Search Results: Titles starting with S from Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB

New York: Pellegrini & Cudahy, [1951]/ First U.S. edition. Cloth. Octavo. Near fine in very good jacket. Jacket has a little edgewear and one short tear.

[ Camden, New Jersey: Florence V. Cannon, n.d., 1910s. ] Mostly undated, though some of the cards have a copyright date of 1910. The present album may have been used in Florence V. Cannon's print shop to display examples of her work to customers or may have been given by her to another seller, as Cannon did sell her work through other retailers, including major companies like Milton Bradley. Brown paper self-wrappers bound with cord. 10 x 13. With eighty-two hand-colored, mounted sample greeting cards, postcards, bridge tally cards, place cards, etc. by Florence V. Cannon. Many of the cards are priced in pencil and some have limitations noted ("25 doz," "100 doz"). Includes a set of Christmas cards designed by Cannon for the Boy Scouts. Some soiling. Some empty spots where cards were removed (or have fallen out), including two fully blank pages. The cards themselves are clean and bright. With two items laid in: a four-page brochure from the Milton Bradley Co. offering twelve "Motto Cards for… Read More

London: Harvill Press, [1997] First edition in English. Boards. Octavo. Fine in fine d.j.

London: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1930 Red cloth with front cover design stamped in blind in an all-over design by Bearsley, spine stamped in gilt. Quarto. Light shelfwear. Near fine in dust jacket. The jacket is browned at the spine, and there is a tear along the front hinge, rendering it in two pieces, but the image of the Beardsley design on the front cover is bright and attractive. A few short tears on the jacket otherwise.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1882 First edition in English. Translated by Anthony Trollope's son. Original brown cloth, decoratively stamped in blue and gilt. Two volumes, twelvemo. Light shelfwear, back hinge of Volume II starting to crack, bookplates neatly removed from each volume. A very good, bright set. Susanne Curchod Necker (1739-1794) was the wife of Swiss financier Jacques Necker. In her youth she was close to Edward Gibbon, who wanted to marry her, but his father opposed the match. She maintained a celebrated Paris salon, which was frequented by many eminent authors, including Diderot, D'Alembert, Morelet, Buffon, Marmontel, and Chastelux. She was the mother of Madame de Staël.

[Las Vegas:]: Rainmaker Editions, [2003] One of 399 copies printed letter-press at the Red Butte Press on the University of Utah. Signed by the author, artist and designer. . Bound by Daniel Kelm in Japanese Kyosei-shi handmade paper over boards with printed paper label, in a silk covered slipcase. Four-color woodcuts by Robert Kleinschmidt. As new.

Los Angeles: The Plantin Press, 1976 One of 350 copies printed at the Plantin Press. Numbered and signed in ink on the colophon by the translator. The Nuremberg Chronicle was first printed in 1493 by Anton Koberger. Buff cloth stamped decoratively in gilt with a printed spine label. Binding designed by Lillian Marks and executed by Earle Gray. . Quarto. Title page printed in black and red. Five facsimile engravings from The Nuremberg Chronicle. Red initial letters. A fine copy. A presentation copy from the translator inscribed to His Excellency Bishop Thaddeus Shubsda, the first bishop of Polish heritage in California. In the preface, Aleksander Janta states, "The monumental compilation of the contemporary state of knowledge and of the state of ideas about the world represented by The Nuremberg Chronicle gives us a late medieval reflection of western European knowledge about the the Jagiellonian Commonwealth still appearing for the most part as the legendary Samarta... "The translator of the Latin… Read More

[Kyoto: n.d., ca. 1890] This unique draper's showroom catalogue was compiled during the Meiji period (1868 – 1912) to display kimono and obi fabrics. These silks are beautifully decorated in classic Japanese patterns including florals and leaves, geometric designs, and images of birds, dragons, and clouds. Heavy paper stock album with woven silk overlay to covers. Silk patterned with Noh mask motif in red, black, brown, and gold. Chipped gilt label with manuscript title in black. . 9 x 6 in. . With seventy-three mounted silk swatches, including richly embroidered and woven designs (pictorial, geometric, and patterned) in a variety of colors (red, green, blue, silver, and gold). Some of the swatches were dyed using the nagaita ch gata (rice paste resist dyeing) technique. Swatches vary in shape and size from 2 x 1 in. to 9 x 6 in. Some rubbing and wear to covers and slight foxing to a couple leaves. The swatches themselves are clean and bright. Very good. The Meiji period brought rapid globalization… Read More

New York: Alpine Fine Arts Collection, Ltd., [1983] First edition. Cloth. Quarto. With 75 mounted color illustrations and numerous black and white illustrations. A little soiling to front cover near gutter. Very good+ in fine d.j.

London: Macmillan, 1896 Cloth. Octavo. Front joint cracking, light shelfwear. A very good, clean copy.

Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, [1999] First edition. Cloth. Folio. With 50 color and 74 black and white illustrations. Fine in fine d.j.

[n.p., Mexico City: El taller de Luis López-Loza, 1976] One of thirty copies signed and numbered by the artist. . Accordion bound in yellow paper boards titled in black and printed with an illustration of the Sarcophagus of Sennedjem. . 5 x 9 in. Ten panels, unfolding to about 50 in. Six etchings with aquatint and carborundum print accents. Letterpress printed on Arches paper. Pencil gift inscription by the author ("Para Javier Friedlander [?] con todo cariño, de Luis López"), dated January 1977, to preliminary blank. Some offsetting from etchings. A near-fine copy. The etchings capture different perspectives on the Sarcophagus of Sennedjem, which was found in the necropolis of Deir el-Medina on the West Bank at Luxor in 1886. The sarcophagus itself features scenes from the Book of the Dead. Luis López Loza's (b. 1939) designs recall bones and organs, rendered abstractly, as if the viewer were looking through the lid of the sarcophagus to the body inside.

New York: New Viewpoints, 1973 Cloth. Octavo. Near fine in very good dust jacket with one short tear.

Los Angeles: The Plantin Press, 1980 First edition. One of 350 copies. This copy signed by the author. Quarter burgundy cloth over marbled boards, gilt brown paper spine label. Large octavo. Corners are lightly rubbed. Previous owners' names in pencil on front free endpaper. A near fine copy without the slipcase Laid are the original prospectus and a typed letter, signed by the author dated 9th March, 1981. Lillian Marks asks Jacob Chernofsky, editor of The Antiquarian Bookman, to review the book.

[Laguna Beach, California: Laguna Verde Imprenta, 1975] One of about fifty copies printed. The first book of Ward Ritchie's Laguna Verde Imprenta, printed in memory of Saul Marks, who died in November, 1974, for Jacob Zeitlin, who also contributed the Gill wood engraving. Red Cockerell wrappers, stitched at spine, printed paper label on front cover. . Octavo. Woodcut illustration from an Eric Gill design on title-page, woodcut printer's device on colophon. Some wear to edges of wrappers. Correction made in blue ink, probably by Ritchie, to a printing error (correcting "Lilliam" to "Lillian"). With a brief tribute to Saul Marks by Wallace Nethery laid in. A near-fine copy. The laid-in tribute is one of 350 copies printed at the Castle Press for presentation by the Friends of the USC Libraries at the Saul Marks Memorial Concert, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, June 6, 1975.

London: Printed by Dryden Leach for T. Davies, 1764 First English edition. Lesuire's original edition was published in 1760. Half morocco over marbled boards with gilt-lettered and gilt-ruled spine. Marbled edges. Small octavo. Copper engraved frontispiece and three additional copper engravings. Binding extremities rubbed with some wear and minor chipping to tail of spine and upper corner of front board. Front hinge slightly cracked. Some light offsetting, slight toning, and minor foxing. Pencil annotation on verso of front flyleaf. Armorial bookplate on front pastedown. A very good copy. Robert Martin Lesuire (1737-1815) was a French author, whose first novel Les Sauvages d'Europe, was a satire of British life. The novel's two young protagonists encounter a variety of troubles and mishaps while in England and decide that the British are somewhere between man and beast after they witness riots, hangings, corruption, and endure extreme Francophobia and unpalatable food.

Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1845 First edition. Brown cloth stamped and ruled in blind. Spine gilt lettered. Small octavo. Cloth discolored. Spine faded. Binding extremities rubbed and slightly frayed. Hinges starting. Intermittent foxing. A good copy. Lydia Huntley Sigourney (1791-1865) was a poet and educator. In addition to writing, she encouraged powerful members of society to act beneficially on the behalf of slaves, Native Americans, the mentally ill, and others. She married Charles Sigourney in 1819 and began anonymously publishing her work because her husband feared his reputation would be tarnished if it were discovered that his wife was a poet. Some of Sigourney's other works include Traits of the Aborigines of America (1822) and Zinzendorff and Other Poems (1833), which focused on the plight of the Indian. Eventually, she published under her own name and became successful. With the publication of Poems (1834), she was hailed as "the female Milton." Sigourney traveled to Europe and… Read More

London: Methuen, [1966] First edition. Boards. Octavo. Fine in lightly soiled d.j. with short tears at head of spine. D.j. very good.

Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, [1967] First edition in English. Cloth. Quarto. With 103 color plates, and additional black and white illustrations. Fine in good dust jacket with a marginal tear on the front cover. Includes photographs and short biographical sketches of 477 artists.

London: Printed for the Author [n.d., ca. 1787] Stated second edition "With very considerable Additions." The first edition, published in 1785 and recorded in ESTC in five copies, has two sets of pagination ending on p. 264 and p. 124, so the present edition is clearly longer. ESTC lists three different "second editions, with very considerable additions" and the same imprint as the copy with similar but not identical collations, which it estimates to have been published in "1790?" It also lists a "third edition with considerable additions," with a dated title-page of 1787. Obviously, if the 1787 date on the title-page of the third edition is correct, the date of the second edition cannot be 1790. ESTC also lists an edition published in 1796. All of these editions are very scarce. Contemporary marbled boards, recently rebacked in calf with gilt-lettered red morocco spine label. Octavo. With second half-title for the second part. Illustrated with twenty-four engraved folding plates, including… Read More