Search Results: Authors starting with A from Henry Berry, books/ephemera

[A. A. MILNE; 1928 EARLY PRINTING HOUSE AT POOH CORNER WITH JACKET] THE HOUSE AT POOH CORNER, by A. A.Milne, decorations [illustrations] by E. H. Shepard, published by Dutton, 1928, September 1928, Thirty-fourth Printing (stated, same month as first printing), light red cloth cover with gilded lettering and illustration on front and black lettering on spine with jacket, 5-1/4" x 7-3/4", xii+178 pages, illustrated endpages, E. H. Shepard illustrations on most pages /// CONDITION: book very good-plus condition, small transparent smudge on back cover, light fading at top and bottom of spine, , previous child owner's name inside front cover and on front endpage / jacket good condition only, top 1/2" and bottom 1" of jacket spine missing, 3/4" V-shaped chip at top front edge of jacket with adjacent creasing with loss of small spot of loss to cover illustration, small losses along folds of front and back flaps, 1" repaired tear at bottom front edge of jacket with small loss of small illustration this area.

AN EXAMINATION OF THE LAW OF PERSONAL RIGHTS, To Discover the Principles of Law, As Ascertained from the Practical Rules of the Law, and Harmonized with the Nature of Social Relations, by A. J. Willard, published by Appleton, 1882, first edition, same date for copyright and on title page, green cloth cover with gilded lettering on spine, 6" x 9", 429 pages followed by 2-page listing of other law books; RARE outside of library holdings /// CONDITION: very good-plus condition, spots of light edgewear to cover, hinges firm, text block tight, relatively well-preserved copy of this antiquarian law book.

[STEAMSHIP AQUATINT, est. 1890] VIEW OF BRITISH STEAM VESSELS, Under Weight as Designed and Constructed by Barrodatt Robert Dodd, Chief Engineer of Newcastle on Tyne, [quote underneath] 'Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam' afar on wide waving wings, expanded bear Force the swift barge, or drive the rapid car, The flying chariot through the fields of air." Darwin, underneath the image is an inset "Interior of the Principal Cabin", below the main image to the left "An American Steam Vessel", below to the right "Published at Ackermann's, 101 Strand, May 1st, 1817", aquatint reproduction of original 1817 engraving, estimated 1890 on heavier art paper, 11" x 16" to lined borders with about 3/4" margins, richly colored with crowd of people on the deck of the British steam vessel in the center, which is surrounded by men rowing a rowboat, sailboats, and the American steam vessel /// CONDITION: near fine, mostly negligible wear with a few touches of wear at the edges of the sheet, coloring bright as new.

[LEONIE ADAMS LETTER AND BOOK INSCRIBED TO SIGRID DE LIMA; WOMEN'S INTEREST] LEONIE ADAMS, HANDWRITTEN LETTER/ALS, 5" x 6-1/2", 2 pages on right hand pages of folded sheet for 4 pages/about 150 words, dated September 10, 1961, to "Dear Sigrid" in Valley Cottage, New York, replying to letter from Sigrid presumably in sympathy upon death of Leonie's husband, reading in part, "Many though late, thanks for you lovely letter…I trust that you and Stephen [de Lima's husband Stephan Greene] and the daughter, I shall met again…Bill [husband William Troy, d. May 26, 1961] died peacefully, even though after great suffering…", with envelope addressed by hand with New Milford, Connecticut, return address, Leonie Adams signature in return address with first couple of letters in her first name separated from the way the letter was opened at this corner, letter laid in in copy of Poems – A Selection by Leonie Adams, inscribed, "For Sigrid de Lima, with confidence in her books to come and esteem for those… Read More

[ANNOTATED BOOK MANUSCRIPT "THE VOLUNTARY STATE"] THE VOLUNTARY STATE by Mildred McLearn, about 240 original ribbon typed pages bound into a spring binder, 3 parts as follows: (i) original ribbon, 92 pages double-spaced, much edited in pencil typed manuscript of a stage of "The Voluntary State" book-in-progress; (ii) original ribbon, 50 pages single-spaced, a few pages covered with pencil annotations of general notes, no textual editing of a stage of "The Voluntary State" book-in-progress; (iii) essay "Voluntary Taxation – The Answer to Communism Presenting a New Political Concept," by Mildred Adams McLearn, copyrighted 1954, original ribbon, double-spaced 60 pages double-spaced, no annotations, published in the June 1958 issue of "National Review" /// AUTHOR NOTE: Mildred Adams McLearn: Mildred Adams McLearn (d. 2015 at age 102) was a long-time noted resident of Bronxville, New York, who played an active and influential part in the state Republican Party; as a student at New York University, she… Read More

[AIRSHIP AQUATINT, ARIAL TRANSIT COMPANY, AVIATION, est. 1890] "BY PERMISSION OF THE PANTENTEES, THIS ENGRAVING OF THE FIRST CARRIAGE, THE 'ARIEL,' is Respectfully Inscribed to the Directors of The Aerial Transit Company, by their obedient Servants, Ackermann & Co., London" Publisher March 28, 1842, by Ackermann & Co., 90 Strand", aquatint reproduction of original 1842 engraving, estimated 1890 on heavier art paper, 11-1/4 x 13-1/2" to lined borders with about 1" margins, richly colored image with crowd of people in foreground looking up at the airship, and in the background presumably cityscape of London with St. Paul's Cathedral in the middle and at the right faintly possibly Marble Arch; HISTORICAL NOTE: The aerial steam carriage, also named Ariel, was a flying machine patented in 1842 that was supposed to carry passengers into the air. It was, in practice, incapable of flight since it had insufficient power from its heavy steam engine to fly. A more successful model was built in 1848 which was… Read More

[CHILDREN'S BOOK; COUNTING WITH DIE-CUT BOARD PAGES,ca.1912] A TALE OF TEN LITTLE TOYS by Agnes Hucke, published by Sam'l [Samuel] Gabriel Sons & Company, New York, No. 960, Printed in Germany, no date given/ca. 1912 as recorded at WorldCat/OCLC), 9" across x 7-7/8" high, 20 color illustrated board pages with red cloth spine, color illustrations, some text in color, the top 2-1/2" of the board pages are a series of the "ten little toys" on die cut pages so each is visible without opening the book, the bottom of each page (a right-hand page) has a four-line verse beginning with a number from one to ten corresponding with the toy (e. g., Five little wooden toys.) followed by three lines of some activity or situation of the number of toys (the book is a learn-to-count book for young children), the front cover is for the number 10, the illustration and verse on the back cover is about a girl washing her cat, RARE, only one early edition found for sale, 4 recorded at WorldCat/OCLC(4/15/21) /// CONDITION:… Read More

[RUSSIAN AUTHOR; READER'S REPORT, 1935] ALEXEI TOLSTOI, 1882-1945, "Russian and Soviet writer who wrote in many genres but specialized in science fiction and in historical novels…," READER'S REPORT for publisher Longman's Green & Co., New York, on Tolstoi's novel "Darkness and Dawn" sent to reader November 9, 1935, with note "MS Returned by Reader" and the reader's report of more than 550 words on front and back covers including sections "Character of Book" and "Advice," stiff paper cover with type on spine DARKNESS AND DAWN by Alexei Tolstoi • Publication date: March 25, 5-1/2"x 8", 570 pages /// READER'S REPORT EXCERPTS: "It is first of all a fine novel, and absolutely interesting, a book rich in the best Russian tradition of Chekov [etc.]…[Tolstoi's novel] leaves one feeling that the Russians are capable of achieving more more within in the limitations of the novel than any [others]…The scope of this book is enormous, its intent profound…Tolstoi used this young girl [character] as a… Read More

[1955 WATER TROUGHS FOR HORSES IN ARGENTINA LETTER EVA PERON SOCIETY] LETTER, TYPED ORIGINAL RIBBON DATED MARCH 7, 1955, 1 PAGE, 8-3/4" X 13-1/2" with folds as mailed, to a woman in Waterside, England, from Asociacion Popular Protectora de Animales y Asilo Social 'Eva Peron', Rosario de Santa Fe, Argentina, hand-signed by Amanda Quiroga, Secretary and Dr.Vincente J. Morra, President of the Institution and of the 'Eva Peron' Social Home, "[W]e must thank you for your kind offer of drinking=troughs for horses [in Argentina]"…continues with acceptance of funds through British bank, cost of a trough, efforts to get the Argentine government to provide troughs, one-of-a-kind-item authenticated by seller with lifetime guarantee; CONDITION: well-preserved, very good-plus or better, folds as mailed.

[SUFFRAGETTE AMY TALBOT DUNN LETTER SIGNED 1883 RARE] AMY TALBOT DUNN, 19TH CENTURY SUFFRAGETTE, handwritten letter signed/ALS, dated Knob View, MO [Missouri], Crawford Co[ounty], October 27, 1883, 5-1/2" x 9"/about 125 words, lightly waxen paper, folds as mailed, to Israel A. Barker (Brooklyn), replying to letter from Israel about her situation and scheduling when to meet with him when she is in Brooklyn, letter reading in part, "I have been living in great seclusion for some months and have sought no means of advertizing myself…My home has been in Indianapolis until this year…It will probably be changed now to the above address [in Missouri, see address with date above]…I shall expect you…as usual, to defray my local expenses when in Brooklyn…"; signature authenticated by seller with lifetime guarantee; AMY TALBOT DUNN: d. 1916 in Los Angeles…"In pioneer days. Mrs. Dunn was an act­ive suffragists and had been associat­ed in the work of the movement for a number of years" (obituary… Read More

[GENERAL SCREW STEAM SHIPPING COMPANY, CROSKEY & CO., MONTHLY FREIGHT CIRCULAR, 1855] CROSKEY & CO.'S MONTHLY FREIGHT CIRCULAR, 67, Gracechurch Street, London, August 1st, 1855, 8-1/2" x 11", 4 pages, unstamped ship's letter, three vertical and two horizontal folds for folding for mailing3 pages completely typeset, page 1-2 the circular beginning "We have to advise a better feeling in out Freight Market, and an advance in chartered rates from India {followed by paragraphs on freight conditions, pricing for shipments of various goods, and related advise for Calcutta, Akyab [Sittwe, Myanmar], Bombay ["becoming a favorite port with Americans"], , China, Pacific ["Coal, at 60 shillings, in the only freight for San Francisco"], Australia, United States and West Indies, [British] Government Transport Service…page 3 with heading American Ships in Tonnage and Destination (with last 3 words presumed from information in the columns as these words have been lost when the stamp on the other side/page 4 was cut… Read More

[BLACK DAHLIA LOS ANGELES MURDER MYSTERY DOCUMENTS / ANN BANKS, JANICE KNOWLTON, WILL FOWLER] DOCUMENTS/MANUSCRIPTS RELATING TO THE SENSATIONAL 1947 LOS ANGELES UNSOLVED "BLACK DAHLIA" (Elizabeth Short) MURDER MYSTERY gathered by leading Hollywood/celebrity reporter Hal Jacques active from the 1950s-'80s, (1) ANN BANKS, typed letter signed 2x/TLS, dated Sept. 25, 1972, on SuperStar International Productions, Inc., Las Vegas, Nevada, letterhead to "Dear Sir" at National Enquirer, Latana, FL (National Enquirer was one of the periodicals Hal Jacques wrote articles for), 8-1/2" x 11", about 60 words signed in pen "Ann Banks" in salutation and at top with handwritten note under the letterhead, "Make it a morning call, please, Ann Banks", excerpts, "We wish to set up appointments to discuss publication in the National Enquirer on the following re: scheduled motion picture 'I Killed the Black Dahlia': and book publication under the same title…We not only name the killer…but depict the 'mechanical device'… Read More

[1947 RARE CATALOG HISTORIC MEXICO CITY BUILDING; LIMITED EDITION] CATALOGO ORDAZ, COYOACAN, D. E. [part of Mexico City], foreword dated July 1947 by Antonio Romero Caballero and also inscribed by him "A. Romero" to H. E. Russell, Jr., of Texas, text in Spanish, red cloth cover with gilded lettering (no jacket as issued), 9" x 12", x + 240 pages, glossy pages, black-and-white photographs on nearly every page of varied antiquities of the historic building including paintings, furniture, silver, and statues, index, 523 articles cataloged with detailed descriptive annotations and occasional notable aspects of an article and its historical background, De Este Catlogo Se Imprimieron -70- [handwritten number], Numeros, Siendo Este el Numero -46- [handwritten number], limited edition #46 of 70 copies, inscribed at upper left corner of the title page "To our very old friend H. E. Russell, Coyoacan, D. E., Mexico, March 31st, 1948, A. Romero", signature made out by linking to the identified author of the… Read More

[SCULPTOR MICHAEL GRESSEL ORIGINAL DRAWING OF ST. JEROME FOR CATHEDRAL COLLEGE, QUEENS, ARCHITECTURAL PROJECT BY JOHN J. O'MALLEY AND ASSOCIATES ARCHITECTURE FIRM, BROOKLYN] ORIGINAL PENCIL DRAWING OF SAINT JEROME HOLDING BIBLE AND QUILL PEN WITH LION SITTING AT HIS FEET by sculptor Michal Gressel with a purple-toned print of the drawing on tan paper done by the architecture firm John O'Malley and Associates, with this firm's stamp in lower right corner with "Approval As Noted" circled in red pencil along with initials J. B.M. and 6-16-67 date, a second stamp for Jacob Morgenthaler's Sons, Architectural Woodwork, Brooklyn, NY, noting Michael Gressel as the creator of the drawing for the project Cathedral College, Douglaston, Queens, with John O'Malley & Associates as the architect, a large, elongated drawing for the sculpture of Saint Jerome conceived by sculptor Michael Gessel of a large-size figure with a halo holding a Bible and quill pen with a lion sitting at his feet and the name "St. Jerome"… Read More

[1942 WORLD WAR II MILITARY AIRFIELD CONSTRUCTION; ARTHUR CASAGRANDE; RARE ARTICLE] PROPOSED SOIL CLASSIFICATION FOR AIRFIELD PROJECTS by A. Casagrande, Cambridge, Mass., Sept 5. 1942, in upper right corner U. S. Engr. Off., Division Engr., North Atl. Division, NA 6790, NAD 36/1, 10/8/42, New York, NY, light purple mimeograph pages, 8 pages of text, 8-1/2" x 11", single space, followed by 1 page fold out chart Table 1 –Soil Classification for Airfield Projects, 4 page carbon copy, single space letter dated November 10, 1942, from a major in the U. S. Engineer Office, New York, to The Division Engineer, North Atlantic Division on the point the study has reached to date and plans for further study noting that "Dr.Casagrande [reports] that it is difficult to set up a soil classification which will apply to subgrades, base and surface courses [because of] variations in soils", followed by a copy of a letter from the War Department and a copy of a letter from the Division Engineer Office of the North… Read More

[RADIO-CONTROLLED TORPEDO, WWI ERA; DEFENSE AGAINST U-BOATS, COASTAL DEFENSE; INVENTION AND PATENT DEVELOPMENTS] ARTHUR ENOCH ERICSON (spelling of last name used by him, though sometimes written by others as Erikson or Erickson), inventor, aspects of the radio torpedo for which he was awarded patents and attracted the interest of American, British, Canadian, Italian, French, and Russian military from the early years of the 20th century until after World War II…one letter from his patent attorney Samuel Owen Edmonds reports that the British Patent Office at the request of the British Admiralty and Army Council orders the "prohibition of the publication of communication in any way of the invention and application for a patent for it in any enemy or neutral country, and of application being made for the [patent] protection of the invention in any allied country or in any of the British Dominions"… "among radio men", Ericson's radio torpedo was preferred to Hammond's for its "simplicity, accuracy,… Read More

[SOVIET UNION/RUSSIA PROPAGANDA POSTERS; REPRODUCTIONS PORTFOLIO] SOVIET RUSSIA PROPAGANDA POSTERS 20 in portfolio Moscow 1967, UNFORGETTABLE DAYS OF HISTORY [loose English translation from title in Cyrillic on portfolio front] Sovetskii Khudozhnik [Soviet Artist], Moscow, 1967, A portfolio of 20 copies of Soviet Union/Russia/Communist propaganda posters titled (rough translation from Russian] "Unforgettable/Memorable Days of History], most were published by various Soviet Union artists in 1919 and 1920, the early years of the Russian Communist Revolution, on the back of each is the name and dates of the artist, the title, and the year, posters are numbered 1 to 20 except for a number 14 but duplicate of number 16 for 20 posters in all, posters are in color except for a couple presumably in black-and-white in original, on 13-1/2" high x 10-1/2" wide sheets of heavy paper with margins of varying width, some posters have borders and some do not, in the line below the publisher line of Sovetskii… Read More

[BROOKS ATKINSON 2 LETTERS SIGNED / ROYAL MURDOCH POETRY / LGBTQ INTEREST] BROOKS ATKINSON, TWO TYPED LETTERS SIGNED/TLSs, as N. Y. Times critic on N. Y. Times stationery, 7" x 8-1/2" with horizontal folds as mailed with envelopes addressed to recipient with "Brooks Atkinson" typed above N. Y. Times return address, Atkinson replies to a friend of the gay poet Royal Murdoch who is helping Murdoch get publicity for his poetry, Atkinson declines to write anything saying he is not knowledgeable about poetry, but offers suggestions, (1) September 22, 1964, excerpts, "I enclose a copy of the first column on Alger…I have found over the years I can't write interesting columns on subjects with which I am not [inserted by hand in pen] or in fields in which I have no [inserted by hand in pen above crossed out word "some"]. Judging the value of poetry is something I am not prepared to do with confidence…":, (2) October 2, 1964, excerpts, "very interesting verse, especially the humorous jingle…I know very… Read More

[1867 BRITISH INSURANCE DOCUMENT, 2 RELATED DOCUMENTS] 1867 ATLAS ASSURANCE COMPANY, 2 related documents concerning life insurance policy for John Watkins Freeman, (i) letter dated 16th Nov. 1867 with letterhead Atlas Assurance Office, Life Department, London, typescript with blanks filled in by hand pinned to (ii) handwritten notice to the Atlas Assurance Office from the "Solicitors of said Mary Ann Freeman"; NOTES: ATLAS ASSURANCE COMPANY was a British life and fire insurance company established at the beginning of the 19th century in England. Its headquarters were in London, and it had several branches around the world…." (wikipedia) /// CONDITION: well-preserved, light normal wear. keywords: business history, 19th century British insurance company, insurance policy historical document

[CHILDREN'S CLASSIC ca. 1890; DIE CUT COVER AND PAGES] DAS ZUCKERIGE HAUSCHEN ODER HANSEL UND GRETEL, Ein lustiges Bilderbuch fur brave Kinder [SUGARY HOUSES OR HÄNSEL AND GRETEL, a funny picture book for good children], no author given / children's classic, published by J. F. Schreiber (Stuttgart), no date given/ca. 1890s, text in German, 12-page book in the shape of a hut and some ground around it, roughly 9" wide x 11-1/2" high, front cover embossed in color, ads on back cover, inside front cover is title page and first four lines of the verse, there are six color illustrations on right-hand pages facing a few lines of corresponding text, the inside back cover and the back free endpage have illustrated ads for other children's books; RARE, no copies found for sale in US /// CONDITION: very good-plus, edgewear along spine and other spots of minor edgewear, negligible wear to color illustrations, exceptionally well-preserved copy of a vintage children's book.