Rare books from Certain Books, ABAA

Original work for these pieces, drawn n black and white ink and pencil corrections & titled below each, for instance, on "Manhattan Silhouette", the artist has instructed "...Round off Moon make it nice and round (underlined)..."; evidently, the artist asking his printers and collaborators for help on the piece; all three drawings on one; 16" x 20" approximate size, done on heavy white cardstock; not signed; some light wear to paper edges; very good condition and interesting work-in-progress material for this American pop artist.. Very Good. Illus. by Charles Fazzino.

Original work for this piece, suitably emphasizing Godzilla; drawn n black and white ink with grey coloring details; 2 3/4" x 21 3/4" approximate size, done on heavy white cardstock; title in pencil on back, perhaps in the artists' hand; not signed; some light wear to paper edges; very good condition and interesting work-in-progress material for this American pop artist.. Very Good. Illus. by Charles Fazzino.

Original work for this colorful Osaka City Japan scene by Fazzino, signed by him lower left; 32" x 26 3/4" approximate size, done on heavy white cardstock; with a blank margin to left of piece; with applied faux gemstone stars, circles, glitter; (with) a print of the trial piece in black and white, with some blue coloring, with the artist's pencil instructions and title below, done on a 13 1/2" x 10 1/4" sheet; light wear to paper edges; some soiling to blank margin on large piece, (from paint colors); both pieces in very good condition and interesting work-in-progress material for this American pop artist.. Signed by Illustrator. Very Good. Illus. by Charles Fazzino.

Original work for this piece, drawn n black and white ink with grey coloring details; 3 7/8" x 21 7/8" approximate size, done on heavy white cardstock; title in pencil on back, perhaps in the artists' hand; not signed; some light wear to paper edges; very good condition and interesting work-in-progress material for this American pop artist.. Very Good. Illus. by Charles Fazzino.

New York: Sanborn Map Company, 1909. List of Maps collated complete; all are hand colored; 11 double page maps, approximately 21" x 25" size opened; Locations include all of the town and surrounds of Riverhead, Long Island, listing businesses, fire houses, water facilities, public utilities, Suffolk County Agricultural Society Fair Grounds with Race Track, Peconic River and all the businesses at the riverside in this time: Tower Roller Mill, C. Hallet's Sons Flour Mill & Electric Light Plant, Auxiliary Plant, Carriage Repository, Lumber & Construction businesses, boat & carpenter shops, American Ice Company, Frank H. Hill & Bro. Monument Works, county buildings-court house complex & jail, Long Island House, Banks, Public Library, tailor, jewelry, drug, tobacco & cigarette retailers, horse boarding & livery stables, S. Terry Hudson Agricultural Implement Works, Riverhead Coal Co., Shinnecock Distributing Co., Beer Agents & Soda Water Bottlers, railroads-… Read More

Original work for this piece, drawn n black and white ink with grey coloring details; 3 1/4" x 22" approximate size, done on heavy white cardstock; title in pencil on back, perhaps in the artists' hand; not signed; some light wear to paper edges; old tape on back which is holding the piece's sections together; with a small color addition "Grease" theater sign, tipped-on in characteristic Fazzino fashion; very good condition and interesting work-in-progress material for this American pop artist.. Very Good. Illus. by Charles Fazzino.

Lugduni Batavorum: Hackium, Boutesteyn, Vivie, Vander AA, & Lucthmans, 1696. Two volumes bound in one of this first collected edition of Giraldi's works; (20) + 772 + (26) + 928 + (30) pages Index Rerum et Verborum + (1) page Catalogus Amicorum Lilii, Quorum Meminit in epistola Direptionis Urbanae...; paginated in two columns, except for the 'Varia' section; collated complete; text printed double-column; engraved illustrated frontispiece + 7 full page and 2 double-page plates, beautifully accomplished by Avele after Botard, superb engravers' work, with full and lively compositions, realistically posed and drawn with action; title page with publishers' woodcut ornament and printed in red and black; the text with title and endpiece ornamentation and initial ornamentation as well, nicely printed and with good wide margins; 11th ed. Britannica cites Giraldi, Giglio Gregorio (Lilius Gregorius Gyraldus) 1470-1552 Italian scholar and poet, born at Ferrara, "...where he early… Read More

El Paso Texas: Not Published, 1921. The collection includes over 150 dated and signed letters written to (and a few items from) Dr. Lucinda DeLeftwich Templin (1888-1969) author, historian & collector, "...one of El Paso's best-loved and most distinguished educators - in 1916 she took her undergraduate and Master's at U. of Missouri and became Dean of Lindenwood College in St. Charles, MO., did doctoral work at Harvard and Columbia and took over as principal at the Radford School in 1927 (at the time, called El Paso School for Girls); Dr. Templin interested Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Radford of Webster Grove, Mo., in the school and the Radfords paid off the mortgage, provided an endowment fund that insured the institution's stability and the name of the school was changed in honor of these benefactors. During Dr. Templin's administration, Radford School grew to a nationally accredited school for girls in the Southwest and when she retired in 1967, the 22-acre campus had more than… Read More

European Origin: Not Published, 1866. Album of materials gathered by John Henry Cornell (1828-1894) American musical author, organist and composer, "...a solidly trained composer of church-music, part-songs and songs...an erudite and methodical student of theory, and an able author and translator..." (Grove); educated in New York, England and Germany, in 1866 he traveled once again to Europe, visiting historic sites and his musical peers, collecting photographs, autographic materials and ephemera along the way, that are preserved here; Approximately 100 pages, with items usually tipped-on to one side only; including photographs of composers, usually standard carte-de-visite size, of fellow musicians & others including: 3 Photos (on the same page) of musicians Carl Reinecke (1824 - 1910), Danish composer; Ferdinand David (1810-1873) German virtuoso violinist and composer; Alexander Dreyschock (1818-1869) Czech pianist and composer; trombone virtuoso Moritz Nabich (2, one with his… Read More

Cassel: Verlag Von Theodor Fischer, 1869. cviii + 1512 + cccxxv (index) pages; five parts bound in 4, the fifth part being "Nachtrage und Berichtegungen zur Ornithologie Nordost-Afrika's von M. Th. von Heuglin Mit Betragen von Dr. O. Finsch" (Cassel, also Fisher, 1871); the set produced over time, 1869 - 1875; With folding colored map & 51 plates, 50 in color: 40 bird plates & 10 plates of eggs and 1 uncolored plate, collated complete; German text; Being the results of the extensive discoveries in this region of Martin Theodor von Heuglin (1824 -1876) German explorer and ornithologist, who spent most of his life intrepidly traveling and making scientific discoveries in the field of African natural history and other areas; while he held the position of Austrian consul at Khartoum, "...he travelled in Abyssinia and Kordofan, making a valuable collection of natural history specimens...It is principally by his zoological, and more especially his ornithological, labours that… Read More

Farmingdale, Nassau Co., L.I., N.Y.: Not Published, 1913. Archive consists of 8 documents, including: Aug. 7 1913 typed letter signed on State of NY Executive Chamber letterhead to Edward H.L. Smith, St. James, L.I. "...establishment of the New York State School of Agriculture on Long Island is a work of which New York State should be justly proud...it affords me great pleasure to appoint you as a Trustee...Very sincerely your friend, (signed in pen) Wm. Sulzer" (William Sulzer (1863 - 1941) Governor of NY at the time, first and only NY governor to be impeached) - this with the original mailing envelope; August 19, 1913 on printed New York State School of Agriculture on Long Island letterhead, TL signed by the board member from Brooklyn, Franklin H. Hooper, inquiring about the appointment of Smith and further explaining that Smith was to take the place of Ezra A. Tuttle of Eastport and asking him of all this directly "...because of the complicated situation which exists at present in… Read More

Denmark: Various, 1935. 'Soya' (Carl Erik Martin Soya) (1896 - 1983) Danish author, epicure, playwright and social-satire moralist. "…Soya's works are a mixture of primitiveness with refinement, uncertainty & intransigence with forbearance, courage with compassion… A Rabelais-like character comedian and fabulant who is constantly haunted by a misanthropy akin to Guy de Maupassant… His countless publications extend into a majority of genres and forms: newspaper journalism, reviews, poetry, children's books, school plays, librettos, aphorisms, pamphlets… Among numerous honors received were the Holberg Medal in 1947, Henrik Pontoppidan Memorial Fund 1949, Gyldendals Herman Bang scholarship, 1950 Oehlenschlæger scholarship in 1961, Johs. Ewald scholarship in 1968, and the Danish Academy's highest award in 1975..." (see the third edition of the Danish biographical dictionary, published 1979-84) The collection was formed due to the close and… Read More

France: Not Published, 1949. These very personal letters & ephemeral items were written to friends of the Strands, William Golden & Cipe Pineles and after Golden's death, to Cipe & her son Tom. The friendship extended back to their mutual participation in the Group Theater in New York in the 1930s. After WWII Strand and his wife Hazel (Kingsbury) took up residence in Orgeval France and traveled extensively, often in relation to their photographic projects. Background: Cipe Pineles (1908 - 1991) Austrian-born American graphic designer & art director; William Golden (1911 - 1959) American graphic designer, especially noted for his work at CBS. Paul Strand (1890 -1976) American photo-artist; Strand and his fellow-photographer wife Hazel (Kingsbury) took up residence in Orgeval France, after moving to Europe in 1950, "driven into self-exile, Strand later would suggest, by the repressive anti-Communist climate in America" (John B. Rohrbach in the ANB) Group includes: Aug. 29 1949, autograph letter signed,… Read More

Paris, France.: Ernest Flammarion, Editeur, 1912. 636 pages. Very warmly inscribed and signed on the half-title page, "A mon excellent camarade et bien aimable ami G. Claus souvenir affectieux H. Babinski." With a color portrait frontispiece of the author by Eugene Cadel. French text throughout and with a useful index. This is the second edition revised & greatly expanded of Babinski's classic culinary work; according to Cagle (57a in 'A Matter of Taste') the first edition was 314 pages. Text with culinary history, menus, recipes and remarks on best preparation methods and variations. Henri Joseph Severin Babinski (1855 - 1931) French-Polish mining engineer, author & gourmand, was the older brother of Joseph Babinski (1857 - 1932) an honored clinical neurologist and prolific medical author. Henri Babinski's career in mining sent him around the world, during which he became interested in the cuisines of various cultures and their eating habits. After his career, he returned to Paris where he supported… Read More

New York, NY Approx. 12" x 16" size; horizontal format; signed "Abbott 1970s" on the reverse. Original artwork by Mary Lee Abbott (1921 - 2019) "...a noted American painter and art teacher who was one of the few women artists in the Abstract Expressionist movement of the 1940s and '50s...(her works) showed at the Museum of Modern Art, in exhibitions such as the Stable Gallery Annuals and Women of Abstract Expressionism, and at the Tanager, Kootz, Tibor de Nagy, and Robert Keene galleries…" (2019 Christine Sampson in the East Hampton Star) A little surface-only creasing; in very good condition.. Art. Not Bound. Very Good. Illus. by Mary Lee Abbott.