Search Results: Titles starting with P from W. C. Baker Rare Books & Ephemera

Baltimore, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. viii,48 pp. Contemporary half cloth, gilt, and marbled boards. Square one-inch abrasion to front board, foxing in endpapers. Good to very good.

Paris: Contact Editions, 1926. First Edition. Softcover. Good/good. [4],338,[1] pp. Publisher's French-folded printed wrappers. Spine chipped, rear (outer) wrapper separated at spine, loss to rear free endpaper, wrappers mildly dust-soiled, half-inch mark above title on front cover. Internally clean. Good. The first edition of the first published novel of Hilda Doolittle, printed by Maurice Darantiere in Dijon for Contact Editions in Paris. From the collection of Brazenhead Books, the "secret bookstore" of the late Michael Seidenberg, to benefit his estate.

New York: Expanding Cinema [script published by arrangement with Viking Press], 1965. First Separate Edition. 11 x 8 1/2-inch leaves in an 11 1/2 x 9-inch folder. [4],58,[3] pp. Leaves in printed blue metal tab folder. Fine. PASSAGES FROM JAMES JOYCE'S FINNEGANS WAKE was the final film produced and directed by Mary Ellen Bute (1906-1983), a pioneer in experimental film and animation. Bute spent much of her early career developing a style of "visual music" in film, synchronizing abstract images and music. PASSAGES, a film treatment of FINNEGANS WAKE using Joyce's original language, was largely a live-action piece but incorporated animation, double exposures, and various other unconventional visual methods. UbuWeb describes it as follows: "A half-forgotten, half-legendary pioneer in American abstract and animated filmmaking, Mary Ellen Bute, late in her career as an artist, created this adaptation of James Joyce, her only feature. In the transformation from Joyce's polyglot prose to the necessarily… Read More

[S.l.: S.n.], [1805]. Broadside. Near fine. Engraving, 9 x 7 1/8 inches (plate area). In French. Faint early folds, very faint foxing in lower margin. Near fine. Portrait engraving of Philippe-François Bellanger, the "Lucky Blind Man," "drawn from life at the Conciergerie on the day of his ordeal." Bellanger (ca. 1740-1805) was a Parisian pyrothechnician who lost his sight detonating fireworks. He moved to the Quinze-Vingts hospital for the blind and soon became widely known as a bird trainer and vendor of French National Lottery tickets. At Quinze-Vingts, Bellanger became deeply attached to a young widow named Fanchette whom he had hired to care for him. When Fanchette began receiving marriage proposals from a young curiosities seller named Pinson, Bellanger became enraged at both the couple and Pinson's blind aunt, who supported their engagement, and he began plotting their murder. On February 25, 1805, Bellanger visited Fanchette and Pinson's aunt in the latter's room and sent Fanchette to… Read More

New York: The Columbia University Press, 1905. First Edition. Softcover. Good. 110,[12] pp. Original wrappers, front and rear both printed recto and verso. Wrappers unevenly toned, lightly chipped at edges; last porton of text block light chipped at fore-edge; else very good. The first published work by Lynn Thorndike (1882-1965), best known for his exhaustive, eight-volume HISTORY OF MAGIC AND EXPERIMENTAL SCIENCE (1923-1958).

Boston: Bruce Humphries, Inc., 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 189 pp. Original green and silver cloth over boards, spine gilt. Boards slightly bowed, else fine. Scarce.

[Denver]: Bowery Press, 1969. Broadsheet, 17 x 11 inches. Printed in black on blue paper. Horizontal fold, as issued. Light discoloration at fold. Very good. Bowery Press Broadsheet No. 3, containing six poems by Beat poet Stuart Perkoff (1930-1974), including "Some Aspects of Prison," "Some Aspects of Being a Junkie," and "Love Is the Silence."

Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1913. 89 pp. Printed self-wrappers, side-stapled. Soft diagonal crease, light wear in outer leaves, else near fine. Comprehensive survey of recently enacted drug laws, listed by state, territory, and federal bodies, published the year prior to the passage of the Harrison Narcotics Act, the first major federal law relating to opiates and cocaine. The authors, Martin Inventius Wilbert (1865-1916) Murray Galt Motter (1866-1926), were two leading figures in U.S. public health during the early 20th century, writing here under the aegis of the Hygenic Laboratory of the United States Public Health Service. "Reprint No. 146 from the Public Health Reports / October 10 and 17, 1913 / Supplement to Public Health Bulletin No. 56."

New York: Published for the New York School of Social Work by Columbia University Press, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. vii,[1],142 pp. Contemporary red morocco-backed red cloth, raised bands, spine gilt. t.e.g. Front free endpaper inscribed and signed by the author. Half-inch water stain in front board, some wear to joints, small stains in front endpapers, occasional leaves creased at corners. Very good. Amy Gordon Hamilton (generally known simply as "Gordon Hamilton") (1892-1967) was an influential social work practitioner, educator, and writer, based for most of her career at the New York School of Social Work (now Columbia School of Social Work). She warmly inscribes the present volume in the year of publication, "To Stan | For whom the Recording Angel should hold no terrors - with love | Gordon Hamilton | December 1946." The identity of "Stan" is unknown, but the fine binding suggests the importance of the work and its author to the original owner.