Very good. - The American comedian's autograph signed "Rochester" in purple ink on on 3-1/4 inch high by 2-3/4 card stock clipped from a postcard. The image of a pier is printed in color on the verso. Very good. The African-American comedian and actor Edmund Lincoln Anderson (1905-1977) was known as "Rochester" to early radio and television audiences. After starting his show business career on vaudeville, Anderson went on to play the character of Jack Benny's valet Rochester van Jones, known as "Rochester" on The Jack Benny Program broadcast on NBC radio. He was the first African-American to ... View More...
Ambridge, Pennsylvania: A.M. Byers Company, [circa 1965].. [circa 1965].. Very good. - Quarto, 11 inches high by 8-1/2 inches wide. Softcover, bound in stapled wraps titled with a black & white illustration of the Yale University Hockey Rink with exposed piping on the front cover. The corners of the covers are slightly creased. 32 pages, profusely illustrated throughout. Very good. From the Skating Library of Arthur N. Foxe, with his stamp on the front endpaper. A psychiatrist and criminologist, Dr. Foxe was an avid collector of skating books and even published a skating bibliography.A typed l... View More...
- Small quarto [6-1/2 inches high by 5-1/2 inches wide], soft cover bound in silver & light green striped stiff paper wraps with a printed label on the spine. The fragile paper is lightly chipped along the rear joint. 79 pages deckle-edged pages, including the colophon. Illustrated with color plates by Keith Achepohl. Very good.
Of a limited ediiton of 470 copies, this is number 319.
The book was printed on Wookey Hole paper and the plates were etched and engraved by the artist. View More...
New York: Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., 1980.. 1980.. Very good. - Quarto [9-1/4 inches high by 8-3/4 inches wide], softcover bound in pictorial wrappers. The binding is lightly soiled & bumped & the bottom corner of the front wrap is lightly creased. Unpaginated. Profuse black- and-white illustrations. Near fine.
717 items are catalogued, most of them with an illustration. The catalog includes a list of estimated prices in the rear, and a list of prices realized is laid in. View More...
East Rutherford, NJ: Commerce Graphics Ltd, Inc., 1988.. 1988.. Very good. - Quarto, 10-1/4 inches high by 9 inches wide. Softcovers bound in printed gray wraps. The covers are soiled and creased at the corners. [48] pages, including a one page essay by Cheryl Finley and 62 superbly reproduced illustrations of Berenice Abbott's evocative photographs, including her famous portraits of James Joyce, Edward Hopper, Eugene Atget and Jean Cocteau, as well as her brilliant architectural and abstract photographs. There is a narrow discolored line along the bottom of the first 4 pages, and some minor c... View More...
SUBTERFUGE ISSUE CONTAINING AN INTERVIEW WITH KATHY ACKER - Narrow folio, 15-3/4 inches high by 6 inches wide. Pictorial wraps titled in red with a black & white illustration by Ulrich Tarlatt spanning both the front & back covers. The covers are lightly rubbed with a tiny chip to the middle of the spine. 87 & [1] pages with profuse illustrations throughout. Very good. A special issue subtitled "Subterfuge" of this twice yearly literary periodical with contributions in English and French. Worth noting is an interview with Kathy Acker by Karl Jirgens & Jim Francis, titled "Sense and Senselessne... View More...
(Carmel, CA): The Friends of Photography (1984).. (1984).. Very good. - Quarto [approximately 11 inches high by 9-1/4 inches wide], softcover bound in pictorial white wrappers with an image from an Ansel Adams photograph stamped in blind on the front cover. The binding is very lightly bumped with creasing to the top corner of the front wrap. There is some light soiling & a few small stains to the wraps. There are 2 price- stickers on the rear wrap. 56 pages. Full-page & textual illustrations in black & white. Very good. Untitled 37. The Untitled series, published by the Friends of Photography,... View More...
- Quarto, 10-3/4 inches high by 9-3/8 inches wide. Black cloth titled in silver on the spine, in a pictorial black & white dust wrapper. [150] pages, with full-page illustrations of Ansel Adams stunning black & white photographs. Near fine.
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, (1989).. (1989).. Very good. - Quarto [12-1/4 inches high by 9 inches wide], cloth in a dust wrapper. There is a light stain to the bottom edge of the front cover. There are a few tiny stains to the front panel of the dust jacket & its top edge is slightly creased. 91 & [4] pages plus colophon. Full-page color illustrations & plates, including a folding plate, and textual illustrations in black & white. There is a small crease to the top corner of the folding plate, else the contents are fine. Very good. Dust jacket present. View More...
(1951).. (1951).. Very good. - sc The 9 inch high by 7-1/8 inch wide black & white photograph depicts the young Prince Charles posing for a photograph to celebrate his birthday. Distributed by the Associated Press News Photo with their stamp on the verso. There is a tiny piece of the image near the prince's hand which is rubbed away. Very good.Intended for publication in newspapers of the period with text for a press realease accompanying the photograph printed in type on paper mounted to the the bottom of the photo from the verso. The text of the press release reads as follows: PRINCE CHARLES... View More...
(1954).. (1954).. Very good. - The 9 inch high by 7-1/8 inch wide black & white photograph by Marcus Adams depicts the young Prince Charles posing for a photograph to celebrate his birthday. Distributed by the International News Photo with their stamp on the verso. There is a small crease to the top left corner and edges are curling in. The top edge of the verso is darkened. Very good. Intended for publication in newspapers of the period with text for a press release accompanying the photograph printed in type on paper mounted to the the bottom of the photo from the verso. The text of the pres... View More...
SIGNED BY 6 MEMBERS OF THE CAST - Octavo, 8-1/2 inches high by 5-1/4 inches wide. Softcover, bound in the original color pictorial wrappers. The covers are lightly creased with a heavier crease to the bottom front corner of the front cover. 44 pages, profusely illustrated with color and black & white ads throughout. Very good. THE ADDAMS FAMILY opened on Broadway in April 2010 and closed on New Year's Eve 2011 having run for 722 performances. This May 2010 program is signed by original cast members Kevin Chamberlin (Uncle Fester) and Jackie Hoffman (Grandma) on the front cover. Other members o... View More...
Bryn Mawr, PA: Bryn Mawr College Library, 1976.. 1976.. Very good. - Quarto, decorative wraps. Bottom corner of front wrap lightly creased. 47 & [1] pp. B&W illustrations. Bottom page corners very lightly creased. Very good.
First edition.
This catalogue of the Adelman collection includes 216 items. The introduction consists of an address made by Seymour Adelman at Bryn Mawr on the occasion of his donating his collection of books and autographs to the college library. First Edition. View More...
THE BEGINNINGS OF A CRIME THAT BROUGHT DOWN SPIRO AGNEW - What is being offered here are 2 letters written by Spiro Agnew's "bagman" I.H. "Bud" Hammerman suggesting that Agnew join him, or at least pop in, at events he is hosting, including an event during the 1969 Inaugural Ball. The first is a 70 plus word letter typed on 11 inch high by 8-1/2 inch wide cream "S.L. Hammerman Organization, Inc." stationery with the firm's oval embossed gilt device and letterhead along the top. In his September 14th, 1966 letter to Maryland's gubernatorial candidate Spiro Agnew, the notorious mortgage banker a... View More...
- Quarto, 11-7/8 inches high by 9 inches wide. Softcover, brown wraps titled and decorated in silver. The edges of the covers are rubbed with staining to the bottom corner of the rear cover. 116 pages, profusely illustrated in color. There is some occasional soiling and minor foxing. Very good. A substantial brightly illustrated sample book which includes garden plans for decorating one's home and offering "A Complete Selection of Landscape Materials, Fruit Bearing Trees and Plants". As per the publisher's information: "Copyright 1953 by L.P. Akenhead. This Plate Book is issued solely for the ... View More...
Boston/Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, (1968).. (1968).. Very good. - Octavo, green cloth overlaid with bands of blue & magenta cloth in a dust wrapper by John Alcorn. The head of the spine is lightly rubbed. The spine of the dust jacket is slightly darkened with its head & tail creased. The jacket's rear panel is lightly soiled with a price-sticker & with a chip to its bottom edge. xiii & 141 pages. Full-page black-and- white illustrations by John Alcorn. There is a tiny area of foxing to the fore-edge. Very good.
First edition. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
(Milano): Rizzoli Editore, (1976).. (1976).. Very good. - Small quarto, B&W printed wraps. The wraps are lightly rubbed & very lightly soiled. B&W frontispiece, [viii] pp., 62 full-page B&W illustrations from photographs by Thomas Alcorn, & [3] pp. plus colophon. Very good. First edition.In his introduction, which is printed in English and Italian, photography teacher Bernard Cole recalls his excitement on being shown photos Tommy Alcorn had taken on a trip to Italy at the age of fourteen. Tragically, the young man was killed in an accident in Florence just short of his eighteenth birthday. F... View More...
(New York: Heller Gallery), (1988).. (1988).. Very good. - Small quarto [approximately 9 inches square}, softcover bound in white wrappers titled in blind. The binding is lightly soiled with the spine slightly darkened. Unnumbered pages, including 27 full-page color illustrations. The contents are near fine. Very good. Catalog for an exhibition of sculptures in crystal by the three artists participating in The Steuben Project. Peter AldrIdge, David Dowler and Eric Hilton worked with Steuben Glass to create sculptures that married artistic vision with glass technology. The sculptures were exhib... View More...
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