel, and signed by him on justification page. Text in German. Bound in rich full ochre crushed goat, with painted pastepaper endleaves, green speckled edges, and custom quarter-leather cloth slipcase by Ruth Stein (unsigned). Very good. Delightful 20th-century interpretation of Goethe's Reynard the Fox in unusual luxury binding and slipcase. SIgned.
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The Bashford Dean collection of arms and armor in the Metropolitan museum of art.
by [Dean, Bashford]; Carl Von Kienbusch; Otto Kretzschmar; Steven V. Grancsay.
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Portland, Maine: Southworth Press for the Armor and Arms Club of New York City, 1933. First edition. 31 cm; 270 pages, frontispiece, and 63 plates. #243 of an edition of 250 copies. Bound in cloth stamped in gilt with the crest of the Arms and Armor Club of New York City. Fine.
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Sonnets written in youth.
by Rossetti, Dante Gabriel.
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New York: Inkwell Press, 1992. Very Good. Edited by Vincent Torre. 32 cm; [5], 17, [1] leaves. Title page and text pages within colored borders with ornamental block printed in green. Bound in purple straight-grain brocaded silk with green pebbled leather backstrip titled in gilt; with green textured decorative paper endleaves backed with Fabriano, by Ruth Stein (unsigned). One of 45 copies printed on Stonehenge paper and signed by Torre. Few subtle but annoying stains on upper board. According to a note by Torre, these poems were not published until 1931, and are printed here for only the second time (the first time in a separate issue). Offered here in a fine hand-made binding.
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Faust. Der Tragödie erster Teil.
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N.p.: Mimeograph typescript, 1934. 27 cm; [2], 169, [1], pages, dedication leaf, and original pencil and chalk title leaf with portrait of a grinning Mephistopheles, by Michel Fingesten (Michl Finkelstein), signed in pencil, protected by glassine leaf. Dedication "für HANS ARNOLD geschreiben, Weihnachten 1934," signed in ink by Grete Scholz. Text mimeographed typescript on Crown Van Gelder. Bound in half vellum over buckram cloth-covered boards, with buckram endleaves. Title stamped in gilt letters on vellum panel of top board. Upper board somewhat bowed, but book is effectively pristine. The successful German-Jewish banker Hans Arnold made his home in Berlin a salon for artists, musicians, and intellectuals (the structure now houses the American Academy in Berlin). As a patron of the arts, Arnhold merited this hand-made gift, dedicated for Christmas 1934, of a Goethe's Faust, one of an unspecified (but certainly tiny) number of mimeographed copies printed on Crown Van Gelder watermarked…
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The Golden Ass. Translated by William Adlington, MDLXVI.
by Apuleius, Lucius.
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New York: Chiswick Press; Privately Printed for the Scott-Thaw Company, 1904. #110 of 220 copies, signed by the publisher.. Very Good. Folio (36 cm); 359 pages. Woodcut architectural title page and portrait frontispiece by Dutch artist W[illem] L[eendert] Bruckman (1866-1928). Woodcut initials; title and headings printed in red throughout. Printed on substantial laid paper manufactured by hand in the mills of Arnold & Foster and bearing the Chiswick Press watermark. Bound in original brick-red boards, with restored tan buckram spine; original paper title labels printed in red (the publisher included an "extra" title label folded into each copy of the book, and the "extra" label was applied to the restored spine). Title label on upper board dusty. Cloth a bit worn along edges and at corners. Some very slight toning near upper margin and along edges of text block. Numbered and signed "Scott-Thaw" on justification page.
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Reineke Fuchs in 12 Gesängen.
by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang; Kurt Steinel.
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Offenbach: Kumm Verlag, 1962. 133 pages, and 20 lithograph plates by Kurt Steinel, and signed by him on justification page. Text in German. Bound in rich full ochre crushed goat, with painted pastepaper endleaves, green speckled edges, and custom quarter-leather cloth slipcase by Ruth Stein (unsigned). Very good. Delightful 20th-century interpretation of Goethe's Reynard the Fox in unusual luxury binding and slipcase. SIgned.
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The Bashford Dean collection of arms and armor in the Metropolitan museum of art.
by [Dean, Bashford]; Carl Von Kienbusch; Otto Kretzschmar; Steven V. Grancsay.
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Portland, Maine: Southworth Press for the Armor and Arms Club of New York City, 1933. First edition. 31 cm; 270 pages, frontispiece, and 63 plates. #243 of an edition of 250 copies. Bound in cloth stamped in gilt with the crest of the Arms and Armor Club of New York City. Fine.
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Sonnets written in youth.
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New York: Inkwell Press, 1992. Very Good. Edited by Vincent Torre. 32 cm; [5], 17, [1] leaves. Title page and text pages within colored borders with ornamental block printed in green. Bound in purple straight-grain brocaded silk with green pebbled leather backstrip titled in gilt; with green textured decorative paper endleaves backed with Fabriano, by Ruth Stein (unsigned). One of 45 copies printed on Stonehenge paper and signed by Torre. Few subtle but annoying stains on upper board. According to a note by Torre, these poems were not published until 1931, and are printed here for only the second time (the first time in a separate issue). Offered here in a fine hand-made binding.
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Make Believe
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The Happy Exile
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Make believe
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Make believe
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Wheal Darkness (1927)
by Lowry, H. D. & C. A. Dawson-Scott [Henry Dawson Lowry & Catherine Amy Dawson-Soctt
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London: Hutchinson & Co., 1927. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. Undated first edition [1927. Original light grey-green cloth, lettered in black. Spine lightly sunned, two clippings (one a synopsis) tipped on to front endpapers, very good. A grim tale of the Cornish tin-mines, near Camborne. Lowry wrote a number of novels in the 1890s, and edited The Ludgate Magazine at the end of the decade. He died in 1906 at the age of 37, with this novel incomplete. His cousin completed the book for publication some twenty years later..
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Wreckers and Methodists and Other Stories (1893)
by Lowry, H. D. [ie Henry Dawson Lowry]
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London: William Heinemann, 1893. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Original green cloth, illustrated with seascape, lettered in gilt. Extremities scuffed, gilt a little dulled (especially on spine), undated signature on front free endpaper, otherwise good/very good. Dawson's first collection of stories, with Cornish settings. He later became editor of The Ludgate..
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Move 3 (June 1965)
by Burns, Jim (ed.), Larry Eigner, N. R. Wayte, Chris Torrance, John James, Fielding Dawson, Lee Harwood, Joan Gilbert, Thomas Clark, Paul Evans, Henry Graham, Paul Matthews, D. J. Zimmerman
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Preston, England: Jim Burns, 1965. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG. 4to, 18pp (mimeographed), stapled wrappers. Third issue of this rare sixties mimeo revolution magazine from England, with an excellent roster of important contributors. Unmarked copy, sound but vertically creased, seemingly from having been rolled.
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Wreckers and Methodists and Other Stories
by H. D. Lowry; Henry Dawson Lowry
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London: William Heinemann, 1893. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 7.5" by 5.5". None. A scarce first edition collection of short stories by Henry Dawson Lowry, from the library of his cousin, Catherine Amy Dawson Scott, who has annotated the text. The first edition of this scarce work.Inscribed to the recto of the front endpaper, 'C. A. D. Scott, from Lovey Xmas 1906'. Likely gifted to Scott from her husband only two months after the author's death. Inscription to the title page, 'The Scarlet Petticoat, a collection of short stories, edited by C. A. Dawson Scott'. Scott has annotated and offered corrections throughout the text, some of the notes including quotes from the author's letters. Catherine Amy Dawson Scott was the cousin of Henry Dawson Lowry, Scott being four years senior. The pair were close throughout their lives. Scott was a fellow writer, playwright, and poet, co-founding a worldwide association of writers, International Pen, in 1921. Later in her life she became a keen spiritualist,…
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