Abramson ben (11 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. . Slightly dampstained. Writing inside.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Alyscamps Press, Paris, 1995, Hardcover First Edition. 180pp. Introduction by Ronald Gottesman. No jacket as issued A BRAND NEW BOOK UNUSED. Full refund if not satisfied. 24 hour despatch.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Cloth/no dust jacket Octavo. green cloth, gilt lettering, no dust jacket, 180 pp Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

American trade edition limited to 650 copies, 8vo, pp. 180 plus 11-page illustrated publisher's catalogue and colophon; frontispiece portrait of Houghton, photographic portraits of Abramson and Miller; a fine copy in orig. brown cloth, gilt-titled spine and front cover. Prominent Chicago bookseller and publisher Abramson introduced Miller to the works of British author Houghton in 1941. This book contains correspondence between the three that began in 1942. At the publisher's listed price.…

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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo., 180 plus 11pp. ads in rear. Beautiful First Edition, #44 of only 100 copies of this American Limited Edition numbered, signed and dated by Deborah Benson, Abramson's daughter, and includes an essay written by her, titled "Meeting Henry Miller" , also signed and dated by her, and tucked into a pock in the rear of the book, There was also a 650 American Trade Edition and 250 copy European Edition published. Bound in black cloth with titles in gilt on front board and spine. Square, tight and clean throughout with no discernible wear. A gorgeous collectable copy and quite scarce in the marketplace. Signed by Editor.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Cloth/no dust jacket Octavo. brown cloth, gilt lettering, no dust jacket, 180 pp Standard shipping (no tracking or insurance) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

First Edition. Limited to 1000 copies of which this is no. 32. Octavo; publisher's black gilt-lettered leatherette; 180,[12]pp.; photographic frontispiece, illus. throughout. Issued together with Deborah Benson's pamphlet "Meeting Henry Miller: A Memoir," signed. Fine condition. Signed.

Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Original document. Octavo. 11 [1]pp. Original string-bound blue-green stiff wraps with black lettering and framed green design on glossy paper plate laid to cover, housed in small ochre handmade paper portfolio with handwritten "My South Sea Island Printer's Dummy" on cover. Title page design in three colors printed to plate. "Printer's dummy" with spelling of the author's name incorrect on title page for the first edition, with handwritten instructions and corrections by the publisher, e.g. note "reprint title page!" for the second issue. Page with printed pagination "4" corrected to "5" by hand, with additional penciled note at bottom edge. Inside cover with penned note "Printer's Dummy 8-21-26." Contains handwritten printer's note on front endpaper with instructions, signed Forgue, including direction to print 50 copies, not more than 5 over, and further details regarding paper choice and color. Verso of front free endpaper and page "5" with handwritten printer's instructions. Back endpaper with unsigned, handwritten note "Printed on Ben Abramson's order." in ink and pencil. A 1936 unauthorized edition, limited to 50 copies, had been published with a double M in Somerset on the title page, as seen in this printer's dummy. My South Sea Island was originally published in "The Daily Mail" in London in 1922. The unauthorized edition had been destroyed but for two copies, due to the spelling error in the author's name, and was reprinted immediately. All pages pasted to paper with spots from glue showing along corners. Printed plate of page 4 loose but intact and present. [WITH] Abramson's three page typed rendering entitled "Hell's Paving Stones," describing a conversation between Maugham and himself on collecting in general, and Maugham's publications in magazines in particular. Maugham had forgotten where he had published "My South Sea Island," and misplaced his own typescript of it. Abramson eventually located the piece in a 1921 issue of The Daily Mail. No copies of the issue were available and requested Photostats were defective. As a result Abramson decided to print it himself and contacted his printer. The following one and a half pages reflect a conversation between Abramson's printer and the "publisher." The final paragraph describes the surprise discovering that Somerset was spelled with two Ms in the first 50 copies printed. Abramson closes with "And that, Ladies and Gentlemen, is how I came to write "The Raven." Contains pencil note at top of first page: "for Reading and Collecting," a monthly review of rare and recent books. [WITH] The Theatre. Special Series.-No. 155. Vol. XXVI, Nineteenth Year. November, 1895. Includes original, pasted down sepia-toned photograph of Mr. & Miss Somerset, with tissue guard. Wraps with very light wear and some sunning along edges and spine of wraps. Block lightly age-toned. Norman Forgue was the founder of several private presses, including At the Sign of the Gargoyle, The Black Cat Press, Normandie House. and The Norman Press. Born in 1904 Forgue saw his first printing press in his uncle's basement. At the age of 13 Forgue took his first jobs at printers in Chicago. After getting his apprentice card he took various jobs offered by Chicago printers and eventually worked for Western Electric. He joined the Navy when dissatisfied with the compensation, and eventually worked in the Navy print shop. Very good to near fine condition.…

One page, 4to, good condition. He gives belated thanks for writing to them "and sending us your contribution for our catalogue." They delayed so that thanks would accompany a copy of the catalogue. They have sent the catalogue under separate cover and "hope you will find it enertaining. Too, we hope that you will find our comments on your work not unworthy of your talents." See Donald C. Dickinson, "Dictionary, for discussion of the "rambunctious" bookseller, including his interaction with major literary figures. NYPL has a small archive of his correspondence (O'Duffy features) and O'Duffy's archive may be found at the National Library of Ireland.…

Letter One, 4 Jan. 1941, two pages, 4to,fold marks, good condition. He's been asked about The Miscellany which never appeared. He avoids the subject and goes on to discuss his involvement with the book Trade Winds (Christopher Morley and Old Q's Almanac) and an eccentricity of Morley's ("the exact date of the vernal equinox" so that he can sell a copy of the book no matter if open shop at 3a.m.). He intends to edit a letter from Guthrie for "the Miscellany". He continues, "The letters that I receive from England continue to be astounding. The magnificent courage of teh English, in the face of the terror and the destruction that I have witness [sic] in the newseels, is somethting too great to be expressed in words". He asks about the reception of the President's speech which represented the general view. The letter tails off with New Year's wishes etc.; Letter Two, 27 February 1941, three pages, 4to, good condition. He ex[plains how many copies he makes of letters, and his exoresses astonishment that "all books we have ordered since the War started have been safely received.". He then comments on the "fire raod" that led to so much desruction of publishers' stocks ("millions of books destroyed [.] but the spirit of the men who printed those cannot be destroyed"). He discusses his policy of over-buying books from England. He is rearranging the look of his stock and culling it of those tht havene't sold. He mentions the effects of flu on staff, and he has been working of Trade Winds.Then he mentions his working habits (dictation at night etc), followed by a critique of a Ford Madox Ford novel, then quoting "Low Sarrett's Requiem for a Modern Croesus", claiming that he doesn't disoarage wealth. He would welcome it. "But love of wealth must be tempered with a love of wit, or life is barren". He takes his leave.…