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

[1931 PICASSO COSTUMES 6 PHOTOS Cocteau 1917 ballet Parade RARE] 1 page, Picasso costumes 6 black-and-white photographs limited edition 600 copies, 4-1/2" x 2-1/4" on heavier paper/light board, for the 1917 ballet PARADE, Ballet de Jean Cocteau, Decor et Costumes de Pablo Picasso, Musique d'Eric Satie…Theatre du Chatelet, Paris 1917, plate #1 is a preserved page from a mostly deteriorated copy of the rare theater book TENDANCES NOUVELLES DU THEATRE – CHOIX DE DECORS, COSTUMES, etc. [rest of long subtitle omitted], by Leon Moussinac, published by Les Editions Albert Levy, Paris, 1931, limited edition 600 copies /// CONDITION: generally lightly age-toned somewhat more at edge, small chip at top page edge, small dark spot in left margin.

ARTE DECORATIVA ITALIANA by Giuseppe Pagano, published by Ulrico Hoepli Editore, 1938, softcover/paper wraps (no jacket), text in Italian, 8" x 8-1/2", 142 pages/pages 7-36 alternating text and illustrations, pages 39-135 full-page illustrations of works of various Italian artists, black-and-white illustrations, indexes; CONDITION: very good-plus condition, fading to spine and edges of cover, light age-toning at edges of interior pages, overall solid clean relatively well-preserved copy.

[LETTER FROM SAN FRANCISCO, 1853] ELIZA 'LIZZIE' PATTERSON (nee Pearson); 19th CENTURY HOME MEDICINE] 1853 ELIZA PATTERSON LETTER FROM SAN FRANCISCO to her brother Gaston about her concerns for his health and advice on remedies, dated Oct. 15th /53 [1853;], no location but Eliza Patterson was known to be in San Francisco on this date as evidenced by other letters by her acquired with this letter (see Notes below), blindstamped crest with initials "E.P. P" for Elizabeth Pearson or Pollock Patterson (Pollock was her husband's middle name) at middle of top of first page, one sheet folded for four pages 4-1/4" x 6-1/2", 4-plus pages including crosswriting/estimated 500 words, no envelope, letter reads in part, "My own precious brother…your trip to the White Mountains [New Hampshire]…have not received the benefits [of the trip for health reasons] you hoped…increased your cold by bathing at Newport [Rhode Island]…leave college [Harvard] and put yourself under the care of the best physician that the… Read More

[DISNEY MEMORABILIA; ZIP-A-DEE-DOO-DAH ORIGINAL ADAPTATION, PAUL BARON; BUDDY CLARK, SINGER; HILDEGARDE CAMPBELL ROOM RADIO PROGRAM] ZIP-A-DEE-DOO-DAH adapted by Paul Baron with notes "Campbell" (for Hildegarde radio program "The Campbell Room") and Buddy Clark (popular singer of the 1940s) at top of first page, original adaptation in pencil with "Baron" signed in upper right corner of the first long page version of music composition pages with typescript "PAUL BARON at the bottom of each page, 13 pages total, 19" x 11, blue ink stamp "ZIPA [sic] DEE DOO DAH" at top left of first page over title handwritten in pencil, adaptation for radio orchestra instruments, WITH copyist scores for 5-page "conductor" score and 20 2-page individual radio orchestra instruments scores, some with limited annotations including "segue to Nice to Be Nice" at the end of many ("Nice to Be Nice" was another popular song of the era), on the first page of the 5-page conductor copyist score in red ink is "Clark" indicating… Read More

[AVIATION; OWNER SIGNED, SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT, HEAD OF ADVANCED RESEARCH 1950s-1970s] AIRCRAFT STRUCTURES by David J. Peery, Ph.D., signed twice (inside front and back covers) in pen by Philip L. Michel, Head of Advanced Research, Sikorsky Aircraft, published by McGraw-Hill, 1950, first edition (stated),, blue cloth hardcover with gilded lettering on spine, 6" x 9", 566 pages, diagrams, charts, illustrations, tables (appendices), index; NOTES: PHILIP L. MICHEL, 1917-2012, Sikorsky Aircraft Head of Advanced Research from 1952-1970s, earlier in his career he worked with Brewster Aeronautical Corp., Republic Aviation Corp., and Grumman Aviation (obituary notice); PROVENANCE: acquired at an estate sale of P. L. Michel possessions in Stratford, CT., not far from the Sikorsky plant /// CONDITION: very good-plus, general light wear including light whitish circle at lower part of front cover.

[VINTAGE PHOTOGRAPH ARAB GIRLS CARRYING WATER JUGS, early 1900s] THREE ARAB GIRLS POSING WITH WATER JUGS, 8-3/4' x 6-3/8", mounted on board 15-1/2" x 13-1/2", lightly sepia toned, early 1900s, oval stamp at lower right corner of photo "Nahant Public Library" (MA), handwritten caption underneath photo "UPPER EGYPT Arab Girls Carrying Water", in upper right corner of board handwritten "Egypt, Types", in lower left corner of board handwritten "74", on back circular stamp "The Library Art Club", underneath the photo is 7-1/2" across x 2-1/2" down affixed text apparently cut out from some book on the traditional practice of Egyptian girls and woman carrying water closing with, "The present generation [of Egyptian girls], discarding these [traditional pottery water jugs], prefers the square two-gallon tins in which Standard Oil has come to Egypt.They are lighter than the pottery jars…the petroleum tin never breaks."; NOTE: Standard Oil along with other American and European petroleum companies began… Read More

[1853 LETTER DE LA RUE, LONDON FIRM, TO ITALIAN SCULPTOR GIOVANNI BATTISTA CEVASCO, NEW YORK TO GENOA, ITALY] "All Egregio Scultore, Giovanni Battista Cevasco, Genova" New York, 29th Oct. 1853 embossed circular crest with wording "De la Rue London" in upper left corner of first page, 1-page handwritten letter/ALS, in Italian, first page of sheet folded for four pages, 4-1/4" x 6-1/2"/about 100 words, handwritten text in Italian, signed "Pinolto Valerios", a De la Rue representative in the U. S. as indicated by other letters this one was among (see Provenance below)…Valerios writes that Signor Pearson is carrying this letter as an introduction to Cevasco, traveling to Italy in the hope of improving his health in the warm climate, and out of friendship with Cevasco, Valerois requests that he look after Pearson to make his stay comfortable and salutary…Gaston Pearson is from a leading Washington, D. C. area family, such introductions for travelers by hand-carried letters and requests for hospitality… Read More

MADHUBANI by K. Prakash, published by Design Point, Bombay, 1994, first edition (stated), hardcover with jacket with no price as issued, 8-1/2" x 11", 56 pages, illustrated endpages, color/b+w photos and illustrations, rare book, only about 4 copies recorded at WorldCat/OCLC, no copies found for sale (11/10/20), 7-page author essay is followed by color and black-and-white art works, figures, and patterns representing Madhubani art; CONDITION: hardcover in near fine condition/very good-or better jacket, some short ripples to jacket surface coating along the spine and a small indentation.