american 1909 (49 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. - An approximately 1-3/4 inch high by 3-1/2 inch wide cream-colored card is signed "F. Marion Crawford". There is some very minor soiling to the card. On the verso some unrelated ink writing is partially covered up by a glue-stained piece of paper & 2 pieces of tape where the card has been removed from an album. Good, Francis Marion Crawford [1854-1909] was an American writer known for his many novels, especially those set in Italy, and for his weird and fantastic stories. Several of these stories, such as "The Upper Berth, "For the Blood Is the Life", The Dead Smile" and "The Screaming Skull" are frequently anthologized classics of the horror genre. A current definitive edition of the weird stories was edited by Richard Dalby as "Uncanny Tales" and was published by the Tartarus Press [1997; 2008].

Zustand: Fine. - Franklin Bartlett's autograph penned on a 1-3/4 inch high by 4-1/4 inch wide piece of paper clipped from a daily birthday book calendar with the date "September 10" printed in red along the top. Signed in full "Franklin Bartlett". Several lines from an inspirational poem are printed in black on the verso. Near fine. Born on Septerber 10th, 1847, the American lawyer and politician Franklin Bartlett (1847-1909) served as a U.S. Representative from New York from 1893 to 1897. A member of the Sons of the Revolution and the Society of Colonial Wars he served as a colonel of volunteers during the Spanish-American War.

Zustand: Very good. - Four-page 8-1/2 inch high by 5-1/2 inch wide program printed on blue paper. Signed on the title page "Licia Albanese". Additionally signed "Elizabeth Carter". The top corners of the program are bumped & the bottom corners are lightly creased. There is a light crease to the lower half of the program near the spine with a white smudge affecting the first word of the titling. Very good. Program for "A Holiday Musicale and House-Warming" organized by Opera Music Theatre International and The Jersey State Opera. The two organizations are joined by Leroy Neiman and Celeste Holme "in honoring the world renowned opera diva Lucia Albanese and in celebrating a New Beginning for Grand Opera in New Jersey". The ceremony takes place at The Leroy Neiman Opera/Lab Theatre in Newark Symphony Hall and features "a dedication of the Neiman Wall of Fame, displaying performing arts-oriented works of America's foremost artist." Soprano Elizabeth Carter of the Metropolitan Opera and the Vienna State Opera takes part in the Musicale.Licia Albanese [1909-2014] was an Italian-born American operatic soprano, especially noted for her portrayals of the lyric heroines of Verdi and Puccini. She was a leading artist with the Metropolitan Opera from 1940 to 1966.

Zustand: Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered silver back. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Full printer's code 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. Contains 382 pp with some monochrome archive photographs throughout. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped, £18.99. Member of the P.B.F.A. TRUE CRIME.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-toned dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 675 pages; Description: x, 675 p. 24 cm. Subjects: Palestine --Economic conditions. Notes: Maps on lining papers. "Prepared under the auspices of the American Palestine institute. " Bibliographical references included in "Notes and acknowledgments. " (p. 637-661) . 3 Kg.

Zustand: Very Good. Reprinted edition hard back binding in publisher's original lemon cloth covers, dark brown title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 10½'' x 7¼''. Contains 254 printed pages of text with 115 monochrome illustrations and archive photographs throughout. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with light rubbing to the edges and corners, not price clipped, $8.50. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0883940051 WESTERNS [U.S.A Old West].

Zustand: Fine. Publisher's original illustrated card wrap covers (soft back). 8vo. 8½'' x 5½''. Contains 213 pp. In Fine condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. SPANISH CIVIL WAR.

Zustand: Very Good. Third revised edition hard back binding in publisher's original russet cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back, charcoal black end papers. 8vo. 8½'' x 5¼''. Collection of four lengthy essays on various means by which judgement was historically reached in criminal, civil and religious cases. Studied herein are methods under law, determination of cases by way of battle and challenges, the use of ordeals such as by oath, boiling water, hot irons etc. and the use of torture in various judicial systems from the Roman Empire to the Inquisition. Contains (xii), 552 + ii pp. One unobtrusive ex-academic library stamp to the copyright leaf dated 20th July 1882. In Very Good clean and bright condition with slight sun fading down the spine. Member of the P.B.F.A. LAW, JUSTICE, LEGAL SYSTEM.

Zustand: Fine. Publisher's original illustrated card wrap covers (soft back). 8vo. 8½'' x 5½''. Contains 213 pp. In Fine condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. SPANISH CIVIL WAR.

Zustand: Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original duck egg blue finely grained cloth covers, metallic blue title and author lettering to the spine. 4to. 11½'' x 9''. Contains 271 printed pages of text with 180 illustrations, including 83 plates in full colour. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, unused new book. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Heavy volume weighing 2 kg, extra postage and insurance will be requested over and above our default setting for destinations outside the UK. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0810915952 ART [American].

Zustand: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original donkey brown cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine and to the front cover. 8vo. 10½'' x 7¼''. Contains colour frontispiece, 254 printed pages of text with 115 monochrome illustrations and archive photographs throughout. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with rubbing to the edges and corners, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. WESTERNS [U.S.A Old West].

Zustand: Very Good. Publisher's original colour illustrated laminated card covers. Folio 12½'' x 9¼'' ISBN 0486207145. 173 drawings and illustrations throughout. Crease line to upper corner, faint tanning to page edges and in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper as issued. From the estate of a private library belonging to the author and illustrator Valerie Littlewood with her signature to the front end paper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ART [American].

Zustand: Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original navy cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Contains 273 printed pages of text with monochrome archive photographs to the centre. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped. Newspaper clipping loosely inserted concerning Errol Flynn's house for sale in Jamaica. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 1861053320 CINEMA, SCREEN & FILMS.

Zustand: Very Good. First edition in publisher's original colour illustrated card wrap covers [soft back]. Landscape. 9¼'' x 11'. Contains 31 printed pages of text followed by 46 single- sided colour plates. Light marks to the covers and in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0345251288595 ART [American].

Zustand: Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original quarter black paper, slate blue paper sides, blocked and lettered gilt back. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Full printer's code to the copyright page 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Contains [xiii]-1, 377, (ii) pp with monochrome archive photographs. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. SPANISH CIVIL WAR.

[1] + 28pp, 8vo. Paginated 135-162. Stapled pamphlet, in printed green wraps. In good conditon, lightly aged and worn. Inscribed at head of title-page: 'For Dr. S. H. Steinberg [author and editor] with all good wishes from Rollo G. Silver'. Contains an eleven and a half page appendix of 'Abstracts from Some Printers' Bills in the Massachusetts Archives'. The only copy on COPAC at Trinity College, Dublin.

Zustand: Fine. April 3. . Fine. - The autographs of the neurologist Landon Carter Gray and that of the American author & minister Edward Everett Hale penned on a 2-1/2 inch high by 4-1/4 inch wide piece of paper clipped from a daily birthday book calendar with the date "April 3" printed in red along the top. Signed "Landon Carter Gray" and "Edward Everett Hale", who has also penned the year of his birth "1822" next to his signature. Several lines from an inspirational poem are printed in black on the verso. Near fine. Edward Everett Hale [1822-1909] was an American author, historian and Unitarian minister. He was the nephew of orator and statesman Everett Hale and grand-nephew of Nathan Hale, the Revolutionary War hero executed by the British for espionage. He was a child prodigy, graduating from Boston Latin School at age 13 and immediately thereafter enrolling at Harvard University. His best known work was "The Man Without a Country", published in the Atlantic in 1863 and intended to strengthen support for the Union cause during the Civil War. In recognition of his support for the Union he was elected as a Third Class Companion of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. The American neurologist Dr. Landon Carter Gray (1850-1900) was born on April 3, 1850. He specialized in nervous and mental diseases completed his education at the University of Heidelberg in Germany and his medical degree at Bellevue Hospital Medical School in New York. He was professor of Neurology at the Long Island College Hospital, a visiting neurologist at St. Mary's Hospital and was one of the founders of one of the first American schools for graduate medical instruction, the New York Polyclinic. He served as president of numerous medical societies, including the New York County Medical Society, the American Neurological Association, the New York Neurological Society, and the Society of Medical Jurisprudence.

Zustand: Fine. - An original 6-1/2 inch high by 5-7/8 inch wide sepia-toned photograph of the Highland Street house of the American Author Edward Everett Hale. The image depicts the Greek Revival house, then located at 39 Highland Street in Boston, in late Fall with denuded trees flanking the property and in front of the fence. The photograph is inlaid within a 10-5/8 inch high by 7-1/8 inch wide sheet of cream paper. Near fine. A fine example of Greek Revival architecture, Edward Everett Hale's house was built around 1841 by a local carpenter Benjamin Kent. It was then located at 39 Highland Street. It was later moved by Hale to 12 Morley Street sometime between 1899 and 1906.The American author Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909) wrote the well-known Civil War poem "The Man Without a Country".

FOTO, EIGENHÄNDIG SIGNIERT m. E. Viel Glück.

FOTO, EIGENHÄNDIG SIGNIERT.

GROSSFOTO, EIGENHÄNDIG SIGNIERT mit eigenhändiger Empfehlung - Orig.-Foto um 1935, vertikale Knickspur.

2pp., 12mo. Bifolium. In fair condition, lightly aged, with closed tear at foot of fold line. The recipient is not named. Hale begins by stating that he has both of the recipient's telegrams, and thanking him for his 'promptness and readiness to forward my wishes'. In the meantime he had 'determined that the simplest solution to my troubles was to give up my Topeka appointment, as I was at liberty to do. This I have done and you may rely on me for the 18th, and as I hope for the whole Convention.' He asks to be directed to an individual who can give him 'the most information on the early history and present condition of A. D. P.?' He has 'a conception that there is somewhere a pamphlet containing a life of Mr. Eels the founder', and asks to be given a 'clue to this'. He concludes by asking to be addressed 'at 39 Highland St. Boston'.

11pp., 4to. With three plates and five figures in text. Paginated 292-302. Stapled in card wraps. Inscribed on front cover: 'with best wishes | B.A.R.C.' The only copies on COPAC at the Warburg Institute and V & A.

Softcover. Zustand: Good. Quarto. Unpaginated (30 pages). Cover severely worn, one folded plate missing partially. Two others folded plates in very good condition. Early catalogue, with retail prices from $ 3750 to $ 5000, nice colour plates.

Zustand: Fine. First edition thus Blanche MacManus illustrated hard back binding in publisher's original burgundy leather covers, gilt title lettering to the spine, Persian gilt design to the front cover, marble end papers, top edge gilt. 8vo. 8'' x 5¼''. Printed on hand made paper in publisher's leather binding. Rubáiyát over unnumbered pages carrying the 75 quatrains of Edward FitzGerald's version enriched with 12 full-page illustrations by Blanche MacManus. Inscribed to E. D. R. Shearer, the great Irish sportsman 'To E. D. R. Shearer, + 4 line sonnet, W. E. Henley, from Ravensleigh, January 1927.' In Fine condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.

Zustand: Very good. 1897 through 1908., 1897 through 1908. Very good. - Autograph manuscript poems penned by the art critic, museum curator and author Charles M. Kurtz on 3 voyages aboard ocean liners. The first 2 poems are dated May 12, 1897 and are penned on the Stationery of the Holland-America Line steamship "S.S. Spaarndam". The first of these is a one-and-a-quarter page manuscript with over 265 words penned on both sides of 11-1/8 inch high by 8-1/2 inch wide "S.S. Spaarndam" stationery. The poem is written in praise of the ship, voyage, and crew "The Netherlands Line is the Line for me / With steady boats - for a placid sea - / Though not at all fast, yet from danger free / For no 'chances' are ever taken." Dated and signed in full "Charles M. Kurtz". Folded several times for mailing, the bottom edge is chipped. Penned on that same date is a second copy of the same manuscript poem neatly penned on a cropped sheet of the ship's stationery measuring 11 inches high by 5-3/8 inches wide and signed in full "Charles M. Kurtz". Folded for mailing with a couple of tiny chips at the edges of the folds. The S.S. Spaarndam was initially a ship of the White Star line, then named the S.S. Arabic. It was its first steel-hulled vessel built for White Star. It was sold to the Holland America Line in February 1890 and renamed the S.S. Spaarndam. On October 6, 1900, Kurtz has written a poem of over 320 words penned on 2 sheets of 11 inch high by 8-1/2 inch wide "Holland-American Line / S.S. Maasdam" stationery. Again, praising the ship and crew, he writes stanzas about his luxurious cabin and observations of other passengers "We have passengers here from every clime / And they keep things lively most of the time / I cannot keep up with them in my rhyme / or even in prose relation", "Here are passengers aged and some some quite young / They speak every native and foreign tongue." and concludes with a postcript "We have parsons and lawyers and doctors to burn / We've enough pretty girls any man's head to turn / And here is the place human nature to learn / Every day is real delectati on". Kurtz has made numerous corrections throughout. Though not signed, the poem is dated "'S.S. Maasdam' / October 6, 1900". Both sheets are folded for mailing with a couple of tiny chips at the edges of the folds. The "S.S. Maasdam" was built in 1871 and sailed for the Holland-American Line from 1889 through 1902. Charles M. Kurtz penned 2 lengthy poems in 1908 aboard the "'Allan' Line Royal Mail Steamers" "Hesperian". The first, dated August 18, 1908, is titled "Hesperiana" and consists of over 800 words penned on 4 sides of 8 inch high by 5 inch wide "'Allan' Line Royal Mail Steamers" stationery with the ship's name "Hesperian" penned by Kurtz. As before, Kurtz praises the ship and crew in rhyme but gets a little more playful about ocean travel "The mal-de-mer - it hides in its lair / When the doctor shows his face / It has no power beyond the hour / When the Doctor comes, but doth cringe and cower / And vanish in disgrace!", "There isn't a Jonah among them - I trust / Who'll have to be cast overboard; / Yet a whale has been seen in the wake of the ship, / Perhaps with the hope that some person may slip - / To occupy quarters untoward!" Signed in full "Charles M. Kurtz". Folded for mailing, else fine. In a second version of his lengthy poem titled "Hesperiana", dated August 21, 1908 aboard the "Hesperian" Kurtz has penned over 700 words on three-and-a-half sides of 8 inch high by 5 inch wide "'Allan' Line Royal Mail Steamers" stationery, "No 'record trip' in respect to speed / But a 'record-trip' in each mind; / For the time we have lost in the fog's delay / Seems to bring us closer day by day / And in deeper friendship bind". Signed in full "Charles M. Kurtz". Kurtz has additionally penciled the names of some passengers with numbers (possibly that of their cabins), with additional numbers in red, vertically at the end. Folded for mailing, else fine. The "R.M.S. Hesperian" sailed from Glasgow to Quebec and Montreal. A Grand Charity Concert was presented on the 21st of August, 1908, the date of Kurtz last version of his poem, to raise funds for the Montreal Sailors Institute. These manuscript poems are offered together with The first edition of Charles M. Kurtz's book "Official Illustrations (Three Hundred and Thirty-six Engravings) from the Art Gallery of the World's Columbian Exposition", edited by Charles M. Kurtz and published by George Barrie in Philadelphia in 1893. The book is bound in gilt decorated creamy white cloth and consists of 383 profusely illustrated pages. The book's covers are soiled and darkened and the book is in good condition. The American art critic, author, and museum curator Charles McMeen Kurtz (1855-1909), was appointed as one of Halsey Ives' assistants in the Fine Arts Department of the World's Columbian Exposition. He also worked as the Assistant Director of Fine Arts for the United States for the 1900 Paris Exposition and was art director for the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition. He managed exhibitions for the Art Union and the American Art Association and published the National Academy Notes.

32 pages. - Publisher's gilt-titled brown-silk covered cardboard binding; 8vo.(ca. 21 x 13,5 cm). *** FIRST EDITION, SILKBOUND ORIGINAL; Front Flyleaf top left SHORTLY INSCRIBED AND MONOGRAMMED BY THE AUTHOR to German Collector Heinrich Eduard Stiebel (inner frontpanel with his own illustrated large Bookplate); INITIAL PUBLICATION OF BRITISH MODERN BOOKPLATE COLLECTING. . . - Frontpanel minimally-, rearpanel bottom-right somewhat rubbed, else in best condition; A BEAUTIFUL COPY OF THIS AS FRAGILE AS RARE PUBLICATION.

249 x 148 mm. 4 pages. Original pale green printed wrappers. 2 photographs. Signed on the front cover by Lester Young, Bud Powell, the German big band leader Kurt Edelhagen, and the saxophonist Franz von Klenck. Additionally signed by all four members of the Modern Jazz Quartet (John Lewis, Milt Jackson, Percy Heath, and Conny Kay), two of the three members of the René Urtreger Trio (René Urtreger and Christian Garros), and the German music journalist Joachim-Ernst Berendt, whose "Jazz Book" (first published in 1952) became a definitive work on jazz, translated into many languages and still updated and reprinted. - Marking Powell's first and Lester's last performing tour of Europe, the stellar line-up for Birdland owner Morris Levy's three-week tour also featured Miles Davis. "It is quite clear that Lester had a good time and enjoyed being on stage with Miles Davis", states biographer Frank Büchmann-Møller, "some of the photographs from the tour show him with an almost happy smile on his face" (p. 187). There exists a partial recording of the concert in which Lester and Miles can be heard performing "How High the Moon" and "Lester Leaps In". Although Powell was clearly present on this date, he did not apparently perform: as biographer Guthrie P. Ramsey explains, he was "fighting many personal and professional battles" at this time (p. 187). - Together with a vintage gelatin silver publicity portrait, signed in blue ballpoint pen by Lester Young (252 x 204 mm; pinholes in border at top and bottom, small piece missing from the top right-hand corner, small patch of emulsion peeled and missing at Lester's elbow), and a small candid black and white photograph of Lester Young with a chic female companion at the entrance to the Hotel Claridge in Paris, circa 1940s (87 x 61 mm; light creasing otherwise in good condition). - Frank Büchmann-Møller, You Just Fight for Your Life: The Story of Lester Young (New York, Praeger, 1990). Guthrie P. Ramsey, The Amazing Bud Powell: Black Genius, Jazz History, and the Challenge of Bebop (Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 2013).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. elephant folio. [ff. 15]. with half-title. title in red & black. 25 wood-engraved plates on Japanese paper, signed by the artists, laid into individual mounts. tissue guards with legends. contemporary half morocco, all edges gilt (rubbed, extremities chipped, some plates wrinkled). First Edition, Limited to 112 copies, signed by the publishers. "The real work in a fine wood-engraving is seldom revealed by ordinary printingHere all that is in the block is presented, and the translucent Japanese paper, with its silk-like texture, adapts itself admirably to the fine velvet tone of the ink. Add to this the loose mounting, which causes the engraving to cast a shadow on the white paper underneath, thereby softening, refining and enriching the tone of the whole, and it will be perceived that a secret of the art is being for the first time formally shared with such part of the world abroad as that to which this work shall fall." (Introduction) This handsome work contains twenty-five fine wood-engravings by Victor Bernstrom, W.B.Closson, Timothjy Cole, John P.Davis, Frank French, T.Johnson, F.S.Kingsley, G.Kruell, R.A.Muller C.A.Powell, S.G.Putnam, John Tinkey, F.H.Wellington and Henry Wolf. Signed by Author(s).

British civil servant (1836-1909) and organiser of many international exhibitions. Two pages, quarto. Good, though a touch grubby, and with pin holes in top left-hand corners of both leaves. Ornate letterhead with lettering in front of clouds with sun rays behind and American eagle and flag to the left. 'As a Member of the Honorary Advisory Committee of the Golden West Exhibition at Earls Court you will be interested to learn that, with the concurrence of the American Ambassador, it is proposed by the London Exhibition Committee to hold a special Fete at Earls Court on the occasion of the Anniversary of American Independence [.] A large number of American ladies and gentlemen are expected to be present for whom some special Entertainments will be provided. | I am bringing these arrangements to your notice, since I think you will agree with me that, at the present juncture of affairs, it would be a graceful and expedient attention to our American brethren if they were received at the Exhibition by Members of the Honorary Advisory Committee and their friends.' In consequence will send as many tickets as are required. Signed 'Arthur Trendell'.