Search Results: Authors starting with S from Certain Books, ABAA

Good scenic, travel view; identified at bottom of card mount, Dutch language: 'Kanaal - Port Said' (with dhow at sail, steam launch and larger ship to right of image in harbor) and another scene on back, a simple pastoral image (faded); appears to be the work of a skilled amateur, no photographic studio identified or numbers except by hand; fairly good detail; image about 2 1/4" square size; light edge, tips wear to mount; trimmed to 2 3/4" x 5 3/8" in size; a few letters visible beneath image; some fade to the imagery; overall, in very good condition, no date but circa 1910.. Very Good.

Tokyo, Japan: Kaibundo Shuppan, 2004. 299 pages; with a few black and white illustrations within the text. Laid-in is a slip of paper inscribed and signed by the author "Dear Bob How wonderful to hear your voice after all these years! George" Text entirely in Japanese. Illustrated dustjacket over sturdy white buckram cloth-covered boards; slight wear to the jacket; in very good condition. The author inscribing to Robert S. Greene (1922 - 2013) writer, New Orleans jazz musician, documentarian, historian and long an enthusiastic visitor to Japan while on his musical tours.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dustjacket. Very Good/Very Good.

Japan: Japan Sake Association Color illustrated pamphlet; 12 pages; approx. 6" x 8" size; includes drink recipes made with Sake: Sakini (Martini made with Sake), Sake Dragon, Sake Cobbler, others; also includes recipes for cooking with Sake: Sake chip dip, Crab-Sake Soup, others; slight edge, tips wear to paper wraps, overall, very good condition.. Very Good.

United Kingdom, 1952. A mailing card with this statement and signature; sent airmail to Mr. henry Moydom Riverhead Long Island, with cancelled U.K. stamping; approx. 3 1/2" x 5 1/2" postcard format; light wear; very good condition; so far as we can tell, this ship did not sink (at that time anyway).. Very Good.

Rome Italy, 1984. Carmelo Samona (1926 -1990) Sicilian-born writer and educator, winner of the Strega prize for his 1978 novel Brothers (Fratelli); dated Roma 15 Feb. 1984; written on one side of plain paper and concerning his book "Il Custode"; text in Italian, the gist of the letter asking about reception of a copy of the book and publication hopes; Samona may have been hoping that the addressee, Frances Keene (1914-1997) writer, translator - would help with that work on his book; with the original stamp-cancelled mailing envelope; some wear and rubbing to mailer, letter with old fold lines; very good condition. . Very Good.

Chase & Sanborn (16) pages; color illustrated covers and interior back cover advertisement for Chase & Sanborn's 'Seal Brand' coffees and teas; With a one-page history of some of the songs contained herein; The Star Spangled Banner, America, The Battle Cry of Freedom, Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean, Dixie, The Battle Hymn of the Republic, Hail Columbia, and somewhat lesser known tunes, all with musical notation: Tenting on the Old Camp Ground, Flag of the Free, Red White and Blue; about 4 ¾" x 7 ¼" size pamphlet; original printed paper wrap covers; some edge, tips wear, dustiness; very good condition. . Soft Cover. Good.

Paris: Calman-Levy, 1905. 205 pages; with frontispiece and other illustrations in the text; George Sand, pseud. of Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin (1804-1876) French novelist and memoirist; French text; with the illustrated bookplate of M & D. McBurney on the front endpaper, signed and dated in the plate by ex-libris designer W.F. Hopson 1913; previous owner name of Dorothy Moran Nov. 1910 on endpaper; approx.. 4 ¾" x 7 ¼" size; bound in marbled-paper covered boards, red leather spine and corners, gilt spine titles and ornaments, boards gilt ruled, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, old green silk ribbon page-marker; some wear and rubbing to binding, esp. along spine edges; good condition.. Later Edition. Leather. Good.

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. x + 496 pages; signed by the author on the half-title page; black and white illustrated throughout; with useful notes, bibliography, index, filmography; "...the dream city of the movies - created by more than a century of films...may hold the secret to the glamour of its real counterpart...a new way to see not only America's greatest metropolis, but also cities the world over..." (from the jacket information); hardcover in illustrated jacket; light tips, edge-wear; small pushed-in area to the cloth spine and in jacket spine, unobtrusive; in very good condition.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1951. 301 pages. "First Edition" stated on copyright page. William Saroyan (1908-1981), Armenian-American author. Previous owner name on front endpaper. Approx. 6" x 8 5/8" size; illustrated dustjacket over hardcover cloth binding. Some edge, tips wear to jacket, back top edge and tips chipped; dj split down spine edge; volume in very good condition.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

New York: Howard Frisch, 1963. 144 pages; with a friendly inscription given in the year of publication on the front endpaper by the publisher, Howard Frisch; black and white drawings by Victor J. Dowling and with illustrations from the career of Jimmy Savo (1895 - 1960) American Vaudeville, Broadway, nightclub, film and television performer, comedian, juggler, and mime artist; introduction by George Freedley; the text closes with a poem on Savo by e.e. cummings; (from the jacket): "...What may surprise is the artistry with which he revives a New York in which goats still wandered on the streets, and young boys banded together in now-forgotten street games...a classic of modern New York in the making..."; some wear and rubbing to dustjacket; in very good condition. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Victor J. Dowling.

Innsbruck: Negozio Wagner, 1823. 32 pages of text; printed in German & Italian language, side-by-side columns; followed by 28 llustrated plates of statues of royalty, preceded by one un-numbered small circular portrait of Gregory Loeffler; the plates in black and white and engraved by Eichler after Schedler; Clodwig; Philip I, Rudolph I, Albrecht II; Theodoric; Enrst Duke of Austria; Theobert, Duke of Burgougne; King Arthur of Britain; Sigismond; Maria, Duchess of Milano; Margarita of Austria; Climburgis, Carl, Duke of Burgougne; Philip of Bourg., Johanna; Ferdinand V; Kunigunde; Eleonora; Maria of Bourg.; Elisabeth; Gottfried of Bouillon; Alberto I; Friedrich IV; Leopold III; Rudolf IV; Leopold IV: Friedrich III (IV); Alberto IV; collated complete; large format 11 1/4" x 18 1/2" size; bound in serviceable 20th century plain black pebbled cloth; some foxing and spotting to text, the plates generally clean; light wear to covers; very good condition; an OCLC search at time of cataloging… Read More

Schenectady, N.Y.: Charles Baum, 1909. divided back postcard; used, with 1909 cancellation; light edge, tips wear, very good condition.. Very Good.

Chicago, Illinois: L. Schick, 1891. Folding frontispiece plan of the inner city + 510 pages + (1) city plan showing the burned district of the Chicago Fire + (1) blank + 48 pages concerning the Suburban Stations, ports, cable rates, growth statistics, street railways & other city data + (4) page Index + lx pages of city advertisements, often illustrated and printed on yellow-tinted paper + (7) pages of Addresses for Purchasers, Physicians, Foreign Consuls. Final free endpaper with chart of Railroad Ticket Offices, Passenger and Freight Depots; attached at back endpaper is a "Rand, McNally & Co.'s Map of Chicago. No. 3 1891" - 22 1/2" x 30 1/2" approx. size, printed in colors; the reverse is a slightly smaller Rand McNally New City Limits Map of Chicago 1891 (with printed copyright date of 1889). Illustrated throughout in black and white, with some of these double-folds; there are additional illustrations of city architecture & environs printed on heavier paper stock, made from photographs. A thorough… Read More

Munchen: Friedrich Bruckmann Photograph of portrait of Schiller; Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805) German dramatist, poet, historian, closely associated with Goethe; part of Bruckmann's Portrat-Kollektion; no date, circa 19th c. albumen; some wear to tips & edges, dustiness; good condition.. Good.

Wien: Kunstverlag Anton Schroll & Co., 1920. 143 pages of text + 3 pgs musical piece 'Stucke des Bidermann'schen Automaten-Spinetts + section of gravure plate pages, with hundreds of well-illustrated ancient musical instruments of all types illustrated, cataloged, explained and identified as to makers and use; text in German throughout; an overview of the subject by the Austrian polymath Julius Schlosser (1866-1938) historian and writer, "...Influential scholar and leader of the so-called (second) Vienna School of art history; successor to Max Dvoràk at the University of Vienna...Schlosser is considered one of the giants of the discipline of art history in the twentieth century. Today, his best-known work is his survey of the entire corpus of western writing on art, from antiquity to modern times...The second half of Schlosser's life was devoted to the study of Lorenzo Ghiberti, whose influence Schlosser had come to appreciate through the study of primary texts...he was… Read More

New Haven: Zamsky Studios, 1933. Black and white photograph, with identified images of the class and faculty of 1933; 11" x 14" size; some darkening; slight edgewear; good condition.. Good.

Cleveland: McSweeney Auto School, 1932. Signed by the president and superintendent of the school, and dated 13 March 1932; with the gold, ribboned seal of the school; nice black and white vignette at top of farm tractor, truck and auto ;11" x 14" size; some darkening; slight wear; overall, very good condition.. Very Good.

New York, New York: David A. Schorsch Incorporated, 1989. 189 pages; variously tone-printed & black and white illustrated throughout, with a useful index. Front endpaper with a handwritten presentation in ink from the author in the year of publication, "for Mary Abbott with best personal regards June 9, 1989 Dave Schorsch" with his signature drawn on a chest of drawers, enclosed in a wavy line. Content with sections of photographs on the photographer's Shaker, industrial, nature and interior photography; most are reproduced here full-page, with very good detail. Approx. 9" x 12" size, illustrated polished paper covers. Some edge, tips wear, creasing to the binding; page edges darkened a little; in good condition. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Good.

711 Fifth Avenue, New York 22, N.Y.: Associated American Artists Great, exciting circus image, circling Big Top horses, balancing and riding acrobats, clown running into the ring; Pencil signed in the lower right corner by the artist; 11" height x 14" width image size, overall size with borders 16" x 12", tipped on two sides two old matte, easily removed;George(s) Schreiber (B. Belgium 1904-1977 NYC); painter, teacher, lithographer, writer, WPA artist; extensively exhibited and prized, worked in a regionalist style in the 1930s-40s; sold cartoons and drawings to the NY newspapers; was a war correspondent and poster designer in WWII. illustrated childrens' books, national magazines, works hung in MMA, BM, Swope Art GAl, Mus. of City of NY, many more.(WWW in American Art 1999); very clean, accompanied cardstock mount, probably as bought from the AAA, with the title card, giving more background on the artist and his activity; very good condition, a terrific, energized lithograph… Read More

Halae Magdeburgicae: Apud J. Christophorum Krebsium, 1725. 184 pages; (title continued) "...Et Viri Celeberrimi Bvrcard. Gotthelf. Strvvii Primum Editis Recensvit Brevemqve De Vita Et Scriptis B. Schvbarti Narrationem Praemisit D.E.D."; a couple of woodcut paragraph initial letters and an illustrated ornament in text; in Latin with insertion of interpretative sections of German text; a work regarding knightly tournaments and jousting; approx. 8 1/4" x 7" (21 x 17.5 cm) size; with the bookplate of Bibliotheca Stillfridiana bookplate, Rudolf von Stillfried-Rattonitz Rudolf, Graf von Stillfried (1804-1882) noted German author, especially concerning history and heraldry; bound in contemporary polished-paper covered boards, vellum spine and corners; handwritten spine title; all edges tinted dark green; covers worn, rubbed, spine vellum cracked over the cords, soiling; text block clean and in very good condition, in a good binding.. Later Edition. Vellum. Good.