ben abramson (9 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.

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. 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.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. A lot of nineteen (19) books by and/or about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, Baker Street, Baker Street regulars and Irregulars, British crime fiction, and homicide detection, to wit: 1) Walter Klinefelter, Ex Libris A. Conan Doyle. Apparent First Edition, though not so stated, published by Black Cat Press, Chicago, IL, 1938, with decorations by Dale Nichols. 58 pp. Very Good condition, bound in reddish brown linen cloth over boards, gilt device of a smoking Sherlock Holmes to front cover, rough-cut fore-edges, toning to interior edges of endpapers only, still quite nice-looking, and stands handsomely on the shelf. Colophon notes design by Norman W. Forgue; 250 copies printed from Linotype Caslon on Worthy Charta paper by the Black Cat Press of Chicago. [10], 11-58 pp.2) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles: another adventure of Sherlock Holmes. New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1902. Bound in publisher's brick-red cloth over boards, a bit mottled to front panel bottom, moderately so to rear panel, overall Good condition, a seeming second issue of the same McClure, Phillips & Co. edition, itself built upon the true First Edition, published by George Newnes, London, 1n 1901. Previous owner's signature (Edmund Blarnny?), dealer-stamp to first free endpaper, slight forward cock to spine, bumping to, slight scuffing of spine head and foot. Frontis illustration and then eight pages of ads. The tell-tale "1902, R" to copyright page. 3) A. Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, London: George Newnes, 1902, Souvenir Edition, thus no copyright page, printed by Love & Malcolmson. Bound in blue cloth over boards, fine gilt lettering to spine and front cover, with gilt designs at both, rubbed spine, bumped spine head and foot, gilt-stained top edges, bowed vertically, penned gift inscription at half-title (G. v.d. Meyer, Jun. from F.G.H., Dec. 1903), clean, tightly bound, overall Good condition, and illustrated by Sidney Paget including at frontis. Fine initials throughout. The sphinx design (at least) at front cover was designed by Alfred Garth Jones to link to the play mounted at the Lyceum Theater called Sherlock Holmes. Blind-stamped publisher logo at rear panel. Comprised of eleven short stories. Plentiful plates, including at frontis. Frontis matter, 2-341 pp. 4) A. Conan Doyle, The Last Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [the covers say The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes]. London: George Newnes, 1902. Souvenir Edition, thus no copyright page, printed by Love & Malcolmson. Bound in blue cloth over boards, fine gilt lettering to spine and front cover, with gilt designs at both, rubbed spine, bumped spine head and foot, gilt-stained top edges, bowed vertically, slightly, penned gift inscription at half-title (G. v.d. Meyer, Jun. from F.G.H., Dec. 1903), clean, tightly bound, overall Good condition. Illustrated by Sidney Paget including at frontis, fine initials throughout. Decorated endpapers front and rear, but half-toning to first and final free endpapers. The sphinx design (at least) at front cover was designed by Alfred Garth Jones to link to the play mounted at the Lyceum Theater called Sherlock Holmes. Blind-stamped publisher logo at rear panel. Penciled mark at half-title noting purchase of title in 1952 for $2. Plentiful fine black-and-white plates, printed on high-gloss paper. 296 pp. Scarce in the trade. 5) John Dickson Carr, The Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949. Burgundy cloth over boards, rubbed gilt lettering to spine, lightly soiled exterior, evenly toned pages. Stated First Edition exemplar, Good condition overall. 304 pp. plus index. 6) H.W. Bell, Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson: the chronology of their adventures. London: Constable & Co, 1932. Uber-scarce exemplar of the true First Edition of this important chronology of the cases of and relationship between Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Limited to 500 copies. Bound in publisher's original dark blue, faintly green cloth (owing to sunning), spine lettered in gilt, rubbed. xix, [1], 131 pp., errata slip present/bound in at page 122. Overall Good because moderately foxed throughout, penned inscription of previous owner at first free endpaper (of Lawrence P. Dodge, 1932). Dealer stamp inside rear flap at bottom near spine. A fine literary analysis, case by case, of the homicide and other crime detection of Doyle's main characters. 7) Anthony Boucher, The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars (an Inner Sanctum Mystery). New York: Simon and Schuster, 1940. Good condition exemplar in First Edition state, red cloth over boards, black lettering to spine, rubbed, black-stamped design of a pipe-smoking Holmes to front cover, penciled name of previous owner (Lawrence P. Dodge) at first free endpaper. Heavily foxed front endpaper, else clean and unmarked. 1-336 pp. 8) T.S. Blakeney, Sherlock Holmes: fact or fiction? London: John Murray, 1932. Good condition exemplar in First Edition state, bound in publisher's blue cloth over boards, gilt lettering at spine, rubbed, sunning of spine to light brown. Dealer stamp, neatly affixed inside rear board at bottom. ix, 1-133 [1] pp. Scarce in the trade. ($20.00).9) Vincent Starrett, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1933. First American Edition, previous owner's inked signature at first free endpaper (Laurence P. Dodge), dealer stamp there, lightly soiled and sunned spine, rubbing to edges, slight forward cock to spine, else tightly bound, clean, unmarked, evenly toned interior. An important book for Holmes completists insofar as Starrett's biography is of a literary character and device. Short octavo format. [i-vi] vii-viii [ix-xiv], 1-214 pp., plus ten plates, one present but detached. Overall, Good condition. Missing the dust jacket 10) The Baker Street Journal, Volume 4, Number 1, published in New York by Ben Abramson, 1949, edited by Edgar W. Smith and Christopher Morley and other Baker.