Search Results: Titles starting with A from Robin Bledsoe, Bookseller

New York; Newark, DE: Parke-Bernet Galleries; Oak Knoll Books, 1986. First editions. Various. Very good. Variously paged and illustrated. (1) The A. Edward Newton Collection Collected by the Late A. Edward Newton. Prospectus for the 1941 auction, with an introduction by Arthur Swann. 22p, 2 pls. Hardcover (boards lightly faded). (2) A Edward Newton: A Collection of His Works. Oak Knoll Books Catalogue 8. N.d. 195 items, 1 ill. Paperbound. (3) A Edward Newton; A Collection of His Works. Oak Knoll Books Catalogue 86. 678 items + 46 ills. N.d. [1986]. Paperbound. Opening lower corners, and some lower margins at the end, are lightly damprippled and unstuck. Address label removed. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.

Devonport, UK: A.H. Swiss, 1892. No stated edition. Pictorial boards (worn). Good. Folding engraved color map, ca. 40 x 32 inches when opened. Mounted on linen within covers. Splits at the many of the fold creases are professionally mended and stablilized. At a scale of one-half inch to one mile, this map shows the location of the meets of the Badworth, Barlow, Blankney, Brocklesby, Burton, Earl Fitzwilliam's, Viscount Galway's, Rufford, and Southwold Hounds. Main roads, crossroads, railways, railways in progress, rivers, marshes, towns, country estates, prominent buildings, etc., are all plainly detailed. Sold as is, with repairs. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.

London: British Museum Press, 2000. First edition. Soft cover. Very good. 256p, 229 ills. (136 in color). Catalogue of the pioneering exhibition of watercolors, drawings, and other works by amateur British artists of all kinds--nobility, young ladies, miniaturists, antiquarians, soldiers, tourists, etc. Most of the works are published here for the first time.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1950. Book club edition. Hardcover (boards). Very good (edges shelf-rubbed)/very good. Salter, George. 307p, no ills. Unclipped jacket (price $2.75). Covers printed in blue, red, and white. Jacket (and presumably cover) design by George Salter. Novel about the boy Peter, who, as he lies unconscious following an accident, dreams that he becomes a cat.  A wise tabby named Jennie befriends him and teaches him much about behaving like a cat ("when in doubt, wash") and other life lessons.  Another of Gallico's memorable, heart-warming stories. An early Christian Herald's Family Bookshelf Selection, as this book club began only in 1949.  Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.

San Diego: Museum of Photographic Arts, 1998. First edition. Soft cover (French folds). Very good (bookshop price sticker on back cover). Morell, Abelardo. 60p, many large plates. Morell's felt-tip signature on the half-title page looks original to me, but it is possibly a very good reproduction. Short statement by Morell. Traveling exhibition catalogue showing the range of Morell's memorable photography--upside-down camera obscura images, multiple exposures, museum interiors and "the secrets of rooms," close-up book details, etc. Photo is cropped at bottom, cutting off the museum's name.

London: Canale, 1957. Limited edition. Hardcover (boards, designed by Roberts). Good (covers smudged, as often). Roberts, William. 16p + 12 black-and-white pls., including several relating to World War I. No d.j., as issued? One of 300 copies, unnumbered. Text by Roberts, "William Roberts and Vorticism's Year," on his role in the development of English abstract art. Chronology for 1895-1920. Can be sent outside the U.S. for less than the default shipping/handling rate.

Mount Vernon, NY: William Edwin Rudge, 1929. Facsimile reprint of the first edition of 1787. Hardcover (imitation leather, gilt-stamped). Fine/fine. Bunbury, H.; Ross, Gordon. xx, 38p + 12 pls. by Bunbury and 2 additional pls. by Gordon Ross, 1 in color and signed in pencil. One of 100 deluxe copies (unnumbered; out of series). Presentation copy from artist Owen Culbertson to Churchill Newcomb, 1929. With Culbertson's bookplate. Laid in: 2 handwritten notes from Culbertson to Newcomb, and a typed list of an exhibition of Culbertson's collection of sporting art. In original plain jacket and slipcase. A fine-press reprint of this classic of equestrian humor, with an introduction by Culbertson. Equestrian mishaps and accidents are much the same today, and a close reading also reveals a good deal about British horsemanship of ca. 1800. (For this and other mock horsemanship manuals, see Monica Mattfeld's recent book Becoming Centaur: Eighteenth-Century Masculinity and English Horsemanship.) A beautiful… Read More

London: George Eyre and Andrew Strahan [printers], 1805. First edition. Soft cover. Good (neatly reinforced with paper tape). Pp. [125]-131, headed by British coat of arms; a few charts. Good paperbound, neatly reinforced with paper tape. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate. New tax rates for hiring out horses. King George III and the royal family, among others, were exempt. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.

London: Mark Baskett [printer], 1767. First edition. Soft cover. Good (removed from a bound volume, occasional small binding holes). Pp. 527-559, no ills. except British coat of arms. Printed in black letter. The act was passed in several sessions of Parliament from May 19, 1761, to November 11, 1766, in the reign of George III. Covers many subjects, such as turnpike safety, signposts, tolls, required signage on vehicles, road conditions, etc. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.

Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1980. Stated first edition. Hardcover. As new/very good. Burkert, Nancy Ekholm. 165p, many line ills. printed in brown + 10 color plates. Designed by Lance Hidy; typeset in Dante and Centaur by Michael & Winifred Bixler. Jacket is age yellowed, as usual. Eighty poems by Dickinson, sensitively illustrated by Burkert and eloquently placed within Dickinson's life by Langton. A beautiful collaboration between the contributors, who "immersed themselves in Dickinson's poetry, the objects in various collections, and the aura of the poet's home and other sites in Amherst." Photo is a little too pale. A lovely gift for the Dickinson lover in your life!

London: Wyman & Sons [printer], 1901. No stated edition. Unbound card. Very good (slight age soil). Printed in red and black by lithography on card stock.  Ca. 5 1/4 x 3 12 inches. Grants "gratis" admission to a visitor and party of five to The Queen's Stables.  The visitor isn't named; perhaps the ink scrawl reads "Mr" and was to be filled in later.  The back lists prohibitions on visits, including "when the Queen is in Town."  Henry Ewart was Crown Equerry from 1894 to 1910.  The Royal Mews is still a very active arm of Buckingham Palace, providing horses and carriages for royal and state events, and it was a favorite haunt of Queen Elizabeth II. A scarce survival. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.

N.p.: [Fleischmann & Co.], 1900. No stated edition. Unbound sheet. Fair. Ca. 6 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches, printed on card stock. Cut down from a larger size, with loss of frame. Lower left corner is creased, old flyspecks along right edge. Removed from an album (glue traces on back). Brightly colored scene of a salesman delivering packets of compressed Fleischmann yeast to a city grocery store. His delivery van, drawn by a sturdy cob, is emblazoned with gold and red signs for the yeast. A bakery is seen in the distance. The firm's name Fleischmann & Co. dates the ad to between 1881 and 1905. Perhaps originally a store display card? Imperfect but if framed would make a ccolorful and appealing display piece. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate. Sold as is.

[Milwaukee?]: Geo. C. Stevens, 1874. No stated edition. Unbound sheet. Good. One sheet folded to make 4 pages. Creased from old folding. Testimonials page stained and soiled at creases. Folded, 8 ½ x 11 inches. Two tiny closed marginal tears. Overall very good, crisp, clean. Bald Chief and Clay Pilot were trotting stallions owned by Geo. C. Stevens of Wauwatosa Stock Farms, near Milwaukee. Page 1 offers Bald Chief with his 8-generation pedigree and a photo-engraved portrait of his son Commodore. Page 2 is blank. Page 3 describes Bald Chief and also Clay Pilot, with his 8-generation pedigree. Page 4 prints testimonials as to the quality of George Stevens's horses, including a long one from E.H. Brodhead of the First National Bank, Milwaukee. Second photo shows the top half of the testimonials page. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.

Cincinnati: Henderson-Achert Lith. Co, 1900. No stated edition. Unbound card. Good (lightly wrinkled on left side). Chromolithographed lightweight card stock, ca. 5 1/2 x 3 inches. The shoulder sore seems to have been lightly scraped--for maximum painful effect? Perhaps a proof, as there is no text on the back although the front directs the user to turn the card "over." Two work horses in conversation. The healthy monocled one advises his mate to "keep a stiff upper lip and get one of McClain's 'Success' sweat collars. They will make any horse laugh." The Henderson-Achert printing firm was especially known for its advertising lithography for breweries. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.

New York: Derrydale Press, 1930. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very good (edges lightly shelfworn). Brown, Paul. 191p, 60 ills. by Brown, 70 photos. Erratum slip tipped in at second half-title page. Title page printed in red and black. One of 850 copies (the regular edition). Without the jacket. Bookplate of Frederic C.Thomas. Ink presentation on half-title page: "To Roberta and Freddie--To the stables. Very sincerely--Paul Brown '31," below a large ink drawing of a rider leading a steeplechaser. From the rider's disgruntled look, they have fallen and are headed back "to the stables." Traces of pencil under-drawing. "History of the Grand National steeplechase [with] special emphasis on the design of the course as well as the 1928, 1929 and 1930 races, which Brown had witnessed" (Biscotti, Paul Brown). The first book that Brown both wrote and illustrated--and what a debut. Thomas, a well-known jump rider, was a three-time winner of the Meadow Brook Hunt Cup (1924, 1925, 1933). Large and heavy;… Read More

Wentorf, Germany: Cadmos, 1996. First edition. Hardcover (printed boards, lightly shelfsoiled). Very good. 78p, many line ills. and color photos. No d.j., as issued. In German. Photo is a little cropped. Principles of dressage and groundwork for the ambitious amateur or recreational rider, followed by instructions for flying changes, work between the pillars, piaffe, passage, and airs above the ground. Interwoven with historical information and pictures. At the time of cataloguing, this copy is the only one available in the US. There is no English edition.

Boston: Institute of Contemporary Art, 1978. First edition. Stapled soft cover. Fair. 16p, 14 large ills. Covers soiled; damp rippled throughout but not stained. Exhibition of Held's very large geometric drawings and acrylics--illusionistic and ambiguous. Scarce in any condition. Can be sent outside the US for less than the deault shipping rate.

Buenos Aires: Tallieres Graficos "San Pablo, 1955. Later printing. Soft cover. Fair. 56p, many photos (rather grainy) Foxed. Pictorial visitor's guide to this regional museum in Lujan, Argentina. Views of the rooms and grounds, furniture, decorative arts, paintings, etc. With small photos and short captions of ca. 40 carriages and wagons in the collection. In Spanish. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.

Bordeaux: Librairie Joseph Vincent, 1900. First edition. Soft cover. Fair (heavily foxed, small chip out of front cover). 16p (self wrs.), color ills. on covers and each page. Bookseller's catalogue of French children's picture books illustrated by Mars, Boutet de Monvel, Crafty, and Caran d'Ache, all published by Plon. Each page reproduces a page from one of the books. Ca. 4 x 6 inches. Can be sent outside the U.S. for less than the default shipping rate. A scarce survival.

New York: Princeton Architectural Press for New York Chapter/American Institute of Architects, 1987. First edition. Soft cover. Very good. Rodchenko, Alexander. [32]p, many black-and-and white ills. Exhibition catalogue. Texts by Bowlt, Alexander Lavrentjev, and Vieri Quilici on Rodchenko's photographs and graphic design, architectural language, and constructivist theory. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.