Search Results: Authors starting with A from Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.

Paris: Societe d'Editions Scientifiques, 1896.. 1896.. Fair. - Octavo, softcover originally bound in printed tan wraps. The backstrip is perished & the pamphlet is disbound. The wraps are darkened & heavily chipped with short tears & pieces out. 56 pages. A fair working copy. <p>First edition. The text is in French.

(New York: The American Institute of Graphic Arts), (1942).. (1942).. Fine. - Octavo, softcover bound in pictorial gray, black & white wraps. The front wrap is slightly soiled. [26] pages, including 1 page of black-and- white illustrations. Near fine in a stamped & addressed mailing envelope. <p>Catalog for an exhibition presented by A.I.G.A. The four-page introduction concerns the various processes of printing by offset. This copy is in a mailing envelope addressed to E. Harold Hugo of the Meriden Gravure Company.

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. <p>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.<p>A typed letter signed by R.D. James, manager of Engineering at A.M. Byers is laid in as well as a four-fold flyer listing the company's eastern distributors.<p>The report includes summaries of the company's studies of the Rockefeller Center Plaza Rink in NYC, the Chicago Stadium, the St. Paul Municipal Auditorium in St. Paul, Minnesota, The Chandler Park Rink in Detroit, the Sam Houston… Read More

1862.. 1862.. Fair. - sc - Seventeen original graphite pencil drawings executed on two 14-1/4 inch high by 10-1/4 inch wide sheets of buff art paper. Each well-executed drawing is a finished illustration within pencil drawn frames laid out on the sheets as if they were cards. One of the drawings is initialed "N.A.W." and dated "1862". On one sheet, a central drawing appears to be a version of "Struwwelpeter" with a large demonic head on a thinner tree- like body. Eight drawings are laid out, as if cards, surrounding this central drawing. Among them is a child, looking much like a young Napoleon, seated on a wooden horse with a crop in his hand. Another drawing, this one a play on words titled "A soldier pitching his tent", depicts a soldier with a large brush and pitch bucket painting his tent with the resin. A grumpy cat in human attire is titled "An Unprotected Cabbie" and a man pushing his top hat down on his head proclaims "I despise everybody!!!". On the other sheet, a woman selling what might be… Read More

New London, Conn.: A. Richards & Co. / D,s, Ruddock, printer, Daily Star, [1861]., [1861].. Good. - Quadragesimo [48mo], a 4-3/8 inch high by 2-3/4 inch wide chapbook. Softcover, bound in the original printed yellow wraps, titled and decorated in black on the front cover with advertising on the rear cover. The covers are lightly soiled and stained with creasing to the top corner of the front cover. The head and tail of the spine are splitting. 8 pages, with the text printed within formal decorated frames. Very good. Advertising in the form of poems and verses proclaiming the virtues of A. Richards & Co.'s Combined Glue and Cement.RARE.

New-York: J. & J. Harper, 82 Cliff-Street, 1831.. 1831.. Good. - Small octavo, tan linen over boards titled in black on the front cover & spine. The binding is bumped & darkened with spotting to the rear cover. There are short tears with slight fraying to the top & bottom of the joints. 352 pages plus 24-page publisher's catalog.There is scattered foxing. Good. <p>First American edition<p>These extracts from a late Scottish physician's diary were originally published in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine.

The University of Nebraska at Omaha, NE: Abattoir Edirions, 1974., 1974.. Very good. - 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. <p>Of a limited ediiton of 470 copies, this is number 319.<p>The book was printed on Wookey Hole paper and the plates were etched and engraved by the artist.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, (1988)., (1988).. Very good. FIRST ISSUE SIGNED BY EDWARD ABBEY - Octavo, 9-1/4 inches high by 6-1/8 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in yellow boards backed with a dark blue cloth spine, in a color pictorial blue dust wrapper. The covers are lightly bumped. The price-clipped dust jacket is rubbed and the jacket's edges are slightly creased. [viii] & 485 pages. The book's edges are soiled with stains to the fore edge. Very good.
First printing, in the first issue dust wrapper with "mist" for "myth" on the front inner flap and "Mickey" for "Becky" on the rear inner flap.
Inscribed, signed and dated "To John & Lib / - best wishes / Ed Abbey / 11/2/88" by Edward Abbey on the front endpaper.

Washington, DC: January 14, 1931., 1931.. Good. - 88 words typed on a sheet of 10-1/2 inch high by 8 inch wide cream-colored Smithsonian Institution letterhead with an engraved vignette of the Institution and a list of its departments at the top. Signed "C G Abbot". There is light creasing to the letter. The bottom left corner is creased with a glue stain. Folded twice for mailing. Good. Abbot writes to the young Seymour Halpern who has evidently asked which are the most interesting exhibits at the Institution: "The exhibit in the National Museum which attracts the most attention is Colonel Lindbergh 'Spirit of St. Louis' but there are hundreds of others which are also of very great interest. For instance...the animals collected for the Institution by Colonel Roosevelt in Africa after his Presidency; the Ward Collection of African weapons and sculptures; the exhibit of the dresses of the wives of the Presidents...."Charles Greeley Abbot [1872-1973] was an American astrophysicist and the fifth… Read More

New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, (1927).. (1927).. Good. - Octavo, navy blue cloth titled in gilt on the spine. The covers are rubbed & lightly bumped with some light staining to the front cover. xxiii & 478 pages. Black-and-white frontispiece & 91 pages of black-and-white illustrations. The book is cracked at the title. There is an ink name & date on the front endpaper & light staining to the frontispiece with offsetting to the title. There are some pencil markings in the text. Good.

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. <p>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.

(Trenton, NJ: New Jersey State Museum, 1989).. 1989).. Good. - Small oblong quarto [8-1/2 inches square], softcover bound in printed wrappers. The binding is rubbed & bumped with a small area of the front wrap rubbed away where a sticker has been removed. 53 & [1] pages. Numerous illustrations in color and black & white. The contents are near fine. Good. <p>Catalog for an exhibition organized by Michael Bzdak and Charles Stainback and shown at the New Jersey State Museum from December 2, 1989 to January 28, 1990.

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 creases to the corners of a few pages. A beautifully printed production. <p>First edition. SCARCE.<p>Designed by Georgette Ballance with an essay by Cheryl Finley. Printed by Singer Printing Co. for Commerce Graphics Ltd, Inc.

Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Company, (1857)., (1857).. Good. - Small octavo [approximately 6-3/8 inches high by 4 inches wide], brown cloth titled in gilt on the front cover, in blind on the rear cover & in gilt with decorations in gilt on the spine. The covers are rubbed, bumped & chipped. The head & tail of the spine are chipped & the gilt on the spine is faded. Title, [1] leaf & pages [163]-191. Illustrated with a black-and-white frontispiece & a textual woodcut. There is an owner's faded ink name dated 1868 on the front endpaper. There is light staining to the front & bottom edges of the endpaper & to the front edges of the leaves throughout, with a short tear to the front edge of the flyleaf. There is occasional foxing & soiling. Good. <p>A separate issue of the sixth story in Abbott's Rollo at Work.

New York: Sheldon & Co., (1865)., (1865).. Fair. - 16mo, 6-1/4 inches high by 4-1/8 inches wide. Blue cloth titled and decorated in gilt & black on the front cover & the spine. The covers are rubbed, bumped & soiled. 192 pages. The title page is detached. Good. A volume in "The Rollo Series" consisting of 14 different titles.

NY: Burt Franklin, (1970).. (1970).. Very good. - Octavo, red cloth titled in gilt. 225 pp. & 11 pages of B&W facsimiles. There are pencil markings in the margin of 1 page, else near fine. <p>Reprint of the 1905 edition.

NY: Burt Franklin. (1970).. (1970).. Fine. - Octavo, red cloth titled in gilt. 225 pp. & 11 pp. of B&W facsimiles. Fine. <p>Reprint of the 1905 edition.

New York: circa [1930].. [1930].. Good. - 41 words typed on an approximately 10 inch high by 8 inch wide sheet of his personalized letterhead. Signed "A Abdullah". Folded 3 times for mailing. There are several short tears at the folds with some light red staining below the text. There is some light soiling at bottom right and there is a crease & tear to & a small piece out of the bottom right corner. Good. <p>Abdullah writes to future congressman Seymour Halpern that he is too busy to see anyone but "I am sending, by this mail, the signed picture to your friend."<p>Achmed Abdullah, who claimed descent from the Russian imperial family and was educated in England, emigrated to the United States in the 1910s. He went on to become an American author and screenwriter, most noted for his pulp stories of crime, mystery and adventure. He wrote screenplays for some successful films and earned an Academy Award nomination for collaborating on the screenplay for the 1935… Read More

Paris: Imprime par autorisation du Roi a l'Imprimerie Royale, 1841., 1841.. Good. RARE FIRST EDITION OF THIS MOST SIGNIFICANT WORK BY "THE MOZART OF MATHEMATICS" - NEILS HENRIK ABEL - Quarto, 11 inches high by 8-3/4 inches wide. Softcovers, once bound in printed light blue wraps, titled in black on the front cover and the spine. The text-block is tight. However the chipped front cover is detached with several large pieces torn from the edges and the rear cover is lacking. [vi] & 647 deckle-edged pages, illustrated with 42 folding plates. The overlapping edges of the leaves are creased with some occasional chipping. The top edge of a few pages are darkened, and there is some minor occasional spots of foxing in this otherwise bright unopened and uncut volume.The four works contained within this volume are as follows:1. Schultz-Schultzenstein, Dr. Carl Heinrich. "[Les Vaisseaux du Latex]: Memoire pour servir de reponse aux questions de l'Academie royale des sciences pour l'annee 1833". The work… Read More

(Leverkusen, Germany): Tympan, circa [1978].. [1978].. Good. - sc Octavo. Unbound sheets. The contents are laid into a maroon stiff paper case printed in white. The case is rubbed with a crease & tear to the top edge. Unnumbered, unbound sheets of cream stock printed in black, including texts and graphic contributions. The contents are very good. <p>Tympan publishes poems, short prose pieces, essays, photos and graphic art. The editors of this issue were Wolfgang Heyder, Bernd Kilian, Jens Pruss, Ulli Schoenwald and Ernst Specks. The text is in German.