Search Results: Authors starting with S from Jay Dillon Rare Books + Manuscripts

London &c: Peter Owen, 1986 (Series: Modern romance classics, no. [1].) ||| Collation: In 16s (197 x 127 mm). Pp. [vii], 263. Binding: Red boards, dust-jacket. Condition: A fine copy. Reference: ISBN 0720606705. .

Philadelphia?: D. D. Bean & sons (Winston-Salem, North Carolina), for Taggart's auto driving schools, 1970 -- A HEART-RENDING EPHEMERON featuring a brand of low humor never funny and nowadays unthinkable: The back cover shows a caricature of a blonde woman in her 20s or 30s, with her right eye blackened and a dialogue-balloon lettered, "I'D RATHER SWITCH TO TAGGARTS [sic] THAN FIGHT WITH MY HUSBAND!" The matchbook is not dated, but it is difficult to imagine any adult thinking that this might be an effective advertisement after about 1970. The inside cover gives a 'phone number in Philadelphia and fifteen local numbers in New Jersey; the firm was apparently founded in 1957, and by 1984, we know, they had an 800-number in northern New Jersey.. 18 matches present (of 20?).. Pictorial matchbook (46 x 37 x 7 mm).

New York: A Wyatt book, for St Martin's Press, 1994 ¶ FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, first printing (with statement "First Edition: May 1994" and code "10 . . . 3 2 1" on the title verso). ||| Collation: 209 x 140 mm. Pp. [xii], 594 [595–596]. Binding: Publisher's quarter black cloth, dust-jacket. Condition: As new; UNOPENED. Reference: ISBN 0312110839..

First edition, published simultaneously in Flemish (as here) and in French; including correspondence with Patti Smith, in English, about her participation in Rimbaud's sesquicentenary 2004, and a reproduction of her portrait "St. Rimbaud 1973", pages 80-[91]. Inscribed "To Marshal Pierce" and signed "Patti Smith | X" on the title-page (page 3). Marshal Lawrence Pierce (b. 1961) published the fictional Lost diaries of Jim Morrison 2003. -- Spine title: Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891): Une saison en enfer. Cover title: Paspoort. -- References: Byler-Mills b1194710; OCLC 57149177.

¶ Only edition of the only work of its kind; comprising descriptions of eighteen books and pamphlets 1972-94 and two forthcoming books, together with a full-page facsimile of an early price-list of Patti Smith publications (New York: Gotham Book Mart & Gallery Inc, 1978?). Date inferred from text, leaf [7]. A modest production, very scarce: This work was unknown to Patti Smith herself until she saw this copy in Princeton on 28 May 2005, and SIGNED it in black ink on page [1] lower left. --Collation: 280 x 216 mm: Ten leaves, foliated [1-10] (ie, not foliated). Xerographed from typescript. Illustration: Vignettes (horsehead), portrait, facsimile. Binding: Loose leaves wire-stitched (stapled) top left as issued. Condition: Fine. Reference: OCLC 855799514 (Berkeley only). Not in Byler-Mills.

First edition, published simultaneously in French (as here) and in Flemish (Dutch); including correspondence with Patti Smith, in English, about her participation in Rimbaud's sesquicentenary 2004, and a reproduction of her portrait "St. Rimbaud 1973", pages 80–[91]. Inscribed "To Marshal Pierce" and signed "Patti Smith | NYC" on the title-page (page 3). Marshal Lawrence Pierce (b. 1961) published the fictional Lost diaries of Jim Morrison 2003. -- Spine title: Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891): Une saison en enfer. Cover title: Passeport. -- References: OCLC 799201252 &c. Not in Byler-Mills!

London &c, 2005     ¶ Boethius ca 1000 ex Cockerell, the only complete Anglo-Saxon manuscript in private hands; Jerome and Bede ca 1100 ex Drury; and Virgil 1459 ex Phillipps, "Probably the finest Renaissance manuscript of any classical text in private hands, and one of the finest manuscripts of Virgil ever made". (Sale 5240, lots 80-82.)   ||| Collation: 270 x 210 mm: Twenty-eight leaves, paginated [1-5] 6-54 [55-56].  Illustration: Ten full-page and thirteen smaller color illustrations.  Binding: Color-pictorial wrappers lettered in gilt. Color-pictorial dust-jacket.  Condition : As new.  .

New York, 1991     ¶ Only edition of this important catalogue, lavishly illustrated throughout; presenting "an incomparable portrait of America's national pastime from its earliest days in the mid-nineteenth century through the 1980s. What distinguishes this collection, apart from its scope, is the superb condition and quality of every item." (Page [11].)  873 lots, printed estimates. Price-list laid in.  (Sotheby's sale 6145, 22-23 March 1991.)   ||| Collation: 270 x 210 mm. Not paginated.  Illustration: Numerous color and black-and-white illustrations throughout.  Binding: Color-pictorial wrappers.  Condition: Fine.  .

New York, 1986     ¶ Only ediiton of this important catalogue. The Neuhoff collection was assembled over some fifty years, from the 1920s into the 1970s: Objects from the collection are now preserved in the Metropolitan Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), Colonial Williamburg, and the White House. 251 lots, printed estimates, six lots priced.  (Sotheby's sale 5427, 25 January 1986.)   ||| Cover title: Important English furniture and decorations: The Jerome C. Neuhoff collection.  Collation: In 8s (270 x 210 mm): Eighty-four leaves, paginated [1-168] (ie, not paginated).  Illustration: Numerous color and black-and-white illustrations throughout.  Binding: Publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt. Color-pictorial dust-jacket lettered in gilt.  Condition: Fine.  .

New York, 1993     ¶ Only edition of this extraordinary catalogue, lavishly illustrated throughout; including "many excellent examples of rare crystal pendulum figural mystery clocks, as well as a good number of bronze and spelter conical pendulum clocks. Among the many industrial clocks in the collection are rare and unusual models of many different sizes, including lighthouses, windmills, locomotives, boilers and nautical and aero-nautical items. The collection is further enhanced by some fine decorative French clocks; unusual English skeleton clocks; table, longcase and mystery clocks; and a variety of American shelf and wall clocks." (Page 9.)  500 lots, printed estimates.  (Sotheby's sale 6447, 28 June 1993.)   ||| Collation: 270 x 210 mm: Eighty-six leaves, paginated [1-7] 8-163 [164-172].  Illustration: Numerous color and black-and-white illustrations throughout.  Binding: Color-pictorial wrappers. … Read More

First edition (only edition), including four pages (about 1200 words) and four halftone illustrations (portraits) devoted to Springsteen. The author was a lifelong professional astrologer, and well regarded, living at the time in Noe Valley. Excessively rare, not in Monmouth. OCLC locates one copy only. -- Collation: In 32 (177 x 128 mm, 7 x 5 inches): 32 leaves paginated [i-ii], [1]-[62]. Binding: Pictorial self-wrappers (portrait of Springsteen), wire-stitched as issued. Condition: Very good. References: OCLC (WorldCat) 55506099 (SFPL only). Not in ViaLibri 2018.12. Unknown to Google 2018.12 (really).

St Petersburg: Sovetskii pisatel', leningradskoe otdelenie, 1977 -- SECOND AND BEST EDITION. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the fable flourished in Russia as nowhere before, with many thousands of fables being published by hundreds of fabulists (including Anna Bunina, the first professional woman writer in Russian literature). This is the standard anthology and bio-bibliography of the subject; comprising an introductory essay by Nikolai Stepanov (pages 5-[62]), 569 verse fables by seventy-five writers, edited by V. P. Stepanov and Nikolai Stepanov, and copious textual and bio-bibliogaphical notes by V. P. Stepanov (pages [527]-[632]). (Series: Biblioteka poeta. Bolshaia seriia.). Blue cloth gilt. Near fine.. In 16s (197 x 127 mm). Pp. 655..

First edition (only edition), the FIRST AMERICAN TRANSLATION of Sun Tzu on The art of war, little known and very scarce on the market. The translator was George Henry Rankin Gosman (1876–1958), MD, of Brooklyn (New York), US military attaché at Tokyo 1911–15. This was the only American translation of Sun Tzu for two generations, till 1963. The present copy belonged to the AGF library under Lesley McNair, whom Marshall called "the brains of the army". —— Collation (volume 56, offered complete): [i–iv], [1]–408 pages. Collated perfect. Binding: Red buckram lettered in gilt. Condition: Very good. —— Provenance: (1) US Coast Artillery School (1907–46) library, at Fort Monroe (Hampton, Virginia), accession no. 29155, typical stamps; (2) US Army Ground Forces (1942–48) library, Army War College (Washington, DC), accession no. A7343, bookplate, spine label.

First edition in Hebrew, translated by Ephraim Broido (1912–1994), probably from Giles, and published by IDF. This copy belonged to Hashomer Hatzair (the young guard) at kibbutz Mesilot, where it was certainly needed: Iraq had bombed the place in 1948, and terrorists attacked again in 1957. —— Collation: In 8s (167 × 120 mm, 6½ × 4¾ inches): Forty-one leaves paginated [i–ii], [1]–[80]. Twenty-four martial vignettes. Binding: Publisher's quarter green cloth lettered in gilt, textured boards blocked in red, pictorial endpapers (Great Wall, after Shalom Ben-Zvi), all edges trimmed and plain, as issued. Condition: Shaken, else very good as shown. References: NLI 002022661 (one copy); OCLC (WorldCat) 123312082 (Stanford) &c. —— Provenance: Hashomer Hatzair, Mesilot nr Nazareth.

First edition, including a "very good and informative article" by Sebastian Dobson (Sheffield) on E. F. Calthrop, the first English translator of Sun Tzu on The art of war 1905, 1908. —— Collation: Thick octavo (228 × 143 mm, 9 × 5½ inches), paginated [i]–xxxvi, 1–768 [769–772 blank]. Numerous portraits, illustrations. Binding: Publisher's brown boards lettered in gilt, plain wove endpapers, all edges trimmed and plain, as issued. Color-pictorial dust-jacket not priced, as issued. Condition: As new.

FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, and the first separate edition in any Western language. Excessively rare.

Paris: Cosson, for Masson et Fils [et] Bossange Frères, 1826     ¶ Umpteenth edition, valued mainly for the portraits of Sévigné and Grignan.   ||| Collation: Two volumes 12mo <in 8s and 4s> (157 × 102 mm).  <v1: pp (pi)[1-4], [i] ii-clxxiv [clxxv-clxxvi], [1] 2-287 [288]. v2: pp [i-iv] [1] 2-424.> Illustration: Engraved frontispieces unsigned.  Binding: Contemporary tree sheep gilt, marbled boards and edges.  Condition: Scattered foxing, bindings rubbed.  Reference: BN.  Provenance: Beatrice Reiter Leval (1911–2004), of New York, picture-collector (Christie’s New York, 4–5 May 2005, nos. 8–14 &c)..